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Talks from 2005 and 2006 are linked to the official recordings and those from 2007 are linked to my lower quality recordings until the official ones are released. If you were not there this year and are short on time - I'd recommend listening to Paul Buchheit, Paul Graham, and Greg McAdoo first."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 8708, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708", "by": "dean", "time": 1175660593, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 11601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11601", "by": "mattjaynes", "time": 1176248253, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 37914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914", "by": "altano", "time": 1185888045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to ~25 podcasts but wouldn't recommend most of them... which I guess means it's time for me to clean up my list. Here are some that I would recommend: Non-tech (in order of awesomeness): 30 Seconds with Phone Guy; WNYC's Radio Lab; This American Life; On Point with Tom Ashbrook; CBC Radio 3 Podcast; A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon; Tech (NOT in any order): MacBreak Weekly; This Week in Tech (TWiT); Freelancing on Rails; Ruby on Rails Podcast; Hivelogic Radio"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 42899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899", "by": "bootload", "time": 1187235267, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"... I think the arrangement where the founders are not currently developers would be equally effective as a team of developers as long as they are able to accurately capture and understand their customer's needs prior to the start of coding. ...\" I wish all or some customer needs could be fixed at the start of coding but it's not likely to happen. For a start, exactly \"who is a startups customers?\" You can ask them, but you need a demo first. If you build new products (stuff that by definition has not been built before) a constant dialog with users is required 'at' the time of coding and deve"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 45862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862", "by": "adamdoupe", "time": 1187904523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools (a business podcast) has a very good podcast about this for those interested: http://www.manager-tools.com/2006/09/meal-etiquette-part-1-o... I know it may appear boring, but they're actually really good and I listen to them even though I'm a student."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 67860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=67860", "by": "staunch", "time": 1192415808, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 77170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77170", "by": "ClintonKarr", "time": 1194474130, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 80473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80473", "by": "omnipath", "time": 1195176325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adam Carolla Daily Radio Show Podcast"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 95537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95537", "by": "ekanes", "time": 1199687110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fun & Enjoyment: CBC's The Vinyl Cafe (8/10) The Merlin Show (on extended hiatus) (8/10) PopTech conference (8/10) TED conference (10/10) This American Life (9/10) Tiki Bar TV (video podcast) (8/10) Tech: Diggnation (8/10) The GigaOm Show (6/10) MacBreak Weekly (obviously only for macheads...) (8/10) net@night (7/10) TWiT (9/10) Entrepreneurship: DJF Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (6/10) Chicago GSB (graduate school of business) (8/10) Venture Voice (on extended hiatus) (9/10) O'Reilly web 2.0 conference (7/10)"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 95537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95537", "by": "ekanes", "time": 1199687110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fun & Enjoyment: CBC's The Vinyl Cafe (8/10) The Merlin Show (on extended hiatus) (8/10) PopTech conference (8/10) TED conference (10/10) This American Life (9/10) Tiki Bar TV (video podcast) (8/10) Tech: Diggnation (8/10) The GigaOm Show (6/10) MacBreak Weekly (obviously only for macheads...) (8/10) net@night (7/10) TWiT (9/10) Entrepreneurship: DJF Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (6/10) Chicago GSB (graduate school of business) (8/10) Venture Voice (on extended hiatus) (9/10) O'Reilly web 2.0 conference (7/10)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 95588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95588", "by": "arichazan", "time": 1199706246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pod casts i like: CNET - Buzz out loud - Keeps me up to date with tech news TWiT - This week in Tech (Leo Laporte) Security Now (Also from TWiT) - Excellent Security podcast. very educational BBC Documentry archive - Excellent documentries Learn French By Podcast"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 95643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95643", "by": "mechanical_fish", "time": 1199722936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I heard this guy interviewed on the Nature podcast last year, when his Nature paper came out (warning, PDF link): http://www.nagyvaryviolins.com/Nagyvary_Nature_Page.pdf He was great. His contention is that the key to the unique sound of the Strads and other great violins of that era is the treatment of the wood, which the makers did to preserve it better. Apparently the heirs lost the recipe, replaced it with something else, then spent nearly 300 years lost and wandering in Violin Phase Space trying to figure out where they went wrong. Those of us who have worked in semiconductor manu"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 101177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101177", "by": "weel", "time": 1200817989, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 101178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101178", "by": "weel", "time": 1200818089, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73800083", "hn_item": 124706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124706", "by": "nreece", "time": 1204119981, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 166227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166227", "by": "DocSavage", "time": 1208430354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://wiki.ycombinator.com/presentations/ You can subscribe to the 2006 lectures through iTunes (\"Startup School Podcast\")."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 172232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172232", "by": "prakash", "time": 1209012148, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 179094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=179094", "by": "babyshake", "time": 1209685571, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "To better manage my time, I'm trying to purge the South Parks and Aqua Teens from my life in favor of more \"complex carbohydrate\" material. I think everyone could benefit from suggestions. To start things off, I'm a big fan of WNYC's Radiolab podcast. Every one I've heard has been fascinating, and well-produced."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 187644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187644", "by": "rp", "time": 1210605882, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 191757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191757", "by": "strick", "time": 1210945282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab. It is a podcast, not an audio book, but I would recommend downloading the entire set at http://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab and listening to all of them. Listen to them in order, oldest to newest. I would not recommend starting with the most recent \"Jad and Robert: The Early Years\" which is mainly about the hosts. And if you want to cherrypick one show to start with try: Musical Language."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 191946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191946", "by": "mhb", "time": 1210956571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life shows/podcasts."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 192162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192162", "by": "zach", "time": 1210966990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast is a good one. Each is about an hour long, so it helps that you have lots of time: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 224717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224717", "by": "dkokelley", "time": 1214193376, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Minimize meetings. Limit most meetings to \"actionable\" items. (Person A does task X. Person B does task Y after task X is completed.) Keep meetings short. (If the information can be given 1 on 1, great, if you can cover it over email or a phone call, even better.) Maybe once weekly have recap/planning meetings, and make sure they are scheduled and sacred. Use them to look at what got done that week and what needs to get done next week. Limit \"vision & direction\" meetings to conversations over lunch. You're the CEO, and your job is to get version 1 out the door. If you think that there is a fat"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 224841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224841", "by": "reitzensteinm", "time": 1214201556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools has some pretty good podcasts on conducting meetings. They're not startup or tech specific, but they'll definitely give you some food for thought: http://www.manager-tools.com"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 265086, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=265086", "by": "trickjarrett", "time": 1217698697, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I just got a new job and it more than doubles my commute time. I've got all the standard big name podcasts, TWIT, Diggnation, TRS, etc. What others do you guys recommend to help me wile away the hours in traffic?"}, {"show": "1347626043", "hn_item": 307475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=307475", "by": "ilamont", "time": 1221682486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But MSM seldom get it right. Remember the LA Times wikitorial? Or Wired's Second Life bureau? When's the last time you listened to a podcast produced by your local newspaper, or used the NYT's Blogrunner service? The media is desperate to \"get\" the Internet, but many times they simply end up jumping on the latest bandwagon, which fades after a year or two."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 319972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319972", "by": "jcdreads", "time": 1222805203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also the \"Planet Money\" podcast that the same guys at NPR have been putting together. They've been discussing the most recent parts of the crisis as they unfold; hours of super depressing fun! http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ It includes parts-in-development of the upcoming This American Life episode referred to by noodle."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 328711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328711", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1223634594, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 329139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=329139", "by": "kylec", "time": 1223665240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you liked that, you'll love Planet Money - a daily podcast created by the people that made the This American Life money program. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 329139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=329139", "by": "kylec", "time": 1223665240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you liked that, you'll love Planet Money - a daily podcast created by the people that made the This American Life money program. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944..."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 344141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344141", "by": "kalvin", "time": 1225010004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.) Not all of them are great, but there's enough that you're bound to find a topic/speaker that you're interested in: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html (Past speakers you might be interested in: Marissa Mayer, Reid Hoffman, Mitchell Baker, Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway, Sue Decker, Larry Brilliant, Vinod Khosla, William McDonough, Mark Zuckerberg, et. al) (Also, I highly recommend "}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 350775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350775", "by": "twampss", "time": 1225558419, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1496674902", "hn_item": 352637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352637", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1225750977, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1496674902", "hn_item": 375328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375328", "by": "twampss", "time": 1227557957, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 378093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378093", "by": "kqr2", "time": 1227735573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might want to consider Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 382540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=382540", "by": "ojbyrne", "time": 1228186502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I never really associated TWiT with the success (nor afaik has anyone else). Diggnation was ranked pretty close in the early days of itunes podcasts. I tend to associate most of the success with Paris Hilton and Yahoo ;-) In case you weren't around in Feb. 2005, her cell phone got hacked and someone put up some pictures and contacts on their site and then submitted it to digg. It got indexed by yahoo and ended up as the no. 1 and no. 3 search results for \"Paris Hilton Cell Phone.\" Once we got the site back up :-( we discovered our traffic had increased drastically."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 392584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392584", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1228892177, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Only podcast I'm regularly listening to is the Stack Overflow podcast. I haven't really found any other good ones. Any goodies you want to share?"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 392732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392732", "by": "bootload", "time": 1228904752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"... Only podcast I'm regularly listening to is the Stack Overflow podcast ...\" SO is pretty good value. Try - itconverstation (the best, varied) ~ http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/ - guardian (light) ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/techweekly - dan bricklan (quirky) ~ http://www.softwaregarden.com/podcast/dbsl.html - dave winer (quirky) ~ http://www.morningcoffeenotes.com/ - oreilly week in review (light) ~ http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/the-best-of-oreilly---n... - Microsoft Ch9 (software) ~ http://channel9.msdn.com/Media/Podcasts/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 405863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=405863", "by": "socksandsandals", "time": 1229903122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish someone would give me a column even though I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Greenspan had a role in the current financial crisis, but he was not the sole engineer, nor even the biggest one. For actual, sound info on this subject, check out the EconTalk podcast/blog."}, {"show": "404963432", "hn_item": 410660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=410660", "by": "jfornear", "time": 1230344188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I (along with many of you I'm sure) have been listening to Peter Schiff's podcast since his predictions from 2004-2006 have materialized, and his outlook on the future of the US economy is very bleak. http://europac.net Duh, no one knows exactly what will happen or how, but I do believe it is foolish to write off these 'bleak' predictions from analysts who have proven their credibility and can back up their predictions with logic and reason. Plus, this article is self-defeating is it not? If we are supposed to ignore these 'bleak' predictions because of how innacurate predictions have been in "}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 424500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424500", "by": "twampss", "time": 1231392940, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 448554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448554", "by": "jjames", "time": 1232842506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Programming Related podcasts that I keep up with: Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/ Rails Envy: http://www.railsenvy.com/podcast This Week in Django: http://thisweekindjango.com/ FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/FLOSS"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 448574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448574", "by": "paulgb", "time": 1232844719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not hacking related, but I found the More or Less podcast quite interesting. It's by the author of The Undercover Economist, and focuses on the same issues as the book. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/moreorless/ It's off the air for a few months, but you can still access some back-episodes (unfortunately, not all of them). Edit: for software, I use rhythmbox."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 448740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448740", "by": "cnu", "time": 1232860635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "StackOverflow podcast - http://blog.stackoverflow.com by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky."}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 448799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448799", "by": "someperson", "time": 1232864585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree Astronomy Cast is awesome. 365 Days of Astronomy is worth a look (10min podcast everyday of 2009, the international year of astronomy) http://365daysofastronomy.org/ Great podcast about Psychology http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm Starstuff is also pretty good http://www.abc.net.au/science/starstuff/ Planetary Radio (Planetary Society podcast) is great http://www.planetary.org/radio/ Science Talk (Scientific American) is pretty decent http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcasts.cfm?type=science-talk"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 448886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448886", "by": "ricree", "time": 1232869076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to SGU and Astronomy Cast, both of which are excellent, you might want to check out the Nature Podcast ( http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ ). It's gives a good overview of new science news, and often includes interviews with the researchers. Also, SE Radio is an excellent programming podcast. http://www.se-radio.net/ Finally, it isn't a science or engineering podcast, but I just started listening to the History of Rome podcast, and I'm really enjoying it so far. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 448886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448886", "by": "ricree", "time": 1232869076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to SGU and Astronomy Cast, both of which are excellent, you might want to check out the Nature Podcast ( http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ ). It's gives a good overview of new science news, and often includes interviews with the researchers. Also, SE Radio is an excellent programming podcast. http://www.se-radio.net/ Finally, it isn't a science or engineering podcast, but I just started listening to the History of Rome podcast, and I'm really enjoying it so far. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 466268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466268", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1233773934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What has Kent Beck shipped? Follow the advice of people that have shipped code. That is what I took from the Stack Overflow podcast. Seriously, what has Kent Beck shipped? The Chrysler Compensation program is always brought up. But, I understand that the project was cancelled. I'm not trying to troll here. I would have greater confidence in Kent Beck's argument if I knew what he was actually capable of shipping."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 473812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473812", "by": "pelle", "time": 1234201250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I myself am an armchair economics. I am fairly well read on the subject over the year. I think to an extent the article has a point. However if the whole point of the post is true, then it's summary should of course also be taken into doubt. ;-) The real trouble with economics is that even economists disagree. It really is impossible to say anything like consensus amongst economists is x. A recent EconTalk (an excellent podcast to learn more about economics) talks about just this issue. Why do economists disagree: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/01/roberts_and_han.htm... Their conclusion"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 490846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490846", "by": "espadagroup", "time": 1235336347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Google Hosted Domain email, NPR 5 Min Podcast, The Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, Google Reader, Hacker News"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 493061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493061", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1235485606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a great retrospective on videogame music, listen to this Retronauts podcast: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://download.game... They start the discussion from the NES days, and the music they're talking about is often spliced in. It's a fun listen."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 498786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498786", "by": "dell9000", "time": 1235883223, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 503692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503692", "by": "drjrock", "time": 1236215943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "RadioLab ( http://radiolab.org ) is simply the best podcast ever created ever. Other than that, I listen to This American Life ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ ) for serious stuff and You Look Nice Today ( http://youlooknicetoday.com/ ) for comedy. And for a little shameless self promotion, check out the Rails Envy podcast ( http://railsenvy.com ) for ruby/rails news."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 503751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503751", "by": "kylec", "time": 1236220009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only ones I listen to with any regularity are Stack Overflow, Wait! Wait! Don't tell me! ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=518... ) and This American Life ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Podcast.aspx ). I was listening to Planet Money ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944... ) but it got hard to keep up a few months ago - it should have been a weekly podcast, not daily, IMHO. I've also occasionally listened to Hanselminutes ( http://www.hanselminutes.com/ ) and Herding Code ( http://herdingcode.com/ ), and while they focus on Micros"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 503751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=503751", "by": "kylec", "time": 1236220009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only ones I listen to with any regularity are Stack Overflow, Wait! Wait! Don't tell me! ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=518... ) and This American Life ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Podcast.aspx ). I was listening to Planet Money ( http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944... ) but it got hard to keep up a few months ago - it should have been a weekly podcast, not daily, IMHO. I've also occasionally listened to Hanselminutes ( http://www.hanselminutes.com/ ) and Herding Code ( http://herdingcode.com/ ), and while they focus on Micros"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 506744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506744", "by": "fh", "time": 1236458109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> (Yes, it's a rhetorical question, but if there's a reason why this has suddenly become timely I'd actually like to know.) That I can answer. In a recent episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel Spolsky mentioned that old Excel Basic story as an example of dealing with self-declared software architects. Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact episode number and the transcription wiki doesn't have it yet. But he basically didn't say anything that he hasn't already said in his \"Two Stories\" article (link below). (I don't know if this new discussion is particularly interesting or relevant, "}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 532091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532091", "by": "stcredzero", "time": 1238001382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Individual neurons do not have code.\" Actually, proteome-related research on synapses has found strong evidence that a significant amount of computation happens in the synapse . Higher mammals have distinct kinds of synapses, and these seem to coincide with specific cognitive abilities. This is discussed in episode 51 of the Brain Science Podcast. PDF: http://docartemis.com/brain%20science/51-brainscience-Grant...."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 535978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535978", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1238201619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the last Stack Overflow podcast. Every single month that they ship FogBugz earlier is an extra $200k in revenue share for the developers. The developer may know how to solve the problem in code. But, Joel is the CEO. He has a better idea of how this affects the Balance Sheet and Income Statement. It's kinda, sorta his job."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 535996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=535996", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1238202542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Stack Overflow podcast. The developer estimated that it would take \"a few weeks\". A day and a half of Joel's time sees like a fair trade to do this experiment. Listen to the podcast. The conversation starts at about 16:00 mark if that helps. I am seeing a ton of comments that don't understand the context of the article. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/podcast-47/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 536207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=536207", "by": "allertonm", "time": 1238217019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another ex-IMF economist saying very similar things: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice (A great read, by the way - even if you are already familiar with Simon Johnson's opinions by way of NPR's \"Planet Money\" podcast.)"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 538193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538193", "by": "nir", "time": 1238387646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most of the Long New Foundation's seminars are excellent: http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/ The New Yorker Out Loud has its moments: http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/outloud The Moth' stories are great for passing that subway ride home: http://www.themoth.org/podcast BBC's From Our Own Correspondent is pretty good too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/fooc/ \"Open Source Radio\" (nothing to do with open source, except hijacking the term to sound \"hip\") used to be pretty good, but lately it's been like listening to a podcast by Reddit. Still, they might get some sense back (or you "}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 564083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=564083", "by": "krisneuharth", "time": 1239825991, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason Calcanis talking about the web, startups, tech and all sorts of unrelated stuff with Adam Carolla."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 573424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573424", "by": "replicatorblog", "time": 1240368239, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 574266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574266", "by": "stcredzero", "time": 1240423991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, these guys aren't anywhere near simulating an entire brain molecule by molecule. There's a big difference between this and being able to simulate the storage of a memory. Also, the estimates of the total complexity of the brain may have all been greatly underestimated. We now have strong evidence from evolutionary Proteomics that each synapse has considerable complexity and is itself involved in computation. This makes perfect sense: the synapse must have evolved from the molecular sensing and navigation mechanisms of single celled Eukaryotes, and these are clearly capable of some comput"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 575298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575298", "by": "screwperman", "time": 1240476949, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 580557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580557", "by": "neilk", "time": 1240786425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They still don't use peer-to-peer sharing. Every now and then Ira Glass will plead with podcast listeners to fund the hundreds of thousands of dollars in bandwidth that This American Life costs. I emailed them once about why they didn't simply send the cost of this down to zero by going peer-to-peer, and they said they'd looked into it (and didn't supply further details). Possibly there would be problems tracking downloads for sponsors. Or, maybe it's the structure of how pledge drives work, where a breakout show like TAL helps fund the entire station."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 598261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598261", "by": "mattmaroon", "time": 1241716252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "iPods destroy my productivity because all I have on them are audiobooks and NPR podcasts. It's very hard to listen to a good episode of This American Life and get anything done."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 598700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=598700", "by": "aranyx", "time": 1241730936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is old, but I would really love to hear this pop up on the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel."}, {"show": "579081902", "hn_item": 600628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600628", "by": "dforbin", "time": 1241834985, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Well someone just convinced me older news is cool as long as it hasn't been posted, and this isn't that old. Fascinating podcast from the AMD java labs team (how many of you knew such a thing existed?). Some nice performance tips, and a must listen for anyone into Java."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 641035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641035", "by": "spolsky", "time": 1244096402, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 646819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646819", "by": "jayro", "time": 1244436112, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 657819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=657819", "by": "nir", "time": 1245031287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford's \"Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders\" podcast might interest you. The quality's uneven, my favorite is Steve Blank's (customer development) talk. Mitch Kapor and Shai Agassi were pretty interesting as well."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 665166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665166", "by": "chollida1", "time": 1245421657, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Couldn't disagree more. The reason we have lawyers look over documents is that they write these types of documents everyday and they can tell if you've missed anything. This comes in handy when a dispute arises or some other unforeseen event. Joel talks about this on the Stackoverflow podcast when they discuss using a lawyer to review the FogCreek office rental agreement. The gist of it is that when lawyers talk about problems( ie a tenant paying his/her rent late) then its' just lawyers talking, but if a tenant broaches this subject with the landlord then suddenly it's confrontational as the "}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 665479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=665479", "by": "mseebach", "time": 1245430765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Joel talks about this on the Stackoverflow podcast when they discuss using a lawyer to review the FogCreek office rental agreement. This is not a rental contract, that the ability of 100 (?) employees to their job rests on. If Joel gets to the Fog Creek office one morning and finds the locks changed, he looses thousands of dollars a day - and not just his own money, that's money that he already owes in wages and so on. Absolutely, get a lawyer. These two guys are doing some contracting on the side. There are no investments and no liabilities. Their worst case scenario is walking away, not ta"}, {"show": "73800083", "hn_item": 667219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667219", "by": "andhapp", "time": 1245570156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well if you listen to the Venture Voice podcast or the start up success podcast then you will encounter a tons of start ups that are not huge yet are successful to some degree."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 678452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678452", "by": "guns", "time": 1246247876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How much money would make it worth your time? If your expertise is too high / too esoteric for the StackOverflow community, then you should command high prices in the marketplace. It's doubtful to me that you could appeal to expert users to exchange time for money when it is better leveraged by consulting and entrepreneurship. This topic comes up quite often on the StackOverflow podcast."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 682170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682170", "by": "ricree", "time": 1246427281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He recently was interviewed on the StackOverflow podcast ( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-59/ ). A bit of repeated material, but overall it was a fairly interesting program."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 682630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682630", "by": "izak30", "time": 1246456528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joel Spolsky talks about this over and over on the Stack Overflow podcast. People who are willing to do something for free !== People who are willing to do something for small bits of money or quantified reward. It's possible that there is incentive to be had in the 'common goal'; \"The Foo Project's Charity is the FSF; If we squash all the bugs by Labor Day, 80% of donations will go to the FSF. Otherwise, 50%\""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 703443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=703443", "by": "anupj", "time": 1247569243, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 709466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709466", "by": "ananthrk", "time": 1247816920, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 719907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719907", "by": "yan", "time": 1248368077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had to take the same exact commute (B or Q from south Brooklyn to DeKalb). I used to read mostly, and sometimes listen to music. I live in Maryland now and have a 5 minute drive to work (and anywhere else). In terms of podcasts, I listen to \"The Brain Science Podcast\" and \"Books and Ideas\" from Dr. Ginger Campbell. I also listen to \"Skeptic's Guide to the Universe\". \"Radiolab\" is great. None of these are daily though."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 719907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719907", "by": "yan", "time": 1248368077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had to take the same exact commute (B or Q from south Brooklyn to DeKalb). I used to read mostly, and sometimes listen to music. I live in Maryland now and have a 5 minute drive to work (and anywhere else). In terms of podcasts, I listen to \"The Brain Science Podcast\" and \"Books and Ideas\" from Dr. Ginger Campbell. I also listen to \"Skeptic's Guide to the Universe\". \"Radiolab\" is great. None of these are daily though."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 724006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=724006", "by": "loganfrederick", "time": 1248577321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life\" by Len Fisher. Great introduction to the area of study. Follow that up with the EconTalk podcast episode with Dr. Bruce Beuno de Mesquita: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/bruce_bueno_de_m..."}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 726475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726475", "by": "spydez", "time": 1248721882, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 730603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730603", "by": "lutorm", "time": 1248891409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This exact question came up on a recent StackOverflow podcast."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 739397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739397", "by": "pelle", "time": 1249313720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk is one of my favorite podcasts. Seriously every entrepreneur would do well subscribing to it (and listening through the back catalogue)."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 757150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757150", "by": "j_b_f", "time": 1250045749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the StackOverflow podcast Jeff & Joel frequently discuss their goal to get ranked highly on popular search engines."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 758499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=758499", "by": "liquidben", "time": 1250095161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure about sourcing, but it was recently used on the Stack Overflow podcast in Jeff and Joel's discussion of the profitability of creating plug-ins for another piece of software. Other considerations aside, one of the greatest threats to stability was if you created something so useful to the general userbase of the parent application, that the producers of the parent application would roll that up into the next version of their software, thereby rendering your cash cow redundant, e.g. a spell-checker for Firefox. Joel likened this to snatching nickel from in front of an oncoming steam"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 763081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763081", "by": "jimbokun", "time": 1250261157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"I truly think he should put web programming aside for a while, and realize someone has got to write the operating systems, web servers, middle wares, compilers, tools that make everything possible.\" Sometimes on the StackOverflow podcast Joel refers to this whole area of programming as \"systems programming,\" which I think is the correct term. Basically, it is building the things that other programmers use to build applications that normal people use. So, programming where the end user of your work is another programmer. It would be nice if Joel reminds him of this whole area of programming ag"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 765399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=765399", "by": "jayro", "time": 1250381221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What's really interesting is that no one here seems to be interested in asking whether Vivek Kundra is indeed unqualified for the position. That's what's really important. I mean the CIO of the United States should be a total tech badass, right? After reading Dvorak's post on Kundra, listening to the No Agenda podcast where they played clip after clip of Kundra speaking like a moron and after reading Om Malik's response and Kundra's Wikipedia entry, it seems like Dvorak may actually have a point."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 769065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769065", "by": "ZachPruckowski", "time": 1250542108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His argument doesn't appear to be \"don't build\", it appears to be \"tread cautiously\". If your business model depends on filling an obvious hole in someone else's product, you need to be wary of the idea that the first-party will fill that hole. Joel Spolsky outlines this well in the Stack Overflow podcast, though he's usually talking about plug-in ecosystems. And yes, people making iPhone apps or Facebook apps need to be careful of this. If Facebook decided to build in a friend-ranking feature, the company that makes that Compare People app is hosed. If Apple decides it wants to add ebooks to "}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 782018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782018", "by": "discojesus", "time": 1251119062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to read about the impact \"Joel on Software\" and his celebrity has had on his success/sales though. within epsilon of 100%. I love Joel, his articles, and the Stack Overflow podcast, but nobody would have heard of him (or FogBugz) if he weren't such a brilliant marketer. He established FogBugz and Joel Spolsky as pretty big brands in the programming community, and made a previously unknown software company into what is now seen as one of the elite places to work in the industry. He's got the technical chops to back it up, but that doesn't matter - he is amazingly good at marketing, and"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 797832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797832", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1251806248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great interview with him on Marketplace of Ideas podcast (Google it)."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 820589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820589", "by": "3dFlatLander", "time": 1252876640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Astronomy Cast is one of my favorites. Radio Lab, Floss Weekly amd Security Now are my only regulars. Not really a podcast, but I just started downloading free audio books from Librivox--the quality seems very good so far. Completed audio books at http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?language=&stat..."}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 820589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820589", "by": "3dFlatLander", "time": 1252876640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Astronomy Cast is one of my favorites. Radio Lab, Floss Weekly amd Security Now are my only regulars. Not really a podcast, but I just started downloading free audio books from Librivox--the quality seems very good so far. Completed audio books at http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?language=&stat..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 822226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=822226", "by": "callmeed", "time": 1252951816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish I could upvote this 10x. I have no idea what .NET means today other than the little insight I get when listening to the Stack Overflow podcast (which isn't much). Not only do I not know what .NET means, I wouldn't know where to start learning or what the requirements are ... Where is the .NET equivalent of these types of resources? (I really want to know): http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/1/6/ubuntu-intrepid-ruby-... http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/9/3/ubuntu-hardy-using-mo... http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://railscasts.com/ http://blog.disqus.net/2007/03/11/a-django-prime"}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 823750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823750", "by": "yan", "time": 1253020647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, the Brain Science Podcast[1] is a worthy listen if you're into this. Dr. Ginger Campbell does an excellent job with the interviews and book reviews. I was also following MIT OCW's 9.01 \"Introduction to Neuroscience\"[2] and found it very worthwhile. I scored a textbook on ebay for $14 and have been following the course for a few lectures. Doubt you can find a better value :) [1] http://docartemis.com/brainsciencepodcast/ [2] http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/9-01F..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 829278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=829278", "by": "wallflower", "time": 1253230959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow, you're not only an excellent designer but an excellent writer as well. My suggestion: ask permission to record your conversations with them for future \"This American Life\" style podcasts. Yes, I know the jet engine noise might be intractable for audio quality."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 833411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833411", "by": "chromophore", "time": 1253474263, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 834501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=834501", "by": "goodside", "time": 1253538600, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 875242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875242", "by": "Luyt", "time": 1255293643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Paying for the privilige to be funded\" sounded to me a bit like the \"own your own business\" scams which Brian Dunning describes on his Skeptoid podcast/blog. see http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4095"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 886024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886024", "by": "jasonmcalacanis", "time": 1255721686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the plug for This Week in Startups. :-) I also suggest: the \"this week in tech\" podcast, techcrunch, and thefunded"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 907912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907912", "by": "dabent", "time": 1256742254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm in a similar situation: 1. Podcasts - Venture Voice and The Moth are two easy recommends. You could try to get old Radio GoDaddy podcasts back when they had entrepreneurs on. 2. Audio Books - Audible.com/Amazon/Library/etc. are great sources. I've managed to listen to quite a few. 3. Satellite radio: I got a cheap XM set and rigged it up to my car a couple months back. I haven't listened to terrestrial radio since. Just about any music you'd want, plus news from all kinds of sources. Edit to add Satellite radio"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 908363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908363", "by": "CraigBuchek", "time": 1256752513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not quite Comp Sci, but I like to listen to NPR's Science Friday podcasts. I have to rewind a bit once in a while if I have to pay attention to traffic, but it's nice to be able to listen to them, instead of \"wasting\" time listening to the radio."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 911317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911317", "by": "coderpourmanger", "time": 1256865594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://www.kcrw.com/podcasts for To The Point, Left Right & Center http://wamu.org/help/podcasts/ for Diane Rehm Show, Kojo Nnamdi Show featuring Tech Tuesday and the Computer Guys http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Planet Money, All Songs Considered, Live Concerts http://thislife.org This American Life http://www.wnyc.org/podcasting/ Radio Lab, On the Media, Leonard Lopate Show"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 911317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911317", "by": "coderpourmanger", "time": 1256865594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://www.kcrw.com/podcasts for To The Point, Left Right & Center http://wamu.org/help/podcasts/ for Diane Rehm Show, Kojo Nnamdi Show featuring Tech Tuesday and the Computer Guys http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Planet Money, All Songs Considered, Live Concerts http://thislife.org This American Life http://www.wnyc.org/podcasting/ Radio Lab, On the Media, Leonard Lopate Show"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 911317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911317", "by": "coderpourmanger", "time": 1256865594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://www.kcrw.com/podcasts for To The Point, Left Right & Center http://wamu.org/help/podcasts/ for Diane Rehm Show, Kojo Nnamdi Show featuring Tech Tuesday and the Computer Guys http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Planet Money, All Songs Considered, Live Concerts http://thislife.org This American Life http://www.wnyc.org/podcasting/ Radio Lab, On the Media, Leonard Lopate Show"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 919837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=919837", "by": "nwjsmith", "time": 1257271090, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "37signals have started their own podcast."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 924532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=924532", "by": "phren0logy", "time": 1257449363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm pretty sure this is what Steve Yegge was talking about on the most recent StackOverflow podcast he was in. If that is accurate, it's a JavaScript compiler that supports a way of partially compiling to allow very tight integration with an IDE (or editor). Yegge's point was that an IDE or editor should not have to re-invent the wheel and a compiler should be able to provide sophisticated feedback about syntax, objects, variables, scope, etc. Cool to see it out in the wild."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 941221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=941221", "by": "jtbarrett", "time": 1258162199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With regards to your last point: I don't doubt that the vast majority of hiring processes aren't correlated with on-the-job success, but Google is definitely the kind of company that would strive for objective measures and to refine their process. They at least claim it's working. I think it was on the Stack Overflow podcast that I heard a discussion of Peter Norvig's remarks about this in Coders at Work. He evidently posted something similar online: \"Our interviews are more to do with practical problem solving, not with puzzles and tricks. Our interview scores actually correlate very well wit"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 958029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=958029", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1259006726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent Stack Overflow podcast (73?) Joel said that he would helped the world a lot better if he made a robot that you could ask about software pricing, and it spat out the answer \"Raise your price by $200\""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 971008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971008", "by": "omnipath", "time": 1259708395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life did a podcast (can't find it at the moment) where they followed two guys who decided to become homeless, and beg for money in NYC while trying to write poetry and stories. Each guy easily cleared 60k, as I recall. So it's definitely doable. In fact, another article I read told about a couple in Portland, Oregon that cleared 50k between the two of the begging."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 974497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974497", "by": "liquidben", "time": 1259855147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't provide episode number, but I can concur anecdotally that this was discussed on the Stack Overflow podcast. It was probably at or around the debut of the jobs subdomain."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 990404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=990404", "by": "LargeWu", "time": 1260563748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The next Stack Overflow podcast should be quite interesting..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1034265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034265", "by": "gphil", "time": 1262757396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an episode (entitled \"Numbers\") of WNYC's Radiolab (available for free as a podcast at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ ) that talks about the possibility of an innate ability in infants to interpret quantities on a logarithmic scale, which is later supplanted by the ability to count ordinally. I haven't looked into how much evidence there is to support this theory, but the anecdote offered in the podcast is thought-provoking."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1035724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035724", "by": "noodle", "time": 1262811105, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1039948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1039948", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1262971425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Stack Overflow podcast I believe Joel Spolsky said something along the lines of \"C++ is the only language where every new feature turns out to be something everyone recommends you should never use.\""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1050048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1050048", "by": "imajes", "time": 1263388502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is cute. I like the tenacity of what you're doing here. Thing is, it's entirely impossible. To start a bank you need capital to leverage your deposits. That's anything from 10-30%, so to have a liability of $1000 you'll need $300 in capital reserves just to keep within the rules. Then there's the insurance you'll need to buy on the risk you take, and the other ways you'll need to turn profit - otherwise, why will i invest in you (with retail deposits?) As jacques said, credit unions are a simpler step- but even simpler are lending groups where everyone pitches in money and then everyone t"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1051722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051722", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1263433784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you prefer just the audio (and in better quality than this, I think) then check out the 37signals podcast: http://37signals.com/podcast - It makes for great listening and this presentation is the latest episode."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 1056803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056803", "by": "bendtheblock", "time": 1263641609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an explanation of this by Janet Radcliffe Richards ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Radcliffe_Richards ) on a Philosophy Bites podcast, here it is: ( http://www.philosophybites.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=3255... ). Philosophy Bites are short (under 20 minute) interviews with contemporary philosophers."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 1061682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1061682", "by": "Timothee", "time": 1263884486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Carolla started his own podcast as well last March when his radio show was cancelled, and is expanding his podcast to a \"network\" of podcasts, was #1 podcast of the year on iTunes, etc. So, yes, a celebrity like Conan O'Brien would definitely get a huge head start in terms of audience but the amount of money going online is surely much much lower than what he'd get from a major traditional broadcast company."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 1066152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066152", "by": "rpledge", "time": 1264031613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting to see where Bill goes for news. I may not be Bill Gates (I certainly don't have his bank balance), but people interested in unbiased news should check out the \"No Agenda\" podcast at http://noagendashow.com Dvorak and Curry may not be everyones taste, but they do point out many instances of mainstream media fail"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 1070986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070986", "by": "Stubbs", "time": 1264203143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBCs More or Less is an excellent podcast, they like to go over the stats the media and politicians produce and give more in depth coverage than the soundbites stats are usually contained in."}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 1075952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075952", "by": "krs", "time": 1264449074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are a few I listen to: The Command Line Podcast: http://thecommandline.net/category/podcast/ Hacker Medley: http://hackermedley.org/ Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/ FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/FLOSS"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1077889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1077889", "by": "TrevorBurnham", "time": 1264520690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a terrifically fun video, no question about it. If you're curious about the story behind it, NPR's Planet Money did an episode on it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/01/podcast_yo_planet_mon..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1087559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1087559", "by": "joubert", "time": 1264799129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ira Glass did an insert on this bizarre 007-esque practice in last week's This American Life podcast."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1089787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089787", "by": "jacoblyles", "time": 1264902862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Self sufficient\" is another way of saying \"really poor\". Outside of fantastic aquaculture opportunities and some limited gardens, Patri expects they will import food from states that have a competitive advantage in farming (such as having large tracks of arable land and plentiful labor). You should check out the Econ Talk podcast I linked to below if you're interested in stuff like this. The easy objections were thought of a few years ago."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1124056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124056", "by": "jacoblyles", "time": 1266116659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Christopher Hitchens gave a fascinating interview on the topic of Orwell for the Econtalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/hitchens_on_orw.htm..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 1126250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126250", "by": "olliesaunders", "time": 1266227092, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1127659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127659", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1266271675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree with the grandparent poster because it doesn't matter if you come off as a bumbler or a chancer in this environment - actually, Atwood's gungho informality is probably a plus. But I suspect he's getting at Atwood being routinely wrong or misinformed about all manner of developer related topics - just listen to the Stack Overflow podcast for a few weeks to get a feel for it. Joel's routinely correcting him on stuff that's not even in Joel's area of expertise. (But that, versus someone who's scared of ever looking wrong? I think I'd invest in Atwood.)"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1151657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151657", "by": "benatkin", "time": 1267134110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for sharing. I'm surprised the StackOverflow podcast, with its current hosts, lasted as long as it did. It takes a long time and a lot of effort to produce a podcast like theirs. It also takes a good chunk of time to listen to one, that could be used for other things, even when driving, like listening to an audiobook or music. For that reason, I tended to only listen to the podcast occasionally. I think the one with Steve Yegge as a guest was worth my time, though. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/10/podcast-25/"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1154931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154931", "by": "amarcy", "time": 1267246295, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When he was on the Stack Overflow podcast a while back he said that he was going to be finished blogging shortly thereafter. That was about a year ago."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1161437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161437", "by": "phsr", "time": 1267540881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentioned it in the Stackoverflow podcast either last week or the week before as well."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1162008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162008", "by": "rudd", "time": 1267552328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the StackOverflow podcast, I believe he mentioned something about not wanting to dominate the blogging world anymore. Someone says \"Joel\" and everyone else thinks \"Spolsky.\" Yet, he doesn't mention that at all here. I wonder what's up with that? Also, he says he's going to quit \"for the most part\" podcasting and public speaking. Is this also the end of the StackOverflow podcast? Seems unlikely that he'd force that onto Jeff, who seems to like it a lot."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1162331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162331", "by": "rayvega", "time": 1267559569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> Is this also the end of the StackOverflow podcast? http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40602/joel-to-quit-t... He might have meant no longer doing other people's podcasts."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1177362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1177362", "by": "odonnell", "time": 1268104393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to an episode of the 37signals Podcast where Jason mentioned that some days they all show up at the office but are forbidden to speak to each other for productivity reasons. Many of his business decisions are questionable, glad to see someone challenging them."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1179166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179166", "by": "hasanove", "time": 1268163087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "according to comments made on 37signals podcast about the book, it actually is a sort of repackaging (in a broad sense) of all the posts, comments etc. expressed by them during last 10 years."}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 1189074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1189074", "by": "xelipe", "time": 1268496760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Users get update because they feel like the rug has been pulled right under them. I for one, thought \"Mixergy is kewl, Andrew is building an awesome community\" but as soon as I saw his subscription model I realized that he was not building a community, he was building a business around a community. Building a community and building a business around a community are not the same thing and I probably won't be able to participate because I probably won't pony up to see a video. But funny enough, I would have bought a book if he had one in Kindle form like I have for Paul Graham, Gary Vaynerchuk, "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1210827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1210827", "by": "TrevorBurnham", "time": 1269278468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If it's something I need to focus on and think all the way through, either silence or light classical. If it's a trivial but time-consuming let's-wire-A-to-B-to-C kind of task, then I'll put on an interview podcast (e.g. NPR's Fresh Air or something techy like The Changelog). Those don't require the same level of attention as an audiobook or an information-dense podcast like Radiolab."}, {"show": "1142790530", "hn_item": 1232463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1232463", "by": "kylec", "time": 1270056913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly off topic, but does anyone know where I can get the 8-bit music featured on the Engadget podcast?"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 1242919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1242919", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1270498039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I watched the most recent Diggnation podcast and Kevin Rose had a hell of a time trying to figure out the difference between a megabit and a megabyte."}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 1271312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271312", "by": "dannyr", "time": 1271440042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it would be interesting if the podcast is about the stories shared on Hacker News (ala Diggnation). (e.g. Discuss the most upvoted stories and comments)"}, {"show": "348690336", "hn_item": 1271942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271942", "by": "AndrewWarner", "time": 1271452082, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This this: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mixergy-for-ambitious-ups... If it doesn't work, let me know (via email). We've been having some trouble with the iTunes link, but I think it's fixed now."}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 1279953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1279953", "by": "Alex3917", "time": 1271783131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In 1996 there were 250 academic journal articles published about marijuana, and in 2008 there were 2100[1]. In the US there are a handful of marijuana trials going on, but it's still very difficult to get DEA approval. I was at the MAPS conference this past weekend, and they were saying that to get approval for their psilocybin and MDMA research it was generally taking 2-4 years per study. And since marijuana is also schedule 1, the approval process is probably comparable. [1]Source: Claudia Little in Psychedelic Salon podcast 218: http://bit.ly/doBrGA ."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1289466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289466", "by": "goatforce5", "time": 1272056464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money recently did a couple of podcasts about Denmark which echoes the points you mention. They also point our there's little or no stigma attached to being fired from a job in Denmark. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/01/podcast_the_awesomest... http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/01/podcast_tax_me_please..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1303194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303194", "by": "MartinCron", "time": 1272500329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the thoughtful response. A lot of people don't seem to like to look to other countries as examples of how individuals, societies, and governments can interact. Either as examples or as counter-examples. NPR's excellent Planet Money podcast did a few shows on Denmark, which is like an economic bizarro-world. Employment law is such that it's really easy to fire people, but they have a very strong social safety net (2 years unemployment, or something like that) so the workforce is very fluid. Employers aren't as afraid to hire people (as they are in countries with strong labor laws lik"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1303830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303830", "by": "Mistone", "time": 1272526398, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1319339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319339", "by": "kgermino", "time": 1273007434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have long felt that anti-gouging laws are misguided fix to a problem. The best example I have heard is a story of three college kids who lived outside the strike-zone of a tornado. They rented a refrigerator truck, and some chainsaws then filled the truck with bags of ice. Because the roads were in such bad shape, and they had to keep cutting down trees that were in their way it took the group the better part of a day to make it into the town center. However once they got there they started selling the bags of ice for about double what ice would normally cost. As more and more people heard a"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 1319709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319709", "by": "trevelyan", "time": 1273013743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend the Sinica podcast. The last episode featured Gady Epstein (Beijing Bureau Chief for Forbes), Will Moss (a prominent foreign PR executive in Beijing), and Kaiser Kuo: http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/huang-guangyu-trial-r... No better commentary on contemporary China anywhere imho."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 1321049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321049", "by": "Davertron", "time": 1273065574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They started a series on Security Now! focusing on the basics of computing (starts with this podcast: http://twit.tv/sn233 ). I just listened to that and then saw this entry for a half adder (which they talk about implementing in the podcast) so I thought I'd link it here in case anyone was interested. Does anyone else have some good resources about the basics of computing? We studied logic in one of my college math classes a bit, and learned how to implement the basic math functions (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) in binary, but I've forgotten a lot of it at this point a"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 1337021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337021", "by": "mahmud", "time": 1273556402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard the study author on NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday podcast and skipped it within 5 minutes. The researcher sounded like he already had a religious/mystical predisposition and wanted to confirm his own biases. He said something to the effect of: \"We know from religion that washing purifies the soul .. and I wanted to see if it's true\". NEXT."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1350752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1350752", "by": "jacoblyles", "time": 1273960701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Econ Talk podcast reviewing a sociologist's study of low-wage workers showed that technical degrees and certificates can make a huge difference in a person's earning potential: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/03/newman_on_low-w.htm... Though \"community college\" has a certain stigma among the intellectual classes that debate and shape public policy, these programs make a strong positive impact in people's lives."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 1352769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352769", "by": "emilepetrone", "time": 1274043369, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1353692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353692", "by": "rsaarelm", "time": 1274075986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This also reminds me of a story in the StackOverflow podcast ( https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24222 ), where programs executed as expressive bytecode ended up outperforming machine language programs on a low-memory machine, since the more verbose machine code executable was so much larger that parts of it had to be swapped from disk. Not really at the same level of bit-tweaking as the XOR lists, but a nice bit of counterintuitiveness still."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 1362064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362064", "by": "AmberShah", "time": 1274297759, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Just FYI in case you want in but didn't listen to the latest TWiST podcast: In case you are interested in going to the Launch Conference, Jason Calacanis' new version of TC50, in San Fran, you can listen to his podcast \"This Week in Startups\" 10 times between now and then to score a free ticket. The kicker is you have to listen live (which I never do). Each of the 10 times you have to check in with the moderator (Roberta?) in the live chat room and there will also be a tweet each time. Especially if you're already local or know for sure that you will go, seems like a good way to save a few hun"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 1368910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368910", "by": "trevelyan", "time": 1274476868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Moser (author of this article) appeared in the Sinica podcast this week along with Gady Epstein, Jeremy Goldkorn and Kaiser Kuo. All familiar names for China watchers. http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/maos-legacy-and-forei... Quite a good episode. Strongly recommended."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 1395639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395639", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1275414755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I randomly stumbled across these when channel hopping at 4am a month or two ago and was captivated. It's a great series and the format of having a panel of experts discussing a subject with only casual prompts from Rose is great (a format that works well with the BBC's In Our Time podcast too)."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 1397991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397991", "by": "uptown", "time": 1275488632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Video content is the primary culprit. A few episodes of any substantive-length video podcast pushes you over the cap before you even use your device for anything else. Take \"This Week in Startups\" for example. The last episode was 700mb. So 1:40 worth of video content would consume 35% of your available data."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 1401565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401565", "by": "AmberShah", "time": 1275578899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Release but spend your money only on a A VPS may not support very many customers, but you can always migrate once you have a few and some money to help offset the cost. As for Adwords, that's a whole different can of worms. I've heard stories of people throwing thousands of dollars down the drain, either because their idea wasn't validated or because they their site wasn't optimized for conversions or they didn't know how to select the right keywords, etc. There are lots of ways to do free advertising and let you hone your product and marketing message BEFORE you spend a time on paid traffic. "}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 1404097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404097", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1275654685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The FLOSS Weekly podcast is excellent http://twit.tv/FLOSS This Week in Tech can be good - even if it is often dominated by talk about Twitter and Facebook. For non tech podcasts I can also recommend: - The History of Rome ( http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ ) - 12 Byzantine Rulers ( http://www.12byzantinerulers.com/ ) However, for driving I find that nothing beats unabridged books from Audible - just finished \"The Big Short\"."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 1404097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404097", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1275654685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The FLOSS Weekly podcast is excellent http://twit.tv/FLOSS This Week in Tech can be good - even if it is often dominated by talk about Twitter and Facebook. For non tech podcasts I can also recommend: - The History of Rome ( http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ ) - 12 Byzantine Rulers ( http://www.12byzantinerulers.com/ ) However, for driving I find that nothing beats unabridged books from Audible - just finished \"The Big Short\"."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 1404127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404127", "by": "thirdstation", "time": 1275655674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Moth podcasts are usually really good. http://www.themoth.org/podcast"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 1404182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404182", "by": "tommorris", "time": 1275657544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've found that decent programming podcasts are few and far between. The ones that promise to be most useful - as in, actually teaching you how to do X - suffer from the flaw that they are people talking about code. And, obviously, if you are driving or running or whatever it is you are doing such that you are listening to audio podcasts, you can't see the code. If they get into any level of detail, it all falls down. Imagine: \"well, the code is like this - open brackets defn whatever open brackets map open brackets list open brackets whatever clsoed bracket closed bracket\" (for Lisp) or \"well"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 1404338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404338", "by": "ganley", "time": 1275661095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hope that didn't come across too critically; I'm just always curious. My commute is about 35 minutes each way, which is about the limit of what I can stand. On a more on-topic note, I've looked hard and found little as far as good tech-learning podcasts. My regulars are The Moth (storytelling, fantastic), Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking (all great, but maybe start with Dmitry Orlov, Saul Griffith, and Will Wright/Brian Eno). I just discovered Math For Primates; quite good if you're interested but not overly well-educated in math. My local public library has a semi-decen"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 1404338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404338", "by": "ganley", "time": 1275661095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hope that didn't come across too critically; I'm just always curious. My commute is about 35 minutes each way, which is about the limit of what I can stand. On a more on-topic note, I've looked hard and found little as far as good tech-learning podcasts. My regulars are The Moth (storytelling, fantastic), Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking (all great, but maybe start with Dmitry Orlov, Saul Griffith, and Will Wright/Brian Eno). I just discovered Math For Primates; quite good if you're interested but not overly well-educated in math. My local public library has a semi-decen"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1406130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406130", "by": "aaroneous", "time": 1275701265, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life and Radiolab are great podcasts you can find online for free. No commercials, no pledge drives to interrupt your listening, and thought-provoking, interesting content that makes long drives go by remarkably quick."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1406130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406130", "by": "aaroneous", "time": 1275701265, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life and Radiolab are great podcasts you can find online for free. No commercials, no pledge drives to interrupt your listening, and thought-provoking, interesting content that makes long drives go by remarkably quick."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 1419991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419991", "by": "kmfrk", "time": 1276177363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also did great at The Moth with a personal story. http://www.themoth.org/podcast He's also done one or several Ted talks. I recommend the one on spaghetti sauce."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 1422573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1422573", "by": "davidcuddeback", "time": 1276223982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The weather in Russia is by no means something that I would call \"small.\" It helped the Russians defeat Napoleon in 1812. When the Germans invaded, they were ill-prepared as well. They're vehicles couldn't cope with the cold, so in the winter months, they were bombarded by Soviet bombers but couldn't get any of their own planes in the air. They couldn't move vehicles because the ground turns to mud (they ended up using dead bodies to gain traction). At one point, the Germans were very close to Moscow (within visual distance IIRC) when winter hit. That winter, fresh troops from Siberia who were"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1426402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426402", "by": "soitgoes", "time": 1276370937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are a few I enjoy: Techzing Mixergy Radiolab Floss Weekly Stack Overflow (no recent podcasts from Joel and Jeff however)"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 1458902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1458902", "by": "rubinelli", "time": 1277408334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you know the Techzing podcast? One of the hosts has a freemium Twitter/social media tool that's generating $1k/month after one year of effort, between coding and marketing. You could listen to previous episodes to hear how it evolved."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1465036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465036", "by": "Shmulkey", "time": 1277617762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt: http://jim.com/econ/ , http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell Applied Economics by Thomas Sowell Free to Choose by Milton Friedman (video series, too) Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek (short, non-technical paper which is full of brilliant insights): http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html Not a book, but the Econtalk podcast is fantastic: http://www.econtalk.org/"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 1466250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466250", "by": "jchrisa", "time": 1277673609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Long Now podcast series is one of my top rated. It's worth listening to every single one of them, especially the early ones. Ed Moses is building laser fusion and he thinks it's gonna work. Also, you get to hear about the National Ignition Facility. https://lasers.llnl.gov/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1518009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518009", "by": "keltex", "time": 1279206151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Podcast Planet Money has an interesting show on this subject called \"The Million Dollar Microsecond\": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/06/08/127563433/the-tues..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1524005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1524005", "by": "codingthewheel", "time": 1279382835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes! Learn C!! But learn it with a view towards using it to inform your use of other languages . The low-level aspects (pointers, memory management, working with .DLL or object libraries) are things that most languages, however fluent or high-level, use under the hood. Spolsky and Atwood argued this out in Stackoverflow Podcast #2. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-2/ Just get a comfort level with it (C), and move on. It will pay dividends."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 1528719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1528719", "by": "jcromartie", "time": 1279549156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On The Bugle (a genuinely funny podcast) they were amused by these ridiculous types of comparisons, so they calculated how far cricket bats made of frozen oil would stretch, placed end-to-end."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1535983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1535983", "by": "herdrick", "time": 1279735879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(First let me say that I admire Jeff Atwood and his work. That doesn't mean he has made no mistakes.) Jeff launched this thing by tuning it for what he wanted in a Q & A site. Since he is exactly the sort of early adopter they needed for the first one (for programmers) that worked OK. But now they are launching a fully baked, \"Jeff-tuned\" product to other populations and I think there will be problems. The problem with an overloaded page is that you've closed off your options - you've made it really hard to iterate. Because every piece of available space is filled with information it's very di"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 1537783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537783", "by": "draegtun", "time": 1279793083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This FLOSS Weekly podcast of SQLite maybe of interest: http://www.twit.tv/floss26 Its from early 2008 but I found the discussion on public domain fascinating."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 1539223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539223", "by": "AmberShah", "time": 1279825982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Books: Crush It Founders At Work Sway Fascinate Everything here: http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/ Podcasts: Mixergy This Week in Startups Startups for the rest of us"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 1539223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539223", "by": "AmberShah", "time": 1279825982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Books: Crush It Founders At Work Sway Fascinate Everything here: http://steveblank.com/books-for-startups/ Podcasts: Mixergy This Week in Startups Startups for the rest of us"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 1539259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539259", "by": "wj", "time": 1279826577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast It is not a book but is free on iTunes. I've lost count on how many times I've recommended it. Almost every speech leaves a \"fire in the belly.\" There were two speeches about negotiations (not the Steve Young one) that were probably the most helpful to me but they all are good. Start at the beginning and work your way up."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 1554317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554317", "by": "achew22", "time": 1280325135, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1558034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1558034", "by": "rlivsey", "time": 1280419837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab also featured a story about them last year: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/10/02 As an aside, I think Radiolab is one of the best podcasts out there and it's certainly worth a listen if you've never heard it before."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 1565156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565156", "by": "motters", "time": 1280663213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hooting Yard http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/category/shows/hoot... Little Atoms http://www.littleatoms.com/ Skeptoid http://skeptoid.com/ Hacker Public Radio http://hackerpublicradio.org/ FLOSS Weekly http://www.twit.tv/floss Linux Outlaws http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 1565181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565181", "by": "kristofferR", "time": 1280665399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lifestyle Business Podcast is an absolutely awesome podcast about modern business. The content is so valuable that they decided to take payments for the first 30 episodes, but it's so worth it! http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1565242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565242", "by": "jesseendahl", "time": 1280669485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab is brilliant. I doubt you will find a better radio show/podcast than that. Listen to the episodes on memory and race\u2014they blew me away."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 1565253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565253", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1280670300, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The History of Rome Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261... I've listened to all 112 episodes so far (and still quite a bit to go) - once this finishes I'll probably go back and listen to the \"12 Byzantine Rules\" again - which is also very good. Although not purely a podcast, I can also strongly recommend the BBC Radio 4 series \"In Our Time\" - which is available as a podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/ This is an informal \"history of ideas\" and is the kind of thing the BBC does extremely well."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 1565253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565253", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1280670300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261... I've listened to all 112 episodes so far (and still quite a bit to go) - once this finishes I'll probably go back and listen to the \"12 Byzantine Rules\" again - which is also very good. Although not purely a podcast, I can also strongly recommend the BBC Radio 4 series \"In Our Time\" - which is available as a podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/ This is an informal \"history of ideas\" and is the kind of thing the BBC does extremely well."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1565306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565306", "by": "mattmaroon", "time": 1280672516, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life is pretty much the gold standard in podcasts."}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 1565345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565345", "by": "avar", "time": 1280674680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Astronomy Cast: A hard science (almost exclusively discusses accepted peer reviewed theories) podcast about cosmology. Everything from the Big Bang to Missions to Mars: http://www.astronomycast.com/ The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: A skeptical podcast by Steven Novella & co. They cover a lot of interesting topics, and some other ones that I'm not a big fan of. But overall pretty good: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1565372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565372", "by": "parka", "time": 1280675757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money podcasts http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ They discuss very interesting economic issues that everyone can relate to. Suitable for any audience."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1565434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565434", "by": "AlexMuir", "time": 1280677549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reporters Roundtable is a professionally produced weekly conversation about a single tech-topic. It's great - http://www.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/ If you handle two hours of Jason Calacanis you could try This Week in Startups. http://thisweekin.com/startups 37signals podcast has had a couple of moments but it's not particularly thrilling. - http://37signals.com/podcast"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 1565434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565434", "by": "AlexMuir", "time": 1280677549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reporters Roundtable is a professionally produced weekly conversation about a single tech-topic. It's great - http://www.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/ If you handle two hours of Jason Calacanis you could try This Week in Startups. http://thisweekin.com/startups 37signals podcast has had a couple of moments but it's not particularly thrilling. - http://37signals.com/podcast"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 1565464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565464", "by": "napierzaza", "time": 1280678167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Moth is a great podcast. People who are mostly in NY and mostly people who wrote non-fiction books who tell stories true stories about their lives without notes. Really engrossing."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1565469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565469", "by": "Q6T46nT668w6i3m", "time": 1280678352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some podcasts my partner and I both enjoy: Politics, Diplomacy, Economics > Fareed Zakaria GPS = The Sunday show with actual newsmakers, global perspective, focused on diplomacy, economics, and conflict. The Political Gabfest from Slate = John Dickerson, best beat politics writer, David Plotz, editor of slate, and Emily Bazelon, one of the best actively writing essayists talking about 3 topics in politics from the week. Frequently one topic touches on the supreme court. Left, Right, and Center from KCRW = Crossfire without the bullshit. Usual guests: Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, and Tony"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1565469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565469", "by": "Q6T46nT668w6i3m", "time": 1280678352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some podcasts my partner and I both enjoy: Politics, Diplomacy, Economics > Fareed Zakaria GPS = The Sunday show with actual newsmakers, global perspective, focused on diplomacy, economics, and conflict. The Political Gabfest from Slate = John Dickerson, best beat politics writer, David Plotz, editor of slate, and Emily Bazelon, one of the best actively writing essayists talking about 3 topics in politics from the week. Frequently one topic touches on the supreme court. Left, Right, and Center from KCRW = Crossfire without the bullshit. Usual guests: Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, and Tony"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1565469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565469", "by": "Q6T46nT668w6i3m", "time": 1280678352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some podcasts my partner and I both enjoy: Politics, Diplomacy, Economics > Fareed Zakaria GPS = The Sunday show with actual newsmakers, global perspective, focused on diplomacy, economics, and conflict. The Political Gabfest from Slate = John Dickerson, best beat politics writer, David Plotz, editor of slate, and Emily Bazelon, one of the best actively writing essayists talking about 3 topics in politics from the week. Frequently one topic touches on the supreme court. Left, Right, and Center from KCRW = Crossfire without the bullshit. Usual guests: Arianna Huffington, Robert Scheer, and Tony"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 1565503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565503", "by": "culled", "time": 1280679432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Moth is a great podcast but there website makes it difficult to find old shows. Subscribe to the RSS feed if you want to look through their archives."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 1565504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565504", "by": "jpspeno", "time": 1280679477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know Podcast: http://www.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-should-know-podcast.h..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1565509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565509", "by": "ja27", "time": 1280679680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wanted to mention that (at least for me) the iTunes Store feed for This American Life is usually messed up. The RSS feed from their website works a lot better: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1565745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565745", "by": "soitgoes", "time": 1280686392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few podcasts I enjoy: The Guardian's Media Talk podcast is normally very good: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/mediatalk Robots, News and Views on robotics: http://www.robotspodcast.com Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ Radiolab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/ Techzing: Startup and tech talk: http://techzinglive.com/ Mixergy: Startup interviews: http://mixergy.com/ Floss Weekly can be good depends on the guest: http://twit.tv/FLOSS"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1565786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565786", "by": "jbarmash", "time": 1280687420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of podcasts, here are some of my favorites: Entrepreneur: 1. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders 2. Venture Voice (hasn't been updated in a while, but Greg Gallant is a very good interviewer, and some interesting ones are non-tech, e.g. Jon Boggle). 3. StackOverflow Podcast - not strinkly entrepreneur, but good general technical discussions. Great to listen to when you don't have your full attention to devote. General Interest: 1. This American Life 2. The Moth 3. NPR Planet Money 4. WNYC Radio Lab - stories with science bend Some other ones I listened to in the past that I'd rec"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 1565786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565786", "by": "jbarmash", "time": 1280687420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of podcasts, here are some of my favorites: Entrepreneur: 1. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders 2. Venture Voice (hasn't been updated in a while, but Greg Gallant is a very good interviewer, and some interesting ones are non-tech, e.g. Jon Boggle). 3. StackOverflow Podcast - not strinkly entrepreneur, but good general technical discussions. Great to listen to when you don't have your full attention to devote. General Interest: 1. This American Life 2. The Moth 3. NPR Planet Money 4. WNYC Radio Lab - stories with science bend Some other ones I listened to in the past that I'd rec"}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 1565837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565837", "by": "jasonmcalacanis", "time": 1280689172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Week in Venture Capital is amazing. web: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-venture-capi..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 1565928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565928", "by": "henry_flower", "time": 1280692055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "% uraniacast -lv | grep -v ^pol | sort biz.econtalk http://www.econlib.org/library/EconTalk.xml biz.ft.digital_business http://podcast.ft.com/rss/21/ biz.ft.listen_to_lucy http://podcast.ft.com/rss/18/ biz.harvard_ideacast http://hbsp.libsyn.com/rss biz.mixergy http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mixergy-main-podcast biz.the_economist http://www.economist.com/media/rss/economist.xml biz.wsj.the_journal_report http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/podcast_the_journal_report comp.37signals http://feeds.feedburner.com/37signals_podcast comp.agile_toolkit http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/rss comp.bsdtalk http://fe"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1565934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565934", "by": "danielford", "time": 1280692168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend the Thomas Jefferson Hour for people interested in early US history or the enlightenment period. http://www.jeffersonhour.org/?id=16 The podcast consists of Clay Jenkinson, a Jefferson impersonator, being interviewed and answering listener questions on various historical or modern topics. I wouldn't normally like this, but Jenkinson has accumulated a mountain of knowledge on the period, and seems to have read everything that was formative in Jefferson's intellectual development. This creates a remarkably effective illusion that Jefferson is actually speaking. The format is two in"}, {"show": "135353439", "hn_item": 1565934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565934", "by": "danielford", "time": 1280692168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend the Thomas Jefferson Hour for people interested in early US history or the enlightenment period. http://www.jeffersonhour.org/?id=16 The podcast consists of Clay Jenkinson, a Jefferson impersonator, being interviewed and answering listener questions on various historical or modern topics. I wouldn't normally like this, but Jenkinson has accumulated a mountain of knowledge on the period, and seems to have read everything that was formative in Jefferson's intellectual development. This creates a remarkably effective illusion that Jefferson is actually speaking. The format is two in"}, {"show": "279241099", "hn_item": 1565998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565998", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1280693714, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What are your interests? Are you looking for podcasts specifically related to the topics discussed on Hacker News? All the Hacker News related ones I currently listen to and know about have been listed, so there is no need to repeat those. So, I'll list the ones based on my other interests that I enjoy: 1. The Dan Patrick Show iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-patrick-show-podc... I do not enjoy sports much, I can't sit through a game of any professional or college sporting event, even going to the actual game bores me to tears. However, this show is fun, daily, keeps me up to"}, {"show": "364678400", "hn_item": 1565998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565998", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1280693714, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What are your interests? Are you looking for podcasts specifically related to the topics discussed on Hacker News? All the Hacker News related ones I currently listen to and know about have been listed, so there is no need to repeat those. So, I'll list the ones based on my other interests that I enjoy: 1. The Dan Patrick Show iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-patrick-show-podc... I do not enjoy sports much, I can't sit through a game of any professional or college sporting event, even going to the actual game bores me to tears. However, this show is fun, daily, keeps me up to"}, {"show": "303688916", "hn_item": 1565998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565998", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1280693714, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What are your interests? Are you looking for podcasts specifically related to the topics discussed on Hacker News? All the Hacker News related ones I currently listen to and know about have been listed, so there is no need to repeat those. So, I'll list the ones based on my other interests that I enjoy: 1. The Dan Patrick Show iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-patrick-show-podc... I do not enjoy sports much, I can't sit through a game of any professional or college sporting event, even going to the actual game bores me to tears. However, this show is fun, daily, keeps me up to"}, {"show": "385372276", "hn_item": 1570330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570330", "by": "chrismealy", "time": 1280816993, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 1570470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570470", "by": "danspodcast", "time": 1280822767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love this thread found some new podcasts I haven't heard of before. Ever since I started my own business podcasts have taken over completely from movies and tv as my primary source of entertainment. Here are my favorites: 1) The Adam Carolla Podcast - Its not heavy material (this is my daily candy entertainment) but I marvel at how well Adam communicates and improvs-- he's been doing radio for over 10 years and he's the most consistently funny improv guy I've ever heard-- he constructs some pretty complicated comic maneuvers in real time, like call-backs and alliterative rhymes and stuff... an"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 1572698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572698", "by": "Cmccann7", "time": 1280868514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And if your looking for a new podcast to follow, TechZing is a great one"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 1573643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573643", "by": "sykora", "time": 1280895941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just started listening to \"The History of Rome\" podcast, and I love it. He tells a story rather than deliver a lecture, it's great fun."}, {"show": "303688916", "hn_item": 1575506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1575506", "by": "muhfuhkuh", "time": 1280949179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My wife and I fight over it. She for games (Plants v. zombies, Super 7, etc.) youtube, and magazine reading; I for ebooks/pdfs, surfing, and listening to Podcasts (thanks to the HNer who recommended \"A Life Well Wasted\" podcast, friggin' brilliant) and NPR before bed. We both use it to stream our episodes with Air Video during mealtimes. When I was on vacation back in June, I was floored that I needn't even take my laptop with me. An iPhone and iPad was all that was required (the iPhone was the GPS, too), and we could plot out stuff to do, read restaurant reviews, and check with work stuff all"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1623739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623739", "by": "joelhaus", "time": 1282427954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nassim Taleb comes to a similar conclusion, but with much better examples (one of the best Planet Money Podcasts ever IMO... just posted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623713 ) Taleb slams Obama & the media, prefers recession over high deficits, advocates clawbacks, slams forecasting models when high debt levels are present and predicts the broad failure of public companies due to fundamentally misaligned incentives. That said, here are two (rather discomforting) counter arguments to both Cuban and Taleb: 1) A warning against credit derivatives (or betting the market will go dow"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 1626379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1626379", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1282560282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast did an episode on the Boyer/Moore algorithm. Not the most information dense way to learn about it, but might be of interest. ( Starts at 34m10s -- http://twit.tv/sn203 )"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1627504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627504", "by": "Splines", "time": 1282587297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Currently I've been catching up to old episodes of Radiolab. I've had a hard time finding tech-related podcasts that are enjoyable to listen to. Currently what I listen to are: * NPR: Car Talk * NPR: Planet Money * PRI: Selected Shorts * PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge * Stuff You Should Know * This American Life * WNYC's Radiolab * Xbox Live's Major Nelson Radio That's usually more than enough new content to last me through a week (1.5 hrs per day in the car). Sometimes TAL has re-runs that I've already listened to, or SYSK has a not-so-interesting topic, but it's usually not a problem. I r"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1627504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627504", "by": "Splines", "time": 1282587297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Currently I've been catching up to old episodes of Radiolab. I've had a hard time finding tech-related podcasts that are enjoyable to listen to. Currently what I listen to are: * NPR: Car Talk * NPR: Planet Money * PRI: Selected Shorts * PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge * Stuff You Should Know * This American Life * WNYC's Radiolab * Xbox Live's Major Nelson Radio That's usually more than enough new content to last me through a week (1.5 hrs per day in the car). Sometimes TAL has re-runs that I've already listened to, or SYSK has a not-so-interesting topic, but it's usually not a problem. I r"}, {"show": "77205482", "hn_item": 1638102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1638102", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1282887473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now all I want is a Radiolab or Astronomy Cast style podcast that covers a single topic and a Savage Lovecast style Q&A podcast and my listening is sorted for years :-)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1638102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1638102", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1282887473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now all I want is a Radiolab or Astronomy Cast style podcast that covers a single topic and a Savage Lovecast style Q&A podcast and my listening is sorted for years :-)"}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 1638102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1638102", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1282887473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now all I want is a Radiolab or Astronomy Cast style podcast that covers a single topic and a Savage Lovecast style Q&A podcast and my listening is sorted for years :-)"}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 1667423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1667423", "by": "robconery", "time": 1283807099, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1704010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1704010", "by": "dingle_thunk", "time": 1284803839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They call her \"Toxie\" (Planet Money Podcast - http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289 )"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1704666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1704666", "by": "jakarta", "time": 1284834689, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree. Take the reporting on Toxie, their toxic asset. I think what they did was a good idea, I have followed their reporting on it for a while now. First they presented how one actually acquires these assets (they started with a trader and walked through that process) then they actually dug deeper beyond just monitoring the prices. They followed the individual mortgages within the security and found how one was tied to a mortgage fraud scheme and the other was tied to a guy who borrowed beyond his means. I saw similar research put together by a well respected bank's equity research arm t"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 1724656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1724656", "by": "jv22222", "time": 1285351993, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 1725669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725669", "by": "goatforce5", "time": 1285367701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm repeating myself, but Planet Money's podcast is genuinely very good. It was spun out as it's own entity after an episode of This American Life about the financial crisis got really good feedback. They explain some fairly complicated financial stuff in an easy to understand way, without dumbing it down. They have lots of good, heavy-hitting guests on. Go subscribe to the podcast. It's free: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944..."}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 1737011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737011", "by": "symesc", "time": 1285703767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gruber had some interesting speculation on last week's episode of The Talk Show podcast. I'm paraphrasing but he was essentially wondering aloud if, due to AirPlay capabilities, iPads and iPhones would be able to deliver content to the Apple TV . . . and then become a remote control for the content on the TV. This could be video like the MLB app delivers, or other apps that would lend themselves to being shown on one (big) screen, and controlled on another (small) screen. Think: games. All of this sounds very \"Apple\" to me, in that it's completely consistent with how they think about integrate"}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 1755851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755851", "by": "darwinGod", "time": 1286204719, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "This site has Jon Masters giving a summary of LKML activity. I've listened to it. Mostly to stop-and pause, and google what some of the abbreviations, and stuff he is speaking about. :-) Please do post other interesting CS related podcast,if you come across the same..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1757976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1757976", "by": "panacea", "time": 1286234696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you need to listen to the audio podcast version before you disparage the style of exposition they use. The Planet Money folk unashamedly try and explain economic current affairs and stories as simply as possible. It's essentially their self professed raison d'\u00eatre and they do a good job of it. Quibbling about the the accuracy of their simplified examples is missing the trees and the forest."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1759308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1759308", "by": "dctoedt", "time": 1286278708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> use an existing currency like the euro ... [which] has a fairly neutral image .... Opposition politicians looking for ammunition to attack the plan -- correction: looking for ammunition to attack the incumbents; they might have had little interest in attacking the plan otherwise -- would denounce the insult to national sovereignty. That's surely why Brazil called it the URV - unit of real value - instead of admitting that in effect they repriced in Yanqui imperialist dollars. That's not in the linked NPR transcript but was mentioned in the longer NPR Planet Money podcast, linked at the botto"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 1786511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786511", "by": "jessor", "time": 1286957986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startups For the Rest of Us Episode #5 might be helpful (personally I like the whole podcast): http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-5-how... If there is no competition, it is probably not a big enough market. And it goes on. It's aimed at micropreneural business models but perhaps you can take some valuable insight from it."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 1787955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787955", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1286990246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the StackOverflow podcast they had talked about some of the issues faced with awarding points for asking questions. Apparently many people feel that asking a good question isn't worthy of points (or as many points) as answering a question. They at one point (IIRC) were awarding points for asking a question, but that led to people spamming in low quality questions. My personal rule is that if the question was interesting enough to make me read it, it should probably be upvoted."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1791030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791030", "by": "tgrass", "time": 1287067477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a Planet Money podcast on manufacturing ( http://goo.gl/rEg8 ) in which you can hear how the world changed around a button maker, but he did not evolve to match the changes. Also, in my unstudied opinion, the theory seems to go that those who are best at launching a new venture, are not necessarily the best to run it long term. These require different skill sets. To profit most from your entrepreneurial skill set means getting out once that skill is no longer required by your business. And finally, in the recent (last two decades) business environment research has shown the most likely "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1793281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1793281", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1287104228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have a link, but Planet Money did a great podcast on payday loans."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 1801872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801872", "by": "staunch", "time": 1287362159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html Mixergy (HN @AndrewWarner) http://www.mixergy.com/ This Week In Venture Capital (HN @msuster) http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ This Week in Startups (HN @jasonmcalacanis) http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ Some good stuff on TechCrunchTV http://techcrunch.tv/"}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 1801872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801872", "by": "staunch", "time": 1287362159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html Mixergy (HN @AndrewWarner) http://www.mixergy.com/ This Week In Venture Capital (HN @msuster) http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ This Week in Startups (HN @jasonmcalacanis) http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ Some good stuff on TechCrunchTV http://techcrunch.tv/"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 1801902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801902", "by": "kristofferR", "time": 1287362891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lifestyle Business Podcast is an absolutely awesome podcast about modern business. They have decided to take payments for the first 30 episodes, but it's so damn worth it! http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 1801939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801939", "by": "joshuacc", "time": 1287363914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Startup Success podcast - http://startuppodcast.wordpress.com/ 37signals podcast - http://37signals.com/podcast Startups for the Rest of Us - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Traction by Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo) - http://traction.blip.tv/"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 1838984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1838984", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1288193238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The live Diggnation episodes are pushed as being better than the normal ones, but a crowd of people screaming and jeering and dumb drinks promos don't make for a good podcast. I know part of the charm of the Diggnation podcast is that it's kind of dumb, but you can only go so far!"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 1885716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885716", "by": "2arrs2ells", "time": 1289287646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just listenable - fascinating! This episode isn't quite at the level of the \"Giant Pool of Money\" one that gave Planet Money its birth, but it's still quite good! The Planet Money podcasts ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ ) have also been excellent lately, especially their investigations into gold and t-shirt making."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 1907830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907830", "by": "sabat", "time": 1289854954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sure is. Jason Roberts of the TechZing podcast coined it: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf..."}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 1921582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921582", "by": "Alex3917", "time": 1290179565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to know more about DMT-related stuff then check out podcast Gnostic Media on iTunes and download episodes #35 and #58. Both of these are actually about 5-MeO-DMT, which is very different but equally interesting. Also there are a lot of really good Terence McKenna interviews on the Psychedelic Salon podcast, e.g. this Under The Teaching Tree series: http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1509 Of course there is also Rick Strassman's book The Spirit Molecule, as well as James Orock's book Tryptamine Palace which is about 5-Meo-DMT. I'm way too scared to try either, but really interest"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 1940966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940966", "by": "ig1", "time": 1290717788, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 1955168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955168", "by": "obilgic", "time": 1291143734, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 1999365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999365", "by": "bjg", "time": 1292215634, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Radiolab, it's like christmas morning every time they put a new episode up on their podcast. It is honestly one of the most engaging podcasts available. Obligatory link: http://www.radiolab.org/"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2014790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014790", "by": "thesethings", "time": 1292551224, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 2030710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030710", "by": "kevt", "time": 1292997958, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey guys, I'll be driving down from Toronto to San Jose next week and I'm prepping my podcast list for my trip. So far my list includes ECorner, This Week in Startups, The Startup Success, Mixergy, and Startup Story Radio. Would love to hear what you guys find interesting/education/enlightening. Thanks!"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 2030842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030842", "by": "staunch", "time": 1293003719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome. By far my favorite non-startup/tech podcast. I have a long held fascination with ancient Roman history, but even others who don't seem to really enjoy it."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 2030894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030894", "by": "doorhammer", "time": 1293007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I definitely second The History of Rome. I haven't kept up with it lately, but I loved it when I listened to it. My favorite programming podcast is se-radio ( http://www.se-radio.net/ ) I especially like this one for getting a general overview of a variety of coding related categories and practices. Being self-taught, it's been been an invaluable source for broadening my basic understanding of the field. The guys that run the podcast definitely strike me as being more involved in the corporate space, but the topics are relevant to just about every topic in software construction, from episodes "}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 2030984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030984", "by": "odyniec", "time": 1293012191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for Software Engineering Radio, I listen to it on a regular basis and like it a lot. For other software-related podcasts, I recommend FLOSS Weekly ( http://twit.tv/FLOSS ). They cover interesting open source projects and interview their creators, as well as other influential people of the open source world."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2039881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039881", "by": "tylerrooney", "time": 1293330329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab (a podcast that any HN reader would love) did a piece once about a Russian who had perfect recall of his life and could also memorize endless lists of numbers and Dante's Inferno in Italian (and didn't speak Italian). Unfortunately, he eventually went mad because his brain couldn't make sense of all the interconnections. The podcast in question : http://www.radiolab.org/2010/apr/05/limits-of-the-mind/"}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 2072224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2072224", "by": "guywithabike", "time": 1294257482, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think John Gruber nailed it in a recent Talk Show podcast: The problem with Microsoft is that they went from a \"Microsoft everywhere\" philosophy to a \"Windows everywhere\" one."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2116912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116912", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1295377346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really interesting Freakonomics Podcast about NYC's \"School of One\" program that is a good counterpoint to what it looks like is happening in Florida. They take an algorithmic approach to try to determine what learning style works best for a kid and continuously test for learning retention and how quickly new skills are gained. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/freakonomic..."}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 2166269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166269", "by": "PHPAdam", "time": 1296580271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Where as Digg, Diggnation and Revision 3 founder Kevin Rose. Is not using Rev3 for his new podcast Foundation or his other new show \"The Random Show\". The reason Kevin says for charging for Foundation is \"I'm spending money on equipment, and editing\".. It all sounds silly to me, and shows just keep disappearing."}, {"show": "417595309", "hn_item": 2166269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166269", "by": "PHPAdam", "time": 1296580271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Where as Digg, Diggnation and Revision 3 founder Kevin Rose. Is not using Rev3 for his new podcast Foundation or his other new show \"The Random Show\". The reason Kevin says for charging for Foundation is \"I'm spending money on equipment, and editing\".. It all sounds silly to me, and shows just keep disappearing."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 2168119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2168119", "by": "jcurbo", "time": 1296604833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good discussion in the Hypercritical podcast by John Siracusa and Dan Benajamin about Spaces possibly being dead in 10.7. It was in episode 3: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/3"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2186566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186566", "by": "TravisLS", "time": 1297029490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an excellent episode of Radiolab about this subject. If you have the time or inclination to listen to an hour long podcast, I highly recommend \"Words\": http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/"}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 2236276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236276", "by": "a-priori", "time": 1298049484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now that I think about it, I believe I was remembering an interview on the Brain Science podcast with Douglas Fields[1], author of The Other Brain[2]. So sorry, but I don't have primary sources for what I said in my earlier comment... [1]: http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/2010/5/12/exploring-g... [2]: http://theotherbrainbook.com/"}, {"show": "1142790530", "hn_item": 2238371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2238371", "by": "callumjones", "time": 1298089498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm more upset by the fact that he wont be on the Engadget Podcast. Those 3 make up probably some of the best dynamics for podcasts."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2244291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2244291", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1298263219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As can credit card companies, I once heard on a Planet Money podcast I think."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2265042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265042", "by": "stratospark", "time": 1298702707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to this a while ago and thought it was pretty interesting. The Bourbaki story was particularly cool. Any recommendations for similar podcasts? I know of Radiolab, what else?"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 2265058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265058", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1298703434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just sticking to the BBC because it's what I know best, In Our Time is another great radio show (and podcast) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/ It's essentially a 40 minute discussion between the host and 3 leading academics related to a particular scientific, historical or cultural topic. A recent one was Pseudorandom and Random Numbers , for example (also featuring du Sautoy ): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9xjb .. others like Imaginary Numbers, Logic, Logical Positivism, and The Physics of Time were also illuminating. I'm not sure how much of the BBC's stuff people o"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 2279085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279085", "by": "bootload", "time": 1299061681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"... Could someone tell me more about this Jason Calacanis fellow. ...\" If you listen to others explain who Calcanis is you'll get what people think he is. Instead listen to this interview (and read the show notes), on Stack Overflow podcast, \"Podcast #56 Jeff Atwood\" ~ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-56/ He came across as smart, funny and determined. It's his determination that struck me the most."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 2296454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296454", "by": "BinaryAcid", "time": 1299485361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a web developer and dedicated reader of HN, I consider TechZing to be the only podcast worth listening to online. I used to love the Stackoverflow podcast but we know what happened there."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2296454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2296454", "by": "BinaryAcid", "time": 1299485361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a web developer and dedicated reader of HN, I consider TechZing to be the only podcast worth listening to online. I used to love the Stackoverflow podcast but we know what happened there."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2302874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302874", "by": "teyc", "time": 1299623640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My questions for you: 1. What do you mean by \"confusingly high-tech\"? Does the product solve a problem that is known to the customer? The best product is one that gets out of the way. This part sounds like the root of your problems. 2. Does your product actually have that many different uses/market segments? If you do, I'd recommend you talk to Sean Murphy (I heard him over at TechZing podcast where he was explaining how to repurpose or repackage and reprice a product based on different value propositions). He is ex-Cisco manager, and now advises small high-tech start ups which have a high eng"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2311158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311158", "by": "kylelibra", "time": 1299797387, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1142790530", "hn_item": 2317830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2317830", "by": "sdz", "time": 1299974895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm going to miss the Engadget Podcast. After Paul Miller left, I thought it might still have a chance, but now all three are gone!"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2372037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372037", "by": "chapel", "time": 1301146743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed the presentation and have a newfound respect for patio11. Not that I didn't enjoy listening to him on the Techzing Podcast."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 2372308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372308", "by": "shadowpwner", "time": 1301153779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Random, but is the intro from the \"Stuff You Should Know\" podcast?"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 2373051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373051", "by": "MarinaMartin", "time": 1301170650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you ignore the photo-sharing capability for a moment, it sounds like they're trying to create a more accurate alternative to GPS. In the 1700s Britain awarded about \u00a3100,000 in \"Longitude prize\" money to people who contributed to the development of [accurate] longitude. I tried to figure out what that is in today's pounds and found a calculator that said it's \u00a3147,000,000.00 today. So if Color really can create an alternative to GPS for $41 million, it would be cheaper than what it cost to develop longitude :) No idea if they can actually pull this off, but thought the Longitude Prize story"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2379871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379871", "by": "dukecitypal", "time": 1301343319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listening to Podcasts. Always. Some of my favorites are This American Life, The Bugle, Wait Wait Don't Tell me, Fresh Air, Science Talk."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 2379871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379871", "by": "dukecitypal", "time": 1301343319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listening to Podcasts. Always. Some of my favorites are This American Life, The Bugle, Wait Wait Don't Tell me, Fresh Air, Science Talk."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 2399280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399280", "by": "rrhoover", "time": 1301721680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although not tech news blogs, I find Chris Dixon ( http://cdixon.org ) and Mark Suster's ( http://bothsidesofthetable.com/ ) blogs very insightful. You should also check out Suster's weekly video podcast, This Week in Venture Capital ( http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/ ). Even better, imo, is Jason Calacanis' This Week in Startups ( http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ )."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 2406319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406319", "by": "SRSimko", "time": 1301923872, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of podcasts and I'm always looking to discover new shows. I'm curious what shows do you watch / listen to on a regular basis? I'm a big fan of: Mixergy, TWiT, This Week in Venture Capital, This Week in Startups, Sitepoint, Standford Entrepreneurship Videos (not sure if that is considered a podcast), Reporters' Roundtable You?"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 2406319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406319", "by": "SRSimko", "time": 1301923872, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of podcasts and I'm always looking to discover new shows. I'm curious what shows do you watch / listen to on a regular basis? I'm a big fan of: Mixergy, TWiT, This Week in Venture Capital, This Week in Startups, Sitepoint, Standford Entrepreneurship Videos (not sure if that is considered a podcast), Reporters' Roundtable You?"}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 2406489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406489", "by": "yan", "time": 1301926812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always keep up with: This American Life (thisamericanlife.org), Radiolab (radiolab.org), Planet Money (npr.org/blogs/money/) and The Brain Science Podcast (brainsciencepodcast.com). Others are more on a per-episode bases."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2406489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406489", "by": "yan", "time": 1301926812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always keep up with: This American Life (thisamericanlife.org), Radiolab (radiolab.org), Planet Money (npr.org/blogs/money/) and The Brain Science Podcast (brainsciencepodcast.com). Others are more on a per-episode bases."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2406489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406489", "by": "yan", "time": 1301926812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always keep up with: This American Life (thisamericanlife.org), Radiolab (radiolab.org), Planet Money (npr.org/blogs/money/) and The Brain Science Podcast (brainsciencepodcast.com). Others are more on a per-episode bases."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2406489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406489", "by": "yan", "time": 1301926812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always keep up with: This American Life (thisamericanlife.org), Radiolab (radiolab.org), Planet Money (npr.org/blogs/money/) and The Brain Science Podcast (brainsciencepodcast.com). Others are more on a per-episode bases."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 2406519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406519", "by": "zumbojo", "time": 1301927144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "37signals Podcast, This Developer's Life, Freakonomics Radio, Hanselminutes (in addition to several already mentioned by others)."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2406519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406519", "by": "zumbojo", "time": 1301927144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "37signals Podcast, This Developer's Life, Freakonomics Radio, Hanselminutes (in addition to several already mentioned by others)."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 2406621, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406621", "by": "kirpekar", "time": 1301928229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Moth Podcast"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 2406892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406892", "by": "swanson", "time": 1301930983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I try out a few new podcasts every quarter. The three that have stuck (in order of enjoyment): TechZing, Changelog, Founders Talk http://techzinglive.com/ http://thechangelog.com/ http://5by5.tv/founderstalk"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2406892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406892", "by": "swanson", "time": 1301930983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I try out a few new podcasts every quarter. The three that have stuck (in order of enjoyment): TechZing, Changelog, Founders Talk http://techzinglive.com/ http://thechangelog.com/ http://5by5.tv/founderstalk"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2407573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407573", "by": "stevenp", "time": 1301938662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For politics with some humor injected, I like to keep up with the Majority Report (majority.fm), and the Stephanie Miller Show (stephaniemiller.com). I also regularly keep up with the Slate Political and Pop Culture \"Gabfest\" podcasts, although they can be a bit dry and elitist at times. For pure entertainment, I like Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and The Moth is also great if you like shows like \"This American Life\" but can't always commit to a whole hour."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 2407573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407573", "by": "stevenp", "time": 1301938662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For politics with some humor injected, I like to keep up with the Majority Report (majority.fm), and the Stephanie Miller Show (stephaniemiller.com). I also regularly keep up with the Slate Political and Pop Culture \"Gabfest\" podcasts, although they can be a bit dry and elitist at times. For pure entertainment, I like Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and The Moth is also great if you like shows like \"This American Life\" but can't always commit to a whole hour."}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 2407640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407640", "by": "daimyoyo", "time": 1301939183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TWiT, This week in iPad, TWiST, Kevin Pollaks chat show, and Kevin Rose's podcast(not Digg Nation, the other one)."}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 2408529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408529", "by": "3dFlatLander", "time": 1301951329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Astronomy Cast -- They have a pretty big show archive that has aged very well. In Our Time, a BBC radio podcast focusing on history. PBS Frontline (a tv show, not a podcast) streams all their shows online. Great for current events. The Economist Audio Edition requires subscription to magazine, but if you want to catch up on the entire world in a couple of hours, this is the way to go."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 2408529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2408529", "by": "3dFlatLander", "time": 1301951329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Astronomy Cast -- They have a pretty big show archive that has aged very well. In Our Time, a BBC radio podcast focusing on history. PBS Frontline (a tv show, not a podcast) streams all their shows online. Great for current events. The Economist Audio Edition requires subscription to magazine, but if you want to catch up on the entire world in a couple of hours, this is the way to go."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 2409029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409029", "by": "joebadmo", "time": 1301959716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What is it about issues like this that cause people (who generally have little direct financial stake) to take sides so heatedly and emotionally? It's bizarre, isn't it? I know I at least always have a hard time deciding between top competing products. I anguished over the decision between iPhone and Android, but it was because of the different features represented, not any cultural thing. And I still readily recommend the iPhone to most people. Is it pure tribalism? I heard John Siracusa talk at length in one of the early episodes of the Hypercritical podcast about Mac people having a sort of"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 2409225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409225", "by": "DomainNoob", "time": 1301964339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to many of those already mentioned I like... Bookworm! Deep interviews with authors: http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/bw Stewart Brand's Long Now Foundation talks: http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml This Week In Venture Capital w Mark Suster: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThisWeekInVentureCapital-audio Stuff Mom Never Told You: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-mom-never-told-y... LA Public Library ALOUD talks: http://events.lapl.org/podcasts/rss/itunes/aloudrss.aspx Futures in Biotech: http://leo.am/podcasts/fib/ Fora.tv audio podcast of the week: http://fora.tv/media"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2409602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2409602", "by": "Dramatize", "time": 1301975276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mixergy, TWiST, TWiVC, Radiolab & 5by5 podcasts."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 2428554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428554", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1302398144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think \"Security Now\" is a podcast example of this balancing act. Though like most TWiT podcasts, it's fluffed out to twice the length it should be."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2454776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454776", "by": "ZitchDog", "time": 1302985704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rather than debating the validity of the Gold Standard (which is essentially what this discussion boils down to) I would direct you to a great set of podcasts from Planet Money[1] in particular [2][3] which discuss the general current thought on the Gold Standard, and show why most economists agree it is untenable in the long run. [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=13... [2] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/133781593/the-tues... [3] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/18/133874462/the-frid..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2464881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464881", "by": "InnocentB", "time": 1303262809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was actually an interesting study about this which got mentioned recently on the Freakonomics podcast (you can see a transcription of the segment at http://freakonomicsradio.com/does-college-still-matter-and-o... , the original study is at http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tlemieux/papers/unintended.pdf ). Basically, it uses men who were eligible for the Vietnam draft (who enrolled in college in greater numbers than they otherwise would have, to avoid military service) to demonstrate that success from college graduates is more than a \"these people are the ones who were already going to succeed\""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 2467093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467093", "by": "swanson", "time": 1303314748, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 2467816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467816", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1303324829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an unabashed fan of the StackOverflow podcast. They shared tons of insights on building an online community, getting from bare servers through launch, dealing with disagreements among co-founders, launching and tons of other minutiae on launching a startup that I found fascinating."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 2468286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468286", "by": "Groxx", "time": 1303332101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gavin didn't do a very good job explaining things in that one, unfortunately. I recently found the Omega Tau podcast covering Bitcoin, and he does much, much better: http://omegataupodcast.net/2011/03/59-bitcoin-a-digital-dece..."}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 2490517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490517", "by": "VMG", "time": 1303928870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "you might be interested in the interview with him on the WTF podcast"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 2502146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502146", "by": "hackerblues", "time": 1304216647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the same theme of general interest talks by specialists, I'm quite a fan of the Long Now Foundation podcasts."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 2502266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502266", "by": "Entlin", "time": 1304221366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Siracusa wrote about this very aptly 5 years ago: Avoiding Copland 2010 http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2005/09/1372.ars Then he revisited it 10 months in 2010: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/copland-2010-revis... And then he talked about it 2 weeks ago in the Hypercritical Podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/14 Abstract: new language and new API go hand in hand. A memory managed combo trades execution speed for faster program creation. Was already needed 5 years ago. The recent garbage collection additions don't cut it. Microsoft started working on their successor (.net"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 2509114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509114", "by": "willidiots", "time": 1304401590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Trance Around the World podcast. Two hours of trance every week, mixed by Above & Beyond."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 2509164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509164", "by": "mtraven", "time": 1304403236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Foucault and Deleuze are definitely not for beginners. Don't start there. It really depends what you are interested in. You might check out the Philosophy Bites podcast: http://philosophybites.com/ (now a book too) which has good, short discussions of current issues, and might help you figure out which philosophical questions you are interested in. If you really want to tackle continental philosophy and have a computer background, I suggest starting with Phil Agre's work, like here: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 2510200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510200", "by": "Jiminez", "time": 1304435105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's so much out there, trouble is deciding what you're likely to be interested in. The Philosophy Bites podcast ( http://www.philosophybites.com/ ) may give you some ideas."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2522935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522935", "by": "bakhlawa", "time": 1304727707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you enjoyed this, highly recommend the following This American Life podcasts on the same topic. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/375/b... http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/355/t..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2542809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542809", "by": "taphangum", "time": 1305243650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know Jason from the TechZing Podcast is making a \"Do it yourself\" app platform. Might be worth signing up here: http://appignite.com"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2543936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2543936", "by": "mhansen", "time": 1305272375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not read, but I listen to NPR's Planet Money podcast"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 2544861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544861", "by": "kongqiu", "time": 1305298782, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Rowe did a really interesting podcast interview with Adam Carolla late last year: http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/2010/10/19/mike-rowe/ Worth checking out."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 2555925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2555925", "by": "Luyt", "time": 1305627484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brian Dunning, of Skeptoid fame, has written an article/podcast about 'Digital Drugs': http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4147 \"[...] while the claimed science behind binaural beats is unfounded, this doesn't mean that the effect isn't real and simply unexplained. Maybe you can listen to a certain binaural beat and induce a desired state, but for reasons we don't yet understand. So let's take a look at the research, and see if such an effect has actually been observed. [...]\" ..follows a lot of background info, with references, and at the end of the article he comes to the conclusion: \"So, in summar"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2564053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564053", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1305816383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Latest NPR Planet Money podcast episode was about bubbles, they interviewed a university professor that was running experiments on his students. They had a fake stock market with only one stock on it that would have a random dividend of either $0 or $2, so $1 on average. Students were given money to invest in the stock market. Running this experiment apparently over multiple courses, even in this small market there would be bubbles. He brought up one such bubble in a lecture in front of the students, explaining to them that their investment made no sense considering the average dividend. He ex"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2581118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2581118", "by": "ssharp", "time": 1306263909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's very important to instill saving behaviors early on in your adult life. After graduating college, I had plenty of debt, but still made sure I was putting money into a savings account. Technically, it would have been much wiser to put any excess money towards 15% APR credit card debt than in 5% saving accounts (5% savings accounts did exist for a few years prior to the 2008 collapse), but actually having money to pay for unexpected expenses rather than building the debt I was trying to pay off, felt better. --- Freakonomics did a podcast a few months ago, using either this study or"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 2589719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2589719", "by": "charlesmaxwood", "time": 1306450310, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2596222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596222", "by": "soitgoes", "time": 1306654411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very interesting video. There is also a good Radiolab podcast about this research with respect to cities. http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2602656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2602656", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1306851167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They pointed out on the Planet Money podcast that gold may be in a 4,000 year-old bubble."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2609344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2609344", "by": "erehweb", "time": 1306962383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In this podcast, http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tues... the NPR Planet Money team go through all the elements with a chemical engineering professor, who concludes that it has to be gold."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2612269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612269", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1307027320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like Planet Money (as much as I love them) kind of missed the point with their podcast, and it was nice to see Jonathan run with it. This is indeed the future of music. Fragmentation. From major labels, to indie labels, to individual musicians or even communities. While the rise of Justin Bieber from the bowels of YouTube might be an anti-point, I still suspect it will only get even more intimate as time goes on. Music discovery only needs to get a little more subtle with existing social services."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 2628186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2628186", "by": "mixmastamyk", "time": 1307430075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Gibson and Leo have been talking about this for weeks on the Security Now podcast. Interesting story if you'd like to listen. Amazing how a well known security company kept its crown jewels within reach general employees with Windows boxes. When are they gonna learn?"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 2644098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644098", "by": "aspir", "time": 1307806185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In line with this article, I've been learning how to program as rapidly as possible. I'm a sales lead for a startup with a heavy Ruby use, as well as a little C, C++, and JS. I can tell you it isn't easy, but its worth it. I'm better at my job because I now can study the product line by line, and I am also able to script mundane tasks like lead gathering via web scraping. But -- once again, it's not easy or quick to do it right -- get ready for a marathon and befriend as many people at local user groups as possible. Even people working in langages you don't plan on learning and in industries y"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2644516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644516", "by": "VMG", "time": 1307818134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Jon Ronson's \"The Psyocopath Test\" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aCir5bu-c ) Also featured on the recent This American Life podcast."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 2664046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664046", "by": "charlesmaxwood", "time": 1308276405, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 2683608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683608", "by": "robinwarren", "time": 1308757234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "no problem, they're great and deserve the publicity. I'm a possee fan too. A couple other podcasts I rate highly are: drunk and retired (sadly too infrequent nowadays http://drunkandretired.com/thepodcast/ ) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (originally heard of this via Joe from the posse I think http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html )"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2697019, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2697019", "by": "ajwinn", "time": 1309047338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you're right that the feeling others in society are some sort of \"monster\" is really key. I heard a podcast of This American Life that interviewed Mr. Rogers, and I remember this moment where he's asking a man why they don't talk with their neighbors, and he has this way of making them open up like they're a kid. And the guy responded something like, \"I'm afraid they won't BE like me. Like a monster or something.\" And that's where our modern monsters come from (and maybe always have): these unspoken, emotional, real-life fears. Like the fear of 'Others', I would suggest that the fear o"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2697993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2697993", "by": "adolph", "time": 1309095802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for posting this. I've been lazily curious about Eliza since listening to the recent RadioLab podcast episode, \"Talking to Machines.\" http://www.radiolab.org/2011/may/31/"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 2699201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699201", "by": "kristofferR", "time": 1309125092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BTW, my favorite podcast is The Lifestyle Business Podcast: http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/ The hosts are two guys who have created a million dollar business in the last three years while traveling. Their business is not some bullshit \"blog\"/earn money by selling tips on how to make money thing, it's a real business that actually sells physical products. Everybody should check it out. It's a shame that they're charging for the first episodes since it makes it kinda hard to recommend to people (I discovered them before that), but their content is definitely worth paying for. It's proba"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 2711346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2711346", "by": "bennesvig", "time": 1309381720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Carolla's Podcast gets a good source of it's income from Amazon's affiliate program."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2714513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714513", "by": "Sukotto", "time": 1309449259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to the great links already in this thread I'd like to add this post from Planet Money describing what happened that last time the US paid it off [1]. [aside] I love the the Planet Money podcast and highly recommend it. I wish more of the talking-podcasts I follow (Mixergy, Teckzing, back-to-work, stackexchange, etc) were available in 20 min chunks instead of the 60 min they all seem to favor. [/aside] [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the..."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 2719695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719695", "by": "joshuacc", "time": 1309546963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Founders Talk: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk Stack Exchange Podcast: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ Build & Analyze: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/ The Ruby Show: http://rubyshow.com/ The JavaScript Show: http://javascriptshow.com/"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 2719695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719695", "by": "joshuacc", "time": 1309546963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Founders Talk: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk Stack Exchange Podcast: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ Build & Analyze: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/ The Ruby Show: http://rubyshow.com/ The JavaScript Show: http://javascriptshow.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2762731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2762731", "by": "mukyu", "time": 1310647136, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2777536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777536", "by": "Splines", "time": 1311014459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great podcast about this exact topic by Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/05/135151990/the-tues..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2782783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782783", "by": "Jacob4u2", "time": 1311105477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a Radiolab podcast about parasites and the improvement of productivity in the deep south as a result of the introduction of outhouses. http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/ (it's the part about farmers, not sure about a specific seek to point, sorry it's been a while)"}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 2784926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2784926", "by": "davej", "time": 1311157112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, there are still a number of issues with NPM support on windows. Isaacs talks about them on the latest NodeUp podcast: http://nodeup.com/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2795976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795976", "by": "bobthebee", "time": 1311389215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had another entertaining podcast related to Nathan, namely his work on \"molecular gastronomy\" and comparing to traditional cooking. http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/01/27/freakonomics-radio-wa..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2796826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2796826", "by": "rauljara", "time": 1311424948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Also this was a great piece of journalism. I started listening to the This American Life podcast after I heard a piece on the financial crisis. Their reporting of business matters is truly extraordinary. Their stories often have a narrative that I think it is possible to disagree with, but the sheer depth with which they tackle a subject is amazing, and incredibly informative. Their non-business related shows are great, too, but very different. If you liked this piece, check out some of their archived shows. You'll learn a lot. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2797585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797585", "by": "boucher", "time": 1311449185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money is actually a co-production of This American Life and NPR, and there's often a lot of overlap (for example, they devoted a full TAL episode to Toxie, a story that was developed over several episodes of the Planet Money podcast)."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 2800075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800075", "by": "markkanof", "time": 1311534395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All octopus jokes aside, thanks for pointing out The Changelog podcast. I had not heard of this one before and it looks like they cover a lot of great topics."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 2810126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810126", "by": "lmarinho", "time": 1311726581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend listening to the EconTalk Podcast episode on this subject, it's very interesting and informative, as usual: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/07/hennessey_on_th.htm..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2816344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2816344", "by": "mhansen", "time": 1311854730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a podcast the other day on exactly how the ratings are created. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138721364/the-tues... TLDL: There's no algorithm. There's no one ratio you can look at. Analysts travel to the country, assess how likely it is to pay its debt, and report back. A few people listen to the evidence then take a vote on the new rating."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 2817220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817220", "by": "Duff", "time": 1311866862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The education system is broken and has been for decades. The supporters of the system re-characterize criticism of the system into \"attacks\" on teachers (ie. union membership) and demand more money. The establishment \"won\" their side of the argument in many states -- states that richly compensated employees (the payscale in most NY school districts ends at $110k, plus 65% pension for life) and administrators (typical school superintendents make $175k in NY) and built lots of new schools. Yet those investments yielded marginal \"value\" at best. Until recently, the critics were mostly focused on "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2819352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819352", "by": "mattdeboard", "time": 1311894258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should really listen to last week's This American Life, available on podcast. You'd be horrified to learn that not only are overbroad patents being awarded to people, but also regularly being awarded to multiple people/business entities. Multiple groups holding patents for the same things."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2829015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829015", "by": "zacharypinter", "time": 1312135444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For some extra dialog, this was touched on in the latest Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/29/138818388/the-frid..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2831084, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831084", "by": "georgieporgie", "time": 1312181997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those concerned about the current debt issues, the last two Planet Money podcasts of were fantastic, and rather reassuring: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=944..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2839438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839438", "by": "jakarta", "time": 1312334951, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I was wondering if anyone here could recommend any good podcast series. It doesn't have to be tech related. Broader science/history/culture would be great too -- but it should be informative. A decent amount of my time is spent on the train or at the gym and I like to use it learning about new things. It's just that I unfortunately have not found too many great programs out there. I get the usual NPR stuff and enjoy Radiolab (although it's pretty infrequent) but am hoping some folks on HN will have some other suggestions."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 2839457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839457", "by": "lunatech", "time": 1312335406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like listening to the Adam Carolla podcast, http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/category/podcast/ You might like his brand of humor or he might rub you the wrong way. The others that I listen to - * Science Friday Audio Podcast - http://gpodder.net/podcast/59068 * The Naked Scientists Podcast - Stripping Down Science - http://gpodder.net/podcast/11153"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 2839457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839457", "by": "lunatech", "time": 1312335406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like listening to the Adam Carolla podcast, http://www.adamcarolla.com/ACPBlog/category/podcast/ You might like his brand of humor or he might rub you the wrong way. The others that I listen to - * Science Friday Audio Podcast - http://gpodder.net/podcast/59068 * The Naked Scientists Podcast - Stripping Down Science - http://gpodder.net/podcast/11153"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 2839518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839518", "by": "dgunn", "time": 1312336542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am addicted to the Stuff You Should Know podcast. Great choice if your interests are varied. They publish frequently and there's a huge back log of good topics."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 2839591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839591", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1312338557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite one is \"The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe\". It has likable hosts and content that is entertaining, but often educational as well. The level of commitment to the show by the Skeptic's Guide hosts is simply amazing. They have been producing great content every week since 2005. I would recommend starting at #108 and make sure you listen to #109 next to see just how committed they are. I usually listen to the show while falling asleep or taking a bike ride. \"Planet Money\", \"Radiolab\" and \"The Moth Podcast\" are good too."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 2839591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839591", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1312338557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite one is \"The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe\". It has likable hosts and content that is entertaining, but often educational as well. The level of commitment to the show by the Skeptic's Guide hosts is simply amazing. They have been producing great content every week since 2005. I would recommend starting at #108 and make sure you listen to #109 next to see just how committed they are. I usually listen to the show while falling asleep or taking a bike ride. \"Planet Money\", \"Radiolab\" and \"The Moth Podcast\" are good too."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2839591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839591", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1312338557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite one is \"The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe\". It has likable hosts and content that is entertaining, but often educational as well. The level of commitment to the show by the Skeptic's Guide hosts is simply amazing. They have been producing great content every week since 2005. I would recommend starting at #108 and make sure you listen to #109 next to see just how committed they are. I usually listen to the show while falling asleep or taking a bike ride. \"Planet Money\", \"Radiolab\" and \"The Moth Podcast\" are good too."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 2839629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839629", "by": "jordanlev", "time": 1312339667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TechZing is my favorite tech podcast -- two developers chatting about development and startups (mostly on the bootstrapping scale). Sometimes guest interviews with other programmers. If you're a developer you should absolutely check it out, you will most likely love it (especially web developers, especially especially freelancers / people running their own businesses)."}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 2839645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839645", "by": "grah4", "time": 1312340112, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Seminars about long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/seminars/ An incredible series of talks & discussions. The scope of topics covered is akin to TEDtalks. I recommend downloading the entire catalog. edit: itunes audio http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-ter..."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 2840040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840040", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1312352488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 2840040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840040", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1312352488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 2840040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840040", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1312352488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 2840040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840040", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1312352488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 2840040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840040", "by": "Terry_B", "time": 1312352488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 2840940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840940", "by": "mattdeboard", "time": 1312376354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a direct and measurable causal relationship between number of LOC and number of bugs. This was discussed at length on Stack Exchange podcast #9 (I believe) when the author of \"Making Software\" was a guest. This exact topic was discussed at length. Java is for better or worse more verbose than Python, which means more lines of code which means more opportunity for bugs. It is hardly nonsensical. That opinion is a product of language-centric parochialism with no regard for actual fact. Ditto for the \"just work\" line being a \"delusion.\" Like it or not, Python does indeed \"just work\" in m"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2841186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841186", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1312380400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economic podcasts: Planet Money, Financial Sense Newshour, Econ Talk, Motley Fool and Market Foolery, APM Marketplace News: BBC World Update, BBC Global News Startup related: Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar, Founders Talk, iInnovate General interest: KERA Think (really interesting), Astronomy Cast"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 2841186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841186", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1312380400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economic podcasts: Planet Money, Financial Sense Newshour, Econ Talk, Motley Fool and Market Foolery, APM Marketplace News: BBC World Update, BBC Global News Startup related: Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar, Founders Talk, iInnovate General interest: KERA Think (really interesting), Astronomy Cast"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2841207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841207", "by": "nextparadigms", "time": 1312380611, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 2841462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841462", "by": "yellowbkpk", "time": 1312384583, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's not much new material beyond the This American Life podcast in this show. It's still interesting to listen to, but be prepared for some repeats in this 20 minute podcast."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2842889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2842889", "by": "marcamillion", "time": 1312402985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just finished listening to that Planet Money podcast on this, just to see this blog post this now. Should be interesting to see how this plays out. I wonder if all parties involved would lobby for the destruction of software patents - wholesale - and call a ceasefire."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2845941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2845941", "by": "billybob", "time": 1312465755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Why is gold worth anything? Because we all agree that it is.\" True to some extent, but it does have more intrinsic value than paper currency. 1) It's rare enough that small amounts can be used to trade, but common enough that lots of people can have some. 2) It is pretty (subjective, but agreed-upon across many cultures). 3) It is chemically stable - doesn't rust or tarnish - so if you have 5oz today, you'll still have 5oz 10 years from now. Reasons like these were explored on a Planet Money podcast, and they concluded that gold isn't an arbitrary choice; if you could pick any element from th"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 2850769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850769", "by": "A-K", "time": 1312563968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "5by5.tv podcasts--Back To Work and The Talk Show are among my favorites This Is My Next Podcast Jordan, Jesse GO! Stuff You Should Know If you're into games, I'd also check out the Giant Bombcast"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 2850769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850769", "by": "A-K", "time": 1312563968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "5by5.tv podcasts--Back To Work and The Talk Show are among my favorites This Is My Next Podcast Jordan, Jesse GO! Stuff You Should Know If you're into games, I'd also check out the Giant Bombcast"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2852513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2852513", "by": "cageface", "time": 1312592920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the most recent Planet Money podcast they claimed that a downgrade from AAA to AA would have no effect on investors. This is way out of my area of expertise but they seemed quite certain on this point."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2852534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2852534", "by": "berberich", "time": 1312593327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think this is correct. Planet Money did a recent podcast on this very subject (Would A Downgrade Matter?)[1], and they concluded that a downgrade from AAA to AA+ doesn't matter very much in the long run. Yes, it's somewhat embarrassing, and interest rates are likely to go up _slightly_, but that's about it. The big leap is from \"investment grade\" securities to \"junk bonds\" ('BB'/'Ba' or less). We're still a long way from there. [1]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/28/138721364/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2852567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2852567", "by": "joezydeco", "time": 1312594094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Planet Money podcast. Lots of factors are considered, including political ones."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 2855707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855707", "by": "salemh", "time": 1312689716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fantastic podcast by history-phile Dan Carlin (also a political journalist, who does a fine job bashing both parties in reference to historical context, \"Common Sense, with Dan Carlin\" podcast) http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh Death Throes of the Republic: The Fall of Rome You will find so much fantastic similarities to our own downward spiral, re: military, political class of protecting special interests, where near the decline, voting blocks were outright purchased, etc. He brings together several historians, records, etc. The entire series is wonderful, and you WILL find yourself spendi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 2855755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855755", "by": "salemh", "time": 1312690991, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For other humor: The Joe Rogan Experience (humor, drug talk, alt realities, etc. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/... The Lavender Hour - comedians Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussel. The ep A Tea with Reggie Watts and Hairy Gold are mind trips. http://lavenderhour.com/ (horrendous webpage) http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lavender-hour/id35058... Mohr Stories (these give some great insight into Hollywood in general (the first two ep's), and tend to make me laugh out loud throughout. The Bert Kreischer ep is hilarious. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mohr-st"}, {"show": "350580455", "hn_item": 2855755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855755", "by": "salemh", "time": 1312690991, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For other humor: The Joe Rogan Experience (humor, drug talk, alt realities, etc. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/... The Lavender Hour - comedians Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussel. The ep A Tea with Reggie Watts and Hairy Gold are mind trips. http://lavenderhour.com/ (horrendous webpage) http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lavender-hour/id35058... Mohr Stories (these give some great insight into Hollywood in general (the first two ep's), and tend to make me laugh out loud throughout. The Bert Kreischer ep is hilarious. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mohr-st"}, {"show": "448795390", "hn_item": 2855755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855755", "by": "salemh", "time": 1312690991, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For other humor: The Joe Rogan Experience (humor, drug talk, alt realities, etc. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/... The Lavender Hour - comedians Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussel. The ep A Tea with Reggie Watts and Hairy Gold are mind trips. http://lavenderhour.com/ (horrendous webpage) http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lavender-hour/id35058... Mohr Stories (these give some great insight into Hollywood in general (the first two ep's), and tend to make me laugh out loud throughout. The Bert Kreischer ep is hilarious. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mohr-st"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 2855755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855755", "by": "salemh", "time": 1312690991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For other humor: The Joe Rogan Experience (humor, drug talk, alt realities, etc. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/... The Lavender Hour - comedians Natasha Leggero and Duncan Trussel. The ep A Tea with Reggie Watts and Hairy Gold are mind trips. http://lavenderhour.com/ (horrendous webpage) http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lavender-hour/id35058... Mohr Stories (these give some great insight into Hollywood in general (the first two ep's), and tend to make me laugh out loud throughout. The Bert Kreischer ep is hilarious. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mohr-st"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2862805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862805", "by": "MartinCron", "time": 1312861294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It wasn't always that way. There's a Planet Money podcast covering how the ratings agencies came to be and how thet got their legal significance. Interesting story."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2874208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874208", "by": "joelhaus", "time": 1313088558, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No. You're exactly correct. Wrote a comment, directly related, on Google+ the other day in this thread: https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/LHVVz5e3... Here it is (can't figure out how to link directly to a comment): -------------------------------------------------------------- I sort of blame this on shoddy journalism. There is actually broad bi-partisan consensus from economists and business on what policy steps need to be taken. There is an important ratio that is largely being ignored: Debt-to-GDP ~ This is a fundamental measurement for determining credit risk. ~ Economist"}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 2888273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888273", "by": "adimitrov", "time": 1313436382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear Procrastinator, Go read up on the topic of procrastination, because it's actually an interesting field of research within psychology. I know you want to, because that way, you can procrastinate even more! I'm appalled that nobody has yet mentioned http://procrastination.ca \u2014 home of the Uni Ottawa procrastination research group. Also home of the excellent iProcrastinate podcast: http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/ It turns out that procrastination is an immensely complex and multi-faceted issue, and no one single solution is going to help everybody. I like the OPs advice, but don't think it"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 2895618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895618", "by": "joshuacc", "time": 1313594676, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 2922410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2922410", "by": "sdoowpilihp", "time": 1314218513, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 2934210, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934210", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1314548342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good point. On one of the \"Startups For the Rest of Us\" podcast, Rob essentially said the same thing. Paraphrasing: \"It took me a long time to realize I could go on vacation for a month at a time and not worry. I kept thinking 'Shouldn't I be working? Isn't there something I need to do?'\""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 2937034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937034", "by": "rufibarbatus", "time": 1314624021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Security Now podcast [1], Gibson asserted that every position in these 25x25 grids has so much entropy that even a hell of a lot of passwords wouldn't give away the whole grid. Now, I personally couldn't pull this off, but I'd actually love to see the Math done here. [1] Video: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/315 Transcript: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-315.htm"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 2963591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2963591", "by": "rayvega", "time": 1315266103, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 2990176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2990176", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1315894025, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3010040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010040", "by": "royalghost", "time": 1316346955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I mostly listen to Java Posse and Stack Overflow podcast. I used to listen to Pragmatic Programmer podcast but I don't find any new one these days."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 3015075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3015075", "by": "2nd_planet", "time": 1316463926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Ruby Show * JavaScript Show * Ruby Rogues * Software Engineering Radio * The Changelog As you can see, I like podcasts; but all of them are fascinating and fun! :-D"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3034430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034430", "by": "nostromo", "time": 1316901415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast covered this topic once. In proper markets, increasing the supply of a good or service decreases its cost. However, in the US, the more doctors we train, the more we spend on healthcare. A reason this is the case is because the average healthcare consumer is totally removed from the cost of healthcare and the doctor has a perverse incentive to make work for him or herself and other specialists."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 3038006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3038006", "by": "e2daipi", "time": 1317023755, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not much more to say after Tim Harford\u2026 MoreOrLess: Is salt bad for you? 19 Aug 2011 http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/more-or-less-behind-the-s... Starts at about 00:45 up to 16:07."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 3044287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3044287", "by": "roshanr", "time": 1317144342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economists do not necessarily have a great track record with predicting the future state of the economy. From a study by Denrel and Fang: 'Economists who had a better record at calling extreme events had a worse record in general. \u201cThe analyst with the largest number as well as the highest proportion of accurate and extreme forecasts,\u201d they wrote, \u201chad, by far, the worst forecasting record.' [1] Also, this Freakonomics podcast talks about the folly of prediction in general - http://freakonomicsradio.com/hour-long-special-the-folly-of-... [1] http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/201"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3052200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3052200", "by": "shioyama", "time": 1317300300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a fantastic podcast, I only wish they would put out episodes more frequently. I know that it's based on the format/style of This American Life, but honestly I think it's actually better."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3052674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3052674", "by": "igorgue", "time": 1317308282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a fan of This American Life ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ ) I love this podcast, I've been listening to it for a while already I recommend \"Audacity\" and \"Homerun\"."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3057340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3057340", "by": "joebadmo", "time": 1317396684, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3062137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3062137", "by": "swanson", "time": 1317532878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested in more about the Luck Surface Area concept, I believe it was first mentioned on Jason's podcast TechZing. Ep 59: http://techzinglive.com/page/295/techzing-59-jasonism at the 65minute mark"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 3063569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063569", "by": "JonnieCache", "time": 1317580585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the subject of radio four - any opportunity to post the In Our Time archives: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/podcasts/ Like a warm bath in university juice. (Hope the links work outisde the UK)"}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 3063795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063795", "by": "michaelpinto", "time": 1317584758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eons ago i was listening to a Jason Calacanis podcast and he gave an amazing insight: You should always do your own PR. At first I thought this was unfair as Jason is a genius at self promotion which is a gift few geeks have, but then he spelled out his technique which I actually wrote down: 1. Make friends in the press BEFORE you pitch 2. Is your story better than anything on techmeme? 3. ...then look for writers in your space 4. Leave a smart comment on a story (i.e. linkbait) 5. Do a blog to linkbait (take your comment and blow it up to a post) this is because journalists obsess over the co"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3066211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3066211", "by": "driverdan", "time": 1317649120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congrats guys! TechZing is one of my favorite tech startup podcasts. If you haven't heard it before check it out."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 3073493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073493", "by": "kalid", "time": 1317771595, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Link to their podcast -- more enjoyable than reading a transcript. http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id3546..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3120941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120941", "by": "Tyrannosaurs", "time": 1318866425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "5by5 podcasts seem to indulge their hosts too much and Dan Benjamin needs to put a bit more structure and a bit more focus around them. There's only so far taking a smart, interesting person and letting them rant and ramble can take you before you need to ask them to focus and prepare a bit more. Whenever I see a weekly tech podcast of this sort clocking in around the hour mark my instant reaction is \"you didn't prepare enough and you didn't edit enough\". See also the StackExchange / StackOverflow podcast."}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 3121110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3121110", "by": "oldpatricka", "time": 1318868550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Core Intuition ( http://www.coreint.org/ ), is a really great podcast by two iOS/Mac developers (Daniel Jalkut of MarsEdit fame, and Manton Reece of tweetmarker). Daniel's shtick is that he's a punkass, but it's immediately apparent that both of them are pretty humble, and always trying to keep it positive. The most insightful part of the show they take questions from the audience and answer them. I was hoping Build and Analyze would be more of the same, but the show took another direction."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3121505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3121505", "by": "mapgrep", "time": 1318873312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is roughly as unstructured as a typical 5by5 podcast. There are often topics and/or guests selected in advance, with some or a lot of rambling. (Personally, I like some rambling. A good podcast is like a good essay in that it will go off on tangents. But there needs to be unifying theme acting like gravity to reel the tangents back to Earth. For the StackOverflow podcast, the initial unifying theme was building StackOverflow, with the cofounders debating various decisions. With 5by5's The Talk Show it's typically one (or more) Apple events from the week plus a James Bond movie at the end. F"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3145168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145168", "by": "neilk", "time": 1319342938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest Related: The NPR podcast Planet Money recently held a \"contest\" where you had to pick the number from 0 to 100 that would be the average of all guesses. If you assume everyone is rational (and everyone's estimate of each other's rationality, recursively) it should be 0; the actual answer was around 11.5."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3153758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153758", "by": "ilcavero", "time": 1319544752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing in one of the first StackOverflow podcast that Jeff wanted to release the software as OS in and indefinite future, guess that Joel did not support that and now they are too successful to consider it again, in any case I can see why it would be disadvantageous after they changed their business model from third party hosted Q&A sites to the Area51 process."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 3164442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3164442", "by": "Zimahl", "time": 1319737521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a lot like David Letterman and his numerous speeding tickets he would get in Connecticut. He's rich and a $200 fine doesn't mean the same to him as it does to us. That's what he'd spend on an expensive NYC lunch. The same goes for Jobs. I read the article thinking it was ridiculous. Adam Carolla, who has a podcast I listen to regularly, complains all the time about the 'chicken s' tickets he gets for not having a plate on the front of some of his sports cars. I can't imagine the tickets you would get for not having a rear plate. Every time a cop looked in your direction you'd get pulle"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3174763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3174763", "by": "axefrog", "time": 1319993426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Does PG listen to the StackExchange podcast? There's some great information on there sprinkled throughout the various conversations they have. Jeff Attwood is very passionate about online community management and he and Joel Spolsky get into some interesting debates about some of the community-related problems that they have to deal with on StackOverflow and the other StackExchange sites."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 3175762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3175762", "by": "hieronymusN", "time": 1320019096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just switched from a 1st gen Palm Pre to my first iPhone 4S and I cannot agree more with this statement. webOS has a great UI, but it lost all the important battles (app ecosystem, quality hardware to run on, etc). iOS is now picking up a lot of webOS goodness (notifications) and the app ecosystem that Apple has is just... mindblowing. John Siracusa, in his Hypercritical podcast, made a great case for Amazon picking up webOS for use on their new tablets, but that horse has already left the stable with Android."}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 3185302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3185302", "by": "tung", "time": 1320205324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The wavefront-expansion pathing algorithm described in the paper is very similar to the approach in the roguelike game Brogue [1], whose author refers to as using \"Dijkstra maps\". The game uses it for many purposes, such as seeking the player, fleeing, finding food and treasure, and even auto-exploring [2]. It was also one of the discussion topics when the game featured on the Roguelike Radio podcast [3]. [1]: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/home [2]: http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=T... [3]: http://roguelikeradio.blogspot.com/2011/10/interview-brian-w..."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 3186255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186255", "by": "Juha", "time": 1320235007, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 3234794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3234794", "by": "socialmediaking", "time": 1321291446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The more you talk about suicide, the more people commit it. It's a terrible conundrum in spreading awareness of how many people actually commit suicide. If there is a high-profile case of suicide reported, there will usually be an uptick in suicide and single car, single-passenger car crashes by people in similar demographics. There is an entire section in Cialdini's book Influence, on the social proof of suicide, and I just recently heard this Freakonomics podcast on the subject http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new-freakonomics-radi..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3241186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3241186", "by": "jseliger", "time": 1321405578, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"offset somewhat by the bay area cost of living\" This is a much bigger problem than many people realize; Ryan Avent discusses it in his ebook The Gated City ( http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005... ) and on this Econtalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/10/avent_on_cities.htm... . Basically, housing costs in Silicon Valley are eating up all the salary increases tech companies are offering. Avent describes how, in the 1990s when the unemployment rate in the Valley was effectively zero and lots of people who'd read \"Learn HTML in 24 Hours\" were getting jobs"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 3242068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3242068", "by": "polymath21", "time": 1321424031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, agreed. Here's a great Freakonomics podcast on the upside of quitting that's quite illuminating: http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/new-freakonomics-radi..."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3248994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248994", "by": "andymoe", "time": 1321560093, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 3253160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253160", "by": "pohl", "time": 1321646546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another great take on the extent to which Walter Isaacson biography misses the mark is John Siracusa's criticisms on the \"Hypercritical\" podcast. Skip to about 17 minutes and 45 seconds in, which is when they start discussing it. It looks to be part 1 of an epic two-fer. http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42"}, {"show": "481950724", "hn_item": 3256853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3256853", "by": "dannytatom", "time": 1321749881, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3257267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3257267", "by": "Duff", "time": 1321762886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see this as a complement to a recent Planet Money podcast \"How Money Got Weird\"... about the rise of financialization in america. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/30/140954343/the-frid... The validity of a particular metric is irrelevant. The point is, on a broad scale, we're collectively worshiping on an altar of financial indicators instead of managing businesses. I've worked at a bunch of places where people who are utterly clueless about the business make really lousy decisions by applying magic formulas. Sometimes they are MBAs, other times they are wannabes that read Deloitte mag"}, {"show": "481950724", "hn_item": 3258707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3258707", "by": "richtaur", "time": 1321815234, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 3263635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3263635", "by": "cjm", "time": 1321925526, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 3296935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3296935", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1322687706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a direct mentorship per se , but definitely check out Mike Taber and Rob Walling's \"Startups for the Rest of Us\" podcast series: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ They also have a \"Micropreneur Academy\" which may interest you. Its basically a more detailed version of their podcast, giving tutorials/screencasts/forums detailing all the stuff you are asking about (niche markets, keyword research, conversion testing, mailing lists, adwords, etc etc) *For the record, I'm not affiliated with Mike and Rob - I just really like their advice and style. :)"}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 3325505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3325505", "by": "phatboyslim", "time": 1323286713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone curious about any background on Phil Haack. Here are his notable accomplishments. - MS Lead on ASP.net MVC framework vers. 1 through 3 (current) - Lead on the NuGet package manager framework for Visual Studio - This Developer's Life Podcast with Scott Hanselman"}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 3339648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3339648", "by": "schrototo", "time": 1323592971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, if I remember correctly from his interview on the WTF podcast, his father is a programmer and Louis was always pretty technologically adept. E.g. he edits his TV show himself on his MacBook."}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 3349597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3349597", "by": "rohwer", "time": 1323814425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, he explains how his terrible buying habits with an Amex black card, including a new Mercedes, a sojourn at the Ritz, and a brass instrument, led to his inability to get a credit card for many years. He basically lost his way after comedy clubs closed in the late 80's and had to reinvent himself. Youtube his old \"I have a peach\" routine to understand his reinvention. Here is a version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZfVCSzEw0"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3387836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3387836", "by": "phillmv", "time": 1324689585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not a matter of distraction, it's a matter of support and influence and money. If you can convince a politician that a sizeable percentage of influential people who are liable to donate money to a cause are for or a against a particular issue that that they are legislating on, preferably people who are from within his/her riding/ward/district and thus directly impact him/her. Say, like well connected, high earning (mostly white, male) nerds. If you stop to think about the amount of power we are actually capable of wielding, it's actually really shocking that msft/goog/aapl etc seem to hav"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 3398111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3398111", "by": "crux_", "time": 1325033025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, it took a while to dig up a working link, but there's a memorable/revealing story I listened to a while ago about a visit to Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty workshop... worth a listen. mp3 link: http://fancyandawesome.com/cm/?tag=starlee-kine Original source: The Moth podcast. (( Spoiler: it goes beyond being merely unflattering towards Blanton, to downright disturbing. ))"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 3405624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405624", "by": "zrail", "time": 1325196765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The boring basics. Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, and Planet Money are my go-to podcasts. I can't really stand anything that's too much like talk radio, especially when I'm at the gym (where I listen to podcasts.)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3405624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405624", "by": "zrail", "time": 1325196765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The boring basics. Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, and Planet Money are my go-to podcasts. I can't really stand anything that's too much like talk radio, especially when I'm at the gym (where I listen to podcasts.)"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 3405624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405624", "by": "zrail", "time": 1325196765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The boring basics. Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, and Planet Money are my go-to podcasts. I can't really stand anything that's too much like talk radio, especially when I'm at the gym (where I listen to podcasts.)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3405659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405659", "by": "amwelles", "time": 1325197392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You Look Nice Today, This American Life, Back to Work, Savage Lovecast. I tend to listen to podcasts on my meal breaks at work and at home for background noise. I can't stand listening to them while I'm actually trying to do work, because I have a hard time paying attention to two things at once."}, {"show": "385372276", "hn_item": 3405836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3405836", "by": "m0nastic", "time": 1325199981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This comes up from time to time, so here are the ones that I subscribe to (and get OCD about making sure I'm caught up on). There's others that I might listen to here or there, but these are the main ones: - Informative After Dark : Overflow from other 5by5 shows. Usually less than a half-hour, frequently funny. Probably not recommended if you don't also listen to the other shows on the network. Back to Work : Ostensibly a show about getting to what's important with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin. If you like Merlin's stuff, you'll like the show. Frequently goes off on tangents, but some of the "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 3406016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406016", "by": "ilconsigliere", "time": 1325204305, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have to recommend The History of Rome podcast anytime I have an opportunity. Mike Duncan does a great job \"storytelling\" the history, and is very up front about what should be accepted as relative fact (strong sources) vs. the more uncertain elements from the more questionable sources. It's great if you're driving a lot. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 3406757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406757", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1325224007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My job involves a lot of mindless tasks (molecular/cellular neuroscience - culturing cells is much less exciting than you'd think). This affords me plenty of time to listen to podcasts. My favorites in no particular order: Economy/Finance: -Motley Fool: http://wiki.fool.com/Motley_Fool_Money_Radio_Show -Market Foolery: http://wiki.fool.com/MarketFoolery -EconTalk: http://econtalk.org/ -Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ -American Public Media Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/ _______________________________________ Startup/Tech: -Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startu"}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 3406757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406757", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1325224007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My job involves a lot of mindless tasks (molecular/cellular neuroscience - culturing cells is much less exciting than you'd think). This affords me plenty of time to listen to podcasts. My favorites in no particular order: Economy/Finance: -Motley Fool: http://wiki.fool.com/Motley_Fool_Money_Radio_Show -Market Foolery: http://wiki.fool.com/MarketFoolery -EconTalk: http://econtalk.org/ -Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ -American Public Media Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/ _______________________________________ Startup/Tech: -Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startu"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3406757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3406757", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1325224007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My job involves a lot of mindless tasks (molecular/cellular neuroscience - culturing cells is much less exciting than you'd think). This affords me plenty of time to listen to podcasts. My favorites in no particular order: Economy/Finance: -Motley Fool: http://wiki.fool.com/Motley_Fool_Money_Radio_Show -Market Foolery: http://wiki.fool.com/MarketFoolery -EconTalk: http://econtalk.org/ -Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ -American Public Media Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/ _______________________________________ Startup/Tech: -Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startu"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 3417252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417252", "by": "Sabrosa", "time": 1325537066, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "There seem to be dozens of podcast sites about business and entrepreneurship. I hate to call anyone out in particular, but just a few examples: Stanford's Technology Ventures Podcasts Mixergy This Week in Startups etc. I've spent hundreds of hours watching these shows, and to be honest, I don't think I've actually learned anything. I'm starting to think that business is best learned by doing , not by endlessly consuming startup media. Which is a shame, because I really enjoy watching the above mentioned shows. Anyone else feel the same way?"}, {"show": "348690336", "hn_item": 3417361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3417361", "by": "andygcook", "time": 1325538592, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Mixergy is really interesting and it's refreshing to hear someone like Bo Fishback who's pretty down to earth talk about how execution is everything. You can get the podcasts for other episodes here - http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mixergy-audio-podcast-cha..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3441741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441741", "by": "alphakappa", "time": 1326093718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'This American Life' is a lot more than just the transcript - the show really has to be listened to. Get the podcast and listen to it while you drive - it's worth it."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 3444834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444834", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1326151521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My concern is not that you'd burn your hand off (I have an induction burner). My concern is that people who cook a lot like to be able to adjust temps by feel and (as someone else pointed out) muscle memory. If you listen to Dave Arnold's \"Cooking Issues\" podcast (you should! it's really awesome!), you'll learn that pro kitchen chefs have this problem in a lot of places --- high end equipment with digital variable controls, when they just want simple dials and paddle switches."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3460988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460988", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1326469378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spot on. Some of the key economic principles are covered in this EconTalk podcast with Paul Romer, on growth and \"meta-idas\". http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/08/romer_on_growth.htm..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3504381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3504381", "by": "tallanvor", "time": 1327407100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't get a sense of any racist undertone in this article (nor was there any in the Planet Money podcast about this either). Certainly the author could have gone into more detail as to why the company doesn't feel that they can find enough skilled labor in China or Mexico to make it worth their while to move production there, but that's not the point of the article, so why focus on it?"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 3505559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3505559", "by": "dtromero", "time": 1327424356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy listening to the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. He gives a great overview every week of the security issues/patches/exploits and also goes in depth into a variety of security related topics. His explanations are always easy to understand and interesting. http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 3507492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3507492", "by": "polyfractal", "time": 1327447372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I forget where I heard this routine (Lifestyle Business Podcast maybe?), but I've found it very helpful. It goes something like this: -Write to-do items on a post-it note -Scratch them off as you accomplish them -When the majority of the post-it is scratched, start a new note, beginning with the few items that did not get finished from the last post-it -Evaluate the items that you didn't accomplish from the last post-it. How many times have you copied them from one post-it to another? If more than twice, it is either not important or you are seriously procrastinating. Do it, outsource it or ju"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 3508913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3508913", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1327480990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Zurb guys talked about Foundation vs. Bootstrap on The Changelog podcast: http://thechangelog.com/post/13873612141/episode-0-7-0-found..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3511599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511599", "by": "dugmartin", "time": 1327523617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More info here on the latest TechZing podcast - http://techzinglive.com/page/921/165-tz-interview-rob-wallin..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3517124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3517124", "by": "jseliger", "time": 1327637764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exceedingly useful. He's providing important information to the market and matching buyers and sellers who otherwise wouldn't have met each other. There was a recent Econtalk podcast with Mike Munger on this subject: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/10/munger_on_middl.htm... , in which Munger and the host, Russ Roberts, discuss the role of middlemen and making markets. Without him in the picture, buyers could have purchased their items for less and saved money. Without him in the picture, buyers might not have found the items and wouldn't have the benefit they think buying the items at al"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3539409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539409", "by": "joebadmo", "time": 1328123360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, what I find most interesting about listening to the Stack Exchange podcast is how much attention and conscious effort they put into constructing the community, and in a continuous fashion (i.e. it's never finished). That said, it seems to me that we haven't reached the limits of the machine part of the human-machine moderation team. Voting up and down (here on HN, on Stack Exchange, Slashdot, etc.) is fine, but pretty rudimentary, for example. I'm wondering if there are any others experimenting with more heavily algorithmic moderation."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3545981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3545981", "by": "armandososa", "time": 1328248233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should suscribe. TechZing is a very good and entertaining podcast."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 3547856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547856", "by": "ctdonath", "time": 1328288392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Music possessing these qualities can often provide just the right amount of interest to occupy the parts of your brain that would otherwise be left free to wander and lead to distraction during your work. Finally - someone who recognizes that there's a curious & busy part of the brain which must be kept preoccupied during complex tasks, and mixes music just for that purpose. \"Trance\" music podcasts are a great approximation for this. (See \"The Vocal Trance\", \"Above & Beyond: Trance Around The World\", \"The Perfect Mix\", \"Push The Night\", \"Perfecto Podcast\", \"The Sound of Trance\", \"Shakedown Pod"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 3548180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3548180", "by": "Tossrock", "time": 1328292788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a quick intro, just tune to di.fm's trance channel. They have a lot of great trance radio shows; Global DJ Broadcast with Markus Schulz, A State of Trance with Armin Van Buuren, the aforementioned Trance Around The World, Global Trance Grooves with John 00 Fleming, etc. For easily downloadable podcasts, Sander van Doorn's Identity (although he's leaning more electro these days), The Gareth Emery Podcast, and Global Trance Grooves are good ones."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3559660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559660", "by": "Kiro", "time": 1328569966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Stack Exchange podcast will not be the same without Jeff."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3559663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559663", "by": "georgieporgie", "time": 1328569992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this was uninteresting for the same reason that the Stack Exchange Podcast is uninteresting: it was just a guy talking about himself (SE Podcast occasionally has interesting shows, sooo much of it is just them ruminating about themselves, with a bunch of background racket). I didn't learn anything from this post, except that a Nerd Celebrity is leaving somewhere, with no technical information, no insight, nothing."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3559826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559826", "by": "pedoh", "time": 1328573228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a fascinating podcast on FoxConn on This American Life. It certainly opened my eyes a bit. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/454/m..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3559838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559838", "by": "yalestar", "time": 1328573572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I followed the entire genesis of StackOverflow pretty closely via Jeff & Joel's blog posts and the first go 'round of the StackOverflow podcast. During that time, and to this day, I never ceased to be impressed by Jeff's committment to making the web a better place for programmers and the general public too. He never got mired in startup-speak; you never got the idea he was just in it to sell it, and even once they got some VC backing, you never got the idea he was planning to just sit back and collect the money. Just a no-BS guy in every regard. It's obvious to me that when Jeff does somethin"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 3580394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580394", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1329000057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for including some that I'm involved in! :-) I want to suggest two others (which are not mine): Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk - a frequent interview podcast with founders, true HN style. The guests are often programmers. Mixergy - http://mixergy.com/ - same as above but with more of a business slant. Mixergy is huge though and Andrew is perhaps as much a \"friend of HN\" as we could get IMHO :-)"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 3580778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580778", "by": "joelrunyon", "time": 1329010512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lifestyle Business Podcast - http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/ Great podcast about the intersection between business & lifestyle - focused on bootstrapping and hacking your own business to get them off the ground."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 3580780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580780", "by": "spacemanaki", "time": 1329010680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible is in the same category of general nerdy podcasts like Radiolab (i.e. not just meant for programmers). I think this show specifically would be interesting to hackers, on manufactured sounds for digital interfaces, but there's a lot of good stuff in the archives. http://99percentinvisible.org/post/3230995265/episode-15-the..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 3580780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580780", "by": "spacemanaki", "time": 1329010680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible is in the same category of general nerdy podcasts like Radiolab (i.e. not just meant for programmers). I think this show specifically would be interesting to hackers, on manufactured sounds for digital interfaces, but there's a lot of good stuff in the archives. http://99percentinvisible.org/post/3230995265/episode-15-the..."}, {"show": "419889705", "hn_item": 3580820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580820", "by": "Jare", "time": 1329011601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Creative Coding Podcast: http://creativecodingpodcast.com/ - Flash, HTML5, Processing, OpenFrameworks, or anything graphics and interaction-related. Frequent interviews with developers. Irregular. LostCast: http://www.lostdecadegames.com/ - HTML5 game development. Fairly recent and not terribly hardcore. Irregular."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3580828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3580828", "by": "2arrs2ells", "time": 1329011786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money Podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Lots of examples of people hacking various economic systems (i.e. buying dollar coins to get airline miles) as well as the occasional economics behind tech podcast (Marco Arment & JoCo were both featured recently), and a great way to get a sense of the macroeconomic landscape."}, {"show": "308016010", "hn_item": 3581137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581137", "by": "HiredGuns", "time": 1329022597, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/landing-page-optimization... Thou not as frequently updated lately, it's extremely informative podcast on landing pages, data analysis and consumer behavior in relation to web pages."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3581873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581873", "by": "mmahemoff", "time": 1329057507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few podcasts I like which focus more on broad technology trends, tech in society, and the future: * Seminars About Long Term Thinking: http://longnow.org/seminars/ A little like TED, but longer talks and more focused on tech and long-term thinking. Don't miss Brewster Kahle's recent talk about the Internet Archive ( http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/nov/30/universal-access-al... ). * Triangulation: http://twit.tv/tri1 Interviews with tech luminaries on the TWIT network * Technometria: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/series/technometria.html Interview/conversations led by Phil Windley, cr"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 3582669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582669", "by": "wj", "time": 1329074186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts are great. Each week a new person tells their story of building a company or related topics. Leadership is a common theme. I used to listen to the Manager Tools podcast which had some good information but was decidedly less inspirational. Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself was a good book. Managing yourself is the first step to managing others. I also enjoyed Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People, A Sense of Urgency, and Good to Great."}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 3582669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582669", "by": "wj", "time": 1329074186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts are great. Each week a new person tells their story of building a company or related topics. Leadership is a common theme. I used to listen to the Manager Tools podcast which had some good information but was decidedly less inspirational. Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself was a good book. Managing yourself is the first step to managing others. I also enjoyed Persuasion: The Art of Influencing People, A Sense of Urgency, and Good to Great."}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 3592913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592913", "by": "alabut", "time": 1329277521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\" I don't think Jobs really gave a damn what Isaacson wrote about what went on under the kimono at Apple. \" You nailed it. That's the opinion I heard from Gruber on The Talk Show podcast and it makes sense - that Jobs would've picked someone like Steven Levy if he really wanted to explain the inner workings of Apple and alternatively, Isaacson was perfect for a human interest puff piece. All of the stuff that I wish Isaacson would've written about well - the years in the NeXT wilderness, lessons learned from Pixar, the inner workings of Apple from 97 on - are the things written about and exami"}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 3593232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3593232", "by": "klausa", "time": 1329285757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have any particular feeling toward Gruber's work, but (apart for odd timing.) I really liked this piece. But I had this nagging 'hey, I read that before!' feeling back in my head - and I was right, although I heard similar complaints before - voiced by John Siracusa (you know the guy that writes 10+ pages reviews of new versions of OS X on Ars Technica? That's him.) on his 'Hypercritical' podcast.[1] It's long (1h15m, and it's only the first part.), but in my opinion absolutely worth listening to. If you have free time, or have nothing to listen to while commuting - give this one a sho"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3652356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3652356", "by": "alexlmiller", "time": 1330614727, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 3653064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3653064", "by": "KC8ZKF", "time": 1330623224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're wishing for conversations about these types of questions, you should listen to \"The Partially Examined Life\" podcast. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ e.g. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/06/28/episode-21-w... which covers the mind-body problem."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 3656948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656948", "by": "ThomPete", "time": 1330703173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In some of the earlier episodes of Stack Exchange Podcast Jeff and Joel were debating whether to localize. Just to put some of this into perspective."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3670654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670654", "by": "Ecio78", "time": 1331035904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nothing specific, apart for the sites you know. I have no experience on those sites but I've heard of people that have found good professionists there (of course they wont charge you 5$/hour but maybe 50$/hour). NB I could probably add also anyfu.com for highlevel experts (in the 200$/hour range) but it has not launched yet (it's done by Justin Vincent and Jason Roberts of TechZing podcast fame)"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 3671111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671111", "by": "ryanoneill", "time": 1331044180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was also mentioned in passing on the Software Engineering Radio Podcast that they did with Jonas Boner. It came up in the context of discussing Mist and what that word means in German."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3673171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673171", "by": "nickik", "time": 1331071844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Absolutly agree with this. There is a nice episode of the Econtalk podcast that talks about the \"guilds\"-Problem. Here is the Abstract: \"Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for lawyers and the role of lawyers in the political process. Drawing on a new co-authored book, First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers, Winston argues that restrictions on the supply of lawyers and increases in demand via government regulation artificially boost lawyers' salaries. Deregulation of the supply (by eliminating licensing) would lower "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 3676265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3676265", "by": "shiny", "time": 1331141862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Ferriss, on the Joe Rogan podcast [1], predicts a pandemic in the near future (around 28:45). Basically, he knows a guy who runs a biotech company who claims that they, if they wanted to, could engineer a virus within six months that could wipe out humanity. I wouldn't say that it's the sole threat, however. Yudkowsky seems to take the threat of runaway AI quite seriously. These are crucial times. [1] http://blog.joerogan.net/archives/3531"}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 3704393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3704393", "by": "phatbyte", "time": 1331747674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel bad for Kevin Rose, I used to lookup for him as a role model in the entrepreneurial and startup world a few years ago. However, I think the only good thing he did recently was the Foundation podcast, and even that seems to be dying."}, {"show": "1317563648", "hn_item": 3710049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3710049", "by": "blhack", "time": 1331838845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He didn't start promoting it on air at techtv, he started promoting it on TWiT, Leo Laporte's podcast that was started after the screen savers was more-or-less cancelled."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3712645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3712645", "by": "Tyrannosaurs", "time": 1331892489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marco has implied that he makes a \"six figure income\" from it (on the Planet Money podcast) but has never given more details than that that I'm aware of. My reading of a lot of the commercial Android developer pieces is not that it's impossible to make money on Android, just that where you have limited resources it tends to be the case that they can more profitably be utilised on iOS work. The issue for someone like Marco where it's just him is is less can you make money in Android (with or without ads, that's kind of secondary), more is working on an Android version going to bring him more mo"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3714649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714649", "by": "mmaunder", "time": 1331922926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True, Planet Money rocks my world. Check out the Econtalk podcast with Russ Roberts for where they get some of their inspiration and data. It's a much deeper economics dive, hour long and tends to be Hayekian as opposed to PM which is firmly Keynesian."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3714649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714649", "by": "mmaunder", "time": 1331922926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True, Planet Money rocks my world. Check out the Econtalk podcast with Russ Roberts for where they get some of their inspiration and data. It's a much deeper economics dive, hour long and tends to be Hayekian as opposed to PM which is firmly Keynesian."}, {"show": "73801817", "hn_item": 3715308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3715308", "by": "mmaunder", "time": 1331932304, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Truth is I've found the same re planet money's quality waning. For the first time I actually stopped a podcast 2 thirds through because I found myself yawning. Thanks, I hadn't heard of Behind the News, found it on iTunes and it sounds awesome. Link for those interested: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-news-doug-henwood/..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3719196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719196", "by": "panarky", "time": 1332048589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the complete transcript of the This American Life retraction of the Daisey story. http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/special/TAL_460_Retracti... (PDF) Act One: What Daisey's Chinese translator said. Act Two: What Daisey himself said. Act Three: The truth about Foxconn manufacturing conditions. Kudos to This American Life for the rigorous way they handled this, and for calling lies as lies in clear, simple language. Too bad This American Life didn't think to do that Google search themselves before running the story."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3719560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719560", "by": "rit", "time": 1332072210, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Notably as well, This American Life released the podcast and audio stream early to their website so everyone could hear it. I listened to the podcast this morning and was impressed at the way they approached it. A particularly poignant bit for me was near the end, as Ira Glass is having a conversation with Rob Schmitz. I'm paraphrasing slightly from memory. Ira asks Rob after discussing the fact that it is established fact that many Foxconn workers do double shifts and insane amounts of overtime, \"I own many of these products, should I feel bad?\" Rob replies (again paraphrasing), \"It isn't my "}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 3719917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719917", "by": "tdenkinger", "time": 1332085492, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent Ruby Rogues podcast one of the guys mentions that if you want to see what software applications need to be build in an organization, see what people are doing with Excel. \"Excel is a coping method.\" - James Edward Gray II This has definitely been the case in all the companies I have been at."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3726878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3726878", "by": "melling", "time": 1332199204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apple already announced the Post-PC era. It'll be a slow transition for a couple of more years. We really better input options. Fingers are great but sometimes I want precision. What's interesting about Jeff coming around is that he's a pretty hard-core Windows guy. It was funny to have Macs come up on the StackOverFlow podcast. Joel would recommend it for family, etc and you could hear it in Jeff's voice that he didn't see the need. We'll find out in 6 months if it's going to be a 3 horse race. Now Jeff has a reason to learn C. Not to worry, ObjC on iOS is not your father's C. It's a lot more"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 3729618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3729618", "by": "spindritf", "time": 1332256185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It has begun quite a while ago with podcasts. Adam Carolla runs a whole podcast production shop in addition to his own hugely popular show and even some spin-offs, then there's the Nerdist (same thing), Joe Rogan has a popular show, Doug Benson, Bill Burr and many others. Comedians just seem more... entrepreneurial. It would be interesting whether it's because there's less structure (existing or required) in the comedy world, or because comedy attracts more independent performers."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 3735675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3735675", "by": "Avshalom", "time": 1332353937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A couple years back one of the people on the Writing Excuses podcast described reading science fiction as a skill and used as ancedata his friend who spent the entire length of a space opera book wondering how the teleporter worked. Similarly my mother (not a dumb woman by and large) got tripped up because there was a line in the movie that the dream machines were military technology, instead of taking this a handwave she spent the rest of the film assuming that it was a secret CIA sting operation. Basically not recognizing which parts of a universe you're supposed to just roll with and which "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3758700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3758700", "by": "tomlogic", "time": 1332796874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's been interesting to see Daisey's position change over the course of this incident. It seems that he's slowly coming to terms with the fact that he lied in his story. Listening to him in the This American Life podcast last weekend, it was almost as if he had started believing the things he's been saying in his performance. I still think he's an entertaining storyteller, and he's brought attention to a real problem. It can only help him if he's more honest with himself and his audience moving forward."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3765913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3765913", "by": "nickik", "time": 1332939038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The other of the Book was in the Econtalk podcast (talking about the book). I highly recomend it. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/acemoglu_on_why.htm..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 3767807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767807", "by": "canthonytucci", "time": 1332961815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve gibson discussed this a while back on the Security Now! podcast, his conclusion was that it wasn't likely. http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-341.pdf Transcript and links to audio. If my memory serves, he also noted that there also some uncertainty if this was even an \"official\" anonymous action...whatever that might mean."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 3785341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3785341", "by": "lnmx", "time": 1333321316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The EconTalk podcast recently featured an interview with Acemoglu on this topic: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/acemoglu_on_why.htm..."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 3832968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832968", "by": "martco", "time": 1334246935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn't the only time Yehuda Katz has bogarted a talk. I listen to the Javascript Jabber podcast. One talk was on Backbone. Jeremy Ashkenas was a guest, and I was really looking forward to listening to it. Yehuda was also on the call as a host. Throughout the call Yehuda repeatedly interrupted and contradicted Jeremy. He would go off on tangents for several minutes, talking about his own work. The main host tried to re-direct the conversation but Yehuda was consistently interrupting. Apart from him not having good manners as a host, I felt like Yehuda really got in the way of my learning mo"}, {"show": "189330872", "hn_item": 3843426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3843426", "by": "2muchcoffeeman", "time": 1334489055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem with engaging with everybody that has an idea is that we don't have the resources to do so. This was actually discussed in an episode of the Scientific American podcast. I can't find the episode, but they mentioned that they would need a member of staff working full time to reply to and debunk all the crack pot theories. What's more important, staff doing research and teaching or answering crack pots that cannot be persuaded?"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3848877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848877", "by": "hkarthik", "time": 1334603854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the middle days of the first StackOverflow podcast and you'll hear that for a long time they ran StackOverflow on a single server. They were serving a million uniques with the web app and database running on a single box! It wasn\u2019t even a very big box. As a former .NET guy, I think the hosting part of deploying .NET wasn't well addressed by this post. Jeff Atwood built and colocated a dedicated 2 or 3U server to run Stack Overflow. I certainly wouldn't call that an easy or recommended thing to do for a startup, especially if none of the founders have enough hardware and system admini"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 3849442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3849442", "by": "johnpolacek", "time": 1334610455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My current favorite podcast: TechZing Live - http://techzinglive.com They discuss HN stories, but mostly talk very honestly about working on their startups and have great interviews with people like Patrick Collison (Stripe founder), Anthony Goldbloom & Jeremy Howard (Kaggle founders), Alex MacCaw, etc."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 3869897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869897", "by": "AlexMuir", "time": 1334957809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry, I've tried. I found nothing searching for Zune Marketplace. Then I searched around and found this page - http://social.zune.net/podcasts/ but it says \"Sorry, the requested page is not available in your region.\" I clicked 'Sign in' and tried to create an account but it's just redirecting me in an endless loop. Feel free to submit the RSS through your own account if that's possible."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 3882144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3882144", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1335234444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't really disagree with anything you've said here at all...yes, the software as a whole that we're deploying today is different and more complex in many ways...or, perhaps a more correct statement is its ecosystem is more complex? So yes, there is a lot more overhead now on top of strict functionality, but this isn't what I was referring to - I'm talking more about once you've taken the hit of all these now necessary environment/ecosystem issues and you need to implement a very specific piece of functionality. There are an infinite number of ways to implement something, and I find it to b"}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 3944370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944370", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1336493907, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3944388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944388", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1336494095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm one of the hosts, we're going for a shorter format (15-25 minutes weekly) with a slant for story telling with interviews with cool people in the Django community. The first episodes are really just us feeling it out. If anyone has suggestions on how to better produce a podcast, we would love to hear it! We're big fans of NPR (RadioLab, This American Life, Planet Money, etc...) so we'd like to emulate the masters a little bit."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3944388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944388", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1336494095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm one of the hosts, we're going for a shorter format (15-25 minutes weekly) with a slant for story telling with interviews with cool people in the Django community. The first episodes are really just us feeling it out. If anyone has suggestions on how to better produce a podcast, we would love to hear it! We're big fans of NPR (RadioLab, This American Life, Planet Money, etc...) so we'd like to emulate the masters a little bit."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 3969003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3969003", "by": "MaxGabriel", "time": 1336958812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was the first comment on Cuban's blog. Can anyone comment on it? I listened to the NPR Podcast, it is specific to private colleges; I am not sure how public colleges fit in. \"The most recent Planet Money on NPR was about the cost of college. [1] They point out that the price that has been rising is the \u201csticker price.\u201d However, the average price a student pays for college hasn\u2019t risen (except to adjust for inflation) over the past 20 years or so. The schools are raising the sticker price as a marketing tool, so they can give big need and merit based scholarships to woo desirable students."}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 3977322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3977322", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1337099564, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 3979127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3979127", "by": "MartinCron", "time": 1337119286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've often thought that Podcasts should be distributed over BitTorrent. Every so often Ira Glass comes on the This American Life podcast and mentions that it costs over $100K a year (or whatever) for just the bandwidth of hosting the podcast. This isn't to say that you shouldn't give directly to support your favorite public radio shows and/or your local public radio station, naturally."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 3988272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3988272", "by": "crusso", "time": 1337278216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For the podcast-learning types, I enjoyed the Security Now episode where they went over SPDY, episode 343. http://twit.tv/show/security-now/343 It was a nice gentle introduction to the subject while I was walking my dog."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 3992739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3992739", "by": "bmelton", "time": 1337359124, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 4000239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000239", "by": "AgentConundrum", "time": 1337550921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article he's talking about[1] is linked from this post, literally within the first sentence. More generally, Scott Hanselman is known, to me anyway, mostly as a blogger and host of the This Developer's Life podcast[2] with Rob Conery. He works for Microsoft. [1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsNotWhatYouReadItsWhatYouIgn... [2] http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4011447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4011447", "by": "sopooneo", "time": 1337744993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an episode of the podcast Planet Money where they claimed that the American Airline industry has, as a whole, actually lost money over the course of its existence. As in, overall, net financial loss."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4013359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4013359", "by": "silverlake", "time": 1337785366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent podcast from NPR's Planet Money had someone on arguing that the sticker price for private colleges is soaring, but the average actual cost (after grants and scholarships) is actually tracking inflation. If you believe that, then there's no bubble in college tuition prices. Why do colleges raise their sticker price? First, they can do price discrimination, charging rich people more to subsidize poor people. Second, (I didn't know this) giving a kid a $20K scholarship is a great marketing tool to get them to come to a school. Apparently, it works."}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 4038963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038963", "by": "runjake", "time": 1338316374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had a frantic last week, but am I confused? Didn't Gruber spit it out and say it was about the income on his last The Talk Show podcast (#2, I think?) As an aside, I love Dan and the work he does a whole heck of a lot, but I listened to the new The Talk Show episodes, expecting them to be rambling trainwrecks, but I'm starting to think these new shows are better. Gruber seems much more engaged. It's a little more entertaining. It really illustrated how wrong I was that Dan and John had this great \"odd couple\" chemistry. The only issue I have (and had on the 5by5 version) is that the time "}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 4041718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4041718", "by": "tlianza", "time": 1338360501, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This is a rambling discussion, which Stack Exchange is not really intended for. Right, that's what the Stack Exchange podcast is for. (ducks)"}, {"show": "529997900", "hn_item": 4047395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047395", "by": "DeusExMachina", "time": 1338462150, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4055954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4055954", "by": "adelevie", "time": 1338586692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Laurent Sansonetti (creator of RM) was on the Ruby Rogues podcast ( http://rubyrogues.com/055-rr-rubymotion-with-laurent-sansone... ) and made a compelling case for the current pricing scheme. I won't paraphrase Laurent, but if you're interested, listen for yourself."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 4065633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4065633", "by": "jharding", "time": 1338839693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a topic the guys from the TechZing podcast talk about pretty frequently, increasing your luck surface area. Jason Roberts has a short post about it on his blog that sums it up pretty well ( http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf... ). This concept has resonated with me and for the past couple of months, I've started to do things with the hopes of increasing my luck surface area."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4068574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4068574", "by": "cicloid", "time": 1338903804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also material like Ruby Rogues podcast ( http://rubyrogues.com/ ) contain great episodes to give a newcomer a tour of the ecosystem."}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 4077447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4077447", "by": "bryanh", "time": 1339039513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Traitor scum! Such an intense title after such a nice conversation on the Django Podcast... [1] Of course I'm kidding because these are valid critiques. Django's code base has a bad case of introducing really hard to debug interactions. But, to be fair, those are fairly rare. However, as a Django lover I must say that Flask is missing a lot of what I love about Django: sane pre-built options for getting you to 90% functionality quickly. That last 10% can be difficult, but that is better than a more difficult 90%. One thing that is rather annoying with Django is the learning curve (there's a lo"}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 4095935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4095935", "by": "pajju", "time": 1339438014, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4112144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4112144", "by": "duggieawesome", "time": 1339691555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy the Ruby Rogues podcast team (assuming you have a similar background due to DHH)."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 4134290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134290", "by": "patrickd", "time": 1340141700, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/ is a fascinating hour long podcast all about language and words. They show how thought and language _are_ linked. For example, imagine a rectangular room with entirely white walls and an item placed in one corner. Your chances are 50-50 of finding it. Then colour one of the side walls blue. You can then use that as a reference to always choose the correct corner to go to. However, if your language goes to \"the white wall\" or \"the blue wall\" you can't do it. Not until you can say/think \"left of the blue wall\" can you do it. Anyway, podcast explains "}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 4151377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151377", "by": "DanBC", "time": 1340474371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Evan Davis asks his executive guests how they spend their time each day. What does the activity of running a company really involve, and what do the guests' diaries tell us about the nature of their jobs?\" HN readers may be interested in other \"The Bottom Line\" podcasts, which are discussions between business leaders and presented by Evan Davis. He's pretty good at this kind of discussion."}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 4161557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161557", "by": "DanBC", "time": 1340716373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for this. The BBC Radio Four programme \"The Bottom Line\" recently had some discussion with business people about one of their days. Here's the link to the Podcast, which should be available in different regions. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jxtfb#synopsis ) They also mention some research (that he read via the London School of Economics) about days in the life of Italian business people (but quite large businesses, 8,000 employees) - I haven't found that report yet. The Bottom Line should be interesting to many people on HN - it's a less formal discussion guided by Evan Davis wi"}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 4161564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161564", "by": "ryancarson", "time": 1340716504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love The Bottom Line. One of my favorite podcasts. Thanks for sharing the link."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 4206020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4206020", "by": "kaffeinecoma", "time": 1341540121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Siracusa recently covered patents on his Hypercritical podcast: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68 . Nice dissection of the idea of drug patents as being \"special\" (vs other kinds of patentable IP) in there as well."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 4215884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215884", "by": "mapgrep", "time": 1341785282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want a deeper dive into RubyMotion, the creator was just on The Changelog podcast - http://thechangelog.com/post/25928209107/episode-0-8-2-ruby-... He actually left Apple to launch RubyMotion -- a commercial product, by the way -- after creating MacRuby and developing/maintaining it for several years."}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 4230812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230812", "by": "laserDinosaur", "time": 1342033207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The studio closed down because it would need to sell way too many copies just to break even. Even \"top\" consoles are selling at unprofitable levels and trying to make it even with tons of DLC\" Not exactly. They broke even if not made a little profit on Kingdom of Amalur, not bad for a new IP from a new company. What killed them was they were building a massive MMO on the side that, accordiding to the Giant Bomb guys, never had enough money to finish and was funded from quarter to quarter based on new investments. A huge gamble. When the mayor came out saying they were a poor investment, their"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 4230823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230823", "by": "laserDinosaur", "time": 1342033307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Another concrete example: Kingdom of Amalur's developer Studio 38. The game has an epic franchise, great reviews, strong first month sales. The studio closed down because it would need to sell way too many copies just to break even.\" Not exactly. They broke even if not made a little profit on Kingdom of Amalur, not bad for a new IP from a new company. What killed them was they were building a massive MMO on the side that, according to the Giant Bomb guys, never had enough money to finish and were just funded from quarter to quarter based on new investments. A huge gamble. When the mayor came "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 4232037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4232037", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1342049640, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1496674902", "hn_item": 4233840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4233840", "by": "rjstelling", "time": 1342087851, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 4242529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4242529", "by": "SolarUpNote", "time": 1342223048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Long Now Foundation podcast http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4262229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262229", "by": "ruralocity", "time": 1342637260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author of the post/book in question here--hey Scott, to be fair I don't hang out much on HN unless someone points something out to me here :) Seriously, though, I think is getting an increasing amount of word-of-mouth publicity. That's how I heard about it when I did--a panelist on the Ruby Rogues podcast mentioned a new book that the author had \"Leanpubbed\" and I did some sleuthing from there (and you know you're on the right track when your product name is used as a verb). So in that regard there may be more that we Leanpub authors can do to promote the platform and keep it going strong--it'"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 4262873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262873", "by": "rahim", "time": 1342644438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the two authors of the post (Robert Krulwich) is also a co-host on a fantastic podcast called Radiolab. Their most recent episode is about this topic and they tell the story of a Japanese man that was in the blast radius at Hiroshima, went home to Nagasaki, injured, and was caught in the second explosion as well! http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2012/jul/16/doub..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 4276683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4276683", "by": "nessus42", "time": 1342941272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wasn't there an article posted here about this very same issue with penalty kicks in soccer? Well, I'm not sure that I read it here, but I did read it somewhere: Someone did a mathematical analysis and determined that goalies should stand in the center a lot more often than they do when defending against a penalty kick. The issue is that they have to make their decision which way they are going to move before they have enough information on which way is the right way. If they wait until they actually have enough information for the decision, then it is already too late. Their choices are to ju"}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 4286124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286124", "by": "jcurbo", "time": 1343144379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a reply to my own comment, amazingly on the last Hypercritical podcast (produced on the same day I made that comment, but I had not had a chance to listen to it yet), John Siracusa discussed this very topic. I finally got to listen to it on the way in to work today. I come to the same conclusions and thoughts on stuff as Siracusa so much it's uncanny. I was not aware at all that Sparrow was inspired by idea of Letters.app, but I was never a Sparrow user and I'm not a Gmail user. http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/77 - the podcast itself http://www.cultofmac.com/82172/sparrow-was-born-from-letters"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 4296926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4296926", "by": "rgraham", "time": 1343320825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can learn a lot of nuts and bolts stuff from guys like Rob Walling and Patrick McKenzie. It can take time for things to sink in, but nothing pushes it faster than creating your own product and trying to sell it. If you have a commute, I'd recommend listening to some podcasts like Internet Business Mastery, Foolish Adventure, Lifestyle Business Podcast, Startup Success, and Startups for the Rest of Us. Find the ones that suit you."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 4304168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4304168", "by": "ghshephard", "time": 1343434522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First I'd ever heard of App.net was Siracusa's \"Hypercritical\" podcast last night. This post on HN reminded me to check it out. I added my support. Just wish someone would do something like this for Path (and all the other web services that I love, but don't want to become the \"product\") It's times like this that I realize how much I take HN for granted. Great service. No Ads. Fantastic Community."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 4336523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4336523", "by": "casca", "time": 1344032943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested in hearing more from Ronald Coase (and you should be), he was on the excellent Econtalk Podcast earlier in the year: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/ronald_coase/ The topic is \"Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of Economics\", well worth the time if this topic interests you."}, {"show": "189330872", "hn_item": 4353238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353238", "by": "vibrunazo", "time": 1344386522, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 4387786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4387786", "by": "ideavist", "time": 1345059638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to your podcast on Founders Talk. Great podcast!"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 4406903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4406903", "by": "brianwillis", "time": 1345457282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When asked how long version 1.0 of Stack Overflow would take to produce, Jeff Atwood famously replied \"six to eight weeks\" without any sort of serious planning or consideration. It took quite a bit longer. Listeners of the Stack Exchange podcast got to hear Joel Spolsky make fun of Jeff for this many times."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 4416870, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416870", "by": "mmahemoff", "time": 1345636359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah something like Freakonomics (Tim Harford calls himself the undercover economist) and with equally admirable production qualities. I mentioned More or Less as my podcast recommendation on the very last HNpod actually."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4459956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459956", "by": "lesterbuck", "time": 1346424698, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few months after IBM's Watson won Jeopardy, the IBM Research team came to the Texas Medical Center in Houston for a dog and pony show about its possibilities for health care. They presented for two hours to an auditorium of a hundred doctors and administrators from TMC, one of the premiere medical communities in the world. From a technical point of view, it was pretty impressive what Watson can do, reading everything, never forgetting, assigning weights to knowledge over time, able to explain where it got an answer. But when the time came for the doctors to respond ... ouch! One male doctor "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4486753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486753", "by": "timr", "time": 1346972446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regardless of the applicability to pg, I think this is a smart conversation. When evaluating hypotheses, we have a cognitive bias in favor of past success, when past failure might be the more informative signal. Planet Money did an interesting podcast with the author of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Success-Always-Starts-Failure/dp... discussing just such a hypothesis: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/09/04/160555540/episode-..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 4505538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505538", "by": "brittohalloran", "time": 1347373183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of the studies done of walking pace in cities. Researchers discretely measure off a known length stretch of sidewalk and then secretly time a bunch of people walking it, with interesting results (\"people in fast-moving cities are less likely to help others and have higher rates of coronary heart disease\"). Radiolab podcast from 2010: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/ Paces in different cities: http://www.richardwiseman.com/quirkology/pace_home.htm"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 4518216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4518216", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1347566024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm guessing you're looking for something punchier than the Wikipedia page. But may I recommend the EconTalk podcast. http://www.econtalk.org/archives.html#category In particular, Barofsky on Bailouts ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.htm... ), Johnson on the Financial Crisis ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/11/simon_johnson_o.htm... ), and Wapshot on Keynes and Hayek ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/10/wapshott_on_key.htm... ). Hell, the entire EconTalk podcast series is full of so much braininess. This is a pretty complex subject and there is more to it"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 4530187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530187", "by": "dylanhassinger", "time": 1347826319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "if there's no tech/startup meetup for your city, then start one. That's what we did in St. Louis - http://meetup.com/startlouis http://meetup.com/codeuntildawn-stlouis http://stljs.org Pick the topic you're most passionate about (or that would bring the types of people you want to meet) and make it happen. Pretty soon, they become friends. Pure motivational curry Also - listen to the Lifestyle Business Podcast and This Week in Startups, and read the 4HWW at least once a year. My 2 cents"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 4530187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530187", "by": "dylanhassinger", "time": 1347826319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "if there's no tech/startup meetup for your city, then start one. That's what we did in St. Louis - http://meetup.com/startlouis http://meetup.com/codeuntildawn-stlouis http://stljs.org Pick the topic you're most passionate about (or that would bring the types of people you want to meet) and make it happen. Pretty soon, they become friends. Pure motivational curry Also - listen to the Lifestyle Business Podcast and This Week in Startups, and read the 4HWW at least once a year. My 2 cents"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 4538651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538651", "by": "ThomPete", "time": 1347982559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was exactly my experience. /. then Digg and then Reddit. I got tired of reddit being too political and too liberal (although I am a liberal myself) so I was hoping/looking for something else. Then in a StackOverflow podcast Jeff and Joe was talking about a new place where all the cool kids hung out. They didn't want to say the name in fear of it being overrun and ruined. With a little research I found HN and haven't left since."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 4539791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539791", "by": "felipemnoa", "time": 1347993740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">>Then in a StackOverflow podcast Jeff and Joe was talking about a new place where all the cool kids hung out. They didn't want to say the name in fear of it being overrun and ruined. That is the same way I found out about this place. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, one led to the other."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 4587329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4587329", "by": "mechanical_fish", "time": 1348860254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patrick and Ramit Sethi discuss this very thing in the last Kalzumeus podcast. Book pricing isn't as hopelessly broken as music pricing, but that is faint praise indeed. It's sad. Writing a good book is a great deal of work, reading a good book provides a great deal of value, but the psychology of the book market recognizes neither of these facts. People vaguely imagine that producing books costs approximately the time required to type them, and expect to buy books for the cost of buying, inking, and shipping the paper - if the paper is absent they expect the price to be negligable. Whereas th"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 4607887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4607887", "by": "reitzensteinm", "time": 1349278171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nope, it's been developed by Justin Vincent of the TechZing podcast. He spent about five minutes on the latest show explaining it... but frankly I still have no clue what it is."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4608876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608876", "by": "jamesaguilar", "time": 1349288605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All money represents debt that your future payee \"owes\" you. It's basically a promise of future payment by \"society\" to you. There was a great Planet Money podcast about the origins of money, which was essentially promissory notes of farmers to provide X units of food in the future, but I'm having a hell of a time finding it now."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 4639085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639085", "by": "fooandbarify", "time": 1349922174, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 4641482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641482", "by": "GimbalLock", "time": 1349972395, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 4644689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644689", "by": "Toshio", "time": 1350044874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Randi Harper a.k.a. FreeBSD Girl was interviewed for the FLOSS Weekly podcast and she said that every minute spent on discussing gender issues in technology is a wasted minute that should be better spent building free software."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4656150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656150", "by": "jordanb", "time": 1350322910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did an excellent podcast on committee assignments and fundraising: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/06/149714908/the-most... I figured that's where Thomas got his 46k figure but it doesn't seem to be on their graph."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 4656419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656419", "by": "alexlmiller", "time": 1350325779, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 4663244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4663244", "by": "fourstar", "time": 1350451158, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was at this. I was really looking forward since listening to the Javascript Jabber podcast ( http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-la... ) about it. Less than 1/3 through I decided to started to zone out. I don't understand why you need a VM to compile something into Javascript. Also the optional typed language feature is just odd (okay I can see working in groups and wanting to empirically let other developers what type a variable is), but it's just not something I see myself wanting to learn to do what I already know. I was also interested in the Angular talk, which was"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 4694183, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4694183", "by": "stephenhuey", "time": 1351102116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A couple years ago, I listened to an interesting interview with Ted Rosen on the Founders Talk podcast: http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/2 I still haven't become a Fancy Hands user, but I do remember him saying lots of new parents turn to them for help when a baby arrives, so perhaps that'll be me someday."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 4699334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4699334", "by": "mseebach", "time": 1351196258, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 4710425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710425", "by": "treelovinhippie", "time": 1351469509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Simple: remove the \"must be noteworthy\" rule. I remember many years ago I was heavily into the Diggnation podcast and a few others coming out of Revision3 and Leo Laporte's network. Anyway, somehow I did a search on Wikipedia and found that these podcasts were not on there at all (despite having many viewers). So long story short, I created pages for these podcasts, filled them with content, and a few days later they were removed by mods for not being \"noteworthy\" enough. I attempted to plead with them that these podcasts were in fact the most popular tech podcasts on the web, but the mods did"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 4741258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741258", "by": "A__MJ", "time": 1352066953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've actually had a different experience with commuting. Even with the downsides you can make a lot of use of that time for a finite time period. Things I've done with the time (which otherwise would have never happened): -Used Pimsleur I-III to learn some Mandarin, and more importantly, HOW to learn a new language(/other things). Spoken Mandarin is less intimidating than westerners think, and the grammar is simpler than English in a lot of ways. (Caveat: My Mandarin is by no means good. I couldn't find any good systematic ways to keep going after Pimsleur III) -Listened to podcasts on nutriti"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 4743932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743932", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1352129391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Philosophically related Podcast [About 15 minutes] on animal abolitionism with Gary Francione at Philosophy Bites. It contains a well reasoned critique of Peter Singer's approach to animal rights which has become mainstream. http://philosophybites.com/2012/10/gary-l-francione-on-anima..."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 4763701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763701", "by": "df07", "time": 1352481206, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 4764871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764871", "by": "JeremyBanks", "time": 1352497681, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 4765022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765022", "by": "JeremyBanks", "time": 1352500187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're up for a listen, they discuss this on the latest episode of the Stack Exchange podcast, with Anthony Casalena (CEO and founder of Squarespace) and Fog Creek/Stack Exchange employees. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/11/se-podcast-36-we-got-h... It's quite a story."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4789024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789024", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1352994298, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the Planet Money podcast, the idea was never implemented."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4789622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789622", "by": "eco", "time": 1353000232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a version that is 5 times longer Planet Money did for their regular (excellent) podcast. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/11/13/165046113/episode-..."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 4801332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801332", "by": "klausa", "time": 1353267215, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "538007855", "hn_item": 4801589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801589", "by": "kennywinker", "time": 1353271091, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "+1 for Core Intuition and Developing Perspectives. Identical Cousins is a bit of a \"meh\", to my ears. Haven't listened to any of the others (giving debug and CMD+SPACE a try now). If you want technical stuff, check out Edge Cases ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/edge-cases/id538007855 )."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 4801891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801891", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1353276949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Week in Startups and This Week in Venture Capital are my favorite podcasts -- not because of the difference in subject matter (there is overlap), but in the tone and insights."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 4801891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801891", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1353276949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Week in Startups and This Week in Venture Capital are my favorite podcasts -- not because of the difference in subject matter (there is overlap), but in the tone and insights."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4805023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805023", "by": "fjfish", "time": 1353342294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I worked with what became the Brit Ruby team on the Magrails conference last year, which did have a female speaker in the form of the excellent Rachel Davies, who is a leading Agile coach I know the guys had the (perhaps unstated) ambition to get as many of the Ruby Rogues in a room and create the largest conference in Europe. The Rogues are all men, but if you listen to the podcast you will know that they all care deeply about these issues and have taken steps themselves in events they organise to make sure that there is no bias. I was the old guy in the corner with Magrails and it was me who"}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 4807913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807913", "by": "jval", "time": 1353390713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think another thing that people forget when they talk about a16z is the fact that they seem to be quite hands on and they make a point out of turning technical founders into CEOs. Chris Dixon makes a point of the former fact in his blog post, and Ben Horowitz makes mention of the latter point in his interview with Kevin Rose on the last Foundation podcast. Rather than 'picking winners' I think part of their success probably stems from the fact that they actually had a material effect in helping to create winners with something more than just providing capital - I wouldn't be surprised if som"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 4812600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812600", "by": "rmason", "time": 1353468130, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One that I didn't see listed are the TechZing broadcasts on bootstrapping. They are no longer producing the podcast but some of them are classics. http://justinvincent.com/page/960/how-to-start-a-sucessful-b..."}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 4812978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4812978", "by": "smagch", "time": 1353475888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite business discussion program is The Bottom Line by BBC radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bottomline"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 4817672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817672", "by": "danso", "time": 1353563688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But I just don't see the problem exactly...I mean, what you are describing is the exact niche that radio has filled...the reading of information aurally...something that is unique from TV and print. And of course radio, never mind podcasts and audiobooks, will be their competition. You can only consume one stream at a time and it's hard to imagine people juggling around several different audio-information apps each day. I'll download the app for my trip tomorrow, and I appreciate the idea that some things have to be experienced rather than explained...but I almost can't tell if you're being sa"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 4819302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819302", "by": "morsch", "time": 1353602813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of news radio programs as podcasts. I love that I don't have fit my schedule around the program, and I love that I'm not tied to a specific program but can listen to the most interesting stuff from various stations. Including a few that aren't even in my country, such as This American Life. I've also got a few things subscribed that are \"genuine\" podcasts. My observations mirror your own (a few good ones/almost all are terrible). But if it works, it works really well, I've had podcasts that went on about a topic for 3 hours without getting boring. But almost none of the stuff"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 4869472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4869472", "by": "erik518", "time": 1354593920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in McAfee's story should listen to his recent (within the past few days) interview on Joe Rogan's podcast http://itun.es/i6Dv3dH"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 4870498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4870498", "by": "adrianoconnor", "time": 1354622610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I generally agree with this (though I do it myself more than I'd like). I think the sentiment of just declaring something (or, more often, someone) 'sucks' is a bit immature, and it's almost always unconstructive. I was listening to the Kalzumeus podcast the other day, and they were talking about this very thing on the last show they did. I can't remember what they called it, but it was something like 'Be curious' instead of 'be critical'. He had an acronym, but it didn't stick with me. Anyway, the long and short of it was, instead of saying something like \"this is just a pile of ass\","}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 4871107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4871107", "by": "Tyrannosaurs", "time": 1354632451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not even that, it's the maximum height for a tower of 2x2 bricks. The guy who did the assessment said that he felt other shaped/sized bricks would be more or less able to deal with the pressure. All on the BBC More or Less Podcast."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 4876584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4876584", "by": "reginaldo", "time": 1354720712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a nice Stack Overflow podcast[1] on the same subject, where Damien Katz talks a little about what he liked on Lotus Notes. I thought it was a nice episode. [1] http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-59/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 4880468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880468", "by": "brandoncor", "time": 1354773042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John was interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast on Nov. 27 when he was still on the run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GmwSgCfn38 . It's worth a listen if you want to hear his side of the story (though it's quite cringeworthy). It starts at about 18:40."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 4880494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880494", "by": "vmanju", "time": 1354773692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been learning Spanish for about 3 weeks now. I use a combination of Duolingo (highly recommended!), memrise.com (nice way to retain words) and Coffee Break Spanish podcast on iTunes. Can someone suggest Spanish movies/shows I can watch?:)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 4881392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881392", "by": "ubojan", "time": 1354794561, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's a troll. Check out Joe Rogan Experience Podcast where he was guest, he explains it in details: http://vimeo.com/54406807"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 4893460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893460", "by": "dylanhassinger", "time": 1355017872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "you should check out the Lifestyle Business Podcast / TropicalMBA community. They talk a lot about travel, lots of folks there are running businesses from Southeast Asia. cheers http://lifestylebusinesspodcast.com http://tropicalmba.com"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 4903640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903640", "by": "bjacokes", "time": 1355213961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Like with any other language, I've found that frequent interaction with financial terms improves your literacy and helps you make better connections between ideas. For instance, a few years ago when Southwest Airlines seemed to have much lower prices than everyone else, I read that they had bought futures contracts back when oil prices were low. Right there you have a company that's 'naturally short' oil, who 'hedged' against rising prices by buying 'futures', etc. A couple of good sources for financial news are the APM Marketplace podcast and Felix Salmon's blog on Reuters, and you can look u"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4903709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903709", "by": "thisone", "time": 1355215905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "maybe the PlanetMoney podcast? The episodes they did with This American Life about the mortgage crisis back in like 2008-2010 were brilliant (imo), and then they bought their own CDO toxic asset in 2010, I think, and reported on it. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/418/t..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 4903709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4903709", "by": "thisone", "time": 1355215905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "maybe the PlanetMoney podcast? The episodes they did with This American Life about the mortgage crisis back in like 2008-2010 were brilliant (imo), and then they bought their own CDO toxic asset in 2010, I think, and reported on it. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/418/t..."}, {"show": "1560010348", "hn_item": 4921944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4921944", "by": "RDDavies", "time": 1355505288, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4923083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923083", "by": "lesterbuck", "time": 1355516531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Ruby Rogues podcast had an episode devoted to starter projects recently: http://rubyrogues.com/070-rr-what-is-a-good-starter-project/"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 4962781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962781", "by": "alisnic", "time": 1356355912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a quote in Ruby Rogues podcast which said that \"Ruby people use factories a lot, they just don't call them like that\""}, {"show": "566985370", "hn_item": 4965245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4965245", "by": "bennesvig", "time": 1356414966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend listening to all of Seth Godin's Startup School podcast that is mentioned."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 4982674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982674", "by": "yex", "time": 1356802108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Please do more of these. There is such a shortfall of SaaS podcasts it almost makes me cry. It's like xmas morning when I see a new Kalzumeus podcast appear in my RSS reader!"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 4983056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4983056", "by": "karolisd", "time": 1356808437, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not technical, the only podcast I listen to is: WTF with Marc Maron - http://www.wtfpod.com/ - he's a comedian who usually interviews comedians and they can go pretty deep sometimes"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 4983287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4983287", "by": "dmschulman", "time": 1356812348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding Planet Money ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ ), in fact the whole Marketplace team is pretty stellar ( http://www.marketplace.org/marketplace-podcasts ) TWIT is always pretty fun as well ( http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/ ) Smithsonian puts out an interesting presentation every so often too ( http://www.si.edu/podcasts/ ) Granted these are all great podcasts, but they've been around and entertaining way before 2012."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 4984076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4984076", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1356829282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org/rss This American Life http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast BackStory with the American History Guys http://feeds.feedburner.com/BackStoryRadio Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Fresh Air Podcast http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13 Here's The Thing http://feeds.wnyc.org/wnycheresthething/ The Moth Podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/themothpodcast On the Media http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen (man, I miss \"The Ethicist\") http://personplacething.org/?feed=rss2 Planet Money"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 4985102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985102", "by": "mrlyc", "time": 1356856325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Management: HBR (Harvard Business Review) Podcast http://hbsp2.libsyn.com/rss Interviews: Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc..."