The top 5 most referenced tech talks on HN are: - Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos - Bryan Cantrill - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumo

The top 5 most referenced tech talks on HN are: - Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos - Bryan Cantrill - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos - Guy Steele - Growing a Language - David Heinemeier Hansson - Startup School 08 - Rich Hickey - Hammock Driven Development The top 50 are listed at https://techyaks.com https://techyaks.com which I recently updated with a ranking "techyaks score" that ranks talks (first) by HN reference count.