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Best Compilers, interpreters & program analysis Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 73 Compilers, interpreters & program analysis talks from a 97-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity, Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike, and CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”. The broader topic archive has 612 labeled comments across 2007–2026, 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.

  1. 1
    Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity

    15 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2019–2026.

    15 recommenders
  2. 2
    Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike

    13 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2012–2025.

    13 recommenders
  3. 3
    CppCon 2016: Jason Turner “Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17”

    13 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2016–2024.

    13 recommenders
  4. 4
    William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    11 recommenders
  5. 5
    Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2015–2024.

    8 recommenders
  6. 6
    Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    8 recommenders
  7. 7
    A Talk Near the Future of Python (a.k.a., Dave live-codes a WebAssembly Interpreter)

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    7 recommenders
  8. 8
    CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2022.

    7 recommenders
  9. 9
    Break Me00 The MoVfuscator Turning mov into a soul crushing RE nightmare Christopher Domas

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    6 recommenders
  10. 10
    Miguel de Icaza: Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake #GodotCon2023

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2023–2026.

    6 recommenders
  11. 11
    "Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages" by Richard Feldman

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2021–2025.

    6 recommenders
  12. 12
    Java on a 1000 Cores - Tales of Hardware / Software CoDesign

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2009–2025.

    5 recommenders
  13. 13
    Simon Peyton Jones: Data Parallel Haskell

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2010–2017.

    5 recommenders
  14. 14
    Halide Talk

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2014–2021.

    5 recommenders
  15. 15
    A JVM Does That?

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2011–2017.

    4 recommenders
  16. 16
    CppCon 2015: Herb Sutter "Writing Good C++14... By Default"

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2015–2018.

    4 recommenders
  17. 17
    "Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.

    4 recommenders
  18. 18
    CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior..."

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    4 recommenders
  19. 19
    Co-dfns Live Stream: Compiler Design and Architecture

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    3 recommenders
  20. 20
    "Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2022–2026.

    3 recommenders
  21. 21
    Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2013–2024.

    3 recommenders
  22. 22
    Matt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2017–2019.

    3 recommenders
  23. 23
    Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2010–2025.

    3 recommenders
  24. 24
    C++Now 2018: Matt Godbolt “What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately?”

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2018–2020.

    3 recommenders
  25. 25
    Saša Jurić - Parsing from first principles - WebCamp Zagreb 2019

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Compilers, interpreters & program analysis; the recorded mentions span 2019–2021.

    3 recommenders