Python, Ruby & Scripting Languages Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

talk#1455

KEYNOTE / Robert Erdmann

PyCon US

“This was the first talk I immediately felt the urge to share with multiple co-workers & friends.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1461

Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails

“I highly recommend you watch the first half hour of DHH Rails World talk on Rails 8 even if you aren’t a Ruby dev”

6 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1596

Armin Ronacher - A Python for Future Generations

EuroPython Conference

“I highly recommend the two videos posted here”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#1603

Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説

yapcasia

“There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2021

talk#1616

Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018

“I found this talk (by the same person being interviewed) to be concise and convincing on how to do better than typical practice”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1632

RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella

Confreaks

“A really great presentation, including numbers and real world backup data, plus conceptual overviews.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016

talk#1666

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger

SF Python

“Here's a good recent one by Raymond Hettinger on making things easier for yourself when programming”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

tutorial#1682

Build Your Own Async

David Beazley

“an amazing resource to understand async at a deep level”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1728

How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.

InfoQ

“Humour, serious technical insight and a good reminder of why being a generalist is an advantage.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#1731

MountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

Confreaks

“if you enjoy Ruby, watch this”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

podcast#1746

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend this bit of history from NumPy creator Travis Oliphant”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1748

Charlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager

Jane Street

“I recently watched a talk by the author of uv that was surprisingly fascinating”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1837

What nobody tells you about documentation

PyCon AU

“I highly recommend Daniele Procida's talk about this”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

course#1838

Google Python Class Day 1 Part 1

Google for Developers

“recommend it to anybody that thinks they need to learn programming”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2018

talk#1891

Google Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns

GoogleDeveloperDay

“I found Alex Martinelli's talk on design patterns very level-headed and instructive”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2020

talk#2013

Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4

PyCon 2016

“The presenters advocate using simulation/bootstrapping/shuffling methods instead of memorizing formulas.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2135

Shared memory parallelism in Julia | Kiran Pamnany | Cambridge Julia Meetup (May 2018)

The Julia Programming Language

“I found his talk to be an insightful overview of this work”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2019

explainer#2144

PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

Aaron Francis

“I was quite surprised to see how far PHP has come since I used it many years ago”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

interview#2187

TWiST #46 with David Heinemeier Hansson

ThisWeekinStartups

“People, please watch these few videos to genuinely understand what 37Signal guys (David and Jason) stand for”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2014

talk#2191

CUFP 2013: Julien Verlaguet, Facebook: Analyzing PHP statically

CUFP 2013

“Another cool one from CUFP this year is how Facebook is using OCaml to add incremental type inference to their vast PHP code base.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

talk#2246

Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability

media.ccc.de

“try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#2250

Brian Warner - Magic Wormhole- Simple Secure File Transfer - PyCon 2016.mp4

PyCon 2016

“Author has a very good video on it at pycon-2016”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

tutorial#2311

Introduction to Julia - Part 1 | SciPy 2014 | David Sanders

Enthought

“I've found these talks useful as a starting point”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

demo#2323

PTVS 2.0 Beta: Mixed-Mode Python/C/C++ Debugging overview

python tools

“if you want to get a feel for an advanced feature, try”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2015

talk#2484

Clojure for Java Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“It's just a great talk.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#2498

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

Next Day Video

“Perhaps the best presentation to a programming language conference in history.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#2519

Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

GOTO Conferences

“It gives the major reasons why one would prefer one over the other”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

interview#2558

Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall

The BXI

“I really enjoyed this interview with Larry Wall (of Perl fame)”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

talk#2624

Keynote. Professor Steven G. Johnson | JuliaCon 2019

The Julia Programming Language

“really interesting, informative, entertaining and well delivered.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#2637

Nathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018

“one of the best explanations I've seen about what subtle bugs are easy to make with asyncio”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2660

Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain?

Next Day Video

“After A TON OF PAIN I decided to put the time in to watch the talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

interview#2701

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman

“I recommend this interview to get a slightly better glimpse of the guy”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#2751

Yehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)

applicake

“I've seen an interesting talk[1] by Yehuda Katz: "why rails is hard".”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

talk#2824

Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“give some really great brainfood about the way currently all kinds of network protocols are implemented”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

demo#2950

Ruby on Rails demo

tenthconcept

“I think a good example to follow for your project is the original Rails announcement video by DHH”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#2986

Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 / Jonathan Worthington

yapcasia

“I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2016

lecture#2993

Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

Stanford

“the lecturer eases you into the most important concepts with an understanding of how to engineer readable, reusable code”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

talk#3112

Raymond Hettinger - Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generators - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018

“Raymond Hettinger's talks are great.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#3132

The Mental Game of Python - Raymond Hettinger [synced version]

Tech Ma

“Raymond Hettinger gave an entertaining talk [0] on a related topic.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#3225

Chris Seaton @ VMSS16: JRuby+Truffle: Why it’s Important to Optimise the Tricky Parts

softdevteamuk

“Chris Seaton gave this talk recently about JRuby+Truffle and some specifics about how it optimises so well compared to other Ruby implementations.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#3252

JuliaRobotics: Making robots walk with Julia | Robin Deits

The Julia Programming Language

“There's a nice talk here [1] about using julia in soft-real-time for robotics.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#3290

"Hedy: A Gradual programming language" by Felienne Hermans (Strange Loop 2022)

Strange Loop Conference

“One of the themes they talk about is the difference between "easy to learn" and "easy to teach" which I found insightful.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#3358

Perl 6 for Mere Mortals

Curtis “Ovid” Poe

“Here's a talk I gave at FOSDEM explaining how day-to-day Perl 6 is fairly straightforward and easier than people think”

2 HN recommenders · 2015

talk#3448

Jonathan Diegelman - Modeling Spacecraft Separation Dynamics in Julia

The Julia Programming Language

“From Simulink to Julia, his code went from 1000 lines to 50 lines and ran 15,000x faster.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#3450

Crockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style & Your Brain

YUI Library

“entertaining and insightful talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#3462

Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“It's very easy to switch if you're willing to spend 30 minutes to go through this talk about its design by the author”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#3494

Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

Google for Developers

“Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

course#3495

Episode 1: A basic expression evaluator

Immo Landwerth (terrajobst)

“Not too much theory but from a nuts and bolts perspective I found it extremely approachable.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026