dotconferences: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated", hN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.
- talk recommended in 7 different months by 7 HN users, 2016–2023HN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.
- talk recommended in 4 different months by 3 HN users, 2020–2023Recommended as an approachable introduction to CRDTs and the local-first idea behind apps like Actual.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 3 HN users, 2014–2015HN recommends it as an entertaining first-hand engineer account of what went wrong with healthcare.gov and how it was fixed, including that no one owned the whole site.
- talk recommended in 2 different months by 2 HN users, 2013–2016HN commenters cite it as a funny and candid first-hand account of the guilt and burnout of a prolific open source developer.
- talk recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2015–2018Mostly cited as a source for details of Cloudflare's architecture, such as LuaJIT-based request inspection and request volumes.
- talk recommended in 1 different month by 1 HN user, 2013–2024Linked as a funny tour of JavaScript gotchas, usually to show the language has oddities of its own.
Questions
Which dotconferences video does Hacker News recommend most?
dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated: recommended in 7 different months by 7 HN users between 2016 and 2023.
Is this every dotconferences 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.