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Best Algorithms & data structures Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 28 Algorithms & data structures talks from a 58-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include CppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”, Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger, and CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures". The broader topic archive has 348 labeled comments across 2009–2026, but this list only includes videos classified as talks. Each row shows its recorded recommendation count and a reason based on its tags and HN history. Use the recent-video archive to browse every format by latest HN mention instead.

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    CppCon 2017: Matt Kulukundis “Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-friendly Hash Table, Step by Step”

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2018–2026.

    9 recommenders
  2. 2
    Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Python, Ruby & scripting languages; the recorded mentions span 2016–2025.

    9 recommenders
  3. 3
    CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2014–2024.

    7 recommenders
  4. 4
    Sorting Algorithms: Speed Is Found In The Minds of People - Andrei Alexandrescu - CppCon 2019

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    7 recommenders
  5. 5
    CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2017–2025.

    5 recommenders
  6. 6
    React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2015–2022.

    5 recommenders
  7. 7
    Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2013–2024.

    4 recommenders
  8. 8
    Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    4 recommenders
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    Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2014–2018.

    4 recommenders
  10. 10
    CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2018–2020.

    3 recommenders
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    dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    3 recommenders
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    CppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2016–2021.

    3 recommenders
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    Stephan T. Lavavej “Floating-Point <charconv>: Making Your Code 10x Faster With C++17's Final Boss”

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2020–2022.

    3 recommenders
  14. 14
    What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2019–2020.

    3 recommenders
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    CRDTs: The Hard Parts

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2020–2024.

    3 recommenders
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    Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    3 recommenders
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    Differential Synchronization

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2012–2020.

    3 recommenders
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    High-performance Tree Wrangling, the APL Way // Aaron Hsu // Dyalog '18

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2019–2021.

    3 recommenders
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    Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2020–2026.

    3 recommenders
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    C++Now 2018: You Can Do Better than std::unordered_map: New Improvements to Hash Table Performance

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2021–2024.

    2 recommenders
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    Three Beautiful Quicksorts

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2010–2023.

    2 recommenders
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    BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2016–2023.

    2 recommenders
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    Abseil's Open Source Hashtables: 2 Years In - Matt Kulukundis - CppCon 2019

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2021–2026.

    1 recommenders
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    'Fastware' - Andrei Alexandrescu [ ACCU 2016 ]

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2016–2021.

    1 recommenders
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    Succinct Data Structures

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2017–2025.

    1 recommenders