BEST OF HACKER NEWS · 38 TALKS
This ranked list contains 38 Futurism & technology and society talks from a 115-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc), We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci, and How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson. The broader topic archive has 748 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.
Browse Futurism & technology and society by recent HN mention · How the top talks list is ranked
14 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2020–2025.
6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2017–2026.
5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.
4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2012–2022.
4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Sports & athletics; the recorded mentions span 2018–2021.
4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.
4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Demoscene & retrocomputing; the recorded mentions span 2023–2024.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about GUI, HCI & interface history; the recorded mentions span 2017–2024.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cryptography; the recorded mentions span 2017–2017.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2015–2019.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Renewables, batteries & storage; the recorded mentions span 2016–2018.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software practice, open source & careers; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.
3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Scientific method & science communication; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2012–2025.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2016–2020.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2018–2022.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Labor, work & inequality; the recorded mentions span 2024–2025.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Medicine & infectious disease; the recorded mentions span 2020–2021.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2010–2024.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Education & learning; the recorded mentions span 2011–2012.
2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2018–2022.
1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Futurism & technology and society; the recorded mentions span 2012–2012.
1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer vision, speech & NLP; the recorded mentions span 2013–2019.
1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cosmology & astrophysics; the recorded mentions span 2014–2026.