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Best Web development Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 102 Web development talks from a 152-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU, Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity, and Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015. The broader topic archive has 956 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
    What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU

    16 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2015–2025.

    16 recommenders
  2. 2
    Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity

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

    15 recommenders
  3. 3
    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
  4. 4
    JavaScript: The Good Parts

    11 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2009–2020.

    11 recommenders
  5. 5
    Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2014–2025.

    9 recommenders
  6. 6
    Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2014–2022.

    9 recommenders
  7. 7
    OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English)

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

    7 recommenders
  8. 8
    Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tasks, requestAnimationFrame, ...

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    7 recommenders
  9. 9
    Evan Czaplicki - Let's be mainstream! User focused design in Elm - Curry On

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2015–2023.

    7 recommenders
  10. 10
    RailsConf 2016 - Turbolinks 5: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Native! by Sam Stephenson

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2017–2020.

    6 recommenders
  11. 11
    10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    6 recommenders
  12. 12
    ElixirConf 2018 - Keynote - Chris McCord

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2018–2019.

    6 recommenders
  13. 13
    Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Python, Ruby & scripting languages; the recorded mentions span 2024–2025.

    6 recommenders
  14. 14
    "Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2014–2026.

    5 recommenders
  15. 15
    Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2014–2024.

    5 recommenders
  16. 16
    Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2011–2018.

    5 recommenders
  17. 17
    [JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer graphics & rendering; the recorded mentions span 2013–2021.

    5 recommenders
  18. 18
    Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2016–2022.

    5 recommenders
  19. 19
    Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2014–2024.

    5 recommenders
  20. 20
    React.js Conf 2015 - Immutable Data and React

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

    5 recommenders
  21. 21
    Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2014–2016.

    5 recommenders
  22. 22
    Chris McCord - Keynote: Phoenix LiveView - Interactive Apps without Javascript - ElixirConf EU 2019

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    4 recommenders
  23. 23
    Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    4 recommenders
  24. 24
    Progressive Performance (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2016–2018.

    4 recommenders
  25. 25
    Jordan Walke - React to the Future

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2019–2022.

    4 recommenders