Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, ""Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger", hN points to it whenever benchmarking pitfalls and layout effects come up, as an eye-opening talk on how unreliable naive measurements are.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2022–2026talkHN points to it whenever benchmarking pitfalls and layout effects come up, as an eye-opening talk on how unreliable naive measurements are.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2024talkHN recommends it as a sober critique of agile, though one commenter found it mixed.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2015–2023talkHN commenters point to it as an alternative take on the data-fetching problem GraphQL addresses, and as a clear argument for when RPC or graph models beat plain REST.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2023lectureHN repeatedly recommends it as the best overview of the past, present and future of chip performance after Moore's law.
Questions
Which Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) video does Hacker News recommend most?
"Performance (Really) Matters" with Emery Berger: recommended in 4 different months by 3 HN users between 2022 and 2026.
Is this every Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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