Operating Systems & Kernels Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#29

The Tragedy of systemd

linux.conf.au

“is an interesting talk on this topic from the view of someone (Benno Rice) in BSD land. Highly recommended.”

16 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#123

The Thirty Million Line Problem

Molly Rocket

“The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it.”

11 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

interview#129

VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

Vintage Computer Federation

“Also I found these fascinating”

11 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#153

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

USENIX

“If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill”

9 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

talk#172

USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

USENIX

“There's this great USENIX talk by Timothy Roscoe [1]”

12 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

documentary#261

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

AT&T Tech Channel

“The pipelines explanation was incredibly clear.”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

documentary#279

TempleOS | Down the Rabbit Hole

Fredrik Knudsen

“This video is the definitive rundown on his life and illness”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#385

Unix and Google

FOAM

“A guy on YT [1] simulates in 7 minutes how the two biggest operating systems were built in the sixties”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#493

Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones

PapersWeLove

“I highly recommend this talk, talking about Jails and Zones.”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

talk#537

Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences

“Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#556

User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

Linux Plumbers Conference

“Paul Turner explained this really well at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. The whole talk is fantastic”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

talk#621

Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

AI Council

“I highly recommend any talk you can find of Bryan Cantrill. A wonderful mix of industry history and great delivery.”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#764

Larry Hastings - Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“I think Larry Hasting's first Gilectomy talk was extremely insightful”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#774

Dtrace Review

GoogleTalksArchive

“I'm partial to Bryan Cantrill's Dtrace talk since it tackles a fundamental problem in software engineering and shows how to solve it using a new technology.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

documentary#782

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

AT&T Tech Channel

“both are really excellent demonstrations and eludications of the Unix philosophy and mindset”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

interview#838

Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1

Computer History Museum

“Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

talk#886

The real story behind Wayland and X

Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia

“It is quite fun and eye opening, he clearly knows his subject better than most of the comments.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#889

Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

GopherCon UK

“have given talks on how to make containers from scratch that are very illuminating”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

talk#948

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

The Linux Foundation

“Absolutely fantastic video from a google engineer”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1067

Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

The Linux Foundation

“A great talk on software licensing made by the creator of the 0BSD license”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1119

MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

FOSDEM

“it's a very interesting but accessible talk for those interested in lower-level systems and fault-tolerant architectures.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#1213

Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

BSDCan

“One of the better videos on this subject”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#1222

"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“Benno Rice is an insightful, energetic, witty, and just plain enjoyable tech speaker.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

interview#1389

Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

Jupiter Broadcasting

“There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#1423

Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

Docker

“I watched this talk couple of years ago that made docker/containers finally click for me.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

documentary#1487

The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

NCommander

“If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1523

CheerpX: a WebAssembly-based x86 virtual machine in the browser, Yuri Iozzelli

WebAssembly NA

“This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1717

Run containers on bare metal already!

Bryan Cantrill

“he's an extremely engaging speaker, so not only are you likely to watch all of that 40 minute talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#1727

A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

bsdconferences

“but the whole thing is excellent.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

talk#1814

BlueHat Seattle 2019 || Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story

Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

“the whole talk is incredible”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

interview#1865

The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler

Dave's Garage

“there is an excellent 3 hour long interview with Dave Cutler on that channel.”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#2039

"Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix" by Stephen Kell

Strange Loop Conference

“there's a great video of one of his talks”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

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

demo#2142

Let's port Diablo to SerenityOS!

Andreas Kling

“the video on porting Diablo to SerenityOS in an hour is pretty interesting to watch”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

demo#2212

NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

blatherskyte

“There's a video of steve jobs building a fairly complex DB app without a single line of code, including joins.”

3 HN recommenders · 2007–2016

talk#2272

"NTFS really isn't that bad" - Robert Collins (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“This is a great talk on the topic”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#2284

The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt

timmonta

“gave a great talk about practical problem solving with the unix shell”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#2435

Hackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"

Hackfest Communication

“I thoroughly enjoyed Theo de Raadt recent talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

documentary#2442

Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives

AT&T Tech Channel

“This is one of my favorites, about people submitting their code to get processed at their computing center”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#2509

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

New Relic

“The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#2521

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

illumos

“I really enjoyed this talk[1] by Bryan Cantrill”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

talk#2537

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

Computer History Museum

“There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2014

demo#2746

SymbOS MP3MSX Demostration

karloch

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

interview#2749

Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1

Computer History Museum

“The Computer History Museum oral history interview with David Cutler is also very good”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#2760

FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022

EuroBSDCon

“this might be a little lower level that you may be interested in as it relates to kernel optimizations to jack bit throughput rates”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

lecture#2787

NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling

Computer History Museum

“Here's James Gosling (you know, guy that invented Java) talking about it for an hour or so from 1990”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

podcast#2791

Oxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

Oxide Computer Company

“We have talked quite a bit about what it's like to be making hardware as a startup”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2831

Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS

media.ccc.de

“A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022