}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 4985535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985535", "by": "admp", "time": 1356871911, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 4987406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987406", "by": "vidarh", "time": 1356907081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That one is great. Especially worth recommending in a place like this where I'd expect more people than average would prefer a resource that isn't full of religious stuff one might not agree with. I loved it, as while this book was written by a Buddhist monk, apart from an odd reference here and there, the book is a \"manual\" first and foremost. It describes the mechanics of mindfulness meditation, rather than the Buddhist spiritual basis for it. It doesn't make any promises of supernatural results, and in general is a reasonably painless read for atheists or people who otherwise don't share th"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 4987711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4987711", "by": "rhplus", "time": 1356913634, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For business and economics, go for Marketplace (daily), Freakonomics Radio and Planet Money. For pop-science and tech, maybe Radio Lab and Science Friday. Other popular shows are This American Life, All Things Considered, On The Media, Splendid Table, etc, etc. Directory: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php?type=to... Various show pages: http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://www.marketplace.org/ http://pri.org/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 5000521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5000521", "by": "bmuon", "time": 1357176199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a typical case of how incentives have a tendency to go wrong. I recommend you to listen to this Freakonomics Radio podcast which tells a series of stories about incentive failure, for example an indian town which started farming cobras when a ruler started giving out money for each cobra head after an infestation. http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/10/11/the-cobra-effect-a-ne..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 5004039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5004039", "by": "kevin_morrill", "time": 1357240693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was just talked about on EconTalk, a great podcast. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/pettit_on_the_p.htm... (link includes transcript if you don't like podcasts) Ironically, the researcher being interviewed is pretty negative on the whole situation, given that we are still a world leader in incarceration. It's a useful discussion even if you disagree with her, because I think she puts some useful data on the table."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 5017667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5017667", "by": "greenyoda", "time": 1357505475, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 5021686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5021686", "by": "bdcravens", "time": 1357575514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lifestyle Business and Tropical MBA podcasts give some insight into this world. Basic idea is to set up \"lifestyle business(es)\" that provide you enough financial freedom to travel, etc. Downside is that the lifestyle is your passion, not the work you do, and it has a definite non-hacker approach."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 5032715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032715", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1357757345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ruby Rogues podcast discussed it with the author (1hr mp3, transcript available): http://rubyrogues.com/043-rr-book-club-land-of-list-with-con... Incidentally, the author (Conrad Barski) says in that discussion that Clojure is his favorite Lisp now and he finds it much more elegant than Common Lisp. I have a similar background (CL programming, now doing Clojure) and I agree."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 5044003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5044003", "by": "SeanOC", "time": 1357927524, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 5047485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047485", "by": "bjxrn", "time": 1357989898, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have the numbers at hand, but I've heard of a study saying that suicide very often is a very impulsive action. Saying that in most cases there's less than an hour between deciding to commit suicide and the action itself (numbers might be off here). Looks like I got it from a Freakonomics podcast [1]: \"One academic study looked at attempted suicides in Houston among 15 to 34 year olds. It found that in 70 percent of the cases, the time between deciding to commit suicide and taking action was under an hour. Seventy-percent of the cases. For about one-quarter of the people involved, the t"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 5064769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5064769", "by": "marekmroz", "time": 1358303050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found the JavaScript Jabber podcast [1] to be a great source of information on front-end JavaScript Frameworks, as well as some discussion with framewor authors that can help figure out how they differ. Backbone: http://javascriptjabber.com/004-jsj-backbone-js-with-jeremy-... Ember: http://javascriptjabber.com/034-jsj-ember-js/ Angular: http://javascriptjabber.com/032-jsj-angular-js/ Knockout: http://javascriptjabber.com/013-jsj-knockout-js-with-steven-... enyo: http://javascriptjabber.com/033-jsj-enyo-js/ [1] http://javascriptjabber.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5071388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5071388", "by": "newman314", "time": 1358404413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll leave this here. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/14/167280430/episode-... Planet Money talks about HSBC and well worth a listen. The problem really is why haven't any individuals been indicted from HSBC or any Wall Streeters (from the whole mortgage mess)? On a side note, Planet Money is IMO an outstanding podcast."}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 5099660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099660", "by": "charlieirish", "time": 1358889572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, are you saying always keep the core development/design internal? Regarding Charm, it wasn't always clear to me why you shut it down. You mentioned it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814598 which received some positive and negative comments. I'd rather not start that debate again but it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on whether the development of Charm was the issue i.e. internal vs. outsourced. Rob has recently detailed his story on the excellent (and fairly new) Product People Podcast (from mijustin): http://productpeople.tv/2013/01/16/ep09-rob-walling-part1/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 5129437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129437", "by": "patja", "time": 1359394057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of an EconTalk podcast from about 6 months ago where the assertion was made that college has become an extension of adolescence, as opposed to a direct path to a middle class career. Given that the ability to write and reason well are foundational to success in many careers, I am all for the benefits of a classical liberal arts course of study, but how many psychology and visual arts BA's can the economy reasonably reward with good paying jobs? http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/12/tabarrok_on_inn.htm..."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 5158910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5158910", "by": "ghshephard", "time": 1359873677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Awesome, now that Siracusa brought his Hypercritical podcast to a close at episode 100, it looks like he's returning to writing."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 5160084, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5160084", "by": "jacoblyles", "time": 1359909256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out \"The History of Rome\" podcast by Mike Duncan, for a highly enjoyable and thoroughly researched account of Rome from ~400BC to the last Western emperor."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5167823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167823", "by": "josephjrobison", "time": 1360018851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One thing to not is that 40k is just the sticker price. Only 3-10% of students pay that price at any given school. Why the sticker price? To make the school seem more valuable to the students and make the students seem overjoyed when they get a 15k grant/scholarship a year like I did. 25k is still a lot, but it's not 40k. Really good NPR Planet Money podcast on this - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/11/152511771/the-real..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 5177705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5177705", "by": "Notre1", "time": 1360172340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think regularly scheduled (annual? bi-annual?) skip-level meetings would be a good approach to this. A skip-level meeting is one where the employee meets with his boss's boss. BTW, the skip-level concept is something I gleaned from the Manager Tools podcast. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning how to manage better (or even, just, understand organizational behavior). http://www.manager-tools.com/2006/04/skip-levels"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 5182521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5182521", "by": "zt", "time": 1360250862, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 5204728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204728", "by": "dugmartin", "time": 1360634036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These folks are doing crowd funding for adoptions. I heard about it on the Techzing podcast: http://adopttogether.org/"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 5217278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217278", "by": "dguaraglia", "time": 1360808816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As the guys from The Bugle (a satirical podcast) said while describing this product: \"we've definitely come a long way when there's a need to develop a complete new piece of expensive hardware just to avoid having to take your phone from your pocket . Meanwhile, no solution to the global hunger problem.\" As much as I nerdgasm at how cool this device is, I have to wonder if, as a species, we haven't 'jumped the shark'."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 5238422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5238422", "by": "ndonnellan", "time": 1361197831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did an interesting podcast on this, but the conclusion was essentially same: http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/27/the-days-of-wine-and-... *not sure if they referred to the same study or not, but it's possible"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 5251282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251282", "by": "guy_c", "time": 1361377202, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 5253776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253776", "by": "jason_slack", "time": 1361398914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, maybe one approach would be to search Hacker News for popular tech companies and see names of people at the company and then e-mail them? Ethical? I dunno. Attention grabbing? Probably. Dropbox. E-Mail Drew Houston. Twitter/Square. E-Mail Jack Dorsey. Google. E-Mail Kevin Rose. I dont't know how much this would help but maybe worth a try... Kevin Rose also does a Foundation Podcast, a bunch of which are here in the bay area. Maybe review those for potential people to contact."}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 5254679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254679", "by": "randallma", "time": 1361409108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haven't heard of the Foundation Podcast before/will definitely take a look at it. Thanks for the heads up!"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 5265753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5265753", "by": "networked", "time": 1361557854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I miss the huge repositories of game reviews from sites like GameSpy - being able to look up reviews of old games? Try MobyGames [1] for that. They collect user reviews as well as quotes and scores from and links to reviews from professional reviewers. Unlike MetaCritic MobyGames has a lot of information on older games and references reviews from sources that may be long gone (e.g., Computer Gaming World). I'd also suggest Retronauts [2] and Insert Credit [3] if you like podcasts. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/ [2] http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3156908&ct=PODCASTS [3] http://www.insertcr"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 5285388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5285388", "by": "wcarss", "time": 1361885272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with your point, and the parent's, that Valve's success is most directly caused by Steam runoff and their own sales dollars, and not necessarily their dynamic organization style. ...do many people think or claim that their success is due to their management style? More importantly, is that why we're talking about it? Certainly that isn't the focus of this Gamasutra summary of the EconTalk podcast by Valve's economist. Valve does talk a lot about their org-style in general, and they do talk a lot about their success. But I'm pretty sure they have a sound, mundane reason for those things"}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 5349505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5349505", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1362860732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best podcast on history: Hardcore History, by Dan Carlin. He also has a great podcast called \"Common Sense\"."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5360915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5360915", "by": "orrsella", "time": 1363079926, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 5374884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374884", "by": "EA", "time": 1363268854, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Freakonomics http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast... https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354..."}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 5375418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5375418", "by": "alexhjones", "time": 1363273595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bottom Line (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bottomline"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 5376086, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376086", "by": "junecpy", "time": 1363279756, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "99% Invisible http://99percentinvisible.org https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/99-invisible/id394775318 Roman Mars has a real sexy voice and the idea about \"listening to architectural\" is cool!"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 5376843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376843", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1363286434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup related? - Smart Passive Income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ - This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ - Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Non-startup related: - Slash Filmcast: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/ - 8-4 Play: http://8-4.jp/blog/?lang=en - Giant Bombcast: http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ - Weekend Confirmed: http://www.shacknews.com/tag/weekend-confirmed - Idle Thumbs: http://www.idlethumbs.net/shows Dead Podcasts, but timeless: - Retronauts: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=315"}, {"show": "303688916", "hn_item": 5376843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376843", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1363286434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup related? - Smart Passive Income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ - This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ - Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Non-startup related: - Slash Filmcast: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/ - 8-4 Play: http://8-4.jp/blog/?lang=en - Giant Bombcast: http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ - Weekend Confirmed: http://www.shacknews.com/tag/weekend-confirmed - Idle Thumbs: http://www.idlethumbs.net/shows Dead Podcasts, but timeless: - Retronauts: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=315"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 5376843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376843", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1363286434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup related? - Smart Passive Income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ - This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ - Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Non-startup related: - Slash Filmcast: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/ - 8-4 Play: http://8-4.jp/blog/?lang=en - Giant Bombcast: http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ - Weekend Confirmed: http://www.shacknews.com/tag/weekend-confirmed - Idle Thumbs: http://www.idlethumbs.net/shows Dead Podcasts, but timeless: - Retronauts: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=315"}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 5376843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376843", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1363286434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup related? - Smart Passive Income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ - This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/ - Startups for the Rest of Us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Non-startup related: - Slash Filmcast: http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/ - 8-4 Play: http://8-4.jp/blog/?lang=en - Giant Bombcast: http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ - Weekend Confirmed: http://www.shacknews.com/tag/weekend-confirmed - Idle Thumbs: http://www.idlethumbs.net/shows Dead Podcasts, but timeless: - Retronauts: http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=315"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 5377446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377446", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1363292353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hardcore History Podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 5378912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5378912", "by": "darushimo", "time": 1363314069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it's frustrating that there are a number of inconsistencies with his description of his early year on the Product People podcast last week. It makes me feel like in both he's selling himself 'at' me rather than givin me real info. Oh well"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5379565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5379565", "by": "saw66", "time": 1363332923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hate to be rude, but you haters are some amazing douchebags. I'm not a Marco fanboy, but he's a successful person who thinks a lot about the things he does, as evidenced by any listening to Build and Analyze and Accidental Tech Podcast. Do I always agree with him? No. Is he smarter than me, and has he accomplished more in terms of his career and technology? Yes, I'd say the evidence says so. It's one thing to disagree with people, but to hate them and be a total jackass for no reason is just wasting your life on the internet. MANY web sites have sponsorship. MANY of them. Marco is no more of"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5382613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382613", "by": "greeneggs", "time": 1363377306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Japan slightly contradicts your points, having much cheaper MRI scans (~$200), many more MRI machines and scans per capita than the US. But yes, they tend to be less advanced MRI machines (not sure about older/newer). This is all put out in the Planet Money podcast linked just above. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205455..."}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 5396928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5396928", "by": "dmiladinov", "time": 1363638828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While my reply may only tangentially be related to TFA, your last sentence reminds me of the Manager / Career Tools podcast episode addressing this very issue: http://www.manager-tools.com/2012/02/internal-support-roles-... From the podcast episode's description: The relationship between internal support providers and their customers has to be one of the most frustrating in the corporate world. The provider NEEDS x and y and z before he can solve the customer\u2019s problem. The customer just wants a thing, that does \u2018you know\u2019, and just works. Both are hampered by corporate policies and processes."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 5421876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5421876", "by": "nicholassmith", "time": 1363940303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the biggest Mac writers even has a blog and defunct podcast called Hypercritical to talk about what Apple does wrong. There's a lot of loyalty, and some blinded by it, but it's often tempered with the realisation they aren't perfect."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5435699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5435699", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1364190660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn't a very well informed rant. Sandboxing exists so that malware doesn't get access to all of your files. The address book used to not be protected and look at the crapstorm that caused when Path accessed the address book without informing users. And a file tree is a poor abstraction for \"mere mortals\". John Siracusa has a much better discussion of why an exposed file system is a bad idea in the last episode of the Accidental Tech podcast. http://atp.fm/episodes/6-live-like-other-people"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 5441173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441173", "by": "codemonkeymike", "time": 1364267920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to mostly NPR podcasts on my razor headset, in specific I will listen to Freakanomics, This American Life, Radio Lab, Illusioniod, Tell Me More, Brian Leher Show, Planet Money, Stuff You Missed In History Class, NPR Science, TED Talks, and when I go through all of that I will listen to some music (Local Natives, Mumford and Sons, Parlor Mob, The Killers, Edward Sharpe..., She and Him, Of Monsters and Men, Catch 22) There are more things I listen to but I cant think of right now. I am relatively productive with most things I listen to except for Illusioniod."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 5467671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5467671", "by": "zizee", "time": 1364702906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds exactly like Pluggio. The author of this app should go and listen to the last 200 episodes of the TechZing podcast and hear the creator talk in detail about Pluggio's journey 4 year journey to get to a respectable (but no enough to live on) ~50k revenue."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 5500746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5500746", "by": "mrweasel", "time": 1365192576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe that John C. Dvorak made the same argument on the No Agenda podcast a few weeks back. It has really made me rethink how news is reported. We simply have no way of knowing if what is being reported and explained is correct. Even in the rare cases where true expects a interviewed we rarely get a completely objective opinion. This, I believe, is either because the journalist are trying to steer the conversation into a direction he or she understands or because it make for more \"exciting\" news. It's truly sad that the media believes that it should dumb down content, or make it more \"easi"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 5513090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513090", "by": "dmiladinov", "time": 1365442076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For similar coverage about finding barely-secured devices that shouldn't have ever even been connected to the Internet, check out the Security Now! podcast, episode 396 - The Telnet-pocalypse: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm Transcripts are available in several formats: http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.htm http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.txt http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-396.pdf"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5515229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5515229", "by": "zacharypinter", "time": 1365461475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money had a relevant/good discussion about the fallout from JC Penney's coupon-less strategy on one of their recent podcasts: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/08/173829409/episode-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5530827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530827", "by": "objclxt", "time": 1365672335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In the US, you have no monopoly on the healthcare side, but the drug companies have a monopoly on the drugs they produce. In a way there is a monopoly on the healthcare side in the US, but it only impacts a certain segment of the population. Medicare is able to negotiate significant discounts on the cost of healthcare compared to private insurers precisely because for so many people it is the de facto provider. There was a really interesting Planet Money podcast a month or so ago about healthcare costs in the US which covered why the difference between private insurers and Medicare is so gre"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5531164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5531164", "by": "num3ric", "time": 1365679024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NPR Planet Money podcast just released a podcast Tuesday on Bitcoins: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/09/176688096/episode-... It was the first time I had heard about Bitcoins, and so did many I think!"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 5538021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538021", "by": "junto", "time": 1365769516, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a really great Scott Hanselman podcast where he invited Jon Skeet on to chat at CodeMash. Fascinating insight into how the guy ticks: http://www.hanselminutes.com/302/being-a-phony-with-jon-skee..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 5541806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541806", "by": "DavidChouinard", "time": 1365810120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Radiolab ( http://www.radiolab.org/ ), it's one of the most respected podcasts out there. It's changed the way I see the world."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 5565682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5565682", "by": "otherdave", "time": 1366219083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A friend turned me on to the Manager Tools podcast[1] which is pretty good. They make 1:1s one of the key parts of their philosophy and have some info online about how they do it[2] including the email that sets it up and a sample checklist form for doing it. I've done these at two different companies both with a team that I grew entirely myself and had already established friendships with before starting the 1:1s and with folks at a new job where I inherited the team. In both cases they were immensely successful in building rapport, establishing a professional-vs-personal relationship, and ge"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5569006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5569006", "by": "hiharryhere", "time": 1366262008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly there was a great podcast on archaic dealership laws on NPR's Planet Money in February. Worth a listen for some context. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 5569283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5569283", "by": "Caryy", "time": 1366268901, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Why don't we distribute podcasts via Bittorrent? I started thinking about this after hearing Ira Glass' latest pledge solicitation on This American Life (which apparently costs WBEZ $170k/yr in bandwidth). I don't mean some tracker where powerusers go and download torrents and manage ratios and all that traditional \"bittorrent\" stuff. I mean WoW. WoW is a Bittorrent client. If you play WoW, you're automatically seeding the updates and patches you've downloaded to everyone else who plays WoW. That's how Blizzard can distribute large updates with maximal rapidity and minimal impact/downtime. Ima"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 5584259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5584259", "by": "hrktb", "time": 1366531271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Microsoft have been a player in the mac ecosystem for long, and most of people's complaint was that they didn't do enough (no new versions of IE, Office suite lagging after a while, the windows phone app coming later, etc) The Core Intuition podcast also got sponsored by azure, and one of the host was joking \"it's as if they thought it out to be used by developpers\". If anything, microsoft will be more than welcomed I think if they put efforts to have OSX/iOS devices as first class citizens in their platforms."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5585321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585321", "by": "tfigment", "time": 1366561753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Basically this alone may have significantly change the course of several European nations for the next decade because of policy made on the that paper. NPR's Planet Money team just released a podcast [1] that goes into the basics of that. Last year my company was having supply chain issues. We have complicated 3 tier supply chain for a critical component with odd shipping restrictions and mix of batch and continuous process and other items. We don't control the the vendors but pay on yield and know what material enters and leaves each supplier. We desperately needed insight into why we had del"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 5591001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5591001", "by": "fuddle", "time": 1366655986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sweet, the Product People podcast looks interesting."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 5595293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5595293", "by": "Sami_Lehtinen", "time": 1366727219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am, with Security Now podcasts. I don't want to open those with VLC plugin which doesn't work too well."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 5600580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600580", "by": "objclxt", "time": 1366795723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somebody already posted this link, but didn't actually expand or summarise it, so here goes: Radiolab did a podcast a few months ago[1] which looked at a John Hopkins survey of doctors that has been going on for decades now. 90% of all doctors surveyed said they would not want to be given CPR as a life saving intervention. In TV and film, CPR is shown as being highly effective - well over 50%. But in reality, CPR can have a survival rate as low as 2% . The best survival rate I could find was 30%, which is where CPR is given immediately by a trained first aider. And that's the survival rate - t"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5610818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610818", "by": "Samuel_Michon", "time": 1366935995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m saddened by this announcement. I\u2019m an early Instapaper paying subscriber, a The Magazine paying subscriber of the first hour, I\u2019ve read every article on his blog, I\u2019ve listened to all the episodes of Build & Analyze, Accidental Tech and the Neutral podcasts \u2014 I\u2019ve spread the word every way I could and engaged with the sponsors of the shows. I became a Tumblr member because of him. Marco has always talked about how important he felt it was to be independent and to offer a paid service in order not to be acquired. Given how he handled the Android release, I believed he would never sell Insta"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 5650893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650893", "by": "celticjames", "time": 1367598142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shocked to learn that Brian Dunning has done this. I've been listening to his Skeptoid podcast for years. I always pictured someone of modest or middle class means because he solicits donations to help keep the podcast going. I didn't think he was also making millions from fraud. Ironically, 'consumer frauds' is one of things he has listed on his website as a target of his skeptical inquiry. Found this blog post with court documents and background: http://www.skepticalabyss.com/?p=291 EDIT: Found this old blog post by Brian Dunning: http://skeptoid.com/blog/2011/10/05/a-partial-explanation/ \"C"}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 5651274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651274", "by": "MartinCron", "time": 1367601675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to Adam Savage's \"Still Untitled\" podcast where he talks about blowing stuff up as the least favorite part of what he does. That's not to say he won't come to her defense, but I was surprised to hear that."}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 5654463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5654463", "by": "duncanwilcox", "time": 1367656176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Whether something like this ever becomes widespread depends on WebGL becoming popular, which in turn depends on WebGL becoming sufficiently secure. In an interview on the Debug podcast, Don Melton describes hardening WebGL, which involves hardening the whole stack down to the hardware level, as a significant challenge. http://donmelton.com/2013/03/25/im-on-the-debug-podcast-this... I wouldn't hold my breath."}, {"show": "1763874966", "hn_item": 5702023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5702023", "by": "evjan", "time": 1368486421, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 5715417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715417", "by": "hbien", "time": 1368656361, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 5722064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722064", "by": "dclowd9901", "time": 1368750218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, listen to The Upside of Quitting on the Freakonomics podcast."}, {"show": "1177741477", "hn_item": 5722064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722064", "by": "dclowd9901", "time": 1368750218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, listen to The Upside of Quitting on the Freakonomics podcast."}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 5723979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723979", "by": "redial", "time": 1368795320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your sample is biased. I assume you read most of this rants here (as do I), and this is a place mainly for software engineers and designers, not managers. They complain about their bosses, as do all, and that means you get a lot of complains about stupid managers (because everybody thinks the boss is stupid). I don't believe for a second that there are no good managers, or that they are not necessary. Apple and Google produce the kind of software that they do because they have good managers (for the most part). The thing is, no one complains about his/her awesome manager. (In an episode of the"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5727485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727485", "by": "ghshephard", "time": 1368838743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, looking forward to the next Accidental Tech Podcast - should be very interesting to get Marco Arment's perspective on this. First Instapaper, now Tumblr. I wonder which will be a bigger deal for Marco... [Edit - I also wonder whether he had an inkling that these conversations were taking place. He has been discussing his tumblr roots a bit more than usual recently, including his undocumented podcast easteregg that he built into tumblr, and the fact that the tumblr source code was open source, but not public, which allowed Marco to use it for future endeavors... Edit 2: And this little hi"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5740234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740234", "by": "hkmurakami", "time": 1369086017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it's a reference to a segment on the Accidental Tech Podcast (hosted by Marco, John Siracusa and Casey Liss) where at one point they brought up a guy (sorry I can't recall the name) who has two iPhones: one for day use and another for night use. The idea is separation of private info and work info. IIRC Marco could see some merit to it, but certainly couldn't justify the price for himself. http://atp.fm/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5740681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740681", "by": "yaliceme", "time": 1369090266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a great podcast on the history and political power of the dealer system, and why buying a car sucks so much - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi..."}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 5775535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5775535", "by": "jcutrell", "time": 1369675334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few years back, I jumped into what I thought was a design position at a local web company. I was wrong. I was then forced to learn JavaScript. I watched Douglass Crockford's Good Parts, and also listened to quite a bit of a Python podcast called Python Osmosis. I went from very basic/naive JavaScript on my own to a world where using VMs, SSH, Git, JavaScript, hand-rolled CMS's, and fast turnarounds were an everyday thing. What did I learn? Forced immersion is the best way to learn. Don't allow yourself an \"out\", but allow yourself space. There's a lot of ways to manage this path. I'll outlin"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 5779434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779434", "by": "techarch", "time": 1369742997, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5787222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787222", "by": "runjake", "time": 1369844788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent ATP podcast episode, Marco hinted he had another major project or few in the wings, and from the sound of it, it was going to be unveiled soon. He recently bought a BMW (a long running joke), and estimates guess he made about $6.2 million from the Tumblr sale. If he puts the BMW up for sale, then worry."}, {"show": "189330872", "hn_item": 5794141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794141", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1369937533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Scientific American podcast Science Talk had a very informative show on fecal transplants: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fec..."}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 5813013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5813013", "by": "arkitaip", "time": 1370265198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently taking the History of Philosophy podcast [1] and my major takeaway is this: even a cursory understanding of the history of philosophy deepens your understanding of Western thought as everything from art and literature to religion and politics has its roots in philosophy. Not that I would have anything against people learning symbolic logic, of course. [1] www.historyofphilosophy.net/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 5820814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820814", "by": "ryandvm", "time": 1370366803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed the most recent This American Life podcast as they revisited the topic of patent trolls (specifically Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures). Fascinating and terrifying. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5821082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5821082", "by": "rscale", "time": 1370369157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent Planet Money podcast is also about patent trolls, and goes into a bit more depth about the guy who declared himself a co-inventor of podcasting. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-... EFF's effort to find prior art and raise money to fight this particular troll can be found here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/help-save-podcasting"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 5825604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825604", "by": "VLM", "time": 1370441122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Unfortunately I discovered audiobooks and podcasts,\" As an experiment, mess around with the subject. I'm about 10-15 years further along the path than you by description. I found that liberal arts / history / pretty much any lecture series from \"the teaching company\" really cleared my brain and gave me things to think about. On the other hand trying to listen to \"tech\" stuff just turned into an extension of work, drained more than recharged. Nothing wrong with that stuff while puttering around or doing yardwork, but it didn't recharge me like doing something \"new\". So do some A/B testing like"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 5826210, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826210", "by": "samweinberg", "time": 1370445893, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to Radiolab and the Nerdist. Looking for some recommendations. What do you listen to?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5826387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826387", "by": "runjake", "time": 1370447555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Back to Work by Merlin Mann. It's about 80% absurd conversation and then bam! he sneak attacks you by dropping a bomb shell nugget of wisdom. Nerdist by Chris Hardwick. Intimate interviews with people I'd never otherwise ever hear about, along with a few people I do know about. Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, John Siracusa and one or two other people. The Talk Show by John Gruber. Marco and Gruber frequently annoy me, but they do have valuable insights (albeit some that are terribly skewed)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 5826967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826967", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1370452047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk. Planet Money. Pop Culture Happy Hour. Slate's Political podcast. This American Life. COOKING ISSUES."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 5826967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826967", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1370452047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk. Planet Money. Pop Culture Happy Hour. Slate's Political podcast. This American Life. COOKING ISSUES."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 5826967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826967", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1370452047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk. Planet Money. Pop Culture Happy Hour. Slate's Political podcast. This American Life. COOKING ISSUES."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 5845185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845185", "by": "salemh", "time": 1370706054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin (more known for his Hardcore History podcast), also does a show called \"Common Sense\" and has been a political journalist for ~20 years. With this show, he seems to be fairly non-partison, railing against any side of the aisle that lies on hypocrisy (Left, Right, Libertarian, it doesn't matter, he tries to push at the \"logic\" or underlying issues and relates them to past political fallouts or successes). A few older ep's of note re: billionaires enacting change and surveillance states: http://dancarlin.com/dccart/index.php?main_page=product_musi... Could a Martin Luther King Jr. eve"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5870395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5870395", "by": "MsFuntereds", "time": 1371067815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Out of all the 'historically pro-Apple bloggers/authors' John Siracusa stands out as an exception: on the [recent episode of the ATP podcast]( http://atp.fm/episodes/17-cant-innovate-anymore ) (starts at 34:55) he gave proper credit to Windows Phone for paving the way \u2014 even though he's a confessed Microsoft hater. Matt Gemmell's continual dismissal of the Microsoft designers who created Metro is incredibly disrespectful. He's repeatedly made snide remarks about Metro as merely change for the sake of being different. Given the [sweat, blood and tears]( http://mashable.com/2012/03/29/microsoft-"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 5876463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876463", "by": "jonlucc", "time": 1371156503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's possible that Steve Gibson is right on this week's Security Now podcast. He suggests that perhaps the NSA has tapped into the ISP just upstream of the 9 companies listed. Then, they copy all of the data coming into and out of the fiber going to the Google datacenters. This fits with the name Prism, and is corroborated by the 2006 revelation about the NSA-controlled room in the ATT building in San Francisco. Edit: this does rely on the NSA having access to routers, not servers, so it still isn't exactly what they said"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 5905967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5905967", "by": "j_s", "time": 1371654643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> building itself less like a university and more like a for-profit corporation This concept was discussed recently on the EconTalk podcast http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/pallotta_on_cha.htm... \"The way we think about charity is dead wrong\" http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about... Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584659556/"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 5925724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925724", "by": "codemonkeymike", "time": 1371947161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe there is an NPR Marketplace podcast about the difficulties of building a school in Haiti, I can't imagine how much harder it would be if you needed constant power. Edit: found it http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/29/135750053/the-tues... Maybe Dominican Republic would be a better option"}, {"show": "1560010348", "hn_item": 5933523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933523", "by": "Dekku", "time": 1372087749, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 5946879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946879", "by": "c1sc0", "time": 1372262506, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1763874966", "hn_item": 5961358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961358", "by": "matthavener", "time": 1372474491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the Relevance podcast. It focuses less on tech stuff and more on craft/SE/culture, but its always nice to listen to."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 5987300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5987300", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1372883260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Plus 'The Magazine' has a significant web component (albeit a weird log in). He discussed that at some point, I think it might have been on Accidental Tech Podcast. As I remember the idea was that since The Magazine wasn't terribly important (security wise) he could avoid having to give people another username/password. He said it was something of an experiment and he probably wouldn't do it again. I think Casey and Siracusa both said they found it odd and confusing at first."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 5999225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999225", "by": "techarch", "time": 1373127974, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 6000823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000823", "by": "kyle_martin1", "time": 1373164453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called \"This Developer's Life\" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too. Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others: Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 6000823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000823", "by": "kyle_martin1", "time": 1373164453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called \"This Developer's Life\" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too. Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others: Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6000823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000823", "by": "kyle_martin1", "time": 1373164453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called \"This Developer's Life\" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too. Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others: Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter."}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 6000823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000823", "by": "kyle_martin1", "time": 1373164453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called \"This Developer's Life\" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too. Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others: Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 6000823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000823", "by": "kyle_martin1", "time": 1373164453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called \"This Developer's Life\" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too. Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others: Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6003873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003873", "by": "crusso", "time": 1373236436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, we know a great deal about weight gain in the micro sense that is explained by insulin. Jeez, point after point you've made are answered in that Taube youtube link in this thread. You could have your answers if you just clicked the link, opened your mind, and thought about what the guy said. At the end of the day, here's what I know from going on and off low-carb eating for the last ten years. I eat carbs, I crave carbs, I binge eat, I gain lots of weight. Contrarily: I stop eating carbs, I lose the cravings, I eat moderately, salads even look satisfying, I lose weight. Oh, for those"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 6009079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009079", "by": "MartinCron", "time": 1373315446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to Ryan Davis on the Giant Bomb podcast every week for the last several years. It's often a long podcast, so this is literally hundreds and hundreds of hours of having this guy's voice in my head. I once noticed how intimate a medium podcasting can be when one of the Giant Bomb guys visited Seattle and I was deeply offended that someone who felt like a very close friend came to town and didn't even bother to visit me. This morning, when I got the news that he died, I felt it in a way that I haven't felt for years."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6014427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014427", "by": "everettForth", "time": 1373395369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you ever tried watching James Burke's \"Connections\"? A lot of facts are wrong, and connections are weak, but it's still more entertaining and educational than 99% of the stuff out there. I could say the same thing about the \"Radiolab\" podcast. If you really want to help these people (and all of us), why don't you email Vi Hart, and offer your fact-checking services for her next video? I'm sure her production team is quite small (~1). I love her videos, but I'd also to be happy for them to be more accurate."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 6016863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6016863", "by": "dpritchett", "time": 1373419641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to Sandi Metz on the Ruby Rogues podcast. It's a longish episode but she'll give you an appreciation for message-passing OO and how it makes an application design more pliable. In a pinch the (free?) \"Barewords\" episode of Ruby Tapas will get you close in five minutes."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 6034173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6034173", "by": "Rakathos", "time": 1373653344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Blog post author here) I wondered where the random burst of traffic came from. For those who haven't read the more recent posts, I received a ton of great feedback from HN and other entrepreneur friendly places. I've also been gobbling up great advice from places like Rob Walling's \"Startups for the rest of us\" podcast. About a month ago I started a \"challenge\", inspired by Brennan Dunn, to rebuild my \"failed\" product, and it's been going pretty well so far. Most importantly, a few days ago I announced that I'm \"pivoting\" from just inventory management to a full-blown ERP for printing compani"}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6035583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035583", "by": "cmeiklejohn", "time": 1373667188, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 6036379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6036379", "by": "bllybrgrmstr", "time": 1373680238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast: http://atp.fm/ Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug StackExchange: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ Core Intuition: http://www.coreint.org/ Back to Work: http://5by5.tv/b2w"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 6036379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6036379", "by": "bllybrgrmstr", "time": 1373680238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast: http://atp.fm/ Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug StackExchange: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ Core Intuition: http://www.coreint.org/ Back to Work: http://5by5.tv/b2w"}, {"show": "1560010348", "hn_item": 6037795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037795", "by": "Dekku", "time": 1373730788, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 6055324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6055324", "by": "natejenkins", "time": 1374016261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, This American Life, has two excellent episodes concerning patents: Part 1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... Part 2: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w... I agree that hardware patents seem reasonable, as long as they are technical patents and not design patents, but shortening their length to 5 years sounds like a good idea. As a programmer, I cannot think of one software patent that I've seen granted which did not appear obvious. I'm sure they are out there, and there are many innovations taking place in com"}, {"show": "1763874966", "hn_item": 6056655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056655", "by": "cemerick", "time": 1374048712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author here. While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what \"100% time\" means (since, AFAIK, the post is where the term was first used outside of private conversations with friends of mine), or that it's potentially illegal, or that it's really just the typical 80/20 split and I can't tell the difference. Cheers! :-D Snark aside, Craig Andera asked me about the post on a recent Relevance podcast, and we talked about it and matters related to 100% time for a good stretch: http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/05/1"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 6057932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057932", "by": "pilif", "time": 1374072450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is one of the reasons why I self-host DNS. Even with tons of users, the resources it takes to serve DNS requests pale compared to what you have to put behind your application servers. Of course if you are using a CDN to provide your users with better locality, you might want to look into a service that provides localized DNS distribution, but the inherent caching feature of the DNS protocol might make that an unneeded additional burden (I remember a very old Stack Exchange podcast episode where they were talking about this, coming to the conclusion that self-hosted DNS and dns-internal ca"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 6058567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058567", "by": "Cass", "time": 1374078530, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 6059886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6059886", "by": "wikwocket", "time": 1374091073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gee, thanks Patrick. You know, I used to listen to speculative fiction podcasts on my commute: Escape Pod for scifi, Podcastle for fantasy, maybe some Drabblecast or even video game podcasts... Now all I listen to is small business/bootstrapping casts! Kalzumeus, Product People, Techzing, Foolish Adventure, Eventual Millionaire, I have a whole backlog of this stuff! Will you guys knock it off with this excellent & actionable content, so I can listen to some fiction again?? Geez!"}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 6063982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6063982", "by": "hackula1", "time": 1374158880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are a few of the things I would recommend in no particular order. Most of them are pretty traditional. 1. Wear leather shoes. You could dress in rags, but if you are wearing leather shoes, it will make it look like you meant to. Scott Hanselman pointed this out on his This Developer's Life podcast a while back. 2. Show your github or linkedin profiles, but despite people saying \"oh, this is my resume\", no it is not. Quit being cute and spend 20 minutes typing up a real resume. Use one of the templates provided in most word processors. Your resume is not meant to stand out. It is meant to "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6064401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6064401", "by": "matt1", "time": 1374162530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a bit more background on the history of this experiment and why the previous drips were missed, check out this recent Radiolab podcast: http://joshuafoer.com/radiolab-the-pitch-drop-experiment/"}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6065948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6065948", "by": "lelf", "time": 1374176283, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 6104569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6104569", "by": "j_s", "time": 1374782045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would be interested in your take on Dan Pallota's perspective (below, several times); he seems to have a lot of exposure with his claim that nonprofit isn't working as well as it could, primarily because of the focus on \"overhead\". -- Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about... (20 min video) > nonprofits [...] are rewarded for how little they spend > -- not for what they get done Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/dan_pallotta/ (1 hr EconTalk p"}, {"show": "1896780557", "hn_item": 6108742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108742", "by": "donnfelker", "time": 1374852817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You don't have to be a single developer to build an app that does this. You can be a sales guy, marketing guy, etc. The power is in knowing how and when to delegate. In the soloprenuer world this is done through outsourcing. Many folks have businesses that they pay for through a suite of products. None of which generate enough revenue to pay for their salary, but the sum of all do and more. One major advantage of this is a risk diversification. IF market X falls out, then only one small income stream falls through and doesnt bring the business owner with it. Multiple income streams via a portf"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 6108742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108742", "by": "donnfelker", "time": 1374852817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You don't have to be a single developer to build an app that does this. You can be a sales guy, marketing guy, etc. The power is in knowing how and when to delegate. In the soloprenuer world this is done through outsourcing. Many folks have businesses that they pay for through a suite of products. None of which generate enough revenue to pay for their salary, but the sum of all do and more. One major advantage of this is a risk diversification. IF market X falls out, then only one small income stream falls through and doesnt bring the business owner with it. Multiple income streams via a portf"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 6119461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6119461", "by": "voltagex_", "time": 1375074535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a difference between putting a piece of metal in a slot and pushing a button that's vaguely connected to your bank account. I'm sure one of the recent 99% Invisible podcasts had something about the increase in revenue when slot machines were able to use credit cards, or banknotes."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6141564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6141564", "by": "bargl", "time": 1375375451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I get a little doubt. Its good, but I think we can all try to discern some facts here from what she's said. 1) She wasn't there so this is a second hand story. Most second hand stories are embellished to a certain degree. Fact is she just wasn't there. (from her twitter) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140924 2) Government agents (who knows where they are from because who has time to remember THOSE details in the moment). FBI, Internal Task Force, MIB, it really doesn't matter that much. 3) Were they merely concerned with Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa. That is all just conjectu"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6156034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156034", "by": "josho", "time": 1375633380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is larger than simply patents. The US despite its rhetoric about free trade, democracy, freedom, etc. will, and always has, ensured that its own interests (often in the form of corporations) is given an unfair advantage over other nations. If you doubt this, here is a recent example in an accessible format about the US loosing a WTC dispute with Brazil, then proceeding to ignore the verdict and continue its unfair trade practices. NPR Planet Money Podcast is here http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/03/180912847/episode-..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 6156421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156421", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1375639419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Playing Devil's advocate, there are other ways of pooling resources, such as insurance or mutual-aid societies, the latter of which were mostly crowded out by state provided healthcare. There was a recent Econtalk podcast which touched on these issues: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/07/michael_lind_on.htm..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6191055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191055", "by": "awsm", "time": 1376142245, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm preparing to go into my final year of a Forensic Computing & Security Degree and looking for ideas for a final year project. The project involves writing a piece of software. Although this can apparently be 'proof of concept' as long as it has the basic functionality. I'm also reading the 'Tangled Web'[1] and have 'The Web Application Hackers Handbook'[2] but haven't started the latter yet. Also participating in 'Matasano's Crypto Challenges[3] based on recommendations from other HN comments. I also subscribe to a couple of podcasts such as 'Security Now'[4] etc etc. The obvious choices ar"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 6192849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6192849", "by": "donut", "time": 1376172184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the episode of the excellent podcast \"99% Invisible\", there is a story of how the iOS unlocking sound was created: http://99percentinvisible.org/post/3230995265/episode-15-the..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6199769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199769", "by": "atonse", "time": 1376321803, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 6243101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243101", "by": "justinlilly", "time": 1377000244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great podcast called Hardcore History[2] which has some significance here. There's a podcast titled something similar to \"Justifiable Insanity\" that talks about the end of WW2. People got into the mental trap of \"Well, if we do something particularly heinous, they'll HAVE to surrender!\". This lead to things like firestorms of Dresden and Hamburg, which had immense (esp. for the time period) death tolls.[0][1] So, be careful with the tactic of \"Well, if something REALLY bad happens..\" [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 6243841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243841", "by": "derickbailey", "time": 1377008305, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 6285795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285795", "by": "djhworld", "time": 1377632946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked Scala, but it's just the sheer weight of it that puts me off using it in my personal projects, and it still comes with JVM baggage. What it needs is some leadership. A few weeks ago Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand (developers of Go) appeared on The Changelog podcast, which I recommend listening to, and one thing that Rob Pike said really intrigued me. He said that a policy they have when designing Go is to ensure that all members of the core team agree on any design decision before it gets put into the language. If one of them disagrees it gets tossed. That's probably one of the main reaso"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 6295504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6295504", "by": "speedracr", "time": 1377780791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Definitely listen to the Freakonomics podcast on Chicago's quintessential role in developing the US as a country and economic giant - well worth the 30min or so, and based on a book by Thomas Dyja: http://freakonomics.com/2013/08/15/the-middle-of-everywhere-..."}, {"show": "383084001", "hn_item": 6296763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6296763", "by": "bdcravens", "time": 1377793986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of entrepreneurial podcasts, mostly focused on bootstrapping, with an emphasis on SaaS products. On these shows, the entrepreneur is king. They often emphasize outsourcing to VAs, which makes sense. However, I see some of them with an attitude that technical skills are of this same value: something you just buy when you need it, as cheap as possible. Yesterday I think it was the Smart Passive Income podcast I was listening to where they (Pat had a guest) encouraged going to vWorker (yes, I know it's been acquired) if you need a developer to implement something. Part of me was"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 6298605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6298605", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1377810213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just subjected to restrictive laws, but also considered in popular culture as child-killing machines, and it was a marketing campaign that created the concept of \"Jay Walking\", putting the responsibility on people to get out of the way of the car. The (great) podcast 99% Invisible has an episode about it: http://99percentinvisible.org/post/47063460311/episode-76-th..."}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6321804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321804", "by": "cmeiklejohn", "time": 1378225257, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 6341444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6341444", "by": "mmorris", "time": 1378487301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am not a linguist, per se, but my understanding is that there is no formal definition (or even agreement) on what constitutes a separate language versus a separate dialect. Rather, a number of factors are taken into consideration (including political factors), and the distinction is almost always debatable. While it is desperate for citations, it looks like the Wikipedia article supports that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect#Dialect_or_language There is also an episode of one of my favorite podcasts (Slate's Lexicon Valley) that focuses on this issue, particularly in regards to what has"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 6356795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6356795", "by": "monkeynotes", "time": 1378766718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If we are going to be pedantic I will point out an accepted dictionary definition of 'decimate' is as follows: > to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague. If the acceptance criteria of for use as 'the perfect word' is that it matches as precisely as possible to its definition then I think the OP was on track. I think it is interesting trivia that the origins of the word come from the violence of the Roman army, but to assert that is the only way the word is used in modern English is wrong. I blame Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast for the recent "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6388569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6388569", "by": "dietervds", "time": 1379238044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a huge fan of Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. I guess you can call it a 'technology thriller', with some amazing ideas and impressions of our society. His most recent book, Kill Decision, is along similar lines and also great. I love reading actual sci-fi too, and was most impressed by the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. Can absolutely recommend those. Note: I didn't come to these titles myself, they were recommended by Steve Gibson from the 'Security Now' podcast. I couldn't agree more with his taste."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6405286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6405286", "by": "reuven", "time": 1379513188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite story of this sort happened a few years ago: The US has never been successful at getting the public to accept dollar coins. As a result, the dollar coins -- some with presidents on them, and some with Sacajawea depicted -- were sitting in the US Mint's warehouses. The Mint, in order to get rid of these coins, offered people the chance to (a) order them by mail, (b) have them delivered for free, and (c) pay for them on a credit card. Some people (very cleverly) did the math, and ordered ridiculous numbers of dollar coins on their airline-affiliated credit cards. When the dollar coin"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 6406200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406200", "by": "swanson", "time": 1379521550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ruby Rogues Parley - a paid email list (that is now a Discourse forum) around the Ruby Rogues podcast. It's basically a private forum for technical topics in Ruby. Pretty high signal-to-noise ratio."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 6428854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6428854", "by": "brownbat", "time": 1379901833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> DRM [will] exist as long as the content exists [for] any form of entertainment that is digitally transmitted. It's a bit more complicated than that. True, HDCP shows a pretty aggressive spread of content protection into wires. BluRay doubled down on protecting physical discs even during the DeCSS art movement, when most of us were starting to view such efforts as futile. Smashwords and other indie ebook publishers vs. Amazon and Google Books... it's a mixed field in eBooks, with DRM admittedly still largely dominant. That's not wholly dissimilar to the status of AAC vs. mp3 in the marketplac"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6434071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434071", "by": "objclxt", "time": 1379969585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Oh you are an experienced neurosurgeon? Oh from Russia you say? Well, here's a broom, good luck. Planet Money did a podcast on this exact topic at the start of the year. It is near impossible for a doctor to come to the US and start practicing - even those who are top of their field and working in countries with highly respected medical schools (Europe, Asia, etc). I can't find the link to the full episode, but here's a summary and excerpt from All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/15/172108835/should-t..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 6448677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448677", "by": "dmn757", "time": 1380164426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't read the article yet, but some further reading/listening for those interested: -'Freeway' Rick Ross on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast: http://vimeo.com/41214597#t=123 -Rick Ross, the rapper, was actually a correctional officer before his rap career took off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ross#Correctional_officer_... http://i.imgur.com/r2hYgO0.jpg"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6449503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6449503", "by": "cromulent", "time": 1380183362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a pretty good Planet Money podcast with him a couple of years ago. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/05/135991890/a-former..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6457941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457941", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1380300795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My thoughts: http://marojejian.tumblr.com/post/62427675555/tomtato-tomato... Though we clearly need to be very careful with Agrobio, I think history has shown that it will take a lot more technology if we want to meet the goal of, say, allowing all the humans alive today to eat as well as the person reading this. The other option is a lot less humans\u2026 Check out the history of the Green Revolution: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution ) or the Haber Process: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process ). P.S. On a side note, the personal history of Fritz Haber is incredibly interest"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 6476401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476401", "by": "dlo83", "time": 1380637906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bought the book a few weeks ago. Have not finished yet, but it's an excellent read thus far. I knew it was a must-read after hearing Reg's interview on the Javascript Jabber podcast."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 6480275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480275", "by": "Mindless2112", "time": 1380681258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The importance of talking with your children during early development was also covered on an episode[1] of Lexicon Valley (referencing the same research data as this article) for those interested. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6480632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480632", "by": "ChuckMcM", "time": 1380688719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Solid parenting advice, #1 talk to your children even when they cannot talk, #2 read new books to your children every week. You can always re-read favorites but just keep the new books coming. And then combine #1 and #2 and talk to your children about the books you read. There is an excellent Radiolab podcast on \"Colors\" [1] which has (for me) the fairly stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name. It starts by looking at the colors used in ancient texts and works its way forward. Some women have more cones than normal and are tetrachromatic so they can see more colors than t"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6480666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480666", "by": "lutusp", "time": 1380689235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> There is an excellent Radiolab podcast on \"Colors\" [1] which has (for me) the fairly stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name . [emphasis added] Interesting idea, but untestable, therefore unscientific. Do you see why? A color we can't name isn't open to systematic investigation. If we try to get around this by asking a subject to compare the \"unseen\" color to a color patch, we're only given the \"unseeable\" color a name by proxy. This kind of claim is very commonly made by people who don't understand science. > People seem to need words to organize their thoughts and rea"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6482696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482696", "by": "gwern", "time": 1380725300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> There is an excellent Radiolab podcast on \"Colors\" [1] which has (for me) the fairly stunning revelation that you can't see a color you can't name. As I understand, this has been tested and found wanting: you can ask people to take a group of things colored aoi / blue-green, when they have words for neither blue nor green, and ask them to come up with some additional categorization. Instead of categorizing at random or something, they form two distinct groups of... blue and green. And you can predict what colors a language will have based on the number of words it allocates to color (eg. if "}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 6493224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6493224", "by": "sethev", "time": 1380850218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure if this anything to do with why this is on HN but Jay Roberts is Jason Roberts's brother (Jason Roberts is co-host of the TechZing podcast)."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 6525990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6525990", "by": "jetru", "time": 1381386151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this the same story with Freakonomics? I listen to their podcast and they seem pretty intelligent and don't really drawn crazy conclusions and always advice with a pinch of salt."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 6536083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536083", "by": "joanofarf", "time": 1381527588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Writing Excuses podcast ( http://www.writingexcuses.com/ ). They're all published and commercially successful genre fiction authors, and the podcast is consistently high on quality and low on BS, unlike at many other sites offering writing tips, tricks, strategies and advice. All the episodes are ~15 minutes long, and most have a writing prompt or exercise at the end that can be completed in roughly the same amount of time. Block out 30-45 minutes of time in the morning to listen to an episode and write on the prompt."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 6537062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6537062", "by": "mdc", "time": 1381546672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stephen King wrote a book called On Writing that is part memoir and part guide to writing. It's not intended to be a full writing course, but it's a great intro to the important bits presented in a really entertaining way. I also really like the Self-Publishing Podcast. If you're interested in being an indie author rather than pursuing traditional publishing, it's a fantastic look at three guys finding their way in that industry. The Writing Excuses podcast (recommended earlier by joanofarf) is a better podcast for the craft of writing, but I find the Self-Publishing guys both entertaining and"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6538816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6538816", "by": "bryogenic", "time": 1381587810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a great Planet Money podcast about just that: > Why does it take so long to send money from one bank account to another? http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-..."}, {"show": "77205482", "hn_item": 6543460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6543460", "by": "notduncansmith", "time": 1381687175, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As they say on ShopTalkShow, \"JUST BUILD WEBSITES!\". It took me about 3 months to get to \"practical web developer\" status with almost no coding background (was previously in marketing). Another 3 months of practice and I was competent enough to get a job doing it. How did I do it? Total immersion. I spent a few hours every day doing tutorials, and then applying those lessons in little throw-away projects. When not coding or learning, I listened to podcasts in the space. http://shoptalkshow.com by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert is FANTASTIC, they do a friendly Q&A podcast with guests, sound effec"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6552828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6552828", "by": "mrow84", "time": 1381840355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You've said quite a lot, so please forgive me in advance for any lack of coherence. I would be slightly wary of making predictions from historical trends, because we don't have a very large sample size, and there are a lot of confounding factors, a good example being cultural differences between countries, by which I mean differences in social organisation rather than what clothes people wear. Irrespective of those differences, the general idea of an increase in skill level with continued investment has both common sense and, as far as I am aware, theoretical appeal. The issue, however, is rea"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6557661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6557661", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1381890040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Based on the comment above that tried it, your theory of transferring between accounts in the same bank (and then reconciling later) would make sense. The Planet Money podcast noted that some banks (Capital One, BoA) offer a similar service if both ends have accounts."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 6570668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6570668", "by": "casca", "time": 1382092830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a more detailed understanding of the PISA system, there was a recent Econtalk podcast - http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/08/hanushek_on_edu_3.h..."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 6571245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6571245", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1382103245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's strange to talk about this without mentioning the concept of reserve currency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency It's not just China that has a lot of investment in US dollars - and no matter what the policy reason is, it is an investment because their wealth is tied up in the status of the US economy. Now, our reserve currency status is something that China, along with the rest of the world, can lose faith in. And if they lose faith - because of, say, a default - then there's a serious risk that the US is no longer the reserve currency. And if the US is no longer the "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 6584541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6584541", "by": "andyhmltn", "time": 1382351490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's weird how William Binney was actually correct. He went on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast about a year or two back and pretty much summed up exactly what we've seen with the NSA from the Snowden leak. I remember the amount of commenters that were calling him a 'conspiracy nut' and trying to disprove him. Turns out he was correct."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 6622139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622139", "by": "mlchild", "time": 1382886359, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6627599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627599", "by": "MartinMcGirk", "time": 1382975169, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For further information about vitamin D, I always recommend one particular episode [1] of the TWiT Security Now podcast where the host Steve Gibson talks for about an hour on his research into the effects of vitamin D and how he thinks that taking it is important. I can't vouch for the medical accuracy of what he is saying, but he does tend to research things pretty thoroughly before broadcasting them, and I generally trust his conclusions. [1] https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-209.htm"}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6636896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6636896", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1383075578, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a related note, if you're not listening to the Think Distributed podcast[1], you're missing a terrific combination of research and engineering discussion around distributed systems. It routinely features a few of the Basho guys. The episode on causality, especially, was first rate. [1] http://thinkdistributed.io/"}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 6638820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6638820", "by": "bruceb", "time": 1383096145, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is covered in the Cracked podcast titled Flashbulb Memories https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cracked-podcast/id68... I just discovered them last week. Worth a listen"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6640649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640649", "by": "crisnoble", "time": 1383142615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This comes from Planet Money, who has an entire Podcast dedicated to the subject. Quite an interesting listen (as all of their podcasts are): http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/25/240801871/episode-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 6644108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644108", "by": "blhack", "time": 1383174293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've said this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195909 and I'll say it again: if you want to do something, do it. A great story I heard recently: A old comedian is talking to a younger, struggling, perhaps up-and-coming comedian. The young comedian is frustrated because he isn't finding the work that he wants (writing), and is bitter about \"the business\". The old comedian asks \"So, lets say some famous person wants to hire you for $10,000 a week to just write funny tweets for them. Do you think you'd be able to do it? Come up with something really funny for them every day to post "}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6648832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648832", "by": "feistyio", "time": 1383244663, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might also like the \"Think Distributed\" podcast: http://thinkdistributed.io"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 6658012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658012", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1383362641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eazel, which created Nautilus, was founded by a bunch of the original Mac builders. The team included Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Mike Boich and Susan Kare[1]. There's some interesting backstory on Nautilus in one of the Don Melton epsiodes of the Debug podcast[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel [2] http://www.imore.com/debug-11-don-melton-and-safari"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 6663475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6663475", "by": "evanb", "time": 1383492831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent podcast episode of 99% Invisible which discusses the analogous thing that happened to the Red Car in Los Angeles. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-r..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 6668248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668248", "by": "casca", "time": 1383570121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who like to listen to podcasts, Radiolab did a great show on the fascinating story of Fritz Haber: http://www.radiolab.org/story/180132-how-do-you-solve-proble..."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 6708346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6708346", "by": "spodek", "time": 1384116177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I started to realize the value of storytelling, I gathered a group of friends to meet regularly to improve our storytelling. I read a bunch of books on storytelling and distilled their essence into a few parts -- mainly characters, conflict, struggle, and goal, which I memorize as CCSG. All the books I read described these four elements as the most important, which my experience confirms. I wrote a few posts on the basics of storytelling (not all independent). While no substitute for practice, observing, and reading comprehensive books, people have told me they helped improve their storyt"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 6767801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6767801", "by": "contextual", "time": 1384953994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to EconTalk with Russ Roberts[1], The KunstlerCast [2] and Poetry Magazine podcast [3] for years. Good stuff. It'll put hair on yer chest. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/ [2] http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/ [3] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 6768912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768912", "by": "wikwocket", "time": 1384964541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like these small business/bootstrapping podcasts: Kalzumeus, Product People, Techzing, Foolish Adventure, Eventual Millionaire. I also like these speculative fiction podcasts: Escape Pod for scifi, Podcastle for fantasy, and Drabblecast for a little of everything."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 6768932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768932", "by": "aksx", "time": 1384964729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Related 1) CoderRadio 2) TechSnap 3) Linux Action Show 4) Accidental Tech Podcast 5) Programming Throwdown (no new podcast in a while) Non-Tech 1) You Made it Weird by Pete Holmes 2) This American Life 3) The Moth 4) Unprofessional 5) 99% Invisible (a few more) :D"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 6768932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768932", "by": "aksx", "time": 1384964729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Related 1) CoderRadio 2) TechSnap 3) Linux Action Show 4) Accidental Tech Podcast 5) Programming Throwdown (no new podcast in a while) Non-Tech 1) You Made it Weird by Pete Holmes 2) This American Life 3) The Moth 4) Unprofessional 5) 99% Invisible (a few more) :D"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 6768932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768932", "by": "aksx", "time": 1384964729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Related 1) CoderRadio 2) TechSnap 3) Linux Action Show 4) Accidental Tech Podcast 5) Programming Throwdown (no new podcast in a while) Non-Tech 1) You Made it Weird by Pete Holmes 2) This American Life 3) The Moth 4) Unprofessional 5) 99% Invisible (a few more) :D"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 6768932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768932", "by": "aksx", "time": 1384964729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Related 1) CoderRadio 2) TechSnap 3) Linux Action Show 4) Accidental Tech Podcast 5) Programming Throwdown (no new podcast in a while) Non-Tech 1) You Made it Weird by Pete Holmes 2) This American Life 3) The Moth 4) Unprofessional 5) 99% Invisible (a few more) :D"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 6768932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6768932", "by": "aksx", "time": 1384964729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Related 1) CoderRadio 2) TechSnap 3) Linux Action Show 4) Accidental Tech Podcast 5) Programming Throwdown (no new podcast in a while) Non-Tech 1) You Made it Weird by Pete Holmes 2) This American Life 3) The Moth 4) Unprofessional 5) 99% Invisible (a few more) :D"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 6771859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6771859", "by": "throwaway344", "time": 1384988316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast atp.fm In Beta http://5by5.tv/inbeta"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 6778519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778519", "by": "sdm", "time": 1385079968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History: - The History of Byzantium - History of Rome (finished) - Revolutions - The China History Podcast - Ancient Warefare Podcast - A History of Hannibal - A History of Alexander (finished) China: - Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese) - China Money Podcast - The China History Podccast - The Creamcast Tech: - Think Distributed"}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 6778519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778519", "by": "sdm", "time": 1385079968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History: - The History of Byzantium - History of Rome (finished) - Revolutions - The China History Podcast - Ancient Warefare Podcast - A History of Hannibal - A History of Alexander (finished) China: - Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese) - China Money Podcast - The China History Podccast - The Creamcast Tech: - Think Distributed"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 6778519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778519", "by": "sdm", "time": 1385079968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History: - The History of Byzantium - History of Rome (finished) - Revolutions - The China History Podcast - Ancient Warefare Podcast - A History of Hannibal - A History of Alexander (finished) China: - Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese) - China Money Podcast - The China History Podccast - The Creamcast Tech: - Think Distributed"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 6778519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778519", "by": "sdm", "time": 1385079968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History: - The History of Byzantium - History of Rome (finished) - Revolutions - The China History Podcast - Ancient Warefare Podcast - A History of Hannibal - A History of Alexander (finished) China: - Sinica Podcast (Part of Popup Chinese) - China Money Podcast - The China History Podccast - The Creamcast Tech: - Think Distributed"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6793486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6793486", "by": "brotchie", "time": 1385378430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting how payments work in different countries. For example, in Australia when dealing in AUD, banks can participate in end-of-day multilateral netting. That is, all the banks' inflows and outflows to all other banks are netted and sent to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The RBA is the banks' bank which holds bank's AUD denominated deposits in their separate accounts. Once the bank-to-bank net amounts have been calculated the RBA shuffles around a few numbers in databases to execute all the interbank transfers. It sounds like in the USA banks have to have accounts with each other in"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 6842388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6842388", "by": "bentcorner", "time": 1386098024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The example in TAL's podcast that really got me was the mixup between infant and child tylenol that resulted in the death of a child. I've gotten in the habit (before I had children) of reading labels and understanding their contents, dosages and concentrations (if only for the amusement that there seems to be only a handful of drugs in boxes that typically take up several meters of store shelf space). However, the situation of the death of that child in the podcast wasn't out of the ordinary. Simple miscommunication between parent and doctor, and the lack of knowledge of how little acetaminop"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 6849788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6849788", "by": "batbomb", "time": 1386187948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They have more on this on the Nature podcast. I also highly recommend listening to the Nature podcast. It's free, and they usually interview authors of these articles, and it's presented in an elevated fashion that you won't get by reading the NYTimes. http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 6850881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850881", "by": "batbomb", "time": 1386196194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah this article is actually quite good, better than most science articles I've read from most major media outlets. I wasn't meaning to belittle this specific article, but I thought I'd point an actual interview with author Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo. Also, again, I think the Nature podcast is by far the best podcast for general science, so if \"[people] fucking love science\", I'd recommend listening to it weekly over liking a facebook page, especially as they cover their weekly publication on a slightly more accessible level. Also, Science (the periodical) has a pretty okay podcast too."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6851939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6851939", "by": "adambard", "time": 1386206167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast did a really cool episode a few years back called, \"Why Gold?\". http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-tues..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 6921506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6921506", "by": "mgr86", "time": 1387293318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eddie Huang went on about his bad experience with TED on the Joe Rogan podcast earlier this year => http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FNenJN4484"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 6929250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929250", "by": "melling", "time": 1387390130, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Justin, your audience is here. Your products are \"shovels for the gold miners\", or simply motivation. I've listened to your podcast and mostly enjoy it. However, what you're selling, and what your advice caters to, doesn't really go far enough with people who sell other types of products, other than the \"shovel sellers.\" https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/product-people/id5853909... Maybe you could dig deeper and go beyond the \"motivational\" stuff? Of course, I do like a weekly dose of motivation."}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 6931405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931405", "by": "mijustin", "time": 1387406402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, I agree. The \"nucleus\" of our group were smart people I'd met through my podcast (Product People). We only let 5-10 people in at a time, and the monthly cost itself keeps most trolls away. ;) The group has a great diversity: everyone from people building their first thing, to folks that have already built big (million+ in sales) businesses. Clearly, choosing a group to belong to is a pretty personal choice. Our group isn't going to appeal to everyone. ;) (And correction: it's actually $20/month! There are other active + healthy communities that are $34-$100/month out there as well)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 6948577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948577", "by": "michaelcampbell", "time": 1387669159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest podcast of Freakonomics discussed this; believe it or don't, but it was quite thought provoking nonetheless."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 6949786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949786", "by": "apayan", "time": 1387701857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast had a great episode about Egypt and all their extra tanks and jets that they get paid to buy. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/23/214928040/episode-..."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 6953125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953125", "by": "voltagex_", "time": 1387773714, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">\"we are mediocre, and that's okay, let's laugh it off!\" Given Scott has been involved in such things as Tekpub (excellent tutorials site, now bought by Pluralsight) and lots of developer outreach, I don't think this is the right thing to read into his writing. >Perhaps he is just trying to be relatable to a community not known for exploration What? >lately I have been trying to read text more carefully, looking for worldviews, which has added a new layer of depth to even development blogs. I suspect you (and I) introduce our own biases when trying to gain extra context - remember text loses a"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 6967123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967123", "by": "mixmastamyk", "time": 1388080881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Carolla has a segment on his podcast he calls \"chicken-shit tickets\" where he complains about this."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6992836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6992836", "by": "salient", "time": 1388523856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know how much they overlap, but Steve Gibson was saying recently in one of this latest Security Now podcasts that what FIDO is trying to do is inferior to his recently launched SQRL protocol. He starts talking about it at 0:56: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/435 He says the FIDO spec is overdesigned, and everyone there has their own interests, it's tied to certain technologies, and it's not free. SQRL on the other hand generates the keys on the fly instead of storing them on the phone for each website. If a hacker steals your identity, you can also get it back with SQRL - you can't w"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 6993118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993118", "by": "humanrebar", "time": 1388528005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not about negating his points or trusting the author. I actually liked the piece. Until I reached the part of the article that started talking about how the free market failed. Characterizing the pre-ACA health insurance system as a free market is not a given and deserves much more discussion. I've already commented on the other issues I had with the end of the article, but at the end I felt that the real conclusion of the article (ACA! With exclamation points!) was at the end and that the points earlier served to support that conclusion. As far as facts go, I don't have much factual issu"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 6993275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993275", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1388530060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it will come back to needing new and smarter software. Perhaps more efficient software is a better word. Magnetic disk Storage is now at silly levels, and will not hit the theoretical maximum of 20TB but even so extracting all (randomly fragmented) data off a 4tb disk will take days to weeks. So we shall head for a time not unlike the 60/70s when you arranged storage on your tape drive based on the speed of the tape passing under the head. whatever architectures we come up with I think humanity will see increasing growth in computing power (perhaps not as insanely fast but fast) - but "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 6993498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993498", "by": "hamburglar", "time": 1388533962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Steve Gibson was saying recently in one of this latest Security Now podcasts that what FIDO is trying to do is inferior to his recently launched SQRL protocol\" Of course he was. He's Steve Gibson. He's a shameless self-promoter and he loves to make over-dramatic claims of finding security flaws in things. His only saving grace is that SQRL actually looks pretty sound to my moderately-better-than-amateur security experience. I hate to admit it, because if it catches on as a standard, he's only going to become more insufferable. The guy is a kook, except he's a kook who maybe have actually done"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7004596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7004596", "by": "johnthedebs", "time": 1388736334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to this podcast the other day and it was one of the more compelling This American Life episodes I've listened to recently. I say that as a pretty big fan of TAL. They spend the episode interviewing car salespeople and managers at one particular dealership over the course of a week (IIRC), where the salespeople are trying to rack up a certain number of sales to qualify for a bonus payout that means the difference between being in the red vs being in the black. They clear up some myths about car sales and generally get to the heart of what it's like to be a salesperson. The things tha"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7006516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006516", "by": "natural219", "time": 1388768686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sounds awesome, but I cannot for the life of me understand why the Podcast feed for This American Life only contains one goddamn entry. Who uses this shit? What is the point of a podcast if I can't download it in my podcast software of choice on my home Wi-Fi network and listen to it at my leisure? Am I missing something with a typical podcast workflow? Because this makes zero sense."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7007413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007413", "by": "hoprocker", "time": 1388776512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I listened to this podcast the other day and it was one of the more compelling This American Life episodes I've listened to recently. Agree. Rarely have I felt so riveted to what was going on. I attribute it to the pace and the chronology. Unlike many TAL shows which are told in retrospect and/or are multi-parters, this one is a single storyline with the actors right there, on air, dealing with the conflict and resolution before our ears."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 7032573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7032573", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1389295649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://walkercorporatelaw.com I haven't used them yet, but they are always sponsoring startup podcasts like This Week in Startups. I called them once to inquire about incorporating one of my web sites, Steve Walker answered the phone, answered a bunch of my questions, and quoted me a price that was on the lower end of prices that I got from other lawyers I contacted. Again, I haven't actually used them yet, but I will when the time comes."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7034239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7034239", "by": "bdcs", "time": 1389313666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great podcast by NPR's Planet Money[1] about how Norway avoided the \"resource curse\"[2], or paradox of the plenty, whereby countries with bountiful resources tend to be less developed than vice-verse. Highly recommended! Please comment below if you would like to discuss. [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-to-a... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7056082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7056082", "by": "dagw", "time": 1389690521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Planet Money podcast talked about this problem and the pot store owner in Colorado they interviewed had done more or less that. His store was owned by shell company that had a bank account, but he was unwilling to go into too much details on the exact legal setup. I got the feeling it was a bit of legal grey area and that the bank was happy with it only as long as they could honestly claim ignorance."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 7057263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057263", "by": "ToastyMallows", "time": 1389710394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know is a great Podcast"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 7057358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057358", "by": "womitt", "time": 1389711631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford eCorner and Harvard Business Review podcasts are really good to listen to if you have to stand. If you've listened to all you can go with conference speeches, I usually grab them from Youtube. If you can sit most of the time I would advise you to buy a Kindle and read books or blogposts. It is much more easier to concentrate on the material and it doesn't make your eyes tired like a phone."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 7058957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7058957", "by": "DanBC", "time": 1389726016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The infinite monkey cage http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl In Our Time is an excellent radio programme, and every episode is available online. There is plenty of choice."}, {"show": "674648919", "hn_item": 7067418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7067418", "by": "ajdecon", "time": 1389834903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Why is the valley crowd treating distributed systems engineering like it's a new fad? There's certainly been a lot more interest lately in building distributed systems, and in certain models mostly related to databases. I think a lot of this has been pushed by a few companies with an interest in either pushing these fields forward or being known as experts. A good example might be Basho, who've generated a lot of buzz around the Ricon conferences and the Think Distributed podcast. To be clear, I think this is a good thing . I personally think distributed systems are a really interesting topi"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 7077255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077255", "by": "rgbrenner", "time": 1389981278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not an economist.. I imagine there are papers with better data, but I would have to spend some time trying to find them. I did come by this article which deals with the same question: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/09/measuring-poverty-inc... http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/06/fam... If income volatility has increased, it could explain why the spending-income gap is so wide, and why they (poor) spend more on education (retraining to re-enter the workforce). Maybe try asking EconTalk (podcast of economics topics).. Sounds like something he would find interesting, "}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 7107751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107751", "by": "andrewconlan", "time": 1390480974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out Core Intuition or NSBrief both great iOS Devel. Podcasts"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 7107905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107905", "by": "srik", "time": 1390482812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mostly iOS related podcasts from my subscriptions - Build Phase, NSBrief, Core Intuition, Debug, Iterate, Accidental Tech Podcast, Edge Cases."}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 7107905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107905", "by": "srik", "time": 1390482812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mostly iOS related podcasts from my subscriptions - Build Phase, NSBrief, Core Intuition, Debug, Iterate, Accidental Tech Podcast, Edge Cases."}, {"show": "538007855", "hn_item": 7107905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107905", "by": "srik", "time": 1390482812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mostly iOS related podcasts from my subscriptions - Build Phase, NSBrief, Core Intuition, Debug, Iterate, Accidental Tech Podcast, Edge Cases."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 7114348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114348", "by": "itafroma", "time": 1390561737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the list of people and things featured: - 1984, original Macintosh - 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer - 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement - 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research - 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography - 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop - 1990, Craig Hickman, creator of Kid Pix - 1991, John Maeda, artist and pioneer of motion graphics - 1992, David Carson, graphic designer and art director of Ray Gun magazine - 1"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 7119890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119890", "by": "lstamour", "time": 1390625213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, in the Debug podcast, it was revealed that they were going to go with Mozilla's effort and all that held them back was that KHTML was so much simpler to explain, though the simplicity was something it lost in rewrites. WebKit, regardless of original License, was likely going to be open source either way just as Darwin was even without the License requirement. The point here is that non-free uses inside OS X helped rather than hindered the development of KHTML software. By non-free I refer less to the availability of source code as to how copyright around branding forces a schism for "}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 7120252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120252", "by": "geocar", "time": 1390637922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Actually, in the Debug podcast, it was revealed that they were going to go with Mozilla's effort and all that held them back was that KHTML was so much simpler to explain Actually, that's completely irrelevant. The GPL ensured that Google could benefit from Apple's decision to use KHTML."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 7124108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7124108", "by": "malloreon", "time": 1390716843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of Marco/John/Casey's \"Accidental Tech\" podcast covers this really well."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 7143701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143701", "by": "crb", "time": 1391002771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting to see the change from 2009, in the Stack Overflow podcast 48: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/podcast-48/ >One reason localization has been a very low priority is that we feel for our particular audience, namely programmers, English is the de facto standard language. Not that other languages aren\u2019t important, but it\u2019s easier to get engineering work done when everything coalesces around a standard language. >Joel believes that there are five \u201cimportant\u201d languages that programming content should eventually be localized into: German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Japanese."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 7162495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162495", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1391277593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If the English Civil War, the New Model Army and the struggles between the monarchy and Parliament are of interest to anyone, Mike Duncan (of \"The History of Rome\" fame) has recently wrapped up the first segment of his new \"Revolutions\" podcast[1] on the English civil wars of the 17th Century. [1] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 7162495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162495", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1391277593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If the English Civil War, the New Model Army and the struggles between the monarchy and Parliament are of interest to anyone, Mike Duncan (of \"The History of Rome\" fame) has recently wrapped up the first segment of his new \"Revolutions\" podcast[1] on the English civil wars of the 17th Century. [1] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7223339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7223339", "by": "jhvh1134", "time": 1392197043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Economist for world and business news. Planet Money(podcast) for help understanding news about world economics. Nature.com for articulate reports of the natural sciences. I've started reading nautil.us, and have nothing but good things to say. wartard.blogspot.com is a little aggressive, but I still find it the best source for understanding military intention."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 7225352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7225352", "by": "higherpurpose", "time": 1392223762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seems a little similar to Steve Gibson's SQRL, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrQboo3pA10 http://sqrl.pl/guide/ https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm He said in his recent Security Now podcast that he had some breakthroughs in terms of how SQRL will work, so it will probably change quite a bit from how it's presented at those two links. He also said his solution is better than what the FIDO Alliance is trying to achieve, but we'll see when it's ready if true (it does sound like the FIDO Alliance has created a few adoption problems for themselves with the licensing and whatnot, though)."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 7284106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7284106", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1393111428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The economist Peter Leeson did a whole book around that, called The Invisible Hook [1]. I haven't read it, but the Econtalk podcast with the author[2] was interesting. That said, I don't think this measure will be nearly as successful as the pirates'. I'd rather see the executive body be elected by the workers, as in the Mondragon corporation[3]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Hook [2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/05/leeson_on_pirat.htm... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Cooperative_Corporat..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 7303346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303346", "by": "Ecio78", "time": 1393396486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You mean something like http://www.collective2.com/ ? One of the difference is that on c2 you can't see the internals of the algo (because it could also be not an algo but somebody deciding how to invest, actually the algo is not implemented on the site but outside, the site only receives buy/sell commands). on Techzing podcast can find and interview to the founder (a bit old, 2011): http://techzinglive.com/page/868/155-tz-interview-mathew-kle..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 7307374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7307374", "by": "rtre", "time": 1393445919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, just the other day I was listening to Joe Rogan's podcast with Dr.Rhonda Patrick (#459). If I recall correctly, they breifly discuss inflammation. She goes on to mention that elevated levels of \"C-reactive protein\" in the blood is used as a marker for inflammation. The podcast is worth a listen, they go into other topics such as nutrition, vitamins & minerals, etc. http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/dr-rhonda-patrick"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 7309871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7309871", "by": "philiphodgen", "time": 1393467311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Please don't squeeze pennies here. Your time is astonishingly valuable. Don't squander it by doing it yourself. I am a tax lawyer and have taken multiple accounting courses. I am not competent. Software does not solve financial accounting (yet). Do not hire yourself at $0 per hour. Use Quickbooks for Windows (not the online piece of crap or the Mac piece of crap). Pay a shit ton for a really good bookkeeper. Don't cheap out. Do weekly sit down reviews of your money with the bookkeeper. Fucking mandatory. Or you will financially die. Personal experience speaking here. Software will not fix your"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 7350750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7350750", "by": "api", "time": 1394062192, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 7384446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384446", "by": "lunchladydoris", "time": 1394610567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this sort of stuff you should definitely check out Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast [1]. Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo have great chemistry and the content is always interesting. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 7389823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389823", "by": "Luyt", "time": 1394679230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Skeptoid episode about the WoW Signal: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4342 The podcast starts with: \"It was August 15, 1977, when astronomer Jerry Ehman was examining data coming from Ohio State University's radio telescope, which was engaged in listening for signals from deep space, hoping to find something of intelligent origin. In a moment that's since become one of the most famous events in astronomy, he saw a sequence of six characters on the printout \u2014 6EQUJ5 \u2014 which caught his attention. So much so, in fact, that he circled the text, and wrote \"Wow!\" in the margin. It was, appar"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 7392895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7392895", "by": "kendalk", "time": 1394728647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> with totally separated right and left hand keyboards The latest Ruby Rogues podcast discussed a new \"Ergodox\" split ergonomic keyboard with open hardware. You can build them yourself and customize them. http://ergodox.org/ The discussion is at 1:08:30 in Episode 147 (March 12, 2014) at http://rubyrogues.com/"}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 7394135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7394135", "by": "jt2190", "time": 1394737918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. Check out the interview the Trello team did on the NodeUp podcast: http://blog.fogcreek.com/trello-server-team-on-nodeup-podcas..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7429754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7429754", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1395246337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They have a giant book: http://www.usitc.gov/tata/hts/ There is a really interesting NPR \"Planet Money\" podcast where they talk to customs folks about the import process. (They were tracing the supply chain for a t-shirt) Customs agents have lots of obscure knowledge about these things."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 7431868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7431868", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1395263305, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"It used to be the case that governments funded a lot of development of breakthrough technologies. The bad news is that they have mostly stopped\" I have to plug the newest BBC In Our Time podcast on absolute zero - where basic science research (hey let's see how cold we can make this gas? Cool! Now this one?) provided refrigeration, superconductivity, superfluids, MRI scanners and more. We cannot think VC can replace government long term funding but we can and should support VCs who are willing to go all in on long term funding and make it cool again. Politicians will go a long way on just sta"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7437315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437315", "by": "casca", "time": 1395337963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more info on the how and why of US car dealerships, here's a good Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 7472927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7472927", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1395837291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think this was mentioned on the ATP podcast, but I can't remember... Facebook isnt trying to be Apple and buy companies that contribute to their core products. They want to be Disney (who owns ESPN, Pixar and many others). They've bought these companies (Instagram, Parse, WhatsApp and now Oculus) to largely leave them alone as independant companies operating within Facebook."}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 7480199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7480199", "by": "lstamour", "time": 1395926775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also follow Debug podcast, some C9 efforts and some vendor podcasts. It's rare for me to discover the type of high quality content in audio you used to find at places like ITconversations back in the day, mostly because people use video/YouTube these days. But I try to keep an ear out ;-)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7481885, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481885", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1395941071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to Marc A on this week's Freakonomics podcast, giving a very plausible rationale for why we should still care about crypto-currency. (Go listen - its good) I am trying to salve my conscience and turn open source software and public sector into a mission (#) - but despite loving his pitch and wanting to believe in the Golden future, I must have too-small-a-mindset. How on earth can you spend 1.5 billion on startups in the next couple of years? I could take 5 million right now and do some amazing stuff in message queueing in local UK government - the future is bright, but cheaper. Are"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 7503700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7503700", "by": "CodeWithCoffee", "time": 1396295596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apple also uses a similar strategy with the iPhone. The iPhone 4 and 5 both made major form changes (retina display and screen shape) whereas the 4S and 5S were focussed on refinement (faster CPU, 64-bit CPU respectively). It has also been noted (possibly on the Accidental Tech Podcast, or somewhere similar) that a 'tick' year for the phone tends to be a 'tock' year for iOS and vice versa; iOS 5 and iOS 7 (released with the 4S and 5S respectively) were bigger changes than iOS 4 and 6."}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 7512791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7512791", "by": "bane", "time": 1396398935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interested is too mild a word. This is fantastic, Jeremy Parish is also a legend in the retrogaming community. Retronauts (old and new) is a must listen to podcast."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7515552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515552", "by": "bsirkia", "time": 1396447377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like that this is at least opening up to the possibility of new, more efficient transaction methods. Marc Andreessen made me think about credit cards differently after hearing him on a Freakonomics podcast: \"And so one way to think about credit card fraud, is credit card fraud is a two-to-three percent drag on the entire economy. It\u2019s an artifact of the fact that credit cards were never designed to be used the way that they\u2019re being used today. Credit cards never anticipated online transactions. Credit cards, by the way, the credit card system, never anticipated malware running inside a cash"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7518759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7518759", "by": "antonioevans", "time": 1396470562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am not deaf or blind, but podcasts give me the same experiences. Specifically Radio Lab or This American Life. Growing up in the TV generation we are so use to one stimuli...the visual one. We forget about the way the other ones are so fresh and sensitive."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 7519426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7519426", "by": "jaynos", "time": 1396476602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This one [1] is recommended by the guys behind the Radio Lab podcast (specific episode [2]). I left the referral tag on it since it'll go to help them produce more great radio. [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385503865/wnycorg-20 [2] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91502-the-invisible-hand/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7534203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7534203", "by": "casca", "time": 1396644011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was some discussion around Truecar and how they pivoted in this Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 7545423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545423", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1396862440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was lack of food a factor in either the English Civil War or the American War of Independence? [NB I'm listening to the excellent \"Revolutions\" podcast at the moment http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ ]"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 7555193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555193", "by": "TomatoTomato", "time": 1396982773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the other side, in a recent Javascript Jabber podcast with Dean Sofer (Feb 7th, 2014), around 16 minutes in they discuss the difference Edit: Link => http://javascriptjabber.com/095-jsj-angularui-with-dean-sofe..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7573768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573768", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1397232927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A similar policy at Zappos was discussed a few years ago on the Freakonomics podcast. Here's the transcript: http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quitting-fu..."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 7576718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7576718", "by": "wj", "time": 1397269563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a huge fan as well. I even post my notes on each episode at http://www.personalopz.com . The podcast came on my radar a year ago on April's Fools Day when they switched with Startups For the Rest of Us. I'm technically location independent from my job but not location independent family wise. I live vicariously though Dan and Ian for the time being."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7582907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582907", "by": "justhw", "time": 1397421640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconded. Pocketcasts is amazing, especially the settings. For example I have have mine set to keep only latest 2 podcasts pershow, auto download on wifi, and auto delete those I've listened to. It's a well built app worth way above $3.99. Don't bother buying other podcast apps or even show apps like This American Life."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 7584530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584530", "by": "unlimitedbacon", "time": 1397449469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to his Security Now podcast on a regular basis and have always found it be be extremely thorough and informative. However, I have to agree with you that his website and writing style look like something you'd expect from someone who wears a tin foil hat. I also understand that he doesn't have much credibility in the wider security community. So I guess my question is, what do you guys think of the show and are there any alternatives you would recommend?"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 7584631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584631", "by": "borplk", "time": 1397452023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bullshit. Firstly the cert revocation check does work. You are assuming an arbitrarily advanced adversary who is assumed to pull both an MITM and also attempt to block access to the CA's servers. When in reality that may very well not be the case. Just because someone is doing an MITM does not mean that they will also block access to the CA's servers. Secondly the MITM can happen at different levels. If the server that is sending you the response is being MITM'd but you are not, then you can safely access CA's servers and check for revocation. The MITM does not necessarily affect the client in"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 7584959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7584959", "by": "Perseids", "time": 1397461595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I listen to his weekly Security Now podcast and without failure he is well-prepared, thorough, accurate and correct. Even when he makes a small mistake next week he comes along, specifies the exact mistake and apologises and corrects it. > Perhaps he made some mistakes or took controversial positions like ... when? 10 years ago? and people wont let it go. According to archive.org [1] the password haystack page [2] is from June 2011. He hasn't changed his \"controversial\" opinion on that matter yet. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.grc.com/haystack.ht... [2] https://www.grc.com/hay"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7595089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7595089", "by": "sentenza", "time": 1397606128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might not be reasonable, but there is an explanation. It's been a while since I heared the podcast but Planet Money explained something along the lines that all the American banks are invested in an old, inefficient system of processing these transfers and there is no incentive to change. Here's the episode: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-... In Europe, the EU recently established the rule that all money transfers within the entire EU must be concluded within one business day. Thus most Europeans are surprised when they hear that it takes so much longer in the U"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7626102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626102", "by": "jonemo", "time": 1398147429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast recently had an episode on this titled \"The Wild West Of The Internet\". They take a pretty neutral view, but I found the interviews with people who own some of these TLDs now interesting. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/16/303735386/episode-..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 7627342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7627342", "by": "ToastyMallows", "time": 1398171624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope Josh and Chuck's Stuff You Should Know podcast continues. I've listened to it for many years now. Does anyone have any information about it?"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 7628780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628780", "by": "ryanklee", "time": 1398185615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> better suited to work towards education and not towards entertainment HSW's podcasts aside, which I think have their own separate entertainment value, whether the site itself serves a non-redundant purpose is questionable. My wife and I were listening (for the first time in many months) the Stuff You Should Know podcast, and we started talking about the HSW site itself. Who is it for? I can't think of one reason any search-literate adult would ever use it. (Except incidentally, in the way that one finds themselves suddenly on about.com every 6 months or so and thinks, \"Wtf? Am I lost? Why am"}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 7631985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631985", "by": "jadence", "time": 1398225144, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks for the reply tptacek! I tracked down Dave Arnold's report to 9:28 here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cooking-issues-episode-1... In summary: SC Johnson (SJC) told Grant Achatz and others chefs not to use their bags for sous-vide so Dave Arnold contacted SJC and asked specifically about using the bags for sous-vide and explained why he believes the practice is safe. The SJC representative replied with \"Ziplock brand bags are designed to withheld being held in high temperature water including being used up to 82 degree Celsius for up to 72 hours.\" (quote at 12:05 of podcast) I'd f"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 7634634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634634", "by": "zhte415", "time": 1398267398, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Semi) 'Business' person here, mainly working on things that interact with both technology and physical production. On making contact, usually via email (with exception of self face-to-face introductions) I'd suggest a telephone call or face-to-face meet in an environment the other person is comfortable with (which may involve a drive or flight at my expense). Let them make the call. The key is that I'm usually interested in something the other party does, rather than a specific product, and that breeds long term understanding and agreement, rather than developing a silo over either product or"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 7642688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7642688", "by": "ganeumann", "time": 1398370403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconded. Secrets of the Temple by Greider is pretty accessible (if biased, as they all are). http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Temple-Federal-Reserve-Country... Also, the EconTalk podcasts are awesome: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/money/ E.g. - David Laidler on Money ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/david_laidler_o.htm... ) - Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/03/sumner_on_money_1.h... ) - White on Hayek and Money ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/02/larry_white_on.html ) - etc."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 7644068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644068", "by": "crazy1van", "time": 1398386811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I second the EconTalk podcasts. I've been listening to them for over 5 years. They are hour long interviews on a wide variety of subjects. The host, Russ Roberts, does a great job of letting the guest get his or her point across even when you suspect he disagrees. The tone is polite and non-confrontational. It is more about accurately presenting a position than debating, although there is some point/counter-point. I cannot exaggerate how much I've learned from EconTalk. Plus, there's even an episode with Paul Graham about ycombinator and startups: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/08/graha"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7644816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644816", "by": "josho", "time": 1398400645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Planet Money podcast does an excellent job explaining the current situation, why there is not more competition, and what other countries did that worked out well. [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/04/299060527/episode-..."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 7648762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7648762", "by": "Fuzzwah", "time": 1398456570, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interested in Ancient Rome? I went through a phase where I was some what obsessed about it. I thoroughly enjoyed The History of Rome podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ Also of note (less historical, but still brilliant imho), the HBO (fictional) series Rome: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 7650504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650504", "by": "emp_", "time": 1398488745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about it on Joe Rogan's podcast with Graham Hancock (especially the oldest one) and the stuff is mindblowing. Having animal bones not from the region and deliberately bury the entire site about 10 000 years ago (making it intrusion-free for so long) is a glympse of how civilization goes much farther than what was believed. It also blows my mind that a farmer found it, can't wait until technology can scan the ground and look for human-like construction in a massive scale."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 7678141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678141", "by": "voltagex_", "time": 1398916478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible should turn up on HN more often. It's a very interesting and very well produced podcast that should interest a lot of people here. The episodes are short and it's worth digging through the archives."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7678385, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678385", "by": "HelloMcFly", "time": 1398921961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> ...his options strategies will make money in the worst year, they bleed money in all other years.... average returns count I'm not an expert in his line of thinking, nor do I currently practice his method of investing, but isn't his goal to hedge against loss (with potential for profit from it when it strikes others) rather than maximizing profits on the whole? I imagine he'd be upset that an \"average\" would be the ultimate indicator of the worth of his ideas. Outside of the practical utility of his investment advice (which is outside of my interest area, for better or worse), I still think "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7678892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678892", "by": "eli_gottlieb", "time": 1398936037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I've not read Antifragile yet, but it at least gives some probably needed context to the modern fixation on normally-distributed data as evidenced by the simplistic quantification of so many things (e.g., the Freakonomics podcast). If you want a man of dogma who's going to criticize the overuse of normal distributions to generate illusorily \"informative\" statistics, I think you'd be better off with E.T. Jaynes."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7702234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702234", "by": "shazow", "time": 1399336841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Planet Money podcast episode[1] which mentions that Americans are far less likely to wear a seatbelt, at least compared to Germans but also probably Scandinavian countries as well. According to Wikipedia[2], the US is definitely worse than Sweden, Germany, and Norway in terms of seat belt usage. But at least it's better than Italy, Greece, and the Czech Republic. I suspect this is a big factor in road deaths. [1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_by_country"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 7743900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743900", "by": "neillyons", "time": 1400077476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found Hacker News via the Stackoverflow podcast. Jeff or Joel mentioned it in one of the early episodes."}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 7761318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761318", "by": "mercer", "time": 1400366017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rather than comment on your categorizing or ranting, I'll try to comment on an observation that I do think is partly accurate. I believe nerds became 'cool' right around when computers became 'normal'. In my youth, around the time where social issues started becoming important (teenager), computers were commonplace enough that most people knew how to use them, but they were by no means cool. Most of my peers had MSN messenger and a hotmail address, but gaming on a pc was uncool, spending significant time on the thing other than aimless chatting was uncool, and programming was extremely uncool."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 7767302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7767302", "by": "3rd3", "time": 1400506412, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7784287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784287", "by": "gallamine", "time": 1400772300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> me on a psychologist's couch Maybe that's something that could actually help. You sound like you're suffering from depression and it's a difficult cycle to get out of (for those that are blessed to be able to). Maybe this is superficial but here's a few suggestions that improved my outlook on life when I was in a similar situation: - I chose to drive an alternate route to work that was longer, but involved a more scenic trip. I began to appreciate it more. - I started podcasting extensively (I use Downcast on IOS and listen at 1.5x speed). Story-based podcasts were helpful - The Moth, This A"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7784287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784287", "by": "gallamine", "time": 1400772300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> me on a psychologist's couch Maybe that's something that could actually help. You sound like you're suffering from depression and it's a difficult cycle to get out of (for those that are blessed to be able to). Maybe this is superficial but here's a few suggestions that improved my outlook on life when I was in a similar situation: - I chose to drive an alternate route to work that was longer, but involved a more scenic trip. I began to appreciate it more. - I started podcasting extensively (I use Downcast on IOS and listen at 1.5x speed). Story-based podcasts were helpful - The Moth, This A"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 7784287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784287", "by": "gallamine", "time": 1400772300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> me on a psychologist's couch Maybe that's something that could actually help. You sound like you're suffering from depression and it's a difficult cycle to get out of (for those that are blessed to be able to). Maybe this is superficial but here's a few suggestions that improved my outlook on life when I was in a similar situation: - I chose to drive an alternate route to work that was longer, but involved a more scenic trip. I began to appreciate it more. - I started podcasting extensively (I use Downcast on IOS and listen at 1.5x speed). Story-based podcasts were helpful - The Moth, This A"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7784287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784287", "by": "gallamine", "time": 1400772300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> me on a psychologist's couch Maybe that's something that could actually help. You sound like you're suffering from depression and it's a difficult cycle to get out of (for those that are blessed to be able to). Maybe this is superficial but here's a few suggestions that improved my outlook on life when I was in a similar situation: - I chose to drive an alternate route to work that was longer, but involved a more scenic trip. I began to appreciate it more. - I started podcasting extensively (I use Downcast on IOS and listen at 1.5x speed). Story-based podcasts were helpful - The Moth, This A"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 7784287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784287", "by": "gallamine", "time": 1400772300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> me on a psychologist's couch Maybe that's something that could actually help. You sound like you're suffering from depression and it's a difficult cycle to get out of (for those that are blessed to be able to). Maybe this is superficial but here's a few suggestions that improved my outlook on life when I was in a similar situation: - I chose to drive an alternate route to work that was longer, but involved a more scenic trip. I began to appreciate it more. - I started podcasting extensively (I use Downcast on IOS and listen at 1.5x speed). Story-based podcasts were helpful - The Moth, This A"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 7787455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7787455", "by": "tdicola", "time": 1400805981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Carolla is pooling funds to battle a patent troll that is suing him for podcasting: http://fundanything.com/patenttroll?locale=en"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 7787551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7787551", "by": "the_watcher", "time": 1400807998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Carolla is spearheading a group of the top podcasts in the world doing exactly this. I've donated, I know Carolla can rub people the wrong way, but he's the guy you want running something like this, since he'll spend a ton of his own money to prove his point. http://fundanything.com/patenttroll?locale=en"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7793413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793413", "by": "mbubb", "time": 1400942705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great idea - I have never used one. There was a recent 'This American Life\" podcast where the marine version of this saved a family on a sinking vessel in the middle of the Pacific. I bring a tiny dual band ham radio (Baofeng uv5r) plus antenna. At 4 Watts it might not be powerful enough - though"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7804597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7804597", "by": "rmorlok", "time": 1401200252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics Podcast has an episode on faecal transplants: http://freakonomics.com/2011/03/04/freakonomics-radio-the-po..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 7822453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822453", "by": "incision", "time": 1401465206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not the typical HN material, but Cenk Uygur was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently [1] giving some interesting insight into the dumbing down of TV journalism and the history / decisions behind his online focus with The Young Turks. 1: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/cenk-uygur"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 7825913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825913", "by": "cpaone", "time": 1401541774, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 7845975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845975", "by": "mattewilliams", "time": 1401894574, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 7853045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853045", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1401989426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andreessen is a \"grand master\" when it comes to tech/startups. I really do respect his insights, he's obviously a very intelligent person. However, in this case, it seems Andreessen is not much of a student of history and government. Anyone that listens to Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" and \"Common Sense\" podcasts will know how dangerous these government powers can be."}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 7860481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860481", "by": "platz", "time": 1402091849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mirage was also featured on the latest Software Engineering Radio podcast: http://www.se-radio.net/2014/05/episode-204-anil-madhavapedd..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7861143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861143", "by": "diafygi", "time": 1402110933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money has a great podcast explaining the reasons why car dealers exist. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7861321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7861321", "by": "lessnonymous", "time": 1402116764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TL;DR: To save y'all from listening to the (interesting) Planet Money podcast: Back in the early C20 depression the auto makers were the biggest companies in the USA. And they'd force the franchisees to purchase cars or lose their franchise. So states enacted legislation to ensure the auto makers couldn't close a franchise. Nor could the auto maker grant a second franchise in the same location. And (I think I'm inferring as I can't remember hearing this explicitly) could not open their own dealership that competed with the existing franchise."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 7864803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864803", "by": "e40", "time": 1402239476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "terrorism is not anywhere near a big enough threat to justify the counter measures, loss of privacy , freedom and the threat of a scary totalitarian future To put it into perspective, more people die walking across roads in the US every year than died from terrorism in 2001. Most years other than 2001, the difference between them is staggering. Yet, you would be hard pressed to find anyone that we should take drastic measures to curtail the freedom of car drivers because of the pedestrian deaths. How little people care about the deaths of 4000+ people a year: most drivers that kill a pedestria"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 7892895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7892895", "by": "hbeaver", "time": 1402758721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would encourage you to listen to Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast on Twit. But the gist is TrueCrypt has not been hacked. Take a listen to the \"TrueCrypt WTF?\" episode. http://twit.tv/show/security-now"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 7893433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7893433", "by": "rasz_pl", "time": 1402773618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"You Are Not So Smart\" podcast had a whole episode about this subject (Robbers Cave Experiment): \"The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight\" http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/the-illusion-of-asymm..."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 7919353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7919353", "by": "bdcravens", "time": 1403233143, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "405561057", "hn_item": 7922039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7922039", "by": "g_lined", "time": 1403288904, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast is a great repository of video game tracks. Though finished now, I enjoyed listening to the interviews and the fact that the episodes have a theme helps them be educational (well, interpreting at the very least). https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/legacy-music-hour-video-... Originally from this website but I can't find a link (at least on the mobile site) http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/the-legacy-music-hour..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 7941060, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7941060", "by": "joosters", "time": 1403648797, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1852255002", "hn_item": 7959185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959185", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1403986601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"\"\" It's technically illegal to manipulate the market. But there are hardly ever any cases [enforcing these laws]. Basically the hedge funds run absolutely wild and do whatever they want.\"\"\" There's your problem right there. There is a great TED podcast from one of the regulators on savings and loans (\"how to rob a bank from the inside\") that said basically \"we failed to stop either crash but we jailed 9,000 people the last time - this time not one got prosecuted.\" I think we have lost our willingness to prosecute big business. I mean Madoff was prosecuted because he was just nakedly fraudulen"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7967259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7967259", "by": "pkaler", "time": 1404158041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Almost any argument that relies on GDP numbers to back up its claim is specious at best. For example, you could have a tornado destroy a town and the disaster recovery spending would increase GDP. You could build a teleportation device that puts all delivery drivers out of work. GDP would decrease but there would be an overall increase in wealth and quality of life. Thinking about economics through the lens of GDP is just the wrong way to think about the economy. Here's a great Planet Money podcast on the invention of \"The Economy\" and on GDP: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/28/28347754"}, {"show": "1572356745", "hn_item": 7967825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7967825", "by": "batbomb", "time": 1404163595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a podcast of Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold, he mentioned his dream is to modify his oven with copper tubing and inject water into his oven (he uses bricks for thermal mass). Of course, this was largely in relation to baking and injecting a massive amount of steam quickly, but I think a spray system over thermal mass (metal is the modernist suggestion, but I think possibly some sort of ceramic would be best). Of course, I read this article and thought exactly one thing: There's no way an oven like this will be affordable and reliable over a 3+ year. There's way too many things to break."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 7970613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970613", "by": "scotch_drinker", "time": 1404222854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They are likely to also be forbidden from dollar clearing for a time, possibly up to a year. This is an unheard of penalty and is actually very punitive. It's a new strategy by the US prosecutors and there was a good Planet Money podcast recently on what it means. Essentially, because we control the reserve currency of the world, we control the ability to transfer foreign currencies into dollars. This is a very powerful thing to control and being restricted from dollar clearing will likely be pretty painful."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 7980284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7980284", "by": "brucehart", "time": 1404340816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not a web site, but I would recommend subscribing to Jack Ganssle's Embedded News e-mail newsletter: http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html . There are usually one or two job postings in each issue. Also check out the podcasts at Embedded.fm and TheAmpHour.com . They both talk about a range of embedded topics and occasionally mention job opportunities."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 7981017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7981017", "by": "rrhoover", "time": 1404351860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Product Hunt started with my startup friends -- mostly guys, not dissimilar from Silicon Valley in general. You're absolutely right that Product Hunt needs more gender diversity and it's something we're working on. This topic has been on my mind well before it came up in a recent thread on PH ( http://www.producthunt.com/posts/made-with-code ). Erik and I spent the last few weeks emailing dozens of women in the community to (1) get their thoughts on the product and (2) ask for recommendations of other women they know that might be interested in contributing. We have a long way to go but it has"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 7992298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992298", "by": "greggman", "time": 1404577828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audiobooks are awesome for long drives. Podcasts too. For me especially Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth, Escape Pod, and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 7992298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992298", "by": "greggman", "time": 1404577828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audiobooks are awesome for long drives. Podcasts too. For me especially Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth, Escape Pod, and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 7992298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7992298", "by": "greggman", "time": 1404577828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audiobooks are awesome for long drives. Podcasts too. For me especially Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth, Escape Pod, and The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine"}, {"show": "1192165009", "hn_item": 8010981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010981", "by": "tornadonoob", "time": 1404927236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do use PocketCasts and get autodownload for BBC Radio4 comedies and some other entertaining programs. TechCrunch podcast sucks - there is too much blah blah. NYT is not that good at it either."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 8041599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041599", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1405512474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Essential? None really. However I've been enjoying the StackOverflow/StackExchange podcast archive. It began as a simple weekly Skype call between Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood in the pre release days of StackOverflow. The idea was that they would develop the company in the open. It's also interesting because community building forms a central theme, If you think Spolsky is funny the podcasts might even be enjoyable. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/archive/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8041617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041617", "by": "wj", "time": 1405512911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I prefer the podcasts that address the business end of things: * Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders * EconTalk * HBR IdeaCast For lifestyle businesses: * Startups for the Rest of Us * Tropical BMA * Smart Passive Income * The Foolish Adventure Music: * KCRW's Today's Top Tune * KEXP Song of the Day * Too many EDM podcasts to mention"}, {"show": "152022135", "hn_item": 8041617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041617", "by": "wj", "time": 1405512911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I prefer the podcasts that address the business end of things: * Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders * EconTalk * HBR IdeaCast For lifestyle businesses: * Startups for the Rest of Us * Tropical BMA * Smart Passive Income * The Foolish Adventure Music: * KCRW's Today's Top Tune * KEXP Song of the Day * Too many EDM podcasts to mention"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8041865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041865", "by": "sjs382", "time": 1405517379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to lots of podcasts... BS Report (Sports), Grantland (Sports & Pop Culture), Adam & Dr. Drew Show, Dr Drew Show, This American Life, Here's The Thing, The Moth, 99% Invisible, Risk!, in addition to a few I listen to only if the subject matter seems interesting."}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 8041888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041888", "by": "calvin_c", "time": 1405517676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Big favorite is Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, but for some reason of all the Podcasts I listen to the ads on that one seem to pull me out of the conversation the most."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 8041909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041909", "by": "eterpstra", "time": 1405518039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* JavaScript Jabber * Shop Talk (HTML/CSS) * The Changelog (Open Source) * ModernWeb Podcast (front end) * NodeUp The Truth - Mini Radio shows. Highly underrated. http://thetruthpodcast.com/Archives.html"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 8041909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041909", "by": "eterpstra", "time": 1405518039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* JavaScript Jabber * Shop Talk (HTML/CSS) * The Changelog (Open Source) * ModernWeb Podcast (front end) * NodeUp The Truth - Mini Radio shows. Highly underrated. http://thetruthpodcast.com/Archives.html"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8041917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041917", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1405518135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Cooking Issues * EconTalk * Sound Opinions * Planet Money * The Nerdist, when the guest outweighs how annoying I find Chris Hardwick * Slate Political Gabfest * This American Life * NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour * Marc Maron, for guests I'm interested in I have ATP in my podcast client, but any time I find myself listening to it, that's my cue to go buy an audiobook because I've run out of reasonable podcast."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 8041922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041922", "by": "ThomPete", "time": 1405518201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For design related stuff I really only think Iterate has value http://www.imore.com/iterate For startup related stuff a number of podcasts comes to mind. \"Startups for the rest of us\" http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Probably still most valuable podcast about bootstrapping I have ever listened too. \"Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders\" From Stanford Often has some very interesting speakers. \"From Scratch\" http://www.fromscratchradio.org/show/ Really good podcast about a wide variety of entrepreneurs (From etzy to atari, Thomas Keller, the guy who made Highline in Manhatten a reality etc) ver"}, {"show": "383084001", "hn_item": 8041992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041992", "by": "jjbohn", "time": 1405519006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Nerdist (comedy, but about half of the episodes have success stories so it kind of falls under entrepreneurship) * The Tim Ferris Show * The Ruby Rogues * Functional Geekery * The Smart Passive Income Podcast * The Nathan Barry Show (very new) * Mostly Erlang"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 8041992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8041992", "by": "jjbohn", "time": 1405519006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Nerdist (comedy, but about half of the episodes have success stories so it kind of falls under entrepreneurship) * The Tim Ferris Show * The Ruby Rogues * Functional Geekery * The Smart Passive Income Podcast * The Nathan Barry Show (very new) * Mostly Erlang"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 8042004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042004", "by": "sentenza", "time": 1405519153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte http://twit.tv/sn Freakshow (German, but best tech podcast I've found so far) http://freakshow.fm/ FLOSS Weekly http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly Logbuch: Netzpolitik (also German, but best Internet policy podcast I've found so far) http://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/ Of course I listen to many more non-tech related podcasts. What I noticed just now after going through my feed reader, is that I seem to be listening to about as many German ones as English ones, even though the total number of English podcasts out there should be higher. The only reason I"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 8042004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042004", "by": "sentenza", "time": 1405519153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte http://twit.tv/sn Freakshow (German, but best tech podcast I've found so far) http://freakshow.fm/ FLOSS Weekly http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly Logbuch: Netzpolitik (also German, but best Internet policy podcast I've found so far) http://logbuch-netzpolitik.de/ Of course I listen to many more non-tech related podcasts. What I noticed just now after going through my feed reader, is that I seem to be listening to about as many German ones as English ones, even though the total number of English podcasts out there should be higher. The only reason I"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8042014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042014", "by": "bliker", "time": 1405519315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ohh finally something for me You are not so smart - Very nice podcast about cognitive biases, psychology and so on. (Last episode I heard was about dangers of alternative medicine) 99 Percent Invisible - About design of everything. From architecture to industrial design. (Last episode was about fire escapes and their history) Radiolab - Quite varied but always amazingly produced stories about science (Last one was about brain stimulation using electricity) Freakonomics - Great podcast about economics, amazing life advice. (Last one was about how to \"Make you garden weed itself\") Hello Internet"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 8042014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042014", "by": "bliker", "time": 1405519315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ohh finally something for me You are not so smart - Very nice podcast about cognitive biases, psychology and so on. (Last episode I heard was about dangers of alternative medicine) 99 Percent Invisible - About design of everything. From architecture to industrial design. (Last episode was about fire escapes and their history) Radiolab - Quite varied but always amazingly produced stories about science (Last one was about brain stimulation using electricity) Freakonomics - Great podcast about economics, amazing life advice. (Last one was about how to \"Make you garden weed itself\") Hello Internet"}, {"show": "417595309", "hn_item": 8042015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042015", "by": "thesehands", "time": 1405519318, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "http://foundation.bz/ - Kevin Rose meets entrepreneurs https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-random-show-podcast/... - Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss The Infinite Monkey Cage - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc - Professor Brian cox & Robin Ince"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8042021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042021", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1405519407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money The Security Weekly podcast Hardcore History is amazing. The only problem is that you pick up homework assignments from all of the books referenced. I used to listen to This American Life, but it gets a little annoying if you overdo it."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8042044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042044", "by": "crisnoble", "time": 1405519646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "During my commutes I enjoying listing to these non-tech specific podcasts: This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ Try this one: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... , about Patent Trolls to get hooked. Radio Lab - http://www.radiolab.org/ Try this one: http://www.radiolab.org/story/193037-turing-problem/ about Alan Turing. Snap Judgement - http://snapjudgment.org/ Good old fashion stories that are all over the place."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8042064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042064", "by": "csdrane", "time": 1405519767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know: Two guys explain a different topic (e.g. amputation, avalanches, the game of Monopoly) each episode http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/ Planet Money: Economics podcast for the masses. High production value. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 8042066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042066", "by": "rustybailey", "time": 1405519788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mostly comedy, but... * Comedy Bang Bang - http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-bang-bang/ * Who Charted? - http://www.earwolf.com/show/who-charted/ * WTF with Marc Maron - http://www.wtfpod.com/ * The Indoor Kids - http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/the-indoor-kids-chann... * Brainy Gamer (hasn't been updated in a while): http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/podcast/"}, {"show": "544020986", "hn_item": 8042077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042077", "by": "bk_geek", "time": 1405519977, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Good podcast on investing: New Focus on Wealth with Chad Burton https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-focus-on-wealth-chad... Covers broad investing issues and not specific to stock picking"}, {"show": "753552884", "hn_item": 8042342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042342", "by": "m0nastic", "time": 1405522814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my current list, what used to be a 50/50 mix of technology and comedy podcasts has slowly become almost all comedy ones (I increasingly find podcasts to be a bad medium for technology discussions that aren't just \"news\"): * U Talkin' U2 To Me? -- A limited series (ostensibly they talk about a different U2 album every week, but even as someone who doesn't like U2 I found this hilarious). * The Critical Path -- I like Horace's perspective on the mobile market * WTF -- I subscribe to it, but only download if it's a guest I'm interested in. I also usually skip forward until the interview. *"}, {"show": "385372276", "hn_item": 8042342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8042342", "by": "m0nastic", "time": 1405522814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my current list, what used to be a 50/50 mix of technology and comedy podcasts has slowly become almost all comedy ones (I increasingly find podcasts to be a bad medium for technology discussions that aren't just \"news\"): * U Talkin' U2 To Me? -- A limited series (ostensibly they talk about a different U2 album every week, but even as someone who doesn't like U2 I found this hilarious). * The Critical Path -- I like Horace's perspective on the mobile market * WTF -- I subscribe to it, but only download if it's a guest I'm interested in. I also usually skip forward until the interview. *"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8044185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044185", "by": "dctoedt", "time": 1405540914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TED Radio Hour -- Guy Raz on NPR. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=151... Freakonomics Radio -- Stephen Dubner http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts..."}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 8044185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044185", "by": "dctoedt", "time": 1405540914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TED Radio Hour -- Guy Raz on NPR. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=151... Freakonomics Radio -- Stephen Dubner http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts..."}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 8044683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044683", "by": "crazypyro", "time": 1405545821, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Hardcore History\" is such a great one. I was surprised to not see it mentioned. They are really just fabulous entertainment. Dan Carlin also has another podcast called \"Common Sense\". Couldn't recommend them both enough. Dan Carlin has an extremely strong ability to take historical events and use them to bring context to current events."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 8044950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044950", "by": "Fuzzwah", "time": 1405549275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have these which I enjoy because I'm interested in the subject matter, maybe someone else is too.... Chequered Flag Formula 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1 Skydive Radio: http://www.skydiveradio.com/ Then there are a few which I highly recommend to anyone: Damn Interesting: http://www.damninteresting.com/ Revolutions: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ The British History Podcast: http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ If you have any interest in Roman history then you definitely need to check out: The History of Rome: http://www.thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 8044950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044950", "by": "Fuzzwah", "time": 1405549275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have these which I enjoy because I'm interested in the subject matter, maybe someone else is too.... Chequered Flag Formula 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1 Skydive Radio: http://www.skydiveradio.com/ Then there are a few which I highly recommend to anyone: Damn Interesting: http://www.damninteresting.com/ Revolutions: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ The British History Podcast: http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ If you have any interest in Roman history then you definitely need to check out: The History of Rome: http://www.thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 8044950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044950", "by": "Fuzzwah", "time": 1405549275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have these which I enjoy because I'm interested in the subject matter, maybe someone else is too.... Chequered Flag Formula 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1 Skydive Radio: http://www.skydiveradio.com/ Then there are a few which I highly recommend to anyone: Damn Interesting: http://www.damninteresting.com/ Revolutions: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ The British History Podcast: http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ If you have any interest in Roman history then you definitely need to check out: The History of Rome: http://www.thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 8044950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044950", "by": "Fuzzwah", "time": 1405549275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have these which I enjoy because I'm interested in the subject matter, maybe someone else is too.... Chequered Flag Formula 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/cff1 Skydive Radio: http://www.skydiveradio.com/ Then there are a few which I highly recommend to anyone: Damn Interesting: http://www.damninteresting.com/ Revolutions: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ The British History Podcast: http://thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ If you have any interest in Roman history then you definitely need to check out: The History of Rome: http://www.thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8047798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8047798", "by": "rogerbinns", "time": 1405608279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always connect via bluetooth to my car or to a jambox. The most recent time it randomly stopped playing was yesterday afternoon while driving - right in the middle of an episode on a long straight on the highway. For the record I have never had Google Music randomly stop playing using the same device(s) to the same car and jambox. The position loss usually occurs with Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast where each episode is 3 - 5 hours long. I listen to about 30 minutes each time on the same device and sometimes it just resumes from a previous stop point rather then the most recent. To de"}, {"show": "1560010348", "hn_item": 8050782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050782", "by": "elyrly", "time": 1405638816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "StarTalk Dan Carlin Hardcore History Build Podcast Programming throwdown coding the path stuff you missed in history class freakonomics stuff you should know"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 8052024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052024", "by": "choosenick", "time": 1405667990, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 8053232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053232", "by": "gmays", "time": 1405694360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Tropical MBA podcast talks about places like this quite frequently, so it's worth a listen. Here's a list of their top cities, most are international: http://www.tropicalmba.com/2014lifestyeldesigncities/"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 8054381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8054381", "by": "markthethomas", "time": 1405704891, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8077887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077887", "by": "l33tbro", "time": 1406167116, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Doesn't have to be IT related. I prefer longer stuff - This American Life, Google Talks, etc"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8077901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077901", "by": "kennethfriedman", "time": 1406167543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Show (John Gruber), Star Talk Radio (Neil deGrasse Tyson), Freakonomics Radio (Stephen Dubner), Accidental Tech Podcast (Arment, Liss, Siracusa), Stuff You Should Know (howstuffworks.com)."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8077901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077901", "by": "kennethfriedman", "time": 1406167543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Show (John Gruber), Star Talk Radio (Neil deGrasse Tyson), Freakonomics Radio (Stephen Dubner), Accidental Tech Podcast (Arment, Liss, Siracusa), Stuff You Should Know (howstuffworks.com)."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8077901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077901", "by": "kennethfriedman", "time": 1406167543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Show (John Gruber), Star Talk Radio (Neil deGrasse Tyson), Freakonomics Radio (Stephen Dubner), Accidental Tech Podcast (Arment, Liss, Siracusa), Stuff You Should Know (howstuffworks.com)."}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 8077901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077901", "by": "kennethfriedman", "time": 1406167543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Show (John Gruber), Star Talk Radio (Neil deGrasse Tyson), Freakonomics Radio (Stephen Dubner), Accidental Tech Podcast (Arment, Liss, Siracusa), Stuff You Should Know (howstuffworks.com)."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8077988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8077988", "by": "thret", "time": 1406169531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab (Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich) Dr. Karl (JJJ) http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/podcast.htm"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 8080141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080141", "by": "tomorgan", "time": 1406216490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow. I guess we'll never know the full facts, but I didn't think that was a move which the Josh Topolsky I thought I knew from Engaget/ThisIsMyNext/Verge podcasts would have made. Just goes to show: you never really know people. Or, of course, that every man has his price ;) Unless there's going to be a techie Bloomberg podcast - I'll miss Josh's work. @TheVerge: hopefully you can now put all this behind you, and crank it into second gear. There's still so much potential in what you have."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8094213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094213", "by": "obsession", "time": 1406500604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have heard lots of good about interval training. I remember Freakonomics podcast mentioning it being the most effective exercise versus time spent."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 8096137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096137", "by": "filleokus", "time": 1406547464, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8098249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098249", "by": "ForHackernews", "time": 1406569439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope it's better than the \"This American Life\" Android app. I'm still angry that I spent real money on a buggy mobile interface that freezes and crashes for podcasts that are free in a normal browser."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8098475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8098475", "by": "arrrg", "time": 1406571701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts exist and NPR uses that format liberally. You can pick from several excellent podcast apps and access a lot of NPR\u2019s content that way. NPR also has an excellent website where you can listen to their content on mobile devices. This app is a third way to access their content. It doesn\u2019t make sense for everyone (if someone only listens to one NPR show \u2013 for example Planet Money \u2013 and also a lot of other, similar audio content from other sources I would recommend getting a podcast app they like; if someone only occasionally listens to NPR \u2013 for example when someone recommends them somethi"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8100384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8100384", "by": "sien", "time": 1406600190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was an interesting comment you made in your Econtalk podcast which was really very good. The point could be taken further to work out how much people spend on average on a car and at what point they would get rid of their car. Possibly for general use it is more applicable to self-driving cars than Uber but it's still interesting."}, {"show": "538007855", "hn_item": 8101580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8101580", "by": "QuadDamaged", "time": 1406631455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ex Apple employees on the 'Edge Cases Podcast' - xib files were extremely brittle initially. Merging conflicts would be impossible to handle without dedicated tooling."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8108108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8108108", "by": "swah", "time": 1406728584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really appreciate when a new project mentions the ones in the same space - or the ones that inspired it - and why they aren't good enough and a new project was started. The guys in the ATP podcast talked about a similar gesture in the Overcast app, and that most users really enjoyed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/overcast_others..."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8113757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8113757", "by": "sjtrny", "time": 1406811208, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8113813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8113813", "by": "byoung2", "time": 1406812165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Personal Audio, they've lost interest in suing podcasters because the podcasters\u2014even one of Adam Carolla's size\u2014just don't make enough money for it to care. I expected some sort of epiphany, where they realized that being a patent troll was wrong. I should have known better..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 8119177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119177", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1406891507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the subject of revolutions I can strongly recommend that Revolutions podcast by the same chap who did The History of Rome: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 8119177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119177", "by": "arethuza", "time": 1406891507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the subject of revolutions I can strongly recommend that Revolutions podcast by the same chap who did The History of Rome: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "327725953", "hn_item": 8128770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128770", "by": "tehwalrus", "time": 1407092231, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I loved the contrast of Tomb Raider and Portal - interactive, fast thinking rather than \"press X to not die\" nonsense during a \"cutscene\". I also really love the way they break down storytelling axes - dungeons and dragons adds the \"interactive\" axis without the \"AV\" one, which presents its own challenges. (if you want a good example of this, I recommend the \"critical hit\" podcast[1], although be warned you'll need to listen to literally hundreds of hours of people playing D&D, which is not ideal if you're only interested in the story's interactivity.) I thought they missed a trick not analysi"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 8132545, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8132545", "by": "atuladhar", "time": 1407169564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first thing I thought of: a story called \"The Extractor\" that recently featured on The Truth podcast: http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2014/3/9_The_Extrac..."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8134139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134139", "by": "bennesvig", "time": 1407187832, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8134447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8134447", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1407191585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Surely Adam Carolla's representatives can release characterizations of the amount of money he's making off podcasting with his permission, regardless of whether or not the details of his podcasting income were subject to discovery or not. The plaintiff would reasonably not be able to release information it sought from the defendant, but the defendant can obviously release his own personal information at will."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 8151035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151035", "by": "crapshoot101", "time": 1407461684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So cool. If anyone is interested, I've spent the summer going through \"The History of Rome\" podcast from Mike Duncan ( http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ ), and even as someone who thought he knew a little bit about Roman history, its been fascinating - ie, we're just getting to the end of Caesar's reign, and we spent as much time on the Tarquins' as we did on Ceasar. I've heard great things about Dan Carlin, but I wanted to start from the beginning."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 8151092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8151092", "by": "bjcubsfan", "time": 1407462999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a treatment of this story on the great podcast Skeptoid. http://skeptoid.com/mobile/4129"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 8152541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152541", "by": "celerity", "time": 1407502760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard this performed on a podcast called, \"The Truth: Movies for Your Ears.\" Very good podcast for dramatic stories, sometimes artsy like this one."}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 8152610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152610", "by": "calvin_c", "time": 1407503965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great podcast certainly, and I found it much more enjoyable than the short film adaptation mentioned higher in this thread. I also liked the story on The Truth about the beings who discovered the Voyager 1 record ( http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2014/5/14_Voyager_F... ). Although the 'aliens' in that story were far too human and contemporary to take seriously, it worked as a great examination of how our civilization would react to a similar discovery. Although, like many Truth episodes, the light improv style works only well enough for it to be enjoyable. I much prefer their scripted"}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 8174617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8174617", "by": "jonsterling", "time": 1407958265, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 8176590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8176590", "by": "lelf", "time": 1408005835, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 8177519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177519", "by": "sbouafif", "time": 1408025116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, I'm 25 too, I've been like you and I'm starting to getting out of this 'crisis'. Like you I lived awesome things in the last 5 years, things that I would have never think I will accomplish. I don't have a solution for you, but for me what's worked is reading books (non-fiction). In a book, you will generally find a condensed version of the life of the author and that's great. In a few hours you'll understand what he went through, how he did this or that and what they learned from that experience. And that's great because at 25, your lack of experience doesn't help you make choices. Here is"}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 8177632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177632", "by": "ambler0", "time": 1408026363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discounting the future self is only one of many possible reasons for procrastination, which is a complex subject. If you want to listen to a podcast that reviews the many different lines of inquiry into the subject, including several branches of science and also philosophy, check out the iProcrastinate podcast with Dr. Tim Pychyl. http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 8179475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8179475", "by": "rev_bird", "time": 1408045800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast had an indie ISP owner on the show back in June (10, I believe). Most of the show was Leo Laporte calling him as asshat, but one thing he said that was compelling was that his customers require Netflix -- if he doesn't give them Netflix, they don't sign up. The bandwidth was killing him, so he told Netflix he wanted the OpenConnect, and that he'd pay for installation and maintenance. They told him no."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8182696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8182696", "by": "drcode", "time": 1408117677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, Gavin was a guest on EconTalk podcast back in 2011, when bitcoins were still $1. I listened to him talk a few minutes and said \"Whatever that guy is doing I'm investing in\" even though I didn't really understand Bitcoin until much later... I still think it's no coincidence that Gavin is spearheading Bitcoin- He is impressive because he's very down-to-earth but still supernaturally smart. I'm not sure Bitcoin would have gone anywhere without him."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 8183976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183976", "by": "Dobbs", "time": 1408134308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend all of CGP's videos. They are all fun and very informative. I just started listening to his podcast \"Hello Internet\" which is also enjoyable."}, {"show": "566985370", "hn_item": 8186918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186918", "by": "hannahwilson", "time": 1408211715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the advice! I am definitely trying to have good content, and the blog and podcast are a part of that. I will post the Seth Godin podcast now, thanks for the suggestion. This is the first day I've ever posted on HN, so I'm figuring it out."}, {"show": "73330642", "hn_item": 8189845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189845", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1408296118, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8194426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8194426", "by": "uptown", "time": 1408393256, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8197218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8197218", "by": "onion2k", "time": 1408456152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly tangential, but the latest You Are Not So Smart podcast is about practise and how it changes your brain, particularly with regard to the 10,000 hour 'rule'. It's well worth a listen (and so are all the previous episodes if you've not heard it before). http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/08/14/yanss-podcast-030-how..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 8197467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8197467", "by": "jebus989", "time": 1408458738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Absolutely right, Anders Ericsson has called Malcolm Gladwell out for misinterpreting his results for this exact reason. Not sure how widely available this is for playback but \"More or Less\" did a great podcast on this earlier this year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sqly1"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8199045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199045", "by": "peckrob", "time": 1408473834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Roman Kingdom/Republic/Empire is a really fascinating period of ancient history. What's really mindblowing is when you realize that the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire didn't fall until 1453. If you're looking for interesting listening on Rome, I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast. The series Death Throes of the Republic focuses on the period where Rome transformed from a Republic to an Empire (maps 13-16). I just finished listening to that a few weeks ago, and it was amazing. Additionally, Thor's Hammer discusses what happened in Europe when Rome fell. There's also an older"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8199227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199227", "by": "Arelius", "time": 1408475935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll second Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The frequency of his podcast is pretty long, but it's worth the wait."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8199762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199762", "by": "nicholasjon", "time": 1408481675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just finishing up the Fall of the Roman Republic now, it's a fantastic series and podcast. Unrelated to Rome: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on the Mongols is equally awesome. http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 8199949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199949", "by": "VLM", "time": 1408484130, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 12 byzantine rulers podcast led more or less directly to the history of rome podcast http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ Beware, its an investment of perhaps 200 hours? Mike Duncan has since moved on to Revolutions and is currently in the beginning of the French revolution. Don't let that slow you down, its not like the history of rome is going to change much in the near future. Then \"the history of rome\" podcast begat \"the history of byzantium\" podcast. Another investment in time which isn't nearly done yet. There is also the British History podcast which is pretty good listening and tec"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8201375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201375", "by": "m_mueller", "time": 1408518892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lately I've become somewhat addicted to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. His episodes about the Punic wars can be purchased here: http://dancarlin.com/dccart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8206318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206318", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1408607748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "fascinating read. With 7 billion people in this world, it never ceases to amaze me the different types of experiences humans have had. I also just finished listening to the latest \"Hardcore History\" podcast regarding WWI. Holy shit, what crazy things humans have done/experienced."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8206568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206568", "by": "mkl", "time": 1408614188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really interesting episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast that delves into this in some depth, particularly relating to sports, where the idea has really taken off, and where there is good evidence the specialisation it encourages actively harms performance: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/08/14/yanss-podcast-030-how..."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8206574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206574", "by": "onion2k", "time": 1408614361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of the awesome You Are Not So Smart podcast is all about exceptions to the 10,000 hour rule; http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/08/14/yanss-podcast-030-how..."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8206751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206751", "by": "jaimebuelta", "time": 1408619181, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few weeks ago, the You Are Not So Smart podcast talked about this. I really recommend it to anyone interested in this 10K hour thing http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/08/14/yanss-podcast-030-how..."}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 8227613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227613", "by": "lepht", "time": 1409066741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating contrast to this Backstory Podcast episode about America's relationship with oil: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/black-gold-2/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8229080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229080", "by": "VMG", "time": 1409082195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Further listening: NPR Planet Money Podcast: \"Norway Has Advice For Libya\" http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/26/139972557/the-frid..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8236631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8236631", "by": "w1ntermute", "time": 1409222986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This EconTalk podcast does a good job of explaining how the infrastructure costs American suburbs are experiencing now weren't something that was anticipated when they were constructed: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html"}, {"show": "1852255002", "hn_item": 8243888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8243888", "by": "jobu", "time": 1409338118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great TED Podcast called \"The Money Paradox\" that talked about how poorly money works as a motivator for creative professions: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/04/295368808/how-much-does-money-..."}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 8246327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246327", "by": "bennesvig", "time": 1409403523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to James Altucher's podcast with SJ Scott. He made 40k last month by continuing to publish several books to amazon."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 8249016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249016", "by": "lotsofmangos", "time": 1409483304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to More or Less, 90% was the mortality rate of one particular historical outbreak. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/moreorless http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreor... edit - It also says that 52% is the current figure on this outbreak and that if you count up all cases, then Ebola has a mortality rate of 60-65%."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 8267174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267174", "by": "diimdeep", "time": 1409817504, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8279416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8279416", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1410036368, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8287626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8287626", "by": "27182818284", "time": 1410214503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those curious, This American Life did a whole podcast on the end-of-month car sales thing. It was quite fascinating and really does exist. One of the more interesting points in the entire thing came in the first minute where they point out that things like the end-of-month sales impact the entire US economy because it has to do with auto sales, and GM and steel working and etc follow up the chain. Weird to think of it like that."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8302524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302524", "by": "minikites", "time": 1410443505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast - http://atp.fm"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8302539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302539", "by": "tgandrews", "time": 1410443602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My three favourite podcasts are: * Startups for the rest of us * Bootstrapped with kids * Freakonomics"}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 8302554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302554", "by": "alexyoung", "time": 1410443823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These aren't really technical, but they're some of my favourite podcasts. * Trivia: Good Job, Brain! http://www.goodjobbrain.com/ * Video games: Idle Thumbs https://www.idlethumbs.net/ -- they also had a book club that was fun * Poetry Magazine podcast: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audio?show=The%20Po... * New Yorker podcasts: http://www.newyorker.com/podcasts"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 8302577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302577", "by": "er0l", "time": 1410443998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're into comedy, I'd recommend Joe Rogan Experience (sometime's gets tech guys), Fighter and the Kid, Monday Morning Podcast with Bill Burr, WTF with Mark Maron. I find a good laugh important after a long day at work!"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8302583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302583", "by": "yan", "time": 1410444056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some I listen to regularly: 99 percent invisible, planet money, radiolab, the occasional Nerdist podcast, this american life, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Dirtbag Diaries"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 8302592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302592", "by": "sant0sk1", "time": 1410444127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big podcast fan. Here are my favorite tech podcasts: * ATP: http://atp.fm * Giant Robots: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots * The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com (disclaimer: co-host) * Ruby Rogues: http://rubyrogues.com * Debug: http://www.imore.com/debug Non-tech but also lovely: * We Have Concerns: http://wehaveconcerns.com * The New Disruptors: http://newdisrupt.org * The Incomparable: http://www.theincomparable.com * IRL Talk: http://www.irltalk.com"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8302613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302613", "by": "hackerboos", "time": 1410444379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Blumberg (This American Life & Planet Money) - StartUp podcast - http://www.hearstartup.com"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8302613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302613", "by": "hackerboos", "time": 1410444379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Blumberg (This American Life & Planet Money) - StartUp podcast - http://www.hearstartup.com"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 8302670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302670", "by": "Sami_Lehtinen", "time": 1410444893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* OWASP Podcast: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Podcast * Security Now: http://twit.tv/sn Something you can listen while jogging or cycling, when reading is practically not an option."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 8302705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302705", "by": "staunch", "time": 1410445333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revolutions by Mike Duncan, who also did The History of Rome. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 8302709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302709", "by": "cfeduke", "time": 1410445360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pragmatic: http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic (nothing to do with the defunct Pragmatic Programmers podcast, straight technology talk; professionally produced; replaced Ruby Rogues as my favorite podcast) Infinite Monkey Cage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w (science, brilliant! no interspersed advertisements) Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh (when I need to get away from technology and science; professionally produced, no interspersed advertisements)"}, {"show": "717407884", "hn_item": 8302742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302742", "by": "alexissantos", "time": 1410445685, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In the morning! I second No Agenda! I've been listening for years . Here are some others (non-tech): - Let's Drink About It: http://www.letsdrinkabout.it/ - The Morning Stream: Geeky morning show, four days a week http://frogpants.com/tms/ - Back to Work: Merlin Mann (Need I say more?) http://5by5.tv/b2w - Ear Biscuits: An interesting look at YouTubers and \"new media\" folks. Their stories, etc. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ear-biscuits/id717407884... Also, a shameless plug: I've been interviewing developers ranging from Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical to Frederico Knabben of CKEditor. I "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8302769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302769", "by": "metaleks", "time": 1410445949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an avid podcast listener, and here are some of my favourites off the top of my head: Radio Lab (science) -- http://www.radiolab.org/ THE science show to listen to. If you're going to listen to anything from this list, this is the show to listen to. It's very well produced and always interesting. Their most controversial show was Yellow Rain ( http://www.radiolab.org/story/239549-yellow-rain/ ). ===================== Freakonomics (science/economics) -- http://freakonomics.com/ I often consider this show to be Radio Lab's counterpart. Their headline is \"exploring the hidden side of everythin"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8302769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302769", "by": "metaleks", "time": 1410445949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an avid podcast listener, and here are some of my favourites off the top of my head: Radio Lab (science) -- http://www.radiolab.org/ THE science show to listen to. If you're going to listen to anything from this list, this is the show to listen to. It's very well produced and always interesting. Their most controversial show was Yellow Rain ( http://www.radiolab.org/story/239549-yellow-rain/ ). ===================== Freakonomics (science/economics) -- http://freakonomics.com/ I often consider this show to be Radio Lab's counterpart. Their headline is \"exploring the hidden side of everythin"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 8302775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8302775", "by": "TheSaaSGuy", "time": 1410445975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two of my routine podcasts include > APM Marketplace > BBC's from our own correspondent - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjlq"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 8303815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8303815", "by": "rsendv", "time": 1410456169, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Daily independent news: Democracy Now! \" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.democracynow.org/podcast.xml> Entrepreneurship: Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series \" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html>"}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 8303824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8303824", "by": "runjake", "time": 1410456255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Search for these in your favorite podcast app. - Rich Roll Podcast (Lots of life inspiration & healthy eating advice) - Tim Ferriss Podcast (Interesting random people and perspectives) - An occasional episode of Joe Rogan Experience. I don't find Joe all that highly-intelligent, but I find his views, questions, and interviews interesting and thought-provoking. - The Nerdist (Good, informal interviews) - Trail Runner Nation - Zencast (Everything by Gil Fronsdal) I don't really listen to any tech podcasts anymore. I'll catch ATP on occasion, but for me they're all a bit of a waste of time, immer"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8314656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8314656", "by": "gamzer", "time": 1410675801, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looking at something indeed doesn't mean paying attention to it. That's why head-up displays can be dangerous (just like handsfree phone usage). Daniel Simons, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, says this in his episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episode... Head-up displays are discussed starting at 12:31. If I remember correctly, pilots were at danger to miss planes on the runway while using a head-up display. \"Even pilots use it \u2013 it's safe.\" Is it?"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 8315106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315106", "by": "gizmo", "time": 1410698762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Product Hunt has an audience of tech enthusiasts and is at least marginally useful to every VC and Angel investor out there. This by itself is sufficient to easily justify the valuation. In addition Product Hunt is also focused on email, which is a relatively easy to monetize medium. The job board, podcast, and the data they're collecting has additional potential. Once you take into account that investment money is plentiful and valuations are a back-of-the-envelope practice anyway then backing this YC startup is a financial no-brainer."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8326934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8326934", "by": "taurenk", "time": 1410899530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I usually listen to the WTF with Marc Maron, Radiolab and, the podcast version of Twit. I do this usually on my Android phone using the app 'Pocket Casts'."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 8326934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8326934", "by": "taurenk", "time": 1410899530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I usually listen to the WTF with Marc Maron, Radiolab and, the podcast version of Twit. I do this usually on my Android phone using the app 'Pocket Casts'."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 8329459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329459", "by": "kasbah", "time": 1410952971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dave Jones said on the AmpHour podcast that it will be a Windows program but files have to be stored online. Sounds like a deal breaker really."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 8335958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8335958", "by": "chadgeidel", "time": 1411056462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't seen \"Black Mirror\" from Channel 4 yet, watch it. I just found out about this recently from the Hello Internet podcast. Very dystopic/dark satire. There are 2 series of 3 episodes each. Don't spoil it by reading about it!"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 8342063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342063", "by": "eglover", "time": 1411154904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Awesome, I'll have to sign up. Just as a side note, here are a few other interesting podcasts that may not fall into this category. Intelligence Squared (Debates) - https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/ Joe Rogan Experience - http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/ StarTalk Radio (Neil DeGrasse Tyson) - https://soundcloud.com/startalk/ Hardcore History (&) Common Sense w/ Dan Carlin - http://www.dancarlin.com/ Rabiolab - http://www.radiolab.org/ Talk Nerdy (Cara Santa Maria) - http://carasantamaria.com/podcast/ The Tim Ferriss Show - http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/ Anarchast - http://anarc"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 8344899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8344899", "by": "thirdtruck", "time": 1411231276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To take this away from political/ethical concerns for a moment, I just listened to an episode of the Writing Excuses podcast where the hosts (which include full-time writers) advocated having non-writers in their critique groups. They make the point that people who don't create a given work and still -- by virtue of their extensive engagement of the media -- can have suggest objective improvements to the writing (e.g. tweaking a scene to better relate the author's intended message). In short, you don't have to create a given media in order to be \"worthy\" of critiquing it, any more than any of "}, {"show": "6797243979", "hn_item": 8347770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8347770", "by": "ThomPete", "time": 1411322270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recommended podcast both in general but for this particaluar episode too. http://www.fromscratchradio.com/show/robert-hammond"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8348004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348004", "by": "niix", "time": 1411327827, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know did a great podcast on this awhile back. http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/computers-replace... Pretty interesting stuff."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8348981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348981", "by": "jpn", "time": 1411351772, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8349400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349400", "by": "jpn", "time": 1411363916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Blumberg of This American Life and NPR's Planet Money has created this fantastic podcast on his personal experience on starting a startup. It's a very interesting listen. Check it out!"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8349400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349400", "by": "jpn", "time": 1411363916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Blumberg of This American Life and NPR's Planet Money has created this fantastic podcast on his personal experience on starting a startup. It's a very interesting listen. Check it out!"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 8350274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8350274", "by": "daturkel", "time": 1411389536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The site is also mentioned in a good episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-23-you-are-lis..."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 8351255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8351255", "by": "cmckeachie", "time": 1411403480, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 8356984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356984", "by": "batbomb", "time": 1411495708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "5. Things that have helped me be more interested in cooking and be a good cook: Buy \"On Food and Cooking\" by Harold McGee. Listen to Cooking Issues podcast by Dave Arnold (check out blog too) Watch any cooking show with Julia Child and/or Jacques Pepin, get some of his books to learn techniques. Her books are amazing too. Buy a few standard cookbooks. I love Joy Of Cooking because it's practically a canonical reference to make anything, and there's lots of info on technique. There are a few Culinary school books that are really good too (the ICC book \"Fundamental Techniques of Classical Cookin"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8372291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372291", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1411732127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have relationships with movie actors when I watch a film either. I do. One of them is actually my mother! Not every film is an Hollywood blockbuster with millions of fans that prevent any kind of two-sided interaction; some of them are small indie productions where you can actually meet and talk to the cast members. Likewise, not every podcast is This American Life - many of them just have a few dozen listeners and there's plenty of opportunity for interaction and even friendships."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 8372344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8372344", "by": "1rae", "time": 1411733525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, Joe Rogan's podcast is the only one I happen to listen to that has adverts, and they seem like they always have a Squarespace sponsorship. In this case it's 5 mins of rogan talking about his sponsors and then 3 hours of content, so the ratio of advert to interviews is still not too bad. I also feel like Rogan won't put up with bad sponsors or vouch for dodgy products because I'm familiar with his personality and some trust has been built up over the time I spent listening to his interviews. Perhaps that's the key. But if you happen to interrupt the podcast with some techno-music a"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 8373700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373700", "by": "technofiend", "time": 1411752154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They seem to have replaced radio in a way since the audience is still being directly addressed by the podcaster. There's nothing as intimate on corporate FM radio. You have to hit NPR, Pacifica or college radio for that experience. And even my favorite podcasts - Writing Excuses and Five Hundy by Midnight are created by people who have \"day jobs\" - they aren't depending on the podcasts to pay their bills. So I'm with you that the appeal is there but it unless you're the J.K. Rowling of the podcasting world, I don't think it's a steady source of sufficient income. Just my humble opinion, of cou"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8382307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8382307", "by": "krat0sprakhar", "time": 1411987348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The funny thing about mathematics is that you don\u2019t work with regular numbers so much. I never see a 37, I see \u2018n\u2019 \u2013a lot of what I do involves a big number n that goes to infinity. Never any specific number. An interesting answer to probably the most common question that mathematicians are asked. Radiolab[0] covered this and the significance of \"favorite/lucky numbers\" in a podcast a couple of months back. [0] - http://www.radiolab.org/story/love-numbers/"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 8391754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8391754", "by": "bronson", "time": 1412116115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His presentation at Long Now was inspiring: http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/apr/22/helping-revitalize-... (I only listened to the podcast, didn't watch the video) It sounded like everything was coming up roses and money back then. Hoping to hear an update."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 8398290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8398290", "by": "sigjuice", "time": 1412203532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast episode http://www.functionalgeekery.com/episode-9-william-e-byrd/"}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 8402749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402749", "by": "swah", "time": 1412279910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do any of you use Dock replacements? I'm faster with the Windows-style taskbar and uBar ( http://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar ) was the sponsor of the last episode of John Gruber's podcast."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8410468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8410468", "by": "Thevet", "time": 1412452951, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8422362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422362", "by": "spikels", "time": 1412701670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author was just on The Econtalk podcast discussing this work: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/10/david_autor_on.html"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8422442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422442", "by": "ToastyMallows", "time": 1412702263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in the Placebo Effect, I recommend Josh & Chuck's Stuff You Should Know episode about it. http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-placebo-e..."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 8422765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422765", "by": "Scuds", "time": 1412704635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IIRC there's an episode of the .NET Rocks podcast where games in F# (roughly oCaml for .NET) is being used as a backend for these gaming systems. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=846 That bug probably wouldn't have existed if the code had been written in a functional language where state management was an inherent part of the whole deal. Then again, some of these video poker systems look like a glorified Sega Genesis, and probably run under similar hardware, too."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8428240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428240", "by": "was_hellbanned", "time": 1412790051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always find stories like this troubling because 1) how much of it was actually driven by the parents? 2) what's going to happen when it's no longer a quirky action by a cute little girl? Planet Money's podcast 567 covered an assertive, outgoing little girl who was making good money by buying lollipops at retail and going around selling them to adults at a markup. She acknowledges that it only works because she's adorable, and that her sales have dropped as she's gotten older. Maybe this kid is really driven and will go on to great things, or maybe she'll end up burnt out and miserable becaus"}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 8456948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456948", "by": "quaunaut", "time": 1413341023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're using an iOS device, the iTunes store has the \"How to Start a Startup\" podcast which is an audio-only version of all of the talks."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 8460125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460125", "by": "stakent", "time": 1413394279, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 8465164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8465164", "by": "jnasty", "time": 1413470929, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8471524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8471524", "by": "Hansi", "time": 1413560811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No he's overly paranoid when it comes to backups (if you listen to the ATP podcast this is very aparant) but in this case it's probably justified since there are many things that can go wrong with backups."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8472452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472452", "by": "petersellers", "time": 1413569511, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's also mentioned it a few times on his podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast, which is actually quite good)"}, {"show": "258401691", "hn_item": 8473344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8473344", "by": "ambler0", "time": 1413579526, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I completely disagree. For one thing, a lot of what one learns studying Common Practice music theory most definitely is applicable to modern styles. Things like dominant function, for example, aren't going anywhere. That said, I agree with the point that is implied by your post, namely, that \"music theory\" as the term is usually used is actually a description of a specific period of music (Common Practice) and it is a mistake to view modern popular music as some kind of degenerate case of it. I suggest that people who are interested in learning a theory that applies to more recent music take a"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 8491213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491213", "by": "gurkendoktor", "time": 1413943917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can let users play around with your paid app to see if it works as expected. Certainly cleaner than messing with In-App-Purchases or a separate \"Lite\" version of your app. I've heard in one episode of the Core Intuition podcast that Panic has actually spent some time polishing a simulator build of Transmit(?) for iOS, for use with app.io (a service which did the same thing as the OP until they pivoted). This is something I'd also love to do if this business promises to survive longer than app.io did. This is especially interesting if you are an iOS freelancer who wants to show off their wo"}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 8493550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493550", "by": "patja", "time": 1413996547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just hope Carl and Richard at the .NET Rocks podcast can find a new sponsor or figure out some other option to keep their great show going. Seems like Telerik has been their main sponsor forever."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8536276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8536276", "by": "anotherevan", "time": 1414709176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently listened to a Freakonomics podcast[1] about how to make people quit smoking. There were two related points that stuck with me. 1. Nicotine can have a lot of positive benefits. As one of their experts stated, \u201cGood drug, bad delivery system.\u201d 2. One of those benefits is a possible anti-depressant effect. So smoking may inadvertently be treating a person\u2019s undiagnosed mental health issue[2], an additional difficulty when trying to quit smoking. This second point has made me a little more compassionate towards smokers, and to the difficulty of quitting. (As least in theory, still get ann"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8537134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8537134", "by": "jordanpg", "time": 1414725447, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8544225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544225", "by": "danso", "time": 1414869230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm personally experiencing a renaissance of podcast myself, although part of why I stopped listening to podcasts several years ago was because I had moved from CA to NY, sharply limiting the time I was sitting in a car for hours (in a subway, you can play Angry Birds). The Serial podcast is fantastic...I've forgotten the workflow of how to subscribe to podcasts and have them show up in my iPod, so I just go to the homepage ( http://serialpodcast.org/ ) and listen to them individually. This American Life has an excellent iOS app that's worth the $2.99 fee. The power of the podcast, or of radio"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8544225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544225", "by": "danso", "time": 1414869230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm personally experiencing a renaissance of podcast myself, although part of why I stopped listening to podcasts several years ago was because I had moved from CA to NY, sharply limiting the time I was sitting in a car for hours (in a subway, you can play Angry Birds). The Serial podcast is fantastic...I've forgotten the workflow of how to subscribe to podcasts and have them show up in my iPod, so I just go to the homepage ( http://serialpodcast.org/ ) and listen to them individually. This American Life has an excellent iOS app that's worth the $2.99 fee. The power of the podcast, or of radio"}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 8544348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544348", "by": "lewispb", "time": 1414871435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really love listening to podcasts at the moment, one of my favourites is the NPR TED Radio Hour. I've recently built a simple RoR app to display the iTunes Podcast Charts.. http://www.podcastchart.com"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8544364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544364", "by": "awinder", "time": 1414871629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do most of my listening in the car so skipping out on ads isn't exactly high priority. And I'll also say that the quality of ads is extremely high on most of the podcasts I listen to. Gruber's podcast and the Accidental Tech Podcast aren't just listing off a random pitch from some random company. They have discussions about the products, they've used the products themselves, most placements include discount codes, and advertisers have to love it. I actually don't mind the ads because they feel engrained into the show, it's a great model."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8544470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544470", "by": "hashtree", "time": 1414873343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spot on for me as well. The workflow you mention of Mac iTunes, discovery, download, change settings, plug in your iOS device, sync over USB 2, etc changed into simply opening up the Podcasts app on your iOS device. Settings are synced, I can steam, I can download, I can discover, etc all within the same easy to use app made by Apple. Add that there are numerous exceptional podcasts out there, such as Science Friday, Radio Lab, This American Life, Serial, etc -- it's lovely combination. Plus, most content producers have seemed to have finally gotten over the gimmicky delivery methods like vide"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 8544470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544470", "by": "hashtree", "time": 1414873343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spot on for me as well. The workflow you mention of Mac iTunes, discovery, download, change settings, plug in your iOS device, sync over USB 2, etc changed into simply opening up the Podcasts app on your iOS device. Settings are synced, I can steam, I can download, I can discover, etc all within the same easy to use app made by Apple. Add that there are numerous exceptional podcasts out there, such as Science Friday, Radio Lab, This American Life, Serial, etc -- it's lovely combination. Plus, most content producers have seemed to have finally gotten over the gimmicky delivery methods like vide"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8544517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544517", "by": "hentrep", "time": 1414874127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Between an hour long daily commute, the gym, and a life toiling away in a lab, I consume 4-6 hours worth of podcasts a day. I haven't seen anyone in this thread mention Stitcher Radio. Stitcher is by far the easiest way to consume podcasts, and is easily my most-used app. As mentioned earlier, I think the increased prevalence of 4G/LTE wireless speeds have led to this renaissance. Also, it is now much easier to produce and distribute a podcast. The fact that advertisers are willing to shell out $5k for a 30 second ad spot certainly helps encourage the production of quality podcasts. Podcasts a"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 8544968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544968", "by": "mlangdon", "time": 1414883544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems strange to me they would go on so long about podcasts and really only talk about public radio-ish podcasts. I've been listening to podcasts since the time when it was best described as an on-demand public radio feed. Public Radio has been riding the peaks and troughs of podcasting, but I wouldn't say they are leading any renaissance, real or imagined. If there is a renaissance, it's being created by comedy podcasts. Let's mention: Jordan Jesse Go! WTF with Marc Maron Comedy Bang Bang You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes The Nerdist Doug Loves Movies Harmontown And I'm not a huge fan but"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 8544968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544968", "by": "mlangdon", "time": 1414883544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems strange to me they would go on so long about podcasts and really only talk about public radio-ish podcasts. I've been listening to podcasts since the time when it was best described as an on-demand public radio feed. Public Radio has been riding the peaks and troughs of podcasting, but I wouldn't say they are leading any renaissance, real or imagined. If there is a renaissance, it's being created by comedy podcasts. Let's mention: Jordan Jesse Go! WTF with Marc Maron Comedy Bang Bang You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes The Nerdist Doug Loves Movies Harmontown And I'm not a huge fan but"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 8545080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545080", "by": "mason240", "time": 1414886587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's too bad the article didn't mention the explosion of history podcasts, thanks largely to Lars Brownworth (12 Byzantine Rulers) and then Mike Ducan (The History of Rome). Since then there have been several dozen podcasts to get started, with a pretty diverse range of topics. Most of the ones I have checked out start out with \"I was inspired to start this series after listening to Lars Brownworth/Mike Ducan....\" http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/ (He is dire need of webdev)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8546278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546278", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1414926099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money, which was Blumberg's main podcast for the last few years, is also a spinoff of TAL (created after The Giant Pool of Money episode[1]) and produced in partnership with them. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Pool_of_Money"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 8546522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546522", "by": "VLM", "time": 1414934545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've noticed googling for this kind of stuff usually finds advertising poorly hidden as curated lists. You can tell it runs off the rails when 90% of the list just so happens to be employees of one media megacorp. So as a public service I'll list the history podcasts I've actually listened to with some commentary, highlights, and (mild) criticism. All of these podcasts AFAIK are just one dude vs the world, or at most a couple guys as background helpers. Corporate podcasts typically have all the personality of an HR employee manual or an EULA, but one dude and a microphone always has a unique a"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 8547379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8547379", "by": "kalleboo", "time": 1414951683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A lot of people subscribe to podcasts through directories spread out though tons of different apps, and you need to get the URL updated in each app. The No Agenda Podcast (with Adam Curry and John C Dvorak) went though this pain a few months back when their old meevio feed was shut down. Despite migrating their main feed years ago lots of directories had the old feed, and dedicated listeners had to find out it was broken in their particular app and report it. Owning your own domain and routing all your stuff (ESPECIALLY email but also anything else associated with your identity) to is so impor"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8549381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549381", "by": "mlwarren", "time": 1414990726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order, my favorites are: Various podcasts from the BBC: Discovery, Documentaries, Science Hour The Joe Rogan Experience Stuff You Should Know The Freelancers' Show The Tim Ferriss Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Freakonomics Radio"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 8549381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8549381", "by": "mlwarren", "time": 1414990726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order, my favorites are: Various podcasts from the BBC: Discovery, Documentaries, Science Hour The Joe Rogan Experience Stuff You Should Know The Freelancers' Show The Tim Ferriss Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Freakonomics Radio"}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 8554535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8554535", "by": "JoshTheGeek", "time": 1415061439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any podcast recommendations for the HN crowd? I personally listen to Hello Internet (CGP Grey and Brady Haran) and Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (Adam Savage and friends)."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 8554535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8554535", "by": "JoshTheGeek", "time": 1415061439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any podcast recommendations for the HN crowd? I personally listen to Hello Internet (CGP Grey and Brady Haran) and Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project (Adam Savage and friends)."}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 8574732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8574732", "by": "Scuds", "time": 1415395918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A book would be a fairly heavy undertaking since it's a compilation of interviews, casual chats, etc. For casual chats, the Debug Podcast: http://www.imore.com/debug http://www.imore.com/debug-39-nitin-ganatra-episode-i-system... with the former Director of Engineering, iOS Applications at Apple Inc, Nitin Ganatra http://www.imore.com/debug-40-nitin-ganatra-episode-ii-os-x-... Debug 40: Nitin Ganatra episode II: OS X to iOS http://www.imore.com/debug-41-nitin-ganatra-episode-iii-ipho... Debug 41: Nitin Ganatra episode III: iPhone to iPad http://www.imore.com/debug-47-melton-ganatra-episode-i-d"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8578399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8578399", "by": "malloreon", "time": 1415487167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I haven't done any outside reading on \"Serial\" but if you haven't checked it out I highly recommend it. Also, starting with episode 5, the Slate folks put out a companion series, \"Serial Spoiler Special.\" After listening to each episode, Slate writers talk about the episode. Not just going over facts, but analyzing Serial as a storytelling medium for true crime stories. Also highly recommended. Serial: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570?mt=2 Slate's Serial Spoiler Special: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slates-serial-spoiler-sp..."}, {"show": "935063801", "hn_item": 8578399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8578399", "by": "malloreon", "time": 1415487167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I haven't done any outside reading on \"Serial\" but if you haven't checked it out I highly recommend it. Also, starting with episode 5, the Slate folks put out a companion series, \"Serial Spoiler Special.\" After listening to each episode, Slate writers talk about the episode. Not just going over facts, but analyzing Serial as a storytelling medium for true crime stories. Also highly recommended. Serial: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570?mt=2 Slate's Serial Spoiler Special: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slates-serial-spoiler-sp..."}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 8601401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601401", "by": "aluciani", "time": 1415885830, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 8607725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8607725", "by": "bdcravens", "time": 1415980719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the most recent Ruby Rogues podcast - they talk with the maintainer of RubyInstaller, and I came out of it thinking the Windows story wasn't as bad as I thought. http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/181-rr-rubyinstaller-with-luis..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8610874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8610874", "by": "eplanit", "time": 1416027392, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "947191070", "hn_item": 8617192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8617192", "by": "davidbarker", "time": 1416208227, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8621100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621100", "by": "danso", "time": 1416263184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some people here are probably listening to the Serial podcast, which investigates the evidence in a 15-year-old murder case in which the convicted killer still proclaims his innocence, and in which no physical evidence tying him to the scene was found. The convicted killer has no alibi and claims he can't remember what happened that day (he was arrested several weeks after the murder)...he thinks he might have been in the library at the time of the murder to check his email, but that was either never checked or either logged...there weren't as many cameras around his high school back then, and"}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 8631294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8631294", "by": "joshuacc", "time": 1416418033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They went into this a bit on the NodeUp podcast: http://nodeup.com/seventyone"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8644426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644426", "by": "apayan", "time": 1416621760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life has a great podcast about the manufacturing plant, and how it went from being one of the worst in America to producing the best cars (all pre-Tesla). http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/N..."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 8647013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647013", "by": "merrillii", "time": 1416697938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One resource I would recommend is the Startups For the Rest of Us podcast. http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Most of the topics are around SAAS based services."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8650969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650969", "by": "alanfalcon", "time": 1416800886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd love some data behind the claim that this is podcasting's first breakout hit, beyond the comparison to This American Life's slower initial growth in the form. Is this a legitimate claim to fame, or sensationalism from the New York Times from a writer who seems to be largely dismissive of podcasting in general?"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8652447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652447", "by": "adriand", "time": 1416839011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life, the show that created (I think more or less), Serial, is a great show. 99% Invisible is a great show about design. Radio Diaries is interesting. If you're into super thoughtful discussions about religion, science, meditation, and so on, On Being is fantastic. Other ones worth checking out: * Radiolab * Stuff You Should Know * Studio 360 But - Serial is definitely my favourite podcast of all time. I'm not sure there's anything better out there."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8652447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652447", "by": "adriand", "time": 1416839011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life, the show that created (I think more or less), Serial, is a great show. 99% Invisible is a great show about design. Radio Diaries is interesting. If you're into super thoughtful discussions about religion, science, meditation, and so on, On Being is fantastic. Other ones worth checking out: * Radiolab * Stuff You Should Know * Studio 360 But - Serial is definitely my favourite podcast of all time. I'm not sure there's anything better out there."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8652465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652465", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1416839209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's \"Working\" podcast is pretty new but has been excellent so far. 20-40 minutes each week covering the basics of various people's working day. You'd probably like \"Criminal\" which is short crime-related stories. Only a few have been produced, but they've been picked up by the Radiotopia folks to do more and more often. \"WTF with Marc Maron\" has some amazing interviews with people from the comedy and music worlds, along with short monologues from Marc's twisted mind. The (pay-for) archives are where the best episodes are (Judd Apatow, Louis CK, Ira Glass, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Dick Van Dyke"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8652465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652465", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1416839209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's \"Working\" podcast is pretty new but has been excellent so far. 20-40 minutes each week covering the basics of various people's working day. You'd probably like \"Criminal\" which is short crime-related stories. Only a few have been produced, but they've been picked up by the Radiotopia folks to do more and more often. \"WTF with Marc Maron\" has some amazing interviews with people from the comedy and music worlds, along with short monologues from Marc's twisted mind. The (pay-for) archives are where the best episodes are (Judd Apatow, Louis CK, Ira Glass, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Dick Van Dyke"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8652465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652465", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1416839209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's \"Working\" podcast is pretty new but has been excellent so far. 20-40 minutes each week covering the basics of various people's working day. You'd probably like \"Criminal\" which is short crime-related stories. Only a few have been produced, but they've been picked up by the Radiotopia folks to do more and more often. \"WTF with Marc Maron\" has some amazing interviews with people from the comedy and music worlds, along with short monologues from Marc's twisted mind. The (pay-for) archives are where the best episodes are (Judd Apatow, Louis CK, Ira Glass, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Dick Van Dyke"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 8652465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652465", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1416839209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's \"Working\" podcast is pretty new but has been excellent so far. 20-40 minutes each week covering the basics of various people's working day. You'd probably like \"Criminal\" which is short crime-related stories. Only a few have been produced, but they've been picked up by the Radiotopia folks to do more and more often. \"WTF with Marc Maron\" has some amazing interviews with people from the comedy and music worlds, along with short monologues from Marc's twisted mind. The (pay-for) archives are where the best episodes are (Judd Apatow, Louis CK, Ira Glass, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Dick Van Dyke"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 8652465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652465", "by": "skywhopper", "time": 1416839209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's \"Working\" podcast is pretty new but has been excellent so far. 20-40 minutes each week covering the basics of various people's working day. You'd probably like \"Criminal\" which is short crime-related stories. Only a few have been produced, but they've been picked up by the Radiotopia folks to do more and more often. \"WTF with Marc Maron\" has some amazing interviews with people from the comedy and music worlds, along with short monologues from Marc's twisted mind. The (pay-for) archives are where the best episodes are (Judd Apatow, Louis CK, Ira Glass, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Dick Van Dyke"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 8653230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653230", "by": "georgehdf", "time": 1416847919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Econtalk podcast is excellent if you are interested in economics. http://www.econtalk.org/"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8653232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653232", "by": "niix", "time": 1416847940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm absolutely in love with this podcast. I randomly stumbled upon it look for something else to listen to while waiting on new episodes of \"Stuff You Should Know\". The story is so engaging. Congrats to Sarah and the team on their success!"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8653255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653255", "by": "mrcwinn", "time": 1416848244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I loved the original episode this series was born out of: the story of a doctor in North Carolina who takes over the practice of a convicted murderer [ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/492/t... ]. I have to say, though, I don't enjoy Serial very much. I'm the only person, it seems. :-) Listening to a reporter (not an investigator) guess and gab about a murder just seems like a waste of time. The constant teasers throughout each episode (maybe he did it? but then, maybe he didn't? and maybe this happened, but then maybe it didn't happen?) are infuriating. This is to say no"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 8653329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653329", "by": "VLM", "time": 1416849020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"the supposed slump with 2010 being the dark ages of podcasting which somehow needed saving from decline\" The inability of any coherent narrative to form is evidence of a really big market. If its too big for any individual to see all of it, it must be pretty big. For me 2010 is the early boom years of history podcasting. Mike Duncan's \"The History of Rome\" which was really the history of the roman empire not some sort of municipal thing. 2010 was a great year in podcasting, hardly a \"slump\". Edited to add, from memory, in 2010 the Wormwood mystery-horror series was in its 3rd year, Lowell's s"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8653946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653946", "by": "thinkr", "time": 1416855288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wanted to add some other ones I did not see suggested: Freakonomics Radio - by the authors of the book of the same name Travel with Rick Steves - podcast by famous travel guide Rick Steves Dinner Part Download - nice way to learn about interesting facts/random trivia/pop-culture regarding all sorts of subjects which can make for interesting conversation at your next social gathering edit: meant to post this as a response to the question asking about other podcasts"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8654204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8654204", "by": "pain_perdu", "time": 1416857281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this: http://www.crowdmurder.com - Gamifying the investigation of the case from the Serial Podcast. \"Use Real Court Evidence to Solve the Murder of Hae Min Lee Access Courtroom Audio, Build Time-lines, Maps & Suspect Bios. Team up with fans of the Serial Podcast from around the world to help solve a murder. Every Court Document and Recording We're Publishing Every Piece of Publicly-Available Evidence from Adnan's Trial and building powerful annotation tools\""}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 8656007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8656007", "by": "cmdrfred", "time": 1416882744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone here hasn't listened to The Bugle podcast (I've been a Bugler since the second episode) you are missing out on the world."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 8656562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8656562", "by": "mojoe", "time": 1416895565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Cracked podcast is really good ( http://www.earwolf.com/show/the-cracked-podcast/ ) -- it's both super interesting and extremely funny. Techzing is also one of my favorites ( http://techzinglive.com/ ) because the two guys who record it have great personalities and banter."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 8657864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657864", "by": "alanfalcon", "time": 1416926473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts are awesome for the long tail effect. What sorts of things are you in to? Do a little google searching (don't try to find these using your podcatcher's search) for podcasts related to those hobbies and try a couple. They likely exist, and there's probably one that's worth listening to (sometimes these amateur efforts take a couple episodes to grow on you.) I really like Spider-Man: I really like the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast. I like Dave Ramsay: I really like The Dave Ramsay Show (okay, it's just an hour of his daily radio show, but hey, it's also a podcast if I can listen on demand"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8657951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657951", "by": "cianclarke", "time": 1416927717, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8663483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8663483", "by": "uptown", "time": 1417023618, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8663757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8663757", "by": "josho", "time": 1417026000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is how the Regulatory Capture has come to be. None of those out protecting consumers from the finance industry are doing what really needs to be done, because they know that their next job is likely to be at one of the institutions they are investigating. I believe it was This American Life that recently did a podcast that went into depth on this issue."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 8685453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685453", "by": "dangoor", "time": 1417489304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Though it's a different beast, the (Smallest) Federated Wiki shares some similarities with this. It uses a JSON format and allows different paragraphs to use different plugins, including a code plugin: http://fed.wiki.org/view/choose-plugins/view/about-code-plug... It is also cool in that it's a federated wiki. If you're not familiar with the idea, consider listening to this recent JavaScript Jabber podcast with Ward Cunningham: http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/135-jsj-smallest-federated-wiki-... It's a great concept and you can set up a federated wiki on your own machine with \"npm install wiki\". E"}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 8706727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706727", "by": "diafygi", "time": 1417811668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For people who want to learn more about the complexities in this topic, I highly suggest listening to the Energy Gang podcast[1]. A \u200esenior editor at Greentech Media, principal lobbyist at a huge energy lobby firm, and the founder of Sun Edison get together once a week to talk about at latest news. I work in the new energy industry, and everyone I know in this industry listens to this podcast. For example, a few months ago, they talked extensively about how Hawaii's utility is basically falling apart since it can't find a way to compete with solar now that solar is at grid parity, and solar+st"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 8747629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747629", "by": "jpravetz", "time": 1418539890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the \"9-Volt Nirvana\" Radiolab podcast on \"trans-cranial direct current stimulation\", or tDCS, which is also mentioned in the article. http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8757700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757700", "by": "sharkweek", "time": 1418746234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly - Look at the Serial podcast, I'd consider this one of the better pieces of journalism in the past few years. But it took her six months (maybe more?) and countless hours of research, investigation and interviews to produce. At the end of the day, this piece will do pretty well, but in those six months, The Huffington Post's on the internet have put out tens of thousands of articles garnering billions of ad impressions. Fortunately we're left with an extremely interesting story in Serial, but imagine if 2-3 months into all that hard work the whole thing fell apart? All that work for no"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 8770449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8770449", "by": "ryanmcbride", "time": 1418948018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Stuff You Should Know podcast did an episode about this with some pretty great info. Delusional parasitosis is some crazy stuff. http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-morgellons-di..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8770924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8770924", "by": "room4debate", "time": 1418958199, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8777690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777690", "by": "DanAndersen", "time": 1419105044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a related note, for anyone interested in World War I, I'd recommend listening to Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ He's currently doing a series about WW1 called \"Blueprint for Armageddon.\" The way he describes the war, you really get a sense of the hell that the soldiers were in, and he touches on this bit about how the soldiers on either side could identify more with each other than with their superior officers."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8790992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790992", "by": "var_explained", "time": 1419381608, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 8792975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792975", "by": "halflings", "time": 1419432237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend listening to StackExchange's podcast ( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/); They always discuss this problem, and I think the choice they made (be strict on rules) is a good one for the type of platform and community they wanted. Basically: if you wanted to discuss a vague subject that doesn't have a limited set of possible answers, you should probably use a discussion board instead of using a stackexchange website. That's part of the reason why Jeff Atwood left to create Discourse."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 8806794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806794", "by": "lnikkila", "time": 1419788313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great 99% Invisible podcast episode called \u201cDerelict Dome\u201d that tells the story of a geodesic dome restaurant built in the 1950s. \u201cThe glass windows heated the restaurant up like a greenhouse, so the owner installed fiberglass over most of the dome, blocking the ocean views. It leaked constantly, and was difficult to maintain.\u201d http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-64-derelict-do..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 8822527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822527", "by": "patio11", "time": 1420105880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best explanation I've ever heard of it is the concept of \"luck surface area\", which I was first introduced to on the TechZing podcast. It's the product of \"work you do\" and \"people you touch with it.\" There are hotel maids that work harder than any of us ever will. Nobody knows their name. This does not result in them getting appreciable amounts of career-enhancing luck. There are people who achieve a brief bit of Internet stardom, on the basis of a shallow connection, such as e.g. being the person a photo a meme was based on. You will probably not retire on being a meme. However, if you'v"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 8828845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828845", "by": "alexbw", "time": 1420236549, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 8830057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830057", "by": "denzil_correa", "time": 1420265270, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 8830829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830829", "by": "bayesregressor", "time": 1420296617, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8832942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8832942", "by": "hyperpape", "time": 1420338731, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the levels might be algorithmically created but then hand-vetted by the author (I can't remember for sure). Episode 94 of Accidental Tech Podcast had a discussion and they linked to an interview with the creator: http://atp.fm/episodes/94 ."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 8834801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834801", "by": "protomyth", "time": 1420387977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For http://www.dragonflydigest.com I find the \"Lazy Reading\" articles to be some really great pointers to all types of cool articles. The \"In Other BSDs\" is a great survey of the BSD news highlights. For general news, undeadly is in my rss feeds. I also like the BSD Now and bsdtalk podcasts. BSD Now is from two folks from PC-BSD and FreeBSD, but covers the other BSDs as well."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 8835206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8835206", "by": "lotsofmangos", "time": 1420394794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should try following 'More or Less' on Radio-4. Here's their 'Numbers of the Year 2014' - http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreor..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8836973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8836973", "by": "brohoolio", "time": 1420427525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't even imagine living in a state where a city with 1.4 million people having 4 robberies in participating stores. That's crazy. Of course I live in Michigan. I've been thinking about crime a bunch after listening to the Serial podcast and thinking about The Wire. Crime is expensive. Trial, police, incarceration are all resource intensive. It would be amazing to have those resources available for city residents to do something else, like have a cleaner town, better schools, safer roads."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 8838245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8838245", "by": "supreethks", "time": 1420456860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Had recently got introduced to Ted's work through a recommendation made no the \"Rationally Speaking\" podcast.[1] Can't wait to read his work. [1] http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.in/2012/10/rationally-spe..."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 8841656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841656", "by": "jcutrell", "time": 1420496812, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8841852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841852", "by": "berberous", "time": 1420499094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested in this topic, This American Life recently did a great hour long radio show / podcast on how dealerships work: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1... \"We spend a month at a Jeep dealership on Long Island as they try to make their monthly sales goal: 129 cars. If they make it, they'll get a huge bonus from the manufacturer, possibly as high as $85,000 \u2014 enough to put them in the black for the month. If they don't make it, it'll be the second month in a row. So they pull out all the stops.\""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 8849966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8849966", "by": "chao-", "time": 1420630937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here w.r.t. destressing. And when I need to cook but am not particularly in need of the mental break, I'll load up Ruby Rogues or another dev podcast and get some learning or inspiration added to the mix."}, {"show": "947191070", "hn_item": 8851631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8851631", "by": "jwngr", "time": 1420650078, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 8854919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854919", "by": "jonsterling", "time": 1420689219, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8859798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859798", "by": "steve19", "time": 1420760593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Liberalism is already very intolerant of intolerance. Sadly this intolerance-of-intolerance is very narrowly focused and its goal, if we are all honest, is to change society not defend it. I could give examples of how we are letting our guard down to those who seek to destroy us... but I won't because I am a coward. I don't want to be hounded by a Twitter or Reddit lynch mod for being \"intolerant\" or \"racist\" (despite being neither). Freedom to express our views, when they disagree with the majority, has been successfully suppressed. In other words, Liberalism has won... but now what? How do w"}, {"show": "1319436103", "hn_item": 8862467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862467", "by": "dmschulman", "time": 1420815801, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 8865575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8865575", "by": "jah", "time": 1420855386, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His story is featured on NPR's new Invisibilia podcast: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=370..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 8867591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867591", "by": "ahuxley2013", "time": 1420917364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "|Meniere's disease I remember hearing on the Joe Rogan Podcast, Joe Rogan discussing going to Germany with Dana White, the owner of UFC. They did some kind of blood transfusion treatment. Joe did it for his knee, and Dana did it for his Meniere's disease, and supposedly it repaired his knee and stopped the disease. I don't recall what it was called though."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 8878095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8878095", "by": "Ryel", "time": 1421122320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Product Hunt/HN but for startup related podcasts. I wouldn't pay $30/month for it but I would buy the app, or bookmark the site."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 8881752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881752", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1421175294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Leadership is lonely. There's always a boss behind the boss, even in the C-suite. Good managers can translate in all directions of a network graph, not merely from the nonlocal to the local. The Manager Tools podcast gives insight into the language and thought processes of top-down thinkers. Useful for learning how how to work within and around such structures: http://www.manager-tools.com/2013/04/politics-101-chapter-3-... & http://www.manager-tools.com/2013/05/politics-101-chapter-3-... . This should be balanced by authors like Tim Ferris, Chris Malburg ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Fire-Boss-"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 8881835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881835", "by": "archagon", "time": 1421176168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sure, but as I think was discussed on the ATP podcast, it was probably a marketing gaffe more than anything. If they had called it \"Monument Valley 2\" and charged the same, people probably wouldn't have complained too much, as that sort of branding is more in line with App Store expectations. (Maybe not, though.) In any case, whining aside, I doubt their sales suffered too much! And I'm glad we're getting more high profile pay-up-front games like MV to reset buyers' expectations."}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 8884864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8884864", "by": "elisee", "time": 1421221416, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 8886343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8886343", "by": "rndn", "time": 1421245202, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 8894478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8894478", "by": "igravious", "time": 1421347633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Then, Sir, I encourage you to get thee quickly to this Partially Examined Life podcast episode[1] with Nick Bostrom[2]. Only came out on the 6th of January and it makes for super interesting listening. It's based off of the text with his 2014 book in which he's gone to great lengths to think philosophically about this very existential threat -- in his opinion, man's most pressing. Part of his reasoning goes like this. Any super smart goal oriented entity is going to desire/construct its own preservation as a sub-goal of its main goal (even if that goal is something as mundane as making papercl"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 8902021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902021", "by": "protomyth", "time": 1421445722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love what you folks do, and your segments are spot on, and you get great people on, but I don't think me e-mailing the guy would get an answer. It was just so out-there that I still cannot figure out what the heck was up. BSD Now and bsdtalk are the two podcasts I look forward to each week."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 8909526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909526", "by": "whatusername", "time": 1421625415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't -- check out the \"Hardcore History\" podcast. The last 4-5 episodes have been on WW1 and have been a fantastic introduction to a lot of the complexity (and horrors) of WW1 for me."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 8909728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909728", "by": "niix", "time": 1421629101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed this episode (and pretty much everything This American Life does). The one fact of the podcast that got me really thinking was how a lot of the blind will naturally turn to clicking in order to help me navigate."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8925668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8925668", "by": "enayetn", "time": 1421873427, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8926886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8926886", "by": "armandososa", "time": 1421888831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While this is a really well done project (I don't like the icons, though, they look so 2005) and while I love the Serial podcast too, If I was a friend or family of the victim(s) I'd be heart-broken to find how fast the story and the crime is becoming pop culture."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 8927820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927820", "by": "ch215", "time": 1421907076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone who likes Last Week Tonight should also check out the Bugle podcast Oliver hosts with Andy Zaltzman. Satire at its best: http://www.thebuglepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 8929195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929195", "by": "coldpie", "time": 1421936118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly OT, if you like John Oliver, you may enjoy The Bugle, a podcast which features Oliver and his friend Andy Zaltzmann discussing world news, often focusing on America and the UK."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 8933582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8933582", "by": "icpmacdo", "time": 1421992112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is a reference point for me. It is streamed live on uStream. Video is put on youtube and Vimeo and audio is pushed to RSS feeds. It might be content a little less suitable to HN so Ill let you find a episode of it to see the video format but I think being the third person sitting at the table in VR would be amazing."}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 8935667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8935667", "by": "SmallBets", "time": 1422030677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to this James Altucher podcast on the subject, about monetizing high followed accounts via sponsored posts: http://www.stansberryradio.com/Frank-Curzio/Latest-Episodes/... I thought it was pretty eye opening and seems relevant to your situation. Talks about streamlining the content creation process, getting advertisers to pay for sponsored posts, and he is now developing his own products to sell that would otherwise be pitched by advertisers in his sponsored posts."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 8955573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8955573", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1422390489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a podcast the other day where the presenter asked their listeners if anyone hadn't heard of the ridiculously successful Serial podcast - he was bombarded with responses! Unless you're Microsoft or Google, there are always audiences in your niche who haven't even heard of the other guys . I encounter this all the time in my own business. So unless your business was something specific like creating a scheduling system for vetinary surgeons based in Utah, you've just had your business idea partially validated and you still have a huge audience who are not yet your customers. Be"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 8960658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8960658", "by": "DontGiveTwoFlux", "time": 1422461648, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Over the past few decades, there has been a measurable increase in our fear of personal safety. In 1975, Roger Hart, an environmental psychologist, studied the children of a town in Vermont. Forty years later, he returned to what had changed. Children who used to have free range of the town now felt uncomfortable leaving their own properties. The parents of these children wanted to know that their kids were safely within reach at all times, even those parents who once had the run of the town. [The podcast Invisibilia interviews Hart here.](http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/377515477/fear"}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 8978434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8978434", "by": "dlu", "time": 1422745630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Always liked the single player vs multiplayer framework of breaking out products. John Gruber's podcast, touches upon this in the recent episode with Ben Thompson as a guest https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2015/01/24/ep-108"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 8979999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8979999", "by": "bmajz", "time": 1422801892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an interesting concept and a really old one to boot. Planet Money recently did a great podcast covering a similar measure (although it was specifically for mortgages) in Iceland: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/12/05/368723679/episode-... Interestingly, Saudi Arabia also did something similar (alongside many other measures) to boost public support for the new king: http://www.arabnews.com/news/696661"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 8986205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986205", "by": "nostromo", "time": 1422904926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did an interesting podcast on this: http://freakonomics.com/2014/03/06/is-learning-a-foreign-lan... Their conclusion was that bilingualism doesn't increase your earnings potential commensurate with all of the study required to become bilingual. (They focused on economic and not cultural value.) The exception was English. If you don't speak English, you will make much more if you learn English. They also discussed how supply-side is important in the market for bilinguals. In the US, learning Spanish will not increase your income by much, but learning German might."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 8988860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988860", "by": "voltagex_", "time": 1422937860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The actual bug was trivial, the backstory was really interesting - it's the kind of thing you'd hear about on the 99% Invisible podcast. Sometimes verbosity is nice, after all, who doesn't like to share a good bug-hunt story?"}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 8996748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996748", "by": "vidarh", "time": 1423057885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only practice mindfulness meditation with varying frequency, sitting anything from about 5 minutes to 30 minutes, rarely longer. Typically mindfulness meditation starts with basic breath meditation: Sit in a stable, comfortable position, focus on your breath and notice it going in and out. If thoughts appear, try to keep focus on the breath but don't force the thoughts away, just try to let them dissipate without continuing them. The big difference for me with unstructured relaxation was that it was hard at first to focus on the breath. My mind produced all kinds of objections to sitting the"}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 8998438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998438", "by": "jorjordandan", "time": 1423073253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think that of all people who could be automated away, musk is probably not one of them. He probably would be happy to get rid of BS jobs. The problem is that once an AI gets to the tipping point of being able to improve itself, it will a) get super-intelligent, and b) start optimizing everything for it's programmed purpose. There was a great discussion with Nick an the Partially Examined Life podcast. The point of the investment is that we don't know what will happen when AI hits that point, or when it will be. So it makes sense to think about it.."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9001911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9001911", "by": "bhaumik", "time": 1423114359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Reply All podcast episode that dives much deeper into domain selling: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/7-this-website-is-for-sale/ ."}, {"show": "963131164", "hn_item": 9005146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005146", "by": "dgerhardt", "time": 1423163043, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9007516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007516", "by": "Negative1", "time": 1423190956, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9010158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9010158", "by": "vijayboyapati", "time": 1423243797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Planet Money (NPR) podcast on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/04/166514067/episode-... and I remember hearing another Planet Money podcast on bitcoin around the same time: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/24/138673630/what-is-... and thinking \"why don't the marijuana growers just store their money in bitcoin?\" Of course volatility is a big issue, but that can go both ways. Marijuana dealers saving profits in bitcoin in 2012 and before would have made even more in appreciation. Dealers doing so from 2014 would have lost some of their profits (in "}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 9013774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013774", "by": "carlosgg", "time": 1423311959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They were featured on the Science Friday podcast: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/02/06/2015/honey-i-shru..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 9015444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015444", "by": "nilliams", "time": 1423346070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep the Ember team also seem to have come to the same conclusion on 2-way bindings. My dumb takeaway is something like '2-way bindings demo well but are rarely what you actually want in real apps'. I think (not 100% sure) Tom & Yehuda (of Ember) talk about how they became disenfranchised with 2-way bindings in their recent Changelog podcast episode on Ember 2 [1]. [1] http://thechangelog.com/131/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9018659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018659", "by": "gshrikant", "time": 1423431065, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The evolution of the \u00a3 (pound) symbol has a similar, fascinating history behind it too. It was recently discussed on a 99% Invisible podcast [1]. [1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/octothorpe/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9030978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9030978", "by": "inflatablenerd", "time": 1423616409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested, Yanis also guested on the EconTalk podcast in 2013, talking about Valve's corporate structure and plans for solving Greece's financial woes. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 9032789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9032789", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1423662562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe they do. I'm hardly an expert, but on the Serial podcast, which details a murder investigation, cellphone tracking gathered from the carrier is introduced as evidence, and the events are described as \"pings\" (not calls, and probably not data since this was in the early 90s). I don't think they actually triangulate the position, they just know the tower the cellphone \"pinged\" and the approximate distance based on signal power. This would be a tremendous amount of information to retain Not really. An IMSI takes about 7 bytes, plus a few for location, let's say 12 bytes. Multiplied by, "}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 9033189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9033189", "by": "macmac", "time": 1423667132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find container shipping interesting, and perhaps Maersk specifically, Markus V\u00f6lter did an episode [1] on the topic on his Omega Tau podcast a while back. The episode also goes into some depth about how optimisation is applied to some of the processes in the industry. Full disclosure: I am one of the interviewees. [1] http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/04/146-container-shipping/"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9033868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9033868", "by": "rthomas6", "time": 1423673335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast cemented the idea in my mind more than it had been before. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 9039501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039501", "by": "davidw", "time": 1423758360, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9043156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9043156", "by": "stephenhuey", "time": 1423808169, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics covered this in a podcast in 2011. They looked at how businesses all over the world in which the founder passed the helm on to a child tended to perform worse EXCEPT in the case of Japan. The reason is because Japanese firms often search for a strong performer to become the next CEO and then the current CEO formally adopts that person into the family. Audio podcast: http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/03/new-freakonomics-radio-po... Transcript of the podcast: http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/03/the-church-of-scionology-... One of the papers cited by Freakonomics is here: http://www.ins"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9057609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9057609", "by": "MaastrichtTreat", "time": 1424104287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another problem is no storytelling. Podcasts like Radiolab do well communicating science to the public because they have mastered telling a slow & engaging story and discussing the implications while not jumping to them."}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 9060094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9060094", "by": "ThatMightBePaul", "time": 1424135603, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 9064525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9064525", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1424202577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "{Based on my recollection of something I heard listening through the StackOverflow/StackExchange Podcast archive.} The example of the Python question about angles is from 2011. I believe that subsequent to that time there were changes to both the close process and the reopening process. Part of the problem I think was that close votes accumulated and did not expire, so that they would stick even after a question was edited or months had passed since the vote was cast. The most recent podcast...about taking more Venture Capital...discussed some of the cultural issues that have developed at Stac"}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 9064525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9064525", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1424202577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "{Based on my recollection of something I heard listening through the StackOverflow/StackExchange Podcast archive.} The example of the Python question about angles is from 2011. I believe that subsequent to that time there were changes to both the close process and the reopening process. Part of the problem I think was that close votes accumulated and did not expire, so that they would stick even after a question was edited or months had passed since the vote was cast. The most recent podcast...about taking more Venture Capital...discussed some of the cultural issues that have developed at Stac"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9068681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068681", "by": "berberous", "time": 1424270202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold [0] of Intellectual Ventures [1] infamy. He's also famous for his epic modernist cuisine cooking bible [2]. I also highly recommend the This American Life two-part podcast on patent trolls [3] [4]. You can read Nathan's attempted justification of his patent troll activities here [5]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures [2] http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-The-Science-Cooking/... [3] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... [4] http://www.thisamericanlife."