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Best Machine learning & deep learning Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 38 Machine learning & deep learning talks from a 130-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?, Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning, and [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models. The broader topic archive has 883 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
    USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Security & hacking; the recorded mentions span 2018–2026.

    10 recommenders
  2. 2
    Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2011–2013.

    9 recommenders
  3. 3
    [1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about LLMs & generative AI; the recorded mentions span 2023–2026.

    9 recommenders
  4. 4
    Brains, Sex, and Machine Learning

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2012–2017.

    7 recommenders
  5. 5
    State of GPT | BRK216HFS

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about LLMs & generative AI; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    6 recommenders
  6. 6
    Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2021–2025.

    5 recommenders
  7. 7
    Andrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Self-driving & autonomous vehicles; the recorded mentions span 2020–2022.

    4 recommenders
  8. 8
    [CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Self-driving & autonomous vehicles; the recorded mentions span 2021–2023.

    4 recommenders
  9. 9
    The Simple Essence of Automatic Differentiation - Conal Elliott

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    3 recommenders
  10. 10
    Ali Rahimi's talk at NIPS(NIPS 2017 Test-of-time award presentation)

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    3 recommenders
  11. 11
    Connections between physics and deep learning

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    3 recommenders
  12. 12
    ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Self-driving & autonomous vehicles; the recorded mentions span 2018–2021.

    3 recommenders
  13. 13
    Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2007–2009.

    3 recommenders
  14. 14
    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
  15. 15
    Tesla Autonomy Day

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Self-driving & autonomous vehicles; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    3 recommenders
  16. 16
    Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Consciousness & cognition; the recorded mentions span 2016–2019.

    3 recommenders
  17. 17
    Recent Developments in Deep Learning

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2010–2026.

    3 recommenders
  18. 18
    Tesla AI Day 2022

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Self-driving & autonomous vehicles; the recorded mentions span 2022–2026.

    2 recommenders
  19. 19
    HC2023-K2: Hardware for Deep Learning

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    2 recommenders
  20. 20
    Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about AI safety, AGI & impact; the recorded mentions span 2017–2019.

    2 recommenders
  21. 21
    Peter Norvig at Startup School 08

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2009–2014.

    2 recommenders
  22. 22
    AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about AI safety, AGI & impact; the recorded mentions span 2019–2021.

    2 recommenders
  23. 23
    Introducing Nx - José Valim | Lambda Days 2021

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

    2 recommenders
  24. 24
    John Schulman - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Machine learning & deep learning; the recorded mentions span 2023–2023.

    2 recommenders
  25. 25
    Building Brains to Understand the World's Data

    1 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Neuroscience & the brain; the recorded mentions span 2013–2017.

    1 recommenders