NDC Conferences: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie", hN regularly names it among the best programming talks ever, praising the storytelling, the demos and the ending.
- 6 HN recommenders 6 months 2020–2024talkHN regularly names it among the best programming talks ever, praising the storytelling, the demos and the ending.
- 6 HN recommenders 7 months 2018–2024talkHN people recommend it as an eye-opening talk whose domain-modeling ideas carry over to other languages and make a strong compiler feel like a coding partner.
- 5 HN recommenders 6 months 2018–2025talkRecommended as a practical demonstration of how functional thinking improves design without going off the deep end.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2023–2026talkHN commenters strongly recommend it as a fun alt-history of the web and bring it up whenever people muse about how the web could have been different.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2022–2025talkHN people recommend it as an entertaining, surprisingly deep talk that comes up whenever encodings, mojibake or Unicode are discussed.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2019–2021talkHN recommends it as the best beginner-friendly introduction to monoids, monads and other FP vocabulary.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2022talkHN recommends it as a sampling of truly different programming paradigms beyond mainstream OOP.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2018–2023talkRecommended as an entertaining cautionary talk on microservice failures and Conway's law.
Questions
Which NDC Conferences video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie: recommended in 6 different months by 6 HN users between 2020 and 2024.
Is this every NDC Conferences 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.
Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.