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9070450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070450", "by": "bentcorner", "time": 1424287664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"Reply All\" had an interesting episode about dealing with hate speech in Yik Yak: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/9-yik-yak/ I like how Colgate University dealt with the problem, but it's unfortunate that it's still there. On the upside, it allowed the conversations about the hate speech to happen in the first place."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 9072841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9072841", "by": "amatwl", "time": 1424330158, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hopefully Redmond will give hell to Lenovo for this. Also, apparently this is just the start for crapware on new PCs - Paul Thurrott said on the podcast Windows Weekly about a week ago that crapware is going to get a lot worse this PC cycle."}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 9075683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9075683", "by": "ErikBison", "time": 1424369297, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 9078891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078891", "by": "cbd1984", "time": 1424405952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Paul Thurrott said on the podcast Windows Weekly about a week ago that crapware is going to get a lot worse this PC cycle. Did he say why?"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 9082868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9082868", "by": "DaveMebs", "time": 1424464910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just because more words exist, does not mean the authors make use of these words. I think the author would agree that English has more words - he cites the dictionary sizes skewing heavily in favor of English. With that said, I am also surprised. I would like to see a similar analysis using more modern works, as well as a discussion around how texts are selected. It seems like the selection of authors and their novels will significantly impact the results. FWIW - Both English and French stem from the same original language (Proto-Indo-European). You are correct that English is a Germanic langu"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 9092137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9092137", "by": "glhaynes", "time": 1424656214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BBC Radio 4's fantastic \"In Our Time\" podcast had an episode on Bruegel just a few weeks ago. IIRC, it was more about a different but somewhat similar painting of his, but I believe there was at least a little discussion of this work as well. http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot (search for \"Bruegel\")"}, {"show": "963131164", "hn_item": 9113156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113156", "by": "dgerhardt", "time": 1424966311, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Tom Tunguz (VC @ Redpoint) was on the Growth Show Podcast this week and talked about the two piece of advice he would give about growth to founders if he had to boil things down -- 1. get cash upfront 2. focus on customer success. Anyone have experience switching to getting payment upfront? Or just advice on getting upfront payment in general? What was that process like? Assuming it's tougher in the early days (and will vary for industries) Here's the episode on iTunes if you want to listen to the whole interview: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tomasz-tunguz-redpoint-ventures/id963131164?"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 9116800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9116800", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1425003323, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 9117816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9117816", "by": "alexcasalboni", "time": 1425025977, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 9118878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9118878", "by": "dorfsmay", "time": 1425046348, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 9133151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133151", "by": "paulornothing", "time": 1425318159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not the OP, but I pretty regularly listen to Wait Wait, it's always pretty humorous and sadly it keeps me up on current events. I also listen to Marc Maron's WTF podcast and Star Talk Radio with Neil Degrasse Tyson. Different strokes for different folks though."}, {"show": "968779958", "hn_item": 9153139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9153139", "by": "himaniamoli", "time": 1425583000, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 9160143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9160143", "by": "joshyeager", "time": 1425682688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These two Career Tools podcasts cover several aspects of getting fired, including a very good answer to your question: https://www.manager-tools.com/2011/03/getting-fired-part-1 https://www.manager-tools.com/2011/03/getting-fired-part-2"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 9160261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9160261", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1425684833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The future of US was debated recently on Intelligence Squared [0]. Excellent podcast to subscribe to. But you can also watch or listen to debate singles on the website. [0] http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1..."}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 9162556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9162556", "by": "schappim", "time": 1425752813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I sold my business I suddenly found myself in charge of four divisions of a much larger company. I found the YCombinator \"How to Start a Startup\" Lecture Podcast ( https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-start-a-startup/i... ) invaluable. Specifically the later lectures on \"How to Manage\" and \"How To Operate\" were fantastic."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9166670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9166670", "by": "Apofis", "time": 1425840895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great episode. It seems to really work for a short period. Kind of like a reboot for the brain. A pretty large community has sprung up around this. Love Radiolab, they always bring these kinds of things to me while I fall asleep. Podcasts are the greatest sleepaid ever, learn things while you fall asleep."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9169200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169200", "by": "TheSpiceIsLife", "time": 1425877320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly tangential: while everyone's banging on a lot recently about how 'quality journalism is dying', has anyone actually run the numbers - has anyone done a quantitative analysis? Was it really the case that 20 or 30 years ago, and early, all / most journalism was high quality, or was it mostly trash back then too? And do we really have proportionately less quality journalism now that we did 'back then'? If we take in to account all the amazing podcasts we have access to now (eg. 99% Invisible, Australia's ABC Radio National podcasts, etc.) and the NYT, the New Yorker, Saudi Aramco News, e"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9169302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169302", "by": "Anechoic", "time": 1425878923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the context of this type of \"strategic\" bombing, and how it played into the U.S. decision to use the atomic bombs in WWII, listen to the \"Logical Insanity\" episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-l... It's long, but quite informative."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9183160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183160", "by": "discodave", "time": 1426063681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I've yet to see the research which indicates that we should see an even mix of men and women at the top of social structures The reason that we want to see this is that we have thousands of years of evidence that when group A has more power than group B it tends to end really badly for group B. See: slavery, capitalism, the patriarchy, colonialism... etc. > admit a difference in terms of both physical ability (eg, why we separate sports) That's spurious. Physical ability is not at all important for competency in most of the high paying and powerful roles of society. If physical ability were "}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9197274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197274", "by": "ritchiea", "time": 1426257197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There does seem to be a spectrum. The furthest extremes are very interesting with some people on the deeply empathetic end of the spectrum actually experiencing pain when they view other humans experiencing pain. That is to say the viewer's neurons literally fire and send signals that the viewer is in pain when in actuality it is another person falling, bumping into something or what have you. There was a fantastic story about one person who experiences this on NPR's new science podcast Invisibilia [1]. 1. http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/382451600/entangleme..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9204162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204162", "by": "gakz", "time": 1426367269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, no. But a recent Freakonomics podcast talked about the idea of 'temptation bundling', which I'm curious to try out. The premise is you restrict yourself to only do something you like with something you don't e.g. you can only be on Reddit or HN while you're at the gym."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 9204329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9204329", "by": "mwfunk", "time": 1426370010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Siracusa said something similar on Accidental Tech Podcast a while back, and it really struck me because it made me look back on every argument I've ever had in a different light. He said he always phrased disagreements in such a way as to leave the person he was disagreeing with out of it. In general, always voice disagreement as \"the thing you said is wrong\" rather than \"you're wrong\". The former is about the point of disagreement, the latter is about the person. It's not even about being diplomatic or being less likely to hurt someone's feelings (although you get that for free), it's really"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 9207395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207395", "by": "rcpt", "time": 1426443256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Science Friday did a good podcast on a related project: http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/21/2014/would-you-tr... They discuss \"Amy\" from x.ai. Turns out that x.ai needs to employ an \"AI trainer\" (discussed at 7min in) to handle all the situations that the algorithms can't."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 9207460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207460", "by": "slamus", "time": 1426444180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Developer Tea is a short, fresh and very interesting programming podcast: https://www.developertea.com/ It's just a delight."}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 9207491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207491", "by": "Red_Tarsius", "time": 1426444718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't recommend anything about programming/design, but I listen to Ask Altucher and The James Altucher Podcast . He interviews successful people \u2013 mostly entrepreneurs \u2013 from all walks of life. It's very interesting to hear all the past struggles and failures. James somehow makes the guests reveal the most intimate experiences. http://goo.gl/bJBMqN"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 9207504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207504", "by": "Old_Thrashbarg", "time": 1426444883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talking Machines is my favorite machine learning podcast. So far they've had interviews with many of the big names in ML: Yann LeCun, Goeff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 9207518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207518", "by": "swanson", "time": 1426445099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Giant Robots | http://giantrobots.fm/ | weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of great products | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 * Kalzumeus Podcast | http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/podcasts/feed/ | infrequent show that is more focused on the business/marketing side of software products, hosted by @patio11 | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd * Ruby Rogues | http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/ | weekly panel discussion about programming (emphasis on Ruby) | \u2605\u2605\u2605 (can vary wildly based on topic/panel) * The Bike Shed | http://bikeshed.fm/ | biweekly show discussing thoughtbot's experiences in web development (Rails"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 9207518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207518", "by": "swanson", "time": 1426445099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Giant Robots | http://giantrobots.fm/ | weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of great products | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 * Kalzumeus Podcast | http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/podcasts/feed/ | infrequent show that is more focused on the business/marketing side of software products, hosted by @patio11 | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd * Ruby Rogues | http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/ | weekly panel discussion about programming (emphasis on Ruby) | \u2605\u2605\u2605 (can vary wildly based on topic/panel) * The Bike Shed | http://bikeshed.fm/ | biweekly show discussing thoughtbot's experiences in web development (Rails"}, {"show": "417595309", "hn_item": 9207518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207518", "by": "swanson", "time": 1426445099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Giant Robots | http://giantrobots.fm/ | weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of great products | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 * Kalzumeus Podcast | http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/podcasts/feed/ | infrequent show that is more focused on the business/marketing side of software products, hosted by @patio11 | \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd * Ruby Rogues | http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/ | weekly panel discussion about programming (emphasis on Ruby) | \u2605\u2605\u2605 (can vary wildly based on topic/panel) * The Bike Shed | http://bikeshed.fm/ | biweekly show discussing thoughtbot's experiences in web development (Rails"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 9207520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207520", "by": "ssivark", "time": 1426445126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favourites (in no particular order): 1. NPR Planet Money -- http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ 2. Talking Machines -- http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ 3. Intelligence squared (debates; through NPR) -- http://www.npr.org/series/6263392/intelligence-squared-u-s/ I've also heard good things about Marketplace -- http://www.marketplace.org/podcasts"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 9207544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207544", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1426445340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Radio is pretty decent, with varied content about the topic: http://www.se-radio.net/ Not tech related, Radiotopia[1] has quite a few decent podcasts. I've been really enjoying The Allusionist[2], which is about the English language. [1] http://www.radiotopia.fm/ [2] http://www.theallusionist.org/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9207567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207567", "by": "julian25", "time": 1426445581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- RadioLab is my current favorite: http://radiolab.org - The Infinite Monkey Cage is an awesome (and funny) panel on a variety of science topics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc - 99% Invisible always captivates me: http://99percentinvisible.org - No Such Thing as a Fish is always hilarious and actually quite interesting: http://qi.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9207577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207577", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1426445742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Human-formatted list: ShopTalk - http://shoptalkshow.com/feed/ EconTalk - http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/EconTalk.xml The Loosely Coupled Podcast - http://looselycoupled.info/atom.xml pyvideo.org - http://pyvideo.org/video/rss The Web Ahead - http://feeds.5by5.tv/webahead Ruby Rogues - http://feeds.feedburner.com/RubyRogues JavaScript Jabber - http://feeds.feedwrench.com/JavaScriptJabber.rss Programming Throwdown - http://programmingthrowdown.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default... Turing-Incomplete - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Turing-Incomplete"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 9207621, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207621", "by": "LukeB_UK", "time": 1426446507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 4 I have on my list at the minute: * The Joe Rogan Experience - http://podcasts.joerogan.net/ * Nerdist - http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/nerdist-podcast-chann... * Startalk - http://www.startalkradio.net/shows-archive/ * Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - http://www.tested.com/still-untitled-the-adam-savage-project..."}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 9207621, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207621", "by": "LukeB_UK", "time": 1426446507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 4 I have on my list at the minute: * The Joe Rogan Experience - http://podcasts.joerogan.net/ * Nerdist - http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/nerdist-podcast-chann... * Startalk - http://www.startalkradio.net/shows-archive/ * Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - http://www.tested.com/still-untitled-the-adam-savage-project..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9207626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207626", "by": "weej", "time": 1426446590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Software Engineering Radio - http://www.se-radio.net/ \u2022 Hansel Minutes - http://hanselminutes.com/ \u2022 Architectural Concepts - http://www.architecturecast.net/ \u2022 Security Now - https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm \u2022 Arming the Donkeys - http://danariely.com/tag/arming-the-donkeys/ \u2022 Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts... \u2022 Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/127413729/podcast/ \u2022 This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9207626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207626", "by": "weej", "time": 1426446590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Software Engineering Radio - http://www.se-radio.net/ \u2022 Hansel Minutes - http://hanselminutes.com/ \u2022 Architectural Concepts - http://www.architecturecast.net/ \u2022 Security Now - https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm \u2022 Arming the Donkeys - http://danariely.com/tag/arming-the-donkeys/ \u2022 Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts... \u2022 Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/127413729/podcast/ \u2022 This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9207626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207626", "by": "weej", "time": 1426446590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Software Engineering Radio - http://www.se-radio.net/ \u2022 Hansel Minutes - http://hanselminutes.com/ \u2022 Architectural Concepts - http://www.architecturecast.net/ \u2022 Security Now - https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm \u2022 Arming the Donkeys - http://danariely.com/tag/arming-the-donkeys/ \u2022 Freakonomics - http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts... \u2022 Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/127413729/podcast/ \u2022 This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 9207641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207641", "by": "anonova", "time": 1426446799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Changelog Podcast is a good show with OSS developers. http://thechangelog.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9207655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207655", "by": "wowzer", "time": 1426446966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Haskell Cast - http://haskellcast.com * NodeUp - http://nodeup.com * This American Life - http://thisamericanlife.org/ * Fresh Air - http://npr.org/programs/fresh-air/ * Invisibilia - http://npr.org/programs/invisibilia * StartUp Podcast - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9207657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207657", "by": "alimoeeny", "time": 1426446990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My vote to : Startup life: The reboot Podcast StartUp Podcast a16z General: Invisibilia 99 % invisible planet money EconTalk"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9207657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207657", "by": "alimoeeny", "time": 1426446990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My vote to : Startup life: The reboot Podcast StartUp Podcast a16z General: Invisibilia 99 % invisible planet money EconTalk"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9207684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207684", "by": "zachberger", "time": 1426447354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is what I listen to: Storytelling This American Life - http://thisamericanlife.org/ The Moth - http://themoth.org/ Selected Shorts - http://www.selectedshorts.org/ Wiretap - http://www.cbc.ca/radio/wiretap Serial - http://serialpodcast.org Radio Lab - http://radiolab.org/ Politics & Econ On The Media - http://onthemedia.org/ Common Sense - http://dancarlin.com/common-sense-home-landing-page/ Hardcore History - http://dancarlin.com/home-hh-54/ Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/127413729/podcast/ Econtalk - http://www.econtalk.org/"}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 9207685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207685", "by": "verhaust", "time": 1426447356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ - mostly looks at quirky aspects of modern culture/society from an economics bent. It is very \"light\" economics, but the topics are usually interesting. * EconTalk - http://www.econtalk.org/ - Still pop-economics oriented, but definitely deeper than Planet Money. The people Russ interviews have changed my opinion on controversial issues many times. * Writing Excuses - http://www.writingexcuses.com/ - I don't currently write fiction and it is very low on my priority list, but hearing authors describe how they deal with all aspects of writing is i"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 9207685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207685", "by": "verhaust", "time": 1426447356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ - mostly looks at quirky aspects of modern culture/society from an economics bent. It is very \"light\" economics, but the topics are usually interesting. * EconTalk - http://www.econtalk.org/ - Still pop-economics oriented, but definitely deeper than Planet Money. The people Russ interviews have changed my opinion on controversial issues many times. * Writing Excuses - http://www.writingexcuses.com/ - I don't currently write fiction and it is very low on my priority list, but hearing authors describe how they deal with all aspects of writing is i"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 9207687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207687", "by": "alfiedotwtf", "time": 1426447403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to listen to heaps of podcasts. These days I'm time poor, so I've culled them all except my favourites: * TechZing ( http://techzinglive.com ) * The Rocketship Podcast ( http://rocketship.fm/ ) * 2600's Off The Hook ( http://www.2600.com/offthehook/archive_ra.html )"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9207700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207700", "by": "igravious", "time": 1426447537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Philosophy \u2022 - Partially Examined Life: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ \u2022 - Philosophy Bites: http://www.philosophybites.com/ \u2022 Comedy \u2022 - Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast: http://www.billburr.com/podcast \u2022 - The Bugle Podcast: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ All you need is philosophy and comedy, anything else is superfluous."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 9207700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207700", "by": "igravious", "time": 1426447537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Philosophy \u2022 - Partially Examined Life: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ \u2022 - Philosophy Bites: http://www.philosophybites.com/ \u2022 Comedy \u2022 - Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast: http://www.billburr.com/podcast \u2022 - The Bugle Podcast: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ All you need is philosophy and comedy, anything else is superfluous."}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 9207700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207700", "by": "igravious", "time": 1426447537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Philosophy \u2022 - Partially Examined Life: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ \u2022 - Philosophy Bites: http://www.philosophybites.com/ \u2022 Comedy \u2022 - Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast: http://www.billburr.com/podcast \u2022 - The Bugle Podcast: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ All you need is philosophy and comedy, anything else is superfluous."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 9207749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207749", "by": "rgower", "time": 1426448196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Skeptic's Guide to the Universe ( http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ ) * Rationally Speaking ( http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/ )"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 9207892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207892", "by": "jordw", "time": 1426449919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Song Exploder, a friend of mine and I started a music production podcast where we dissect one song each week that you might also like: http://songaweek.net/"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 9207907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207907", "by": "sandebert", "time": 1426450193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, I listen to many podcasts already mentioned, but these two also deserve a strong recommendation: * Startups For the Rest of Us - \"The podcast that helps developers be awesome at launching software products\" - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ One episode per week, like clockwork. Typically ~30 minutes long. Actionable stuff. Whenever I get a new episode of this podcast it instantly goes to top of listening queue. Also, I listen to it 1x speed, because I don't want to miss anything. * This Developer's Life - \"Stories About Developers and Their Lives\" - http://thisdeveloperslife.com/ "}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 9207958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207958", "by": "jeo1234", "time": 1426450908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of great stuff here already, here are a few things which I don't think I saw. Music: -All Songs Considered http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/ -KEXP Presents Music That Matters http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters -The Noise Pop podcast ww2.kqed.org/arts/affiliates/noise-pop/ Funny: -The Bugle (highly recommend) http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Tech: -Bad Voltage http://www.badvoltage.org/ -Innovation Hub (Hidden gem) http://www.pri.org/programs/innovation-hub -New Tech City http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newtechcity/ -Tech Weekly http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly News &"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9207958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207958", "by": "jeo1234", "time": 1426450908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of great stuff here already, here are a few things which I don't think I saw. Music: -All Songs Considered http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/ -KEXP Presents Music That Matters http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters -The Noise Pop podcast ww2.kqed.org/arts/affiliates/noise-pop/ Funny: -The Bugle (highly recommend) http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Tech: -Bad Voltage http://www.badvoltage.org/ -Innovation Hub (Hidden gem) http://www.pri.org/programs/innovation-hub -New Tech City http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newtechcity/ -Tech Weekly http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly News &"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 9207958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207958", "by": "jeo1234", "time": 1426450908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of great stuff here already, here are a few things which I don't think I saw. Music: -All Songs Considered http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/ -KEXP Presents Music That Matters http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters -The Noise Pop podcast ww2.kqed.org/arts/affiliates/noise-pop/ Funny: -The Bugle (highly recommend) http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Tech: -Bad Voltage http://www.badvoltage.org/ -Innovation Hub (Hidden gem) http://www.pri.org/programs/innovation-hub -New Tech City http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newtechcity/ -Tech Weekly http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly News &"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9208319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208319", "by": "evanb", "time": 1426456207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts I think of as entertainment: * The Mortified Podcast http://getmortified.com/ * Serial http://serialpodcast.org/ * True Story http://truestorytime.org/ * The Tobolowsky Files http://www.slashfilm.com/category/features/slashfilmcast/the... * StoryCorps http://storycorps.org/podcast/ * The Moth http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast * The Story Collider http://storycollider.org/podcast * NPR Sunday Puzzle http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle Podcasts I think of as education: * Invisibilia http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia * This American Life http://www.thisamer"}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 9208349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208349", "by": "coleca", "time": 1426456613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a few I enjoy: AWS Podcast: http://aws.amazon.com/awspodcast/ The FrontSide Podcast: http://frontside.io/ The New Stack Analysts: http://thenewstack.io/ Software Defined Talk: http://softwaredefinedtalk.com/ Under Development Podcast: http://underdevelopment.io/ GigaOm had a great one as well called The Structure Show but it's now defunct as of last week."}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 9208426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208426", "by": "wowzer", "time": 1426457599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're missing a dash on the AWS podcast: http://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast Thanks for mentioning this, didn't know AWS had a podcast."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 9208523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208523", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1426459311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hell yes. Risky Business has been my favorite new podcast discovery this year, and I can't believe it's actually been running for 7 years. It's really well presented, the segments flow well and are informative & entertaining. If you've currently got Security Now on your podcast playlist, definitely pick this one up. I think you'll feel like you've been shortchanging yourself all this time."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 9208523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208523", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1426459311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hell yes. Risky Business has been my favorite new podcast discovery this year, and I can't believe it's actually been running for 7 years. It's really well presented, the segments flow well and are informative & entertaining. If you've currently got Security Now on your podcast playlist, definitely pick this one up. I think you'll feel like you've been shortchanging yourself all this time."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 9208885, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208885", "by": "henry_flower", "time": 1426465311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't believe nobody's mentioned Futility Closet http://www.futilitycloset.com/category/podcast/ Their lateral thinking puzzles are awesome."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 9209201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209201", "by": "foundersgrid", "time": 1426469658, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "966297954", "hn_item": 9209481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209481", "by": "alexissantos", "time": 1426473741, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "## Business * The Fizzle Show: http://fizzle.co/show This show gets you thinking critically about what you're doing/need to do in your business, and it provides a good laugh, too. That said, it largely focuses on \"content\" businesses and blogging. ## Development/Marketing/Business * The Binpress Podcast: http://www.binpress.com/blog/category/podcast/ I host a podcast for the folks at Binpress, where I interview developers who've built businesses on their software. I've interviewed Canonical's [Mark Shuttleworth]( http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/08/26/binpress-podcast-epi... ), Zend's [Andi G"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 9209804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209804", "by": "captn3m0", "time": 1426479110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Changelog Podcast http://thechangelog.com/podcast/ * Writing Excuses (Hugo-award winning) http://www.writingexcuses.com/ * Reddit Upvoted https://soundcloud.com/upvoted/"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 9209804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209804", "by": "captn3m0", "time": 1426479110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Changelog Podcast http://thechangelog.com/podcast/ * Writing Excuses (Hugo-award winning) http://www.writingexcuses.com/ * Reddit Upvoted https://soundcloud.com/upvoted/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9209938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209938", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1426481556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* This Week in Startups: http://thisweekinstartups.com/ * Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc... * WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ * The Champs: http://www.thechamps.libsyn.com/ * This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * The Todd Barry Podcast: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/the-todd-barry-podcast/ * Call Chelsea Peretti: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/call-chelsea-peretti/ * You Made It Weird: http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/you-made-it-weird-cha... * Here's The Thing: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9209938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209938", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1426481556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* This Week in Startups: http://thisweekinstartups.com/ * Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc... * WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ * The Champs: http://www.thechamps.libsyn.com/ * This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * The Todd Barry Podcast: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/the-todd-barry-podcast/ * Call Chelsea Peretti: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/call-chelsea-peretti/ * You Made It Weird: http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/you-made-it-weird-cha... * Here's The Thing: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 9209938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209938", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1426481556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* This Week in Startups: http://thisweekinstartups.com/ * Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc... * WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ * The Champs: http://www.thechamps.libsyn.com/ * This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * The Todd Barry Podcast: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/the-todd-barry-podcast/ * Call Chelsea Peretti: http://www.feralaudio.com/show/call-chelsea-peretti/ * You Made It Weird: http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/you-made-it-weird-cha... * Here's The Thing: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9210015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210015", "by": "thirdsun", "time": 1426483745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab - I love the fast cuts and interesting sound design. Of course, the content is top notch too. This American Life - Probably the most popular podcast with a long history and an impressive track record of exciting stories. The Bike Shed - new Ruby/Rails-related podcast from thoughtbot, really like it. Pragmatic - in-depth coverage of certain technical topics. The Truth - fictional stories, very good writing, high production values. Feels like audio-only, high quality short films."}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 9210015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210015", "by": "thirdsun", "time": 1426483745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab - I love the fast cuts and interesting sound design. Of course, the content is top notch too. This American Life - Probably the most popular podcast with a long history and an impressive track record of exciting stories. The Bike Shed - new Ruby/Rails-related podcast from thoughtbot, really like it. Pragmatic - in-depth coverage of certain technical topics. The Truth - fictional stories, very good writing, high production values. Feels like audio-only, high quality short films."}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 9210015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210015", "by": "thirdsun", "time": 1426483745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab - I love the fast cuts and interesting sound design. Of course, the content is top notch too. This American Life - Probably the most popular podcast with a long history and an impressive track record of exciting stories. The Bike Shed - new Ruby/Rails-related podcast from thoughtbot, really like it. Pragmatic - in-depth coverage of certain technical topics. The Truth - fictional stories, very good writing, high production values. Feels like audio-only, high quality short films."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 9210026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210026", "by": "ctrijueque", "time": 1426484090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most of the podcasts I listen are comedy or comedy related (and most of them NSFW): * WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ * How did this get made?: http://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ * RISK!: http://risk-show.com/ * Keith and the Girl: http://www.keithandthegirl.com/ * The Best Show: http://thebestshow.net/ * The Dinner Party Download: http://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/ * By the Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin: http://www.earwolf.com/show/by-the-way-in-conversation-with-... * Walking the Room: https://soundcloud.com/walking-the-room * The Dollop: http://thedollop"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9210070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210070", "by": "meonkeys", "time": 1426485498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My list (some of which have already been mentioned): - This American Life - Invisibilia - Snap Judgment - The Moth Radio Hour - Planet Money - RadioLab - The Meteor Podcast Can someone please distill a top ten list from all these Hacker News comments? Also, man oh MAN do I miss Pod of Funk."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9210070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210070", "by": "meonkeys", "time": 1426485498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My list (some of which have already been mentioned): - This American Life - Invisibilia - Snap Judgment - The Moth Radio Hour - Planet Money - RadioLab - The Meteor Podcast Can someone please distill a top ten list from all these Hacker News comments? Also, man oh MAN do I miss Pod of Funk."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 9210070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210070", "by": "meonkeys", "time": 1426485498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My list (some of which have already been mentioned): - This American Life - Invisibilia - Snap Judgment - The Moth Radio Hour - Planet Money - RadioLab - The Meteor Podcast Can someone please distill a top ten list from all these Hacker News comments? Also, man oh MAN do I miss Pod of Funk."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9210070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210070", "by": "meonkeys", "time": 1426485498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My list (some of which have already been mentioned): - This American Life - Invisibilia - Snap Judgment - The Moth Radio Hour - Planet Money - RadioLab - The Meteor Podcast Can someone please distill a top ten list from all these Hacker News comments? Also, man oh MAN do I miss Pod of Funk."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 9210270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210270", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1426491581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like horror, you might be interested The NoSleep Podcast : readings of the cream of the crop of short stories from reddit's NoSleep forum. Really good voices and sound design, and it won a Parsec Award for speculative fiction in 2014. http://thenosleeppodcast.com/"}, {"show": "513734888", "hn_item": 9210427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210427", "by": "ajanuary", "time": 1426495133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy panel shows Do the right thing - UK comedy panel show hosted by Danielle Ward and team captains Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. Pappy's flatshare slamdown - Comedy panel show hosted and captained by UK sketch comedy group Pappy's. InKredulous - Skeptical comedy panel show. News and current affairs Citizen radio - Independent left-wing political show. The Bugle - Satirical news podcast hosted by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver. Skepticism Be reasonable - A skeptic interviews people whose ideas are \"outside of the mainstream\" in a polite and respectful way. InKredulous - Skeptical"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 9210427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210427", "by": "ajanuary", "time": 1426495133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy panel shows Do the right thing - UK comedy panel show hosted by Danielle Ward and team captains Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. Pappy's flatshare slamdown - Comedy panel show hosted and captained by UK sketch comedy group Pappy's. InKredulous - Skeptical comedy panel show. News and current affairs Citizen radio - Independent left-wing political show. The Bugle - Satirical news podcast hosted by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver. Skepticism Be reasonable - A skeptic interviews people whose ideas are \"outside of the mainstream\" in a polite and respectful way. InKredulous - Skeptical"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9210427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210427", "by": "ajanuary", "time": 1426495133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy panel shows Do the right thing - UK comedy panel show hosted by Danielle Ward and team captains Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. Pappy's flatshare slamdown - Comedy panel show hosted and captained by UK sketch comedy group Pappy's. InKredulous - Skeptical comedy panel show. News and current affairs Citizen radio - Independent left-wing political show. The Bugle - Satirical news podcast hosted by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver. Skepticism Be reasonable - A skeptic interviews people whose ideas are \"outside of the mainstream\" in a polite and respectful way. InKredulous - Skeptical"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 9210427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210427", "by": "ajanuary", "time": 1426495133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy panel shows Do the right thing - UK comedy panel show hosted by Danielle Ward and team captains Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. Pappy's flatshare slamdown - Comedy panel show hosted and captained by UK sketch comedy group Pappy's. InKredulous - Skeptical comedy panel show. News and current affairs Citizen radio - Independent left-wing political show. The Bugle - Satirical news podcast hosted by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver. Skepticism Be reasonable - A skeptic interviews people whose ideas are \"outside of the mainstream\" in a polite and respectful way. InKredulous - Skeptical"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 9211670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211670", "by": "sjs382", "time": 1426516905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc). But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts. Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published: * Do You Link Prince Movies? * The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons * Grantland NFL Podcast * Grantland Pop Culture * Grantland Sports * Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin * Hollywood Prospectus * Jalen & Jacoby * Rembert Explains * Serial * Startup * Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew) * Upvoted by Reddit * This American Life And here are"}, {"show": "753552884", "hn_item": 9211670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211670", "by": "sjs382", "time": 1426516905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc). But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts. Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published: * Do You Link Prince Movies? * The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons * Grantland NFL Podcast * Grantland Pop Culture * Grantland Sports * Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin * Hollywood Prospectus * Jalen & Jacoby * Rembert Explains * Serial * Startup * Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew) * Upvoted by Reddit * This American Life And here are"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 9211670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211670", "by": "sjs382", "time": 1426516905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc). But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts. Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published: * Do You Link Prince Movies? * The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons * Grantland NFL Podcast * Grantland Pop Culture * Grantland Sports * Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin * Hollywood Prospectus * Jalen & Jacoby * Rembert Explains * Serial * Startup * Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew) * Upvoted by Reddit * This American Life And here are"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9211670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211670", "by": "sjs382", "time": 1426516905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc). But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts. Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published: * Do You Link Prince Movies? * The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons * Grantland NFL Podcast * Grantland Pop Culture * Grantland Sports * Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin * Hollywood Prospectus * Jalen & Jacoby * Rembert Explains * Serial * Startup * Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew) * Upvoted by Reddit * This American Life And here are"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 9213232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213232", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1426530045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not as familiar with dev/design podcasts but I'll mention some that I've heard good things about; I think it would make a great Product Hunt board. More generally I think podcast discovery is a huge problem b/c 1.) most of us aren't aware of the good shows that exist, 2.) there's no easy way to share the best episodes, so we don't know which ones they are, and 3.) as listeners our interests are incredibly varied so subjective relevance is almost as important as quality. I'm going to share a list of shows that I've personally enjoyed or seem interesting. I'm also going to share some of my f"}, {"show": "266539442", "hn_item": 9228230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9228230", "by": "cphuntington97", "time": 1426708545, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm fascinated by Korean culture! I recommend Colin Marshall's podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture, which recently completed a Korean tour: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notebook-on-cities-cultu... Or check out his blog: http://blog.colinmarshall.org"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9231777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231777", "by": "qwerunf", "time": 1426772401, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast did a fantastic episode answering your exact question: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-..."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 9238576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238576", "by": "sranso", "time": 1426868264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Truth * Freakonomics * The Moth * RadioLab * Magnet Theater Podcast"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9238576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238576", "by": "sranso", "time": 1426868264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Truth * Freakonomics * The Moth * RadioLab * Magnet Theater Podcast"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 9238576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238576", "by": "sranso", "time": 1426868264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* The Truth * Freakonomics * The Moth * RadioLab * Magnet Theater Podcast"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 9238601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238601", "by": "sranso", "time": 1426868503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Truth http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html is really good! You could start with http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2013/10/13_The_Talk... . Radiotopia in general is good for this kind of stuff."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 9240867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9240867", "by": "WCityMike", "time": 1426888048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results: Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast 99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/ Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/ Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Dan Carlin's Hardcore "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 9243385, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9243385", "by": "sqyttles", "time": 1426958074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the report. Joe Rogan's podcast had me tempted into trying it but I'm glad I didn't!"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9252913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252913", "by": "jsherry", "time": 1427139446, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you have a taste for stories that span the spectrum of airport carpeting fanboys to those with more historical significance such as the story here, I cannot recommend the 99% invisible podcast enough. Web - http://feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id394775318"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9252924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252924", "by": "mikeytown2", "time": 1427139589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reading this reminds me of the \"Mistakes Were Made\" This American Life podcast [1]. It's amazing how much we've learned in the last 50 years & how far we have to go in order to get to what we've seen in movies [2] [1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/354/m... [2] http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4156/explain-hyper..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9257960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257960", "by": "Erikun", "time": 1427217556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast had a show about Hutson and Pigeon.ly, well worth listening too. http://n.pr/1FZPCvw"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9258359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258359", "by": "tswartz", "time": 1427220755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money just did a podcast on Pigeon.ly. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/13/392862778/episode-... Fascinating to listen to the founder talking about the difficulty of starting a business as a former convict. Its ironic that because he was in prison he best understands the target market, however being in prison meant banks and other investors viewed him and his business negatively. (edit: Planet Money did the podcast on Pigeon.ly, not another company)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9258380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258380", "by": "YokoZar", "time": 1427220939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money's podcast was about this very company -- they just changed their name. It's mentioned somewhere midway through the episode."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9286994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286994", "by": "mmahemoff", "time": 1427673620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're into podcasts, http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/ is doing a very comprehensive effort speaking to original sources about all things early internet. Also the Reply All podcast has covered various quirky aspects of internet history http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ ."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 9293397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9293397", "by": "chao-", "time": 1427758828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To hear Brendan Eich tell it, Microsoft's mindset went beyond simply \"We have a monopoly so we can do whatever we want.\" It was a conscious \"The web isn't the future\" attitude. From the JavaScript Jabber podcast: \"After IE6 they took the team down to a skeleton crew and they stopped fixing bugs. They had horrendous security bugs and page layout bugs and DOM bugs and networking bugs. And they just said, 'Ah, the web is over. We\u2019re going to do Windows presentation foundation,' which became Silverlight. 'We're going to do .NET. The web, that was a passing fad, sort of like television.' So\u2026\" Now w"}, {"show": "963131164", "hn_item": 9297789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297789", "by": "dgerhardt", "time": 1427820563, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Slack is a messaging app that is less than two years old and already worth north of $2B with over 500,000 users. Many people are calling it the fastest growing business application ever. Slack CMO Bill Macaitis (formerly CMO at Zendesk) is interviewed on this podcast to go behind the scenes on Slack's explosive growth and talks about why they care so much about brand and NPS. What do you think is behind such crazy growth? IM and chat has been around for ever and other services like Hipchat are very similar. What do you think Slack's secret sauce is? If Hipchat didn't sell to Atlassian in 2012,"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 9305866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305866", "by": "wj", "time": 1427913980, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Start Small Stay Small by Rob Walling is the one that spoke to me in my position the most: http://smile.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launchin... He has a podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, that you can listen to for free on iTunes."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 9325973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325973", "by": "AlwaysBCoding", "time": 1428283125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is unbelievable if true. Why has nobody thought of tweeting from prison before? It's genius. Is there anything the government can legally do to prevent this from happening? Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated? If there were more prison twitter accounts it would do wonders towards expsosing how absurd our judicial / prison system is. More people should be live tweeting court cases / prison sentences. Could Adnan Syed have done companion tweets to the Serial podcast? This idea is so interesting."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9327735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9327735", "by": "coldpie", "time": 1428323793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you familiar with his podcast The Bugle? It's a (mostly) weekly, 30-minute satirical news podcast that he does with another English comedian, Andy Zaltzman. They cover European issues in most episodes. http://soundcloud.com/the-bugle Archive of older episodes: http://gamesplusone.com/thebugle"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9327779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9327779", "by": "proactivesvcs", "time": 1428324428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle Podcast is all you need to know. You may have to put up with poor-quality phone lines in some episodes, but John and Andy take apart plenty of UK issues in their Friday issue of \"an audio newspaper for a visual world\"."}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 9346793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9346793", "by": "jsloat", "time": 1428578709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm also curious if a widespread \"gaming tradition\" has positive effects on other areas of life. Games tend to require critical thinking, creativity and most importantly create interesting social situations. TED Radio Hour podcast just had an interesting episode about the benefits of play, check it out: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/390249044"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9350131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9350131", "by": "jcourville", "time": 1428606310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2600 Off the Hook - https://www.2600.com/?q=offthehook Stuff you missed in History Class - http://www.missedinhistory.com/ Alton Brown Podcast - http://altonbrown.com/altonblog/the-alton-browncast-podcast/ Freakonomics Podcast - http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc... Philosophy Bites - http://www.philosophybites.com/ The Partially Examined Life - http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ JavaScript Jabber - http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 9350131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9350131", "by": "jcourville", "time": 1428606310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2600 Off the Hook - https://www.2600.com/?q=offthehook Stuff you missed in History Class - http://www.missedinhistory.com/ Alton Brown Podcast - http://altonbrown.com/altonblog/the-alton-browncast-podcast/ Freakonomics Podcast - http://freakonomics.com/radio/freakonomics-radio-podcast-arc... Philosophy Bites - http://www.philosophybites.com/ The Partially Examined Life - http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/ JavaScript Jabber - http://devchat.tv/js-jabber/"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 9365810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9365810", "by": "talideon", "time": 1428895259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, I guess all that talk on the BSD Now podcast a few weeks ago was nonsense then? I'll go back listen to them again and pick out the episode along with a timestamp, if you'd like. Anyhow, I'm not referring to the OpenBSD performance improvements being a reason to port it over. You're right: it isn't an issue for FreeBSD. However, it benefits FreeBSD if the version of pf used is simply OpenBSD pf with SMP support and a few other bits because that means that means less stuff to maintain."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 9374677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9374677", "by": "kaolinite", "time": 1429023140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently it's a limitation of the chipset. It can only support 8GB when soldered onto the board (16GB when unsoldered). Can't find the reference for it on Intel's website but it was discussed at length on the Accidental Tech Podcast (atp.fm) by John Siracusa."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9375724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9375724", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1429031471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet Media's Reply All podcast had an episode about Jennicam: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-the-jennicam/ They also had a blog post with additional facts like it got her a walk on role on Diagnosis Murder: http://gimletmedia.com/2014/12/6-things-i-couldnt-include-in..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9380163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380163", "by": "brohoolio", "time": 1429097049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All, an excellent internet podcast did an episode about jennicam. Pretty interesting stuff. http://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-the-jennicam/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9380365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380365", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1429099837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to that yesterday! I'm loving Reply All, and also the other podcast by the same company, StartUp [1], which documents the creation of Gimlet Media, itself. [1] http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 9381959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9381959", "by": "rdrey", "time": 1429114441, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I didn't know about patio11's podcast ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzumeus-software-podca... ), subscribed! Great article."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 9390605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9390605", "by": "Roboprog", "time": 1429216438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sounds much like one of the things that Steve Yegge (sp?) was describing on one of the \"Stack Overflow\" podcasts about 6 years ago. He wanted a common system to track the data about source code, in various languages, that an IDE would need to know."}, {"show": "968779958", "hn_item": 9396196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396196", "by": "donnfelker", "time": 1429295201, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9405657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9405657", "by": "bjones22", "time": 1429493023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An interesting add-on here from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast: The initial plan to force the strait involved risking a large number of out-dated ships, judged by Churchill and co. to be expendable in the context of their utility in the war. However the admiralty, who included a number of men who had served on said ships, shared an emotional attachment to the old-war-dog fleet which they had earned their stars and stripes on. Thus they were unwilling to fully commit the necessary expenditure for the plan to work (microcosm of why the greater plan failed). A good example of ineptitude in"}, {"show": "1624704966", "hn_item": 9430562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9430562", "by": "palidanx", "time": 1429831603, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 9434789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9434789", "by": "blarghmatey", "time": 1429896837, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 9440302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440302", "by": "ericdykstra", "time": 1430015400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone that finds this article interesting, I recommend the Retronauts podcast. http://www.retronauts.com/ I started listening to it about a month ago, and immediately dove into their back catalogue and have listened to about half of the episodes from their current and previous season. Even when the episodes are about something I have little knowledge of, hearing about a game or producer's impact and legacy is really interesting and makes me want to go back and check the games out."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 9465516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9465516", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1430406553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember Jeff Atwood talking about this in a Stackoverflow podcast. With Postgres or other free software, you not only don't have to lay out cash, you also don't have to spend time trying to understand arcane licensing rules. (And worrying that you might have violated one of them.) Whether the time (and time is money) saved balances out the cost of the software when the commercial product offers better functionality will vary with the situation. For what it's worth, Atwood chose Postgres for his Discourse product. The FAQ says the product is \"Uncompromisingly open source.\" And \"There is only"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 9476124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476124", "by": "phenylene", "time": 1430548549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For iOS developers: This Week In Swift: https://swiftnews.curated.co iOS Dev Weekly: https://iosdevweekly.com In depth Mac and iOS articles: http://www.objc.io Not strictly a newsletter, but a great weekly podcast for Mac and iOS developers is Core Intuition: http://www.coreint.org"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9478591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9478591", "by": "themodelplumber", "time": 1430601056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looking forward to trying some of these. I usually try a tech podcast once in a while and feel like I'm working rather than relaxing. :) My favorite exercise-time podcasts have been Spycast, Film Sack, StarTalk, and Radiolab. Occasionally I'll search the podcast directory by personality so I'll find e.g. a podcast where Scott McCloud is interviewed, and listen to it, but not actually subscribe to the podcast."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 9479422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479422", "by": "Daneel_", "time": 1430617346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside, Risky Business podcast is a fantastic podcast if you're interested in infosec. I've been listening to it for over five years, and can't recommend it enough, both for the quality of the content, and for the laughs they have. It comes out weekly on Fridays (Australia time). I've met Pat at some conferences and had a beer with him - he's a great guy, both on and off the podcast. Highly recommended! The website is http://risky.biz /plug"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 9480001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9480001", "by": "coldwaraaron", "time": 1430629016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm lucky to be the editor of both the Shoptalk Show and the Changelog. Great shows with good people. I'd recommend checking out the seanwes podcast (life changing), Developing Perspective, CodePen Radio, Core Intuition, Let's Make Mistakes, Mac Power Users, Systematic, and the Accidental Tech Podcast."}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 9480001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9480001", "by": "coldwaraaron", "time": 1430629016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm lucky to be the editor of both the Shoptalk Show and the Changelog. Great shows with good people. I'd recommend checking out the seanwes podcast (life changing), Developing Perspective, CodePen Radio, Core Intuition, Let's Make Mistakes, Mac Power Users, Systematic, and the Accidental Tech Podcast."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9487968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9487968", "by": "stcredzero", "time": 1430763366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want disturbing, try the \"Hardcore History\" podcast where he explores the personal implications of what we know about being on the losing side of the Battle of Canae. Very disturbing, and even backed up by archaeological data."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 9490005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490005", "by": "shovel", "time": 1430783148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start: This Week in Startups Startups for the Rest of Us The Rocketship Podcast Serial (one off) Joe Rogan Experience Bulletproof Executive Tim Ferriss Show A16z Product Hunt Kalzumeus Product People"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 9490005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490005", "by": "shovel", "time": 1430783148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start: This Week in Startups Startups for the Rest of Us The Rocketship Podcast Serial (one off) Joe Rogan Experience Bulletproof Executive Tim Ferriss Show A16z Product Hunt Kalzumeus Product People"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 9490005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490005", "by": "shovel", "time": 1430783148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start: This Week in Startups Startups for the Rest of Us The Rocketship Podcast Serial (one off) Joe Rogan Experience Bulletproof Executive Tim Ferriss Show A16z Product Hunt Kalzumeus Product People"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9490785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9490785", "by": "Yabood", "time": 1430798389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to This American Life podcast occasionally, but never heard this one before. I really enjoyed it, thank you. I understand why Emir consider's himself lucky, and I think that most immigrants do too. Maybe because we never thought it was possible for us to escape our war torn countries and have normal lives again. I really don't know, but I do feel lucky. By the way, checkout The Moth. I think you'll really like it."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 9501425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501425", "by": "tilt", "time": 1430942370, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "332923870", "hn_item": 9501425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501425", "by": "tilt", "time": 1430942370, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 9518079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9518079", "by": "cazum", "time": 1431214312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Stuff You Should Know podcast is a great way to get introduced to all sorts of topics. Josh and Chuck are super funny guys, and usually know what they're talking about."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9528121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9528121", "by": "herbig", "time": 1431381505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a great podcast about this a few years ago as well: http://freakonomics.com/2011/10/10/where-have-all-the-hitchh..."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 9533820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9533820", "by": "dublinben", "time": 1431455235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasting has been an accepted form of media since at least 2011 with the success of The Adam Carolla Show ."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9536880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9536880", "by": "sukilot", "time": 1431494027, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did an episode about VC, where the host pitched a podcast business to a VC and got shot down."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 9546488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546488", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1431626037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scott Hanselman's podcast interview with Katherine Moss is pretty good and describes her combination of tools approach. It's about a year old, so pretty much current in regard to tech stack. http://hanselminutes.com/413/im-a-blind-software-technician-..."}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 9563326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9563326", "by": "ansgri", "time": 1431938076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Could you really? I presume most employers will ask you what did you do in that omitted period. At least listening to Career Tools podcast gave me that impression."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9564769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564769", "by": "technologizer", "time": 1431960847, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 9565674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565674", "by": "Nexxxeh", "time": 1431969961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder how it'll compare to the system Technical Illusions uses for castAR's tracking. Especially given the divergence of the two teams. (Technical Illusions being the company of Jeri and Rick, who left Valve taking the Augmented Reality tech with them. Jeri Ellsworth basically built the Valve hardware division. Valve worked on AR and VR simultaneously and then canned the AR stuff. Gabe let Jeri take the AR stuff when that happened. An interesting story that I've oversimplified. I think it was on an AmpHour podcast but don't quote me.)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 9567257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9567257", "by": "devsquid", "time": 1431988982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey heads up Steve Gibson of the Security Now podcast just shared your website. You might be getting a ton of traffic, if thats a concern"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 9572253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9572253", "by": "paulhauggis", "time": 1432061415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It doesn't surprise me. I heard Alex Winter being interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast a couple of weeks ago and he seemed to have many misunderstandings about the technology behind TOR."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9573377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573377", "by": "seltzered", "time": 1432071894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As referenced at the end of the article, there's a This American Life podcast from a few years ago about the whole thing: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/412/m... Really worth the listen."}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 9573631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9573631", "by": "zackify", "time": 1432075446, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9574529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9574529", "by": "nathanallen", "time": 1432093472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we can add a few more genres to our list... Popularizations - The Paradox of Choice - The Long Tail - The Shallows - Freakonomics - Where Good Ideas Come From Podcasts - This American Life - Freakonomics Radio - 99 Percent Invisible - Stuff You Should Know Aggregators - Hacker News I'm being tongue in cheek: I grant you there's excellent content, above, but I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the following: WHO consumes this kind of content, and WHY do we/they/I find it quote-un-quote \"interesting\"? I distinctly remember a car trip I had recently in which I realized, after about 10"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 9574529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9574529", "by": "nathanallen", "time": 1432093472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we can add a few more genres to our list... Popularizations - The Paradox of Choice - The Long Tail - The Shallows - Freakonomics - Where Good Ideas Come From Podcasts - This American Life - Freakonomics Radio - 99 Percent Invisible - Stuff You Should Know Aggregators - Hacker News I'm being tongue in cheek: I grant you there's excellent content, above, but I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the following: WHO consumes this kind of content, and WHY do we/they/I find it quote-un-quote \"interesting\"? I distinctly remember a car trip I had recently in which I realized, after about 10"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9574529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9574529", "by": "nathanallen", "time": 1432093472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we can add a few more genres to our list... Popularizations - The Paradox of Choice - The Long Tail - The Shallows - Freakonomics - Where Good Ideas Come From Podcasts - This American Life - Freakonomics Radio - 99 Percent Invisible - Stuff You Should Know Aggregators - Hacker News I'm being tongue in cheek: I grant you there's excellent content, above, but I'd be interested to see a breakdown of the following: WHO consumes this kind of content, and WHY do we/they/I find it quote-un-quote \"interesting\"? I distinctly remember a car trip I had recently in which I realized, after about 10"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9574594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9574594", "by": "nycthbris", "time": 1432094774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember the exact moment when I decided to stop listening to Freakonomics Radio. It was when I looked down at my phone and saw the next podcast in my feed was titled \"Are Gay Men Really Rich?\"."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 9578807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9578807", "by": "arelangi", "time": 1432151519, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 9588255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9588255", "by": "jmcdonald-ut", "time": 1432302902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you for this quote. I often think that this gets overlooked in our industry, and I'm no exception. A recent Hanselminutes podcast[1] touched on this. It pointed to a great resource[2]. 1. http://hanselminutes.com/475/accessibility-a11y-with-opendir... 2. http://a11yproject.com/"}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 9594262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9594262", "by": "christkv", "time": 1432412826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have a deeper interest in Napoleon I heartily recommend the Napoleon podcast http://napoleonbonapartepodcast.com . One of the things I learned was that the British started the wars and continuously broke the peace agreements. Still to this day most people think the reverse. It has to stand as one of the most successfully executed propaganda campaigns of history that people still think it 200 years later. And yeah he was not short. He is listed as 5.2 but in modern units that is 5.7 which was above average height for the age."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9596451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9596451", "by": "tomkinstinch", "time": 1432479800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode[1] of the design podcast 99% Invisible talks about how this (or a similar effect) was exploited by Victor Gruen in the design of shopping malls, in what they call Gruen transfer[2]. 1. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/ 2. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 9597073, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9597073", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1432492284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Software Engineering Radio podcast interview with Stefan Tilkov discusses the difference between REST and HTTP: http://www.se-radio.net/2008/05/episode-98-stefan-tilkov-on-... It is from 2008 but probably more or less evergreen."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 9608059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9608059", "by": "evolve2k", "time": 1432678851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'Virtuos Code' by Software Craftsman and 'Ruby Rogues Podcast panelist' Avdi Grim is well worth reading. He's recently been learning new languages (currently SmallTalk) and does great writeups of new insights he's having and how others can apply these insights too. http://devblog.avdi.org"}, {"show": "947191070", "hn_item": 9611448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611448", "by": "jvandyke", "time": 1432736124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My 2p, quit asap. Start interviewing for the other jobs and enjoy your downtime in between jobs. It's not going to get better for you and now you know what working at an agency is like. Appreciate the lesson and move on. As far as what your current company feels, consider this. Are you producing at the level you know you could? If not, is it really better for them if you stick around? I just heard an example of this from the Design Details podcast where Kim Bost left Etsy to go to a smaller company in arguably a more socially important field. She wasn't enjoying herself not was she capable of "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9612435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612435", "by": "rogerbinns", "time": 1432743757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. He recently just finished a 6 part series on WWI titled Blueprint for Armageddon. He tries to convey what it was like for the people involved. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ Reddit's AskHistorians also have two podcasts of discussion #35 & #36: http://askhistorians.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 9616568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616568", "by": "standout", "time": 1432798438, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9626734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9626734", "by": "johnwfinigan", "time": 1432927488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the last several months, I listened to the Hardcore History podcast about World War I. I am still struggling with the same question as the article poses, but applied to war instead of disease. I want to believe that it's respectful to try to understand these experiences on their own terms, maybe especially because of how horrible they were. But at other times I remember that I can walk away whenever I want, and so I can never understand, and if I enjoy the podcast (for example), is that exploitative? I think it is important not to forget these people, but aside from that, no answer here."}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 9641863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9641863", "by": "zackify", "time": 1433190226, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 9655039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9655039", "by": "glennbarley", "time": 1433358608, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 9676174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676174", "by": "santaclaus", "time": 1433707334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe Microsoft or Amazon, but talking with and listening to interviews with former Apple employees, that definitely doesn't seem to be the case. Nitin Ganatra (who I think was head of iPhone apps) had some super interesting interviews on the Debug podcast about the early software development of the iPhone, and those cats were clocking eighty hour weeks and certainly believed they were going to upend the technology industry. Don Melton also had some super interesting info on life at Apple. If you have a few train rides to blow, these are some super interesting looks into the internals of Apple"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9676451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9676451", "by": "nkzednan", "time": 1433713901, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9679004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679004", "by": "reqres", "time": 1433771524, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 9683658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9683658", "by": "codemonkeymike", "time": 1433814979, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember seeing a thread way back about good podcasts for developers to keep up to date and in the loop. Now I commute 4 hours a day 5 days a week and burn through all the podcasts I know about in a couple days. Are there any developer focused podcasts that you listen to? Here are the ones I listen to already: Tech Zing,TWiST, Bikeshed, Giant Robots, NodeUp, Developers Tea, Shop Talk, Coder Radio, Linux For The Rest of Us, JavaScript Jabber"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9686481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686481", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1433863694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> So, does affluence naturally lead to a weakening of strong family ties? IMO, what you call strong family ties, others might call patriarchy. When women have improved ability to support themselves, they're more inclined to leave abusive relationships. And like Sandberg, they're less willing to accept menial household roles traditionally assigned to them. There's a podcast from Planet Money about how this plays out among textile workers, if I recall correctly."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 9698167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698167", "by": "mrweasel", "time": 1434007535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is one positive aspect of ads on the internet. They provide an initial cash flow for start ups, where the consumers do not yet see the value proposition of the product/website. Sadly the transition for ad driven to user supported almost never happen. If you even listen to the No Agenda podcast, which is 100% listener supported, you'd know how hard it can be to get people to pay, even for a product they love."}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 9706403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9706403", "by": "acdha", "time": 1434122441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately that \u201ccontrol of discrimination\u201d can change uncontrollably in the future so any system we develop now should have some thought to the risks of leaving data which could be abused by a bad actor in the future. The BackStory podcast had a recent episode on the history of surveillance in America: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/keeping-tabs-2/ Among other topics, one segment discussed how a racist official in Virginia used data collected in the 19th century to protect free African Americans as part of his effort to enforce racial purity laws in the 20th century: \u201cHELEN ROUNTREE: In t"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 9729873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9729873", "by": "dylanjermiah", "time": 1434510133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Altman talked about this on the Econ Talk podcast, I believe he said he has 'no interest' in running a public company."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 9732388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732388", "by": "kohanz", "time": 1434554494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast (one of my favs): http://www.bootstrappedwithkids.com"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 9750500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9750500", "by": "mafuyu", "time": 1434821612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You may be interested in this episode of The Amp Hour podcast, where they talk about powerline analysis attacks: http://www.theamphour.com/239-an-interview-with-colin-oflynn... . In general, it is like many other side channel attacks, where you can use the data to put constraints on the search space for a brute force attack."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 9752474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9752474", "by": "foz", "time": 1434869039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a manager, 1-1s should not just be considered status reports. They are a way for you to build trust and communication with your staff, and to give them a chance to talk about anything: problems, work on personal development, or feedback about you as their manager. 1-1s are probably your most valuable tool. Often, you will discover problems and info you would have otherwise not known - \"our lead developer seems depressed and was talking about quitting\", \"did you hear about that other project that started? It's in direct conflict with our plans...\", \"there's a conference coming up, we should "}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 9763259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9763259", "by": "kentf", "time": 1435047177, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 9770802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770802", "by": "Thrww", "time": 1435144079, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently had a faith crisis and no longer get the same inspiration from reading religious material. When I was religious I would get satisfaction in reading scriptures everyday but now that I'm not I'd still like to find a lot of good inspirational stories that I can read on a daily basis. While I don't like to idolize \"heroes\", I really do enjoy (true) stories where people fought against tough odds to do something amazing. One example is the Homerun episode from This Developer's Life podcast where Dan Bricklin changes the world after creating the first spreadsheet program. What are some mor"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9777431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777431", "by": "ericmo", "time": 1435236223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to this Planet Money podcast - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/06/404701816/episo... - a couple of days ago about luddites. In it they describe the luddites as highly skilled workers - it is easy to forget that those spinning frames weren't actually easy to operate - and they were well paid and even gave themselves the privilege of not working on mondays. Sounds a lot like these tech workers today."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 9780518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9780518", "by": "pdiddy", "time": 1435262127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Well, 2006 was a -long- time ago, and Ruby and Ruby on Rails have come a long way. Right. I recently listened to a lot of the archive of the StackOverflow podcast. Joel & Jeff periodically discuss Rails, and Joel eventually recognizes Rails as a viable option once it improves. This blog post must have been before that."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 9789537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9789537", "by": "gavinballard", "time": 1435395441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Perham has done a great job of turning two successful open source projects (Sidekiq and Inspeqtor) into successful businesses. If you're interested, I recommend listening to his interviews on the ChangeLog Podcast ( https://changelog.com/159/ , https://changelog.com/130/ , https://changelog.com/92/ ) where he talks about how he monetised those products. I'm pretty sure that succeeding in this is not going to be a matter of how many \"stars\" your project has, but rather a function of the dollar value of the problem your software solves and how well you market the paid product. You should st"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 9795933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795933", "by": "csandreasen", "time": 1435540659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll provide a quick TL;DR as the paper is somewhat lengthy but I think the message is worth discussing: Much of what privacy advocates focus on in terms of privacy violations on the internet neglect to take into account privacy gains from those same technologies. A key factor to this is focusing on what information is being shared but neglecting to account who it is being shared with and the privacy benefits associated with interacting with that service instead of traditional alternatives. For example, Google can see every search a person conducts regarding their sexual preferences. However, "}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 9799774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799774", "by": "afridi", "time": 1435600974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup Related (I don't listen to all of their episodes, but I do listen to several from): - Tim Ferriss Show - This Week in Startups - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A16Z Podcast - Harvard Business Review - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Foundation Non-Tech: - Serial (it's over but really interesting) - Undisclosed (the successor to Serial)"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 9799774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799774", "by": "afridi", "time": 1435600974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup Related (I don't listen to all of their episodes, but I do listen to several from): - Tim Ferriss Show - This Week in Startups - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A16Z Podcast - Harvard Business Review - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Foundation Non-Tech: - Serial (it's over but really interesting) - Undisclosed (the successor to Serial)"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 9799774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799774", "by": "afridi", "time": 1435600974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup Related (I don't listen to all of their episodes, but I do listen to several from): - Tim Ferriss Show - This Week in Startups - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A16Z Podcast - Harvard Business Review - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Foundation Non-Tech: - Serial (it's over but really interesting) - Undisclosed (the successor to Serial)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9800295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800295", "by": "NatW", "time": 1435605758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9800295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800295", "by": "NatW", "time": 1435605758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9800295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800295", "by": "NatW", "time": 1435605758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 9800295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800295", "by": "NatW", "time": 1435605758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 9800295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800295", "by": "NatW", "time": 1435605758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ StartUp: http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ Reply All: http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/ Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ Invisiblia: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast"}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "997616345", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "956943158", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "965682541", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 9804341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9804341", "by": "baobaba", "time": 1435662909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my list for people interested in bootstrapping / side projects: Startups For the Rest of Us (Rob Walling & Mike Taber) http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ Tropical MBA podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tropical-mba-entrepreneu... The Startup Chat by Steli Efti & Hiten Shah https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-chat-steli-hiten... The Rocketship Podcast http://rocketship.fm/ Some great podcasts that don't come out often or have a limited amount of episodes: Kalzumeus Software with Patrick McKenzie (wish it came out more often!) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kalzu"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 9822255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822255", "by": "leejoramo", "time": 1435877327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The poison is shame. The antidote is pride\" The Allusionist podcast had a episode about why the word \"pride\" was intensionally used. Others in this thread have mentioned societal shame that was put on gays. But it was more than that. It was also a deep internal shame and self-hate that many homosexuals felt about themselves. And remember, this was started in the late 1960's when it was almost unheard of for someone to come out and be open about being gay. http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/pride"}, {"show": "1551432467", "hn_item": 9833588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833588", "by": "ricny046", "time": 1436105064, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 9836468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836468", "by": "arnoldschw", "time": 1436151495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Blogs/websites in no particular order: * http://blog.codinghorror.com/ (Jeff Atwood) * http://www.catonmat.net/ (Pete Krumins) * http://blog.fogus.me/ (Mike Fogus) * http://research.swtch.com/ (Russ Cox) * http://effbot.org/ (Fred Lundh) * http://adam.herokuapp.com/ (Adam Wiggins) Podcasts in no particular order: * http://www.dotnetrocks.com/ (NET Rocks) * http://herdingcode.com/ (NET focused podcast with Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scoot Koon and Jon Galloway) * http://www.coreint.org/ (A podcast about indie software development) * http://www.talkpythontome.com/ (Python podcast) * http://www.bi"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 9836509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836509", "by": "dbish", "time": 1436152048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few fun podcasts I listen to on my walk to work: Virtual Reality: Rev VR, Python: Talk Python To Me"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 9836524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836524", "by": "del82", "time": 1436152269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau Podcast is great: http://omegataupodcast.net/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 9836553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836553", "by": "Frozenlock", "time": 1436152911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcast for my daily walk is 'Security Now' https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm It touches everything and keeps me up to date on important security vulnerabilities. (Otherwise I would probably disappear in my coding cavern for months and not know what is happening on the surface...)"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 9836781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836781", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1436157048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My main podcasts are: * Talking Machines ( http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ ), which is a relatively 'heavy' podcast about machine learning, great for when I've managed to make coffee before getting on the Bart. * Partially Derivative ( http://www.partiallyderivative.com/ ), the podcast about data science and beer. Perfect for the days when I haven't managed to make coffee before getting on the Bart."}, {"show": "538007855", "hn_item": 9836950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836950", "by": "santaclaus", "time": 1436159911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The now defunct Edge Cases [1] podcast was great -- Wolf Rentzsch is one smart dude. [1] http://edgecasesshow.com"}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 9837079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837079", "by": "gregimba", "time": 1436162799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tropical MBA podcast http://tropicalmba.com"}, {"show": "968779958", "hn_item": 9837196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837196", "by": "beemboy", "time": 1436164669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Surprised no one mentioned the new Fragmented podcast which covers android development. I learnt a ton listening to them. Then there is the security now podcast by Steve Gibson (and leisure Laporte). Finally, I've found the Radiolab and Startalk podcasts to always keep me entertained and feeling smarter."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9837196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9837196", "by": "beemboy", "time": 1436164669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Surprised no one mentioned the new Fragmented podcast which covers android development. I learnt a ton listening to them. Then there is the security now podcast by Steve Gibson (and leisure Laporte). Finally, I've found the Radiolab and Startalk podcasts to always keep me entertained and feeling smarter."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9839932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9839932", "by": "kasbah", "time": 1436197612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My podcast subscriptions: General interest, science, philosophy, design and architecture: * Radiolab: http://radiolab.org * 99 Percent Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org Embedded systems/electronics: * Sparkgap, focused on a specific technical topic each episode, sometimes with guests. http://thesparkgap.net * Embedded.fm, focusued on technical and non-technical topics surrounding embedded systems software development but also often links with art and education, often with guests. http://embedded.fm * AmpHour: Dave Jones and Chris Gammel ranting about whatever they feel like fairly often"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 9850323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9850323", "by": "limedaring", "time": 1436341658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> How did you support yourself while writing the book? And if you were working another job, how did you find time? I am lucky that I have no rent, so the income from WeddingLovely (when I was paying myself $20k/yr) as well as income from the Kickstarter (I raised $13k) helped a ton. As for time, that's one of the main reasons why it took me a year \u2014 I couldn't work on it full time. > Did you try any other marketing like giving away the first chapter or blogging/newsletters? I give away a sample to every subscriber to the email list, which includes the first four chapters, I believe. There has "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9855936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855936", "by": "ethbro", "time": 1436410379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I can imagine a lot worse than that. From the RadioLab podcast linked above (excellent, btw), far more frightening in the long run: introduce genetic changes to the reproductive cells. ... which then automatically become part of any offspring. ... which are then automatically inherited by any subsequent generations. And, new species."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "1560010348", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 9860909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9860909", "by": "yuripinto", "time": 1436478237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w * The Weekly Briefly (Shawn Blanc). http://feedpress.me/weeklybriefly * Actuality (from Quartz). http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/actuality-marketplac... * Anticast ("}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 9862285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9862285", "by": "DanAndersen", "time": 1436502232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in the history of the Mongol Empire (or history in general) would enjoy listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, the 5-part \"Wrath of the Khans\" series: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-o... http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-44-wrath-o... http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-45-wrath-o... http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-46-wrath-o... http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-47-wrath-o... One thing you get from his depiction, which you don't get in the linked article, is an up-close se"}, {"show": "566985370", "hn_item": 9863768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863768", "by": "juanuys", "time": 1436534671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts (tech ones omitted): * Tim Ferriss Show * Seth Godin's Startup School (limited series) * TED Radio Hour * BBC World Service - Elements (in fact, there are a bunch of stuff by BBC and NPR you can't go wrong with)"}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 9863768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863768", "by": "juanuys", "time": 1436534671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts (tech ones omitted): * Tim Ferriss Show * Seth Godin's Startup School (limited series) * TED Radio Hour * BBC World Service - Elements (in fact, there are a bunch of stuff by BBC and NPR you can't go wrong with)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9872229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872229", "by": "anotherevan", "time": 1436663973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The most effective measure against smoking is taxation. That is certainly one of the levers used in Australia. It has also promoted a thriving black market for cigarettes. There\u2019s a balancing act there.[4] Other measures such as plain packaging, graphic warnings on packaging and banning in many public places are also in use here. A while ago I listened to a Freakonomics podcast[1] about how to make people quit smoking. There were two related points that stuck with me. 1. Nicotine can have a lot of positive benefits. As one of their experts stated, \u201cGood drug, bad delivery system.\u201d [2] 2. One"}, {"show": "1017325738", "hn_item": 9895230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9895230", "by": "mjwhansen", "time": 1437013972, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 9898429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9898429", "by": "malyk", "time": 1437066265, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics just did a 2 part podcast on sleep. Part 1: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/06/the-economics-of-sleep-pa... Part 2: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics-of-sleep-pa..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 9902268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9902268", "by": "zarify", "time": 1437133807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a series of podcast episodes on this which were quite interesting (there were some low points there too, but on the whole I think the series of episodes came out at a net positive). First in the series: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/06/404701816/episo..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 9902607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9902607", "by": "ruraljuror", "time": 1437139872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the Security Now podcast this morning. On episode 514, Tor's Astoria Client about the first 30 minutes of the podcast is spent going into extreme detail about how a recent Flash vulnerability was exploited. I can't link to a page for the episode. Here is the episode list: https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm The episode: https://media.grc.com/sn/sn-514.mp3 The transcript: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-514.txt I think most of the content is sourced (and credited) to this post from FireEye: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/06/operati..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 9915392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915392", "by": "jshelly", "time": 1437393638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to think the podcast Radiolab has done more for generating interest in science then any other project I can think of."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 9931213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931213", "by": "bontoJR", "time": 1437587875, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 9932484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9932484", "by": "keesj", "time": 1437601097, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 9948097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948097", "by": "shiny", "time": 1437842215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rippetoe is all about gaining weight and putting on muscle. Probably not practical for most people. I'd also be hesitant to teach yourself both how to deadlift and squat - I hurt myself doing both after reading Rippetoe, despite the detailed instructions. Also, according to Nick Curson (coach of UFC Champion Rafael Dos Anjos) on the Joe Rogan podcast, heavy slow weight lifting is counterproductive for most sports [1] [2] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmYFlvKloE&t=26m18s [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmYFlvKloE&t=43m23s"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9948122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948122", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1437842621, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Curiously, back when cars first appeared, people did decry them for hitting children (and adults) even if they ran into the road. It was only after a wide campaign (which also created the term \"Jaywalk\") that car proponents got the public to reverse their opinion. From an episode of the great podcast 99% Invisible: Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine. One newspaper cartoon even compared the car to Moloch, the god to whom the Ammonites supposedly sacrificed their children. Pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies. Cities held parades and built monuments in memory of c"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 9964613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9964613", "by": "runesoerensen", "time": 1438118849, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 9987938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987938", "by": "ndespres", "time": 1438451686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Career Tools and Manager Tools podcasts. Career advice, interviewing help, resume-building, team interactions, navigating office life/culture, salary negotiation, having your voice heard, and many other topics discussed in a friendly and approachable way. I listen every week. https://www.manager-tools.com/ 2. \"How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk\" isn't just for talking to children. Some good advice in here that applies to talking with adults also. http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/145166388..."}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 9987938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987938", "by": "ndespres", "time": 1438451686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Career Tools and Manager Tools podcasts. Career advice, interviewing help, resume-building, team interactions, navigating office life/culture, salary negotiation, having your voice heard, and many other topics discussed in a friendly and approachable way. I listen every week. https://www.manager-tools.com/ 2. \"How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk\" isn't just for talking to children. Some good advice in here that applies to talking with adults also. http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/145166388..."}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 9992586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9992586", "by": "zackify", "time": 1438551597, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 9997981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997981", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1438622811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 9997981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997981", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1438622811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9997981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997981", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1438622811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 9999976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9999976", "by": "bentcorner", "time": 1438637386, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible covered these tubes as well, and included a bit of their history. Interesting listen if you want to learn a bit more. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-61-a-series-of..."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 10007482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10007482", "by": "francisb07", "time": 1438736962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Before I sleep, I download a set of podcasts for the commute the following day on Pocketcasts. Mine are usually about ML, Freakonomics, Startup School, and AI. But you go try whatever you want. I find that it's best to spend idle time listening to intellectual background sounds (if you're at least not listening to them). I try to avoid any social media at this point. Anytime I find myself on Facebook or Twitter for more than 3 minutes, I kill the tab and get back to focus on work."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10007482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10007482", "by": "francisb07", "time": 1438736962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Before I sleep, I download a set of podcasts for the commute the following day on Pocketcasts. Mine are usually about ML, Freakonomics, Startup School, and AI. But you go try whatever you want. I find that it's best to spend idle time listening to intellectual background sounds (if you're at least not listening to them). I try to avoid any social media at this point. Anytime I find myself on Facebook or Twitter for more than 3 minutes, I kill the tab and get back to focus on work."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10013946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10013946", "by": "dpflan", "time": 1438821636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inspired by this `Planet Money` podcast: Rocky Pipkin, Private Eye vs. The Raisin Outlaw http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/09/210550830/episo..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 10023010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10023010", "by": "ctb_mg", "time": 1438961395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These browser vulnerabilities have got me thinking that I should start browsing in a VM. Has anyone moved to this level of isolation? Steve Gibson on the last Security Now podcast said he's been experimenting with Sandboxie... Sandboxie looks like a paid closed source solution, I'm not sure they give me a compelling value proposition over something like a light linux distro under VirtualBox."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 10027184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027184", "by": "xpto123", "time": 1439040765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I noticed the same, but then i found the Steve Gibson Security Now podcast https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm The episode archive has a whole course on security,with a focus on the web"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 10034526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034526", "by": "sixQuarks", "time": 1439214577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow, very awkward timing considering the latest \"This Week in Startups\" podcast is all about Zirtual http://thisweekinstartups.com/"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 10036598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036598", "by": "amsilprotag", "time": 1439234030, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many times throughout the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast[1], a founder expresses the sentiment, \"If I had known how hard it was going to be, I might not have started the company.\" The difficulty discounting has also been cited as the reason why many successful founders are young and inexperienced. So while hubris can lead to disastrous consequences for engineers, it could be viewed as an asset for inciting action. [1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html"}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 10056865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10056865", "by": "tedcarstensen", "time": 1439496409, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10057577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10057577", "by": "bernardom", "time": 1439504543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a startup for that! http://pigeon.ly/ The Planet Money podcast about it is great. A former inmate who wanted to solve the phone call problem, and expanded to other prison-specific issues."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 10062800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062800", "by": "Geekette", "time": 1439585011, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 10075067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075067", "by": "dkroy", "time": 1439835986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really cool, and I thought Reply All was just a podcast. If I am understanding this platform correctly this allows each person involved in the conversation to send email responses, and replyall publishes the conversation in an embeddable widget. I haven't used it before so I could be way off."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 10075149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075149", "by": "zabramow", "time": 1439836720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, that's exactly how it works and in many ways ReplyAll is a much easier way to publish a conversation than a podcast. Which is why btw, I told the guys from Reply All that they were infringing on our TM. But that's another story..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 10080061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10080061", "by": "mikeckennedy", "time": 1439914854, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "947191070", "hn_item": 10087271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10087271", "by": "joeblau", "time": 1440007089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "@mdo - Thanks for continuing the great work on this framework. I just listened to the Design Details podcast [1] with you on it and it was great to hear about the evolution of the project (And where the purple came from). [1] - http://spec.fm/show/design-details/14701"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 10091119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091119", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1440069895, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but there are only a few that I MUST listen to as part of my lifetime learning regiment: EconTalk - consistently insightful and thought provoking discussions framed for economic understanding The LSE talks - London School of Economics shares its speaker events with the world if I want entertainment, I turn to the storytelling shows: Snap Judgment Radio Lab The Moth Story Corps"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 10091119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091119", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1440069895, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but there are only a few that I MUST listen to as part of my lifetime learning regiment: EconTalk - consistently insightful and thought provoking discussions framed for economic understanding The LSE talks - London School of Economics shares its speaker events with the world if I want entertainment, I turn to the storytelling shows: Snap Judgment Radio Lab The Moth Story Corps"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 10091152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091152", "by": "danners", "time": 1440070371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While i listen to lots of podcasts these are the ones i learn the most from: Ruby Rogues Not only ruby stuff but general programming stuff with interesting people SE-Radio In depth interviews about technical topics Cognicast Focused on clojure but also interesting discussions about other cs topics Omega tau podcast german / english in depth interviews about technical topics"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10091909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10091909", "by": "ypcx", "time": 1440079713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just skimmed the PDF. I believe the war on drugs is responsible for the majority of the offenses reported in the Violent and Property categories. And let's finally face it: had psychedelic therapy options been available, literally no one would get stuck in hard addiction drugs including alcohol. And had cannabis been legal and used to treat depression, large part of the US population would not be psychotic and intermittently suicidal zombies. It also reminds me of the JRE podcast with an ex-cop where he says that 90% of arrests are due to the war on drugs: https://youtu.be/lHb23-puvLI?t=739"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 10092365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10092365", "by": "house9-2", "time": 1440083780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in https://info.covermymeds.com/ruby/ Ruby on Rails opportunity for java and .net developers; note:I am not affiliated with covermymeds, heard about it on the Ruby Rogues podcast."}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 10105762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105762", "by": "bitwarrior", "time": 1440344564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin in his Common Sense podcast aired the episode [Kickstarting the Revolution]( http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-282-kickstarti... ) where he suggests that, being that the game is what it is (regarding campaign financing, lobbying and other such means of influencing political outcomes and the use of money), while we may not agree with the game, we should at least, as citizens, play the game. If people have donated over $65 million to get Star Citizen developed, one would imagine the public could easily finance...broader causes. And considering $2.3 million over 5 years is "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10105903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10105903", "by": "jomtung", "time": 1440347409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a Radiolab podcast about the tech they can use to capture people off the grid. They'd have to fly a drone for the day when the message is delivered and know who received the message. http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10106546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106546", "by": "peckrob", "time": 1440359526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, thanks for all the great articles! I don't want to come across as ungrateful or anything; I've been a reader for years and I love your work. I put your blog in the same category as Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. They don't update super often, but when they do I know they're going to be good. :)"}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 10107651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107651", "by": "bliti", "time": 1440385184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've learned to avoid such services and outright hire somebody to help with project administration. Its easier and less costly. This person would help with sales, marketing, proposals, etc. Mind you, \"freelancing\" is a business. it has to be treated as one. When you offload it to someone else you are going to get short changed. Programmers seem to have an issue with getting projects. Which is understandable given how most of us don't care about sales or marketing. Having patents and lots of experience makes closing a project a bit easier. But it doesn't really help when talking to the decision"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10110194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110194", "by": "cellularmitosis", "time": 1440427818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I should mention that a modern antidote to this are the efforts of people like Dr. Rhonda Patrick ( http://www.foundmyfitness.com/ ), who is on a mission to read research papers and distill them into digestible form for the public. Her appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast are all excellent (also available on youtube)."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 10118998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10118998", "by": "sydneyliu", "time": 1440531666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congrats to Andrew Chen! Heard him on the Product Hunt podcast and have learned a lot from his newsletter and Tweets."}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 10123788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10123788", "by": "ruraljuror", "time": 1440604596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope some of the more informed comments here can help you start the process of actively trying things to improve your life. I do not believe I suffer from depression, but I was recently wondering whether I might perhaps have attention-deficit disorder. It led me down a similar line of questioning, and I realized that if I did have ADHD or something similar, there might be a lot of stigma surrounding that illness and the treatment. I think this stigma of mental illness is a huge problem in our country. To get to your point, according to Andrew Solomon's INCREDIBLE book about depression The No"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10130223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10130223", "by": "JeremyNT", "time": 1440691379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Saying later that \"those were the times\" does not exonerate you from the sins committed. Exonerate? Perhaps not. But context does matter, and people make decisions with the information they have available at the time. One thing I have found helpful in understanding what you describe as \"the insanity of war\" is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He has an episode on this very topic, which he entitled \"Logical Insanity[0]\" regarding the build up to the dropping of the atomic bombs, and how the incremental escalation of savagery in WWII might gradually alter people's perspectives on moralit"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 10137898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10137898", "by": "nilliams", "time": 1440796794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, parent gets it and is neither arguing a strawman nor mistakenly labelling hashes as simple rather than easy. Rich absolutely argues that basic data structures like hashes are simple -- something that is generally agreed upon. They are simpler than 'objects' because you can use basic comparison operators on them, and you can operate on them with higher-order functions etc. The question which parent is digging at is whether a larger, complex app, that leans heavily on hashes actually results in an app that is on the whole simpler, i.e. does 'a simple thing plus a simple thing equal a s"}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 10158584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10158584", "by": "JonAtkinson", "time": 1441194916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those looking to research this further, there was also an excellent piece on the Private Eye podcast which explores this in more detail: https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-episode-8"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 10160556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160556", "by": "lost_name", "time": 1441213067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, another great narrative of the event was posted a little while ago from the Damn Interesting podcast. Links to the discussions below; follow through for the podcast and transcript. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 10169333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169333", "by": "w23j", "time": 1441355907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The long form writing combined with an entertaining style and real experience to back up his stories made his stuff pretty unique in my opinion. Certainly among the best articles I have read on the net. I think it was in a Stackoverflow podcast where he said that the hateful feedback he got was the main reason he stopped writing. It sad that we as a community did not get more of that content because of anonymous haters on the internet. (Pretty similar to Joel Spolsky actually. Both in quality of content and hateful feedback in return.)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10185783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10185783", "by": "dahart", "time": 1441721747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the last few months there have been a couple of fantastic interviews with Sacks on the Radiolab podcast. They are easy to get, for anyone who wants to hear more. http://www.radiolab.org/search/?q=Sacks"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 10192789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192789", "by": "shas3", "time": 1441820081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast, This American Life had a great episode on modern segregation and the failure of attempts at desegregation: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t... Missouri has a particularly bad problem. Basically, there is a lot of evidence that desegregation works in improving education outcomes. Yet, the issue is looked at with suspicion, since richer people in good school districts believe it is bad for them. The podcast features a shocking town hall meeting where you can hear the worst of people's racial prejudices. They looked at Ferguson, MO in particular, and how k"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10193585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193585", "by": "alexbw", "time": 1441826080, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10210355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210355", "by": "mgalka", "time": 1442118344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good post. Though it doesn't really make the distinction that these giant viruses are actually very different from normal viruses. They may have actually \"reverse-evolved\" from bacteria, and may not even be related to regular viruses. For anyone who listens to podcasts, there is a great Radiolab about their discovery."}, {"show": "984656982", "hn_item": 10215260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10215260", "by": "27182818284", "time": 1442241476, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 10215260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10215260", "by": "27182818284", "time": 1442241476, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 10221747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221747", "by": "PlzSnow", "time": 1442336901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OK here goes, slightly OT. The name StackExchange is hands-down the worst name I have encountered for a Top100 website. It is absurdly bad. I remember them discussing it on the StackOverflow podcast. What were they thinking? It is a mainstream QA website. Call it something like Popzoozle or QuizQ or Anserr or something... but StackExchange???? Have you ever in your life heard a non-techie person say \"wow I love StackExchange\"??? The branding has zero impact."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10222274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222274", "by": "subie", "time": 1442341140, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 10241379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10241379", "by": "aridiculous", "time": 1442603231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just heard the author on Philosophy Bites (a podcast). Absolutely marvelous episode, I was genuinely surprised by her findings: http://philosophybites.com/2013/09/alison-gopnik-on-hume-and..."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 10262327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10262327", "by": "kumarm", "time": 1442963418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only time I heard Jeff Smith was in Stanford Podcast[1]. I listened to every podcast on Stanford (DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series) and particularly remember Jeff Smith because I thought he came out wrong from the talk. His statement \"Palantir is evil\" because they hired a guy who smule was trying to recruit. Seriously you are giving a talk to inspire future entrepreneurs and use that to bad mouth someone who is not even your competitor? PS: I have no relationship with Palantir. It just really bothered me that someone would use that opportunity to bad another company. [1]"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 10263922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263922", "by": "Philipp__", "time": 1442997650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think that licence is not the only problem here. The way some things were implemented within Linux kernel are making things how they are today. I mean DTrace could be ported to Linux, maybe, I don't know, but best thing to do would be to reach Bryan Cantrill and ask him, I think he would give you pretty reasonable answer. He spoke about some things on BSD Now podcast."}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 10271772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10271772", "by": "PerfectElement", "time": 1443104833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in this subject, there's a great documentary that was just released on Netflix, it's called Cowspiracy. It was produced independently and now is being backed by Leonardo DiCaprio. The facts and interesting story behind the movie are covered in this Rich Roll podcast episode: http://www.richroll.com/podcast/cowspiracy-how-animal-agricu..."}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 10273835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273835", "by": "bradcomp", "time": 1443121535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been listening to Partially Derivative and Talking Machines, both data science related. Talking Machines is more industry focused whereas Partially Derivative is more fun. Also Reply All, a show about the Internet. Non tech I listen to the History of Philosophy podcast."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 10273835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10273835", "by": "bradcomp", "time": 1443121535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been listening to Partially Derivative and Talking Machines, both data science related. Talking Machines is more industry focused whereas Partially Derivative is more fun. Also Reply All, a show about the Internet. Non tech I listen to the History of Philosophy podcast."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 10274187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10274187", "by": "Mattasher", "time": 1443124334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Besides many of those already mentioned, I like: * Slate's culture gabfest * JavaScript Jabber * Econtalk w/Russ Roberts * Hardcore History * School Sucks Podcast * Inc Uncensored"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 10275374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275374", "by": "_Satya", "time": 1443135559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Developer Tea - 60-Second Science - BrainStuff - Exponential Wisdom - The Tim Ferriss Show - The One You Feed Podcast - The Art of Manliness (sometimes) - NPR: TED Radio Hour (sometimes) - You Are Not So Smart (sometimes) - This American Life (sometimes)"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 10275374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275374", "by": "_Satya", "time": 1443135559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Developer Tea - 60-Second Science - BrainStuff - Exponential Wisdom - The Tim Ferriss Show - The One You Feed Podcast - The Art of Manliness (sometimes) - NPR: TED Radio Hour (sometimes) - You Are Not So Smart (sometimes) - This American Life (sometimes)"}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 10275374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275374", "by": "_Satya", "time": 1443135559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Developer Tea - 60-Second Science - BrainStuff - Exponential Wisdom - The Tim Ferriss Show - The One You Feed Podcast - The Art of Manliness (sometimes) - NPR: TED Radio Hour (sometimes) - You Are Not So Smart (sometimes) - This American Life (sometimes)"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 10275374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275374", "by": "_Satya", "time": 1443135559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Developer Tea - 60-Second Science - BrainStuff - Exponential Wisdom - The Tim Ferriss Show - The One You Feed Podcast - The Art of Manliness (sometimes) - NPR: TED Radio Hour (sometimes) - You Are Not So Smart (sometimes) - This American Life (sometimes)"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 10275374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275374", "by": "_Satya", "time": 1443135559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Developer Tea - 60-Second Science - BrainStuff - Exponential Wisdom - The Tim Ferriss Show - The One You Feed Podcast - The Art of Manliness (sometimes) - NPR: TED Radio Hour (sometimes) - You Are Not So Smart (sometimes) - This American Life (sometimes)"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 10275854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275854", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1443142524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Talking Machines - a16z podcast - Software Engineering Radio - re/code decode - JavaScript Jabber - Talk Python to Me - The Changelog - Startup School Radio - Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Full Stack Radio"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 10275854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275854", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1443142524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Talking Machines - a16z podcast - Software Engineering Radio - re/code decode - JavaScript Jabber - Talk Python to Me - The Changelog - Startup School Radio - Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Full Stack Radio"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10275854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275854", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1443142524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Talking Machines - a16z podcast - Software Engineering Radio - re/code decode - JavaScript Jabber - Talk Python to Me - The Changelog - Startup School Radio - Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Full Stack Radio"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 10275976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275976", "by": "mrlyc", "time": 1443145001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "92Y Talks http://92ytalks.libsyn.com/rss All About Books http://feeds.feedburner.com/all_about_books Authors on Tour Live! http://feeds.feedburner.com/AuthorsOnTour-Live Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc... Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Do More http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/xml/getitdone.xml Great Lives http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xm... HBR IdeaCast http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast?fo... Listen to Luc"}, {"show": "152022135", "hn_item": 10275976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275976", "by": "mrlyc", "time": 1443145001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "92Y Talks http://92ytalks.libsyn.com/rss All About Books http://feeds.feedburner.com/all_about_books Authors on Tour Live! http://feeds.feedburner.com/AuthorsOnTour-Live Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc... Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Do More http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/xml/getitdone.xml Great Lives http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xm... HBR IdeaCast http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast?fo... Listen to Luc"}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 10275976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275976", "by": "mrlyc", "time": 1443145001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "92Y Talks http://92ytalks.libsyn.com/rss All About Books http://feeds.feedburner.com/all_about_books Authors on Tour Live! http://feeds.feedburner.com/AuthorsOnTour-Live Conversations with Richard Fidler http://abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodc... Freakonomics Radio http://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio Get-It-Done Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Do More http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/xml/getitdone.xml Great Lives http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/greatlives/rss.xm... HBR IdeaCast http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast?fo... Listen to Luc"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 10276491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276491", "by": "frankacter", "time": 1443158538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chasing Product Rocketship Podcast Startup School Radio Startups for the Rest of Us TechZing Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 10276491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276491", "by": "frankacter", "time": 1443158538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chasing Product Rocketship Podcast Startup School Radio Startups for the Rest of Us TechZing Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 10276590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276590", "by": "justhw", "time": 1443160781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use Pocket Casts on android to listen. Highly recommended. Ordered by how often I listen. Marketplace Planetmoney RadioLab This American Life Startups for the Rest of Us Reply All, (Statup S1 & S2) Occasionally other public radio podcasts"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 10276590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10276590", "by": "justhw", "time": 1443160781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use Pocket Casts on android to listen. Highly recommended. Ordered by how often I listen. Marketplace Planetmoney RadioLab This American Life Startups for the Rest of Us Reply All, (Statup S1 & S2) Occasionally other public radio podcasts"}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 10278511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10278511", "by": "PerfectElement", "time": 1443192907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Roderick on the line - Rich Roll podcast - Snap Judgement"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10282216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10282216", "by": "ac360", "time": 1443245330, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Vineet, I'm a huge fan of CRISPR. I've been following it closely since I heard Radiolab's podcast about it. I'm also the founder of the JAWS framework, which is an open-source application framework built entirely on AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway: https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS I would LOVE to grab a coffee with you or anyone on your team some time, and chat about lambda or CRISPR, or anything really :) I live in Oakland and my email address is austen[at]servant.co Also, will you be at Re:invent? I'm doing a breakout session on JAWS and I'll be there all week. Good luck to you! Aust"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 10299229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299229", "by": "rrhoover", "time": 1443557280, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10304033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304033", "by": "bhaak", "time": 1443622046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Such maps always remind me of this polandball joke: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blitz_map_of_London_... This episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast shows how civilized societies could justify to themselves to do fire or nuclear bombing: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-l..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 10312924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10312924", "by": "strictnein", "time": 1443720981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible is almost always a good listen and it's concise, most of the podcasts are 15-20 minutes."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 10314918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10314918", "by": "sixothree", "time": 1443735406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hanselminutes podcast recently had an interview with Jacob Krall about the history of wasabi. I found it quite interesting. http://hanselminutes.com/493/killing-off-wasabi-a-20yr-old-v..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 10317259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10317259", "by": "edoloughlin", "time": 1443772607, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast '99% Invisible' did an episode on Brutalism recently: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hard-to-love-a-brute/"}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 10331993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331993", "by": "arca_vorago", "time": 1444055174, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I knew when TPA passed it meant that TPP was nearing completion, they passed TPA (fast-track) because it curtails the power of the congress to stop what I consider to be the unconstitutional TPP. One of the best resources for both documents I have found is the podcast Congressional Dish by Jennifer Briney, who actually takes the time to read the docs and summarize issues. Personally, I think this is a giant leap towards world government, away from constitutional representation, and away from free-trade and towards the oligarchy-controlled globalism. I plan on digging into it more and writing a"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10332205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332205", "by": "mtanski", "time": 1444057140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pretty sure that's not how diplomacy works. There's a pretty good podcast on Planet Money how things are negotiated in trade deals."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10332973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332973", "by": "josu", "time": 1444063069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those tariffs are really well explained on this Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/12/414029929/episo..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 10336239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336239", "by": "hebrox", "time": 1444094865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to know more about this movie, check out this Sam Harris podcast with the maker, Joshua Oppenheimer: http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-gaze"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 10338891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338891", "by": "mikeckennedy", "time": 1444139899, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10338943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338943", "by": "jonlucc", "time": 1444140324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If I remember correctly from this[1] Planet Money podcast about a man who owns many medallions, the guy does have separate company names for each medallion. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/31/428157211/episo..."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 10361503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10361503", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1444409969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In my opinion, bread and circuses was more of a symptom than a cause. In the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, as the Romans were expanding out from Italy into North Africa, Spain, Greece, and what is now Turkey, the people of influence (generals and politicians) were accumulating vast amounts of wealth, in the form of loot, land, and slaves. They used their newly-obtained wealth to buy up lots more land and establish huge agricultural operations, both in Italy and abroad. At the same time, the small farmers that had formed the backbone of the economy and military, were in big trouble. They couldn't c"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10365122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10365122", "by": "lumpypua", "time": 1444474353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, the language Peterson is using isn\u2019t scientific, it\u2019s an act of cultural interpretation. Which is, of course, fine, and a great reminder that linguistics is a subject that connects many different fields of knowledge. But when I see an advertisement for Game of Thrones, I see a cultural vision that is inaccurate, distorting, and bears a very specific relationship to the European past. It isn\u2019t an innocent one. I see a Tolkien-inflected vision of the Middle Ages, with the sexual violence and warfare and ethnic stereotyping amped up to a pitch so cartoonishly horrendous that I can\u2019t look at i"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 10374063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374063", "by": "randomsearch", "time": 1444653103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Timely podcast from Stuff You Should Know on lobbying in the USA: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-lobbying-work..."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 10382431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10382431", "by": "untothebreach", "time": 1444760769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just one persons experience, obviously, but I have paid for podcasts before. Free podcasts are by far the majority of what I have listened to, but I pay to get the full episodes of \"The NoSleep podcast\", and have donated to other podcasts when they have the option there and I have liked them enough."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 10386480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386480", "by": "kageneko", "time": 1444829496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Marketplace podcast discussed this as well. Affordability was a large factor in why the suburbs are still popular. \u201cThere has been an increase in college-educated young adults living in very dense urban neighborhoods \u2014 smart young things living in Brooklyn, in downtown San Francisco,\u201d said housing analyst Jed Kolko at U.C. Berkeley\u2019s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. \u201cBut it\u2019s not true of that generation overall. Only about one third of 25-to-34-year-olds have a college degree. Today they are actually less likely to be living in urban neighborhoods, as opposed to suburban areas, t"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 10387661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10387661", "by": "andersthue", "time": 1444840950, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10389007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10389007", "by": "mendelk", "time": 1444852717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard it too, and also found it interesting. For the curious, its Planet Money[0], Episode #655: Pay Patients, Save Money [0] http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10392264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392264", "by": "andy_ppp", "time": 1444903494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting and tangentially related... I can't recommend Serial podcast enough. http://serialpodcast.org/"}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 10392542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392542", "by": "smcl", "time": 1444909316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While we're at it, Criminal podcast is a little less obsessive about one case and takes an look at a number of interesting\\quirky\\old cases http://thisiscriminal.com/"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 10402298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10402298", "by": "hardcoreluddite", "time": 1445033013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent interview with Anselm R Garbe, the founder of suckless.org, on the FLOSS Weekly podcast. They discuss the suckless philosophy and stali linux. https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/355?autostart=fa..."}, {"show": "753552884", "hn_item": 10416160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10416160", "by": "icewater0", "time": 1445292758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bret Easton Ellis also has an excellent podcast: http://podcastone.com/Bret-Easton-Ellis-Podcast"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 10417873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10417873", "by": "onion2k", "time": 1445325703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We desperately need a new way of thinking about free will. We really don't. The author of the article has written off hundreds of years of philosophical debate about determinist free will versus indeterminism and decided that his interpretation of free will, which falls firmly in the causal indeterminism camp, is the right way to think about things. Admittedly that's the nice one, because determinism is hard when it comes to things like ethics and morality, but we don't need to redefine 'free will' to have the discussion. Especially when it's a low redefinition[1]. The fact is whether or not w"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 10419972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10419972", "by": "than", "time": 1445356812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My new favorite trap is the MOUNTWEAZEL, a lexicographical trap street embedded in dictionaries to catch infringers. Good episode of the The Allusionist podcast: http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/mountweazel"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 10420201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10420201", "by": "calbucci", "time": 1445359002, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 10442030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442030", "by": "Jtsummers", "time": 1445649138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Find a job that doesn't intrude on your life outside the office, if you can't directly monetize your passions. I work a corporate gig, getting paid below what many on this forum might consider appropriate, because I live in an affordable area, near family and friends, and the job doesn't ask anything of me after my 8 hours are done. That last part is most important. The things that I was passionate about when programming was my life (I got a bit burnt out), were not things I could have gotten a job doing (easily) without a graduate degree, something that I found I didn't have the emotional for"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 10444647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10444647", "by": "lp251", "time": 1445716397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author was recently on the Longform podcast [1] and discussed how this story came together. I enjoyed it. [1]: http://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-163-matthew-shaer"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10449065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10449065", "by": "pramodliv1", "time": 1445819929, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Geoff Hinton answers this question in episode 6 of the Talking Machines podcast. http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2015/3/13/how-machine... Geoff Hinton had grad students who wanted to work on the problem, but Yann LeCun didn't. \"In about 2012, it should have been Yann's group, but Yann was unlucky, he didn't have a student who really wanted to do it. But we had a couple of students who wanted to do it and we took all of Yann's techniques and added some of our own.\""}, {"show": "549558135", "hn_item": 10455589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455589", "by": "Oatseller", "time": 1445908138, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is part of a podcast series. Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the others. There are mp3 podcasts of each topic (more in-depth than the articles) that are linked from each article as well as available on itunes [0] [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/documents-that-changed-w..."}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 10464717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10464717", "by": "thehoff", "time": 1446043461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly off topic, decided to check out the source (Criminal podcast) and seems like a great one (based on the first two episodes). Subscribed."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10469763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469763", "by": "colin_jack", "time": 1446106379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not an expert on the UK legal system but one thing I enjoyed about the Serial podcast was getting an insight into just how crazy the US system can be. Anyway 10 days is obviously nothing, especially when he's cost a man 25 years, but at least it's an attempt to hold someone responsible for a despicable act."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 10473725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473725", "by": "matthewmcg", "time": 1446147635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent 99% Invisible podcast about this: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/good-bread/"}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 10485087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485087", "by": "quietpipper", "time": 1446342464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Am really curious: what's the plan to foist this onto the Hollywood screenwriters? Fountain was created by an A-list screenwriter, John August, who's written Big Fish, Go, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and many others. He's pushed it pretty hard on his podcast, Scriptnotes."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10489716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489716", "by": "brianclements", "time": 1446433072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thaler comes from the behavioral economics world, and I'd say his work on \"nudging\", and even the term \"nudge\" predates the dark patterns site. His book nudge is from 2008[1], while the DNS info for dark patterns shows creation in 2010. His mentioning of the UX examples was probably a brief crossover example between worlds that occurred to him to highlight an instance, but I'd say it didn't occur to him to scour the software development UX world for existing terminology because, well, it's probably not familiar to him at all. Popularity on a Google search of a software term is of course going "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10500515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500515", "by": "33W", "time": 1446567471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money had a recent podcast titled \"The Onion King\", where someone took physical control of onion futures, and why that is the one type of future outlawed by congress. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/episo..."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 10508308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508308", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1446659841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the VC-less voices have been reasonably represented, at least here on HN. patio11 alone is a prominent presence around here (2nd user with most karma!) and a good example that one can succeed doing one's own thing without taking outside investment. There's also idlewords, the people behind multiple podcasts (eg. Startup Success & Startups For the Rest of Us), and various well received one-person \"Show HN\"s. There's plenty of idol adoration and boasting, but I've always felt an alternative was in plain sight if you didn't fit with the \"VCistan\"."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 10512476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512476", "by": "ryandamm", "time": 1446716516, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kenji is awesome, and probably the best reason to read seriouseats. But for anyone who enjoys food science, you really have to start with Harold McGee's classic \"On Food and Cooking\": http://smile.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp... (Sorry for the enormous URL.) Also, I binge-listen to Dave Arnold's podcast, \"Cooking Issues\" on Heritage Radio network. A treasure trove of food science facts, going well beyond eggs: sous vide meat, hydrocolloids, liquid nitrogen cocktails, etc. http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/ (You really have to give the show a chance, thoug"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10522843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10522843", "by": "halostatue", "time": 1446854046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inasmuch as any branch of economics theory depends on homo economicus , it is IMO little more than astrology. There\u2019s a lot of really interesting economics research out there (at least the stuff that the Freakonomics podcast is surfacing to my notice is interesting), but it\u2019s on edges that are, by and large, rejecting homo economicus and is trying to reflect what people really do. (There\u2019s a lot of behavioural economics research that has been reported on for the last several episodes, which is fascinating.)"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10527153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527153", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1446949884, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10528160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528160", "by": "edoloughlin", "time": 1446979548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> just a rent-seeking gatekeeper between the restaurant and their customers Couldn't agree more. I think this central to any discussion about the 'sharing economy'. Uber et al claim to be disrupting established monopolies and their marketing seeks to establish themselves as champions the free market. In reality, they are seeking to build a new monopoly, where they control the information about relationships in a system. Memory fails me at the moment, but I remember hearing a piece on a podcast recently (it might have been Radiolab) where they discussed how the 'live' view presented by Uber was"}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 10529245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529245", "by": "nemof", "time": 1447006433, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "here here. got big love for Will and Norm and have been a fan of tested for a long time. In recent times they've been responsible for some of the most comprehensive VR news and coverage, and now Will is going on to do his own thing in the VR space whilst Norm continues on at the head at Tested. I think/hope that their association with the mythbusters has promoted Tested to many who haven't heard of it before - and it's worth HN users knowing that they actually had a podcast with Adam called Still Untitled http://www.tested.com/still-untitled-the-adam-savage-project... as well as their regular "}, {"show": "1017325738", "hn_item": 10534824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10534824", "by": "mjwhansen", "time": 1447093937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a lot of different schools of thought about approaching the stock market. One of them is the \"chart\" approach, where you (or an algorithm) try to discern the future movements of a company's stock price based on the past performance. Sometimes this works. Mostly, though, it doesn't. There's also a big difference between \"trading\" and \"investing.\" Trading is what you've described -- buying shares in the morning and hoping they'll go up in the afternoon so you can sell them later. Investing is buying shares of the company to become a part owner and hold them for years or decades, not da"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10542035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10542035", "by": "Throwaway23412", "time": 1447185788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can say \"I need a cook skilled in traditional Mongolian cuisine\" but saying \"such a candidate can only be found in Mongolia\" would technically be against the law in the United States (if you have 15 or more employees). Freakonomics had a whole podcast about this."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10550218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550218", "by": "WhySoCEREAL", "time": 1447285159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money actually did a podcast about this. Banks are basically incentivized not to have it and keep ACH that way it is. A free and fast transfer service would destroy their wire revenue stream. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10560148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560148", "by": "thehoff", "time": 1447426969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a show on this recently and it was interesting to say the least. Podcast here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 10564115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564115", "by": "thephyber", "time": 1447467853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about Poverty, Inc. from the EconTalk podcast episode[1]. It seems particularly relevant to discussion of charities on HackerNews, but may not necessarily be relevant to any specific charity. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/michael_matheso.htm..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 10564352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564352", "by": "mike1o1", "time": 1447473049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, The Changelog podcast recently had an interview with the creator of Otto, specifically discussing Otto and Vagrant. I thought it was a great listen. Basically, Otto is looking to do for deployment what Vagrant did for setting up dev environments. https://changelog.com/180/"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 10568899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10568899", "by": "oska", "time": 1447574917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found this article mediocre and its conceit, that English is \u201cweirdly different\u201d, not well justified. But what I have discovered recently, on the same subject, is a podcast called The History of English [1]. It's very, very detailed. So far there have been 69 episodes made, each about 45 minutes long, and the creator has only just got up to the Norman Invasion. I've listened to the first 22 episodes and in the last two episodes it's only just started discussing Old Germanic. So maybe more detailed than most people want but it's very good and quite easy to listen to. [1] http://historyofengli"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10575282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575282", "by": "giarc", "time": 1447691077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a RadioLab podcast about this story a few months ago (I believe it was RadioLab). Margaret was asked about the reports of sexual contact between her and Peter. Her response was, if I can paraphrase, that Peter would get distracted during the day because of his sexual urges. This would slow down the training Margaret was trying to do and therefore she would... fulfil his urges and Peter would then start to complete his training again. This article fails to mention a few important details that I'm sure the BBC documentary will. The lead researcher was very much into drug culture and Ma"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 10585935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585935", "by": "intull", "time": 1447821242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Martin Sustrik, the author of libmill was also interviewed in FLOSS Weekly podcast a month ago - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/358"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10590332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590332", "by": "alvern", "time": 1447877002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My question for someone that has an intermediate level of skill in machine learning, what's the best way to dip your toes in? (Udacity, coursera, edx, PDFs, Talking Machines podcast, etc)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10595227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10595227", "by": "jarmitage", "time": 1447946655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a great podcast on this recently http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10599835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10599835", "by": "achille", "time": 1447998488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent Radiolab Podcast that covers the same study, I'd highly recommend listening to it: * http://www.radiolab.org/story/169879-patient-zero/"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 10602090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10602090", "by": "protomyth", "time": 1448037538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those interested in FreeBSD for their desktop might want to take a look at PC-BSD http://www.pcbsd.org which is a FreeBSD variant geared towards desktop users. Also, BSD Now http://www.bsdnow.tv and BSDTalk http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com are excellent podcasts for BSD."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 10602731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10602731", "by": "floatboth", "time": 1448042935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've actually listened to the BSD Now podcast episode where they discussed NextBSD\u2026 IIRC, launchd is a simple process manager, and it never had anything to do with XML. XML/plists are used in Apple's implementation of launchCTL, the command line client. http://www.nextbsd.org/welcome-to-ghost/ NextBSD is explicitly a \"science project\" \u2013 they don't want upstream FreeBSD to become NeXTSTEP :)"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 10603065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10603065", "by": "blfr", "time": 1448045732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had no idea there's a Startup School Podcast. http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:150759713..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10609855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10609855", "by": "gamesbrainiac", "time": 1448194588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a podcast done by NPR on the \"Planet Money\" program, where you stand to gain more if use more water in a drought. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/22/425392169/episo..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 10612097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612097", "by": "blairbeckwith", "time": 1448237009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Reply All podcast had a pretty interesting episode on this recently: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10616504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10616504", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1448305577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Skeptic's Guide to the Universe 2. Bilingual News \u30d0\u30a4\u30ea\u30f3\u30ac\u30eb\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9 3. Serial 4. Radiolab 5. StartUp Podcast 6. Mixergy 7. Planet Money 8. Bootstrapped with Kids Podcast 9. Lou Reads the Internet for YOU! --- why --- For Skeptic's Guide I just really enjoy the chemistry between the hosts and how the show has continued strong for over 500 episodes, even with one host passing away. Bilingual news is funny because the hosts choose bizarre news to cover and manage to get on strange tangents in their discussion. It's half English half Japanese. I don't actually enjoy crime stories usually, but Serial w"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10616504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10616504", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1448305577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Skeptic's Guide to the Universe 2. Bilingual News \u30d0\u30a4\u30ea\u30f3\u30ac\u30eb\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9 3. Serial 4. Radiolab 5. StartUp Podcast 6. Mixergy 7. Planet Money 8. Bootstrapped with Kids Podcast 9. Lou Reads the Internet for YOU! --- why --- For Skeptic's Guide I just really enjoy the chemistry between the hosts and how the show has continued strong for over 500 episodes, even with one host passing away. Bilingual news is funny because the hosts choose bizarre news to cover and manage to get on strange tangents in their discussion. It's half English half Japanese. I don't actually enjoy crime stories usually, but Serial w"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10618128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618128", "by": "conductr", "time": 1448321738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR: Planet Money has a good podcast on this topic"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 10622539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622539", "by": "noselasd", "time": 1448390079, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10629280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10629280", "by": "zingermc", "time": 1448481737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting that Robert Krulwich, from the Radiolab podcast, did the illustrations for this article. He even visited the comments section!"}, {"show": "1501863970", "hn_item": 10633892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10633892", "by": "chmaynard", "time": 1448559183, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 10637721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637721", "by": "kobayashi", "time": 1448639458, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, there is a good reason to believe that natural flavours that taste good to us do so because they're healthy and contain the correct nutrients for us, and our bodies even can know about when we've consumed enough of them. This book outlines all of that http://www.amazon.ca/Dorito-Effect-Surprising-Truth-Flavor/d... If you don't want to read the whole book, here's the audio from a program called The Agenda with Steve Paikin with the author of The Dorito Effect. http://podcasts.tvo.org/theagenda/audio/2301343_48k.mp3"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 10640224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10640224", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1448691131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cards Against Humanity is always doing something crazy. When they sponsor the Accidental Tech Podcast and instead of a sponsor read, they have John Siracusa review toaster ovens."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 10651063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10651063", "by": "erikcw", "time": 1448910470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dave Arnold's \"Cooking Issues\"[0] podcast is an excellent source of high quality information about all sorts of related food and kitchen equipment hacking. He had a very interesting segment about the open source HACCP plan discussed in this article a couple of weeks ago. I highly recommend his stuff! [0] http://www.cookingissues.com/index.html%3Fp=4532.html"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 10659523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659523", "by": "cryptobird", "time": 1449010395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like to listen to podcasts. Here's my list: Welcome to Nightvale - has to be heard to be understood. It's very strange. Cat & Cloud - It's a podcast about the specialty coffee world & community I Brew My Own Coffee - A podcast about coffee brewing, tasting, and lifestyle. Lore - A Podcast that explores the facts behind scary stories, myths, and stuff. Radiolab - An awesome podcast that is super cool and rad. This Developer's Life - Like This American Life but for developers. Stories from around the development community on different topics."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10659523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659523", "by": "cryptobird", "time": 1449010395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like to listen to podcasts. Here's my list: Welcome to Nightvale - has to be heard to be understood. It's very strange. Cat & Cloud - It's a podcast about the specialty coffee world & community I Brew My Own Coffee - A podcast about coffee brewing, tasting, and lifestyle. Lore - A Podcast that explores the facts behind scary stories, myths, and stuff. Radiolab - An awesome podcast that is super cool and rad. This Developer's Life - Like This American Life but for developers. Stories from around the development community on different topics."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10676959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10676959", "by": "nl", "time": 1449244313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It really kinda is. In the Ilya Sutskever Talking Machines podcast[1] he describes exactly how it is \"magic\". He talks about how there is no theoretical basis to think that a deep neural network should converge, and prior to around 2006 the accepted wisdom was that networks deep enough to outperform other methods of machine learning were useless because they couldn't be trained. And then they discovered how to initialize the random starting values in such a way that they do converge - for reasons no one really understands. I've heard a lot of people claim there is no magic, but I tend to think"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 10677180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677180", "by": "rsynnott", "time": 1449246147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure which particular episode (you might be able to find it by looking through old shownotes) but this was mentioned on Accidental Tech Podcast, I think by John Siracusa (of really long MacOS review fame)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10678350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678350", "by": "MarlonPro", "time": 1449256197, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 10680638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680638", "by": "cellularmitosis", "time": 1449285315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I took his class and really enjoyed it. By the end of it you'll be confident with KiCAD and likely be working on your own collection of parts and footprints (e.g. https://github.com/pepaslabs/KiCADParts ). He also gives beginners good insight into how to read datasheets, how to select parts on digikey, etc. Making boards like this will be easy for you: https://github.com/pepaslabs/ProgrammableLM317 Edit: Also, supporting any of his efforts makes you feel good, considering all he has contributed to the EE hobbyist community (contextualelectronics.com, kicad.info, the Amp Hour podcast, etc.). He"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10691383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10691383", "by": "giarc", "time": 1449512581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe there was a PlanetMoney podcast about it as well."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 10693072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693072", "by": "ryanSrich", "time": 1449525770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you liked this book, or if it just sounds interesting, Sam Harris' podcast is a treasure - Waking Up with Sam Harris[1] 1. http://www.samharris.org/podcast"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 10693072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693072", "by": "ryanSrich", "time": 1449525770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you liked this book, or if it just sounds interesting, Sam Harris' podcast is a treasure - Waking Up with Sam Harris[1] 1. http://www.samharris.org/podcast"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 10693156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693156", "by": "ALee", "time": 1449526517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fact, there's really great data on this same effect. Shankar Vedantam from the Hidden Brain podcast recently talked about this in relation to political arguments and experimentation related to it: http://n.pr/1uL0RAe"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10710566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710566", "by": "benologist", "time": 1449755528, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10712111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10712111", "by": "eric_h", "time": 1449770262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's referring, of course, to the reporting of it in the Serial podcast. Not much of what was described in the first series of Serial was \"fun\" either. Nevertheless, the podcast was compelling and quite entertaining."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10714051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714051", "by": "stvswn", "time": 1449786563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nothing there surprises me -- some of it is just the kind of bitching soldiers do (like complaining that everyone has to stop what they're doing to look for a rifle, or complaining that NTC was hot, or that the 1SG is nuts and mean and yells a lot, or that you had to guard a broken down vehicle for 5 days... ). Some of it showed a lack of discipline in the unit (NCOs allowing Soldiers to wear baseball caps) -- but Bowe seems to feel like those relaxed NCOs were the \"good guys\" that got replaced. The Rolling Stone article tries to act like Bowe snapped under stress, which is not at all what he'"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10717540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10717540", "by": "clbrook", "time": 1449847141, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 10720532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720532", "by": "rendezvouscp", "time": 1449872563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brady Haran & CGP Grey recently talked about this (and other things) on Hello Internet (~1:10:25): http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/52"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10723461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723461", "by": "shadeless", "time": 1449942549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, I also listened to a NPR podcast about Sinatra last night, but it was on Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/09/459116467/episo..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10729287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10729287", "by": "smt88", "time": 1450063989, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Read as much about history as you can. The Hardcore History podcast is also a great intro to some of the most interesting periods of human history. Why? Because it will tell you that we live in (by far) the most pleasant and humanitarian era in human history. You'll come to appreciate the progress we've made, rather than focus only on the progress we still have to make."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 10730741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730741", "by": "voltagex_", "time": 1450098123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a Hanselminutes podcast with the founder of iFixit today - it seems like for electronic products, the repairability / planned obsolescence of products should be a factor in a greed index"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10732785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732785", "by": "digikata", "time": 1450117710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I listened to this RadioLab podcast[1], I was shocked at how recently that colonial atrocities in Africa occurred on the part of western governments. Though the 60s are 50+ years ago, I think they could still be considered part of the modern age of \"today\". [1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/mau-mau/ Edit: err, not 70+ years ago, don't do simple math on the fly..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 10735335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735335", "by": "jonlucc", "time": 1450142400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have a comprehensive resource, but the other one that comes to mind is covered in an episode of the \"99% Invisible\" podcast titled \"Episode 110: Structural Integrity\". http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10737350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737350", "by": "joakleaf", "time": 1450182014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a Planet Money podcast about the financials of ISIS. They did talk about how the oil is exported, but I don't remember if it included a specific price point. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/04/458524627/episo..."}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 10738091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10738091", "by": "dangoor", "time": 1450191884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think CGP Grey is an interesting counterpoint. I think he said that his YouTube channel is something like #700 in terms of subscribers, so he's not up at the top of the food chain. And yet, he gets paid $13.5k per video: http://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators with \"only\" 5100 patrons. He's also on two successful podcasts that doubtless net him a few thousand more per month. He's also gone out of his way to make sure that he's not visibly famous (he doesn't appear in his videos), which is an interesting contrast with the people in this article. If I had to guess the biggest difference bet"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10739850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739850", "by": "earless1", "time": 1450207766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned about this via a RadioLab podcast episode. interesting listen http://www.radiolab.org/story/312245-rodney-versus-death/"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10743627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10743627", "by": "danso", "time": 1450266190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Serial podcast is huge, and in journalism, one of the few bright spots of success in indepth reporting...I would say that that alone has accounted for the majority of upswing in number of media reports proclaiming the new popularity of podcasts. So, despite the stats of increased downloads/awareness cited...which may not be impressive at all if we compare them against the overall uptick in phone adoption and mobile digital consumption since 2008...there's no guarantee that podcasting as an industry has real footing...particularly in what exists for creators to create and then get paid. At "}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 10743822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10743822", "by": "vijayr", "time": 1450269153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Serial podcast was great. Tim Feriss is good, Dan Carlin is awesome. Any other podcast you'd recommend? Excluding the self promotional internet business types."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 10744095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744095", "by": "Leynos", "time": 1450272596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A lot of the tech podcasts I listen to - e.g., Arrested Devops, Talk Python to Me, Software Engineering Daily, Re/Code Decode - have fairly prominent adverts. Sometime read out by the presenter themselves, other times presented as a piece of pre-recorded audio. In the former cases, they'll sometimes do their best to make reference to the content of the podcast in the advertising message. I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio, they're not that annoying and usually relevant to the podcast subject matter. If they started"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10744118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744118", "by": "Disruptive_Dave", "time": 1450272877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Out of curiosity, can you list me a few of these low quality podcasts? I started getting into them heavily about 10 months ago and I'd label the ones I subscribe to as very high quality. I don't personally equate \"unscripted content\" with automatically low quality, though. Some high quality podcasts I love right now: Joe Rogan Experience, Here's The Thing (Alec Baldwin), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History."}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 10744392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744392", "by": "evancordell", "time": 1450275959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was slow to get into podcasts as well, but since I have a 1.5 hour commute I eventually became a big fan. Something key for me was to find podcasts that don't \"work better as articles\" as you say. There are many tech related podcasts and I find most of them unlistenable. Instead I found that more entertainment/comedy or seminar-like discussion works better in the podcast format. Maximumfun in particular has a lot of very high quality podcasts (with high production value, which tends to be a big factor in whether a podcast is listenable). These are just my personal preferences, but one of the"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 10744431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744431", "by": "cholantesh", "time": 1450276333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Dan Carlin Exactly the name I think of when I hear the word 'podcasting', and I'm surprised to see no mention of him in the article. In fact, I'm a regular podcast listener and I recognized few of the names in this piece, which was confusing to say the least. If you're a Carlin fan, you definitely need to listen to Mike Duncan's podcasts - History of Rome and Revolutions. I'm also a fan of Skeptoid and Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. For lighter stuff, I enjoy Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Nerdist."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 10744431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744431", "by": "cholantesh", "time": 1450276333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Dan Carlin Exactly the name I think of when I hear the word 'podcasting', and I'm surprised to see no mention of him in the article. In fact, I'm a regular podcast listener and I recognized few of the names in this piece, which was confusing to say the least. If you're a Carlin fan, you definitely need to listen to Mike Duncan's podcasts - History of Rome and Revolutions. I'm also a fan of Skeptoid and Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. For lighter stuff, I enjoy Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Nerdist."}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 10744431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744431", "by": "cholantesh", "time": 1450276333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Dan Carlin Exactly the name I think of when I hear the word 'podcasting', and I'm surprised to see no mention of him in the article. In fact, I'm a regular podcast listener and I recognized few of the names in this piece, which was confusing to say the least. If you're a Carlin fan, you definitely need to listen to Mike Duncan's podcasts - History of Rome and Revolutions. I'm also a fan of Skeptoid and Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. For lighter stuff, I enjoy Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Nerdist."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 10744533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10744533", "by": "soylentcola", "time": 1450277252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me it's been the same usage for several years: I only really listen to them on long drives. I don't take long drives very often but when I do, podcasts are by far my preferred thing to listen to. During the week I have a short commute to work (maybe 15-20 minutes each way) and for 3/4 of the year, when it's not too cold, I ride a motorcycle so listening to anything isn't really an option. When I'm at work, I've got too much going on and much of it requires me to listen to something else (editing video, etc.) so podcasts or music are again not an option. But when I have to drive somewhere t"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10749167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749167", "by": "rdancer", "time": 1450320694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the same old tired schtick: you must be a member of the Party to progress in your career, and reactionary views are incompatible with holding certain jobs. It reminds me of Gad Saad talking on Joe Rogan's podcast about being denied professorship at various universities for not being Christian enough. I believe at one point he was asked to write a short essay on his relationship with Jesus as his saviour (at which point he realized that job offer wasn't probably going to work out). [I don't have a link at this time]"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 10750550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750550", "by": "hv23", "time": 1450347045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good episode on the podcast \"Invisibilia\" discussing this topic of expectations influencing/shaping reality: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/b... . Some pretty fascinating stories in this one; well worth a listen! I believe Dweck is referenced/interviewed early on in the episode."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10754948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754948", "by": "nl", "time": 1450390142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talking Machines podcast (which is great BTW) has an interview with Zoubin Ghahramani[1], one of the founders mentioned here. He spoke about how he was determined to prove that non-deep learning methods could perform as well as deep learning at tasks like ImageNet. The interview was in March 2015, and AFAIK they haven't published anything yet. OTOH, his work on the Automatic Statistician sounded very interested. [1] http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/2015/3/26/3mixrq61fb0..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10764887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764887", "by": "Amezarak", "time": 1450559834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For the period, or on the subject? Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a massive six volume beast that covers ~1400 years. The prose is very readable and narratively engaging, but the information is pretty dense, and it's easy to get sidetracked following a citation for the full version of a particular story or anecdote. It took me eight months to read, and I am a pretty quick reader. For the breadth and depth, I don't think there's a whole lot out there that can compare. That said, you can very seldom go wrong with the classics. There's a lot of modern works out there, and textbook-type t"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 10766492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10766492", "by": "sheensleeves", "time": 1450600322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry a little too drunk to scan your post, but have considered this before. I think Archive dot org as they said on Science Friday podcast are not legal archive or otherwise final word, just trying to help out with archiving humanity. If I want to delete some old posts for whatever unsupported reason (or if takeover of domain new robots.txt) then that's how it should go. IMO."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 10780724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10780724", "by": "azundo", "time": 1450822312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a fantastic 99% Invisible podcast on The Landlord's Game/Monopoly: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-landlords-game/ . Highly recommended."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 10788409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788409", "by": "aviaryan", "time": 1450970405, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I find that all good podcasts like \"Software Engineering Daily\", \"The Changelog\", \"TWiT\" etc are about 60 minutes long. Are there any good podcasts that have smaller episodes (2-20 mins) ?"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 10788652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788652", "by": "tedyoung", "time": 1450974902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's Developer Tea: https://developertea.com/ that's 5-15 minutes long for each podcast. Are there any specific topics you're looking for? Software development or open-source in general, or something specific?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10800163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10800163", "by": "logn", "time": 1451284010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ha, definitely a long shot. I was watching a Joe Rogan podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDejwCGdUV8 . In summary, there's evidence for a cataclysmic asteroid strike 12K years ago that nearly wiped out humanity. If true that upends traditional archaeological theories and suggests that humanity rebooted 12K years ago instead of a gradual move from hunter-gatherer to society. What the world was like before the reboot is unknown, but maybe we were advanced enough for space travel?"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 10805594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10805594", "by": "someguydave", "time": 1451371487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"natural experiments\" like this case of the apparent success of fractional reserve banking are not \"laboratory tests\". There are many other confounding variables that cannot be eliminated. See this Econtalk podcast on the topic: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/12/noah_smith_on_w.htm..."}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 10810516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810516", "by": "stoey", "time": 1451445960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminded me of NASA's GRACE mission [1] that I recently heard about. It can track the depletion of California's aquifers (for example) based on the tiny changes in orbit of the two tandem satellites. Was mentioned on a recent Still Untitled podcast episode by NASA CTO David Miller [2], the whole thing is worth a listen if you want to hear him eagerly talking about all the cool things NASA is up to. [1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/ [2] http://www.tested.com/science/space/558108-return-rock-still..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10819838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819838", "by": "mojoe", "time": 1451598001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We've come a long way from the days of unloading individual items from ships by hand. The NPR Planet Money podcast had a great show on the invention of shipping containers: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/04/248883212/episo..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 10820539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820539", "by": "del82", "time": 1451607988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast on container shipping is fascinating, as well: http://omegataupodcast.net/2014/04/146-container-shipping/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 10830243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830243", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1451819517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I understand this question is examined in Jon Ronson's recent book So You've Been Publicly Shamed [1] I haven't read it but I've heard him discussing it on The Nerdist[2] and The Joe Rogan Experience[3] podcasts, both of which were very entertaining and insightful. Though I never stooped to the level of harassing and shaming people, I did go through an angry white male libertarian stage, and having been through that I think the underlying motive for the asshole behaviour is something to do with entitlement and resentment. I.e., \"I deserve better than this (more money/status/respect/sex etc), i"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 10837911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837911", "by": "KevinHorvath", "time": 1451936140, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 10839401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839401", "by": "dominotw", "time": 1451948166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was debated on Intelligence Squared podcast DECLINISTS BE DAMNED: BET ON AMERICA http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10845691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845691", "by": "celias", "time": 1452025018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a nice Planet Money podcast about gym memberships http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/17/371463435/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10855969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10855969", "by": "samsnelling", "time": 1452140705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend listening to NPR's Planet Money podcast that talked about the Chinese stock market a few months ago. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/09/438948679/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10859067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859067", "by": "pzaich", "time": 1452185964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might want to look at structuring your pricing in a similar manner to gym memberships given that the product has a similar usage pattern. There was an interesting Planet Money[1] podcast recently that noted that many gym memberships are structured to be yearly contracts ... because people like that idea of putting money down so that they feel committed. You might be able to tap into some of the same psychology. 1 http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/17/371463435/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 10862517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10862517", "by": "koenigdavidmj", "time": 1452220228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast released an episode a few weeks ago where they tried to find the original inventor: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/11/27/457404184/episo..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 10864352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10864352", "by": "frankacter", "time": 1452255659, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Since Justin and Jason frequent HN I figured this would be a good place to ask. Last episode, or rather 10 minutes of the episode, was posted almost 2 months ago. Any suggestions for alternatives for this style of show?"}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 10869717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869717", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1452305115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard an interesting take on the unicorn state of play this weekend on Barry Ritholz's Masters in Business podcast. William Janeway (Warburg Pincus) thinks there is definitely a unicorn bubble going on, but just like the railroad bubble in the 1800's and the automobile bubble in the early 1900's and the PC bubble in the late '70s and early '80s and the Internet bubble in the '90s it will end with a lot of people losing money, quite a few making money, and a lot of companies going out of business, but with a lot of survivors and a lot of infrastructure that will fuel ongoing progress, and that "}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 10872513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872513", "by": "fauxstartups", "time": 1452368206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Lennon once said \u201cIf I\u2019d lived in Roman times, I\u2019d have lived in Rome. Where else?\u201d Tech, if you will, is today\u2019s Rome. It is the nucleus of our world, it is where our lives and our world are improved. Yet, the digital tech community is fully decentralized. There is no one true Rome, no one home for tech conversation on the internet. Instead, those of us who would like to live in Rome must divide our time and attention across a myriad of sites, including Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Techcrunch, Mashable, Re/Code, Devpost, Medium, and endless newsletters, podcasts, Twitter accounts, "}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 10877464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877464", "by": "rock3m", "time": 1452463784, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "We were very fortunate to get featured on PH today (https://www.producthunt.com/tech/speak-2), and while the action has subsided I thought I'd share what the experience was like, for those who are thinking about launching via PH. We didn't have any PH cred at all, no rights to post, nothing. We figured we'd cold email some PH influencers - we had nothing to lose. Just a two sentence summary: who we were, what our product did. To our surprise, several influencers actually replied positively and offered to feature us. Alex Carter (@AlexCartaz) who heads up the Product Hunt podcast did the honors"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 10878366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10878366", "by": "humanrebar", "time": 1452478361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The EconTalk podcasts are great examples of this, though with an economics flavor."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 10881132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10881132", "by": "onedognight", "time": 1452524922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is it possible for these old remedies to matter today? For an investigation into this and for a story worthy of HN to boot listen to / read the transcript of this RadioLab podcast. http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 10888548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10888548", "by": "jcytong", "time": 1452617943, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 10911307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10911307", "by": "magicmu", "time": 1452884419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I think the right initial metric is \u201cdo any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?\u201d Until that\u2019s a \u201cyes\u201d, founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target. It all comes back to this. I was listening Aaron Harris' interview with Digital Ocean's Mitch Wainer on Startup School Radio the other day (phenomenal podcast). Wainer mentioned how people actually love Digital Ocean, and how rare it is for that word in particular to be paired with the name of a company. I think it's said so often that it can easily be glossed over, but "}, {"show": "351096296", "hn_item": 10919888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10919888", "by": "pimlottc", "time": 1453047774, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's also available as a podcast via iTunes, which is how I've been enjoying it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-world-in-100-obj..."}, {"show": "1018251429", "hn_item": 10926861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10926861", "by": "WoodenChair", "time": 1453150547, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One thing that I think is valuable when looking for contracting work (what I call consulting) is to learn how people that have been highly successful in consulting built their business. Checkout episodes 4 (Marcus Zarra) and 5 (Michael Fellows) of Consult: http://consultpodcast.com or https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/consult/id1018251429?mt=..."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 10939475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10939475", "by": "thecoffman", "time": 1453309339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/23/what-... As recently as a couple of months ago on Marc Maron's podcast he advocated for Australian style gun control laws which included mandatory registration and confiscation as well as the banning of semi-automatic rifles. Maybe that doesn't seem like \"he wants to take your guns\" to you, but it certainly does to many people. Obviously, like most things, there's a spectrum and this falls somewhere between \"he wants to take all your guns\" and \"free guns for everyone!\" But to claim that there is zero evidence that he'd come and take (at le"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 10952681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10952681", "by": "aembleton", "time": 1453471036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fecal transplants were covered this week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants... Worth subscribing to."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10954841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954841", "by": "caoilte", "time": 1453489487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "or Europe got lucky and Ogodei died just as Subutai was about to roll over the entire continent (we may never know for sure). The Hardcore History podcast did a nice series on it. http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-o..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 10955340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10955340", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1453494175, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Mongols lacked siege engines when they first rolled into China, but they quickly conscripted Chinese siege engineers from conquered areas and used them. The Mongols were very good at recognizing who would be useful among conquered peoples and conscripting them. If the conscriptees did good work for the Mongols, they would be rewarded. China was full of stone fortifications at the time. Fortresses and fortified cities were common in China and the siege engineers were among the best in the world. After the Mongols begin expanding elsewhere, they took their siege engineers with them. Central "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10959409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10959409", "by": "rainhacker", "time": 1453574584, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 10980341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980341", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1453907327, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "So Ars reprinted that from the original at mosaicscience.com and I guess that's from a Gastropod episode or at least that's a podcast companion to the story. It's on soundcloud.com iTunes Really interesting read on why it's so damn hard to figure out how to lose weight, or why it's so hard to control our eating sometimes. Is it genetics, gut microbes, insulin, existing fat cells? All of the above? More and more the science seems to agree stop eating sugar/carbs/whatever and that seems to help most people. BUT not everyone responds to sugar/carbs/whatever the same way if you measure blood sugar"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 10982686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982686", "by": "bargl", "time": 1453924743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A lot of people mistake Machine Learning and General Artificial Intelligence. From what I understand (and I'm no expert), ML is a focused task which it does one thing really really well. The idea of General Artificial Intelligence is something that can learn anything you throw by adapting and reinforcing base assumptions. There's a podcast called Talking Machines that really dives into a lot of this stuff. He's freaking great and pretty darn entertaining."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 10989270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10989270", "by": "samwiseg", "time": 1453999673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Of course, it's extremely important. I'm currently listening to the Freakonomics podcast on the Challenger explosion[0]. I was only noting the difference being born a few years apart can make when it comes to significant shared cultural memories. [0] http://freakonomics.com/2015/05/20/failure-is-your-friend-a-..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11008016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008016", "by": "ianbicking", "time": 1454273736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of those people also may have had a disability they recovered from, but no real opportunity to return to the workforce (or no incentive to work towards their recovery). I believe the Social Security office even includes the criteria \"could this person get a job?\" based on age, skill, and location, and you could remain on disability even though in some theoretical sense you are physically able to work. Such as, you might consider a miner who has some physical reason he is unable to continue in mining; theoretically he might be physically capable of working in some other job, but those jobs"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 11013796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013796", "by": "crablar", "time": 1454350459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are unhappy as a programmer you should quit your job immediately and try sales/marketing/anything else. I was disappointed with the way companies I worked at organized their programmers so I started Software Engineering Daily, a podcast about software. This economy rewards software skills and general acumen as much as programming."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 11015959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015959", "by": "dpeck", "time": 1454364618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "looks like a good oppertunity to plug one of my favorite podcasts, The History of English Podcast http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ , if you're curious about history of the language and its indo-european cousins its fascinating."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11047738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11047738", "by": "dankohn1", "time": 1454766706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The story behind this game was movingly covered in podcasts by Radiolab and Reply All. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 11047738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11047738", "by": "dankohn1", "time": 1454766706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The story behind this game was movingly covered in podcasts by Radiolab and Reply All. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral/"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 11052324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11052324", "by": "nl", "time": 1454837999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Linux Weekly News ( http://lwn.net/ ) For Machine Learning I can't recommend Talking Machines ( http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/blog/ ) highly enough. It is a podcast though."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 11065525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065525", "by": "mojoe", "time": 1455028898, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of the math program that Jason Roberts is providing to a group of younger students in Pasadena. If you've never heard the TechZing podcast I'd recommend it: http://techzinglive.com/"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 11067641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067641", "by": "talideon", "time": 1455043574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Holy crap! I only wrote that half-jokingly, not expecting that you were took objectivism seriously, but you do! I don't take Rand's philosophy seriously for much the same reason I don't take postmodernism as a whole seriously: the Continental approach (which she employed) lacks any real rigour[1]. Great for fiction, but not so good for being useful . As well as that, we objectively (see what I did there!) know that some of her important points (such as on causation, determinism, and free-will) are bunk, and it's not as if she was even particularly consistent on them anyway. The best I can say "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11068616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11068616", "by": "rtkwe", "time": 1455050739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cheap and easier access to free online prep courses would help. Also there's a lot that can be done by bringing kids into a community and giving them a group to belong to that encourages education. Freakonomics did a pretty good podcast about a project in Toronto that cut the dropout rate by ~15 percentage points. [0] The whole thing is worth a read but the basics are they provided support advocates, transportation, a scholarship if they kept with the program, tutoring, and group activities. Really though there's probably always going to be some level of education outcome gap between rich and "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11087059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087059", "by": "daphreak", "time": 1455284653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast #677 (The Experiment Experiment) discussed an effort to reproduce some experiments. One of the methods they discussed to both increase reproducibility and reduce experimenter bias was to register the experiment procedure and hypothesis with the journal before performing the experiment. It's been a while since I listened but I think one or more journals is supporting this workflow. I'm glad we are working towards a better scientific process. These days sensationalism scores more grant money and Scientific American articles. We need incentives to improve our body of know"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11094367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094367", "by": "tedsanders", "time": 1455378571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's so much good content out on the internet, and sadly, we are wildly ignorant of almost all of it. Discovery is still such a hard problem. Here's a list of the blogs, podcasts, and websites that I read. Links available at http://www.tedsanders.com/my-information-diet/ Blogs Economics blogs: \u2022Marginal Revolution, The Money Illusion, The Incidental Economist, The Growth Economics Blog, Conversable Economist, Overcoming Bias, Vox: Matthew Yglesias, Peter Diamandis, EconLog: Library Of Economics And Liberty Physics/math blogs: \u2022Condensed concepts, Shtetl-Optimized, Sean Carroll\u2019s Preposterou"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11094367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094367", "by": "tedsanders", "time": 1455378571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's so much good content out on the internet, and sadly, we are wildly ignorant of almost all of it. Discovery is still such a hard problem. Here's a list of the blogs, podcasts, and websites that I read. Links available at http://www.tedsanders.com/my-information-diet/ Blogs Economics blogs: \u2022Marginal Revolution, The Money Illusion, The Incidental Economist, The Growth Economics Blog, Conversable Economist, Overcoming Bias, Vox: Matthew Yglesias, Peter Diamandis, EconLog: Library Of Economics And Liberty Physics/math blogs: \u2022Condensed concepts, Shtetl-Optimized, Sean Carroll\u2019s Preposterou"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11094367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094367", "by": "tedsanders", "time": 1455378571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's so much good content out on the internet, and sadly, we are wildly ignorant of almost all of it. Discovery is still such a hard problem. Here's a list of the blogs, podcasts, and websites that I read. Links available at http://www.tedsanders.com/my-information-diet/ Blogs Economics blogs: \u2022Marginal Revolution, The Money Illusion, The Incidental Economist, The Growth Economics Blog, Conversable Economist, Overcoming Bias, Vox: Matthew Yglesias, Peter Diamandis, EconLog: Library Of Economics And Liberty Physics/math blogs: \u2022Condensed concepts, Shtetl-Optimized, Sean Carroll\u2019s Preposterou"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 11094367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094367", "by": "tedsanders", "time": 1455378571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's so much good content out on the internet, and sadly, we are wildly ignorant of almost all of it. Discovery is still such a hard problem. Here's a list of the blogs, podcasts, and websites that I read. Links available at http://www.tedsanders.com/my-information-diet/ Blogs Economics blogs: \u2022Marginal Revolution, The Money Illusion, The Incidental Economist, The Growth Economics Blog, Conversable Economist, Overcoming Bias, Vox: Matthew Yglesias, Peter Diamandis, EconLog: Library Of Economics And Liberty Physics/math blogs: \u2022Condensed concepts, Shtetl-Optimized, Sean Carroll\u2019s Preposterou"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 11102784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11102784", "by": "cyphar", "time": 1455536517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hello Internet is a very funny podcast. But \"freebooting\" isn't a positive thing. Sharing is a positive thing. The two terms do not equate morally."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11106253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11106253", "by": "l33tbro", "time": 1455572577, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Getting a bit tired of the classics - Tim Ferris, This American Life, Andressen podcast. Would love to hear what informative, inspiring, or entertaining stuff you guys are listening to lately."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 11107297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11107297", "by": "rcavezza", "time": 1455585299, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Agree w/ andersthue's suggestions. Here are a few others I listen to frequently. I like all of the Gimlet media podcasts. https://gimletmedia.com/ Specifically Startup, Mystery Show, and ReplyAll Hardcore History and Common Sense are favorites of mine: http://dancarlin.com 99% Invisible by Roman Mars http://99percentinvisible.org/ Startup School Radio from ycombinator is pretty good https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-radio/id9... What's the Point is a podcast from fivethirtyeight about data http://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/whats-the-point/ Traction by Jay Acunzo at Nextview Ventu"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 11111468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11111468", "by": "RyJones", "time": 1455643395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Intelligence Squared does this. Interesting podcasts. US version: http://www.npr.org/series/6263392/intelligence-squared-u-s UK version: http://www.intelligencesquared.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 11123734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11123734", "by": "inerte", "time": 1455769838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a Manager Tools podcast episode they talk about hiring against a standard. First, have a standard (the six dimensions you mentioned fit the bill). Make every interviewer ask the same, or very similar, questions. Use the standard as your only source, and evaluate candidates against that. Hire the strongest one. They ask interviewers and hiring managers to ignore \"future potential\". Humans are incredibly bad at predicting the future. Even if you think you can say how a person will perform in 5 years, the role might change, the market might change, customers preferences, personal developments,"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11124196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11124196", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1455779769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside, Radiolab recently did a podcast on Darkode and the way Ransomware affects the lives of everyday folks. http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/ It was interesting."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 11135952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11135952", "by": "vonklaus", "time": 1455910431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Verge podcast walt-ctrl-delete was talking about this. Nilay Patel, editor at the verge, raised a pretty interesting point which was Supreme Court cases are often picked. Actors can pick what case they want to appeal or prosecute. They pick the case with the best facts and the right time and try to maximize their chance a decision will be written into law. Roe v. Wade was brought up, although I don't know enough about the case to argue, but it was an example they referenced. This is a good case for the Gov't. You have 2 people ruthlessly kill a bunch of civilians and they are already both "}, {"show": "1858752858", "hn_item": 11139001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11139001", "by": "danso", "time": 1455945649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone asked about a transcript. There's no official transcript as far as I can tell so I sent it up to IBM Watson: https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/71d49ff62e9f9eb51ac6 First part (rather than paste the entire thing, you can just check out the gist: https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/71d49ff62e9f9eb51ac6#raw-t... and nbsp walking to the ProPublica podcast I'm Charlie Orenstein and I cover healthcare here at ProPublica today we're gonna be talking about laboratory testing it's no secret to many that lab testing has been caught in the dark ages of medicine or you have to go to your doctor to g"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 11147599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11147599", "by": "crikli", "time": 1456102989, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed regarding Carlin's storytelling ability. I tried to get into The History of Rome podcast after Blueprint for Armageddon and just couldn't engage. Got spoiled by Dan. I too was disappointed in the speed with which the last two years of the war were covered. Of course being an American I wanted to hear more about Pershing, the Marines and the Battle of Bellau Wood, Frank Duke, Eddie Rickenbacker, etc. I recall reading/hearing an interview with Carlin prior to the release of the last episode where he explained that they were going to finish the series up even if it meant it was a 15 hour s"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11147687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11147687", "by": "kawsper", "time": 1456104080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a recent podcast about the situation http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/03/465476188/episo..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 11172064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172064", "by": "repeek", "time": 1456369117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in this topic, I highly recommend episode 181 of the Omega Tau podcast, \"Why Megaprojects Fail (and what to do about it)\" [1]. It's a fascinating listen into the psychology behind gigantic failures. [1] http://omegataupodcast.net/2015/09/181-why-megaprojects-fail..."}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 11172313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172313", "by": "stretchwithme", "time": 1456373047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Software Engineering Radio podcast did an episode on this recently: http://www.se-radio.net/2016/02/se-radio-epislode-250-jurgen..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11172976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172976", "by": "madsushi", "time": 1456386427, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great EconTalk podcast episode about Matching Markets with Alvin Roth (the Stanford economist mentioned in the article): http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.htm..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11173010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11173010", "by": "thirdsun", "time": 1456386988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hear their ads constantly on This American Life, Radiolab, Serial....or simply high quality general interest podcasts covering a wide range of subjects. I'm just guessing here, but I imagine the typical audience might be people that are educated, interested, curious, with good taste, somewhat close to the pulse of time, without necessarily falling into hipster territory, ...and not afraid of trying to build a website on their own (I'm guessing that's how they see using Squarespace), whether for their small business or their personal blog for niche interests. Sure, a very general and possibly"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11173010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11173010", "by": "thirdsun", "time": 1456386988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hear their ads constantly on This American Life, Radiolab, Serial....or simply high quality general interest podcasts covering a wide range of subjects. I'm just guessing here, but I imagine the typical audience might be people that are educated, interested, curious, with good taste, somewhat close to the pulse of time, without necessarily falling into hipster territory, ...and not afraid of trying to build a website on their own (I'm guessing that's how they see using Squarespace), whether for their small business or their personal blog for niche interests. Sure, a very general and possibly"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11174483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174483", "by": "sudo_bang_bang", "time": 1456409591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's also a great Freakonomics podcast about this story http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-a-new-freako..."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 11184865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184865", "by": "nefitty", "time": 1456526814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast: 99% Invisible's incredibly creepy look into number stations http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11184865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184865", "by": "nefitty", "time": 1456526814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast: 99% Invisible's incredibly creepy look into number stations http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 11191925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11191925", "by": "ruraljuror", "time": 1456686914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in this recent episode of the Hanselminutes podcast: http://hanselminutes.com/514/the-open-artificial-pancreas-sy..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11197910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11197910", "by": "spuz", "time": 1456775755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem you are stating is called the 'handoff' problem which I believe will be a serious challenge for manufacturers of driverless cars. The handoff problem is when an automated system identifies a scenario in which it needs to hand over control to a human. How will that work in a vehicle that is not designed to be occupied by someone that knows how to control it? This problem has been written about in the book Our Robots, Ourselves [0] and there is an Econ Talk podcast about it as well [1]. To me, it makes sense to make use of the brain power provided by the occupant of the vehicle. For "}, {"show": "1081681625", "hn_item": 11199453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11199453", "by": "arange", "time": 1456787274, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11203939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11203939", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1456850973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll work clo"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 11203939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11203939", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1456850973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll work clo"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11203939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11203939", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1456850973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with simple interfaces. You'll work clo"}, {"show": "1496674902", "hn_item": 11217127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11217127", "by": "jjbohn", "time": 1457016851, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 11226047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226047", "by": "jonlucc", "time": 1457118143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only one I know of (but I'm a biologist...) was This Week in Startups, the podcast by Jason Calacanis. He had a segment in which he would critique pitches. Not sure if the podcast or segment exist anymore."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11232456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11232456", "by": "nhf", "time": 1457237870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signatures on credit cards are an interesting artifact. Planet Money did a nice podcast on signatures a year or two ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/08/29/344034815/episo... Apparently signatures are still used as a method of determining liability for fraudulent charges, who knew?"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 11234526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234526", "by": "furyofantares", "time": 1457284754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree entirely that there are no acceptable ads. I have only one life and the entirety of the value I derive from it comes from that which I pay attention to. Thus I highly value the extent to which I can control my attention and the thoughts swirling around in my consciousness (and in my subconscious, since that has a significant effect on what ends up being promoted to conscious thought.) I consider advertising to be robbing me of ME. I understand that this is a cost I am incurring as payment for a service, but I consider it an extremely high cost, and exploitative of the fact that it is d"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11241094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11241094", "by": "jobu", "time": 1457380046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a podcast that was basically about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episo... There seems to be a few issues at play. First is the \"file drawer effect\". If the experiment doesn't show a positive (or surprisingly negative) outcome, then it's most likely to get filed into a drawer and forgotten. The second issue is just random luck. Suppose you flip a coin 10 times, then it's possible that you might get a run of nine heads and one tail. Based on that experiment you could publish a paper that the coin has a 90% chance of flipping heads. That would be a "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 11242825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11242825", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1457397464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Caught this story this morning on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast[1], it's a great story. The thread that stands out most to me (and to the hosts) is that here's a person who looks at an 840-page government report, reads it in-depth, and creates an industry. That's a feel-good outcome, of hard work others aren't willing to do. In a coincidence, perhaps, Planet Money's latest episode[2] dealt with Warren Buffet's bet on an ETF over hedge funds. 1: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/odd-lots-h... 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 11260420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260420", "by": "themodelplumber", "time": 1457629840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you can, start passing around links to Manager Tools or just drop references to it. It's a podcast where they absolutely hammer leaders on issues like doing one-on-ones (this problem often goes right up to CEO), running meetings well, etc. With any luck management will pick up on it and change while you're still there, but if not--these people will probably be managing other people for the rest of their lives so someone somewhere will probably be grateful."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 11260528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11260528", "by": "jdcarter", "time": 1457630996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of Manager Tools before. Found the site, will take some of their podcasts for a spin!"}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 11267967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11267967", "by": "urbushey", "time": 1457716887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't get the \"email in my inbox\" so I'm not positive, but it definitely sounds like it could be related to the Zenefits scandal ( http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-under-scrutiny... ). For a really interesting further discussion on this exact topic (legal vs ethical and how CEO's should approach, esp. in regards to Uber) see Episode 067 of the Stratechery/Exponent podcast: http://exponent.fm/episode-067-weighing-and-voting/"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 11277097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277097", "by": "mickuehl", "time": 1457863865, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 11280503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11280503", "by": "Goladus", "time": 1457919476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is such a weird coincidence. I've been listening to The History of Rome podcast [1] and was getting the itch to play some civilization/strategy. I literally downloaded Master of Magic from gog.com (had purchased it there years ago) about 20 minutes ago. [1] http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 11291239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11291239", "by": "yes_or_gnome", "time": 1458062295, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seeing this post, I did the same for 'Bill Burr'. For Burr's profile it has him listed as 'Hosts:' for 'Monday Morning Podcast' under his profile picture; As well as the mentions in the center. So, I repeated this for 'Tom Merritt' and you're right, it only has the the mentions; no 'Hosts:' section. It looks like the only way to contribute, currently, is through the contact form. https://www.podcat.com/contact"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 11291444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11291444", "by": "metasean", "time": 1458063518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny automation fail: The tech podcasts I listen to frequently end with recommendations. One of the recommendations in the latest JavaScript Jabber is for a Taylor Swift album. Podcat attributes the entire episode to Taylor Swift\u203d JJ Episode Details: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/202-jsj-donejs-canjs-with-justi... Podcat Episode Details: https://www.podcat.com/podcasts/D13bdo-javascript-jabber/epi... --- Request: Since most of my podcasts are technical (as I assume many other HN readers' podcasts are) many of them also have video. Sometimes only specific episodes have a video component (e.g. L"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 11293109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11293109", "by": "throwathrowaway", "time": 1458076886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope this site catches on! Is there any tool to search for podcast by length or format? I really like the Writing Excuses podcast (from suggestions on HN) and would like to find others in the same format on different topics. Short podcasts with well thought out analysis and answers."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 11293234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11293234", "by": "Jordrok", "time": 1458078099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neat idea, I'd love to see this take off. I imagine it's going to take a lot of work to reach Imdb-level comprehensiveness though. Until a certain threshold is met, it's going to be hard to beat Googling (person's name) + podcast. Here's my anecdata: Searched for John Oliver and got no relevant results. Searched for Andy Zaltzman and got his cricket podcast. Searched for The Bugle and found it, but no links to the aforementioned hosts. Searched for John Bain and got his picture + a mention from a podcast I didn't recognize. Searched for TotalBiscuit and found The Co-optional Podcast and other "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11309163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11309163", "by": "shahzeb", "time": 1458264180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested, Radiolab did a stellar podcast about The Dragon Cancer. http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11325125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11325125", "by": "sien", "time": 1458514936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and don't live in the US. I used to live in the US and donate to my local NPR station. It's strange that on every podcast episode they don't suggest a way for me to contribute. Other successful podcasts like The Guardian's highly entertaining Football Weekly podcast also suffer from this. I'd like to contribute something sometimes. I've bought t-shirts from podcasts that suggest that (Planet Money, 99% Invisible) and am happy to do something. Also, the ads on podcasts are not well targeted. I've heard of Squarespace... It's remarkable that there isn't a goo"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11325125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11325125", "by": "sien", "time": 1458514936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a number of NPR podcasts and don't live in the US. I used to live in the US and donate to my local NPR station. It's strange that on every podcast episode they don't suggest a way for me to contribute. Other successful podcasts like The Guardian's highly entertaining Football Weekly podcast also suffer from this. I'd like to contribute something sometimes. I've bought t-shirts from podcasts that suggest that (Planet Money, 99% Invisible) and am happy to do something. Also, the ads on podcasts are not well targeted. I've heard of Squarespace... It's remarkable that there isn't a goo"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11325955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11325955", "by": "GSimon", "time": 1458529666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I too grew a distaste for them, more accurately the Freakonomics Podcast. Steven Levitt comes across like a total snob and he has all these annoying quirks and preferences, I find his personality really irritating. He reminds me of someone who won't do manual labour and thinks it's funny and charming to be someone who sees anything physically strainful as being this horrendous undertaking. He really embodies so many detestable human qualities, and that's the thing, it's like his 'image', he's this weirdo guy who gets to be reprehensible because he's a notable economist. Also their Podcasts fre"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 11326028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326028", "by": "mattdeboard", "time": 1458530831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Reply All podcast, and maybe all by Gimlet media, play a very specific background song when a paid advertisement is running. It's a very clever way of helping listeners differentiate."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11326423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326423", "by": "rat87", "time": 1458538672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the Planet Money podcast http://www.npr.org/sections/money/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11350140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350140", "by": "anotherevan", "time": 1458786303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Freakonomics podcast interview with Danny Meyer on the same topic. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 11350330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350330", "by": "fernly", "time": 1458789376, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was covered in depth on the Security Now podcast in May 2015 (Transcript [1]). The Passive Keyless Entry and Start PKES system relies on the assumption that if the car can \"hear\" the key, the key is in close proximity. Normally that's true but it is technically trivial to build a radio system that picks up and amplifies the car's continuous \"ping\" transmissions. So the key, which might be in your pocket in a restaurant, hears its car's ping, it responds, and the bad guys pick that up and amplify it and the car says, ok, key is here, open the door. [1] https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-508.htm"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 11357795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11357795", "by": "seizethecheese", "time": 1458867459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Based on the Startup School podcast episode I heard with Emmett, it sounded like it was less that gaming was popular (I think he said it was 2% of traffic) and more that it was the only content that Emmett actually liked watching. (Not trying to disagree with you, given that you were there, more trying to give another perspective.)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11366310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366310", "by": "AJ007", "time": 1459010748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Planet Money podcast is worth listening to, \"When CEO Pay Exploded.\" A good exercise in the law of unintended consequences: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/05/465747726/-682-..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 11407158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407158", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1459534574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Software Engineering Daily [podcast] interview with Adams is a great listen. It's a great narrative about software development as art and passion. http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/10/22/dwarf-fortres..."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 11410828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410828", "by": "bigblind", "time": 1459587900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some: Development related: - JavaScript Jabber - Turing Incomplete - The Stack Exchange Podcast - Software Engineering Daily - Developer Tea - The Google cloud Platform Podcast - Codepen Radio - The Changelog Other podcasts: - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Allusionist - Answer Me This - Back to Work - Analog(ue) - Security Now - This Week in Google - Everything Sounds - Limetown - 99% Invisible - Cortex - Hello Internet - Reconcilable differences - Under the Radar"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11411003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411003", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1459592889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Business-related: - 99% Invisible - Britstrapped - Chasing Product - Freakonomics Radio Other: - The Allusionist - Imaginary Worlds - Heavy Metal Historian Plus some Dutch language podcasts to brush up on my Dutch: - Echt gebeurd - deBuren - Radioboeken"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 11411003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411003", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1459592889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Business-related: - 99% Invisible - Britstrapped - Chasing Product - Freakonomics Radio Other: - The Allusionist - Imaginary Worlds - Heavy Metal Historian Plus some Dutch language podcasts to brush up on my Dutch: - Echt gebeurd - deBuren - Radioboeken"}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 11411003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411003", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1459592889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Business-related: - 99% Invisible - Britstrapped - Chasing Product - Freakonomics Radio Other: - The Allusionist - Imaginary Worlds - Heavy Metal Historian Plus some Dutch language podcasts to brush up on my Dutch: - Echt gebeurd - deBuren - Radioboeken"}, {"show": "653204183", "hn_item": 11411191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411191", "by": "noir_lord", "time": 1459597766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- https://laravel-news.com/category/podcast/ (Laravel News) - http://hanselminutes.com/ (Hansel Minutes) - http://99percentinvisible.org/ (99% invisible) - http://www.se-radio.net/ (Software Engineering Radio) - http://www.laravelpodcast.com/ (Laravel Podcast) Various randoms from the always awesome https://player.fm/featured/web-development"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 11411597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411597", "by": "jasdeepsingh", "time": 1459606838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Raywenderlich.com Podcast - Startup School Radio"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 11411608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11411608", "by": "fitzwatermellow", "time": 1459606967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Product Hunt podcasts. Lots of entrepreneurship relevant content: A16Z, HN, as well as their own maker interview series ;) https://www.producthunt.com/podcasts"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 11412899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11412899", "by": "kqr2", "time": 1459624859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more info and background on the Bergdahl story, check out season 2 of the Serial podcast: https://serialpodcast.org/"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 11413291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11413291", "by": "tedmiston", "time": 1459629333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My current favorites are Talk Python to Me and Startup School Radio. I have a repo to share my summaries & notes by episode: https://github.com/tedmiston/notes#podcasts"}, {"show": "1858752858", "hn_item": 11423649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423649", "by": "katiabachko", "time": 1459790680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author talks about the reporting on the ProPublica podcast: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/keeping-tabs-on-the-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11432560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432560", "by": "rconti", "time": 1459878068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a whole series of NPR Planet Money podcasts about setting up offshore (and onshore!) shell companies. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/27/157499893/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11434475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11434475", "by": "freshyill", "time": 1459890529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think it was luck. I was just listening to All Things Considered and apparently there was considerable collaboration among journalists. The Planet Money podcasts were rebroadcasts from a few years ago. I bet they knew the story would be dropping soon, and they decided to give their listeners a primer. http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473139196/panama-papers-leak-i..."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 11440141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440141", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1459962946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in this, the Cracked podcast discussed this article and related articles. http://www.cracked.com/podcast/americas-secret-caste-system/"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 11443725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11443725", "by": "atroyn", "time": 1459990174, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Product Hunt currently does books and podcasts, but that part of that community is considerably smaller than the rest of the site. How will you attract the first readers and authors to your platform? How will you ensure a high standard of quality, both in submissions and in discussion?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11448208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448208", "by": "anonu", "time": 1460044243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics re-posted their \"Econommics of Sleep\" 2-part podcast. They look at sleep and how sleep varies across different demographics. One interesting point they made was that the \"I don't need sleep\" concept may have been popularized in the 80s or 90s with celebrities and politicians making these statements. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/economics-sleep-part-1-freak... http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/09/the-economics-of-sleep-pa..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 11451461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451461", "by": "brownbat", "time": 1460071012, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Diversification is good for individual investors, but it's also a good way for an economy, or for a financial sector to hedge against systemic risks. So if ETFs are taking over, it may be an improvement overall, but it's worth thinking through the black swans, the new low probability high impact risks that this creates. Bloomberg has had a few comments about liquidity risks for ETFs on their site and in the Odd Lots podcast.[0] On the other hand, they've made these comments for a few years now, so maybe this is a chicken little story. Or maybe it only kicks in under certain conditions, like if"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 11461550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11461550", "by": "archildress", "time": 1460214247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, Hidden Brain, had a great episode this week about \"Grit\", which one of the researchers defined as \"passion and perseverance for long-terms goals.\" \"The thing that was revelatory to me was not that effort matters\u2014everybody knows that effort matters,\" Angela told Shankar. \"What was revelatory to me was how much it matters.\" I still think there's this question of \"why do some kids have more grit than others?\" to be answered, but perhaps this is a start? Worth a listen: http://www.npr.org/2016/04/04/472162167/the-power-and-proble..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11485660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485660", "by": "spatten", "time": 1460520200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "She was also featured in this Freakonomics podcast about \"I Pencil\" (worth the listen): http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11487740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487740", "by": "tallanvor", "time": 1460552494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All Things Considered and Fresh Air are daily things for me, although I listen to the podcasts since I'm not in the US. Planet Money, Wait Wait, This American Life, and Ask Me Another are also regular shows I listen to. I've also been listening to KCRW's Left, Right & Center, and they're part of the NPR network, though I don't know who ends up funding that show. Sometimes I wish All Things Considered had more details on some of the stories, but if all their stories were longer, I would start picking and choosing what I listen to and not get as much variety."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11487740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487740", "by": "tallanvor", "time": 1460552494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All Things Considered and Fresh Air are daily things for me, although I listen to the podcasts since I'm not in the US. Planet Money, Wait Wait, This American Life, and Ask Me Another are also regular shows I listen to. I've also been listening to KCRW's Left, Right & Center, and they're part of the NPR network, though I don't know who ends up funding that show. Sometimes I wish All Things Considered had more details on some of the stories, but if all their stories were longer, I would start picking and choosing what I listen to and not get as much variety."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11487774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487774", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1460552819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As the article goes into, I think you're conflating \"NPR\" with the stuff that airs on public radio stations in various cities like Boston and New York--much of which programming is also available as podcasts. Thus Radiolab for example (which certainly qualifies for audio-documentary experience) is produced by WNYC and is not NPR. \"NPR\" gets used as a shorthand for a lot of the programming that touches public radio stations (or that is created by people who are/were associated with public radio)--I do so myself--but it's not accurate."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11487789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487789", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1460552919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Wait Wait are all traditional NPR broadcast programs, but since you're not listening via broadcast, your listening behavior is covered here, and it's important to understand why (I'll get into that in a bit). The rest of the shows are either strictly podcasts (Planet Money), not NPR produced (This American Life, Left Right & Center) or built specifically to fight this trend (Ask Me Another). The reason why the way you listen matters is because NPR gets its money from broadcast stations. Every time they do something that has a whiff of asking listeners to d"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11487789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11487789", "by": "chrisrhoden", "time": 1460552919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Wait Wait are all traditional NPR broadcast programs, but since you're not listening via broadcast, your listening behavior is covered here, and it's important to understand why (I'll get into that in a bit). The rest of the shows are either strictly podcasts (Planet Money), not NPR produced (This American Life, Left Right & Center) or built specifically to fight this trend (Ask Me Another). The reason why the way you listen matters is because NPR gets its money from broadcast stations. Every time they do something that has a whiff of asking listeners to d"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 11488299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11488299", "by": "scrollaway", "time": 1460556824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a linguist inside me all giddy, having seen the birth of a word and seeing it getting adopted into the mainstream. (For those who don't know, the word, in the context of copyright, was invented on the excellent Hello Internet podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-tCHzjam4 )"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11488324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11488324", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1460557001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of NPR, but the longform shows (This American Life, Serial, Planet Money, Freakanomics, Radiolab), and always in podcast form. I don't want to listen to my news - I listen to a decent number of podcasts, and I want to be able to choose what I listen to based on momentary whims. That means that the content had better be relatively timeless, which rules out pure news shows that are made of 4 minute segments. Maybe this doesn't bode well for the flagship NRP programs, but I don't want to listen to my daily news. I want to read it - I read the NY Times daily. The speed at which I"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11488324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11488324", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1460557001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of NPR, but the longform shows (This American Life, Serial, Planet Money, Freakanomics, Radiolab), and always in podcast form. I don't want to listen to my news - I listen to a decent number of podcasts, and I want to be able to choose what I listen to based on momentary whims. That means that the content had better be relatively timeless, which rules out pure news shows that are made of 4 minute segments. Maybe this doesn't bode well for the flagship NRP programs, but I don't want to listen to my daily news. I want to read it - I read the NY Times daily. The speed at which I"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 11499809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11499809", "by": "NelsonMinar", "time": 1460663457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Reply All podcast episode about this. They do work. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/18-silence-and-respect/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 11503780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503780", "by": "mtu9001", "time": 1460724057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone was listening to the Security Now podcast."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11510414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510414", "by": "studentrob", "time": 1460811447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Has anyone else tuned in to Chris Gethard? His podcast \"Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People\" is great. It's like an evolution of \"This American Life\". Unedited, one hour discussions with random people, and Chris is a really good interviewer of random people. My favorite is his interview with \" Ron Paul's baby\" [1]. If you can get to the part where he starts talking about a carnival baby (15 or 30 mins in), it is hilarious from there forward. [1] http://www.earwolf.com/episode/ron-pauls-baby/"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 11510482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510482", "by": "briancl", "time": 1460812997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What about adding additional tags or attributes so we can filter by length of time, date published (vs date submitted to your site), publisher (npr, radiotopia, etc), guests (i.e., i liked this guest on Marc Maron's podcast, where else can I find him?), or sub-genre (i like true crime podcasts and sometimes I get that on Criminal, sometimes I get that on This American Life)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11510482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510482", "by": "briancl", "time": 1460812997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What about adding additional tags or attributes so we can filter by length of time, date published (vs date submitted to your site), publisher (npr, radiotopia, etc), guests (i.e., i liked this guest on Marc Maron's podcast, where else can I find him?), or sub-genre (i like true crime podcasts and sometimes I get that on Criminal, sometimes I get that on This American Life)"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 11510564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510564", "by": "jere", "time": 1460814208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very cool idea. I often struggle to think of a podcast when I really need one. One of the challenges here is that, apparently, podcasts don't have very descriptive names. Maybe it's because HN has the same regular topics floating through, but I feel like I get a lot more of a preview from titles on HN than I do by things like... \"The Archers\" \"Hello Internet #60: The Beautiful Game\" \"Harmontown\" I suppose there's an expectation that podcasts don't need explanatory names because, well, they're not always about a specific thing and because they're expecting regular listeners to tune in. Perhaps "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11511374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511374", "by": "wrigby", "time": 1460827016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great list! A couple more of my favorites are: Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/podcast/ Startup (also by Gimlet): https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11511531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511531", "by": "ArkyBeagle", "time": 1460828994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Russ Roberts has some ... mash note podcasts, peans to Adam Smith on EconTalk. He's much better situated to speak on it than I am. Shortly, Smith wrote \"Theory of Moral Sentiments\" before \"Wealth\". \"Wealth\" was a critique of Meracntilist (royal) patent systems. The short version is that capitalism has a moral founding. What we now call capitalism can be pretty a moral, but that's our doing. I'm hoping that a better understanding of rents can enable us to have a better capitalism. Principally, because I don't much think collectivism can be demonstrated to work, and collectivism is frequently se"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11511655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511655", "by": "exhilaration", "time": 1460830761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcasts: Excellent: This American Life 99% Invisible Very good: Planet Money The Memory Palace [historical narratives] The Moth On the Media Snap Judgement Good: Freakonomics Radio Lab Radio Diaries Occasionally good: The Truth [fictional radio dramas] Criminal"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11511655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511655", "by": "exhilaration", "time": 1460830761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcasts: Excellent: This American Life 99% Invisible Very good: Planet Money The Memory Palace [historical narratives] The Moth On the Media Snap Judgement Good: Freakonomics Radio Lab Radio Diaries Occasionally good: The Truth [fictional radio dramas] Criminal"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11511655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511655", "by": "exhilaration", "time": 1460830761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcasts: Excellent: This American Life 99% Invisible Very good: Planet Money The Memory Palace [historical narratives] The Moth On the Media Snap Judgement Good: Freakonomics Radio Lab Radio Diaries Occasionally good: The Truth [fictional radio dramas] Criminal"}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 11512082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512082", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1460837664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From my subscriptions list: - Lore ( http://www.lorepodcast.com/ ) - Limetown ( http://limetown.com ) - The Moth ( http://themoth.org/ ) - The NoSleep Podcast ( http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/ ) - Criminal ( http://thisiscriminal.com/ ) - Snap Judgment ( http://snapjudgment.org/podcast ) - The Black Tapes ( http://theblacktapespodcast.com/ )"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 11512082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512082", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1460837664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From my subscriptions list: - Lore ( http://www.lorepodcast.com/ ) - Limetown ( http://limetown.com ) - The Moth ( http://themoth.org/ ) - The NoSleep Podcast ( http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/ ) - Criminal ( http://thisiscriminal.com/ ) - Snap Judgment ( http://snapjudgment.org/podcast ) - The Black Tapes ( http://theblacktapespodcast.com/ )"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 11512644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512644", "by": "eutectic", "time": 1460846833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favourites: heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/ http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/ http://www.microbe.tv/ (home of This Week in Virology, TWiParasitism, and TWiMicrobiology). http://www.theorbitalmechanics.com/"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 11513153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11513153", "by": "jhh", "time": 1460858055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "some podcasts have chapter marks. They allow you to do just that. Anyway, check it out. I use the Overcast podcast client (iOS), which supports this (among others). Some podcasts even provide full transcripts (e. g, Freakonomics). If the podcast provides neither of these then it's not feasible to skim it efficiently, in my opinion."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11513153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11513153", "by": "jhh", "time": 1460858055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "some podcasts have chapter marks. They allow you to do just that. Anyway, check it out. I use the Overcast podcast client (iOS), which supports this (among others). Some podcasts even provide full transcripts (e. g, Freakonomics). If the podcast provides neither of these then it's not feasible to skim it efficiently, in my opinion."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11514258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514258", "by": "elcapitan", "time": 1460894907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Planet Money, you'd probably like \"Odd Lots\" by Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 11514258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514258", "by": "elcapitan", "time": 1460894907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Planet Money, you'd probably like \"Odd Lots\" by Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 11517893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11517893", "by": "exolymph", "time": 1460957675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really love Revolutions [1] so now I'm excited to try this one! History podcasts for the win. [1] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 11524687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11524687", "by": "Laaw", "time": 1461036620, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the \"How to Start a Startup\" podcast, mostly out of idle curiosity, and I've just finished the second episode, \"Team and Execution\". In it, Sam Altman talks about who the right people are and who the wrong people are to be one of a startup's first hires, and as he describes the right people, I realize that I don't currently fall into the category of the right people. My coworkers wouldn't call me the \"best in the world at what I do\", although what I do is mostly disagree with them on how to get things done. I am aware of plenty of material out there that explains how to "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11528341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11528341", "by": "eldavido", "time": 1461085160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The stock market exists at the intersection of a few academic subjects. One is economics. This is a social science, like psychology, and deals with human beings, and why they act the way they do: why prices go up and down, the effect of regulation and policy, supply and demand, etc. Economics is the bedrock underlying any market because ultimately, markets are made up of people. It's sort of like how math underlies all of programming -- you don't often use it directly, but it's the intellectual foundation of all market behavior. To learn economics, get a basic micro textbook or listen to Russ "}, {"show": "1553180943", "hn_item": 11529857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529857", "by": "umbs", "time": 1461096526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your question is a bit open ended. You want to learn about \"stocks\" and \"market\". The second one is a blanket term, but I'll share what I have been doing as, like you, I too prefer videos/audios over reading books. For past one year, I have been very actively listening to financial podcasts, reading investopedia, taking classes on Coursera (I avoided Udemy so as not to pay for courses). After gleaning through various resources, I settled on the following: Podcasts: [1] Money Tree Investing: http://moneytreepodcast.com/ [2] We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast: https://www.theinvestors"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 11536717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536717", "by": "manyxcxi", "time": 1461177858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently stumbled on a podcast I found very interesting that relates: The Art of Manliness #189: The Classical Education You Never Had [0] They had an author (Susan Bauer) on discussing topics from her book The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had [1], where they discussed the differences between a classical education and today's modern education (in America). One of the salient points was where she described today's method of reading literature and stopping every few pages/chapters and discussing what you think/feel about it and your interpretation. She made "}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 11537581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537581", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1461184913, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11543240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543240", "by": "PascalsMugger", "time": 1461255221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money is one of the only podcasts I can just let run through all the episodes and still enjoy them all."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11554778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554778", "by": "denzil_correa", "time": 1461402085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Tipping is an awful and awkward practice that shouldn't ever be encouraged. There's an interesting Freakonomics Episode titled \u201cThe No-Tipping Point.\u201d which talks about the same. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/"}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 11555545, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555545", "by": "doener", "time": 1461420018, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 11561753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561753", "by": "sanderjd", "time": 1461538861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks, I hadn't seen that. For what it's worth, I think the rebuttal misses that Thompson wasn't actually arguing for a Services division - he was arguing that if Apple is serious about creating better services, as they are currently claiming to be, then that's what they should do. But that doesn't mean that they should be serious about services! That's basically the same conclusion that is drawn by the article you linked. (Thompson goes into this a bit more on last week's Exponent podcast, if you're into this sort of thing.)"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 11592646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11592646", "by": "billhendricksjr", "time": 1461885944, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 11593444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593444", "by": "garbowza", "time": 1461897499, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 11598090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11598090", "by": "billhendricksjr", "time": 1461957505, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 11602971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602971", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1462041880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Amusingly, I heard about this research on the Nature podcast. I was skeptical at first \u2014 these fMRI studies are a dime a dozen these days, with dubious results \u2014 but this one is pretty robust. The use of training data is nice, and definitely adds a level of verifiablility to it. It's a nice step toward actually understanding how the brain processes not just language but ideas. There is definitely a future where we can understand what people are thinking by observing their brain."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 11603048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603048", "by": "civilian", "time": 1462043019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just wanna make sure you have these in your feed: Revolutions Podcast, History of Rome podcast (finished, but with 5 years of content), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Idk, the \"get together and discuss\" podcasts vary widely in quality. I find that the way the hosts talk really determines whether I like it. I really enjoy My Brother My Brother and Me (A comedy podcast around answering YahooAnswers questions), and listening to Boars, Gore and Swords helps me solidify and digest what I watched in Game of Thrones. But some of the discussions podcasts are just babbly. \"One bad mother\", \"Throwing sh"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 11603048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603048", "by": "civilian", "time": 1462043019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just wanna make sure you have these in your feed: Revolutions Podcast, History of Rome podcast (finished, but with 5 years of content), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Idk, the \"get together and discuss\" podcasts vary widely in quality. I find that the way the hosts talk really determines whether I like it. I really enjoy My Brother My Brother and Me (A comedy podcast around answering YahooAnswers questions), and listening to Boars, Gore and Swords helps me solidify and digest what I watched in Game of Thrones. But some of the discussions podcasts are just babbly. \"One bad mother\", \"Throwing sh"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11603324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603324", "by": "richdougherty", "time": 1462046520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to quite a few podcasts. Here are the ones I consistently enjoy listening to. - EconTalk - Interviews on many topics with an economics focus. - http://www.econtalk.org/ - In Our Time - Experts discuss an important idea, person or event. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl - Software Engineering Radio - Probably the best technical podcast I've found. - http://www.se-radio.net/ - Switched On Pop - I don't know much about music theory but I enjoy listening to these guys discussing it! - http://www.switchedonpop.com/"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 11603330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603330", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1462046654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of the popular ones that have already been mentioned (Serial, Radiolab, This American Life, etc), but here are some others I listen to: - Freakonomics Radio (WNYC). Favorite episode so far: \"The Economics of Sleep\" [1] - 60 Second Science (Scientific American). Short synopses of new science. - Developer Tea (spec.fm). Targeted towards developers, and episodes generally revolve around tech work and/or career development. Generally around 20 minutes. Good place to start: Interview w/ Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub [2] - StarTalk Radio (American Museum of Natural His"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11603340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603340", "by": "pbh101", "time": 1462046893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly redundant, but I also enjoyed the (apparently contemporary) Planet Money podcast episode on the same topic: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/08/473581490/episo..."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 11603796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11603796", "by": "jsz0", "time": 1462053609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BSD Now is the most intellectually stimulating tech podcast I listen to. As the name suggests they focus on covering BSD operating systems and related projects but you don't have to be a BSD user to enjoy the in-depth technical discussions. For example this week's show included an in-depth discussion of copy-on-write file systems and an interview about the CHERI research CPU. http://www.bsdnow.tv"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 11604296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604296", "by": "exception_e", "time": 1462062157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour ...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now."}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 11604296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604296", "by": "exception_e", "time": 1462062157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour ...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now."}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 11604296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604296", "by": "exception_e", "time": 1462062157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour ...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 11604296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604296", "by": "exception_e", "time": 1462062157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour ...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now."}, {"show": "350580455", "hn_item": 11604296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604296", "by": "exception_e", "time": 1462062157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Podcasts: Software Engineering Radio, .NET Rocks!, JavaScript Jabber Mind-opening Podcasts: Reply All, TED Radio Hour, Radio Lab Comedy Podcasts: Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, The Complete Guide to Everything, Joe Rogan Experience, Duncan Trussell Family Hour ...does anyone know of a good Java podcast? Seems like the main one is offline now."}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 11604410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604410", "by": "dionidium", "time": 1462064632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll leave off the ones that others have already mentioned. General - Waking up with Sam Harris . This might be my favorite thing going. No other podcast makes me examine what I believe about the world, spirituality, religion, world politics, consciousness, and so on, like this one does. Just fantastic. Tech - The Talk Show with John Gruber . Not much to say here. It's Apple-centric navel-gazing. - The Stack Exchange Podcast . It's too bad they don't record more often, because this is one of my favorites. - Accidental Tech Podcast . Another favorite. Perhaps I just like hearing Siracusa tell t"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 11604410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604410", "by": "dionidium", "time": 1462064632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll leave off the ones that others have already mentioned. General - Waking up with Sam Harris . This might be my favorite thing going. No other podcast makes me examine what I believe about the world, spirituality, religion, world politics, consciousness, and so on, like this one does. Just fantastic. Tech - The Talk Show with John Gruber . Not much to say here. It's Apple-centric navel-gazing. - The Stack Exchange Podcast . It's too bad they don't record more often, because this is one of my favorites. - Accidental Tech Podcast . Another favorite. Perhaps I just like hearing Siracusa tell t"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11604438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604438", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1462065462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk The RSA events London School of Economics events CATO Institute Events Commonwealth Club of California Big Ideas produced by Australian Broadcasting Corp Stanford Entrepreneurship Series Inquiring Minds BBC Thinking Allowed Science Friday Both US and UK Intelligence squared debates Edge.org talks are great, too, but I don't think they're offered as podcasts yet. Minor inconvenience.. For stories, there's Radiolab, Freakonomics, Snap Judgment, and The Moth"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 11604438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604438", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1462065462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk The RSA events London School of Economics events CATO Institute Events Commonwealth Club of California Big Ideas produced by Australian Broadcasting Corp Stanford Entrepreneurship Series Inquiring Minds BBC Thinking Allowed Science Friday Both US and UK Intelligence squared debates Edge.org talks are great, too, but I don't think they're offered as podcasts yet. Minor inconvenience.. For stories, there's Radiolab, Freakonomics, Snap Judgment, and The Moth"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 11604438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604438", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1462065462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk The RSA events London School of Economics events CATO Institute Events Commonwealth Club of California Big Ideas produced by Australian Broadcasting Corp Stanford Entrepreneurship Series Inquiring Minds BBC Thinking Allowed Science Friday Both US and UK Intelligence squared debates Edge.org talks are great, too, but I don't think they're offered as podcasts yet. Minor inconvenience.. For stories, there's Radiolab, Freakonomics, Snap Judgment, and The Moth"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11604438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604438", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1462065462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk The RSA events London School of Economics events CATO Institute Events Commonwealth Club of California Big Ideas produced by Australian Broadcasting Corp Stanford Entrepreneurship Series Inquiring Minds BBC Thinking Allowed Science Friday Both US and UK Intelligence squared debates Edge.org talks are great, too, but I don't think they're offered as podcasts yet. Minor inconvenience.. For stories, there's Radiolab, Freakonomics, Snap Judgment, and The Moth"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 11625525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11625525", "by": "nevster", "time": 1462325131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just happened to listen to an old Stack Overflow podcast where they talked about code reviews. They said they do in-person code reviews before committing code. (I find this is the most valuable way of doing code reviews vs pull requests/sending comments back and forth. In-person conversation about the code is so much higher bandwidth.)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11628653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628653", "by": "dagw", "time": 1462372847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I forget if it was Planet Money or Freakonomics, but there was a podcast about the ROI of learning a foreign language and according to the research they cited the only foreign language worth learning from a pure ROI perspective was English."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11628653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11628653", "by": "dagw", "time": 1462372847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I forget if it was Planet Money or Freakonomics, but there was a podcast about the ROI of learning a foreign language and according to the research they cited the only foreign language worth learning from a pure ROI perspective was English."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11631723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631723", "by": "hunterwerlla", "time": 1462395434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a Planet Money episode (a great podcast). http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/29/427467598/episo... . In it, they talk about people not wanting to ride elevators not controlled by a human operator, and how companies got people to ride them. In the same way as elevators, people will eventually adapt to self driving cars even if the industry needs something like a manual mode for emergencies or a big red button."}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 11633219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633219", "by": "qzervaas", "time": 1462410161, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11645579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645579", "by": "geekfactor", "time": 1462557717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI the April 13 show of the Freakonomics Podcast takes on the question \"Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?\" and mentions some of the prior studies noted in this article. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 11645793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645793", "by": "ultramancool", "time": 1462559809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few more good podcast links here, 2 episodes of NPR's Planet Money about GiveDirectly's results: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/11/08/243967328/episo... http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/16/212645252/episo... Overall the basic income idea... I don't like it in a lot of ways, I just can't see it resulting in a productive society personally. But that's just my gut reaction and I could be wrong, so far the data I've seen is a pretty mixed bag. I think things like this are a great way to experiment with it though (and without tax payer money). I might change my mind if there's mo"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 11653989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653989", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1462714505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's also a storage monster. Click \"play\" without downloading on a big Podcast like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (as long as 5 hours!) and you'll quickly notice that the podcasts app will permanently gobble up that storage as un-deleteable \"Documents and Settings\". Once that gets too big backup/restore is your only option."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11654440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654440", "by": "manyxcxi", "time": 1462721861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny, I just happened to listen to the Freakonomics podcast with Angela Duckworth on it this morning... It also goes into a better definition of grit, why they measure what they measure, etc. Grit basically boils down to (me paraphrasing the author paraphrasing her work) interest in the subject, finding meaning in it that can help you get through troughs of despair, a positive outlook that you can get better with effort, and an ability to find nuance in the activity so that instead of jumping to the next new subject you can focus on a specific subset of the thing you're trying to get better a"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11654511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11654511", "by": "manyxcxi", "time": 1462722899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with the premise that not being born into extreme poverty and having a strong connection within the activity/field that successful people are in are important. To me it just seems like if you don't have to worry about how you are going to survive at a basic level, it allows one the freedom to to explore higher order activities. The article doesn't seem to do the author as much of a favor as the Freakonomics podcast she was just on, she seems to be describing that there is not necessarily true grit, that it has a lot to do with a person's relationship to the activity on many levels."}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 11668441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11668441", "by": "Apocryphon", "time": 1462898004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am reminded of an old Hypercritical podcast: \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World\" ( http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/74 ). Everyone wants their own stack to have full control over. So now we've got multiple gardens (of differing openness) tended by cathedrals."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 11669463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669463", "by": "Grimm665", "time": 1462905328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vimeo has a reverse business model from YouTube, creators must pay Vimeo to host their videos. They also do not have an ad-revenue sharing program for creators to make money back from. Brady Haran and CGP Grey discuss their YouTube business and their gripes with the platform on Hello Internet. http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/58"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 11686144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686144", "by": "a_humean", "time": 1463082100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would check out Philosophy Bites, which is a podcast interviewing active research philosophers in 15-20 minutes about their topics. http://www.philosophybites.com/ Check out Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which is free and edited by active research philosophers on pretty much every major topic and figure. http://plato.stanford.edu/ Naming and Necessity by Kripke is about reference and the causal theory of reference, but it assume a decent amount (in case that is what you were asking for specifically). The Very Short Introductions series have some really good booklets if you want quick "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 11701824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11701824", "by": "dreamsofdragons", "time": 1463333610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, my Apple Watch is virtually perfect. It actually really surprised me the other day, I was listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History the other day, and forgot what a satrap was, and it wasn't clear from the context. Paused the podcast, asked what a satrap was, and it returned a definition."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 11727415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727415", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1463623107, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 11727967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727967", "by": "hyperopt", "time": 1463632193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the Talking Machines as well. Great podcast. Another question would be are the gains worth the cost of an ML-specific ASIC. GPUs have the entire, massive gaming industry driving the cost down. I suppose that as adoption of gradient-descent-based neural networks increases, it may be worth the cost in a similar way that GPUs are worth the cost. Then again, I have never implemented SGD on a GPU so I'm not aware if there are any bottlenecks that could be solved with an ML-specific ASIC. Can anyone else shed some light on this?