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Ask HN: Inspiring hacker talks and presentations?

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Hey HN, I had a great time working yesterday to the sweet tunes of Alan Kay's OOPSLA talk "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY) -- it really got the creative juices flowing. I love that kind of stuff. Douglas Engelbart's "The Mother of All Demos" is another good hacker classic -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY.

I'm seeking more content in that wheelhouse. What are your favorite hacker talks or presos?

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Rich Hickey - Hammock-driven development: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc

Programming is terrible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c

Dave Beazely - Python concurrency from the ground up (applicable to languages in general, with generator and corourine functionality) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

Functional programming, with birds: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnVo7EHO_8&t=1009s

Short and classic: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

>Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8QiPFmIMxFc

This gave me a sharp moment of clarity, thank you so much for this!

I'll work on the wording over time, but here's a rough sketch of my principle:

My principle is that no person should ever be forced to blindly trust a computer to do the right thing. Computing shouldn't be either blindly trust the black box, or get nothing done.

Nobody should have to hand over their wallet to buy an ice cream cone, you can just take the exact change out and pay. Why should you have to give a program access to everything when you just want to edit one text file?

My favorite is this one from DEFCON about hacking elevators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I&ab_channel=DEFCO...

If I ever end up doing security, you know I'm going to have them add all the optional contact outputs and log/alarm everything.

The future of programming is a favorite of mine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

That talk is amazing, thanks for sharing!

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w

The many meanings of event-driven architecture https://youtu.be/STKCRSUsyP0

Dion Systems https://vimeo.com/485177664

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