Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched?

13 comments

• jimwhite 1 day ago
  "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw
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  • oldsklgdfth 17 hours ago
    This is one of the two most influential books I've read.
• christophilus 1 day ago
  Simple Made Easy is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4&pp=ygUQc2ltcGxlIG1...

  The Normalization of Deviance is another: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o&pp=ygUZbm9ybWFsaXp...
• mcdrake 1 day ago
  "Stop Writing Classes" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

  It changed the way I thought about programming. I had mostly been exposed to OOP ideas and this talk made me realize that a lot of them aren't necessary.
• RomanPushkin 1 day ago
  I enjoyed this one by Seth Godin, 2025 from HOPE conf: https://www.youtube.com/live/7ZeN53mKhbE?si=cPF2iYWmI3TECdVH... - Hacking The Tech Industrial Complex: Learning to See Invisible Systems
• mikewarot 17 hours ago
  There's no such thing as plain text - Dylan Beattie

  Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney
• eevmanu 1 day ago
  recently ...

  1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKgfk8lTQuE

  by Joran Dirk Greef
• andreyandrade 1 day ago
  Remote work is effective—why the RTO mandates? | Heejung Chung | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHQWLjE6xQ
• mpalmer 1 day ago
  Bret Victor, "Inventing on principle"

  https://youtu.be/PUv66718DII

  Ambitiously positioned, very human. It was formative for how I think about software.
• giberson 1 day ago
  Sandi Metz did an awesome talk on code smells which lives rent free in my head. https://youtu.be/PJjHfa5yxlU
• barddoo 1 day ago
  Mine is https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?si=QQYeGPE3t3sxmsOp
• vismit2000 1 day ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475327
• nacozarina 1 day ago
  read the transcript before watching the vid; some smooth talkers aren’t saying very much
• Jeremy1026 1 day ago
  Does it have to be in person? If not, "Fuck You, Pay Me" from Mike Monteiro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U