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11735431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11735431", "by": "sundvor", "time": 1463715887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are payday loans all evil? I thought so too, until I listened to a very interesting Freakonomics podcast which showed it to be more than just black or white: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/payday-loans/ ."}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 11740843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11740843", "by": "soundoflight", "time": 1463773339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They just talked about this on the latest episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast! The podcaster's favorite was one with a mechanical car that drove on top of a video. https://www.idlethumbs.net/idlethumbs/episodes/disable-enemi..."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 11742557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11742557", "by": "thesrcmustflow", "time": 1463790742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> One major reason why is the #1 psychological ingredient in slot machines: intermittent variable rewards. I first came across this concept in a Hello Internet podcast, and it's amazing how much you see it in just about everything on the internet once you've heard of it."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11746367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11746367", "by": "Riseed", "time": 1463867874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Freakonomics podcast episode discussed (the lack of) bathroom music: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/time-to-take-back-the-toilet..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 11746418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11746418", "by": "msoad", "time": 1463868941, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This came out of an interesting interview in this episode of The Hidden Brain: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id102890875..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 11754807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11754807", "by": "treblig", "time": 1464020250, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 11756059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11756059", "by": "KurtMueller", "time": 1464030490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just wanted to give a quick word of praise to Avdi and the products he produces: I'm a subscriber to Avdi's screencasts and have purchased Confident Ruby. I really like both and both have helped me tremendously in my day job as a ruby dev. I've also listened to him extensively on the Ruby Rogues podcast. All in all, he's a great teacher and his learning materials are really easy to get into and apply right away to your ruby code."}, {"show": "1772772350", "hn_item": 11761850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761850", "by": "okket", "time": 1464100488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While waiting I can recommend this Packet Pushers podcast episode where Geoff Huston takes on IPv6 and the future of the networking: http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/show-275-future-of..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 11768105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768105", "by": "ha8o8le", "time": 1464159596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although he said \"at the end of the day\" every other sentence, and not all of his plans were feasible, it was interesting to hear him on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 11796568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796568", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1464533919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Gastropod Podcast just had a great episode about measuring calories: https://gastropod.com/the-end-of-the-calorie/ \"For most of us, the calorie is just a number on the back of the packet or on the display at the gym. But what is it, exactly? And how did we end up with this one unit with which to measure our food? Is a calorie the same no matter what type of food it comes from? And is one calorie for you exactly the same as one calorie for me? To find out, we visit the special rooms scientists use to measure how many calories we burn, and the labs where researchers are discovering that the "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 11810362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810362", "by": "someguydave", "time": 1464729710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/05/arnold_kling_on_1.h... Arnold Kling's opined on this point (the particular distortion of the US political process) in his interview with Russ Roberts on the EconTalk podcast: Kling: Well, let me make another point before I get back to that. Which is a point I also make in the book. Which is that, it isn't that the political process kind of just makes random errors. I think it actually makes very systematic errors. What it does is it always seems to work in the direction of subsidizing demand for something and restricting supply for that same thing."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11812067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812067", "by": "strictnein", "time": 1464755740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A related 99% Invisible podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/palm-reading/"}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 11813445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813445", "by": "malux85", "time": 1464778999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It depends where you want to go with your career, If you're looking to get just any job, then a CMS is a good idea because it will teach you CRUD, and there's lots of jobs out there that are doing mostly CRUD. If you want to get into Data Engineering / backend engineering job, then write a crawler. Pick a subject, e.g. German music, or Podcasts, or Electronic components, or anything like that, and write a crawler from scratch. Pull the HTML, parse them, store it and build a query dashboard on top of it. Building something like this end-to-end will give you lots of insight into systems engineer"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 11814248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11814248", "by": "apozem", "time": 1464788625, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As fun as the story of Carl Diggler is, his work is statistically insignificant. The podcast Reply All (which you should be listening to) asked a professor who studies the science of predictions whether the Diggler guys are onto something [1]. They are not. The professor wanted some kind of statistically significant proof that they were any better than Paul, the octopus who successfully predicted an astonishingly high number of soccer matches by random chance [2]. Say what you will about 538, but at least they care about not using anecdotal or imagined evidence. At least they're rigorous with "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11816297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816297", "by": "kookster", "time": 1464801868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred) or REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with sim"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 11816297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816297", "by": "kookster", "time": 1464801868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred) or REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with sim"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11816297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816297", "by": "kookster", "time": 1464801868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers | Cambridge, MA (Boston Area) | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred) or REMOTE | http://prx.org At PRX you will find talented, passionate, and thoughtful people who create products that bring millions of listeners to shows created by public radio and podcast producers. We work with top-tier shows like This American Life, The Moth, and 99% Invisible, host the highly successful podcast network Radiotopia, and our own XM radio station. We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, and creative software engineers with a passion for building robust, scalable applications with sim"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 11824646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824646", "by": "ben_jones", "time": 1464890461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was ironically Chris Sacca (Of Twitter and Uber fame) who said in a Bill Simmons podcast in regards to Trump something akin to: \"The American people trust Billionaires implicitly because they are successful and therefore worthy of admiration\". Again not a direct quote and it wasn't said of the context of \"I believe this is true\" but just an observation he had made. I'll take it a step further and say Americans think wealthy and successful people are implicitly better then everybody else even if they received their wealth and success from their parents."}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 11827272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11827272", "by": "the_watcher", "time": 1464912021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Twitter is instantly public and indexed by google. According to Chris Sacca on Bill Simmons podcast, when Twitter gave Google access to the firehouse, 60% of the links on Twitter had never been seen by Google's crawler."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 11830567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11830567", "by": "joshyeager", "time": 1464964849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think your first step is to delegate some of your responsibilities ASAP. If you stop writing code and building estimates (but keep doing code reviews!) and hand off parts of the new hire training, that will free up time for other responsibilities. It will also help the people on your team grow so they can carry even more of the load for you. The Manager Tools podcasts have a lot of very useful advice that I think would help you. I recommend subscribing to their \"Basics\" feed to get started, and then listen to the full feed. http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/basics-rss.xml You can see the"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 11839346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839346", "by": "redditmigrant", "time": 1465093770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in learning more about CRISPR checkout this article - http://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-crispr-... . This podcast by Radiolab also breaks down the idea really well - http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/ . I am currently reading this book - The Gene http://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukhe... to gain a better understanding of what genes are and I have found it to be really well written even for someone who last studied biology over 15 years ago."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 11842672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842672", "by": "Tx3", "time": 1465155249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good point! I used similar categorising as Anders Hejlberg used in the JavaScript Jabber podcast ( https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/209-jsj-typescript-with-anders-... ). For those who don't like audio, he basically referred TypeScript being superset of JavaScript, unlike some other languages."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 11846727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846727", "by": "aexaey", "time": 1465221152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep. Same here. He wasn't nearly as judgmental in The Bugle, while being as funny as ever. [1] [2] [1] http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebuglemp3.rss [2] https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 11850404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850404", "by": "mywittyname", "time": 1465247337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was the subject of a Freakonomics podcast titled, The Perfect Crime. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-a-new-frea..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 11852384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11852384", "by": "djrosent", "time": 1465273397, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11868347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11868347", "by": "studentrob", "time": 1465464773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> When you deal with people for whom perception is more important than facts, you're never going to win by discussing facts. I think you're missing my point about perception. The world runs on perception. When presented with the same facts, even two identical twins may come up with a different conclusion. They each lead different lives. I understand where you're coming from because I used to believe in hard truths too. This is the main point of our disagreement, and it's not worth discussing the details of the situation in Austin further without first agreeing on this point. I know we'll disag"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 11871463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871463", "by": "Arcsech", "time": 1465498198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah - and there's a bunch of great podcasts that I can't really see switching to their own apps exclusively (all of Radiotopia, of which my favorites are 99% Invisible and Criminal, for example, and many independent podcasters), so any podcasts that want me to go through a custom app would have to be truly mindblowingly good."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 11871767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871767", "by": "wj", "time": 1465501270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regarding your point about \"the Netflix or Hulu of podcasts\" it is important to remember that by far the majority of their content is at least a full season old. They are able to secure the rights to it for less than the cost of producing it because the networks are receiving ad dollars the first time around. Most of the podcasts I listen to aren't timely so listening to them a year after they \"air\" isn't a big deal. I'm not sure if I am in the majority there though. My suspicion is that podcasts are going to borrow from the music industry in the form of podcasts being something they give away"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 11872349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872349", "by": "randomname2", "time": 1465506040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obligatory mention for the No Agenda podcast [1], by the \"father of podcasting\" Adam Curry and tech broadcaster John C. Dvorak. They have an interesting model in being 100% listener supported, with no advertisers or sponsors, and yet still managing to make a living off their show, putting out 2 shows every week (today show #832): \"Their funding model is strictly listener supported, and it's working. The premise being that keeping outside influences away from content development gives listeners untainted news, opinion and entertainment... they refer to it as a \"value-for-value\" proposition -- l"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 11872612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872612", "by": "infogulch", "time": 1465508555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'giving \"civilians\" a glimpse inside the creative process' One of my favorite podcasts is Song Exploder. Artists talk about how they create a specific song, including the thought process, context, and history behind specific sounds and segments that make up the song, and then the song is played in full at the end. It covers quite a variety of genres. I don't object to any genre wholesale, but there's only a couple that I really like listening to. But the story and creative process that is broken down in Song Exploder is completely agnostic from the genre it was produced under and is interestin"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 11882275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11882275", "by": "manigandham", "time": 1465624083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Toyota gets a lot of deserved credit for making great products - how they make those products is frequently misunderstood - famously so by Detroit in the '80's. There is an great podcast episode by This American Life about NUMMI, the joint venture between Toyota and GM in 1984. Very well worth the listen: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561/n..."}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 11900230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11900230", "by": "dtornabene", "time": 1465886866, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bugle, a podcast he did with his old partner in the UK, is truly solid as well. Andys pun runs end up being so epic. Super sad the output has stopped now that Oliver has his new show (which is awesome!)."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 11903551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903551", "by": "dionidium", "time": 1465924752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was either on his \"Waking Up\" podcast or during one of his many (very long) appearances on Joe Rogan's show. Sorry, I don't remember which episode."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 11933189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11933189", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1466348398, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 11938803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938803", "by": "bryanlanders", "time": 1466437909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's hard to get feedback on podcasts! This interview show features CEO/Founders of startups like Zapier (YC S12), WayUp (YC W15), Drift, and RadPad. The title is quite literal, the format of the show is intro -> company mission -> company values. For founders: you learn about other company cultures and hear leadership/management advice about lessons learned and ideas you can try out. For employees: you can see what it's like to work inside these startups, or compare/contrast to your current work culture. Hit me with some feedback! I've found it helps if you mention other podcasts you like for"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 11964079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964079", "by": "chrismealy", "time": 1466713920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"In Our Time\" podcast. Works every time."}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 11999508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11999508", "by": "Impossible", "time": 1467174791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some roguelike developers and solo game developers in general are notorious for writing code like this. The developer of Ultima Ratio Regum ( http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/ ) bragged on Roguelike Radio podcast about how his code base is difficult to deal with because it's a 500K LOC single Python file... He claims it's because he doesn't have a CS background but in practice most developers learn these practices in the industry, academic code is also known for being bad. There's definitely a proud ignorance to this style of programming, he knows he should be doing something else but ca"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12003129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003129", "by": "breitling", "time": 1467221237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a great podcast on this recently [1]. It's pretty cool how it works. [1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/22/475339930/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12007595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12007595", "by": "klunger", "time": 1467282024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who prefer audio/podcasts, the Planet Money companion piece covers a lot of the same material: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/29/484029238/episo..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 12011606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011606", "by": "mendelk", "time": 1467320079, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 12011703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12011703", "by": "mcgwiz", "time": 1467320657, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12012128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012128", "by": "unclenoriega", "time": 1467323897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You say you would remember better if you were in that situation, but how do you know? Some evidence[0] suggests that memories are more distorted the more they are remembered, so \"reliving and remembering that day\" may actually make things worse. Note that this may not affect your confidence in the memories. Since we're talking about podcasts, I should mention that there's a Radiolab episode[1] that discusses this. [0] http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/09/your-... [1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91569-memory-and-forgetting/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12012828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012828", "by": "cwills", "time": 1467330784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting. Following serial there was an interview with Jay by The Intercept where he talks about incosistencies in his story, and how lied about some details because he was drug dealing from his grandmothers house and he wanted to protect her from any fallout. https://theintercept.com/2014/12/29/exclusive-interview-jay-... https://theintercept.com/2014/12/30/exclusive-jay-part-2/ I find his response to this question compelling when talking about Sarah Koenig and Serial: \" Was the name \u2018Serial\u2019 ever used? No. Not to my recollection. She kept saying \u2018This American Life,\u2019 \u2018the radio,\u2019 and \u2018a d"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 12013440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12013440", "by": "slackstation", "time": 1467339142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed Serial but, later read critiques of how the Serial podcast was making entertainment out of someone's actual life and another person's actual murder. As much as I enjoy fictional murder in various mediums, it started to turn my stomach a bit. These are real lives. People actually died. It's hard for me to find any kind of entertainment out of the idea that what seemed like a kind, gentle young person was actually murdered. Whether Adnan was actually guilty or not, is a matter of the court and maybe the victim's family. It shouldn't be my entertainment."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12014303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014303", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1467355921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The new podcast More Perfect from Radiolab seems to quite good in this genre as well. It is stories based the US supreme court cases. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 12014303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014303", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1467355921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The new podcast More Perfect from Radiolab seems to quite good in this genre as well. It is stories based the US supreme court cases. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolabmoreperfect"}, {"show": "1029038371", "hn_item": 12014649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014649", "by": "chupy", "time": 1467362683, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I also will act as a recommendation engine and suggest you listen to Detective (the first season is really really good). https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/detective/id1029038371"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 12015910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015910", "by": "macspoofing", "time": 1467380416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">But this raises the fact that someone without any means to speak of is basically screwed. Absolutely. My takeaway from listening to Undisclosed (a follow-up to Serial podcast by Adnan's supporters) is how much of a difference having a team of lawyers and investigators makes to casting doubt on presented evidence. That's why money makes such a huge difference. It's not corruption. It's manpower. There is no way a public defender could devote so much time and research like the Undisclosed team did to, say, present a case against the state's cell tower evidence - and that was only one piece of e"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 12015954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015954", "by": "macspoofing", "time": 1467380810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I enjoyed Serial but, later read critiques of how the Serial podcast was making entertainment out of someone's actual life and another person's actual murder. I don't fault Serial for that because Sarah Koening and the team were very respectful - and there is nothing wrong with telling a crime story. I did find the way people were discussing it online was offputting, for the reasons you stated."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12018600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018600", "by": "I_HALF_CATS", "time": 1467398166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also check out the podcast by \"99% Invisible\" http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12028337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028337", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1467592955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Space alien cats don't need qualifications. Nor do they claim them. As others have noted, Eno's piece is a poor rewrite of I Pencil , itself a poorly reasoned propaganda piece. Crooked Timber has an excellent deconstruction of that: http://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-th... The one at Freakonomics is weaker sauce but also pretty biting: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/ I've pointed to several sources discussing technological unemployment, and more critically the long history of discussion of that topic from 1800 forward in mainstream and heterodox economic, as we"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 12032389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032389", "by": "zackelan", "time": 1467658930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested in this topic, I'd recommend the Lexicon Valley podcast [0] in general, and two episodes in particular. What Does It Mean to Sound Black? [1] featured Columbia professor John McWhorter as a guest, and discussed the \"black accent\" in terms of phonemes as well as AAVE. Rules Are Made to Be Spoken [2] with John McWhorter now guest-hosting, covers \"variationist sociolinguistics\", the study of how linguistic cues are interpreted as a signifier of class and socioeconomic status. 0: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html 1: http://www.slate.com/articles/podca"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 12035725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12035725", "by": "mikeckennedy", "time": 1467719125, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 12039650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039650", "by": "tomkinstinch", "time": 1467753881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kenji's (cook)book, The Food Lab , is also great, though it doesn't include everything he has on the blog. It's also inexpensive enough to make a great random gift for foodie friends, despite being a hefty hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393081087 If you like his stuff, you might also enjoy the Cooking Issues podcast, particularly the earlier episodes. It's a bantercast mixed with food science, cooking call-ins, and random interviews with culinary cognoscenti. The host is the energetic and interesting Dave Arnold, who recently won a James Beard award for his book on cocktails, and w"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 12048924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048924", "by": "djrosent", "time": 1467895476, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 12050794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050794", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1467912453, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1858752858", "hn_item": 12057532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12057532", "by": "danso", "time": 1468001344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Wall Street Journal, and in particular, reporter John Carreyrou, deserve a special callout for launching an investigation while the rest of the press was idle. I was struck by this ProPublica podcast with Carreyrou in which the interviewer, a Pulitzer Prize winner himself, said he and other health reporters had heard grumblings and rumors but don't enough to pursue a closer look. Carreyrou, on the other hand, said he acted on a New Yorker profile (which, IMHO, was fairly well balanced) in which he was curious how the company could keep its technology so obscured. https://www.propublica.org"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 12059441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12059441", "by": "cpymchn", "time": 1468023240, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12067019, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067019", "by": "alextheparrot", "time": 1468180715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you listened to the Freakonomics podcast [1] on this exact question? It was an interesting exploration of \"How to get more grit\". If I remember correctly, many of the episodes around that time period (May of this year) were about getting good at things/self-improvement [2]. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/ [2] http://freakonomics.com/archive/ (Around episode 245)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12067932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12067932", "by": "jswny", "time": 1468195904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics also did a fantastic episode about universal basic income: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mincome/ ."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12068292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068292", "by": "foxylad", "time": 1468200508, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very true - and as well as freeing you from bad jobs, UBI frees you from bad marriages. According to a recent Freakonomics podcast, a trial of UBI in a Canadian town lead to a rise in divorces. It was therefore shut down with extreme prejudice by socially conservative politicians. On the bad job front, I think a UBI could resolve an imbalance that has always perturbed me. When I was travelling, I once got a job in a laundry - I hadn't realised that laundries have dirty and clean ends, and guess where new employees start! It was disgusting, and the only positive was the space everyone gave me o"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12074090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074090", "by": "knucklesandwich", "time": 1468268151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't see how this follows. Not all laws permit use of deadly force. And it's not even the laws per se as much as the circumstances and criteria around authorization of deadly force. I've been trying to learn about this lately, and it seems as though the supreme court case Graham v. Connor [1] is heavily implicated in the fact that very few of these police are convicted despite how objectionable the circumstances have seemed. As a side note, if you're interested in this type of thing, Radiolab has just started an excellent podcast on supreme court cases called More Perfect [2]. [1] https://e"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 12074090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074090", "by": "knucklesandwich", "time": 1468268151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't see how this follows. Not all laws permit use of deadly force. And it's not even the laws per se as much as the circumstances and criteria around authorization of deadly force. I've been trying to learn about this lately, and it seems as though the supreme court case Graham v. Connor [1] is heavily implicated in the fact that very few of these police are convicted despite how objectionable the circumstances have seemed. As a side note, if you're interested in this type of thing, Radiolab has just started an excellent podcast on supreme court cases called More Perfect [2]. [1] https://e"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 12074187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074187", "by": "amsilprotag", "time": 1468268750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast is doing a three-part series critiquing the state of American education and its effect on social mobility. The first part (released last week) gives a personal perspective of a child who passes on an opportunity for social advancement to instead provide family support. As far as I understand it, the next parts are looking at the incentives that that shape college budgets. Part 1: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12081168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081168", "by": "lost_my_pwd", "time": 1468346959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Radiolab podcast [0] about the revival of a 1000 year old antibiotic from an old medical text. Towards the end they discuss theories as to why something that appears to be tremendously effective was somehow lost to time and one likely explanation is this \"shelving\" effect. [0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 12084836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12084836", "by": "tjl", "time": 1468399837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best source I know of on early iPhone is the Nitin Ganatra episodes of the Debug Podcast [0]. He was in charge of the early iOS apps from before the iPhone shipped so he talked about those days. Those podcasts and the ones he did with Don Melton (former head of Safari team at Apple) are all excellent for getting insight into behind the scenes at Apple. [0] http://www.imore.com/debug"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 12095437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095437", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1468515285, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought this was going to go in a different direction based on HubSpot's ads they run in the \"Embedded\" podcast: in those, they say they want to get back to the story, too, and that's the extent of the messaging. I appreciate it, and it obviously worked fine for brand recognition, even if I couldn't have told you what they do for a living."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12096990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096990", "by": "peterjlee", "time": 1468528699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in knowing how banking works between banks, Planet Money had a podcast on it few years ago. Apparently bankers met at a parking lot in New York and traded bags of paper checks back in the days. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo..."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 12104506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12104506", "by": "tedmiston", "time": 1468626049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quiver looks neat. If you're searching for something plain and simple, keeping a repo of Markdown files on GitHub has worked well for me. I make one file for each book / article / lecture. The material I cover is mostly about tech or entrepreneurship. https://github.com/tedmiston/notes Here are a couple of the most complete pages in it: - Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Show%20... - Zero to One by Peter Thiel - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Zero%20... - Startup School Radio #35: Paul Graham - https://github.com/tedmi"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 12104717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12104717", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1468630631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe that case was covered in the most recent episode of the podcast \"More Perfect\", from the makers of RadioLab: http://www.wnyc.org/story/giggly-blue-robot"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12107059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12107059", "by": "janvdberg", "time": 1468689228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast recently had 2 interesting episodes about exactly this. Both Ericsson and Gladwell explain their theories. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/malcolm-gladwell/"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 12107352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12107352", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1468693667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[2011] Hanselminutes Podcast 270 - Nancy, Sinatra and the Explosion of .NET Micro Web Frameworks with Andreas H\u00e5kansson: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HanselminutesPodcast270NancySi..."}, {"show": "1347626043", "hn_item": 12110961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12110961", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1468777537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This podcast talks about scaling Second Life which has a strong geographic component: http://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-141-second-life-and-... My naive intuition is that sharding on two or more axes with some denormalization makes sense: e.g. sharding on both geospatial location and information layers. Infrequently modified elements that overlap several geospatial regions could be stored alongside each. This implies eventual consistency and high availability. On the other hand, some elements might need higher consistency and therefore have lower availability. Which is to say that the pr"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 12112651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12112651", "by": "jimmcslim", "time": 1468802786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of Scott Hanselman's podcast covered Orleans in an interview with Richard Astbury. http://hanselminutes.com/536/exploring-the-orleans-distribut..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12130014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130014", "by": "kens", "time": 1469030133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To add to your comment on the transience of historical buildings, the Ise Jingu shrine gets torn down and rebuilt every 20 years, and this has been happening for 1300 years! http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-japanese-shrin... Also, according to Freakonomics, Japanese houses are \"disposable\", commonly torn down and rebuilt. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 12154421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154421", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1469388073, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 12154525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154525", "by": "kleer001", "time": 1469389658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Book? I got nuthin'. Podcast however, there's \"Writing Excuses\". I've been listening for years. Totally amazing depth and breadth, hundreds of episodes covering all aspects of storytelling and authorship."}, {"show": "1106971805", "hn_item": 12172086, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12172086", "by": "wesreisz", "time": 1469621120, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 12180793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180793", "by": "cpymchn", "time": 1469719517, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 12189695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12189695", "by": "halostatue", "time": 1469823803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elm also, according to a Changelog podcast I just heard, does not allow releasing below version 1.0."}, {"show": "1553180943", "hn_item": 12189928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12189928", "by": "Another223", "time": 1469825747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to these, Value Investing Podcast (John Mihaljevic) would be my top pick. The host can be slow so I tend to listen on 1.5x speed but the interviews are often fascinating. InvestTalk I find more mixed but generally pretty solid round-up, usually gives me ideas for follow-up reading Similar with The Investors Podcast, good introduction to some interesting people LSE has some public lectures, also fairly broad range of topics ( http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub... )"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12189963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12189963", "by": "timblair", "time": 1469826115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vaguely related: there's a great episode of the 99% Invisible podcast [1] about how two specific ice cream truck jingles are used to help deal with Taipei dealing with trash disposal. [1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/separation-anxiety/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12201787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201787", "by": "Meegul", "time": 1470054087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics made a good podcast with the author of this book regarding this topic [1]. I can't say I agree with it, but it's an interesting listen nonetheless. [1]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/american-growth/"}, {"show": "918963927", "hn_item": 12208397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208397", "by": "tilt", "time": 1470124250, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 12210079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12210079", "by": "wscott", "time": 1470147421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very interesting post. Note that the New Rustacean podcast did an interview with the author of this post, Raph Levien. That was very interesting and he did touch on this program. http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/interview/_2/index.ht... I believe it should be possible to have rust compile to a library that could be called from a normal C program."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 12210169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12210169", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1470148032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Raph really, really knows his stuff. His interview on the New Rustacean podcast starts with a summary of his background: Gimp, Ghostview, android font rendering."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 12213324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213324", "by": "ralfd", "time": 1470171350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of that, what is the GTD system? On the 'Hello Internet' it is a running joke that GCP Grey swears on it and his podcast-partner finds the system a triviality."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 12214185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214185", "by": "Kuiper", "time": 1470179944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Write about Dragons\" is a video recording of one of the writing classes titled \"Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy\" that Brandon Sanderson teaches at BYU. He teaches the class every year, and frequently updates it with new material, and most of the lectures are online (spread across myriad Youtube channels). Here are several of the others: * 2014 class lectures (via BYU English dept): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRO9W1Nmh6clZP-IAhMeM... * 2016 class lectures (via Camera Panda): http://brandonsanderson.com/2016-sanderson-lectures/ He also delivered lectures at JordanCon in 2010 and"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12216459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216459", "by": "brodo", "time": 1470212363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any change to the bargaining process will not fix the gender pay gap, as it is no significant factor. There is an excellent Freakonomics episode about it: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender..."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 12216580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216580", "by": "ricree", "time": 1470214164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of Sanderson, the podcast he cohosts - Writing Excuses - is well worth a listen. http://writingexcuses.com/"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 12224835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12224835", "by": "anthelios", "time": 1470310830, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12249760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12249760", "by": "HeyLaughingBoy", "time": 1470680186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A 99% Invisible podcast, The Devil's Rope , discusses this. As a result of already having barbed wire run all over the West to control Texas Longhorn cattle, it was far easier to provide phone service using it, than it was to run new cable. So farmers ended up being the most wired group of people in the late 19th, early 20th century."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 12251582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251582", "by": "iamjeff", "time": 1470699932, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12265716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12265716", "by": "arjunnarayan", "time": 1470877189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There should be, and the best candidate term is \"Children of the Magenta\", a term describing pilots who are too dependent on the Magenta lines on their instrumentation. 99% Invisible did a good podcast episode on this a year ago: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent... Their follow-up podcast episode talks explicitly about this problem (first seriously discussed in the context of airplane automation) becoming important in the context of self-driving cars, and how Google is very aware of this (hence Google's push for 100% automated cars, since the middle valley is so dan"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 12275253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12275253", "by": "jaynos", "time": 1471007131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Similar situation near Atlanta, Georgia (not the center of the US) was discussed earlier this year [1]. Reply All had a good podcast about figuring out the real issue [2] in this case. [1] http://fusion.net/story/214995/find-my-phone-apps-lead-to-wr... [2] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 12285004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285004", "by": "fractalsea", "time": 1471167738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This startup was created to solve just this problem: https://nugget.one One of the founders is the host of the Techzing podcast http://techzinglive.com . You can hear some of the background on Nugget if you listen to the more recent episodes."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 12292585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12292585", "by": "Analemma_", "time": 1471287342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want more context to this, there's a lot more in the most recent ATP podcast (with timestamp link included in the article). Which kind of highlights a problem that I think is only going to grow over time - the general greatness of podcasts has one big black spot in that they're tough to share. I've seen so many discussions recently where there was awesome additional context or info in a recent podcast, but it was tough to share it with people in a format where they'd actually consume it. Whereas, if it had been in a blog, sharing would've been easy. Marco has the right idea with these t"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 12300219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300219", "by": "pavel_lishin", "time": 1471377771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not always. I've stopped listening to Marc Maron's podcast because the last one I listened to started off with a 20 minute monologue about his cat. 99% Invisible used to always end the podcast with a quote from his kid about something; maybe it still does, but once the \"main show\" is over, I just skip to the end and mark it as read."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12300219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300219", "by": "pavel_lishin", "time": 1471377771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not always. I've stopped listening to Marc Maron's podcast because the last one I listened to started off with a 20 minute monologue about his cat. 99% Invisible used to always end the podcast with a quote from his kid about something; maybe it still does, but once the \"main show\" is over, I just skip to the end and mark it as read."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12303403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12303403", "by": "cricalix", "time": 1471426624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had a podcast on a similar theme, and referred to \"I, Pencil\". Was quite interesting. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12310567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12310567", "by": "T2_t2", "time": 1471497968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why remove downvoting directly? I'm not against the idea, I just want to understand the thinking. I wonder if the problem is the binary nature of so many things. 5 star/1 star reviews are the most common, we have up and down votes, but no real context for that. I wonder if the problem that needs to be solved isn't context, rather than directional. This is me spitballing, so feel free to IGNORE everything below. I was listening to the Freakonomics podcast on proper voting (e.g. elections) the other day - this one: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/idea-must-die-election-editi... - and there was a"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 12317790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317790", "by": "refurb", "time": 1471576882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember listening to an EconTalk podcast (highly recommended!) after the quantitative easing started. Very interesting. Typically lowering interest rates pushes inflation higher. When your economy is sluggish, that's a good thing, but once it picks up steam, it can cause runaway inflation. The challenge raised is that there is a delay in the response of the economy. Usually interest rates aren't increased dramatically until inflation is already underway. Otherwise, if you raise rates when the economy is only doing \"a little\" better, you risk squashing the growth. So what happens is that inf"}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 12319532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319532", "by": "ctrijueque", "time": 1471609637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was a guest in this monday WTF Podcast: \"...With a new documentary about the internet on his mind, the legendary filmmaker talks with Marc about the achievements and follies of humanity. ...\" http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-733-werner-herzog-godf... And his book A Guide for the Perplexed worth a read."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 12319960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319960", "by": "bostik", "time": 1471614778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, this tool brings up the question: did NSA discover and exploit Heartbleed years ago? That is not a conspiracy theory, btw. A few weeks back, H.D. Moore of Rapid7/Metasploit fame was on the Risky Business podcast. The topic of the week was bug bounty programs, and in particular the larger programs that aggregate individual vendors under a common umbrella - and notably a common set of guidelines. Moore mentioned that a recurring theme is that when researchers discover a new trick, they will the proceed to apply that trick to every possible vendor on the bounty program, netting 2-3k fro"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12329601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12329601", "by": "flanbiscuit", "time": 1471758650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> By this logic the industrial revolution shouldn't have happened (or at least it should have happened more slowly). I was just going to mention the same thing. There was a good Freakonomics podcast episode* about this very subject. Audio: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-safe-is-your-job-a-new-f... Transcript: http://freakonomics.com/2015/01/29/how-safe-is-your-job-full..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12331296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331296", "by": "stephengoodwin", "time": 1471794293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're looking for something new to listen to, 99% Invisible is also a fantastic podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12331808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12331808", "by": "jdminhbg", "time": 1471801160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently read an article that said that most podcasts don't use VBR encoding for MP3s because there are some players that don't handle it correctly; maybe 99% Invisible does and your car system is crashing because of it?"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 12335942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12335942", "by": "csl", "time": 1471870322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't heard it already, there is a really good and candid podcast interview with Pieter Hintjens over at Software Engineering Daily: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/06/23/death-distrib..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 12341972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341972", "by": "nstj", "time": 1471937106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the security podcast \"Risky Business\" which profiles the featured security researcher in this article[0] [0]: http://risky.biz/RB406"}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 12344851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12344851", "by": "kpwagner", "time": 1471968666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sergey Brin made a statement regarding global warming: something like, \"I'm not worried about it. We can put solar-powered carbon scrubbers in the deserts of the world and essentially fix the problem with an investment in the tens of billions (relatively small).\" I forget where I heard this and wasn't able to dig up a source. I think it was a Jason Calacanis podcast or video of an interview. Either way it was secondary information. Bad sourcing, I know--sorry. I agree with many who suggest reducing consumption is a risky gambit at best. How practical are counter-measures? Can we just geo-engin"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 12354029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12354029", "by": "mwsherman", "time": 1472062341, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 12357628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12357628", "by": "thomasdub", "time": 1472114207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a fantastic Lexicon Valley podcast episode about this [0] which draws on most of the same evidence. It also dicusses whether the word \"Dude\" my have been popularised from the same song. Definitely worth checking out! [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2014/0..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 12361415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12361415", "by": "gcoda", "time": 1472150931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "when someone lecturing about evolutionary biological differences in \"progressive\" universities nobody listens and constantly interrupted by triggered liberals. And same guy with same lecture in more technical or business oriented university will educate more people, on how to exploit evolution to gain more profit. Some people will gain knowledge and profit from it while some will get triggered. I heard about experiences like this before, but this one is form Gad Saad on Joe Rogan podcast. https://youtu.be/TjBgeuTvnnk?t=1h36m9s"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 12363766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12363766", "by": "sn9", "time": 1472175030, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This author's experience is extremely similar to the subject of the latter half of the first episode of NPR's Invisibilia podcast. Anyone interested is highly recommended to give it a listen."}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 12364169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364169", "by": "mrjaeger", "time": 1472184320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really great episode of Linear Digressions[0] (a Data Science podcast) that goes into the different scales of data that exist in the world. Everyone thinks of Google and Facebook as Big Data, but the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder collects 7.5B TB of data per second! [0]: https://soundcloud.com/linear-digressions/whats-the-biggest-..."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 12367092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12367092", "by": "dwaxe", "time": 1472226973, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 12376768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376768", "by": "throwanem", "time": 1472396438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside, if you're interested in history and you don't yet follow Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, you're really missing out. He's great at finding sources, his historiography is sound and just heterodox enough to be appealing, and the man can tell a story like nobody's business - definitely worth the time of anyone with an interest in the subject."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12382630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382630", "by": "chadgeidel", "time": 1472485329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oil is in everything. Transportation of course, but it's in our clothes, our houses, computers, our food (fertilizer for example), etc. It's very difficult to point to something that oil ISN'T in (here in the US). I'm sure I'll get responses which do. NPR Planet Money recently did a series of podcasts about oil - it was pretty good. #4 was the episode where they talked a bit about what oil goes into: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/19/490408060/oil-4..."}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 12387333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12387333", "by": "doppp", "time": 1472527980, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 12392843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12392843", "by": "user202020", "time": 1472583313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obviously corporations exist to make money. I'm not saying that. I do say that it is within an organization's interest to communicate authenticity. Not the illusion of authenticity (though that does benefit the bottom line too,) but legitimate authenticity. When I think of an ad that has someone I trust talking about a product they love or trust even though they were paid to like it, I think of podcast ads. Some of the podcasts I listen to; Hello Internet, Cortex, or ATP; been a fine experiences even with the ads because it didn't feel like a dishonest recommendation. I know they're getting pa"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12398420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398420", "by": "cushychicken", "time": 1472652768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: if anyone hasn't listened to the first season of Gimlet's \"Startup\" yet, it's excellent. Former host of NPR's \"Planet Money\" records all the hard parts of starting his own podcast production company. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/1-how-not-to-pitch-a-billion... I liked season one more than season two because I felt that the Dating Ring founders were a little more guarded about their vulnerabilities and shortcomings, whereas Alex laid it all on the line. (YMMV on this opinion.)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 12399847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12399847", "by": "danpalmer", "time": 1472663535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Instapaper did not have a developer product that I'm aware of. It was a one-man product run by Marco Arment, and as I understand it, a successful one, but not successful enough to start employing a team of any real size. It made most of its money through app purchases as the app was never free, and a small amount through subscriptions for a full text search feature that sold to a small group of the most active users. I may be wrong on this, happy to be corrected. I'm going mostly off what Marco has said on his podcasts \"Build & Analyze\" and now \"The Accidental Tech Podcast\", which I have liste"}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 12404439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12404439", "by": "kylejordan", "time": 1472729816, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 12407201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12407201", "by": "kareemm", "time": 1472750869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good q, thanks Shorrock. > What do you understand about the business that the seller doesn't that makes this seem worth while? We were guessing that the seller was getting too busy running his day job at Drip to devote enough time to Codetree. It seemed reasonable because we'd been following Drip via Rob Walling's podcast and blog for years and Drip sounded like it was doing well. We'd been in a similar spot with a previous business we sold. A seller may want to sell for a variety of reason, not just because the business is destined for failure. But broadly, we think the PM market is huge, Git"}, {"show": "1149475096", "hn_item": 12412176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12412176", "by": "maxkaplun", "time": 1472814338, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12415285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415285", "by": "mywittyname", "time": 1472842215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe this is to not draw attention to the property. There was a Planet Money podcast a while ago about how high-end real estate is being used by foreigners to launder money. If the FBI catches wind, they have tools to seize the property and remunerate the proceeds. I'm guessing that renting the property means involving the IRS and potentially their foreign counterparts in the person's home country, both of which could increase the likelihood of getting caught."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12419952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12419952", "by": "hiphipjorge", "time": 1472922396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money is definitely one of the best podcasts out there. Everyone should give them a listen!"}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 12420375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420375", "by": "endswapper", "time": 1472927121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is the community. Everything else described in the other comments is a function of one of the communities. This is a worthwhile question and an important point for anyone who participates in the community. It's most likely relevant to your professional life, whether you are working on a startup, at one, or you are just interested. The better, question, or perhaps, just the follow up, is, \"How does HN cultivate its community and how does it engineer for desired results.\" For me, I learned about Y Combinator through the \"How to Start a Startup\" podcast. I listened while I was developing. I le"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12424752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12424752", "by": "billhathaway", "time": 1473002231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Norway is handling their oil wealth pretty responsibly and have a huge (U.S. $873 billion) government fund based on petroleum profits[0]. This American Life ran a podcast segment on it back in 2011 which was interesting[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... [1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/08/26/139972557/the-f..."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 12449142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12449142", "by": "wamsachel", "time": 1473293393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Media had a podcast that talked about this: http://www.wnyc.org/story/challenge-fighting-terrorism-onlin... Essentially experts agree that this will do next to nothing to stop individuals from radicalizing. However, I bet that this program will prove to be a useful propaganda tool to be used on everyone else though."}, {"show": "1052573447", "hn_item": 12449872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12449872", "by": "mangeletti", "time": 1473302588, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Firstly, great article. Secondly, this guy is so hilarious. I clicked to his podcast (where he reads Wikipedia pages) at the bottom and listened to this hilarious episode https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/david-reads-wikipedia/id... . His specific style of sarcastic humor (just like the article - is there a name for this style of humor btw?) is rare and hilarious."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 12465440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12465440", "by": "smacktoward", "time": 1473450018, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 12477165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477165", "by": "setra", "time": 1473654036, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 12480146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480146", "by": "devmgr", "time": 1473691970, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a software engineer that's moved into the management role in the last few years. For the most part, it's been a great transition and my teams are running well. I've got 3 teams with a total of 14 people in multiple offices. We're working on interesting projects, profitable and growing, and for the most part, I really enjoy my work. However, I don't think that's necessarily due to me knowing what I'm doing. I think it's mainly due to having good people on my teams and good organizational support. I have found all sorts of management training online. I've listened to things like the Manager "}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 12480400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480400", "by": "stigi", "time": 1473693377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also very good on that topic by the always glorious Stuff You Should Know: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/operation-minceme..."}, {"show": "1149475096", "hn_item": 12507948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12507948", "by": "maxkaplun", "time": 1473959914, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 12514016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514016", "by": "talideon", "time": 1474034409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> As soon as you are diagnosed you are excused. Not excused, but allowances made. Unless somebody is an actual danger to others, if they exhibit some behaviour they have little or no conscious control over (such as is the case in schizophrenia, Tourette's, &c.), then they deserve at least some leeway. If it's possible for you to consciously work towards controlling such behaviour, then they deserve some leeway, just not as much. But regular assholes don't get a free pass in my book, though. Terry Davis has delusions he can't do much about, and that makes him different from somebody not dealing"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 12515985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12515985", "by": "justsorneguy", "time": 1474049304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, and there are some good podcasts, too. Like Risky Business, 7 minute security, Liquidmatrix, Security now... 7 minute security just had a decent series on how to set up a DIY $500 pentesting lab, for example ( https://vimeo.com/179271256 ). Finding some famous pentesters to follow on Twitter can't hurt, either."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 12526379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12526379", "by": "nxrabl", "time": 1474222630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn't about seating exactly, but on the topic of grouping, I remember hearing about one particularly stark example from Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. During the French Revolution, at one point the National Assembly moved, along with the King, from Versailles to Paris, and immediately became much more partisan and radical. Previously, when the delegates had arrived in Versailles, they had found living space with other delegates from their region of France; after the move to Paris, the party lines had been drawn and delegates moved in with their political allies instead. As an aside, t"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 12527163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527163", "by": "techwizrd", "time": 1474232000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What about using Apache Beam[0] for an abstracting over these stream processing frameworks? In a recent Software Engineering Daily podcast[1], Frances Perry recommends using Flink for the data flow model. 0: http://beam.incubator.apache.org/ 1: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/08/19/apache-beam-w..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12543963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12543963", "by": "internaut", "time": 1474410843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblacktapespodcast.com Especially Noteworthy: Our Fair City | my favorite, a work of ge"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12543963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12543963", "by": "internaut", "time": 1474410843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblacktapespodcast.com Especially Noteworthy: Our Fair City | my favorite, a work of ge"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 12543963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12543963", "by": "internaut", "time": 1474410843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblacktapespodcast.com Especially Noteworthy: Our Fair City | my favorite, a work of ge"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 12546358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12546358", "by": "reitoei", "time": 1474446367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to podcasts. It completely cured my inability to get to sleep. In fact, there are podcasts aimed directly at people like you (and me): http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/ Some other 'sleep favourites' of mine would be Skeptoid, Lore, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, 99% invisible. Give it a try. I use the Stitcher app and set the timer to turn off streaming at the end of an episode. I'm usually asleep within 10-15 minutes or listening. Edit: Also try f.lux on your computer and Twilight on your phone. They work for me, but I'm more than willing to accept that the effects my be purely"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 12546358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12546358", "by": "reitoei", "time": 1474446367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to podcasts. It completely cured my inability to get to sleep. In fact, there are podcasts aimed directly at people like you (and me): http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/ Some other 'sleep favourites' of mine would be Skeptoid, Lore, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, 99% invisible. Give it a try. I use the Stitcher app and set the timer to turn off streaming at the end of an episode. I'm usually asleep within 10-15 minutes or listening. Edit: Also try f.lux on your computer and Twilight on your phone. They work for me, but I'm more than willing to accept that the effects my be purely"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 12550959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12550959", "by": "TrevorJ", "time": 1474482907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to some history podcasts in bed with my eyes closed. The podcast app I use (podcast addict) has a timer feature so I set it to 15 or 20 minutes and by the time the podcast stops I'm ready to sleep. I also know a lot more history than I used to :) I recommend: The History of Rome by Mike Duncan Revolutions (also by Mike) The History of Philosophy without any Gaps The British History Podcast"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 12550959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12550959", "by": "TrevorJ", "time": 1474482907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to some history podcasts in bed with my eyes closed. The podcast app I use (podcast addict) has a timer feature so I set it to 15 or 20 minutes and by the time the podcast stops I'm ready to sleep. I also know a lot more history than I used to :) I recommend: The History of Rome by Mike Duncan Revolutions (also by Mike) The History of Philosophy without any Gaps The British History Podcast"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 12550959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12550959", "by": "TrevorJ", "time": 1474482907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to some history podcasts in bed with my eyes closed. The podcast app I use (podcast addict) has a timer feature so I set it to 15 or 20 minutes and by the time the podcast stops I'm ready to sleep. I also know a lot more history than I used to :) I recommend: The History of Rome by Mike Duncan Revolutions (also by Mike) The History of Philosophy without any Gaps The British History Podcast"}, {"show": "1796964076", "hn_item": 12556611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556611", "by": "kkirsche", "time": 1474550464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I work in information security but love new technologies like kubernetes and unikernels * Brakeing Down Security * Google Cloud Podcast * Defensive Security * Down the Security Rabbit Hole * The Skeptics Guide to the Universe * TrustedSec Security"}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 12556611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556611", "by": "kkirsche", "time": 1474550464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I work in information security but love new technologies like kubernetes and unikernels * Brakeing Down Security * Google Cloud Podcast * Defensive Security * Down the Security Rabbit Hole * The Skeptics Guide to the Universe * TrustedSec Security"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 12557723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557723", "by": "selectodude", "time": 1474559620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rogan's podcast is absolutely perfect background listening."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 12557769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557769", "by": "btreesOfSpring", "time": 1474559944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> someone mentioned that if you think of our digestive system as a tube connecting two holes in the body then everything inside of our stomach is external. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure this was said somewhere in the Chris Kresser, Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode #842.[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_2vNj8pshY"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 12562022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12562022", "by": "bbayles", "time": 1474599633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read Dubner and Levitt's Freakonomics in 2005. It's lame to say that a pop-science book changed my life, but since then I've thought about economics every day. I would recommend some pop-econ to become familiar with a stylized version of how economists think. I'd recommend Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist Strikes Back and The Logic of Life and Robert Frank's The Economic Naturalist . (Dubner's and Levitt's books are entertaining, but I wouldn't try to learn much about economics from them) The world of professional economists has been fascinating to watch over the last 10 years, as acad"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 12562413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12562413", "by": "shmulkey18", "time": 1474606555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A brief but profound paper: The Use of Knowledge in Society by Hayek ( http://home.uchicago.edu/~vlima/courses/econ200/spring01/hay... ). As others have said, the EconTalk podcast is excellent."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12564511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12564511", "by": "oli5679", "time": 1474638219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, I think the best econ and finance journalists are more captivating than a textbook. I'd recommend Matt Levine, Tim Hartford, anything in the Economist magazine Paul Krugman's early essays (before he became a political columnist) as well as the Freakonomics and econtalk podcasts as a general introduction."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 12584395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584395", "by": "616c", "time": 1474914899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe this was discussed a while back by Scott Hunter in his interview on the .NET Rocks Podcast, who is the PM of all the .NET Platform. He explains, almost apologetically, what all this entails. Needless to say this is not news. I do not follow .NET that much until Core meant Linux, so I listen to things like this. http://dotnetrocks.com/?show=1291 (I apologize in advance for anyone who uses JS blocking like me; open it in your other YOLO browser if you know what's good for you; the .NET Rocks team loves Angular a little too much.)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12586912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12586912", "by": "sien", "time": 1474938720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NPR Podcast Planet Money did a really good episode on this: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/24/426017148/episo... Fun points - Keynes was a rich man who didn't have to work but who effectively worked himself to death. The descendants of his siblings work heaps despite also being fairly well off as well."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 12598847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12598847", "by": "rotwoof", "time": 1475078998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first started learning about keto on reddit - reddit.com/r/keto (although I initinally learned about it elsewhere) In the sidebar on the right there are two very useful sections labeled \"useful links\" and \"related subs\". I personally recommend the ketoscience, ketogains and ketorecipes subreddits depending on your goals. I guess I can't leave out ketoxx either if you're a girl. In addition to that I recommend reading anything written by Dom D'Agostino who is widely considered the #1 authority on the ketogenic diet. Also read Mark Sisson's books. And finally I recommend Joe Rogan Podcast Ep. "}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 12601347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12601347", "by": "finnh", "time": 1475096530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Invisibilia\" podcast devoted an episode to discussing Geel: http://www.wnyc.org/story/invisibilia-problem-solution/ Some great interviews in there, IIRC."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 12614228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614228", "by": "alexbeloi", "time": 1475259766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an internet marketing manager on a podcast I listened to once that said the number of people using adblockers on the internet is essentially negligible, it's in the millions but a small percentage of all users ( edit: the Podcast was Talking Machines (about machine learning) http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 12614258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614258", "by": "definiv", "time": 1475259974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily does a good job of exploring both technical and human issues. The Changelog is a great podcast for the open source community."}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 12614281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614281", "by": "OJFord", "time": 1475260150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bike Shed [0] is great, I think it started as a ThoughtBot podcast, but one of the two regular hosts - Sean Griffin [1] - has since left for Shopify. I think it's great because although dominated by Ruby (Griffin is a committer on Rails, and I gather it's ThoughtBot's main language) the discussion is typically applicable to other languages, or focuses on a human element. I don't think I've ever written a line of Ruby, and I enjoy it. There's also some Haskell discussion and more recently a lot of Rust - Griffin having created the Diesel ORM [2]. The format's great though, and as a conseque"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 12614292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614292", "by": "csixty4", "time": 1475260213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start by plugging my own podcast, \"The Holistic Developer\" ( http://theholisticdeveloper.podbean.com/ ). It hasn't been coming out very regularly since my son was born but I do my best to put out ~5 minute episodes every couple weeks. Developer Tea is along the same lines, straddling between technical topics & career development. Soft Skills Engineering is entirely focused on, well, soft skills. Leader.team is just getting started but they seem to be a good resource for technical leads & managers. JavaScript Jabber has great interviews. and it's not a technical podcast, but Creating Disne"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 12614306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614306", "by": "williamgb", "time": 1475260324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Radio[0] is a useful resource for in-depth discussions on software and development practices. Developer on Fire[1] tends to feature more personal interviews with software developers. Software Engineering Daily[2] produces episodes at a similar rate to the previous podcast but discussion tends to be product-oriented. Coder Radio[3] can be good fun sometimes. The hosts can sometimes be a bit over the top. [0] http://www.se-radio.net/ [1] http://developeronfire.com/ [2] http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ [3] http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coderradio/"}, {"show": "538007855", "hn_item": 12614898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12614898", "by": "charlesism", "time": 1475265680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Edge Cases \"A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development by Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch.\" http://edgecasesshow.com My favorite podcast because the hosts (a) are highly talented developers (b) did careful research for each episode (c) chose common Apple programming challenges as the topic for each episode. Sadly, it died last year, and I've found nothing out there to fill its void."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 12615020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12615020", "by": "rgreasons", "time": 1475266538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all of these are \"software engineering,\" but many of them often tie to the soft skills side of things or general development rigor. Regular listens - shows to which I subscribe, in rough order of how excited I am to see them show up in my podcast app: Not So Standard Deviations [0] Immutable [1] ShopTalk [2] Talk Python to Me [3] The Versioning Show [4] Data Skeptic [5] Occasional listens - not subscribed but regularly check for interesting guests: Data Stories [6] Partially Derivative [7] I tried Software Engineering Daily last year and wasn't a big fan - based on the following here I'll "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 12619470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12619470", "by": "gerosa", "time": 1475349908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a huge fan of Security Now podcast: https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm . It's not a software engineering podcast per se but it gives detailed explanations of security breaches found in software. So I recommend y'all check it out."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 12619772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12619772", "by": "izacus", "time": 1475354312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looking for reason, logic or restraint in lawnmowers[1] demanding utter, total and complete control and submission to their DRM demands is rather futile. In all my time in the digital broadcasting industry, there was no logic or thought given from legal teams demand complete prevention of any kind of recording or usage beyond extremely draconian DRM terms. At the ISP/IPTV provider I worked with, at no point noone stopped and thought about how these provisions affect the users. DRM was demanded by content providers (or you didn't have content) and every year the demands for more control, spywar"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 12620684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12620684", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1475371940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found the Hanselminutes Podcast on OpenAPS exceptionally informative: http://hanselminutes.com/514/the-open-artificial-pancreas-sy..."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 12627580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627580", "by": "djsmith42", "time": 1475504396, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12629571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12629571", "by": "sulam", "time": 1475516517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Think what you will about Uber and AirBnb (I happen to dislike Uber as a tech employer) -- they are certainly offering real growth. I have used Uber (and Lyft) and Airbnb (and VRBO/HomeAway) to do things that I otherwise wouldn't have done. In other words, rides I wouldn't have called a taxi for, and trips I wouldn't have taken because I find the typical hotel experience to be more trouble than it's worth with two small children. I think you should also consider the utilization side of things -- people are getting value out of a depreciating asset that would otherwise be unutilized. Simply fro"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 12631345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631345", "by": "metafunctor", "time": 1475528970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're an engineer looking to try bootstrapping a business (as opposed to going the venture capital route), try the \u201cStartups For the Rest of Us\u201d podcast. Start from the beginning. Or startupbook.net for mostly the same content in book form. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Traction by Gabriel Weinberg."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 12631641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631641", "by": "metafunctor", "time": 1475531394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, thanks for the pointer! Doesn't look like it's a business podcast at all (but a \u201chow to pick up chicks\u201d podcast?), but maybe I'll check an episode or two. Back when Startups For the Rest of Us was new, I found it to be a pretty good value/minute compared to other podcasts I could find at the time (2010). The episodes start with a useless 5 minutes of chit-chat, but the other 15 minutes was pretty solid."}, {"show": "383084001", "hn_item": 12633552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12633552", "by": "fuqted", "time": 1475560454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You like Art of Charm but don't like random chit chat? Makes no sense from what I've heard of them. Anyway, I've listened to more than enough Lifestyle Biz / General Entrepreneurial stuff. TropicalMBA.com and EmpireFlippers.com are my favorites (newer TMBA is going a little downhill. They've sold their business and are kind of figuring out what to do at this point). There's also the Smart Passive Income podcast (SPI). Nathan Barry (on his self named site) has a few good podcasts as well. He started an email marketing software biz that began out of a blog challenge a few years back. Also, I've "}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 12639389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12639389", "by": "sqs", "time": 1475614463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep! For other folks, the Changelog podcast about Sourcegraph is at https://changelog.com/gotime-12/ . > Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow."}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 12643256, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643256", "by": "tclancy", "time": 1475671132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks, I just discovered Octavia Butler last month via the \"Imaginary Worlds\" podcast - http://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/legacy-of-octavia-butl..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 12643519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643519", "by": "bryanwbh", "time": 1475673465, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got to know Pieter, as I was listening The ChangeLog's podcast and his sharing was amazing. Thank you Pieter and rest in peace."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 12644611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12644611", "by": "robocaptain", "time": 1475681042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who is a fan of Cathy and wants to hear more, she is a co-host on the Slate Money podcast[0] (along with the amazing Felix Salmon) which covers a lot of these topics. Although not ONLY these types of topics, I should say. It's a great nerdy finance podcast. [0] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slate_money.html"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12647826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12647826", "by": "TheMagicHorsey", "time": 1475701243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to this podcast by the NPR Planet Money guy's Gimlet Media: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-organic-food/"}, {"show": "1161950812", "hn_item": 12655234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12655234", "by": "reubenswartz", "time": 1475781371, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 12661324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12661324", "by": "ethbro", "time": 1475853620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm all for getting case law in the record for calling a spade a spade in situations like this. The US has laws against age and other discrimination. The 'More Perfect' podcast had a great episode about Batson, jury selection, and racially motivated peremptory challenge that speaks to the same points (though sadly, still unresolved in our justice system). See http://www.wnyc.org/story/object-anyway/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batson_v._Kentucky http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/us/supreme-court-black-jur... If the laws need changing then that's a discussion we should have. But you shouldn't"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 12667861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667861", "by": "personlurking", "time": 1475949194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> He may write programs on paper, and send them to you to type them in, compile them, and print out a listing with the errors. You then send back the listing, and he will correct his program and repeat. Reminds me of this Reply All podcast episode https://gimletmedia.com/episode/64-on-the-inside/ \"For years, Paul Modrowski has been writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison. Only thing is, he was arrested when he was 18 and has never seen the internet.\""}, {"show": "1161950812", "hn_item": 12668161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668161", "by": "danhardman", "time": 1475953797, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's the link to their podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/002-jason-cohen-intervie..."}, {"show": "1042631089", "hn_item": 12679424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679424", "by": "glhaynes", "time": 1476129755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a 40 minute interview with the author on a recent episode of Dan Snow's History Hit podcast. http://www.historyhitpodcast.com/blitzed-drugs-in-nazi-germa..."}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 12681328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12681328", "by": "gordon_freeman", "time": 1476150262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radio one episode was good one as well. So far I liked every episode of this show. If you like this one then also check out the host's other podcast series : TED Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510298/ted-radio-hour"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 12690196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690196", "by": "Fezzik", "time": 1476241840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast : http://historyofphilosophy.net . It gives a great cursory overview of (many of) the seminal events and is a great diving board to see what you may like to explore - the corpus of what you can study is gigantic. As a degree holder in Philosophy I would have killed for a podcast like this; I have no affiliation with the podcast or its producers."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12694966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694966", "by": "josho", "time": 1476294071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have a listen to The Problem We All Live With[1] a podcast episode from This American Life. It speaks to this specifically and comes to very different conclusions. Ie. integration works. [1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t..."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 12698015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698015", "by": "m_mueller", "time": 1476326490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's what's so great about Planet Money and Radiolab: They do some actual journalism and try to track down sources. There's only very few outlets left who do that and we should support them as much as possible. In the podcast world these are the only ones coming to mind (along with some spinoffs like More Perfect) - maybe someone here has others. I do listen to others sometimes, like Invisibilia or Freakonomics, but in terms of journalistic merit they don't even come close IMO."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 12709490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709490", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1476464862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Additional References: Data Skeptic podcast: http://dataskeptic.com/epnotes/nyc-bikeshare-rebalancing.php KDD 2016 Talk, \"Rebalancing Bike Sharing Systems: A Multi-source Data Smart Optimization\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6UpW-5eRw"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 12709944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709944", "by": "pasbesoin", "time": 1476468319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For analysis and perspective on the media, there's the excellent NPR radio show -- wait for it... -- \"On the Media\". On a good week, I find myself thinking it's one of the more important shows around, right now. The podcast is quite convenient to grab. Try a couple of weeks' worth, as individual shows can vary a bit as to content and presentation, depending upon the week and what they are covering. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 12721285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721285", "by": "shorsher", "time": 1476655611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Matt Holt, the creator of Caddy, was recently a guest on the Go Time podcast where he talks quite a bit about Caddy as well as TLS and ACME protocols[0]. I really enjoyed this episode and recommend others check it out. [0]: https://changelog.com/gotime/14"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 12721285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721285", "by": "shorsher", "time": 1476655611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Matt Holt, the creator of Caddy, was recently a guest on the Go Time podcast where he talks quite a bit about Caddy as well as TLS and ACME protocols[0]. I really enjoyed this episode and recommend others check it out. [0]: https://changelog.com/gotime/14"}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 12728698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728698", "by": "wonder_er", "time": 1476732991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm torn on the issue of parting ways with someone over them supporting a despicable person. On one hand, supporting someone who's genocidal or something is bad. Trump, on the other hand, might be the exact terrible thing this country needs to reign in government. Lets say he wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb off the coast of North Korea. (Borrowing from the most recent Dan Carlin/Common Sense podcast [0]) This would be objectively bad. We should not be nuking anything, anywhere, ever. Period. If trump-the-president wants to do this, you might really quickly find people talking about the const"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 12731180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731180", "by": "DasIch", "time": 1476752259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Revisionist History podcast has two great episodes on the subject. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/05-food-fight http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-..."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 12731354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731354", "by": "gohrt", "time": 1476754743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, not a reliable source for anything. https://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/07/15/bowdoin-col..."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 12731354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12731354", "by": "gohrt", "time": 1476754743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, not a reliable source for anything. https://www.boston.com/news/education/2016/07/15/bowdoin-col..."}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 12736334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736334", "by": "J-dawg", "time": 1476809465, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I only heard the term \"deep work\" yesterday, listening to Cal Newport on James Altucher's podcast. It's a pretty good introduction and he talks about his own approach to work. He's also a professor of computer science! They talk about his other book first (also interesting), so you need to skip a little way ahead for the deep work stuff. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-james-altucher-show/... http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/09/cal-newport/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12751215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751215", "by": "2T1Qka0rEiPr", "time": 1476960720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good Freakonomics podcast ( http://bit.ly/2dQNPBh ) a couple of years ago which looked at why Norway has so many Teslas. Road conditions would be pretty different to California."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12751728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751728", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1476967428, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 12753466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12753466", "by": "hongloumeng", "time": 1476979224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Digital Nomad\" is not the keyword you are looking for. The Digital Nomad narrative targets individuals who are trying to escape the prototypical rat race, so most of the focus is on what can be done with a small set of technical skills, like setting up a Wordpress website and building landing pages, email marketing, sourcing from Alibaba, building web courses, Amazon stores, Shopify and Teespring, etc. You sound like you are interested in small tech startup teams that are location independent. Try Rob Walling's podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. And, for a more general and non-technical but"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 12755530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12755530", "by": "fuqted", "time": 1476993168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out this job ad for an idea of what some of these businesses are like. https://www.amztracker.com/blog/jobs/ I'm subscribed to GetApprenticeship.com. They sent me this last week. >In the past year our team has grown from the 3 original co-founders to an amazing team of well over 40 people around the world. >Be prepared to move to Bangkok Thailand by December 1st for at least the first 3 months of your employment. (We cover travel expenses!) >Live anywhere after that. (although I would love for you to stay with the team wherever our next home base will be) As far as tech goes, beyond very"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 12760596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12760596", "by": "whistlerbrk", "time": 1477059362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent podcast (TAL? Radiolab?) just discussed the retreats Google has made over time with respect to privacy and intrusive advertising. I tried to find it - someone have a link? This very much continues the theme. It is important to note how much Sergey and Larry hated advertising and the belief they held that any advertising based search engine would inherently corrupt itself."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 12768217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768217", "by": "dmoo", "time": 1477133914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also the In Our Time Podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 12771329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12771329", "by": "aorth", "time": 1477184293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love it! Reminds me of Dan Carlin's \"Kings of Kings\" series in his Hardcore History podcast. The world was fascinating back then. Even the names of people/places were epic: Ninevah, the Elamites, the Assyrians, Ahura Mazda, Marduk, etc! So epic! http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-56-kings-of-kings/"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 12775006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775006", "by": "phillc73", "time": 1477250811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Harold's mother, Gytha, left England with other prominent nobles. I seemed to recall her going to Flanders, Wikipedia (that credible source) suggests somewhere in Scandinavia instead.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gytha_Thorkelsd%C3%B3ttir Edit: Worth listening to are these BBC 4 In Our Time Podcasts. The Battle of Stamford Bridge: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011jvlt The Domesday Book: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040llvb"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 12778667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778667", "by": "laingc", "time": 1477316631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would I be correct in assuming that you're taking inspiration and direction from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History here? For those who don't know, Dan does a fantastic history podcast [0], and a pet fascination of his is exploring these what-if scenarios. The podcast comes with my highest recommendation. [0] http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 12781103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781103", "by": "igravious", "time": 1477331566, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12788102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12788102", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1477404550, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 12789653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789653", "by": "VLM", "time": 1477415457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a nice site. I remember when the entire marketplace was \"The History of Rome\" several years ago. Consider ultra narrowcasting. I don't think the British History Podcast guy (who is awesome to listen to BTW and officially VLM endorsed) is going to demand the full $100 to advertise and would surely result in orders of magnitude more than five clicks, for example. As a user of your service I'd advise that a big problem with podcasts that are essentially volunteer operations is long dry spells. The bulgarian history podcast, which is much more interesting than it sounds, although the intro "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 12789653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789653", "by": "VLM", "time": 1477415457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a nice site. I remember when the entire marketplace was \"The History of Rome\" several years ago. Consider ultra narrowcasting. I don't think the British History Podcast guy (who is awesome to listen to BTW and officially VLM endorsed) is going to demand the full $100 to advertise and would surely result in orders of magnitude more than five clicks, for example. As a user of your service I'd advise that a big problem with podcasts that are essentially volunteer operations is long dry spells. The bulgarian history podcast, which is much more interesting than it sounds, although the intro "}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 12795189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12795189", "by": "J-dawg", "time": 1477475838, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently become aware of the book \"Deep Work\" by Cal Newport, through James Altucher's podcast [0] and a discussion on HN [1]. As someone who struggles a lot with focus, I'm interested in any personal stories of people who have put this into practice. [0] http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/09/cal-newport/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734671"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 12820897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12820897", "by": "alexandersingh", "time": 1477690084, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell hosted a podcast recently called \"Revisionist History\". In one episode, \"Generous Orthodoxy\" ( http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/09-generous-orthodoxy ) that explored dissent, Gladwell states that we must \"respect the body we're trying to heal\". I haven't been able to get that statement out of my head since I heard it. It's simple, elegant and slightly profound. It (respect) is also precisely what is missing in the tech industries rallying cry around disruption. Study and learn why an industry has evolved the way it has before you criticize it as \"backwards\". In doing so,"}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 12827786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827786", "by": "ryandamm", "time": 1477794334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for posting this, I love Harold McGee and wasn't aware of his posts here. I've now got a bunch of browser tabs open with his other articles, can't wait to read them all... He used to write occasionally for the NY Times, but it's been awhile. He's also an occasional guest on Dave Arnold's podcast \"Cooking Issues.\""}, {"show": "500565620", "hn_item": 12845308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12845308", "by": "aaronhoffman", "time": 1478005383, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "iTunes link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/music-for-programming/id..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 12871375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12871375", "by": "davorb", "time": 1478253346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are a technical/rational type, a lot of the information on meditation can seem ...well, wacky. That's why I would suggest listening to a few episodes of Sam Harris' podcast. Specifically those about the mind and consciousness in general. He's got a background in neuroscience and approaches this subject from a viewpoint that you might feel more comfortable with. He's also written a whole book about this topic, called \"Waking Up: a Guide to Spirituality Without Religion\", which I think might be of interest to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMiPBy4Zwag"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12878471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878471", "by": "throwaway43322", "time": 1478327491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(throwaway to express unpopular view on touchy / inflammatory subject) I think it's clear that Rolling Stone engaged in poor journalism. They did not properly fact check, and the story had too many questions and holes to publish. Sabrina Erdely failed in her job as a journalist. That said, I'm not convinced that Jackie fabricated this story. From my read of the situation, Jackie was hesitant to be featured in the article. There is not much upside for a woman to be featured in a national \"rape on campus\" story. You risk becoming the subject of internet hate and death threats in exchange for bas"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 12885989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12885989", "by": "sly010", "time": 1478451976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For folks with less time, I really enjoyed the \"Acquired\" podcast's walkthrough of this same acquisition step by step. They used this same SEC filing as a source, I believe. [0] http://www.acquired.fm/episodes/2016/6/16/episode-14-linkedi..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 12886842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12886842", "by": "sly010", "time": 1478463520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember a podcast discussing the topic, even speculating at the different parties. I also remember the Acquired podcast discussing the acquisition. They even have a link to a (different) document at SEC's website. My mind must have pieced it all together. Apologies, I listen to a lot of podcasts. Let's see if I can actually find the podcast I am thinking about..."}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 12903763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12903763", "by": "mikeckennedy", "time": 1478637914, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 12909524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909524", "by": "Ygg2", "time": 1478692788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you're being unfair to the people voting for Trump. Yes, some of them are racist bigots (like white supremacists groups), however Trump struck a cord with rural USA. I doubt all are racists bigots, they just have different life style, and try to defend it from further deterioration. This Cracked podcast[1] really opened my eyes to some issues rural America faces each day. It's not that they hate Hillary, but Hillary both tells them that everything is fine, and for them things aren't fine. They see no jobs and Walmart just waltzes in and ruins small shops, sucking the money out of the r"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12917268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12917268", "by": "bduerst", "time": 1478745862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a lie. Trump courted and accepted money from special interests - there was even a Planet Money podcast on it."}, {"show": "1104346760", "hn_item": 12923699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12923699", "by": "miles_matthias", "time": 1478807888, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 12929249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12929249", "by": "stringcode", "time": 1478857591, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12935869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935869", "by": "zizee", "time": 1478911906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a side note, that episode left me wondering why the original seller didn't open their own eBay store, listing the product at their desired price. I would have thought it would have effectively undercut the resellers and gain a large portion of the sales on eBay. Another note, Planet Money is pretty much my favourite \"always on\"* podcast. An podcast about economics might sound dull to some, but what a lot (maybe not on HN) people don't realise is \"economics\" is a really a study of human behaviour at the macro level, and a large part of human behaviour at the micro level. * serial was hugely "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 12936077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936077", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1478915105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> As a side note, that episode left me wondering why the original seller didn't open their own eBay store, listing the product at their desired price. I would have thought it would have effectively undercut the resellers and gain a large portion of the sales on eBay. Yeah, as long as they were aggressive in making sure there were on multiple marketplaces, and came up first in searches, that would probably be the best response. The bit gain here isn't really the extra sales on the other marketplaces, it's the reduced returns which eat into their profits. > Another note, Planet Money is pretty m"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12936077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936077", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1478915105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> As a side note, that episode left me wondering why the original seller didn't open their own eBay store, listing the product at their desired price. I would have thought it would have effectively undercut the resellers and gain a large portion of the sales on eBay. Yeah, as long as they were aggressive in making sure there were on multiple marketplaces, and came up first in searches, that would probably be the best response. The bit gain here isn't really the extra sales on the other marketplaces, it's the reduced returns which eat into their profits. > Another note, Planet Money is pretty m"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 12936077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936077", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1478915105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> As a side note, that episode left me wondering why the original seller didn't open their own eBay store, listing the product at their desired price. I would have thought it would have effectively undercut the resellers and gain a large portion of the sales on eBay. Yeah, as long as they were aggressive in making sure there were on multiple marketplaces, and came up first in searches, that would probably be the best response. The bit gain here isn't really the extra sales on the other marketplaces, it's the reduced returns which eat into their profits. > Another note, Planet Money is pretty m"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 12936608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936608", "by": "dataMiningHelp", "time": 1478925049, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 12936915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936915", "by": "andrewem", "time": 1478932733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Or to take another example, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkin_bag Edit: here's the Planet Money podcast episode I heard about them on: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/25/460870534/episo..."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 12953607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953607", "by": "dv_dt", "time": 1479159560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the humans have been dividing themselves up into tribes for a long time. While technology isn't completely blameless, Technology does provide another avenue where humans establish and patrol boundaries via social cues. And those cues can maybe be magnified by tech and exploited by political parties on both sides. I found this podcast particularly interesting (though maybe not 100% correct), but it discusses interesting urban/rural social and cultural boundaries. And I think it's fairly perceptive in the observation that completely unrelated political issues are bound together simply be"}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 12953853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953853", "by": "smpetrey", "time": 1479161661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I completely agree. Humans will be humans and we will always have tribes. And that's okay. What needs to change is modern voting systems to accomadte the growing fractions of views. Such as, The Alternative Vote (Instant Run-off) [1] Also, The Cracked podcast is so fantastic! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 12955670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12955670", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1479185407, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 12968735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12968735", "by": "timr", "time": 1479314741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Not even an ounce of introspection. Still haven't heard any answers.\" Really now. No introspection? No answers? It might help to read the post-election coverage , which was, you know...all introspection. Nonstop. For the last week. To help you out, here's a sample: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-w... http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-perc... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/upshot/presidential-foreca... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/... http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/donald-tru... http://www.na"}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 12968735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12968735", "by": "timr", "time": 1479314741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Not even an ounce of introspection. Still haven't heard any answers.\" Really now. No introspection? No answers? It might help to read the post-election coverage , which was, you know...all introspection. Nonstop. For the last week. To help you out, here's a sample: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-w... http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-perc... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/upshot/presidential-foreca... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/... http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/donald-tru... http://www.na"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 12970362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12970362", "by": "wwalser", "time": 1479323611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to all of the previous episodes and enjoyed the podcast. I'm glad you're getting it started back up. My only negative feedback would be that by the end it felt similar to what investors say about demo day. All of the companies stores were packaged up with a bow on them to the point that basically every story was the same by the end of the episode. I get it, this is VC content marketing after all, you need people to believe that applying to YC, taking funding and going the VC route is the smart move for their company. However, if you can't find a way to break the monotony I can't ima"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 12970945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12970945", "by": "kurttheviking", "time": 1479326753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another thought I had is something debate-like; if you've ever listened to the Intelligence Squared podcasts they basically take an issue and have two \"teams\" of two people debate the issue. From a start-up perspective it would be interesting to hear founders or veterans debate topics like \"BitCoin is going to revolutionize micropayments\". I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible idea but I thought I'd put it out there for discussion."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 12974213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12974213", "by": "sandGorgon", "time": 1479356223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audio or video ? Snapchat/Periscope/Facebook Live would be a much better medium. IMHO Justin Kan already demonstrated what works - office hours ! Office hours are YC's killer feature ..and also the reason why Startup School's format also follows office hours. I don't think YC should do a Techcrunchy podcast. If anything - do a weekly Q&A with someone famous where users are able to submit questions . TL;DR - bring the YC format to the podcast."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 12975306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975306", "by": "htwillie", "time": 1479368974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best \"tool\" available is the No Agenda Podcast. Hosts Adam and John present national and global issues as portrayed by mass media, and systematically DECONSTRUCT the stories. They not only highlight biases, but explore propagandistic elements and discuss how the media intentionally affects the consumers. Most importantly, they work to identify the MOTIVATIONS for medias' biases in the first place, and demonstrate for their listeners how to be much more critical, skeptical, and analytical in the way they consume the news. Listen to a few episodes and you might rethink the need for building "}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 12975353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975353", "by": "aaachilless", "time": 1479369519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 about the 3 people chatting thing. The Energy Gang [1] is one of my all time favorite podcasts and it too follows this format. [1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-energy-gang"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 12975507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12975507", "by": "aaachilless", "time": 1479371118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like many people would like some sort of user-submitted Q&A format. In my experience, the Q&A segments of podcast episodes tend to be maybe 1/4 as interesting as the rest of the episode. People being interviewed are more likely to say broadly interesting things when given open space to ideate with the occasional gentle nudge from the interviewer. It's true that some user-submitted questions will be great, but natural conversation with interesting and intelligent people is by far my favorite kind of podcast to listen to. A couple examples of excellent podcasts of this variety are the E"}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 12992275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992275", "by": "cheiVia0", "time": 1479534359, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 12993792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12993792", "by": "pseudometa", "time": 1479568448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is only interesting to think about, but this nuanced level of logic would not actually ever be programmed into self driving cars. Once you go past the avoid hitting things level, lawsuits from many vectors come into play, and high risks of false positives. The podcast Hello Internet covered this topic and I'm convinced this is far more relevant to one's personal prejudice in every day life."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 13001149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001149", "by": "rawfan", "time": 1479675258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are the two things I do during my commute: 1. listen to programmers podcasts (e.g. Full Stack Radio) 2. listen to entertaining/news podcasts and audio-books. Everything else just doesn't work."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13001217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001217", "by": "cyberferret", "time": 1479675895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to some 'non technical' podcasts. That is what I do on my 1 hour walks in the morning. It is strangely refreshing not to have to focus on technical talks all the time, but I find creative talks tend to inspire me and get me thinking in different ways about my work. Added bonus is that you don't have to be 100% focused on what you are hearing, you can kind of drift in and out as something interesting catches your attention and still not lose the thread of the topic. Two of my favourite podcasts are \"99% Invisible\" (creativity, architecture) and \"The Tim Ferris Show\" (biohacking, i"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13001285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001285", "by": "rodhan", "time": 1479676767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Clarke Ching's \"Rolling Rocks Downhill\" audiobook [1] which is a novel that teaches/refreshes agile software development in a really engaging way. I'd love to know if there are more novels like that out there - I haven't managed to find any. I'm getting bored with podcasts these days because most of them have too much idle chat. Shows like \"99% Invisible\" that are well produced and low on chit chat are fine but I think audiobooks are the way forward. [1] http://www.rolls.rocks/podcasts-video/2016/2/23/rolling-rock..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13001316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001316", "by": "srparish", "time": 1479677014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Software Engineering Daily: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ - Changelog: https://changelog.com/podcast - Functional Geekery: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/ - CppCast: http://cppcast.com/"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 13001369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001369", "by": "AkiraMichi", "time": 1479677552, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With technical podcasts, I don't listen to there every episode. Only, the ones that I find interesting. But, here are some of the ones, that I usually enjoy listening to. - The Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast - Does Not Compute https://spec.fm/podcasts/does-not-compute/ - Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots http://giantrobots.fm/ - The Bike Shed http://bikeshed.fm/ - The Hanselminutes Podcast http://hanselminutes.com/ - The Web Ahead http://5by5.tv/webahead"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 13001369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001369", "by": "AkiraMichi", "time": 1479677552, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With technical podcasts, I don't listen to there every episode. Only, the ones that I find interesting. But, here are some of the ones, that I usually enjoy listening to. - The Changelog https://changelog.com/podcast - Does Not Compute https://spec.fm/podcasts/does-not-compute/ - Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots http://giantrobots.fm/ - The Bike Shed http://bikeshed.fm/ - The Hanselminutes Podcast http://hanselminutes.com/ - The Web Ahead http://5by5.tv/webahead"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13001481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13001481", "by": "douche", "time": 1479678798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to podcasts or audiobooks on my commute. This summer I went through all of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. It's true that it's not IT-related, but it's learning, and it is a good break from work. Now I've moved on to going through Game of Thrones once more. It helps if it is something that you can enjoy without paying rapt attention - it's kind of important to have most of your brain focused on the road if you are behind the wheel."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 13007875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13007875", "by": "heyzeusalmighty", "time": 1479753480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the same ground in this article but she then goes on to relate these ideas with the modern media landscape. Highly recommended book and she cohosts a podcast generally about the same subject called 'On the Media' (also highly recommended by me)."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13014892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014892", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1479830170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a commute of between 45 minutes and 1 hour where the majority of it is a straight shot on the highway. I try to learn something new on every drive, and for me this comes from two activities. 1) try to work out design of something I have not done before or something that needs to be done. Iterate over some use cases in my mind, look for leaky abstractions etc. 2) listen to technical podcasts or podcasts about programming or developing some skill related to programming. examples podcasts The Changelog, Go Time, SE Daily, Software Engineering Daily, Full Stack Radio, YC Podcast"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 13014892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014892", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1479830170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a commute of between 45 minutes and 1 hour where the majority of it is a straight shot on the highway. I try to learn something new on every drive, and for me this comes from two activities. 1) try to work out design of something I have not done before or something that needs to be done. Iterate over some use cases in my mind, look for leaky abstractions etc. 2) listen to technical podcasts or podcasts about programming or developing some skill related to programming. examples podcasts The Changelog, Go Time, SE Daily, Software Engineering Daily, Full Stack Radio, YC Podcast"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 13014892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014892", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1479830170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a commute of between 45 minutes and 1 hour where the majority of it is a straight shot on the highway. I try to learn something new on every drive, and for me this comes from two activities. 1) try to work out design of something I have not done before or something that needs to be done. Iterate over some use cases in my mind, look for leaky abstractions etc. 2) listen to technical podcasts or podcasts about programming or developing some skill related to programming. examples podcasts The Changelog, Go Time, SE Daily, Software Engineering Daily, Full Stack Radio, YC Podcast"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13015277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13015277", "by": "crazypyro", "time": 1479832894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fabulous article. Lots of the information was completely new to me. On a side note, I was surprised at how many names I had never actually read, but were immediately pronounceable in my conscious. I would have to credit Dan Carlin's Hardcore History[0] podcast for this. He has many great series that use these historians as sources quite a bit. [0] http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13017901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13017901", "by": "wscott", "time": 1479850679, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a nice podcast on this topic: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/ The idea is that no one alive has all the skills to make something as simple as a pencil from scratch. This is a result of our industuralized socity."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 13023494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13023494", "by": "personlurking", "time": 1479917007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Taking it the extreme, one needs Reply All's \"Yes, Yes, No\" segment (where the podcast hosts try to break down inside-joke tweets) in order to understand what I'd assume is the cleverest content. News search & discovery is all I use the service for and I'd like to see Twitter focus on that. Also, the narrow, single-file, non-pagnated way of scrolling & searching is not appealing at all to me. I'd prefer a more horizontal and populated set of tweets with a simple X in the corner of each one in order to teach Twitter what content I'm interested in (think: Youtube's home page while signed in). Th"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 13024939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13024939", "by": "stcredzero", "time": 1479928163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone listened to or listens to \"The History of Rome\" podcast, or is otherwise familiar with Roman history, you'll note that the violation of \"It just isn't done\" precipitated a lot of stuff in Roman history -- much of it directly leading to totalitarianism."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 13028980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13028980", "by": "pavanred", "time": 1479975070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to do .Net programming a few years back and I used to love Jon Skeet's answers for any .Net question on SO. Precise, informative and simple explanations. It's been a few years since, but if I remember correctly, it was an interview of Jon Skeet on an episode of Scott Hanselman's podcast where he spoke about reading the C# spec, and as a young beginner in programming I loved that advice because when I did read the spec, I was pleasantly surprised, perhaps naive, that all the information I needed to learn the language was right there, available for free when I thought I had to purchase bo"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 13035627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035627", "by": "marioflach", "time": 1480069064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> we need to start asking ourselves as a community whether we think treating open-source maintainers like this is more or less likely to encourage more people to work on the open-source software you rely on to do your job. Exactly this. The homebrew team has done an amazing job for the past 7 years, all free and volunteer work. People threatening with suing the maintainer are poison for the open-source community. But hey, haters gonna hate. If I understand correctly, the data is anonymized before it is sent to Google [1]. How may people worrying about privacy download from Github using a proxy"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 13037529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037529", "by": "lathiat", "time": 1480089228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love what these guys are doing in general, and I really want to support them, but the industrial design of these machines is so almost literally 2005. One of their guys was on the Linux Unplugged podcast this week talking about the 4K ORYX and getting canonical to tweak the 4K support (which was needed, in unity it was a bit wonky) They seem to have good offerings if you want a big desktop replacement but their thin and light (eg lemur) look dreadful. I hope they can manage to source something a little nicer on the portable end."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 13045532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13045532", "by": "thadjo", "time": 1480189948, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm sympathetic to the 'not this time' argument but I don't think it has to do with the scale of technical disruption. At the beginning of the 20th century nearly half the labor force was in agriculture; now it's somewhere between 1-2%. In terms of magnitude of displacement, I don't think what we are seeing now, or anticipate seeing in the next decade is of a different kind than what we saw with the mechanization of agriculture. What concerns me is: 1) The rate at which these disruptions are occurring, and 2) The ability for displaced labor to find other opportunities in the economy. The shift"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 13047302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13047302", "by": "techman9", "time": 1480212314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Investopedia is quite a good resource http://www.investopedia.com/ as are just news organizations like http://moringstar.com and The Motley Fool. Also, this isn't quite what you're looking for, but I've been listening to the Marketplace podcast recently from NPR and really enjoy the accessible coverage of complex financial topics. Kai Ryssdal's voice is very soothing as well. I highly recommend it."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13047628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13047628", "by": "internaut", "time": 1480219249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes it is happening I know, I remember a 99% Invisible podcast episode talking about it. Also there was a documentary on London millionaires doing it. I find it striking it is not done even more. I recognize the technical difficulties but the costs are surely lower than the potential value of easily doubling the sq ft. There are interesting tricks you can do with fibre optic cable and mirrors to send daylight down there. Not to mention CoeLux and similar products."}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 13048869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13048869", "by": "redial", "time": 1480250622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the episode The Science of Humans at War [1] of the StarTalk podcast, around the 25 min mark, they ask the question of human modification, specially for the harsh environments of space, and claim that in almost every case it has been tried, an engineering solution has been found that is both cheaper and more practical than to directly modify humans. [1]: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-science-hu..."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 13051876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051876", "by": "MegaDeKay", "time": 1480284466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to Dave Arnold's Cooking Issues podcast a lot recently. He's just announced the Spinzall centrifuge. It is a bargain for what it is, but still too much for the use I'd get out of it. And once you've got a centrifuge, you of course have to get a rotovap, a Vitaprep, and a chamber sealer. Not that you need all this stuff to get good use out of the centrifuge, but just because. And as I noted in another comment, the \"until recently\" bit is partly because this article is from 2014."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 13051917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051917", "by": "MegaDeKay", "time": 1480284925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "a) You aren't boiling the water, not even close most of the time. Most meats are cooked around 135F - 150F. You might take veggies up to maybe 185F, but I don't think most people SV vegetables anyway. b) Dave Arnold on his Cooking Issues podcast got the SC Johnson folks to confirm that their ZipLoc bags are safe for this application. In fact, I checked one box of mine and it says \"BPA free\". c) FoodSaver bags are safe as well, but I don't have a reference handy."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13056286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056286", "by": "astrostl", "time": 1480349461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by Kevin Rose - Planet Money * - Radiolab - Reply All * - Revisionist History * - This American Life - The Tim Ferriss Show * - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe * - The Winning Agenda I will delete episodes with uninteresting starts or guests, most notably on Rogan because it's so long-form. I listen to everything on 2x speed with \"SmartSpeed\" to also eliminate pauses"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13056286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056286", "by": "astrostl", "time": 1480349461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by Kevin Rose - Planet Money * - Radiolab - Reply All * - Revisionist History * - This American Life - The Tim Ferriss Show * - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe * - The Winning Agenda I will delete episodes with uninteresting starts or guests, most notably on Rogan because it's so long-form. I listen to everything on 2x speed with \"SmartSpeed\" to also eliminate pauses"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13056286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056286", "by": "astrostl", "time": 1480349461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by Kevin Rose - Planet Money * - Radiolab - Reply All * - Revisionist History * - This American Life - The Tim Ferriss Show * - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe * - The Winning Agenda I will delete episodes with uninteresting starts or guests, most notably on Rogan because it's so long-form. I listen to everything on 2x speed with \"SmartSpeed\" to also eliminate pauses"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13056286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056286", "by": "astrostl", "time": 1480349461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by Kevin Rose - Planet Money * - Radiolab - Reply All * - Revisionist History * - This American Life - The Tim Ferriss Show * - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe * - The Winning Agenda I will delete episodes with uninteresting starts or guests, most notably on Rogan because it's so long-form. I listen to everything on 2x speed with \"SmartSpeed\" to also eliminate pauses"}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 13056286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056286", "by": "astrostl", "time": 1480349461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by Kevin Rose - Planet Money * - Radiolab - Reply All * - Revisionist History * - This American Life - The Tim Ferriss Show * - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe * - The Winning Agenda I will delete episodes with uninteresting starts or guests, most notably on Rogan because it's so long-form. I listen to everything on 2x speed with \"SmartSpeed\" to also eliminate pauses"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 13057373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057373", "by": "stupidcar", "time": 1480358008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate's language podcast Lexicon Valley did a whole episode on the trailing \"so\": http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2012/0... They also covered what is, to me, an even weirder linguistic phenomenon, the common and growing use of \"yeah, no\" at the beginning of a response to somebody: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0... I use this \"yeah, no\" construction myself quite a lot. I have a strong instinctive understanding of how to use it, and what it means. But I don't think I could consciously provide a decent explanation of why I'm saying both yes and "}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 13059360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13059360", "by": "grzm", "time": 1480376112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's the rub :) I feel a lot of the frustration you're expressing as well. I really don't like contemplating refreshing the tree of liberty with iron-rich, crimson, liquid manure.[-1] I don't have a history of political activism, and haven't done a lot of reading on it, either, so anyone can rightly accuse me of some level of earnest, well-meaning na\u00efviet\u00e9. I'm also not much of a politician, so that na\u00efviet\u00e9 counts double. Any suggestions I'm putting forward are suggestions and ideas for me , first. - Continue to honestly and charitably engage as much as possible with people that may not ag"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13060522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13060522", "by": "jcrites", "time": 1480389909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't listen to radio at all until, in the last year or two, I learned about and started listening to NPR through its app called \"NPR One\". It's an app for your mobile device that streams NPR stories one by one, podcast style, starting with live news updated hourly, followed by anything else of significance, and continuing with stories related to your listening preferences. On each item you can click \"Interesting\" to indicate your preference for more similar material. They are typically mini-segments analogous to a single news article, on the order of 2-15 minutes, though some go longer. Th"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 13060522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13060522", "by": "jcrites", "time": 1480389909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't listen to radio at all until, in the last year or two, I learned about and started listening to NPR through its app called \"NPR One\". It's an app for your mobile device that streams NPR stories one by one, podcast style, starting with live news updated hourly, followed by anything else of significance, and continuing with stories related to your listening preferences. On each item you can click \"Interesting\" to indicate your preference for more similar material. They are typically mini-segments analogous to a single news article, on the order of 2-15 minutes, though some go longer. Th"}, {"show": "124116392", "hn_item": 13067572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13067572", "by": "bootload", "time": 1480467135, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13075827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13075827", "by": "shostack", "time": 1480550399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you are right. Now that I think of it, I actually recall hearing a podcast on this (Planet Money? Freakonomics?) where they dissected the statement around women only earning something like $.75/dollar compared to men. I believe they found that if you looked at earnings before having a child, they were equal, and that the reduced earnings came from taking time off or sacrificing workload (and presumably total contribution) for flexibility. This then resulted in not advancing as rapidly as say, someone putting in twice the hours, or who did not take several years off and thus has that "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13075827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13075827", "by": "shostack", "time": 1480550399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you are right. Now that I think of it, I actually recall hearing a podcast on this (Planet Money? Freakonomics?) where they dissected the statement around women only earning something like $.75/dollar compared to men. I believe they found that if you looked at earnings before having a child, they were equal, and that the reduced earnings came from taking time off or sacrificing workload (and presumably total contribution) for flexibility. This then resulted in not advancing as rapidly as say, someone putting in twice the hours, or who did not take several years off and thus has that "}, {"show": "1633544405", "hn_item": 13093678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13093678", "by": "csixty4", "time": 1480728164, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 13096710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096710", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1480788627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet Media's \"Science Vs\" latest podcast is about the efficacy of antidepressants and the placebo effect: https://gimletmedia.com/show/science-vs/"}, {"show": "1180897172", "hn_item": 13107120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13107120", "by": "mwseibel", "time": 1480958610, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13108778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108778", "by": "ChaseT", "time": 1480967686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast did a story two months ago with the inventor of the self checkout machine, Howard Schneider. At the end of the end of the episode he was asked what his \"dream\" supermarket would be, and he said one where people don't have to check items out. They walk in, grab something, walk out, and are automatically charged. This seems to be exactly what Amazon has done. Pretty amazing to see the realization of his dream be announced only two months after his interview."}, {"show": "369032477", "hn_item": 13113340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113340", "by": "tbihl", "time": 1481016466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had a second podcast occur to me, thought it stays on a narrower track. There's a five year old podcast called Strong Towns done by a guy who runs a non profit by the same name. The recent stuff isn't so good, but if you go back to the beginning and listen to stuff from 4-6 years ago, you get to listen to this pretty smart civil engineer/planner have his epiphany of why infrastructure is so screwed up in most towns in the US. He deconstructs the problems with our car dependency and living patterns primarily from the angle of how it's bankrupting towns and cities. I listened to it over the su"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13115944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13115944", "by": "brandur", "time": 1481042447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not OP, but as far as the direction many developers seem to leaning right now, your opinion might be the more unusual case. I did try the TouchBar, and not only did I find it not delightful, but it was so obviously going to be not a useful tool for me that I'd go out of my way to have a computer that didn't have one, even if there was no price difference. I don't think that this is just an anti-progress mentality either. My dynamic functions already had a home before the TouchBar: on my screen. That way, they're their at eye level and easily accessible via keyboard shortcut. Especially because"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13130800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130800", "by": "canthonytucci", "time": 1481210434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marco Arment also did this a while back with either \"The Magazine\" or Overcast (I forget which one, only heard them discuss it on the Accidental Tech Podcast). No passwords at all. edit: found it, it was overcast https://marco.org/2012/07/31/passwordless-login https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 13151102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151102", "by": "HarrietJones", "time": 1481465044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment : codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run. Starship Sofa - SciFi stories Tales to Terrify - Horror stories. The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words. Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun. The Bike Shed - developer podcast Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 13151102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151102", "by": "HarrietJones", "time": 1481465044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment : codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run. Starship Sofa - SciFi stories Tales to Terrify - Horror stories. The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words. Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun. The Bike Shed - developer podcast Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 13151102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13151102", "by": "HarrietJones", "time": 1481465044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment : codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run. Starship Sofa - SciFi stories Tales to Terrify - Horror stories. The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words. Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun. The Bike Shed - developer podcast Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13158379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13158379", "by": "serg_chernata", "time": 1481554222, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an interesting subject. I first heard of Telomeres from Dr. Rhonda Patrick[1]. She has her own podcast and actively visits podcasts of other hosts to talk about health and longevity. For anyone interested, link below. I've gotten flack for mentioning Joe Rogan podcast here before, but I discovered Dr. Patrick through Joe's podcast and her visits are some of my favorites. [1] https://www.foundmyfitness.com/"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 13162559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13162559", "by": "devy", "time": 1481581458, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 13163430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13163430", "by": "VodkaHaze", "time": 1481588902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you would enjoy \"How Nations Fail\" by Acemoglu and Robinson, and the EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 13168817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13168817", "by": "hashhar", "time": 1481651618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a talk by Steve Yegge (an episode of the original old StackOverflow Podcast) where he says that the reverse is true a lot of the time. If you announce something and people find it lacklustre, they won't even care when you release the product even it is amazing. Similarly if you hype before release and deliver, you will never be able to meet the hype that you set yourself and that will lead to failure. [1]: http://stackoverflow.blog/2008/10/podcast-25/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13183695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13183695", "by": "amsilprotag", "time": 1481798560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast investigative journalism was some of the most disheartening listening I've encountered all year. The two most glaring abuses, in my mind, were the blackmailing of employees to put their name on a banking industry do-not-hire list if they didn't make sales quotas that proved nearly impossible without the opening of fake accounts. Essentially, WF used the industry fraud blacklist as a punishment for employees unwilling to commit fraud. The second malevolent practice was using the company ethics line as a kind of honeypot to discredit and fire potential employees who want"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 13184467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13184467", "by": "philiphodgen", "time": 1481809110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Get the Manager Tools podcasts on how to do one-on-ones. Follow their methods. That is what I did after hearing the Zapier (or was it IFTTT?) founder extol the podcast's virtues. www.manager-tools.com"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13197757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197757", "by": "turbulents", "time": 1481929966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest Freakonomics podcast addressed this issue as well: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-3-death-di..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 13197830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13197830", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1481930695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It'd be worth your while to listen to the Sam Harris podcast with Eric Weinstein [1], who, on the theory that the propensity for religious belief is an evolutionary mistake that serves no useful purpose, makes the point (based in the research of his brother, Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary theorist who's spent two decades researching evolutionary tradeoffs [2]) that this trait is just so costly to human functioning that it would have been negatively selected out of the genome were it not to offer significant benefits in certain circumstances. The same can be said for any other cognitive varian"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13201002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201002", "by": "criddell", "time": 1481988159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What a great article. Two things jumped out at me. First, I love the resolution in the opening story about the machete-wielding mob. The power of a single old woman to defuse a dangerous situation is fascinating. As a person in an industry built on the backs of youth, I sometimes wonder how wasteful we are being by focusing on the future and forgetting about the past. Second, it seems that Rosling's great superpower is communication. I love the Radio Lab podcast and am a firm believer that for a scientist, being able to tell stories about what you do is almost as important as the science."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 13204057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204057", "by": "acidbaseextract", "time": 1482029582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dead simple practices you can start implementing tomorrow: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Manager-Mark-Horstman/dp/11... Their podcast, Manager Tools, is also excellent."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 13204624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204624", "by": "mkopinsky", "time": 1482042092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding the Manager Tools Podcast. There's also Manager Tools Basics, which is a highlight reel of sorts from the main podcast. Their approach can be a bit simplistic at times, but is immensely valuable."}, {"show": "533583161", "hn_item": 13204624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204624", "by": "mkopinsky", "time": 1482042092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding the Manager Tools Podcast. There's also Manager Tools Basics, which is a highlight reel of sorts from the main podcast. Their approach can be a bit simplistic at times, but is immensely valuable."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13205919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13205919", "by": "matwood", "time": 1482071871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That sounds more like an extreme way to deal with the lack of self discipline (deleting Safari??). If it works for you, great. For me minimalism is about how do I get what I need/want in the least amount of time and as little waste as possible. First was how to deal with news. I find the 5 minute NPR news briefing podcast from the latest hour is great. Honestly, news just does not change that much, so listening to that briefing once or twice a day is plenty. If I have more time that day, I'll also listen to WSJ tech or Planet Money podcasts. Next, the Google app on the iPhone does a great job "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 13207687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207687", "by": "616c", "time": 1482095707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only podcast I listened to for years with any consistency was FLOSS Weekly. This later exposed me Security Now, This Week in Enterprise Tech (TWiET on the set! I love the catch phrase), This Week in Law (which zero of my law school and lawyers friends address when I send them good episodes), and recently Triangulation. In the new era of Software Engineering Daily and Changelog, as I see Leo Laporte as the godfather of podcasting. I disagree with a lot he has to say, but I respect him greatly and dream of meeting him one day. He is one of my heros. And Leo: I use Emacs, and no so much Perl."}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 13207687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207687", "by": "616c", "time": 1482095707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only podcast I listened to for years with any consistency was FLOSS Weekly. This later exposed me Security Now, This Week in Enterprise Tech (TWiET on the set! I love the catch phrase), This Week in Law (which zero of my law school and lawyers friends address when I send them good episodes), and recently Triangulation. In the new era of Software Engineering Daily and Changelog, as I see Leo Laporte as the godfather of podcasting. I disagree with a lot he has to say, but I respect him greatly and dream of meeting him one day. He is one of my heros. And Leo: I use Emacs, and no so much Perl."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13207687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207687", "by": "616c", "time": 1482095707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only podcast I listened to for years with any consistency was FLOSS Weekly. This later exposed me Security Now, This Week in Enterprise Tech (TWiET on the set! I love the catch phrase), This Week in Law (which zero of my law school and lawyers friends address when I send them good episodes), and recently Triangulation. In the new era of Software Engineering Daily and Changelog, as I see Leo Laporte as the godfather of podcasting. I disagree with a lot he has to say, but I respect him greatly and dream of meeting him one day. He is one of my heros. And Leo: I use Emacs, and no so much Perl."}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 13217656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217656", "by": "BuuQu9hu", "time": 1482211051, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 13219767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13219767", "by": "ThomPete", "time": 1482242296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That was not my only use case though. I cook a lot, timing is important. I have fun playing games with my kids teaching them trivia, Google Home does that while we are free to do other things. We listen to a lot of different music. Google at home allow me to stream from Spotify simply by saying the type i want. My wife likes to listen to radio, she just tell Google at home to start a radio station. Listening to the news, google does a pretty good job assembling what is most important during the day. You can ask it to play the latest \"Startups for the rest of us\" podcast simply by asking it to "}, {"show": "1177741477", "hn_item": 13231555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13231555", "by": "jmegan", "time": 1482346060, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13243263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13243263", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1482474685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I'm beginning to think either these quotes are fake or James Hetfield doesn't actually hunt. You can watch/listen to him speaking the quotes (and talking in depth about his hunting and farming life) on this week's Joe Rogan Experience podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6QPTawR14 http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/james-hetfield"}, {"show": "1151670380", "hn_item": 13245918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13245918", "by": "bmuon", "time": 1482514083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not true. Just go listen to the Wrongful Conviction podcast: http://www.revolverpodcasts.com/shows/wrongful-conviction-wi... . People have been convicted of crimes because they confessed, even when the hard evidence points to the contrary."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 13252240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252240", "by": "mcgrath_sh", "time": 1482625442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What topics are you looking for? Tech related? General interest? Sports? Science? Crime and mystery? A couple I really enjoy: - Dan Carlin's Harcore History [1] An infrequent but well done pod on various history stories. Well worth the listen. - The West Wing Weekly [2] One of the actors from The West Wing and another guy watch and discuss and episode of the West Wing each week. - RadioLab [3] A good podcast with various topics of interest. - The Lowe Post [4] My favorite NBA podcast. - EconTalk [5] A longer podcast that touches on various subjects. The name is quite deceptive. [1] http://www."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 13252459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252459", "by": "skadamou", "time": 1482630549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're into this sort of thing \"The History of Rome\" by Mike Duncan is an excellent podcast. It's a complete chronological history of Rome that Mike Duncan does a great job of keeping interesting."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 13253132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253132", "by": "iamnothere", "time": 1482644856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many of the others mentioned here, as well as... - Risk! ( http://risk-show.com ) Kevin Allison's own version of The Moth, with more risque, embarrassing, or otherwise scandalous topics than you usually see on other storytelling podcasts. Generally humorous, with some intense moments. - Death, Sex, & Money ( http://www.wnyc.org/shows/deathsexmoney ) Intense real-life stories that somehow relate to death, sex, and/or money. Often interview-based, with occasional investigative elements. - Planet Money ( http://www.npr.org/sections/money/ ) Entertaining, creative stories on financial topics, in a"}, {"show": "1551432467", "hn_item": 13253576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253576", "by": "metabren", "time": 1482659456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I remember a Bleacher Report engineer talking about this on an Elixir podcast. They use it to power their push notifications and pride themselves in being consistently the fastest among their competitors."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 13253654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253654", "by": "htwillie", "time": 1482662340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for the No Agenda podcast, by John C. Dvorak and Adam C. Curry. They watch the news (so you don't have to!) and each week they de-construct the biggest stories from around the world, revealing the truths behind - and the motivations for - the news that's given to consumers."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 13253797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253797", "by": "Rotten194", "time": 1482666066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always recommend The History of Rome and the Revolutions podcasts by Mike Duncan. Really incredibly interesting history podcasts. I also have been really enjoying the History of English podcast as a neat hybrid linguistics / history podcast hybrid."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 13253797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253797", "by": "Rotten194", "time": 1482666066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always recommend The History of Rome and the Revolutions podcasts by Mike Duncan. Really incredibly interesting history podcasts. I also have been really enjoying the History of English podcast as a neat hybrid linguistics / history podcast hybrid."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 13253982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13253982", "by": "kashyapc", "time": 1482670941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW, I'd highly recommend 'Waking Up' podcast by Sam Harris. He has this rare combination of eloquence and substance. The specific episodes I liked are with the following guests: David Deutsch[1][2]; Paul Bloom[3] -- he has two other episodes, too; Stuart Russell[4]; David Chalmers[5]; William MacAskill[6]; and Douglas Murray[7]. [1] https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/surviving-the-cosmos [2] https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/52-finding-our-way-in-th... [3] https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/56-abusing-dolores-a-con... [4] https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/the-dawn-of-artificial- intell"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13254541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254541", "by": "internaut", "time": 1482682924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. Sayer | If AGI ran your space station/life. http://geeklyinc.com/category/sayer/ EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblack"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13254541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254541", "by": "internaut", "time": 1482682924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. Sayer | If AGI ran your space station/life. http://geeklyinc.com/category/sayer/ EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblack"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13254541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254541", "by": "internaut", "time": 1482682924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love audio drama, these are the good ones. Sayer | If AGI ran your space station/life. http://geeklyinc.com/category/sayer/ EOS-10 | Space Sci-fi comedy, great acting. http://www.eos10.com/ Wolf 359 | Space Sci-fi comedy with well executed high drama. http://www.wolf359.fm/ Limetown | unusual conspiracy thriller. http://www.limetownstories.com Alba Salix | Fantasy comedy. http://www.albasalix.com/ Wooden Overcoats | Competitive undertaking. http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Tanis | Conspiracy mystery thriller. http://www.tanispodcast.com/ The Black Tapes | Creepy ghost stories. http://theblack"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13254620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254620", "by": "billpaetzke", "time": 1482684277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast http://atp.fm Casual discussion about tech (especially Apple)"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 13254908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254908", "by": "ldlework", "time": 1482689875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is by far the best podcast Ive personally enjoyed besides maybe Waking Up with Sam Harris. The \"old friends\" chemistry the hosts have cannot be understated. In the morning!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13255648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255648", "by": "qwertyuiop924", "time": 1482703862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "None of them. Most software podcasts are rubbish. IMHO, you should go listen to Nightvale, Radiolab, or 99PI instead. The only time I'll listen to a tech podcast is when Cantrill is on BSDNow. Because Bryan Cantrill, like him or not, flaws or no, is a fantastic speaker, and is amazingly funny."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 13255790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13255790", "by": "markhollis", "time": 1482705844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like to listen to podcasts when I'm doing something repetitive, like walking or running. I like podcasts that are educative, not so much podcasts that are about new features and don't explain things very much. I like to listen to them when it's a subject I don't know very well (like microservices). * SE-radio * Java Pub House * Type theory podcast: http://typetheorypodcast.com/ * Data Skeptic has podcasts about data science algorithms: http://dataskeptic.com/podcast"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13256828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256828", "by": "pacomerh", "time": 1482724060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Altucher Show (interviews, founders) http://www.jamesaltucher.com/category/the-james-altucher-sho... Software Engineering Daily (technical software topics) https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ Soft Skills Engineering https://softskills.audio/ NPR: How I Built This (innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists) http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this Developer Tea https://developertea.com/ Cognicast (Clojure Ecosystem) http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/ Descriptive (Programmer Origin Stories) http://descriptive.audio/ Reactive Podcast (thoughts on modern softwa"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 13256828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256828", "by": "pacomerh", "time": 1482724060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Altucher Show (interviews, founders) http://www.jamesaltucher.com/category/the-james-altucher-sho... Software Engineering Daily (technical software topics) https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ Soft Skills Engineering https://softskills.audio/ NPR: How I Built This (innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists) http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this Developer Tea https://developertea.com/ Cognicast (Clojure Ecosystem) http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/ Descriptive (Programmer Origin Stories) http://descriptive.audio/ Reactive Podcast (thoughts on modern softwa"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13256828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256828", "by": "pacomerh", "time": 1482724060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Altucher Show (interviews, founders) http://www.jamesaltucher.com/category/the-james-altucher-sho... Software Engineering Daily (technical software topics) https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ Soft Skills Engineering https://softskills.audio/ NPR: How I Built This (innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists) http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this Developer Tea https://developertea.com/ Cognicast (Clojure Ecosystem) http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/ Descriptive (Programmer Origin Stories) http://descriptive.audio/ Reactive Podcast (thoughts on modern softwa"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 13256828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256828", "by": "pacomerh", "time": 1482724060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Altucher Show (interviews, founders) http://www.jamesaltucher.com/category/the-james-altucher-sho... Software Engineering Daily (technical software topics) https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ Soft Skills Engineering https://softskills.audio/ NPR: How I Built This (innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists) http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this Developer Tea https://developertea.com/ Cognicast (Clojure Ecosystem) http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/ Descriptive (Programmer Origin Stories) http://descriptive.audio/ Reactive Podcast (thoughts on modern softwa"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13256988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13256988", "by": "zodiac", "time": 1482728069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bikeshed, Accidental Tech Podcast and Changelog"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13258022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258022", "by": "parvatzar", "time": 1482755579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily and hansalmanminutes like daily while commute to work , gyming or anytime while walking. Lesser music more podcasts!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13261809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13261809", "by": "stingraycharles", "time": 1482823943, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a great Freakonomics podcast about this subject: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354... The bottom line is that from the perspective of the diner, it will not really matter (quality remains equal), but from the perspective of the restaurant, things will get a lot better."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13266064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13266064", "by": "2xlbuds", "time": 1482871859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great Radiolab podcast about the MIT discovery -- http://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 13279041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279041", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1483036453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was no error in the Toyota throttle control system. It was a pedal error with floor mats, and a separate pedal design error for other models.[1], combined with operator error. If you are interested, I highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History, which did an episode on this[2]. Long story short, your brakes can easily stop your engine at full open throttle, and in not much more space than braking without any throttle. Unfortunately, a foible of human behavior seems to lead us to get flustered and often not do the right thing in situations like these. 1: https://en.wik"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 13279041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279041", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1483036453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was no error in the Toyota throttle control system. It was a pedal error with floor mats, and a separate pedal design error for other models.[1], combined with operator error. If you are interested, I highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History, which did an episode on this[2]. Long story short, your brakes can easily stop your engine at full open throttle, and in not much more space than braking without any throttle. Unfortunately, a foible of human behavior seems to lead us to get flustered and often not do the right thing in situations like these. 1: https://en.wik"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 13280407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280407", "by": "rcavezza", "time": 1483047871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's something to be said about people who ask \"dumb questions\". There are some really great lines about it in the Tim Ferriss/Malcolm Gladwell podcast when Gladwell is talking about how his dad is one of those people that are really great at asking dumb questions. I think it has something to do with confidence. Confident people don't care too much about being wrong - they are confident in what they know and aren't concerned about being labeled \"an idiot.\""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 13280452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280452", "by": "r_smart", "time": 1483048187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So then are there just no organizations other than government that can get done what you want? Why advocate for higher taxes rather than upping your voluntary contributions? I just listened to this [0] Sam Harris podcast episode yesterday so it's kind of on my mind, though this is admittedly a tangential issue to the podcast. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxStuUxaZxQ&t=4171s"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 13280511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280511", "by": "csallen", "time": 1483048590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, I haven't spoken to anyone from a bigger company who's given me this feedback before. Usually if they decline to be interviewed, it's because they're not comfortable sharing their revenue. I've had a lot more success getting interviews for people in this category for my upcoming podcast, where I don't require revenue to be shared. Hopefully their interviews will help make it clear that the Indie Hackers label isn't only for side projects. (The tagline on the homepage does say \"profitable businesses and side projects, after all.) By the way, I'm not sure what company you're from, b"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 13310954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310954", "by": "jonlucc", "time": 1483464983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was some internet co-op type company whose name escapes me right now, but they basically did this kind of work for farmers (and would be very helpful for newcomers). The idea was that every farmer who is a member will put in their crop yields along with location, soil quality, exact seed and source, how much fertilizer, etc. All of that data is then available to the other members. So I could sign up, go on there and decide what to plant and how to do it from that kind of site. Maybe I heard of this on a This Week In Startups podcast? Edit: I've found it. It's called Farmer's Business Net"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 13316180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13316180", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1483512282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I used to believe that religion was a crucial and effective way of passing an ethical code from one generation to the next. But every Ghanaian I met was either Christian or Muslim, and some even expressed concern for my soul when I said I wasn't religious. I suspect what you might be seeing is moral licensing. I was first introduced to this as a discrete concept in Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History (episode 1). Interestingly, he predicted that because of it Hillary Clinton would suffer quite harsh criticism if she were to be elected (prior to the election). Listening to it for t"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 13316180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13316180", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1483512282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I used to believe that religion was a crucial and effective way of passing an ethical code from one generation to the next. But every Ghanaian I met was either Christian or Muslim, and some even expressed concern for my soul when I said I wasn't religious. I suspect what you might be seeing is moral licensing. I was first introduced to this as a discrete concept in Malcolm Gladwell's podcast Revisionist History (episode 1). Interestingly, he predicted that because of it Hillary Clinton would suffer quite harsh criticism if she were to be elected (prior to the election). Listening to it for t"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 13319831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13319831", "by": "diminoten", "time": 1483548815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was under the impression that this kind of psychology (your subconscious thoughts drive who you are and you're mostly a passenger) was on its way out, academically speaking. I got this from Invisibilia's \"The Secret History of Thoughts\", their first podcast from January 8th of last year. http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 13320194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13320194", "by": "diminoten", "time": 1483551074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, you should listen to the Invisibilia podcast episode, the way they talk about it, this is the Freudian way of analyzing behavior, and it's not very popular anymore."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 13327005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327005", "by": "Normal_gaussian", "time": 1483623731, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Presumably an ad network helps get you to the position where you can negotiate sponsorship. I am most aware of the sponsorship journey that Grey and Brady discuss on their podcast Hello Internet [0] (I can't remember which episode), where they discuss the difficulty of using an ad network for a podcast and their eventual preference of sponsors. Notably they came to the negotiating table with successful youtube channels and their established audiences. The typical sponsorship model requires a track record, for one-off sites and gambles (whattimeisitinflorida.com ?) it doesn't really work. Maybe"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 13328949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328949", "by": "the_wheel", "time": 1483636206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really excited about an Indie Hackers podcast. Started listening to Side Hustle School the other day."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13330170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13330170", "by": "keeganjw", "time": 1483642541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hmmm, maybe the book Guns, Germs, and Steel would be an interesting start. It's a beefy and detailed book, but interesting. Definitely a broad overview. Also, I think the made it into a movie. That might be more digestible. I've always like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. He covers a broad range of subjects but they're ways great! Ancient China is also really awesome to learn about. It's not studied so much in the west but they had some extraordinarily advanced civilizations and cities well before those in Europe. Japan, Egypt, the Middle East all have pretty mind-blowing histories."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 13333465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13333465", "by": "axrd", "time": 1483670046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love Indie Hackers! I've learned a ton from the founders that you've interviewed. Definitely encourage you to build out the podcast since it will provide even more value to your audience. Best of luck!"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 13334408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13334408", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1483684340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was waiting for my NativeScript app to build when I came across this article! I'm a web developer by day (Ember / Node) and believe that the web platform will ultimately come out on top due to its inherent cross-platform support, \"install-less\" use, and open design. For the time being, though, browsers still lack support for many hardware APIs, which still make native apps necessary for many interesting use cases. The use cases I'm tackling with my current app require MIDI and Bluetooth Low Energy support. There is interesting work underway to draft web standards for such APIs (there is a wo"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 13344090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344090", "by": "edoloughlin", "time": 1483796727, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The You Are Not So Smart podcast touched on this recently: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2016/12/02/yanss-090-questionin..."}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 13344941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344941", "by": "setra", "time": 1483807052, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13358113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13358113", "by": "ihuman", "time": 1483984111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. Monologue podcasts either work really well, or poorly. I'm a fan of Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" podcast."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 13361354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361354", "by": "rwc", "time": 1484007832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the \"How I Built This\" podcast for Instagram, Kevin Systrom specifically says the filters were created to take the relatively low-quality photos early smartphone cameras were capable of and making them look like photographer-quality photos. Filters were about taking average photos and making them \"pop\" but not necessarily by virtue of having deep domain knowledge of color."}, {"show": "1045990056", "hn_item": 13373942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13373942", "by": "tgb", "time": 1484143886, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was immediately reminded of the fiction podcast LifeAfter (or lif-e.af/ter as they like to style it, making it hard to search for). An audio-only social network is a major plot device, though obviously slightly contrived to give them an excuse for most of the action to happen verbally to make a good podcast. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lifeafter/id1045990056?m... Even your marketing is similar to that in the show."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 13378772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378772", "by": "erikcw", "time": 1484180339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is slightly off-topic -- but for any kitchen nerds out there, Dave Arnold of Cooking Issues (amazing podcast[0]) and Searzall fame is doing a crowdfunding campaign[1] to build an \"affordable\" centrifuge for the kitchen/bar. His goal is to make it the next piece of high-end modernist cooking gear within reach of the home cook... Not anywhere close to the $0.20 cost of this paper centrifuge, but still a pretty huge savings compared to the $6k-$10k units generally available currently. [0] http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/ [1] https://blog.modernistpantry.com/spinzall/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13378864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378864", "by": "civilian", "time": 1484181365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read The Economist regularly, and I read miscellaneous articles from the NYTimes, HuffPo, WashingtonPost that comes up on HN/FB. I enjoy the Joe Rogan podcast but Rogan is wildly uninformed and likes to push conspiracy theories. I think you're looking for a \"badMedia -> uninformedCitizen\" trend, but you're not going to find it. My values are just libertarian--- so I've been on the sidelines every presidential race ever. I wasn't excited about either candidate. I just want to hear some good honest arguments. But I see so much emotional manipulation from the left."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13396612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13396612", "by": "cellularmitosis", "time": 1484363348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder if this is an example of hormesis? http://gettingstronger.org/hormesis/ I'll use this opportunity to recommend all of Dr. Rhonda Patrick's appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast. She discusses the science behind many nutrition and health topics, including hormesis: https://www.google.com/search?q=rhonda+patrick+jre"}, {"show": "653204183", "hn_item": 13398195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13398195", "by": "WildGreenLeave", "time": 1484398973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a Laravel developer that listens frequently to Taylor Otwell on the Laravel podcast[1]: yes, it is. I heard Taylor say multiple times that one or more parts of Laravel are inspired by RoR. [1]: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 13410453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13410453", "by": "mason240", "time": 1484580533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great podcast you might like on the subject: The History of English Podcast https://history-podcasts.com/history-of-english-language-pod..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13412507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13412507", "by": "stevelamont", "time": 1484596734, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13429075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429075", "by": "CJKinni", "time": 1484765187, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13429825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429825", "by": "frankdilo", "time": 1484770075, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 13442653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13442653", "by": "bostik", "time": 1484905965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of Risky Business podcast (risky.biz) had a good section with Alec Muffatt about this too.[0] It's well worth listening to, with Alec being both considerate and colourful at the same time. Disclaimer: regular listener, otherwise not affiliated. 0: http://risky.biz/RB439"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13451094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451094", "by": "myth_drannon", "time": 1485020172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to a Freakonomics podcast called \"how to become great at anything\". They actually contradict what you are saying. With the right training you can become really good, of course natural talent adds an edge... They took some middle aged psychologist who dreamed about signing liked Adel, she was horrible! The she got a teacher that gave her singing lessons. After one year she was singing like Adel. She released singles that gained some traction as well. The important point was how you learn. Good teachers and techniques and not only 10,000 hours."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 13457222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13457222", "by": "WheelsAtLarge", "time": 1485116905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting you ask, I just finished hearing NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. The podcast's advice is to do a wayfind to find your way. Define 3 ideal life paths, analyse all 3 and pick the best one to follow. If what you picked does not work then try again. Do this until you find your way forward. Here's a link: \"Episode 56: Getting Unstuck\" http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=507930318:507930414"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13458262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13458262", "by": "qwrusz", "time": 1485126916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly, I don't know enough details and the Chapter 11 process needs to play out still, so I think it's to soon to really say who were the winners and losers here. Also it depends how you want to define winners and losers. Well the lawyers are the winners for sure, but as for other parties it is tbd. As for info on where TPG and your debt holders stand, along with other details on what the hell is going on, it should be mostly publicly available. SEC's Edgar is where I would start to look and a multi-page google search session should find other stray legal documents. Here is your Edgar page:"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 13463464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463464", "by": "abhshksingh", "time": 1485189775, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 13463780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463780", "by": "iamdave", "time": 1485191919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had a lot of success actually combining goals with systems. As in, I had the goal to quit smoking and to do that I borrowed a system from an addiction therapist I listened to on the Joe Rogan podcast: Identify what makes me want to smoke and when, and pay close attention to those 'trigger' mechanisms. Start the day by counting how many cigarettes I had in my box. Each time I had a 'trigger' to smoke, I would pull out a pocket notebook, mark down a tally, and then tell myself \"This cigarette can wait 30 minutes\". 30 minutes later, if I had the same, or a different trigger to go outside and"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 13467438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467438", "by": "mpatobin", "time": 1485215446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NPR Invisibilia podcast episode called \"How to be Batman\" tells a fascinating story about this."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 13482181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482181", "by": "kj01a", "time": 1485358439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somebody's been listening to the Hello Internet podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13487373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487373", "by": "tuanx5", "time": 1485388129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about something similar in Chile on a 99% Invisible podcast. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/half-a-house/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13487990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487990", "by": "ethbro", "time": 1485394367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Incidentally, the question of \"Do younger or older physicians produce better outcomes?\" recently came up on the Freakonomics podcast (they were doing a 3-episode focus on the medical system). [1; 12/14/16] Or, if you want to search the transcript for it, \"So, given a choice between two doctors, let\u2019s say \u2014 one fresh out of medical school and the other with fifteen years\u2019 experience, which one do you go for?\" It's a good listen or read. Tl;dl: Anupam Jena [2], \"And we can basically see what happens if a patient happens to be treated by a doctor who is 20 years out of residency versus 5 years ou"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13489063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489063", "by": "espek07", "time": 1485409843, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 13500246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13500246", "by": "soneca", "time": 1485530329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, but I just listened to Econtalk podcast[1] where the guest, author of the book Dreamland about opioid epidemic[2], claims that all this epidemy only started at first place because researchers at the time claimed that opioid based pain relief medicine was disassociated from addiction (and pharma companies gladly played along). Except it wasnt. Very worthy your time listening to this guy if you are interested in the topic. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem..."}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 13503010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13503010", "by": "hyperpape", "time": 1485553804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are probably some people out there still making the argument that macs aren't more expensive, but I think most people have stopped, because the facts have changed. I'm having trouble finding it, but if I recall correctly, Joanna Stern was on John Gruber's podcast and flatly said the prices weren't comparable. Gruber either agreed or was silent."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 13513523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13513523", "by": "bostik", "time": 1485686107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe there is also another angle that should not be ignored. Now, I sure as hell agree with your sentiment. I just don't think it's the whole picture. In addition to trying to play a kingmaker, WL has become an unwitting subtle propaganda outlet. In an interview with Risky Business (a podcast), the infosec and opsec veteran The Grugq pointed this out. And it's an interesting chain where individually rational decisions have produced an irrational result. 1. WikiLeaks became the target of a witch hunt because they had become politically inconvenient. 2. Their resources were cut (eg. the VIS"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13526338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13526338", "by": "kqr2", "time": 1485822067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a good Planet Money podcast on this topic: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/31/428157211/episo..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 13530163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530163", "by": "marknadal", "time": 1485867940, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13536430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536430", "by": "mayneack", "time": 1485904943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has an episode on how drugs and alcohol affected some major historical events: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-20-blitz-h..."}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 13536828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13536828", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1485908047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Supporting stories: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201701... https://phys.org/news/2017-01-psychological-vaccine-immunize... http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/psychological-vaccine-cou... and the authors briefly interviewed on the Science Friday podcast (great show, highly recommended) : http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/building-an-immunity-t..."}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 13537442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537442", "by": "empath75", "time": 1485913783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in The History of Philosophy podcast, which has so far covered all of western and Islamic philosophy up the Middle Ages and is currently going back and forth between medieval European philosophy and early Hindu philosophy. They're also planning on a Chinese philosophy series in the future."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13540899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13540899", "by": "nickcoury", "time": 1485959119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a real thing. Freakonomics talked about it in one of their recent podcasts. Basically, clinical trials often exclude or under sample women for a number of reasons including the confounding factors of menstrual cycles, pregnancy complications, etc. This has received increasing attention lately and is getting better, but a ton of the current scientific wisdom is based on underrepresentative samples. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-medicine-part-2-drug-tri..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 13544643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544643", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1485980151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OT; there's a recent Changelog podcast[0] that features the dev who translated LibreOffice to the native tongue of Paraguay. [0] https://changelog.com/podcast/235"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13546467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13546467", "by": "syncsynchalt", "time": 1485991349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bitcode allows you to optimize between chip versions with different opcodes, but not different architectures, word sizes, or endianness. Source: the recent Accidental Tech Podcast that interviewed Chris Lattner."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13557637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13557637", "by": "xenadu02", "time": 1486095447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast covered this. There have been small-scale examples of this sort of thing but the best researched one is from Georgia. The tl;dr is that the government stole a huge chunk of land from the Cherokee but the white public got really angry because the politicians intended to split up the land among themselves. To avoid being tossed out of office they setup a lottery and distributed the land randomly. About 20% of Georgia's white population at the time got a huge chunk of land for free. The study shows it didn't have much of an impact on families over the long-term. The paper"}, {"show": "1074084805", "hn_item": 13564762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13564762", "by": "ironchief", "time": 1486168900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great \"Tech Policy Podcast\" that covers this issue and why Ajit Pai made this decision. Very much worth a listen, I think he is much more reasonable and inline with HN than you might think. [1] More specifically, are his 5 reasons for dissent on this [2] Basically this program has NO budget so costs have spiraled \"From 2008 to 2012, Lifeline spending grew from $821 million to over $2.1 billion, an increase of over 160%.\" It also subsidizes way too many households instead of helping those most in need. \"Roughly 42 million households are currently eligible for the Lifeline program. Ac"}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 13573468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573468", "by": "FLGMwt", "time": 1486316632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It'll be on http://engineering.rallyhealth.com/ when it's done (pardon the looks, site is WIP). It was just going to be a long post, but I'm trying to be as helpful/detailed as possible. Probably won't publish anything until I have the whole thing done. I don't have an exact date unfortunately, but it'll be on there sometime before March 2nd to coincide w/ a .NET Rocks podcast. I'll share on HN though and bump this comment when it's released : )"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13577212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13577212", "by": "fencepost", "time": 1486364653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of it's not how much it matters in modern times but that without that decline in cost it wouldn't BE modern times. Even now there are large chunks of the world where LEDs are making a huge difference because their lower cost means it's possible to power them with self-contained solar cells where it'd be a challenge to power even an incandescent nightlight without expensive fuel or a generator. For those who like podcasts, Planet Money also covered this a few years ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/04/25/306862378/episo..."}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 13577480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13577480", "by": "felipemesquita", "time": 1486368393, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One of the founders (Max Temkin) has a podcast with a Cards' employee (Alex Cox) and Merlin Mann (Merlin Mann). It's called Do by Friday. Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1169249168/do-by-friday iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/do-by-friday/id116924916..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13581702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13581702", "by": "phantarch", "time": 1486401917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's dangerous to assume the contrapositive of this claim is actually true (war doesn't start if trade doesn't stop). The best example of this is World War 1 Europe. It was held as common knowledge then that a world war could never possibly break out because of how interdependent the European economies were becoming. Nobody was going to kill the golden goose over some silly land dispute. We all know how that turned out, and it had nothing to do with whether jobs were being created or destroyed. If the contrapositive isn't true, then the original claim may not hold any actual weight. Dan Carlin"}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 13583264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13583264", "by": "tyingq", "time": 1486411005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ryan Dahl. \"Update on 11/24/2016: Dan Shaw, one of the founders of Node Source and NodeUp podcast said at SFNode that Ryan Dahl is into AI and machine learning.\" [1] [1] https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Ryan-Dahl"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13585019, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13585019", "by": "finnh", "time": 1486421083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excellent Planet Money podcast on the same topic: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/04/25/306862378/episo... Basically, the history of light makes for a nice capsule summary of the entire history of our economic development."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13591198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13591198", "by": "radicalbyte", "time": 1486490606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check the other ones posted in this thread :) I can also recommend the Planet Money podcast which covered tshirts. It changed my mind about the whole globalization and child labour story. The textile industry is the first step towards industrialization, and despite the abuses it's a net positive for humanity. More so when you consider the systemic pressure of the charities which work for better conditions. The only counter argument is global warming: development means more energy usage, which means more warming. Certain groups know this, and would prefer that 80% of the world's population live"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13594488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594488", "by": "KeatonDunsford", "time": 1486513938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is probably our best general overview: https://urbit.org/posts/overview/ We just did a podcast with Software Engineering Daily also: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/01/20/urbit-with-c... But the blog really highlights well what we're trying to accomplish in the near-term."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 13603982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603982", "by": "gadtfly", "time": 1486605313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great interview with Adam Curtis (HyperNormalisation's creator) on Chapo Trap House (a leftist comedy podcast which has been my primary source of sanity since November 8th): https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13615224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13615224", "by": "hackerboos", "time": 1486733751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money republished their podcast on immigration recently: Episode 436: If Economists Controlled The Borders http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/08/514152963/episo..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13656006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13656006", "by": "jamesk_au", "time": 1487197871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris Lattner talked about some of these issues on the Accidental Tech Podcast a few weeks ago: http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/ It was a great episode and is worth the listen for those interested. On Swift adoption at Apple: \"The Swift team itself has specific goals they need to achieve before there can be truly, across-the-board adoption at Apple. ABI stability is the number-one thing [35:30] that prevents framework developers, for example, from adopting Swift. That's a really important thing. That's one of the reasons it's always a really high priority. Swift has been a"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13659150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13659150", "by": "adriand", "time": 1487245699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab recently featured ( http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-media-busted... ) some content from another podcast series called \"Busted: America\u2019s Poverty Myths\", that examines various myths about the poor - and by extension, the rich - in the US. It was fascinating. One thing that was discussed is the degree of upward economic mobility in the USA. IIRC, they measure this by the likelihood that someone who is born into a family that is in the bottom 20% of earners enters the top 20% of earners in their lifetime. In other words, what is the statistical basis for the belief that i"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13661997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13661997", "by": "regulation_d", "time": 1487267618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll confess that didn't watch this entire interview, but what I did hear can be summed up in this quote(@ 3:45): You only feel motivated to do the things that are easy. And for me that describes a difference in how I feel about software development than I did about practicing law or any of the other career paths I tried. In software, I found something that I enjoy even when it's difficult. What I do with that information, I don't really know. On the one hand, I feel like I hit the jackpot. I get paid to make stuff on computers work. I did this before for free, but now I get to do it using bet"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 13662346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13662346", "by": "jstanley", "time": 1487270252, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13666032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13666032", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1487307285, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That doesn't have to be taken as derogatory or insulting. I can relate, I too find it somewhat sad. I don't think that's a problem with the people who don't know, but a systemic problem where cool and noteworthy things of the past are overshadowed by popular current things that share a similar name. Relevant or interesting history is all too quickly forgotten by the general populace. As an aside, the most recent example of that I've come across, and much more relevant to current events (to US Americans, at least), was during the most recent Hardcore History podcast. It was pointed out that JFK"}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 13693470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13693470", "by": "manulicious", "time": 1487654209, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13703667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13703667", "by": "xerophyte12932", "time": 1487746473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a very interesting Podcast on the tipping vs service fee debate on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/ It shows how the \"Hospitality Included\" program removed tips from their restaurants. I guess its not always the idea, but also how you implement it. Instacart tried to do the same thing but appear to have totally botched it up"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 13706521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13706521", "by": "superzadeh", "time": 1487779793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> About me: I\u2019m a Legendary Recruiter at Just Digital People; a Red Hat alumnus; a CoderDojo mentor; a founder of Magikcraft.io; the producer of The JDP Internship \u2014 The World\u2019s #1 Software Development Reality Show; the host of The Best Tech Podcast in the World; and a father. All inside a commitment to empowering Queensland\u2019s Silicon Economy. The Software industry needs more humility and less magicians. I believe that strong engineering skills are worth far more than a Github profile, and good recruiters will know how to spot this. If however you are looking to be hired as the new \"Rockstar d"}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 13714948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13714948", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1487865920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[random advice from the internet] The concern I have is with the pricing and how it positions the product with the sort of customers that the business probably needs to be sustainable. 1. The value of the product is anchored to zero dollars. 2. The high end of the product is 3. Sure there's a $15 plan. Getting to $10k a month for something that might work as a lifestyle business means retaining about 700 customers which even with a low churn means more than a thousand sales a day...all while competing against the company's own free plan..and GitHub...and a developer just making their own site."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 13747563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747563", "by": "podcastguy", "time": 1488226781, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea) What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...) Thanks"}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 13747563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747563", "by": "podcastguy", "time": 1488226781, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of podcasts, but I wonder if I miss some cool tech podcast.(I follow a16z, The Twenty Minute VC, Changelog, Developer Tea) What are your favorite tech podcasts ? (anything related to startups, coding, vc, marketing in startups, design etc...) Thanks"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 13748235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13748235", "by": "gerosan", "time": 1488230540, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 13749154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749154", "by": "zckly", "time": 1488235255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup is a podcast by Alex Blumberg (of This American Life). In the first season, it follows his journey of launching his own startup. Really excellent listening for anyone new to entrepreneurship! https://gimletmedia.com/startup/"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13749180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749180", "by": "tradersam", "time": 1488235429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast[0]. Cortex[1]. [0]: http://atp.fm/ [1]: https://www.relay.fm/cortex"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 13749343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749343", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1488236389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast from the Twit network is really good. I've really learned a lot about security issues and encryption from that podcast. Other good podcasts I listen to: - .NET Rocks - Coding Blocks - Hanselminutes - Javascript Jabber - Programming Throwdown"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 13749343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749343", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1488236389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast from the Twit network is really good. I've really learned a lot about security issues and encryption from that podcast. Other good podcasts I listen to: - .NET Rocks - Coding Blocks - Hanselminutes - Javascript Jabber - Programming Throwdown"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 13749343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749343", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1488236389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast from the Twit network is really good. I've really learned a lot about security issues and encryption from that podcast. Other good podcasts I listen to: - .NET Rocks - Coding Blocks - Hanselminutes - Javascript Jabber - Programming Throwdown"}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 13749707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749707", "by": "mr_anich", "time": 1488239090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Stanford eCorner[0]. I particularly like the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series[1]. Startups For the Rest of Us[2] Entreprogrammers[3] [0] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts [1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/etl [2] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ [3] http://entreprogrammers.com/"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 13749707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749707", "by": "mr_anich", "time": 1488239090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Stanford eCorner[0]. I particularly like the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series[1]. Startups For the Rest of Us[2] Entreprogrammers[3] [0] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts [1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/etl [2] http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ [3] http://entreprogrammers.com/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13749986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13749986", "by": "csallen", "time": 1488241387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Software Engineering Daily (hosted by Jeff Meyerson) - The Indie Hackers Podcast (hosted by me!)"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 13750234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750234", "by": "probinso", "time": 1488243866, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Data Skeptic Linear Digressions Not So Standard Deviations Partially Derivative New Books in Mathematics Talk Python Podcast.__init__ Ask an Astronomer"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13750375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750375", "by": "dhruvtv", "time": 1488245467, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hi Rajath, Dhruv here :) SE daily (mentioned above) is just what you're looking for. https://overcast.fm/itunes1019576853/software-engineering-da..."}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 13750877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750877", "by": "decasteve", "time": 1488252182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ubuntu Podcast: http://ubuntupodcast.org/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 13750931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750931", "by": "1niels", "time": 1488252927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's by Alex Blumberg, former producer on \"This American Life\" and \"Planet Money\" by NPR. He recorded the podcast while founding a podcasting company named Gimlet Media and it documents how he got started, chose a name, got investment, found a partner, and various other parts of being a startup. I'd highly recommend the podcast for its amazing story telling and its transparency in including details that most companies would prefer to keep secret."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13750931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750931", "by": "1niels", "time": 1488252927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's by Alex Blumberg, former producer on \"This American Life\" and \"Planet Money\" by NPR. He recorded the podcast while founding a podcasting company named Gimlet Media and it documents how he got started, chose a name, got investment, found a partner, and various other parts of being a startup. I'd highly recommend the podcast for its amazing story telling and its transparency in including details that most companies would prefer to keep secret."}, {"show": "653204183", "hn_item": 13752128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752128", "by": "joelennon", "time": 1488268729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I launched a development focused podcast directory ( https://programmingpodcasts.com ) last week. It features over 200 podcasts in the categories you mention. Some I listen to regularly include: - Full Stack Radio - http://www.fullstackradio.com - SERadio - http://www.se-radio.net - The Changelog - https://changelog.com - Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - The Laravel Podcast - http://www.laravelpodcast.com - Bread Time - https://breadtime.simplecast.fm"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 13752128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752128", "by": "joelennon", "time": 1488268729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I launched a development focused podcast directory ( https://programmingpodcasts.com ) last week. It features over 200 podcasts in the categories you mention. Some I listen to regularly include: - Full Stack Radio - http://www.fullstackradio.com - SERadio - http://www.se-radio.net - The Changelog - https://changelog.com - Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - The Laravel Podcast - http://www.laravelpodcast.com - Bread Time - https://breadtime.simplecast.fm"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 13752128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752128", "by": "joelennon", "time": 1488268729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I launched a development focused podcast directory ( https://programmingpodcasts.com ) last week. It features over 200 podcasts in the categories you mention. Some I listen to regularly include: - Full Stack Radio - http://www.fullstackradio.com - SERadio - http://www.se-radio.net - The Changelog - https://changelog.com - Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - The Laravel Podcast - http://www.laravelpodcast.com - Bread Time - https://breadtime.simplecast.fm"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 13752836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752836", "by": "Veen", "time": 1488279428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like CGP Grey and Myke Hurley on other podcasts but Cortex bores me. CGP Grey needs someone different to play-off, like Brady on Hello Internet. On Cortex Myke just seems to play the role of mini-Grey. Also, there's only so much micro-workflow optimisation and productivity-wanking I can stand."}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 13753039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753039", "by": "zedeks48K", "time": 1488282234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: - The Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - Complete Developer Podcast - http://completedeveloperpodcast.com - Coding Blocks - http://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast - The Bike Shed - http://bikeshed.fm - The Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast - Hanselminutes - http://hanselminutes.com - Developer on Fire - http://developeronfire.com - Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 13753039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753039", "by": "zedeks48K", "time": 1488282234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: - The Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - Complete Developer Podcast - http://completedeveloperpodcast.com - Coding Blocks - http://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast - The Bike Shed - http://bikeshed.fm - The Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast - Hanselminutes - http://hanselminutes.com - Developer on Fire - http://developeronfire.com - Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 13753039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753039", "by": "zedeks48K", "time": 1488282234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: - The Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - Complete Developer Podcast - http://completedeveloperpodcast.com - Coding Blocks - http://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast - The Bike Shed - http://bikeshed.fm - The Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast - Hanselminutes - http://hanselminutes.com - Developer on Fire - http://developeronfire.com - Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13753039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753039", "by": "zedeks48K", "time": 1488282234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: - The Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - Complete Developer Podcast - http://completedeveloperpodcast.com - Coding Blocks - http://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast - The Bike Shed - http://bikeshed.fm - The Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast - Hanselminutes - http://hanselminutes.com - Developer on Fire - http://developeronfire.com - Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 13753039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753039", "by": "zedeks48K", "time": 1488282234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: - The Ruby Rogues - https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues - Complete Developer Podcast - http://completedeveloperpodcast.com - Coding Blocks - http://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast - The Bike Shed - http://bikeshed.fm - The Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast - Hanselminutes - http://hanselminutes.com - Developer on Fire - http://developeronfire.com - Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 13753389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13753389", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1488286699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Python Podcasts: 1. https://www.podcastinit.com/ 2. https://talkpython.fm/ Rust Podcast: 1. http://www.newrustacean.com/"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 13754410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13754410", "by": "gerosan", "time": 1488295901, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 13792185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792185", "by": "thedogeye", "time": 1488652477, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 13792185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13792185", "by": "thedogeye", "time": 1488652477, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13803731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13803731", "by": "feyman_r", "time": 1488817921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard an interesting take on this on the Planet Money podcast. While I still think books are over-priced here, it allowed me to think of different 'forces' that shape book prices: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episo..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 13808712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13808712", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1488869038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was covered on today's edition of the NYT podcast, The Daily, too. I highly recommend listening to it. It's my one 'must-listen' podcast. It's hosted by the guy who did the Times election podcast, The Runup , but offers far better production value. Give it a whirl: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 13809513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13809513", "by": "raleighm", "time": 1488883881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of Reply All (podcast) is about W3C and EME: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/90-matt-lieber-goes-to-dinne..."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 13818360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818360", "by": "marknadal", "time": 1488953962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "RethinkDB guys are great, but not the only reflection of what is happening in the DevTools space. I was interviewed on The Changelog[1] podcast and JavaScript Jabber[2] about some of this stuff, and wrote a follow up piece published on hackernoon[3] about it. It is a good space, it is just shifting in its needs, and I was able to raise just fine from big names like Tim Draper and Marc Benioff of Salesforce for our Open Source Firebase - https://github.com/amark/gun . [1] https://changelog.com/podcast/236 [2] https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/mjs-002-my-js-story-mark-nadal [3] https://hackernoon.com"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13818473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13818473", "by": "lenniez", "time": 1488955714, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is such a great question because I've been struggling with this too. I'm a full-time hired CTO for a startup and I have a 1yr old girl, married and I recently bought a house that also requires a bunch of time. 1 year ago I was addicted to learning new things and hacking things together. I had a dozen side projects and I was part of several start-ups, invested money, time and I was shareholder in a few of those start-ups. Sad truth was for me that I couldn't combine all of these after we got the baby. I had to step down for some of the startups I was involved in. In the beginning I tried t"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 13821259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13821259", "by": "myth_drannon", "time": 1488990147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related to abacus use. Sam Harris podcast \"Complexity & Stupidity\" https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/complexity-stupidity mentions abacus skills. The skill \"spreads\" to other areas of the brain they call it \"complementary cognitive artifacts\" Quotes : Harris: What else would you put on this list of complementary cognitive artifacts? Krakauer: The other example that I\u2019m very enamored of is the abacus. The abacus is a device for doing arithmetic in the world with our hands and eyes. But expert abacus users no longer have to use the physical abacus. They actually create a virtual abacus in the "}, {"show": "1187402810", "hn_item": 13823801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823801", "by": "kareemm", "time": 1489007272, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Noah Kagan did a podcast on the deal he made to buy Sumo.com. Not a straight lease but more like a payment plan. He talks about how Mint.com was purchased this way too. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/noah-kagan-presents-form..."}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 13824142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13824142", "by": "jason_slack", "time": 1489009548, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1120964487", "hn_item": 13835580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835580", "by": "ernsheong", "time": 1489109464, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast (iOS) is really worth listening. Straight from the horse's mouth: \"Dependency Management, Semver, and Community Consensus with Sam Boyer\" https://itunes.apple.com/my/podcast/go-time/id1120964487?mt=..."}, {"show": "1120964487", "hn_item": 13835601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835601", "by": "ernsheong", "time": 1489109709, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast (iOS) is really worth listening. Straight from the horse's mouth: \"Dependency Management, Semver, and Community Consensus\" https://itunes.apple.com/my/podcast/go-time/id1120964487?mt=... It explains how go dep fundamentally works alongside the other tools."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 13841503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13841503", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1489175380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And people wonder why everyone wants into the industry... alas it's top talent that command these salaries, I'm far from there. Qureshi's story is a fun one I've heard him talk about it on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Knowing how to negotiate well and being a talented engineer can go a long ways."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 13843334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13843334", "by": "kgen", "time": 1489191871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing about that as well, likely from a Radiolab or This American Life podcast (can't find it right now), but http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291121... talks about it a bit more. LT;DR, people didn't actually experience time slowing, they just happened to remember more of what was happening."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 13843334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13843334", "by": "kgen", "time": 1489191871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing about that as well, likely from a Radiolab or This American Life podcast (can't find it right now), but http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291121... talks about it a bit more. LT;DR, people didn't actually experience time slowing, they just happened to remember more of what was happening."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13847943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13847943", "by": "dwaxe", "time": 1489275872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's been around for a long time. Freakonomics did a podcast on it in 2010 ( http://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-how-much-... )."}, {"show": "1191611911", "hn_item": 13849464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13849464", "by": "phprida", "time": 1489300767, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 13850692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13850692", "by": "mikehollinger", "time": 1489327475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a technology blog, but \"Manager Tools\" is a podcast that I love. Their solution to your problem is a \"map of the universe\" [1] which organizes every cast they've done since 2005 into a pretty easy to follow graph. They also revisit old topics every now and then. On a side note - if you're in a technical leadership job where you're no longer an \"individual contributor,\" think of a situation that's annoyed you, then click around the manager tools map. They probably touched on it (it's got \"how to promote someone,\" \"how to delegate\" for various personality types, \"how to give feedback,\" and e"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13851702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13851702", "by": "mifeng", "time": 1489338654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The history of probability-based lottery hacks is long and rich. Here's a Planet Money podcast episode about it: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/13/462982983/10-11..."}, {"show": "585390927", "hn_item": 13881358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13881358", "by": "adamwathan", "time": 1489625162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks. I did everything myself; started working on the book during evenings/weekends in February, released in May. I was interviewed about the launch on the Product People podcast a while back if you enjoy these sorts of stories: http://www.productpeople.tv/81"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 13882977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13882977", "by": "shostack", "time": 1489645709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's \"How I Built This\" podcast had an interesting interview with the founder on how they got started and the challenges they've faced/face. [1] [1] https://play.google.com/music/m/Dj4goozcgwvlcixxhx2pekacws4?..."}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 13883081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883081", "by": "malikNF", "time": 1489647358, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1215439780", "hn_item": 13893660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13893660", "by": "gerosan", "time": 1489756609, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 13900028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13900028", "by": "1123581321", "time": 1489814572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Soren Johnson's Designer Notes podcast[1] mentioned in the article is excellent and I've learned quite a lot from the long interviews, especially Bruce Shelley's, Louis Castle's and Amy Hennig's. Currently he's releasing his interview with Sid Meier, which looks like it'll end up being 5-6 hours in length and is great so far. I really enjoy when in-depth discussions of niche topics give me ideas about other things and that's happened many times while listening to this show. Those interested in the market/economic simulations in Railroad Tycoon might enjoy playing Soren's game, Offworld Trading"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 13907214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907214", "by": "xtiansimon", "time": 1489933279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a recent TalkPython podcast with Dougal Matthews titled \"Effective Code Reviews\". Host Kennedy asks every interviewee what is their favorite editor. Dougal's answer: (44:35-44:48) \"I use Vim all the time. Yeah, I work in so many remote servers and VMs that I have some scripts to kind of set up my Vim environment on that machine, and then it's just great.\" Who knew it would be that easy to switch to your own personal VIM setup?"}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 13913037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13913037", "by": "vidarh", "time": 1490006603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I read most of \"Mindfulness in Plain English\" by Henepola Gunaratana. It was good for a deeper dive into Vipassana meditation in particular and did a good job of keeping the more religious overtones to a minimum. I definitely recommend it. It was the book I started with, and I just wanted to second this. As a lifelong skeptic by nature, finding a book that introduced meditation without the \"woo\" made all the difference. For more of the same, look up the podcasts by Gil Fronsdal and Audiodharma. Like with Mindfulness in Plain English, it comes from a Buddhist starting point but he goes to the"}, {"show": "332923870", "hn_item": 13916305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13916305", "by": "samknight", "time": 1490033221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Steven, I understand you're putting together the Startup School MOC with Finbarr and Sam. I'm a London based startup founder who loves the idea behind the course and is interested in getting the most possible from it. My interest lead me to hitting the Startup School Radio podcast where I heard this sentiment from a fellow London founder, YC alumni and ex-YC partner Harj Taggar \"Just psychologically it's a big deal to be around a lot of other people going through the same thing you are, and just not feeling like you're crazy\". I took Harj's words to heart and went about finding other London"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 13916305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13916305", "by": "samknight", "time": 1490033221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Steven, I understand you're putting together the Startup School MOC with Finbarr and Sam. I'm a London based startup founder who loves the idea behind the course and is interested in getting the most possible from it. My interest lead me to hitting the Startup School Radio podcast where I heard this sentiment from a fellow London founder, YC alumni and ex-YC partner Harj Taggar \"Just psychologically it's a big deal to be around a lot of other people going through the same thing you are, and just not feeling like you're crazy\". I took Harj's words to heart and went about finding other London"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 13919085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13919085", "by": "zimzam", "time": 1490060005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the \"Science Vs\" podcast goes over a lot of research on immigration including what I mentioned about job creation: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/immigration/"}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 13928477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928477", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1490157229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As podcasts become bigger and bigger I've been afraid of something like Breaker succeeding. Thanks to RSS/Atom it's currently a very open medium. Anyone can start putting out content and I can consume it on any device and app I choose, download episodes for on-the-go and offline listening, transfer the files easily between devices\u2014even to \"dumb\" MP3 players that never had an app ecosystem\u2014and move my subscriptions around with the common OPML format. There's no tracking or analytics peering over my shoulder, unlike so much of modern media that's become enslaved to data: as a listener I consider"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13930918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930918", "by": "THE_PUN_STOPS", "time": 1490191227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: http://www.npr.org/series/248799434/planet-moneys-t-shirt-pr... NPR's Planet Money podcast created a T-shirt and attempted to follow it every step of it's economic journey. An interesting look into the gears and cogs of global manufacturing of an everyday object. Also related: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plane... Planet Money buys a barrel of crude oil and follows its journey through the various actors and entities in between pumping it out of the ground and selling it as a final product."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13936880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13936880", "by": "ryanworl", "time": 1490234418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently over the last few weeks they've been sending out contracts to the developers of apps they're integrating with to obtain written permission to use their URL schemes. Google and Uber could've just said no or not responded. This is according to Marco Arment a few minutes ago on the live recording of the Accidental Tech Podcast, who said he was asked to sign this document for his podcast app."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 13939067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939067", "by": "dcgoss", "time": 1490271233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First heard about these guys on the Cooking Issues podcast a while back. Cool to see them with YC!"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 13940419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940419", "by": "canuckintime", "time": 1490281994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was actually listening to the ATP podcast live as they were recording and I heard Marco's words in real time. My remarks of the possibility of standardizing their Translation API use aren't speculation; Google's terms/offers are pretty public: https://cloud.google.com/translate/faq While Marco tried to put a nice spin on it, it should be obvious why Workflow dropped Google services"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 13943818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13943818", "by": "username223", "time": 1490300131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Politicians are routinely bought by those with narrow interests. By coincidence, Planet Money recently did a podcast about automatically filling out tax returns in California: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo... tl;dr: In a pilot, 99% of people preferred the auto-filled returns, but the bill to make it law failed by one vote, because of Intuit and Grover Norquist."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13948985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13948985", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1490364695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been reading the ebookified versions of older posts from his site: I think I'm on volume 8 or 9 now :-) In particular I highly recommend his digression (in the context of Trinity) on the history of the atomic bomb: a coworker recently recommended Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" podcast on the same subject, and so far\u2026 let's just say that Digital Antiquarian's treatment is fantastic . Edit: ebook library: http://www.filfre.net/the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-library..."}, {"show": "1772772350", "hn_item": 13949732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949732", "by": "pstavirs", "time": 1490370790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, it is based after the musical term! I explained a bit about the naming in the Packet Pushers Podcast[1] (around the 6:40 mark) Disclosure: I'm the creator of Ostinato [1] http://packetpushers.net/podcast/podcasts/pq-show-52-using-o..."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 13953525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953525", "by": "erentz", "time": 1490404673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The thesis is good. But like many of Adam Curtis's documentaries this can feel like it takes too long to get to the point. For the curious (and montage averse) the Chapo Trap House podcast had an interview with Adam Curtis (Episode 65) in which the thesis was outlined much faster, and in more amusing fashion."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 13956486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956486", "by": "intopieces", "time": 1490460899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree. I listened to the Chapo Trap House podcast with Adam Curtis and was incredibly disappointed. They seemed to have barely superficial familiarity with HyperNormalization or Curtis' work in general. It was awkward. Curtis can talk at length linking topics like government, culture, science fiction, and 21st century monetary policy together while the podcast guys made lame jokes that did not really fit with the theme or mood."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 13959704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959704", "by": "Timtommy", "time": 1490514999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've always been a big fan of the devchat.tv podcasts, especially Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 13959704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959704", "by": "Timtommy", "time": 1490514999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've always been a big fan of the devchat.tv podcasts, especially Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 13966551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966551", "by": "personlurking", "time": 1490611797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The old one and the newer two are about understanding foreign cultures. The old one was about a particular country while the newer ones are focused on vibrant major cities. I know if I focused on tourism, I'd get more of an audience but since I blog for pleasure (and like digging into national identity, urban planning, historical changes and the arts), I prefer to produce content that interests me rather than write for clicks. I also wonder about the same things (re:last two lines you wrote). I'd love to make a podcast, like 99% Invisible, but who wouldn't?"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 13969528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13969528", "by": "bdburns", "time": 1490634345, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 13969528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13969528", "by": "bdburns", "time": 1490634345, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 13971120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13971120", "by": "shostack", "time": 1490644549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Claudia Goldin, Harvard economics professor, has some really interesting info on this I heard on a Freakonomics podcast a while back [1]. A big takeaway for me was that the data showed men and women being largely equal in pay for the earlier parts of their careers when you control for various things. When families start entering the equation, women often prioritize different things in their job, or consider changing jobs that offer these things. One of the big new priorities is...surprise...flexibility. When you have a family, flexibility because worth its weight in gold. If women are still pr"}, {"show": "1215062660", "hn_item": 13977096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977096", "by": "shruts02", "time": 1490713123, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 13989624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13989624", "by": "shawn-furyan", "time": 1490814960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Climate change is true not because of a lack of challengers. In fact, the opposite is true. The theory that the rising atmospheric carbon level is causing a rise in average global temperatures has had many competing theories going back decades. None have been nearly as consistent with the observations as this theory. Likewise the theory that the rise in atmospheric carbon is due to human activity has had many challengers, but none have explained the observations as well. What will come of rising temperatures is a matter of less agreement, and less certainty. Rising water levels in the back y"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 13994655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13994655", "by": "douche", "time": 1490875795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcast advertising is really not the same as the ad networks on a blog or website. It's far more analogous to the advert spots that radio does. It doesn't even need to be particularly native advertising. I've listened to a bunch of ads on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History that are completely unrelated to the subject of the podcast."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 13995839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13995839", "by": "michaelcjoseph", "time": 1490885477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily Brief curates longer form articles and podcasts from high quality, handpicked sources, and provides users a clean, simple website and newsletter in which to consume them. The newsletter highlights the most interesting stories both generally and by topic in one email delivered daily or weekly. Once you select your topics of interest, you can then sit back and enjoy reading/listening to the best stories of the day. This is the first web app I've built, and I'd love to get the community's thoughts and feedback."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 14003507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14003507", "by": "Pigo", "time": 1490966933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem I don't hear anyone talking about is the continuing underestimation of new media, and it's effect on society. My generation can't wait to cut the cord. But we still think CNN and Fox are leading the narrative, and they still think they are leading the narrative, but I find out about news on The Rubin Report or Joe Rogan's podcast way before I happen to pass by an old tv at the gym turned to CNN. These aren't news sources, they don't claim to be, but I end up first hearing about events with their spin for better or for worse. I take things with a grain of salt because I understand t"}, {"show": "1482132871", "hn_item": 14006285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006285", "by": "bcaulfield", "time": 1490983035, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 14007302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14007302", "by": "elecia", "time": 1490988583, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14008784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008784", "by": "SomewhatLikely", "time": 1490998193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics Radio recently rebroadcast an episode on this topic: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/safe-job-rebroadcast/ Part of the discussion that stuck in my mind: \"As all the people who left being blacksmiths, and stable boys, and equestrians and carriage drivers ... However, the birth of the automobile industry also gave rise to an industry constructing roads, it also gave rise to the motel and travel industry. It also gave rise to the fast-food industry. And so even though, in fact, net employment in personal transportation declined with the advent of the automobile, it gave rise to a who"}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 14019053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14019053", "by": "criddell", "time": 1491167246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like podcasts, give Scriptnotes a try. It's John August and Craig Mazin and they cover a lot of material. https://johnaugust.com/podcast One thing that comes up again and again is location. If you are in the US and are writing for film, you pretty much have to be in Los Angeles if you want screenwriting to be your career."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14020349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020349", "by": "somberi", "time": 1491188676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learnt a bit from listening to this Podcast from Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/"}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 14030630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14030630", "by": "padraic7a", "time": 1491294984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Re HiDPI; A recent episode of the podcast Late Night Linux has a discussion of one of the hosts' experiences with his 4k monitor and a number of Linux distros. I think it starts at about 30 minutes in: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-06/ AFAIR the best experience was with Unity 7 on Ubuntu. There is some discussion on why support on different desktops / distros is the way it is, and how automatic configuration might be improved, which might be of interest to HN readers. The chap doing the testing is the main dev / founder behind Budgie / Solus."}, {"show": "1212062965", "hn_item": 14037207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14037207", "by": "kris-s", "time": 1491339992, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm working on a large collection of short stories called the Daily Story Project (guess how frequently I write the stories). It's intended to be listened to as a podcast but I also publish the recordings as YouTube videos. Not really \"on topic\" for HN but I did write a script to do the video to mp3 conversion! If you're looking for a representative sample of my writing style I would say Ghost Squad is a good one: https://youtu.be/zzMOK86J7IE (113). Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-story/id1212062965... Youtube: youtube.com/krisshamloo"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14050597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050597", "by": "ryan606", "time": 1491487638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I seem to recall a Freakonomics chapter or podcast episode that discussed drunk driving vs. walking home drunk, and concluded that walking home drunk was even more dangerous than driving home drunk. Either choice is much worse than ride-sharing or cabbing or public transit, obviously."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 14050857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050857", "by": "kk_cz", "time": 1491489373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ Engaging storytelling on some of the selected historic periods or events. Sometimes a little biased but well worth listening to. In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl It can be hit or miss. But if you find a topic that matches with your interests it is usually very well covered. The Ezra Klein Show http://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast I like this guy and he usually has interesting guests. Penn's Sunday School http://pennsundayschool.com Podcast of Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) usually pretty"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 14052986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052986", "by": "thearn4", "time": 1491502132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alternative outcomes of WW1 represent some of the most interesting \"What if?\"s of the history of the 20th century. It's a fascinating conflict to read about, since it seemingly could have gone either way up to nearly the end of the war. Compare that to WW2, where by late 1942 I think it was more or less clear that the axis powers would not be winning on the offensive, and it became more of a question of how absolute the end would be (armistice vs surrender). WW1 also lacks as clear of a \"good\" vs. \"bad\" narrative as the WW2 has, which makes it complex, and complex history is typically more int"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14053722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053722", "by": "samirillian", "time": 1491506530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of an EconTalk podcast on epidemiology. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/robert_aronowit.htm..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14056844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056844", "by": "karlshea", "time": 1491535333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Accidental Tech Podcast from the other day it was hinted they heard rumors that Apple engineers did try and do some spec bumps, but they kept running into thermal problems no matter what they tried. I guess they were really really close to the edge with that design, and Marco said he's heard those GPUs are failing from heat issues fairly often."}, {"show": "1165804333", "hn_item": 14058510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14058510", "by": "yaksha13", "time": 1491559790, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 14061741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14061741", "by": "FroshKiller", "time": 1491586576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm definitely going to give this Containers podcast a try! If anyone else is interested in the history of the shipping container and the effect it had on the global economy, check out The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson."}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 14061741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14061741", "by": "FroshKiller", "time": 1491586576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm definitely going to give this Containers podcast a try! If anyone else is interested in the history of the shipping container and the effect it had on the global economy, check out The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14082218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14082218", "by": "tradersam", "time": 1491856040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Our bot is doing something seemingly simple: It looks at President Trump's Twitter feed, and when he tweets about a company, it trades stocks, with real money. > There's $1,000 on the line invested by the staff members of the Planet Money podcast from their personal funds. This is actually a neat idea. Curious to see the follow up. Overall thought it was pretty cool, and then I saw one of the tweets: > Just realized my name is a pun on @POTUS. Wow!! Why didn't I see that before!![0] :/ [0]: https://twitter.com/BOTUS/status/851464781093625856"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 14090003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14090003", "by": "roguskinta", "time": 1491930066, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I've really enjoyed the series [1,2] so far, but it seems to be on break since 5/2016. akharris, will there be a new season? Is it on indefinite hold? Thanks! [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-radio/id992277217?mt=2 [2] https://soundcloud.com/akharris"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14091350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14091350", "by": "smt88", "time": 1491937699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Reply All is doing a series about this, including Uber's reluctance/inability to stop it https://gimletmedia.com/episode/91-the-russian-passenger/ https://gimletmedia.com/episode/93-beware-all/"}, {"show": "1215062660", "hn_item": 14098800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14098800", "by": "shruts02", "time": 1492011884, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 14098851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14098851", "by": "heinrichf", "time": 1492012193, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14114900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14114900", "by": "msound", "time": 1492182690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a related note, a Stanford tax law professor Joseph Bankman had run trials of pre-filled forms for a few California state taxpayers. Listen to his journey on Episode 760 of PlanetMoney podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/episo... TL;DR: * 99% of people liked the pre-filled forms * He took this idea to California state congress, but Congresspeople were \"warned\" about him by Intuit lobbyists * He hired his own lobbyist but lost by 1 vote in the Congress Edit: Grammar"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14126825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14126825", "by": "jwilliams", "time": 1492367587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those of you coming late to CRISPR and this debate - it's covered in a Radiolab podcast episode from February http://www.radiolab.org/story/update-crispr/ This is an update, but opens with the original CRISPR report from some years back -- featuring Jennifer Doudna from UC Berkeley."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 14131284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14131284", "by": "saluki", "time": 1492441001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't abandon the idea. Keep earning your primary income as you currently are as a Sys Admin and coding where you can in your day job. If you enjoy developing pick a framework (Rails or Laravel) and start building apps. Learn all you can. Work toward obtaining a remote developer position or working on contract projects to learn more/get a better taste of what the work is like. If you enjoy it and are successful work toward transitioning to it full time. Another option is to create your own app/business and be your own boss if you're interested in that. Then you don't have to worry about being "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14132058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14132058", "by": "muninn_", "time": 1492445819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Idk - you can say that we're in a state of \"anti-regulation\" but I don't think that it's any worse than it has been for awhile. It basically amounts to who's looking out for who for regulation. Republicans are generally more about removing regulation (which can also be considered \"smart regulation\"), and Democrats less so, but the overall trend has been toward increasing regulation. It's very difficult to get rid of regulations once they are in place. One man/women's \"smart regulation\" is another man/woman's \"overregulation/deregulation\". For example, people say that regulating the coal indust"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14132617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14132617", "by": "novia", "time": 1492449233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a pretty good podcast explaining where these economic estimates come from and why they are important to have around. It's part 3 at the following link: http://www.radiolab.org/story/worth/ Basically, if you do not make a monetary estimate of the worth of some feature of nature, it's assumed worth is $0 when governments are making decisions about policy and land use."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14134089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134089", "by": "kevinmannix", "time": 1492460614, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The always fantastic NPR-produced podcast Planet Money had a recent episode on how the founder of a Bitcoin company dreamed up a new currency system based around the blockchain while he was locked up in prison. Pretty fascinating and a great way to be introduced to the concept of electronic currency. Podcast link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/10/514577243/episo..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14138251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14138251", "by": "muerdeme", "time": 1492518506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. There is a very interesting and recent EconTalk podcast that touches on this. A great majority Americans are proud to be taxpayers, but many also feel that the money is spended wastefully. When interviewed in depth, this often reflects partisan misunderstanding. EconTalk: Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips https://overcast.fm/+JDN9N7o"}, {"show": "305318840", "hn_item": 14140648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14140648", "by": "abtinf", "time": 1492535505, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For a practical moral philosophy, one in which the \"enterprise of morality as a chain of material implication following from axioms\" is foundational and embraced, try learning about Objectivism. As a student of Objectivism, I find it to be a powerful tool in everyday decision making. For a quick 1-hour introduction, see this Dave Rubin interview with Yaron Brook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089xOB9bbhU For fiction illustrating the principles, you could read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145... https://www.amazon.com/Fountainhea"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 14146251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146251", "by": "rbanffy", "time": 1492589721, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 14152012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14152012", "by": "nxrabl", "time": 1492637702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looks like someone at Atlas Obscura listens to the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast [0] (Episode 160). Not that they shouldn't, it's a great show. [0]: http://qi.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 14152150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14152150", "by": "shostack", "time": 1492638843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A meta-question for those who follow Stratechery or the Exponent Podcast and are perhaps more deeply engrained in some of these companies being discussed... Do you find the analysis to typically be pretty thorough and accurate? I love the podcast and I think I've listened to every single one at this point, and they always talk through their reasoning at length in a logical, (mostly) structured manner, which I love. However in the back of my mind there's this little voice that says \"they used to be management consultants and still do consulting, so of course they are good at making their argume"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 14154055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14154055", "by": "jeremy_wiebe", "time": 1492663762, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Was listening to a podcast with one of the first Atom authors (Nathan Sobo) and he mentioned that all new code is in ES6 these days. The codebase is pretty big. They're doing a convert-on-touch approach he said. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-changelog/id34162326..."}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 14166536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166536", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1492789302, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 14167892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167892", "by": "mtanski", "time": 1492798467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NYTimes The Daily podcast this week had an interesting explanation of this situation. N. Korea is not really a a proxy state, the best you can call it is a rogue proxy state. It's not like it doesn't extort China too. It knows China doesn't want instability on it's border. Funnily enough the rest of the world thinks China can snap it's fingers and get the situation fixed up. The rest of the world is perplexed why it's not happening. The analogy they made is to Israel. The whole world thinks that Israel is a proxy of the US. The rest of the world doesn't understand why the U.S just can't ge"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14182682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182682", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1493021911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NPR Planet Money podcast did one of their best episodes about this, called Frank Sinatra's Mug: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/09/459116467/episo... There's a transcript here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14182733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182733", "by": "pluma", "time": 1493022690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This. I would assume copying a voice pattern is treated no different from copying an appearance. If a 3D model is a very close approximation to a particular person's face and you use it in a game intentionally to benefit from that person's likeness, you can run into legal issues. And of course you really open yourself up for a lawsuit if you then attach the real person's name to it. EDIT: See the NPR Planet Money podcast linked elsewhere in the comments. Apparently there are fairly specific laws to protect someone's likeness -- including their voice -- thanks to the entertainment industry and "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14184620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14184620", "by": "robocaptain", "time": 1493044634, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Reply All covered this in an episode last year: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma... Obviously not scientific, but great anecdotal discussion."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 14184668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14184668", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1493045016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Jocko Podcast, always good food for thought > http://jockopodcast2.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14187614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14187614", "by": "giarc", "time": 1493063878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Planet Money podcast (or similar) recently that talked about tax cuts to small/medium size businesses. They looked at a few anecdotal cases and small cuts in taxes didn't result in enough money to hire someone or spend large amounts. They just simply weren't paying a ton in tax anyways, so a cut here or there wasn't a big change."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 14209192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209192", "by": "KSS42", "time": 1493267679, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514. Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console. He talks about future bash/Linux support."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 14210331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14210331", "by": "mafribe", "time": 1493286754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of this book also runs the Omega Tau podcast [1] that should be of great interest to many HN readers. [1] http://omegataupodcast.net"}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 14213094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14213094", "by": "podiki", "time": 1493313049, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 14215570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14215570", "by": "Alex3917", "time": 1493334083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Psychedelic Salon podcast has a few of his talks. He was insanely smart and well-spoken: https://psychedelicsalon.com/category/people/nick-sand/ Especially interesting is episode 054, where IIRC he talks about how all the high-level LSD producers and distributors he was in prison with were the children of the folks who worked on the Manhattan project."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14221484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14221484", "by": "fpgaminer", "time": 1493401502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is that data (New businesses/yr/capita) available for California specifically? For example, measures of economic mobility (ability for persons to traverse up the economic class system) are dismal for the U.S. as a whole. But for California specifically we're more-or-less on-par with the best nations. At least, that's what I remember from the RadioLab podcast on the subject. I've always been more skeptical of U.S. wide statistics since then."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 14222409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222409", "by": "smt88", "time": 1493408227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kleck's science is terrible. There's an entertaining overview of it on the Science Vs. podcast[1]. His rebuttal is basically debunked at the bottom of the rebuttal itself. 1. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/guns/"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 14222429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222429", "by": "smt88", "time": 1493408422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I gave sources. You're making an argument that isn't supported by data. There's an excellent overview of the data on the Science Vs. podcast[1], which you'd probably find interesting. It explains why arguments like yours may apply to a few people, but not to the vast majority. While it's true that training makes you less likely to be killed by a firearm, it has no effect on suicides of family members, someone stealing the gun and using it, someone in the family using it improperly, etc. > you've only perpetuated the cycle of fear by trying to instill more fear That was exactly my intention. Gu"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14222614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14222614", "by": "engx", "time": 1493409691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "General Hayden was recently on Sam Harris' podcast and he briefly explained the 'retroactive collection' concept- https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/privacy-and-security I'd say his arguments appear clear and convincing, even to a skeptic like myself. I wonder what can be done to counter his seemingly perfect narrative so Americans can be rightfully concerned about what's happening. To be clear, I don't believe Hayden, he is likely lying about aspects of it, these systems will inevitably be used in the future for regular law enforcement purposes and the previous abuses by NSA staff is unde"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 14224345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14224345", "by": "yeldarb", "time": 1493427126, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Uber China (which Didi acquired) already was. I recently listened to the Acuired podcast about the history of Didi/Uber in China and found it incredibly interesting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired-a-podcast-about..."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14229890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229890", "by": "iseff", "time": 1493519354, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14242636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242636", "by": "dillonforrest", "time": 1493680469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "RankScience (YC W17) | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | On-site only | Salary + Equity + Benefits + 15 day minimum vacation policy We're hiring for an engineer focused on product at RankScience! Junior- or entry-level experience okay. On-site at RankScience HQ in San Francisco (no remote). Our office is at 17th & Valencia in the Mission! Why this role matters to RankScience: - Scalability: This role enables our company to scale to 50 customers, and then to 500 customers, and then 5000 customers. - Bleeding-edge business model: This role enables our unique business model to have the scalability "}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 14242715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242715", "by": "mikikian", "time": 1493681338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, here's a \"How I Built This\" podcast for Angie's list that I found interesting. https://www.angieslist.com/articles/angie-hicks-npr-s-how-i-..."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 14243466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243466", "by": "BinaryIdiot", "time": 1493690961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Any other resources you would recommend like this? So I personally listen to the following which is all in a similar vain: - Start-up from Gimlet Media (first season outlined their start, subsequent seasons have been a mixture of other companies) - TWiST (This Week in Start-ups) by Jason Calacanis. I know people have various opinions on him here but I find his interviews great - The Pitch which is a podcast where people come on and pitch real investors to get feedback (and the most recent season actual investments) - a16z I find is a hit or a miss so I occasionally cherry pick their podcasts"}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 14246755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14246755", "by": "fritzw", "time": 1493736439, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I hate to cheap out and just send you to a history podcast, but it really is a great collection of remarks on the history of policing in the US. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serve-protect-a-history-... It's well worth a listen, the entire series is great as well"}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 14255470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255470", "by": "burnsbj", "time": 1493818375, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14261535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14261535", "by": "kqr2", "time": 1493858345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a good intro to the Puerto Rico financial crisis, see this Planet Money podcast : http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/01/472733338/episo..."}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 14262225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14262225", "by": "oneguynick", "time": 1493868604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As you hear about Puerto Rico the next few days, take some time to get smart on the history and dynamic. Highly recommend Congressional Dish Podcast that came out a few weeks ago. Very good - http://www.congressionaldish.com/cd147-controlling-puerto-ri..."}, {"show": "1714799476", "hn_item": 14264664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14264664", "by": "lumelet", "time": 1493904821, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14264664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14264664", "by": "lumelet", "time": 1493904821, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 14273970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14273970", "by": "lumelet", "time": 1493996918, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 14277189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277189", "by": "pfista", "time": 1494022448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is actually quite amazing and one of the fields I'm most interested in. Spatial audio / 3d audio is much more immersive and less gimmicky than 3D video, but I feel like people don't really care too much because they were so underwhelmed with 3D video. It's one of those things with high fidelity audio you can't tell a difference between what is real and what is fake. Edgar Choueiri, a Princeton professor, was the first I know of that tried to commercialize his algorithm for spatial audio. I believe he got a deal with Jawbone to put in Jambox as a feature called \"live audio mode\". He did tr"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14279880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279880", "by": "bbayles", "time": 1494072619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This video isn't my cup of tea, but Roberts' EconTalk podcast has been educational and illuminating for over 10 years now - highly recommended."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14291028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291028", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1494247635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast referenced upthread does mention earthquake codes and some other factors that have helped lead to houses becoming disposable. Nonetheless, I'd note though that it's not really the case in, say, the Bay Area. It's a behavior that seems to have evolved beyond practical reasons to become a cultural pattern. There are also good reasons to junk old cars but it would be pretty inefficient if it became a societal taboo to drive a car over five years old or to purchase a used model."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14295136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14295136", "by": "Pyxl101", "time": 1494274220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because efficient companies produce goods and services for lower prices than inefficient companies, which, happening at scale throughout the economy, lowers the cost of living and raises the standard of living for everyone. An increase in the amount of goods and services produced per head is the definition of economic growth, which most of us consider to be a good thing. Improvements to our quality of living essentially require economic growth. Take a listen to this NPR Planet Money podcast (and article) called \"The History of Light\" [1]. It describes how much it cost to light a room, in terms"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14295606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14295606", "by": "gordon_freeman", "time": 1494277536, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14299403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299403", "by": "xmstr", "time": 1494332808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Walmart's idea of winning cash based on savings deposit amounts reminded me of the Freakonomics savings lottery from the 2010 podcast: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-could-a-l..."}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 14300105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14300105", "by": "sleepybrett", "time": 1494338978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nice interview, much longer more in depth one on Soren Johnson's 'Designer Notes' podcast (the fourth part just landed the other day). https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 14302006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14302006", "by": "danielskogly", "time": 1494350628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Song Exploder podcast is awesome for both approaches, and I would really recommend anyone interested in writing and/or producing music to give it a go. \"A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.\" @ http://songexploder.net/"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14306515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14306515", "by": "mankash666", "time": 1494402008, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "560734474", "hn_item": 14311046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14311046", "by": "csa", "time": 1494445762, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14313199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14313199", "by": "jakecopp", "time": 1494465006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really great 99% Invisible episode (podcast) going over all the economics & history of net metering for those interested! http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/reversing-the-grid/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14316996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14316996", "by": "badgers", "time": 1494518016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money did a podcast on a a town in Wisconsin that reduced health care costs by having conversations with patients about death. It's worth a listen for an inexpensive solution to a costly problem: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/05/496751771/episo..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14328467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14328467", "by": "brndnmtthws", "time": 1494628297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had an interesting 2 part podcast series about this very topic. If you haven't heard of it, and these things interest you, I suggest you check it out: Part 1: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/earth-2-0-economics-edition-... Part 2: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/earth-2-0-income-inequality/"}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 14350123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350123", "by": "starik36", "time": 1494947014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are correct. They actually have a tool that scans the Cocoa libraries and generates API bindings for Xamarin to use. Source: Miguel De Icaza on the .NET Rocks podcast."}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 14353750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14353750", "by": "JoeRess", "time": 1494972431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We spoke to the developer of Maru OS on yesterday's Late Night Linux podcast. http://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-11/"}, {"show": "1758539536", "hn_item": 14357816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357816", "by": "avar", "time": 1495024874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of the Intercepted podcast is relevant: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/intercepted-podcast-jame... They have some audio snippets from the trial itself on that podcast."}, {"show": "1204521130", "hn_item": 14366707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14366707", "by": "laktak", "time": 1495111428, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1089973241", "hn_item": 14369151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14369151", "by": "aechsten", "time": 1495128317, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14375747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375747", "by": "germinalphrase", "time": 1495202781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America, has been making the rounds lately. Good conversations on both the Econtalk podcast [0] (which I know is an HN favorite) and the Long Now Foundation [1]. Procurement sounds absolutely awful at the federal level; she makes a compelling case for how needed modern software design and development processes are in providing effective and cost efficient government services. [0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/jennifer_pahlka.htm... [1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/feb/01/fixing-government-b..."}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 14375747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14375747", "by": "germinalphrase", "time": 1495202781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of Code for America, has been making the rounds lately. Good conversations on both the Econtalk podcast [0] (which I know is an HN favorite) and the Long Now Foundation [1]. Procurement sounds absolutely awful at the federal level; she makes a compelling case for how needed modern software design and development processes are in providing effective and cost efficient government services. [0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/jennifer_pahlka.htm... [1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/feb/01/fixing-government-b..."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 14379325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14379325", "by": "pizza", "time": 1495227668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Youtube - Zero Books' zero squared podcast, David Parsons' Nostalgia Trap podcast, a lot of random Noam Chomsky or Slavoj \u017di\u017eek lectures, even more miscellaneous hr-long lectures on any topic etc Patreon - Chapo Trap House podcast Other podcasts: In the News by Doug Henwood, the Kraken podcast, the Katie Halper show Twitter reddit - r/machinelearning, r/keto, r/sorceryofthespectacle, r/chapotraphouse blogs - high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com, itsthewooo.blogspot.com, gwern.net Occasionally I just browse through arxiv.org, and tbh I have a massive backlog of unread saved webpages in my Pocket acc"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 14386182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14386182", "by": "inian", "time": 1495352550, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14394747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394747", "by": "shanecleveland", "time": 1495469534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His segment on pricing in a recent Indie Hackers podcast is worthwhile: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/013-patrick-mckenzie-of..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 14399986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14399986", "by": "bruth", "time": 1495532300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SE Daily podcast about the company: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/16/scale-api-wi..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14425486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14425486", "by": "trahn", "time": 1495817815, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently enjoying the Indie Hackers podcast. Any hints for others in the somewhat same space?"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 14428811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14428811", "by": "elecia", "time": 1495856266, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 14431999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14431999", "by": "fergazen", "time": 1495919473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm no lawyer, but they really need to outlaw patents on 'general purpose' technologies. Adam Carolla famously got sued for owning a podcast company, when someone claimed to have a patent on the entire concept of \"downloadable audio\". I think there should be a one year jail term for anyone who files a suit about something that ends up being determined \"general purpose\" technology. Would end the nonsense overnight."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14434746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14434746", "by": "polpo", "time": 1495985453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cool tech demos like this one can have unforeseen uses: On an episode of the podcast Reply All [1], a \"trip sitter\" would use this site to help calm people down who were on bad trips, and it was pretty effective. [1] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/44-shine-on-you-crazy-goldma..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 14439034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439034", "by": "iamtew", "time": 1496065244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Arian Foster was on the Joe Rogan podcast a while back, they were talking a lot about head trauma, how it affects people and how they're dealing with it in NFL. Very interesting to watch/listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neVsniQdOnM"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14446354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446354", "by": "jasonlfunk", "time": 1496161034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast recently did an episode about this case: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/31/522226226/episo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14446413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446413", "by": "dangerboysteve", "time": 1496161442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to this podcast yesterday. Planet Money is well produced and entertaining as heck!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14450771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450771", "by": "prawn", "time": 1496212799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Radiolab podcast about Guadeloupean raccoons, where they're considered almost sacred even though they're as pesky as in the US. I found the locals discussing their attitude to the incredulity of the Radiolab hosts quite amusing. http://www.radiolab.org/story/stanger-paradise/"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 14455988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14455988", "by": "takk309", "time": 1496265361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lexicon Valley did a great podcast on this subject. http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2016/0..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14457199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14457199", "by": "KC8ZKF", "time": 1496279442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Econtalk podcast recently had a episode about the economics of opiate addiction. How people become addicted, how the drugs are distributed, etc. [1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14468712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14468712", "by": "0xcoffee", "time": 1496396949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What makes HN so great is that when a topic is discussed, often someone with direct participation in the topic is somewhere in the thread, to give an inside view. What I miss about mixing HN and politics, is that HN doesn't have politicians who can pop in and say 'oh hi guys I wrote this bill feel free to ask me some questions'. (I'm not saying nobody on HN participates on politics, I remember reading an interesting post about someone who ran for governor(?), but those posts are rare). For example, a podcast I love is Planet Money, and they take the time to interview economists on both sides, "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 14469029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469029", "by": "towerbabbel", "time": 1496401763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems to be one of the immutable laws of the internet that whenever there is a discussion of anything related to Steve Gibson someone will invariably post the link to that attrition.org site. If I may disregard the entire Ad hominem part and instead focus on the people posting the link. I must wonder how many have actually read what the site says about Steve Gibson and given some thought to what it might mean. It records a dozen or so issues over a the last 17 years. He has been doing the Security Now podcast since summer of 2005. That is a two hour podcast, 50 episodes a year for twelve ye"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14469637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14469637", "by": "humanrebar", "time": 1496409663, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> a podcast I love is Planet Money, and they take the time to interview economists on both sides Planet Money is better than average on this, but is definitely in the NPR bubble from my perspective. I think EconTalk does the best job of airing different perspectives on (at least tangentially) economics related issues. The host has his own perspective, but he's very candid that he knows he has his own cognitive biases and often invites his guests to enlighten him by challenging those biases. It's also a longer format, so there is more time to unpack issues. ...which is a really good point. I th"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14471209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471209", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1496421371, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I know everyone has a favorite podcast, but do you have favorite episode(s)? Indiehackers podcast episode 16 with Mike Perham on building Sidekiq, episode 6 with Josh Pigford or baremetrics and episode 1 with founders of SubmitHub I really enjoyed the Derek Sivers episode on the Tim Ferris podcast as well as the episode with DHH. The MetaLearn podcast episode 15 on Ask Better Questions was also a favorite."