InfoQ: 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 Value of Values with Rich Hickey", hN commenters cite it as the talk that convinced them of immutability and functional programming.
- 10 HN recommenders 11 months 2014–2023talkHN commenters cite it as the talk that convinced them of immutability and functional programming.
- 9 HN recommenders 7 months 2014–2022talkA repeatedly recommended introduction to functional JavaScript that explains currying and why data should come last.
- 5 HN recommenders 5 months 2011–2018talkRecommended as a short, fun talk on Node's philosophy and the reasons it was built that remains relevant.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2018–2020talkStrongly recommended as a clear, accessible survey of the CRDT landscape.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2012–2020talkHN points people to it as the clearest account of why Datomic is designed the way it is and of the problems with conventional database architecture.
- 5 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2026talkHN points to it to show how deliberately the Rust team arrived at async/await and why it was chosen over alternatives like green threads.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2012–2016talkHN commenters keep recommending it as the best video for newcomers who want to understand how Git works technically.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2015–2022talkA favorite tech talk on HN for showing that hardware knowledge and generalist skills beat simply adding machines.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2026talkHN points to it as the best explanation of simdjson internals and of why fast parsing is rarely disk-bound.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2019–2021talkHN commenters recommend it for showing the tooling possible when schemas and APIs are treated as code.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2013–2014talkPointed to as the original talk by the author of the SIMD-in-JavaScript proposal, whenever SIMD on the web comes up.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2019–2023talkCited in debates about Rust versus C as a thoughtful systems programmer's account of falling for Rust.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024talkCited as a technical look at how Tesla's VPPs and Autobidder work as distributed systems.
- cited 3× 0 months 2020–2021talkMentioned as a real-world example that microservices can work at scale, though commenters are lukewarm and unsure it matches what they remember.
- cited 3× 0 months 2014–2018talkIt is cited for the cost of network round trips and mobile latency limits.
- cited 6× 0 months 2015–2020talkCited in Scala-skeptic arguments as an insider's critique, and for his alternative collections API design.
Questions
Which InfoQ video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Value of Values with Rich Hickey: recommended in 11 different months by 10 HN users between 2014 and 2023.
Is this every InfoQ 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.