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

[christophilus]

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...

[jimwhite]

"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw

[oldsklgdfth]

This is one of the two most influential books I've read.

[RomanPushkin]

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

[mcdrake]

"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.

[andreyandrade]

Remote work is effective—why the RTO mandates? | Heejung Chung | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHQWLjE6xQ

[mpalmer]

Bret Victor, "Inventing on principle"

https://youtu.be/PUv66718DII

Ambitiously positioned, very human. It was formative for how I think about software.

[giberson]

Sandi Metz did an awesome talk on code smells which lives rent free in my head. https://youtu.be/PJjHfa5yxlU

[eevmanu]

recently ...

1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance

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

by Joran Dirk Greef

[barddoo]

Mine is https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?si=QQYeGPE3t3sxmsOp

[vismit2000]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475327

[mikewarot]

There's no such thing as plain text - Dylan Beattie

Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney

[nacozarina]

read the transcript before watching the vid; some smooth talkers aren’t saying very much

[Jeremy1026]

Does it have to be in person? If not, "Fuck You, Pay Me" from Mike Monteiro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U