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14471320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471320", "by": "someSven", "time": 1496422095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some points to consider: - Self publishing of ebooks seem to work better for a bunch of authors (source: Planet Money Podcast) - There are bands which make money by having concerts and releasing there music for free. - I prefer not having my gouvernment to decide what is propaganda and what not. -Big media companies where screwing their artists for decades. Now there are alternatives. - I'm still not using Facebook, and I'm fine. - Freedom enables so much, like Netflix or the Brave browser, I like it."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14473238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473238", "by": "masondixon", "time": 1496436983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> a podcast I love is Planet Money, and they take the time to interview economists on both sides Great tip. The solution to so many problems is to involve challenging opposing points of view. There is a big problem with the left in America rejecting opposing points of view. \"Safe space\" and \"shut it down\" culture, etc. Mainstream media newsrooms packed with only liberal reporters, etc. But unfortunately everyone gravitates to places of comfort around people with like-minded views, because its too difficult to constantly be questioning your beliefs or challenging someone else. Good examples are"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14481826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481826", "by": "SeanBoocock", "time": 1496587533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet Media's \"Reply All\" podcast has a fascinating episode partially devoted to the etymology of \"yass\", \"throwing shade\" and other phrases: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/69-disappeared/"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14488071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14488071", "by": "intoverflow2", "time": 1496674902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the wording of the announcement it sounded like it was a project Honestly for well over a year now it felt like the Pro was officially canned and ATP podcast reported from an insider that literally no one was working on it as soon as Q4 2016. My thinking is there was a change of direction internally and a decision the future of Apple still required the talent and community of pro users rather than just embracing the mainstream full on and hoping that pros will be happy with iPads."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14488316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14488316", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1496676869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect a lot of HN probably listens to Sam Harris' podcast, but just in case ... there was a relevant episode last month where he and Gary Taubes discuss the whole \"good calories vs bad calories\" idea and popular fat/protein misunderstandings over the last few decades. https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/what-should-we-eat"}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 14493702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14493702", "by": "patio11", "time": 1496709054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That phrase comes from the TechZing podcast (\"increase one's luck surface area\") and is a really valuable insight (surface area = depth of value created times breadth of people who see it), so all the credit to them."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 14507647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14507647", "by": "tclancy", "time": 1496852606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like he was a good interviewer when he was younger. I'm just into my 40s now and I can see how you could get worse with age as you start to assume you already know the answers. It's why I've stopped listening to the \"In Our Time\" podcast in the past few years: all of a sudden Melvyn Bragg talks to the panel like he's double-parked."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 14511387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14511387", "by": "hertclef", "time": 1496888066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly relevant to your comment is episode 6 of Malcomb Gladwell's Revisionist History Podcast [0]. In the episode, Gladwell asks the president of Stanford whether there was any amount of money he would turn down because he thought it would better spent somewhere else. He replied, somewhat evasively, that no, there wasn't really an sum large enough. It's a truly incredible interview to listen to. I highly recommend the three part series about college education that makes up episodes 4,5,6 of the season 1. But, if you have the time, I think the entire podcast is excellent while noting that I am"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 14511857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14511857", "by": "DanAndersen", "time": 1496894974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested in etymology and the endless source of fascinating stories that is language, I recommend The History of English Podcast: http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ It starts all the way back in Proto-Indo-European and gives a really fulfilling amount of linguistic detail. Some of the most enjoyable parts, IMO, are when you realize that two seemingly-unrelated words are actually cognate."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 14517287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14517287", "by": "exclusiv", "time": 1496956892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the flipside it's not all rosy for organic and evidence points towards a blend of organic/conventional as a best practice. \"The results show that organic farming practices generally have positive impacts on the environment per unit of area, but not necessarily per product unit. Organic farms tend to have higher soil organic matter content and lower nutrient losses (nitrogen leaching, nitrous oxide emissions and ammonia emissions) per unit of field area. However, ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching and nitrous oxide emissions per product unit were higher from organic systems\" [1] \"In order "}, {"show": "1242537529", "hn_item": 14519359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519359", "by": "krstffr", "time": 1496986366, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14523596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523596", "by": "mazameli", "time": 1497035024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant episode of \"Reply All\" podcast: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/pirate-needs-pirate-season-3..."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 14523677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523677", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1497035746, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 14529911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529911", "by": "sanjeetsuhag", "time": 1497139649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Undone (by Gimlet Media) : A one season show about less known historical happenings. 2. The Daily (by NYTimes) : A daily show covering what\u2019s most important in the world on that day. 3. NPR Politics Podcast (by NPR) : Covers the political headlines of the US. They\u2019re all really smart people who really know the ins and outs of politics. 4. FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast (by ESPN) : Mostly news about politics , but from a more data driven approach. Really funny too. 5. Pod Save America (by Crooked Media) : Hilarious talk show from a group of former Obama administration speechwriters. Obviou"}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 14529911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529911", "by": "sanjeetsuhag", "time": 1497139649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Undone (by Gimlet Media) : A one season show about less known historical happenings. 2. The Daily (by NYTimes) : A daily show covering what\u2019s most important in the world on that day. 3. NPR Politics Podcast (by NPR) : Covers the political headlines of the US. They\u2019re all really smart people who really know the ins and outs of politics. 4. FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast (by ESPN) : Mostly news about politics , but from a more data driven approach. Really funny too. 5. Pod Save America (by Crooked Media) : Hilarious talk show from a group of former Obama administration speechwriters. Obviou"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 14529917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529917", "by": "joshuamcginnis", "time": 1497139730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* \"Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night; all day!\" * StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson * Adam & Dr. Drew Show * NPR Up First * How Stuff Works * Darn Carlin's Hardcore History * Michael Blanks' Apartment Investing Podcast * Reasonable Doubt with Mark Garagos and Adam Carolla * Weekly Infusion"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 14529917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529917", "by": "joshuamcginnis", "time": 1497139730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* \"Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night; all day!\" * StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson * Adam & Dr. Drew Show * NPR Up First * How Stuff Works * Darn Carlin's Hardcore History * Michael Blanks' Apartment Investing Podcast * Reasonable Doubt with Mark Garagos and Adam Carolla * Weekly Infusion"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 14529918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529918", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1497139789, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just my \"must listens\" to keep it simple: - Planet Money - My Dad Wrote a Porno (NSFW, obviously, but wickedly funny) - Startup - Radiolab - Entreprogrammers (original, not the spinoffs) - The Daily (only when they aren't doing US politics) No developer podcasts have engaged me enough for them to be must-listens every week though there are lots of good ones such as The Changelog and Developer Tea that I dip into time to time. The typical 1-2 hour interview format does not work for me at all, I need tight editing and some pace and structure around stories."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 14529922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529922", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1497139889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My Pocketcasts List: Dev: All Javascript Podcasts from DevChat.tv Tools Day History: Hardcore History History of the Crusades History of the Papacy Revolutions The British History Podcast The Civil War: A History Podcast The History of Byzantium The History of Egypt The History of England The History if Islam Maritime history Podcast When Diplomacy Fails Video Games: Gamers with Job Conference Call Crucible Radio (Destiny) Giant Bombcast Idle Weekend Rebel FM The Dive LoL Podcast The Giant Beastcast The Magic Hour The Bungie Podcast Three Moves Ahead Waypoint Radio Wild Weasel Random: Shift+F1"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 14529922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529922", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1497139889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My Pocketcasts List: Dev: All Javascript Podcasts from DevChat.tv Tools Day History: Hardcore History History of the Crusades History of the Papacy Revolutions The British History Podcast The Civil War: A History Podcast The History of Byzantium The History of Egypt The History of England The History if Islam Maritime history Podcast When Diplomacy Fails Video Games: Gamers with Job Conference Call Crucible Radio (Destiny) Giant Bombcast Idle Weekend Rebel FM The Dive LoL Podcast The Giant Beastcast The Magic Hour The Bungie Podcast Three Moves Ahead Waypoint Radio Wild Weasel Random: Shift+F1"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 14529922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529922", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1497139889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My Pocketcasts List: Dev: All Javascript Podcasts from DevChat.tv Tools Day History: Hardcore History History of the Crusades History of the Papacy Revolutions The British History Podcast The Civil War: A History Podcast The History of Byzantium The History of Egypt The History of England The History if Islam Maritime history Podcast When Diplomacy Fails Video Games: Gamers with Job Conference Call Crucible Radio (Destiny) Giant Bombcast Idle Weekend Rebel FM The Dive LoL Podcast The Giant Beastcast The Magic Hour The Bungie Podcast Three Moves Ahead Waypoint Radio Wild Weasel Random: Shift+F1"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 14529922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529922", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1497139889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My Pocketcasts List: Dev: All Javascript Podcasts from DevChat.tv Tools Day History: Hardcore History History of the Crusades History of the Papacy Revolutions The British History Podcast The Civil War: A History Podcast The History of Byzantium The History of Egypt The History of England The History if Islam Maritime history Podcast When Diplomacy Fails Video Games: Gamers with Job Conference Call Crucible Radio (Destiny) Giant Bombcast Idle Weekend Rebel FM The Dive LoL Podcast The Giant Beastcast The Magic Hour The Bungie Podcast Three Moves Ahead Waypoint Radio Wild Weasel Random: Shift+F1"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 14529926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529926", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1497139920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How I built this Foundation (Kevin Rose's podcast)"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 14529936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529936", "by": "tazard", "time": 1497140200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Primarily security related podcasts. 1. Defensive Security 2. Branding Down Security 3. Risky Business 4. SANS Internet Storm Center 5. Southern Fried Security Some non security related ones... Hardcore History, Common Sense, and on a much lighter note, The Comedy Button"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14529939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529939", "by": "alexgandy", "time": 1497140235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True Crime - Last Podcast on the Left - Criminal - Crimetown Random Info - Radiolab - 99% Invisible Interviews - WTF w/ Marc Maron - Joe Rogan (depending on the guest) - The Nerdist (depending on the guest)"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14529939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529939", "by": "alexgandy", "time": 1497140235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True Crime - Last Podcast on the Left - Criminal - Crimetown Random Info - Radiolab - 99% Invisible Interviews - WTF w/ Marc Maron - Joe Rogan (depending on the guest) - The Nerdist (depending on the guest)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 14529959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529959", "by": "sndean", "time": 1497140712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Radio Lab - Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History - Linear Digressions - Hidden Brain - FiveThirtyEight's Hot Takedown - FiveThirtyEight's Politics - Freakonomics - Planet Money - 99% Invisible - Neil Tyson's StarTalk - NYT's The Daily - Talk Python To Me - The Changelog - Hello Internet There's a few other Machine Learning/Data Science-ish \"podcasts\", some other NPR ones, and This American Life. I didn't realize that I spend so much time on this."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 14529959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529959", "by": "sndean", "time": 1497140712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Radio Lab - Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History - Linear Digressions - Hidden Brain - FiveThirtyEight's Hot Takedown - FiveThirtyEight's Politics - Freakonomics - Planet Money - 99% Invisible - Neil Tyson's StarTalk - NYT's The Daily - Talk Python To Me - The Changelog - Hello Internet There's a few other Machine Learning/Data Science-ish \"podcasts\", some other NPR ones, and This American Life. I didn't realize that I spend so much time on this."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 14529959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529959", "by": "sndean", "time": 1497140712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Radio Lab - Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History - Linear Digressions - Hidden Brain - FiveThirtyEight's Hot Takedown - FiveThirtyEight's Politics - Freakonomics - Planet Money - 99% Invisible - Neil Tyson's StarTalk - NYT's The Daily - Talk Python To Me - The Changelog - Hello Internet There's a few other Machine Learning/Data Science-ish \"podcasts\", some other NPR ones, and This American Life. I didn't realize that I spend so much time on this."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 14529965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529965", "by": "ClassyJacket", "time": 1497140858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Talking Machines. It's definitely a bit over my head, but it's a really good podcast about Machine Learning, with heaps of interviews and pretty in depth conversations."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 14530068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530068", "by": "zitterbewegung", "time": 1497142503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Talking Machines : A podcast where they outline new developments in Machine Learning and interview people in the field. Has a good balance of summarizing the important points without leaving out technical details. http://www.thetalkingmachines.com"}, {"show": "985845317", "hn_item": 14530088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530088", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1497142807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation): - The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories) - On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/ - Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't) - The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html - The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/ - New Yorker Rad"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 14530088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530088", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1497142807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation): - The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories) - On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/ - Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't) - The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html - The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/ - New Yorker Rad"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14530088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530088", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1497142807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation): - The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories) - On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/ - Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't) - The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html - The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/ - New Yorker Rad"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 14530088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530088", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1497142807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation): - The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories) - On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/ - Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't) - The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html - The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/ - New Yorker Rad"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 14530088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530088", "by": "r00tbeer", "time": 1497142807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my playlist. First the good ones that are actively in my queue (in general order of recommendation): - The Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us/ (these are stunningly good historical stories) - On the Media: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/otm/ - Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ (this is the one I expected to see on every list at hackernews, and don't) - The Gist: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist.html - The Daily: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily - 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/ - Economist Radio: https://radio.economist.com/ - New Yorker Rad"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 14530311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530311", "by": "doe88", "time": 1497148317, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Trying not to repeat too much popular podcasts everybody already mentioned, I would add: - Fresh Air (NPR) [various subjects] - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill [The Intercept fame] - Profile (BBC) [profile peoples, mainly Uk] - Sporting Witness (BBC) [sport related] - Recode Media with Peter Kafka [interview media people] - Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter [about media, political] - State of the Union with Jake Tapper [political] - The Axe Files with David Axelrod [interview politics] - The Forward by Lance Armstrong [mostly NOT sport] - Twenty Thousand Hertz [about sounds] - Larry Wilmore:"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 14530311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530311", "by": "doe88", "time": 1497148317, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Trying not to repeat too much popular podcasts everybody already mentioned, I would add: - Fresh Air (NPR) [various subjects] - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill [The Intercept fame] - Profile (BBC) [profile peoples, mainly Uk] - Sporting Witness (BBC) [sport related] - Recode Media with Peter Kafka [interview media people] - Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter [about media, political] - State of the Union with Jake Tapper [political] - The Axe Files with David Axelrod [interview politics] - The Forward by Lance Armstrong [mostly NOT sport] - Twenty Thousand Hertz [about sounds] - Larry Wilmore:"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 14530419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530419", "by": "smagch", "time": 1497150896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Longform Podcast entertains me with a variety of guests, who is typically a writer, a editor, or a journalist, invited for each episodes. With dialogues about their work and career, it gives a glimpse of a life of those who work in the media industry. The podcast is a oral history of media workers, and it often gives valuable insights to just listen to interviews and see interviewees as they are. Facing challenges like fake news, Google AMP, FaceBook InstantArticle, and the like, some of you may be interested. https://longform.org/podcast"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 14533485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14533485", "by": "avenoir", "time": 1497211129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just finished listening Joe Rogan's podcast with Sebastian Jurgen [1] where they talked about humanity's need to be involved in society in order to feel happy. While they talked Jurgen mentioned something interesting that I've never heard before and don't know if true or not. He said that the survivors of The Blitz in some weird way missed the time that they spent hiding in the subway tunnels of London. Similarly, many veterans missed the combat after arriving back home and settling back into normal life. The obviously didn't miss the horrors. They missed the comradery. They missed the purpo"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14535251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14535251", "by": "jhh", "time": 1497243358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If it isn't clear, this is the transcript of the first episode of a podcast called \"Masters of Scale\". https://mastersofscale.com/"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 14538531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538531", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1497284975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree on the audio production but maybe it's just a taste I have not acquired. What really surprised me is how lauded this podcast has been. I was expecting at least the level of depth of YC's Startup School series from a few years ago, hoping for even more insight. The kind of depth I imagine was in Hoffman's 'blitzscaling' course. It never reached that level and even seemed less detailed than NPR's How I Built This. The podcast seems geared to a more general audience, which is why I have been befuddled by many who are deeply entrenched the startup/valley/software worlds praising it as a mu"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14538587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538587", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1497285324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Masters of Scale podcast RSS feed: https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14544526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14544526", "by": "jetti", "time": 1497360410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Startups for the Rest of Us 2. How I Built This 3. .NET Rocks 4. Bootstrapped Web 5.The Indie Hackers Podcast"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14544533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14544533", "by": "skc", "time": 1497360468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I get that Apple has much more touch optimized software. But aren't they effectively building the same toaster/fridge they mocked just a few years ago? I was listening to a recent ATP podcast and they were going on about how nobody really wants to touch their laptop screen, but in order for an iPad to be a \"pro\" device you will realistically have to use it with a keyboard and...touch your screen. The two companies are converging on the exact same thing yet one is considered ingenious and the other clueless."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 14551732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14551732", "by": "setra", "time": 1497435888, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 14559236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14559236", "by": "kubami", "time": 1497523888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" podcast. He has a series about the Mongol Empire called \"Wrath of the Khans\". The stories and delivery are amazing! Here is a link to the first episode: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-43-wrath-o..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14560625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14560625", "by": "TerminalJunkie", "time": 1497536518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a podcast on this very thing http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/28/499805238/episo..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 14569259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14569259", "by": "bkjelden", "time": 1497623118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would recommend anyone wanting to learn more about John Mackey, and how he built Whole Foods, to listen to a recent episode of the How I Built This podcast featuring him: http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=527979061:528000104"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14576263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576263", "by": "jamesrcole", "time": 1497713128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No single source. Just things I've read and heard over the years. I'd say a major one of those is listening to a lot of episodes of the Planet Money podcast. An example of what I'm talking about is tariffs."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14579173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579173", "by": "banku_brougham", "time": 1497764913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the Sam Harris podcast a while ago and found I held some objections that I couldn't formulate until some time passed. The problem with Sam's view is not even as complicated as these authors make out. Consider a similar scenario based on a redfined IQ: In this world, IQ is measured by proficiency in programming languages. Would it be surprising to find that the high IQ people are not predominately women, or black? Or that this new IQ score is highly predictive of positive financial outcomes, better health, good familiy lives and high life satisfaction scores? Should this result be"}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 14601271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14601271", "by": "ebola1717", "time": 1498026370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kara Swisher's podcast had an excellent episode on Uber that did a great job surveying this firestorm, and defending Travis' business direction, without exonerating his leadership's many flaws. Definitely worth a listen."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 14608351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608351", "by": "chrissoundz", "time": 1498082582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested. Software Engineering Daily did a podcast about Numerai not too long ago, with one of their employees."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 14617323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617323", "by": "arcticfox", "time": 1498198542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to what I consider the usual suspects (Startup [Gimlet] / Radiolab / This American Life), I just added two a little more off the beaten path: The Pitch - Shark Tank on a podcast essentially. Somewhat deeper. The more recent episodes are way better than the first ones so just skip to the end. Waking Up - so refreshing to hear someone as thoughtful as Sam Harris on a regular basis. I love that he is so calmly rational that he can have productive conversations with everyone from left to right, atheist to Muslim."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14617323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617323", "by": "arcticfox", "time": 1498198542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to what I consider the usual suspects (Startup [Gimlet] / Radiolab / This American Life), I just added two a little more off the beaten path: The Pitch - Shark Tank on a podcast essentially. Somewhat deeper. The more recent episodes are way better than the first ones so just skip to the end. Waking Up - so refreshing to hear someone as thoughtful as Sam Harris on a regular basis. I love that he is so calmly rational that he can have productive conversations with everyone from left to right, atheist to Muslim."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 14617323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617323", "by": "arcticfox", "time": 1498198542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to what I consider the usual suspects (Startup [Gimlet] / Radiolab / This American Life), I just added two a little more off the beaten path: The Pitch - Shark Tank on a podcast essentially. Somewhat deeper. The more recent episodes are way better than the first ones so just skip to the end. Waking Up - so refreshing to hear someone as thoughtful as Sam Harris on a regular basis. I love that he is so calmly rational that he can have productive conversations with everyone from left to right, atheist to Muslim."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14617401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617401", "by": "fpgaminer", "time": 1498200253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The IndieHackers podcast has been really great so far."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 14617582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617582", "by": "ajdlinux", "time": 1498203770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My podcasts aren't hugely funny, or startup centric, but everyone else is sharing their list... Not an American, but with a strong interest in what's going on across the Pacific. Risky Business, Pod Save America, Lawfare Podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3, The Dollop, Bombshell (War on the Rocks), FiveThirtyEight Politics"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 14617582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617582", "by": "ajdlinux", "time": 1498203770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My podcasts aren't hugely funny, or startup centric, but everyone else is sharing their list... Not an American, but with a strong interest in what's going on across the Pacific. Risky Business, Pod Save America, Lawfare Podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3, The Dollop, Bombshell (War on the Rocks), FiveThirtyEight Politics"}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 14617582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617582", "by": "ajdlinux", "time": 1498203770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My podcasts aren't hugely funny, or startup centric, but everyone else is sharing their list... Not an American, but with a strong interest in what's going on across the Pacific. Risky Business, Pod Save America, Lawfare Podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3, The Dollop, Bombshell (War on the Rocks), FiveThirtyEight Politics"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 14617582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617582", "by": "ajdlinux", "time": 1498203770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My podcasts aren't hugely funny, or startup centric, but everyone else is sharing their list... Not an American, but with a strong interest in what's going on across the Pacific. Risky Business, Pod Save America, Lawfare Podcast, Chat 10 Looks 3, The Dollop, Bombshell (War on the Rocks), FiveThirtyEight Politics"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14617616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617616", "by": "dejawu", "time": 1498204216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Accidental Tech Podcast (Marco Arment's podcast about Apple tech) - Harmontown - Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 14617652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617652", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1498204811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily - An NPR-like ~20 minute podcast from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily Indie Hackers - Insightful 1:1 interviews with founders of smaller 'lifestyle' businesses. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast In Our Time - Wonderful history podcast from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl Lovett or Leave It - Insightful weekly political podcast from Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama who was once called \"the funniest man in Washington.\" https://getcrookedmedia.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6077c7aca95c The Perceptive Photographer - 10-15 minute podcast "}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 14617652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617652", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1498204811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily - An NPR-like ~20 minute podcast from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily Indie Hackers - Insightful 1:1 interviews with founders of smaller 'lifestyle' businesses. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast In Our Time - Wonderful history podcast from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl Lovett or Leave It - Insightful weekly political podcast from Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama who was once called \"the funniest man in Washington.\" https://getcrookedmedia.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6077c7aca95c The Perceptive Photographer - 10-15 minute podcast "}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14617652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617652", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1498204811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily - An NPR-like ~20 minute podcast from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily Indie Hackers - Insightful 1:1 interviews with founders of smaller 'lifestyle' businesses. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast In Our Time - Wonderful history podcast from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl Lovett or Leave It - Insightful weekly political podcast from Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama who was once called \"the funniest man in Washington.\" https://getcrookedmedia.com/lovett-or-leave-it-6077c7aca95c The Perceptive Photographer - 10-15 minute podcast "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 14617688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617688", "by": "rubayeet", "time": 1498205333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[0] Tell Me Something I Don't Know - Trivia show with a twist, hosted by Steven Dubner of Freakonomics fame. [1] How I built this - Interviews successful entrepreneurs on their background, motivations, challenges etc. in building their businesses. [2] Revolutions - Podcast on some of the biggest political revolutions in history. I am going through season 2 (American Revolution against the British Empire). [3] War Stories - \"Traces the evolution of warfare through the eyes who lived it\". Season 1 focused on armoured warfare (a.k.a. Tanks). Waiting on Season 2. [4] Science Vs - Researches the fa"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 14617693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617693", "by": "Pandabob", "time": 1498205414, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Econtalk for its usually insightful discussions. http://www.econtalk.org/ Conversations with Tyler for the same reason as Econtalk. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-tyler... ? Bodega Boyz because nothing makes me laugh like Desus and Mero. https://soundcloud.com/bodega-sushi"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14617985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617985", "by": "divan", "time": 1498210553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's podcasts: - How I Built This - Planet Money - Ted Radio Hour - AltLatino - 99% invisible - Hanselminutes - GoTime NPR's podcasts (and How I Built This especially) is of incredible quality - they even write music for each episode."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14618426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618426", "by": "kageneko", "time": 1498217897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of horror fiction podcasts like Darkest Night, the No Sleep Podcast, some other fiction stuff like Rabbits and Alice Isn't Dead, and then some other stuff. Planet Money -- my favorite 99% Invisible Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal History Honeys Six Feats Under My wife is more into Sunday School Dropouts than I am, but I listen to it occasionally. She also listens to some other history podcasts but I don't recall what they are."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 14618467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618467", "by": "tuomosipola", "time": 1498218546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome is really informative, I've been into ancient history since forever but this podcast is still very enjoyable."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 14618517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14618517", "by": "eddyg", "time": 1498219367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the SANS Internet StormCast (\"daily 5-10 minute information security threat updates\") every morning: https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html Many of my other favorites have already been mentioned, but I also listen to: Twenty Thousand Hertz (\"stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds\") https://www.20k.org and have started listening to this new NPR podcast: Wow in the World (\"a new way for families to connect, look up and discover the wonders in the world around them. Every episode, hosts Mindy and Guy guide curious kids and their grown-ups away from their screen"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 14619192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14619192", "by": "torbjorn", "time": 1498226490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another great podcast from the Marketplace team is Make Me Smart with Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 14620176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14620176", "by": "adomanico", "time": 1498234080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris - Waking Up Podcast Bill Burr - Monday Morning Podcast Joe Rogan - PowerfulJRE (not every episode)"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 14620176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14620176", "by": "adomanico", "time": 1498234080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris - Waking Up Podcast Bill Burr - Monday Morning Podcast Joe Rogan - PowerfulJRE (not every episode)"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 14623209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14623209", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1498256441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge @ Wharton - sometimes interesting, I end up skipping about half of the episodes. Exponent -Ben Thompson of Stratechery -- very insightful commentary on business and technology/ NPR Planet Money -- Economics is a second love of mine. Startup -- by Gimlet Media -- Stories about the startup culture Science vs -- Researches fad and compares them to the actual science. Acquired -- discusses technology acquisitions Internet History Podcast -- just what it says it is. Freakonomics -- Because it's Freakonomics, should be required listening for anyone who wants to talk about economics. Politi"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14623209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14623209", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1498256441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge @ Wharton - sometimes interesting, I end up skipping about half of the episodes. Exponent -Ben Thompson of Stratechery -- very insightful commentary on business and technology/ NPR Planet Money -- Economics is a second love of mine. Startup -- by Gimlet Media -- Stories about the startup culture Science vs -- Researches fad and compares them to the actual science. Acquired -- discusses technology acquisitions Internet History Podcast -- just what it says it is. Freakonomics -- Because it's Freakonomics, should be required listening for anyone who wants to talk about economics. Politi"}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 14623209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14623209", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1498256441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge @ Wharton - sometimes interesting, I end up skipping about half of the episodes. Exponent -Ben Thompson of Stratechery -- very insightful commentary on business and technology/ NPR Planet Money -- Economics is a second love of mine. Startup -- by Gimlet Media -- Stories about the startup culture Science vs -- Researches fad and compares them to the actual science. Acquired -- discusses technology acquisitions Internet History Podcast -- just what it says it is. Freakonomics -- Because it's Freakonomics, should be required listening for anyone who wants to talk about economics. Politi"}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 14623209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14623209", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1498256441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge @ Wharton - sometimes interesting, I end up skipping about half of the episodes. Exponent -Ben Thompson of Stratechery -- very insightful commentary on business and technology/ NPR Planet Money -- Economics is a second love of mine. Startup -- by Gimlet Media -- Stories about the startup culture Science vs -- Researches fad and compares them to the actual science. Acquired -- discusses technology acquisitions Internet History Podcast -- just what it says it is. Freakonomics -- Because it's Freakonomics, should be required listening for anyone who wants to talk about economics. Politi"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14635247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14635247", "by": "nstj", "time": 1498468247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might want to qualify this with \u201cin the US\u201d as chip+pin cards are pretty fast in other countries by comparison. Also there was a great episode of the podcast \u201cPlanet Money\u201d a while back which goes into detail on your question [0]: > Today on the show, we bring you a brief history of what's in your pocket. It's a story of convenience vs. fraud\u2014and it also includes a hippie inventor, the origin of the last great upgrade on your card, the magnetic stripe, and why it takes so long to \"dip the chip.\" [0]: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14651233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651233", "by": "illnewsthat", "time": 1498616008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This makes Freakonomics sound like Nobel material. Completely vacuous. That's ironic considering he was a guest on an earlier Freakonomics episode: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/big-penis-things-ask-google/"}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 14661430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14661430", "by": "shostack", "time": 1498721220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Exponent podcast did an episode on this. The short answer is they all share a high LTV and can succeed with podcast ads on a direct response basis. So despite the outrageous CPMs some podcasts charge these days, they can still find it profitable."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 14662368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14662368", "by": "criddell", "time": 1498736334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first learned about Bitcoin when Steve Gibson did an episode of his podcast Security Now on the topic: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-287.htm If you have an understanding of basic cryptography primitives, then I think it's an excellent introduction, especially if you learn well via audio."}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 14662802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14662802", "by": "krosaen", "time": 1498740498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've found the Unchained Podcast helpful: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/forbes-podcast-network/uncha... This episode in particular: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/forbes-podcast-network/uncha..."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14668144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14668144", "by": "rudimental", "time": 1498786721, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He'd tell you he didn't realize that until very late: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/facebooks-mark-zuckerber..."}, {"show": "1215439780", "hn_item": 14670449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14670449", "by": "janober", "time": 1498828265, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14676670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676670", "by": "fjfkdjfjfjd", "time": 1498909393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for your comment! Well said! I am looking forward to working as hard as I can and then moving on in a few months when this internship ends. But becoming \"tainted\" or worse, convicted of a crime is what I am worried about, especially further down the line, when I have a permanent position, a mortgage to pay, or a family to support. I recall in a Planet Money podcast episode an interview with a Wells Fargo banker, who after being pressured to meet new account quotas by opening extra accounts without their customers express desire, was somehow marked when she left her position, and had tro"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14677604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14677604", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1498924594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indie Hackers just did a podcast with Scott Keyes of Scott's Cheap Flights on that topic: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/020-scott-keyes-of-scot... But in his case, his subscribers mostly came from a story Business Insider did about his two month round-the-world trip on frequent flyer points. The story took him from 300 subscribers to 5000 overnight. (Sounds like he's now over 150,000 paid subscribers). Another takeaway is that he doesn't used paid ads, and puts the money towards on-theme giveaways instead. Since the newsletter is about cheap flights, the giveaway was for free internatio"}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 14681863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14681863", "by": "phereford", "time": 1498991426, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was a podcast(1) about part of your question recently. Essentially, people are playing with \"house money\" as they have generated net gains from BTC and other coins. Instead of incurring a taxable event by cashing out, they might just be pouring it into ICOs. (1): https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unchained-big-ideas-from..."}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 14683401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14683401", "by": "ge96", "time": 1499016320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow thank you so much for this. I'll be referring to this for things to learn (a lot). I started listening to this AWS podcast and the crazy amount of technology they have that's applicable here. I also listen to a Go podcast and the \"throughput? they talk about like 25,000 requests per seconds seems insane to me. And regarding the big companies handling petabytes/hour man insane and probably redundantly backed up too. My concern is cost (as you mentioned) in particular if you have no users yet, what justifies the cost to set all of this up except for the future-mindset of growth (where some c"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 14684185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14684185", "by": "dahart", "time": 1499027257, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know why you got downvotes for that, but I agree and have had similar experience - multiple offers are very stressful for me. The pay and PTO are usually secondary concerns. Usually it's more stressful because I get job offers through my network, and when I turn down offers I'm also turning down one of my friends who's gotten really excited for me to come work with them. Also it gets more stressful when the better job for me pays less than a job I dont want as much, making it harder to decide. With only a few offers, you take them all seriously and spend time evaluating which ones will"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 14699966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14699966", "by": "hosh", "time": 1499228380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Juan Benet of Protocol Labs was talking about how naming things is really a consensus problem (ep 15 on the Y Combinator podcast)"}, {"show": "1192165009", "hn_item": 14706836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14706836", "by": "janober", "time": 1499295666, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 14713314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14713314", "by": "chrisbennet", "time": 1499370485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While learning from others is great, to get good at this profession, you really need to become a life long self learner (autodidact). Seek out challenges that interest you and implement them using new technologies and techniques. I'm an old dog but I've been learning new tricks listening to the podcast \"Coding Blocks\". It's great to listen to on a long commute or trip."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 14716806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716806", "by": "cjrp", "time": 1499413849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's the first thing I thought, doesn't this exist? Side note, the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK was on an interesting episode of NPR's \"How I Built This\" podcast ( http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=523277830:523967624 )."}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 14722387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14722387", "by": "biastoact", "time": 1499463904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some general thoughts: 1. Look at the product. Can you describe what it is, what value it creates for customers? Is it exciting? It probably shouldn't be. In 9 out of 10 cases boring products in boring industries will lead to steady work and chance to add real value to the company, get raises, etc. Small company unicorns can raise money, but they don't last. Successful companies ship products and create happy customers. 2. You want a company that is high trust with their team - including in interviews. How many customers do they have? What is their runway? How much money do they make? What are"}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 14726163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14726163", "by": "bruceb", "time": 1499533678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somewhat related. On the Pitch podcast a guy pitching VR headsets on planes said those seat back entertainment systems are heavy and cost the airlines $1b a year in fuel costs. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/skylights-s02-ep04/ Company: http://www.skylights.aero/"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 14730155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14730155", "by": "Radim", "time": 1499614233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For people interested in this kind of stuff, Guy Deutscher's book \"The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention\" is a fun read! As is the \"The History of English\" podcast [0], for the more aurally inclined. On a related note, the Great Vowel Shift [1] of the 14-16th century really fucked English over. Apparently it was a close call back then, English almost kept its \"regular\", conservative pronunciation (\"meet\", \"boot\" like in German), instead of the current idiosyncratic chaos. Bizarre pronunciation of British proper names like Cholmondeley (pronounced: Chum"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 14735561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14735561", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1499692315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding the \"History of English\" podcast. It's a fascinating subject."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 14739583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739583", "by": "andrewprock", "time": 1499720180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obviously missing podcasts: The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe EconTalk The Moth A couple others for the HN crowd: Data Skeptic This Week in ML&AI Software Engineering Radio"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 14739583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739583", "by": "andrewprock", "time": 1499720180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obviously missing podcasts: The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe EconTalk The Moth A couple others for the HN crowd: Data Skeptic This Week in ML&AI Software Engineering Radio"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 14739583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739583", "by": "andrewprock", "time": 1499720180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obviously missing podcasts: The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe EconTalk The Moth A couple others for the HN crowd: Data Skeptic This Week in ML&AI Software Engineering Radio"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14739625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739625", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1499720494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same. Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible , Planet Money , Freakonomics , and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History . Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 14739625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739625", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1499720494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same. Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible , Planet Money , Freakonomics , and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History . Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14739625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739625", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1499720494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same. Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible , Planet Money , Freakonomics , and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History . Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14739625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739625", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1499720494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same. Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible , Planet Money , Freakonomics , and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History . Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 14739625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739625", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1499720494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These lists are usually characterized by having RadioLab in the #1 slot. I'm not saying I disagree, RadioLab can be amazing. But the lists do little good for a veteran listener like me if they're all mostly the same. Other podcasts that frequent such lists are 99% Invisible , Planet Money , Freakonomics , and Stuff You Should Know. Newer lists will include Revisionist History . Those are all good podcasts, deserving of praise, but anybody who's been listening for any amount of time is well aware of them."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 14739687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739687", "by": "splawn", "time": 1499720873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Im sure those snake oil supplements he peddles on there make you smarter too. /s =P EDIT: I was just halfway joking when I made this comment (I vaguely knew that he sold supplements for body building)... However, I had no idea about the \"Alpha Brain\" supplement that he sells. And yes, the punchline is that he claims it provides \"cognitive enhancement\". And No.. there is no solid science behind it and certainly no doubleblind clinical trials. I only know to care about stuff like this from listening to other podcasts such as \"This week in microbiology\" and \"Skeptoid\" that perhaps did make me sma"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 14739867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739867", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1499722167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm surprised they didn't mention Waking Up with Sam Harris [1]. I've recently started listening, and he talks to some really interesting people about very interesting topics. > The Waking Up podcast was selected by Apple as one of iTunes Best of 2015 and won a 2017 Webby Award for best podcast in the Science & Education category. I also really enjoy listening to the stories on The Moth [2]. [1] https://www.samharris.org/podcast [2] https://themoth.org/podcast"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 14739867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739867", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1499722167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm surprised they didn't mention Waking Up with Sam Harris [1]. I've recently started listening, and he talks to some really interesting people about very interesting topics. > The Waking Up podcast was selected by Apple as one of iTunes Best of 2015 and won a 2017 Webby Award for best podcast in the Science & Education category. I also really enjoy listening to the stories on The Moth [2]. [1] https://www.samharris.org/podcast [2] https://themoth.org/podcast"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14739978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739978", "by": "cbcoutinho", "time": 1499723189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite podcasts currently: The Meateater podcast - talks about hunting and wildlife issues Waking up - Sam Harris's podcast where he interviews guests on a number of issues"}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 14739978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739978", "by": "cbcoutinho", "time": 1499723189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite podcasts currently: The Meateater podcast - talks about hunting and wildlife issues Waking up - Sam Harris's podcast where he interviews guests on a number of issues"}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 14740124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14740124", "by": "Chathamization", "time": 1499724532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of history podcasts, and though they vary a good deal in quality, the ones by experts in the field (people with a PhD in History focusing on the subject) like The Fall of Rome podcast, the Ottoman History podcast, or the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast are an excellent source of information. If you look for them, though, keep in mind that a lot of history podcasts have similar names. For example, the aforementioned Ottoman History podcast is different from The History of the Ottoman Empire podcast. The one by amateurs vary a lot in quality. Some - like the Hist"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14740213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14740213", "by": "jzymbaluk", "time": 1499725466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for HOPWAG. I've recently caught up with the series completely, including his other series on the history of Indian philosophy, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Peter Adamson is such a pro, he's got the conversational tone and dry wit of a really good professor (which he is), and the series has been so consistently good for nearly 300 episodes now. It's a big time investment, but a very rewarding one. Podcasts have been my main form of entertainment now for over a year, so I'm gonna drop some history/other brainy recs too for anyone interested. Hardcore History - essential listening "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 14740213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14740213", "by": "jzymbaluk", "time": 1499725466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for HOPWAG. I've recently caught up with the series completely, including his other series on the history of Indian philosophy, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Peter Adamson is such a pro, he's got the conversational tone and dry wit of a really good professor (which he is), and the series has been so consistently good for nearly 300 episodes now. It's a big time investment, but a very rewarding one. Podcasts have been my main form of entertainment now for over a year, so I'm gonna drop some history/other brainy recs too for anyone interested. Hardcore History - essential listening "}, {"show": "1254926088", "hn_item": 14740427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14740427", "by": "kevinmhickey", "time": 1499728410, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "155974141", "hn_item": 14747661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14747661", "by": "erentz", "time": 1499804297, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Dan Carlin also did an episode on these numbers recently. The numbers are undeniable. We get terrible value for our money on health care in the US. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/common-sense-with-dan-ca..."}, {"show": "1215439780", "hn_item": 14769487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14769487", "by": "janober", "time": 1500037866, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14779180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779180", "by": "mxschumacher", "time": 1500155175, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 14784002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14784002", "by": "delgaudm", "time": 1500237333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree that it does continue to be a problem. I've yet to find a suitable solution for recommendations that adequately surface more obscure titles. Likewise when you have a subscription / Premium podcast it gets even harder as things like Google Play dont seem to support custom feeds, at least in the Android App. It makes it all the more difficult to monetize and spread your Podcast. Slightly off topic, but I'm a recurring voice actor on the NoSleep Podcast, featured prominently in the imaging on this post. Thanks for Listening!"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14790048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14790048", "by": "joaoperibeiro", "time": 1500309183, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1858752858", "hn_item": 14793169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793169", "by": "thephyber", "time": 1500334004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the ProPublica podcast[1] (published this past week, so probably the catalyst for this 2015 article on HN), The World Bank was collecting data for decades on displacements, but wasn't consuming it for anything useful. The ICIJ + ProPublica FOIAed the data and painstakingly assembled it. [1] https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-how..."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 14793169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793169", "by": "thephyber", "time": 1500334004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the ProPublica podcast[1] (published this past week, so probably the catalyst for this 2015 article on HN), The World Bank was collecting data for decades on displacements, but wasn't consuming it for anything useful. The ICIJ + ProPublica FOIAed the data and painstakingly assembled it. [1] https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-how..."}, {"show": "1526053750", "hn_item": 14796246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796246", "by": "jamesxv7", "time": 1500383622, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently discovery Kobiton through Programming Throwdown podcast and I think is a really good option for a solo developer or small team, I just want to hear from experiences using the service. For me BrowserStack is a bit pricey."}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 14796246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796246", "by": "jamesxv7", "time": 1500383622, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently discovery Kobiton through Programming Throwdown podcast and I think is a really good option for a solo developer or small team, I just want to hear from experiences using the service. For me BrowserStack is a bit pricey."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 14797842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14797842", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1500395421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The French Republican calendar is covered by the Revolutions podcast, from Mike Duncan who did the History of Rome podcast. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ Much like the metric system, the structure of the new calendar was quite simple and elegant. Naturally, once the Reign of Terror came into full swing, the creators of the Republican calendar were executed along with anyone else who was insufficiently zealous. Today, the only people who use it are students of the French Revolution who have to decipher all these crazy dates."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 14805521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14805521", "by": "digikata", "time": 1500481899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a good Embedded.fm podcast episode interviewing one of the professors that was key in starting the trend of small satellites. http://embedded.fm/episodes/195"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 14806482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14806482", "by": "bduerst", "time": 1500487810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think OP has said \"these people are evil\". It's understandable that people who post in the_donald are heavily biased and even think they are doing the right thing. This American Life had a podcast where they interviewed these people at the DeploraBall , and one of them even said that he \"Memed Donald Trump into the presidency\". For some it seems this is part of their identity."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14813800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813800", "by": "jjw1414", "time": 1500567648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's right - it was on the RadioLab podcast. I thought he was \"listening\" to music during the operation, and told the doctors to stop if his interpretation of the melody turned to white noise. The unsettling gist of the main story was the relationship between culpability and brain function. Worth a listen."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14815114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14815114", "by": "Alacart", "time": 1500575536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends on what you're interested in. For programming: -Software engineering daily & the other less frequent version -the changelog -shoptalk (mainly frontend) -twenty percent time (mainly Laravel?) -syntax (new show) -full stack radio -does not compute (Would love some recommendations for more!) Startups/Bootstrapping/Business: -Indie hackers -Tim Ferris (some episodes) -Startups for the rest of us -Mixergy Startup Stories -The pitch -DFJ ETL (Stanford entrepreneurship podcast) - How I built this For life and interesting topics: - Tim Ferris - Freakonomics - Planet Money - 99% invisible (have"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14815114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14815114", "by": "Alacart", "time": 1500575536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends on what you're interested in. For programming: -Software engineering daily & the other less frequent version -the changelog -shoptalk (mainly frontend) -twenty percent time (mainly Laravel?) -syntax (new show) -full stack radio -does not compute (Would love some recommendations for more!) Startups/Bootstrapping/Business: -Indie hackers -Tim Ferris (some episodes) -Startups for the rest of us -Mixergy Startup Stories -The pitch -DFJ ETL (Stanford entrepreneurship podcast) - How I built this For life and interesting topics: - Tim Ferris - Freakonomics - Planet Money - 99% invisible (have"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 14815518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14815518", "by": "moonka", "time": 1500578649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Weeds podcast by Vox had a recent episode that talked about this and the study in detail if anyone is interested. https://www.vox.com/2017/7/14/15964284/the-weeds-seattle-min..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 14820288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820288", "by": "carlmungz", "time": 1500643452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"...although I work in an adtech company with quite some technical challenges\" There is your topic. Tell us about the technical challenges that come with implementing framework X or programming language X in the adtech space. Make your writing exclusively about the space and consistently blog whether it's once a week/month etc but be consistent. If you listen to the Software Engineering Daily podcast, for example, you will hear the main host Jeff Meyerson talking about various technical challenges associated with detecting bot traffic etc. Maybe write about that as well? Hope that helps."}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 14820683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820683", "by": "ianleeclark", "time": 1500646563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have never successfully found a software engineering podcast that I've liked, so this will be a bit different from most here: A Cast of Kings -- Game of Thrones episode discussion My Favorite Murder -- Semi-descriptive title, but they talk about their favorite murders Not Alone Podcast -- Podcast about things going bump in the night Startups for the Rest of Us -- A marketing podcast aimed at micropreneurs Last Podcast on the Left -- Comedy/oddly well researched show about Aliens, Murder, and anything else macabre or strange The Adventure Zone -- A podcast about 3 brothers and their dad playi"}, {"show": "1040481893", "hn_item": 14820914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820914", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1500648332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Crime stuff: Accused, Someone Knows Something, Up and Vanished, Criminal, Sword and Scale, Convicted, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. General: Radiolab, 99% Invisible, Revisionist History, Snap Judgement, This American Life Amusing: No Such Thing as a Fish, RHLSTP, Adam Buxton Podcast Listening to with my daughter: The Tumble, Brains On!"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 14820914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820914", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1500648332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Crime stuff: Accused, Someone Knows Something, Up and Vanished, Criminal, Sword and Scale, Convicted, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. General: Radiolab, 99% Invisible, Revisionist History, Snap Judgement, This American Life Amusing: No Such Thing as a Fish, RHLSTP, Adam Buxton Podcast Listening to with my daughter: The Tumble, Brains On!"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14820914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820914", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1500648332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Crime stuff: Accused, Someone Knows Something, Up and Vanished, Criminal, Sword and Scale, Convicted, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. General: Radiolab, 99% Invisible, Revisionist History, Snap Judgement, This American Life Amusing: No Such Thing as a Fish, RHLSTP, Adam Buxton Podcast Listening to with my daughter: The Tumble, Brains On!"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 14820914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820914", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1500648332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Crime stuff: Accused, Someone Knows Something, Up and Vanished, Criminal, Sword and Scale, Convicted, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. General: Radiolab, 99% Invisible, Revisionist History, Snap Judgement, This American Life Amusing: No Such Thing as a Fish, RHLSTP, Adam Buxton Podcast Listening to with my daughter: The Tumble, Brains On!"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 14820947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820947", "by": "3stacks", "time": 1500648538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy Bang Bang, Monday morning podcast, Chapo Trap House, and Cum Town. I take it as a chance to shut off"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14820967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820967", "by": "Blackstone4", "time": 1500648637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bottom Line - Excellent business podcast Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman How I built this - Interviews with entrepreneurs Freakonomics - Very good The Tim Ferriss Show - Lots of interesting people come on the show"}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 14820967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820967", "by": "Blackstone4", "time": 1500648637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bottom Line - Excellent business podcast Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman How I built this - Interviews with entrepreneurs Freakonomics - Very good The Tim Ferriss Show - Lots of interesting people come on the show"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14820967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820967", "by": "Blackstone4", "time": 1500648637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bottom Line - Excellent business podcast Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman How I built this - Interviews with entrepreneurs Freakonomics - Very good The Tim Ferriss Show - Lots of interesting people come on the show"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14820972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820972", "by": "epmatsw", "time": 1500648665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast - Apple and random tech discussion. Super fun listen. One of the hosts is also the author of Overcast, which is my favorite podcast app. The Talk Show - Similar to ATP, but slightly more serious and with rotating guests Pardon My Take - a humorous sports podcast. It\u2019s kind of juvenile, but it\u2019s growing on me. Best of Mike and Mike - a semi-serious sports podcast. This one\u2019s about to end, unfortunately. Stuff You Should Know - funny but informative info about random topics you never realized you wanted to know about Hardcore History - super long and rarely released episo"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 14820972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820972", "by": "epmatsw", "time": 1500648665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast - Apple and random tech discussion. Super fun listen. One of the hosts is also the author of Overcast, which is my favorite podcast app. The Talk Show - Similar to ATP, but slightly more serious and with rotating guests Pardon My Take - a humorous sports podcast. It\u2019s kind of juvenile, but it\u2019s growing on me. Best of Mike and Mike - a semi-serious sports podcast. This one\u2019s about to end, unfortunately. Stuff You Should Know - funny but informative info about random topics you never realized you wanted to know about Hardcore History - super long and rarely released episo"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 14820977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820977", "by": "peckrob", "time": 1500648684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Hardcore History [0]. Even if you're not a fan of history, check it out because Dan really grips you with the story. I can't say enough good things about this podcast and look forward to each new episode. The episodes are LONG; they're more like audiobooks in a way. The series on World War I (Blueprint for Armageddon) [1] was six episodes and 24 hours long. Perfect for road trips, but the downside is there's only 2-4 a year. 2. The British History Podcast [2]. Fills the gaps between Hardcore History releases. Jamie does a weekly, very deep dive into the whole of British history, starting fr"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14821038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821038", "by": "daveilers", "time": 1500649100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hilarious World Of Depression (THWOD) 99% Invisible Accidental Tech Podcast Reconcilable Differences Do By Friday Cortex Writer's Almanac Radiolab Note To Self MBMBAM The Incomparable (as topics interest me)"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14821038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821038", "by": "daveilers", "time": 1500649100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hilarious World Of Depression (THWOD) 99% Invisible Accidental Tech Podcast Reconcilable Differences Do By Friday Cortex Writer's Almanac Radiolab Note To Self MBMBAM The Incomparable (as topics interest me)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 14821038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821038", "by": "daveilers", "time": 1500649100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hilarious World Of Depression (THWOD) 99% Invisible Accidental Tech Podcast Reconcilable Differences Do By Friday Cortex Writer's Almanac Radiolab Note To Self MBMBAM The Incomparable (as topics interest me)"}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 14821038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821038", "by": "daveilers", "time": 1500649100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hilarious World Of Depression (THWOD) 99% Invisible Accidental Tech Podcast Reconcilable Differences Do By Friday Cortex Writer's Almanac Radiolab Note To Self MBMBAM The Incomparable (as topics interest me)"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 14821063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821063", "by": "jandrusk", "time": 1500649296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Changelog Podcast - Talk Python To Me - Podcast.Init"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 14821063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821063", "by": "jandrusk", "time": 1500649296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Changelog Podcast - Talk Python To Me - Podcast.Init"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 14821082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821082", "by": "od0", "time": 1500649466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Data Skeptic (love this podcast) Data Driven Discussions (new podcast) Linear Digressions (good shorter discussions) Pod Save America (awesome) Coaching for Leaders (great interviews, the best soft skills podcast I've found) Software Engineering Daily (a little hard to keep up, mostly listen to specific topics) a16z (general trends)"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 14821082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821082", "by": "od0", "time": 1500649466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Data Skeptic (love this podcast) Data Driven Discussions (new podcast) Linear Digressions (good shorter discussions) Pod Save America (awesome) Coaching for Leaders (great interviews, the best soft skills podcast I've found) Software Engineering Daily (a little hard to keep up, mostly listen to specific topics) a16z (general trends)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14821380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821380", "by": "ranic", "time": 1500651653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: Planet Money - Current events and finance Astronomy Cast - Long-running podcast with each episode about a topic in astronomy Death Sex & Money - Human interest stories On The Media - Current events Love and Radio - Human interest stories Welcome to Night Vale - Weird scifi-ish stories in a newscast format"}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 14821380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821380", "by": "ranic", "time": 1500651653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites: Planet Money - Current events and finance Astronomy Cast - Long-running podcast with each episode about a topic in astronomy Death Sex & Money - Human interest stories On The Media - Current events Love and Radio - Human interest stories Welcome to Night Vale - Weird scifi-ish stories in a newscast format"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 14822089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14822089", "by": "jonathansizz", "time": 1500656783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Council on Foreign Relations: The World Next Week, The President's Inbox Financial Times: World Weekly, The Money Show, Alphachat BBC: The World This Week, Analysis, In Our Time, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Public Philosopher, A History of Ideas Philosophy: The Partially Examined Life, Philosophy Bites, The Philosopher's Zone, The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps Others: The Carnegie Podcast Radio Atlantic Guardian Books Guardian Science Weekly"}, {"show": "135353439", "hn_item": 14822089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14822089", "by": "jonathansizz", "time": 1500656783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Council on Foreign Relations: The World Next Week, The President's Inbox Financial Times: World Weekly, The Money Show, Alphachat BBC: The World This Week, Analysis, In Our Time, Infinite Monkey Cage, The Public Philosopher, A History of Ideas Philosophy: The Partially Examined Life, Philosophy Bites, The Philosopher's Zone, The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps Others: The Carnegie Podcast Radio Atlantic Guardian Books Guardian Science Weekly"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 14832507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14832507", "by": "mahmoudfelfel", "time": 1500821533, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14835564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835564", "by": "SN76477", "time": 1500864528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a great story on maintenance last October. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance/"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 14835951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14835951", "by": "hasenj", "time": 1500871680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did you even listen to Sam Harris's podcast with Charles Murray? I've seen this vox article before and I think it's a joke. EDIT: To clarify my GP comment, the point is that there are very good reasons to conclude that IQ is not distributed equally across different populations, and so if there are different percentages of developers from X or Y populations it should not be seen as evidence of discrimination because it could very well be the result of IQ distribution. Also, it should not be necessary to point out since it should have no bearing on the discusion, but I am not white (at least not"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14838943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838943", "by": "ryandvm", "time": 1500908336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in his recent interview on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-..."}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 14839123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839123", "by": "mcgrath_sh", "time": 1500909440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Simmons has touched on that in the past. He talks a lot about some of what happened at Grantland, ESPN, and decisions he made re: The Ringer on the July 12, 2017 of the Bill Simmons Podcast titled, \"Inside the Evolution of ESPN With Jim Miller and Bryan Curtis.\" Here is the link to his podcast section on The Ringer: https://theringer.com/bill-simmons-podcast-d3868264a984"}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 14844790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14844790", "by": "dude01", "time": 1500951785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You probably caught him at a bad time. He's also argued that third parties are the only way forward in America (which I think is not true). At this point, his Common Sense podcast is somewhat repetitive of his previous stuff, but he's trying to say new things each time, which is tough. His Hardcore History stuff, on the other hand, is mind-blowingly awesome!!! And not repetitive."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 14848462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848462", "by": "choxi", "time": 1500996497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Radiolab podcast about a pill that supposedly cures alcohol addiction: http://www.radiolab.org/story/addiction/ The pill they mention is called \"Baclofen\", and the podcast goes into how effective it is and why, if it's so good, it isn't used broadly yet."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 14858780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14858780", "by": "jamesgeck0", "time": 1501093506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Flash made the web lose a couple late before much needed features emerged by occupying space with a proprietary plugin Aren't HTML animation authoring tools are still catching up to what Flash had? I don't know that it held the web back so much as it provided a bar to clear. On a content level, Flash was definitely a boon. A lot of stuff like Homestar Runner and Kongregate could not have existed with pure web technology at the time. There was a Hanselminutes podcast where it was mentioned that all the hostility towards Flash before HTML animation was ready for prime time drove a lot of anima"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 14874862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14874862", "by": "darylfritz", "time": 1501255216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also comes across as very humble on his Hanselminutes podcast. Great guy."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14877641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877641", "by": "janvdberg", "time": 1501276626, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest Planet Money podcast talks a bit about an interesting 'flaw' in the system causing Amazon to grow and grow even more and eating every other company. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 14884344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14884344", "by": "strict9", "time": 1501386281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For an audio version from the same person starting this podcast, an excerpt from This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/620/..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 14898634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14898634", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1501574235, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 14918838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918838", "by": "ge96", "time": 1501762368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you heard of the stack overflow podcast? Pretty good Some others Embedded - Coding blocks - Artificial Intelligence - Ted Radio Hour - Changelog - Masters of Scale - Indie Hackers - Hack the Entrepreneur Pretty much listen to any coding/programming/entrepreneur/news related stuff."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 14918838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918838", "by": "ge96", "time": 1501762368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you heard of the stack overflow podcast? Pretty good Some others Embedded - Coding blocks - Artificial Intelligence - Ted Radio Hour - Changelog - Masters of Scale - Indie Hackers - Hack the Entrepreneur Pretty much listen to any coding/programming/entrepreneur/news related stuff."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 14919470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919470", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1501767761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pocket is really great for saving articles and they have some good recommendations too. I listen to a lot of podcasts like 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Reply All, Up First, WWDTM, Why Oh Why, and Embedded.fm. I also follow a lot of PhD students on Twitter who can write really well."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14919470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919470", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1501767761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pocket is really great for saving articles and they have some good recommendations too. I listen to a lot of podcasts like 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Reply All, Up First, WWDTM, Why Oh Why, and Embedded.fm. I also follow a lot of PhD students on Twitter who can write really well."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 14919470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919470", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1501767761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pocket is really great for saving articles and they have some good recommendations too. I listen to a lot of podcasts like 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Reply All, Up First, WWDTM, Why Oh Why, and Embedded.fm. I also follow a lot of PhD students on Twitter who can write really well."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 14919470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919470", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1501767761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pocket is really great for saving articles and they have some good recommendations too. I listen to a lot of podcasts like 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Reply All, Up First, WWDTM, Why Oh Why, and Embedded.fm. I also follow a lot of PhD students on Twitter who can write really well."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 14922095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922095", "by": "jonathansizz", "time": 1501783639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CFR (the publishers of Foreign Affairs) have The World Next Week and The President's Inbox (and other more specialized ones) Carnegie Endowment does The Carnegie Podcast FT has World Weekly BBC (e.g. Global News, Newshour, The Inquiry), NPR and PRI (e.g. America Abroad) all have a few to try out, and CSIS also have a good one. Universities like Oxford and Harvard have their own podcasts as well. Try them all and pick your favourites. I just listen to CFR and Carnegie these days."}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 14922095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922095", "by": "jonathansizz", "time": 1501783639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CFR (the publishers of Foreign Affairs) have The World Next Week and The President's Inbox (and other more specialized ones) Carnegie Endowment does The Carnegie Podcast FT has World Weekly BBC (e.g. Global News, Newshour, The Inquiry), NPR and PRI (e.g. America Abroad) all have a few to try out, and CSIS also have a good one. Universities like Oxford and Harvard have their own podcasts as well. Try them all and pick your favourites. I just listen to CFR and Carnegie these days."}, {"show": "932499233", "hn_item": 14922095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922095", "by": "jonathansizz", "time": 1501783639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CFR (the publishers of Foreign Affairs) have The World Next Week and The President's Inbox (and other more specialized ones) Carnegie Endowment does The Carnegie Podcast FT has World Weekly BBC (e.g. Global News, Newshour, The Inquiry), NPR and PRI (e.g. America Abroad) all have a few to try out, and CSIS also have a good one. Universities like Oxford and Harvard have their own podcasts as well. Try them all and pick your favourites. I just listen to CFR and Carnegie these days."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 14931620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14931620", "by": "droffel", "time": 1501876560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you enjoyed this article, check out the 99% Invisible podcast's \"Perfect Security\" episode. It covers a lot of the same information, and is a good listen. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-security/"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 14938892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938892", "by": "gtf21", "time": 1501978938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would recommend very highly: (1) Andrew Grove's \"High Output Management\", it's easy to read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove... (2) Manager Tools \"Basics\" podcasts, especially on 1x1s and feedback: https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics There's a hell of a lot to learn outside of these things, but I think they're a good start."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 14942396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14942396", "by": "remarkEon", "time": 1502041611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would it? Imagine the think pieces and clickbait it would generate. The guy would get an interview on Tucker Carlson and the Joe Rogan podcast but the whole thing would be over in 2 weeks."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 14958380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958380", "by": "jdeibele", "time": 1502204063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was listening to Atul Gawande on the podcast \"Conversations with Tyler\". Sponges are now bar-coded (less expensive than RFID, etc.) and scanned during the process to make sure they're not left inside the patient."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 14960581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14960581", "by": "samfriedman", "time": 1502215091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who want more of this \"analysts' insight\", I can heartily recommend the blog and podcast, Arms Control Wonk [0]. The researchers and experts there work to perform analysis into most new missile launches in the interest of non-proliferation. Since the recent ramp-up of NK missile tests, I've found their writing and (largely less formal) podcasting extremely interesting and valuable both as an expert opinion on the capabilities of NK (and other proto-nuclear states), and as a look into the research that feeds journalism like this piece. [0] http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 14980968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980968", "by": "mhb_eng", "time": 1502380755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an interesting aside, anyone who is interested in this stuff should check out the Omega Tau podcast( http://omegataupodcast.net ). In a recent episode(#247), he went in depth with Dr. Hoffman about his research and the uses of BMG materials."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 14989726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989726", "by": "teilo", "time": 1502460123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin produces the Hardcore History Podcast, and it is outstanding. Do yourself a favor and check it out."}, {"show": "1204521130", "hn_item": 14999049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999049", "by": "lefnire", "time": 1502561157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Course: fast.ai ( http://course.fast.ai ). Practical, to the point, theory + code. * Book: Hands-On Machine Learning w/ Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow ( http://amzn.to/2vPG3Ur ). Theory & code, starting from \"shallow\" learning (eg Linear Regression) on sckikit-learn, pandas, numpy; and moves to deep learning with TF. * Podcast: Machine Learning Guide ( http://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learning ). Commute/exercise backdrop to solidify theory. Provides curriculum & resources."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 14999646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999646", "by": "osteele", "time": 1502567775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe. Or maybe (many) poor people are acting rationally given their economic circumstances. See [\"Reframing the Debate about Payday Lending\"]( http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/10/reframi... ) (a pop summary of [\"Interest rate caps and implicit collusion: the case of payday lending\"]( http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=58089 ), DeYoung & Phillips), or other articles linked [this episode of Freakonomics]( http://freakonomics.com/podcast/payday-loans/ ). These articles are about payday loans, not credit card debt, but (1) some (but not all!) of the same concern"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 14999726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999726", "by": "jurgenwerk", "time": 1502568713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indie Hackers! https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 14999947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14999947", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1502571758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Firstly, while I think it's beneficial to learn multiple languages (python, R, matlab, julia), I'd suggest picking one to avoid overwhelming yourself and freaking out. I'd suggest python because there are great tools and lots of learning resources out there, plus most of the cutting edge neural networks action is in python. Then for overall curriculum, I'd suggest: 1. start with basic machine learning (not neural networks) and in particular, read through the scikit-learn docs and watch a few tutorials on youtube. spend some time getting familiar with jupyter notebooks and pandas and tackle som"}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 15000325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000325", "by": "type0", "time": 1502576200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Open Source Security Podcast Late Night Linux Chemistry World Podcast"}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 15000325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000325", "by": "type0", "time": 1502576200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Open Source Security Podcast Late Night Linux Chemistry World Podcast"}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 15000662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000662", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1502580976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've got a few I look forward to every single week (or so). I listen for pleasure and to get my mind off work. With that said, here are my favorite weekly podcasts (I've included descriptions from their website or my own if none was provided): [0a] Giant Bombcast and [0b] Giant Beastcast (Note I'm a premium member) The Giant Bomb staff discuss the latest video game news and new releases, taste-test questionable beverages, and get wildly off-topic in this weekly podcast. [1] Thirty, Twenty, Ten A pop culture time machine that examines TV, movies, music and video games from the 80s, 90s and 2000"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15000691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000691", "by": "drakenot", "time": 1502581397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast - A tech podcast with a strong focus on Apple. Commentary by Siracusa makes this one worth it. Film Sack - Film reviews of bad, strange or unique movies. They only do movies that are currently available via streaming sites and encourage their listeners to watch the movie before the episode. Judge John Hodgeman - Two people, usually a couple, call in to the show with a disagreement. John Hodgeman will listen to both sides and cast his judgement. Both sides agree to abide by whatever he says."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15001081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15001081", "by": "Helloworldboy", "time": 1502589258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joe Rogan Podcast check it out! The Joe Rogan Experience TRAIN BY DAY JOE ROGAN PODCAST BY NIGHT, ALL DAY!"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 15001616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15001616", "by": "kennethologist", "time": 1502600935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Few of my favorites in no particular order. Grant Cardone's podcasts mainly: https://grantcardonetv.com/podcasts/ Masters of Scale https://mastersofscale.com/ Techcrunch Equity https://techcrunch.com/tag/equity-podcast/ How I Built This http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this"}, {"show": "1223831564", "hn_item": 15002029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002029", "by": "dezb", "time": 1502611387, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here\u2019s a few examples of Podcasts I\u2019ve done recently: + https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/ibm-fast-track-your-data-2017-podcast-series-talking-with-lillian-pierson + https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-podcast-series-talking-about-cloud-ascend-from-engility-with-kevin-jackson + https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-podcast-series-talking-about-behavioural-economics-with-guy-shone + https://soundcloud.com/dez_blanchfield/conversations-with-dez-podcast-series-talking-about-cloud-on-mainframe-with-steven-dickens + https://soundcloud.com/dez_b"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 15002874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002874", "by": "johnwaynedoe", "time": 1502631982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "-99% Invisible -Hardcore History -The History of Rome -True Crime Guys -Reply All -Criminal -Myths and Legends -Crimetown -Internet History Podcast"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15002874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002874", "by": "johnwaynedoe", "time": 1502631982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "-99% Invisible -Hardcore History -The History of Rome -True Crime Guys -Reply All -Criminal -Myths and Legends -Crimetown -Internet History Podcast"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 15006714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006714", "by": "texteller", "time": 1502688398, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One My most favorite & motivational Jocko Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkqcY4CAuBFNFho6JgygCnA"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15010982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15010982", "by": "QuotedForTruth", "time": 1502734331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should listen to the latest episodes of Reply All podcast. They go pretty far to investigate one of those tech support call centers. There is a part two as well. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/long-distance/"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15014075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15014075", "by": "giobox", "time": 1502754354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to understand his motivations, he gave a wide ranging interview to the ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast) guys at the time he jumped ship to Tesla. Basically it seemed to boil down to him now being a people manager as much as he is an engineer - he really enjoys helping teams of people succeed at complex technical problems. This doesn't surprise me at all, given how the nature of work often changes as one climbs an org tree. http://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript/"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 15015971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15015971", "by": "josephcooney", "time": 1502778156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko's podcast is pretty good. The recent one with Harley Flanagan was a bit of an eye opener. http://jockopodcast2.com/2017/05/10/74-hard-times-violence-d..."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 15019104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15019104", "by": "ryanx435", "time": 1502810811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "if you'd ever actually listened to Jocko's podcast you'd know that often the reason soldiers fight is for their brother next to them. The reasons that they enlist/join up in the first place, however, are unique to each individual. After joining up it is often out of the individual soldiers control about if they are sent to war or not."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 15022678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15022678", "by": "boomboomsubban", "time": 1502831752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I reccomend Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on the subject. He makes a strong argument that the failure to integrate teachers to any degree caused a large part of the failure. Some of his sources are on the page, but I haven't reviewed them well personally. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-per..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 15025165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15025165", "by": "hossbeast", "time": 1502861611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a reference to the Serial podcast, for anyone wondering. Recommended (both seasons)."}, {"show": "1192165009", "hn_item": 15032280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032280", "by": "janober", "time": 1502926266, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15038694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15038694", "by": "dmix", "time": 1502990050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This articles touches on an interesting subject, whether female-targeted advertising and gender-based 'cultural' events are really the best way to recruit more women - or the lack of which is why the divide exists in the first place. There's always this implied assumption, such as in the Planet Money podcast she referenced, that the cause of the problem is obvious and known. But if it was that simple we would have likely made a lot more progress with the issue by now."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 15044864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15044864", "by": "77pt77", "time": 1503050416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The comments disturb me: > Surprising you didn't talk about trusting your gut. >> I will admit that I struggle with finding a balance between brevity and comprehensiveness. You're suggestion is absolutely right in that I could have put some additional guidance on using common sense and/or trusting one's guts/instincts when something doesn't feel right and it makes more sense to be more cautious. This seems to be a disturbing trend recently. Inflating people's sense that their biases are not only valuable inputs but actually accurate. This flies in the face of all quantitative studies that show"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 15051705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15051705", "by": "nkzednan", "time": 1503117439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good episode of Opening Arguments (podcast) that talks about the ACLU/Charlottesville/etc. http://openargs.com/oa96-understanding-charlottesville/"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 15055126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15055126", "by": "linkmotif", "time": 1503171020, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For people like me who are not sure what P/NP is about, I recently listened to a podcast episode on this topic https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/software-engineering-rad..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 15055154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15055154", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1503171489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"an interview on the Sam Harris podcast about all the different ways technology is persuading millions of people in ways they don\u2019t see\" Tristan Harris is only mentioning some very recent manifestations and variations of a critique that has been around for a very long time. The history of this critique is a complex and not easily summarized one,[1] but, to take just one example, in The Technological Society [2] Jacques Ellul[3] argued that it was the efficiency improvements in what Ellul called \"technique\" (which can be thought of as technology in a broader sense) were effectively irresistible"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 15064370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15064370", "by": "rbanffy", "time": 1503321970, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15067047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15067047", "by": "xiaoma", "time": 1503343622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Despite being successful for an academic, he's not exactly a famous psych prof at the level of say, Steven Pinker. Before politics collided with his work this year he didn't seem to be politically active at all, either. It might have changed a bit after Joe Rogan's podcast but to be honest, most people outside of Canada probably have no idea who Jordan Peterson is."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 15068997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15068997", "by": "beefsack", "time": 1503364256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's some cool things to note about Xi which make me more excited about it: * It's being written by Raph Levien, known for his work on Inconsolata, Ghostscript, and font-rs[1] among other things. * The design goals include incredibly high performance, beauty, reliability and developer friendliness[2]. * It's very fast at handling large files, though the editor is still missing a lot of functionality. Raph was also interviewed on the New Rustacean podcast[3] and talks a fair bit about Xi. [1]: https://github.com/google/font-rs [2]: https://github.com/google/xi-editor#a-modern-editor-with-a-b"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 15072818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072818", "by": "rbanffy", "time": 1503412769, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 15076594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15076594", "by": "linclark", "time": 1503437728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, I created Code Cartoons in my spare time. After I worked at Mozilla for a while, I pitched the idea of me making Code Cartoons explaining the things we were developing in Emerging Technologies. My (current) boss was super into the idea. I talked more about this on a recently recorded Hanselminutes podcast. It should come out soon."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 15081340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081340", "by": "JohnGB", "time": 1503494961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm sure multitudes of people like his style of reading, but I have found it to be incredibly slow and frustrating to listen to. He reads.... with ...... far too many..... pointless..... pauses. One can have meter and flow without the slow. It's not exactly the same thing, but I much prefer the way that Dan Carlin (Hardcore History podcast) uses his voice to create atmosphere and draw me into the story."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 15082102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082102", "by": "srcmap", "time": 1503501226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There might be another way. I heard from \"Security Now\" podcast that there is a new law that require all government purchased IOT devices must be update-able to fix security issue. Expand the law a bit: Make all internet connected device makers (Include phone maker) liable for any loss of private consumer info, hack for 10 years from any internet connected devices release. Anyone can file lawsuit against them easily or in class actions against the vendor if they don't provide security fixed/upgrade within 4-6 months of from being notify of the vulnerability. Establish an ISO security standard "}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 15089264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089264", "by": "Applejinx", "time": 1503575208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's podcast has excoriated these people quite strenuously, and in the process has explained very well how this comes about. Those aren't telephone sanitizers. Their job is to keep thinking up spectacular things to propose, the better to lure insanely wealthy people into investing in Stanford. Stanford's run (or was) by a guy who as a matter of principle cannot think of ANY reason why any endowment or gift should ever go to any other school or thing that isn't Stanford, no matter how much money Stanford has or how little money anyone else has. He's committed to the proposition th"}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 15100859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15100859", "by": "javajive", "time": 1503685086, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 15116891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116891", "by": "rbanffy", "time": 1503932132, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 15123809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15123809", "by": "knz", "time": 1504009736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The new one (\"Celtic Holocaust\") is about the Roman conquest of the Celtic people. Definitely worth a listen if you're into history/Carlin podcasts. Personally I'm hoping for a \"Common Sense\" podcast by him sometime soon !"}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 15139505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15139505", "by": "andy_ppp", "time": 1504178152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is extremely dense and extremely fascinating. I also recommend his podcast, Talking Politics (which has a substantial UK focus, but deals with America and world politics too). https://www.acast.com/talkingpolitics/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15141160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15141160", "by": "billturner", "time": 1504194902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There were a couple of interesting Planet Money podcast episodes on this from earlier this year: * part 1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/10/527803742/episo... * part 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/12/528181998/episo..."}, {"show": "1691652896", "hn_item": 15142104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15142104", "by": "giarc", "time": 1504201148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the key quote is \"The ultimate aim of the service is to help companies determine if there are vulnerable devices on their network that could be exploited by malicious hackers, who could then pivot and compromise the whole organization.\" I believe the founder was on Recode podcast within the last year. It was a great listen and really sold the product value prop. I work in healthcare and in my office alone we have 2 or 3 printers connected that IT isn't aware of because we couldn't get approval."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15144020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15144020", "by": "atom-morgan", "time": 1504214350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience is probably my favorite podcast and the unedited nature of it is one big plus. I think people over-exaggerate uhs and umms. If it's every other word, yeah. Otherwise, it's not THAT big of a deal in most cases."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15145720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145720", "by": "thearn4", "time": 1504233623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Software Engineering Daily podcast has a good ongoing series on ad fraud that explores why that isn't happening."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15164015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164015", "by": "Judgmentality", "time": 1504473960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think the problem with bitcoin is the tech (although I do think the protocol isn't perfect, as hashing times continue to increase). The problem with bitcoin is actually fundamental - once it becomes as big as you say it will, it will be regulated. And once it's regulated, what real advantages does it offer compared to the competition? The reason money works is because people trust that the governments printing it will honor it - otherwise you have people living on communes trading pieces of silver (Planet Money Podcast #777 has an interesting take on this, and later finds out the peopl"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 15170573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15170573", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1504555934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I second Talking Machines. The O'Reilly Data Show is really good too. The Threatpost Podcast isn't bad, but the episodes are kinda hit or miss. If a hack was something stupid there is only so much you can say. \"Hospitals are running XP and they got hacked\" isn't going to be interesting no matter what you throw at it."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15173276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173276", "by": "spektom", "time": 1504597910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the list of great technical podcasts I've been listening during commute to my previous work: * Software Engineering Daily * Software Engineering Radio * The Changelog * DevZen (in Russian) * Reversim Platforma (in Hebrew) Look for previous shows, most of the great content is there! PS: It takes about 5 minutes to drive to my new work, and I really miss them now."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 15173407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173407", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1504600440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts that have helped improve my technical skills: - Talking Machines - The O'Reilly Data Show - Software Engineering Radio - Software Engineering Daily - AWS Re: Invent series Podcasts that have helped improve my general thinking: - Econtalk - Conversations with Tyler - Waking Up with Sam Harris"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 15173407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173407", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1504600440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts that have helped improve my technical skills: - Talking Machines - The O'Reilly Data Show - Software Engineering Radio - Software Engineering Daily - AWS Re: Invent series Podcasts that have helped improve my general thinking: - Econtalk - Conversations with Tyler - Waking Up with Sam Harris"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15173407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173407", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1504600440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts that have helped improve my technical skills: - Talking Machines - The O'Reilly Data Show - Software Engineering Radio - Software Engineering Daily - AWS Re: Invent series Podcasts that have helped improve my general thinking: - Econtalk - Conversations with Tyler - Waking Up with Sam Harris"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 15173407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15173407", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1504600440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts that have helped improve my technical skills: - Talking Machines - The O'Reilly Data Show - Software Engineering Radio - Software Engineering Daily - AWS Re: Invent series Podcasts that have helped improve my general thinking: - Econtalk - Conversations with Tyler - Waking Up with Sam Harris"}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 15174659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15174659", "by": "hackermailman", "time": 1504616396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My commute I grab a paper off sci-hub from a journal, print it out at a corner store and read it to and from work. If it must be a podcast one I enjoy is the Type Theory podcast http://typetheorypodcast.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15175228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15175228", "by": "AndrewKemendo", "time": 1504620100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Joe Rogan Podcast had a really interesting discussion about this [1]. Basically one of the key points, especially in light of people being called Nazis (accurately or spuriously), is that one of the major social aspects of pre-war Germany was that there was radical polarization between fascist and anti-fascist groups similar to what we see now. However because the psychological makeup of someone who would support fascism is more drawn toward structuralism, law and order etc... they are much more organized and lethal as a group. You see echoes here with the Alt-Right and Antifa. Alt-Ri"}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 15175633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15175633", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1504622421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No. I remember very distinctly at the end of May being in New York for a holiday, walking through Central Park listening to a The Verge podcast discussing Magic Leap's amazing technology that they've been working on for the past n years. Over a year later still nothing close. Ironically, Magic Leap will always remind me of Central Park."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 15178802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15178802", "by": "dschep", "time": 1504642996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the 99% Invisible podcast[0] [0] http://99percentinvisible.org/"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 15194516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15194516", "by": "tcj_phx", "time": 1504808911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's recent Revisionist History podcast was about how McDonald's was bullied/tricked into ruining their french fries: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15195401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15195401", "by": "MikeKusold", "time": 1504816060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Across the board false. Slack is working to reduce the footprint. Listen to the Software Engineering Daily [0] podcast about it (performance conversation begins around 38:45) [0] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/08/11/typescript-a..."}, {"show": "1215439780", "hn_item": 15199875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199875", "by": "janober", "time": 1504876267, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 15202484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15202484", "by": "hencq", "time": 1504893548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a lot. I thought this one was really funny [0]. This one I found very interesting [1]. Somewhat different, is the Hello Internet [2] podcast, which is by Grey and Brady Haran who you might know from the Numberphile youtube channel [3]. It's basically the 2 of them chatting about random stuff, but I find it very entertaining. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc [2] http://www.hellointernet.fm/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 15203233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203233", "by": "brwnll", "time": 1504898632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good Odd Lots podcast covering this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-27/odd-lots-..."}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 15203652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203652", "by": "matthewmcg", "time": 1504902360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a historical fluke. Credit bureaus trace back to agencies that compiled third-party reports on the creditworthiness of business persons. So long as the information collected is accurate (and not defamatory), this type of activity is protected under the first amendment. See the first segment of this episode of the Backstory podcast for a retelling of how these early agencies worked: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/keeping-tabs-2016/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15207070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207070", "by": "Radim", "time": 1504964958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a good (if scary) insight into the \"hidden bias\" and \"forced diversity\" culture inside Google, have a listen to the recent James Damore interview at Joe Rogan's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1JeII0eGo They recount the ways people have been misrepresenting James' (rather meek) position, right down to accusations of sexism, nazism, malicious removal of academic references and outright lies. A sad testimony of this day and age and the current media climate in the US. It's like people think covering their ears shouting \"LALALA NOT TRUE, WILL NOT DISCUSS\" has ever been a constructi"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 15215926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15215926", "by": "probe", "time": 1505104264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Siddhartha Mukherjee had a fantastic point about this on a recent Sam Harris Podcast - \"The more specific we make tests, the more likely we'll find genetic reasons\". If we define beautiful as having blue eyes and blonde hair, of course beauty is genetic! That's equally analogous to how we define intelligence and find it similarly heritable. More work needs to be done on the former before we can for sure talk about the latter."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15242944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15242944", "by": "arprocter", "time": 1505338534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Carl Hart has researched this[0] I found his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast (most recently #698) compelling [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart#Research"}, {"show": "1758539536", "hn_item": 15244770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15244770", "by": "dcre", "time": 1505359323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode[1] of the fantastic Intercepted podcast includes recordings of Manning's testimony during her trial and discussion with someone who was in extensive contact with her throughout. I was frankly floored by Manning's calm thoughtfulness. [1] https://theintercept.com/2017/05/10/intercepted-podcast-jame..."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 15246419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246419", "by": "qohen", "time": 1505383607, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the link, emerongi. BTW, this isn't just some random podcast -- TLDR was a podcast put out by \"On the Media\" [0], the (US) public radio show that dissects how news is presented to the public, how the media works, etc. This episode was released in Jan. 2014. A month later, a version of this TLDR episode was broadcast on the actual \"On The Media\" radio show [0] -- basically it's the podcast-episode with some added introductory material about the Benghazi story, narrated by Bob Garfield, one of the show's hosts. (BTW, if you listened to the podcast link from emerongi above, there's no "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15247616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15247616", "by": "Pigo", "time": 1505394891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is quite a tangent, but figured I'd mention to anyone who might be interested that there's a pretty cool podcast recently from Radiolab about the life and times of the Voyagers. It goes into some interesting details about their exit from the solar system. http://www.radiolab.org/story/sun-dont-shine/"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 15253790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15253790", "by": "codezero", "time": 1505437411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great podcast on NYTimes' The Daily about new advancements in the rocket engines used \u2013 their conclusion is that with Ukraine in flux, the source of Russia's missile engines (which Russia has recently stopped buying) are selling them off to North Korea, or an intermediary."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 15254394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15254394", "by": "methodover", "time": 1505446283, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you listen to Arms Control Wonk? It's a podcast; they go deep, deep into the weeds of these missiles and what we know about them. In one podcast recently they talked about the cooperation between Iran and North Korea."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15256203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256203", "by": "baldfat", "time": 1505474956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Referencing an old RadioLab podcast \"Why isn't the Sky Blue.\" http://www.radiolab.org/story/211213-sky-isnt-blue/ That podcast states that Homer never used the color blue. As somewhat of a dead language linguist that still sits in the back of my head all the time. I am not 100% sold nor 50% sold on the idea that colors are seen only when they are defined BUT.... This article states - > In that regard, blue\u2014one of the four traditional colors originally established in the Japanese language along with red, black and white\u2014historically encompassed items that other cultures would describe as green\u2014"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 15275178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15275178", "by": "janvdberg", "time": 1505737168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jann Wenner was on a recent How I Built This podcast [1]: which was very interesting. He was very adamant there that his son was being prepped to take over. So this is a bit surprising. [1] http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 15276096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15276096", "by": "dahart", "time": 1505743976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is good advice, and it's helpful to have specific tools. There are definitely certain kinds of business ideas you can gauge the market using a facade MVP. If you're making a straightforward CRUD app on an standard stack, chances are high that you can prototype & test it without engineering. I have a startup that made the mistake of building too much too early, but I don't think an MVP app would have helped me. The core idea of the app depends a lot on the experience and performance of the finished product, and customers have higher standards than we expected and they need integrations wit"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15278953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278953", "by": "rhinoceraptor", "time": 1505764582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listen to the podcasts (Accidental Tech Podcast, etc.) that talk a lot about the Mac, they all want updated Mac pros, and before the 2016 MBP, MacBook pros. Not to mention the poor old Mac mini with Haswell CPUs."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15281005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281005", "by": "euske", "time": 1505782574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of Planet Money (best podcast evah btw) kinda explains why retails like Toys`R'Us was defeated by Amazon. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15281292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281292", "by": "maxxxxx", "time": 1505787537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After listening to him on Joe Rogan's podcast it was petty clear that he still doesn't really understand what he did wrong. If it's true that he only gave 5 million to Livestrong he probably made much more back through sponsor money so you could argue even that was just a calculated move for his own benefit. The sad thing is that with enough effort he will come back. He just hasn't mastered the art of fake remorse yet."}, {"show": "1084202846", "hn_item": 15281318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281318", "by": "aaronhoffman", "time": 1505787905, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Good podcast on this topic: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lara-murphy-show/id1..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15284371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15284371", "by": "emsy", "time": 1505827694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Gruber's pieces about Apple are mostly useless, because he always seems heavily biased. Compare that to e.g. the ATP podcast, which is hosted by Apple fans but seems to contain more criticism and less apologism."}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 15288705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288705", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1505854422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> allowing apps instead of web apps For what it's worth, people who worked on the original iPhone have said that internally Apple knew that 'web apps' were always a stopgap until they could get a native SDK out the door. Time constraints preventing them from shipping one in the first year. I'm sure Don Melton and/or Nitin Ganatra discussed this on Debug podcast a few years back https://www.imore.com/60-melton-ganatra-episode-iii-shipping..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15288734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288734", "by": "Eiriksmal", "time": 1505854569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've kept a bookmark of all the Software Engineering Daily podcasts discussing ad fraud ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/?s=ad+fraud ) that someone linked to on HN. Uber has some pretty interesting claims in this article which, if true, is encouragement to learn more about the topic. >One transparency issue Uber alleges to have found included seeing a Fetch transparency report that showed the number of weekly reported clicks on Uber ads on one website was nearly equal to the site\u2019s monthly active users, according to the complaint."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15307558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307558", "by": "stryk", "time": 1506029641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't speak on Breitbart, but as far as Infowars goes -- he makes a killing on those supplements he schleps out, and apparently there are a _lot_ of people who buy them[0]. Sure he acts like a wackjob conspiracy theory nut -- but my guess is, judging by 'former employees' cited in articles and especially by the episode of the Joe Rogan Podcast with author Jon Ronson (both know him personally), he doesn't believe most of the nonsense coming out of his mouth, but that's his character/persona niche; catering to those that would be entertained by it. 0: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/al"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 15314368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314368", "by": "brosky117", "time": 1506103661, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ryan Peterson was on the Startup School Radio. Seems like a really nice guy. I\u2019m happy for them! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-radio/id9... https://m.soundcloud.com/akharris/startup-school-radio-ep-21..."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 15314603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314603", "by": "DoubleCribble", "time": 1506105428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Being neither British nor Indian, I'd always thought of the British as not horrible colonialists of India, that is until I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. [1] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 15315099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15315099", "by": "otakucode", "time": 1506109070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I cannot personally do so, but I know who can and almost certainly will. The 'This Week In Virology' podcast. It's run by the head of the Columbia University virology department and a few other respected researchers in the field and is an absolutely phenomenal resource whenever there is news about virology. It doesn't look like they've covered this yet (too new) but I expect it to feature large in their next episode. If you're interested in a real technical dive into the topic, that is the place to go. http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ (Related personal anecdote and why I recommend them so highly: I"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 15325261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15325261", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1506269594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Practically every other episode of Lexicon Valley, John McWhorter's linguistics podcast, is about how that's not what's happening. http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html He has a whole book about it: _ Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)_. Check it out. Not only do languages evolve and change over time (and that's not a symptom of everything moving towards some imagined mushy center), but some of those \"changes\" are illusory. For instance, a pretty large contingent of people on the Internet seem to believe that English lacks a gend"}, {"show": "1111739567", "hn_item": 15327551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15327551", "by": "qzervaas", "time": 1506304165, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1111739567", "hn_item": 15328067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15328067", "by": "synicalx", "time": 1506313688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked this piece right off the bat, not because the content is relevant to me but because it took responsibility and initiative, unlike many similar such articles I see on here. The key is in the title \"What we need from Apple TO MAKE standalone Apple Watch podcast apps\", rather than \"Why Apple needs to make a standalone Watch podcast app\"."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 15331339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15331339", "by": "samirasohail", "time": 1506354167, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Startup opportunity to appear on The Pitch podcast I'm Samira Sohail, and I\u2019m in charge of finding the next 10 startups for The Pitch, a new show from Gimlet Media. The Pitch is a show we take listeners into the room where entrepreneurs pitch investors in the hopes of getting funded on the spot. Gimlet's podcasts get 12 million monthly downloads per month so it\u2019s an extraordinary PR and fundraising opportunity. We\u2019re looking for founders who are currently raising seed (or lower end of series A) that have a compelling story and a passion for what their building. Here\u2019s the ask\u2026 Founders - pls g"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15331568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15331568", "by": "KZeillmann", "time": 1506355696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Indie Hackers podcast (and website). It's made for exactly what you're looking for. Courtland Allen interviews founders who are excited about making $20k a month in MRR, and they don't necessarily need to become a $1 billion company. Most of the people featured are bootstrapped or had only a little bit of funding."}, {"show": "1111739567", "hn_item": 15336868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15336868", "by": "canuckintime", "time": 1506411345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "did you know about Watchcast[1]? It's been offering offline Watch podcast playback long before Marco failed at the feature and requested new APIs... [1] https://brianmcburney.github.io/"}, {"show": "1236907421", "hn_item": 15349589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15349589", "by": "craigcannon", "time": 1506530519, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hm. The iTunes feed might be easiest - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/y-combinator/id123690742..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15351042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15351042", "by": "oflannabhra", "time": 1506538232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, this section hasn't previously been reported or commented on. I wonder if this is essentially an opt-in to add your face to the FaceID master dataset[0], or if it is to just allow the developers to see what issues users are having (and how frequently). [0] - It's previously been reported ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/interview-apples-craig-fed... ) that Apple collected this dataset at great expense. The ATP podcast has an account of someone who took part of that data collection here: https://overcast.fm/+CdQoBnmk/1:15:23"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 15356871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356871", "by": "edraferi", "time": 1506604787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Python To Me podcast just did an episode on this [0] It's mainly an interview with Glyph (author of Twisted) about his PyCon 2016 talk \"Shipping Software To Users With Python\" [1] [0] https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/127/shipping-software-to... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqAeN-F9Qs"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15370878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15370878", "by": "vt_mruhlin", "time": 1506738750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about these guys on NPR's Radiolab podcast a couple months ago, and the whole thing gave me a creepy feeling. http://www.radiolab.org/story/ceremony/ They describe the whole ceremony the guys go through to generate the random secret key that seeds their algorithm and needs to be kept secret in order to prevent anybody from counterfeiting coins. It was an elaborate setup supposedly designed to prevent people from observing any details they might be able to use to reverse engineer the algorithm. But, despite all their insistance on bespoke cloak and dagger shit, there were a lot of times"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 15371208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371208", "by": "KC8ZKF", "time": 1506745182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See also episode 193 of the podcast \"Rationally Speaking.\" http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-193-eric-jonas-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15378231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378231", "by": "hackathonguy", "time": 1506870992, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "My current list includes: - Startup - Reply All - Freakonomics Radio - Serial Any good 'uns I missed? Not necessarily tech-related."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15378231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378231", "by": "hackathonguy", "time": 1506870992, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "My current list includes: - Startup - Reply All - Freakonomics Radio - Serial Any good 'uns I missed? Not necessarily tech-related."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 15378289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378289", "by": "mattkrea", "time": 1506871904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do By Friday Accidental Tech Podcast The Flop House Hello Internet Road Work Back to Work Roderick on the Line Cortex Harmontown Reconcilable Differences"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 15378289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378289", "by": "mattkrea", "time": 1506871904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do By Friday Accidental Tech Podcast The Flop House Hello Internet Road Work Back to Work Roderick on the Line Cortex Harmontown Reconcilable Differences"}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 15378289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15378289", "by": "mattkrea", "time": 1506871904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do By Friday Accidental Tech Podcast The Flop House Hello Internet Road Work Back to Work Roderick on the Line Cortex Harmontown Reconcilable Differences"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 15384496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384496", "by": "FabHK", "time": 1506957880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an episode of Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast with Zeynep, good introduction to her thinking: https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/persuasion-and-contro... (BTW, regarding \"supererogatory\" = \"good even beyond what's required\" - awesome word, isn't it, and I've been looking for an opportunity to drop it into a sentence :-)"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 15400776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15400776", "by": "francisofascii", "time": 1507128225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is Amazon the type of place where you must learn to speak MBAese? (a term I first heard from Spolsky on a Stack Exchange podcast.)"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 15408340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15408340", "by": "angry_octet", "time": 1507203903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a modern re-interpretation of inter-state conflict. In the past it was widely accepted that states could resolve disputes via war. By that standard, the UK could indeed keep HK indefinitely. A post-WWI agreement, called the Kellog-Briand Pact, sets the state for multilaterism, and outlaws war for conquest. This later develops into non-recognition of illegal conquests, war crimes, etc. So, in contrast to HK, Tibet will never be part of China. But at the moment China is too rich, and Tibet to inconsequential, for anyone to make a big deal over it. There was a great discussion of this on "}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 15415506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15415506", "by": "schoetbi", "time": 1507282811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a podcast lateley on FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/451"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 15416973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15416973", "by": "SapphireSun", "time": 1507299680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For people wanting really great analysis of nuclear issues, check out Jeff Lewis's Arms Control Wonk podcast. There's three episodes analyzing the Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons treaty amongst many other fascinating topics like missile defense. http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1217137809", "hn_item": 15422695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15422695", "by": "arminn", "time": 1507360588, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15429345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429345", "by": "wenc", "time": 1507487726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This book is a modern survey on practical distributed systems. I knew bits of pieces of the material going in, but the way it was brought together was just masterful. It will not appeal to the absolute novice to be sure. But for anyone else who has worked on systems for moving data (ETL, streams) and storing data (databases and other data stores), this book will show you how things (probably stuff you've done bits of pieces of) fit together and expound on the few foundational big ideas that makes everything cohere. Once you've understood that, you are on your way to designing data systems that"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 15435005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15435005", "by": "jsnk", "time": 1507564936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out this Econtalk podcast with Richard Thaler [2006] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/11/richard_thaler_1.ht..."}, {"show": "1540997760", "hn_item": 15436261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436261", "by": "wjossey", "time": 1507573795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd really recommend taking a look at BigQuery, as I think it could address at least the inefficient query trigger extreme load. It'd be great to have you report back your experiences as well. The GCP podcast team just did a good interview recently with some team members that you might find useful: https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-94-big-query-under-t..."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 15440081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15440081", "by": "ChrisRR", "time": 1507621975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great episode on on Jewelbots on the Embedded.fm podcast which is worth a listen. In fact the podcast is worth a listen in general http://embedded.fm/episodes/173"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 15466601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466601", "by": "j_s", "time": 1507909157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ask HN: Just made Director, now what? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937290 (Aug 2017, only 38 comments) Book recommendations: >gtf21: Would recommend very highly: (1) Andrew Grove's \"High Output Management\" (controversial recommendation) https://amzn.com/dp/B015VACHOK/ $13.99 2015;4+stars;153 reviews >killjoywashere: I like Lazlo Bock's book, Work Rules! https://amzn.com/dp/B00MEMMVB8/ $16.99 2015;4+stars;295 reviews >helper: Maybe read \"The Manager's Path\" by Camille Fournier . https://amzn.com/dp/B06XP3GJ7F/ $16.19 2017;4+stars;30 reviews >simonhamp: I'd highly recommend reading R"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 15493606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493606", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1508265868, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 15503391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15503391", "by": "rconti", "time": 1508362567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't read the article, but just clicked on it -- she was featured on today's NYTimes podcast The Daily."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15504714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15504714", "by": "lihaoyi", "time": 1508376160, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 15505575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15505575", "by": "pls2halp", "time": 1508389041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the note of the internet as a whole displaying this, there was a study a while ago which found \"searching the Internet for explanatory knowledge creates an illusion whereby people mistake access to information for their own personal understanding of the information.\" http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/xge0000070 (I first heard about it through the You Are Not So Smart podcast: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/11/25/yanss-063-how-search... )"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15507751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507751", "by": "djug", "time": 1508420443, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 15509560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15509560", "by": "mpweiher", "time": 1508432454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> exercise is boring Yep. So listen to podcasts during. Seminars About Long Term Thinking and In Our Time being my favorites."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 15510327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510327", "by": "xs", "time": 1508437539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey thanks for the list. Have you tried the Darknet Diaries podcast? Wondering what you think of it."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 15512297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15512297", "by": "ghostcluster", "time": 1508454300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The work of these social psychologists absolutely deserves the scrutiny they are receiving. The field is rife with \"surprising scientific effects\" that do not replicate and turn out to be completely wrong, yet they linger in the popular culture and are brought up over and over again to defend ideas and policies that are not based in reality. Look at the reach of people like Malcolm Gladwell and stuff like his books and podcast, and NPR's Hidden Brain, which subsist on recounting these \"surprising studies\" and speculating about their profound meaning for society, to gigantic audiences. And they"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 15522783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15522783", "by": "Tistron", "time": 1508609318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you prefer audio the author appears in Sam Harris' podcast in a long interview abd speaks about this subject. #74 \u2014 What Should We Eat? Waking Up with Sam Harris Duration: 2:07:24 Published: Sat, 06 May 2017 20:30:08 +0000 URL: http://traffic.libsyn.com/wakingup/Waking_Up_74_Gary_Taubes.... In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Gary Taubes about his career as a science journalist, the difficulty of studying nutrition and public health scientifically, the growing epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the role of hormones in weight gain, the controversies surrounding h"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 15522783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15522783", "by": "Tistron", "time": 1508609318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you prefer audio the author appears in Sam Harris' podcast in a long interview abd speaks about this subject. #74 \u2014 What Should We Eat? Waking Up with Sam Harris Duration: 2:07:24 Published: Sat, 06 May 2017 20:30:08 +0000 URL: http://traffic.libsyn.com/wakingup/Waking_Up_74_Gary_Taubes.... In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Gary Taubes about his career as a science journalist, the difficulty of studying nutrition and public health scientifically, the growing epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the role of hormones in weight gain, the controversies surrounding h"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 15524024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15524024", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1508625838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At the end of the Talk Python To Me Podcast, the host asks about the interviewee's favorite package on PyPI, or for a package which should be better known. One common answer is \"requests\". A couple of people suggested \"doc opt\". The podcast transcripts are at https://github.com/mikeckennedy/talk-python-transcripts/tree... . For example, https://github.com/mikeckennedy/talk-python-transcripts/blob... says: > 00:55:14 Michael Kennedy: Yeah, awesome. And, a notable Python PyPI package, there's over 100,000 of them now. Like one that maybe you've run across lately that was really cool? > 00:55:23 "}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 15525732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15525732", "by": "vram22", "time": 1508660372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was thinking more of getting replies to the question from HN users, based on their personal experience, since I know a lot of us here use Python. I've been doing something like what you say, earlier, for a while, but with the PyDev of the Week series of posts as the source [1]. Mike Driscoll usually asks the same question (as I did here) to each interviewee, and I've picked up a few good Python libraries from that. But it's a good suggestion, I'll check out the Talk Python podcast for similar info - thanks. [1] https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/category/pydevoftheweek/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15533191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15533191", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1508767252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really worry about the entire era of retrogames that will totally disappear once Flash is totally dead and without security updates. Recently the ReplyAll podcast did a story about a classic flash game they found the source code to and restored: http://replyall.limo/bunni All the classic games on Newgrounds will all be lost, like tears in the rain. :-/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15536390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15536390", "by": "flanbiscuit", "time": 1508788364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One day I was listening to an episode of Radiolab[1] (an NPR podcast) and I was surprised to hear they were collaborating with Buzzfeed. For the most part I still think of them as a listicles site but I guess they are trying to break into more serious journalism. 1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/"}, {"show": "1540997760", "hn_item": 15554679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15554679", "by": "markmandel", "time": 1508968900, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 15555317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15555317", "by": "DeBraid", "time": 1508975769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First off, neat tool! I see Finviz.com does much of the same for free. > we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data Respectfully, you do not require tools and data. You need to play a winners game and not pick stocks. Key to winning investing is to lower fees and taxes. Why? > Contrary to their oft articulated goal of outperforming the market averages, investment managers are not beating the market: The market is beating them. via \"The Loser's Game\" by Charles D. Ellis, written in 1995. www."}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 15586272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15586272", "by": "goatforce5", "time": 1509380577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I understand (from a 'The Talk Show'/John Gruber podcast, IIRC), the default view for fullscreen landscape video has black bars on the left and right. It's only when you double tap to go to full screen (and thus cropping the top/bottom) that the notch interferes with the video. He made the point that Apple showing the notch covering video was them kinda going out of their way to highlight that the notch was there."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 15594583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15594583", "by": "ideonode", "time": 1509468252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For 45 minutes a day, I'd recommend the BBC In Our Time podcast, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each week, academics talk about a particular topic from the world of science, history, philosophy etc. It's unashamedly high-brow. There's a huge back catalogue as well."}, {"show": "1304361213", "hn_item": 15603615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603615", "by": "s_kilk", "time": 1509557882, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hey all. I've just started publishing a new podcast, analysing the intersection of Technology, Politics and Philosophy, from an unapologetically far-left perspective. You can find us on iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/general-intellect-unit/i... ), Soundcloud.com ( https://soundcloud.com/giunitpod ) and most likely on whatever podcast app you prefer to use."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 15613030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613030", "by": "kfriede", "time": 1509647809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I often feel this way about podcasts. Many great podcasts have a 0:30 intro, 1:30 of ads then 08:00 of random babble before getting into 5:00 of the meat of the podcast. The most recent one I can think of is 99% Invisible, though they're not even close to the only ones that do it."}, {"show": "1135550416", "hn_item": 15614433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15614433", "by": "sien", "time": 1509657954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omega Tau - a Science and Engineering Podcast is fantastic: http://omegataupodcast.net/ Long episodes, such as 2 hours interviewing a physicist at ITER are really well done."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 15623433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15623433", "by": "vermasque", "time": 1509760701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was made aware of this when listening to the Starbucks episode of the Acquired podcast ( http://www.acquired.fm/episodes/2017/4/3/episode-34-starbuck... ). Great podcast and great poem. I never read poetry, but this one sounded so right."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 15626420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626420", "by": "nkzednan", "time": 1509822701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcast episode from More Perfect about the Citizens United cases and one of the arguments about free speech and book banning."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 15626838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626838", "by": "clhodapp", "time": 1509828507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heh? The Docker company line seems to be that Swarm has been and will continue to be faster-evolving than Kubernetes. That feels really disconnected from reality. For one, the ground-up rethink of Swarm that happened last year felt mostly like an attempted to rebase Swarm on more Kubernetes-like ideas. Further, the specific example given in the podcast seems to be factually incorrect: The Docker guy says that secrets are an example of something that was added to Swarm first and then later added to Kubernetes. However, Kubernetes had support for secrets in its 1.0 release all the way back in 20"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15631314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631314", "by": "robertkrahn01", "time": 1509912764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly enough it seems that public mentions of this don't destroy business. Here is a Planet Money podcast from 2015 http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/26/539552579/episo... . I thought at this time the days for arbitrage like this would be counted. Apparently not."}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 15631346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631346", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1509913165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great, recent episode of The Allusionist podcast that details how the word \"guy\" is an eponym of Guy Fawkes and provides interesting details of this bizarre law: https://play.radiopublic.com/the-allusionist-m69DWK/ep/s1!2b..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15638422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15638422", "by": "osteele", "time": 1509997628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There actually is a fair amount of argument [1-4] that a near-zero corporate tax rate is ideal. [5-6] argue that it isn't. (These are all, except [2], popular press articles. I imagine that there's more considered discussion in the academic literature.) [1] \"Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate)\", Planet Money (podcast). http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-p... . This contains interviews with Dean Baker (co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.); Russ Roberts (George Mason University economics professor); Katherine Baic"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 15647219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15647219", "by": "gooseus", "time": 1510086486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh man, I'm excited for you, I cried when I got to the end of THoR... you gonna continue with The History of Byzantium or Revolutions Podcast? I find Robin Pierson to be pretty good (THoB), but I find I can't stop listening to Duncan... I'll buy the audio book for Storm Before the Storms just to keep listening."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 15647219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15647219", "by": "gooseus", "time": 1510086486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh man, I'm excited for you, I cried when I got to the end of THoR... you gonna continue with The History of Byzantium or Revolutions Podcast? I find Robin Pierson to be pretty good (THoB), but I find I can't stop listening to Duncan... I'll buy the audio book for Storm Before the Storms just to keep listening."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 15648619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648619", "by": "gooseus", "time": 1510096579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ah well, Mike doesn't do Byzantium, he started Revolutions instead... Robin Pierson was a podcaster who liked THoR so much that he decided to pickup where Mike left off. I'm 60ish episodes in and it's pretty good, but not quite the same... Revolutions is pretty much the sameish format with Mike, but different kind of history."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15663438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663438", "by": "ChanningAllen", "time": 1510243132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's such an interesting discussion to me because it's kind of an open question: is the problem really with exploiting human psychology per se? Or is it with exploiting human psychology to achieve non-constructive ends? The time investment that Facebook exacts from its users far outweighs the benefits it provides \u2014 e.g. social cohesion. So we feel much less comfortable with the platform's effective psychological hooks. But take an app like stickK[1], which cleverly recruits social and financial pressure to incentivize user-defined good behavior, and the effectiveness of the hooks don't make us"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15664552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15664552", "by": "avenoir", "time": 1510251652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wanted to share something that I think is relevant to this discussion. I'm an avid listener of Rogan's podcast and I found his recent interview [1] with Sebastian Junger very insightful. Junger is a journalist who spent a lot of time with American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. He talks a lot about how social media makes us asocial and how a lot of people who experienced war and turmoil oddly miss the experience because it brought everyone closer together and gave everyone purpose, much like what used to happen when societies were tribal. It's a long interview but I would highly recommend giv"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15672946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672946", "by": "froindt", "time": 1510347274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would be quite interested in that, especially if it could integrate with my podcast app. Since August of 2016 I've listened to 30 days worth of podcasts and saved another 22 days worth of time by skipping introductions, listening faster than 1x, etc. The most annoying thing I'm facing is that I've heard hundreds of stories and the audio cannot be indexed easily. If I want to send a friend to a specific episode for a certain story, I have no good way to remember if it was the Freakonomics podcast, This American Life, Story Collider, Planet Money, or one of the 20+ other podcasts I listen to. "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 15672946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672946", "by": "froindt", "time": 1510347274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would be quite interested in that, especially if it could integrate with my podcast app. Since August of 2016 I've listened to 30 days worth of podcasts and saved another 22 days worth of time by skipping introductions, listening faster than 1x, etc. The most annoying thing I'm facing is that I've heard hundreds of stories and the audio cannot be indexed easily. If I want to send a friend to a specific episode for a certain story, I have no good way to remember if it was the Freakonomics podcast, This American Life, Story Collider, Planet Money, or one of the 20+ other podcasts I listen to. "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15672946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672946", "by": "froindt", "time": 1510347274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would be quite interested in that, especially if it could integrate with my podcast app. Since August of 2016 I've listened to 30 days worth of podcasts and saved another 22 days worth of time by skipping introductions, listening faster than 1x, etc. The most annoying thing I'm facing is that I've heard hundreds of stories and the audio cannot be indexed easily. If I want to send a friend to a specific episode for a certain story, I have no good way to remember if it was the Freakonomics podcast, This American Life, Story Collider, Planet Money, or one of the 20+ other podcasts I listen to. "}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15678651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15678651", "by": "jm547ster", "time": 1510440818, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks, no such luck here unfortunately, direct podcast link worked however, for anyone in the same boat: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/indie-hackers-podcast-ho..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15683516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683516", "by": "dfabulich", "time": 1510535051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Reply All\" podcast had a fantastic episode on this. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/ (Click the \"show transcript\" link to see the transcript.) One thing they realized is that it was impossible to convince anybody that Facebook doesn't listen in on microphone conversations, even given all of the facts. One of the co-hosts, Alex, gets on the phone with five people to try to convince each of them that Facebook doesn't use the microphone. He's unable to convince even one of them."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15686516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15686516", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1510581326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just relistening through some of RadioLab's podcast. I came across this apt episode about Gamma Light Therapy. Adding it to the mix. When I listen to this episode, I had a hint of hope for my dad who is suffering dementia in the past few years. http://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 15688272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688272", "by": "mattferderer", "time": 1510595002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Out of curiosity, do you remember what levels they suggested you be at? I've heard there are a lot of different opinions on this. Some important factors on receiving Vitamin D from sun exposure are skin color, the amount of clothing you wear & time of day. Light skin absorbs more than dark skin. Noon gives more Vitamin D than morning or evening. Sun screen & sun screen lotion limit the Vitamin D you get. Being a fellow northerner, walking outside doesn't do much in the winter when 95% of my body is covered in clothing. Science Vs did a great podcast on this - https://gimletmedia.com/episode/vi"}, {"show": "1204521130", "hn_item": 15691213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15691213", "by": "rwieruch", "time": 1510615472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am sitting in the same boat. Being a web developer for a couple of years, I wanted to try out a different domain. So I started to take Andrew Ng's course on Coursera [0]. Highly recommended. I supplement the course with audio and text by listening to the Machine Learning Guide Podcast [1] and by reading The Master Algorithm [2]. In addition, I started to apply my learnings in JavaScript [3]. Even though it's not the best language for ML, it makes it simpler to learn only one new thing and stick to known technologies for the rest. I have lined up ~7 articles about ML in JavaScript, so if you "}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 15704144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704144", "by": "weeha", "time": 1510757692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can highly recommend History of Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson. \"The History of Byzantium\u201d is a podcast dedicated to the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Byzantine history is fascinating, world changing and largely forgotten. Listen and discover who they were.\""}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 15704487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704487", "by": "isk517", "time": 1510760648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You may want to consider checking out Mike Duncan's podcasts the History of Rome and Revolutions as well. History of Rome especially since it was the ending of that podcast at the fall of the west that encouraged the creation of the History of Byzantium podcast."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 15704487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704487", "by": "isk517", "time": 1510760648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You may want to consider checking out Mike Duncan's podcasts the History of Rome and Revolutions as well. History of Rome especially since it was the ending of that podcast at the fall of the west that encouraged the creation of the History of Byzantium podcast."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 15709400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709400", "by": "gooseus", "time": 1510793171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I concur, and if you want the full story you'll want to start with Michael Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ Pierson describes in the first episode how he was inspired to pickup where Duncan left off at the fall of the western empire."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 15716673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15716673", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1510866759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a startup in Germany that only has about 20 employees, yet they produce \"professional\" VTOL fixed-wing drones for businesses and such, and make churn one out every three minutes. https://www.quantum-systems.com/ (Not affiliated, just heard of them in the Omega Tau podcast, which by the way I strongly recommend!)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15723413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15723413", "by": "gadders", "time": 1510936290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He made a joke about his own experiences as a young gay man on the Joe Rogan podcast. He has continually distanced himself from the Alt-Right and neo-Nazis. He has also recently married his fiance, who is a person of colour."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15727132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15727132", "by": "civilian", "time": 1510965848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just for a balanced outlook, you might listen to Freakonomics' interview of Charles Koch: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15729155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15729155", "by": "adekok", "time": 1511017032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> He told her that her comment had violated our policy, but that he understood that there was a broader context Ah... so the rules don't matter, because excuses. Look, if Sargon and his ilk did something, fine, punish them. But so far, the only response to my request for evidence is insults. And side-stepping the topic. > a broader context (which to be clear, we were blissfully ignorant of until this weekend, and remain inexpert in.) Which means that they didn't talk to the victim in this case (Sargon). Only the abuser (Anita). Sargon said as much on Joe Rogan's podcast. i.e. accusation of gui"}, {"show": "1714799476", "hn_item": 15735558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15735558", "by": "arjunvpaul", "time": 1511120926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the intent was not to make you feel foolish. Maybe its a good thing you feel embarrassed. It probably means that you haven't released late. Listen to Episode 4 of Reid Hoffman's Podcast Masters of Scale. \"So don\u2019t fear imperfections; they won\u2019t make or break your company\". Forge Ahead!"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 15735558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15735558", "by": "arjunvpaul", "time": 1511120926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the intent was not to make you feel foolish. Maybe its a good thing you feel embarrassed. It probably means that you haven't released late. Listen to Episode 4 of Reid Hoffman's Podcast Masters of Scale. \"So don\u2019t fear imperfections; they won\u2019t make or break your company\". Forge Ahead!"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15742010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742010", "by": "bearcobra", "time": 1511202839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently changed my Pocket Casts settings to trim silence and play at 1.8x for most of my subscriptions. The only exceptions are shows that do a lot of audio production like Reply All, RadioLab and The Adventure Zone. I've even found myself adjusting to the faster speed on comedic podcasts, which has been the most surprising to me."}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 15742010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742010", "by": "bearcobra", "time": 1511202839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently changed my Pocket Casts settings to trim silence and play at 1.8x for most of my subscriptions. The only exceptions are shows that do a lot of audio production like Reply All, RadioLab and The Adventure Zone. I've even found myself adjusting to the faster speed on comedic podcasts, which has been the most surprising to me."}, {"show": "1796964076", "hn_item": 15742936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742936", "by": "dzhiurgis", "time": 1511209667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That must be me. I hate long winded, sound effected podcasts. It's just fluff to mask average content. Compare a16z with Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (gosh even that name sucks). a16z has no ads, no sound effects, no blabber, but absolutely excellent content. Masters of Scale tho move slowly, keep repeating same things and feels like it's targeting children, way more edited. Edit: maybe it's just the format that makes it interesting. Google Cloud Podcast, Good Day Sir, Software Engineering Daily - all have conversational format, almost a debate."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 15742936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742936", "by": "dzhiurgis", "time": 1511209667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That must be me. I hate long winded, sound effected podcasts. It's just fluff to mask average content. Compare a16z with Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (gosh even that name sucks). a16z has no ads, no sound effects, no blabber, but absolutely excellent content. Masters of Scale tho move slowly, keep repeating same things and feels like it's targeting children, way more edited. Edit: maybe it's just the format that makes it interesting. Google Cloud Podcast, Good Day Sir, Software Engineering Daily - all have conversational format, almost a debate."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 15742936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742936", "by": "dzhiurgis", "time": 1511209667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That must be me. I hate long winded, sound effected podcasts. It's just fluff to mask average content. Compare a16z with Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (gosh even that name sucks). a16z has no ads, no sound effects, no blabber, but absolutely excellent content. Masters of Scale tho move slowly, keep repeating same things and feels like it's targeting children, way more edited. Edit: maybe it's just the format that makes it interesting. Google Cloud Podcast, Good Day Sir, Software Engineering Daily - all have conversational format, almost a debate."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 15743724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743724", "by": "RmDen", "time": 1511215349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It depends on the podcast.. something like twit, Joe Rogan, motley fool, stuff you should know, Jocko podcast I listen to at 2x since some of those are 2-3 hours and I don't lose anything at that speed(At least I believe I don't). Hardcore history I do at 1x... everything else is at 1.5"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15744960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744960", "by": "zanny", "time": 1511229305, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to a few dozen podcasts with AntennaPod... didn't even consider speeding up playback. Going to try 1.1x this week. I do like retaining information and I usually like to think about what my podcasters are talking about (Like Stuff You Should Know / Radiolab) so I can't see myself speeding it up that much. I just never even realized this was a thing, and that that 1.0X next to the playback buttons actually did something..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 15744960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15744960", "by": "zanny", "time": 1511229305, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I subscribe to a few dozen podcasts with AntennaPod... didn't even consider speeding up playback. Going to try 1.1x this week. I do like retaining information and I usually like to think about what my podcasters are talking about (Like Stuff You Should Know / Radiolab) so I can't see myself speeding it up that much. I just never even realized this was a thing, and that that 1.0X next to the playback buttons actually did something..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15746506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15746506", "by": "sjm", "time": 1511252148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I get this works for people on certain types of podcasts, but surely with well-produced podcasts (e.g. Heavyweight, Love & Radio, Reply All, S-Town...) the pauses and pacing is a meaningful artistic choice, one that a 2x speed just rushes through like an impatient child."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15757489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757489", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1511364629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This featured pretty promenantly in the most renecent episode of the Freakonomics podcast: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 15758716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758716", "by": "hnrodey", "time": 1511372519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcom Gladwell goes over this story on his Revisionist History podcast. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 15758726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758726", "by": "hnrodey", "time": 1511372551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcom Gladwell goes over this story on his Revisionist History podcast. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game"}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 15759332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15759332", "by": "monkseal", "time": 1511376461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the latest \"Fifth Column\" podcast where they interview this \"evil\" Ajit Pai guy. I think he makes a strong case that regulating monopolies is the role of the FTC or state's attorney generals and not the FCC and there is no real market failure here. http://wethefifth.com/ https://play.radiopublic.com/the-fifth-column-analysis-comme..."}, {"show": "1074084805", "hn_item": 15763361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15763361", "by": "duckMuppet", "time": 1511420609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pai gave a pretty complete interview with Tech Policy Podcast yesterday and went in depth with much of what he was thinking. Tech Policy Podcast: #206: The Future of Internet Regulation w/ FCC Chairman Ajit Pai http://podcast.techfreedom.org/e/206-the-future-of-internet-... But, I think Robert Graham summed it up pretty well when he said \"you believe the FCC should allow companies to bend the rules when it's in the interests of customers, then you don't believe in NetNeutrality.\" Lots of politics and emotion in the hysteria, very little sound reasoning."}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 15774775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15774775", "by": "nerdwaller", "time": 1511592564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is too bad to hear, I only recently learned of Code Sponsor on JavaScript Jabber[0] - a pretty excellent podcast. I\u2019m hoping there are good things to learn here and maybe iterate on to find what can work in the space. [0] https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-281-codesponsor-sustaining-..."}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 15775977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15775977", "by": "sanderjd", "time": 1511617921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Could you expand on this a bit? I haven't heard this argument, and I just listened to a pretty long conversation with FCC Chairman Pai (on the Fifth Column podcast, if you're interested). His argument was that it will reduce the burden on small ISPs, which would then pop up everywhere, creating a pro-consumer competitive market. (Which is either magical thinking or just disingenuous, but that was his argument, such as it was.)"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15777870, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15777870", "by": "Cenk", "time": 1511642448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The excellent \"Reply All\" podcast had an episode about it: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15778203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15778203", "by": "jdblair", "time": 1511646784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All, an entertaining podcast from Gimlet Media, tackled this topic a few weeks ago [0]. They explained the myth, explained how Facebook's advertising an be explained without surreptitious listening. In the last part they called believers in the myth and tried to convince them otherwise. [0] https://gimletmedia.com/episode/109-facebook-spying/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15784682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15784682", "by": "aliasnexus0", "time": 1511754750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Both very interesting episodes. Also, I can't recommend the Freakonomics podcast enough."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 15785276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15785276", "by": "asadjb", "time": 1511763766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's better to move towards a more open and transparent system that's data driven. However if the system used here will be transparent isn't clear, only that it can be. The builders of these systems can choose not to share the algorithms behind it. A podcast I listened to a day or two ago [1]; You Are Not So Smart, discussed something related to this that I feel is important to point out here as well. It's about how we transfer our biases into the algorithms and ML solutions that we build. Given the move towards using algorithms for making decisions like this, it's something we should definite"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 15793802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15793802", "by": "ALee", "time": 1511836365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting because the University of Chicago's Crime Lab does work like this to track the epidemic and virality of murder as it happens across Chicago. Worth a listen on an amazing podcast I highly recommend called Hidden Brain: https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/512035150/on-the-knifes-edge-..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 15803973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803973", "by": "sahil_videology", "time": 1511921992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not done with it yet but listening to a great audiobook from Audible called Shoe Dog about the founding of Nike. Great story of the tough grind of starting a business. Recommended on the Acquired podcast."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 15814324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814324", "by": "dankohn1", "time": 1512031809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in a Changelog podcast I did that was recorded a few days ago. https://changelog.com/podcast/276 (Disclosure: I'm still the executive director of CNCF)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 15818304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818304", "by": "jlgaddis", "time": 1512067385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any time someone mentions Steve Gibson, the \"Security Now\" podcast, or any of his \"work\" I feel obligated to point them to http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 15818975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818975", "by": "szczys", "time": 1512072056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was one of the early adopters of the ESP8266 and wrote a bunch of very interesting firware for those (like the ability for it to act as an AP to set up WiFi credentials without additional hardware. He was subsequently hired to as a software engineering manager and technical marketing manager at Espressif, who were working on the ESP32 at the time. I enjoyed Jeroen's recent appearance on the Amp Hour podcast where he talks about a lot of this: https://theamphour.com/359-an-interview-with-jeroen-domburg-..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 15819762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819762", "by": "grahamannett", "time": 1512077781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "wow, reminded me of a podcast episode of Reply All where the hosts boss had his account hacked and used by someone abroad. i cant really remember how it ends but they went through a pretty long and arduous process to see if he was hacked or phished and it seemed unlikely to them iirc. i think they talked to some uber PR person who also convinced them there was no way uber was hacked, in retrospect this was a blatant lie."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 15821755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821755", "by": "jlgaddis", "time": 1512099949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure why. I've seen nothing that would lead me to change my opinions of him. I probably wouldn't feel so strongly about it had I not listened to a couple of his podcasts. I had several hours of driving ahead, searched for something that sounded interesting, found his \"Security Now\" podcast, and downloaded a few episodes. Keep in mind that his audience, AFAICT, is primarily made up of younger listeners who are relatively new to infosec as well as \"non-techy\" people en masse (the kind of people who get their tech support from a guy on the radio, as someone elsewhere put it). Now, I'm far"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 15821917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821917", "by": "Merad", "time": 1512102708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "D&D was already in the middle of a popularity surge when Stranger Things came out last year. Fifth edition (5e) came out in 2014 and somehow managed to make the gameplay more streamlined (and appealing to new players) while also being popular with current and past players. In 2015 you had Critical Role (live Twitch show) and The Adventure Zone (podcast) both appear and be hugely successful. I\u2019m sure Stranger Things deserves some credit for showing D&D to a wider audience, but I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s been a significant factor."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 15824588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15824588", "by": "khuknows", "time": 1512143996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I posted this question on Indie Hackers earlier this week and got some really great podcast recommendations: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/which-podcasts-do-you-rec... Enjoying the \"Startups for the rest of us\" podcast so far ( http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ )"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15824588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15824588", "by": "khuknows", "time": 1512143996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I posted this question on Indie Hackers earlier this week and got some really great podcast recommendations: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/which-podcasts-do-you-rec... Enjoying the \"Startups for the rest of us\" podcast so far ( http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ )"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15825057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15825057", "by": "rayalez", "time": 1512146950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a collection of my top audiobooks/podcasts that I think HN readers will love. This is the best stuff I have discovered over the past 3\u20134 years, and I\u2019m sure you guys will enjoy each of these books, so if you haven\u2019t read some of them yet \u2014 I highly recommend you to check them out. ======= Excellent audiobooks: - Rework https://www.audible.com/pd/Rework-Audiobook/B0036FLXLQ - Creativity, Inc https://www.audible.com/pd/Creativity-Inc-Part-1-Overcoming-... - The Martian https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Martian-Part-1-Audiobook/B00B... - The Hard Thing About Hard Things https://www.audible.co"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 15826378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826378", "by": "40acres", "time": 1512155351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been really into politics and government lately, I'd recommend the following podcasts in the genre. I cannot provide links as I'm on mobile but a Google search should suffice. The Weeds by Vox Media, this is a more 'wonk' and policy based podcast which also focuses on the latest news. This year their focus has been not surprisingly going into the finer details of ACA and Tax reform. More Perfect by WNYC, this is a spin off podcast from the Radiolab folks which focuses on important supreme Court cases, this podcast features audio from oral arguments and interviews with folks involved in th"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 15826378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15826378", "by": "40acres", "time": 1512155351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been really into politics and government lately, I'd recommend the following podcasts in the genre. I cannot provide links as I'm on mobile but a Google search should suffice. The Weeds by Vox Media, this is a more 'wonk' and policy based podcast which also focuses on the latest news. This year their focus has been not surprisingly going into the finer details of ACA and Tax reform. More Perfect by WNYC, this is a spin off podcast from the Radiolab folks which focuses on important supreme Court cases, this podcast features audio from oral arguments and interviews with folks involved in th"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 15827113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827113", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1512160323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can absolutely recommend the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, too. StartUp by Gimlet on the other hand while entertaining doesn't provide a whole lot of valuable insight in my opinion. Personally, I'd recommend these podcasts: - Sales for Nerds: https://www.salesfornerds.io/ Pragmatic sales tips for people with a technical background. - $100k Freelancing: http://www.100kfreelancing.com/ Advice on how to grow a freelancing or consulting business. While the following technically aren't about startups or business in general they deal with a lot of - sometimes related - matters and insights "}, {"show": "1161950812", "hn_item": 15827113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827113", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1512160323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can absolutely recommend the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, too. StartUp by Gimlet on the other hand while entertaining doesn't provide a whole lot of valuable insight in my opinion. Personally, I'd recommend these podcasts: - Sales for Nerds: https://www.salesfornerds.io/ Pragmatic sales tips for people with a technical background. - $100k Freelancing: http://www.100kfreelancing.com/ Advice on how to grow a freelancing or consulting business. While the following technically aren't about startups or business in general they deal with a lot of - sometimes related - matters and insights "}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 15831852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831852", "by": "Pulcinella", "time": 1512223000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast discusses analog computers on episode 159. It\u2019s probably one of my favorites. http://omegataupodcast.net/159-analog-computers/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15846309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15846309", "by": "flanbiscuit", "time": 1512412953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Freakonomics Radio podcast ep about this very thing http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15862827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862827", "by": "nunez", "time": 1512580610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an awesome podcast episode of Planet Money on how vicious these debt collectors can be and why they are \u201callowed\u201d to be that way. Listen to it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/08/354591198/epis..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15862961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15862961", "by": "tribune", "time": 1512581543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did an interesting episode on this http://freakonomics.com/podcast/payday-loans/"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 15864097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15864097", "by": "matthewmcg", "time": 1512588423, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Second this recommendation for the book and miniseries. Jeff Kluger and Jim Lovell's Lost Moon (retitled Apollo 13 after the movie based on it) and Kluger's Apollo 8 are also good reads. For podcast listeners, these episodes of the Omega Tau podcast cover the Apollo hardware at a very high level of detail: http://omegataupodcast.net/239-the-saturn-v-launch-vehicle/ http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/167-the-apollo-guidance-computer/ http://omegataupodcast.net/218-a-life-in-apollo/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 15868826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868826", "by": "namdnay", "time": 1512640333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For (1) there was a really good Planet Money podcast (#665)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 15868897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15868897", "by": "borplk", "time": 1512641561, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's no dishonesty. They are easily found for anyone interested. As I said the horse been has beaten to death so I didn't want to do what I was discouraging others from doing. They are mostly uneducated, lazy, decade-old, hand-wavy, and baseless personal attacks on him. The man has been a geek, engineer, programmer and a techie for multiple decades. He has been on record for the past 12-13 years audio, video and text transcripts, 2-3 hours per week, discussing many topics in detail, explaining his thoughts and ideas and reasoning carefully (on SecurityNow podcast, 600+ episodes!). Every tim"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 15870109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870109", "by": "myth_drannon", "time": 1512656262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you prefer to listen, he was also on Sam Harris's podcast: https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/107-is-life-actually-wor..."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 15870215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15870215", "by": "mattferderer", "time": 1512657109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found the podcast Science Vs very helpful in understanding this topic - https://gimletmedia.com/episode/vitamins-supplements-worth/ I was recommended Vitamin D by the wife of a Chiropractor. I do 2000IU somewhat daily to every other day in the winter & 5000IU if I feel a cold coming on with some extra zinc. This has made a significant improvement in my ability to fend off colds. That said, I do try to exercise a few times a week & eat as reasonably healthy as one can do in the far north midwest of America."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 15871315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871315", "by": "gallerdude", "time": 1512663414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Hello Internet,\" it's a weird meta-podcast, and I'd just call it \"a love letter to the internet.\" Various science/philosophical topics, but mostly it's just about the new world that the internet has enabled. Also, they released a vinyl episode, so I don't think I have to say anymore."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 15871810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871810", "by": "Jemaclus", "time": 1512666957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "POLITICS: \"Pod Save America\" - politics podcast by funny guys (former Obama staffers) \"Lovett or Leave-it\" - comedy show about politics \"Pod Save the World\" - serious podcast about world issues Anything by Crooked Media, basically. Also, \"Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara\" - serious, smart look at current events by former US attorney \"FiveThirtyEight Politics\" - insight into current events, with an emphasis on polls and facts. Politico's \"Nerd Cast\" - not my favorite, but actually winds up being a bit more conservative than the other podcasts I listen to SORTA RANDOM: \"99% Invisible\" \"The Way I He"}, {"show": "1265845136", "hn_item": 15871810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871810", "by": "Jemaclus", "time": 1512666957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "POLITICS: \"Pod Save America\" - politics podcast by funny guys (former Obama staffers) \"Lovett or Leave-it\" - comedy show about politics \"Pod Save the World\" - serious podcast about world issues Anything by Crooked Media, basically. Also, \"Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara\" - serious, smart look at current events by former US attorney \"FiveThirtyEight Politics\" - insight into current events, with an emphasis on polls and facts. Politico's \"Nerd Cast\" - not my favorite, but actually winds up being a bit more conservative than the other podcasts I listen to SORTA RANDOM: \"99% Invisible\" \"The Way I He"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 15874491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874491", "by": "framebit", "time": 1512682324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Upvote for Revisionist History. I rarely revisit episodes from a podcast, but there are several episodes from Revisionist History that I've listened to 3 or 4 times apiece."}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 15874852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874852", "by": "holowire", "time": 1512684693, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "All systems of the body follow a circadian rhythm. Following the body\u2019s circadian rhythm and adhering to a time-restricted eating pattern (i.e. intermittent fasting) is even more important than explicitly only restricting calories. Secondly, avoiding processed carbs and sugars is more important than explicitly only restricting calories. Combined, those two principles directly impact your insulin sensitivity, which is very influential in telling your body how to process the calories you eat, when to feel hungry/full, and to what degree. Of course, by following a time-restricted eating pattern, "}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 15881693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15881693", "by": "perseusprime11", "time": 1512764436, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 15884547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15884547", "by": "combatentropy", "time": 1512799168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the contrary: - Chapo Trap House, a podcaster, makes $88,074 a month - Philip DeFranco, a commentator and YouTuber, has 13,823 patrons (amount kept secret) - Nerd3, a gaming YouTuber, rakes in $8,003 per month - 1,393 other members make at least $1,160 per month These numbers are from the article itself, whose headline is \"No one is making a living on Patreon.\" Normally I would be fine rounding \"2%\" to \"no one.\" But I think it's astounding that so many people nowadays can make a living taping themselves playing video games, posting photographs of dried leaves online, writing a travel journa"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15888731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15888731", "by": "deepvibrations", "time": 1512861044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I stumbled upon Paul Stamets on Joe Rogan's podcast, which made a nice introduction to the world of funghi- absolutely fascinating and exciting to think of what else we may discover in this field in the coming years! For anyone interested- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ"}, {"show": "1320141457", "hn_item": 15891380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15891380", "by": "spodek", "time": 1512914409, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Reinforcing the importance of dumb mistakes... A friend wrote a heartfelt essay in a campus magazine that the rest of us found laughable. We taunted and laughed at him for years about it. A couple years ago he won a Pulitzer Prize. The lineage from that essay to the prize is obvious in retrospect to me and probably looking forward for him at the time. It's never too late for your dumb mistake. I'm 46 and my just-released podcast -- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-and-the-envir... -- which opened at #38 in Science on iTunes, emerged from laughable mistakes I made public speaking "}, {"show": "1316769266", "hn_item": 15898310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898310", "by": "sferik", "time": 1513011565, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 15908961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15908961", "by": "joycey", "time": 1513109068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember there was an episode on the podcast The Daily where Michael Barbaro interviewed a reporter who worked on the Harvey Weinstein story. I think they said that The New York Times had tried to pursue this story in the past, but they really wanted to make another push for it this year to expose the unreported stories of sexual harassment."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 15912785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15912785", "by": "techdragon", "time": 1513152302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is uclcmd [ https://github.com/allanjude/uclcmd ] which could do with some more work but was created with the intent of being a UCL equivalent of JQ. Also since he\u2019s the kind of person that a HN reader will probably Ike to know more about. The original author of the aforementioned uclcmd, Allan Jude [ http://twitter.com/allanjude ], is the former host of the TechSNAP podcast [ http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/ ], current host of the BSD Now podcast [ http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/bsdnow/ ], a current member of the FreeBSD Core team, and co-authored not one but t"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 15922082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922082", "by": "tomkinstinch", "time": 1513258486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible has an episode about the history of shopping malls. As conceived by Victor Gruen, a European immigrant, malls originally included these everyday places. He imagined them as \"third places\" for the suburbs beyond home and work. Later he became a critic of what malls became. It's worth a listen/read: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15934638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934638", "by": "katastic", "time": 1513368503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As long as you realize: \" Social media isn't socializing. \" --Sebastian Junger (Anthropologist, journalist, documentary filmmaker) Joe Rogan's podcast with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ZieLlKXYs"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 15935872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935872", "by": "smogcutter", "time": 1513377674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the period, check out the podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. He's got a three part series on the Persians that's totally engrossing. For one thing, it's where I heard the \"we ran\" story about Marathon veterans. Carlin is a fantastic storyteller, and his stuff is very well researched."}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 15937130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937130", "by": "Harelin", "time": 1513392552, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm reminded of the Tesloop episode of 'The Pitch' podcast. \"Haydn Sonnad pitches his plan to revolutionize regional transit on the back of Tesla\u2019s electric charging network.\" https://gimletmedia.com/episode/11-tesloop/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15941903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15941903", "by": "kilroy123", "time": 1513456601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The one guy featured in this article, Luis Elizondo, is apart of Tom Delonge's (guy from the rock band Blink 182) wacky new company To The Stars Academy https://tothestarsacademy.com . So yeah, I'm not sure he can be taken very seriously. Just listen to Tom Delong on Joe Rogan's podcast and see how wacky this all is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_3mnJfHzY"}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 15942205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15942205", "by": "frabbit", "time": 1513459422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fake-review problem was amusingly exposed for TripAdvisor by a journalist who with, the aid of five people, had his garden shed rated as five stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shed_at_Dulwich At the end of the TRASHFUTURE podcast (14 Dec 2017 \"The Shed Chronicles ft. Oobah Butler, ca. 36 minutes in http://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/feed/ ) people are still calling for what he describes as \"frozen dinners with the sort of things that wankers like on them, like microherbs\"."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 15953255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15953255", "by": "jedberg", "time": 1513617478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Freakonomics podcast[0] where they interviewed a Koch brother. It seems like they truly believe that is what would be best for the country. They are Libertarians and believe in it's tenets to their core. [0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 15956014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956014", "by": "bvinc", "time": 1513635378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to \"The Daily\", the NYTime podcast. They just had an episode titled \"A Secret U.F.O. Program\". The reporter describes how she first came about the story. Apparently the guy running the program in the Pentagon felt that they had reached a critical mass of evidence and witnesses but the department wasn't being taking seriously and couldn't be talked about."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 15973462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15973462", "by": "juancampa", "time": 1513801571, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "This question has been posted before but new podcasts appear every now and then. I recently discovered Indie Hackers and was wondering what other good podcasts are out there."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 15973656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15973656", "by": "khuss", "time": 1513802845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Masters of Scale ( https://mastersofscale.com/ ) by Reid Hoffman is a good podcast for tech entrepreneurs."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 15978993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15978993", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1513867242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's an incredible \"How I Built This\" podcast with Stonybrook Farms (yoghurt) founder Gary Hirshberg. He over-promised for years to suppliers, customers, investors on things he couldn't deliver, but made it work anyway. It's about the grittiest founder story I've heard. They ended up selling to Danone (I think) and did very well, but the company was on precarious footing for around 10 years. EDIT: clarified industry"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 15982381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982381", "by": "cellularmitosis", "time": 1513887278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed, I started vitamin D supplementation after hearing Dr. Rhonda Patrick speak about it in-depth on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 15983685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983685", "by": "40acres", "time": 1513897235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Read The Upstarts by Brad Stone. It's a fascinating book about the rise of Airbnb and Uber. Also check out the podcasts with Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky on How I Built This and Masters of Scale respectively."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 16003761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16003761", "by": "SuperNinKenDo", "time": 1514201876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The site/podcast 'Manager Tools' has an interesting series on the importance of one-on-ones which is definitely worth checking out if the article piqued anyone's interest in this tool. Don't let the date scare you, scroll down to the bottom to find them they're some of the earliest on the feed. https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts?field_content_dom... Some of the big takeaways are: 1. Normalise one-on-ones so people understand that a one-on-one is a meeting to build the relationship and actually sort things out, not the precursor to a punishment or other serious issue. 2. Make an agenda,"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 16012611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012611", "by": "crispytx", "time": 1514345157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite live YouTube podcasts are The Joe Rogan Experience, and This Week in Startups. Another podcast that I've been getting into is Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, but its audio only. Used to listen to This American Life and RadioLab as well."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 16012611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012611", "by": "crispytx", "time": 1514345157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite live YouTube podcasts are The Joe Rogan Experience, and This Week in Startups. Another podcast that I've been getting into is Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, but its audio only. Used to listen to This American Life and RadioLab as well."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16012611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012611", "by": "crispytx", "time": 1514345157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite live YouTube podcasts are The Joe Rogan Experience, and This Week in Startups. Another podcast that I've been getting into is Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, but its audio only. Used to listen to This American Life and RadioLab as well."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 16012611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16012611", "by": "crispytx", "time": 1514345157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My two favorite live YouTube podcasts are The Joe Rogan Experience, and This Week in Startups. Another podcast that I've been getting into is Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, but its audio only. Used to listen to This American Life and RadioLab as well."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16014855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014855", "by": "laurex", "time": 1514384451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to a Sam Harris podcast about gene splicing, in which he wondered whether the technology would become divisive because 'if you could raise your child's intelligence, you would, at any cost,' (totally paraphrasing). I found this interesting since what I've found is that \"intelligence\" is not universally valued at all, at least in the US. As a kid, I was part of a research study on high IQ children development, and over time I've seen from my fellow study participants that IQ alone didn't predict success particularly well in the realms of what most people value, i.e. relation"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 16019356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019356", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1514421201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would be remiss if I didn't link to the Toki Pona episode of the great Allusionist podcast: https://play.radiopublic.com/the-allusionist-m69DWK/ep/s1!6b..."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 16029129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16029129", "by": "alexellisuk", "time": 1514550315, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16031273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16031273", "by": "Chaebixi", "time": 1514574689, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/ It's a podcast from the excellent 99% Invisible that talks about Douglas Engelbert's (of Mother of all Demos fame) vision for computing that expanded human capabilities through systems that required mastery, and how that vision has been replaced by things this \"principle of no learning.\""}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 16051090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051090", "by": "boysabr3", "time": 1514889322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This might sound overly simplistic but I believe we need to do more to incentivise the best talent in the world to work on socially conscious projects. I found Wendy Kopp's episode on the How I Built This podcast particularly insightful on this topic: http://pca.st/episode/68275e4c-8d1d-4a86-be7c-e45b1eb7c738"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16058444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16058444", "by": "harshreality", "time": 1514954240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bret Weinstein's take on it (on Joe Rogan's podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAgSp_O03I#t=1h05m40s (I recommend starting 5-10 minutes earlier, but the linked starting time is where he really gets to the heart of the matter.) The gist of it is that he believes markets are good at solving a particular problem, given material constraints and demand, but that markets are awful at determining what problems to solve. There are relatively weak and few incentives and punishments for corporations (other than for things that are outright illegal), so the market is approximately solving whateve"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 16065462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16065462", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1515015594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Whether the satirical Twitter account should be shut down or not ... satire's not very effective per Malcolm Gladwell's \"Revisionist History\" podcast at [0] (automated lossy transcript at [1]) ... targets of the satire often find the satire humorous themselves, and can find enough \"truth\" in exaggerated viewpoints to reinforce those views rather than call them into question. [0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/10-the-satire-paradox [1] https://blog.simonsays.ai/satire-paradox-with-malcolm-gladwe..."}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 16088978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16088978", "by": "birken", "time": 1515295945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode of \"The Weeds\" podcast was all about this [1]. I highly recommend listening to it and the podcast in general. The general thoughts are (especially for those poo-pooing the findings): - The cause is likely a massive increase in drug overdose deaths, whose average age of death is lower than other common causes (>20% year over year increase, mainly opioid-related) [2] - The drop in life expectancy is not happening in other countries, just the US (not measurement error) - It's sort of a big deal, especially if you consider that opioid-related deaths could be going down, or they co"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16091544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16091544", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1515344948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case anyone finds this thread\u2026 Vincent Woo of CoderPad talks about this on the Indie Hackers podcast. Starts at 34m0s, though the rest of the episode is great too: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/041-vincent-woo-of-code..."}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 16099362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16099362", "by": "fbr", "time": 1515439469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You may enjoy Dr Rhonda Patrick's podcast as well. https://www.youtube.com/user/FoundMyFitness/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16099390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16099390", "by": "augustocallejas", "time": 1515439560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Freakonomics podcast on forecasting may be interesting: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-be-less-terrible-at-p..."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 16109265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109265", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1515527419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Aside from the occasional partially misquoted and much-publicized opinionated statement from Go Team members, Go also has some of the most friendly, dedicated, and talented developer community I've ever seen. I'm more than fine with people preferring Rust. I'm fine with Go's choices rubbing people the wrong way. But the frequent caricature of the Go Team being condescending or clueless simply rings false to anyone who has enjoyed being part of the Go community, where kindness and ability abound. I'm always curious about the frequent ravings about how friendly the Rust community is. I'm super g"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 16112279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112279", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1515553635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Terms like \"psychopathic\" and \"sociopathic\" are technical terms with meanings that have serious implications in medical and criminal contexts. They shouldn't be bandied around so casually. I've done YC. I've met and closely observed many of the founders of the most successful companies, including the ones who are most revered for their ability to hack non-computer systems to their advantage . Their behaviour is not remotely psychopathic, which very specifically means to act without any concern about causing harm to others. To the contrary, these people stand out for their willingness to help o"}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 16123932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16123932", "by": "maroonblazer", "time": 1515679993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The Partially Examined Life\" podcast recently published a few episodes discussing selections from both this and the larger work. http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2017/12/18/ep179-1-william-... http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2017/12/25/ep179-2-william-... http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/01/01/ep180-1-more-jam... http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2018/01/08/ep180-2-more-jam..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16129519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16129519", "by": "PinkMilkshake", "time": 1515718453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the latest episode of Sam Harris' podcast Waking Up. It's a 3 hour discussion about consciousness between him and Anil Seth, it's quite good and probably warrants multiple playbacks."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 16129519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16129519", "by": "PinkMilkshake", "time": 1515718453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the latest episode of Sam Harris' podcast Waking Up. It's a 3 hour discussion about consciousness between him and Anil Seth, it's quite good and probably warrants multiple playbacks."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16137122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16137122", "by": "kleer001", "time": 1515798709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I am way too invested already to not finish this thing No such thing. That's the sunk cost fallacy. But you probably already know that and are expressing your joy in the project instead of literal investment. Failing faster and more often is a good strategy. There's a great Freakonomics podcast titled \"Failure Is Your Friend\" with a bit more context and justification."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 16142846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16142846", "by": "eropple", "time": 1515905359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who don't know, the author of Missing 411 is David Paulides, a Bigfoot crank. It's been beaten up pretty good by people in the sanity-based community, here by the host of the Data Skeptic podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhv3dEMFOc"}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 16148692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16148692", "by": "gfredtech", "time": 1515994093, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 16166156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16166156", "by": "natecavanaugh", "time": 1516174508, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story (or at least one very similar) was recently in the Hidden Brain podcast[0], so I'm kinda wondering if there's a clear understanding of who's the dog and who's the tail, influence-wise. But to your point specifically, in the podcast, I believe the guy was able to play the piano quite soon (I think days or weeks after his accident). So to me, this points not to just an Adderall-like mental state, but an enhancement (though, sure, due to a compensation of one part of the brain for the damaged part). To me, it feels like there are triggers or switches that perhaps optimize for certain t"}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 16173397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16173397", "by": "g10r", "time": 1516234473, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 16191101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191101", "by": "adolph", "time": 1516406806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent EconTalk podcast covered a related topic: food waste. It turns out that getting it just right is near impossibly hard. You can choose between famine or waste (hopefully the least of either) but aren\u2019t going to get it just right. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/12/rachel_laudan_o_1.h..."}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 16194895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194895", "by": "terrencewells", "time": 1516475859, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16199268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16199268", "by": "justkez", "time": 1516559576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent Indie Hackers podcast with one of the WorkFlowy founders ( https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/037-jesse-patel-of-work... ) where he admits marketing/user acquisition is most definitely one of his growth areas - quite a good listen."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 16199621, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16199621", "by": "davisdude", "time": 1516564358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: the Changelog podcast did a really good interview with the developer[1]. It's pretty long but worth the listen IMO. [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/280"}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 16210059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210059", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1516671050, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16210484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210484", "by": "wahern", "time": 1516675091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mattress stores cluster for the same reason automobile dealerships cluster. And just like automobile dealerships, many stores in the same area have the same owner. There's a Freakonomics podcast episode about the mattress store industry at http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 16210859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210859", "by": "pselbert", "time": 1516679754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Stuff You Should Know podcast about this just recently [0]. An impressive amount of engineering has gone into something that seems much more artistic than scientific. 1: https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/whats-the-10000-..."}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 16211409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16211409", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1516687982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's also a 2004 podcast episode on the clock from a Long Now Seminar. http://podcast.longnow.org/salt/salt-020040910-hillis-podcas..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 16219282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16219282", "by": "randomfinn", "time": 1516753810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Randy Gardner was on the Hidden Brain podcast last November. It's a good listen with plenty of reasons to always try to get enough sleep. https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/562305141/eleven-days-without..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 16228503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16228503", "by": "brokenmachine", "time": 1516850484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a really interesting podcast about that. http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16230243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230243", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1516881084, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a law in California against using someone's likeness without their permission. NPR's Planet Money podcast did an episode about it called \"Frank Sinatra's Mug\": https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... The actual law: \"Any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of products, merchandise, goods or services, without such person's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of his par"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 16230731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230731", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1516888384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find the best, most interesting ads to be podcast ads. I've bought or recommended a number of products based on them - Backblaze, Casper, Betterment, Hover, Squarespace, etc. Others I'm very interested in trying - Warby Parker, Away Travel, Linode and Fracture come to mind. I can't think of a single podcast ad that I think is total rubbish. On the same note, Marco Arment created his own podcast ad platform for his Overcast podcast player that is unobtrusive, informative and I actually consider it feature. Podcast ads and the direct response model must be working because the same companies ar"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 16241920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16241920", "by": "mrkstu", "time": 1516993306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hardcore History podcast's coverage of Genghis Khan/the Mongols is additionally a wonderful resource."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16249169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249169", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1517103002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was the 99% Invisible podcast that did an interesting report about whole networks of people who were paid in Mexico to spread election messages; and these networks are often reused by gangs or other organizations to promote stuff or harass opponents. So in this case, they're not bots. They're actual humans, because it's cheaper to do that than pay people to write scripts."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 16258473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258473", "by": "mike_masi", "time": 1517243811, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Attn Technical Founders Podcast - SaaStr 153: How To Build and Scale Sales Teams As A Technical Founder, How To Scale The Sales Learning Curve & Why No One Actually Cares About Your Product with Spenser Skates, Founder & CEO @ Amplitude https://www.acast.com/theofficialsaastrpodcastsaasfoundersinvestors/saastr-153-how-to-build-and-scale-sales-teams-as-a-technical-founder-how-to-scale-the-sales-learning-curve-and-why-no-one-actually-cares-about-your-product-with-spenser-skates-founder-and-ceo-amplitude"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 16261364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261364", "by": "benbreen", "time": 1517266498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It really does seem like they don't care about the consequences. I was listening to Reid Hoffman's \"Masters of Scale\" podcast where he talked about LinkedIn simply unplugging their customer service line when they were in the midst of a particularly fast period of expansion. That's maybe acceptable if you run a social network, but I fear that Coinbase has taken that lesson to heart and applied it to a business where real money is at stake. I'm increasingly concerned that Coinbase will either get sued or regulated out of business before they can give me my funds back - which at this point should"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16265112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265112", "by": "criddell", "time": 1517319382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you have more faith in doctors than me. The way the California Medical Association (and the AMA) resist expanding the role of nurses really damaged their reputation for me. Rising medical costs and increased consumption of medical services is good for physicians. Freakonomics did a pretty good podcast[1] on the subject. [1]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 16274479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16274479", "by": "artsandsci", "time": 1517412026, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16275415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16275415", "by": "dcosson", "time": 1517418736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article is complete fluff, does anyone have sources of books or studies (or even better blog posts) on the topic of city subsidies? There are a lot of comments on here saying this is illegal, but it's not at all clear to me why this is a bad idea. Here in SF, as I understand it there were a lot of tax subsidies to bring Twitter and other companies here into the city. Now the city is booming, and although that has caused other problems like strain on infrastructure and housing, these are solvable problems. They seem like much better problems to have than a failing economy. (Not to mention,"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 16276942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16276942", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1517428154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I think it's potentially naive to think that governments won't be able to wield social networks even more effectively than \"freedom fighters\". That exact thing is happening. The Reply All podcast did an excellent piece on the dominant political party in Mexico using armies of people on Twitter - not bots, but people - to drown out news they didn't like, and eventually, to harass people. Show, with full transcript: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/112-the-prophet/"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16281555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281555", "by": "jcims", "time": 1517490266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I bought Gene after litening to him on Sam Harris\u2019 podcast (just looked it up, episode 77). Definitely worth a listen, he\u2019s an equally impressive conversationalist. Love him or hate him, Sam\u2019s no slouch either and I left the end of it wishing I had a brain."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 16281613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281613", "by": "baldfat", "time": 1517491011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So sorry to hear your story. Cancer just plan old sucks. It has impacted my family and one of my adopted children. My mom had pancreatic cancer (The deadliest of cancers) in 2017 and she is absolutely fine and cancer free a year later. Numbers don't mean anything to the individual and don't look them up is always my recommendation. As a non-medically trained support member I have gotten pretty good in talking with the doctors about my family members cancers. I help explain them to others in my family and when I sit in the conversations with the doctors I stop them talking to make sure the pati"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 16282600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16282600", "by": "imartin2k", "time": 1517499731, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16283862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16283862", "by": "RmDen", "time": 1517507005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have no issues with ads being left in.. hit the skip button 3 times on the phone and you are past the ads. JRE.. skip the first 5-7 minutes until you pass the \"Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day!\" and you are set as well. Same with Tim Ferriss.. but there it's about 4 minutes But mostly I listen to the ads.. they are usually less than a minute anyway (especially since I listen to everything at 1.5 speed... some at 2.0)"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16283935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16283935", "by": "40acres", "time": 1517507425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2017 for me was the year of the podcast. I came across podcasts such as The Daily from the New York Times, a 20 minute rundown of the day's biggest stories, and Hardcore History from Dan Carlin, 4-6 hour epics. Alongside podcasts on politics, tech, and more. Podcasts are consuming my TV, movie and music streaming time. My biggest issue are the ads, they are very generic and it seems the same types of companies dominate the space. Primarily services like zip recruiter, blue apron, and other subscription types. Also, the ad reads are very hit or miss when done by the podcast presenters. I think "}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 16284251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284251", "by": "wickawic", "time": 1517509221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like many podcasts also have an unspoken agreement with the listener about ads and make them easy to skip. Two popular podcasts come to mind: WTF with Marc Maron: always plays a guitar riff after the ad, which is easy to hear when skipping MBMBAM: has a \u201cshoutout\u201d section (listeners sending messages to each other) immediately after the ads, so if you skip into it you don\u2019t really care if you miss a minute or two."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 16284456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284456", "by": "smashingfiasco", "time": 1517510431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're kidding me, right? It seems like every mainstream podcast is supported by ad money from mail-order mattresses or mail-order meals. The NoSleep Podcast is the only one I've heard that dresses these ads up a bit. Even then, I still pay for the season pass so I don't have to listen to them."}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 16284925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284925", "by": "txt", "time": 1517512958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Its All Happening - Zach Leary, Radiolab, Tangentially Speaking with Dr Christopher Ryan, The Dr Drew Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, WTF Podcast, Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, MAPS Podcast, These are all A+ Podcasts."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 16284925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284925", "by": "txt", "time": 1517512958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Its All Happening - Zach Leary, Radiolab, Tangentially Speaking with Dr Christopher Ryan, The Dr Drew Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, WTF Podcast, Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, MAPS Podcast, These are all A+ Podcasts."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16284925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284925", "by": "txt", "time": 1517512958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Its All Happening - Zach Leary, Radiolab, Tangentially Speaking with Dr Christopher Ryan, The Dr Drew Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, WTF Podcast, Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank, MAPS Podcast, These are all A+ Podcasts."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 16285152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285152", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1517514183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You mentioned a history podcast, so just remember, you asked for this. I don't think anybody matches Dan Carlin for presentation (although his historical accuracy can be lacking) but here are some that are probably the most approachable. * History of Rome: A narrative history of Rome from foundation to fall of the western empire * Revolutions: A long series of various revolutions around the world (American, French, Haitian, etc. etc.) * The British History Podcast: Chronological history of the British Isles, very detailed, hundreds of episodes in and the Normans have not showed up yet. * When "}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 16285152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285152", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1517514183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You mentioned a history podcast, so just remember, you asked for this. I don't think anybody matches Dan Carlin for presentation (although his historical accuracy can be lacking) but here are some that are probably the most approachable. * History of Rome: A narrative history of Rome from foundation to fall of the western empire * Revolutions: A long series of various revolutions around the world (American, French, Haitian, etc. etc.) * The British History Podcast: Chronological history of the British Isles, very detailed, hundreds of episodes in and the Normans have not showed up yet. * When "}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 16285686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285686", "by": "schemathings", "time": 1517517894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think 12 Byzantine Rulers - The history of the Byzantine Empire (19 episodes) is what Mike Duncan cited as his inspiration for the History of Rome (191 episodes). I'd also recommend Norman Centuries - A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth (20 episodes) as being in the same style. * Norman Centuries - A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth * 12 Byzantine Rulers- The History of The Byzantine Empire * The History of Rome Maybe it's just the scope or ambition of the projects but things like a season Serial Podcast or the Byzantine/Norman podcasts I mentioned here are more like miniser"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 16285686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285686", "by": "schemathings", "time": 1517517894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think 12 Byzantine Rulers - The history of the Byzantine Empire (19 episodes) is what Mike Duncan cited as his inspiration for the History of Rome (191 episodes). I'd also recommend Norman Centuries - A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth (20 episodes) as being in the same style. * Norman Centuries - A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth * 12 Byzantine Rulers- The History of The Byzantine Empire * The History of Rome Maybe it's just the scope or ambition of the projects but things like a season Serial Podcast or the Byzantine/Norman podcasts I mentioned here are more like miniser"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 16285777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285777", "by": "schemathings", "time": 1517518366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I look forward to checking out your podcast! I'm just following Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast and he's nearly up to WWI historically, would be a nice segue to new content."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 16286720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286720", "by": "floren", "time": 1517525512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy \"The Meateater Podcast\", hosted by Steven Rinella. Great information about hunting, conservation, and public land, with guests including hunters, biology researchers, Joe Rogan, state Fish & Game employees, and authors. Even if you're not a hunter, the discussions are fascinating. There's a few ads in the earliest episodes, but otherwise they keep it to the occasional \"Hey ya freeloaders, go rate us on iTunes\" at the start of the show."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 16290972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16290972", "by": "deanCommie", "time": 1517583645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Weird.. In a time when people are extra tuned to the relationship between technology and society and whether just because we can build something, should we (information bubbles, etc), it's strange that Alphabet would pick someone so out of touch with their impact to the long tail of humanity. At least that's the impression I got of Hennessey from Malcolm Gladwell's podcast http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-..."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 16300007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16300007", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1517696279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a brand new one, from a famous history podcaster, Mike Duncan of The History of Rome fame. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic It would have been great if everyone had read this in the 80s, 90s, 2000s... An under-analyzed period of Roman history."}, {"show": "595399272", "hn_item": 16308631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308631", "by": "freehunter", "time": 1517837817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're a beginner, I'd listen to \"Deutsch \u2013 Warum Nicht?\" from DW. It's narrated in English but the main character speaks in German. Radio D is another podcast from DW at about the same level. From there I like Coffee Break German because it has a language expert and a native speaker discussing German words and grammar in a classroom/conversational setting. Again, this one is narrated in English but they're talking about the German language. DaZPod is also great for short little clips, completely in German. Once you're ready for the full-on German stuff, Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten has "}, {"show": "1619378488", "hn_item": 16308786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308786", "by": "sAbakumoff", "time": 1517839775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And how about Dutch podcast for beginners to improve listening skills? Any suggestions?"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 16311311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16311311", "by": "teej", "time": 1517858986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s not the same as the paper for performance reasons. This is noted in the github README. Martin said on Software Engineering Daily late last year that Automerge was three orders of magnitude faster than his published version of the JSON CRDT. This is my second time highly recommending a Software Engineering Daily podcast with Martin Kleppman on it. He is really smart and able to break down really complex topics in a way that's easy to understand. If you've never heard of CRDTs before, have a listen - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/12/08/decentralize..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 16323007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323007", "by": "grey_shirts", "time": 1517991921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16326518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326518", "by": "oflannabhra", "time": 1518026371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics just did an episode[1] on this study, and interviewed 3 of the 5 study authors. [1] - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-about..."}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 16328293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16328293", "by": "gtirloni", "time": 1518039776, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ken was recently in the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast and it was very interesting too: http://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/005-circuits-that-go-to..."}, {"show": "963131164", "hn_item": 16334365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16334365", "by": "timdalrymple", "time": 1518114772, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16346191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346191", "by": "jakidud", "time": 1518244559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a podcast by Freakonomics where they tried to educate ex-NFL players about finance and economics. It seems one of the most important differences from the average person is that NFL players earn almost all their life's earnings in the first quarter of their lifetime"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16349798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349798", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1518299306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked his (Jordan Peterson) explanation of James Damores paper. It seems rooted in biological facts and there was extensive research that was scientifically accepted cited. I really like Peterson and I think his critiques are really valid. His most recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast really interested me and I found it both novel and a great scientific exploration of social & biological concepts. I don't understand the controversy around him tbh."}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 16368290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16368290", "by": "avs733", "time": 1518538995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "conceptually. However, the metric we use to dictacte that conceptual argument is what screws us (Americans). We have chosen increase in price as the primary metric. It becomes the responsibility of the accuser to prove and provide evidence of increased prices based on monopoly position. The Exponent podcast did a nice description of this last summer I believe (not sure what episode)."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16376335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16376335", "by": "ulrikrasmussen", "time": 1518621610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Right, if we force ourselves to be declared enemies of anyone who does not share our world view, then nobody will grow, and people will just get more entrenched in their bubbles. This reminds me of a podcast, incidentally \"The Daily\" produced by NYTimes, where a former white nationalist tells a quite fascinating story about how he completely changed his mind about the white nationalist movement after being regularly invited to dinners by his Jewish friend whom he met in college. If anyone is interested, the episode can be found here: https://dfkfj8j276wwv.cloudfront.net/episodes/d7b8650b-3ef3-"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16383319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383319", "by": "snikeris", "time": 1518695551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast w/ Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein touches on similar issues (among other things) and discusses why it's still important to have discussions like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G59zsjM2UI"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 16383792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16383792", "by": "drewbuschhorn", "time": 1518701199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">[deleted] I was mostly poking my head in to answer the question of why you're being down voted, IMO. I'm on the opposite side of your understanding of this research based on a cursory glance (nothing says 'unbiased' like including the phrase 'feminist campaigners' in the conclusion of a scientific publication). This week's Weeds podcast has some interesting alternative theories based on the results from various Scandinavian countries where they legislated some gender equality stuff and it neither worked out as well as people on the left would like, nor as much of a disaster as people on the r"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 16384689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16384689", "by": "freehunter", "time": 1518708122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome podcast talks a lot about present day Turkey and the rest of Asia Minor, as well as Carthage and Egypt and other North African places as they were all parts of the Empire. I don't have anything more specific about later history, but the spice trade and the Orient Express are two (I think) fascinating pieces of history that tie Western Europe to North Africa and eastern Asia. The history of the Crusades is also integral to understand the mixing of these areas... Europe wouldn't have cared if they didn't think east Asia was \"theirs\" in some way."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 16385038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16385038", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1518710564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have anything more specific about later history The History of Byzantium podcast picks up right where the History of Rome left off. It's mostly about the east Roman empire, but also covers the all its neighbors. https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16396667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16396667", "by": "badgers", "time": 1518817323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In 1992 Brazil faced similar inflation numbers (80% per month, or 1156% per year compared to what the article claims 1219% for Venezuela). I'm surprised the author does not reference Brazil in their article. The NPR Planet Money podcast/article does a good job of summarizing the events of 1992 [1]. In the Brazil situation the country had control of both currencies and could set the exchange rate. I don't see how using Bitcoin would eliminate the problem that the country is experiencing: an unstable currency. Most developed countries target around 2% inflation. Bitcoin has not had that kind of "}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 16406455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406455", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1518967783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most languages have common utterances for mother/father and other family members. This is because these are easy, early sounds a baby can make. Some variation of da, ma, pa, na occurs fairly universally. There\u2019s a pretty good episode of Lexicon Valley on this topic (see cavebabies say \u2018mama\u2019) http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16406873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406873", "by": "ConstantineNash", "time": 1518972790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Indie Hackers podcast: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast"}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 16408472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16408472", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1518986795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you need to learn a diverse set of things are just be aware of a diverse set of things? For instance, we just moved to AWS. I am not going to spend hours upon hours learning in depth all of AWS's services. I did watch a few videos and subscribe to the AWS podcast so I could be aware of the different services to know what they have. When there is a business need to implement X, I'll know what's out there and then do a proof of concept to see if what AWS has fits our needs. Learning best practices transcend technology. We've had \"consultants\" come into the company where I'm the dev lead and q"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 16409543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16409543", "by": "shaunparker", "time": 1518996568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rich Hickey had a great comment a long time ago on the Software Engineering Radio podcast [0] that I think speaks to this. He was asked why he didn't just make the ideas in Clojure a library for Java. Interviewer: \"Wouldn't it have been possible or simpler to add this using some kind of library or framework to an existing language? In other words, why does this kind of stuff need language support as opposed to just a library?\" Rich: \"In fact it is a library. It's a library written in Java that you can use from Java. The whole thing about a language is, a language is about what does it make idi"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 16410899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16410899", "by": "bocahrokok", "time": 1519016990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Y combinator podcast A16Z podcast Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16411195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411195", "by": "mrmondo", "time": 1519023367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Faninating story, I first heard of it while listening to the latter part of linked 99% Invisible podcast episode. There\u2019s some information on Jorge Matute Remus the engineer who designed and ran the building move on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Matute_Remus"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 16415088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16415088", "by": "danieldk", "time": 1519068773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed, as pointed out by the Accidental Tech podcast and others, even if the speakers hold up, what is going to kill it for longevity is the lack of a line-in. It is very unlikely that HomePod's version of AirPlay is going to be supported for more that 10 years. If the device had a line-in, it would still serve as a fine speaker beyond that. But now it is practically useless, even when you are in the Apple ecosystem, once Apple deprecates AirPlay 2. In the meanwhile, I enjoyed the Altec Lansing speakers that my parents bought in the 70ies for quite some years. (We were interested in the HomeP"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 16416648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16416648", "by": "tempestn", "time": 1519083395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, I recall a specific comment that they had to tweak the experiment to add a fifth cookie since no one took the fourth, then they saw the effect described here, lip smacking and all, with the fourth cookie. Ah, here we go\u2014I found where I heard it. It was in an episode of the podcast \"Hidden Brain\", called \"The Perils of Power.\" It's an interview with the researcher who ran the experiment, Dacher Keltner. He starts describing the experiment at about 16:20, and explicitly discusses why they added a fifth cookie: \"Well this was where it's really interesting because the rules of politeness sugge"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16421601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421601", "by": "dogma1138", "time": 1519144658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pinker was on the Joe Rogan podcast recently if anyone is interested https://youtu.be/VUDAdOdF6Zg"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 16425031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425031", "by": "hawktheslayer", "time": 1519167201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, Twenty Thousand Hertz , did a whole episode on this: https://www.20k.org/episodes/mystery"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 16426818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16426818", "by": "ochang", "time": 1519186850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not specific to JAB, but there's a podcast episode of Containers [0] following the end-to-end movement of coffee and the surprising amount of middlemen. [0]: https://medium.com/containers/episode-4-coffee-78ac6571caea"}, {"show": "1336150688", "hn_item": 16430239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430239", "by": "closed", "time": 1519227945, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1336150688", "hn_item": 16430243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430243", "by": "closed", "time": 1519227960, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interviews with the likes of Jake VanderPlas, Robert Change (AirBnB), Emily Robinson (Etsy), Claudio Perlich (DStillery). itunes link in case it's useful: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dataframed/id1336150688?... Note: this is made by my coworker, Hugo Bowne-Anderson for DataCamp, but I've been enjoying listening to it on commutes."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16434859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434859", "by": "mertd", "time": 1519268707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great Freakonomics episode on exactly that. tl;dr was that people don't like buying stuff via auctions. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16436526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436526", "by": "kvczor", "time": 1519293961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really love 99% Invisible podcast. Fantastically executed stories."}, {"show": "1343336861", "hn_item": 16436734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436734", "by": "JCArano", "time": 1519297228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Silicon Valley legend Babak Hodjat is the founder of the original Siri team and builds neural networks since thirty years. He is the CEO of Sentient Technologies. Babak has extremely interesting insights into what machines can do and what he thinks they will never be able to do. We also talk about topics like explainability and how artificial intelligence can optimize marketing and communication processes. Hi, i'm Alex Jacobi and this is my podcast \u201cWith love and data\u201d. It\u2019s about humans and machines creating epic stuff together. I\u2019m meeting the smartest marketeers, creatives and AI specialist"}, {"show": "1343336861", "hn_item": 16436779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16436779", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1519297873, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "More specifically, the link redirects to https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/with-love-and-data/id134... ."}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 16438576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16438576", "by": "ryanchants", "time": 1519315933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few podcasts: Joe Rogan, Tim Ferris, and The Art of Manliness. Mainly because they interview a lot of different people. I skip a lot, but it exposes me to a bunch of new books and things. I listen to other podcasts, but they're normally directed to specific areas. The one that's clicked with me the most: Sebastian Junger on JRE[0]. I still need to read Tribe, but listening to Junger discuss it really aligns with me, as someone who has transitioned out of the military in the last few years. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4KiOECVGLg"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 16440756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16440756", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1519328675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For personal growth within the context of becoming better in the tech field, I enjoy the Developer Tea podcast. I also have enjoyed the Meta Learn podcast and from time to time select episodes of Tim Ferris."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16444873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444873", "by": "jondwillis", "time": 1519372216, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Are you referring to episode #116? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harri... Or has the topic come up in an earlier episode?"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 16463727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16463727", "by": "wsxcde", "time": 1519629655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Genuine question: what values count as enlightenment values? And who gets the credit for coming up with these values? I heard Pinker on Ezra Klein's podcast and he seemed to imply that Gandhi/MLK's non-violent movements were the product of the enlightenment. Isn't that a patently ridiculous claim? I looked up wikipedia to see who the intellectuals of the enlightenment were and it seems many of these people are racists, slave-owners and colonizers who literally thought that Gandhi/MLK were sub-human. Their military philosophy seems to boil down to might is right and their values AFAICT are pret"}, {"show": "150892556", "hn_item": 16470299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16470299", "by": "hi41", "time": 1519692771, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On Being podcast has a Sylvia Earle episode about over fishing has depleted the ocean ecosystem and is bringing many species close to extinction. Here is the episode: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tip..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16472915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16472915", "by": "dogma1138", "time": 1519735833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first portion of the Joe Rogan podcast with Douglus Murray touched this very specific issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBp4afbDeLk The core of the issue here is that the left is not uniformly liberal a large part of what is associated with the left is not liberal but ranges from authoritarian to old plain tyrannical just like with the right."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 16478448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16478448", "by": "venturefizz", "time": 1519769197, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 16479803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16479803", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1519780060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Shark Tank, check out The Pitch podcast. It's very similar in concept, but in execution, I like it a lot better: - It's one pitch per episode, which allows a bit more depth - It's narrated, which let's the host cut in to explain nuances - They circle back to find out what happened after the pitch if the investments actually close - No gimmick companies - No Kevin O'Leary"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16484735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16484735", "by": "ultrasounder", "time": 1519838787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow!. Really inspiring write-up. Thanks for sharing. No. You are not an idiot. When you find time, please pick-up \"Anything You want\" by Derek Sivers. Essentially, You don't need a business idea. You just make something that \"helps\" people however vague that might sound. GOod luck with your venture and Indie Hackers is Great and Channing Allen has built a Great community around it with an awesome podcast to boot!. Who knows you could even be back at Google after \"successfully\" bootstrapping your startup for a few years."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 16485699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485699", "by": "colmvp", "time": 1519844633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pinker was also on Ezra Klein's podcast which I thought was worth a listen: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/53271..."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 16485979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16485979", "by": "jjjensen90", "time": 1519846344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you the Mike DelGaudio who contributes to the NoSleep Podcast?! If so, I've listened to your voice acting for hundreds of hours... HN never ceases to amaze me for bringing dialogue from people you would never expect to run in to. But on topic, I agree with your feedback. I run a volunteer video game project with about 8000 users who are pretty active and also come from a huge variety of economic situations. Right now I don't ask for donations but I've been considering the best way to do it without it in any way appearing to be a fee or charge for the project. I've considered using paypal.m"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16486070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486070", "by": "bornonline1", "time": 1519846927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also on Joe Rogan's podcast very recently."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 16487310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16487310", "by": "xeonoex", "time": 1519854147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a young software developer and I recently got promoted to manager of my team. Honestly, I feel like I'm not good at politics. I never focused on it, and I'm not particularly social. Of course, you always need to be at the right place at the right time. I think the managers I've had at my current company are great, so that helps. My advice would be to just try to keep people happy, primarily your manager and your manager's manager. Some people are saying to focus on metrics that make you look good, and that might work at some places, but it won't mean people enjoy working with you. My advic"}, {"show": "886009669", "hn_item": 16488817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16488817", "by": "tdeck", "time": 1519866249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Reveal podcast did an excellent bit where an undercover reporter worked as a prison guard: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.revealnews.org/episodes/the... One of the things that really struck me is that when the prison stopped offering programs to occupy the inmates time, they tended to fill it themselves. By getting into fights. So aside from the punishment aspect, there seems to be real value to the system to have pastimes that keep a lid on things, be they work programs, classes, or a cheap board game."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 16489117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16489117", "by": "delgaudm", "time": 1519869947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Are you the Mike DelGaudio who contributes to the NoSleep Podcast? I am! Thank you so much for listening! It's such a blast to do!"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16491940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491940", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1519912308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, I actually discovered Patrick McKenzie through Indie Hackers. He was one of the early podcast guests: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/013-patrick-mckenzie-of... I am very much influenced by his story. I agree that he does a great job documenting what he learned."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 16495408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495408", "by": "ItsJason", "time": 1519933147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just all IT initiatives - I just heard today that the project that would eventually create the Ford Pinto was also named Phoenix. (from Stuff You Should Know podcast)"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 16523381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16523381", "by": "k1ns", "time": 1520276266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is why I love the How I Built This podcast. It tells the story of a successful founder from childhood to present day. It discusses early successes and failures that ultimately led to that person becoming an \"overnight success\" decades later. It doesn't try to build this narrative of them being one-hit wonders, it tells the truth. The truth, which isn't nearly as sexy as people would like, is that building a business takes time, hard work, and resilience."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16526006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16526006", "by": "shard972", "time": 1520297515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started reading that article a couple days ago and it's part of the reason why this subject as sparked with me. His article does a pretty pathetic job of trying to actually disprove anything about the science. The way he smears Charles murray as if hes some closet white supremacists is just absurd if you actually have heard him speak or read his works. Charles is one of the best example of someone who end up stumbling into the question on race and gets put on a fiery cross simply for not towing the line that race is purely a social construct. It's a long read so I don't think you expect anyo"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16538821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16538821", "by": "jontayesp", "time": 1520449150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to add another suggestion - try a podcast like \u201cThe Daily\u201d from NYT. It\u2019s about 20 minutes long per episode, and covers one or two of the most important issues of the day. It\u2019s a more human/meaningful experience for me, because you hear the voices of people who are directly affected by the news (such as the students from parkland). It adds an emotional depth, and I feel like I can stay up to date with current events without mindlessly scanning dozens of articles. The host, Michael Barbaro, is fantastic and pleasant to listen to. Give it a try!"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16542514, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542514", "by": "k_sh", "time": 1520486995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this kind of stuff, check out 99% Invisible[0]. It's a (very popular) podcast: > 99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don\u2019t think about \u2014 the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. [0]: https://99percentinvisible.org/episodes/"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 16544767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544767", "by": "Cenk", "time": 1520521924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some background on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/insider/overlooked-obitua... On the topic of NYT obits, there\u2019s a really great episode of the Longform podcast with NTY\u2019s senior obituary writer Margalit Fox: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-43-margalit-fox"}, {"show": "1358003075", "hn_item": 16566895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16566895", "by": "arjunpatel1026", "time": 1520845537, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 16571884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16571884", "by": "zamber", "time": 1520890595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your observation is shared by hosts of the ATP podcast. Bug fixes do sell when paired with minor development, major impact features. Push the load to a couple of built-in apps to make them more smooth and focus on under-the-hood stuff. The press will praise that as the best thing since sliced bread - a modern, polished and stable OS release. Of course this would be a one-off thing and we'll get another major release with features, features, features!"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 16573384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573384", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1520906515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a listener, you're in a good position to judge - do you think that the content suffers from being so frequently produced? So they're making $2k per episode on ads - would they make $15k if they made one podcast a week? On that time scale, is there a better monetisation model? I've never listened to SED and I made no judgements about the quality. I subscribe to a lot of podcasts, but only listen to a few religiously. The others I skim through or just delete. $2000 a Day is of course not bad - I'm assuming that sales, recording, editing, etc. is a full time job. I'm going through the Software"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 16573789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16573789", "by": "616c", "time": 1520913138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just came to say so excited to read this and on the top of HN! Jeff is a hero of mine. Jeff, I once responded to your survey. I lost a ton of weight abroad with nothing going for me bc your podcast and the Changelog podcast gave me the weird fuel I needed to just run but also learn and be engaged mentally. I find your career choice from Amazon inspiring as a transition (not to mention poker) and you always ask insightful questions. I am trying to get into security with dev work on top bc you make me want to be in that culture, after a decade of avoiding it as a jaded IT guy. I have sent every "}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 16574462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574462", "by": "sitepodmatt", "time": 1520928258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm unlikely to renew LastPass when it comes up, it seems there no security, devops, or even browser integration talent remaining, and it hasn't really progressed in years apart from a minor Vault UI overhaul and a price doubling. When I think back I heard about them from the shameless SecurityNow podcast around 2009 - this was before the terms paid \"influencer\" was a well known thing. What are the decent 2018 alternatives that work on both Firefox and Chrome and work on the linux desktop (so 1password is out last time I looked), securely synced to the cloud (yes, I'll take that risk over Keep"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 16580961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16580961", "by": "mindsetalex", "time": 1520984841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was skeptical before as well! I first came across its legitimacy in the 'Science Vs.' podcast ep on hypnosis. On our site we've compiled some of the latest research into hypnosis and it's effectiveness. http://www.themindsetapp.com/science/ The research field is still quite young but the evidence is coming in fast. Once we reach a certain scale and funding we will also conduct research specifically into the effectiveness of app-based hypnosis but we believe it would be aligned with the effectiveness of hypnosis in general."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 16592557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16592557", "by": "js2", "time": 1521120079, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent episode of the \u201cMore Perfect\u201d podcast (which discusses Supreme Court cases) is about the commerce clause: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/one-nation-under-money/ (No transcript unfortunately.)"}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 16603608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16603608", "by": "alatz", "time": 1521230425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who's interested in a detailed look at Sid Meier's history in the game industry from the man himself, I highly recommend this series of interviews from the Designer Notes podcast: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-... It's long (4 parts, each of are 1.5 - 2 hours), but worth it. The interviewer is Soren Johnson (one of the lead designers of Civ4) which makes for some great behind-the-scenes stories/insights."}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 16608265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16608265", "by": "failrate", "time": 1521310848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want this history straight from Sid Meier's mouth, Soren Johnson's excellent podcast \"Designer Notes\" has a 4 part interview with the man: https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-... https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-... https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-... https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-..."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 16608329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16608329", "by": "smacktoward", "time": 1521311734, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 16608899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16608899", "by": "ptrincr", "time": 1521318458, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Last time Rome popped up as a topic on hackernews, someone mentioned \"The history of Rome\" podcast. It's absolutely fantastic. I mention it so that perhaps someone else can enjoy this masterpiece as much as I have."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 16609464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16609464", "by": "vondur", "time": 1521327119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I should also mention the Tides of History and The Fall of Rome Podcast. Both are excellent, and narrated by a newly minted phd in the field."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 16609675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16609675", "by": "durgiston", "time": 1521329767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also the followup podcast \"The History of Byzantium\" if you couldn't get enough of late antiquity and the middle ages!"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16619215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619215", "by": "gthompson1", "time": 1521473858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have done a decent amount of marketing for several companies, I've been a data scientist and now I'm a software engineer. I am currently trying to get traffic to my side project http://www.careerminer.co I have tried: email marketing, social media posting, reddit posts / sub reddit comments My last job I worked at a lending company and we would spend like $10,000 on a direct mail campaign and it would result in like 50 website sessions. We kinda shot down blogging and content SEO stuff as to vague with unpredictable results and the few blog posts we did had like 10 sessions. We focused on em"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16621093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621093", "by": "gshulegaard", "time": 1521482514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This goes even deeper than that, I just listened to a Podcast called The Daily (from the NYT) which did a two part episode on the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. It would seem that Venezeula is quickly descending into an authoritarian state. As a point of illustration, the jailing of Leopoldo Lopez is one of the few things Obama and Trump both outspokenly agree."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 16641589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641589", "by": "gooseus", "time": 1521661384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Amazingly, I haven't yet read any of Diamond's work, though I think I have this on my bookcase. I know that Tainter has criticized him some for cherry picking in order to support his presuppositions, specifically regarding his Easter Island ideas. I think he talks about it a little bit on this Omega Tau podcast: http://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-colla... It's on my personal list still though, get around to it eventually."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16641733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16641733", "by": "jasonellis", "time": 1521662143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The New York Times is reporting that they were also able to collect likes, because this was back when likes could be harvested through the API. Through likes alone, they could supposedly determine race, gender, sexual orientation, and other physical and mental traits/preferences with surprising accuracy. Here is today's episode of The Daily where they discuss this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/podcasts/the-daily/cambri..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16643929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16643929", "by": "shostack", "time": 1521677630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to an older episode of Indie Hackers today as a matter of fact. Thank you for contributing something valuable to the ecosystem. A lot of similar podcasts/blogs focus on a lot of fluff, but you do/did a great job of directing the conversation, and summarizing long-winded guest comments that may not use the proper business jargon into concise and interesting tidbits. One thing that was always interesting for me as a listener is that I'm actually the opposite of a lot of your audience. I'm a senior marketer who knows the marketing world inside and out, but I'd consider myself"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16656835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656835", "by": "etruong42", "time": 1521803755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is Freakonomics coverage on the practice: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-japanese-homes-dispo..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16659034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659034", "by": "macspoofing", "time": 1521818501, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">And working your field doesn't provide for your life? Under communism, all surplus (or even the full total) is appropriated by the state. So working more and harder nets no extra benefit on the peasant. The incentive then is to exert as little effort as you can. NPR's Planet Money had a really good podcast on this recently [1] I speculated that feudal peasant may have been subject to the same kinds of incentives as everything they produced belonged to the local Lord. >because if he produced more food he'd be able to keep more of it Under certain communist regimes (Soviet Union and Mao's China"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 16664780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16664780", "by": "8bitsrule", "time": 1521863951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A Mar 2018 Long Now seminar podcast (with discussion) can be DL'd directly at this link. http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/SALT.xml"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16666905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16666905", "by": "Afforess", "time": 1521903659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Effective Altruism. I discovered the charity GiveDirectly some years ago from the NPR podcast Planet Money episode that featured them. GiveDirectly is one of many charities adopting evidence based outreach, and now I follow GiveWell and it's recommendations as well. The central question of Effective Altruism is given limited resources, how can we do the most good?"}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 16668008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16668008", "by": "_emacsomancer_", "time": 1521915939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "About an 50-60 each way. Usually tech podcasts (Linux Unplugged, Late Night Linux, BSDNow, etc.)."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 16672122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16672122", "by": "empath75", "time": 1521985393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have podcast subscriptions to like 10 different history podcasts and they put me to sleep within 5 minutes most of the time. The key is that it has to be interesting enough to engage me, but not so interesting that it keeps me awake. The History of English podcast is my favorite for that. It\u2019s the entire history of English from Indo-European onwards. It\u2019s 100+ hours of readings from old English poetry or medieval monastic rule books interspersed with word etymologies (Did you know that \u2018green\u2019 and \u2018grow\u2019 and \u2018grass\u2019 are all from the same root word?). Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s absolutely fasci"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 16674447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16674447", "by": "knuththetruth", "time": 1522010126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BBC's In Our Time podcast is an instant sedative. Roundtable of British academics dryly discussing historical topics. 5 mins and I'm out like a light."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 16674485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16674485", "by": "birksherty", "time": 1522010591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use Sleep With Me podcast and like you said it shuts my thinking and then I sleep within few minutes. I highly recommend it. https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 16674496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16674496", "by": "jihadjihad", "time": 1522010715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neat article, love learning about things like this. For those who want more, check out the Containers podcast [1]. Not usually a big podcast fan but I enjoyed this one a lot. https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 16674496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16674496", "by": "jihadjihad", "time": 1522010715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neat article, love learning about things like this. For those who want more, check out the Containers podcast [1]. Not usually a big podcast fan but I enjoyed this one a lot. https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 16678546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678546", "by": "swyx", "time": 1522069799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No affiliation at all to the author but if you want to read more he's @driscollis on twitter and the book is at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/python-interviews also I first heard this story on the Talk Python podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/156/python-history-and-p... Of course its not the full story but it is an interesting comment and from a firsthand source. That's all I know, I dont have a dog in this fight :)"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 16679032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16679032", "by": "oflannabhra", "time": 1522073746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tyler Cowen interviews Sujatha Gidla on his podcast, Conversations with Tyler [0]. Not having heard of her, and not having any exposure to caste societies, I was struck by the sharpness of her insight and the strength of her conviction. I highly recommend listening. [0] - https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/sujatha-gidla-an..