Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by RomanPushkin on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:07PM (#46507497)

I enjoyed this one by Seth Godin, 2025 from HOPE conf: https://www.youtube.com/live/7ZeN53mKhbE?si=cPF2iYWmI3TECdVH... - Hacking The Tech Industrial Complex: Learning to See Invisible Systems

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by christophilus on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:57PM (#46507423)

Simple Made Easy is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4&pp=ygUQc2ltcGxlIG1...

The Normalization of Deviance is another: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o&pp=ygUZbm9ybWFsaXp...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by andreyandrade on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:37PM (#46507268)

Remote work is effective—why the RTO mandates? | Heejung Chung | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xHQWLjE6xQ

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by barddoo on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:32PM (#46507236)

Mine is https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?si=QQYeGPE3t3sxmsOp

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by Jeremy1026 on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:28PM (#46507672)

Does it have to be in person? If not, "Fuck You, Pay Me" from Mike Monteiro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by mpalmer on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:04PM (#46507877)

Bret Victor, "Inventing on principle"

https://youtu.be/PUv66718DII

Ambitiously positioned, very human. It was formative for how I think about software.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by vismit2000 on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:05PM (#46507880)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46475327

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by giberson on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:12PM (#46507912)

Sandi Metz did an awesome talk on code smells which lives rent free in my head. https://youtu.be/PJjHfa5yxlU

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by jimwhite on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:02PM (#46508606)

"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbGM4mqEVw

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by oldsklgdfth on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:19PM (#46520271)

This is one of the two most influential books I've read.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by mcdrake on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:04AM (#46508941)

"Stop Writing Classes" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

It changed the way I thought about programming. I had mostly been exposed to OOP ideas and this talk made me realize that a lot of them aren't necessary.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by nacozarina on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:55AM (#46509472)

read the transcript before watching the vid; some smooth talkers aren’t saying very much

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by eevmanu on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:15AM (#46510993)

recently ...

1000x: The Power of an Interface for Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKgfk8lTQuE

by Joran Dirk Greef

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best talk you've watched? by mikewarot on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:44PM (#46520545)

There's no such thing as plain text - Dylan Beattie

Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney

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