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Best Computer architecture & CPUs Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 53 Computer architecture & CPUs talks from a 148-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams, USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware, and The Thirty Million Line Problem. The broader topic archive has 957 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.

  1. 1
    Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2010–2024.

    12 recommenders
  2. 2
    USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2021–2026.

    12 recommenders
  3. 3
    The Thirty Million Line Problem

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.

    11 recommenders
  4. 4
    The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game history & retro gaming; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    10 recommenders
  5. 5
    34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    9 recommenders
  6. 6
    Breaking the x86 Instruction Set

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    9 recommenders
  7. 7
    Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2019–2026.

    8 recommenders
  8. 8
    Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    7 recommenders
  9. 9
    "Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power" - Chuck Moore (2013)

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2021–2024.

    7 recommenders
  10. 10
    The Road to PS5

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    6 recommenders
  11. 11
    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
  12. 12
    GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Space exploration & spaceflight; the recorded mentions span 2015–2024.

    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
    C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons 1 of 2

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2020–2024.

    4 recommenders
  15. 15
    DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2019–2026.

    4 recommenders
  16. 16
    Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2020–2025.

    3 recommenders
  17. 17
    Robust-first computing: Beyond efficiency

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2015–2025.

    3 recommenders
  18. 18
    code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    3 recommenders
  19. 19
    CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”

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

    3 recommenders
  20. 20
    25c3: The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Demoscene & retrocomputing; the recorded mentions span 2011–2025.

    3 recommenders
  21. 21
    ASPLOS Keynote: The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-design by Dr. Chris Lattner

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

    3 recommenders
  22. 22
    RAAIS 2017 - Simon Knowles, Co-Founder and CTO of Graphcore

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2017–2018.

    3 recommenders
  23. 23
    A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2017–2025.

    3 recommenders
  24. 24
    CppCon 2017: Chandler Carruth “Going Nowhere Faster”

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.

    2 recommenders
  25. 25
    27c3: Reverse Engineering the MOS 6502 CPU (en)

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Semiconductors & chip manufacturing; the recorded mentions span 2014–2021.

    2 recommenders