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 16680643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16680643", "by": "coinbit", "time": 1522084961, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am interested to know what are some of the podcast you lisen to every week. For me its The Daily."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 16680781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16680781", "by": "steve_b", "time": 1522085815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really good Econtalk podcast called Weapons of Math Destruction about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16680812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16680812", "by": "gw666", "time": 1522086047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a fan of the bizarre. Here's what I listen to: * The Magnus Archives * Alice Isn't Dead * Rabbits, The Black Tapes, Tanis (all from Pacific Northwest Stories, aka Public Radio Aliance; you'll either love or hate these) * Knifepoint Horror I just discovered this great nonfiction podcast, on design and architecture: * 99% Invisible"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16682764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16682764", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1522099543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's \"Planet Money\" podcast did an interesting series about satellites which featured this company, \"Planet\". https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/12/01/567267573/plan..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16692600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16692600", "by": "gringoDan", "time": 1522183753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Correct. Some economists from Stanford & Uber actually did a fascinating analysis of the gender earnings gap for drivers. tl;dr - Men earn 7% more: > We find that the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf Edit - I originally found out about this study from a Freakonomics podcast. These economists are chomping at the bit to get newer data (which will include tips). Their hypothesis is that women's earnings will increase"}, {"show": "997616345", "hn_item": 16701761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701761", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1522269972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There were quite a few on the Tim Ferriss podcast that I enjoyed, but I did not have a great way to bookmark them. I did share them with friends. The Startup Chat with Steli and Hiten also had some great short episodes. If you like Seth Godin, he has a new podcast called Akimbo that I have really enjoyed."}, {"show": "1290475944", "hn_item": 16702982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702982", "by": "b3lvedere", "time": 1522279106, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Unfriend Me: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unfriend-me/id1290475944... http://feeds.frogpants.com/unfriendme_feed.xml Touchy topics civily discussed."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16704986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704986", "by": "jamesrcole", "time": 1522305368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd read books that contain case studies of systemic phenomena. Like books on evolution (I'd recommend those by Dawkins and Dennett) or economics (even something like the Planet Money podcast). Reading about specific cases is good for honing your intuitions about systems, which is important for being able to think in systemic terms. I don't know your background but I also think learning programming is valuable."}, {"show": "918963927", "hn_item": 16707034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707034", "by": "akuji1993", "time": 1522331602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First of, the episodes that Jerry Colonna took part in in Gimlet Media's podcasts, which are: https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/shadowed-qualities-seaso... https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/running-a-family-and-a-b... https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/sell-apartment-keep-star... And then I'd recommend Jerry's own podcast series: The Reboot Podcast"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16707449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707449", "by": "timlangeman", "time": 1522334650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are two of my favorite Freakonomics podcasts: 1) Improving Social Trust would help the economy as much as a tax cut. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/trust-me-rebroadcast-2/ 2) We underestimate our \"tailwinds\" and overestimate our \"headwinds\". This relates to many discussions, including issues of privilege: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/life-hard-rebroadcast-2/"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 16708745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16708745", "by": "AndrewStephens", "time": 1522343280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Dan Carlin, I would also recommend The British History Podcast[0], an epic more-or-less chronological take on the history of the British Isles. The host can really spin a yarn, and it is taken from primary sources. [0] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 16709314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16709314", "by": "uptown", "time": 1522346166, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1252899514", "hn_item": 16711531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16711531", "by": "walkerag", "time": 1522361348, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Podcast version here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/random-talkers/id1252899..."}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 16719864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719864", "by": "sheppards", "time": 1522444601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The wide-ranging podcasts/lectures hosted through the Long Now Foundation ( http://longnow.org/ ) are certainly worth exploring... And nobody mentioned Cheap Astronomy yet ( http://www.cheapastro.com ) . Go for the physics and astronomy, stay for the great accent..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 16722147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722147", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1522479569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most online learning sites - Coursera, Udemy, and the like - have classes. If your interest is practical or your preference is for something a bit less academic, start reading each of Matt Levine\u2019s daily columns ( https://www.bloomberg.com/view/contributors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matt... ) and listening to weekly EconTalk podcast episodes ( http://www.econtalk.org/archives/favorites/ ), then Google the terms you aren\u2019t familiar with. (Pedantic: Levine is arguably more finance than economics, but he covers both, makes them interesting, and chooses topics carefully.)"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 16722591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722591", "by": "username223", "time": 1522489656, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> andy & helen zaltzman The Bugle and the Allusionist are tiny rays of light in these dark times. Podcasting is a simple and honest business: I download an MP3 and maybe listen, they get paid to read some ad copy."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16733392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16733392", "by": "doppp", "time": 1522662777, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 16734234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16734234", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1522675391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to a Software Engineering Radio podcast from 2015 where they were interviewing the guy who moved Netflix to AWS. He said that by being on the best cloud provider (AWS), Netflix was neutralizing the advantage that Amazon Prime Video had by being on the best cloud provider. On the other hand, Dropbox had to leave AWS because they would never be able to be a storage solution at a lower price and pay AWS fees..."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 16737735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16737735", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1522694312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> ...Microsoft has some magics for executing x86_64 binaries on aarch64 with good performance... I was just listening to a Windows Weekly podcast about that, and its limited to 32-bit x86 binaries only, no 64-bit support. They also said its \"unusable\" for 32-bit apps (in particular Chrome), because you can watch the system drawing the windows of x86 apps on the screen. Watching the video, they seem to be exaggerating a bit with \"unusable\", but Chrome does look sluggish, and the startup of \"DrRacket\" and its window redraw does look very slow too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYcCSRMkVI&t=60"}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 16744959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16744959", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1522765910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To get a feel for how Microsoft is thinking about AI, quite a few episodes of the Microsoft Research podcast are handy too: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podca... .. if you really are going to interview at Microsoft, having an idea of what their researchers are doing might be a huge help."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16750238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750238", "by": "jazzex", "time": 1522796567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. The Knowledge Project: Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Radical Honesty 2. The Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins 3. a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life [1]: https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-... [2]: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/ [3]: https://a16z.com/2018/03/20/morals-meaning-entrepreneurship-..."}, {"show": "1048210550", "hn_item": 16752543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16752543", "by": "strstr", "time": 1522824340, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just going to give a shout out to the openness of the Supreme Court oral arguments. You can find them directly from the Supreme Court ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio/2... ) or in Podcast form ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s-supreme-court-oral-a... ). First Mondays ( http://www.firstmondays.fm ) did an interview with Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer about the Supreme Court case and the CLOUD Act. The combination of these sources made both the CLOUD Act and this call for dismissal somewhat unsurprising. It was pretty clear that the Supreme Court wanted congr"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 16757581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757581", "by": "lemonberry", "time": 1522866945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is interesting. On a recent Kevin Rose podcast he and his guest talked about targeted treatment for ADHD, dementia, etc. using video games. At one point they also discussed people using self-built gadgets to stimulate their own brain using electric current ( they do not recommend it though ). https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/Adam-Gazzaley As an aside, I've found meditation to be very helpful in treating my non-clinical depression. It's also one of the key tools I use to help with my addiction/alcoholism issues. And please, if you're thinking of taking your own life reach out to someo"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 16767629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16767629", "by": "DanAndersen", "time": 1522953051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The World War 1 episodes might be slightly more enjoyable, because I think those deal a bit more with \"history\" in the sense of events and blow-by-blow of what happened. But it may be that Dan Carlin's stuff just isn't your style. Carlin's approach tends to be more of a discussion where he uses the backdrop of a historical event to ponder some aspect of the human condition. There is also a lot of repetition and redundancy and rambling when he talks, so some of the appeal is people who just plain like the sound of Carlin's voice and enjoy hearing someone talk about something interesting. I tend"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16772505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772505", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1523015759, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 16775094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775094", "by": "Slackwise", "time": 1523035277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just heard of \"The Great Vowel Shift\" on the \"Lexicon Valley\"[1] linguistics podcast, which covered the idiosyncrasies of English spelling, and how the vowel shift was a large factor in how pronunciations diverged from their spellings. [1]: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2018/0..."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 16778200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778200", "by": "ChrisGammell", "time": 1523055371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Electronics is a big broad subject. So yeah, take it slow and take it easy on yourself as you're learning. It's more akin to asking, \"How to self-learn programming?\". There are many methods, resources and STRONG opinions, mine included. Here's my usual suggestions: 1.) Get into the culture of it all. Weird, right? But like lots of people are pointing out, YouTube has a bounty of electronics channels, one more niche than the next. There are also audio podcasts like Macrofab Engineering, Embedded.fm and The Amp Hour (disclaimer: this is my and EEVblog's audio podcast) 2.) This is probably the mo"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 16778200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16778200", "by": "ChrisGammell", "time": 1523055371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Electronics is a big broad subject. So yeah, take it slow and take it easy on yourself as you're learning. It's more akin to asking, \"How to self-learn programming?\". There are many methods, resources and STRONG opinions, mine included. Here's my usual suggestions: 1.) Get into the culture of it all. Weird, right? But like lots of people are pointing out, YouTube has a bounty of electronics channels, one more niche than the next. There are also audio podcasts like Macrofab Engineering, Embedded.fm and The Amp Hour (disclaimer: this is my and EEVblog's audio podcast) 2.) This is probably the mo"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16780282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16780282", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1523099783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics Radio recently had an interesting episode on this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/demonization-gluten/"}, {"show": "279428154", "hn_item": 16787098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16787098", "by": "Lanthanide", "time": 1523208000, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For economics and economy-related cultural topics, I really like NPR's Planet Money ( https://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/planet-money/ ). The episodes on average are really short (anything from 6 to 20 minutes) so they're great for a quick passtime. The polar opposite would be Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, with each episode seldom less than four hours. But with a fantastic narration and historical research that's head and shoulders beyond any other podcast I've ever seen ( https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ ) LSE's Public Lectures and Podcasts is a great resource as "}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 16788090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788090", "by": "felipemesquita", "time": 1523218459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I\u2019ve learned the most from listening to podcasts. I would recommend Hello Internet for the conversational nature of their \u201ctwo dudes talking\u201d genre and the show\u2019s impecable audio quality."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 16791767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16791767", "by": "Cenk", "time": 1523269430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also recommend Samin Nosrat\u2019s Longform interview: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-243-samin-nosrat"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 16803879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803879", "by": "perryh2", "time": 1523385404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I miss the old Diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose."}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 16804036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16804036", "by": "pqr7", "time": 1523386521, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1355212895", "hn_item": 16804077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16804077", "by": "thogenhaven", "time": 1523386762, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sounds like a copy of the new Techmeme Ride Home podcast - which is a pretty good summary of today\u2019s news: https://itunes.apple.com/dk/podcast/techmeme-ride-home/id135..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16809721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809721", "by": "shubhamjain", "time": 1523443333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Subscription is a long-lasting, predictable revenue stream. Even if one-off sales bring more revenue the subscription system fares much better. I was listening to Sam Harris' podcast recently, and they seem to have discontinued the one-time donations entirely. You don't want to deal with the instability of exceedingly high revenue one month, and barely any in the other. Another thing I noticed is that with subscriptions in place, you can understand\u2014and grow\u2014your customers in all sorts of ways. For eg, Netflix has analyzed that \"if you have watched 15 hours of content per month, you're 75% less"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 16835610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835610", "by": "chongli", "time": 1523674161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came here to post this link! This is my favourite episode of This American Life, and perhaps my favourite podcast episode of any sort ever."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16842520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16842520", "by": "lemonberry", "time": 1523798735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of Sam Harris' podcast may be a good starting point. https://samharris.org/podcasts/111-science-meditation/"}, {"show": "1240056193", "hn_item": 16843123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843123", "by": "orasis", "time": 1523806973, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "An excellent Podcast on awakening is Deconstructing Yourself - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/deconstructing-yourself/..."}, {"show": "886009669", "hn_item": 16848854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16848854", "by": "klingebeil", "time": 1523885736, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 16856740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16856740", "by": "gitgud", "time": 1523957140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great work guys! I listened to the Friday episode and have some feedback for you. It's great that you guys treat it like a real news segment and have a neutral stance on each post. But don't be afraid to give your own opinion on the subject. Steve Gibson from the Security Now podcast is an outgoing character that is not afraid to speak up on new topics. To me, what the community writes in the discussion is generally more interesting than the article itself, this probably deserves more time. Tangents and arguments are always fun. Hope you guys keep making these, it's a monumental task to do a p"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 16860001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860001", "by": "sathomasga", "time": 1523983564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest More or Less podcast episode covered this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06478pz"}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 16860967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16860967", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1523989529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Partially Examined Life podcast is fantastic. I'd definitely second that. The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps is also decent."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 16863149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863149", "by": "alcarter", "time": 1524006985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been obsessed with how to make podcasts better for a long time. I co-founded the first social podcast app on iOS, launched and ran the podcast vertical at Product Hunt, and most recently worked on 60dB, an early stage podcast startup acquired by Google. I think the bottleneck preventing podcasts from enjoying wider, mainstream adoption and the all the downstream benefits it affords is lack of discovery. And I think Twitter is uniquely well positioned to solve discovery and create the podcast app of the future. The rest of the thesis is in the Medium post. Would enjoy any feedback and disc"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16872102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16872102", "by": "failedartifact", "time": 1524093415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first yeard about this thriugh 99% Invisible Podcast. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h-day/ Its a great listen if anyone is interested more about the 'H-Day' switchover."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16875920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16875920", "by": "hfdgiutdryg", "time": 1524146452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money recently had a podcast about the growth and overreach of NDAs: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/06/600412430/epis..."}, {"show": "1215439780", "hn_item": 16884784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884784", "by": "Manu1987", "time": 1524232616, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16887569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887569", "by": "voisin", "time": 1524250831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, Sam Harris\u2019 podcast (Waking Up with Sam Harris) has an episode with a Geoffrey West which is superb - one of the best episodes on that podcast. Also, Geoffrey West has a great TED Talk."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 16887569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16887569", "by": "voisin", "time": 1524250831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, Sam Harris\u2019 podcast (Waking Up with Sam Harris) has an episode with a Geoffrey West which is superb - one of the best episodes on that podcast. Also, Geoffrey West has a great TED Talk."}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 16888299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888299", "by": "KC8ZKF", "time": 1524256815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lynne Murphy was recently a guest on the Allusionist podcast. https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 16888529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16888529", "by": "yayadarsh", "time": 1524259344, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Episode #86 for those interested Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P7Ty9QIFI Audio: https://samharris.org/podcasts/from-cells-to-cities/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harri..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16890927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16890927", "by": "jkeat", "time": 1524308453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tom Geismar also designed the Chase logo, which he talks about in a great episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/making-mark-visual-id..."}, {"show": "1497319762", "hn_item": 16891998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16891998", "by": "jcousins", "time": 1524327671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Epicenter podcast with the founders for those interested: https://epicenter.tv/episode/216/"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 16896519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16896519", "by": "wunderlust", "time": 1524410292, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Indie Hackers and podcast interviews are great resources for learning about the work, thought processes, and struggles of founders. Some founders also blog, but regular blogging is time consuming and typically non-critical for a founder, so I assume most do not blog regularly. Some private companies, like Baremetrics, share their revenue publicly. This is good, but it's just one data point out of many. How many founders give regular \"progress reports\" on their project or company? Even very small projects count, since many people who would want to hear about such progress are themselves probabl"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 16908766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16908766", "by": "8bitsrule", "time": 1524529566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just them. After last week's discussion, I noticed this week that, while Rick Steves does podcasts, I had to hunt for the RSS feeds page hosted on his own website. WTF? My usual policy for podcasts is, RSS subscription or else. Ain't got time to visit the damn website. Science Friday tried that for a while and soon went back."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16916447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916447", "by": "manigandham", "time": 1524603117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A good conversation/interview on the Joe Rogan podcast with Boyan Slat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J145vnEZX6w"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 16922034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16922034", "by": "HenryBemis", "time": 1524668074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the phrases I keep from this article is: \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody in that courtroom understood what a restore disk was\u201d. I remember listening to Steve Gibson (GRC), on SecurityNow podcast, saying that this is the exact reason why he is not willing to testify to a Court of Law any more. Having testified in court for some cases as \"specialist\" it is (almost always) needed to find metaphors and analogies on anything-technology. Some judges and lawyers are educated but twisting the meaning of something (misinterpreting the truth) is often the case."}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 16935056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935056", "by": "jasonswett", "time": 1524772335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd suggest the Philosophize This podcast."}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 16936240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936240", "by": "freedomben", "time": 1524779834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want a more gentle introduction, I recommend (in no particular order): 1. This website: https://www.philosophybasics.com/ 2. The \"Philosophize This\" podcast (start at the beginning) 3. The \"Philosophers in 90 minutes\" series (I recommend going in chronological order since most philosophers build on the work of previous philosophers) 4. \"The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained\": https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0756668611/ For a very thorough and newcomer friendly introduction: 1. The HoPWaG (History of Philosophy Without any Gaps) podcast: https://historyofphilosophy.net/ Whe"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 16937806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16937806", "by": "cletus", "time": 1524793160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've just been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast and it's amazing. I'm listening to Blueprint for Armageddon, which is a 6 part series (3+ hours each!) About the First Works War and it's fascinating and horrifying. He speaks at length about the Battle of Verdun. And it toss house list of places and battles he's never want to be at."}, {"show": "1852255002", "hn_item": 16941877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16941877", "by": "seer", "time": 1524845406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well you could plant more flowers in your garden, or any other place like that you have access to. Its not much but if enough people do it, it can get people aware of this issue and help build political will. You know \u201cgrass roots\u201d movement. I just heard this in a recent TED podcast that this is what some people were doing :)"}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 16946388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946388", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1524897672, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 16957519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16957519", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1525086220, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 16961445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16961445", "by": "adam", "time": 1525116292, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you prefer your Jaron Lanier in audio form, this was a very similar interview he did for Ezra Klein's podcast: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897738/jaron-lanier-intervie..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 16965765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16965765", "by": "tiisetso", "time": 1525169341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inspired by the recent Freakonomics podcast interview with the author Dr Atul Gawande? I recommend listening to it as well if you're interested in an opinion about modern healthcare delivery systems. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/atul-gawande/"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 16967989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967989", "by": "jonbarker", "time": 1525189338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would be pretty useful to see Mr. Zuckerberg in a parliamentary style debate (the motion, arguments for, arguments against, counterarguments on both sides, and a vote). For examples of how to conduct this style of debate a great podcast that follows this format is \"Intelligence Squared\". \"The Motion\" could be \"FB is good for society\"."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 16971356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971356", "by": "freedomben", "time": 1525207319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd be happy to give a very brief TL;DR with the disclaimer that I recommend either the book for a full picture or the Michael Malice interview on Joe Rogan's podcast (WARNING: NSFW language) [1] There are a few factors involved (and please bear in mind I'm leaving out a lot of detail here, and this is nowhere near a comprehensive list). 1. There is extensive \"brainwashing\" regarding the great leader. He is praised for everything. There's a famous story about a western optometrist that performs surgery routine every where else in the world, but rare in N Korea that restores eye sight. The firs"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 16971921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971921", "by": "kookster", "time": 1525210507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | https://www.prx.org | Software Engineer | Full-time | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE https://prx.workable.com/j/43FACFCD68 PRX is shaping the future of audio by building technology, training talented producers and connecting them with supportive listeners. We work with some of the biggest and best podcasts and public radio shows: The Moth, This American Life, TED Talks, Serial, and our Radiotopia network ( https://radiotopia.fm ) with all-stars like 99% Invisible, and Criminal. Join us in building things people love. We help podcasters and public radio producers grow audience and make money. Th"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 16971921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971921", "by": "kookster", "time": 1525210507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | https://www.prx.org | Software Engineer | Full-time | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE https://prx.workable.com/j/43FACFCD68 PRX is shaping the future of audio by building technology, training talented producers and connecting them with supportive listeners. We work with some of the biggest and best podcasts and public radio shows: The Moth, This American Life, TED Talks, Serial, and our Radiotopia network ( https://radiotopia.fm ) with all-stars like 99% Invisible, and Criminal. Join us in building things people love. We help podcasters and public radio producers grow audience and make money. Th"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 16971921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16971921", "by": "kookster", "time": 1525210507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | https://www.prx.org | Software Engineer | Full-time | Cambridge, MA or REMOTE https://prx.workable.com/j/43FACFCD68 PRX is shaping the future of audio by building technology, training talented producers and connecting them with supportive listeners. We work with some of the biggest and best podcasts and public radio shows: The Moth, This American Life, TED Talks, Serial, and our Radiotopia network ( https://radiotopia.fm ) with all-stars like 99% Invisible, and Criminal. Join us in building things people love. We help podcasters and public radio producers grow audience and make money. Th"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 16986419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16986419", "by": "simongr3dal", "time": 1525358354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episode 7 and 8 of the Darknet Diaries podcast has ~ 25 min each talking about hacking and exploiting games in this way. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7 https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/8"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 16993111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993111", "by": "erlend_sh", "time": 1525423161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Pocket Casts! Here are my top feature requests (I\u2019m on iOS so some of these features may exist already on other platforms) - Let me search within a podcast (search titles as well as descriptions). I just found out about Planet Money but it has nearly 1000 episodes. The internet can help be find highly recommended episodes, but there\u2019s no easy way to jump to these in the app. - please let me set playback speed. I also have a faint hope that this acquisition would allow Pocket Casts to go open source."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 16993769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993769", "by": "colomon", "time": 1525434137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 on subscribe from the beginning! I started listening to the British History podcast this year, and so far on PocketCasts I haven't found any decent way of managing listening to 5 year old episodes other than downloading them ten or so at a time. (So there's always the next one to listen to downloaded to my phone, rather than remembering episode numbers.)"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 16993867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16993867", "by": "DanBC", "time": 1525435441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I started listening to the British History podcast this year OT, but if you're interested in British History you might be interested in This Sceptred Isle. Most of it isn't available on iPlayer, but it should be in the usual places. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009t23k There are four episodes of this available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qh19l/episodes/player"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 16994608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16994608", "by": "dangoor", "time": 1525442061, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the exact opposite of what Marco just did with the recent release of Overcast. They even spoke about it on Accidental Tech Podcast this week. He's actively working against allowing people to track podcast listeners more than what they can get from straight HTTP downloads of their shows."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 16997928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997928", "by": "evanlivingston", "time": 1525465140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm trying to listen to fewer podcasts. In my work day I have a few hours most days that don't require much concentration and it's easy to feel that I could \"fill\" the time with podcasts. But after going through a whole bunch of podcasts from all over the political spectrum, science, history, entertainment, music, drama and comedy I've determined that podcasts generally just detract from my life more than they give to it. I find podcasts like Radiolab and Serial to be particularly egregious examples of time sinks. They're produced with a narrative arc much like Netflix shows; they keep you \"on"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 16997928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16997928", "by": "evanlivingston", "time": 1525465140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm trying to listen to fewer podcasts. In my work day I have a few hours most days that don't require much concentration and it's easy to feel that I could \"fill\" the time with podcasts. But after going through a whole bunch of podcasts from all over the political spectrum, science, history, entertainment, music, drama and comedy I've determined that podcasts generally just detract from my life more than they give to it. I find podcasts like Radiolab and Serial to be particularly egregious examples of time sinks. They're produced with a narrative arc much like Netflix shows; they keep you \"on"}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 16998195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16998195", "by": "dumbfounder", "time": 1525466985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My suggestion is to start listening to the This Week in Startups podcast and wrap your mind around startup mentality to understand what they are looking for in an early employee. If you can get excited about the startup mentality it will hopefully come across in your interview."}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 17002402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002402", "by": "Regardsyjc", "time": 1525536617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Second joining startup networks. I graduated from a startup incubator and it is a small world. You'll meet lots of driven entrepreneurs. There are so many non-technical founders that would love to have a tech co-founder (me-included). If you have access check out demo days. You'll meet lots of founders working on interesting things as well as investors. I'm in NYC so we have tons of meetups on all kinds of tech from different types of SQL, data science/AI/ML, blockchain, food tech, hardware, Python, women coders, etc, and whenever you go to one of these events, you will always find someone wor"}, {"show": "1788808575", "hn_item": 17009230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17009230", "by": "bklaasen", "time": 1525648999, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Tristan Gooley was interviewed on the Rough Guide podcast late last year: https://pca.st/RvTf I found his approach to staying oriented fascinating."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 17011868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011868", "by": "NorinUS", "time": 1525692431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The John Batchellor Show - I whish I knew about this show earlier Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - History EconTalk - Haykian economist Freakonomics - Economics popsci Reason Podcast - Libertanian take on news, WSJ opinion: Potomac Watch - Very sound and succinct take on things This American Life - Excellent when focusing on 'everyday' situations/stories without. Gilbert Gottfrieds Amazing Podcast - Gilbert.. Delingpole - Quirky serial thought criminal in the new UK. Spycast - From the International Spy Museum Security Now - Computer security"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17011868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011868", "by": "NorinUS", "time": 1525692431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The John Batchellor Show - I whish I knew about this show earlier Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - History EconTalk - Haykian economist Freakonomics - Economics popsci Reason Podcast - Libertanian take on news, WSJ opinion: Potomac Watch - Very sound and succinct take on things This American Life - Excellent when focusing on 'everyday' situations/stories without. Gilbert Gottfrieds Amazing Podcast - Gilbert.. Delingpole - Quirky serial thought criminal in the new UK. Spycast - From the International Spy Museum Security Now - Computer security"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 17011868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011868", "by": "NorinUS", "time": 1525692431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The John Batchellor Show - I whish I knew about this show earlier Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - History EconTalk - Haykian economist Freakonomics - Economics popsci Reason Podcast - Libertanian take on news, WSJ opinion: Potomac Watch - Very sound and succinct take on things This American Life - Excellent when focusing on 'everyday' situations/stories without. Gilbert Gottfrieds Amazing Podcast - Gilbert.. Delingpole - Quirky serial thought criminal in the new UK. Spycast - From the International Spy Museum Security Now - Computer security"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17011868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17011868", "by": "NorinUS", "time": 1525692431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The John Batchellor Show - I whish I knew about this show earlier Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - History EconTalk - Haykian economist Freakonomics - Economics popsci Reason Podcast - Libertanian take on news, WSJ opinion: Potomac Watch - Very sound and succinct take on things This American Life - Excellent when focusing on 'everyday' situations/stories without. Gilbert Gottfrieds Amazing Podcast - Gilbert.. Delingpole - Quirky serial thought criminal in the new UK. Spycast - From the International Spy Museum Security Now - Computer security"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 17021995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17021995", "by": "michaelt", "time": 1525795608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Given the context of militia and state, I read it more as a right of local governments to keep the means of self defense, not necessarily a \"human right.\" You might enjoy listening to a podcast episode I heard a few months back; \"More Perfect - The Gun Show\" [1] It taught me many fascinating things - like that before the 1960s the second amendment was interpreted differently; the right was was seen as only relating to militias, and the NRA was an organisation of sports enthusiasts, and their limited political activity was mostly pro-gun-control. And one of the first groups to advance the ignor"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17022923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022923", "by": "briandoll", "time": 1525801649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast had an episode on this recently that was really fascinating: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/27/606528176/epis... It wasn't about Amazon specifically, but the sophistication of these scams are really intriguing."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17034633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17034633", "by": "BrandonM", "time": 1525903823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The ship has really already sailed on longform communication, perhaps out of laziness or cost/benefit. The 3rd most popular podcast\u00b9 regularly lasts 3+ hours. It's typically a conversation between Joe Rogan and a single guest. \u00b9 The Joe Rogan Experience, according to http://www.podbay.fm/browse/top"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17047876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047876", "by": "mCOLlSVIxp6c", "time": 1526051674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Further discussion from Ryan about this topic in a recent EconTalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/04/ryan_holiday_on_1.h... The part about interviews vs. auditions is around the 49 minute mark. The entire podcast was fascinating. The topic of the podcast is his recent book about Gawker and Peter Thiel and a broader discussion about \"conspiracies\". edit: separate HN thread for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048391"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 17051483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051483", "by": "bradford", "time": 1526081826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Radiolab podcast had an episode a while back where they interviewed some of the event participants. It was organized and funded via remote sources (they were implied Russians, although the organizers weren't interviewed), but attended by locals. Some of the locals that were interviewed felt duped, others were somewhat indifferent. Pretty good listen if you're interested in a deeper dive. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/curious-case-russian-flash..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17055113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055113", "by": "rapsey", "time": 1526146599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on JRE podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMzjEaNFbAk"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17055259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055259", "by": "matt-smith", "time": 1526148736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was also a guest on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast not too long ago if anyone\u2019s interested. https://youtu.be/gP1NA5f4LfE I\u2019ve been following a keto diet for some time now and still learned a lot from Peter\u2019s discussion with Joe."}, {"show": "1497319762", "hn_item": 17056931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17056931", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1526175044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If I understand properly, Fluree will partner with various \"federated\" enterprises to all run a Fluree ecosystem where everyone's data can be replicated, and queries can be served via multiple gateways ... in that sense Fluree will be decentralized. Note that I think I heard this in the Epicenter podcast ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdne9EvFNaw ) featuring the Fluree founders. ... aahh, at this point in the podcast they talk about the federated/distributed Fluree: https://youtu.be/fdne9EvFNaw?t=3770 EDIT: pointer to \"federated\" / distributed database in podcast"}, {"show": "1497319762", "hn_item": 17056987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17056987", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1526176246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The GDPR question and \"right to be forgotten\", consent, etc., gets asked around this time in the Epicenter podcast with the founders: https://youtu.be/fdne9EvFNaw?t=3147 * Brian Platz addresses the question * first goes through benefits of immutability in Fluree in context of auditing * suggests one approach is storing PII (personally identifiable info) in encrypted manner in public fields, and storing the decryption keys separately -- the act of \"forgetting\" is the act of destroying the decryption keys * another approach: on the public Fluree blockchain DB store a UID that has no public ties "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 17059481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17059481", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1526226303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested to get a good understanding of Softbank's history and the Vision fund, I can strongly recommend a recent, lengthy episode the great Acquired podcast did on it: http://www.acquired.fm/episodes/2018/3/22/season-2-episode-4..."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 17062814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062814", "by": "mendelk", "time": 1526273722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast episode: When Did Marriage Become So Hard? https://www.npr.org/2018/02/12/584531641/when-did-marriage-b..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 17073917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17073917", "by": "barry-cotter", "time": 1526392539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like podcasts, there\u2019s a great one by Kai Davis and Nick Disabato called Make Money Online. I can also recommend the Indiehackers podcast. The greatest insight to effort would probably be The Personal MBA by Josh Kauffman, a really great business book. What sells is solving expensive problems or making companies with lots of money better or more efficient at making money. You can get into conversations with decision makers by cold emailing people saying that you\u2019d like to buy them coffee and talk about their business. Lots of them are busy and will not reply or say no. Some will say yes"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 17078851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17078851", "by": "DanAndersen", "time": 1526427892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll latch onto your post to also recommend the podcasts \"The Fall of Rome\" [0] and \"Tides of History\" [1], both by Patrick Wyman. He's a PhD who specialized in Late Antiquity, and often looks at Roman history/society from the lens of networks, trades, and the movement of people and goods over time. The one caveat I have is to bear with him in terms of the repetitive/boring ads he sticks into the middle of his episodes. I like to imagine his podcasts as an audio version of a History Channel show -- at least what the History Channel was supposed to be rather than what it's devolved into. [0] ht"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 17078869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17078869", "by": "tosterhaus", "time": 1526428190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> >As to his idea, I would pay for this right now. Thanks for the compliments, made my day :) >> Music is evergreen whereas many (most?) Podcasts are not Good feedback and something I have given quite a bit of thought too. I agree to some extinct however I would take the other side and say that the majority of podcasts are evergreen (or at least have a long shelf life) such as story or research shows like This American Life, RadioLab or interview types like The Tim Ferriss Show, Joe Rogan Experiment. The minority of podcasts that are not evergreen would be current affair or political types of "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 17079473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079473", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1526436456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the recs, those look fantastic! While we're talking history podcasts, Revolutions (by Mike Duncan of The History of Rome), The Age of Napoleon, and Hardcore History are also great."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 17079473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17079473", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1526436456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the recs, those look fantastic! While we're talking history podcasts, Revolutions (by Mike Duncan of The History of Rome), The Age of Napoleon, and Hardcore History are also great."}, {"show": "1278345733", "hn_item": 17111619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111619", "by": "primogen", "time": 1526800283, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17118207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17118207", "by": "docdeek", "time": 1526909369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Previous reporting by the author of this piece also inspired a great episode of the Reply All podcast last week. [0] [0] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/121-pain-funnel"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 17118654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17118654", "by": "sharemywin", "time": 1526913256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent podcast, the socialists of Chapo Trap House joked that they were happy to see Amazon consolidate power. Once it takes over every business in the country, it will be easy to \u201ccut off the head\u201d and simply impose government control over the economy."}, {"show": "1514838010", "hn_item": 17119062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119062", "by": "t3f", "time": 1526916306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was a recent topic [0] on the \"Our Fake History\" podcast [1] too. Worth a listen if you're looking for something new. Wonder if that inspired the OP? [0] http://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/episodes/episode-62-what... [1] http://ourfakehistory.com/"}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 17119062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119062", "by": "t3f", "time": 1526916306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was a recent topic [0] on the \"Our Fake History\" podcast [1] too. Worth a listen if you're looking for something new. Wonder if that inspired the OP? [0] http://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/episodes/episode-62-what... [1] http://ourfakehistory.com/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17119391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119391", "by": "bayonetz", "time": 1526918935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great recent Reply All podcast episode called Pain Funnel on shady rehabs. Diabolical, perverse-incentive capitalism at its finest. For example, giving drugs to teens kicked out of one rehab so that they can \u201cpiss dirty\u201d to get accepted to a new detox/rehab. On top of the drugs, they give them a cash bonus for doing it. The rehabs then do stuff like urine screens three times per day which they can bill insurance at $5000 per screen. Insane!"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 17121638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121638", "by": "gordon_freeman", "time": 1526935102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "this is so true. Listening to the story of how Bob Moore founded Bob's Red Mills in his 50s in How I Built This podcast today. And it seems the concept of age is just in our minds."}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 17125724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17125724", "by": "gregjw", "time": 1526995431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently listened to a podcast where the guy behind Drafts (Agile Tortoise) discussed how he's finally been able to make a viable income and work on it full time because he switched to a subscription model instead of a one-off purchase model. Drafts has been out for several years and has been relatively successful and he's only now able to work on it full time. Podcast in question: Do By Friday, Episode 79."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 17126488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17126488", "by": "francisofascii", "time": 1527002194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This recent Indicator podcast discussed this. Surprisingly, historical data does not support the notion that rising interest rates leads to lower housing prices. But maybe this time will be different. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/05/15/611386612/risi... Here is the relevant paper by Laurie Goodman. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/92541/..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17130682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17130682", "by": "gnat", "time": 1527036449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.principles.com/ is the full site for his Principles of Success. There's a good interview with Ray Dalio on the Freakonomics podcast: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/ray-dalio/ . He talks about his principles, how he applied them, etc. He skirts around the challenges he's had stepping back from the company, but the lines are there to read between. (If you haven't already read about it elsewhere) It's unclear to me whether Bridgewater's success is due to Ray's principles or more to having Ray and his judgement lead the investment team. And holy shit, some of the descriptions of Bridg"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 17137062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17137062", "by": "tlynchpin", "time": 1527101984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just yesterday I listened to Skeptoid podcast episode on this topic [1] and today viola. The conclusion from Brian Dunning in that Skeptoid episode is also mass hysteria. I do also like the psyops disinfo theory - as stated elsewhere in this thread, suppose it was some other less respected nation that was making claims that their diplomats were victims of a mysterious sonic weapon. The claim would be poorly received. Personally there's a deeply appealing irony in the mass credulity being something like an even more massive mass hysteria. [1]: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4603"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 17148688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17148688", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1527198004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While it is a podcast and not a blog, I think Developer Tea is excellent on the topic of technical leadership and professionalism"}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 17150941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17150941", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1527227446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent \"The Indicator from Planet Money\" podcast episode \"Rising Rates Vs. The Housing Market\" explains how housing price declines don't necessarily follow from rising mortgage interest rates."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17160048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17160048", "by": "tacon", "time": 1527305638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 99% Invisible podcast episode, \"America's Last Top Model\", is an excellent history of the project.[0] [0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-mod..."}, {"show": "1265826242", "hn_item": 17165281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17165281", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1527391022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally, the Space Rocket History Podcast is currently chronicling the Apollo 12 mission: http://spacerockethistory.com/ I recommend this series. He covers the US and Soviet space programs, with a balance of technical detail and human drama."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17167705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17167705", "by": "mattweinberg", "time": 1527439083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Guinness is now primarily in the business of monetizing world record attempts for anything, not selling books. Here\u2019s a fascinating Planet Money podcast episode about it from last year: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/20/552203402/epis..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 17174700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17174700", "by": "toasterlovin", "time": 1527539925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although, interestingly, they spoke a dialect of French that is different from, for example, Parisian French. And you can tell when a word was borrowed into English from French based on whether it starts with consonant sounds that are from the Norman dialect vs. the Parisian dialect. As an example (IIRC), William is a Norman name, whereas Guillaume is the Parisian version of the same name. Side note: if that kind of stuff is interesting to you, I can highly recommend The History of English podcast."}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 17182498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17182498", "by": "danidiaz", "time": 1527624263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Ottoman History Podcast is consistently interesting: https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/tracks"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 17183299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183299", "by": "snakeboy", "time": 1527632238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll second Tom Holland. I read \"Rubicon\" not too long ago. I would recommend pairing it with Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series on the era for an extremely cohesive and engaging account of the Roman republic's decline."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 17193096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17193096", "by": "black6", "time": 1527727054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The guys over at the No Agenda Podcast have been on top of native advertising for years. Almost every one of the semi-weekly episodes has a native ad example."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 17203134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17203134", "by": "ablation", "time": 1527835965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Red Letter Media, 3Blue1Brown, Jocko Podcast, Robbaz and The Ben Heck Show. All entertaining fare of different genres."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 17205052, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17205052", "by": "cvaidya1986", "time": 1527859662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Couple of top selling books on Facebook , one one Snapchat ( look up on amazon ) , Mastery by Robert Greene and How I Built This podcast by Guy Raz. Enough material to know how to build ten unicorns."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 17207255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17207255", "by": "maxxxxx", "time": 1527871805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast has quite a few in-depth tech related episodes."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 17216053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216053", "by": "ryanchants", "time": 1527968812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Developer Tea Developer on Fire Soft Skills Engineering Newsletter: softwareleadweekly.com Relevant SO posts, and I always fallback on the basic skills taught to me as an NCO in the Marine Corps"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 17216053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17216053", "by": "ryanchants", "time": 1527968812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Developer Tea Developer on Fire Soft Skills Engineering Newsletter: softwareleadweekly.com Relevant SO posts, and I always fallback on the basic skills taught to me as an NCO in the Marine Corps"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 17222502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17222502", "by": "Jun8", "time": 1528063067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My layman's suggestion is that, rather than trying to read the ancients, start with how ideas from them and more current philosophers are relevant in today's debates. This is akin to diving into using a prog language with little understanding rather than reading books about it, it's more fun! If you want to follow the above approach I think the best resource is the fantastic Philosophy Bites podcast ( http://www.philosophybites.com/ ) where philosophers are interviewed. And if you're more of a printed matter type of person, they have books with the transcribed interviews, too ( https://www.ama"}, {"show": "1308141699", "hn_item": 17242205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17242205", "by": "jeffmorrisjr", "time": 1528233796, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 17259036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17259036", "by": "myth_drannon", "time": 1528398048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a Software Engineering Daily podcast with Lex Fridman about self-driving deep learning. Very interesting topic on ethics of self-driving cars. What he was saying, is that we need to accept the fact that people are going to die following incidents with autonomous vehicles involved. In order for systems to learn how to drive, people will have die. It's more of societal change that is needed. 30,000 people die on the roads in US every year, in order to decrease that number we need self-driving cars even with a price that society as of now can't accept"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 17259036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17259036", "by": "myth_drannon", "time": 1528398048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a Software Engineering Daily podcast with Lex Fridman about self-driving deep learning. Very interesting topic on ethics of self-driving cars. What he was saying, is that we need to accept the fact that people are going to die following incidents with autonomous vehicles involved. In order for systems to learn how to drive, people will have die. It's more of societal change that is needed. 30,000 people die on the roads in US every year, in order to decrease that number we need self-driving cars even with a price that society as of now can't accept"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 17263549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17263549", "by": "dannyfraser", "time": 1528445928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's podcast had a good summary of the issue, including the pedal confusion. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 17264772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264772", "by": "simongray", "time": 1528462293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently read the book \"Lost Connections\" by Johann Hari which covers this issue. In fact, it's a really a book about some deeper problems of Western society (where depression, anxiety, etc. has been on the rise for a long time), so the pharmaceutical pill-pushing and the fairly debunked \"chemical imbalance\" explanation of depression really just sets the backdrop of the story. He emphasizes - like you mention - social changes in modern Western societies as major causes of depression. I really recommend the book. If you're not convinced or just want an audio version, then I recommend the epis"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17282129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17282129", "by": "Reedx", "time": 1528696519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No joke. The Freakonomics Podcast had an interesting episode about mattress stores and why there are so many - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 17283278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283278", "by": "teekert", "time": 1528715125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I run it on my server in the basement, but you could go for a Digital Ocean droplet, there used to be \"one click\" installs, but I'm not finding those anymore [0]. There are a lot of tutorials thought you could use. This is my referral link which will get you 10$ and me 25$ [1] (runs a 5$ droplet for 2 months with more than enough specs, if you need more space, that is also easily achieved at DO). Or use this link from Jupiter broadcasting (Linux Unplugged podcast) for a two months 100$ credit [2] (probably there are other codes to getting that 100$ referral discount, this is the one I know). ["}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 17283468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17283468", "by": "planya", "time": 1528717773, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17291197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17291197", "by": "danni", "time": 1528785988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily by the New York Times is an awesome podcast, it's basically an audio newspaper: https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/the-daily"}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 17292184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292184", "by": "reustle", "time": 1528801225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone even remotely interested in the intense connection with nature you get while hunting (even if you're veg) I highly recommend checking out the MeatEater podcast. It's a high quality show with experienced people. http://www.themeateater.com/podcasts/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17299829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17299829", "by": "NamTaf", "time": 1528857518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a heap of podcasts, in fact. At work, I generally can't listen to music with words so I stick to trance podcasts, but during my walk home I'll listen to all kinds of ones with speech. This ranges from actual spoken ones, to heavy metal ones with lyrics, and ones with both. Off the top of my head: 99% Invisible, Freakanomics, Trade Talks, Requiem metal podcast, Still Untitled. Audio books are probably worth looking into, too. I tend to put aside 30-60 mins in bed reading before I sleep, so I tend to consume enough literature that interests me, but it's definitely a good idea if I wa"}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 17299829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17299829", "by": "NamTaf", "time": 1528857518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a heap of podcasts, in fact. At work, I generally can't listen to music with words so I stick to trance podcasts, but during my walk home I'll listen to all kinds of ones with speech. This ranges from actual spoken ones, to heavy metal ones with lyrics, and ones with both. Off the top of my head: 99% Invisible, Freakanomics, Trade Talks, Requiem metal podcast, Still Untitled. Audio books are probably worth looking into, too. I tend to put aside 30-60 mins in bed reading before I sleep, so I tend to consume enough literature that interests me, but it's definitely a good idea if I wa"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17312662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17312662", "by": "deadmetheny", "time": 1528992471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very interesting two part episode of the podcast Reply All[1] where they delve into one of these tech support scams. Worth taking the time to listen to. [1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17314747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17314747", "by": "circa", "time": 1529005512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly off topic, but the \"Reply All\" podcast did a great episode on the foreign IT phone support scams about a year ago. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/long-distance#episode-..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17315314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17315314", "by": "lintroller", "time": 1529010076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is covered in the 99% Invisible podcast episode 256 Sounds Natural - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sounds-natural/ I found this entire episode fascinating, especially the part about Elephant footsteps being nearly silent in the real world."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17318468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17318468", "by": "Klover", "time": 1529053996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congratulations on being one of today\u2019s lucky ten thousand then! I found this podcast here in the comments for more such things, called \u201c99% Invisible\u201d apparently elephants walk surprisingly silently instead of the thunderous stomping in the cinema."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 17323619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17323619", "by": "riantogo", "time": 1529097301, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For your Friday drive home here is the recent Jason Calacanis interview of the WSJ reporter who broke the story. Great listen. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups-au..."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 17323961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17323961", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1529099784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested in the Theranos story, the reporter that wrote this article (John Carreyrou) is the same one whose investigation brought down Theranos. He wrote a book called \"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup\" ( https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/... ). He was also recently on the podcast This Week in Startups to discuss Theranos: http://thisweekinstartups.com/john-carreyrou-bad-blood/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQYKVasMoY ). Basically, Elizabeth Holmes wanted to be a billionaire and restore her family's fortune. She started a medi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17330832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330832", "by": "quickpost", "time": 1529208593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to this, the JRE podcast with Matthew Walker has tons of fascinating insights into sleep (and how essential it is for health, longevity, etc.). Highly recommend just about everyone listen to it: Joe Rogan Experience #1109 - Matthew Walker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 17330845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330845", "by": "wilkystyle", "time": 1529208872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we are only beginning to understand the importance of a good night's sleep. I just recently listened to a fantastic episode of the Kevin Rose podcast featuring sleep scientist Matthew Walker [0], and found it very enlightening. [0] https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/matthew-walker"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 17330851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17330851", "by": "wilkystyle", "time": 1529208976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great episode! I just posted another comment about Matthew Walker on the Kevin Rose podcast. There was definitely overlap with JRE #1109, but some new things, too. Link: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/matthew-walker"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 17339213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339213", "by": "antognini", "time": 1529337382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article is about the Mid-Miocene Climate Optimum, which was a period of 5 degrees C of warming about 15 million years ago. Another similar event is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which was a period of warming (6 degrees C in 20,000 years) about 55 million years ago. The PETM was in response to a massive increase in atmospheric CO2 (several times more than humans have added), though what caused the injection of CO2 is currently unknown. Interestingly, although during the PETM the Earth had no polar ice caps to begin with there was still a rise in sea levels simply due to the thermal"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17339275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339275", "by": "burger_moon", "time": 1529337695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He actually talked about it a lot when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast years ago. If you search for it on youtube you'll see it. I recently watched it after his death so it's fresh on my mind."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17354230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17354230", "by": "jgaa", "time": 1529492910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Corporations are no less evil than governments. If anything, they may be more evil, as they are motivated solely by profit and have no particular reason to care about the population at large. Corporations are accountable. They are accountable as entities, and as individuals (owners, managers, employees). If they do fatal decisions, the corporation may go bankrupt. If people act immoral, they may get fired. If they cheat, they may be caught and go to jail. Corporations can also choose to act ethically - and, according to a recent Freakonomics podcast, actually benefit from that by attracting "}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 17354388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17354388", "by": "criddell", "time": 1529494684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Zero tolerance for illegal crossings, on the other hand, is probably actually good. That's what I used to strongly believe then this weekend I listened to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast (yeah, I know, I know) and he made me think about it a bit differently. Back when the border was super porous, immigration was more circular and cyclical. People would come into the US, work for a season, then go home. When the border became difficult and expensive to cross, people would cross the border and then stay. There's an argument that can be made that a zero tolerance policy has created the current situa"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17355468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17355468", "by": "collinf", "time": 1529503694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Literally just listened to his podcast he did with Freakonomics Radio yesterday. Definitely a great mind. For all of you developers/operations folks out there, I recommend reading his book The Checklist Manifesto. Every team can learn so much from that book about their everyday practices. We read it at our company book club, and began taking checklists and documentation much more seriously which I attribute too much better productivity, operations and less siloed dev."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 17356794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356794", "by": "hundchenkatze", "time": 1529511677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the Security Now podcast the information was/is separate. \"The good news is there are apparently three entirely separate databases. There is the user login account database. There is the financial credit card charging-people-for-the-service database. And also, separate from either of those two, is the genealogy we've-got-your-DNA-that-you-uploaded-to-us database.\" https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-667.htm"}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 17366509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366509", "by": "rudedogg", "time": 1529598040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The iProcrastinate podcast ( http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/ ) is really good. Some of the early episodes have audio issues, but they are worth listening to. The host has been researching procrastination for like 20+ years. Their main website is http://www.procrastination.ca/"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 17373043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17373043", "by": "sokoloff", "time": 1529665601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great read. For those who want to start at Part 1: https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-transis... Related: a modern day teen who makes low transistor count ICs in his garage: https://interestingengineering.com/this-teen-is-building-diy... AmpHour Podcast episode on the teen: https://theamphour.com/390-an-interview-with-sam-zeloof/"}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 17374544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17374544", "by": "raleighm", "time": 1529680298, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 17376207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376207", "by": "DC-3", "time": 1529692419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Worth noting that these days, Will Cooke is a host on the Late Night Linux podcast - so if this interests anyone, they might be interested to listen in as he will surely talk about it on an upcoming episode."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17377260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17377260", "by": "jonathlee", "time": 1529700886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe the article has failed to realize that \"self-reporting\" evidence is weaker than actions, not stronger. If you listen to the Freakonomics podcast for any length of time, you would realize that the weakest, most likely to not really be true, form of evidence is self-reporting. When self-reporting/answering surveys, people commonly give the answer they are \"expected\" to give. The actions then reveal their real preferences, which can differ substantially. With a topic as sensitive as urban density, where city planners have been bombarding us with the \"right-answer\" of high-density living"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 17382527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382527", "by": "hanley", "time": 1529777505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Sleep With Me podcast has been incredibly helpful for falling asleep during times when I'm stressed or otherwise can't sleep. It's the right amount of goofy and rambling that just lulls me to sleep. https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 17383816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17383816", "by": "shiny", "time": 1529793273, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I preferred his interview on the Kevin Rose podcast: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/matthew-walker Incidentally a previous podcast covered a lot of the same ground, plus much more: https://www.kevinrose.com/single-post/Serge-Faguet"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 17395912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395912", "by": "xinyhn", "time": 1529961745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in the subject matter would probably enjoy Omega Tau Podcast. http://omegataupodcast.net/tag/fusion/"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 17401394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401394", "by": "gfo", "time": 1530027206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like Facebook would have found an alternative to squash the competition, but also, in this case I agree that they were already bound to be successful given the ease of use. I found the story of Instagram interesting, if you're curious. Link to the \"How I Built This\" podcast episode on Instagram: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17401421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401421", "by": "whiddershins", "time": 1530027388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great Joe Rogan podcast with a bow hunter, and Joe spends a lot of time explaining why trophy hunting can be great. It funds conservation, which decreases poaching, which is better for literally everyone involved including the animals and the poachers. I believe it also tends to be very controlled and directed so the effects can be planned. Elephants can be a huge, dangerous, nuisance (apparently) to farmers who are trying to have enough food to eat. That\u2019s just one example."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 17401803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401803", "by": "rckclmbr", "time": 1530029511, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should listen to the How I Built This podcast with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. I think it's Kevin that said something like \"I could keep doing what I'm doing the rest of my life. Work hard, build the company, but then what? At the end of it, I write a book about business? I want to enjoy my life\". Definitely don't feel sorry for them, they met their goals."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17401952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401952", "by": "floatrock", "time": 1530030515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics podcast did an episode on it: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/ That's also exactly why Casper and a half dozen other upstarts have come out with the memory-foam mailed-to-you-in-a-vacuum-tube online mattress sales."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 17403371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403371", "by": "mcphail", "time": 1530041381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17403371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403371", "by": "mcphail", "time": 1530041381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again."}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 17403371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403371", "by": "mcphail", "time": 1530041381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 17403371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403371", "by": "mcphail", "time": 1530041381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again."}, {"show": "1123461944", "hn_item": 17403371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17403371", "by": "mcphail", "time": 1530041381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all are daily releases, but here they are. a16z ESPN Baseball Tonight Exponent Masters of Scale Recode Decode The Bill Simmons Podcast The Joe Rogan Experience The Knowledge Project Ross Bolen Podcast Also Tim Ferris and Founders Fund's Anatomy of Next every now and again."}, {"show": "1244649384", "hn_item": 17412335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17412335", "by": "CharlesW", "time": 1530137813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Do you consider, say, Stitcher Premium's original audio shows like Wolverine \"podcasts?\" Stitcher does make at least some of their original content available as podcasts, which I think is great. Wolverine: The Long Night appears to be paid-only, but (for example) LeVar Burton Reads has a podcast.[1] > \u2026that service is certainly pitching that they are the same medium/art form as those in the open space. It really looks that way. The domain for Wolverine: The Long Night is \"wolverinepodcast.com\", which to me says that Stitcher is intentionally leveraging podcasting's popularity to try and sell"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17416910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17416910", "by": "Pigo", "time": 1530194537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have to know if this story is gaining traction because of the Joe Rogan podcast. Did you see his hour long rant on abandoning Apple because of this yesterday? Or is everyone simultaneously reaching this same conclusion? He was very much a kool-aid drinker, but also a writer, so the keyboard is apparently a huge deal to him. I've basically never owned an Apple product so I'm just watching this from an outsiders perspective."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 17425278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425278", "by": "I-M-S", "time": 1530288341, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 17426308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17426308", "by": "taserian", "time": 1530295530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hiya, Scott! I recently heard the first episode of Rationally Speaking podcast episode where you were the guest (yes, I'm catching up with the RS Archives during my long commute). I've also started reading QCSD (hey, if it's going to be our decade's GEB, we may as well give it an acronym. :: grin:: ) I've already corrected my very mistaken understanding of how QC works, as in the tagline of your blog. Are there any other concepts that we need to shake off that would make explaining these concepts easier for the layman? Do you have any words of wisdom for the masses?"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 17428998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428998", "by": "senoroink", "time": 1530321646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know recently put out a podcast vaping [1] that provided some insight on the subject. The conclusion was that better than cigarettes slightly worse than doing nothing. * [1] - https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/is-vaping-really..."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 17434589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434589", "by": "owaty", "time": 1530431637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sabine Hossenfelder (the author of Lost in Math) recently appeared on the Rationally Speaking podcast to talk about the book: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-211-sabine-hoss..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17436766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436766", "by": "JUDAS", "time": 1530469029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Musk has said to appear on Rogan's podcast when production of model 3 hits 5k/w. https://jrelibrary.com/upcoming-guests/ https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1005924723983675392?lang..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 17437104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17437104", "by": "amsilprotag", "time": 1530473366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If podcasts are more your speed, I'd recommend Bloomberg's Odd Lots with Dan Wang, which talks about China's 2025 plan. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/this-is-c..."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 17438711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17438711", "by": "gry", "time": 1530494390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: I highly recommend the Cooking Issues podcast with Dave Arnold [ http://heritageradionetwork.org/series/cooking-issues/ ]."}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 17439662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17439662", "by": "fzeroracer", "time": 1530512476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you read the dissent on the travel ban decision, you can understand why it is bad and also deeply ironic. The Supreme Court sided with the government in the original Korematsu case saying that the government did indeed have the constitutional right to throw people of Japanese descent into camps. They overturned Korematsu in this decision, only to uphold something similar with similar racist sentiment behind it. Whenever you think of the Supreme Court affirming that the executive has the power to do something, you should always keep in mind that they had originally considered the executive h"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 17447896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447896", "by": "denverkarma", "time": 1530597544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a lot more of the bootstrap stuff on Indie Hackers. Sounds like you\u2019d enjoy their podcast too. indiehackers.com"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17449391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17449391", "by": "Sidious", "time": 1530618844, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 17452119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17452119", "by": "crb", "time": 1530639303, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 17452236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17452236", "by": "criddell", "time": 1530640006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast covered this as well: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-345.htm"}, {"show": "74844126", "hn_item": 17457909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17457909", "by": "kyrra", "time": 1530719906, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Listened to a short podcast (9 minutes) with the author of The Wall Street Journal piece, and my impression was this was done as an investigative piece to see if they could find any bad actors using the system Gmail. they weren't able to find any specific actors, but they spelled out how the system was used and potentially how it could be abused. Podcast: https://pca.st/9jFw"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 17459349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17459349", "by": "bachbach", "time": 1530736844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are some really good podcasts out there. I like Fine Homebuilding, Gastropod, Conversations with Tyler. Podcasts aren't a great way to get into the details - but they can provoke new thoughts and give you a lay of the land. It's a good way to start."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 17463201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17463201", "by": "kmano8", "time": 1530798347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This comment reminded my of an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast on memory -- with Brian Williams' story around an experience he had in Iraq 15 years ago. If I remember correctly, the takeaway is that memory isn't infallible.. not a video recording of the past. He also describes experiments done on flashbulb memories (e.g. what were you doing when you heard about 9/11).. and found that people who wrote down that week what they were doing, then returned to that notation years later, will swear they remember it differently.. admit it's their handwriting but express they m"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 17473034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473034", "by": "Timpy", "time": 1530896504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Hello Internet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwez9XDNV_wS0WNDZteXjgw It's in the genre of \"two dudes talking\" podcasts, but technology and futurology are some of the topics they touch on often."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 17473140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473140", "by": "jessewmc", "time": 1530897176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome is another history podcast among the all time greats of the medium I think, worth checking out."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 17473970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473970", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1530901917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might be a good opportunity to close your eyes and listen to many of the amazing (but nearly always way too long, IMHO) interviews available on developer podcasts like Software Engineering Daily, Microsoft Research, Hanselminutes, IndieHackers, etc. You get to listen to some great conversations and if you fall asleep, it's a bonus!"}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 17473970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473970", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1530901917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might be a good opportunity to close your eyes and listen to many of the amazing (but nearly always way too long, IMHO) interviews available on developer podcasts like Software Engineering Daily, Microsoft Research, Hanselminutes, IndieHackers, etc. You get to listen to some great conversations and if you fall asleep, it's a bonus!"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 17474531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17474531", "by": "Syzygies", "time": 1530906365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Talking Machines https://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ Human Conversations about Machine Learning Podcasts are better for flying. You can close your eyes, and if you don't stay awake, all the better."}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 17474789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17474789", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1530908382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the Coding Blocks podcast. It's one of my favorites. I also recommend Developer Tea."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 17474789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17474789", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1530908382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the Coding Blocks podcast. It's one of my favorites. I also recommend Developer Tea."}, {"show": "1378618386", "hn_item": 17484790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484790", "by": "push7joshi", "time": 1531069081, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17491974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17491974", "by": "cromulent", "time": 1531158008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a podcast a month ago with Dan Doctoroff, worth a listen if this interests you. http://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/sidewalk-labs/"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 17493300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17493300", "by": "erohead", "time": 1531169279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a partner at YC, I can say that we are actively working on how YC can help founders in China. One difference I've noticed with Chinese startups is the relative speed at which they move. If you thought SV moved quick...it's nothing compared to Beijing! Re: what SV advice is transferable, we're still very much figuring this out. It's not 100% but I highly doubt it's as limited as I've heard some BJ investors and founders imply :) Good resources on China and startups: - 996 Podcast by GGV https://996.ggvc.com/category/podcast/ - Sinica Podcast https://supchina.com/series/sinica/ Daily/TC style"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 17501912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501912", "by": "digikata", "time": 1531255014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try podcasts too! General science an engineering, very detailed and excellent e.g. a recent episode covered superconductors and their use in particle accelerators http://omegataupodcast.net/ Data Science and Machine Learning http://lineardigressions.com/ Embedded SW dev and related topics https://www.embedded.fm/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17503776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17503776", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1531273098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Aptly numbered podcast episode #666 of Planet Money named \"Episode 666: The Hoverboard Life\" explores the discovery of the \"hoverboard\" phenomenon from a couple of years back -- \"The hottest toy this holiday season has no identifiable logo, no main distributor, and no widely agreed upon name\". The podcast (I listened to it a long time back) goes into how the Hoverboard invention was fueled in late-night drinking sessions by Chinese engineers / businesspeople trying to make a more accessible and more fun and less dorky Segway. All those people bounced ideas off each other and made incremental i"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17503822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17503822", "by": "toomuchtodo", "time": 1531273652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money The Indicator podcast had a great segment the other day on why teens aren\u2019t working summer jobs anymore. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624566202/why-teen-employment..."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 17503822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17503822", "by": "toomuchtodo", "time": 1531273652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money The Indicator podcast had a great segment the other day on why teens aren\u2019t working summer jobs anymore. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624566202/why-teen-employment..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 17516177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17516177", "by": "cvaidya1986", "time": 1531412968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More perspective is better. I always look for counter examples and deeper into success I can least relate to. For example, I spent a lot of time learning from startups in How I Built This podcast which were non technical and check what lessons can I apply in my life? How did Ben and Jerry succeed? How did Five Guys succeed?"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 17521973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521973", "by": "KodiakLabs", "time": 1531481116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 'In Our Time' by the BBC did an hour long discussion on William Blake's poems: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gh4pg"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 17523395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523395", "by": "grzm", "time": 1531493503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://stownpodcast.org/about > \"Brian, a longtime This American Life producer, started reporting this story more than three years ago, when he got an email from John with the subject line \u201cJohn B McLemore lives in Shittown Alabama.\u201d\" You can listen to the podcast which includes John McLemore himself and why he described it so."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17532631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532631", "by": "danschumann", "time": 1531605749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also done by Jordan Peterson \"Jordan Peterson - The Carnivore Diet Changed My Life! - Joe Rogan Podcast\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGikB-54Lwk"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 17535920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535920", "by": "jen20", "time": 1531672574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent(ish) interview with Russ Cox on the \"Go Time\" podcast [1] sheds some light on this, but I listened to it long enough ago that I can't remember the entire reasoning. [1]: https://changelog.com/gotime/77"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 17535920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17535920", "by": "jen20", "time": 1531672574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent(ish) interview with Russ Cox on the \"Go Time\" podcast [1] sheds some light on this, but I listened to it long enough ago that I can't remember the entire reasoning. [1]: https://changelog.com/gotime/77"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 17543399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17543399", "by": "thejake0", "time": 1531763853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Sleep With Me Podcast[1]. Same concept: Dull, meandering talking to lull you to sleep. [1] https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1265002699", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 17546339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17546339", "by": "jger15", "time": 1531787388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In no particular order: Conversations with Tyler Cowen The Peter Attia Drive a16z Podcast EconTalk Exponent with Ben Thompson & James Allworth Akimbo with Seth Godin Sam Harris Joe Rogan Unchained Podcast Dan Carlin's Hardcore History + HH Addendum + Common Sense Deviate with Rolf Potts Jocko Podcast The After On Podcast with Rob Reid North Star with David Perell Invest Like The Best Cool Tools with Kevin Kelly Between The Covers STEM Talk Greymatter Revolution Health Radio Filmspotting + The Next Big Picture Show Recode Media with Peter Kafka Bill Simmons Rationally Speaking FoundMyFitness wi"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 17547771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547771", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1531809439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me, it's while mowing the lawn, gardening, and washing the dishes. I used to on public transport, but that's my Duolingo & music time now. Sometimes I'll listen to a few minutes of a podcast in the morning while shaving & getting ready - Leo Laporte's \"The Tech Guy\" podcast is great for this, because each support call is usually just a few minutes long. I sometimes listen to podcasts while exercising or have a long walk somewhere, but I'm more likely to listen to music for that. Oh - and some of the podcasts I listen to are about music production / music technology. One of my new favorites"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 17549487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549487", "by": "gadders", "time": 1531833416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some less popular ones that I think people should give a try to: - The Naked Scientists - hour long popular science show - Chemistry in its Element - 10 minute podcasts about various compounds and elements - Naked Astronomy - Monthly podcast about space science and business - The Forum (BBC World Service) - World Service equivalent of In Our Time - The Life Scientific - BBC Radio 4 - Scientists discussing their career and works - Last Word - BBC Radio 4 - Obituaries of notable people that have died that week - Crowd Science - BBC World Service - Investigating user-submitted science questions A"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17549930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549930", "by": "kaseyb002", "time": 1531837617, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I made an iOS podcast app with a Reddit-style comment system. It lets you submit recorded voice comments. It's kind of like a book club, but for podcasts. Here are screenshots: (https://econtalk.club/shots.html) And a little-too-long video demo: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xC-oxpiKo0) (I originally made the app just for EconTalk, but I've decided to expand a little.) I'm only going to start with 3-5 podcasts. One of those will be EconTalk, but I'd like to hear what other shows might be good for discussion. I will also be doing a private beta soon. It will probably be between 20-30 users "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 17552851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552851", "by": "jfornear", "time": 1531858270, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 17553235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553235", "by": "leepowers", "time": 1531860580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Long Now Seminars podcast: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 17553917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553917", "by": "weberc2", "time": 1531865399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll do that, thanks for the tip! I heard about the interpreter book from the GoTime podcast, but didn't know about the compiler book. :)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 17554763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17554763", "by": "yur3i__", "time": 1531874473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Linux Unplugged and Security Now are top podcasts"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17563060, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17563060", "by": "Svoka", "time": 1531958759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to a podcast on similar topic, Planet Money [1]. Journalists were exploring why students don't want to take on Summer Jobs anymore. I was listening to it and it was weird for me to listen why it is such a mystery. Commodities are getting cheaper every year, and meaningful things, like college education, housing prices are skyrocketing. What the point to of getting summer job if only thing you can get with earned money is an extra drink in a club. I'm not saying that this is always the case, but from my experience, this is reason why people around me didn't take summer jobs. [1] https:"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17563410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17563410", "by": "pwned1", "time": 1531964518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan podcast with the author is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig"}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 17567560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17567560", "by": "tryitnow", "time": 1532016110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an overly simplistic interpretation of human beings. Our life satisfaction is partially dependent on our perceived social status, so increased inequality can indeed weaken quality of life. Comparing quality of life today to quality of life in 1928 (or any other time) is not a simple exercise, there are a lot of variables to take into consideration. Philosophy is really subject you need to study to understand this. On quality of life, economics is very superficial and unsophisticated (and honest economists have always admitted as much). If you'd like to know more take a course in philos"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17575819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575819", "by": "j0hnml", "time": 1532100831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On today\u2019s \u201cThe Daily\u201d podcast, they do talk about how difficult this kind of thing is. I don\u2019t believe the NYT thinks at all that this is a trivial issue to solve."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 17579803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17579803", "by": "knuththetruth", "time": 1532129167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Chapo Trap House guys make a 100k per month with their podcast. https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 17582351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582351", "by": "orf", "time": 1532187633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone here is interested in this kind of thing then I highly, highly recommend \"The history of Rome\" podcast by Mike Duncan[1]. It's a fantastic look at the history of Rome, from before the republic to the fall of the western empire. I haven't read the paper, in the 100s-200s there was a vicious cycle where the Emperor would keep his armies close for fear of a mutiny and because that is how his legitimacy was based. This would weaken the defenses of the empire, somewhere else some general would win a victory due to an attack on the weakened empire and his troops would declare him Emperor. "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17582452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582452", "by": "everdev", "time": 1532189652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those that haven't tried psychedelics but are curious about them in a personal growth / non-recreational way, on the Joe Rogan podcast I heard a good metaphor along these lines: Imagine your brain as a snowy hill. Each decision you make is like sledding down the hill, causing a slight indentation in the snow. The more times you make a decision, the deeper the groove, the faster you make the decision and the harder it is to try something different and escape the groove. Psychedelics is like fresh powder on the hill won't the grooves away so you can try new ways of thinking / new routes down"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17589160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589160", "by": "nothrabannosir", "time": 1532297044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm going on a slightly controversial limb here, but this comes from a place of dear love so please bear with me: it is my experience that the U.K. (or perhaps just England) is woefully outclassed by Americans when it comes to podcasts, or even radio in general. I have been looking for an entertaining British podcast for the last two years, and I am coming up depressingly empty handed. The only half-redeeming British radio show that I could find was My Dad Wrote A Porno, but after half a season, the novelty wore off and that too is now but a note in the history books. I have been asking around"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17591611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17591611", "by": "snikeris", "time": 1532339132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was discussed in a Joe Rogan podcast w/ a sleep expert: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/matthew-walker I learned a lot, and it changed my sleep behaviors."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17604636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17604636", "by": "craigcannon", "time": 1532464091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Walker also covered many of the ideas in the book on Joe Rogan's podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 17606917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606917", "by": "Sukotto", "time": 1532493138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, me too. If you're interested, my current list is: - A State of Trance with Armin Van Buuren (though recently he's started adding much more talking so I'm close to dropping it) - Club Life with Ti\u00ebsto - Hardwell on Air - Corsten's Countdown - Afrojack: Jacked Radio (this one is really hit-or-miss for me. I skip maybe half the episodes) As an aside: - the \"Song Exploder\" podcast is a fascinating view into what goes into making music though that one falls into the \"Talk\" category - I love the old \"Timeless Mixes\" by the (now defunct) DJ River. Which are helpfully all available as a podcast, "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17609375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17609375", "by": "mythas", "time": 1532528107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As it is Peter Attia I\u2019m assuming it was some form of intermittent fasting with some version of Keto. He doesn\u2019t really like giving one size fits all solutions so that\u2019s probably why it isn\u2019t mentioned here. Source joe Rogan podcast interview."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17610251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610251", "by": "deno", "time": 1532534417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Within the confines of his own blog, the author should have every right to make this kind of post. Promoting any company to your audience means putting your reputation on the line. Any recommendation you make yourself is within this social contract, which is why it\u2019s non-controversial. \u201cNative Ads\u201d OTOH present themselves as something they are not. They are controversial precisely because they break the contract the author or editor have with their audience. As to the inclusion on HN I suppose it is a little weird, but I think it can be explained by name recognition, for example from a recent "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17618934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618934", "by": "wlesieutre", "time": 1532624234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Having systems like autopilot in planes can make pilots worse at flying because they don't spend as much time practicing at the controls and monitoring what's happening. Then when something goes wrong, they risk not paying close enough attention to catch it, or not being practiced well enough to correct it. If you get complacent and just assume the computer knows what it's doing (because it usually does) this can and will end very badly. The person whose Tesla drove into a concrete barrier at 65 mph earlier this year was perfectly capable of driving a car, but they mistakenly believed that the"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 17619592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17619592", "by": "t3h2mas", "time": 1532629072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A radio ad for the second season of the Duolingo podcast prompted me to check out the first season. I appreciate the idea that the episodes are life stories instead of fake cafe scenes. The stories are interesting, and sometimes intense. The CEO / cofounder talks about a kidnapping in his family in the last episode of season one. The small english summaries every few sentences helps provide context. That helps with context for the words I'm not familiar or strong with. The language used is intermediate level. Personally I am below that level, but have gotten value from episodes."}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 17620738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620738", "by": "arjun27", "time": 1532637073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of Aaron Levie\u2019s recent take on Kara Swisher\u2019s podcast - on how enterprise software is going to be either about Microsoft (jack of trades) or about a collection of smaller companies (specialists in their fields) integrated with one and other. Slack and Atlassian focusing on what makes them great and working together makes a lot of sense"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17637050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637050", "by": "amf12", "time": 1532851359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Do you happen to remember what podcast this was? Found it. Here you go. It's a Planet Money podcast and is very interesting. They actually interview people in China who do this. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor..."}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 17642372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642372", "by": "tuomosipola", "time": 1532930262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the Designer Notes podcast episode [1] where Sid Meier (yes, that Sid Meier) explains how this game was designed. And if you are interested, listen all of the four episodes where he is interviewed. [1] https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/episodes/sid-meier-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17648685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17648685", "by": "laurex", "time": 1532989332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Planet Money podcast on the genesis of ReviewMeta which I've been using on Amazon reviews since. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17650128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17650128", "by": "Zelphyr", "time": 1533004888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Reply All podcast on this topic. Between it and this NPR article, and recent personal experience, I'm seriously questioning whether I want to continue my Prime account."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17653026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17653026", "by": "yarapavan", "time": 1533044566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics podcast - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17653410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17653410", "by": "heywire", "time": 1533047339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Reply All had an episode on this as well."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17665152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17665152", "by": "gideon_b", "time": 1533146764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The company makes 378 real purchases then mails 378 real products to random addresses scattered throughout the US. This allows them to leave verified reviews. There's a whole industry around this - The Reply All podcast interviewed people who make these reviews. They talk about the economics of reviews and Amazon's reluctance to admit there is a problem. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 17666798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17666798", "by": "finaliteration", "time": 1533156108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The guys from the Coding Blocks podcast have a Slack channel where quite a few people interact, though it\u2019s not totally limited to freelancers. I\u2019ve gotten some good feedback and input when I\u2019ve asked questions there, however. And most of the conversation is good."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 17669354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17669354", "by": "mycelium", "time": 1533186785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks to both of you for your time doing that discussion! @slap_shot and anyone else \u2014 I'm curious if you have thoughts on, or even have heard of the Ballerina language? It's a programming language for doing data integration work, built by the ESB/integration consultancy WSO2. It seems to have a lot of eng resources sunk into it but surprisingly little fanfare. The CEO's interview with the Software Engineering Daily podcast was great: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/12/ballerina-la... The language site tends toward buzzword-salad, but clearly has had a lot of love and thought put"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 17670405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17670405", "by": "sandwell", "time": 1533205365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dijkstra met Mike Fellows (who co-authored the original CS Unplugged with Tim Bell) early in Michael's career, who originally quoted this, but it's often misattributed to Dijkstra as he is slightly more famous! Tim Bell was on Changelog podcast #302 talking about CS Unplugged and mentioned this at some point."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 17679870, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679870", "by": "IB885588", "time": 1533304757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in intermittent fasting, Valter Longo, the co-author of this paper, has done a few good interviews with Rhonda Patrick on her podcast and youtube: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2 I've quite enjoyed Rhonda's work. Another good medical/biology/health podcast that recently appeared and that I'd enjoying a lot is Peter Attia's podcast. His interview with Dom D'Agostino is particularly good and includes discussion of the metabolic theory of cancer, but they're all good (he has one with Rhonda Patrick). "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17690268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17690268", "by": "thisone", "time": 1533455934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Surprisingly Awesome podcast seems to have done a bit of what you're looking for while it existed. Some episodes more successful than others, but that's a strict topic podcast, with a strict release schedule for you. https://www.gimletmedia.com/surprisingly-awesome You should be able to find audience reaction to the podcast and it's cancellation if you dig around a bit on reddit. Learn from their work and make yours better. Also, 99% Invisible would be another podcast to research to ensure you are barking up a different tree https://99percentinvisible.org/"}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 17695900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695900", "by": "tpush", "time": 1533542996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Jones' podcast is banned because of the things he said in the podcast itself, not because he is a massive shitbag (understatement). I don't know this South Park Mexican guy, but unless his _content_ on Apple Music is objectionable, there's no reason to remove it."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 17696732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696732", "by": "OliverJones", "time": 1533554931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast called \"Revisionist History\" http://revisionisthistory.com/ in which he drills into particular episodes of US history. I find it interesting, even though I don't have the academic historical chops to independently assess its accuracy. Example: In the episode called Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment, Gladwell explains that Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (the famous school integration case) had a severe consequence. It caused a large fraction of African American schoolteachers and educators to be thrown out of work. He points out that tea"}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 17697445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697445", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1533563139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to find the Alex Jones podcast, you can still go to Google (like the rest of the world) and the web page and the RSS feed comes up on the first page right below the news articles. http://rss.gcnlive.com/alexJones/ You can add the link directly to the podcast app. I'm sure there are enough conservative outlets that will inform people how to go to the link. If enough sites link to it, it should appear higher up on Google."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17699225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17699225", "by": "3minus1", "time": 1533573742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting statistic in the article about a 25% reduction of Fortune 500 female CEOs in the last year. They have discussed female CEOs on Freakonomics podcast a fair bit including the theory that shareholders and employees prefer a CEO with more masculine traits when the economy is good (aggressive, risk-taking, outward-facing). And people prefer more feminine traits when the company is struggling (care-taking, risk-aversion). Interesting theory and the economy has been doing well in the last year."}, {"show": "1497319762", "hn_item": 17701187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17701187", "by": "sunnya97", "time": 1533585510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out this interview I did for the Epicenter Podcast with Enigma, a company building an MPC implementation, for a decent intro to what MPC is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAUByRZGWM"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 17702791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702791", "by": "JustMatthew", "time": 1533599602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although it isn't a blog in the traditional sense - so forgive me if this doesn't hit your brief - the Software Engineering Daily Podcast ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/podcast/ ) is a fantastic resource that offers an immense amount of information for a lot of different people, including those setting out to build business applications. Each episode is accompanied by super detailed show-notes that summarize the episode nicely, so you can see if the episode has what you think you may be looking for. Cheers and good luck."}, {"show": "513734888", "hn_item": 17706727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17706727", "by": "jdietrich", "time": 1533650990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have a serious interest in stand-up, I would highly recommend Stuart Goldsmith's podcast The Comedian's Comedian . He interviews a broad range of (mainly British) comedians, taking a deep dive into their writing process and stagecraft. The interviews with Jimmy Carr and Gary Delaney stand out as highlights for me, providing some absolutely revelatory insights into the art of making something funny. It can be a bit inside baseball at times, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. http://www.comedianscomedian.com/podcasts/ http://www.comedianscomedian.com/164-jimmy-carr-part-one-of-... ht"}, {"show": "1265845136", "hn_item": 17709110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17709110", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1533665909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah I agree that that's a problem (you'd probably like the video I linked in my original comment and his book Republic Lost). I heard an interview on the Stay Tuned podcast (Preet Bharara's podcast) where he interviewed one of the lawyers that argued the winning side of citizen's united. It was an interesting interview and an over simplified summary was that the influence of campaign contributions which come from concentrated groups is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, but putting government restrictions on speech in order to do it sets a dangerous precedent (at what point are yo"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 17714946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17714946", "by": "saluki", "time": 1533727762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most profitable ideas are something that solves a problem you or one of your founders and who's customers would be businesses or individuals who could save/make money using your service in their own business. For Inspiration Checkout the businesses on indiehackers. Listen to their podcast too. https://www.indiehackers.com/products Good Advice - DHH Startup School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY Listen to the archive starting at episode 1 Rob goes from drop shipping beach towels and jobs websites through a couple successful software products to founding and exiting with Drip. http:/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17716856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17716856", "by": "chasingthewind", "time": 1533743134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard a claim in a podcast the other day that I'm not able to put my hands on (it may have been EconTalk or Vox's Weeds) where someone claimed that trade is generally so beneficial to the recipient that even if your partner puts tariffs on your goods that retaliation is just shooting yourself in the foot purely for appearances. I wish I could provide a link or more details but there does seem to be an economic case for non-retaliation."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17722125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17722125", "by": "gandutraveler", "time": 1533797871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love their 'The Daily' podcast. They pick one topic everyday and dive deep over 30 mins. Overall a happy NYT subscribed for last 6 months. I paid 110$ for 1 year membership and got a free Google home device. Great deal!"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 17724390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724390", "by": "extralego", "time": 1533824324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not seeing the harm and there being no harm are two very different things. The latest episode of Citations Needed Podcast ( http://citationpod.com/ ) does a good short review of some particularly agregious situations in which the US military bombs countries then the same or related parties praise themselves for their humanitarian response to the aftermath. Worse, when you bomb a country, for example, it should be obvious that this sets back all of humanity to some degree. Apparently, it\u2019s not obvious. But Earth and humanity are systems, and this analogy is such that we can look at any other sy"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17724559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724559", "by": "Consultant32452", "time": 1533825546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree, the number of reporters and the diversity of them has increased greatly in the Twitter/YouTube universe. I'd much rather get my news from a 3 hour Joe Rogan podcast with a subject matter expert than a hot take from yet another person from the same small group of universities who have been manufacturing our reporters for generations."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 17726709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17726709", "by": "kaseyb002", "time": 1533837724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN PodTalk is a podcast app that lets you add voice comments and talk with other listeners. It features a Reddit-style comment system with upvotes and all that. Right now there is only one podcast available: EconTalk. If there's enough demand, I will add a couple more. I'm deliberately limiting the podcast selection. I made this app because I often talk to myself while listening to EconTalk. I thought there might be other people doing the same. Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podtalk/id1396330843?ls=1&mt... Screenshots: https://podtalk.app/shots.html Video demo: https://youtu.be/2"}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 17738174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17738174", "by": "donbright", "time": 1533958664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend the Sinica podcast, they have done several shows on surveillance tech and the Chinese state, including one focusing on xinjiang and these camps. Big tech in China is closely linked to government social engineering."}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 17750843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17750843", "by": "perlgeek", "time": 1534174336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If cybercrime interests you, you might like the \"Malicious Life\" podcast: http://malicious.life/ Not a novel though."}, {"show": "579081902", "hn_item": 17751286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17751286", "by": "JackFr", "time": 1534177533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a paradox, but the 80% is the reason that potato chips are made close to the farm. Frito-Lay doesn't want to ship water. http://www.econtalk.org/odonohoe-on-potato-chips-and-salty-s... Fascinating podcast about the economics of the (potato) chip industry."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17754809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17754809", "by": "kaushalmodi", "time": 1534207834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article is from 2015. So does the posting of this have anything to do with the recent Interrobang episode on the 99% Invisible podcast\u203d (99pi is an awesome podcast btw!). After listening to this episode, I even added a binding to the \"C-x 8\" map in Emacs[0]. This key map is mainly used for inserting various Unicode characters. So now in my Emacs, \"C-x 8 ?\" inserts \u203d. [0]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/.emacs.d/commit/a70dd6b7c39f0..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17762072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762072", "by": "web007", "time": 1534282128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible (design podcast) had a story about this as well, how the American south and west became habitable due to air conditioning. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 17762868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762868", "by": "aaronpk", "time": 1534290719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't believe this post is making the rounds again six years later. Reply All did a great podcast about a similar issue, it's worth a listen! https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-case-phantom-calle..."}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 17774333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17774333", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1534425448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finally, Masterpiece was about being compelled to make specific cakes. Customers weren't banned from all cakes or anything. In that way it resembles demonetizing specific YoyTube videos more than banning entire channels. YouTube hosts videos. Apple doesn\u2019t host podcast. Apple didn\u2019t feel \u201ccompelled\u201d to scrape Alex Jones podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17776201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776201", "by": "poof_he_is_gone", "time": 1534437519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Blanket banning platform users based on hate speech, is still the loss of freedom of speech. The question is where do you draw the line? There is an good conversation about this on the JRE podcast with Jimmy Dore. https://youtu.be/k3YcGRCGEuY"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 17777035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17777035", "by": "winslow", "time": 1534442237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's the idea behind lambda school. Interesting podcast interview from Indie Hackers[1]. They only collect if your salary is above $55k if I recall correctly and there is a max amount that they take in total. [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/046-austen-allred-of-la..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 17797144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797144", "by": "forrestthewoods", "time": 1534727865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an awesome 99% Invisible podcast on this. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 17797468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797468", "by": "tambourine_man", "time": 1534734546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Debug podcast interview with him: https://imore.com/debug-7-jordan-mechner-and-karateka"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 17799114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17799114", "by": "laverick", "time": 1534764594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looks like they use Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS). The military has been doing tDCS (direct current) experiments for a while for increased learning & performance. I had a friend who used to swear by tDCS and did it very frequently. He attributed all kinds of mood & cognition improvements to it, including substantially reduced need for sleep, improved eyesight (he was born partially blind), etc. He also complained about migraines a lot and liked to experiment with all kinds of supplements, so YMMV. Tried tDCS myself a handful of times, not for improved learning but for imp"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 17815832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17815832", "by": "manfredo", "time": 1534905463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's important to think about the trends and averages in the broader society before levying accusations of sexism. If a bank's male customers have higher average account balances than the average woman that holds an account, is it fair to call the bank sexist? If a publishing company hires mostly female publishers is it a sexist company? I'd argue no in both cases. In both scenarios the disparate outcome likely stems from broader trends in society - higher incomes among men, higher readership among women. It's entirely possible and definitely worth discussing whether these trends are i"}, {"show": "1304361213", "hn_item": 17817897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817897", "by": "black_puppydog", "time": 1534937370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The General Intellect Unit podcast also discusses Graeber's work [1]. They call themselves 'Cybernetic Marxists' so don't expect this to be neutral. :P [1]: http://generalintellectunit.net/e/013-alternatives/"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 17832016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17832016", "by": "Nicksil", "time": 1535073166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just wanted to add some supplemental material. A few write-ups with accompanying audio transcripts/podcasts from science writer Brian Dunning of Skeptoid. - Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4166 - Organic Food Myths: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4019 - Environmental Working Group and the Dirty Dozen: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4623 Bibliographic references and further reading at the end of each if interested."}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 17836535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17836535", "by": "asciimo", "time": 1535133225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episode 27 of the Syntax podcast gives a good overview of GraphQL and its ecosystem. Demystified a lot for me. https://syntax.fm/show/027/graphql-here-is-what-you-need-to-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17841266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841266", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1535212074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This morning I listened to the Freakonomics podcast from July 18th about \u201cWhy we choke\u201d. About 22 minutes in, a researcher is discussing a study he did where they paid participants a months wage for a single task to see if they would perform better. They didn\u2019t. They actually performed worse! A follow up study at MIT found this to be particularly true for cognitive tasks. Would this apply to a job over time instead of a single task? Probably not, but I\u2019m also not convinced that salary will increase productivity after some relatively low amount."}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 17841289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841289", "by": "mseepgood", "time": 1535212420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Very interesting ideas in there. Especially the thought of an upcoming Go 2 perhaps being done in such a compatible way that \"Go 2\" is actually \"Go 1.1X\" Go project lead Russ Cox already talked about that on an episode of the Go Time podcast. Transcript: https://changelog.com/gotime/77#transcript-60"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 17841289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841289", "by": "mseepgood", "time": 1535212420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Very interesting ideas in there. Especially the thought of an upcoming Go 2 perhaps being done in such a compatible way that \"Go 2\" is actually \"Go 1.1X\" Go project lead Russ Cox already talked about that on an episode of the Go Time podcast. Transcript: https://changelog.com/gotime/77#transcript-60"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17841328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17841328", "by": "Svoka", "time": 1535213108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Plastic straw isn't a problem. It's a movement to demonstrate how dependant we are on plastic, that even something trivial and mostly luxury & low impact item as a plastic straw is hard to get rid of. Whole point of stopping plastic straws is not to reduce plastic waste, because it's negligible comparing to, say, plastic bags, but to start a conversation and rise awareness of what materials are used where and how they are recycled. Planet Money had excellent podcast with people who came up with whole \"Ban Plastic Straw\" idea. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 17849663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849663", "by": "wjnc", "time": 1535348724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the Radiolab: More Perfect-podcast episode to explain it for you [1] [1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/one-nation-under-money"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 17849663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849663", "by": "wjnc", "time": 1535348724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the Radiolab: More Perfect-podcast episode to explain it for you [1] [1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/one-nation-under-money"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 17854192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17854192", "by": "skipwalker", "time": 1535401472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The evidence that there actually were any software issues related to unintended acceleration is pretty tenuous. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle... \"Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents.[28] The report ended stating, \"Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical.\" This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats.\" And Malcolm Gladwell's podcast about the subject, http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17861815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17861815", "by": "stretchwithme", "time": 1535482916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The sweetest deal, at least for capital gains, seems to be in Puerto Rico. They're exempt from US federal taxes and there's no tax on capital gains there. Peter Schiff talked about it on Joe Rogan's podcast recently."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 17870273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870273", "by": "mbo", "time": 1535565692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If your views skew right perhaps checking out a liberal podcast like Pod Save America, or a leftist podcast Chapo Trap House or Citations Needed. If they skew left, Crowder, Shapiro, Jones or Limbaugh ought to do it. Like, these won't be \"solid debate and discussion\" but you'll definitely work out why people hold opposite views quickly."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 17870273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870273", "by": "mbo", "time": 1535565692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If your views skew right perhaps checking out a liberal podcast like Pod Save America, or a leftist podcast Chapo Trap House or Citations Needed. If they skew left, Crowder, Shapiro, Jones or Limbaugh ought to do it. Like, these won't be \"solid debate and discussion\" but you'll definitely work out why people hold opposite views quickly."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 17872743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17872743", "by": "tango24", "time": 1535582675, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 17873778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873778", "by": "funkaster", "time": 1535597272, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17875391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875391", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1535622738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shapiro is doing great work with his Sunday Special, where he sits down with someone and they just talk about certain problems. His regular show sometimes panders a bit too much instead of focusing on making logical arguments in favor or against certain things. Even though I disagree with him on certain things, I think it's healthy to get exposed to a wide range of ideas. Crowder is a mixed bag for me. I'd say he's a bit of parallel to John Oliver at times. You can't take everything that they say completely seriously. I'm a big fan of his \"Change My Mind\" series, where he goes out to have disc"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 17879961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17879961", "by": "40acres", "time": 1535657537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure I agree with this. After the 2016 election I was really wired into news. I watched a lot of CNN and was tuned in the 24 hour news cycle, after a couple of months I decided I didn't really like the way this news was delivered but still wanted to be informed. I turned to podcasts more and now listen to podcasts on policy, politics, technology and economics and I feel much more informed than the average citizen and intellectually stimulated. I think we should work on increasing the quantity of quality news as opposed to telling people to stay away from it. Full disclosure, here's my curr"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17879961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17879961", "by": "40acres", "time": 1535657537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure I agree with this. After the 2016 election I was really wired into news. I watched a lot of CNN and was tuned in the 24 hour news cycle, after a couple of months I decided I didn't really like the way this news was delivered but still wanted to be informed. I turned to podcasts more and now listen to podcasts on policy, politics, technology and economics and I feel much more informed than the average citizen and intellectually stimulated. I think we should work on increasing the quantity of quality news as opposed to telling people to stay away from it. Full disclosure, here's my curr"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17880594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880594", "by": "redisman", "time": 1535661963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to The Daily podcast from NYTimes. It's a deeper dive to the most important story in the past day and then a very quick summary of other notable events. (I'm also guilty of reading way too much news online in addition)"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 17886080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886080", "by": "jherdman", "time": 1535727408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy \"Containers\", an eight episode podcast about the shipping industry too. https://medium.com/containers"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 17888245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17888245", "by": "vvanders", "time": 1535745379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, This American Life had a great podcast about the NUMMI[1] plant that covers this in great depth. Pretty fascinating stuff. [1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015"}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 17890948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17890948", "by": "mmanzhos", "time": 1535791484, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "TL;DR Emotions are somewhat studied in terms of how to deal with them, check Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Check out Feeling Good by Burns[1], there are specific chapters addressing perfectionism. And his podcast on this topic \"\u201cI don\u2019t feel like doing it!\u201d Quick Cure for Procrastinators\"\"[2] (suggest to find it on iTunes[3]/Spotify to listen with 1.5x speed, episode 053) I'm going through a stage in my life when I don't enjoy doing things anymore. Obviously, if a task is considered somewhat hard and I know I will barely enjoy it, there is very little internal emotional support (motivation?) f"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 17894552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894552", "by": "stuntkite", "time": 1535845969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everyone else here has covered explicit file naming and data structure. That's totally key, but I'm trying to do what you're doing with Keybase[00] right now. Migrating away from Dropbox, Google Drive/Docs, etc. A caveat is that files are limited to 250Gb currently and private repos are 100Gb personal and 100gb per team. I'm not sure on team creation limits and I don't think they are offering paid storage yet. Because of this, I'm also looking at IPFS[0] for cold storage and using other methods to catalog and index. They added encrypted private git[1] registries and dropbox like file managemen"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 17899857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899857", "by": "calvinbhai", "time": 1535941480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have listened to both the planet money episodes (I love Planet Money podcasts). I'm from India, living in US for more than 10 yrs. So I kind of have enough perspective of how Demonetization is seen within India and from outside India, including based on knowing personally who benefited or got screwed by demonetization, and who were left unscathed. Must say, with what I have known about the medium and long term after affects of demonetization, I found NPR / Planet Money's research / info in the podcast terribly biased. This bias is sort of ironic since it is from a radio station that is very "}, {"show": "1135550416", "hn_item": 17904841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17904841", "by": "botswana99", "time": 1536008451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "DataKitchen | Boston/Cambridge, MA, ONSITE full-time | Multiple Positions in Engineering, Sales | http://www.datakitchen.io/ Due to customer growth (not a cool investor pitch deck), we are adding six+ positions to our team: 'Senior/Principal Software Engineer 'Site Reliability Engineer 'Principal QA Automation Engineer 'Data Engineer 'Sales Development Representative https://lnkd.in/dMBM4tU DataKitchen, Inc. enables analytic teams to deliver value quickly, with high quality, using the tools that they love. DataKitchen provides the world\u2019s first DataOps platform for data-driven enterprises, ena"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 17906584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17906584", "by": "glhaynes", "time": 1536034393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had good success with the Sleep With Me podcast for this. https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 17908243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17908243", "by": "piceas", "time": 1536060618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a somewhat limited ability for visual hallucinations, apparently called Aphantasia, discussed before on hn [Aphantasia]. As such, when meditating I tend to simply look at the \"blackness\" of my eyes closed. What I mostly see is a very dark pulsating tunnel pattern. A quick search suggests this is called phosphenes [phosphenes]. I find it interesting that as I fall asleep the pattern abruptly stops; somewhat like having a LCD screen set to black and the having the backlight turned off. It works for me, particularly when trying to nap. In the evening I prefer to listen to podcasts. As dzhi"}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 17909608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17909608", "by": "fosco", "time": 1536074247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "to add to this, I just listened to a podcast called StarTalk [0] where Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewed James Cameron [1]. James Cameron stated the idea for some of the plants actually come from personally scuba diving and seeing some plants react the way they did in the movie (specifically when you touch them move or close up) James Cameron stated he has been a passionate scuba diver and it was a slight nod to others who may have had similar experiences. [0] https://www.startalkradio.net/show/ [1] https://www.startalkradio.net/show/the-spirit-of-exploration..."}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 17910108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910108", "by": "chantastic", "time": 1536077741, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17911518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17911518", "by": "throwaway8879", "time": 1536085548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I did watch all the Graham Hancock stuff on JRE podcast, going back years. Really fun stuff. I did get super turned off by the last one with Hancock and the skeptic guy where Hancock can't control his temper. Randal Carson is fun to listen to also. Whether there's any scientific basis to Hancock's work, I'm not enough of an expert to tell."}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 17912400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17912400", "by": "apompliano", "time": 1536092208, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 17918505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918505", "by": "dfsegoat", "time": 1536159193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As others have stated, the biggest thing is to stop beating yourself up - stop calling yourself damaged. Also, you need to start exercising - it is the only thing for me personally that will keep \"the darkness\" at bay. The research and neurobiology behind exercise being an effective modulator of mood is all solid. Further, I recommend you listen to Jocko Podcast [1] - by Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL commander, he does some great interviews with guys like Col. Bill Reeder, who spent several years in a POW camp. Think about guys like John Mccain, who spent 6 years being tortured, neglected"}, {"show": "1265845136", "hn_item": 17919374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919374", "by": "village-idiot", "time": 1536164465, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t have the exact quote in front of me, I\u2019m recalling this from Preet Bharara\u2019s podcast. You\u2019d have to inflation adjust those numbers to be fair, but I suspect that you\u2019re right in calling this one of the biggest under deliveries in a while."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17923368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17923368", "by": "hourislate", "time": 1536198741, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "985752066", "hn_item": 17928993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17928993", "by": "esharte", "time": 1536262845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed the wonderful In our Time podcast about the Mamluks https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfmlh"}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 17929751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17929751", "by": "danyork", "time": 1536269588, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17930703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930703", "by": "Redoubts", "time": 1536278031, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A member of the editorial board said that they wouldn\u2019t do that with the Op Ed https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?m... Question asked at around 17:00"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17931144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931144", "by": "lukaa", "time": 1536282682, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 17931249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17931249", "by": "ArtWomb", "time": 1536284062, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17933067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933067", "by": "arto", "time": 1536314654, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17934302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934302", "by": "maxxxxx", "time": 1536329238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just watched a part of the Joe Rogan podcast with Musk and I have to say he looks very unhealthy. Maybe I am wrong but to me he looks like he is drinking a lot or on some other drugs. I can imagine working with a CEO who is pushing himself way other the limit is a pretty unpleasant experience."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17934801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934801", "by": "bob_theslob646", "time": 1536332766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I just watched a part of the Joe Rogan podcast with Musk and I have to say he looks very unhealthy. What does that even mean? can you use your words to describe what you mean by unhealthy? were you able to see his blood pressure through the tint in his skin? Your comment is spam especially when everyone knows the hours that he works."}, {"show": "1573272310", "hn_item": 17934825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934825", "by": "rexreed", "time": 1536332917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might also want to check out the AI Today Podcast: https://www.cognilytica.com/category/podcasts/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17934881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934881", "by": "Raj7k", "time": 1536333301, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17937971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17937971", "by": "komali2", "time": 1536357473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ehh not sure I agree, the media has tied both up inextricably \"Musk calls diver pedophile - what does the board of Tesla have to say about it?\" \"Musk smokes weed on Joe Rogan podcast, Tesla stock goes down!\""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17939218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939218", "by": "nodesocket", "time": 1536376972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend listening to the entire 2.5 hour Joe Rogan podcast[1]. It really does give a nice glimpse into his mind, and at times he appears to almost start choking up talking about fossil fuels and climate change. Once they get into the whiskey it actually gets more interesting, from evils of AI, to life being a simulation, to thinking positive and asserting as a whole judges, police, and military are some of the finest people we have. You can tell Elon is fed up with the constant negativity toward people and pervasive pessimism fueled by social media. I also honestly think he is probabl"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17939513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939513", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1536383307, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 17944485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944485", "by": "icelancer", "time": 1536469976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Just a general lack of professionalism This is the final straw in this regard!? This is nothing. It's just him smoking a spliff on Joe Rogan's podcast. He's done like ten more ridiculous things that are unprofessional in public in the last 6 months that I can recall off the top of my head."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 17947320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947320", "by": "c256", "time": 1536521291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the podcast interview (\u201cThe Daily\u201d, also from the nyt), the contact inside the NYT says pretty clearly that they didn\u2019t rewrite anything, to avoid detection or otherwise. I believe the quote was something like \u201cif they write something that\u2019s used to identify themselves, it is what it is\u201d."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 17962607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962607", "by": "ilamont", "time": 1536694575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the line that stood out to me: more than three-quarters of students attend nonselective colleges, which admit at least half of their applicants. No one knows for sure how good these colleges are at their core job of educating students. It's important not just because of educational outcomes, but also because the tuition/cost discussion is often dominated by selective colleges, and/or colleges with national or international brands. When it comes to those colleges, that's when we start hearing about the \"arms race\" described in the article (and amusingly highlighted in a Malcolm Gladwell "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 17970748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17970748", "by": "hangonhn", "time": 1536771414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics has a really good podcast episode on chain donation http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-a-new-freako... But to call it an triumph of AI is stealing credit from the economists. It was an economist who came up with the idea and the field of study, market design, is fascinating, especially to those who are into startups and disruption."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 17980038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980038", "by": "ianleeclark", "time": 1536856934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good 2-part podcast about Benevolent Billionaires from the \"Citations Needed\" podcast that goes a bit over the history of billionaire benevolence and what the good deeds cover up."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 17981251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17981251", "by": "HSO", "time": 1536864491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see a lot of complaints here about the size (trend) and lack of smaller, SE-like option. But if product cycles really do take around 3 years (from conception to release), then 2019 might be the year. The SE was released in 2016 and was supply-constrained for quite a while. Obviously this is pure speculation but if Apple was sufficiently surprised by its success, maybe they decided in that year to \"completely re-imagine\" (sorry :) that form factor. And retiring the SE this cycle, given the apparent absence of good alternatives in the Android camp, might store up some demand to boost next year"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 17982441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17982441", "by": "ecesena", "time": 1536871818, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Check out this episode from the Kevin Rose's podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kevin-rose-show/id10..."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 17983097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17983097", "by": "ellius", "time": 1536876502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the most illuminating comments I heard recently was on a Bloomberg podcast where they made the point that fiat money is a closed system. Money can flow between economic actors, and it can obviously influence behavior, but in both a theoretical and real sense it is really just an abstraction that hovers above the physical world. That's not to deny the economic effects of monetary policy, but I do think it helps clarify a lot of monetary phenomena."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 17993719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17993719", "by": "dayve", "time": 1537006038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find Paul Graham's essays & Brian Balfour's essays very insightful. PG --> http://paulgraham.com/articles.html BB --> https://brianbalfour.com/essays/ I also follow YCombinator's podcast & Startup School Videos to glean what anecdotes I can find on getting users & finding product-market fit. [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg ]"}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 18000040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000040", "by": "AlanTuring", "time": 1537119772, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 18012591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012591", "by": "atmosx", "time": 1537246889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Keep in mind that podcasts that go beyond introductory levels usually have smaller audience. Plus, most tech podcasters rarely go beyond a year or two. Check out this one: https://testandcode.com/ and http://testandcode.com/rss - a podcast about python testing (the SSL has expired apparently, which says one thing or two about the state of the website). The \"AWS podcast\" features advanced functionality discussions when the episode focusses on one service alone. For example the recent episode around s3 is every interesting. Regards"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 18013537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013537", "by": "profalseidol", "time": 1537260143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more of this, I recommend this podcast: https://softskills.audio/ Called Soft Skills Engineering Podcast. It's hosted by two seasoned developers whom experience becoming managers. It's hilarious. I listen to it when I commute with earpohones, then and suddenly laugh like a wirdo."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18014178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014178", "by": "shroom", "time": 1537268950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also think this amazing! On the discussion as to what dollars should be spent on (tax dollars or private) I recommend listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson who explains in simple and very well [0]. It's mind blowing when you think about it really. Such a small fraction of all money in the world and it often leads to great solutions which we take for granted every day now. I'm really excited about seeing this succeed and what might come out of it. How will our world look 10 years from now. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYs8TpFzIPI (Here on Joe Rogan podcast)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18016544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016544", "by": "S_A_P", "time": 1537287490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sometimes its possible to care so much that you lose sight of what is important. This happened to Elon. I think this will be a case study someday about CEO ethics. I found it very interesting that when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast he had so much to say about social media, and none of it was complementary. How he did not see the dichotomy of his twitter use and this situation strikes me as humorous. I feel like Elon needs to find some new handlers and get some team members that can keep him from shooting himself in the foot. I only recently got back on twitter. I do not use my likeness or us"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 18019740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18019740", "by": "smacktoward", "time": 1537309200, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 18019740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18019740", "by": "smacktoward", "time": 1537309200, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18024489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18024489", "by": "MintPattern", "time": 1537368101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, he seemed to be sleep deprived in that Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18033259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18033259", "by": "joezydeco", "time": 1537458079, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really good 99% Invisible podcast episode about Natick. Have you heard it? https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/war-and-pizza/"}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 18037433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037433", "by": "forkerenok", "time": 1537509046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The bottleneck is not the tool itself, but the theory it builds upon: Calculus of Constructs in Coq's case. CoC and other calculi oriented towards proofs have limitations. To better understand current challenges with provers I can recommend this episode of the Type Theory podcast with Dan Licata as a guest: http://typetheorypodcast.com/2015/01/episode-3-dan-licata-on... It's quite dense, but there are some bits that I, as a programmer, could understand."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18037770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18037770", "by": "kossmoboleat", "time": 1537514355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only read that Gladwell overemphasized the specific number but that the overall idea is still true. The original research Ericsson was trying to emphasize that long duration of training using deliberate practice are key. There's an episode of the Freakonomics podcast that describe the whole situation and it has interviews with both Gladwell and Ericsson: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/ > ERICSSON: Now, right. Gladwell basically thought that was kind of an interesting magical number and suggested that the key here is to reach that 10,000 hours. I think he\u2019s really done something very im"}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 18044072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044072", "by": "aasasd", "time": 1537581983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently listened through an old-but-good episode of the Hypercritical podcast with John Siracusa's informative rant about this very topic: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/56"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18044958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044958", "by": "GGZzZzz", "time": 1537601637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko podcast"}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 18045133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045133", "by": "busybox", "time": 1537605813, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No such thing as a fish ITunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/no-such-thing-as-a-fish/... Audioboom link: https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 18047432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18047432", "by": "mindcrash", "time": 1537642649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This absolutely has nothing to do with John's involvement with the No Agenda podcast and the talking points of this particular podcast. Nope. Just budget issues which suddenly pop up after 36 years without any problems. Sure... Do the people involved really think John and his fanbase are THAT stupid?"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18050724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050724", "by": "goodmachine", "time": 1537704861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I generally enjoy podcasts that point me elsewhere. So: EconTalk is an educated economics podcast from a right/libertarian-ish perspective, which I do not share. http://www.econtalk.org/ TWiM (This Week in Microbiology) is simply great even if you are not a microbiologist, and I'm not. http://www.microbe.tv/twim/ The Art of Wrestling is also excellent, and to be clear, I do not like or watch wrestling. http://coltcabana.com/"}, {"show": "1540997760", "hn_item": 18054467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054467", "by": "lawrenceyan", "time": 1537753604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was the title I posted with: \"Interview with Jeff Dean on Google AI - GCP Podcast Episode 146\" The Episode 146 portion is irrelevant I guess."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 18063479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063479", "by": "djsmith42", "time": 1537847948, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1140551697", "hn_item": 18064220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18064220", "by": "jeena", "time": 1537859384, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have a rss link for you https://jeena.net/pods.rss and I guess this would be the iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jeenas-excellent-encount..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18065089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065089", "by": "nailer", "time": 1537871803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It looks like you don't have 'The Joe Rogan Experience' podcast either - 0 results for 'Rogan'. It's one of the most listened podcasts in the world so I think there's something wrong with your crawling."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 18066478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18066478", "by": "erreJulian", "time": 1537885107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm kinda surprised not to find the Accidental Tech Podcast in the Tech section."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 18068517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18068517", "by": "themcgruff", "time": 1537896891, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 18070417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18070417", "by": "halfastack", "time": 1537909045, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is pretty awesome. Is there any way to help? By the way, it'd be nice if you could add Late Night Linux [1], esp. since you have linux luddites, which is their previous show. [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/late-night-linux/id11899..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18073284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073284", "by": "danso", "time": 1537943778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money just turned 10 years old and in that time I haven't found a podcast that has been more consistently informative and entertaining. Some recent highlights: - P is for Phosphorus https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor... - How the Social Security Number Became our National Identification https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/14/593620579/epis... - The Poop Cartel: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/25/632444815/epis..."}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 18073328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073328", "by": "CrazedGeek", "time": 1537944422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to mostly political, comedy, and political comedy podcasts: * Doug Loves Movies * FiveThirtyEight Politics * Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 (for The Now Show) * MSNBC Rachel Maddow * My Brother, My Brother and Me * News Quiz Extra * No Such Thing as a Fish * Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast * What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law * Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18073336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073336", "by": "richardbatty", "time": 1537944503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk - interviews with social scientists about various topics. The interviewer is an economist so it's an interesting discussion between experts. Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk Rationally speaking - interviews related to rational thinking. 80,000 Hours podcast - in depth interviews about the world's biggest problems and how to use your career to solve them. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them, but I genuinely love the podcast) Feeling good podcast - by one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioural therapy, discusses mental health techniques."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 18073523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073523", "by": "mountainentity", "time": 1537946668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History(there are like 2 episodes a year, but usually amazing) - Freakonomics - Software Engineering Radio - Joe Rogan Experience(selected, but as it is released every day I can say that I do this regularly - Revolutions Podcast - Tim Ferris Show"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 18073556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073556", "by": "simongr3dal", "time": 1537946965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries, it\u2019s a 40-60 minute podcast that has a new episode 1-2 times a a month. It\u2019s interviews and storytelling intermingled. The stories are very interesting and it\u2019s usually an interview with a person who has been involved with a hack of some kind."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 18073622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073622", "by": "slesslytall", "time": 1537947588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Brit here) Politics/Economics/Sociology/Philosophy: * Rationally Speaking - Ran by the New York Skeptics society, just fantastic show about rationally thinking about economics, politics, society, etc. * The Guardian's Brexit Means... - all things brexit * Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - one my favourite podcast series ever; about the supreme court, from how it was made to landmark precedence-setting cases in civil rights. * Presidential - A history of US presidents, ran over the 44 weeks leading up to the 2016 US election, each week a new president. * The Ezra Klein Show - Long-form US poli"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18073650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073650", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1537947851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of politics, with a smattering of pop culture and design. \"Why Is This Happening?\" from Chris Hayes is the most insightful hour I spend listening to a podcast each week. \u2014 https://art19.com/shows/why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hay... Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Keep It, Pod Save the People, and Hysteria from Crooked Media. https://crooked.com . \"a sane conversation about politics.\" 99% Invisible \u2014 interesting, usually esoteric design-centric podcast. https://99percentinvisible.org Pop Culture Happy Hour \u2014 Three NPR hosts who genuinely like each other and popular media yak abou"}, {"show": "1265845136", "hn_item": 18073650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073650", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1537947851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of politics, with a smattering of pop culture and design. \"Why Is This Happening?\" from Chris Hayes is the most insightful hour I spend listening to a podcast each week. \u2014 https://art19.com/shows/why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hay... Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Keep It, Pod Save the People, and Hysteria from Crooked Media. https://crooked.com . \"a sane conversation about politics.\" 99% Invisible \u2014 interesting, usually esoteric design-centric podcast. https://99percentinvisible.org Pop Culture Happy Hour \u2014 Three NPR hosts who genuinely like each other and popular media yak abou"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 18073717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073717", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1537948467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites: Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep co"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 18073786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073786", "by": "elliotpage", "time": 1537949257, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I cycle out shows pretty fast but these are the ones that remain in my playlist: * Trashfuture: A British politics podcast about the future is trash. Insightful, if a little madcap at times. * Boonta Vista: Australian politics. The main host has an amazing radio voice. * Citations Needed: Politics, helps analyse the media and its tropes to give you a better handle on issues and how to engage with them. * Previously in Europe: European politics, often takes time to highlight issues and countries that do not get much mass media play. * Revolutions: History podcast - really well constructed nugge"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 18073798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073798", "by": "dominicr", "time": 1537949336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me it's the same. I don't have much time to listen to podcasts so general chat or low density talk just isn't efficient. I like some conversational podcasts like After On where they tend to stick to discussing the topic at hand but I couldn't get into Stuff You Should Know or Joe Rogan as there was a lot of general chat in there or not high enough information density. I don't want to hear 5 minutes of why somebody thinks something is worth doing a podcast on: just tell me the interesting stuff and I'll judge for myself."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18073821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18073821", "by": "thorin", "time": 1537949528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone on here recommended Jocko podcast[1] and I love it, totally not the kind of thing I'd normally listen to but very motivating. [1] http://jockopodcast.com/"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 18074094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074094", "by": "SimonKinds", "time": 1537952556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of technology podcasts, but my absolute favorite is \"Coding Blocks\". The hosts have such a good synergy with each other. They often read a few chapters of a book before an episode and then discuss their interpretations and personal experiences, which I find to be a great format."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18074150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074150", "by": "sthornr", "time": 1537953126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> IRL: Online Life Is Real Life > The Tim Ferriss Show > Recode Decode > The Success Series Podcast > Freakonomics > Song Exploder"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 18074150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074150", "by": "sthornr", "time": 1537953126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> IRL: Online Life Is Real Life > The Tim Ferriss Show > Recode Decode > The Success Series Podcast > Freakonomics > Song Exploder"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 18074262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074262", "by": "eclectric", "time": 1537954415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech - Dotnet Rocks - Coding Blocks - Coder Radio - Talk Python To Me - SE Daily - Full Stack Radio - Vanilla JS Podcast - JS Jabber - The Changelog - Syntax - Python Bytes General - Hidden Brain"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 18074262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074262", "by": "eclectric", "time": 1537954415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech - Dotnet Rocks - Coding Blocks - Coder Radio - Talk Python To Me - SE Daily - Full Stack Radio - Vanilla JS Podcast - JS Jabber - The Changelog - Syntax - Python Bytes General - Hidden Brain"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 18074262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074262", "by": "eclectric", "time": 1537954415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech - Dotnet Rocks - Coding Blocks - Coder Radio - Talk Python To Me - SE Daily - Full Stack Radio - Vanilla JS Podcast - JS Jabber - The Changelog - Syntax - Python Bytes General - Hidden Brain"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 18074262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074262", "by": "eclectric", "time": 1537954415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech - Dotnet Rocks - Coding Blocks - Coder Radio - Talk Python To Me - SE Daily - Full Stack Radio - Vanilla JS Podcast - JS Jabber - The Changelog - Syntax - Python Bytes General - Hidden Brain"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18074311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074311", "by": "jdmoreira", "time": 1537955106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Open Apple (about retrocomputing with the apple ][) - ATP (accidental tech podcast) - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History"}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 18074354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074354", "by": "ricardbejarano", "time": 1537955653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes Podcast by RedHat on tech history, systems, open source, cloud... Very well produced (like, really well produced) but few episodes. Season 2 is airing right now on what looks like a biweekly schedule."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 18074402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074402", "by": "kaffee", "time": 1537956127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In ranked order, 1. On the Media (WNYC) 2. Behind the News with Doug Henwood 3. Talking Politics https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/ 3. The Dig by Daniel Denvir 4. Chaosradio edit: formatting"}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 18074402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074402", "by": "kaffee", "time": 1537956127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In ranked order, 1. On the Media (WNYC) 2. Behind the News with Doug Henwood 3. Talking Politics https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/ 3. The Dig by Daniel Denvir 4. Chaosradio edit: formatting"}, {"show": "73801817", "hn_item": 18074402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074402", "by": "kaffee", "time": 1537956127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In ranked order, 1. On the Media (WNYC) 2. Behind the News with Doug Henwood 3. Talking Politics https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/ 3. The Dig by Daniel Denvir 4. Chaosradio edit: formatting"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18074408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074408", "by": "ForceOfPhil", "time": 1537956196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I tried Tech podcasts but cannot find one that suits my groove. I listen to Magic the Gathering and Wreslting Podcasts mainly. I also listen to Freakonomics and some of the wisecrack ones too but mainly my drive to work is Wrassling or Gaming podcasts."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 18074440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074440", "by": "pbc", "time": 1537956617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Security now with Steve Gibson http://feeds.twit.tv/sn Software Engineering Daily https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/feed/podcast via @PodcastAddict"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18074832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074832", "by": "anonu", "time": 1537961741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an \"ETF Guy\" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts: - Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz - Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on \"Tracking\" wild animals in the bush was great. - The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like - The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has interesting guests - The Monthly Dirtcast - ex-Lehman guy who started a popular daily financial newsletter. Still OK - needs help editing and more frequency. - Trillions - ETF-Focused Bloomberg podca"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 18074832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074832", "by": "anonu", "time": 1537961741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an \"ETF Guy\" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts: - Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz - Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on \"Tracking\" wild animals in the bush was great. - The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like - The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has interesting guests - The Monthly Dirtcast - ex-Lehman guy who started a popular daily financial newsletter. Still OK - needs help editing and more frequency. - Trillions - ETF-Focused Bloomberg podca"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18074832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18074832", "by": "anonu", "time": 1537961741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an \"ETF Guy\" so I listen to a lot of the wonky ETF and Finance-related podcasts: - Behind the Markets with Jeremy Schwartz - Invest like the Best - with O'Shaughnessy - not just finance stuff. example: Recent podcast on \"Tracking\" wild animals in the bush was great. - The Curious Investor - AQR's new Podcast on financial factors and the like - The Meb Faber Show - Meb Faber runs a fund and has interesting guests - The Monthly Dirtcast - ex-Lehman guy who started a popular daily financial newsletter. Still OK - needs help editing and more frequency. - Trillions - ETF-Focused Bloomberg podca"}, {"show": "1235937471", "hn_item": 18075554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075554", "by": "Eridrus", "time": 1537967736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I dislike most tech podcasts, except the great NLP Highlights Podcast which interviews researchers about recent papers they have written I also listen to a bunch of politics podcasts The Weeds Erza Klein Show 538 politics podcasts Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast"}, {"show": "1280087136", "hn_item": 18075554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075554", "by": "Eridrus", "time": 1537967736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I dislike most tech podcasts, except the great NLP Highlights Podcast which interviews researchers about recent papers they have written I also listen to a bunch of politics podcasts The Weeds Erza Klein Show 538 politics podcasts Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18075630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075630", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1537968221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't see podcasts as an alternative to radio, but just the new radio. Like how Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu are just the new tv. Perhaps this is because I have always listened to a lot of NPR podcasts, such as This American Life, which are also broadcast on NPR radio stations. Of course, I also listen to a lot of other podcasts, some by people who mainly do podcasts, and quite a few others affiliated with some publication."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 18075677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075677", "by": "emodendroket", "time": 1537968567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But it's, in a sense, a lot more open. There are a lot of people who couldn't get radio shows out there making podcasts (Chapo Trap House is an obvious example of something that's a phenomenon but probably wouldn't be put on broadcast radio) or else smaller radio stations getting far bigger reach."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18075750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075750", "by": "strict9", "time": 1537969002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The companies cited in this article that are walking back podcasting efforts mostly repackaged existing content in audio form, and it was obvious. Or worse, they had talking heads in a conversational format going on about the week's news topics. These two show formats are at best boring, but usually terrible. The ones that were podcasts first (or radio shows) like Gimlet Media, This American Life and its spinoffs continue to excel and provide the most engaging media experience."}, {"show": "153880765", "hn_item": 18076050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076050", "by": "petercooper", "time": 1537970943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only really listen to one as I have other ways I tend to listen to music, but Hospital Records - https://www.hospitalrecords.com/podcast/ - is the one. It's entirely focused on drum'n'bass though."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18076072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076072", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1537971010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">They require time, and expertise to produce, not much money. At some point though, time and expertise are money. I'll do an interview-style/conversational podcast as a hobby or as one of the many little side things I do for my day job. But you start talking about multi-day production efforts and that's not something I'm just going to do for free. Conversational podcasts about some niche topic and Radiolab both have their place. But there are real costs associated with production values."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 18076129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076129", "by": "chadash", "time": 1537971348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Also, podcasting doesn\u2019t really have an established way of measuring success that advertisers can get comfortable with, apart from just tracking raw downloads.\" What's wrong with tracking raw downloads? This seems like a great way to measure a podcast's success since the number of downloads probably tracks pretty closely to the number of listeners (sure, I might download an episode or two of a new podcast to try it out, but I generally only download later episodes of podcasts I actually listen to). As an aside, I think that podcasts are to radio what netflix is to television, in that netfli"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 18076346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076346", "by": "deusofnull", "time": 1537972589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am a patron of a handful of left-wing / comedy / education podcasts and all I can say is that that \"scene\" has been steadily growing since I got into it around 2016. Independent, patron based funding models really works for podcast content. Chapo Trap House, fueled by over 100k $5 dollar donations, is a great example. Not all get to that level, but if you're a 1-3 person podcast making good content for your niche, it only takes a few thousand listeners supporting you with $5 a month to support the whole project. I think those podcasts are going to continue to grow in number for a while as th"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 18076470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076470", "by": "misiti3780", "time": 1537973241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "what is Tyler Cowen's podcast ?"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18076674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076674", "by": "DeBraid", "time": 1537974391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast (leadership, war, self improvement) Conversations With Tyler (Politics, Books, Economics) Masters in Business (Ritholtz, finance and econ) Invest like the Best (Patrick Oshaugnessey, finance, econ, crypto) a16z podcast (tech, vc) This Week In Startups (Jason Calacanus, tech, vc) The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish, learning and investing) Tim Ferriss (fitness, self improvement, business) Joe Rogan Experience (nature, hunting, fitness) Planet Money (NPR, stories about finance and econ) Revisionist History (Gladwell, lots of great stories) Hockey: The Full 60 (Craig Custance) TSN "}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 18076674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076674", "by": "DeBraid", "time": 1537974391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast (leadership, war, self improvement) Conversations With Tyler (Politics, Books, Economics) Masters in Business (Ritholtz, finance and econ) Invest like the Best (Patrick Oshaugnessey, finance, econ, crypto) a16z podcast (tech, vc) This Week In Startups (Jason Calacanus, tech, vc) The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish, learning and investing) Tim Ferriss (fitness, self improvement, business) Joe Rogan Experience (nature, hunting, fitness) Planet Money (NPR, stories about finance and econ) Revisionist History (Gladwell, lots of great stories) Hockey: The Full 60 (Craig Custance) TSN "}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 18076674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18076674", "by": "DeBraid", "time": 1537974391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast (leadership, war, self improvement) Conversations With Tyler (Politics, Books, Economics) Masters in Business (Ritholtz, finance and econ) Invest like the Best (Patrick Oshaugnessey, finance, econ, crypto) a16z podcast (tech, vc) This Week In Startups (Jason Calacanus, tech, vc) The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish, learning and investing) Tim Ferriss (fitness, self improvement, business) Joe Rogan Experience (nature, hunting, fitness) Planet Money (NPR, stories about finance and econ) Revisionist History (Gladwell, lots of great stories) Hockey: The Full 60 (Craig Custance) TSN "}, {"show": "1395150706", "hn_item": 18077158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077158", "by": "elektor", "time": 1537977037, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Very niche, but anyone with eye floaters may be interested in a newly published podcast that interviewed the leading researcher in the field, Dr.Sebag. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-2-hope-happiness... Skip about 10 minutes ahead for the interview."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 18077220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077220", "by": "gymshoes", "time": 1537977328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lore IRL KEXP Song Of The Day Science Vs Syntax freeCodeCamp Podcast egghead.io dev Chats ycombinator"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 18078117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078117", "by": "DeathRabbit", "time": 1537982091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dang, really enjoying reading all these great recommendations; my podcast load is going to be growing (again)! My personal faves out of my 100+ subs are below. All should be available through a typical podcatcher app. Tried to mark some as NSFW but probably missed some. Some of these are extremely well-known but the question didn't specify \"hidden gems\". Part-Time Genius - General interesting stuff James O'Brien's Mystery Hour - BBC radio program. People call in with questions and answers to (generally) interesting questions. Stuff You Should Know - Interesting general topics Irish and Celtic "}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 18078298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078298", "by": "andr", "time": 1537983190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is impressive journalistic work. If you are a fan of such type of open-source intelligence, I highly recommend the Arms Control Wonk podcast and blog, who have done amazing investigations into North Korean missile development ( https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/ ). Yet, with so many obvious giveaways, I find it hard to believe Russia ever wanted to get away with the Skripal poisoning. From using a very exotic Russian-made poison to the absurd Salisbury Cathedral story, it looks like a provocation or trolling. Of course, the Russian government will officially deny any involvement, but they a"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 18078876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078876", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1537986590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Active Podcasts: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum - The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews) - History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history) - Stoic Meditations - The British History Podcast - The Economist: Babbage (science news) - Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600) - The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews) \"Finished\" podcasts: - Mike Duncan's The History of Rome - Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries - Lars Brownworth's 12 B"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 18078876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078876", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1537986590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Active Podcasts: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum - The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews) - History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history) - Stoic Meditations - The British History Podcast - The Economist: Babbage (science news) - Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600) - The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews) \"Finished\" podcasts: - Mike Duncan's The History of Rome - Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries - Lars Brownworth's 12 B"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 18078876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078876", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1537986590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Active Podcasts: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum - The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews) - History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history) - Stoic Meditations - The British History Podcast - The Economist: Babbage (science news) - Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600) - The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews) \"Finished\" podcasts: - Mike Duncan's The History of Rome - Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries - Lars Brownworth's 12 B"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 18078876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078876", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1537986590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Active Podcasts: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum - The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews) - History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history) - Stoic Meditations - The British History Podcast - The Economist: Babbage (science news) - Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600) - The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews) \"Finished\" podcasts: - Mike Duncan's The History of Rome - Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries - Lars Brownworth's 12 B"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 18078876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078876", "by": "jkmcf", "time": 1537986590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Active Podcasts: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum - The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews) - History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history) - Stoic Meditations - The British History Podcast - The Economist: Babbage (science news) - Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600) - The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews) \"Finished\" podcasts: - Mike Duncan's The History of Rome - Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries - Lars Brownworth's 12 B"}, {"show": "1280087136", "hn_item": 18078890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078890", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1537986676, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Race and low income are inextricably linked because of racist past policies, which fund schools vastly differently based on property values, which provides very different access to education, which provides very different access to opportunities in the future. This particular commenter? I think they were 14 and just really stupid (edit: according to the Cupertino mayor, who was asked about a similar comment at 45:45 here [1]). So maybe not racist. But having spent enough time talking to adults who also talk like this, if you talk long enough the racist undertones become overtones. It's baked i"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 18079033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079033", "by": "JansjoFromIkea", "time": 1537987535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find it hard to imagine podcasting (among other things) not being hit incredibly hard by a recession. Some of the podcasts I listen to get amounts of money on Patreon that boggle the mind a bit, not ones like Chapo Trap House where it's a very large number of people giving a fiver a month but ones with a few hundred averaging over ten dollars a month. Once you stop looking at that as ten dollars a pop and look at it as 120 a year, when money is tight, a lot of people are gonna struggle to justify it; especially when most things don't really give a whole lot of value in their Patreons."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18079380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079380", "by": "thousandautumns", "time": 1537989875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly, this isn't restricted to white people. I recently listened to an episode of a podcast (Planet Money, iirc), about housing prices and NIMBYism, and some pro-housing activists attended some council meetings in a largely Latino neighborhood in the Bay Area, and were met with lots of hostility as new developments were seen as leading to gentrification and destroying the Hispanic culture of the neighborhood."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18079462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079462", "by": "bitVelocity", "time": 1537990455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast - never missed one."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 18079647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079647", "by": "epmatsw", "time": 1537991710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Casey Liss (host of Accidental Tech Podcast, among others) has a small writeup about that work at https://www.caseyliss.com/2014/11/22/how-i-make-podcasts"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 18079833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18079833", "by": "medortch", "time": 1537992931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those of you who are Dvorak fans (as am I) should find, read, and support the No Agenda podcast and email newsletter he's been doing with Adam Curry for about 10 years now. In the latest newsletter, John argues that he was fired for writing negative things about 5G networks -- and offers evidence that PCMag routed links away from his critical columns to more positive pieces. I got to work with John a bit over the years. He is many things, but I have never known him to lie, or get his facts wrong when reporting. If what he says about PCMag unlinking from his columns about 5G is true, it's even "}, {"show": "383084001", "hn_item": 18080474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080474", "by": "cannonedhamster", "time": 1537997735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Smart Passive Income podcast provides in depth reviews on products and advocates multiple benefits and gets affiliate links which drive people who want to use the product getting a recommendation and sales pitch from someone they already trust. Trust is the single most important commodity from a podcaster and those who use it well monetize it while providing a service to the listeners."}, {"show": "996246979", "hn_item": 18080496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080496", "by": "pfranz", "time": 1537997893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure what the growth rate is, but The top Patreon podcast makes just over $100k /mo (although, most don't list income). Assuming that's consistent that's only enough to pay 10-20 people, ignoring health insurance, taxes, 401k, Patreon's cut, or any operating costs. I've always heard ads were the most reliable approach, though. https://www.patreon.com/explore/podcasts"}, {"show": "918963927", "hn_item": 18080602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080602", "by": "cannonedhamster", "time": 1537998971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Skeptoid: Debunking Conspiracy Theories Planet Money: Monetary news Economist:Babbage: Economics news The Reboot Podcast: Personal development Startup: Podcast about startups Useless Information: Neat show about history Stuff you missed in history class: Another history show Reply All: Internet related news I Should Be Writing: Show about aspiring writers Ditch Diggers: Show for writers"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18080602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080602", "by": "cannonedhamster", "time": 1537998971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Skeptoid: Debunking Conspiracy Theories Planet Money: Monetary news Economist:Babbage: Economics news The Reboot Podcast: Personal development Startup: Podcast about startups Useless Information: Neat show about history Stuff you missed in history class: Another history show Reply All: Internet related news I Should Be Writing: Show about aspiring writers Ditch Diggers: Show for writers"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 18080602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080602", "by": "cannonedhamster", "time": 1537998971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Skeptoid: Debunking Conspiracy Theories Planet Money: Monetary news Economist:Babbage: Economics news The Reboot Podcast: Personal development Startup: Podcast about startups Useless Information: Neat show about history Stuff you missed in history class: Another history show Reply All: Internet related news I Should Be Writing: Show about aspiring writers Ditch Diggers: Show for writers"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 18080693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080693", "by": "madvoid", "time": 1537999945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Opening Arguments. It's a law podcast that's packed full of information about current events and is very accessible."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 18081548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18081548", "by": "jackgolding", "time": 1538011748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favourites: Digital Analytics Power Hour The Indie Hackers Podcast Startups for the Rest of Us The Side Hustle Project Empire Flippers Podcast Double your Freelancing Ditching Hourly Side Hustle School (great byte sized audio content) The Consulting Pipeline Podcast"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 18082781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082781", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1538035636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History podcasts are pretty good, in my opinion. I currently listen to Revolutions, The History of Byzantium and The History of the Twentieth Century, and they're all quite well scripted, no babler at all."}, {"show": "1039714402", "hn_item": 18082781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18082781", "by": "icebraining", "time": 1538035636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History podcasts are pretty good, in my opinion. I currently listen to Revolutions, The History of Byzantium and The History of the Twentieth Century, and they're all quite well scripted, no babler at all."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18084296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18084296", "by": "vbuwivbiu", "time": 1538055336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "what's more, as was pointed-out on a recent episode of the EconTalk podcast, although our society as a whole is capitalist, internally almost all corporations are run as communist dictatorships"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 18087709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087709", "by": "Pyrodogg", "time": 1538075764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear Hank and John - a comedy podcast about death, and all the news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars! https://www.patreon.com/dearhankandjohn Recently became a part of the WNYC network The Daily 99% Invisible Indie Hackers Podcast How I Built This Syntax All Points North - English podcast about Finland"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18087709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087709", "by": "Pyrodogg", "time": 1538075764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear Hank and John - a comedy podcast about death, and all the news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars! https://www.patreon.com/dearhankandjohn Recently became a part of the WNYC network The Daily 99% Invisible Indie Hackers Podcast How I Built This Syntax All Points North - English podcast about Finland"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 18087709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087709", "by": "Pyrodogg", "time": 1538075764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear Hank and John - a comedy podcast about death, and all the news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars! https://www.patreon.com/dearhankandjohn Recently became a part of the WNYC network The Daily 99% Invisible Indie Hackers Podcast How I Built This Syntax All Points North - English podcast about Finland"}, {"show": "1341969432", "hn_item": 18087866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18087866", "by": "thefln", "time": 1538077104, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18090122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090122", "by": "guiomie", "time": 1538095403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was thinking the same when I listened to Joe Rogan podcast. And the topic came up multiple times where he could have said he has a great team to support him. I was really disappointed in Musk."}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 18092538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092538", "by": "icot", "time": 1538134289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In this podcast episode ( https://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/014-ferrycast ) they mention the dirtyPCB's service mentioned in the other comment and some other similar ones. I'd recommend the whole podcast (Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast) to anyone interested in hardware RE."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 18095802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18095802", "by": "bachbach", "time": 1538159545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think that is wrong - it's more like The Frame Problem. It's not really that right wingers think the news is lying to them in a direct sense. It's more like they believe the entire frame of discussion is wrong. I'm not an American but I'd concur with that sentiment in general when I listen to NPR. You could listen to NPR for years without realizing the experience of many Americans directly contradicts the story themes on offer, yet many other Americans do have an experience which is sympathetic to the same themes. This is because of social class. Different people have different experiences -"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18096908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18096908", "by": "daviespj", "time": 1538167491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ologies with Alie Ward is a personal favourite (Alie interviews a different ologist each week). Philosophers in Space takes a sci-fi tv show or movie and examines the philosophical ideas behind it. Download This Show by the ABC (Australia) is a great listen about tech news. Citation Needed is great but only for those who like their comedy loud and offensive. Rocket Ranch is NASA's podcast and is nicely geeky. Also Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years is fascinating and funny. Apart from that, +1 for Reply All, Darknet Diaries, Hardcore History and Syntax"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 18097778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097778", "by": "wyldfire", "time": 1538176597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast had an episode called \"The Prime Minister and the Prof\" [1]. The episode goes into Churchill's relationship with India and a friend named Frederick Lindemann. Gladwell discusses evidence from a book called, \"Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II\". [1] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister..."}, {"show": "1386339640", "hn_item": 18098451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098451", "by": "RushiSushi", "time": 1538189656, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18098565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18098565", "by": "joconnor7113", "time": 1538191718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another vote for Planet Money as it has been my top podcast! I would note that the indicator is far inferior to Planet Money as it is more the politicaly charged flavor of the show."}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 18101530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18101530", "by": "timtas", "time": 1538241368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Tom Woods Show [1] - A 30-minute show each weekday. Tom is Harvard/Columbia trained historian, amateur economist and libertarian philosopher. 1,250 episodes. The usual format is interview with a prominent thinker and/or doer. Contra Krugman [2] - A weekly show where Tom Woods and economist Bob Murphy teach economics by analyzing an generally refuting Paul Krugman's New York Times column. Part of the Problem [3] - A long-form semi-weekly(ish) talk show featuring comedian Dave Smith. Dave discusses current events and issues from a his libertarian perspective. Dangerous History Podcast [4] - "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18102570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102570", "by": "marxama", "time": 1538252367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't know if you know this, but given your example: The MP3s of the Joe Rogan Podcast can be downloaded from his website. Just an FYI."}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 18104599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18104599", "by": "rane", "time": 1538285107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would add Barbell Medicine to your list of youtube channels. They also have a podcast and produce lots of useful content."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 18106551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106551", "by": "bhrgunatha", "time": 1538321308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Futility Closet podcast Ep 218 had a section on plus codes this/last week, including what3words and parodies like what 2 numbers - Lat, Lon! They have the full list of links. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/09/24/podcast-episode-21..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18106965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106965", "by": "augustocallejas", "time": 1538326481, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "On HN wsj.com submissions, I\u2019ve noticed that at least one person posts a free link to the article content to avoid the WSJ paywall, and it got me thinking about how much folks pay for their news media, if at all. I have an annual Atlantic subscription (print) that is around $24 a year, and am I member of the Masthead ($100 a year). I listen to a lot of WNYC podcasts (On the Media, Radiolab), and have considered donating $7 a month, but haven\u2019t yet. Besides that, the rest of my media consumption is ad supported. My current monthly budget would therefore be around $10 a month, which doesn\u2019t seem"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 18106965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18106965", "by": "augustocallejas", "time": 1538326481, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "On HN wsj.com submissions, I\u2019ve noticed that at least one person posts a free link to the article content to avoid the WSJ paywall, and it got me thinking about how much folks pay for their news media, if at all. I have an annual Atlantic subscription (print) that is around $24 a year, and am I member of the Masthead ($100 a year). I listen to a lot of WNYC podcasts (On the Media, Radiolab), and have considered donating $7 a month, but haven\u2019t yet. Besides that, the rest of my media consumption is ad supported. My current monthly budget would therefore be around $10 a month, which doesn\u2019t seem"}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 18109000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18109000", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1538349230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If this stuff interests you, and you're not already aware, the \"Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast\" will be worth a listen: https://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/rss I only recently discovered it, and am about 6 episodes into it, but they've had interesting guests, the show notes have good links, and I actually recognized Ken's domain from the last episode I listened to (by coincidence): http://reverseengineering.libsyn.com/005-circuits-that-go-to..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 18110995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18110995", "by": "stef25", "time": 1538384508, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I guess you've heard of The Bell Curve and the related controversy (check Sam Harris podcast with Charles Murray)? Fwiw I don't think you're necessarily wrong about intelligence but from what I remember The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee) does have a few passages contradicting this theory. Also by questioning the validity of IQ tests. Could it also not be that jews are just more motivated to get in to STEM fields and perform well, for cultural reasons or otherwise? Similarly, Malcolm Gladwell mentions a theory about why \"Asians are smarter\" which according to him may be related to hard and smart w"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 18112135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112135", "by": "christensen143", "time": 1538398649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Until about 6 weeks ago I commuted an hour one-way so I filled my two hours with podcasts. In the past weeks I haven't been as avid a listener. Regardless, I spent five years tweaking my list for my taste. - SANS Internet Stormcast https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html - NPR Up First https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first - The CyberWire https://thecyberwire.com/ - Daily Tech Headlines http://www.dailytechnewsshow.com/category/headlines/ - NPR The Indicator https://www.npr.org/sections/money/567724614/the-indicator - Casefile https://casefilepodcast.com/ - Historical Figures https://www.parc"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 18116632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18116632", "by": "kevinslin8", "time": 1538426420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If your looking for some human connections, I would recommend Folk Stories: http://folkstories.org . It's a podcast focused on dialogue with interesting people - like an audio version of \"Humans of New York\" (disclaimer: I'm the host) This is inspired by other podcasts that I follow, mainly \"Tim Ferris Show\", \"Waking Up with Sam Harris\" and \"Fresh Air\""}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 18119395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18119395", "by": "small_software", "time": 1538464360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Part-time / Full-time / Remote / Multiple positions open Small software house wants multiple remote freelancers To work on one or multiple roles: - UX and product development - Graphic design, website design, and web/mobile app design - Static website development (React-Static) - Frontend development (React, React Native, Redux, Rematch) - Backend development (Nodejs, Express, MongoDB) - Native iOS app development - Native Android app development - Embedded systems (Arduino) - Copywriting - Technical writing - Instructional Video editing - Podcast editing Compensation will vary according to th"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 18125813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18125813", "by": "swolchok", "time": 1538515267, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent Software Engineering Daily podcast on \"Unity and WebAssembly\" mentions that Unity has a .NET to C++ toolchain. Is that some kind of stock Mono feature, or is that another .NET runtime? https://www.softwaredaily.com/post/5ba9fdd63e3767000494fe01/..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18129340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18129340", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1538567925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try to sleep 8 to 9 hours every day. In this JRE podcast [0], Matthew Walker, a sleep expert, claimed that sleeping poorly can decrease your performance by 30%. Strive to maintain a good work-life balance. Burnout sucks. Your health and family are more important than work. A workplace that doesn't consider this to be the case is likely to be toxic. As for actual software development advice... Beware blanket statements. They can help you develop a low-resolution model so you don't suffer from paralysis, but real-world problems tend to be complex and messy. Here's an example: if you were buildin"}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 18134201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18134201", "by": "badloginagain", "time": 1538596515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Canadaland' Podcast, a Canadian media criticism podcast, did a fantastic episode on Petersons media strategy. It basically maps how Dr.(?) Peterson exploits his controversial reputation to sell his books. http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/canadaland-guide-jorda... (As a side note, even though its Canada-centric, Canadaland is probably one of best things that has happened to Canadian journalism in a long time. Anyone even remotely interested should give it a listen.)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18139440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18139440", "by": "greenwireless", "time": 1538657777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I generally dislike mushrooms but I was pretty moved by Joe Rogan's podcast #1035 with Paul Stamets. Despite being over 2 hours long I suggested it to and watched it in it's entirety with several different people and each time we end up discussing the content off and on for weeks or months afterwards. Highly recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18143985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18143985", "by": "beat", "time": 1538689941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not the Civil War or Yugoslav war, but you might find the Hardcore History podcast series \"Countdown to Armageddon\" enlightening. It's about World War I, including the run-up to the war. He has 20+ hours of material, and it's absolutely chilling. If you're looking for an analogy to American politics as \"second civil war\", it won't help. But if you're looking for how two sides are willing to destroy themselves trying to destroy each other, it's amazing."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18152283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18152283", "by": "billbrown", "time": 1538779058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible had an episode[1] earlier this year that featured some of these passive innovations like India's stepwells[2] [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 18157092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157092", "by": "roywiggins", "time": 1538857833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Allusionist podcast did a good episode about Scots recently. https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/scots https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/scots"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 18159755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18159755", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1538906119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was on their 'The Weeds' podcast, on the latest episode called 'Alexa, raise the minimum wage'. It was in a segment discussing Kevin Roose's daily Twitter updates about the top performing Facebook stories on Kavanaugh/Ford. It looks like the latest one he did was October 4th ( https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1047614324225847296 ): Sources of today's top performing Facebook posts about Kavanaugh, per @crowdtangle: 1. Fox News 2. Ben Shapiro 3. CNSNews (\"News the Lefty Media Doesn't Want You to Have\") 4. Breitbart About Dr. Ford: 1. Fox News 2. CNN 3. Daily Caller 4. Breitbart"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18173740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173740", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1539066466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is reminiscent of the Reply All podcast's episode about a photo storage service that had major problems. If i recall correctly, some photos in that story were actually recovered, but it took a while. ...Okay, I did a little looking, and the followup to this episode was about a month later[2], and actually some pictures were able to be recovered after another company bought out the first and tried to save the photos. In any case, it's an interesting case study of an incident that shares someof the same themes. 1: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/71-the-picture-taker#e... 2: https://ww"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 18177862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18177862", "by": "TimTheTinker", "time": 1539105581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the source 9to5mac is quoting from. It's a podcast episode, so no text: \"Risky Business Feature: Named source in \"The Big Hack\" has doubts about the story\": https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/"}, {"show": "1437951282", "hn_item": 18178731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18178731", "by": "tcsf", "time": 1539110899, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18184897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184897", "by": "lost_my_pwd", "time": 1539180066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Planet Money podcast all about the Jones Act: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/05/488869138/epis..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18184906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184906", "by": "akmiller", "time": 1539180165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love #10, especially the last part. I would argue that even primary/secondary education is better served in this fashion. Relevant to a recent Joe Rogan podcast with Neil Degrasse Tyson on how many teachers in your life inspired you. Not as much about the transfer of information, especially today, it's about the excitement and inspiration around the topics you are presenting."}, {"show": "1317563648", "hn_item": 18184953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184953", "by": "JohnJamesRambo", "time": 1539180471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep the Leo Laporte podcast Valley of Genius."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 18188785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18188785", "by": "apazzolini", "time": 1539204841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The second (third?) most recent Sam Harris podcast episode with Yuval Noah Harari discusses this. We normally talk about UBI in the context of one country, but like you said, third world countries will suffer the most. Automation killing basic factory jobs will have a much larger effect outside of first world countries, and unfortunately there's no real way to address that disparity from the context of policy in any one country."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 18209245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18209245", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1539454486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of an incredible episode of the podcast Invisibilia: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 18211648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211648", "by": "fierro", "time": 1539498628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "check out the story about TRX founder regarding this. You can listen to the How I Built This podcast about it, pretty interesting"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18219469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219469", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1539610230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was wondering about that. The article mentions the spin off companies without mentioning what they were. So could this have been preventable? I've heard Toys-R-Us wasn't that bad off; it's just that they had a leverage buyout in like the 90s or 2000s that put them in a lot of debt with the hope their growth rate would continue. The Toys-R-Us failure didn't really make any sense since people still like to physically see and touch toys before purchasing them (although I guess retailers like Target, Wal-Market, independent toy shops, et. al. have large enough toy sections now to take care of th"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 18223182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223182", "by": "TimJYoung", "time": 1539633842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, that is a great quote - a lot of insight packed into a short sentence. I cannot seem to remember where I saw this said (it was a video, probably Sam Harris's podcast), but it was effectively the same idea: we're simply going to adapt in a way that allows everything to keep moving forward. I must say that, as a developer, this answer was completely unsatisfying. It doesn't sound like a \"flip a switch\" kind of solution... ;-)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18224542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18224542", "by": "hinchlt", "time": 1539642878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon Musk would say yes. He alluded to this on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18226250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18226250", "by": "Chazprime", "time": 1539661338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life did a great podcast entitled \u201cWords You Can\u2019t Say\u201d earlier this year; might be good primer for you (it\u2019s also available on iTunes): https://www.thisamericanlife.org/637/words-you-cant-say"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18233226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18233226", "by": "txsoftwaredev", "time": 1539723634, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible did a great podcast episode about emojis a while back. \"Tech analysts estimate that over six billion emojis are sent each day. Emojis, which started off as a collection of low-resolution pixelated images from Japan, have become a well-established and graphically sophisticated part of everyday global communication. But who decides what emojis are available to users, and who makes the actual designs? Independent radio and film producer Mark Bramhill took it upon himself to find out and, in the process, ended up developing and pitching his own idea for a new emoji.\" https://99percen"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 18234106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234106", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1539731673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True! A good look into this further is Mike Duncan's The Storm before the Storm that leads into the Sulla era: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic... Duncan's The History of Rome podcast is very good overall and very much worth a listen."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 18241415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18241415", "by": "craftsman", "time": 1539797808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in hearing more about TI calculators and hacking on them, this episode of the Embedded.fm podcast was really fun, and there are a couple interesting links in the show notes: https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/259 ."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18243381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18243381", "by": "jeremyis", "time": 1539807694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have struggled with falling asleep a lot. This has been helpful recently: 1. 2-3 hours before bed, put away all electronics (including phone and TV/netflix) 2. Read a _real_ book for 1-2 hours 3. If I can't fall asleep, I put on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast with a sleep timer of 10 minutes. I usually get absorbed into his story telling and it helps take my mind of things. 4. No alchohol during the week 5. No caffeine after ~1pm; and only 1 coffee when I arrive at work Admittedly, my week is a little boring this way and I still haven't worked up to doing it consistently, but it's bee"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18245881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18245881", "by": "theun", "time": 1539836559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Number 3 is exactly what I also do to fall asleep, putting on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast with a 10 minute sleep timer, works like a charm!"}, {"show": "1314170606", "hn_item": 18251113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251113", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1539889091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, there's a really fantastic episode of Chris Hayes's podcast, Why is this Happening , with the author of the reviewed book. https://art19.com/shows/why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hay..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18251228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251228", "by": "collinf", "time": 1539889873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a Podcast on this if anyone wants a pretty good listen. I listened and couldn't stop thinking about all of the applications to software in it. freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance/"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 18251422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251422", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1539891311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, a great episode of Ezra Klein's podcast with Anand Giridharadas, the referenced author and speaker. EDIT: the link: https://art19.com/shows/the-ezra-klein-show/episodes/ebd9109..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18256859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256859", "by": "noetic_techy", "time": 1539958484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Going to go out on a personal opinion limb here, but I think we dismiss far too much in archaeology and ancient recorded history, even with the evidence all around us. I predict one day there will be a great revival in archaeology as we start to cast off our erroneous assumptions about native peoples stories of their history. A few Examples that have really stuck in my mind: The recorded history of the Egyptians says their dynasties go back FAR longer than is accepted by modern Egyptology, yet we dismiss it. The water erosion on the sphynx, as well as the change in flow of the Nile away from s"}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 18257192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18257192", "by": "stupidcar", "time": 1539961707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist to buy any of the myriad contemporary Atlantis myths and the veracity of Plato's claims. The history podcast Our Fake History has an excellent three episode arc about Atlantis, including Plato's account. https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/ The upshot is that his account does not match up with any real world location, unless you are willing to engage in cherry-picking and an extremely generous interpretation of various things, and there is no credible explain of how he alone could have gained such detailed knowledge of a civilisation th"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 18258729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18258729", "by": "oliveshell", "time": 1539972819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe this sort of thing is known as aphasia; it was fascinating to read about what it can be like in someone multilingual. Theres an episode [1] of Helen Zaltzman\u2019s fantastic podcast The Allusionist that deals with a similar story: a woman who has to essentially re-learn how to speak and understand English after a brain aneurysm. I highly recommend giving it a listen if you\u2019re interested; it\u2019s only half an hour or so and really deepened my appreciation of how plastic and resilient our brains can be. [1]: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/eclipse"}, {"show": "968779958", "hn_item": 18258910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18258910", "by": "awaywopassd", "time": 1539974273, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "While we are discussing popular blogs for iOS, what are great blogs for Android? I personally love Fragmented podcast."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 18263229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18263229", "by": "FredrikMeyer", "time": 1540042474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If one wants the content of this article in podcast format, the researcher was interviewed in one of the latest episodes of Data Skeptic (an excellent pod cast, by the way): https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2018/deepfakes"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 18265726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265726", "by": "ilovecaching", "time": 1540072755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We move the orchestration from the Erlang runtime to our container orchestrator though. We have a better separation of concerns, and we can scale any language. The registry, process communication, are just services and protocols running in containers. So compared to Go, the Rust folks seemed to have paid close attention to the things people liked about Go. We have most of those things. We have great tooling, auto formatting, concurrency primitives (although we have freedom of choice. Green threads are a third party library, and aren't part of a runtime). We even have an animal mascot. From a l"}, {"show": "533583161", "hn_item": 18266616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18266616", "by": "quizbiz", "time": 1540092933, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Non specific to engineering the Manager Tools Podcast is a great resource. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/one-on-ones-part-1-updat... , they say 30 min once per week is proven to be most effective"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 18266616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18266616", "by": "quizbiz", "time": 1540092933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Non specific to engineering the Manager Tools Podcast is a great resource. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/one-on-ones-part-1-updat... , they say 30 min once per week is proven to be most effective"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 18266635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18266635", "by": "acconrad", "time": 1540093350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I second the Manager Tools podcast, it has been great for getting started with engineering management. Here's what's distilled down from a lot of their intro casts: 1. Have a 1x1 once a week with each direct for 30 min 2. If you can have your 1x1 walking (go for coffee, head outside) try and do that; conversation flows easier when it's not in a confined space like a meeting room. 3. Loosely allocate the meeting in 1/2: 15 min for them to talk about whatever they want. 15 min for you to talk about what you need to talk about (usually top->down information), and at least leave a few min at the e"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 18266895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18266895", "by": "arikr", "time": 1540100774, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "For example - the manager tools podcast is excellent . I see that it's recommended 3+ times in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18264245. I'd sent it to friends quite a few times, but there hadn't been a good way for me to share it with the wider community online. Product Hunt didn't seem suitable because it's not my product, and submitting a link to a podcast never seemed like something appropriate to HN. So perhaps this is a good use for a thread. What are the resources you most frequently recommend?"}, {"show": "1426194513", "hn_item": 18267792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267792", "by": "pontus", "time": 1540126711, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recently signed up as a volunteer after listing to this podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/be-my-eyes-mobile-micro-... Interesting episode that touches on things like their monetizations strategy, unexpected use cases etc. Definitely worth a listen."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18270611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18270611", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1540159467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fantastic podcast Reply All did an episode on this a few months ago: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 18280218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18280218", "by": "ilovecaching", "time": 1540260366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Woah, woah, woah. First, Go and C++ are vastly different languages. Apples and oranges. C++ is huge . It takes an incredible amount of effort to become a proficient C++ developer, and even then, C++ offers none of the amazing safety guarantees that Rust's borrow checker enforces. It's old language with sedimentary layers, including C backwards compatibility. Rust is no where near as complex, and Rust does 5x more to ensure you use Rust correctly. It has brought so many crucial advancements as well: immutable by default, typeclasses instead of OOP (thank god), real sum types, better unicode sup"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 18280603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18280603", "by": "xyzzy_plugh", "time": 1540266637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Many people believe that Go rose to popularity because of the authors and the company sponsoring it, not on its technical merits I don't believe this to be the popular opinion. Originally Google's involvement dissuaded me, and indeed the very Googly bits have been the worst (context.Context), but the rest of it is markedly un-google-like. It's much more of a Bell Labs feel, with a focus on tool efficiency and stability. > Brad Fitzpatrick, one of the maintainers, even said the language brought nothing new to the table aside from better concurrency support in the Gotime podcast episode he att"}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 18283835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18283835", "by": "atomical", "time": 1540306187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> With an inherent lack of transparency that comes from centralized exchanges how is the user to know that trades are being executed fairly? How do we know Nasdaq isn't screwing the buyers and sellers? It's only a problem with some exchanges for cryptocurrency. The trust issue is with cryptocurrency exchanges in general and not centralization. Check out the Unchained podcast. Laura Shin interviews the CEO of Binance. His answer on the question of whether tokens are securities is that some people say these are securities and some people say they aren't. Does that sound like someone you want to "}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 18286401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18286401", "by": "lchengify", "time": 1540321565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who is interested in the Energy Industry in general, including Carbon Capture (CCS), I would recommend \"The Energy Gang\" podcast as well as \"The Interchange\". The guys who run the podcast are not long on CCS as a savior for 1.5 degrees C, but they are incredibly knowledgable about the space and dive into a lot of technical, policy, and economic minutiae that you wouldn't think would exist. I never exactly knew how much mitigating something like peaker plant composition and more sophisticated demand response can affect existing CO2 emissions. Even things like the opinions of energy e"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18286582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18286582", "by": "lchengify", "time": 1540322695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Nathan Myhrvold [1] proposed something like this. There's a summary of it on one of the Freakonomics podcasts, but the summary is basically that it acts like an erupting volcano to cool the earth slightly. \"MYHRVOLD: So, climate change is a 1-percent effect. Now all we have to do is make the sun 1 percent dimmer. Now I don\u2019t literally mean changing the sun. But there are a variety of things that bounce sunlight back into space. Clouds are one of those things: white clouds bounce white light back up into space. It turns out that volcanoes throw ash and particles, if it\u2019s a big volcano, "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18288527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18288527", "by": "ellisv", "time": 1540338927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in this Radiolab podcast from 2015: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 18292596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292596", "by": "robd003", "time": 1540390638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can now listen to Sam Altman\u2019s Startup Playbook just like a podcast, on the go! We are a startup currently going through the YC Startup School and we\u2019d love your feedback, please send us your thoughts."}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 18292844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292844", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1540392388, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 18296398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18296398", "by": "avar", "time": 1540415193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's been good discussion on some episodes of the Arms Control Wonk podcast[1] about how bad the South Koreans are at this, although I unfortunately can't remember on which episodes. Things like military installations being obvious from aerial imagery because it's the only areas where someone incompetent at using the Photoshop clone tool has copied a bunch of trees around. Other examples are \"secret\" missile silos being discovered because a bunch of buildings are seen in the exact size / configuration as other known military sites. The South Koreans having re-used the plans and architectura"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 18298201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18298201", "by": "jen729w", "time": 1540435011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m busy building a little tool that I hope I can sell as a SaaS one day and this is absolutely forefront in my mind. I do not want any of your data, above that which I must hold for the service to be useful. It\u2019s just a liability. See also: Marco Arment, maker of the Overcast podcast player, pushing people to take their accounts anonymous [0]. It\u2019s just good business sense at this point. I also plan on having zero trackers. I\u2019ll just get over the fact that I\u2019ll have no visibility of users on my site other than what I can glean from public forums or, you know, actual paid sign-ups. It\u2019s all to"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 18299701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18299701", "by": "Radim", "time": 1540461375, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18302753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302753", "by": "roymurdock", "time": 1540489151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author Russ Roberts runs the EconTalk podcast and is a well respected economist/journalist/thinker in the field, definitely worth reading for a fair assessment. Here he presents a few studies that go against general economic consensus popularized mainly by Piketty in \"Capital in the 21st century\" and through papers/writing by Krugman, Saez, Zucman, Stiglitz, etc. that most of the economic gains in the past 100 years have gone to a concentrated few owners of capital. Roberts highlights a few studies that use panel data (same people tracked over time) instead of cross-section data (snapshots"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18304375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18304375", "by": "wehi", "time": 1540499850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The author Russ Roberts runs the EconTalk podcast and is a well respected economist/journalist/thinker in the field , definitely worth reading for a fair assessment. I am starting to wonder if there is such a thing. I can respect an academic who writes scientific papers for their peers to review. I can respect an academic who has opinions of the state of the world. I can't respect someone who mixes the two. If you write something for an audience that can't asses the validity of your statement you are deliberately deceiving people. I can't respect that. There is a reason why Piketty's book is"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 18309034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18309034", "by": "VBprogrammer", "time": 1540560973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you ever listened to the Serial podcast? There is an interesting episode in season 3 where they touch on this. He reached for his pants is police speak for \"I used violence against a person and I need an excuse\". Reaching for your pants isn't a crime worthy of an immediate death sentence."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18310775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310775", "by": "maximp", "time": 1540571480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just so you know, the Reply All podcasts takes on (and helps solve) cases just like these."}, {"show": "1247886202", "hn_item": 18311355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18311355", "by": "accnumnplus1", "time": 1540575739, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A relevant podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/burnout-diaries/id124788..."}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 18324956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18324956", "by": "_emacsomancer_", "time": 1540785631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My understanding (via the Ubuntu podcast) is that Canonical allows people (outside of core desktop team) to use at least non-Ubuntu distros."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18325360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325360", "by": "brennebeck", "time": 1540792765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve heard good things about Jocko\u2019s podcast. Do you have any specific episodes to recommend re: self-discipline, etc.?"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 18327543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18327543", "by": "Kagerjay", "time": 1540821490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wrote a related post on discipline and my general workout routine like 3 months ago on HN. In principle its the same thing as Jocko's podcast, but I think its also important to both have a daily physical and mental routine. Mental things could be journalling /meditating / blogging etc, just pick one and roll with it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17695868 Homegym is pretty convenient, what's nice is I can knock out an entire workout in 40 minutes (from warmup to cleanup, and my morning breakfast - workout shake) while watching 20 minutes of youtube / TV / anime etc at the same time. Th"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 18335746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18335746", "by": "jt2190", "time": 1540901548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in Manton Reece\u2019s thinking and work on Micro.blog over time, he frequently talks about it on the the Core Intuition podcast he co-hosts with Daniel Jalkut: https://coreint.org"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18342853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18342853", "by": "bhrgunatha", "time": 1540952408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics podcast had an episode on apologies recently - http://freakonomics.com/podcast/apologies/ - one of the more interesting things discussed was how the start and end of the apology has a dominating impact. It seems people are incredibly sharp at recognising insincerity too. I'd say github did a great job here."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 18368982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18368982", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1541225576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great discussion of that and more related topics on the Waking Up podcast with guest Eliezer Yudkowski: https://wakingup.libsyn.com/116-ai-racing-toward-the-brink"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 18371791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18371791", "by": "smt88", "time": 1541270835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might like the podcasts Common Sense with Dan Carlin, You Are Not So Smart, and Invisibilia."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 18371791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18371791", "by": "smt88", "time": 1541270835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might like the podcasts Common Sense with Dan Carlin, You Are Not So Smart, and Invisibilia."}, {"show": "155974141", "hn_item": 18371791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18371791", "by": "smt88", "time": 1541270835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might like the podcasts Common Sense with Dan Carlin, You Are Not So Smart, and Invisibilia."}, {"show": "1386339640", "hn_item": 18373557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18373557", "by": "lilrushi", "time": 1541295819, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18375400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18375400", "by": "HeadsUpHigh", "time": 1541331811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a link on a Joe Rogan Experience podcast but I'm having a hard time finding right now as there are multiple clips of him talking about UFOs."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 18380529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18380529", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1541403025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That\u2019s a great question. I\u2019m not sure of any particular podcast or episode dealing with this but I, too, wish I had a podcast or something to listen to to help me know what to expect when I joined my first startup. I\u2019ll pass this on to the Software Engineering daily podcast and Developer Tea podcast. Update: I\u2019ve tweeted at both podcasts your idea as it\u2019s a great idea"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18385175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385175", "by": "joegahona", "time": 1541446392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have the same question -- there's a great episode of the ReplyAll podcast where they dive into the murky waters of fake Amazon reviews. It's actual humans doing it, so I imagine tough to spot."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18387531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18387531", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1541466817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also discussed on the Econtalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/ran-abramitzky-on-the-mystery-of-the..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 18391812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391812", "by": "chaosphere2112", "time": 1541517955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's actually a reference to the USB-C ecosystem for the laptop line; Marco and his cohosts on the Accidental Tech Podcast have burned a lot of time griping about the state of connecting things to a laptop. Not so much time on the head phone jack, which was mostly a no-op for them (since it was paired with the airpods)."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 18393840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18393840", "by": "digikata", "time": 1541530388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris Gammel is co-host of an electronics podcast called The Amp Hour. The podcast isn't instructional, more for context and discussion, but Chris also offers an online course that takes you through the entire process of PCB design. I'd peruse the podcast episodes, checkout the forum, and consider the course. https://theamphour.com/ https://contextualelectronics.com/"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 18401698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401698", "by": "jdminhbg", "time": 1541619740, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1389693117", "hn_item": 18404538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18404538", "by": "Impossible", "time": 1541655245, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Black male privilege is a thing... https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/black-male-privile... https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/black-male-what-the-blac..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18406331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18406331", "by": "hrktb", "time": 1541686416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting. Reminds of the recent series on the Radiolab podcast on gonads. In particular how external factors like viruses can affect the reproductive material: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/infective-heredity (But really, the whole series is fun)"}, {"show": "705934263", "hn_item": 18421144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421144", "by": "DyslexicAtheist", "time": 1541854749, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 18424889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18424889", "by": "Brajeshwar", "time": 1541907261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow. I'm not sure if this is even going to be a good suggestion. Let me try in a very personal way. Having been a developer, designer helped a lot. I know what's going on and I can jump in. Unfortunately, I cannot jump in as much as I want to these days. Things do move fast and the best I can do is help in learning/researching a topic faster and help focus and save time. While picking any consumption of information, I like to focus on the human side of it. I'm not trying to learn a new thing to either impress or even help them. They are way better than me when it comes to technology, framework"}, {"show": "1691652896", "hn_item": 18426045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426045", "by": "cityzen", "time": 1541938655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scott Galloway on the Recode podcast made a good point that the whole \u201csearch\u201d was a scam to get tax breaks. Bezos knew where he wanted the second (and third) HQ as they are both within 7 miles of his different homes. I don\u2019t know the truth in that but I don\u2019t doubt it for a second. Here we are. All the little startups have grown up and are now the entitled little snowflakes we treated them like through their infancy on to corporate welfare adulthood."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18428653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428653", "by": "JamesCoyne", "time": 1541971161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a recent (2009) edition of the same book titled In the First Circle which includes chapters which were removed for the first edition ( The First Circle , published 1968). Anyone interested in the title should also consider listening to the two EconTalk podcast episodes relating to the book. http://www.econtalk.org/kevin-mckenna-on-solzhenitsyn-the-so... http://www.econtalk.org/kevin-mckenna-on-characters-plot-and... Also, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a much shorter, more easily digested, novel by Solzhenitsyn."}, {"show": "1440854210", "hn_item": 18429819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429819", "by": "sarabad2021", "time": 1541984224, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just heard a very relevant Podcast called Cultish that digs into the thinking, teaching, strategies, and consequences behind a lot of these cults. The latest episode explores Jim Jones and Jamestown. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cultish/id1440854210"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 18433188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18433188", "by": "leesec", "time": 1542037082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I've heard the \"some point\" was primarily a result of one man Edward Louis Bernays, who lead the charge towards these somewhat predatory practices, effectively inventing modern public relations and advertising. There was a really interesting ( and comical ) podcast about it from the folks at Stuff You Should Know: https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/live-in-chicago-..."}, {"show": "1633544405", "hn_item": 18434663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18434663", "by": "stargrave", "time": 1542048595, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 18437887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18437887", "by": "auntad", "time": 1542075420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I appreciate the sentiment of this post, I'd like to see some real stats on \"hustle porn\" culture's effects. My impression is that the author is pitching doom and gloom where there might be only a small - and increasingly diminishing - problem. I'm not constantly peppered by this phenomenon on my feeds. In fact, lately I've been find more of the opposite: the growing culture of valuing 8 hours of sleep, mental health, and the like. This trend seems to be especially strong in the world of entrepreneurs. YC's Startup School had a talk on \"How To Win\" [1] - all about how to stay sane and he"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 18449419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18449419", "by": "Sqwandery", "time": 1542199611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, I was introduced to Hacker News by CGP Grey on the Hello Internet podcast, declaring he was taking a long break from Twitter, Reddit, and HN. About a year ago I decided to avoid all media as a sort of test. I later also deleted all of my social media accounts. Media does seem to have significant psychological effects, comparable to drugs. I think reading books has to be the healthiest way to consume media, because unlike movies, shows, podcasts, surfing, and scrolling, it takes an active effort to do, and thus you get out of it everything you put in. Passive media consumption lead"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18454446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454446", "by": "zenpaul", "time": 1542232712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab just did a similar podcast \"Tweak the Vote\" about new voting variations. It digs into some real examples in Ireland, San Francisco and Maine. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/tweak-vote"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 18457293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18457293", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1542262890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the Indie Hackers podcast with Wade from Zapier: https://radiopublic.com/indiehackers/ep/s1!7cb82"}, {"show": "1426194513", "hn_item": 18459989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459989", "by": "sheana_ahlqvist", "time": 1542295851, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Innovation For All podcast released a super timely episode related to this yesterday. It was on whether tech companies like Facebook and Google are monopolies and if that's really a problem. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/google-facebook-are-mono... The guest went into this topic some more: \"While Facebook had publicly declared itself ready for new federal regulations, Ms. Sandberg privately contended that the social network was already adopting the best reforms and policies available. Heavy-handed regulation, she warned, would only disadvantage smaller competitors.\""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 18463481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18463481", "by": "zanybear", "time": 1542316958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an interesting discussion on this topic in the last Sam Harris podcast, based on established connection between depression and suicide and the current political context in US. https://samharris.org/podcasts/142-addiction-depression-mean..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18469656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469656", "by": "40acres", "time": 1542385172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In reading the WW1 series of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast (highly recommended by the way) it seems part of what led to the scale of destruction caused by WW1 was the relative peace between the end of the Napoleanoic Wars and 1914. There were smaller wars here and there but the great powers had not faced off in a generation, no one truly understood how the new technologies would affect warfare and tactics. It makes me concerned about the possibility of the next war between great powers, we've only seen nuclear weapons used twice, no one knows how satellites and cyber attacks can affect"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18472419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18472419", "by": "ValentineC", "time": 1542406818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Freakonomics podcast was where it originated, I believe: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr... There was also a good discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18025209"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 18472877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18472877", "by": "Maultasche", "time": 1542411672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Tides of History\" podcast covers this period in Episode 13 in relation to the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/ It particularly focuses on the experiences of the average person in Italy, which not only suffered plague and failing crops, but was being torn apart during a long period of warfare between the Romans and the Goths. Rome itself was largely abandoned in this period, leaving a very small population, the aqueducts were destroyed during sieges, and the poor farmers were frequently victimized by the armies passing through, stealing their already me"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 18473953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18473953", "by": "djwbrown", "time": 1542429035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> So...what's an ounce a twelfth of? It's a twelfth of a troy pound, or Roman libra (lb). These two episodes from The History of English podcast trace these seemingly arbitrary units through history and give them some context. My favorite is the derivation of 5280 feet per mile. Also, that \"mark twain\" is a depth sounding of two fathoms. http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/07/26/episode-114-th... http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/08/21/episode-115-th..."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 18475822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475822", "by": "tmountain", "time": 1542467794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Definitely. http://lifehacker.com/5903288/i-learned-to-speak-four-langua... Start with that article. Follow the advice about building core vocab to get a baseline set of words under your belt. I highly recommend Anki, but you can obviously use whatever tool fits our needs; although spaced repetition is something I'd definitely look for. For the early stages, I'd recommend Pimsleur. It's roughly 30 audio lessons per unit. They're about 30 minutes each. They'll familiarize you with basic travel phrases and help you to start getting a feel for the mechanics of the language. You can take Pimsleur "}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 18476513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18476513", "by": "mirkules", "time": 1542476957, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You can play this moral dilemma forever. If the one LPLD patient happens to be an expert in 3rd world diseases, then his death would lead to an even bigger tragedy. In reality, there is no dilemma. The people who can help are morally obligated to help in non-theoretical situations. If a child is drowning, and by jumping in I have to ruin my $5,000 watch which I would have otherwise later sold to help 100 children, my moral obligation is still with the immediate need of this drowning child. There is a very good podcast about this very issue: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophy-bites/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18478219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18478219", "by": "jaggederest", "time": 1542501581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you watch Elon's interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, he actually discusses VTOL electric aircraft using regenerative descent braking. essentially the only added energy is air resistance plus charging inefficiency, his back-of-the-envelope math was somewhere in the 92% end-to-end range."}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 18482689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18482689", "by": "dunbr", "time": 1542577703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d definitely include the food lab in such a list but I think it likely resonates with the tech/science crowd a bit more than say the general public. Kenji is really thorough and at times scientific in his explanations. I could see it being off putting to someone who just wants to know what works or doesn\u2019t. In a similar case of you recalling him mentioning the food lab, I believe it was his mentioning of the podcast \u201cCooking Issues\u201d that made me a subscriber."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 18484242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484242", "by": "nowarninglabel", "time": 1542602026, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"And I am not sure hard pivots are good for anyone\" Except, it was good for Slack and its investors and all of its users. Slack is oddly acknowledged in the first paragraph and then quickly forgotten about. There's a good \"Masters of Scale\" podcast about the Slack pivot and the Flickr pivot (which was also a hard pivot)."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 18493512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493512", "by": "philshem", "time": 1542719381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the Radiolab podcast about it (2015) https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/home-where-your-dolphin-is..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 18495155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495155", "by": "Isamu", "time": 1542731850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Before this I hadn't known how much I like to go back and forth between the text and picture, sometimes just skimming so I can interpret the picture, then maybe reading more carefully, etc. When the text covers the image, sometimes even adding a scroll bar, that really increases the friction. Well, it is a learning experience in more ways than one. I was just getting to this part of the war in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast so it was great to look at a good photo collection. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-51-bluepr..."}, {"show": "894243371", "hn_item": 18495222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495222", "by": "WesleyLivesay", "time": 1542732264, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A bit of self-promotion here, I am the creator of a World War 1 podcast focused on being approachable to people without a ton of knowledge about the war called History of the Great War Website: https://www.historyofthegreatwar.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-great-war..."}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 18495775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495775", "by": "ballenf", "time": 1542735877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Syntax podcast just did an episode on some strategies for getting along at work. https://syntax.fm My one piece of advice is to treat the problem like a really hard programming challenge -- it's a problem that definitely is solvable by you but will take a lot of work and learning a lot of new skills. You may never enjoy it or be the best at it, but you absolutely can do it. Clearly you're on this path already by asking the question."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18496454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496454", "by": "ra07312006", "time": 1542739439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been in your situation for some years. My anxiety was a drain on my productivity and happiness. In the end, success mean't understanding it thoroughly. Limiting human interactions is great for the company's productivity and terrible for your own personal and emotional growth. Some of the personal strategies that helped me: - Going on a technology cliff for a while, really trying hard to adopt a non-IT/non-code mindset. - Separation of work and life - Understanding the people we work with and why we don't all get along. - Your interests will change over the years. What is cool to code-up today "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18514258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18514258", "by": "manigandham", "time": 1542945597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Built to Burn\" is a great podcast episode from 99% Invisible that talked about wildfire prevention and mitigation techniques. It mainly comes down to proper home and surroundings design to prevent the spread of fire, letting it burn itself out. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/"}, {"show": "1265826242", "hn_item": 18524608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524608", "by": "InTheArena", "time": 1543104148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Space Rocket History podcast is in the middle of a very long breakdown of the Apollo 13 flight. highly recommend, but the host has quite the accent. http://spacerockethistory.com/"}, {"show": "419889705", "hn_item": 18528534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18528534", "by": "nonoesp", "time": 1543174602, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 18543355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543355", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1543334275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Humans have this seemingly innate or nearly innate theory of mind, where the beliefs and desires of other people can be reasoned about in an effort to understand or predict their behavior. A few key neuroscience results suggest that the brain does not really work how the \"theory of mind\" has us think it should. The concepts of belief and desire that we use in our theory of mind, may actually just be crude heuristics that were useful at some point in our evolutionary past, but don't actually have explanatory power in the way most humans naturally try to apply them today. I don't really know how"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 18546332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546332", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1543350317, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's exactly the riot cop problem. On the cop side, the more armor you have, the less you see and the more hostile the world /seems/; this increases the chance of using force instead of diplomacy in any given situation. On the civilian side, you get to feel like you live in a goddamned war zone, with the police as combatants. It's not a nice feeling. My own approach is to treat cops as large, gun-wielding wild animals: maybe they'll be fine, but in any interaction there's a chance they'll fuck up your life permanently. And that's a direct consequence of having police on 'war footing' with the "}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 18557910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557910", "by": "craftyguy", "time": 1543463298, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a pretty good podcast[0] (Hidden Brain) a while back that explores one possibility for why religions sprang up all over the world. The idea was that once communities grew too large for folks to know everyone, there needed to be something which two complete strangers in a community could relate to, with sufficient punishment for committing moral, ethical, etc crimes, for those communities to function. They also discuss how modern communities have less of a need for this. It's definitely an interesting topic, and my description didn't really do it justice. 0. https://www.npr.org/2018/0"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 18577515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577515", "by": "dvtrn", "time": 1543682894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you appreciate this style of ad delivery (and don't mind his...uh....language), comedian Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast and Thursday Just Before Friday Monday Morning Podcast has some hilarious ad reads. He hates doing it, he hates having to do it, and he openly mocks how silly some of the ad copy can be. Which apparently is fine by his sponsors because apparently they convert incredibly well (it might also have to do with Andrew Themeles, producer and comic as well allegedly is very particular about who they are willing to be sponsored by since neither of them are hurting for the money"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 18578138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578138", "by": "halflings", "time": 1543689750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most unique ad readings are probably Bill Burr's, on his Monday Morning podcast. He would often read the copy sent to him by companies advertising, criticize their terrible writing or the product itself... and he's not faking it either, as he often loses these advertisers. (but it's Bill Burr! so not running out of advertisers any time soon) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlBreqGEQ70"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 18578885, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18578885", "by": "alejohausner", "time": 1543697870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "English has lots of pairs of words that both mean the same thing. Examples: pork and swine, beef and cow, mutton and sheep, battle and fight, fraternity and brother, justice and right, elevate and lift. The words pork, beef, mutton, battle, fraternity, justice, elevate are all French, and were used by the Norman aristocracy after 1066. They all connote sophistication and nobility. The words swine, cow, sheep, fight, brother, right, lift are all Anglo-Saxon, and were used by the powerless peasants after 1066. They all connote earthiness and familiarity. There is a fun podcast \"The History of En"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 18591163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18591163", "by": "myth_buster", "time": 1543860377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Lex Fridman's AGI Podcast where Vladimir Vapnik came to talk about Statistical Learning[0] and his take on deep learning as compared to statistics/mathematics was dismissive. To paraphrase from memory, the problems deep learning is solving is not hard enough. There has been a rift between the statistical community and ML community for a while and I see it similar to the arguments one makes when it comes to sciences vs engineering. [0] https://lexfridman.com/ai/"}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 18598394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18598394", "by": "dm3", "time": 1543922529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great writeup - exactly what I've been thinking about for the past year. What's the impact of US Dollar losing its reserve currency status? There's a great podcast which sparked my interest in following macro developments, touching the future of the US dollar in particular - Macro Voices - The US Dollar End Game [1] (there are 5 parts, link points to the first one). I'd also recommend listening/reading the transcripts for all the pieces with Jeffrey Snider, e.g. [2] and his blog [3]. [1]: https://www.macrovoices.com/336-anatomy-of-the-u-s-dollar-en... [2]: https://www.macrovoices.com/239-jeffr"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18600868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18600868", "by": "ballenf", "time": 1543940883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ReplyAll podcast did a special on police policies and how they are designed to improve cities' images through a system that is absurdly unjust: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/127-the-crime-machine-... My issue with the parent argument is simply that the UAE is so bad it makes even a screwed up system like that in many US cities look good."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18608404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608404", "by": "Beltiras", "time": 1544019876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While on Joe Rogan's podcast Elon Musk did say he had the design for a VTOL electric plane that regained the energy used for lift on descent. I was a little bit more than intrigued by that."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18615258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18615258", "by": "tzury", "time": 1544068560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I saw her first at Joe Rogan's podcast[1]. Far beyond the athletic achievement, I was amazed by her humility, how modest was she was during the entire conversation! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DfjXnIk6c"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18616671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616671", "by": "feketegy", "time": 1544090131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, I don't know about that, on the Rogan podcast at one point she mentioned that one time she actually temporarily got blind of the exhaustion, but still kept running, so clearly her body was not up for it, but she was/is \"crazy\" enough not to stop."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18616689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18616689", "by": "feketegy", "time": 1544090347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Joe Rogan podcast with her, nobody can run non-stop for the full 240 miles. They sleep, rest even if for 10 - 20 minutes. She was also resting, but on average she stopped fewer times than anybody else in the race. Also, Moab is not like a marathon, it's rough terrain, so you can't possibly run with full force, like on a marathon flat surface. Look at the terrain they're running on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YseTVpI4R5U"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 18627433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18627433", "by": "mathattack", "time": 1544189190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Mindscape podcast touches on a lot of these issues. More recently [0] they had David Chalmers who was quoted in the OP. [0] https://overcast.fm/+Nvq_vr69w"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 18635714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635714", "by": "smcl", "time": 1544283591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just adding to the Adam Curtis podcast appearances - he was also on Chapo Trap House: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 18644034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644034", "by": "kqr2", "time": 1544398631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also check out this interview from the founders on \"How I Built This\" podcast: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626649702/lonely-planet-maure..."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 18649068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18649068", "by": "ChaseT", "time": 1544459814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Having been introduced to this idea by CGPgrey on the Hello Internet podcast, I didn't know there was such a concise version of this idea written so well. I've tried to spread this message to my friends irl, and Aaron puts it better than I ever could."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18660855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18660855", "by": "eucryphia", "time": 1544581108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I occasionally drive 3.5 hours to an evening meeting, visit my brother overnight, return early in the morning. If the meeting is pointless, I prescribe soothing classical music afterwards, Bach, Mozart, you'll need all the help you can get. Otherwise podcasts. I recommend Russ Roberts EconTalk, not just about economics. On a bus you'll need good noise cancelling earphones and a means to recharge or power it. I find my best ideas randomly pop into my head when thinking about something completely different, so don't think it has to be relevant to what you're working on at the time."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18661032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661032", "by": "notahappycamper", "time": 1544583587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah I already listen to a bunch of audio content, especially podcasts (Planet Money, Freakonomics, EconTalk for economics). However now I am a recent graduate, and would like to apply this time more actively to improve my skills."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18661032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661032", "by": "notahappycamper", "time": 1544583587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah I already listen to a bunch of audio content, especially podcasts (Planet Money, Freakonomics, EconTalk for economics). However now I am a recent graduate, and would like to apply this time more actively to improve my skills."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18661032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661032", "by": "notahappycamper", "time": 1544583587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah I already listen to a bunch of audio content, especially podcasts (Planet Money, Freakonomics, EconTalk for economics). However now I am a recent graduate, and would like to apply this time more actively to improve my skills."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18661045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18661045", "by": "notahappycamper", "time": 1544583791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do already listen to podcasts, including EconTalk. I have a lot of inactive downtime like walking to the bus stop, walking my dog, grocery shopping etc. I am trying to find a way to actively improve my skills as a recent grad since I am going to be forced to have this passive time since I am not driving."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18663651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18663651", "by": "SOLAR_FIELDS", "time": 1544621232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While not about software engineering, I find Reply All to be one of the most interesting podcasts out there because it deals with the intersection of technology and society. While it\u2019s more geared toward the layperson, listening to it really helps you understand how everyone around perceives various pieces of technology."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18667829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18667829", "by": "wcfields", "time": 1544649265, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money podcast a covered this topic a few months ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/epis..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18668462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668462", "by": "anitil", "time": 1544655461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Such a good episode! Planet Money is so good that I've worked my way through 10 years of back-episodes over the last year or so, it's one of few podcasts which is worth doing that."}, {"show": "1540997760", "hn_item": 18668513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18668513", "by": "simon_acca", "time": 1544656081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The MIT AI podcast by Lex Friedman has an impressive track record so far, all guests are deep thinkers and veterans in their fields. Other podcasts in my very subjective order if value : the cognitect podcast, ycombinator podcast, functional geekery, software engineering daily, a16z podcast, masters of scale, talk python to me, GCP podcast. As for how I go about finding new podcasts, unfortunately I have not found a good aggregator/rating site, so I just stay alert for mentions from other podcasts."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18670344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670344", "by": "taylorfinley", "time": 1544683606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At the risk of derailing things and spiraling into off-topic chatter... is anyone else really bothered by the background music on the Freakonomics podcast? They seem to use the same tracks every episode. Ten years ago that wasn't particularly grating, but as production values in podcasting have gone up listening now I feel like I'm hearing a marketing video thrown together on fiverr."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18672498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18672498", "by": "kennxfl", "time": 1544711404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wouldn't have known about hemp and William R. Hearst if not for JRE podcast."