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    Curated by HackerTube · 13 videos · 8 hr 23 min

    Every video here has a loyal following on Hacker News and a small audience everywhere else. The subjects range widely on purpose, so expect to find at least one you would never have searched for. It starts with a one-minute demo and short talks, and ends with longer evening-length pieces.

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      Single particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshop

      heligone · 17K views · 13 years ago

      A one-minute opener: a bouncing oil droplet makes an interference pattern, and HN shares it to help people build intuition about wave-particle duality.

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      13:29

      !!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram

      Confreaks · 11K views · 10 years ago

      A short talk from a blind developer that lets you hear a screen reader at full speed, and at one point it shows how inaccessible Hacker News itself is.

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      17:33

      Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

      TheTedNelson · 41K views · 12 years ago

      Alan Kay honors Ted Nelson on a revived 1970s Smalltalk system, and HN keeps returning to it to show how programmable software from that era was.

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      19:10

      Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

      O'Reilly · 47K views · 13 years ago

      Nineteen minutes on why complex systems run close to failure, which one HN commenter calls one of the most important talks they have seen.

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      39:21

      Functional Composition - Chris Ford

      ClojureTV · 31K views · 13 years ago

      Chris Ford builds from a single sine wave up to a Bach canon in code, and several HN readers say it was the talk that made music theory click.

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      49:55

      How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework

      Видео с мероприятий {speach! · 20K views · 10 years ago

      The most-recommended video under 50k views: Flask's creator explains why Python is so hard to speed up, and people who build JITs keep recommending it on HN.

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      35:25

      Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024

      !!Con · 8K views · 2 years ago

      A Voyager team engineer tells how they diagnosed and patched a 1970s spacecraft from 15 billion miles away, which HN calls a great blind-debugging story.

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      40:51

      Geoffrey West on COMPLEXITY

      FQxI · 23K views · 15 years ago

      Physicist Geoffrey West on the scaling laws that govern organisms, cities and companies, recommended on HN as an accessible doorway to the subject.

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      49:47

      DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

      DEFCONConference · 14K views · 9 years ago

      A physician treats genetic diseases as exploits in the human genome, a DEF CON talk that some HN readers say convinced them to keep their DNA out of databases.

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      59:23

      28c3: The Science of Insecurity

      28c3 · 42K views · 14 years ago

      Meredith Patterson and Sergey Bratus explain why messy input formats keep software insecure, which HN regards as the standard introduction to LANGSEC.

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      Václav Smil at Driva Climate Investment Meeting 2019

      Nysnø Klimainvesteringer · 38K views · 7 years ago

      Vaclav Smil uses data on how slowly past energy transitions happened, and HN often links it as a sober counterpoint to techno-optimism.

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      1:11:48

      Math Encounters -- Five Balls, Two Hands: The Patterns of Juggling -- Colin Wright (Presentation)

      National Museum of Mathematics · 33K views · 14 years ago

      A mathematician juggles while explaining the notation that led to new juggling patterns, an entertaining math lecture HN readers remember fondly.

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      52:47

      2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

      Adrian Crenshaw · 25K views · 14 years ago

      Jason Scott recounts recovering the Prince of Persia source code from decaying floppies with its author, and HN treats it as a favorite example of digital archaeology.