Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk from 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926973

by georgehdd • 9 years ago

83 7 9 years ago

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Now that the year is (almost) over, what do you think are the must-watch tech talks from the past year?

basdp• 9 years ago

Perhaps you should start by sharing yours!

dpeck• 9 years ago

Matt Mights "Winning the War on Error: Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer" is one that is well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdmQUlD7P40

previous discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066805

sriram_malhar• 9 years ago

Thank you for the link. What a fantastic talk!

yesenadam• 9 years ago

Amazing and inspiring! thanks.

indescions_2017• 9 years ago

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI

npgatech• 9 years ago

Thank you, absolutely fascinating talk. It was hard to develop video games back in the day and just as it was hard to beat those games. What a wonderful era of ingenuity, creativity and passion.

zapperdapper• 9 years ago

I put a bunch of the ones I enjoyed here:

https://coffeeandcode.neocities.org/presentations.html

One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9U5wK_boYM