}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 18672950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18672950", "by": "screye", "time": 1544715059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Talking Machines. (Especially when Ryan Adams was the host) It is possibly the best ML podcast available. It is fairly technical and assumes a base level of ML and Statistics competency. It is great way to keep in touch the ML landscape and doesn't feel like a watered down discussion for newbies. I've tried a few more for ML, but they are either not hosted well, or talk more about everything around ML than about it."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 18675808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18675808", "by": "HeyLaughingBoy", "time": 1544733268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This morning I listened (again) to a really good IndieHackers podcast with Laura Roeder where she answers this question (thanks Courtland!). Her suggestion was to buy traffic from Facebook, IG, etc. at the beginning. Once you're seeded with some regular visitors, continue to work on getting more organic traffic coming in. But like everything, 90% of success is showing up, so first you actually have to tell people the blog exists and post stuff!"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 18679118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18679118", "by": "srcmap", "time": 1544772257, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was brainwashed by the \"Security Now\" podcast --- I will trust the HSM that is open to any security researchers to do extensively study/review more than typical \"security by obscurity\" implementations."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 18682738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682738", "by": "danr4", "time": 1544809344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're a snowboard romantic, I HIGHLY suggest listening to the \"How I built this\" podcast episode with Jake Burton, the founder of Burton snowboards. It's an incredibly moving and honest look at the beginnings of the sport."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 18682748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682748", "by": "kpwagner", "time": 1544809452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing one of the founders talking about users trading stocks. He explained their data shows people get better at trading stocks with more experience. I can't remember the source, but I think it was on This Week in Startups podcast. This is really suspect--kind of like a casino telling blackjack players they will get better the more they play. If Robinhood is incentivizing or encouraging frequent trading by users, that's not really good in my opinion. It doesn't make them worse than other brokerages, but it doesn't make them better either. And with a name like Robinhood, they are p"}, {"show": "1353975287", "hn_item": 18686139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18686139", "by": "hoag", "time": 1544833350, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 18696489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696489", "by": "jkqwzsoo", "time": 1545012913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm far from an expert. I don't trade professionally (i.e. I don't derive my income from it), and I'm a chemical engineer by day. I think the best resource for anyone starting out investing would be \"A Random Walk Down Wall Street\" (Burton Malkiel), and maybe \"The Intelligent Investor\" (Benjamin Graham), even if you don't intend to be a traditional value investor. I think these books (I'll admit I haven't read all of The Intelligent Investor) set your expectations. I also listen to Masters in Business, Odd Lots, and P&L podcasts by Bloomberg (P&L is more short-term, while MiB and Odd Lots are "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 18696489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696489", "by": "jkqwzsoo", "time": 1545012913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm far from an expert. I don't trade professionally (i.e. I don't derive my income from it), and I'm a chemical engineer by day. I think the best resource for anyone starting out investing would be \"A Random Walk Down Wall Street\" (Burton Malkiel), and maybe \"The Intelligent Investor\" (Benjamin Graham), even if you don't intend to be a traditional value investor. I think these books (I'll admit I haven't read all of The Intelligent Investor) set your expectations. I also listen to Masters in Business, Odd Lots, and P&L podcasts by Bloomberg (P&L is more short-term, while MiB and Odd Lots are "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18700992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700992", "by": "1zee", "time": 1545072202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "a relevant aside, the Reply All podcast episode on drop-shipping is a great listen"}, {"show": "1297187822", "hn_item": 18707907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18707907", "by": "pronoiac", "time": 1545150988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason Scott's podcast: http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 18718750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18718750", "by": "snissn", "time": 1545248490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to an episode of Sean Carroll's podcast with the planet nine astronomer interviewed. Basically they're working on finding it, but their math can only limit the location of the planet to a specific orbit, and they need to check all possible angles of that orbit and it is a lot of the sky to look through. Edit - podcast link https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/08/27/epis..."}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 18719564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719564", "by": "kiddico", "time": 1545253258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've nearly worked my way through the Idle Thumbs archive, and was starting to think I'd run out of driving entertainment soon :P I'll add this to my podcast rotation."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 18719975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18719975", "by": "bdcravens", "time": 1545255655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It is kind of weird why engineers are so obsessed with tools though. Would you say the same thing about programming languages? I was actually listening to the Full Stack Radio podcast, and the latest episode talked about the power of moving more into the database. What struck me as a strong idea was that we can't treat databases as equivalent - different database servers have different strengths (for example, some have better JSON support or time evaluation functions). I think it's particularly telling that you seem to be thinking of the database as a \"tool\", but if you're like most, you fig"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 18735589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735589", "by": "pacificmint", "time": 1545418700, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The New York Times podcast, The Daily, had a two part episode on that very topic a few weeks ago. [1][2] It explored how China started opening the economy and how western politics assumed that between the economy and the internet, political change in China as all but inevitable. And of course how very wrong that turns out to be in hindsight. I\u2019d highly recommend those episodes. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/podcasts/the-daily/china-... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/podcasts/the-daily/china-..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 18743009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18743009", "by": "lamby", "time": 1545520055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I quite liked Johann Hari on Sam Harris's podcast on addiction, depression, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 18747533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18747533", "by": "boltzmannbrain", "time": 1545589936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm happier and healthier that these conversations are happening; I'm not alone. Facebook is clearly problematic, and I've been suspicious of the negative effects of Instagram and Hinge (dating app). The former would make me jealous/depressed/frustrated as I compare myself to glimpses of my peers supposedly winning at life. The latter would make me less outgoing in real life, b/c somehow flipping through dating profiles satisfied an underlying desire to meet new people. I highly recommend Johann Hari's work: \"Lost Connections\" book [1], Sam Harris and Ezra Klein podcast episodes [2, 3], TED ta"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18748490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748490", "by": "esolyt", "time": 1545600895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not just his politics. He has become a delusional an egotistical person. He kept talking about how Twitter shadowbanned him for months. When he was on Joe Rogan's podcast, Joe Rogan suggested ways to test if this is true. He got upset and tried to change the subject. When pressed by Rogan, he finally said: \"I don't really want to find out. I just like the idea that I am important to be shadowbanned.\""}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 18750688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750688", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1545631676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hanselminutes podcast featured a really interesting episode on Blazor earlier this year: https://radiopublic.com/hanselminutes-fresh-talk-and-tec-Wzn... One of the things that surprised me is that Blazor doesn't compile the app code to WASM; it actually runs a WASM build of the CLR in the browser, which is used to interpret regular .NET DLLs sent from the server."}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 18757291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18757291", "by": "ceautery", "time": 1545743938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I discovered Claire North this year after she was interviewed on the Imaginary Worlds podcast. I picked up Touch, The Sudden Appearance of Hope, and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, all of which were wonderful."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18763245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763245", "by": "benjaminwootton", "time": 1545844762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This trait and disease was discussed at length on the Joe Rogan podcast with Mcauley Culkin. Apparently rats which catch toxoplasmosis are attracted to cat urine, which is an evolutionary reason for its development. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyb1xz7waY8"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 18765680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765680", "by": "drak0n1c", "time": 1545865856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside - it's interesting that the New York Times uses the descriptor \"left-leaning\" for Chapo Trap House, a podcast by self-described Marxists who regularly advocate for mass property seizure and anti-social mischief. In the article there is no hesitation to use \"right-wing\", so why not use \"left-wing\"? \"Far-right\" appears regularly in headlines about a variety of events, but I can't recall the last time \"far-left\" was used at all in headlines or body text, outside of a quote."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 18777353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18777353", "by": "wenc", "time": 1546011902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you mean Tyler Cowen, no. He's just quick at thinking up questions and doesn't have a tendency to insert fillers like umms and ahhs in his speech. Tyler currently hosts one of the most interesting podcasts on the Internet, \"Conversations with Tyler\" [1] for people with omnivorous interests. His guest list is a who's who of the trendiest (unorthodox?) thinkers today (e.g. Vitalik Buterin, Bruno Macaes, Claire Lehmann, Nassim Taleb, Agnes Callard, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Thiel, etc.) Topics of conversation are similarly omnivorous, from Chinese food to loneliness. [1] https://medium.com/convers"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 18787299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787299", "by": "ftio", "time": 1546142497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite episodes of my favorite podcast (Reply All by Gimlet) is about Minitel: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/french-connection Well worth a listen."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 18804212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18804212", "by": "smbullet", "time": 1546403733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John August also talks about it in episode 74 of his podcast with Craig Mazin called Scriptnotes: http://johnaugust.com/2013/three-hole-punchdrunk Although you need to pay to access archived podcasts they have all of them transcribed: http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-ep-74-three-hole-punc... I highly recommend the podcast to anyone even remotely interested in the movie industry. I've been listening for around 6 months now and can't stop."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 18805522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805522", "by": "tapland", "time": 1546428282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast has an episode on this called 'The Crypto Wars': https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/12"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18808905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18808905", "by": "mulmen", "time": 1546455453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan podcast is on national TV now? I thought the whole point of it was that it wasn\u2019t a network show."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 18808960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18808960", "by": "ffugly", "time": 1546455812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just finished the End of the World podcast. Episodes 1-3 talk a lot about the Fermi paradox, the Great Filter, etc. Recommend a listen. Do you have a link to the Fermi paradox article you mentioned?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18809173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18809173", "by": "mulmen", "time": 1546457007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He did it on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18809386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18809386", "by": "dragonwriter", "time": 1546458207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Joe Rogan podcast is on national TV now? The part of it in discussion was, because of its content. Everything that is recorded and available outside of a narrowly controlled group is effectively national TV, in that if you do something that would be newsworthy, that's where it's going to end up. Anyone in a PR-sensitive role, including any CEO, ought to be aware of that."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 18812006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812006", "by": "lokedhs", "time": 1546478319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a combination of both. They have tools that help worth the trajectory calculations, but they have to manually decide on the basic layout of the path to take. There is a very interesting interview with Pablo Munoz from the Bepi Colombo team about flight dynamics on the Omega Tau podcast that explains this: http://omegataupodcast.net/295-bepicolombo/ The other interviews on the same episode are also worth listening to. In fact, the entire podcast is great."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 18812444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18812444", "by": "barry-cotter", "time": 1546484073, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in predicting the future read Philip Tetlock\u2019s Superforecasting. In general people don\u2019t make precise predictions to be right or wrong. Review https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/10/superforecastin.htm... https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/10/outside_first.html Superforecasting on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0771070527/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_b... Tetlock\u2019s Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_E._Tetlock Econtalk interview podcast with Tetlock https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 18822130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822130", "by": "fuddle", "time": 1546578743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily has a good podcast episode where they go into more details with the reporters who wrote the NYT article: https://nyti.ms/2G7NcWH"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 18824529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824529", "by": "acconrad", "time": 1546614887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been an EM for a few years. A few quick tips since a lot of people have covered stuff: * D E L E G A T E => Your job is to keep your people productive and effective. Doing that starts with yourself - do the things only YOU can do and delegate the rest to the people who are better served to handle that. * Check out the Manager Tools podcast and focus on the basics ( https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics ) * The 2 books I got solid, actionable advice from were \"The First 90 Days\" [1] and \"The 27 Challenges Managers Face\" [2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/First-90-Days-Strategies-Expand"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 18825414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825414", "by": "dec0dedab0de", "time": 1546620435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been pointing out subtle commercials to my son since he was old enough to know the word. Also, not on youtube, but Bill Burr does some fantastic advertisements on the Monday Morning Podcast. I never want to skip them."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 18825468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825468", "by": "durzagott", "time": 1546620740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I transitioned from dev into management about eight years ago and haven't looked back since. - You have to really like working with people and I mean all kinds of people, not just those you identify with. You'll have to build strong relationships with people from a diverse range of backgrounds, personalities, experience levels and cultures. You'll discover unconscious biases you didn't even know you had and it will be your job to mitigate against them (they don't just go away). - People are messy and you will be in a privileged position to see behind the mask. They will bring their problems to"}, {"show": "1008577710", "hn_item": 18825497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18825497", "by": "jermaustin1", "time": 1546620930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What is funny, is this is the opposite I heard on the podcast \"The Pitch\" when all of the investors were complaining that the developer built a web app first. I can't remember the product, but he justified it well, eventually they agreed, but wanted to see an app before investing."}, {"show": "1805922628", "hn_item": 18848812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848812", "by": "bigato", "time": 1546888219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a extensive review on a couple of podcasts on this topic by the \"Science Versus\" podcast."}, {"show": "1314170606", "hn_item": 18848942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18848942", "by": "ddebernardy", "time": 1546888889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Democracy hasn't failed here. Your MPs have. Humphrey in Yes, Minister puts it very aptly: the UK joined the EU to try to screw it up from within after failing to screw it up from without. De Gaulle saw through this and that is why he refused to let the UK join while was at the helm. The UK leaving the EU and/or disagreeing with what it stands for (to the UK: a market; to the rest of the EU: a peace project with benefits) has been a debate ever since the UK joined. If I am not mistaking, nearly all challenges to PMs in the UK since have been about the EU. True, the EU is not perfect. But it's "}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 18849951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18849951", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1546894472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had to listen to Carolla talk about them for years now. Off the top of my head they've been on: - Rogan - Stuff You Should Know - Several Adam Carolla podcasts - Art of Charm - Nerdist at some point (pretty sure) - Harmontown They're as bad as DollarShaveClub and Casper when it comes to popping up on podcasts."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 18849951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18849951", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1546894472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had to listen to Carolla talk about them for years now. Off the top of my head they've been on: - Rogan - Stuff You Should Know - Several Adam Carolla podcasts - Art of Charm - Nerdist at some point (pretty sure) - Harmontown They're as bad as DollarShaveClub and Casper when it comes to popping up on podcasts."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 18853704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853704", "by": "lancerkind", "time": 1546928705, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Three to ten minute episodes focused on science fiction in literature, movies, and history. SciFi Thoughts is the \u201cThis American Life\u201d of speculative work. Introducing SciFi Thoughts: https://lancerkind.com/podcast/001-introduction-to-scifi-thoughts/ Archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/SciFi-Thoughts"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18856957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18856957", "by": "driverdan", "time": 1546966047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hate ad and meta content on highly produced podcasts like 99% Invisible. They waste at least 2-3 minutes at the beginning and end on credits and ads, plus additional ad time in the middle. I already skip past it, it'd prefer if it was skipped automatically. The same goes for public media beg-a-thons. We get it, you want people to donate. Don't waste 30 min of our time begging."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 18857450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857450", "by": "semi-extrinsic", "time": 1546968823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This should be the top comment. Lampert's mismanagement has been thoroughly described, e.g. the Slate Money podcast from 20th October gives an overview."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18858008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18858008", "by": "3minus1", "time": 1546972106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me about a recent Freakonomics podcast about Trader Joe's. It starts off by asking, what would you think about a grocery store with no name brands, much fewer options, no sales on items, not loyalty program, no automated checkout, no large social media presence, no large advertising budget, etc? A lot of it sounds bad, but Trader Joe's is really successful."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 18860719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860719", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1546989107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As mentioned on the podcast \u201cLexicon Valley\u201d"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 18863479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18863479", "by": "beefsack", "time": 1547026100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've tried and failed to get into some RPG campaigns in a few different systems (my general anxiety didn't help) but I listen to and absolutely adore The Adventure Zone podcast[1]. There's scope for some really wonderful collaborative storytelling in these systems, and the TAZ group are a few brothers and their dad and they gel together perfectly. Helps that they have lots of podcasting experience too, very high quality production. [1]: https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 18863913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18863913", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1547032849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With Steve, you could draw a straight line from the original Mac to the iPad. You could see one relentless mission to tame unusable hardware into a friendly machine through software. You could imagine Steve wanting something like an iPad even with the original Mac. Jobs just wanted the software engineers to blow up the iPhone interface for the iPad. The fact that the original iPad had any affordances for the larger screen was because of engineers\u2019 push back. Unfortunately, the only sources I have are interviews from Nitin Ganatra, who was over some of the iPad apps at the time, from the Debug "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 18867219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18867219", "by": "thieving_magpie", "time": 1547058328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangential story, who remembers when the US government \"accidentally created a cheese surplus so large it had to be stored in a ginormous cave.\" Great podcast on it from Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/epis..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 18885994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885994", "by": "opo", "time": 1547234012, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible had a story on \"The Great Red Car Conspiracy\" which covers this. As with most issues, it looks like it is more complex (and interesting) than first appears. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-70-the-great-..."}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 18892215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18892215", "by": "feross", "time": 1547314353, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 18897778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897778", "by": "branislav", "time": 1547402346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also highly recommend this [1] episode of the Omega Tau podcast which touches on black holes, holography and quantum gravity. [1] http://omegataupodcast.net/191-string-theory/"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 18899221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899221", "by": "nabla9", "time": 1547419785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened Sean Carrol's podcast interview wit Penrose and I think they are different. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/01/07/epis... In the loop quantum gravity there is a bounce because at the lowest level spacetime is discrete and can't be compressed. The big bounce theory of relating to big bang in the loop quantum theory might be similar to the black hole/white hole theory. In Penrose's theory it's the gravity/mass that is creating time and clumping things together between the big bang and the heat death of the universe (you need mass to create clock and time). At th"}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 18899319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899319", "by": "theowu", "time": 1547420969, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Six months ago, I started listening to podcasts, and I've been hooked ever since -- some of my favorites are Acquired (https://www.acquired.fm/) & The Twenty Minute VC (https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/). I love how much I learn in these podcasts, but I haven't found a great way to retain this knowledge. I'm curious to hear 1) how often this happens to others and 2) what you currently do when you hear something memorable/relevant? Welcome to any additional thoughts!"}, {"show": "1441708044", "hn_item": 18909738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18909738", "by": "dewey", "time": 1547542366, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Episode 7 of Vice's new podcast is also great on the topic: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18915066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18915066", "by": "arafa", "time": 1547585513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article quickly discussed fecal transplants, which seem to be an extremely promising and underexplored avenue (for obvious reasons) for dealing with obesity without surgery. I always figured if I got seriously overweight I would try it. I first heard about it from the Freakonomics blog (different episode than was mentioned in another comment: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-the-power... )"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18926463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926463", "by": "myth_buster", "time": 1547679951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As people are sharing resources related to John, the Freakonomics podcast, where John makes an appearance, on investing I found was informative as well. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18926480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18926480", "by": "isseu", "time": 1547680040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a great podcast about index funds with him http://freakonomics.com/podcast/stupidest-money/ > Warren Buffett, the most famous investor in the world, had this to say recently: \u201cIf a statue is ever erected to honor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands-down choice should be Jack Bogle.\u201d"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18927788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18927788", "by": "skilled", "time": 1547692334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was watching a Joe Rogan podcast repeat with Theo Von last night and he literally mentioned this same this same thing halfway through .. That's some matrix sh*t right here... Hahaha. Disclosure: I am replying to my own comment."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 18949740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18949740", "by": "jcims", "time": 1547938419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That\u2019s super interesting, thank you for sharing. Lex Fridman has a recording of the CEO of Boston Dynamics on his podcast. It was from a lecture Q&A at MIT I believe. And in there he talks about the control challenges as though they are likely the bigger problem to tackle vs. the mechanical (which seems obvious on one hand but interesting to hear him say). In an off-handed comment he said how hooking the mechanics up to a person (so they could run the robot in a fly by wire way) shows just how fast the machine is and how much the software/sensor/controller stacks are slowing them down. He also"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18953371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953371", "by": "justtopost", "time": 1547997258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rhonda is a rare gem of critical thinking in the wild west of nutrition science. I cannont suggest her enough. I do wish she would make more layman-accessable content, but am loathe to ever ask anyone to dumb themselves down. Very dense in information and theory, but assumes an understanding of some basic biology to follow. I think her appearances on the Rogan podcast are the easiest to parse for most."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18953615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953615", "by": "everdev", "time": 1548000438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very well said! I heard someone on the Joe Rogan podcast describe science as faith. There's nothing in the universe that says gravity today must act like gravity tomorrow. We basically take it on faith that we understand gravity and that it's not changing. If you're looking for 100% confidence, \"I think therefore I am\" or simply \"I am\" is as close as we've come."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 18960174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960174", "by": "bartkappenburg", "time": 1548076824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a (pretty recent) interview, in an episode of 'Tell me something I don't know', with the organization behind this project on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/tmsidk-guarnaschelli-2018/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 18964814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964814", "by": "ellius", "time": 1548115297, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This episode of Odd Lots entitled \"Why the Eurodollar Might Be Ground Zero for De-Globalization\" is a great listen: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?mt..."}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 18965405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18965405", "by": "kaycebasques", "time": 1548122360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see that the podcast features Jeffrey Snider. You might be interested in his extensive series on Macro Voices [1] called Eurodollar University. [1] https://www.macrovoices.com/edu (scroll to bottom)"}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 18965405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18965405", "by": "kaycebasques", "time": 1548122360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see that the podcast features Jeffrey Snider. You might be interested in his extensive series on Macro Voices [1] called Eurodollar University. [1] https://www.macrovoices.com/edu (scroll to bottom)"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 18968700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18968700", "by": "audiometry", "time": 1548169547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omega Tau podcast has quite a long episode on analog computers."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 18975367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975367", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1548213733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast has an excellent episode featuring Mr. Woods: http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 18977427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977427", "by": "sonnyblarney", "time": 1548243605, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1426194513", "hn_item": 18982761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18982761", "by": "sheana_ahlqvist", "time": 1548276589, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 18992289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18992289", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1548359641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think there are likely some that are okay, given my limited knowledge of the subject, which is really just from hearing Adam Savage talk on the Still Untitled podcast about the new ones he got, how his hearing loss it at a different frequency than most people, and how it used to be a big ordeal to get them tuned for specific frequencies (you had to schedule an appointment). His new ones allowed him to re-tune for different types of listening through his phone. Even if that capability doesn't specifically address the range frequency required for music listening adequately, I imagine there are"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 18999790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18999790", "by": "elektor", "time": 1548435244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Long overdue. Maybe in a few months I can watch a Joe Rogan podcast video without tainting my YouTube recommendations for the next year with Ben Shapiro-style clickbait."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19000191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000191", "by": "vbuwivbiu", "time": 1548437476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "same! I touched a Rogan podcast & ever since I've been getting recommendations for a certain JP"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 19004456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19004456", "by": "celias", "time": 1548470840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interview of Steve Dower at TalkPython podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/191/python-s-journey-at-..."}, {"show": "1691652896", "hn_item": 19026518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19026518", "by": "shauntrennery", "time": 1548772180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Recode Decode podcast recently featured an online divorce service: https://www.recode.net/podcasts/2019/1/26/18198055/laura-was..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19026712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19026712", "by": "Dirlewanger", "time": 1548773416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Rhonda Patrick was on Joe Rogan's podcast and she went into the chief importance of the gut microbiome ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOodMDndr4Q ). Like I knew eating healthy/exercise/etc. was all good, but she went in-depth on how crucially important eating the right foods was to so many other systems in your body, and I just had no idea of all of it."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 19037609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19037609", "by": "hjacobs", "time": 1548871996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is now a Kubernetes podcast episode with me about the topic: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/038-kubernetes-failure..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19041693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19041693", "by": "helipad", "time": 1548900975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good Reply All podcast episode about this story in early December: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-ple... The inevitably was sadly clear to all but those who had the power to make it happen."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 19043872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19043872", "by": "apetrovic", "time": 1548931675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth listening is a follow-up with the reporter (Sruthi Pinnamaneni) on The Verge podcast: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/11/18136020/foxconn-wiscons..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 19044401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19044401", "by": "Kaivo", "time": 1548939921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regarding the \"bragging\" posts, according to this Hidden Brain podcast [1], it has a more negative effect than anything and is usually not the truth about people current situation in life. For instance, we might see the great vacation pictures, but turns out they were fighting the whole time and it wasn't fun at all, but it is not like they are gonna share that part on FB. [1] https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524005057/when-it-comes-to-ou..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 19048711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048711", "by": "yingw787", "time": 1548967870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two sites I've found on Product Management while listening to Indie Hackers podcasts include: - Product Management HQ: https://www.productmanagerhq.com/ - Roadmap.com: https://www.roadmap.com/ I haven't used them enough to rate how good they are, though."}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 19056751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19056751", "by": "black6", "time": 1549044931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Congressional Dish podcast[0] by Jen Briney is a fantastic resource, for those of us who don't want to watch committee hearings or read the scrawlings of Congress. She mixes in a bit of opinion, but she presents the facts and, since she uses the value-for-value model of listener support, she is not compromised by advertisers. 0: https://congressionaldish.com/"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 19058364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19058364", "by": "analogmemory", "time": 1549053735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends on who they lay off, but it does mean they'll have less resources to do investigative journalism. Hidden Brain had a good podcast episode on the costs of newspapers going out of business. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/675092808/starving-the-watchd... Unless you're a shady person, then it's all good news :("}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19060084, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19060084", "by": "kenjackson", "time": 1549066972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem with your position is that dirty governments win not by access to information, but by controlling the processes of our government. Police don't really need to plant evidence when they are believed over defendants to begin with. Go listen to the latest season of the Series podcast. Or the Reply All episodes about the police in NYC. If a corrupt cop wants to take you down, they don't need any of this."}, {"show": "513734888", "hn_item": 19072860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072860", "by": "retsibsi", "time": 1549235907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Comedian's Comedian podcast ( http://www.comedianscomedian.com/ ) is another take on exactly that: comedians talking about their craft. The guests come from all over the world, but the host (Stuart Goldsmith) is English and so it skews a bit more in that direction. Recommended guests depend on your taste, but I think most people would find the Stewart Lee episode interesting. The Jimmy Carr episode was also very enjoyable -- surprisingly so to me, as I always considered his standup rather cynical, crude, mean-spirited. Getting a peek behind the curtain changed my perspective a bit. Of rece"}, {"show": "1040481893", "hn_item": 19072860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072860", "by": "retsibsi", "time": 1549235907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Comedian's Comedian podcast ( http://www.comedianscomedian.com/ ) is another take on exactly that: comedians talking about their craft. The guests come from all over the world, but the host (Stuart Goldsmith) is English and so it skews a bit more in that direction. Recommended guests depend on your taste, but I think most people would find the Stewart Lee episode interesting. The Jimmy Carr episode was also very enjoyable -- surprisingly so to me, as I always considered his standup rather cynical, crude, mean-spirited. Getting a peek behind the curtain changed my perspective a bit. Of rece"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 19074307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19074307", "by": "m_mueller", "time": 1549260576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very Bad Wizards podcast (by a psychologist and a philosopher) has a good discussion about the new APA guidelines. Their view is mode balanced but still very critical."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19075005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19075005", "by": "DyslexicAtheist", "time": 1549272717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "hooked since his bit about thinning the herd by sinking cruise ships. :D priceless. I like his personal views a lot (on SJW'ism and the metoo movement) which he explained on Joe Rogan's podcast. Despite covering difficult topics he refuses to be pushed to the left or right. Love the guy!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19079154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19079154", "by": "MarsAscendant", "time": 1549305216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Humans in general are pretty shitty That's a sentiment I never understood. I'm not to deny your feelings, or claim that my view is somehow superior. It's been my observation, however, that people are generally okay, leaning on a good side. (I think it says something that both Henry Rollins, the punk-rock icon, and /u/kleinbl00, a Reddit veteran, share this view.) It seems to me \u2013 and, again, I'm not to stand above anyone on this \u2013 that people often undervalue or overlook the good parts about others or humanity in general. Maybe it's genetically-dictated, the way we look at these things. I've"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19091811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091811", "by": "uabstraction", "time": 1549415806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It doesn't exist yet, but when Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast* wraps up the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution is the next stop. I'm really looking forward to it. Duncan does an incredible job of tying together the precursors, politics, social situation, and military campaigns into a coherent serial narrative. * https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 19092509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19092509", "by": "hourislate", "time": 1549424390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two great podcasts to hear David speak about this and some other things. He was on JRE last week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4 And Peter Attia's Podcast (Peter is probably the Number 1 guy atm when it comes to information on Longevity, The guy is absolutely amazing). https://peterattiamd.com/davidsinclair/ Both David and Peter have books coming out soon. Can hardly wait."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19092620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19092620", "by": "jcims", "time": 1549425986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard the JRE podcast, will have to check out Attia's. Tons of good info. Just starting to take a look at this. I've recently had a crash course in biology due to a cancer diagnosis in the family. One of the creepy behaviors of tumors is that they (through mechanisms that I don't understand) signal the body to create new blood vessels to feed tumors as they grow. To combat this, one of the drugs administered during chemo is bevacizumab/Avastin, which has an anti-angiogensis effect and suppresses this behavior in the body (which has some side effects as well). Based on what I'm reading in the a"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19093620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19093620", "by": "sah2ed", "time": 1549441914, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "iTunes link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772?..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 19095971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095971", "by": "gpantazes", "time": 1549467803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily was the first software podcast which, for me, sparked my interest and delved into technicals but also explained the simple things. At the time I was feeling rather like a novice even though I had a BS in Computer Science, but this podcast really got me excited and made me feel like I was learning what was out there; what was possible to explore. While I still don't understand everything, the broad sweeping topics are great for sparking certain ideas or improving overall understanding of software engineering topics."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19095977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095977", "by": "shauntrennery", "time": 1549467838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Podcast."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 19095985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095985", "by": "mosselman", "time": 1549467892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy Sam Harris's 'Making Sense' (formerly 'Waking Up' podcast). He invites experts on various topics and has informative conversations with them. Some are about scientific topics such as climate change and others are more about personal stories and explorations of thoughts such as recently with Stephen Fry. Sam's business model is also very exemplary: no ads and the podcasts are free. He has the luxury of having many supporters who donate so that he can keep doing what he is doing and some side businesses like meditation app. What this means is that he doesn't need to shy away from "}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 19095985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19095985", "by": "mosselman", "time": 1549467892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy Sam Harris's 'Making Sense' (formerly 'Waking Up' podcast). He invites experts on various topics and has informative conversations with them. Some are about scientific topics such as climate change and others are more about personal stories and explorations of thoughts such as recently with Stephen Fry. Sam's business model is also very exemplary: no ads and the podcasts are free. He has the luxury of having many supporters who donate so that he can keep doing what he is doing and some side businesses like meditation app. What this means is that he doesn't need to shy away from "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19096090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096090", "by": "mywittyname", "time": 1549468422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life. I've learned so much about how other people lives through years of listening to this podcast / radio show. I've literally been in tears during a few episodes, or busting out in laughter at others. One episode about kids who've lost their parents at a young age really helped me connect to my partner. (Edit: My partner lost her father at a young age. This isn't a topic that most people feel comfortable discussing, even with someone close. The episode came on during a road trip and she broke into tears and turned off the radio because it was bringing back so much emotion. Late"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 19096108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096108", "by": "jkingsbery", "time": 1549468503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk. Early in my career, I was a regular listener to three tech podcasts: Java Posse, StackOverflow podcast, and Software Engineering Radio. All three were valuable to my career in different ways, but EconTalk has most affected the way I think. For those who aren't familiar, the host of EconTalk is a professor of economics, so many of his conversations revolve around the world of economics, but since economics touches a lot of things, he ends up talking to a diverse group of people. He is very good at admitting his own bias on the one hand, and then argue against it on the other hand. Als"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19096108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096108", "by": "jkingsbery", "time": 1549468503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk. Early in my career, I was a regular listener to three tech podcasts: Java Posse, StackOverflow podcast, and Software Engineering Radio. All three were valuable to my career in different ways, but EconTalk has most affected the way I think. For those who aren't familiar, the host of EconTalk is a professor of economics, so many of his conversations revolve around the world of economics, but since economics touches a lot of things, he ends up talking to a diverse group of people. He is very good at admitting his own bias on the one hand, and then argue against it on the other hand. Als"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 19096153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096153", "by": "abnry", "time": 1549468759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a hard question to answer because there are two possible interpretations to this question. The first is that is asking only for podcasts that have made a significant impact on your life. The second is to simply go through your podcasts and pick the one that has impacted your life the most, however small. I'll answer according to the latter. --Astonishing Legends has stretched my mind with the unexplained and opened me to the possibility of greater realities beyond what I immediately see. --The Lawfare podcast (and Renato Mariotti's On Topic) has given me a (mostly) level headed and leg"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 19096153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096153", "by": "abnry", "time": 1549468759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a hard question to answer because there are two possible interpretations to this question. The first is that is asking only for podcasts that have made a significant impact on your life. The second is to simply go through your podcasts and pick the one that has impacted your life the most, however small. I'll answer according to the latter. --Astonishing Legends has stretched my mind with the unexplained and opened me to the possibility of greater realities beyond what I immediately see. --The Lawfare podcast (and Renato Mariotti's On Topic) has given me a (mostly) level headed and leg"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 19096186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096186", "by": "40acres", "time": 1549468894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Dave Ramsey Show: Dave is not for everyone, for one he is an absolutist and is very religious and politically conservative, but his advice is very simple when it comes to personal finance and provided a solid base for me to learn more about the fundamentals of personal finance. Plus his callers are a great deterrent from doing stupid things with money. - Marketplace w/ Kai Rysdall: Pound for pound the best economics podcast out there, does a really good job with balancing micro and macro economic trends. - The Weeds by Vox: Fantastic job of getting into policy details, the hosts are pret"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 19096206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096206", "by": "misiti3780", "time": 1549468986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris's - Waking Up. I have gotten the most amazing book recommendations from his guests! Joe Rogan - he generates a lot of content I do not care about but his interviews like Billy Corgan, Elon Musk, Sam Harris, etc are some of the best on the internet. (Bonus - you can watch them on youtube also) I dont like Ezra Klein's podcast (I think he comes off as a pretentious know-it-all), but I do like that he asks every guest for 3 book recommendations, so I almost always skip to the end to write those down too."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 19096215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096215", "by": "aloukissas", "time": 1549469017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Easily the How I Built This podcast. Entrepreneurial without the Silicon Valley kool-aid or being too mainstream. Guy is an excellent interviewer and a very entertaining host. And I love how it focuses on a variety of different startups, from Cisco to Starbucks. You definitely have to catch one of his live shows. Runner-ups: radiolab, TIA, a16z, recode, knowledge project."}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 19096258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096258", "by": "lghh", "time": 1549469195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My Brother, My Brother, and Me. No other podcast has helped shape my humor and general positive outlook on life. I know that a lot of the fans of the podcasts fall into the trap of just repeating the jokes and phrases from the podcast over and over, but if you avoid doing that you'll hopefully find you humor being more cheery and light-hearted than it was before. The brothers all seem like genuinely good dudes who try their best to be as good as they can be. Their related podcasts are good too. The Adventure Zone is a great (comedy) DnD podcast (now on other TTRPGs) that they play with their d"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19096261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096261", "by": "vaughnegut", "time": 1549469218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's important to define what \"learn history\" means. I think a lot of these pop history vidoes are good to supplement or replace poor high school history. However, studying history at a university is a different beast. My experience was an incredible focus on context-building to understand what the sources are actually saying. This usually means building up a large amount of background knowledge (historical, literary, cultural, etc.) before even beginning to study the target period. It also means more critical thinking when looking at the sources themselves. I've found that most podcas"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19096497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19096497", "by": "vaughnegut", "time": 1549470420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a topic close to my heart, since I went to university for history (I'm now doing a second Bachelor's in Comp Sci). A theme I've noticed in the comments, and in the public at large, is confusing learning history with learning to be an historian (or historical thinking). During my degree, I obviously learned a great deal of history. However, a large portion of my time was spent on context-building, and attempting to understand sources on their own terms and to contextualize them into the broader world around them. For example, to study the famous historic period foo, you must first learn"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 19098228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098228", "by": "speedster217", "time": 1549478575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell has a great set of Revisionist History podcasts on this subject. Here's the first one: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19098301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098301", "by": "jedberg", "time": 1549478933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was recently a Planet Money podcast[0] about the HAIL program at U of Michigan. That program basically sends a pamphlet to poor and/or rural students in Michigan with good grades to let them know about the scholarships that the school already offers and to let them use a fast-track application process. Basically it is telling them about things they already had access to but might not have known about. It was only a small experiment, but the early results were promising. [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/01/24/688395248/hail..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 19099377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099377", "by": "40acres", "time": 1549484149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone relatively new to following \"public intellectuals\" (think Tyler Cowen, Jonathan Haidt, Pinker, etc.) I've been surprised at who reductive their arguments seem to be. There is a lot of talk among this class of people regarding the current state of debate but as in many cases I've seen examples of two people who are absolutely grounded in their beliefs and use straw man arguments, diversion and reductive reasoning to defend their points. If you ever listened to the Ezra Klein v. Sam Harris podcast you know what I mean. This isn't the first occasion that I've seen someone rebute the ph"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 19101285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101285", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1549495915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(I only have access to Reddit through a text browser, which makes it hard to figure out what's going on. I deliberately blocked Reddit at my firewall since I found the noise level entirely too high, and don't think this is an important enough topic to unblock.) shrug I'm not here to really support or defend Shaw, only to say that kalimoxto's comment seems like a frivolous reason to disagree with Shaw's opinions on Python 2/3. Why not pick one of his more substantive statements? What URL to you mean for the \"blog post where NOTE I was trolling now appears\"? https://learnpythonthehardway.org/boo"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 19101854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101854", "by": "anonuser123456", "time": 1549500189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent Peter Attia podcast he made an offhanded comment that any deviation from SAD (Standard American Diet) seems to improve health. So probably related to that."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19101993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101993", "by": "Uninen", "time": 1549501781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense (formerly Waking Up) by Sam Harris and Joe Rogan podcast have been most influential but Mindscape by Sean Carrol has risen to very top of my current favourites."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 19101993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101993", "by": "Uninen", "time": 1549501781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense (formerly Waking Up) by Sam Harris and Joe Rogan podcast have been most influential but Mindscape by Sean Carrol has risen to very top of my current favourites."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 19101993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101993", "by": "Uninen", "time": 1549501781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense (formerly Waking Up) by Sam Harris and Joe Rogan podcast have been most influential but Mindscape by Sean Carrol has risen to very top of my current favourites."}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 19104539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104539", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1549539054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You'll like his \"Feeling Good\" podcast"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19106496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106496", "by": "matt4077", "time": 1549558879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "iTunes is probably central to the ecosystem in the same way that the NEw York Times drives the national political conversation although only about two in 100 Americans actually read it: it\u2019s an authoritative source and the people who do read/use it tend to be more influential. I also wouldn\u2019t underestimate the possibility that there is some correlation between enjoying the podcast format and Appple products. This American Life, as the prototypical podcast, is really what happens if you leave Jony Ive in a locked room with only a microphone and a dwindling supply of coffee."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19106671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19106671", "by": "radicalbyte", "time": 1549560338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's such a shame; I've been following Alex's work for years now. It was his podcasts (specifically Planet Money) which got me into podcasts in the first place. Now it looks like he sold up to let his company die at Spotify. I hope that we'll hear the full story eventually and, of course, that this will prove to be a move for the better."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 19112918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19112918", "by": "emerongi", "time": 1549621014, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 19120413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19120413", "by": "cryptonode", "time": 1549681196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I'm a bit late to the party, but I do habe some recomendations. The podcast that recently has been important to me is: Conversations with Tyler. Some people may have issues with hjs background, being a libertarian. But he has the best interview style I have ever heard. He asks the most thoughtful questions on so many different topics. I always come away learning something new. One that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is The Moth. It's very liberal, but helps with keeping me compassionate. The way people tell their stories often makes me emotional. Hello internet is fun, for some reason"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 19120865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19120865", "by": "tacoman", "time": 1549688703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stamos sometimes has a guest spot on the Risky Business podcast. He's incredibly insightful and candid. Other than Dan Geer, I can't think of anyone else that can articulate the current state of infosec as well as he can."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19122033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122033", "by": "kaptain", "time": 1549717149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money had a great podcast on this topic. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19138174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138174", "by": "oflannabhra", "time": 1549918168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of the most refreshing coverage I've heard of football, the NFL, and even CTE has surprisingly come from Freakonomics (the podcast). They had an episode covering CTE [0] entitled \"How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?\" that was sparked by Brian Urschel withdrawing from the NFL after a CTE study came out. Recently, they did an entire series on athletes, and their full interview with Dominique Foxworth [1] was also enlightening from a business / incentive perspective. He's a former player, and former COO of the Player's Union. One thing that gets lost in all of the discussion of the NFL are the "}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 19138277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138277", "by": "bardam", "time": 1549918721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also of interest, Malcolm Galdwell's podcast* \"Revisionist History\" had an excellent episode on CTE in football. He made an analogy to smoking. Evidence had long suggested that smoking was dangerous, but it was only that -- evidence, not hard proof. Evidence continued to pile up, but so did the counter evidence (primarily from tobacco firms and those they funded). At what point do we say -- OK, maybe the evidence isn't 100%, but isn't there enough evidence to suggest something is wrong? * http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/22-burden-of-proof"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 19139171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19139171", "by": "post_break", "time": 1549924872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder how some of the tech podcasters will react to this. Feels like on the ATP podcast they are constantly talking about how great Eero is. Wonder if that will change."}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 19142026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19142026", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1549961361, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 19142943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19142943", "by": "allworknoplay", "time": 1549974648, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Most people here seem to be missing the point: it\u2019s not that poverty hasn\u2019t been moderately improved over the past 30 years, but rather that Pinker\u2019s work has had an incredibly outsized impact on policy and influence on media narratives. Simply put, Pinker and Gates have tricked much of the world into thinking neoliberalism is the best thing ever, even though the data actually shows that the majority of the improvement comes from other brands of economic policy and that most of the wins overall are going to a small number of extremely wealthy people. It\u2019s not abjectly terrible but also not gre"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 19148204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19148204", "by": "dangoor", "time": 1550009928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Overcast's author, Marco Arment, seems pretty clear in his design approach for Overcast (I listen to Accidental Tech Podcast, on which he's a host). He's pretty resistant to things to don't help the core experience of listening to podcasts. For example, he's put a bunch of time into the basic audio features and making watch playback work well, rather than lots of flashy GUI things."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19152502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152502", "by": "afiori", "time": 1550060742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kathy Griffin literally called for her followers to dox the MAGA kids. When asked about this on Joe Rogan podcast twitter CEO just changed the topic. Journalist are the lifeline of twitter, so they will always be on the side of the mainstream media. If you are leftist/liberal but out of the media bubble (like some trans-esclusionary radical femminists) then you are worse off than conservatives,"}, {"show": "1308717668", "hn_item": 19159876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19159876", "by": "deepakkarki", "time": 1550123220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, Swindled has a good podcast episode on the Fyre Festival. http://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-2/episode-04-the-... And I highly recommend rest of their episodes too! http://swindledpodcast.com/ - A true crime podcast about white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19178519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19178519", "by": "umbula", "time": 1550324908, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19189769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19189769", "by": "Aromasin", "time": 1550485545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While the author has come across somewhat passive-aggressive throughout the article, I do agree with the premise. I have many male friends who have quite clearly been gripped by YouTube's recommendation algorithms, and they have no interest in sensible discourse. I've had to distance myself from them because they have become almost religiously zealous in their praise of various right-learning, far-right, and alt-right political commentators. All of them young males with no real career path, hobbies or purpose, and these videos have done an excellent job of painting targets that they can now bl"}, {"show": "1363389413", "hn_item": 19196764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19196764", "by": "dilap", "time": 1550553269, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You might find this interesting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/human-performance-outlie... Interview w/ a doctor focused on the links between gut, autoimmune, and mental health."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 19199603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19199603", "by": "Isamu", "time": 1550590444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is very interesting. >Julia Galef is a writer and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people improve their reasoning and decision-making, particularly with the aim of addressing global problems. She is also the host of the Rationally Speaking podcast. http://www.rationality.org/"}, {"show": "1573272310", "hn_item": 19208443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19208443", "by": "rexreed", "time": 1550675840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great AI Today Podcast interview with 20th Century Fox CTO Hanno Basse on how AI is being used quite intensely in the entertainment industry: https://www.cognilytica.com/2018/11/07/ai-today-podcast-62-a..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 19210724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210724", "by": "MikeCapone", "time": 1550688370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Her podcast has been a great source of interviews with interesting researchers. Her guest appearances have also been great (she's been on Peter Attia's podcast)."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 19218109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218109", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1550767475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't actually listen to many tech podcasts - instead I use them to get news/politics to cut down on mindless browsing. NYT The Daily and NPR's Up First podcast can get you up to speed while doing all your daily hygiene stuff. And NPR's weekly politics roundup is good. If you like history \"Futility Closet\" has a lot of good esoteric history stuff. Reply All is eclectic and fun. Radiolab has good hard science stuff. Hidden Brain is more social sciences oriented."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19218127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218127", "by": "socrates1998", "time": 1550767602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love podcasts. As a self-employed person who needs some light distraction but can't walk to a water cooler and just kill some time, they are perfect. I tried going back to the radio yesterday for a moment and almost threw up with the quality. Not sure if a \"Netflix for podcasts\" would work. Unless ad money dries up because advertisers think people skip them too much, then I am not sure what the advantage would be. I do skip some of the commercials, but I feel like enough get through to make worth their while. I have legitimately bought stuff because of them. I saw an article about how much J"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19218230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218230", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1550768155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it depends on the type of podcast. I'm a huge fan of the storytelling style that was pioneered (AFAIK) at This American Life, continues at Planet Money, and is used in almost all the Gimlet Media posdcasts (given that one of the main Planet Money people started it). 99% invisible is also good at this, in a slightly different way. > Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines. That depends on the Podcast. Planet Money, some (all?) Gimlet Media podcasts, and 99% Invisible have online articles/transcripts of their podcasts. I've found more than a few I wanted to reference "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19218230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218230", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1550768155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it depends on the type of podcast. I'm a huge fan of the storytelling style that was pioneered (AFAIK) at This American Life, continues at Planet Money, and is used in almost all the Gimlet Media posdcasts (given that one of the main Planet Money people started it). 99% invisible is also good at this, in a slightly different way. > Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines. That depends on the Podcast. Planet Money, some (all?) Gimlet Media podcasts, and 99% Invisible have online articles/transcripts of their podcasts. I've found more than a few I wanted to reference "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19218230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218230", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1550768155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it depends on the type of podcast. I'm a huge fan of the storytelling style that was pioneered (AFAIK) at This American Life, continues at Planet Money, and is used in almost all the Gimlet Media posdcasts (given that one of the main Planet Money people started it). 99% invisible is also good at this, in a slightly different way. > Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines. That depends on the Podcast. Planet Money, some (all?) Gimlet Media podcasts, and 99% Invisible have online articles/transcripts of their podcasts. I've found more than a few I wanted to reference "}, {"show": "1244649384", "hn_item": 19218560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218560", "by": "scrooched_moose", "time": 1550770095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Offtopic, but do you know of any good German fiction podcasts? I'm looking for something like LeVar Burton Reads in German. I'm somewhere around B1/B2 and trying to improve a little. I listen to a lot of IQ Wissenschaft und Forschung, but need a bit of variety. I've had a lot of trouble searching due to localization services."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 19218584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218584", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1550770194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I consume these types of media in order of consumption volume 1. Podcasts 2. The Economist (text and audio) 3. Youtube Podcast listening dominates. I had started listening to podcasts when I was having trouble sleeping and wanted to stop using drugs (Trazodone) to help me sleep. I still use podcasts for that purpose, but I also now listen to them any time that I am able - like driving or doing chores or yardwork. It's just amazing to have some well-spoken, interesting person or persons in my head while I do something that doesn't require the higher cognitive centers. My rule for podcasts is qu"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19218584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218584", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1550770194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I consume these types of media in order of consumption volume 1. Podcasts 2. The Economist (text and audio) 3. Youtube Podcast listening dominates. I had started listening to podcasts when I was having trouble sleeping and wanted to stop using drugs (Trazodone) to help me sleep. I still use podcasts for that purpose, but I also now listen to them any time that I am able - like driving or doing chores or yardwork. It's just amazing to have some well-spoken, interesting person or persons in my head while I do something that doesn't require the higher cognitive centers. My rule for podcasts is qu"}, {"show": "1201968027", "hn_item": 19218983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19218983", "by": "Mister_Snuggles", "time": 1550772228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree that it depends on the type of podcast. Deep technical stuff, for me, is much better as text. But something like The Ongoing History of New Music[0] would be greatly degraded by switching to text. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ongoing_History_of_New_Mus..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 19219140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219140", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1550773260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personally, I subscribe to the podcasts of: Sam Harris, Conan, The Energy Gang, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and a couple other NPR shows. None of my podcasts, IMO, are decreasing in quality, nor would I expect any of these groups to sell-out as they are off-shoots of other things. The podcasts I listen to are intentionally hand-selected over time to be 1) informative, 2) have a decent content:fluff ratio, and 3) enjoyable. I unsubscribed from Star Talk because about 90% of it was non-scientific chatter or ads, even though it was enjoyable and informative (sometimes)"}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 19219140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219140", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1550773260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personally, I subscribe to the podcasts of: Sam Harris, Conan, The Energy Gang, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and a couple other NPR shows. None of my podcasts, IMO, are decreasing in quality, nor would I expect any of these groups to sell-out as they are off-shoots of other things. The podcasts I listen to are intentionally hand-selected over time to be 1) informative, 2) have a decent content:fluff ratio, and 3) enjoyable. I unsubscribed from Star Talk because about 90% of it was non-scientific chatter or ads, even though it was enjoyable and informative (sometimes)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19219152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219152", "by": "subjoriented", "time": 1550773399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to \"Serial\", \"This American Life\", \"Hardcore History\" and a large number of other programs. Podcasts are generally easier to consume, reconsume, and schedule. That said, recently (several years) I've moved off of podcasts because there was a surge of podcast content, and no good mechanism to find quality programs. That and I was never able to find consistently good podcast software."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 19219312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219312", "by": "rsanheim", "time": 1550774221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to podcasts for something like 15 years, since early days of TWiT & Java Posse, but I think my usage has remained the same over that time when I've been in long term relationships. My current partner and I will listen to more 'general' podcasts when we are both in the car - so things like This American Life, Akimbo, Heavyweight, How I Built This, or Dan Carlin's HH and Common Sense. When I'm driving or walking around solo, I'll listen to more tech / niche things. Podcasts like the Accidental Tech Podcast, Ruby / React / startup type things, etc. There is honestly so much go"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19219312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219312", "by": "rsanheim", "time": 1550774221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to podcasts for something like 15 years, since early days of TWiT & Java Posse, but I think my usage has remained the same over that time when I've been in long term relationships. My current partner and I will listen to more 'general' podcasts when we are both in the car - so things like This American Life, Akimbo, Heavyweight, How I Built This, or Dan Carlin's HH and Common Sense. When I'm driving or walking around solo, I'll listen to more tech / niche things. Podcasts like the Accidental Tech Podcast, Ruby / React / startup type things, etc. There is honestly so much go"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19219356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219356", "by": "blang", "time": 1550774436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet media was started by Alex Blumberg, who worked previously for \"This American Life\" and \"Planet Money\" (he may have started that one). These are both NPR shows as well as very popular podcasts One of it's show is \"Reply All\" is hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. They used to host a podcast called \"TLDR\" on NPR (WNYC). These guys are all super talented and deserve to be paid very well for the content they produce, but to say those shows and podcasters you like won't go to where there money is probably not 100%."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19219356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219356", "by": "blang", "time": 1550774436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet media was started by Alex Blumberg, who worked previously for \"This American Life\" and \"Planet Money\" (he may have started that one). These are both NPR shows as well as very popular podcasts One of it's show is \"Reply All\" is hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. They used to host a podcast called \"TLDR\" on NPR (WNYC). These guys are all super talented and deserve to be paid very well for the content they produce, but to say those shows and podcasters you like won't go to where there money is probably not 100%."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19219356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219356", "by": "blang", "time": 1550774436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gimlet media was started by Alex Blumberg, who worked previously for \"This American Life\" and \"Planet Money\" (he may have started that one). These are both NPR shows as well as very popular podcasts One of it's show is \"Reply All\" is hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. They used to host a podcast called \"TLDR\" on NPR (WNYC). These guys are all super talented and deserve to be paid very well for the content they produce, but to say those shows and podcasters you like won't go to where there money is probably not 100%."}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 19219652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219652", "by": "black6", "time": 1550776164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In particular, I find independent podcasts like Sam Harris or Dan Carlin to be FANTASTIC, and that content is free for all to download in multiple ways. So, I'm not worried in the slightest. This. Dan Carlin is fantastic and I enjoy supporting him because of the quality. No Agenda and Congressional Dish are two more listener supported/value-for-value podcasts which do an outstanding job. No Agenda, in particular, raised the bar extremely high for production value, and they do it all live to tape! No back office. Little-to-no post production. Those guys are proof you don\u2019t need a studio, enpl"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 19219816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219816", "by": "crusso", "time": 1550777545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on World War I, and it will change your mind on the need for a podcast to have a conversation. https://www.dancarlin.com/"}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 19219863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219863", "by": "bloopernova", "time": 1550777971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% of my podcast listening is done with my spouse. We've been together 10 years, she got into podcasts a couple of years ago as an alternative to broadcast TV. I would catch snippets of her podcast playlist when she was cooking or otherwise doing something while listening via a speaker rather than headphones. Since I was interested in some of the subjects that came up, I asked to listen to them with her. We often listen during dinner together, pause to discuss when we hear something we want to talk about, and generally approach it as a group activity. We started with The Dollop together, but "}, {"show": "303688916", "hn_item": 19219874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219874", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1550778064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel, at least for me, the golden age of podcasts is over already. There was the early [0] Retronauts the new Patreon/Kickstarter version is only same in name. Then there was the [1] 1up Yours. All the hosts, co-hosts, and popular regular guests have moved on. Then there was the epic [2] A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley. This is absolutely superb. The only podcasts of similar I listen to now are Giant Bombcast and 8-4 Play. I miss the good old days. I've tried to branch out to other topics and areas, but podcasts are my way of escaping and thinking and listening to something else outside "}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 19219874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19219874", "by": "b3b0p", "time": 1550778064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel, at least for me, the golden age of podcasts is over already. There was the early [0] Retronauts the new Patreon/Kickstarter version is only same in name. Then there was the [1] 1up Yours. All the hosts, co-hosts, and popular regular guests have moved on. Then there was the epic [2] A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley. This is absolutely superb. The only podcasts of similar I listen to now are Giant Bombcast and 8-4 Play. I miss the good old days. I've tried to branch out to other topics and areas, but podcasts are my way of escaping and thinking and listening to something else outside "}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 19220142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220142", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1550779901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We match up well in when we started listening to podcasts, and what we listened to. But I still love Retronauts! I still like the more discussion-oriented episodes that mix deep insights along with personal experiences, but I'm still impressed by the consistent quality."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19220177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19220177", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1550780082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, which is why I forgive This American Life for doing it - they pioneered the format that many podcasts follow, and TAL started on, and is still broadcast on, radio."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 19224309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224309", "by": "Fragoel2", "time": 1550831137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Despite owning some of his books, I can't say that I am a fan of Gladwell's writing style. But his Revisionist History podcast (revisionisthistory.com) is, by far, one of my favourite things to listen to and I highly recommend to give it a shot."}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 19224574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19224574", "by": "JansjoFromIkea", "time": 1550835977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ymmv, but Cane & Rinse might be worth a try. Have about 350 episodes, each focusing on a single older game. The hosts are usually a lot more focused on talking about their memories of the games than trying to be entertaining (there's a lot of wannabe comedians in the videogaming podcast sphere ime). Only thing that seems a potential big issue with Cane and Rinse is that it's UK based but tbh I'd assume the lack of a fixation on NES would be a breath of fresh air compared to other podcasts The Jeremy Parish led episodes of Retronauts with Benj Edwards have been really good in recent times too, "}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 19225646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225646", "by": "skinnyarms", "time": 1550846277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most tech podcasts tend to focus on interviews, but I tend to shy away from those. There are quite a few shows that are different though, either discussion or news based. Here are a couple of my favorites. * Coding Blocks * Complete Develop Podcast * Six Figure Developer * Weekly Dev Tips Full disclosure, host of CB here :)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19227716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19227716", "by": "samstave", "time": 1550859948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What wee need is a pod-cast-to-text-blog-bot A bot that will listen to the podcast, ML it and transcribe it into a blog post - when a term is stated verbally, it will look it up and turn it into a link. Over time we will teach the bot with verbal cues for what to lookup. Basically a virtual Jamie from Joe Rogan's podcast \"Pull up\" \"Google\" \"where is\" \"someone said\" \"lets see\" \"did you see\" \"did you read\" etc can be triggers for the bot to pull up that relative content and put into the transcript..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19228374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19228374", "by": "etmhpe", "time": 1550864068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this because of the latest JRE podcast?"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 19229239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19229239", "by": "hourislate", "time": 1550870652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey I'm all for making sure for every last Diabetic is getting Insulin at an affordable price but do you think that changing our system to a Socialist one might be a little extreme? On a recent Peter Attia Podcast ( https://peterattiamd.com/jakekushner/ ), Jake Kushner (Diabetic Specialist) says it's mainly because the US Government doesn't mind paying $300 + for Insulin (Medicare/Medicaid), so that's what the drug companies charge. In places like Spain it costs about $20 because that's all the Government will pay. Even if the US Government gave Medicare to all, they would still (tax payer ult"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19229391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19229391", "by": "EGreg", "time": 1550871764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Too much emotion and can\u2019t push it back. How do they know they CAN\u2019T push it back? Serious question. That\u2019s what people used to say about women throughout history and called the disorder \u201cHysteria\u201d (just a physical problem caused by the uterus, solved by tittilation by a doctor) until they realized that it was as scientific as bloodletting. Many people have no idea what they are capable of, in many areas \u2014 sports and cognitive taskss included \u2014 until they learn a system. Most people will tell you no way can they remember 1000 digits in a row. But then they learn a system and it becomes second "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19249750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249750", "by": "failrate", "time": 1551131083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And \"scarlet\" doesn't originally mean \"red\". Thanks, 99% Invisible podcast!"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 19251902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251902", "by": "InitialLastName", "time": 1551154096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jack Dorsey just discussed this concept a bit in an interview on Bill Simmons' podcast. They were discussing the pitfalls of giving users (or others) the ability to edit/delete their tweets. In discussing having a N-second window where a user can correct typos, Dorsey brought it down to a tradeoff between real-timeness and correctibility. Essentially he feels that much of Twitter's charm as a platform comes from the fact that updates feel \"live\", so every delay from tweet source to delivery needs to be given a heavy cost in the cost/benefit analysis. Adding a delay like that as a feature (espe"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19252683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252683", "by": "nodesocket", "time": 1551167433, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant, Jack Dorsey was on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast recently, and in the first handful of minutes he talks about Twitter and its value[1], bad behavior on Twitter, misinformation, and echo chambers. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mP9OmOFxc4"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19261285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19261285", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1551248333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I think the focus, then, should be on holding elected officials accountable for their actions. The unwritten corollary to this is that we elect better officials. And in that regard, this week's episode of the EconTalk podcast on cronyism had an interesting line I've since been pondering. Paraphrased, \"It's not that we should get better people, we need to incentivize bad people to do good things rather than incentivize good people to do bad things.\" http://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-crony-capitalism"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 19263140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19263140", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1551274969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See this comment and parent thread on management, with link to Manager Tools podcast episode on politics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881752"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19264745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19264745", "by": "jbrooksuk", "time": 1551287347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about this on Gimlet's Reply All podcast[1] last week. It's a great overview of what went down with Evan Ratliff himself. Immediately after listening I bought the book from Amazon. I'm only a few pages in and there's already so much more to the story which is great as I found it really fascinating. It's a big book, so be prepared for some good bed time reading! [1] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/the-founder#episode-pl..."}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 19267282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19267282", "by": "kondro", "time": 1551304301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not specifically about LuLaRoe, but The Dream[1] is an excellent podcast series about MLM\u2019s, why people get sucked into them and why they\u2019re not illegal (even though they probably should be). 1. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream"}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 19267397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19267397", "by": "Scoundreller", "time": 1551305285, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cThe Dream\u201d was a great podcast on the topic."}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 19270842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19270842", "by": "chewyland", "time": 1551356611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Dream is a wonderful podcast describing a lot of these scams. I highly recommend it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19278575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278575", "by": "romanr", "time": 1551424978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Straight from yesterday\u2019s Joe Rogan podcast! So this is the next step. First human-pig chimera hybrids. Now their population is so big that they need to develop facial recognition."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19285241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19285241", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1551474197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent podcast episode from the show Reply All about this: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/135-the-robocall-conun..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19295668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295668", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1551635019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics Radio had a nice podcast series, The Secret Life of a CEO, that looked into the effect of CEOs on companies among other interesting stuff like how is a CEO chosen, what happens when they are fired, etc. http://freakonomics.com/ceos/"}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 19295853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295853", "by": "hanniabu", "time": 1551636895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Presidential candidate Andrew Yang in his podcast with Joe Rogan. His plans, since there's a lot of avoidance, is to attempt a different route called a \"value added\" tax where there's a tax for trucking mileage and online transactions. He mentioned other countries to both of these, but don't remember which he mentioned off the top of my head. Here's the podcast for those interested, there's a lot of other interesting discussions here that are related to this topic, such as automation and basic income. https://youtu.be/cTsEzmFamZ8?t=843"}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 19302167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302167", "by": "philg_jr", "time": 1551715023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Attia did a podcast with Francisco Gonzalez-Lima. Its a pretty fascinating listen where he explains the vascular hypothesis of Alzheimer\u2019s which describes one the problem of impaired blood flow to the brain. The podcast is called \"The Drive\" if anyone wants to look it up."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19306223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19306223", "by": "Scoundreller", "time": 1551738356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a recent Reply All podcast on that topic. The \u201cfeature\u201d started innocuously enough."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 19306390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19306390", "by": "geuis", "time": 1551739367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're being downvoted because the comment isn't really adding anything to the discussion because its so short. What Brian_K_White is referring to is SQRL by Steve Gibson from GRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL . Its an alternative simpler secure protocol that has been in development for a few years that is frequently discussed on the Security Now podcast."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 19309355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309355", "by": "oneeyedpigeon", "time": 1551778692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast dealt with this recently: Apple's support and bug tracking is really low-standard, by all accounts. Apparently, they frequently mass-close bugs (e.g. after a new release) with a comment to the effect of \"if this is still a bug, please reopen it\". You can understand the circumstances that might've led them to do this ... but it doesn't sound great."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19320351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320351", "by": "manigandham", "time": 1551891114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great JRE podcast episode with Matthew Walker (Professor of Neuroscience, Founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19323481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19323481", "by": "narrator", "time": 1551910715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Twitter has been shamelessly deleting a lot of interesting right of center accounts (e.g Thomas Wictor, Imperator Rex) for no good reason, so a lot of people have given up on it for political discussions. Jack Dorsey was on the Joe Rogan podcast with , of all people, his lawyer and got called out for censoring and gave a lot of non-answers.[1] if you read the youtube comments it's almost 100% negative on the direction they've been going with censorship on that platform and Jack's lack of candor as to what exactly they're trying to do. Edit: Why the downvotes? Did I trigger some sort of HN Godw"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 19325149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325149", "by": "tyleo", "time": 1551926271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who wants to learn more about Blockbuster and Netflix, the Acquired podcast has a phenomenal episode which covers The saga in depth: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-8nbspnetfl..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 19325162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19325162", "by": "valtism", "time": 1551926453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is such a good podcast. I've been working through it recently and this is the next episode I'm up to. Can't wait."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19328614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19328614", "by": "brodouevencode", "time": 1551971591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jack Dorsey (CEO) and Vijaya Gadde (global lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety) from Twitter recently was interviewed on Joe Rogan's podcast along with Twitter critic and journalist Tim Pool. Link to the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ I have some criticisms of Twitter that tightly align with what Dr. Doyle experienced, what was discussed on Rogan's podcast, and my own experiences: * Twitter is not a free speech platform, regardless of what Mr. Dorsey and Ms. Gadde say. They have prior assumptions that guide their decision making especially when it comes to id"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19331833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19331833", "by": "AndrewBissell", "time": 1551989572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pot use was done in the open to distract everyone from focusing on Tesla's Chief Accounting Officer quitting the company after a month on the job. Anyway, the public pot use on Rogan's podcast is just what's being publicly acknowledged in the media for the moment, there are many rumors of more hard drug use. The Pentagon is probably also focused on Musk needing funding from Chinese banks for the Shanghai Tesla factory they've been teasing every couple of weeks."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19332077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19332077", "by": "cphoover", "time": 1551990938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is nothing erratic about smoking pot. Millions of Americans do it daily with no negative consequence. If there are other legitimate issues that preclude Musk from holding SCI clearance, take him on those issues. The guy holds three citizenship, and pot across the majority of the US is a patchwork of laws being either legalized, decriminalized or allowed for medicinal use. It was legal in California where Joe Rogan's podcast was filmed. It's time for the DOD and Intelligence to evolve beyond their current draconian policies."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 19346906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346906", "by": "eugeniub", "time": 1552149505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite dev-related podcasts are Under the Radar, Swift by Sundell, and Swift Unwrapped. My go-to current events podcast is Citations Needed."}, {"show": "1267161825", "hn_item": 19346906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346906", "by": "eugeniub", "time": 1552149505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite dev-related podcasts are Under the Radar, Swift by Sundell, and Swift Unwrapped. My go-to current events podcast is Citations Needed."}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 19347294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19347294", "by": "alehul", "time": 1552152867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "a16z: long and sometimes overwhelming but in a positive way, with great guests from the tech industry FT Alphachat: my favorite finance-focused podcast with the least buzz, covering one topic in-depth each time Global News Podcast: daily from the BBC, great for educating yourself on world issues that you otherwise wouldn't hear about, with lots of primary sources and interviews Stuff You Should Know: two super easy-to-listen-to geeks, geeking out about various topics from ancient history to dyslexia to how things work :) Y Combinator: solid tech podcast with top-notch guests, and more focused "}, {"show": "1521860073", "hn_item": 19348293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348293", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1552163325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - all things electronics Business of Machining - CNC machining as a business Cortex - CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss productivity Hello Internet - CGP Grey and Brady Haran The Joe Rogan Experience - Long form interviews, typically 3+ hours Making Sense with Sam Harris - Talk about the meaning of life The Unmade Podcast - Brady Haran and Tim Hinde discuss ideas for podcasts yet unmade"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 19348293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348293", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1552163325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - all things electronics Business of Machining - CNC machining as a business Cortex - CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss productivity Hello Internet - CGP Grey and Brady Haran The Joe Rogan Experience - Long form interviews, typically 3+ hours Making Sense with Sam Harris - Talk about the meaning of life The Unmade Podcast - Brady Haran and Tim Hinde discuss ideas for podcasts yet unmade"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 19348293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348293", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1552163325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast - all things electronics Business of Machining - CNC machining as a business Cortex - CGP Grey and Myke Hurley discuss productivity Hello Internet - CGP Grey and Brady Haran The Joe Rogan Experience - Long form interviews, typically 3+ hours Making Sense with Sam Harris - Talk about the meaning of life The Unmade Podcast - Brady Haran and Tim Hinde discuss ideas for podcasts yet unmade"}, {"show": "1451869239", "hn_item": 19348716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19348716", "by": "thejmoore", "time": 1552168182, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 19351476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19351476", "by": "agigao", "time": 1552216747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Defn has been my favorite tech podcast for years. Clojure/Functional Programming etc. Hosts: Vijay Kiran, Ray McDermott https://defn.io On the other hand Entitles Opinions (about Life and Literature) is one of its kind. Host: Robert Harrison, professor of Italian Literature at Stanford. The podcast is aired from KZSU. https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu Other personal favorites: The Life Scientific and In Our Time by BBC, also Intelligence Squared."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19352379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352379", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1552232068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Tim Ferriss Show - 99% Invisible - The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general - The Allusionist, a podcast about language - Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman - Software Engineering Daily - Adventures in Angular - Sales for Nerds - History of England - The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England - Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions - Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes - Echt Gebe"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19352379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352379", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1552232068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Tim Ferriss Show - 99% Invisible - The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general - The Allusionist, a podcast about language - Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman - Software Engineering Daily - Adventures in Angular - Sales for Nerds - History of England - The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England - Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions - Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes - Echt Gebe"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 19352379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352379", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1552232068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Tim Ferriss Show - 99% Invisible - The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general - The Allusionist, a podcast about language - Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman - Software Engineering Daily - Adventures in Angular - Sales for Nerds - History of England - The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England - Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions - Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes - Echt Gebe"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 19352379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352379", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1552232068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Tim Ferriss Show - 99% Invisible - The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general - The Allusionist, a podcast about language - Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman - Software Engineering Daily - Adventures in Angular - Sales for Nerds - History of England - The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England - Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions - Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes - Echt Gebe"}, {"show": "1161950812", "hn_item": 19352379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352379", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1552232068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Tim Ferriss Show - 99% Invisible - The Freelancers' Show, podcast about the consulting business: Sales, pricing, positioning, marketing in general - The Allusionist, a podcast about language - Hanselminutes, tech podcast by Scott Hanselman - Software Engineering Daily - Adventures in Angular - Sales for Nerds - History of England - The Things That Made England, a somewhat quirky show about the things that arguably define or are characteristic of England - Revolutions, history podcast about - as the name suggests - revolutions - Mythology, ancient myths as audio drama episodes - Echt Gebe"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 19353590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353590", "by": "kaycebasques", "time": 1552243848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m finding this \u201cHow To Sell\u201d Startup School lecture by Tyler Bosmeny helpful: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-school-by-y-comb..."}, {"show": "566985370", "hn_item": 19360818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360818", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1552325171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side Hustle Nation - nice focus on side gigs people do to make some extra money The Knowledge Project - very interesting discussions on mental models, learning, leadership etc Akimbo - Seth Godin podcast Developer Tea - some good stuff to think about as developers But Why! - cool podcast for kids, great while driving in car"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 19360818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360818", "by": "tmaly", "time": 1552325171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side Hustle Nation - nice focus on side gigs people do to make some extra money The Knowledge Project - very interesting discussions on mental models, learning, leadership etc Akimbo - Seth Godin podcast Developer Tea - some good stuff to think about as developers But Why! - cool podcast for kids, great while driving in car"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19364448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364448", "by": "jsonne", "time": 1552352444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A similar point was actually made about Twitter on Joe Rogan's podcast recently."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19364539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364539", "by": "donglebix", "time": 1552353595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great recent Freakonomics podcast on Trader Joe's..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 19364751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19364751", "by": "davidopp__", "time": 1552356557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> it throws out all of the interesting parts of Borg This is not true. It throws out the Google-specific parts of Borg (like integration with Google's service discovery, load balancing, and monitoring systems) and improves a number of things compared to Borg. For a good reference on the evolution of Borg into Kubernetes, I recommend the recent Kubernetes Podcast interview with Brian Grant: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/043-borg-omega-kuberne... > Google themselves don't use it This is not true, and the reasons why it hasn't replaced Borg are related to the integrations I mentioned abov"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19372369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19372369", "by": "jerkstate", "time": 1552420958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> - no one arrested for attempts against the Covington kids There are ongoing investigations by law enforcement for threats made against the kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInBTiL32Qo - Credible threats are not free speech. > - the Covington kids aren't blameless, while they weren't the only bad people, their behavior wasn't admirable. That's a far cry from calling a grieving parent a fake You can have an opinion about what the kids could have to attempt to de-escalate and hypothesize about whether that would have led to a \"better\" outcome, but you can't point to anything that they did "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19373425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19373425", "by": "vokep", "time": 1552427490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "what suggests he was on drugs? From his performance on Joe Rogan's podcast, it seems he doesn't really even know how to smoke marijuana."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 19380362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19380362", "by": "meej", "time": 1552494842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Invisibilia podcast started their latest season with an episode about amplified pain. Looks like they got some backlash, too. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700743108/the-fifth-vital-sig..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19387059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19387059", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1552547085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That came up during episode 666 of the NPR This American Life podcast, \"The Theme That Shall Not Be Named\": https://www.thisamericanlife.org/666/the-theme-that-shall-no... The first segment about the Satanic Prayer Hotline is really amusing. Act One is about a talk back radio preacher who went on tour with Slayer & wrote about it for Spin Magazine, and that's also worth a listen."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19389392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19389392", "by": "el_cujo", "time": 1552573033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to him talk a little bit on Joe Rogan's podcast, and it seemed to him that the UBI/Freedom Dividend is his plan explicitly because stuff like retraining these fifty year old guys who have been truck drivers or coal miners their entire lives to become computer programmers or something is really unrealistic. I guess it would be more possible to retrain the younger people that populate retail, but really I think retail is viewed as just something people do to put themselves through college or during highschool rather than a life-long career like truck driving. That's not to say there a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19392506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19392506", "by": "hateful", "time": 1552590768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was just mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodsGp37M50 I forget the exact time it was mentioned, but it's in the first half somewhere. The author he's talking to mentions that his book is #20 when you search for autism because the first 19 were of the kind mentioned in this article. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the driver of this."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 19395908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19395908", "by": "rubayeet", "time": 1552616869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would also recommend Season 2 of Tides of History podcast series."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 19399647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19399647", "by": "khrbrt", "time": 1552657726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, the excellent History of Byzantium podcast[0] is covering the entire history of the empire, from the fall of the western empire, up to the sack of Constantinople. It gets pretty in-depth, with each episode covering a distinct event or topic, and stops every century to give a survey of what's going beyond the empire's borders and broad changes in the lives of its people and their culture. 0: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/"}, {"show": "73802687", "hn_item": 19399693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19399693", "by": "Dylanfm", "time": 1552658091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed the 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast too, along with the accompanying book Lost To The West https://12byzantinerulers.com"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 19400015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400015", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1552660260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And of course, the History of Rome podcast sets the stage for the development of the Byzantine Empire. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ The History of Byzantium was initially intended to be a continuation of that podcast. I also recommend the Fall of Rome podcast: https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/ All of the above have utterly changed my perspective on world history."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 19406684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19406684", "by": "deepaksurti", "time": 1552719032, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1201798262", "hn_item": 19407205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407205", "by": "flurdy", "time": 1552733267, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Despite popular opinion, I like the new Top Gear (once they got rid of Chris Evans). The last two series with Matt LeBlanc was really good. Will reserve judgement on the new-new line up with McGuinness and Flintoff [1]. McGuinness used to be funny, and Flintoff's podcast [2] is/was brilliant. * [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45937945 * [2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08fr7t1/episodes/downloads | https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/flintoff-savage-and-the-..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19412214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19412214", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1552796392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author is in one of my favorite EconTalk podcast episodes: \"Bryan Caplan on the Case Against Education\" Probably similar content covered, but it's a good discussion. And he covers some of the points I see people trying to argue in the comments here. [0] http://www.econtalk.org/bryan-caplan-on-the-case-against-edu..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 19415494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19415494", "by": "mrsharpoblunto", "time": 1552847454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History podcast has a whole series on the Persian empire (King\u2019s of King\u2019s) that draws heavily from Herodotus. It gets quite meta in places with a lot of time dedicated to Herodotus and his storytelling style, and he ends up as one of the more fascinating characters in the story itself. Dan likens him to a modern day screenwriter with a sense for drama and emotion that previous historians lacked and that reading Herodotus vs earlier records is in some ways like the difference between the black and white silent film era and modern cinema."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 19415812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19415812", "by": "ickwabe", "time": 1552849907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"On the Media\" podcast this week addresses this as well. Worth a listen. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-myth-of-merit..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19417303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19417303", "by": "sakopov", "time": 1552863371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember listening Rogan's podcast on the subject of sleep with Matthew Walker, who is a professor of Neuroscience at Berkley. Hopefully I'm not making stuff up as it's been a while, but he talked about a study where each subject was given a task to learn while their brain activity was being recorded. The study found that the same areas of the brain that flared up during the learning and memorization processes were also very active during sleep, as if the brain was replaying the same activity over and over again. Edit: adding link to the podcast if anyone's interested - https://www.youtube.c"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19425977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19425977", "by": "flavor8", "time": 1552947906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All (podcast) had a recent episode about the increase in robocalls. It's a fun listen. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/135-the-robocall-conun... (The TLDR is a law changed.) Also, I've had success running Calls Blacklist (app) on my android phone - it's set up so that it will block any call that's not from one of my contacts. I haven't had a spam call since I started using it."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 19426278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19426278", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1552950611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can highly recommend the book \"Extreme Ownership\" and Jocko's podcast. I haven't read his subsequent books but I assume they're also great."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 19426729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19426729", "by": "B0btheBuilder", "time": 1552954508, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the \"Hidden Brain\" podcast about scarcity: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/20/520587241/the-scarcity-trap-w... One claim made was that poverty and loneliness are two of the most difficult scarcity traps to be in. Even more so than hunger (especially in the developed world). Because poverty and loneliness push you into behaviors that only perpetuate more poverty and loneliness. You can see this with the rise of toxic misogynistic groups on the Internet, and I personally see this with my more awkward, lonely friends and acquaintances who put off new company with desperate,"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19428648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19428648", "by": "bradthater", "time": 1552978493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A lot of these robocall call centers are operating illegally in foreign countries that skirt their own laws, with export partners within the US that pop up and disappear quicker than the government can than they can be hunted. If you are interested there is a really good podcast by Reply All about tracking down one in person. Episode #102 and #103, some of their best stuff to be frank."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 19437908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437908", "by": "amanzi", "time": 1553044123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really good \"The Daily\" podcast (~20 minutes) about these crashes that answers a lot of the questions on this page. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/podcasts/the-daily/boeing..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 19451537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19451537", "by": "nwatson", "time": 1553171577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was astounded to hear in the Radiolab podcast episode [1] that I do not own my own body or its parts. (If you listen to the podcast, the section on body/body-part ownership is just one of the several sections so you'll need to look for it.) The legal systems in the UK, USA and elsewhere avoid the question in part due to slavery's legacy. The submitted article [0] and podcast episode [1] outline that generally it appears: * people have rights to sell their own blood and skin tissue (but not other body parts), but never had property rights over those materials in the first place * companies th"}, {"show": "1159251584", "hn_item": 19455562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19455562", "by": "tra3", "time": 1553192314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brady Heywood Forensic Engineering Podcast [0], has an amazing series on Apollo 13 [1]. It's 6 episodes, mostly narrated by Brady Heywood, with some audio recording from Houston as well as the Apollo astronauts. It's riveting. [0]: http://bradyheywood.libsyn.com [1]: http://bradyheywood.libsyn.com/episode-21-apollo-13-p1-head-..."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 19457789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19457789", "by": "sleavey", "time": 1553205585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And he runs the electronics podcast \"The Amp Hour\" [1] with Dave Jones from the EEVBlog [2]. [1] https://theamphour.com/ [2] http://eevblog.com/"}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 19459396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459396", "by": "8bitsrule", "time": 1553225220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear WaPo: 1) No, I will not be subscribing to your podcasts in order to find out if they're worth listening to. 2) The odds are still low because ... in case you didn't notice ... there are many excellent non-subscription podcasts (to mention just one: 'BackStory with the American History Guys' ; https://audioboom.com/channels/4987698.rss ) ... and most of them appreciate you sending them what you think they're worth. Oh ... and welcome to the 21st century."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 19459486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19459486", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1553226663, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, your first would be this article, as I said. Your second would be the debate between Furman and Kelton on the Ezra Klein podcast, as I said. I'll dig up a third cite. Like, one of the things in my head is the Kelton vs. Krugman argument, which I read on Krugman's blog, but that's not the best cite, since you're getting Kelton secondhand through Krugman there. Happy to help. If you'd like to help too, you could cite a source that says MMT'ers feel like inflation doesn't matter."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19460484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19460484", "by": "null000", "time": 1553243278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the Revolutions podcast recently, and I'm currently in the post-french-revolution series of European revolutions. Kinda funny - France tried setting up some guaranteed-work promises and implemented them through a series of National Workshops, where you could theoretically show up, do some labor for the country, and go home after a full day with subsistence wages. Of course, the people proposing/pushing for the idea and the people implementing the idea did not share a lot of membership, so the implementers put a person deeply opposed to the project in charge. Of course, n"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 19462350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19462350", "by": "einrealist", "time": 1553261672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an interesting podcast about ad fraud and different schemes, on Software Engineering Daily. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/03/12/ad-fraud-eng..."}, {"show": "1298287048", "hn_item": 19466542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466542", "by": "cwisecarver", "time": 1553286298, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know of any off the top of my head or a quick google search. I do know, from the latest ElixirTalk podcast, that it's very careful about what it sends over the wire, only the parts that have changed. If you're interacting with an API to get the same information for a SPA you're probably going to have similar latencies."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 19466637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466637", "by": "docdeek", "time": 1553286978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Indicator podcast from Planet Money covered this topic this morning. If I remember the conclusion correctly it was that these sorts of dual class stock deals were on the way out...except for tech firms."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19466637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466637", "by": "docdeek", "time": 1553286978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Indicator podcast from Planet Money covered this topic this morning. If I remember the conclusion correctly it was that these sorts of dual class stock deals were on the way out...except for tech firms."}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 19470184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19470184", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1553344580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Daniel I understand you're tenacious, but the real thing to focus on is getting the product to the point where anyone can use it to solve any problem well. Almost always this is easiest if the person that you're solving the problem for is yourself. Take the Overcast podcast app, for example. I was one of the first users of it. The way its evolved over the years is directly because the founder uses it routinely. He didn't start by including the less obvious features right off the bat, he started by building the obvious ones. Only after he was happy with it did he start to pull in other features"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 19477143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19477143", "by": "charlesism", "time": 1553444659, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 19481467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19481467", "by": "woadwarrior01", "time": 1553511178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone's interested, Eric Weinsten was the guest on the latest episode of Lex Fridman's AI Podcast[1]. I'd listened to it last evening and he mentions this article on the show and I'd added to my reading list. I'm pleasantly surprised to find a discussion around the article on HN, just before I was about to read it. [1]: https://lexfridman.com/eric-weinstein/"}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 19482104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482104", "by": "wil_I_am_27", "time": 1553519116, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1514838010", "hn_item": 19483719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483719", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1553529847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Our Fake History podcast has an excellent series on PT Barnum. He was something of a genius promoter (and self-promoter). Today he's best remember for his circus act, but that was just one of a long line of productions he put on. In Barnum's parlance, a \"humbug\" was a practical joke played on his audience. A less charitable interpretation is that of some of Barnum's humbugs are downright fraudulent. It's a fun story. Episode 1 of 3 is here: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/episode-32-who..."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 19483719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483719", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1553529847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Our Fake History podcast has an excellent series on PT Barnum. He was something of a genius promoter (and self-promoter). Today he's best remember for his circus act, but that was just one of a long line of productions he put on. In Barnum's parlance, a \"humbug\" was a practical joke played on his audience. A less charitable interpretation is that of some of Barnum's humbugs are downright fraudulent. It's a fun story. Episode 1 of 3 is here: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/episode-32-who..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 19488102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488102", "by": "bradb3030", "time": 1553559973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure you're into podcasts, but I recommend Manager Tools Podcasts, which is like a 15-year gold mine of free training. https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts Outside of searching the keywords \"interview\" and \"hiring\" and looking for what seems relevant, I'd recommend specifically the 4 \"Management Trinity\" episodes and \"Juggling Koan\". source: 5-year manager at a public SaaS company in the Midwest, recently discovered the podcast."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 19489196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489196", "by": "technofiend", "time": 1553572723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone seeking guidance, try the Writing Excuses podcast. Staffed by successful authors with regularly rotating guests, this Hugo-award-winning show covers writing topics in depth over 15 minute episodes. https://writingexcuses.com/about-2/about/"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 19491784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19491784", "by": "mccalljt", "time": 1553608347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a very interesting In Our Time podcast on this if you are interested in how our knowledge of bird migration evolved - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmk5j"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 19492852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492852", "by": "nickburlett", "time": 1553615038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's \"The Indicator\" podcast has had a couple of good (and short) episodes about inverted yield curves. I think this is the first of them: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/12/577710151/the-... I highly recommend The Indicator podcast."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 19500689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500689", "by": "ewhanley", "time": 1553693957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a book but there\u2019s a good episode of the How I Built This podcast that gives a great overview. https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=551874532:554086519"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19504395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19504395", "by": "dayvid", "time": 1553711805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish larger tech companies would follow Jack Dorsey's path and have more open communication about their policies. His debate with Tim Pool on the Joe Rogan podcast[0] especially provided insight into why they're making these type of decisions. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 19507296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507296", "by": "hobo_mark", "time": 1553729008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bloomberg podcast about Schmidhuber, which was also quite entertaining: https://m.soundcloud.com/bloomberg-business/deeper-minds-rea..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19508139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19508139", "by": "anitil", "time": 1553735522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All had a great podcast about it [0]. Beware it's very depressing. The expert points out that shutting down Backpage will have a worldwide impact on sex workers. [0] https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/119-no-more-safe-harbo..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19516140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516140", "by": "hitpointdrew", "time": 1553804144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode #1245 with Andrew Yang, you won't be disappointed. Listen on your commute, your just driving anyway, might as well learn about one of the candidates."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 19516140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19516140", "by": "hitpointdrew", "time": 1553804144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode #1245 with Andrew Yang, you won't be disappointed. Listen on your commute, your just driving anyway, might as well learn about one of the candidates."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19518573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19518573", "by": "anitil", "time": 1553825650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's an interesting idea! Finding the 'victim' in insider trading is complicated as well because it is typically someone who would have made a trade but didn't, so how do you know who they are? There was a Planet Money podcast about this [0] that if I remember correctly said it wasn't even explicitly illegal in the US until relatively recently. It was considered theft to take insider knowledge, but not illegal to trade on it. [0] I think it's this one: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/23/460689797/epis..."}, {"show": "1439007022", "hn_item": 19518674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19518674", "by": "barry-cotter", "time": 1553827021, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you\u2019re interested there\u2019s an interview on the Brown Pundits Podcast, \u201cThe Life and Views of a Middle Class Indian Dalit\u201d, > In this episode, I had a conversation with a middle-class Dalit who lives in Gujarat. For me, Dalits are people who are reported on, written on, people who I hear about spoken of (usually sympathetically). But I wanted to talk to a Dalit who was a university educated middle-class person, to zero in on the essential aspect of being SC in India today. At least urban India. > One interesting observation is that his own experience in India is filled with slights, but not d"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 19523314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19523314", "by": "scottrbrtsn", "time": 1553878197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Know Yourself: there are many learning styles, most people lean towards one (e.g. visual, verbal, learning by doing or physical). https://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/ Motivation and inspiration play a huge role. So, Why are you learning something? If there is a profound motivation to learn something, with deep meaning, then learning becomes exponentially easier. Think of the neurochemistry involved when comparing an activity which intrinsically always produces joy, vs. trudging through an activity which only causes suffering. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004P1JDJO/ref=dp-kindle-redir"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 19530499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19530499", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1553965555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The hard part about this is that you may not know your manager, especially when beginning a career. If you are interviewing, make sure you talk to the manager who you will report to! It's such a crucial part of the job experience. I've only listened to the 'one to ones' part of the Manager Tools podcast, but that was so useful."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 19540752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540752", "by": "ausd123", "time": 1554096667, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I saw the Manager Tools podcast (https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts) recommended by a user here a few days ago. I've listened to parts of some of the episodes but I'm not sure whether they are good material for learning management at software companies. In particular, at the start of one of the episodes they indicate that many managers in the software space specifically don't align with their management ideas at all. Can anybody offer a review, or an indication of whether these podcasts are useful for someone who wants to learn about management in order to move into the roll of software te"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19545197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19545197", "by": "KC8ZKF", "time": 1554136803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author was interviewed on the Econtalk podcast last year. http://www.econtalk.org/jerry-muller-on-the-tyranny-of-metri..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 19548608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19548608", "by": "hanklazard", "time": 1554154930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's completely amazing to me too. As I understand it, one of the tools that the security research community uses is fuzzing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing ). I can at least understand how this sort of technique would help generate some leads. I'd recommend the Security Now podcast by Steve Gibson if you're interested in this sort of thing. He does a great job explaining many of the exploits out there."}, {"show": "1298287048", "hn_item": 19550650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19550650", "by": "desmondmonster", "time": 1554173608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SEEKING WORK | Product, Software, and Culture Location: Los Angeles, California I'm an experienced consultant who brings product ideas to life, trains up teams on engineering processes and skills, and builds cultures of fun, respect, and empathy. I've led large teams and small ones; my specialties are listening and helping. My primary language is Elixir - I founded the EMPEX conferences and cohost the ElixirTalk podcast. If you're thinking of getting the next big realtime platform off the ground, let's talk. Other languages: Ruby, Javascript, Objective-C, Swift, Clojure, C Datastores: Postgres"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 19561801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19561801", "by": "vegasbrianc", "time": 1554280957, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 19566805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19566805", "by": "equalunique", "time": 1554321971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article was featured on BSD Now, a podcast that I would recommend to anyone interested in using any of the BSDs: https://www.freebsdnews.com/2019/03/21/bsd-now-episode-289-m..."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 19573558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19573558", "by": "wenzel123", "time": 1554392221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe you already do both or maybe they sound banally to you but they are important. (Especially when you're young; form habits that will help you in the long run.) - Get some exercise, this might also help you make new friends. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26978184/ - Eat healthy foods. There is growing evidence of a relationship between gut microbial metabolism and mental health. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0337-x https://www.nature.com/news/the-tantalizing-links-between-gu... This will take some time. If you still feel crushed by your job then think about doing somet"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19574155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19574155", "by": "clausok", "time": 1554395083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast just had an episode on this topic (\"Joe Bankman, professor at Stanford, figured out a way to make filing your taxes easy and painless. Then the tax lobby found out about it.\") https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19574280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19574280", "by": "newhotelowner", "time": 1554395799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Poor taxpayers spend 200+ dollars to file their taxes. Every single one of my employees goes to H&R block or some tax guy to pay taxes. Almost all of them have 1 job. Most of them 1 or 2 W2s and most don't houses. A pre-filled form will help every single one them to save money. And you can still have your pre-filled form verify by an accountant or H&R Block. No one is stopping you from that. You should listen to the latest Planet Money Podcast - Tax hero. Republican don't support this because having complicated form will make people oppose taxes in general. That is the republican motto."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19574700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19574700", "by": "djhworld", "time": 1554397959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a podcast a few weeks ago (Planet Money) and was genuinlely shocked at how poor the US payments network is in relation to here in the UK. Most bank transactions here complete within 2 hours (faster payments service) and are completely free."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19577323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19577323", "by": "pfranz", "time": 1554413554, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm pretty sure a bunch of years ago Planet Money had a podcast where they just marveled at someone in the UK sending their daughter in NYC enough to buy a pint in realtime. I think they've reported on ACH a few times each year and there never seems to be any incentive (from the group maintaining ACH) to improve it. What's worse is that it not only takes a few days, I often don't see it show up until a few days after that (back dated to when it was supposed to be received!)."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19586482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19586482", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1554494726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regarding the yield curve tweet, I'm pretty well acquainted with that whole theory since I listen to The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, and it's a favorite topic of theirs. I was going to note that it generally signals a recession when it's inverted for a whole quarter, but then I read the Tweet. And it's about how the lower than usual rates it's currently at matter for what it says, which makes sense. Then I noticed it was Paul Krugman making the observations. Any prior points I had no longer seem worth adding now. ;)"}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 19586482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19586482", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1554494726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regarding the yield curve tweet, I'm pretty well acquainted with that whole theory since I listen to The Indicator from Planet Money podcast, and it's a favorite topic of theirs. I was going to note that it generally signals a recession when it's inverted for a whole quarter, but then I read the Tweet. And it's about how the lower than usual rates it's currently at matter for what it says, which makes sense. Then I noticed it was Paul Krugman making the observations. Any prior points I had no longer seem worth adding now. ;)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19593362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593362", "by": "aembleton", "time": 1554589330, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money made an episode about this http://www.podcasts.com/npr_planet_money_podcast/episode/301..."}, {"show": "1805922628", "hn_item": 19593368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593368", "by": "istjohn", "time": 1554589378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fact, there was a Science Versus podcast about the benefits of lithium in public drinking water. Lithium naturally occurs in some water sources more than others, and areas with more lithium in the water have better mental health."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19596673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596673", "by": "mirkules", "time": 1554644045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What really rubbed me the wrong way is the Planet Money podcast about Netflix called \u201cHard work is irrelevant\u201d. If how Netflix is portrayed in the podcast is true, the environment is really toxic and these allegations unsurpring. Here\u2019s an excerpt: > When I was initially hurt and I needed some time away, I just went into Patty and said, I to take a break. They don't want me to type. They don't want me sitting - all this kind of stuff. She's like OK. That's all she said - OK. Let me know when you're feeling better. > I was out for weeks, and I kept checking in. Like, I'm thinking, they going to"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19597420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19597420", "by": "patrickk", "time": 1554651301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Nowadays everything is \u201csetup\u201d for the cooperation of public and private, but what are the key \u201cingredients\u201d to make it happen? Norweigans trust their government, corruption is low, there's strong institutions already in place (a point specifically mentioned by al-Kasim in the Planet Money podcast) to ensure a competent and transparent execution of the plan. There's not many places in the world where all those factors exist sadly."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 19605675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19605675", "by": "klhugo", "time": 1554734764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a very interesting podcast from The Daily on Rupert Murdoch [1]. Fascinating history. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/podcasts/the-daily/rupert..."}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 19609435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19609435", "by": "chrbutler", "time": 1554760494, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 19609760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19609760", "by": "chrbutler", "time": 1554762923, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19614608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614608", "by": "econ101fail", "time": 1554818050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a podcast on this recently: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19614727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19614727", "by": "jermaustin1", "time": 1554818718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a podcast episode of \"Planet Money\" that goes into the history of this [1]. Pretty much it goes: If taxes were easy, people would hate them less, and not fight to abolish them - Grover Norquist. 1: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19615259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615259", "by": "lacey", "time": 1554821573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately I don\u2019t recall which podcast it was, perhaps 99% Invisible, but one had a show on this. One of the things they mentioned was that during WW II now-liberal enclaves like Berkeley told the federal government that they wouldn\u2019t allow housing to be built for black shipbuilders, and similarly Richmond refused but eventually relented on the condition they all be moved out at the conclusion of the war. There were also redlining practices and things like razing and redeveloping the predominantly black Fillmore making it a neighborhood the previous residents could no longer afford."}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 19615434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615434", "by": "Achorny", "time": 1554822739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By far the easiest place to network is within your current company, so your first priority should be doing a good job and building relationships there. You're network will naturally expand externally as people you currently work with leave your company. Networking doesn't just mean meeting people for the sake of meeting people. * Volunteer for tasks that get you in front of customers or internal teams that you don't normally work with. You'll build relationships as a side effect of good work. * When you accomplish something that may be applicable outside your team, ask your boss if they could "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19617826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617826", "by": "Hoasi", "time": 1554835932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting , on EconTalk podcast, for those interested: http://www.econtalk.org/philip-tetlock-on-superforecasting/"}, {"show": "820806390", "hn_item": 19624311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624311", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1554902214, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm totally with you. You were calling the mainstream reaction a \"incredible psychosis\", which it is not. It's rational on in individual level given the current economic system and general attitudes especially in the US. If it was up to me we'd get UBI ASAP and as automation makes work more and more obsolete get closer and closer to communism. I think this also is desirable because it will allow us to follow our natural instincts and contribute to the commons rather than try to put them on our individual balance sheets at the expense of everyone else. (See this great discussion: https://itunes"}, {"show": "402434575", "hn_item": 19627297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19627297", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1554919855, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I was listening to the below podcast and at 20 mins in the speaker brings up this \"lenders are enthusiastic about lending to solar - its default levels are 0.0001% historically\" Now a business where capital loans are plentiful, the inventory just sits nicely in a field and you are selling what everyone everywhere wants seems a good business. Especially if we throw in some fun optimisation So what is wrong about solar farming - is it a ground level cash producer at low margins for the next decade? Or is there something I don't know ? Pathways to Climate Security https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/po"}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 19628731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19628731", "by": "sterban", "time": 1554930038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have loved Economist, The Intelligence podcast everyday. 20 minutes covering 3 topics with experts."}, {"show": "1691652896", "hn_item": 19629687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629687", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1554938817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I posted this to another reply, but the CEO of Roku basically said that they purposefully use very low end hardware to keep the build of materials cost down - especially for TV manufacturers. I don\u2019t have a text link, but he said it during an interview on the Recode podcast. https://www.recode.net/2018/9/13/17852908/roku-anthony-wood-..."}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 19631119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19631119", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1554956242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m not defending Republicans but as someone else said American anti trust law has always been about protecting consumers and not businesses. Unfortunately, everything I could site about the difference comes from Ben Thompson\u2019s (of stratechery fame) Exponent Podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19639589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19639589", "by": "PTRFRLL", "time": 1555019228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible has a nice podcast on this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h-day/"}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 19644306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19644306", "by": "bubblesort", "time": 1555073523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. I use RSS to listen to the BBC Global News podcast every morning over breakfast (and NPR, and CBC news updates). As much as I love that part of my morning routine, I wouldn't create an account to listen to it, so I don't see a reason to change from RSS."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19645249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19645249", "by": "otikik", "time": 1555080692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The parallelisms don't end there: elevators used to be much more complicated that they are now. Instead of having one button per floor they had motor controls. They literally had to be \"driven\" by human operators. I don't remember if any studies were cited, but the \"elevators vs self-driving cars\" was studied in the Planet Money podcast: https://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427990392/remembering-when-dr..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 19648605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648605", "by": "mattdodge", "time": 1555100471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was actually a podcast by Radiolab recently that discusses how and why this is not the case. It's counterintuitive for sure, but pretty interesting. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/asking-friend"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 19651362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19651362", "by": "okcando", "time": 1555135729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard on I think Malcolm Gladwell's podcast (and he's hardly infallible and this is second hand so grains of salt and all that) that women tend to harass other women more often when they are underrepresented or subordinated in the group. The context was a diversity hiring push that put a few women in otherwise primarily male offices across the country and saw disappointing results. The idea was that when women (or any minority group) are outnumbered, they will try to defy expectations and stand out by adopting the social habits of the majority and will compete with each other for ratificatio"}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 19651394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19651394", "by": "camillomiller", "time": 1555136373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quick guide to Americans writing for a European public (or who want to make business with Europe, especially Germany). Writing something like this: >\u201cI\u2019ve interviewed more than 70 of the world\u2019s most interesting people on my North Star Podcast, built a weekly email newsletter with almost 10,000 subscribers, and my most popular articles, such as What the Hell is Going On?, have been read more than 100,000 times. I\u2019ve done all this in just a couple of years.\u201c will attract contempt and make you look like a moron. Boasting your achievements in such a straightforward way might be ok for a US public"}, {"show": "1763424917", "hn_item": 19655682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19655682", "by": "palmdeezy", "time": 1555189142, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 19659764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659764", "by": "MrXOR", "time": 1555253855, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 19664918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664918", "by": "jpking", "time": 1555332860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think that these 12 hour days are full of productivity. My partner spent some time in the summer as a researcher at a key lab in Shanghai. She observed that researchers put in long hours (if the boss was around) but often spent time on their phones and repeated experiments mindlessly. Kai-Fu Lee discusses this culture in the Founders Fund podcast Anatomy of Next. He suggests that many of the workers will be the only ones in their family who have high paid office jobs. The rest work in factories, farms and other manual labor. Thus, they see an opportunity to be successful and lift their"}, {"show": "1123461944", "hn_item": 19664918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664918", "by": "jpking", "time": 1555332860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think that these 12 hour days are full of productivity. My partner spent some time in the summer as a researcher at a key lab in Shanghai. She observed that researchers put in long hours (if the boss was around) but often spent time on their phones and repeated experiments mindlessly. Kai-Fu Lee discusses this culture in the Founders Fund podcast Anatomy of Next. He suggests that many of the workers will be the only ones in their family who have high paid office jobs. The rest work in factories, farms and other manual labor. Thus, they see an opportunity to be successful and lift their"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19670123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19670123", "by": "gringoDan", "time": 1555375259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All did a great podcast in Amazon's recent drop in quality: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124 Highly recommend."}, {"show": "1315130780", "hn_item": 19671837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671837", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1555400609, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 19674491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674491", "by": "szczys", "time": 1555428631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should listen to Shahriar Shahramian on The Amp Hour Podcast: https://theamphour.com/430-shahriar-discusses-5g/ There's a ton of interesting things, like 5G is for a lot more than cellphones. I've always heard that 5G will have phased array and I wondered how that would work -- he talks about possibility that the array is on the roof of a car and your devices will connect back to that. Lots of issues, like size of antenna and power consumption, to get those blazing fast speeds."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19677278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19677278", "by": "bhargav", "time": 1555448472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "During the Joe Rogan podcast, he mentioned that what they are trying to attempt to give people the \"other side\" of the story rather than promoting creation of echo chambers."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19678713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19678713", "by": "stevehawk", "time": 1555462461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's really weird to me how I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast interview of Ben Shapiro and he made that same comment and I found myself agreeing with.. Ben Shapiro. But if the social media magnates are going to try and become publishers and not platforms, which they are by curating what is printed on their sites as much as any editor of any newspaper, then I don't think they realize what they have coming. Or possibly worse, we don't realize that it's exactly what the government wants."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19687324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19687324", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1555543666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just today I was listening to the Freakonomics episode on this topic and it was interesting (as they usually are): http://freakonomics.com/podcast/meat/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19691415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19691415", "by": "ericd", "time": 1555599083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People like to think that. I highly recommend the Revolutions podcast, especially the French revolution section, to disabuse anyone of this notion. The have-nots had a very rough time during that revolution, along with the nobles."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19693262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693262", "by": "jedberg", "time": 1555610695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a season ticket holder (for Berkeley). When all the CTE stuff started coming out, I felt a bit guilty but not enough to cancel the tickets. Now I'm not sure how I feel. On the one hand, these kids are aware of the risks and choosing to play anyway. On the other hand, many of them are choosing to play because they come from depressed backgrounds with no other way of paying for or in some cases even getting into college, and football offers a chance to completely change their entire family's situation. But then again, I was listening to a Freakonomics podcast where they interviewed someone w"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 19702824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19702824", "by": "lynnetye", "time": 1555706521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Key Values ( https://www.keyvalues.com ) is a one-woman show (oh hi!). I started Key Values as a side project two years ago, but it quickly turned into my full-time passion and business. I'm doing ~$30k/month and it's almost all profit since I don't have an office or any employees. I recently talked to Courtland of Indie Hackers (already mentioned in the comments) about how I got here: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lynne-tye-of-key-va... I would never have started Key Values w/o Indie Hackers, so I highly recommend you spend some time there. It's a bottomless treasure chest of inspi"}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 19704461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19704461", "by": "bane", "time": 1555727021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an absolutely fantastic podcast called \"ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast\" [1] I listen to. The show started off a bit slow, a normal old-guys-talking-about-old-hardware. But somewhere along the way they started hunting down people involved with Atari or Atari products back in those days and have started amassing an impressive collection of sometimes incredible interviews. It's a treasure trove of oral history of the late 70s and early-to-mid 80s computing movement. I don't know how they find these folks, but the interviews can be absolutely awesome. Sometimes people who's names I never kn"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 19707524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19707524", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1555779129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For some history of teeth (not just human teeth) try the BBC In Our Time podcast episode The Evolution of Teeth : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003zbg Being a Melvyn Bragg podcast, it includes a reading list: Barry K. B. Berkovitz, Nothing But the Tooth: A Dental Odyssey (Elsevier, 2016) John A. Long, The Rise of Fishes. 500 Million Years of Evolution (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage, 2009) T. M. Smith, The Tales Teeth Tell: Development, Evolution, and Behaviour (MIT Press, 2018)"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 19715396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715396", "by": "jiggliemon", "time": 1555892094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Damn Interesting is my 12 year old daughters favorite podcast. Thank you for keeping it going. It\u2019s great story telling."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 19731008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19731008", "by": "HeyLaughingBoy", "time": 1556041517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened (again) to an Indiehackers podcast with Rob Walling this morning where he described pretty much that problem. He had \"lots of\" cash and \"little\" time to spend in building a business from scratch. What worked was to find a business he liked that wasn't making much money, but could be bought for cheap (he overpaid!) and turned into something that made money. To respond to the \"rent from investment property\" concept, you can get in on investment properties at a fairly low price (IIRC 40% discounts) if you invest when builders are looking for prospective buyers. i.e., before anything is"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19735283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19735283", "by": "jccalhoun", "time": 1556076165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder how he feels about NPR or BBC? I listen to a lot of podcasts but they are almost all round-table style shows. I very occasionally catch This American Life on NPR but I have very little interest in listening to all the scripted shows that seem to be imitating it and I have zero interest in true crime."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19736202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736202", "by": "wink", "time": 1556089575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure what you're referring to (maybe the big names of current podcasting?), but I can assure you the rest of the world has podcasts too and may or may not have ever listened to NPR at all. This American Life isn't so old afaik, and I definitely listened to podcasts before that and never to any NPR stuff."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 19738045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738045", "by": "mikece", "time": 1556112250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The single word that comes to mind when reading this: \"Waaaaaaah!!!\" I listen to podcasts because I learn from them or am entertained by specific people with insights and expertise I appreciate. The whole bit about eavesdropping on a conversation is the essence of what makes a good podcast: it's a conversation that if you caught a part of it in real life you would stop and stand at the edge to listen and learn more. And the best podcasts involve listener feedback, sometimes in real-time. Perhaps the ultimate irony of the assertion that podcasting is killing music is that podcasting was INVENTE"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19738172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738172", "by": "wink", "time": 1556113151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My apologies, I meant to say \"This American Life in podcast form\", or take Serial as an example that's often quoted. But it basically stresses my point. It could very well be that it was a direct inspiration for the first podcasts, but nowadays it's used as \"audio content, often episodic\". Also people often name the production value and other criteria of the big ones. But my point is that podcasts are on average not high production value or even done by companies or in the type of certain radio programs. I'd even say a sizable chunk is just the same people talking about the same or related top"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 19738878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738878", "by": "hiccuphippo", "time": 1556117376, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What are some good podcasts to listen to? I listen to StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and loved the (short, just 12 episodes) End Of The World with Josh Clark."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 19738919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738919", "by": "nickelcitymario", "time": 1556117620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> the popular stuff seems milquetoast Isn't that true of any medium? I don't know who the Velvet Underground of podcasts would be. I wouldn't have recognized VU when they were getting started either. I suspect this is the sort of thing that's easier to recognize when looking back. I certainly didn't understand punk the way I do now back when I was a punk rocker. All I knew was I could play a little bass (badly) with some friends who played guitar and drums (badly) and sing (badly) and we had a blast doing it. Yet today, looking back, I see so many top-notch musicians who credit punk for the wo"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19738981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738981", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1556117932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible and Reply All are my go-to \"starter podcasts\"."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19738981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738981", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1556117932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible and Reply All are my go-to \"starter podcasts\"."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19739378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19739378", "by": "mbrock", "time": 1556119863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Weird. The podcasts I listen to are mostly improvised long form conversations between interesting people: EconTalk, Partially Examined Life, Primo Nutmeg, The Henry George Program, Software Engineering Daily, A16Z, Track Changes, Joe Rogan, Tyler Cowan, and so on. Mainstream anything is kind of bad, but the supply of truly interesting podcasts is quite tremendous."}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 19740793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19740793", "by": "phlakaton", "time": 1556127140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone: a family roleplaying game turned into a largely-improvisational radio play. It's not even that this podcast is perfect, but I think it hints at the immense promise of what the format could become!"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19741068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741068", "by": "LargeWu", "time": 1556128594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Counterpoint: Podcasts can have an immediacy about them that the written word can't compete with. I'm not talking about the long-form \"Serial\"-type or magazine \"This American Life\" style podcasts. Those are very scripted and rehearsed. Rather, I'm talking about a lot of the topical shows I listen to. Having a few people with chemistry discussing their topic, where they can riff and improvise and be themselves, can be incredibly interesting in the way the written word can't."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 19741201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741201", "by": "username223", "time": 1556129280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I dislike the \"hour of unedited rambling\" ones, enjoy some of NPR, and find the over-produced stuff like Radiolab insufferable. I also enjoy a lot of recorded music. But the great thing about podcasts is that, like blogs, there are way more of them than you can ever consume, and they're just RSS feeds, not locked into some platform (yet). To each his own."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 19741266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741266", "by": "nickelcitymario", "time": 1556129741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did I malign Gladwell? That wasn't my intention. Revisionist History is one of my favourite podcasts."}, {"show": "135072877", "hn_item": 19741709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741709", "by": "arafalov", "time": 1556132709, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Are you just listening to popular stuff or looking for podcasts about your more obscure interests? Or just randomly sampling? I like storytelling podcasts for example, so something like \"Re:Sound\" was great. It is compilation of the best from other sources: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-sound/id135072877 (hard to find it actually) This can lead you to a number of podcasts from all over the world. Critical Role is an amazing very long form podcast of a DnD game: https://critrole.com/ And if you like it, there is another bunch of similar content discoverable by association. A lot of t"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 19750363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750363", "by": "themodelplumber", "time": 1556212954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's something to that POV. Out of curiosity I looked around for relevant podcasts and found a BBC World podcast [0] on the Rendlesham Forest Incident [1] in which a U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel brought along a geiger counter, a tape recorder, and several other people to check out a possible UFO in the forest. The Colonel's final take is interesting, if a bit concerning for the more exploration-minded: \"I don't think we can do anything about it. I think this is beyond us. So: Quit worrying about it.\" Personally I'm interested in the benign-animalistic properties of these phenomena. The"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 19752903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19752903", "by": "methodover", "time": 1556229671, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The New York Times\u2019 podcast, \u201cThe Daily\u201d covered this today: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736... If you\u2019d like to listen rather than read the story."}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 19752994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19752994", "by": "jordanpg", "time": 1556230612, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19758356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758356", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1556291656, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Planet Money episode about this, in case you like podcasts: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 19758637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758637", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1556293165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Lustig has some good insights. Two caveats on him: 1) He is an evangelist about the dangers of fructose, which is ubiquitous in the Standard American Diet (SAD) 2) I gather that he has a few positions that are not unreasonable but are also not fully supported by research, yet Having said that, I learned a lot from him about fructose metabolism, how it has to be metabolized by the liver, and what happens to excess. The analogy that sticks in my head is that excess fructose consumption is like foie-grasing ourselves. We get Non-alocoholic fatty liver and it's happening to children at unprece"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19765720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765720", "by": "shishy", "time": 1556375517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly related: the \"Reply All\" podcast had an episode called \"The Snapchat Thief\" where they discuss swim swapping, etc. May be of interest to some of you: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k/130-the-snapc..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19770703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770703", "by": "DeusExMachina", "time": 1556453640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It \"worked\" only if the definition is \"it removed it from Reddit\". As the article mentions, these people did not just disappear or change their mind. They just moved to more obscure places, where they can continue and be evem more motivated, because now they have been censored. And you might still consider this to be a satisfiable definition for \"it worked\". Out of sight, out of mind. Except that, these people are now relegated to an echo chamber far from public discourse where they will only reinforce their views without challenge. An echo chamber that is now suddenly more appealing, because "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 19780208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780208", "by": "metahost", "time": 1556557481, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 19791659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791659", "by": "louisswiss", "time": 1556656462, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1663611710", "hn_item": 19797782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797782", "by": "cpojer", "time": 1556723715, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 19802510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19802510", "by": "drworm", "time": 1556751495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you found the economics portion of this article interestingly, I would highly recommend the EconTalk podcast episode \"Munger on Recycling\" http://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-recycling/"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 19811095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19811095", "by": "icxa", "time": 1556822329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We need to stop relying on the assertions Big Tech make about themselves, and work towards regulation. What most viewers saw during the Facebook congressional hearing was woefully out of touch, forgive me for using this phrase \u201cold white guys\u201d questioning Mark with many facepalm-able moments. But the house hearing, which includes 40 representatives from the Millennial generation, who grew up on tech, asked much better questions. It just got swallowed up by the news cycle because the Manafort Raid was happening at the same time as hearing about the Cambridge Analytica scandal was occuring. All "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19816605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19816605", "by": "username3", "time": 1556872441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Watch Alex Jones on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast on YouTube. They address Sandy Hook in the beginning."}, {"show": "1763424917", "hn_item": 19821596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19821596", "by": "pashariger", "time": 1556912538, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1292381204", "hn_item": 19830980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830980", "by": "HelloFellowDevs", "time": 1557027457, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On the note of Twitter's restriction of API usage, Jack talked about it recently on the podcast Tales from the Crypt [0]. He doesn't give any specifics but attributes Twitters early struggle with uptime to unrestricted API usage [1]. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-the-crypt/i... [1] https://overcast.fm/+KiHpBJHGo/15:30"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 19842904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842904", "by": "NSAID", "time": 1557171100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This same race was a topic in a recent episode of the This American Life podcast https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse/act-three..."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 19852200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19852200", "by": "SlowRobotAhead", "time": 1557254387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The writer was on an episode of Embedded.fm podcast awhile back, one of the rare ones where they really get into embedded in detail. Good episode, I recommend it. Two take-aways were that he just loved the Silicon Labs EFM series, which is a modern set of peripherals wrapped around an absolutely outdated 8051. For the most part micros are just moving things from one peripheral to another and that can work out just fine. It's nice SI used SWD/JTAG as the debug peripheral so you can program it along side all the ARM parts you're actually going to use. And two... Having used almost everything on "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 19864695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19864695", "by": "natdempk", "time": 1557367017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a pretty decent Reply All podcast about this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hlwr/109-is-facebo... In short, you can't. People want to believe what they want to believe. Maybe if you have someone receptive you can explain the absurd number of correlations advertisers can make from your profile, and the fact that a guess only has to be right once for it to see like Facebook is listening to you while advertisers make tens or hundreds of guesses every day. No one wants to hear this explanation though, so I wouldn't expect to convince anyone. :)"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 19870402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19870402", "by": "xt00", "time": 1557423842, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Darknet diaries has a great episode on this if you want an audio version of this story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 19871526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871526", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1557430788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is in general a great podcast. I sometimes struggle when otherwise good podcasts do security stuff because it's too high level for me to be entertained. I think Jack does a good job of being accessible to n00bs and interesting to experts."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19871907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871907", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1557432692, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I love podcasts - if I get stuck on a hard problem they're a great way to take a pause and let the mind wander while feeling productive. (Or to reclaim time other wise lost to chores, commutes and other unavoidable time sinks) For example as someone interested in infosec, Darknet Diaries and \"Cyber\" are both very good at keeping me in the loop on major trends. For more \"edutainment\" Planet Money and Hidden Brain are great resources on behavioral econ and cognitive psych research. What podcasts are my fellow hackers listening to?"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 19871907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871907", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1557432692, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I love podcasts - if I get stuck on a hard problem they're a great way to take a pause and let the mind wander while feeling productive. (Or to reclaim time other wise lost to chores, commutes and other unavoidable time sinks) For example as someone interested in infosec, Darknet Diaries and \"Cyber\" are both very good at keeping me in the loop on major trends. For more \"edutainment\" Planet Money and Hidden Brain are great resources on behavioral econ and cognitive psych research. What podcasts are my fellow hackers listening to?"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19872078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19872078", "by": "buerkle", "time": 1557433685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a good podcast about this topic, https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis... . Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform has way too much leverage on Republicans for them to ever agree to pre-filled tax forms. It's a shame."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 19873740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873740", "by": "markholmes", "time": 1557446337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy lots of podcasts, few of which are tech-related. Darknet Diaries, as mentioned, deals with security in a Malcolm Gladwell-style episodic mystery format. Linear Digressions is a fun podcast about things related to data science. The Changelog has interviews with creators and leaders spanning a wide variety of technologies. The Tim Ferriss Show, hosted by Tim Ferriss, has long-form interviews with mostly celebrities and business leaders. A lot of good episodes. How Did This Get Made is a podcast hosted by Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, and June Diane Raphael that dissects terrible movies."}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 19874047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874047", "by": "kleer001", "time": 1557449387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics, Stuff you should know, Five minute Fatherhood, Escape pod, Sawbones, Nature podcast, Science Talk, Business unusual, EmacsCast, Stuff you missed in history cast, No such thing as a fish, Econtalk, Savage lovecast, Before breakfast, Writing Excuses... whew"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 19874047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19874047", "by": "kleer001", "time": 1557449387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics, Stuff you should know, Five minute Fatherhood, Escape pod, Sawbones, Nature podcast, Science Talk, Business unusual, EmacsCast, Stuff you missed in history cast, No such thing as a fish, Econtalk, Savage lovecast, Before breakfast, Writing Excuses... whew"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 19883106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883106", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1557529474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember many many years ago listening to the Stack Overflow podcast which was Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky talking, in real time, about them creating Stack Overflow. IIRC it uses ASP.Net MVC or something like that, and might have been the first and/or biggest site using it?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19893478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19893478", "by": "sideaccount", "time": 1557684779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman recently stated on the Rogan podcast that openai only open sources a basic version of their ai tools, is this true?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 19893478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19893478", "by": "sideaccount", "time": 1557684779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman recently stated on the Rogan podcast that openai only open sources a basic version of their ai tools, is this true?"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 19894483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19894483", "by": "dreinhardt", "time": 1557694268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a good episode of Dan Carlin\u2018s Hardcore History podcast that might serve as a starting point: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-..."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 19906932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19906932", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1557810667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Instant classic\" is exactly how I felt - I \"knew\" all the parts of the article but it has a new context and direction that gives a moment of clarity. Cannot recommend this enough. And on a slightly related note a recent Talking Politics podcast had Sir David King who was UKs chief Scientific Officer to Blair. Early on there was a terrible Foot and Mouth outbreak and Blair was at a loss how to prevent the outbreak spreading from farm to farm. But King understood SIR / SIS networks (and experts in this who wrote the books) and said \"give me carte blanche and we will fix this - by day X we will "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19916443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916443", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1557894921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I love podcasts - if I get stuck on a hard problem they're a great way to take a pause and let the mind wander while feeling productive. (Or to reclaim time other wise lost to chores, commutes and other unavoidable time sinks) For example as someone interested in infosec, Darknet Diaries and \"Cyber\" are both very good at keeping me in the loop on major trends. For more \"edutainment\" Planet Money and Hidden Brain are great resources on behavioral econ and cognitive psych research. What podcasts are my fellow hackers listening to?"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 19916443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916443", "by": "dontbenebby", "time": 1557894921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I love podcasts - if I get stuck on a hard problem they're a great way to take a pause and let the mind wander while feeling productive. (Or to reclaim time other wise lost to chores, commutes and other unavoidable time sinks) For example as someone interested in infosec, Darknet Diaries and \"Cyber\" are both very good at keeping me in the loop on major trends. For more \"edutainment\" Planet Money and Hidden Brain are great resources on behavioral econ and cognitive psych research. What podcasts are my fellow hackers listening to?"}, {"show": "1438024613", "hn_item": 19921191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19921191", "by": "javagram", "time": 1557938570, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Some economists believe the tax cut and other spending has been juicing the economy, leading to the record numbers we are seeing right now. I recently listened to a NYT podcast where they discussed this theory briefly, but I\u2019ve also been seeing it from some economists I follow on Twitter. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-argument/id1438024... Of course as with any economics prediction it\u2019s hard to prove what the alternate history would have been, but the idea is that the economy would have slowed down and U-3 unemployment wouldn\u2019t have dropped to historic lows without the additional c"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19929296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929296", "by": "DeusExMachina", "time": 1558016461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> A Twitter spokesperson responded to the new tool saying, \u201cWe enforce the Twitter Rules impartially for all users, regardless of their background or political affiliation. We are constantly working to improve our systems and will continue to be transparent in our efforts.\u201d In the discussion with Jack Dorsey on the Joe Rogan podcast, Tim Pool had a good point: some of the rules are intrinsically biased on one side of the political spectrum. An good example is the rule against misgendering. Twitter forbids referring to a person using a different gender than the one that person choses. E.g., you"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 19932929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19932929", "by": "aeorgnoieang", "time": 1558039025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> ... the high rate of death for free-solo climbers. Honnold made an interesting point in his latest (?) appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast: none of the top free solo climbers has died on a hard free solo climb (and many didn't die free solo climbing, or even climbing, at all). And of course lots of people die climbing with ropes and protection too, even highly skilled and experience climbers. Most people would probably consider any significant climb to be 'too risky'. As I disagree, I don't think I can reasonably fault anyone else for choosing some other higher level of risk as being 'too risk"}, {"show": "1669584141", "hn_item": 19941399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19941399", "by": "schnevets", "time": 1558112187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The agriculture podcast Farm to Taber has a few interesting episodes on this topic (including the Prison Labor episode here: https://www.farmtotaber.com/episodes/2018/4/27/convict-labor ). America suffers from a cognitive dissonance because they refuse to recognize agricultural laborers as a skilled labor force. Anyone can pick berries for a day, but someone who has been working on farms for 30 years will give exponentially more output because of the muscle memory and constitution they have developed. It is a true form of skilled labor, and it's the truth behind articles where farms struggled "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 19950352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19950352", "by": "village-idiot", "time": 1558222720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the running jokes of the Revolutions podcast is that to truly understand the history of the X revolution, first you must understand Poland. He keeps saying this because events in Poland triggered some surprisingly weird outcomes Europe wide, including arguably helping turn the French Revolution from a domestic affair to a continent wide war."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 19958681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19958681", "by": "dhkxh", "time": 1558344338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of Hello Internet recently releasing a special 2-minute episode of their podcast on a wax cylinder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder Really difficult to get your hands on one but it's possible. And the peak of their popularity was about 100 years ago."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 19960674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19960674", "by": "angadkalra", "time": 1558362745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All the posts below ignored one huge thing. I'm going to provide a list of actions that transformed my life when I was 19 and solved the problems you mentioned. How? These habits increased my confidence, calmed my mind, and increased self-awareness. Habits & systems are everything. Number 1 is the MOST important and is paramount. None of the rest will work without it: 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/nofap . Don't dismiss. No harm in trying. Do 90 days and report back how you feel. Good website: https://www.antidopamine.com/ 2. Meditate every morning for 20 minutes. Try headspace app. 3. Exercise e"}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 19961890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961890", "by": "dillonmckay", "time": 1558368620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chinese entrepreneurs have been opening factories in Africa, actually. Relevant podcast: https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/11/the-hardscrabble-business-o..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 19962567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962567", "by": "sct202", "time": 1558372296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read ChinaRX recently, and it included a lot of similar concerns. But it emphasized that a lot of the components and active ingredients are produced in China, and some American companies are not always very vigilant or thorough in checking the purity or quality of their suppliers. So even if a pill is made in America, it could still be at risk as much as a foreign pill. The book kind of veered off in parts to being a little bit fear-mongery/off topic--a large portion of it was rehash of a Planet Money chicken tax podcast, and then another large block was focused on container ships-- though s"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 19963028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963028", "by": "brodouevencode", "time": 1558374628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nice. Came here to mention Paul Sellers too. Humorist Adam Carolla has pointed out several times on his podcast that guys who work with their hands (his examples have been car guys and carpenters) don't have time to worry about the drama-filled escapades that the creative types or the white collar types engage in every day. Having worked in both there seems to be some validity in this."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 19975613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975613", "by": "irrational", "time": 1558476416, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "That link doesn't appear to link to the history of rome podcast anymore. I think this is the current link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 19975713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975713", "by": "acl777", "time": 1558477093, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools has been my favorite resource since leading a team and being able to work better! The podcasts are free: https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts I shared my experience going to their conference: http://redgreenrepeat.com/2019/03/08/conference-debrief-mana... Please ask me if you want to know anything specific that I don't cover."}, {"show": "1325942361", "hn_item": 19975744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975744", "by": "zaidos", "time": 1558477336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Modern CTO podcast by Joel Beasley is a great resource for this ( https://moderncto.io/ ). Lots of insight from tech leaders across many industries."}, {"show": "1448635132", "hn_item": 19983466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19983466", "by": "TACIXAT", "time": 1558546610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Large loans and real estate deals are not the type of money laundering this software detects. It is looking for unusual transaction flows between accounts. For example, if an account receives large amounts money for inconsistent purposes (e.g. computer services and farm equipment), or has large amounts of money flow through it while maintaining a relatively low average balance (e.g. 10 million received and sent when the account normally has 40k in it). While money is absolutely laundered via real estate and art, that's not what this software detects. The podcast The Dark Money Files is really "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 19986010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986010", "by": "thanatos_dem", "time": 1558562351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, that\u2019s right. For those that like podcasts there\u2019s a 99% Invisible episode about it - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-modern-necropolis... And for those that like videos, that link includes a Tom Scott YouTube video as well."}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 20002078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20002078", "by": "jfultz", "time": 1558709189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apple basically found a way to game the system and ended up with a design that had fewer compromises and lower cost (on this front). I've heard several interviews on ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast with various designers of the Atari computers who were very frustrated at being compelled to design their computers like a tank while Apple largely, in their view, just ignored the FCC and got away with it. Wikipedia has a more generous take on the situation, but even Wikipedia concedes that Apple was exploiting a loophole in the regulations. Later, the FCC did relax its requirements, but by that poin"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 20012535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012535", "by": "george_perez", "time": 1558833277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can almost 100% say that this is never coming to Android. Casey Liss is one of the co-hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) and they are Apple users through and through. Marco Arment, maker of the great Overcast podcast client, is also a co-host alongside John Siracusa of Mac OS X/Ars reviews fame. TL;DR No this is not coming to Android."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 20012535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012535", "by": "george_perez", "time": 1558833277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can almost 100% say that this is never coming to Android. Casey Liss is one of the co-hosts of Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) and they are Apple users through and through. Marco Arment, maker of the great Overcast podcast client, is also a co-host alongside John Siracusa of Mac OS X/Ars reviews fame. TL;DR No this is not coming to Android."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 20014242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014242", "by": "alangibson", "time": 1558867476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Start charging today. Charge $10 per month and $100 per year. If this sounds crazy to you, check out the Indie Hackers podcast for loads of stories of this working."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 20014899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014899", "by": "AdamM12", "time": 1558878426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast talks about this A LOT. Such a good podcast just in general. A bunch of prevailing themes but can take a little bit out of each."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 20014943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20014943", "by": "tga", "time": 1558878946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe, maybe not. As a random counterexample, take Carrd.co, as recently featured on the Indie Hackers podcast: simple web page generator, with a free plan and a $9/year plan, currently making more than $30k/month. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/087-aj-of-carrd"}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 20024384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20024384", "by": "lowdose", "time": 1558983029, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Microsoft had good talk about contextual bandits and machine learning. The business case discussed was webpage conversion optimization which increased by 80%. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/new-perspectiv... https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/microsoft-research-pod..."}, {"show": "1459712981", "hn_item": 20032289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032289", "by": "heliophobicdude", "time": 1559064457, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I believe you are referring to the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl. The showrunners explained in a podcast that in auditions, characters used Slavic accents but ended up becoming distracting and could have ended up comical. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2T6ldM41ZbVzuEaL644sef?si=1..."}, {"show": "1556916238", "hn_item": 20032644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032644", "by": "ghshephard", "time": 1559066313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should listen to the Chernobyl podcast to get a sense of how insanely dedicated they are to capturing every possible detail They took a few dramatic licences (a few characters are composites) - but, by and large, the stories are told lockstep in as close to a factual account as can be told."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20035648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035648", "by": "IOT_Apprentice", "time": 1559088052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you should view Andrew Yang's interview on Joe Rogan's podcast. There is a job apocalypse coming and millions of people will be thrown out of work by tech firms relentless pursuit of machine learning and automation via robotics."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 20035648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20035648", "by": "IOT_Apprentice", "time": 1559088052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you should view Andrew Yang's interview on Joe Rogan's podcast. There is a job apocalypse coming and millions of people will be thrown out of work by tech firms relentless pursuit of machine learning and automation via robotics."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20043087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20043087", "by": "fuddle", "time": 1559151591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily podcast covered this story aswell today - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/podcasts/the-daily/trump-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20044509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044509", "by": "TheBeardKing", "time": 1559159049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a recent podcast [1] which examined different methods of student loans and payback programs. One idea was letting businesses \"invest\" in students directly by paying for tuition, with the student agreeing to payback terms upfront, thereby shifting the risk from the student to investor. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/student-debt/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 20048022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20048022", "by": "SwSwinger", "time": 1559185812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A group of early ex-Facebook engineers/directors have recently collaborated with Software Engineering Daily to produce a podcast series about the engineering philosophy behind the core product. I think these talks are a little more raw and direct than you would find from official corporate talking points. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/all-episodes/"}, {"show": "1501863970", "hn_item": 20053589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20053589", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1559236807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "invdio.us at least proxies. Youtube-dl mps-youtube, and mpv allow direct downloading and streaming (and not just from YT). I'm working through 12 or so hours of a podcast from a textfile plalist of mp3 links, in Termux, on Android. For my workflow that beats any podcast app. (Though a good CLI podcast manager would be handy.)"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 20063056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063056", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1559323895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of English Podcast has a good episode covering the Ancrene Wisse: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2017/12/02/episode-103-s..."}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 20063401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063401", "by": "lpolovets", "time": 1559325857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Writing well is an undervalued skill in life, not just in engineering. When you work on a team of peers with similar skills in your field, whether that field is engineering or something else, being able to write well and communicate well become strong differentiators. FWIW, I'm pretty sure that writing (reasonably) well online is what got me a job in venture capital after ten years as an engineer. David Perell (host of the North Star Podcast) has been tweeting a lot of good things about the value of writing + writing tips: - https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1127348174404890625 - https:/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20064248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064248", "by": "avsteele", "time": 1559331673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related, Recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Nihilism-Jacob-Stegenga/dp/01... You can listen to a recent EconTalk podcast for a one hour summary of the book."}, {"show": "500673866", "hn_item": 20066721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20066721", "by": "lukeHeuer", "time": 1559355104, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Most of the guidance is very outdated. It's likely to confuse more than clarify unless you've taken the time to study modern resources. I prefer Bryan Garner's work, like his usage guides. There is a great episode of Lexicon Valley where the dustier advice from The Elements of Style is called out: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/against-strunk-white/i..."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 20066721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20066721", "by": "lukeHeuer", "time": 1559355104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most of the guidance is very outdated. It's likely to confuse more than clarify unless you've taken the time to study modern resources. I prefer Bryan Garner's work, like his usage guides. There is a great episode of Lexicon Valley where the dustier advice from The Elements of Style is called out: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/against-strunk-white/i..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 20070672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070672", "by": "macawfish", "time": 1559413844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can someone help me find a podcast with a story which I thought was called called \"the cat came back\". I've scoured through This American Life episodes and still can't find it. Maybe it was a different podcast? Either way it's about a guy who adopts a cat and then finds out, by attaching a camera, that the cat has other lives."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20076013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20076013", "by": "bumby", "time": 1559488869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was just a Planet Money podcast episode (#917 'Quit Threat') that gives some evidence of the opposite. Namely, that the status of near-full employment is giving unions more power, to the point of renegotiating two-tier contracts before the contract ends. It's not absolute across all unions but does seem to indicate more employee power as unemployment numbers decrease, even after acknowledging your point that there isn't an exact definition for \"full employment\""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20079222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079222", "by": "burlesona", "time": 1559519183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent Freakonomics Podcast episode on Oster and her work was a little more in-depth than this article. I really enjoyed it. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/parenting/"}, {"show": "1314807564", "hn_item": 20083449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20083449", "by": "luciaf", "time": 1559572281, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is a really good point! Remote work has massive socio-political implications. Really enjoyed discussing this aspect of remote work in this podcast interview with Liam Martin, founder of Running Remote: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2-e10-liam-martin/id1..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 20092025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092025", "by": "aaavl2821", "time": 1559624178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have any personal experience w this but have been thinking about doing similar things myself. I recently listened to a podcast on Indie Hackers with Nat Eliason, who has monetized his SEO knowledge quite effectively [0] He wrote a few blog posts that went viral, for some he did affiliate stuff, for others he actually built apps that he sold through the article and apparently made $3-7K / month from that in a nearly entirely passive manner. He also monetized his knowledge on SEO by starting a growth agency that does SEO for clients and apparently makes $85K / month for that after just l"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 20096930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20096930", "by": "lil-scamp", "time": 1559667654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love learning how the English language has evolved. Public service announcement: If you're into this stuff-check out the Allusionist Podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/listen It's full of fun stories like these. One of my favorite language nuggets\u2014the word \"guys\" is an eponym\u2014most historians trace it back Guy Fawkes."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20109926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109926", "by": "themagician", "time": 1559775195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Jones\u2019s influence has only grown. He was just on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast a few weeks ago. Deplatforming just removes it from the view of people who don\u2019t want to see it anyway."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20118495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118495", "by": "lilsoso", "time": 1559851271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He has covered these issues with more detail and nuance. For example, see his recent two hour interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. The point is achieving happiness. He's quite philosophical about this, give his material a try."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20120803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20120803", "by": "temp129038", "time": 1559870393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the Rogan podcast and was definitely confused by some of the arguments he makes e.g. he claimed the celebrities are the \"most miserable people in the world\" because they get a disproportionate amount of hate directed toward them due to their status as public figures (or something). I don't believe that for a minute. I was also a bit surprised by the discussion around questioning the truth behind climate change. Yes, we should be scientific about validating hypothesis about anything, but to nod along as Rogan said \"there's no evidence\" was a bit shocking."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20122374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20122374", "by": "Reedx", "time": 1559892238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He actually made that point on Rogan's podcast, referencing Nassim Taleb: \"I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.\""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20130447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20130447", "by": "godzilla82", "time": 1559964427, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know its frowned upon to ask why you are being downvoted, but honestly I would like some feedback on why the comment is being downvoted. The commenter I was replying to, it seemed to me had missed the part and so was forming an opinion on what they think a \"taker\" is. In the article, you will find that he defines takers the very next paragraph after he uses the word takers. In the Joe Rogan podcast, infact he elaborates on this."}, {"show": "1466699089", "hn_item": 20131685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20131685", "by": "ckugblenu", "time": 1559989730, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 20138055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138055", "by": "asjo", "time": 1560070487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is similar to Windows licensing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison... ), where \"Windows 10 Home\" allows you to use 128 GB of RAM, while the various \"Pro\" versions allows up to 2 TB, and \"Enterprise\" up to 6 TB. The limits used to be lower - I seem to remember laughing out loud at a Stack Overflow podcast, where they talked about having to purchase a new Windows license to be able to expand the RAM of a server."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20140315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140315", "by": "ryanianian", "time": 1560099300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The first place for an excellent start begins at your home. The 99% Invisible podcast did an episode on this [1]. There is strong evidence that even very intense forest-fires won't cause buildings to burn if they take well-known preventative measures. I don't know how much of the financial damages from the utility companies are owed to homeowners, but it certainly seems like homeowners aren't absolved of responsibility if their house burns when they've ignored preventative measures. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 20143397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20143397", "by": "war1025", "time": 1560133544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Must be somewhat dependent on what type of things people talk about. I've found their search feature cumbersome and hard to use. I listened to a \"How I Built This\" podcast about Slack maybe six months ago and I remember finding it very amusing and unexpected that they view their \"search\" feature as one of the main draws for people switching from other chat apps to Slack. For me, it's always been like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Maybe because we have a single product and lots of bugs and features are pretty similar to each other."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 20151445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20151445", "by": "the_arun", "time": 1560205199, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a podcast for the interview Guy Raz did for \u201cHow I built this\u201d with Miguel McKelvey https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-... . Thought it was a pretty good startup story"}, {"show": "1459657136", "hn_item": 20152252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20152252", "by": "melling", "time": 1560214470, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The BBC has a podcast about the moon landing: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48232627 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz4dj Apple podcast url: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-minutes-to-the-moon..."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 20154107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20154107", "by": "lloydatkinson", "time": 1560247521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. His book (there's now a second edition!) is excellent. I've found few authors that publish articles that resonate with me as much as Mark. He's on a couple of episodes of .NET Rocks podcast too, definetly worth a listen."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20155753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20155753", "by": "Real_S", "time": 1560263613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily did a podcast interviewing the founder of GEDmatch. Part1: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/podcasts/the-daily/dna-ge... Part2: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/podcasts/the-daily/geneal..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20157409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20157409", "by": "username444", "time": 1560273323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on the Rogan podcast a few weeks back. Hoping this works well for him."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 20177414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20177414", "by": "hjacobs", "time": 1560450496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As the author of the repo, I made it pretty clear that it's not about driving people away from Kubernetes. Please see my posts and talks about it, e.g. https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/038-kubernetes-failure... and https://srcco.de/posts/why-kubernetes.html"}, {"show": "1462776122", "hn_item": 20179060, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20179060", "by": "jjacobs22", "time": 1560464063, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1204701206", "hn_item": 20184098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184098", "by": "iambateman", "time": 1560528422, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Destin from Smarter Every Day has a podcast episode that talks about this problem in depth. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-dumb-questions/id12... He dives into why it\u2019s such a hard problem to fix and explains how the root cause is more financial than ideological. It\u2019s worth a listen."}, {"show": "1445276006", "hn_item": 20193246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20193246", "by": "gmishuris", "time": 1560648158, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20199928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20199928", "by": "duckMuppet", "time": 1560745472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk is one of the few podcasts that really explore a wide variety of topics. His latest about climate change was phenomenal.. Talk to you on Monday!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20217740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20217740", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1560887998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to a very relevant Freakonomics podcast, \"Why Rent Control Doesn\u2019t Work (Ep. 373)\". http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/"}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 20221244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20221244", "by": "feydaykyn", "time": 1560925646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the start of a very good podcast, the Program http://www.programaudioseries.com/ Each episode is a character explaining how the Program changed his/her life, episodes are very moving. The first one describes how it all started by a social network controlling money and thus people actions. Oh and it's mainly optimistic, that's a nice change for the subject! \"The Program is a historical podcast, but a one that\u2019s set in the future and examines the present day. The world of the future is exactly like ours, except that Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Progr"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20221683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20221683", "by": "colinhb", "time": 1560932717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the US, enough people have submitted DNA to 23andMe, Ancestry, GED match, etc., that a random DNA sample can be identified by so-called \u201cgenetic genealogy\u201d methods. Basically because your generic relatives have submitted their DNA to these services, a small pool of potential candidates for your DNA can be identified, and traditional investigation methods can identify you in that pool. As the density of people who have submitted DNA to these services increases in the total population, identifying random samples will be easier. (It is already getting easier.) These techniques were publicized "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 20236734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20236734", "by": "folkhack", "time": 1561060760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I absolutely love Andrew Yang's calm, \"common-sense\" demeanor. I got into him thanks to the Sam Harris podcast. His platform is hard to ignore for someone who's been around the block both in the bay tech communities and rural America. I really hope this is the start of a long and vibrant career in politics for him!"}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 20236734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20236734", "by": "folkhack", "time": 1561060760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I absolutely love Andrew Yang's calm, \"common-sense\" demeanor. I got into him thanks to the Sam Harris podcast. His platform is hard to ignore for someone who's been around the block both in the bay tech communities and rural America. I really hope this is the start of a long and vibrant career in politics for him!"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20237365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237365", "by": "dpau", "time": 1561064655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nice Reply All podcast about the locksmith scam: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87 NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locks..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20238565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20238565", "by": "zippergz", "time": 1561074085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is why that Reply All podcast about this topic (posted by someone else in this thread) is titled \"Very Quickly to the Drill.\""}, {"show": "283605519", "hn_item": 20249247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249247", "by": "orpheline", "time": 1561206549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Covered on an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class: https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/beast-of-gevaudan.h..."}, {"show": "1314170606", "hn_item": 20249556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20249556", "by": "ianai", "time": 1561211741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The book \u201cuninhabitable earth\u201d is good for this. As is his talk on the Chris Hayes podcast. Some key points: 2C means genocide. Entire island nations under water and lost. Every minor increase means exponentially higher costs - many more dead, large swaths of the earth uninhabitable. 4C is something like Hong Kong/Shanghai, and many other parts of th world uninhabitable. Going outside would be fatal within minutes. Here\u2019s a map someone put together for 4C: https://mymodernmet.com/parag-khanna-global-warming-map/ At 8C of warming, clouds may be unable to form."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 20250053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250053", "by": "jtbayly", "time": 1561216744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles from BBC, CNN blogs, \u201cfeatured on an episode of NPR\u2019s Hidden Brain podcast,\u201d a video on YouTube from National Geographic (11m subscribers), all since 2012. Lots and lots of people outside the field continue read about this and remember it. Many millions of people. I remember when I first heard about it. I\u2019m not in the field. A notice in Science is at least noteworthy to that same public, even if it still won\u2019t get a fraction of the same coverage. At least people who tried to track down the original research would find the follow up study as well."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20252047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20252047", "by": "jamespetercook", "time": 1561242459, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1298287048", "hn_item": 20267867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20267867", "by": "nathan_long", "time": 1561406784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fred Hebert was on the ElixirTalk podcast and mentioned speed of deploys as one advantage - no need to rebuild a bunch of VMs. > From experience, we could deploy to a 70-node cluster in something like under 5 seconds by doing it in parallel. If you want to rotate your infrastructure... your deploy could be taking from 5 minutes to an hour depending on how fast the connection draining can be done. https://soundcloud.com/elixirtalk/episode-145-feat-fred-hebe..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20286028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20286028", "by": "e40", "time": 1561563571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think a lot do. I have a digital sub. It's $9.99/mo, but goes up after a year, and when I call to cancel they lower it to $9.99/mo again. The Daily podcast is wonderful. The NYT isn't without fault, but they are probably the best media company in the US."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20287261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287261", "by": "miguelmota", "time": 1561570957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A great podcast episode on this is Planet Money's 'Mexico Fights The Fuel Pirates'; they explain how it all led up to this https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/08/701613540/epis..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20288288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20288288", "by": "alteria", "time": 1561577233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a whole Reply All podcast episode where one of the hosts tried convincing listeners that Facebook wasn't listening to their microphones. It goes to show that people aren't too aware of just how much data Facebook/tech has about them, and occasionally that data can make extremely accurate predictions. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hlwr/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20295563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295563", "by": "HSO", "time": 1561650948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't mean they dropped him from the debates. Of course they cannot do that, this is already decided by the DNC. What MSNBC did, and has been doing for months now, is \"conveniently\", \"innocently\" not show him in graphics where he would belong. For example, when they show literally all other candidates except him. Or, when they discussed the Monmouth poll, showed the list of the top eight names (AY is now 8), went through (again, literally) all names on the list up to number seven and then \"conveniently\", \"innocently\" on to the next slide. What the hell? > He only barely cracked the top 8 as"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 20298392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298392", "by": "LynxInLA", "time": 1561667487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast just released an episode on them today: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/superhuman"}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 20305835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20305835", "by": "greedo", "time": 1561738346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gruber spends more time doing his commentary on The Talk Show podcast and less on his blog. He's been consistently critical over the last few years; I too used to think he was a bit too favorable based on his writing, but since I started listening to his podcast, it's clear that he's much better at communicating orally."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 20307057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20307057", "by": "sandslash", "time": 1561744658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can also find all of the content from past lectures in the Startup School library: https://www.startupschool.org/library Last year's lectures can also be found in podcast form: http://backtracks.fm/ycombinator/startup-school/feed"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 20311141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311141", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1561790550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Latin did play a major role in Greece (which was ruled by Rome), though in a twist, as Adam Davidson of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast (a real treasure) notes, Rome adopted Greek as its language of scholarship and aristocracy rather than imposing Latin on the Greeks."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 20316231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316231", "by": "schappim", "time": 1561866863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd highly recommend you checkout https://techexplorations.com/ . They (Peter Dalmaris[1]) has by far the best content for starting from scratch. He also runs a bootcamp if you really need a helping hand. Chris Gammell from Contextual Electronics and \"The Amp Hour\" podcast also has good content https://contextualelectronics.com/ . [1]Disclosure: I often co-host an unrelated STEM podcast w/ Peter, so I'm little biased."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 20316553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20316553", "by": "chrisyeh", "time": 1561873182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As one of the co-creators of blitzscaling, it's important to note that we're careful in the book to say that most businesses shouldn't blitzscale. Basecamp is a great example of how bootstrapping can work. You can also listen to the story of MailChimp on the Masters of Scale podcast."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 20321388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321388", "by": "andai", "time": 1561939280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been struggling to do this for years. Previously, the longest I ever made it was 15 days with the Insight Timer app. Its shows you how many days in a row you did and it's very encouraging. What actually got me to do it for longer, and without any willpower, was pirating Sam Harris' Waking Up course. This is because I already had the muscle memory for going through audiobooks and podcasts on my phone, so I'd just open up VLC every night and instead of a book I'd listen to a guided mindfulness meditation. I did 150 days in a row. The course is 50 days and I just started over when I was done"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 20323998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323998", "by": "atoav", "time": 1561976688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Technology has a transformative effect on society and the way we live. This is why old cities look like they look (built before cars and trains were a thing) and this is why most US cites look like they look (built during the prime of the car age). Similar things are certainly true for other technology, even for the (tolerated) side products of said technology. Is any single person at fault here? Probably not. They mostly acted rationally within their small horizon, but together they created a problem, even for themselves. We have similar problems when it comes to markets and global warming. M"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20324984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20324984", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1561987330, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible had a podcast on this a couple years ago https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/atom-garden-eden/"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 20326350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326350", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1561995133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, not. The housing crisis in the US, particularly expressed as evictions, is not merely a tech-hub/coastal problem. On the Media's \"Scarlet E\" series is an excellent exploration of this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/scarlet-e-unmasking..."}, {"show": "1038415449", "hn_item": 20331687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20331687", "by": "root_node", "time": 1562035301, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "What techniques do you use to run on-page SEO experiments at scale? Apart from the content on the page, there are a few things on the page that can add SEO value. Getting the right title, meta tags and enough links pointing to a page. But how do we measure the significance of each of the factors? In most cases, we'll have more than 1 experiment running on a page. Some experiments are meant for the users and bots alike whereas some are solely for the bots. Isn't it becoming harder and harder to attribute a lift/drop in SEO indicators to one particular change. The author describes reverse engine"}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 20334079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20334079", "by": "williawmgant", "time": 1562068031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Nashville TN Remote: Very strongly preferred. We have deep roots here, and Nashville traffic is worse every day. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Entity Framework, NHibernate, Dapper (I'm strong in all these, but adaptable to most any approach on the .NET stack especially, as I've been using it since the beta). R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: My LinkedIn page covers the day job stuff pretty well ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamwgant/ ). However, I'm also half of a reasonable sized software development podcast (Complete Developer Podcast - https://completedevel"}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 20334717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20334717", "by": "williawmgant", "time": 1562073967, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Greetings, I've been recently pondering my career options. I've been doing .NET since the beta. I've worked at a wide range of companies. However, in the last 4 years or so, I've started shifting my focus more with a desire towards helping smaller, scrappier companies handle scaling and finding product/market fit. I'm also one of the guys on The Complete Developer Podcast (https://CompleteDeveloperPodcast.com) and have spoken at a number of conferences and software schools. In addition, I have a book coming out in August through Apress. However, my non-meeting time at the day job is still near"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 20336524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20336524", "by": "klenwell", "time": 1562083986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One thing I noticed the document doesn't address: what if the hypothesis is wrong? Is the project abandoned? Or is that included in the eventual product/result? And is the product in this case an editorial story/article? First sentence suggests a \"storytelling project\": > Hypothesis-Driven Design (or HDD for short) is a problem solving method that helps editorial teams take a user-centered and evidence-based approach to the discovery, design, and development of new storytelling projects. I assume that means podcast/This American Life-style stories."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 20339729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20339729", "by": "arve0", "time": 1562104512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rich Harris addresses scale in the Changelog podcast, and claims it to scale better than regular frameworks. https://changelog.com/news/a-ui-framework-without-the-framew..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 20342566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342566", "by": "Pandabob", "time": 1562142029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup. I guess spending time with family and friends makes it better. At least it does for me. We adopted a dog with my girlfriend this January and I'd say that just spending time with him alleviates it. I'd imagine having kids will have a similar effect (probably 100x stronger). In the newest Indie Hackers podcast [1], founder Aline Learner mentioned that starting a business helps with existential crises because you're so busy worrying about everything else. I'm looking forward to finding out if this holds true to myself in September. [1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/099-aline-lerner-o"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20343983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20343983", "by": "eadan", "time": 1562159580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Paul Stamets is a fascinating person. You're right, the Star Trek character is named after him [0]. I remember hearing, perhaps in the Joe Rogan podcast, that he consulted for the show. He has a brilliant TED talk on the world-changing potential of fungi research [1]. [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 20346432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346432", "by": "whiddershins", "time": 1562174758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quick googling shows suicide deaths increasing 24% over 15 years, to 45,000 in 2014. I heard an interview on Sam Harris\u2019 podcast where the contention was teenage suicide rates are dramatically increasing. Overdose deaths are at around 70,000 for 2017. Overdose deaths and suicide are very connected, insofar as they can be traced to a feeling of hopelessness or meaninglessness. Alcoholics are at a very high risk for suicide, for example. There may be many other related causes of death: homicides, car crashes, and other destructive behaviors can still be viewed through a lens of lack of self wort"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20348588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348588", "by": "davesmith1983", "time": 1562186737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You keep on saying that it doesn't scale without qualifying it. What does this mean? What is acceptable behaviour? My idea of acceptable behaviour is probably very different to yours (I almost guarantee it). There is a really good example of this recently. Tim Pool was talking to Jack Dorsey on the Joe Rogan podcast. Near the end of the podcast they were talking about why an individual (can't remember who it was) got banned from Twitter. When Jack's legal counsel (that was what she was really there for) found out via her phone on the show she claimed it was a \"threat of violence\", I instantly "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 20356260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356260", "by": "starsinspace", "time": 1562261254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I looked into the issue of USB-C hubs some time ago, all I could find is this claim in a blog article [0] that suitable chips for such USB-C-hubs are not available: > Update (2018-07-30): Accidental Tech Podcast reports on a rumor that next year Intel will finally ship the chip that\u2019s needed for making a USB-C that adds additional type-C ports. [0] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/10/14/the-impossible-dream-of-u..."}, {"show": "1448157275", "hn_item": 20359438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359438", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1562293954, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm working on Alchemist Camp, a site with screencasts and tutorials for web devs learning Elixir and the Phoenix framework. I believe that in terms of free content in this niche, nobody on the web has put out more. I've also been sporadically recording podcasts on topics near and dear to my heart\u2014learning, mental models, code and bootstrapping. https://alchemist.camp https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-and-bootstrapping... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-machine/id144..."}, {"show": "1448157446", "hn_item": 20359438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359438", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1562293954, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm working on Alchemist Camp, a site with screencasts and tutorials for web devs learning Elixir and the Phoenix framework. I believe that in terms of free content in this niche, nobody on the web has put out more. I've also been sporadically recording podcasts on topics near and dear to my heart\u2014learning, mental models, code and bootstrapping. https://alchemist.camp https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-and-bootstrapping... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-machine/id144..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20367080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20367080", "by": "kiernanmcgowan", "time": 1562375279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \u201cRevolutions\u201d by Mike Duncan makes these protests a fascinating watch - are they the tipping point that causes a regime to shift, or the effort that later generations point to for inspiration if change does not happen?"}, {"show": "1467292185", "hn_item": 20367393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20367393", "by": "dharmab", "time": 1562380464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also has a podcast series \"Extremities\" that is going in depth on a single topic (for season 1, the history and logistics of the world's most isolated permanently populated place.)"}, {"show": "508376907", "hn_item": 20371457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371457", "by": "pama", "time": 1562441981, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20372817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372817", "by": "thegabez", "time": 1562458260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone listens to the Joe Rogan podcast"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 20373398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20373398", "by": "Avshalom", "time": 1562469631, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 20375911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375911", "by": "kaycebasques", "time": 1562517113, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree that secondary sources do a better job at explaining the ideas than the originals. I did read Discipline And Punish though and got through it fine. My understanding of the text mapped well to the Philosophize This podcast on the topic. It would be exhausting to read his whole body of work, though. Same goes for any of the post-modernists. I guess they might have argued that they were venturing into new intellectual territory and that language wasn\u2019t well-suited to what they were trying to explain, but if that\u2019s the case then that\u2019s just elitist BS in my eyes. The secondary sources prov"}, {"show": "985845317", "hn_item": 20385850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385850", "by": "didsomeonesay", "time": 1562613688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just came here to say: I cannot recommend the Zachtronics podcast enough. There's currently just 7 episodes, but all filled with game design joy: http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20395877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20395877", "by": "espeed", "time": 1562701920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It just says 2 choices work -- like in binary decision tree, you can always choose the best of two -- but with 3 or more choices, you lose this property -- sort-of like in rock-paper-scissors [1], we can all agree that... 1. ROCK is better than scissors 2. SCISSORS is better than paper 3. PAPER is better than rock ?? PAPER is better than rock ?? ?? ROCK is better than rock ?? DOES NOT COMPUTE This in-transitive loop is called Holonomy [2], and it Does Not Compute in the classical sense -- it can put you in a state where it's impossible to win the majority vote -- no one can win the popular vot"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20400244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20400244", "by": "methodover", "time": 1562748364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cGiven New York\u2019s lax enforcement record, the Freakonomics podcast described running over pedestrians there as \u201cthe perfect crime.\u201d\u201d I was driving in Oakland when the car in front of me didn\u2019t slow down for a pedestrian in the crosswalk. The pedestrian disappeared in front of the car. I stopped my car, got out, found the struck young woman trembling and bleeding in the street. The speed limit was 30 miles per hour. I don\u2019t think the driver was going quite that fast \u2014 maybe 20, 25 at most. The woman driving the car was elderly. It\u2019s tough to gauge her age \u2014 pushing late 70s, maybe 80? She said "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 20406297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406297", "by": "guleadrian", "time": 1562791225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Do By Friday - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Changelog"}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 20406297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406297", "by": "guleadrian", "time": 1562791225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Do By Friday - Accidental Tech Podcast - The Changelog"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 20408939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20408939", "by": "nicwilson", "time": 1562816549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This sounds like they are trying to train a bot to actually not be perfect? (At least part of) The training has MMR as a label from unsupervised learning from human games so as part of the configuration they can set the agent to play like someone with a set MMR. Lex Fridman's interview with Oriol Vinyalis on Lex's AI podcast covers this in more depth."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20409917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20409917", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1562832523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Freakonomics Podcast where the authors discuss their findings, the controversy surrounding their initial claims, and the impacts of lead (or rather, the removing of lead from many environments) http://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 20413266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413266", "by": "sushilewis", "time": 1562864819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the How I Built This podcast, they mentioned AllBirds uses Shopify as their platform. I just checked their site, and it looks like it's still the case."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 20414700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414700", "by": "filmgirlcw", "time": 1562872925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is untrue. The update process was part of Xprotect, the malware definition/signature system built-into macOS that's part of Gatekeeper [1]. It dates back to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and was expanded on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (the Gatekeeper GUI was introduced in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and back ported to Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion). Updates were historically issued via minor OS updates, but Apple started to do silent updates to the Xprotect definition list a number of years ago, as a way to target popular/growing strains of malware (which were often installed via cracked apps). There were a fe"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 20431006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20431006", "by": "giancarlostoro", "time": 1563065500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish I had enough time to learn every programming language, just as much as I wish I had enough time to play Eve online. The things we see here on HN and hear about in regards to Eve online are incredible. Even when listening to the Talk Python podcast one dev from the Eve Online crew came on to talk about it all. It's pretty incredible, and these articles are never not fun to read about. There's also from time to time the World of Warcraft articles that pop up on HN."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20438262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438262", "by": "miscon", "time": 1563166742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So a totally innocent college student going home for summer vacation, gets in trouble. Escaped China, ended up on Planet Money, and vowed never to return. That sounds right? Could it be that this guy was the one spreading Islamic extremism (or worse terrorism) and got caught doing it? But of course Planet Money podcast is too busy to include that other side of story."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20438570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438570", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1563171569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I read those (non firewalled) parts that I could and they seem to have different underlying causes - the problem is rampant speculation using dirty foreign money, the problem is loose monetary policy making borrowing too cheap. I think \"too much demand\" has poor explanatory power and \"reduce demand by adding speculation tax for rich people\" strikes me as really really hard to implement without poor consequences. The recent Econtalk podcast suggests poor regulation is creating unaffordable supply (ie in manhattan the size of dwellings is fixed (as an anti-slum landlord measure) but it means "}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 20440103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440103", "by": "espeed", "time": 1563193490, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 20440290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440290", "by": "helmsdeep", "time": 1563195125, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20442197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442197", "by": "rconti", "time": 1563207204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Planet Money podcasts on how recycling got started in the US, and whether it's 'worth it' to recycle. https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-b... https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741283641/episode-926-so-shou..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20442918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20442918", "by": "bozoUser", "time": 1563210805, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "found these gems on recycling on NPR: Episode 925: A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834... Episode 926: So, Should We Recycle? - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20446113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20446113", "by": "s1artibartfast", "time": 1563231824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think there is a fair distinction to be made between growing the market, and growing the market share. You may find the Econtalk podcast interviewing Dan Pallota interesting. He is a high paid charity consultant (450k) and defends his work and salary. http://www.econtalk.org/pallotta-on-charity-and-the-culture-..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20448683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20448683", "by": "JansjoFromIkea", "time": 1563270309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "but a podcast has a flow that makes you inherently aware of how much time is passing unless it has absurdly long and flexible runtimes (and I do listen to some 4+ hour podcasts weekly). Something like 99% Invisible is amazing but the condensed 15 minute episodes and you constantly listening to a loop of intros and closers can wear after a while. iirc the History of Rome was really good at keeping the intros, exits, sponsored content and all that stuff as minimal as possible though, I definitely binged it but even then the fact that it was originally presented in these 15 minute chunks made it "}, {"show": "1339451218", "hn_item": 20452706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452706", "by": "npollock", "time": 1563302337, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you want to understand the appeal of Substack to journalists/writers, there's a great interview on the BOC podcast with one of the more successful authors on the platform, Robert Cottrell (formerly of The Economist) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-indie-newsletter-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20456144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20456144", "by": "melvinmt", "time": 1563333848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon Musk talks a bit about it in the infamous Joe Rogan podcast: https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI?t=1124"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20456941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20456941", "by": "zaksoup", "time": 1563343856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh please. Is \"embrace, extend, extinguish\" bad because it is slowly closing off the open web, or is it fine that Apple, Spotify, etc are buying podcast producers and moving away from RSS for their own proprietary delivery methods. And I'm not hating on Apple for doing what the bulk of the commercial content industry is doing. I listen to The Daily via their public RSS feeds, and I'm also an NYT subscriber. A significant majority of podcasting is available via public RSS feeds, even subscription-only Slate Plus allows you to plug a personalized RSS feed into the app of your choice. Apple and S"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 20457649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20457649", "by": "jazzyjackson", "time": 1563353330, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a great episode of \"The Truth\" podcast, \"If you're being interrupted, it's because you're interruptible\" https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-mitchell-1/interruptible"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 20459470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20459470", "by": "carusooneliner", "time": 1563371571, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20459644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20459644", "by": "audiometry", "time": 1563372540, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story originally broken by a Planet Money podcast."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20459775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20459775", "by": "gringoDan", "time": 1563373299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What Intuit/TurboTax is doing here is a classic bait and switch. TurboTax is legally required to make filing free for many individuals, but funnels them into unnecessary paid products. They make it almost impossible to find the free product, going as far as making sure those pages are unindexed from search engines. I highly recommend this Reply All podcast and the links on the page to learn more: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol/144-dark-patt..."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 20461329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20461329", "by": "juhaszhenderson", "time": 1563381423, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey guys! Podcast List (https://presshunt.co/podcasts) is a categorized database of 200k+ podcasts with emails & tags to help you find and pitch podcasts to cover your business. Podcasts are the newest form of media outlet, and coverage of you, your product, or your business can generate tons of attention quickly. Most podcast lists are designed for people trying to find new podcasts to listen to, which is only marginally helpful for marketers. For Podcast List we\u2019ve designed the ideal list for entrepreneurs and marketers trying to find the right podcast to pitch their story to\u2013\u2013either as an o"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20462276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462276", "by": "mopsi", "time": 1563386449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\" locksmiths/plumbers/etc\" may be a part of a massive ongoing scam that very few people know about. Reply All podcast made an episode on it: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87/78-very-quick..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20462529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462529", "by": "ngngngng", "time": 1563387795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are two justifications, all coming from the Republican side of things. 1) Tax filing being difficult makes people pay more attention to what they pay in taxes. 2) Tax filing being difficult makes people hate taxes, which will make them vote against raising taxes and or supporting socialism. This is all covered in an excellent podcast by Planet Money https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20464903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20464903", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1563404426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to a very relevant podcast, Planet Money episode 909: Dollar Stores Vs Lettuce https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/26/717665452/epis..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 20465053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20465053", "by": "maurycy", "time": 1563405757, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20468471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20468471", "by": "redder2", "time": 1563446566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its not on YouTube? I am a bug Joe Rogan Podcast fan and I love to actually watch the entire podcasts. Just listening is not the full experience for me."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 20469701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469701", "by": "augustl", "time": 1563457644, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just started my own, and when I went to the music gear store to pick up a pair of Shure SM7B, they were sold out because everyone is starting a podcast these days... I tried to hide my embarrassment to the salesperson. We do put a lot of time and effort into our podcast, though. We're avid fans of Radiolab. The first episode was just rambling - but it was the 5th take of rambling, at least. Our 4th episode was a thoroughly researched one where I introduced my co-host to some basic statistics I had to learn as part of the research (null hypothesis, precision/recall, ...) that Microsoft did af"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 20469701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469701", "by": "augustl", "time": 1563457644, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just started my own, and when I went to the music gear store to pick up a pair of Shure SM7B, they were sold out because everyone is starting a podcast these days... I tried to hide my embarrassment to the salesperson. We do put a lot of time and effort into our podcast, though. We're avid fans of Radiolab. The first episode was just rambling - but it was the 5th take of rambling, at least. Our 4th episode was a thoroughly researched one where I introduced my co-host to some basic statistics I had to learn as part of the research (null hypothesis, precision/recall, ...) that Microsoft did af"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20469817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469817", "by": "subpar", "time": 1563458379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The year was 2011 and I had just moved to DC after finishing undergrad. I couldn't find work in the radio business so instead I got a contract gig through Craigslist with the Internet Archive scanning books in the basement of the Library of Congress. Its dark down there and the work is pretty mechanical. The books themselves are only occasionally interesting. My iPod Touch could connect to wifi so I started listening to NPR while I scanned. I could do that for two hours or so, but once the segments started repeating I got bored. A friend suggested I listen to Radiolab, so I did. When I'd gone "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 20470063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470063", "by": "Scoundreller", "time": 1563459797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wouldn\u2019t say they\u2019ve gotten better, but there\u2019s a lot more at or near the quality level of Radiolab or 99pi. You can fill your day/drive with well produced podcasts on a regular basis, rather than just the occasional hour."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 20470446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470446", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1563461655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know what you're looking for but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is excellent for a very long form podcast."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 20470570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470570", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1563462382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Three I like: The History of Rome in 179+ podcasts. Done in increments of 12-20 minutes. Great for short commutes. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History as mentioned by ghaff, but yes, it's extremely long form. Tides of History - different topics and somewhere between 45 - 60 minutes."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 20470570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470570", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1563462382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Three I like: The History of Rome in 179+ podcasts. Done in increments of 12-20 minutes. Great for short commutes. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History as mentioned by ghaff, but yes, it's extremely long form. Tides of History - different topics and somewhere between 45 - 60 minutes."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 20470594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470594", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1563462541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you've listened to overproduced podcasts. I don't care for those. NPRs are like that. Reed Hoffman's Masters of Scale podcast is a textbook example of what I don't like. Dan Carlin, of Hardcore History, a very longform podcast, was interviewed by someone once and asked about producing his podcast. He actually does a lot of producing but it's very subtle. Things I didn't consciously notice until I had heard him talk about those. So maybe try some high quality (e.g. clear audio, recorded well), but not overproduced podcasts with all the bells and whistles. At this point you can find on"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20474656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20474656", "by": "thenaturalist", "time": 1563489697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone roughly your age who moved within Germany, I can say I do not sympathise. Moved away for studying, also didn't return for work. Productivity (aka where jobs are to be had) was and most likely never will be evenly distributed. That is a fact and one has to face it, whether one likes it or not. Very informative Freakonomics episode on the topic of geographic factors of economies: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-steal..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 20475105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475105", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1563494015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Techzing podcast talked about the origin of this several years ago, back when one of the hosts had a critical role in its creation. Good stuff."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20476340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20476340", "by": "namarie", "time": 1563513219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Revolutions podcast is great. History of philosophy without any gaps if you're into philosophy. From Wittenberg to Westphalia; History of the Papacy podcast; History of China podcast. I'm not a fan of Hardcore History - it seems more about the drama and theatricality of Carlin's own voince than about the historical content."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 20478137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20478137", "by": "vmurthy", "time": 1563540236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The story mentions a few stories and it might be a lead indicator but I tend to \"follow the money\" ;-) and this is what the money tells me[1]: \"Last year, VCs invested just over $200 million in various podcast platforms and related businesses, per the PitchBook Platform. That includes a $50 million funding for the online radio app TuneIn, about $20 million for Gimlet Media and another $20 million for HowStuffWorks, the company behind the popular show \"Stuff You Should Know\" as well as other original podcast content. So far this year, VCs have shelled out $64 million on companies in the space, "}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 20480910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20480910", "by": "jongalloway2", "time": 1563558769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a pretty good overview of the research areas here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/ There's also a Microsoft Research podcast with interviews here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/category/podca... A lot of stuff you'd expect like AI, ML, HCI, cloud computing, security, but also stuff like acoustics, social media impacts of computing, biology and medicine, etc."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 20487540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487540", "by": "frereubu", "time": 1563648135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As David Runciman has pointed out in his book How Democracy Ends and on the Talking Politics podcast - https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo... - if you could only ask one question of someone you'd never met before, which would give you the best possibility of guessing whether they'd voted for Brexit, it would be whether they went to university (Remain) or not (Leave). He argues that, in the UK at least, there's a bubble of professional politicians who all went to university and were completely blindsided by the result of the Brexit referendum because they knew almost no"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 20489733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489733", "by": "ufo", "time": 1563678261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And while we are in the topic of podcasts, \"The History of Rome\" by Mike Duncan is amazing."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 20489735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489735", "by": "macspoofing", "time": 1563678282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The History of Rome\" podcast is quite good as well."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20489752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489752", "by": "positr0n", "time": 1563678572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. His second podcast series, \"Revolutions\", is excellent as well. I have to admit I struggled a little through the English revolution. The American revolution was much more interesting. Then the French revolution was absolutely fascinating."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 20498793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498793", "by": "espeed", "time": 1563808641, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 20504419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504419", "by": "mparkola", "time": 1563856804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think this perspective/skill is extremely powerful. It is also extremely hard. I try to repeat to myself \"find something to agree with\" whenever I encounter a difficult situation. Sometimes I succeed. Other questions I found useful are: \"In what circumstances does that make sense?\" \"What part of that might be useful?\" This is also a step in the \"Five Secrets of Effective Communication\" as described in the Feeling Good podcast."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 20505144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20505144", "by": "sugarysenpai", "time": 1563868098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Stuff You Should Know' guys have a great podcast episode about this"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 20505236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20505236", "by": "JofArnold", "time": 1563869831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To anyone who\u2019s interested in how language changes and the history of words in general I highly recommend listening to The Allusionist podcast. And to anyone who thinks that language is sacred and has to be spoken and written like it is in the Oxford English Dictionary I also highly recommend listening to The Allusionist podcast."}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 20506001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20506001", "by": "devchix", "time": 1563882771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oddly enough, Lane Greene of The Economist 6 days ago argued that language by and large has not changed so fast, despite the Internet, citing the same book. The Intelligence podcast 2019-07-17, near the 14:08 mark. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYWNhc3QuY2... I have not read the book, I'm surprised it (or maybe just its title) is involved in making two opposing cases."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 20507340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507340", "by": "hessp", "time": 1563894729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- How to understand people and present ideas and opinions to them in a manner that they will respond to positively. Or judge how they will respond to an idea and make an informed decision about whether to present it based on your judgement of both the person and situation. - Understanding that emotions drive people often much more than logic. And that many people already know this and temper their communication based on the emotions it will provoke. And that participants in a conversation can know this about others and infer more than what is said by them. The first time I was able to read int"}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 20507340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507340", "by": "hessp", "time": 1563894729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- How to understand people and present ideas and opinions to them in a manner that they will respond to positively. Or judge how they will respond to an idea and make an informed decision about whether to present it based on your judgement of both the person and situation. - Understanding that emotions drive people often much more than logic. And that many people already know this and temper their communication based on the emotions it will provoke. And that participants in a conversation can know this about others and infer more than what is said by them. The first time I was able to read int"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 20513371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513371", "by": "ianleeclark", "time": 1563958506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Citations Needed (podcast that does media analysis) covering this phenomenon https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-80-animal-rig..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 20524720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20524720", "by": "jimmy6DOF", "time": 1564057104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, Tim Harford from the BBC/FT did a radio show on this and they say: Darcy's 10K can be: 1. Inflation adjusted to 838K GBP 2. Earnings power adjusted (as labor purchase price parity) to 9.995M GBP 3. Adjusted by a Per Capita GDP percentile factor to 65M GBP (or income off of capital assets/'Consols' of $3B GBP) BBC More or Less Podcast: How Rich was Jane Austen\u2019s Mr Darcy? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvq3g PS- They basically mirror the NOL guy's article's antecedent from '016 And whatever happened to tracking how much money bill gates could drop and not pick up due to the value of hi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20538846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538846", "by": "davesmith1983", "time": 1564179395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No sorry this is backwards. I don't have to prove anything. I wasn't making a claim they were (and it is quite a serious claim). As far as I am concerned there is no evidence other than spurious claims from the SPLC and the ADL. I gave you evidence that the SPLC throws the racism (Islamophobia is a very similar accusation) around too liberally and because Maajid Nawas is in the UK that has tighter defamation laws he was able sue them for a substantial amount of money. If the SPLC doesn't do basic research about Maajid Nawas, how can you trust they have done their research about the Proud Boys?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20540663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20540663", "by": "pulkitsh1234", "time": 1564208061, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, you can watch Joe Rogan's podcast with Randall Carlson on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31SXuFeX0A"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 20541266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541266", "by": "andy_ppp", "time": 1564221781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d also thoroughly recommend Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, it\u2019s a really amazing in depth discussion into how the body works and it never anything but astonishing."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 20545428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545428", "by": "_coveredInBees", "time": 1564279104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd highly recommend Radiolab's \"G\" Series of mini-podcasts that cover material pretty pertinent to the discussions in these comment sections. I really enjoyed the entire series. Here is the abstract for it: Radiolab\u2019s \u201cG\u201d is a multi-episode exploration of one of the most dangerous ideas of the past century: the concept of intelligence. Over six episodes, the series unearths the fraught history (and present-day use) of IQ tests, digs into the bizarre tale of one man\u2019s obsessive quest to find the secret to genius in Einstein\u2019s brain, reveals the ways the dark history of eugenics have crept up i"}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 20547474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20547474", "by": "ThrowHitJackpot", "time": 1564321313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You raise a good point, I am wrong you are right. Of course the costs are on the entire principal, thank you for correcting me. Investing in PE/Hedge/VC again is not likely for me. So I agree, with an advisor at .35% and vanguard at 0.04% - it's .39% per year. With 10M invested in VSTAX under these numbers, maybe it gains 4% but i pay out .39 or almost 10% of the gains. Far better than the 2% - but we are on the same page. Agree that the advisors can have misaligned incentives - I trust the two I'm working with though based on relationships who trust them, so I'm fairly certain they are altrui"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 20548931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20548931", "by": "smacktoward", "time": 1564337410, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 20565169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565169", "by": "nessunodoro", "time": 1564497407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This list is exclusively of western philosophers. If you want to step into the world of philosophy at any time period or in any part of the world, I highly recommend the podcast \"A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\" by Peter Adamson."}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 20565514, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565514", "by": "didymospl", "time": 1564499397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\" is a great podcast but... as the name implies it tries to be as exhaustive as possible and as a result progresses extremely slowly through the history of philosophy. For those interested in getting some basic knowledge about philosophy quickly I'd rather recommend Philosophize This! by Stephen West. The host isn't a philosopher by education but he seems to be very knowledgeable about the subject(at least to a layman such as me, feel free to correct this statement) and more importantly he focuses on the most important points that can be relevant to the"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 20565833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565833", "by": "feyman_r", "time": 1564500844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally, started listening to this podcast episode on NPR Hidden Brain - The Empathy Gym [0]. Reading this blog post and listening to that podcast is making me think on how I can focus on building empathy in my children. I guess leading by example is the right way to go.... [0] - https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744195502/you-2-0-the-empathy..."}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 20566136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20566136", "by": "harshreality", "time": 1564502338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think that curated list focuses too heavily on modern philosophy. Does Lacan even belong? Kierkegaard is Christian philosophy, which I don't think belongs in a list of general philosophy resources, except as case studies for spotting logical faults and wishful thinking. Listing Foucault, but not David Hume, says a lot. A few surveys would probably be more valuable than trying to slog through most of the primary sources of philosophy. - Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy - A.C. Grayling, The History of Philosophy - Anthony Kenny, New History of Western Philosophy (4 volumes but also publish"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 20567941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567941", "by": "heliostatic", "time": 1564512665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For an excellent discussion of this, see Opening Arguments podcast episode 273: https://openargs.com/oa273-sears-steve-mnuchin-the-producers..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20572024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20572024", "by": "gogglesOO", "time": 1564553022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually like it :) Getting a human to help out, kind of refreshing. Keeping things simple is awesome. I imagine your primary challenge will be getting the job done correctly 100% of the time and being able to communicate to the users (via sms) effectively and in a timely fashion without missing any key details. You don't want to mess up someone's day, yet when you outsource the jobs (unavoidable if the business scales), you'll be really exposed to human error. If you're planning to use AI to do this, I would be less optimistic. AI is not anywhere the likes of Elon Musk like to claim on the "}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 20576833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20576833", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1564597135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think people have a massive misperception of how law enforcement & politics, and reporting by the media on such matters really works. On one hand, most everyone seems to get it that bad behavior and corruption is rife, but on the other hand any specifics ideas will generally be dismissed as conspiracy theories. I sometimes wonder if the widespread strong beliefs that \"everything's a conspiracy theory unless it's been reported on\" is completely natural, or if it has been partially socially engineered. This is a good podcast to listen to for an example: > Common Sense 276 \u2013 Past Transgressions"}, {"show": "1691652896", "hn_item": 20584332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584332", "by": "giarc", "time": 1564671728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe it was Andrew Yang who talked about UBI on Recode podcast recently. He also talked about UBI giving people the freedom to try something new. You may be more likely to start a business if you knew you had something to fall back on. This might be especially beneficial in the rural areas of America where $1000/month will support you longer than in urban centres."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 20584332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20584332", "by": "giarc", "time": 1564671728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe it was Andrew Yang who talked about UBI on Recode podcast recently. He also talked about UBI giving people the freedom to try something new. You may be more likely to start a business if you knew you had something to fall back on. This might be especially beneficial in the rural areas of America where $1000/month will support you longer than in urban centres."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 20586832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20586832", "by": "tunesmith", "time": 1564684475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One other example of the flaw (I think) that came out in pop culture was a few years ago during the Serial podcast about Adnan Syed. Near the end when the hosts were wrestling about whether they should think he was guilty, the interviewer's friend (the producer? Dana?) came on and shared why she thought he was guilty, and it was this convoluted argument about if Syed was innocent, he'd have to be the unluckiest guy in the world, so therefore he was probably guilty. Her point was that it was just too strong a coincidence that it was his ex-girlfriend that got killed, on that particular day duri"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 20591680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20591680", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1564738536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast use \"Hey Dingus\" :)"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 20592310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592310", "by": "nathan_f77", "time": 1564747047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, these lists just celebrate the outliers - people who extraordinarily successful. It can't be everyone's goal to make it onto one of these lists, because there are billions of people in the world. The vast majority of us are also fumbling through life, and a few are lucky enough to achieve lots of success. They make it onto these lists because they have an unusual and interesting story. I think the word \"success\" has become overloaded with some insane expectations, especially in media, or in Silicon Valley circles. I don't think it makes sense to label these writers or entrepreneurs as simp"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20593329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593329", "by": "leggomylibro", "time": 1564756905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If this period of history sounds interesting to you, Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast covers Charles I as its first subject."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 20593661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593661", "by": "tvanantwerp", "time": 1564759314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who wants to go a bit into the weeds, I really enjoyed this episode of Peter Attia's podcast where he interviewed Jason Fung: https://peterattiamd.com/jasonfung/"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 20593796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593796", "by": "matwood", "time": 1564760043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. There is some science around limiting insulin spikes that come with eating is where the benefit comes from. Check out Peter Attia's podcast sometime. He's an MD who reads a tons of research and does a lot of self experimentation (he wears a continuous glucose monitor and meticulously tracks metrics). He's also the first say something isn't conclusive, but based on what he has personally seen in his practice there may be some merit to an idea."}, {"show": "1265527976", "hn_item": 20604972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20604972", "by": "alexchamberlain", "time": 1564903657, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Have you got a link to that? Is it this one https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/future-of-coding/id126... ?"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20611039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20611039", "by": "save_ferris", "time": 1564976146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NYT's \"The Daily\" podcast discussed this a little over a year ago in response to the Parkland shooting, and I found it to be quite insightful. I believe it was this episode, but I could be wrong[0]. A major factor impeding law enforcement is the sheer number of people posting violent threats on social media. I can't remember the statistic, but they mentioned that the US justice system basically wouldn't be able to effectively process everyone in a timely manner that posted indications of violent activity on social media, it's just too frequent. It's easy to look back after a shooting and ask w"}, {"show": "1448616485", "hn_item": 20614546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614546", "by": "apotatopot", "time": 1565015847, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 20628000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20628000", "by": "digikata", "time": 1565116112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast had some very interesting discussions about various improvements needed for fusions reactors to hit parity in their Wendelstein 7x episode. Some discussions I think come out all the more because the 7x was targeted to plasma research so many practical aspects are discussed outside the normal fusion discussion that hits regular science media. https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 20631820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20631820", "by": "bubble_talk", "time": 1565149204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Facebook engineers know exactly what is going on, and I don't think they actually care. If you want to see exactly how creepy the whole thing is going to get in the future, you just have to take a look at the transcripts from the Software Engineering Daily podcast where a group of engineers from FB were interviewed recently. The interviewer never once mentioned the word privacy in the entire interview across all the five interviews (with pretty senior FB folks who have been there for quite a while). Or for that matter, there wasn't really a single question across all the five interviews which "}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 20636374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20636374", "by": "mikece", "time": 1565196146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John O'Nolan was interviewed by the SE Daily podcast last summer; I found his remarks about the selection of NodeJS being a mistake to be the most interesting -- even though that choice earned them lots of notice on boards like Hacker News and reddit. Check out the podcast link below (includes a link to a transcript if you would rather read/search for O'Nolan commenting that they would have been years further ahead on the features roadmap had they gone with Laravel or similar PHP framework). https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/26/ghost-open-s..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20643008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643008", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1565257099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't recommend highly enough the Revolutions Podcast, which has seasons devoted to the French Revolution, the 1848 Revolutions, and the Paris Commune. Paris was ground zero of the extremely tumultuous sociopolitical transition from feudalism to republican nation-state, which eventually became the norm for most of the globe."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20645895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645895", "by": "drewg123", "time": 1565281227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While we're talking about this, I just listened to an older Freakonomics about climate change ( http://freakonomics.com/podcast/save-the-planet/ ) One of the guests was Nathan Myhrvold, who was advocating for geoengineering. I'm wondering why geoengineering is not being seriously considered as a solution at this point. Perhaps your understanding of both camps might help explain this."