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Best Testing, debugging & developer tools Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 87 Testing, debugging & developer tools talks from a 150-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz, "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson, and Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle. The broader topic archive has 1,113 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
    RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

    15 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2015–2025.

    15 recommenders
  2. 2
    "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2014–2024.

    12 recommenders
  3. 3
    Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about GUI, HCI & interface history; the recorded mentions span 2013–2025.

    12 recommenders
  4. 4
    "Performance Matters" by Emery Berger

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    12 recommenders
  5. 5
    Using Python to Code by Voice

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2013–2025.

    12 recommenders
  6. 6
    Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015

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

    12 recommenders
  7. 7
    🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.

    11 recommenders
  8. 8
    Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    10 recommenders
  9. 9
    How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2016–2025.

    10 recommenders
  10. 10
    "How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software performance & optimization; the recorded mentions span 2015–2026.

    9 recommenders
  11. 11
    "Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2022–2025.

    9 recommenders
  12. 12
    Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    8 recommenders
  13. 13
    Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2015–2024.

    8 recommenders
  14. 14
    [Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2013–2023.

    8 recommenders
  15. 15
    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
  16. 16
    CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    7 recommenders
  17. 17
    I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Data science & statistics; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    6 recommenders
  18. 18
    Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2015–2020.

    6 recommenders
  19. 19
    CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    6 recommenders
  20. 20
    Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Data science & statistics; the recorded mentions span 2020–2021.

    6 recommenders
  21. 21
    Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    6 recommenders
  22. 22
    Mastering the Vim Language

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    5 recommenders
  23. 23
    "Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer vision, speech & NLP; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    5 recommenders
  24. 24
    7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2013–2023.

    5 recommenders
  25. 25
    Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2014–2018.

    5 recommenders