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 20657998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657998", "by": "sokoloff", "time": 1565382395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris G interviewed Sam on the AmpHour Podcast #390; it was a good listen if you're interested in the topic. https://theamphour.com/390-an-interview-with-sam-zeloof/"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 20659122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20659122", "by": "wenbin", "time": 1565394167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Acquired podcast episode did a great job covering the rise of Huawei https://lnns.co/oPr5nUSzLxX"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 20659864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20659864", "by": "stevep98", "time": 1565405860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also recently discussed on Stuff You Should Know podcast: https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/short-stuff-empe..."}, {"show": "968779958", "hn_item": 20661038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20661038", "by": "gagabity", "time": 1565428547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe on the Fragmented podcast there was someone from Uber who said they had 200 Android engineers, blew my mind."}, {"show": "437299706", "hn_item": 20676444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676444", "by": "dmix", "time": 1565624535, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Last Podcast on the Left is a great series on cults and serial killers, they cover some of the best stories in history: https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/ Here's one on the Order of Solar Temple (3 parts) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-341-order-sola... (skip their alien and conspiracy stuff which they mostly do jokingly or any of their \"side story\" stuff which is always filler)"}, {"show": "1679952983", "hn_item": 20678714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20678714", "by": "LastZactionHero", "time": 1565636517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Might want to check out the 'My Climate Journey' podcast: https://www.myclimatejourney.co Lots of great interviews with people working on climate."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 20686490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20686490", "by": "perfectphase", "time": 1565708578, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an interview with MG talking about these cables on the Amp Hour podcast this week https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-454-mike-grover/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20690145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20690145", "by": "maynman", "time": 1565729749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's worth a watch if you haven't seen Joe Rogan's podcast with James Damore. I think it adds some much needed context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ1JeII0eGo"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 20693853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20693853", "by": "cyberjunkie", "time": 1565774011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know did a podcast episode on Planned Obsolescence - https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/planned-obsolesc..."}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 20694734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20694734", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1565785276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I still regularly play M.U.L.E. on my 800xl daily driver. There still exist a ton of us that love our vintage machines and games, us Atari guys hang out on the https://atariage.com/ forums and in fact my local Atari group has our monthly meeting this Saturday and there are plenty of larger meetups like the ones that the Vintage Computer Federation puts on http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/ Floppy Days podcast has been doing a good job documenting old machines and software by talking to the people involved http://floppydays.libsyn.com/ as well as uploading anything they get to the Internet Archive."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 20696998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20696998", "by": "jjazwiecki", "time": 1565799185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to this Bloomberg podcast, where they interviewed Viktor Shvets on the meaning/implications/future of negative interest rates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-08-09/what-negativ... > He argues that undermining the \u2019time value\u2019 of money\u2013or the principle that money available now is worth more than money in the future because you can use it to earn additional money\u2013won\u2019t lead to economic growth. In fact, he says, negative rates are going to end up leading to a rethink of modern capitalism and political society once people realize they have big consequences."}, {"show": "1169249168", "hn_item": 20697499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20697499", "by": "fencepost", "time": 1565802147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a lifeline for a lot of creative work that people will support but where there's no expectation that every content consumer can support it without transaction fees being insane and where advertising isn't a fit. Podcasts like Do By Friday, a wide variety of adult oriented artists, Youtubers who aren't viral, etc. Patreon offers a way for people to use their money to say \"I like what X is producing and I want to make it possible for them to keep making it available to the world.\""}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 20699599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20699599", "by": "graedus", "time": 1565814562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Good book on how things went down and my who is Crashed: Incredible book. Tooze's interviews and lectures on the subject can only scratch the surface of what the book covers, but they are worth a listen too. I can recommend his appearance on the podcast Talking Politics: https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/113-crashed"}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 20706134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706134", "by": "kalleboo", "time": 1565883478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Why can't I buy just the panel that shows the image You can, they sell \"just dumb panels\" for commercial signage applications. They cost way more. Smart TVs selling your eyeballs and your data make them cheaper than dumb panels. And since most consumers buy on price, they also get the advantage of scale. So they're more expensive and they do less, their only market is a handful of privacy geeks who aren't going to just not connect it to the internet - a tiny market. https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv... > A January interview on The Verge's podcast with Vizio's chief"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 20707842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707842", "by": "Elon_cm", "time": 1565892042, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi everyone! my name is Elon and im a musician/producer turned developer. I launched this product/company (Chosen Masters) in 2018 to give musicians a truly high quality affordable consistent audio mastering solution. Currently the middle of YC Startup School and thought i would post here to see what this community thinks of this. We are looking at making a podcast/video creator/audio book creator tool for processing long dialogue audio. Any feedback is welcome and if anyone wants a promo code to test out the site feel free hit me up thru our intercom message box. https://app.chosenmasters.com"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 20708219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708219", "by": "chrisjc", "time": 1565894037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As mentioned in another story on HN, the Huawei ownership structure is a little more complicated than you suggest, although the essence is the same. Listen to the Acquired podcast for a more thorough history of Huawei. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/huawei"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20711564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711564", "by": "theartfuldodger", "time": 1565921565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"We Eschew That\" Then you eschew the massive audience of lazy gym goers, bodybuilders, referrals from the latest Joe Rogan podcast, Tim Ferriss ..basically the entire casual health crowd that want's to pretend they do hardcore research but is jumping away from you due to the text heavy layout. I read code,I like minimalism, I am not being personal here, your designing outside of a greater potential audience and leaning towards an academic/journal design. Any UX expert that has not pointed that out, is just a job title, Go back to them and demand an example or case study where their recommendat"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 20714660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20714660", "by": "mmili", "time": 1565960067, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "http://we.fo/ Saw this on Product Hunt and it seems rather intuitive. Apparently it makes smart landing pages for different shows."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 20715191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20715191", "by": "jadbox", "time": 1565963968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heartbreaking and terrifying. I also recommend listening to yesterday's The Daily podcast on China's claimed release of Uighurs. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/podcasts/the-daily/china-..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 20725164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20725164", "by": "40acres", "time": 1566063530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Odd Lots podcast episode: The Bullish Case for WeWork. Personally, I don't see it -- but capital is so cheap and WW brand so strong that they may be able to pull a rabbit out in a downturn."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20733746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20733746", "by": "sooper", "time": 1566172652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have to add the obligatory reference to Freakonomics and the impact your name has on \"how a child performs in school and even her career opportunities\". Great write up in either the first or second Freakonomics book about how adversely impacting being called Jasmin is in the the US. [0] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-does-your-name-matt..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20735473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20735473", "by": "arcturus17", "time": 1566197351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Isn\u2019t part of the lack of efficiency of the US system the eye-watering prices for treatment? There seem to be all kinds of incentives for overtreating (eg, using more expensive diagnostics equipment for a simple broken bone), drug costs are unhinged, etc. It\u2019s not only about creating a universal system but also an efficient one, and I did hear Sanders on the Joe Rogan podcast the other day mention some of these things, so maybe not all politicians are so oblivious to this?"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20738471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20738471", "by": "Reedx", "time": 1566227701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Strongly agree, though if you find yourself in that situation there are ways you can turn it into productive time. Especially if you otherwise don't have blocks of alone downtime. - Use the time to think. Driving the same commute every day becomes automatic and you can solve problems, practice a talk, iterate or come up with ideas and so on. Take notes via voice. - Podcasts. There's an endless amount of learning available. Some recommendations: 99% Invisible, Making Sense, Hardcore History, Freakonomics, Business Wars, Planet Money. - Audiobooks. Make it a habit and you can actually get to the"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 20738471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20738471", "by": "Reedx", "time": 1566227701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Strongly agree, though if you find yourself in that situation there are ways you can turn it into productive time. Especially if you otherwise don't have blocks of alone downtime. - Use the time to think. Driving the same commute every day becomes automatic and you can solve problems, practice a talk, iterate or come up with ideas and so on. Take notes via voice. - Podcasts. There's an endless amount of learning available. Some recommendations: 99% Invisible, Making Sense, Hardcore History, Freakonomics, Business Wars, Planet Money. - Audiobooks. Make it a habit and you can actually get to the"}, {"show": "1559758759", "hn_item": 20754800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20754800", "by": "myle", "time": 1566365920, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 20757603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20757603", "by": "bollockitis", "time": 1566398157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you assume that the listener is incapable of challenging the guest? Just because Rogan doesn\u2019t correct all of his guests absurdities doesn\u2019t mean they go unchecked. After listening to the Alex Jones podcast, for example, I have come to my own conclusion that the guy is not worth paying attention to. I didn\u2019t need the host to do that for me. Dumb ideas need to be exposed as dumb by the hearer, not by some special class of elites who filter information for us."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20758131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20758131", "by": "rtkwe", "time": 1566401288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's clearly a decent number of people who listen to Jones all day on his own channel who don't make that realization so it's a fair assumption that there are people who won't come to the correct conclusion about Jones who hadn't been exposed to him before he went on Rogan's podcast. It's not even strictly about filtering information it's about appropriately presenting the information, giving both sides of an argument equal time and legitimacy is how we've gotten such high levels of climate change denial in the US. News networks, afraid of being seen as taking a side by framing the denial s"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20758947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20758947", "by": "xboxnolifes", "time": 1566405851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The host provides an available platform to an audience. If I was a guest on a Joe Rogan podcast, I can be certain that some non-trivial amount of people will hear me. If I make my own one-off podcast and upload it to soundcloud, youtube, thepodcasthost, whatever, It is close to assured that I will have a lesser audience, if not close to no audience. Joe Rogan's platform brings listeners to a topic, not to any specific opinion."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20760236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20760236", "by": "LocalH", "time": 1566413113, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Infomercial\" is a weasel word in this context. An actual infomercial is a paid promotion, often with a direct marketing avenue attached to it. Rogan's podcast is neither of those, regardless of one's issues with presentation and interview methodology."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20770068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770068", "by": "nodesocket", "time": 1566492788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I respect and listen to Bernie even though I have very different ideologies and fiscal policy. Recently he went on the Joe Rogan podcast for over an hour; it is a great source of information on his politics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng"}, {"show": "1483654175", "hn_item": 20775008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775008", "by": "postpawl", "time": 1566542064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A podcast called The Wild covered this topic recently: http://forthewild.world/listen/ben-goldfarb-on-beavers-compl..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20775515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20775515", "by": "woadwarrior01", "time": 1566548719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Russ Roberts interviewed[1] Chris Arnade on his excellent podcast EconTalk about this book, a month ago. It\u2019s been on my reading list since then. [1]: http://www.econtalk.org/chris-arnade-on-dignity/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 20786050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786050", "by": "alexcnwy", "time": 1566636701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really interesting write-up! There was a great podcast about PPP on Darknet Diaries a few weeks ago - their relentlessness and persistence is so inspiring: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/43/"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 20787091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20787091", "by": "moogly", "time": 1566654266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The (thermal power)/(reactor volume) for ITER is about 0.05 MW/m^3. https://www.f4e.europa.eu/understandingfusion/iterdevice.asp... 500/800 = 0.625 (plasma volume, not reactor volume) In an interview with the Omega Tau podcast a while back, it was mentioned by ITER personnel that the DEMO plant that would be the successor to ITER was probably going to be designed as a 2000 MW reactor. Since the plasma is in shape of a torus, that volume increases pretty quickly with the size of the confinement vessel. Also, per unit mass of fuel, magnetic confinement fusion is still posited to be thousands o"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 20787761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20787761", "by": "np_tedious", "time": 1566661244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can hear some particularly wild assertions like this in the long running commercial throughout the past few episodes of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. They are formatted as conversation between Gladwell and an AT&T exec. It always starts with \"what are some things that might be enabled if bandwidth improved and latency decreased\" and then just jumps immediately to some Internet of Things utopia."}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 20794126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20794126", "by": "chrbutler", "time": 1566753545, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1140331811", "hn_item": 20798389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20798389", "by": "NotUsingLinux", "time": 1566811276, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The article as the comments here read very strange. Like a place where there is no place for people. There can be space (real physical as well as a culture) for people, lets give team human a try. Please let's not be working drones that optimize towards questionable goals... https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/team-human/id114033181..."}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 20801775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801775", "by": "amrrs", "time": 1566840315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Lewis' Podcast `Against the rules` did a good job in bringing a different perspective of the entire thing Kogan did with data was not significant yet he was made a scapegoat by journalists https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-alex-kogan-experience-s1..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20801847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801847", "by": "Quanttek", "time": 1566840677, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am currently listening to Opening Arguments, Revisionist History, 99% Invisible, and Thinking Allowed but I feel like I'm missing some podcasts that may be less current but offer more substance/significant and profound content (instead of looking at tidbits of interesting topics)"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 20801847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801847", "by": "Quanttek", "time": 1566840677, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am currently listening to Opening Arguments, Revisionist History, 99% Invisible, and Thinking Allowed but I feel like I'm missing some podcasts that may be less current but offer more substance/significant and profound content (instead of looking at tidbits of interesting topics)"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 20801847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20801847", "by": "Quanttek", "time": 1566840677, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am currently listening to Opening Arguments, Revisionist History, 99% Invisible, and Thinking Allowed but I feel like I'm missing some podcasts that may be less current but offer more substance/significant and profound content (instead of looking at tidbits of interesting topics)"}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 20802931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20802931", "by": "tobr", "time": 1566848085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure what your requirements for \"educational\" are, but I very much enjoy Scriptnotes [1]. It's tagline is \"a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters\". That should exclude me, but I still find much of what they talk about deeply fascinating. So much of it is applicable to any creative craft, and to other types of storytelling. I keep a finger on the skip button for when they get stuck talking about politics of the movie industry. 1: https://johnaugust.com/podcast"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20803243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20803243", "by": "BjoernKW", "time": 1566850221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first one is a very well-known and popular one: The Tim Ferriss Show is a long-form interview show with a single guest per episode. It provides profound insights on a wide range of topics and areas of life (given the guests' diverse backgrounds). In Tim Ferriss' own words the show's aim is to deconstruct world-class performers and tease out their tactics, tools, and routines: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Revolutions is an in-depth history podcast about, well, revolutions: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ So far, it has covered - amongst others, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution"}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 20803389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20803389", "by": "justaguyhere", "time": 1566851050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elite Man Podcast - http://elitemanmagazine.com/elitemanpodcast/ Rich Roll podcast (he tends to ramble sometimes, but he has some great guests) - https://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/ Bundyville - always two sides to the story, https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville Reversing climate change podcast Superhuman academy"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 20804287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804287", "by": "Nicksil", "time": 1566857439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Skeptoid with Brian Dunning is excellent! \"Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena is an award-winning weekly science podcast.\" https://skeptoid.com Each episode includes complete transcript, references, and further reading. It's pretty addicting. Episode guide: https://skeptoid.com/episode_guide.php"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 20804335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804335", "by": "foofoo4u", "time": 1566857902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[EconTalk]( http://www.econtalk.org/ ) is among my favorites. > EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. Roberts, formerly an economics professor at George Mason University, is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. On the podcast, Roberts typically interviews a single guest\u2014often professional economists\u2014on topics in economics."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20804914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804914", "by": "webninja", "time": 1566863852, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Meat has been highly produced because the gov\u2019t of Nixon\u2019s era and today\u2019s era has been buying up tons of bushels of grain(1). The gov\u2019t bought grain to help support & subsidize farmers and ranchers. Grain is convenient to offload as cattle feed. Cheap cattle feed encourages raising cattle. Cow farts contribute over 40% of the world\u2019s methane(2). Methane contributes 34 times more towards global warming per unit than carbon dioxide. Thus if we want to tackle climate change, we should rethink our Cold War era grain subsidies and ultimately reduce our dependence on cattle. Sources: (1) Freakonomi"}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 20805561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805561", "by": "dirtybird04", "time": 1566869954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Americans on the whole seem quite nonchalant about their privacy I disagree, and let me elaborate. The CA scandal started two different conversations, which people get mixed up a lot. The primary one was about how shit Facebook's privacy settings are, and how all your data has been easily available for a few bucks. This stirred up a LOT of privacy concerns in the US, causing a whole bunch of people to quit Facebook. Zuckerberg was on the cover of magazines, for all the wrong reason. That conversation is still going on. The secondary conversation was ok now that we know the data was out there,"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 20806197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806197", "by": "joecot", "time": 1566877850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed on both History of Rome [1] and Revolutions[2]. Also adding on \"The History of Byzantium Podcast\" by Robin Pierson[3], which continues where Mike left off with The History of Rome into the Eastern Empire. I'll throw in \"The British History Podcast\" by Jamie Jeffers[4] as well, which does a really good job of explaining how life is like for the common people of Britain through history, and examining the historical sources he has to work with. Not many other history media to get into the details of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy! 1. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ 2. https://www.revoluti"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 20806197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806197", "by": "joecot", "time": 1566877850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed on both History of Rome [1] and Revolutions[2]. Also adding on \"The History of Byzantium Podcast\" by Robin Pierson[3], which continues where Mike left off with The History of Rome into the Eastern Empire. I'll throw in \"The British History Podcast\" by Jamie Jeffers[4] as well, which does a really good job of explaining how life is like for the common people of Britain through history, and examining the historical sources he has to work with. Not many other history media to get into the details of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy! 1. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ 2. https://www.revoluti"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 20806197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806197", "by": "joecot", "time": 1566877850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed on both History of Rome [1] and Revolutions[2]. Also adding on \"The History of Byzantium Podcast\" by Robin Pierson[3], which continues where Mike left off with The History of Rome into the Eastern Empire. I'll throw in \"The British History Podcast\" by Jamie Jeffers[4] as well, which does a really good job of explaining how life is like for the common people of Britain through history, and examining the historical sources he has to work with. Not many other history media to get into the details of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy! 1. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ 2. https://www.revoluti"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 20806197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806197", "by": "joecot", "time": 1566877850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed on both History of Rome [1] and Revolutions[2]. Also adding on \"The History of Byzantium Podcast\" by Robin Pierson[3], which continues where Mike left off with The History of Rome into the Eastern Empire. I'll throw in \"The British History Podcast\" by Jamie Jeffers[4] as well, which does a really good job of explaining how life is like for the common people of Britain through history, and examining the historical sources he has to work with. Not many other history media to get into the details of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy! 1. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ 2. https://www.revoluti"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 20806351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806351", "by": "purephase", "time": 1566880448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Opening Arguments. Great podcast that takes a deep dive into current and past legal arguments. Leans very left, so may not appeal to a good portion of the HN audience, but they do steel man a lot of their positions."}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 20806495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806495", "by": "jvagner", "time": 1566882465, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ll second Rich Roll\u2019s podcast, but I don\u2019t agree that he tends to ramble :)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20808199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20808199", "by": "twic", "time": 1566903542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics covered it a while ago: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender... I'm not well-informed enough to say that this is an accurate summary of the current understanding, and certainly not in a position to say it will convince you!"}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 20811327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811327", "by": "tryitnow", "time": 1566922686, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No she's not. She's not a serious academic and nobody who studies Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault would take her seriously. She's a propagandist and entertainer. She's not even a popularizer of complex ideas because I honestly think she either doesn't understand the thinkers she critiques or she does understand them but decides to score cheap points by attacking straw man arguments. If you want an easy way to engage with the ideas these French thinkers put forward I highly suggest listening to Stephen West's \"Philosophize This\" podcast. He not only covers \"French Philosophers\" but much of Western"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20813152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20813152", "by": "elamje", "time": 1566931674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For some context as to why this is significant, listen to this great Planet Money podcast about international shipping rates. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20814290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20814290", "by": "zizee", "time": 1566939025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of speculating why it is cheaper to ship from China than domestically, a lot of it misguided. The root cause is that quite a few years ago the consortium of national postal providers which setup agreements on who pays for which parts of international shipping decided that China was classed as a developing country and given subsidized rates by other countries. This wasn't a big deal when the agreement was made because it was before the days of pervasive online commerce, and there just wasn't that much sent from China to other countries via the postal service. I encourage everyone intereste"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 20821557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821557", "by": "celias", "time": 1567011169, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible did a podcast on bees recently https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-beeing/"}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 20822631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822631", "by": "runako", "time": 1567017282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast on the workings of ACH, if you're interested in something less technical than this post: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/10/576879734/epis..."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 20825730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20825730", "by": "etxm", "time": 1567040862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bostrom also wrote a paper on The Simulation Argument that was pretty awesome[1]. It was referenced recently in The End of the World podcast. [2] 1- https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf 2- https://www.theendwithjosh.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 20827220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20827220", "by": "meowface", "time": 1567060677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd highly recommended watching this podcast interview between Lex Fridman and the creator of fast.ai, released yesterday: https://youtu.be/4CTDdxfSXF0 He covers a lot of relevant and interesting topics, including how he tries make it less of a black box when designing their courses, and also how it has the potential to confer increased rather than decreased insight into what's going on in a dataset. I don't personally know much about ML, but I think even though there will still be probably an opaque aspect in many cases for a while to come, immense value will still be continually gleaned, as "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20828184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20828184", "by": "h0h0h0h0111", "time": 1567073263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fairness though, a lot of Alex Jones's detractors probably have never _actually_ watched him though, aside from selected clips from their media outlet of choice (likely bashing him); so I think having him on something somewhat mainstream like Joe Rogan's podcast gives the average person a chance to listen to him and decide for themselves that he's batshit crazy without having it spoonfed to them by another source."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20830963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20830963", "by": "meowface", "time": 1567096045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also as a strict materialist, after reading estimates from lots of different people from lots of different disciplines, and integrating and averaging everything, I think we'll have likely have human-level or above AGI around 2060 - 2080. I think it's relatively unlikely it'll happen past 2100 or before 2050. I'd even consider betting some money on it. I'm kind of coming up with these numbers out of thin air, but as much of a legend as he is, I agree Carmack's estimate seems way too optimistic to me. It's possible, but unlikely to me. That said: >The emphasis on computational power also makes n"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 20837015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20837015", "by": "jbj", "time": 1567157054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure if I can agree totally, I get less spam calls on my danish phone number than on my US phone, however I do get missed calls every now and then followed by a call from a \"Microsoft Tech Support\" which are an awful similar in style to those reported on in the podcast \"Reply All\"[1] I suspect those are number spoofing as they rarely get the length of the local phone numbers correct. In case of calls originating from another country will laws and regulation actually be able to do anything here? [1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/102-long-dist..."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 20841255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841255", "by": "mdesignco", "time": 1567190138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Super simple podcast discovery, much needed right now! Replaces (and improves upon) the deeply-missed Product Hunt podcast section. Great work, Mubs!"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 20841489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841489", "by": "mistersquid", "time": 1567191349, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I posted this after hearing Professor Scott Galloway identify Hawley's article as a \"win\" on \"Pivot\", his podcast with Kara Swisher. [0] This week's episode covers a lot of ground and is worth listening to. It includes topics ranging from Tesla being purchased by Volkswagen, the value of Peloton, and the possibility that China is winning the Trump administration's Trade War. (Disclosure: Swisher and Galloway are progressive and liberal, and much of their commentary reflect that angle.) [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719#epi... EDIT: proofread first sentence!"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 20841971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841971", "by": "godelski", "time": 1567194559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because it happens in small steps. (I'm talking extreme end here, btw). Someone doesn't turn to high crimes overnight nor are they (usually) born that way. You start of making smaller immoral decisions which then become normal. You essentially move the bar a little more and more. People sleep at night frankly because they no longer think that these things are immoral. That's why there's plenty of sayings along the lines of \"the path to heaven is long and narrow and the path to hell is short and wide\". Obviously morals are flexible and need to be to survive in this world. But the thing is when "}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 20846406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846406", "by": "graeme", "time": 1567261145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cgp grey does this, he talks about it occasionally on the Cortex podcast. I've frequently done a version of travel working. I find it best for writing, though it could serve to work on a single project as well. I usually choose an airbnb though, and while I do get outside a lot, it's often more the neighbourhood trips the author mentions. I find it deeply satisfying to get a brief glimpse of daily life in a foreign country that way. My most productive times have been in cuba, where their local airbnb equivalent (\"casas particulares\") includes the option to buy breakfast and dinner. So you effe"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 20846456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20846456", "by": "supremerumham", "time": 1567261642, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1454097755", "hn_item": 20851158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20851158", "by": "michalu", "time": 1567326293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have also found that I often forget entire books, and that quality of reading beats quantity. I use kindle and take a lot of notes. Then whenever I am in a situation where I don't have a kindle and not much to do, such in public transport, instead of going on social media I use kindle app on my phone a flick though the notes, or turn them into flashcards and basically go over all the main points. Because you're taking notes throughout the book, you've created a kind of a map so it's very easy to refresh what you've read. I also like the idea of re-reading the best books again and again. I've"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 20855091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20855091", "by": "jkirsteins", "time": 1567373667, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Indeed. This is also mentioned at the start of the related podcast episode (see https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fall-of-civilizations-po... )"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20860791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20860791", "by": "thaumaturgy", "time": 1567447494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was hoping in the beginning that this would present some interesting new explanation for UFO ... hysteria, but it didn't really get there. The argument from governmental incompetence isn't terribly compelling to me. The occasional leaks of vast cover-ups -- like the extent of the NSA's surveillance apparatus -- suggest that the government is in fact quite good at keeping sensitive information hidden from the public. The UFO phenomena appears to me to track more closely with the rise of the extraterrestrial in popular sci-fi. It starts with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938, made "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 20861562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20861562", "by": "fpgaminer", "time": 1567456082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since the comments are talking about Right to be Forgotten, there was a recent RadioLab podcast on that very subject: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-right-be-forgotte... Worth a listen; the focus is mainly on Cleveland'com's right to be forgotten experiment, where they are redacting or deleting old content when requested on a case-by-case basis. Regardless of how you feel about right to be forgotten, the episode makes a number of points both for and against that are worth hearing. I'm personally undecided on the issue, but I did come away from that podcast with one very strong opin"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 20864504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20864504", "by": "dewey", "time": 1567497710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Only slightly related to that but if you enjoy Malcolm Gladwell's piece you may also be interested in this episode from his excellent Revisionist History podcast where he tracks down why the fries at McDonalds don't taste the same any more: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 20867100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20867100", "by": "waffle_ss", "time": 1567522785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for sharing your experience. That sounds brutal and I hope you're on the mend now! I had heard on a podcast[1] about the Ensure thing quite awhile back, and I asked an MD acquaintance about it before I posted to make sure I wasn't about to post \"fake news.\" The acquaintance is the one that then mentioned the appetite-inducing drugs. They're not an oncologist though so it's possible they're not up-to-speed on current practices, or more likely I misremembered their exact wording and they may have been referring to anti-nausea meds in the first place. [1]: I think it was the Peter Attia Dr"}, {"show": "1405854146", "hn_item": 20871056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20871056", "by": "shannonmaloney5", "time": 1567544050, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "323127331", "hn_item": 20875822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875822", "by": "xtiansimon", "time": 1567593893, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Isn\u2019t the parent not mistaken in their belief? Early softwares was free because no one cared or saw the value, until the technology evolved. Then companies saw the value, and locked it down (is it important to recognize those peeps we\u2019re the mega-corps of the time like AT&T, not the scrappy peeps we call our peers today). Then academics couldn\u2019t do their work, without violating growing property rights restrictions. We\u2019re not talking about the proverbial \u2018historical house in private hands\u2019\u2014can we look around at this excellent example of early Frank Lloyd Wright house in Chicago. We\u2019re talking a"}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 20875822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875822", "by": "xtiansimon", "time": 1567593893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Isn\u2019t the parent not mistaken in their belief? Early softwares was free because no one cared or saw the value, until the technology evolved. Then companies saw the value, and locked it down (is it important to recognize those peeps we\u2019re the mega-corps of the time like AT&T, not the scrappy peeps we call our peers today). Then academics couldn\u2019t do their work, without violating growing property rights restrictions. We\u2019re not talking about the proverbial \u2018historical house in private hands\u2019\u2014can we look around at this excellent example of early Frank Lloyd Wright house in Chicago. We\u2019re talking a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20882601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20882601", "by": "nickjj", "time": 1567641538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the listen. All of my tests are always using Youtube's playback controls btw. Were you able to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast at 2x? Skip somewhere in the middle and listen for 15 seconds maybe. You are right in that I speak slower in that video. Most of my more recent Youtube videos are unscripted so I'm just thinking about things with zero preparation, where as I script my courses word for word (which leads to faster speaking generally) but I don't have any course videos with the same audio equipment to compare side by side. I didn't read the paper but I wonder what they classify c"}, {"show": "155974141", "hn_item": 20882633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20882633", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1567641834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And like Bernie, another relatively non-establishment candidate that could have given people something actually new to vote for seems to have now been taken care of, once again with some fancy footwork (cherry picking of polls this time) by the DNC. It's pretty hard to not vote for the same people when anyone that doesn't fit the proper mold isn't handicapped through the nomination process. I'd post some supporting links, but for every article I could post supporting my thesis someone could easily post one that denies it. Articles and discussions on such topics are rarely substantially based o"}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 20882634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20882634", "by": "dguaraglia", "time": 1567641847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This has been a major topic of conversation in the psychonaut community. It seems like the community is better prepared to stave off the capitalist take over. The existence of organizations such as MAPS and others already conducting studies and preemptively creating 'prior art' is a good sign. If you are curious about the topic, I couldn't recommend the Psychedelic Salon podcast enough."}, {"show": "404963432", "hn_item": 20884468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884468", "by": "cerberusss", "time": 1567666674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finance: Standard Deviations, The Disciplined Investor, Animal Spirits, Wall Street Unplugged, Radical Personal Finance, Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged, The Meb Faber Show, The Sherman Show, Money For the Rest of Us, Peter Schiff Podcast, The Voluntary Life Tech: Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Break Weekly, Security Now, Core Intuition, This Week In Google, Under The Radar, All About Android Other stuff: Voyage To The Stars (Comedy), Dragon Talk (D&D)"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 20884468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884468", "by": "cerberusss", "time": 1567666674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finance: Standard Deviations, The Disciplined Investor, Animal Spirits, Wall Street Unplugged, Radical Personal Finance, Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged, The Meb Faber Show, The Sherman Show, Money For the Rest of Us, Peter Schiff Podcast, The Voluntary Life Tech: Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Break Weekly, Security Now, Core Intuition, This Week In Google, Under The Radar, All About Android Other stuff: Voyage To The Stars (Comedy), Dragon Talk (D&D)"}, {"show": "281777685", "hn_item": 20884468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884468", "by": "cerberusss", "time": 1567666674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finance: Standard Deviations, The Disciplined Investor, Animal Spirits, Wall Street Unplugged, Radical Personal Finance, Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged, The Meb Faber Show, The Sherman Show, Money For the Rest of Us, Peter Schiff Podcast, The Voluntary Life Tech: Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Break Weekly, Security Now, Core Intuition, This Week In Google, Under The Radar, All About Android Other stuff: Voyage To The Stars (Comedy), Dragon Talk (D&D)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 20884468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884468", "by": "cerberusss", "time": 1567666674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finance: Standard Deviations, The Disciplined Investor, Animal Spirits, Wall Street Unplugged, Radical Personal Finance, Dvorak-Horowitz Unplugged, The Meb Faber Show, The Sherman Show, Money For the Rest of Us, Peter Schiff Podcast, The Voluntary Life Tech: Accidental Tech Podcast, Mac Break Weekly, Security Now, Core Intuition, This Week In Google, Under The Radar, All About Android Other stuff: Voyage To The Stars (Comedy), Dragon Talk (D&D)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20887484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887484", "by": "bscphil", "time": 1567696149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Were you able to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast at 2x? Skip somewhere in the middle and listen for 15 seconds maybe. Hmm, I skipped around to a few different spots. About half the time it was intelligible at 2x, but as soon as they started speaking faster it became a garble. Occasionally they would speak fast enough that I couldn't catch it even at 1.75x. So I'd say they have a lot more variability in their pacing than you do."}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 20887795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887795", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1567698011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, which to an outside observer is pretty shocking, given how grossly deficient the S1 is. Another commenter in a different thread posted this informative Jason Calacanis podcast about WeWork: https://thisweekinstartups.com/e969 One part that really resonated is when Calacanis is arguing that, once you become super rich, you need to rely on your authentic, pre-rich friends to give you candid advice (because after you become super rich, you can't really trust new friends when so many folks want a piece of your wealth). Calacanis' idea, which makes sense to me, is that Neumann didn't have a st"}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 20888860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888860", "by": "cik", "time": 1567704098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As usual, Slate Money had a stellar podcast segment about exactly this two weeks ago. I recommend having a listen. https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2019/08/slate-money-a..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 20889350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20889350", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1567707171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent appearance on Sam Harris podcast, I quite enjoyed it.... https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/ #164 - Cause & Effect - A Conversation with Judea Pearl August 5, 2019 In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Judea Pearl about his work on the mathematics of causality and artificial intelligence. They discuss how science has generally failed to understand causation, different levels of causal inference, counterfactuals, the foundations of knowledge, the nature of possibility, the illusion of free will, artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousne"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 20889350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20889350", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1567707171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent appearance on Sam Harris podcast, I quite enjoyed it.... https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/ #164 - Cause & Effect - A Conversation with Judea Pearl August 5, 2019 In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Judea Pearl about his work on the mathematics of causality and artificial intelligence. They discuss how science has generally failed to understand causation, different levels of causal inference, counterfactuals, the foundations of knowledge, the nature of possibility, the illusion of free will, artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousne"}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 20893764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20893764", "by": "anqurvanillapy", "time": 1567755214, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 20894217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20894217", "by": "arvidkahl", "time": 1567761779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Redhat's \"Command Line Heroes\" podcast has a very insightful episode about COBOL and Go, talking about legacy languages, and how all languages may or may not become legacy, and their impact on new paradigms like the web (and vice versa). https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/the-i... My takeaway is that particularly with COBOL, there is a vested interest in the finance industry to find and retain COBOL talent, and making efforts to popularizing a language for the web is essentially a recruiting tactic more than anything else."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 20911380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20911380", "by": "stevoski", "time": 1567959122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBC radio show/podcast More or Less recently investigated whether this was a) possible and b) true. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz3rb"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20918289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20918289", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1568038108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A month or so ago I discovered the Planet Money podcast and it has become one of my favorites."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 20918380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20918380", "by": "ZoomStop", "time": 1568038610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out The Indicator also, daily 10 minute economic podcasts that is a Plant Money spinoff."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 20921815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20921815", "by": "waiquoo", "time": 1568059160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure about the best way, there are definitely better ways to do it than my route. I used Duolingo for vocabulary and the Coffee Break French podcast along with reading and listening to as much material as I could find (french movies and shows, french wikipedia, french news sites)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20922001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20922001", "by": "bhorne2019", "time": 1568060366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have listened to Planet Money for over a year now, really enjoy the fast podcasts like the Indicator and Marketplace Tech."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 20922001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20922001", "by": "bhorne2019", "time": 1568060366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have listened to Planet Money for over a year now, really enjoy the fast podcasts like the Indicator and Marketplace Tech."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 20939400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939400", "by": "arshbot", "time": 1568205582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really good Planet Money podcast on this topic. Did you know that pre-1980s, antitrust law was used _very_ liberally? There were many documented cases of the book being thrown at tiny companies looking to merge - the book that changed everyone's mind ( The Antitrust Paradox ) lists examples such as a merger between local groceries being denied as one of many great examples of antitrust law getting in the way of healthy competition instead of promoting it. It seems that for most of the 10th century, antitrust law usage was on one side of the bar being used far too much, and as a react"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 20941169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20941169", "by": "jcims", "time": 1568215680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Halfway through his latest Mindscape podcast episode that drills down into this topic in a very approachable way."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 20944141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20944141", "by": "youeseh", "time": 1568232730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of an interesting story. The host of The Portal podcast, Eric Weinstein went on the Joe Rogan show where he shared a story: he used to get very easily sun burnt. No chance of getting a tan. He'd just burn. Then, one day he took LSD and then stopped burning. Crazy story. No follow up study =)."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 20960728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960728", "by": "mmiliauskas", "time": 1568369825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just saw him on Joe Rogan podcast, he is selling another book isn't he?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 20967123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20967123", "by": "pestrov", "time": 1568412334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree! Here is a great epidose on why Rent Control does not work by Freakonomics. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/"}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 20971373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971373", "by": "supremerumham", "time": 1568474777, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 20972756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972756", "by": "warbird", "time": 1568485783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Attribution? On some podcast (Malicious Life?) I heard an interesting take on this. Short version: cyber war is not yet real war because attribution is too difficult to justify irl bombs. So, if the barrier to entry in drone attacks is sufficiently low, could not a nation outsource some tactical operations to controllable private entities in order to obfuscate the origin of the attack? This, I would think, is plausible if the goal is to cause damage, rather than to demonstrate national prowess. In this scenario, nukes would not be a sure deterrent."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 20975329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20975329", "by": "mileycyrusXOXO", "time": 1568516932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "3Blue1Brown made videos for Khan Academy for a while but ultimately decided to take his career in a different direction. He talks about it on the first episode[1] of the Numberphile podcast, which if you are a fan of 3Blue1Brown I'd highly reccomend giving it a listen. [1]: https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/3blue1brown"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 20981895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981895", "by": "dilippkumar", "time": 1568619918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just finished the second book of this series. I agree with the parent comment - strongly recommend. I also finished book 10 of the Malazan series. Imagine Dan Carlin (Hardcore History podcast) and Quentin Tarantino took both the red pill and the blue pill that Morpheus offered Neo and ground both the pills together, snorted it, shook hands and agreed to create something better than Game of Thrones. I imagine they would have come up with something almost as good as the Malazan series. You\u2019ll have to power through the first book (Gardens of the Moon). It is notoriously difficult - I recommend fo"}, {"show": "1886486854", "hn_item": 20989357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20989357", "by": "ianbicking", "time": 1568674251, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I couldn't find the link, but some years ago I listened to a talk on the Cato Daily Podcast ( https://www.cato.org/archives/type/multimedia/category/9390 ) from a doctor, describing his experience with opioids. The doctor said that, having read medical literature, he believed that exponential increases in opioid dosage were an appropriate response. So (exact mathematics aside) if a dose wasn't sufficient for a patient, then you double the dosage. And double it again, and again, and again as necessary. This was not the conventional wisdom, so he was prescribing much much higher doses than was t"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 20995023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995023", "by": "pk22", "time": 1568728258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should check out Citations Needed two part podcast series on this. https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so... https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-46-the-not-so..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 20997337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20997337", "by": "srcmap", "time": 1568739098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Stack Overflow's podcast. Wonder what happen to that?"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 21004204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21004204", "by": "mhb", "time": 1568806628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also see the excellent This American Life podcast: Running After Antelope Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature \u2014 a battle they don't stand much chance of winning. Most of the show is Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/80/running-after-antelope"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 21010747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21010747", "by": "ksangeelee", "time": 1568844194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a lovely Sean Carrol podcast interview with Kip Thorne where he discusses the people and the work that led to the discovery. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis..."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 21014895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21014895", "by": "knatanzon", "time": 1568888342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN! Today we launched Podcast 9 on Product Hunt! Here's the launch post: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/podcast-9 Would love to hear your thoughts about it!"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21016714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21016714", "by": "artimaeis", "time": 1568904667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast they recently re-ran that got into at least one of the factors of the drastically cheaper solar availability: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751234092/episode-616-how-sol... As I recall -- there was a boom of manufacturing plants for the solar cells in China as they were forecasting a drastically growing demand. The plants came online and boosted the supply greatly before the demand was high enough, so the prices sank. There's also apparently been a number of improvements to tooling in regards to the labor required to install solar panels t"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 21018313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018313", "by": "dv_dt", "time": 1568913333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also the idea of gravity pistons which claim to have the advantage of a much wider allowance of siting options than pumped hydro. https://heindl-energy.com/ Nice long-form discussion with the Omega Tau podcast: http://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/ Also this: (don't know if there is any association) http://www.gravitypower.net/technology-gravity-power-energy-..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 21020339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020339", "by": "ralphc", "time": 1568924586, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hunt and Thomas themselves don't really recommend it anymore. Large parts of the industry have changed over the years. They're interviewed in episode 352 of The Changelog podcast. It's worth a listen if you're a fan, or interested in either edition."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21023009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023009", "by": "pier25", "time": 1568949148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the episode about rent control on Freakonomics: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/ If you don't know the podcast (or the books) I highly recommend those."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 21024181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024181", "by": "elSidCampeador", "time": 1568965895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend for you to listen to the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast from 15 April 2019 - it had Zoltan Poszar from Credit Suisse on to talk about the general trend in the money markets (and he was worried about something like this happening back then too), and quite a few of your questions should be answered by the time you're done. Here's the link (it's also available on Apple Podcasts)- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-04-12/why-foreign-... edit: It's a little heavy on content, so if you don't know much about the money market (like me when I first listened to it), I'd recommend having"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 21045474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045474", "by": "bearcobra", "time": 1569205378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Even as a non-parent her work is fascinating. I really enjoyed her interview on the Ezra Klein podcast ( https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast )"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 21059575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059575", "by": "endorphone", "time": 1569329766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And people prefer paid over free all the time. Many of us are loaded with a dozen+ subscriptions. I have Netflix, Spotify, Prime Video, HBO, Showtime, Apple Arcade, iCloud Storage, EA Access, Xbox Game Pass, Adobe Creative Cloud, NY Times all as subscriptions, and countless paid apps and solutions. I'm far from alone in this. Clearly millions of people pay enormous sums for good products. The problem is that often it's hard to get anything but an ad-buttressed solution because everyone wants to double-dip (e.g. NYTimes, Hulu). Further the conversation often comes up for things that have lower "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 21059575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059575", "by": "endorphone", "time": 1569329766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And people prefer paid over free all the time. Many of us are loaded with a dozen+ subscriptions. I have Netflix, Spotify, Prime Video, HBO, Showtime, Apple Arcade, iCloud Storage, EA Access, Xbox Game Pass, Adobe Creative Cloud, NY Times all as subscriptions, and countless paid apps and solutions. I'm far from alone in this. Clearly millions of people pay enormous sums for good products. The problem is that often it's hard to get anything but an ad-buttressed solution because everyone wants to double-dip (e.g. NYTimes, Hulu). Further the conversation often comes up for things that have lower "}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 21059575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059575", "by": "endorphone", "time": 1569329766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And people prefer paid over free all the time. Many of us are loaded with a dozen+ subscriptions. I have Netflix, Spotify, Prime Video, HBO, Showtime, Apple Arcade, iCloud Storage, EA Access, Xbox Game Pass, Adobe Creative Cloud, NY Times all as subscriptions, and countless paid apps and solutions. I'm far from alone in this. Clearly millions of people pay enormous sums for good products. The problem is that often it's hard to get anything but an ad-buttressed solution because everyone wants to double-dip (e.g. NYTimes, Hulu). Further the conversation often comes up for things that have lower "}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 21059599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059599", "by": "Chathamization", "time": 1569329924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It's unfortunate that internet people have been falsely conditioned to believe the people who create the media we consume shouldn't be paid. Most of the media we consume is probably detrimental to us, even before advertising is factored in. It's not a bad thing when people have to make a choice in whether or not something is worth the money, and end up deciding it's not. It seems like people are better able to understand monetary costs than time or brain space costs. As an aside, some of the highest quality content I've found is free and without advertisements (for example, the Ottoman Histo"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21059754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059754", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1569330844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to mostly the economics podcasts \u201cPlanet Money\u201d and \u201cThe Indicator\u201d. I consider myself a bleeding heart libertarianism capitalist. (ie Don\u2019t increase minimum wage but pay more in taxes to help people help themselves.) I don\u2019t see any real bias in their reporting. Also, a \u201cThis American Life\u201d episode about illegal immigrants working at a chicken plant (?) in Alabama single handedly made me see a few of the points that I thought were just right wing talking points. Of course I don\u2019t agree with the demonization of \u201cother\u201d. I am a minority who grew up in the south and whose parents grew u"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 21059754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21059754", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1569330844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to mostly the economics podcasts \u201cPlanet Money\u201d and \u201cThe Indicator\u201d. I consider myself a bleeding heart libertarianism capitalist. (ie Don\u2019t increase minimum wage but pay more in taxes to help people help themselves.) I don\u2019t see any real bias in their reporting. Also, a \u201cThis American Life\u201d episode about illegal immigrants working at a chicken plant (?) in Alabama single handedly made me see a few of the points that I thought were just right wing talking points. Of course I don\u2019t agree with the demonization of \u201cother\u201d. I am a minority who grew up in the south and whose parents grew u"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 21060424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21060424", "by": "Bootvis", "time": 1569334609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also check out this Bloomberg podcast with the author (currently it's the first one in this overview): https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21061700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21061700", "by": "aembleton", "time": 1569341600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience. I set my podcast client to skip the first 400 seconds of his shows as they are just adverts."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21062061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062061", "by": "the_watcher", "time": 1569343400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm fine with podcast ads because I want the excellent podcasts I enjoy to continue existing. That said, I cannot stand injected ads, since they're often injected in awkward places and are jarring to the experience. I'll (not exactly happily but not angrily) listen to a live read where the podcaster has at least taken the time to try not to destroy the flow of the entire podcast. All that said, the best ads (from a listener experience POV) are the extremely short, to the point ads that are honestly too short to put the effort into skipping. Planet Money (and the NPR podcasts I listen to in gen"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 21062288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062288", "by": "bootlooped", "time": 1569344705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris' podcast runs entirely on donations, so I think that model is at least viable for certain audience demographics."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 21062524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062524", "by": "rconti", "time": 1569346075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest Slate Money podcast had a great segment savaging Neumann. https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2019/09/slate-money-o..."}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 21065799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21065799", "by": "charlescearl", "time": 1569367513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent episode of the New Economics Foundation podcast \u201cThe Myth of Meritocracy\u201d [1] that had a lengthy discussion in the U.K. context. I read a little of Jo Littler\u2019s \u201cAgainst Meritocracy\u201d [2] book. [1] https://neweconomics.org/2019/08/weekly-economics-podcast-th... [2] https://www.routledge.com/Against-Meritocracy-Open-Access-Cu..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 21074899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21074899", "by": "Faark", "time": 1569442845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Sam Harris' podcast runs entirely on donations He seems to be shifting away from that. There is a \"private feed\" that will \"increasingly carry content that will not be available on the public one\" (from first 20sec of Making Sense #168). So yeah, he either wants more income or just donations isn't that great."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 21075612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21075612", "by": "seanrrwilkins", "time": 1569446321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "7 AM: wake up, no alarm most days thank to one very persistent and hungry cat that likes to jump on my head or scratch doors to make noise. 7:02, feed the cats. 7:15, make a cup of coffee at home and have a light breakfast of yogurt, fruit and granola. 7:15-8: is breakfast, coffee and listening to The Daily and UpFirst podcasts 8-10: writing. I need to get writing done in the AM while I'm fresh and other distractions don't leak in. 10-11: shower and work email check-in, get rolling on projects and client check-ins. 11-3: deep client work and/or business development, depending on deadlines."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 21083606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21083606", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1569521177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a quote from Sara Blakely: \u201cI was very careful right away, it was a gut instinct that I had, to keep it to myself because I believe ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy, and it\u2019s instinct to turn to your right or left in that moment and tell a friend, or tell your husband, and the moment you do that ego is invited into the mix, and then you end up spending all your time defending it, explaining it, and not pursuing it\u201d How I Built This podcast (9m20s)"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 21096147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21096147", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1569617436, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He also does a great podcast with Kara Swisher: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21098176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21098176", "by": "asabjorn", "time": 1569640452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, it\u2019s very fun. Studying this is the rabbit hole of rabbit holes. I recommend the podcast The Portal by Eric Weinstein if you want the idea equivalent of this stuff."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21100365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21100365", "by": "asabjorn", "time": 1569679849, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I typically listen to it on Apple podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id146999956... or Spotify where he posts the episode earlier https://open.spotify.com/show/3qv8BS1HzrgKpDnXSlYWWL?si=cUA0..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21102409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21102409", "by": "raulk", "time": 1569699496, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 21102541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21102541", "by": "anarchyrucks", "time": 1569701038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This[0] episode of the Fall of Civilizations Podcast talks about this incident in more detail. [0] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/01/21/episode-2-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21106654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21106654", "by": "stretch_goals", "time": 1569760347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> seemingly impossible goals that they keep setting for themselves John Carmack made this point on the JRE podcast when talking about his failed Armadillo Aerospace, that a rocket company needs to have outrageous goals, otherwise you'll waste ten years accomplishing nothing (think Amazon Blue Origin)."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 21115317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21115317", "by": "satvikpendem", "time": 1569851523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hardcore History podcast episodes on Genghis Khan (Wrath of the Khans) is quite good. If you've listened to it, is the book similar to the podcast?"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21116118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21116118", "by": "CoffeePython", "time": 1569856007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting to see deep learning techniques entering the realms of non-cs focused academia. I recently heard of another example from the Planet Money podcast[1], that used deep learning to perform an elephant census. One of my favorite things about ML is using it to reduce human labor hours on tasks like these. [1] https://www.npr.org/2019/08/09/749938354/episode-932-deep-le..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21120135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21120135", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1569881369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you talking about the Joe Rogan podcast? It's recorded/filmed from California, where marijuana is legal recreationaly, and had been at the time of the original broadcast."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 21123485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21123485", "by": "gitgud", "time": 1569921418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This also reminds me of this company [1] wavve , which I first noticed on Indie Hackers. They basically convert podcasts to videos for social media and generate huge (Stripe-verified) profits from providing the service. This just shows the enormity of the Instagram user-base. A tiny fraction of niche users on Instagram can add up to a massive market... [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/product/wavve"}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 21129542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21129542", "by": "nickjj", "time": 1569958056, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1401509765", "hn_item": 21137984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21137984", "by": "vsyu", "time": 1570032455, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 21139816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21139816", "by": "rahuldottech", "time": 1570043707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ \u201c\u2018A podcast about the internet\u2019 that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it.\u201d \u2013 The Guardian"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21143832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143832", "by": "mdorazio", "time": 1570078217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1) There was no speech. There was a well-reasoned essay worth reading even if you disagree with it. 2) Virtually no one actually read his essay in its entirety, including the media figures and bloggers who commented on it incessantly. His actual message and claims were completely ignored or outright twisted to fit a specific narrative. The fact that you had to go all the way to places like the Joe Rogan podcast to listen to him actually explain his thoughts without being editorialized was insane. 3) He lost his job as a direct result."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 21145927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21145927", "by": "namdnay", "time": 1570103627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obligatory plug of the excellent \"The History of Rome\" podcast"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 21148638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21148638", "by": "metamet", "time": 1570119170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Morbidly fascinating, I would encourage everyone to check out this episode of the podcast Behind the Bastards: https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/all-fertility-doc... There are multiple fertility doctors who have used their own sperm to impregnate their patients. Sources are listed (in plain text--looks like they need to fix the HTML), but it was shocking to learn about. Here are a few of the references: * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/fertility-doctor-pregn... * https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/08/26/fertility... * https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9193014/British-m"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 21149839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21149839", "by": "kashyapc", "time": 1570125392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Appreciate this; thanks! On the misuse of the word \"literally\", I wholeheartedly agree with the following reader comment from an excellent EconTalk podcast, \"John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move\"[1]: This whole \u201cliterally\u201d issue seems to have been mis-framed. The reason many of us object to the use of the word \u201cliterally\u201d to mean \u201cfiguratively\u201d isn\u2019t that we can\u2019t stand the thought of language evolving; it\u2019s because there\u2019s no replacement for it! I once had a friend say to me, \u201cX is literally Y, and I mean \u2018literally\u2019 literally (not figuratively).\u201d - - - From the s"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 21150687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21150687", "by": "smogcutter", "time": 1570129001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love Mike Duncan! I\u2019m going through his \u201cRevolutions\u201d podcast now and it\u2019s terrific. Also worth mentioning Dan Carlin\u2019s podcast about the Achaemenids, obviously about an earlier period of Iranian history than tfa but very good stuff. He covers a great deal more than the Greek wars, and in the west it\u2019s a story we don\u2019t usually hear told from the \u201cother side\u201d. Fwiw though I\u2019ll take generally Mike Duncan over Carlin - Carlin\u2019s a world class storyteller but imo he gets too caught up in hypotheticals and war stories. Duncan doesn\u2019t have the quite the same \u201cfavorite professor\u201d delivery but he cover"}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 21154295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21154295", "by": "hellllllllooo", "time": 1570155872, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumps-war-on-the-home... This podcast has a pretty good discussion and explaination on the different causes of homelessness. The distinction between \"working homeless\" in cities where housing costs are skyrocketing and people with medical issues or addiction was interesting to hear talked through with nuance."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21162576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21162576", "by": "hash872", "time": 1570229762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Early proto-MMA events in the US & Brazil literally had no rules (Google 'vale tudo'), and included groin strikes & eye gouges (Google 'Keith Hackney Joe Son'). They were actually underground fighting events, some held in illegal clubs, warehouses, basements- and, they were won by BJJ & Muay Thai guys- the constituent martial arts that make up what we call MMA today. You can actually find Vale Tudo fights on Youtube to see for yourself! Early UFC events also literally had no rules as well- and they were won by, first BJJ and then wrestling. TMA guys didn't fare so well even in the complete abs"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 21164955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164955", "by": "vlad_ungureanu", "time": 1570274945, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 21165939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165939", "by": "adamveld12", "time": 1570288251, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of Jocko's podcast, there are great episodes that talk about Unit 731 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mizmXTWDf-4 ) and the Rape of Nanjing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylTcj5yDOM ) that are worth the time if you're interested in learning about the darker side of history. The Rape of Nanjing episode is particularly interesting since he goes over the book \"The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II\" by Iris Chang in the first part, following that up with readings from \"The Woman Who Could Not Forget\" by, Dr. Ying Ying Chang which goes over how researching"}, {"show": "1481419960", "hn_item": 21166306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21166306", "by": "iafrikan", "time": 1570292172, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21167444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167444", "by": "dang", "time": 1570303959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.ht... is an article about this. Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809428 from 2010. Related to the Radiolab episode about Kaczynski from that year: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91721..."}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 21168456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21168456", "by": "reddotX", "time": 1570315277, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 21175080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175080", "by": "localhost", "time": 1570395487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story is told really well in one of my favorite podcasts, the Acquired Podcast: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-maps . Highly recommended as are all of the other episodes."}, {"show": "985845317", "hn_item": 21178440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178440", "by": "joshschreuder", "time": 1570434881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth listening to the Zachtronics Podcast http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/ There hasn't been a new ep in a while but it's an interesting insight into behind the scenes of developing games (and whatever Universe Sandbox is)"}, {"show": "1087851721", "hn_item": 21180729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180729", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1570456223, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Related: Peter Shankman interviews successful people with ADHD from all walks of life... > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/professor-johan-wiklun..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 21183315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183315", "by": "isaikumar", "time": 1570468384, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1467007633", "hn_item": 21187311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187311", "by": "marknadal", "time": 1570492879, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's a great podcast by the creator of Javascript Jabber, Ruby Rogues (and ton of other popular ones) on the Future of Podcasting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPmW2O5o1c (video version) Or audio version: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcasting-adventures-..."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 21187311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187311", "by": "marknadal", "time": 1570492879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a great podcast by the creator of Javascript Jabber, Ruby Rogues (and ton of other popular ones) on the Future of Podcasting: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eaPmW2O5o1c (video version) Or audio version: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcasting-adventures-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21187604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187604", "by": "retrocryptid", "time": 1570495998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I \"audited\" one of the Coursera Econ classes on Pricing Strategy, and it was pretty good. I noticed (but did not take) their basic macro / micro courses. I would be willing to bet they're pretty decent. I love the Freakonomics podcast for their extensive discussions on the limits of traditional economics and how viewing econ through a behavioural lens is sometimes warranted."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 21187657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187657", "by": "ericol", "time": 1570496594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be honest, I can't comment on if there's a \"big era of podcast\" ahead. But I live in a non English speaking country, and what I'm observing is that podcasts _are_ percolating the news, specially in HN, that's where I consume quality content. I had recently, after getting tired of listening to music on my commute (A 12 minute bike ride, or a 25 minute walk) from home to work started to listen to podcast that I find normally here (My other source of content is reddit, but the quality is not the same). What I see, is that usually what gets named is really, really good; or at least very interes"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21187657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187657", "by": "ericol", "time": 1570496594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be honest, I can't comment on if there's a \"big era of podcast\" ahead. But I live in a non English speaking country, and what I'm observing is that podcasts _are_ percolating the news, specially in HN, that's where I consume quality content. I had recently, after getting tired of listening to music on my commute (A 12 minute bike ride, or a 25 minute walk) from home to work started to listen to podcast that I find normally here (My other source of content is reddit, but the quality is not the same). What I see, is that usually what gets named is really, really good; or at least very interes"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 21188090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188090", "by": "buzzert", "time": 1570501756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For Darknet Diaries I think you meant \u201cnon-fiction\u201d! Those are true stories! (I love this podcast as well)"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 21188837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188837", "by": "shmulkey18", "time": 1570509834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure that it is exactly what you're looking for, but the Econtalk podcast ( https://www.econtalk.org/ ) covers a wide variety of economics-related topics. If you listen to it, over time you will come to understand the economic way of thinking. Also, I don't believe it's possible to get a \"quick but comprehensive understanding\" of fields as involved and varied as microeconomics, game theory, finance and so on. That's a lot of ground to cover, and it's unlikely that you can do anything other than get a sense of some of the basic ideas in these disciplines in a short amount of time."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 21194666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194666", "by": "ziggity", "time": 1570555599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Overcast is an interesting case study on optimizing for listeners vs. creators. The app developer, Marco Arment, is also co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast. One cool feature in Overcast is chapter markers: You can embed ID3v2 chapter frames in your RSS feed's MP3 files indicating when different segments start. This lets the listener jump between segments, it's a pretty slick experience. Unsurprisingly, ATP uses this functionality. Advertising chapters are labelled as such, but the timecodes are always deliberately skewed so that skipping to the next chapter after an ad still gives you the last"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 21198065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21198065", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1570574427, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned about it 10 years ago (while I was in university) in a Stuff You Should Know episode, which is a pretty popular/mainstream podcast."}, {"show": "1472587591", "hn_item": 21198223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21198223", "by": "hos234", "time": 1570575716, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 21201765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201765", "by": "UIZealot", "time": 1570616802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> >Apple has been neglecting OS X since Snow Leopard, thinking that iOS is the only thing worth investing in > What exactly is the evidence behind this? I agree neglect is probably not the right word. I like the term Marco Arment uses on his ATP podcast: drive-by updates. > They have been adding several huge components/APIs/tools that they have working for macOS (Metal, APFS, Swift, CoreML, etc), These all seem to have been developed for iOS first and macOS second. > they have tons of under the hood improvements (e.g. memory compression), and so on. Personally I experienced rage-inducing multi"}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 21204574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21204574", "by": "tufirhawat", "time": 1570637557, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21206974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21206974", "by": "loceng", "time": 1570649333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How many hours of video content have you watched of Yang speaking? Genuinely curious. And what specifically you have watched making you think he's not a great speaker? Toward the end of Yang being on Eric Weinstein's The Portal podcast they briefly talk about a solution regarding China. Yang definitely is aware, and he certainly understand the foundational principles of economics better than the other candidates based on what I have heard him speak of."}, {"show": "589864479", "hn_item": 21209832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209832", "by": "ycombonator", "time": 1570668535, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chinese-state-runs-out..."}, {"show": "1265002699", "hn_item": 21213690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213690", "by": "ycombonator", "time": 1570710933, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Listen to this episode where Sean Carroll talks about Superposition of larger objects https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/52-many-quantum-worlds..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21218212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21218212", "by": "throwaway_law", "time": 1570735256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a female MMA fighter, Cat Zingano, who is vocal about her Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments. She did a Joe Rogan podcast and spoke about it very positively. Very anecdotal but very interesting."}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 21220182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21220182", "by": "solstice", "time": 1570749429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to encourage people to read this website for news about China and also to listen to the Sinica podcast, which is partly made by the same people (Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn). Supchina also has a newsletter"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 21223662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21223662", "by": "NamTaf", "time": 1570797077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin I feel does a relatively good job at covering this battle within the broader context of the war in his Hardcore History podcast. Specifically, in his three-part series King of Kings. Don\u2019t ask me which one, as it\u2019s been well over a year since I listened to it, but he does make a reasonable attempt at drawing out some logic for why the rearguard stayed and died. If I recall correctly, one factor is that it helped buy time for the Greek city-states to retreat back and remove sources of supplies, which would stretch the Persian supply chains even further. He paints this particular batt"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 21224903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224903", "by": "zwieback", "time": 1570805365, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 21227439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227439", "by": "K0SM0S", "time": 1570820973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't worked with microservices directly but what I gather is: - build a UNIX philosophy, \"efficient atomicity\" so 1 microservice = 1 command - you then build logic with these like Lego bricks, that's your glue code => backend ties that together On a typical base Linux install you have something between 250 and 1500 packages. Average Java repo has like, what, 80 files maybe? 120? Break it down to functions / structs and you can see the 1500 being a reasonable estimate of a modular architecture. So you have one microservice to return a catalog, another to take a search input, another to ser"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21227657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21227657", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1570822403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">How would those lobbyists find out, if it were so secret? In a situations here this is rolled out for use to replace power plants and not for classified military applications, thus the various civilian industries and their lobbyists mentioned. I thought this was pretty obvious given I mention a laundry list of civilian industries that the bulk of which are comprised of private and publicly traded companies that are not defense related industries. >As for \"there are very few people that know where the United States keeps any of it's various strategic stock piles\" - what are you talking about? "}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 21240334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240334", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1570974643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should check out Michael Lewis's podcast \"Against the Rules\".. it discusses basically what happens when the referee'd in life are rigged. In 2008 it was the bond rating agencies whose fictitious A+ approvals on subprime loans cause the collapse. In 2000 it was an influx of capital due to low interest rates and lowered capital gains (The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997) that propped up companies with no revenues who pushed for IPOs. IPOs themselves were relatively underpriced (even though they were inherently worthless based on the fundamentals long term) which cause the pop phenomenon that I b"}, {"show": "1556916238", "hn_item": 21243318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21243318", "by": "mch82", "time": 1571003133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TLDR: Extrapolating current trends in renewable power generation, by the time we\u2019re able to complete construction of new nuclear plants those plants won\u2019t be necessary. There are six significant flaws in most recent pro-nuclear arguments I\u2019ve read. To me, these flaws undermine the pro-nuclear case. 1. Authors ignore how long it takes to bring a new nuclear plant online (>7 years). 2. Authors focus on the percentage of energy production contributed by clean sources (solar, wind, etc.) TODAY, but ignore the growth trend (which matters since reactors take so long to bring online). 3. Authors igno"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21249330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249330", "by": "jimbokun", "time": 1571066935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Transcript of a Freakonomics podcast discussing this issue: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender..."}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 21251329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251329", "by": "shaneprrlt", "time": 1571078086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Find your go-to rotation of music and podcasts so you can immediately plug in when you want to get in the zone. I highly recommend checking out https://brain.fm . I pay like $6.99/mo (about same as my Spotify subscription) and it has been an absolute gamechanger for me. Piano music, lo-fi, classical music are also great places to start if you have Spotify. For podcasts, which aren't always great since they can be distracting, I've been enjoying Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast lately. It's absolutely hysterical hearing him rant for a few hours every week."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 21258076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258076", "by": "stef25", "time": 1571145881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris' podcast had an episode with Gary Taubes where you can hear some interesting facts about there not being a consensus on what foods are good for you. Your example about eggs is a good one. https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-should-we-eat/ Re: exercise, I think it's clearly been established that the positive effects outweigh the negative ones. A few people may be killed cycling to work, but overall it's better for your personal health to cycle to work than to drive. An extreme interpretation of any sport becomes difficult for your health, this does not include running 5-10Km distance"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 21258225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258225", "by": "ilogik", "time": 1571146876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it's actually a really interesting story about corruption...this episode of the Opening Arguments podcasts goes into it: https://openargs.com/oa273-sears-steve-mnuchin-the-producers..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21265687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21265687", "by": "CapricornNoble", "time": 1571185476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">>>They're banning violations of their ToS. As long as that is performed equitably Except it isn't, as Tim Pool demonstrated on the Joe Rogan Podcast when he ripped Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde a new one, with examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ"}, {"show": "1297187822", "hn_item": 21265752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21265752", "by": "PostOnce", "time": 1571185903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "this reminds me of a story from Jason Scott's podcast about a hidden garage for high end motorcycles that appears outwardly to be a residential apartment, where he muses about how many other interesting things must be hidden in our cities https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g3TOirIFh4s"}, {"show": "1482889491", "hn_item": 21269670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269670", "by": "shekhardesigner", "time": 1571229386, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was a delay in the Apple podcast approval, available now - https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/level-up-engineering/i... Other apps/platforms are still reviewing the submission as per the maker. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/level-up-engineering-podca..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21271528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271528", "by": "Takizawa", "time": 1571240216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I think is interesting is how much emotion the 10k hour rule rouses in general. The Freakonomics podcast mentioned the 10k rule as well. They posit that given equally talented individuals, the person who puts in the requisite hours of hard work through deliberate practice would obtain the higher level of mastery."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21276243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21276243", "by": "mch82", "time": 1571262466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Edit: I see the Naval quote is from the Joe Rogan podcast (which I often enjoy). I haven\u2019t listened to the episode, so don\u2019t have full context but Naval seems to have the timeline, \u201cpublisher\u201d, and \u201cplatform\u201d confused. Facebook, Google (YouTube), and Twitter have historically claimed to be \u201cneutral tech platforms\u201d like phone utilities or internet service providers. They maintained that claim so that responsibility for content would be on the user/sharer and so they could avoid regulation. More recently, at least Facebook has claimed (2018) it is a \u201cpublisher\u201d. They updated their claim in order"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 21281940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21281940", "by": "cvhashim", "time": 1571319754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tax lobbyists like Intuit benefit too much from all of this really. Planet money podcast episode that outlines some of this. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis... Also Reply All did an episode recently on the Propublica Intuit story. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol"}, {"show": "656726654", "hn_item": 21291688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21291688", "by": "jpincheira", "time": 1571409127, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks for sharing this guide. It's fitting like a ring to finger as I am in the process of setting up documentation for the features of my app [1] because I realized that as an early-stage startup one of the best ways to teach your users how to use your product is by writing great documentation. I'm finishing the setup of this site within my landing now using Gatsby, on the main domain, so that it can also help to bring in more traffic from search engines. On the same topic, today I was listening to a podcast [2] titled \"Getting traffic to a new website without blogging\" which is excelent to "}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 21297897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297897", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1571483423, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See also Rationally Speaking podcast ep. 241 - Thibault Le Texier on \"Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment\" The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychology experiments in history. For decades, we've been told that it proves how regular people easily turn sadistic when they are asked to role play as prison guards. But the story now appears to be mostly fraudulent. Thibault Le Texier is a researcher who dug into the Stanford archives and learned that the \"prison guards\" were actually told how to behave in order to support the experimenters' thesis. On this episode, Thibau"}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 21304350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304350", "by": "augustocallejas", "time": 1571581675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was well covered in the NPR podcast Throughline: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth"}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 21306672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306672", "by": "kylek", "time": 1571601697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Though not quite on point with TFA, to anyone interested in this type of stuff I highly recommend The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast[0]. [0] https://shwep.net/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21306811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306811", "by": "cbcoutinho", "time": 1571602811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone a few days ago linked to this snippet of an interview with Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan's podcast. Their lack of differentiating themselves from publishers has put them on a slippery slope https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3661&v=3qHkcs3kG44"}, {"show": "152022135", "hn_item": 21317000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21317000", "by": "shekhardesigner", "time": 1571690117, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 21319954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21319954", "by": "claudeganon", "time": 1571712440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That\u2019s what I wish could be sussed out to a greater degree actually. How much of the US economy is comprised of things like tech scams, MLMs, various cults, etc. and what influence does this have on how businesses function more broadly and what is seen as legitimate. I\u2019ve looked around, but there are only a few books on the history of things like MLMs and this good podcast about them called The Dream : https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream"}, {"show": "1308460981", "hn_item": 21325618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325618", "by": "velp", "time": 1571762008, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "AFAIK, Merino is mostly farmed in alpine regions, a lot of it in New Zealand. There's a really interesting BlisterReview podcast[0] on technical fabrics and wool, featuring an interview with one of the buyer/sourcers for a big wool company. He explains the farming/shearing/processing of merino pretty thoroughly. [0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3X5VBJaRvo1jjVElTjxnnP?si=B..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21326203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21326203", "by": "stevenleeg", "time": 1571764776, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd also highly recommend \"Tweak the Vote\" from Radiolab, which discusses Ireland's election process: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/tweak..."}, {"show": "1267161825", "hn_item": 21332413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332413", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1571818839, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21333261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333261", "by": "_zamorano_", "time": 1571827921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not strange many interesting people want to visit Joe Rogan podcast. First, he is willing to give a voice to many who won't be able to tell their stories on mass media. Who other will let speak people like James Damore? What major broadcaster is willing to interview Jordan Peterson without protraiting him as a villain? He respects his guest, when in disagrement. His interview to Jack Dorsey (not much of his liking, I presume), was criticised for not being aggresive enough. The interviewed is not afraid of a headline out of context. Given the current political climate, I'm not suprised a M"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 21333846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333846", "by": "typon", "time": 1571833684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are interviewers out there that are far more knowledgeable than him and conduct genuinely interesting interviews with smart people. For example, check out Intelligence Squared podcast. It is true that Rogan's breadth of types of guests is probably unmatched."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 21334356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334356", "by": "MrGLaDOS", "time": 1571837110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am sure there are many others, but these three shows feature long-form interviews which feature interesting guests: The Ezra Klein Show - Ezra Klein Making sense podcast - Sam Harris 80000 hours podcast - Rob Wiblin [1] https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast [2] https://samharris.org/podcast/ [3] https://80000hours.org/podcast/"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 21334853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21334853", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1571840282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "StackExchange appointed a new CEO. Shortly thereafter, StackExchange announced that a code of conduct for moderators was in the works. StackExchange indicated that one element of the still unreleased code of conduct expected moderators to use the referent's preferred gender pronoun when referring to individuals who had expressed a gender pronoun preference. StackExchange's position is that this is a direct implication of the general \"be nice\" expectation. The announcement also included a plan to change the license for user generated content from CC-by-SA 3.0 to CC-by-SA 4.0. My understanding i"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 21336688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21336688", "by": "zeppelin101", "time": 1571850809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those are great recommendations - thanks! I was already a follower of the Sam Harris podcast, but the other two I did not know about."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21339613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21339613", "by": "gr678", "time": 1571868729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> he still has a responsibility to his audience. What? If people stop liking what he has to say, they'll stop listening to him. I don't know what your point is. Set up federal regulations on the Joe Rogan Podcast because you disagree with some things he says?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21339630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21339630", "by": "gr678", "time": 1571868817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> he still has a responsibility to his audience. What? If people stop liking what he has to say, they'll stop listening to him. What's your solution? Set up federal regulations on the Joe Rogan Podcast because you disagree with some things he says?"}, {"show": "1042283903", "hn_item": 21340186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340186", "by": "iwillrunoutofsp", "time": 1571873863, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21340261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340261", "by": "deep_merge", "time": 1571874722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More Perfect, a podcast by one of the hosts of Radiolab, has an episode on this in song form: https://project.wnyc.org/themostperfectalbum/#amendment-27 Side note: This podcast is excellent. The first two seasons are not songs, but investigative (and entertaining!) pieces on important Supreme Court rulings."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 21340261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340261", "by": "deep_merge", "time": 1571874722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More Perfect, a podcast by one of the hosts of Radiolab, has an episode on this in song form: https://project.wnyc.org/themostperfectalbum/#amendment-27 Side note: This podcast is excellent. The first two seasons are not songs, but investigative (and entertaining!) pieces on important Supreme Court rulings."}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 21345802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21345802", "by": "apecat", "time": 1571932096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the unwashed masses towards quality content. If you open up something like the World section (and subsections), you'll get a lot of good reporting. https://www.bbc.com/news/world I also find the shows From Our Own Correspondent the Global News Podcast to be world-class news sources. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsng https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21350439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21350439", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1571961817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> What we know now is that click-through rates on news sites are really not substantially better than click-through rates on Joe Schmo's random blog -- but they _are_ substantially worse than in certain other business segments, like search. AFAICT, search is a really amazing ad product. Users are declaring their interest in a subject, _right now_. > They just didn't have the metrics to prove it. You're not wrong, but I wouldn't discount the power of inertia. There's a story Steven Levitt tells on his Freakonomics podcast about a retailer who wanted to measure the impact of print ads. He sugges"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 21352087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352087", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1571980229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply all is an excellent show, and Gimlet media has an excellent lineup of podcasts in general. I particularly like the early seasons of startup (I may have to check back in this season for them covering they sale to Spotify), and Every Little Thing. It's well produced podcasts done well. If you took This American Life and scaled it to few slightly more targeted podcasts but kept the same quality, that's what they offer. That's less a metaphor than a description of history, given the original founder cut his teeth on TAL and then started Planet Money (also still excellent) before starting his"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 21363627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21363627", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1572097540, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The original iPad UI would have been just a blown up iPhone UI without any accordances to the larger screen if Jobs had of had is way. There was push back from other developers at Apple. This came out in some of the Debug podcast\u2019s interviews with former Apple employees. Also don\u2019t forget that all of the pre iCloud service disasters happen under SJ including MobileMe. Apple moved away from \u201cPro users\u201d under Jobs. It was clear that he even said before he came back to Apple that if he was in charge he would \u201cmilk the Mac for all its worth and move on to the next big thing\u201d."}, {"show": "1480732807", "hn_item": 21367067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21367067", "by": "jonbaer", "time": 1572134091, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21367238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21367238", "by": "findyoucef", "time": 1572137221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Go listen to the Rogan podcast where he describes his experience and he makes it sound like he was more than just a storage admin."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21367251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21367251", "by": "findyoucef", "time": 1572137381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "LOL, I submitted this question as soon as I finished the Rogan podcast. He sounds ridiculous in more than one area when he described what he did. I feel like he starting to believe what the media has made him out to be. This quote that you posted got my attention as well when I was listening to the rogan podcast. He's basically described building an inter-org (cia-nsa) middleware as a storage admin. Snowden isn't a developer / programmer, so I'd love to understand how he built his so called \"heart beat\"."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21367269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21367269", "by": "findyoucef", "time": 1572137768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe not celebrated, but it's certainly how he's depicted in media / popular culture and he's done nothing to dispel that myth. I submitted this question after I listened to him on the Rogan podcast. Someone in the comments below posted a quote about Snowden's so called \"heartbeat\" project, so read that to get some idea of why I think he's exaggerating. And on at least two occasions in podcast he described himself as a spy."}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 21369405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369405", "by": "carrygan", "time": 1572180831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since you mentioned a podcast, I remembered \"The Rework Podcast\" - https://rework.fm/ I'm learning a lot from its episodes."}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 21370587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21370587", "by": "wj", "time": 1572192490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have always loved this line of thinking since it was introduced to me on the Tropical MBA podcast but I feel like the advice has limits. Many people, most probably, can spend many years without developing this level of following."}, {"show": "279428154", "hn_item": 21371426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371426", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1572200138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By way of an excellent LSE lecture podcast episode: A Right to a Home? [Audio] LSE: Public lectures and events Duration: 1:31:14 Published: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:30:00 GMT Episode: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub... Media: https://media.rawvoice.com/lse_publiclecturesandevents/richm... Podcast: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/279428154 Speaker(s): Dr Cara Nine, Yousif M Qasmiyeh, Dr Beth Watts | \u2018Home\u2019 means more than a roof over our heads. It can be crucial to our sense of ourselves and our well-being. So what might it mean to have... Paper is also available"}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 21373945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21373945", "by": "tambourine_man", "time": 1572232457, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 21377041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21377041", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1572271249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Marco of overcast and the ATP podcast fame the docs pertaining to the audio subsystem is really lacking."}, {"show": "1484799754", "hn_item": 21386338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386338", "by": "hrishikesh1990", "time": 1572352037, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 21386583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386583", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1572353961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heh. Everything I know about the Green Bank Telescope, I know from The Adventure Zone podcast, which set their second major story \u2014 Amnesty \u2014 there. If you've never tried it, I highly recommend it :-)"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 21391133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21391133", "by": "vondur", "time": 1572377470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone here wants more info regarding the French Revolution, I heartily recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. He really goes into detail into the French Revolution and of course covers the period Of Napol\u00e9on."}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 21391531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21391531", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1572380380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For that matter, the Napoleon podcast itself is also really good - although at 60 hours, it\u2019s perhaps too in-depth for anyone other than true fans. https://napoleonbonapartepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "705934263", "hn_item": 21395532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21395532", "by": "tmoravec", "time": 1572423361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article literally starts with this: \"It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism...\" For a more meaningful discussion of mindfulness, I recommend the \"Mind The Mindfulness Hype\" episode of The Psychology Podcast [1] . They dig into what the scientific method has to say to mindfulness, what studies have been made and what is missing, and what benefits can be realistically expected. And what's over the top hype. [1] https://www.scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/mind-the-mindfulne..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 21397103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397103", "by": "chipgap98", "time": 1572439839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily (the Times podcast) did an episode[1] this week on vaping and the death discussed in that story does not sound like it was related to black market THC. The majority of cases do seem to be THC related, but I don't think its clear yet that they all are. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/podcasts/the-daily/vaping..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21417673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21417673", "by": "andy_ppp", "time": 1572607068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If people are interested in a 6h long conversation on everything to do with sleep they could do much worse than listen to Matthew Walker on the Peter Attia podcast: https://peterattiamd.com/matthewwalker1/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21423807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21423807", "by": "inetknght", "time": 1572643178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Compounded with psuedonyms, it's hard for any AI to determine who's chatting who... and even if FB/Snap knew who it was, I'm somewhat certain they wouldn't do anything. It's hard for a human to determine who's chatting who, but not impossible. It'd just take too much attention away from other more important things like teaching. Getting an AI to determine who's chatting who? It's a lot easier than you think. I recommend you read everything Snowden's released. Or watch Joe Rogan's podcast-interview with him. Your phone goes with you when you go places. That is literally all that is needed to "}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 21430977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430977", "by": "neplus", "time": 1572738933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in this, you'll likely enjoy Gregory's interview on Masters in Business (a Bloomberg podcast) from last Wednesday. Also, Gregory's book will be out in a few days. If memory serves, in the aforementioned podcast Gregory mentions that the RenTech generally holds most things for a few days (sometimes a few hours). However, they don't engage in HFT or HFT-like trading. This was surprising to me as I assumed it was all reasonably short holdings (relatively speaking), although I knew they weren't a pure HFT firm. I also seem to recall Gregory mentioning there's some kind of runn"}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 21430977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430977", "by": "neplus", "time": 1572738933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in this, you'll likely enjoy Gregory's interview on Masters in Business (a Bloomberg podcast) from last Wednesday. Also, Gregory's book will be out in a few days. If memory serves, in the aforementioned podcast Gregory mentions that the RenTech generally holds most things for a few days (sometimes a few hours). However, they don't engage in HFT or HFT-like trading. This was surprising to me as I assumed it was all reasonably short holdings (relatively speaking), although I knew they weren't a pure HFT firm. I also seem to recall Gregory mentioning there's some kind of runn"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 21431970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431970", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1572752241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Likewise. I just listened to a BSD Now podcast on building the FreeBSD graphics stack.[1] They went into X and its history a bit so I had X on the brain. But this list from OP is even more interesting! That list is a wonderful (mine?)field of rabbit holes! Bookmarked and thank you. [1] https://www.bsdnow.tv/283"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 21433659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433659", "by": "icebadger", "time": 1572786761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a unique view on leadership, i recommend the Jocko Podcast[0]. Approximately one third of his podcasts are directly about leadership from a military command and control perspective, and he does great interviews with his guests. [0] www.jockopodcast.com"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 21435890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435890", "by": "dpedu", "time": 1572808306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Revolutions Podcast - https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ - is in the middle of a Russian history unit currently. I find them pretty well researched."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 21446113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21446113", "by": "dimfeld", "time": 1572899315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's notable that the creator of Tailwind, Adam Wathan, is working on something similar [1]. Whether it fits the paradigm or not, there definitely seems to be a demand for such a thing. On a recent episode of the Full Stack Radio podcast [2], Adam talked about his own upcoming Tailwind UI release and said that he hoped the utility class design of Tailwind would enable people to use the predesigned components as a starting point and easily customize them, should they desire. [1]: https://www.tailwindui.com/ [2]: http://www.fullstackradio.com/123"}, {"show": "1435807749", "hn_item": 21447813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21447813", "by": "dguido", "time": 1572909747, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's the opposite perspective: https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/bs-xpm-2012-02-06-bs-ed... > But as the facts now show, smart kids don't always stay smart, and when they are bored or bullied or ridiculed or neglected, some turn off and some drop out. Thirty-plus years of experience and research into how these students learn has taught us that the academically able can and must be challenged and engaged, inspired and encouraged in order to cultivate their creativity, spirit of innovation, and passion for learning. Here's IMHO a better perspective on how to \"close the excellence gap\" in NY"}, {"show": "753552884", "hn_item": 21450455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450455", "by": "cm2187", "time": 1572939973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly. Bad commercial movies designed by a committee aren\u2019t a new thing, I remember the likes of Independence Day and Speed from the 1990s. What is new is the rarefaction of the sort of movies you mention. I recommend Bret Easton Ellis\u2019 podcast. What he says is that it is the combination of two things. First people don\u2019t go to the theatre anymore, they stream, so the economics have become really hard for smaller independent movies. He also argues that Marvel movies are so plain that they don\u2019t really produce new movie stars with a strong personality, it\u2019s all CGI, most of the audience probab"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 21457337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21457337", "by": "hiei", "time": 1572992050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If consumers engage with these influencer/brand combos we'll certainly see a new wave of younger influencers enter the social media game. With how young folks are getting on the internet too definitely shapes their consumer habits. I am a millenial and have felt similar \"connections\" to content creators back when podcasting hit off (Diggnation comes to mind). I used to consume everything Kevin Rose/Alex Albrecht because I thought their lives and ideas were so cool. Now nearing my 30s I realize I was imagining my own startup pipe dreams. Can't help but think this is amplified with younger folks"}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 21459901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21459901", "by": "amenghra", "time": 1573017199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast about baseball players forming pools to share their earnings: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/25/773493342/episode-947-some-of..."}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 21461700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461700", "by": "iluxonchik", "time": 1573042149, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been thinking about starting a podcast for some time now. However, in my experience podcasts are a lot more fun when there's more than one person speaking. I've been listening to podcasts regularly for many, many, years now. Programming is something that I'm really passionate about. Podcasting would allow to do both: contribute back to the community and learn new things. Although my preferred topic would be around Python, I'm open to other areas, such as: DevOps, Programming in General, Full Stack, Security, etc. We can even mix it up. Is anyone interested in giving it a try? For context,"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 21461700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461700", "by": "iluxonchik", "time": 1573042149, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been thinking about starting a podcast for some time now. However, in my experience podcasts are a lot more fun when there's more than one person speaking. I've been listening to podcasts regularly for many, many, years now. Programming is something that I'm really passionate about. Podcasting would allow to do both: contribute back to the community and learn new things. Although my preferred topic would be around Python, I'm open to other areas, such as: DevOps, Programming in General, Full Stack, Security, etc. We can even mix it up. Is anyone interested in giving it a try? For context,"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 21461700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461700", "by": "iluxonchik", "time": 1573042149, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been thinking about starting a podcast for some time now. However, in my experience podcasts are a lot more fun when there's more than one person speaking. I've been listening to podcasts regularly for many, many, years now. Programming is something that I'm really passionate about. Podcasting would allow to do both: contribute back to the community and learn new things. Although my preferred topic would be around Python, I'm open to other areas, such as: DevOps, Programming in General, Full Stack, Security, etc. We can even mix it up. Is anyone interested in giving it a try? For context,"}, {"show": "981834425", "hn_item": 21461700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21461700", "by": "iluxonchik", "time": 1573042149, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been thinking about starting a podcast for some time now. However, in my experience podcasts are a lot more fun when there's more than one person speaking. I've been listening to podcasts regularly for many, many, years now. Programming is something that I'm really passionate about. Podcasting would allow to do both: contribute back to the community and learn new things. Although my preferred topic would be around Python, I'm open to other areas, such as: DevOps, Programming in General, Full Stack, Security, etc. We can even mix it up. Is anyone interested in giving it a try? For context,"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21462199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462199", "by": "malenm", "time": 1573046445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money podcast recently did an episode all about it: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767379358/episode-943-unicorn..."}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 21465640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465640", "by": "empath75", "time": 1573066091, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1405854146", "hn_item": 21465834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465834", "by": "shannonmaloney5", "time": 1573067052, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21469168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21469168", "by": "rafaelm", "time": 1573086380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a pretty good episode of their podcast about it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/16988..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21472072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472072", "by": "d0mine", "time": 1573123631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> stay away from mainstream Joe Rogan's podcast has millions of subscribers and multiple ads per episode (not counting ads on various cuts/highlights from the episode) \u2014 are there more mainstream podcasts on youtube?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21472887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21472887", "by": "alvah", "time": 1573132794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are over 5 minutes of ads at the start of every Joe Rogan podcast, as well as others throughout. One analyst suggests Rogan has acheived a net worth over $1bn based on the number of downloads & estimated advertising revenue based on those figures: http://www.insideradio.com/podcastnewsdaily/joe-rogan-podcas..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21480564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21480564", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1573198786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's in the same vein as the princess issues but Freakonomics did a solid podcast on this recently too http://freakonomics.com/podcast/princess/"}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 21485072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21485072", "by": "black6", "time": 1573237082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I've always felt like these government agencies... Make no mistake--the Federal Reserve is not a government agency. It is a Central Bank, organized by a consortium of bankers to control the money supply of the United States and, by effect, the world. Episode 201 of the fantastic podcast Congressional Dish[0] really gets into the nuts-and-bolts of what the Federal Reserve is, how it was created, and what it does. 0: https://congressionaldish.com/cd201-wtf-is-the-federal-reser..."}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 21485875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21485875", "by": "pacificmint", "time": 1573241747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR\u2019s Throughline Podcast [1][2] had a whole episode on how the anti littering campaign was created. It\u2019s well worth listening to. [1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757539617/the-litter-myth [2] Transcript: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor..."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 21488151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21488151", "by": "Analemma_", "time": 1573256548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an amusing story on the most recent episode of the Verge's podcast, where they mentioned that when they assigned a reporter to cover this story, the bulk of the time he spent on it was just making sure it wasn't some kind of viral marketing scheme for an upcoming romcom film or something."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21500789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500789", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1573427395, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The testing issue is discussed thoroughly in the podcast interview Dr. Peter Attia did with David Light (Valisure CEO). While your interpretation seems to be that using the different test brings these wild results into question, this discussion seems to conclude that, yes, it's a different test, but no, the results are no less concerning. Take a listen for yourself! https://peterattiamd.com/davidlight/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21500800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500800", "by": "heymijo", "time": 1573427471, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Posted a response to OP, but if you want to hear the pharmacy CEO discuss this testing in depth with Dr. Peter Attia, check out their podcast from a few weeks ago https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/... https://peterattiamd.com/davidlight/"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 21503388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503388", "by": "bensk1", "time": 1573465778, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast has an episode on that study, highlighting the constraints: https://open.spotify.com/episode/67MXt1VL6BoXt0PW5i6pA0?si=G..."}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 21505772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21505772", "by": "nfRfqX5n", "time": 1573487531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "they talked about this on the Masters in Business podcast on Oct 30th. pretty interesting stuff."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 21514525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21514525", "by": "justjash", "time": 1573570389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Rinella also talks to him in an episode of his MeatEater podcast. Its a good listen if you have some time to kill. Episode #179 if anyone is interested."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 21520640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21520640", "by": "thephyber", "time": 1573611793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sounds like a recipe for an aggressively mediocre company. Relevant EconTalk podcast episode[1] about companies with \"loose cultures\" and others with \"tight cultures\". Some people and some industries tend to lean towards a \"loose\" or \"tight\" culture and it's interesting to hear about M&As where one type swallows the other and the inevitable indigestion happens. I'm not sure why you are being downvoted. I read your comment simply as a statement of fact, not a preference for/against that policy. [1] https://www.econtalk.org/michele-gelfand-on-rule-makers-rule..."}, {"show": "918152703", "hn_item": 21524088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21524088", "by": "ilogik", "time": 1573653698, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the Upgrade podcast (from relayfm), the episode that was just released includes an interview with someone from Apple (I think she's the PM for the MBP?) She specifically mentioned vim users as one of the reasons for bringing back the escape key"}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 21525715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525715", "by": "calewis", "time": 1573661467, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listened to a great pod cast about Amazon recently. On it they talk to the CEO of Birkenstock and he discusses about how they no longer sell on amazon and why. Its a great listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/land-of-the-giants/id1..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 21531307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21531307", "by": "h5eath5eahj", "time": 1573690309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hopefully short term includes going on Lex Fridman's podcast"}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 21539046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21539046", "by": "Scoundreller", "time": 1573763121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found \u00ab The Dream \u00bb podcast to be pretty good on the topic. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream"}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 21541042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21541042", "by": "cityzen", "time": 1573776925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great podcast called The Dream about MLMs. I feel sorry for anyone that gets wrapped up in these things."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21554856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21554856", "by": "nscalf", "time": 1573937250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What is tough about this problem is how hard it is to communicate. We all know something is wrong, even if we don't really realize it. Like the article says, we've been promised all of these incredible things by the advancements we've seen, but we have gotten very few fundamental improvements. I live in the US, so I'm going to speak from that point of view. We work more than every, are poorer than any time in recent memory, have a broken healthcare system, we're seeing decreases in life expectancy, epidemic levels of suicide, etc. and all of this at a time when the market is at ridiculous high"}, {"show": "1719979007", "hn_item": 21554903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21554903", "by": "undefined3840", "time": 1573937843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m surprised this article is so upvoted. 1. The author took this nearly word for word from Thiel/Eric Weinstein, who have both discussed this point extensively, most recently on Weinstein\u2019s podcast. 2. The author is using this click bait headline to discuss his own industry/company, and this looks like some content marketing piece."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 21567639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567639", "by": "rhinoceraptor", "time": 1574107503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Earplugs are great, but they can't play the podcast I use to fall asleep (Sleep With Me). Without it, it's hard to quiet the racing thoughts in my mind that keep me up for hours."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21571977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21571977", "by": "philshem", "time": 1574161234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Radiolab podcast talks about the one and maybe only benefit of IQ testing is geographic screening of toxins. For example, lead paints and lead as a fuel additive cause over a large sample a cumulative drop in IQ of 4 points. The statistics actually were the way this negative health effect was discovered in 1979. Testing for lead in the body that has replaced calcium isn't otherwise easy test (requires bone sample, or cleverly, kids' baby teeth). https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-pro..."}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 21573369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21573369", "by": "pico303", "time": 1574175234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can completely relate to what you\u2019re going through. One thing that\u2019s helped me is to realize that management, like development, requires training. Study it like an art. Take some classes, listen to podcasts, find books on the subject. Harvard Business Review is a great resource. Check out the Dear HBR podcast as a jumping off point."}, {"show": "1663611710", "hn_item": 21575490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575490", "by": "nickjj", "time": 1574184108, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21576030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21576030", "by": "toomuchtodo", "time": 1574186599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I assume then that Boeing's corporate culture that ended up killing hundreds of people on the MAX will cause NASA to lean towards SpaceX for launch capabilities in the future? I at least know where Musk stands; one will never be able to be certain if Boeing's internal culture is fixed (back to prioritizing safety over profits). But a little bit of weed on the Joe Rogan podcast, and that's the hill to die on."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21576579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21576579", "by": "CharlesColeman", "time": 1574188969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I assume then that Boeing's corporate culture that ended up killing hundreds of people on the MAX will cause NASA to lean towards SpaceX for launch capabilities in the future? > ... > But a little bit of weed on the Joe Rogan podcast, and that's the hill to die on. The safety reviews were ordered in November 2018 [1]. The 737 MAX groundings started in March 2019 [2]. The 737 MAX fiasco is irrelevant to this series of safety reviews, but as the OP article states, Boeing may be subject to future reviews triggered by its own actions. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/elon-"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 21576700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21576700", "by": "soneca", "time": 1574189469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Econtalk podcast latest episode is about a surgery clinic in Oklahoma that has full price-transparency policy. I am outsider to US healthcare system, but after listening to it, it seems hardly controversial what would be the right thing to do here: https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 21588437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588437", "by": "paulz_", "time": 1574283523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author also did an episode of Indie Hackers [0] which is in my opinion the best episode of that podcast. I wish her and Courtland would do a regular podcast together. [0] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/086-lynne-tye-of-key-va..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21591274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21591274", "by": "josephg", "time": 1574308103, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Its very long, but I enjoyed Thiel on The Portal (Eric Weinstein's podcast) a few months back: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-peter-thiel/id146999... I don't know how this compares to talks he's given, but there were a lot of small ideas in there which I thought were really interesting - like the idea that we're in a period of relative technological stagnation compared to a couple decades ago. And how obvious this observation seems to both Thiel and Weinstein."}, {"show": "1317563648", "hn_item": 21596386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21596386", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1574356016, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">And another solitary tear from the other eye for Google Inbox :,( To be fair, Gmail has been my primary email since early 2009 and I'd never even heard of Inbox until people on Leo Laporte's podcast started whining it was going away."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 21602939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21602939", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1574400299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was covered in popular culture most famously by The Wire, written by retired police beat reporter David Simon, it's called \"juking the stats\", each police district is judged by different crime stats, and promotions are based on those stats, so naturally everything evolves to optimized for better stats. Not only that, on the judicial side in America over the past 50 years, funding has not kept up with the increase in population so there is an extreme pressure on prosecutors to not go to trial, add to this the political nature of the office and American prosecutors are under pressure to kee"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21614896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614896", "by": "kc0bfv", "time": 1574526762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money is a fantastic podcast that covers a huge variety of interesting topics, and only takes about 20 minutes. I highly recommend it as one of the most informative fun podcasts I've ever heard. But here goes... Fries don't stay delicious very long. You get a couple minutes then they're blech . They don't work great out of drive-throughs, where you might take them home before eating, and now we have food delivery services where fries might sit 40 minutes before being eaten! Double blech . This company made a coating for fries that makes them stay fresh for drive through service. That is"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 21615820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21615820", "by": "khrbrt", "time": 1574535953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcom Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast did an episode[0] awhile back on how much better McDonalds fries tasted when they were cooked in beef tallow. Now that the \"fat scare\" of the 90s is over, would this be a good time to switch back? I don't know if frying in tallow improves their longevity, but it may be worth trying instead of yet another chemical additive. [0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my..."}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 21616357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616357", "by": "dr_dshiv", "time": 1574541299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone wants a beautiful obsession that requires only kindle books and internet searches, allow me to suggest Western Esotericism. It's not what you think. Try to reconstruct the role of Pythagoras on modern society-- and then realize that the first attested hypothesis-driven scientific research question still hasn't been answered. Start with \"Western Esotericism: a guide for the perplexed\" or the incredible Shwep.net, the \"secret history of Western Esotericism podcast\"."}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 21617682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617682", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1574557734, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sure I understand that. I hope you do find something that works. Depression is the world's oldest con and it's not fun to suffer. I've found my CPAP helps too. I also have to eat well and balanced as well as not drink too much. The latter was a big thing for me.. drinking made me feel better in the moment and reduced my anxiety considerably in that moment but the next day and the day after would be awful. It took a long time for me to piece together that my lack of sleep, the relatively consistent hangover and the lack of eating properly really had a major impact on my mental mood. I just kind"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21618107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618107", "by": "grappler", "time": 1574565166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I knew I'd heard recently about someone brilliant who had obsessed over bus tickets. Thanks for helping me recall it. A recent episode of Radiolab, dated August 27, 2019, introduced a large audience (including me) to another podcast, The Memory Palace: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/memor... With that strong endorsement I began going through the whole back-catalog of The Memory Palace, and Episode 36, dated January 7, 2011, \u201csix scenes from the life of william james sidis, wonderful boy\u201d, talks about Sidis' obsession with bus tickets. Or maybe more precisely, streetcar "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21618569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618569", "by": "a_c", "time": 1574573224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I appreciate very much for the summary, thank you! For one, I haven't heard about Planet Money before. You summary gave me context what the post is about and I subscribed to the podcast because of your reply. I bet many others would find it useful too. Thanks again!"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 21620801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21620801", "by": "saluki", "time": 1574607759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freelancing does seem to be feast or famine. A lot of it is your network and happening to connect with the right person at the right time to get good projects. For financial freedom in freelancing you need a long run of really good connections and projects. Even then you need to keep that pipeline full/moving. I think the key is finding a way to sell products/training and/or a SaaS or productized service. You're really only going to be free when you aren't depending on a handful of clients for your lively hood. So I would spend 80% of your time on client projects and 20% on your own info produ"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21623435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21623435", "by": "TacoToni", "time": 1574629825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would be interesting if they were both on the Joe Rogan Podcast and had a debate."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 21627510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627510", "by": "spinningslate", "time": 1574685111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He discussed that on the Corecursive podcast episode [0]. > Why not a parser generator IIRC it was about \"minimising magic\" - showing what's actually involved in native code. Bob Nystrom makes the same decision in \"Crafting Interpreters [1]. Quoting [2]: \"Many other language books and language implementations use tools like Lex and Yacc, \u201ccompiler-compilers\u201d to automatically generate some of the source files for an implementation from some higher level description. There are pros and cons to tools like those, and strong opinions\u2014some might say religious convictions\u2014on both sides. We will absta"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 21628609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628609", "by": "neomantra", "time": 1574693880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This week's Go Time podcast featured the author. It was enjoyable (as are all their podcasts). He also has a compiler book that is the sequel. https://changelog.com/gotime/107"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 21628609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21628609", "by": "neomantra", "time": 1574693880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This week's Go Time podcast featured the author. It was enjoyable (as are all their podcasts). He also has a compiler book that is the sequel. https://changelog.com/gotime/107"}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 21635904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21635904", "by": "mch82", "time": 1574747145, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Having read about the beginnings of a lot of open source projects it is common for an initial period of \u201cclosed\u201d small team development. Episode 32 of the Django Chat podcast touches on this topic at 34 minutes in. DHH talks about the benefits of a small group of people working fast to shape a feature before releasing it to the community. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/django-chat/id14515364..."}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 21641163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641163", "by": "lordleft", "time": 1574793086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason, the author of this terminal, has a great podcast about programming with a cohost called Programming Throwdown."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 21643113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21643113", "by": "Myrmornis", "time": 1574805085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I routinely follow one podcast (Software Engineering Daily) and one You Tube channel (3blue1brown). Neither fit your characterisation. Perhaps you should consider being a little more selective in your consumption of YouTube :)"}, {"show": "886009669", "hn_item": 21643137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21643137", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1574805275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They played an excerpt on the \"Reveal\" podcast the other day, so it's probably still around..."}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 21644606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21644606", "by": "sn9", "time": 1574819217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rippetoe's Starting Strength is the best place to learn the barbell movements and will take care of your first 3-6 months of training. From there, you have a wealth of options like his Practical Programming , Wendler's 5/3/1 books, and the Tactical Barbell books for combining strength and endurance training. The Barbell Medicine podcast and strongerbyscience.com are also great. If you find yourself wanting to compete, Juggernaut Training and the Renaissance Training groups are great sources. If you want something portable you can do at home, Pavel's Simple and Sinister is your best bet for ket"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 21644679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21644679", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1574820245, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21661411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661411", "by": "itsmejeff", "time": 1574992535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Freakonomics episode about what\u2019s missing from the standard math curriculum is really good http://freakonomics.com/podcast/math-curriculum/"}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 21664649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664649", "by": "dustingetz", "time": 1575038577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it\u2019s a lot simpler than that. People need growth. Nobody wants a pay cut, you would be really unhappy and leave because it messes up your plans, you can\u2019t make your mortgage payment, etc. The need for growth is universal at all scales and layers. Wealthy or poor, Society to cellular. BTW check out Macro Voices podcast."}, {"show": "1314170606", "hn_item": 21664937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664937", "by": "papito", "time": 1575041670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris Hayes's podcast episode \"The Antisocial Media\" is pretty interesting, in this regard."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 21666417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21666417", "by": "AdamM12", "time": 1575057056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like that you should read \"About Face\" by David Hackworth. I have not read it but I've hear about it via the Jocko Podcast."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 21682549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682549", "by": "FussyZeus", "time": 1575296804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes and no. The first fault is that even the studies done by Purdue prior to release did not indicate anything close to the 1% addiction rate they advertised, it was more like 8-12%. The second, most Oxycontin users who aren't well off eventually move to heroin, because the effects are very similar, and the street price for Oxycontin is much higher. Ironically, where Marijuana was demonized for a nonexistent gateway property in the original war on drugs, Oxycontin was actually demonstrably a gateway drug for heroin. There's a very well researched episode of the podcast \"Behind the Bastards\" ho"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 21683774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21683774", "by": "bogwog", "time": 1575303443, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a podcast called Darknet Diaries with an episode about this program[1], where the host interviews an ex-member. It's all very interesting, but there's one part in particular where he talks about the reunions that some ex-members regularly attend. It raises questions since many of these people are working in important positions at major corporations that compete with each other and compete with Israeli companies and companies founded by other members of their unit. It wouldn't be fair to assume any collusion is going on of course, but considering their past in espionage and the military"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 21687783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21687783", "by": "dillonmckay", "time": 1575325842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a Harvard Business Review podcast that discusses how new doctors train for robotic surgery. https://hbr.org/ideacast/2019/08/how-robots-and-ai-are-chang..."}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 21689493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21689493", "by": "reddotX", "time": 1575341605, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21692499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692499", "by": "cowbird", "time": 1575383507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A year ago, I was on Facebook constantly. At one point, I realized that I could do better things with the time wasted there so I installed News Feed Eradicator (I learned about it in a podcast. I think a Peter Attia podcast, but I could be wrong). Anyway, now Facebook is alien to me. I still have it on my laptop, and if I need to search something of for someone,I can use Facebook. But I don't have access to scrolling. I don't have a wall anymore. lol. I don't have the app on my phone though. I feel super."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 21693122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21693122", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1575387050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "-Wikipedia (I use it very often, I also edit it too, which is a time-donation that everyone should do!) -LLS (Leukemia Lymphoma Society, they have had decent success in supporting some drug candidates, my family member works at LLS so I have some good perspective) -350.org (climate change is a huge threat, 350 is one of a few that is fighting against it) -Sam Harris's podcast (not really a charity but ...AI safety, meditation, rationality, identity politics, religion in society, he covers a lot of interesting topics)."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 21706101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706101", "by": "hiccuphippo", "time": 1575488507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use AntennaPod and can directly search for podcasts there from several sources. I had to search for \"The Program audio series\" to find it, just searching for \"The Program\" brought too much noise."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 21706296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706296", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1575489627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congrats on the launch and positive reception! What have you found helpful in finding an audience for your show? One of the big challenges of a podcast is that it's relatively high friction to get new listeners, especially for a deep, complex show like The Program. I'm curious how you get momentum behind it and convince new listeners to check it out."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 21706815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706815", "by": "goldcd", "time": 1575492841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came here to judge - but if there's no way of paying for the adverts to go away (stitcher? maybe spotify (I pay, but don't use it for podcasts)) I have sympathy. Skeptoid did offer a nice/hacky/old-school solution likely to work with your favourite player - subscribe manually with ~ : @ podcasts.xml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:// : @ podcasts... Providing your player lets you put in a URL - it \"works\" and doesn't require you switching your client. I do wish there was a slightly more formalized process letting you provide credentials to your app and it sorting this all out for you - but then I'm rel"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 21706924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21706924", "by": "the_snooze", "time": 1575493337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ditto. Podccast ads are pretty much ideal: non-tracking, generally non-intrusive, relevant to the audience, and in some cases quite entertaining (see: Reply All). Podcasters need to be able to keep the lights on, and the ads they run are about as consumer-friendly as they get."}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 21711948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21711948", "by": "reddotX", "time": 1575551187, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1325942361", "hn_item": 21713319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713319", "by": "Juha", "time": 1575561300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently I have been relying on two good sources for leadership: - Book: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: I think this is an excellent book to teach the part of the brain that wants to execute to think more strategically and concentrate on the leadership side. - Podcast: Modern CTO: This podcast has lots of interviews CTO's from all kinds of companies. It's pretty casual and entertaining but also seems to always motivate me to be a better leader."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 21713742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21713742", "by": "0003", "time": 1575564192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You listen to Jocko podcast by any chance?"}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 21721587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721587", "by": "runnr_az", "time": 1575639091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really interesting discussion of this on the Cracked Podcast: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-11-nations-of-america.. ."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 21726699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21726699", "by": "celias", "time": 1575671761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about the Cannonball Run in 2009 https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/cannon-ball-run-..."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 21728363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728363", "by": "hombre_fatal", "time": 1575691064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nothing is useless when learning a language. Any consistent exposure is useful. To get any good at a language, you need more than one magic bullet, anyways. I don't really understand these posts from people who have allegedly learned a language yet lambast Duolingo for not making them fluent. There is literally no magic bullet for fluency. You need to be running the whole gamut (books, shows, interaction, podcast, whatever) every day to get good. So it's hard for me to take the critique seriously. \"Duolingo won't make you fluent\" sounds like the critique of a beginner who is just now, after a "}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 21729192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729192", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1575707944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duolingo got me up to about B1 German; I\u2019ve been continuing with it (for practice), Clozemaster (for vocabulary and a much broader range of example sentences), and German language news podcasts specifically aimed at language learners (to get a broader range of voices with easy content). I\u2019m also using Duolingo for Esperanto and Greek, and I don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s teaching me either of those languages to the same standard it taught me German. Nevertheless, it\u2019s good enough for me to subscribe."}, {"show": "282930329", "hn_item": 21729326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729326", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1575711252, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sure: News: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... Interviews with videos: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/video-thema-deutsch-le... More general German language learning podcasts: * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/slow-german/id10858281..."}, {"show": "322542709", "hn_item": 21729326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729326", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1575711252, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sure: News: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... Interviews with videos: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/video-thema-deutsch-le... More general German language learning podcasts: * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/slow-german/id10858281..."}, {"show": "595399272", "hn_item": 21729326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729326", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1575711252, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sure: News: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... Interviews with videos: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/video-thema-deutsch-le... More general German language learning podcasts: * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/slow-german/id10858281..."}, {"show": "1085828103", "hn_item": 21729326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729326", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1575711252, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sure: News: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... Interviews with videos: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/video-thema-deutsch-le... More general German language learning podcasts: * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... * https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/slow-german/id10858281..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21733800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21733800", "by": "mathgenius", "time": 1575768040, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1403202032", "hn_item": 21735716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735716", "by": "chris123", "time": 1575810692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fed and bank bailouts are transferring wealth to the wealthy from everyone else. Fiat makes it all possible. It's not hard money. We must get back in a hard money system. Read or listen to \"The Bitcoin Standard.\" Can also find author and podcasts on YouTube."}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 21736061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21736061", "by": "elliotpage", "time": 1575815881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Far Cry 2 is in some ways an anti-precursor to many systems that are now standard in games of its type (especially its sequels, which go in a much safer homogeneous direction). In particular, its systems are realistic and exact to a fault in a way that often feels antagonistic to the player. While this is a pain in the butt it also makes the game fascinating to play - you are an interloper in the space it provides and are not welcome. For example: * Checkpoints respawn full of enemies and you never manage to fully exert control or supremacy on the world. * In world map that you have to look at"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21739444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739444", "by": "nhylated", "time": 1575850315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an interesting Radiolab episode on this. Highly recommended https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fu-go"}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 21739518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739518", "by": "istjohn", "time": 1575851318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like David Burns, let me recommend his Feeling Good Podcast . One of the most impactful episodes is one where he works with a woman dying of cancer. You can hear him apply his techniques to a seemingly hopeless situation in real life. It was eye-opening for me, even having read Feeling Good ."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21742947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742947", "by": "tvanantwerp", "time": 1575902086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I greatly enjoy Peter Attia's podcast, especially as someone with no medical background. It's really helped me to learn a lot about the human body and how it functions in a way that's actionable for improving health."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 21743635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21743635", "by": "Chirael", "time": 1575906805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a decent podcast on this about a month back, on Bloomberg \"Odd Lots\": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/this-is-w..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 21746206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21746206", "by": "wenc", "time": 1575923592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard this on Lex Fridman's podcast with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on \"storytelling\" Lex Fridman: Microsoft has 50-60 thousand engineers. What does it take to lead such a large group of brilliant people? Kevin Scott: ...(snipped)... One central idea in Yuval Harari\u2019s book Sapiens is that \u201cstorytelling\u201d is the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people once you get past Dunbar\u2019s number. I\u2019ve really seen that, just managing engineering teams. You can brute-force things with small teams, but past that things start to fail catastrophically if you don\u2019t have so"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21747655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21747655", "by": "isaacdl", "time": 1575932831, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 21749125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749125", "by": "eprparadox", "time": 1575945646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Max Tegmark was on the Sean Carroll podcast recently, talking about the different types of multiverse we could postulate may exist[0]. I found the quanta article fascinating, and I don't believe it's strictly speaking 'circular'. It can also be the case that multiple solutions exist mapping the relationships between a given set of fundamental laws. Prof. Tegmark discusses this in the '4th level' of multiverse which examines whether it's right to talk about a multiverse of all possible mathematically consistent universes. [0]: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/12/02/75-m..."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 21750595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21750595", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1575965150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Charles Bryce Perrow was an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University with appointments at Stanford and Princeton. He was author of numerous books, many concerning risk of complex technical systems and organisations, including Normal Accidents (1984), Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (1972), The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2011), The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990), Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of American Capitalism (2002), among others. https:"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 21756312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756312", "by": "bobbyd3", "time": 1576008443, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for Darknet Diaries. Very entertaining and informative podcast!"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21759401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21759401", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1576036073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some universities have started doing income share agreements. They front the tuition cost for a portion of your future income. Depending on your degree program, they will take X percentage for Y years. Purdue was in the news for being one of the first: https://www.purdue.edu/dfa/types-of-aid/income-share-agreeme... Planet Money had a nice podcast about how they work: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/29/708152566/epis..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 21761505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21761505", "by": "3dprintscanner", "time": 1576063655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 99% Invisible podcast ran a good episode on this subject, and particularly the effects of sand theft. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/"}, {"show": "1490714950", "hn_item": 21773006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773006", "by": "jspencer508", "time": 1576166721, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21785496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21785496", "by": "FillardMillmore", "time": 1576271349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What would you define as a serious contender? I'm not a Yang supporter but very early on, he loaded up most of his many policy positions on his website and he has been making the rounds in terms of media exposure e.g. the debates, the Joe Rogan podcast, etc. He's polling at 5th or 6th nationally the last time I checked. Trump was a Democrat for a lengthy period of time and the Republicans still nominated him. I think Bloomberg is betting that the party and its supporters will not build a coalition around a more left-leaning candidate (Sanders, Warren) and they desire a candidate who, at least "}, {"show": "498373813", "hn_item": 21790236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21790236", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1576340381, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Opinions differ on CLAs. There are certainly arguments for them as laid out in that article. There are also arguments against them in many cases, including that they create friction for new contributors. \"Oh, I have to sign this agreement which means talking to my company's legal staff? I think I'll just pass.\" The parent is also probably right that GPL with no CLA makes it much harder to change a project's license. This actually came up when GPL v3 was released. As it turned out, Linux apparently didn't want to change Linux from a v2 to a v3 license. But there were also legal questions about "}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 21795836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21795836", "by": "__coaxialcabal", "time": 1576411531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Barry Ritholtz has a great business and finance podcast called \u201cMasters in Business\u201d and frequently discusses favorite books and book recommendations in context of the dialogue. \u201cMiB was originally conceived by its creator, Barry Ritholtz, as a deep dive into the minds of the most influential, savvy and successful people in the world of business & finance. The podcast explores how these folks became the professionals they are today: Who their mentors and influences were, what their personal work history is like, what books they read, even what their daily routines and thought processes are lik"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21801633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21801633", "by": "Consultant32452", "time": 1576485311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in this topic might find a search for the phrase 'preference falsification' interesting. For a great resource in book form, I highly recommend \"Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification\" by Timur Kuran. He was recently in The Portal podcast for an even shorter intro."}, {"show": "1353401393", "hn_item": 21802198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802198", "by": "DyslexicAtheist", "time": 1576493528, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 21803114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803114", "by": "jlavine", "time": 1576505834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason Fung explains his theory of type 2 diabetes / metabolic disorder, and how it is addressed by fasting, in detail in episode #59 of Peter Attia's \"The Drive\" podcast [1]. The review of Fung's \"The Obesity Code\" on Red Pen Reviews [2] details some serious flaws in the scientific claims in the book related to calories, insulin, and fasting, and their relation to obesity and fat loss. Relating to nutrition/health/longevity, they aren't books, but I've found the podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, and even tweets by Rhonda Patrick (FoundMyFitness), Peter Attia (The Drive), Stephan Guyenet, and Ch"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 21803114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803114", "by": "jlavine", "time": 1576505834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason Fung explains his theory of type 2 diabetes / metabolic disorder, and how it is addressed by fasting, in detail in episode #59 of Peter Attia's \"The Drive\" podcast [1]. The review of Fung's \"The Obesity Code\" on Red Pen Reviews [2] details some serious flaws in the scientific claims in the book related to calories, insulin, and fasting, and their relation to obesity and fat loss. Relating to nutrition/health/longevity, they aren't books, but I've found the podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, and even tweets by Rhonda Patrick (FoundMyFitness), Peter Attia (The Drive), Stephan Guyenet, and Ch"}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 21803315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803315", "by": "specialist", "time": 1576507443, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had many surgeries. I've been asking my anesthesiologists how many IQ points I'm losing every time I get general. Shrugs. Then I ask 1 point? 2 points? More? Ya, maybe. -- Also, there's another subthread about falling, hip surgeries, etc. My current understanding is that maintaining lean muscle mass and balance are crucial to preventing future falls. To keep this short: I now believe everyone 40+ should get regular physical therapy assessments and tuneups. Then do all those core strengthening and balance exercises. (I was actively running, jogging, lifting, and pretty trim. I was shocked "}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 21806122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21806122", "by": "abathur", "time": 1576524087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not really posting to refute. Just a few scattered thoughts, I guess. Anywhere you have trust, there's a potential for abuse. A seemingly natural response to abuse of trust is to find a lapse in the victim's vigilance and start strapping on your own armor. I listened to a podcast this fall (sorry, I don't recall for certain--my best guess is that it was peter pomerantsev on Ezra Klein's podcast) where the guest suggests that some institutions/relations (like markets) depend on trust to produce value and may be undermined or degraded if enough participants take an individualist caveat empto"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21815243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815243", "by": "miguelmota", "time": 1576600503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money has a good podcast on how the US government started stockpiling helium https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751845378/episode-933-find-th..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 21815772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815772", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1576602931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 99% Invisible podcast did an interesting episode[1] on an even smaller rule change with large ramifications: the back-pass rule. The goalkeeper can no longer hold the ball if it was passed by a teammate. That meant that they had to learn stronger footwork and ended the time-wasting that they could do once their team was ahead. It keeps the game moving and forces everybody to do without the breaks that back-passes used to create regularly. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unsure-footing/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 21817649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21817649", "by": "baldgeek", "time": 1576610915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in a bunch of ethical commentary regarding self-drving. Radiolab did a very interesting episode awhile ago: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/drive..."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 21823355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823355", "by": "kmnns", "time": 1576662830, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1405854146", "hn_item": 21823920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823920", "by": "shannonmaloney5", "time": 1576669404, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 21828578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828578", "by": "snarf21", "time": 1576698451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everyone should go listen to Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. They have lots of recent episodes that dive into repo markets very clearly. tl;dr Banks have money in the Fed that they normally loan each other over night. This is mostly money they are keeping in reserve. At quarterly period ends, taxes and other payments are due so the big banks can't provide the same amount of repo loans so the Fed steps in to do the lending instead. Non story, click bait."}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 21836636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21836636", "by": "kibwen", "time": 1576774472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually interviewed the author in August for our Rust podcast, on which he says he's waiting for async to mature before progressing further: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/001-ruma/"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 21839696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21839696", "by": "calebmontiveros", "time": 1576792297, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21840936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840936", "by": "Joe-Z", "time": 1576804083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">'who cares nerd, get back to your work' That's pretty much it. The first time I really understood Snowden was when he was on the Joe Rogan podcast (think of JRE what you will...). It really drove home the point of the profanity* of evil. Just people going about their daily business, not thinking too much about it. *this doesn't seem to be the correct word here. If you're a native english speaker please tell me what's the right phrase to use here"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21846898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846898", "by": "MuffinFlavored", "time": 1576871676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> eat vegetables It was recently said on an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast (with Pavel Tsatsouline in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4qVbVJhZaY at 7:18) that fruit + vegetables don't do as many positive things for us as previously thought."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 21847548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847548", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1576877593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Split controls, in this case, of the rudder, played a major role in an earlier landmark shipping accident, the 1967 wreck of the Torrey Canyon , the first of the modern age of major supertanker oil spills. Tim Harford covers this in his new podcast series, \"Cautionary Tales\", episod \"DANGER: Rocks Ahead!\": https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD1539409189.mp3?updated=15738... . As described in the episode, there were a number of contributing factors: tight schedule, miscommunications and assumptions between captain and helm, changes of watch, sleep, limited visibility, and the unexpected presence of "}, {"show": "1714799476", "hn_item": 21850361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850361", "by": "Pandabob", "time": 1576917543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indie hackers is definitely great for this kind of content. I'd also recommend \"Startups for the rest of us\" [1], \"The art of product\" [2], Patrick Mckenzies blog [3] and Stripe Atlas guides [4]. The first three resources all pretty much describe how to bootstrap SaaS-companies, while the Atlas guides are more general guides for businesses. Finally there's an excellent episode on Reid Hoffman's podcast \"Master's of Scale\" interviewing the founder of Mailchimp [5]. [1]: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ [2]: https://artofproductpodcast.com/ [3]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/ [4]: https://str"}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 21851699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851699", "by": "brigandish", "time": 1576943321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kudos for the effort. Unfortunately, category error is littered throughout. > The problem domain for Jesus teachings is ethical action and how to encourage it. If it did have a problem domain it would be how to get into Heaven and not into Hell. Ethical action would be the way in which that is achieved. It does not, however, have a problem domain because without Christianity there is no problem to be solved. It is not a framework and is not expounded as a framework (this is an incredibly important point). > It has been applied to each of the forms of Christianity The different forms of Christi"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 21854657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21854657", "by": "stoicShell", "time": 1576980256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a personal level, I have the same problems with using Python. I've become enamored with package management in Go \u2014 not perfect yet but efficient, simple, to the point. The backwards compatibility enforced at the version level is also great \u2014 you often find Go code years old that keeps running just fine. I like things that you set up once and may just forget, that's where real productivity is found imho \u2014 it doesn't matter that I can do X in 1h if I have to do it every other day, I'd rather spend a full week or even ten, and solve it forever. I think Js is comparably simple but I've heard so"}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 21857064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21857064", "by": "sbolt", "time": 1577022335, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21858802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858802", "by": "thdrdt", "time": 1577039931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a Joe Rogan podcast with David Fravor, a pilot who also saw it. I believe he explains it's all visual locking but there are a lot if different camera types. https://youtu.be/Eco2s3-0zsQ"}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 21859179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859179", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1577043820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast had him too. It was great to listen to - https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/035-ufos/"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 21861129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21861129", "by": "SquishyPanda23", "time": 1577068934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One podcast I've found to be interesting from the perspective of studying creativity is WTF with Marc Maron. Especially among great comedians, the process described in the article is essentially the process many people interviewed by Marc have followed."}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 21865670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865670", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1577124954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think the article successfully argues against Thiel's criticism. Clearly there is an opportunity cost to putting highly trained individuals to work on some issue vs another. If you look for example at the number of PhD physicists in finance it seems obvious to me that if these people were working on biotech or materials or infrastructure or process optimisation there would at least be some more progress than there currently is. Digital tech giants barely interact with other sectors of the economy in meaningful ways, the lack of economic or productivity growth after the computer era is "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "1480598793", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "355187485", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "1256754097", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "1480311435", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "987331915", "hn_item": 21866395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866395", "by": "halfbrown", "time": 1577128891, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been listening to a lot of entertainment/comedy podcasts in 2019. I don't know if they're the \"Best of 2019\" but they're some of my faves. The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experien... Love him or hate him, Joe consistently gets some fascinating guests on his podcast, and he isn't afraid of getting into some deep topics with some of most brilliant minds out there. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend (Conan O'Brien) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conan-obrien-needs-a-f... I'm a recent convert to this podcast, but I've had a lot of fun "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 21866829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21866829", "by": "PascLeRasc", "time": 1577131512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like the whole point of the skit was to highlight that it's dangerous to plug in unknown USB drives. Reply All's entire podcast is about interesting tech phenomenons. Techcrunch is missing the point on purpose to make themselves look smarter."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 21868283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868283", "by": "dave84", "time": 1577142300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The larger incident is the subject of the season 2 of the Serial Podcast."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 21876881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21876881", "by": "zxcvgm", "time": 1577249415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Amp Hour podcast had Chuck Peddle as a guest a few years back. Definitely worth listening to. https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21879107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21879107", "by": "specialist", "time": 1577290957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Investigative journalism is not the norm, less so over time. Taibbi talked about this (again) on Rogan's podcast. Explained (paraphrasing here) that he probably wouldn't have been able to break those stories today. It's just that much harder to get someone to pay for the effort. -- On the flipside, I'm very encouraged by podcasters experimenting with long form. 99% Invisible had a brief recap (of the how) of their reporting on homelessness in Oakland. A reporter wanted to really dive into the story. Build relationships with people and follow them around. For months and maybe years. That takes "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 21879107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21879107", "by": "specialist", "time": 1577290957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Investigative journalism is not the norm, less so over time. Taibbi talked about this (again) on Rogan's podcast. Explained (paraphrasing here) that he probably wouldn't have been able to break those stories today. It's just that much harder to get someone to pay for the effort. -- On the flipside, I'm very encouraged by podcasters experimenting with long form. 99% Invisible had a brief recap (of the how) of their reporting on homelessness in Oakland. A reporter wanted to really dive into the story. Build relationships with people and follow them around. For months and maybe years. That takes "}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 21880481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880481", "by": "olvy0", "time": 1577308193, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 21883638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883638", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1577367142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Big fan of Rob and his work, for those unfamiliar with him he's one of the founders of MicroConf, half of the \"Startups for the Rest of Us\" podcast and built and then sold Drip (an Email Service). Whether or not you're seeking to build your own microsaas or you're going full VC funding I feel pretty strongly that you'll see the time spent reading his book as worthwhile. Here's a direct link to it (it's not gated on his site, so this seems fine to share) https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 21889803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21889803", "by": "telesilla", "time": 1577432266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the link - it opens up more questions after I listened a while back to the Serial podcast about Bergdahl's desertion that lead to the author's injuries. https://serialpodcast.org/season-two"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 21892296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892296", "by": "pbourke", "time": 1577464862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scripting is different, though, because there is often little or no ability or desire to use a 3rd party library from a script. When\u2019s the last time that you installed a bash package? (that was not distributed as a second-order effect of installing something via apt or yum or what have you). Python plays in this space - perhaps with just Perl and to a lesser degree Ruby similarly situated. Python has to work productively for people who have never heard of pip through to those who are building multi targeted native modules as part of a complex application build. Michael Kennedy of the Talk Pyth"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21892623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892623", "by": "tsjq", "time": 1577467435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent podcast episode on a related event : \"Episode 925: A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle : Planet Money : NPR\" https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-b..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 21893169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893169", "by": "jl2718", "time": 1577471261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the latest Peter Attia podcast. Short answer for weight loss is to stay in zone 2, eat small amounts of carbs only during zone 2+ exercise, only enough for non-insulin-dependent GLUT4 transport. You can roughly double your fatty acid metabolism in a few months like this."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 21898628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21898628", "by": "_0ffh", "time": 1577537643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case you're interested, here's an interview with Chuck on the Amp Hour podcast (2015). https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch..."}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 21901703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21901703", "by": "Nikaoto", "time": 1577567028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Art of Manliness podcast had a great episode about this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-547-achievin... Made me think harder about the specific things I enjoy about programming. The book Dark Horse expands on the topic."}, {"show": "1268047665", "hn_item": 21909007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21909007", "by": "pell", "time": 1577658277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy this episode of the podcast \"Rough Translation\"about a McDonald's in France: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771319514/rough-translation-l..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21914015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21914015", "by": "stef25", "time": 1577720469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard Sam Harris mention once that every Joe Rogan podcast has the same audience size as the Game of Thrones final. Too lazy to look up the numbers but it's very impressive if true. I like his podcasts a lot, he's a great guy and deserves it all. He did mention once that he made \"fuck you money\" in his Fear Factor days. His income from that and his stand up tours probably contribute massively to his total net worth."}, {"show": "1267161825", "hn_item": 21917951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21917951", "by": "dhsysusbsjsi", "time": 1577751907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Sundell is awesome. Other stuff he\u2019s done: Plot: Write type safe HTML/RSS/XML in Swift https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot Ink: Converts markdown to HTML https://github.com/JohnSundell/Ink Swift by Sundell blog https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Podcast https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast I really love these lightweight, JavaScript free websites he\u2019s helping create in Swift. It\u2019s such a better experience loading and reading than other blogs - the inlined sponsor/ads even look nice and don\u2019t feel overwhelming or annoying (I usually read them!)."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 21935762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935762", "by": "Waterluvian", "time": 1577976670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Stuff You Should Know podcast episode on Interpol. As you point out, they're not a police force. They're an international organization designed to help connect police forces together. They know who to call and have translation services, etc. A more apt description is that Interpol issued a notice stating that Japan wants this guy."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 21939049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21939049", "by": "robertk", "time": 1577994692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Citadel | Data Engineer | Chicago; New York; London; San Francisco; Hong Kong | ONSITE and VISA | Full Time Citadel is one of the world's leading multi-strategy hedge funds with over $30B in AUM. The data engineering teams specialize in converting publicly available and alternative data sets into data products that are used by teams across the firm to formulate investment hypotheses and drive trading decisions. Our collective team of 40+ data engineers builds data platforms on top of Snowflake, Airflow, Jupyter, Kafka, Nomad and Kubernetes. We use Python, distributed SQL dialects and C++ to ma"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 21940179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21940179", "by": "mothsonasloth", "time": 1578001298, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm gonna sound really cliched but I have become really fascinated with Psychedelics thanks to the Joe Rogan podcast. I wouldn't say I am depressed but as someone who doesn't drink, smoke, drugs or take caffeine. I really want to try them. The fact that mushrooms have been used by shamans all around the world since neolithic times, is truly fascinating. I hope to try them at some point although at the moment I have been trying Sensory Deprivation Tanks and it really has reset my mind and emotions."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 21942296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21942296", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1578016717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Demographics does not become not destiny for Western Leftist parties. continued failure of elites to win electorally, and an aging, white, and geographically distributed coalition, that votes reliably, wins most of the time. Immigration has slowed in the US and will continue to slow in other countries. This makes Trump more likely than not to win 2020 Further reading on this POV: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/16/the_go... See also the work of David Runciman from Talking Politics podcast (who makes this argument quite well in a series of lectures) * Society makes progress"}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 21943441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943441", "by": "rasz", "time": 1578028702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are correct, they werent bundled with every VIC-20 nor C64/C128 right in the same box. Its hard to get any sales numbers for Commodore branded storage, I found claims of couple million floppy drives shipped up to ~1986 (Compute-Gazette-Issue-32-01 Feb 7, 1986). But third party tape decks/floppy drives must of been a drop in the ocean considering Commodore was a billion dollar company by 1984. Its a widely known secret they were making bulk of profits on peripherals (The Retro Hour podcast EP202-1980s Home Computer Wars. Interview with Michael Tomczyk, Jack Tramiels right hand man). Realist"}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 21944714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944714", "by": "flyingkiwi44", "time": 1578047031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts - Fun science and critical thinking podcast. Has been around for over 10 years. Worth it just for the Science or Fiction game each week. Escape Pod - http://escapepod.org/category/podcasts/ - Weekly science fiction podcast magazine. The quality and variety of the stories is amazing. I have found lots of new authors via the stories from this podcast. (Also has Pseudopod for horror fiction, PodCastle for fantasy, and Cast of Wonders for YA fiction) The Infinite Monkey Cage - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 21953531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21953531", "by": "Fezzik", "time": 1578123670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is tangential, but I\u2019ll take this opportunity to plug one of the best* podcasts ever: The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. If you want thought provoking summaries of philosophical thought, spanning the history of philosophy, this podcast is for you. I have no affiliation with it, I just enjoy it: https://historyofphilosophy.net/ * subjectively, from a person with a BA in Philosophy and a JD, FWIW."}, {"show": "1116303051", "hn_item": 21956517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21956517", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1578163006, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This came up recently in a podcast I listen to. One point was that people start off open-minded, but if you receive only confirmatory feedback, then you not only gain a belief, but switch mode to become less curious \u2014 Without curiosity, evidence that should persuade you no longer does. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/twiml-ai-podcast-forme..."}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 21956526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21956526", "by": "mikesabat", "time": 1578163088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm in the same situation although probably older than OP, so I've read more than 50 books throughout my life. The question of whether reading books is worth it is something that I'm also struggling with. Not only do I not retain information the same way when I'm reading a book, but reading paper makes me tired and so I get through 2-3 pages a night before falling asleep. A few years ago I observed myself hearing an interesting author on a podcast. I downloaded the audio book and loved it (Chris Voss, and the book is never split the difference) so I subsequently found every podcast the author "}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 21957056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21957056", "by": "ethbro", "time": 1578167866, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The How I Built This podcast on Southwest [0] with Kelleher (since deceased) is an amazing episode. Both for trivia and giving context to what it takes to be successful behind the scenes. Kelleher (a lawyer by training) ran a private practice while litigating a 3-year lawsuit against airline incumbents at the time... before Southwest flew its first flight in Texas. And when asked \"Why?\" As in, why didn't you stop, return to law, or do something easier, he basically said \"Because it didn't seem fair. Or right. That they could keep us from flying.\" I'm sure he had his fair share of sharp busines"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 21966845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21966845", "by": "rsiqueira", "time": 1578290086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the conversation between Lex Fridman (MIT) and Donald Knuth, the legendary computer scientist & mathematician. Lex Fridman's podcast is my favorite and it's about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He says: \"To me AI is bigger than computing, it is our civilization's journey into understanding the human mind and creating echoes of it in the machine.\"."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 21968314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968314", "by": "MattRix", "time": 1578310157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found Lex's podcast a few months ago after hearing his George Hotz interview. It's now become my favourite podcast. I really like the mix of technical and philosophical questions, often about the future of humanity."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 21969933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21969933", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1578325373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2017 Freakonomics podcast about the American obsession with lawns: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-stupid-obsession-lawns/ I've been replacing grass with mulched gardens consisting of perennials such as russian sage, black-eyed susans, catmint, various bushes.."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 21972466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21972466", "by": "jobu", "time": 1578340055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money Podcast did a fantastic 3-part series on Antitrust in America: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/20/704426033/anti... Here's an excerpt that starts to answer your question: > The 1970s was a turning point in the other direction. In the decades leading up to the '70s, the government had grown increasingly aggressive\u2014intervening in the free market to defend competition in more and more ways over time. Then a lawyer named Robert Bork completely transformed the way courts would interpret antitrust law. The approach to enforcement reversed direction away from protecting "}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 21992306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992306", "by": "slowhand09", "time": 1578497936, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 21992344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992344", "by": "elliekelly", "time": 1578498138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily podcast (NYTimes) did an episode last week called \u201cBoeing\u2019s Broken Dreams\u201d where they interviewed a former Boeing safety manager turned whistleblower. Definitely sounds like there was a major cultural shift over the past decade or so."}, {"show": "1472895373", "hn_item": 21993041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993041", "by": "DannyDover", "time": 1578501853, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The podcast, Steal This Idea, does exactly what you are looking for. The hosts and their guests come up with most of the ideas, but listeners can submit ideas as well: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472..."}, {"show": "1472895373", "hn_item": 21993463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21993463", "by": "scotttheamazing", "time": 1578503838, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "We have a podcast that covers these kinds of ideas! Basically every week we give out million dollar business ideas and encourage people to steal them! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22011202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22011202", "by": "polytely", "time": 1578667253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While true, Snowden position as administrator placed him outside the usual compartmentalization (because he worked on connecting separate parts of the infrastructure)[0], and placed him in a unique position to realize what was happening and to exfiltrate the proof. I suspect most of the other people who knew the whole picture, were a lot higher up the food chain. [0]: see his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast (it's really long and rambly but there are some fun nuggets in there) Snowdens book might be a better source but I haven't read it yet."}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 22017351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22017351", "by": "leggomylibro", "time": 1578705709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think this is the sort of thing that philosophy is good for. If you want to talk about questions like, \"what is truth?\" or, \"what counts as real?\", philosophers are the people you want to ask. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a succinct consensus quite yet. Speaking of, I recently started listening to the Philosophize This podcast, which attempts to give basic overviews of some major philosophers and schools of thought in a generally chronological order. I'm really enjoying it so far, and while it's probably easier to download and organize them with itunes or an app, the episodes are he"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 22018939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22018939", "by": "mswehli", "time": 1578732428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not exactly newsletters, but there are 2 interesting podcasts from The Indie Hackers Podcast, one with John O'Nolan and one with Louis Nicholls and it seems like they suggest the best ways of getting people interested in your paid content is just by answering a lot of questions for free on forums like Quora, Reddit, etc. Worth listening to i think anyway, the John O'Nolan one had a couple of good examples of paid content websites that have done well."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22023837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22023837", "by": "jnordwick", "time": 1578793172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I tried too. I was just listening to in Friday on the Planet Money podcast on Spotify. It was definitely their voices too, not All Things Considered or anything, and it had Dr. Feinberg's voice too. (lol, that comment is back down to -1 again. Apparently you cannot say anything bad about astrology on HN either.)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22025374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025374", "by": "mindcrime", "time": 1578821662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No. Maybe an \"AI Fall\", but I doubt there will ever be another true \"AI Winter\". The AI we have today is too good, and creates too much value... at this point, there is no longer any question as to whether or not there is value in continuing to research and invest in AI. What will happen, almost without doubt, is that particular niches within the overall rubric of \"AI\" will go in and out of vogue, and investment in particular segments will fluctuate. For example, the steam will run out of the \"deep learning revolution\" at some point, as people realize that DL alone is not enough to make the le"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 22026365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22026365", "by": "mercer", "time": 1578838915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found it at times a bit too pop-ey, and once I realized the voice was a bit too much like Peter from Family Guy I stopped listening entirely. That said, I'd recommend it. Many of my friends loved it. Another somewhat more in-depth but possibly slightly more boring podcast is \"A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\". There's at least one spin-off on African Philosophy. I really enjoyed the almost-boring slow-paced nature of its approach."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 22027644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027644", "by": "jjjensen90", "time": 1578850859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Matthew Walker, PhD on sleep - part I and II on The Peter Attia Drive podcast. It was really a wake up call for sleep hygeine, and prompted me to get a sleep study, which has changed my life after getting a sleep device."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 22027654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027654", "by": "ljm", "time": 1578850916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This might be pretty unconventional, but I have two favourites. One is called 'The Exploring Series', and is essentially a podcast researching and summarising mythical stories, DnD lore, SCP lore, Lovecraft lore, etc. The other is Sleep With Me, which is just incessant rambling about a story or an episode of a TV show. I don't listen to the for the content. I listen to them because they help me sleep better in the winter, when I can't open the window to hear the ambient noise outside without making myself ill. I can't sleep in pure silence, it's too quiet. Both podcast authors have very warm a"}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 22027715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027715", "by": "rahuldottech", "time": 1578851350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Basically all of The Anthropocene Reviewed: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed Beautiful essays by John Green. I only started listening at the end of December. -- I've also been checking out the Political Philosophy Podcast, and I've liked what I've heard till now: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ -- Again, I can't choose specific episodes, but Heavyweight is pretty amazing too: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight"}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 22027769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027769", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1578851748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast - 1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird The Seen and The Unseen - 1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370 Lapham's Quarterly - 1) William Dairymple The Joe Rogan Experience - 1). Edward Snoweden NPR Throughline - 1) The Dark Side Of The Moon Podcast series - 1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast"}, {"show": "1556916238", "hn_item": 22027769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027769", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1578851748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast - 1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird The Seen and The Unseen - 1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370 Lapham's Quarterly - 1) William Dairymple The Joe Rogan Experience - 1). Edward Snoweden NPR Throughline - 1) The Dark Side Of The Moon Podcast series - 1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22027769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027769", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1578851748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast - 1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird The Seen and The Unseen - 1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370 Lapham's Quarterly - 1) William Dairymple The Joe Rogan Experience - 1). Edward Snoweden NPR Throughline - 1) The Dark Side Of The Moon Podcast series - 1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast"}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 22027769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027769", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1578851748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast - 1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird The Seen and The Unseen - 1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370 Lapham's Quarterly - 1) William Dairymple The Joe Rogan Experience - 1). Edward Snoweden NPR Throughline - 1) The Dark Side Of The Moon Podcast series - 1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast"}, {"show": "1459712981", "hn_item": 22027769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027769", "by": "krtkush", "time": 1578851748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fighter Pilot Podcast - 1) B-52 Stratofortress 2) Mig-29 Fulcrum 3) SR-71 Blackbird The Seen and The Unseen - 1) Our Colorful Past 2) The 2019 Elections 3) The India-Pakistan Conflict 4) Kashmir and Article 370 Lapham's Quarterly - 1) William Dairymple The Joe Rogan Experience - 1). Edward Snoweden NPR Throughline - 1) The Dark Side Of The Moon Podcast series - 1) 13 Minutes To The Moon 2) The Chernobyl Podcast"}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 22027790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027790", "by": "tw1010", "time": 1578851914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can't think of a specific episode, but all the controversial ideas discussed in the Red Scare podcast have really twisted around my brain (and put words to things I thought only I were alone in observing) recently."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 22028048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028048", "by": "alamortsubite", "time": 1578853741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Other podcasts come and fall by the wayside, but I'll always look forward to the next episode of In Our Time ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot ). I'm excited to try others listed here that are new to me, though."}, {"show": "1240056193", "hn_item": 22028109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028109", "by": "geden", "time": 1578854141, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The episode of Michael Taft's excellent 'Deconstructing Yourself' podcast featuring Douglas Tataryn was definitely a 2019 highlight. Excellent exploration of the intersection of psychotherapy and meditation. With bonus Circling practise and Integral theory talk thrown in. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/meditation-emotions-bi..."}, {"show": "1701619982", "hn_item": 22028201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028201", "by": "janee", "time": 1578854746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Impactful for me in terms of making my daily 1h commute actually enjoyable...a bunch of funny, crazy, sad, happy stories about drugs, homelessness, prison and lots more called \"It's All Bad\" https://www.instagram.com/itisallbad/?hl=en Came across it on a Marc Maron WTF episode..which is also great (WTF podcast)"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 22028270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028270", "by": "flother", "time": 1578855179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know what you mean, but I think it\u2019s more down to the fact that it\u2019s broadcast live on BBC radio, and they have 45 minutes to cover as much as they can of the week\u2019s topic. The host, Melvyn Bragg, has to run a tight ship to keep the guests from drifting from the topic or going in to too much detail. (The opposite problem \u2014 a poor chairperson \u2014 is often why meetings at work can drag or seem unfocused.) I love In Our Time. Broadcast since 1998, a podcast since 2004, over 800 episodes. And almost every single one is pure gold."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 22028780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028780", "by": "heavyset_go", "time": 1578858973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> They seem a very inefficient way to consume information, with generally a very low signal to noise ratio For a long time, I agreed with this sentiment. But as someone who spends not a small amount of time commuting, jogging, going to the gym and cooking, I've replaced a lot of passive consumption of online resources with podcasts. I like to stay on top of the open-source and Linux adjacent news, and reading LWN while working out can be tough. I've found a few podcasts from members of those communities and listen to them. I keep short notes on my phone for topics that I want to revisit later,"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 22028790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028790", "by": "nknealk", "time": 1578859071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those of you who like the business side of things should check out the Acquired podcast. They\u2019re excellent story tellers and do a great job of covering a company\u2019s history from founding to IPO or acquisition"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22028978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028978", "by": "spookyuser", "time": 1578860374, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Agreed, Lex Fridmin was a standout podcast for me this year. I didn't have any idea who he was before the podcast but he has been getting some insanely famous guests on his show in what seems like the very year it was becoming popular. My favourite episode of the podcast was his interview with Geohot I think because I just like hearing Geohot speak and when he's speaking to someone that's not asking easy questions you end up with George giving some very interesting answers to questions about AGI and self driving. https://pca.st/0773"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22029017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029017", "by": "nojvek", "time": 1578860694, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Geohot was great. I immediately bought a comma ai eon kit after listening to it. My fav was Gary Marcus though. Really showing what breakthroughs we\u2019d need to make to truly have intelligent AI. Without it self driving cars and conversational AIs are always a decade away. I immediately bought his book \u201cRebooting AI\u201d afterwards too. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligenc..."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 22029023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029023", "by": "nxpnsv", "time": 1578860731, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* Cliff Stoll on Numberphile podcast * Megan phelbs-roper on sam harris * Max tegmark on sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 22029075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029075", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1578861007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's two FoundMyFitness podcasts that positively impacted my life. I've been telling everyone I know to try a broccoli sprout smoothie because of the outstanding effect it's been having on my health. I suspect a fair number of HN readers might also benefit from giving it a try. Since this is still an active research topic I think it prudent to remind readers to take all health or medical claims with a grain of salt. My first smoothie caused a physiological reaction and it lit up something in my brain. A while after drinking it I messaged a few friends to tell them that I value our friendshi"}, {"show": "1265002699", "hn_item": 22029275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029275", "by": "Thersites", "time": 1578862613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm happy to see Naval mentioned a bunch, bummed that no one has mentioned the 'After On' podcast by Rob Reid [1]. Rob Reid interviews Naval, ep. 44 & 45, the 2 part interview/discussion focuses on X-Risks, whether the long-term is going to exist for our species, automated assassination markets, drone swarms ending commercial air travel as we know it, fucking awesome. My dad is a 71 year old doctor, a little aspy, loved the podcast so much he shamed me into supporting it on Patreon. The podcast is on a hiatus at the moment, the back catalog is well worth exploring. The Fermi's Paradox episode "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 22029314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029314", "by": "nickloewen", "time": 1578862914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episodes which I think will stick with me, because they helped me to better understand the motivations and histories behind political perspectives that I disagree with: - \"Citations Needed\" ep. 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex. (CN is maybe my fave podcast of the year overall, too.) -- Why does the American religious right align itself with politicians who seem to go against core 'Christian' values? - \"Behind the Bastards\"' serialization of Robert Evans' audiobook \"The War on Everyone,\" which started with the episode \"Part One: The Eternal Fascist,\" released August 13th 2019. -"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 22029314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029314", "by": "nickloewen", "time": 1578862914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episodes which I think will stick with me, because they helped me to better understand the motivations and histories behind political perspectives that I disagree with: - \"Citations Needed\" ep. 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex. (CN is maybe my fave podcast of the year overall, too.) -- Why does the American religious right align itself with politicians who seem to go against core 'Christian' values? - \"Behind the Bastards\"' serialization of Robert Evans' audiobook \"The War on Everyone,\" which started with the episode \"Part One: The Eternal Fascist,\" released August 13th 2019. -"}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 22029368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029368", "by": "teej", "time": 1578863379, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Invest Like The Best Podcast. \u201cThe search for the truth with the anonymous master - Jesse Livermore\u201d https://open.spotify.com/episode/2POal0mOwBPtLQoeJGa0oL?cont... Jesse talks at length about making decisions with intuition vs analysis. He breaks down when and why each of these work. It seems simple but it feels groundbreaking. They also dig into an alternate valuation model for the stock market which I found interesting."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22029611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029611", "by": "axegon_", "time": 1578864847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Generally I agree. That said, some podcasts have grabbed my attention and I catch myself listening to them more and more often. Lex Fridman's podcasts namely, though his podcasts fall gravitate more towards interviews with astonishingly interesting people. I mean two hours worth of Fran\u00e7ois Chollet's tweets is pure gold."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 22029775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029775", "by": "spikepuppet", "time": 1578865997, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For me it's got to be the podcast \"On The Metal\" by the guys over at Oxide Computer Company. I was a big fan of a lot of the talks by Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle, but hearing these two talk to people who worked on such interesting problems at some amazing points in history makes me so happy. It was also such a good reminder of why i wanted to do software, and re-ignited my love of working closer to the metal. In terms of a single episode though, I would have to go with the interview with Jeff Rothschild. The guy had such an interesting career with some hilarious problems. Also, the most r"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22029775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029775", "by": "spikepuppet", "time": 1578865997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me it's got to be the podcast \"On The Metal\" by the guys over at Oxide Computer Company. I was a big fan of a lot of the talks by Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle, but hearing these two talk to people who worked on such interesting problems at some amazing points in history makes me so happy. It was also such a good reminder of why i wanted to do software, and re-ignited my love of working closer to the metal. In terms of a single episode though, I would have to go with the interview with Jeff Rothschild. The guy had such an interesting career with some hilarious problems. Also, the most r"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 22029932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22029932", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1578867422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think this story would make for a great movie: Radiolab's \"The Punchline\" https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radio... (starts at 3:19) \"John Scott was the professional hockey player that every fan loved to hate. A tough guy. A brawler. A goon. But when an impish pundit named Puck Daddy called on fans to vote for Scott to play alongside the world\u2019s greatest players in the NHL All-Star Game, Scott found himself facing off against fans, commentators, and the powers that be. Was this the realization of Scott\u2019s childhood dreams? Or a nightmarish prank gone too far? Today on Ra"}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 22030413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030413", "by": "anjc", "time": 1578870984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hidden Forces podcast is excellent"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 22030926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030926", "by": "strictnein", "time": 1578876383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So this is cheating a little bit, but we listened to it on a road trip in 2019, and it was by far the most impactful podcast we heard last year: Radiolab: From Tree to Shining Tree https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/from-... It's from 2016, but it's about the underground network of roots and organisms that connects a whole forest together and how it functions. And it's amazing. And it keeps getting more and more amazing as it goes on. My wife and I were giving each other WTF looks as we were listening. Just a taste: \"Apparently, bears park themselves in places and grab fish"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 22030950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030950", "by": "tony", "time": 1578876666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Attachment Theory Deep Drive from Psychology in Seattle (Dr Kirk Honda). 15+ hours long, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2QKcKqY7U ) Schema Therapy Deep Dive from Dr Kirk Honda. 3+ hours long ( https://player.fm/series/psychology-in-seattle-podcast/schem... ) They are behind a patreon paywall (sorta like how Hardcore History by Dan Carlin is) If just attachment theory: John Bowlby ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LM0nE81mIE ), Ainsworth, Cindy Hazan, Mikulincer, Shaver, Sue Johnson. If you like Bowlby you probably will like Winnicott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZkvvB367I (he influ"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 22030959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030959", "by": "astockwell", "time": 1578876785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Jocko Podcast [1]. Hands-down has changed my attitude and life for the better. It\u2019s about daily disciplines, leadership, human nature, history, and BJJ. Discovered it before 2019 but it\u2019s definitely been the most impactful. [1] http://jockopodcast.com"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 22031031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031031", "by": "amykyta", "time": 1578877699, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "CoRecursive by Adam Gordon Bell is fantastic. I especially liked the episodes with Hal Abelson (SICP) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/corecursive-software-e... And Phillip Waddler https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/corecursive-software-e... Bryan Cantrill episode was good too. Lots of variety and Adam Gordon Bell interviews very well."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 22031147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031147", "by": "neotek", "time": 1578879333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So this probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but my favourite podcast discovery in 2019 was Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast. Each week Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and their band are joined by a special guest and together they improvised an entire hour-long musical from scratch without anything prepared ahead of time, including the music. It's just utterly remarkable how good and clever and funny it is given it's entirely improvised and off the cuff. In my opinion it's one of the most astonishing demonstrations of human creativity I've ever seen, and it's doubly impressive when "}, {"show": "1260742439", "hn_item": 22031147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031147", "by": "neotek", "time": 1578879333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So this probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but my favourite podcast discovery in 2019 was Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast. Each week Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and their band are joined by a special guest and together they improvised an entire hour-long musical from scratch without anything prepared ahead of time, including the music. It's just utterly remarkable how good and clever and funny it is given it's entirely improvised and off the cuff. In my opinion it's one of the most astonishing demonstrations of human creativity I've ever seen, and it's doubly impressive when "}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 22031336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031336", "by": "sien", "time": 1578882147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The excellent Omega Tau podcast also has lots of interviews with people who flew or fly various planes including the F-16, F15, Tornado, F-14 and others. https://omegataupodcast.net/ There is also an excellent episode where the host Markus, got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16! It's also excellent on science and engineering generally."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 22031372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031372", "by": "sien", "time": 1578882635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Artifical Intelligence - AI Podcast with Lex Fridman has been great. In particular the Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great. There is a podcast called Physical Attraction that has done a series on nuclear fusion that have also been terrific. The Omega Tau podcast where the host Marcus got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16 was also wonderful. Podcasts were terrific last year. So many great conversations with experts in various fields. People often bang on about how internet bubbles deleteriously impact political conversation with bubbles but don't remark "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22031372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031372", "by": "sien", "time": 1578882635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Artifical Intelligence - AI Podcast with Lex Fridman has been great. In particular the Donald Knuth, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig episodes were great. There is a podcast called Physical Attraction that has done a series on nuclear fusion that have also been terrific. The Omega Tau podcast where the host Marcus got to live his childhood dream and fly an F-16 was also wonderful. Podcasts were terrific last year. So many great conversations with experts in various fields. People often bang on about how internet bubbles deleteriously impact political conversation with bubbles but don't remark "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22031422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031422", "by": "mancerayder", "time": 1578883486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History Time, the occasional superb Rogan Podcast when it's not MMA, Fitness FAQs (calisthenics from a licensed PT), some Alan Thrall podcasts about form and nutrition, PBS Eons and of course Kurtsgesacht."}, {"show": "1449757372", "hn_item": 22031788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031788", "by": "Brajeshwar", "time": 1578889291, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "- The Program Audio Series, https://programaudioseries.com/ - SleepWalkers, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/sleepwalkers/id1449757... - Meditative Story, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/meditative-story/id147..."}, {"show": "1472106563", "hn_item": 22031788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031788", "by": "Brajeshwar", "time": 1578889291, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "- The Program Audio Series, https://programaudioseries.com/ - SleepWalkers, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/sleepwalkers/id1449757... - Meditative Story, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/meditative-story/id147..."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 22031788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22031788", "by": "Brajeshwar", "time": 1578889291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Program Audio Series, https://programaudioseries.com/ - SleepWalkers, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/sleepwalkers/id1449757... - Meditative Story, https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/meditative-story/id147..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 22035382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22035382", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1578930132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard the word Kubernetes one too many times from listening to podcasts put out by The Changelog. The overhype bit got flipped in my head and now I'm predisposed against it. Marketing kills!"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 22045190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22045190", "by": "snissn", "time": 1579013642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfAhup-fDYs Same guy was on Sean Carroll's podcast. His arguments didn't resonate with me very well."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 22047407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047407", "by": "chkaloon", "time": 1579025021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It doesn't really address why one plugs it in wrong more than 50% of the time. John Siracusa had a great analysis on this on the ATP podcast a few months ago: Even if you have it in the correct orientation the first try, it inevitably catches a bit and you think you've done it wrong. You don't want to break anything, so you flip it to try the other way. That is now the wrong way and won't fit at all. So you flip it again and it goes in. So, 3 tries if you had it right the first time, 2 tries if you had it wrong the first time."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22049649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22049649", "by": "piker", "time": 1579038948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's obvious how much thought you've put into your first powerful question with each guest, and at least this listener greatly appreciates your tone and the philosophical elements of your podcast. Please keep it up. You've got one of the most interesting podcasts going right now; right up there with Pivot, Rogan and The Daily."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22050561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050561", "by": "sgentle", "time": 1579046981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If it helps, remember that paradoxically the better you're doing the blunter the criticism will be. If this were some fledgling little podcast run by a nobody, it would feel cruel to criticise too harshly. But this is the freakin' Lex Fridman AI podcast, the untouchable juggernaut at the top of its game. What could I say that could possibly hurt something (and someone) so successful? Of course, I'm sure you don't feel untouchable, but maybe there is a certain cold comfort in knowing that inconsiderate criticism is a hallmark of becoming an institution. Keep up the good work, man."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22051407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051407", "by": "nopinsight", "time": 1579057117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting philosophical thoughts are not limited to philosophers. A philosophical question asked to a top-achieving person in any field often yields a thought-provoking answer. I have heard some of those in Lex\u2019s podcast. A diversity of perspectives is helpful for such questions. One can tell that Lex does his research and also asks specific questions pertaining to the interviewee\u2019s expertise. I think he strikes a good balance in many/most episodes."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 22051540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051540", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1579059015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recall a podcast a Plaid tech person did for Software Engineering Daily where it was alluded that Plaid had moved away from using screen scraping to something much better \u2014 it sounded like they had paid for connections to the bigger banks \u2014 perhaps a one off API access only for Plaid or were leveraging some other way to get around the problematic screen scraping approach."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22051869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051869", "by": "alexanderthe-", "time": 1579064640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex\u2019s podcast is my new favorite. I\u2019m not a Computer Scientist, so I thoroughly enjoy hearing him ask Philosophical questions to these great minds and having them answer with the humble nature of mere mortals... which of course, they are. Keep up the good work Lex, I first heard you on Rogan\u2019s podcast, you are bringing something really unique to the world and I am sure we will all be better for it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22051869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051869", "by": "alexanderthe-", "time": 1579064640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex\u2019s podcast is my new favorite. I\u2019m not a Computer Scientist, so I thoroughly enjoy hearing him ask Philosophical questions to these great minds and having them answer with the humble nature of mere mortals... which of course, they are. Keep up the good work Lex, I first heard you on Rogan\u2019s podcast, you are bringing something really unique to the world and I am sure we will all be better for it."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 22055598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055598", "by": "metamet", "time": 1579105689, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robert Evans (from Behind the Bastards podcast) mentioned in one of his episodes what happened at Cracked when FB's falsified lure led to a strong content pivot to FB. This, obviously, didn't pan out according to what was advertised. The way I understand it, management trusted FB more than they should've, overhauling the way they approached content, which resulted in all the eggs being in one dropped basket."}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 22055694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055694", "by": "Legogris", "time": 1579106348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the Unchained podcast when DPRK defector Yeonmi Park was a guest. She escaped from the DPRK when she was 16 and just having watched the movie Titanic (that her uncle had gotten hold of) once as a kid influenced her thinking a lot. https://unchainedpodcast.com/yeonmi-park-on-why-doing-busine..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22065472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22065472", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1579189055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's complicated. There's a good Freakonomics podcast on it [1]. (Including some really interesting info on tipping at Uber.) For restaurants specifically, it's really hard to eliminate tipping for the wait staff. [1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/tipping/"}, {"show": "1472354896", "hn_item": 22066773, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22066773", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1579196088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you've not listened to it yet, the Bellingcat podcast is absolutely fantastic."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 22068121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22068121", "by": "code_biologist", "time": 1579203940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Overall, I love this approach, but the big pain for me is the lack of incremental view refreshes. I end up needing to recreate giant tables each refresh even though the underlying changes are small. Sure I could implement that myself, but that sacrifices the correctness guarantees that materialized views provide! Two things that would help: 1. Getting Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) [1] into Postgres. It looks like work is beginning on this but it's been 7+ years coming. If there are any Postgres devs looking at this, I'm cheering for you! 2. There's a commercial group doing an implementati"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22068427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22068427", "by": "heynk", "time": 1579205895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not in the podcast industry, but I'd listen to this episode of Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27/ He dives into \"podcast promoters\" that are pretty effective at getting into the top charts. I mention this not because I think you should use these services, but because he actually gets some evidence around what the charts are based off of. It's also a great podcast in general."}, {"show": "1339849737", "hn_item": 22072562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22072562", "by": "nathanbb", "time": 1579245379, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 22075498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075498", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1579275454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently got into EconTalk and burned through a few of their podcasts [0]. Roberts mentions his 'distain' for the minimum wage a fair bit during the shows. Many economists do not like the minimum wage at all for many reasons. However, with these gig economy jobs, there effectively is no minimum wage. Yes, things are murky here about the definitions of wage, employee, boss, etc. But the effective hourly rates are all well under the minimum wage. So, these companies can uncover the 'real' minimum wage that the market will deal with (again, suuuuuper murky definitions). It turns out, that numbe"}, {"show": "1265002699", "hn_item": 22075809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22075809", "by": "fetchingwater", "time": 1579277135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for mentioning the 'After On' podcast with Naval! I was unaware, I'll give it a listen as I always find his talks fascinating."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22077505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22077505", "by": "rjmunro", "time": 1579285392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast covered this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/vaping-nicotine/"}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 22090465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22090465", "by": "lars_bx", "time": 1579427348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Ottoman History Podcast has taught me so much. It's helped me make a little more sense of the Middle East. It's also introduced me to some broader, more universal issues that are relevant now but presented within a specific historic context."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 22093548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093548", "by": "elchin", "time": 1579463528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast. https://jockopodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22093743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093743", "by": "andreilys", "time": 1579465139, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Portal by Eric Weinstein. I listen to the episodes usually same day/next day that they get released. One of my favorite podcasts in 2019. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id146999956..."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 22093809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093809", "by": "vladimirralev", "time": 1579465697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two podcasts, very high quality, but are paid subscriptions, $15 a month or so each. I have no affiliation: 1. Real Vision - finance - https://www.realvision.com/tv/home 2. Peter Attia The Drive - health - https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 22094197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094197", "by": "manu3000", "time": 1579469042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I discovered podcasts late, about 2 years ago, and now religiously tune in during my commute I started with \"In Our Time\", recommended for the quality of the guests, the variety of subjects and number of episodes (near 900) At the moment I switch between these 3: \"The Age of Napoleon\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/1223795973 ) and \"Revolutions\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/703889772 ) rekindled my interest for History, especially the 19th century. \"The History of Literature\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/1048375034 )"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 22094197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094197", "by": "manu3000", "time": 1579469042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I discovered podcasts late, about 2 years ago, and now religiously tune in during my commute I started with \"In Our Time\", recommended for the quality of the guests, the variety of subjects and number of episodes (near 900) At the moment I switch between these 3: \"The Age of Napoleon\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/1223795973 ) and \"Revolutions\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/703889772 ) rekindled my interest for History, especially the 19th century. \"The History of Literature\" ( https://podbay.fm/podcast/1048375034 )"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 22094241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094241", "by": "zigzaggy", "time": 1579469438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also recommend Jocko podcast. I\u2019ve truly enjoyed the perception shift of leadership and discipline."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22099668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099668", "by": "bananaboat55", "time": 1579535647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22099781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22099781", "by": "eachro", "time": 1579536513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think it's necessarily a matter of \"interesting\" but whether it's an ideal way to showcase these guests (which I surmise is what outlace is trying to get at). The guests he's had on his podcasts is astounding, no doubt about that. But suppose you knew nothing about Susskind/Kahneman/Knuth/Stroustrup/etc's prior work and listened to these podcasts, could you have deduced (given the conversation/questions asked) the mountain of work they'd produced to be worthy of their accolades in the first place? I don't think I could've and in some way that's a letdown and a bit of a missed opportuni"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22101355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101355", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1579547852, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know about hotel but the escort industry thrives on motels where I imagine all of them pay cash for their rooms. I imagine even higher end escorts, that are far more exclusive (many of which have websites with paid photo shoot photos and online booking for known clients) and do incall in more upscale locations, use cash for rooms simply due to the amounts of cash they're seeing. There's at least one subreddit for this industry, intended for owrkers only, and I'll peruse it occasionally, but I've never seen any of the higher end ones mention how they handle rooms. I suspect many have th"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 22102825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102825", "by": "theclaw", "time": 1579561775, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 22104612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22104612", "by": "xvector", "time": 1579586310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find that Revisionist History (ironically) is particularly guilty of not fact-checking. In their episode \u201cBlame Game\u201d[1] they discuss how the vast majority of \u201cbrake failure\u201d is actually due to driver error (pedal misapplication). They then vocally blame Consumer Reports for spreading \u201cdangerous misinformation\u201d \u2014 CR says that drivers should keep their pedal pressed hard on the brake. Revisionist History instead says that drivers should take their foot off what they think is the brake and try finding it again. Consumer Reports again counters this[2] by describing that if you believe you have "}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 22104774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22104774", "by": "gangstead", "time": 1579589015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The worst offender they mention, Crime Junkie, in the article is a weekly podcast. Looking at the last few episodes they are all 40 - 60 minutes. It appears to be a small (just 2 people?) team. Of course there's going to be zero fact checking with a lean crew cranking out that much content so fast. I tend to cull those types of podcasts from my feed because they devolve into some combination of 1) people reading wikipedia to you and 2) talk radio style low quality babbble. I've never listened to Crime Junkie but the article's claims of plagiarizing other online articles and reddit posts sugges"}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 22105536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105536", "by": "travbrack", "time": 1579600064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try http://www.procrastination.ca/ and the iProcrastinate podcast. Main takeaways are: * Just get started. * Don't give in to \"feel good\". * Use implementation intentions to put the trigger for action in the environment. * Procrastination is an existential issue. One who is procrastinating is not getting on with their life. * Approach goals are better than avoidance goals."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22107238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107238", "by": "bananaboat55", "time": 1579617520, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22107396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107396", "by": "LinuxBender", "time": 1579618445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe this may have occurred recently in a high profile case with Mr. Jefferey Epstein? At least, that is the gist I took away from some discussions on Joe Rogan's podcast about it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22110405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110405", "by": "jger15", "time": 1579634407, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22116354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116354", "by": "dotdotdots", "time": 1579690384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the title I thought this would be Bret Weinstein's the \"dark horse podcast\". Check it out if you like evolutionary psychology. Even better is his brothers podcast, \"The Portal\" ( https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-portal/ ). Its brilliant, in a mad scientist kind-of way. Its where the dirty laundry, of the science community, is aired."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22122750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122750", "by": "K0SM0S", "time": 1579732053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Wherever the expression originated, it diffused quite rapidly. By the 20th century, so long became a common expression of farewell\u2014and no one knows how it happened. \"How it happened\" is a hallmark hard problem in studying human language \u2014 whether from linguistics, anthropology, neuro-cognitive sciences, art, philosophy... The gist of the question is this: is language solely \"within us\" and we \"trade it\" and evolve it as we communicate; or do the complexity and distribution of its \"existence\" give the phenomena a \"life of its own\", so to speak. (it then breaks your mind exponentially to notic"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22123791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22123791", "by": "lukifer", "time": 1579741033, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don't disagree; but propaganda is in the eye of the beholder. Eric Weinstein's podcast [0][1] has recently been discussing similar phenomena in left-leaning media and academia, under the label \"Distributed Idea-Suppression Complex\" (including alleged media blackouts of Bernie + Yang). At first order of approximation, a lot can be explained by simple incentives, and who pays the bills (ie, advertisers, which at that scale necessarily include megacorporations who are hyper-sensitive to any PR impacts across their hundreds of subsidiary brands). But there's something bigger than that: a sort of"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22125215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22125215", "by": "Gatsky", "time": 1579759396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah so this was an interesting podcast, if you have listened to previous episodes. Eric claims that he, his brother, and his wife have all made important scientific discoveries in theoretical physics, biology and economics which were either ignored or stolen by the establishment. Most of the episode is about his brother who found that selective breeding practises in laboratory mice produced animals that due to long telomeres, were more likely to get cancer and were better at repairing tissue damage. The implication being that mice are not good animal models for medical research. One of the wo"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22125312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22125312", "by": "TheUndead96", "time": 1579760683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found listening to Eric call out his brother a bit difficult to listen to. There is most likely rapour between them as brothers that makes the \"you are boring me\" segments less egregious. Even still I found the points of discussion very interesting. I think Eric is raising some very important points of discussion, and I listen to The Portal regularly, but I find his personality to be a bit abrasive (on the podcast and on Twitter)."}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 22125913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22125913", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1579768958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Pychyl, who's ideas this article discusses, goes in to these ideas much more deeply in a really fantastic video here: [1] I've watched a ton of videos on procrastination, and read a lot about it, and this video is head and shoulders above everything else. Highly recommended. He also has the iProcrastinate Podcast[2], which also has some useful and interesting episodes. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA [2] - http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22126071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22126071", "by": "collyw", "time": 1579771087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Social media makes democracy stronger because people can communicate more. There's little to say beyond that. Except when the platform censors one side of the debate. Reminds me of The Joe Rogan podcast with Tim Pool and Twitter execs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTXqrS9l5E"}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 22130601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130601", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1579806156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Along similar lines, there's a fantastic video by procrastination researcher Tim Pychyl here: [1] I've watched a ton of videos on procrastination, and read a lot about it, and this video is head and shoulders above everything else. Highly recommended. He also has the iProcrastinate Podcast[2], which also has some useful and interesting episodes. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFQA998WiA [2] - http://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22134771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22134771", "by": "godelski", "time": 1579832082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was a poor joke making a critique of the Medium post. > It does make me more interested in hearing what Yang has to say because it seems honest and like a statement from someone who hasn't been doing political activism for years. Lots of people suggest the Joe Rogan podcast [0], but that is old, things have changed in his campaign, and it is long. I rather like the Now This interview [1] (30 mins). Others like the Iowa Town Hall[2] (hour). The reasons I personally like Yang are #1, climate (I'm a scientist myself and work in labs with many climate scientists. I don't think his plan is going"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 22136692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22136692", "by": "JetSpiegel", "time": 1579858391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out In Our Time on BBC4, there's a podcast."}, {"show": "1310192007", "hn_item": 22154190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22154190", "by": "cerberusss", "time": 1580067340, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This isn't a service that provides financial data. It's media providing entertainment. There's a thin line between the two, but last year, this point has been discussed a lot. I can't point to a specific episode, but in the podcast Animal Spirits, it comes up every now and then. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal-spirits-podcast..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 22154863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22154863", "by": "brownbat", "time": 1580073498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As posted to a sister comment, I think Nature's review -- discussed in Radiolab -- is what people are thinking of. https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/kill-..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22155075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22155075", "by": "cortesi", "time": 1580075984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Taleb's prominence is baffling to me. I've read all his books, and tried hard to figure out why people I respect believe he's an important thinker. I just can't see it. Almost everything he says sets off my bullshit alarm. Here we have him in typical form. The point of the paper seems to be to argue that we can reduce transmission by reducing contact (obvious), and concludes that we should do this pre-emptively at large scale worldwide (never going to happen, only good for alarmist headlines). This is exactly his formula when treating risk: start with a total platitude (rare events happen), an"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 22159184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159184", "by": "ml_giant", "time": 1580133335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. Duolingo is great for learning vocabulary, but if you really want to learn a language you need to supplement this with listening to the language as well as speaking it. I've been learning French and have been using Duolingo for vocab, but then I listen to a French-teaching podcast as well as trying to work on reading/speaking it."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 22160165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160165", "by": "wry_discontent", "time": 1580139094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't checked it out, there was a Citations Needed podcast episode about this recently. It's a great show, self described as about \"media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit.\" It's usually an interesting listen. https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-97-porch-pirate-p..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22160872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160872", "by": "arbhassan", "time": 1580142862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really loved listening to his recent podcast with Lex Fridman[1]. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22166053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22166053", "by": "smiljo", "time": 1580180613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Saw only recently that Judea Pearl was a guest on Sam Harris' podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/164-cause-effect/ . The preamble is depressing, since the episode aired right after a mass shooting, but Pearl gives a brief overview of his thinking."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22169008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22169008", "by": "thomk", "time": 1580217233, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "During the infamous Elon Musk interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, something Elon said stuck with me and I think about it often. He said something like 'The next hurdle in computing is overcoming the restrictive bandwidth limitations of viewing a computer with your eyes and instructing it with your hands.' His point was the next generation of super-humans will have a cpu brain implant and those super-humans will view the rest of us as we currently view animals (regarding intelligence). We don't have computers implanted in our brains so here's my question: What's the next best thing? I could I o"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 22169168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22169168", "by": "notlukesky", "time": 1580218411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are way to many specific ones. The best by far on general entrepreneurship and startups is How I Built This with Guy Raz on NPR: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this There are legions on specific subject areas like SaaS or tech companies like The SaaS Podcast by Omer Khan and SaaSTR: https://saasclub.io/saas-podcast/ https://www.saastr.com/podcasts/ If you are interested in say startups all over the world like Tech Tonic by FT: https://www.ft.com/tech-tonic-podcast"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22169939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22169939", "by": "moltar", "time": 1580223496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great series on opioid epidemic on Freakonomics podcast recently, if you are interested."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 22174841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22174841", "by": "tasty_freeze", "time": 1580250800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast from last May: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721733303/whats-not-on-the-te... The subject being interviewed is a Nobel Prize winning economist, James Heckman. The starting point was noting that people who get a GED (on average) score just as well on IQ tests as those getting an ordinary HS diploma. However, their life outcomes tend to be much worse than those who got a HS diploma the ordinary way. Why? The economist said that 150 years ago schools taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but spent as much time on \"character building\" l"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 22182124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22182124", "by": "dcolkitt", "time": 1580314505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> My long standing hypothesis on Medallion is that they figured out how to apply gauge theoretic techniques to financial markets. No. Listen to the Talking Machines podcast with Nick Patterson (who was a senior VP in research at RennTech for a long time). To paraphrase he says that the vast majority of their strategies are no more than simple linear regression. The challenge is that even though regression is conceptually simple it still takes smart people to answer questions like \"what should you be regressing\", or \"should you apply any transform\" or \"how should you clean your data\" or \"do you"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22185254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22185254", "by": "angry_octet", "time": 1580328644, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apropos of this, I was listening to the excellent On The Metal podcast, and Jonathan Blow made the point that Unix/shell has no type safety. Can we get a version of bash with strict types and typed arguments? (Does Powershell do anything in this regard?) https://oxide.computer/blog/tags/podcast/"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 22186753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186753", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1580337599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "May I recommend this weeks BBC \"In Our Time\" podcast on Solar Wind (I cannot link to it because my podcast app just throws up some html card thingy destroying 30 years of sanity / rant / moan) As usual a deeply knowledgeable and enthusiastic set of guests and they were talking about this telescope and several other probes launched and due to be launched well worth it"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22198348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22198348", "by": "unlinked_dll", "time": 1580436663, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently on the \"On the Metal\" podcast (which is fantastic) Johnathon Blow had a mini rant on compilation speeds and mentioned that the Jai compiler is incredibly fast."}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 22198358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22198358", "by": "jarjoura", "time": 1580436847, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is a great read for anyone who wants to learn more about how we got here: https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Defenders-Participatory-... Katherine Levine Einstein was on The Weeds podcast a few weeks ago and gave a really good summary of her findings. She doesn't have an answer, but it at least frames the situation in a way that seems solvable. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6VfqIzzoOlYtkuKvwGDq1K"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 22198358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22198358", "by": "jarjoura", "time": 1580436847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a great read for anyone who wants to learn more about how we got here: https://www.amazon.com/Neighborhood-Defenders-Participatory-... Katherine Levine Einstein was on The Weeds podcast a few weeks ago and gave a really good summary of her findings. She doesn't have an answer, but it at least frames the situation in a way that seems solvable. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6VfqIzzoOlYtkuKvwGDq1K"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 22199102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22199102", "by": "tonfreed", "time": 1580445496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep. I call this resume oriented development, which I think is in the Gotime podcast he links at the bottom here. Martin Fowler wrote a good article about the same thing https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html tl;dr: If you don't understand the problem domain, build a monolith following sensible engineering principles to get going ASAP and then split it out when you understand where the functional lines actually are."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 22204650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204650", "by": "yboris", "time": 1580498425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his Revisionist History podcast: Episode 39 ( http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/39-chutzpah-vs-chutzp... ) See transcript: https://podscribe.app/feeds/https-feedsmegaphonefm-revisioni... > word mafia is barely in the script it only appears once so I cross the word mafia I said Joe I'ma do this I'm going to take this out of the movie"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22205927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205927", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1580505846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The trouble is, not everyone is saying that. A few people here and there are, but what about some mode nuance things? For example, what if someone says they're fine with trans-people and think everyone should live their lives whoever they want, but trans M2F shouldn't participate in professional sports because it's not fair. That's an incredibly polarizing statement, and one who makes it is immediately labeled as a bigot. Some go as far as to say such an individual is \"denying trans people exist.\" There is a lot to unpack there, and people can have reasonable debates about both sides of that s"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22212682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22212682", "by": "firloop", "time": 1580585727, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I felt similarly about The Daily. I started listening to NPR's \"Up First\" podcast and like it a lot better; it's quite similar but less dramatized and personality-driven."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22214636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22214636", "by": "InitialLastName", "time": 1580608573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not familiar with the newspaper industry, but I would assume the issue wouldn't be with the wapo journalist as much as with their employing paper, in a twofold way: - It's worth assuming that the Washington Post (as an organization) wouldn't want their employees doing content for a major rival (rather than on Post Reports, their equivalent of The Daily). - As the article mentions, the podcast is in many ways a promotional tool for the rest of the newspaper, and I can't see NYT (again, as an organization) wanting to use it to promote a competitor."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22215295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22215295", "by": "rajesh-s", "time": 1580620914, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Given that this is a really vast domain (and also influenced by the development in other domains such as deep learning), I'm trying to understand what are the skills that would really help to have for students entering the industry. As a side note, I recently listened to the \"On the metal\" podcast with Jon Masters and it had good information on what are the current trends in this field."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22221374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22221374", "by": "papito", "time": 1580703207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Even the bombing from planes was not made up. I suggest one of the last episodes of Stuff You Should Know podcast on it - they did a lot of legwork researching the event."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 22229701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22229701", "by": "zaat", "time": 1580767231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to Lin Sun interview on Google's Kubernetes Podcast you hear that she have the title Master Inventor. Since she is interviewed under the title of Istio I was sure she invented some interesting techincal stuff in that field. You don't have to wait too long for (at least what I find as) the disappointing explanation of what does the title mean, why it exists and what the results are. In short, there's incentive as well as assistance in filling up patents, they don't seem to discriminate on basis of usability, feasibility or anything else. They do give bigger bonuses for patents tha"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 22235845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22235845", "by": "cdnsteve", "time": 1580826499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kelsey hightower recently commented on hosting his own on Software Engineering Daily[1]. TLDR; spend $10 instead of spending two days unless you are wanting to understand how Podcasts technically work. [1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/01/06/kubernetes-p..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22252245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22252245", "by": "kissickas", "time": 1580947950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Research communities are unanimous in acknowledging the value of peer review > 82% agreed that standard peer review ensures high-quality work gets published How common is the view that peer review only serves as an institutional gatekeeping mechanism and harms innovation? (as I've heard Eric Weinstein charge on his podcast, The Portal )"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 22256248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256248", "by": "fredley", "time": 1580999916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Manager Tools podcast is a good guide to learn management skills."}, {"show": "1339849737", "hn_item": 22257726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22257726", "by": "nathanbb", "time": 1581008251, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 22258178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22258178", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1581010745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find this deeply unconvincing as I've scaled multiple apps to the 10k range while on low-tier hardware using the setup Alex suggests is only appropriate for one user. The old Stack Overflow podcast was also very instructive. They went a very long way on a single server and had the Reddit founders on the show to talk about their scaling during their process of adding a second box. This was on servers of the mid-aughts, running ASP.NET."}, {"show": "1146941306", "hn_item": 22260586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22260586", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1581024892, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Therapist uncensored is good. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/therapist-uncensored-p..."}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 22262995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22262995", "by": "amanzi", "time": 1581046267, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in Docker best practices for Python specifically, I highly recommend the following site: https://pythonspeed.com/docker/ I listened to the author on The Python Podcast and learned lots from the discussion, in particular the differences between Alpine and Debian for Python images."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 22264070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264070", "by": "staz", "time": 1581063063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I try to use the one from the Manager Tools podcast but we have a hard time sticking to it. https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics#"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 22264761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264761", "by": "shakermakr", "time": 1581071913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The No Agenda podcast from Adam Curry and John C Dvorak have seemingly successfully worked this model. No adverts, but donation only. Of course many listen to free, but creating producers out of those who donate and giving them credits and shout outs has built an interesting community. What doesn\u2019t work is to cut your prime value out just to those who pay. Then you can\u2019t build momentum and the large fan base."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22266091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266091", "by": "mattferderer", "time": 1581084947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to Darknet Diaries for the 1st time. Awesome podcast, especially the Xbox Underground series. I noticed they mentioned an extra special interview at the end for paid subscribers. Seemed like a fair thing to do to me."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 22273782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22273782", "by": "samstave", "time": 1581134804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have had several S76 Laptops - and all of them, the cases are plastic and very chintzy. Several had screws fall out inside the case and rattle around, but this is all Clevo's fault... :-( Their support has been fantastic, and although I switched back to other machines - I still would buy one. The bang-for-the-buck on the guts was really good (cant comment on the value of this Threadripper box though...) As an aside; the Michael Dell \"How I built this\" podcast ep is worth a listen..."}, {"show": "274450056", "hn_item": 22285904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22285904", "by": "hellotomyrars", "time": 1581301524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a difficult time believing that, of all things, Podcasting is the thing Spotify will/has ruined. The Podcast ecosystem is very open, but the only monetization vehicle I know of that has made a meaningful impact in the history of Podcasts is Midroll (Which now looking up seems to be owned by Stitcher). I know from listening to the Giant Bomb podcast for a decade that they had a hard time justifying the podcast to the business-side of their operation for years because it doesn't work in to a balance sheet. Presumably that is less of an issue now and I hear Midroll-based ads on literally e"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 22286221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286221", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1581305383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Right now you can listen to podcasts that are years old and yet the ads that play are current. This means they've been recut with new ads, probably automatically. I notice this most on the Ezra Klein podcast. I don't think it's Spotify that's helping this podcast achieve this functionality, but in future Spotify will certainly be providing this ability to podcast producers, if it isn't already. I'd expect that in the near future the podcasts you listen to will be dynamically stitched together so that I hear ads tailored to me, which are different from the ads you hear. Different users will als"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 22287979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287979", "by": "yreg", "time": 1581331591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marco, the creator of Overcast debates this situation from time to time on Accidental Tech Podcast. He recently said that Spotify doesn't seem to be as big an issue as they first expected it to be. It turns out, that most users who listen to podcasts on Spotify didn't listen to podcasts before. So although Spotify has a sizeable chunk of the market, it didn't hurt the other players much."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 22287986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287986", "by": "corobo", "time": 1581331688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not pedantic though. Lets say you were a fan of Hello Internet (not affiliated, I just subscribe to their private feed) Run me through how you'd listen to their paid podcast \"Goodbye Internet\"[0] in Spotify and I'll concede that Spotify is a podcast client. [0] https://www.patreon.com/hellointernet and then it's also not a podcast provider. Run me through how I'd listen to Gimlet's Academy[1] audio series in Overcast, and I'll concede that point too [1] https://open.spotify.com/show/7hhEbl4DOMheWRunCUAla6?si=WFxE..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22288070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288070", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1581332768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would you go to a special browser to read not-web pages? We know that the top Apple related podcasters charge between $5500-$6500 a spot for three to four ads per episode. How much do you think the top more general podcast like Stuff You Should Know charge? Do you think they would stop publishing podcast that can be found not only when people click on the Podcast app that comes preinstalled with all iOS devices, but can also be found on other podcast apps that use Apple\u2019s public API to its podcast directory?"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22292603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292603", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1581364622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The development, and successful commercialization, of the ballpoint pen is a really interesting hole to dive down. John Loud is like check this cool thing I made, it doesn't really work though. Laszlo Biro comes along and makes it viable, everyone tries to rip him off, then Marcel Bich comes along and is like \"Biro, let me have that, everyone sit down Bic has this!\". Stuff You Should Know did a podcast episode about it once. IIRC it was a decent listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXB7479t0XM"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22293712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22293712", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1581371024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify bought a company that created money losing over produced shows where the most successful podcasts are just the opposite. One of the most successful podcast over the past decade is \u201cStuff You Should Know\u201d. The hosts go out of their way not to talk about the subject before hand to make the show seem more organic. Would you call something that couldn\u2019t be viewed in a browser a \u201cweb page\u201d? If you told me I should listen to this great podcast. I\u2019m going to search on Overcast (which uses Apple\u2019s podcast directory API), if it\u2019s not there, it doesn\u2019t exist. I can\u2019t put it in my playlist, contr"}, {"show": "498373813", "hn_item": 22294382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294382", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1581375867, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Innovate @Open https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/innovate-open/id498373..."}, {"show": "1470490447", "hn_item": 22298697, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22298697", "by": "maroonblazer", "time": 1581431186, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "FYI he's got a new book coming out and discusses it on Coleman Hughes' podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-13-self-driving-car..."}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 22300940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300940", "by": "benjaminjosephw", "time": 1581445056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thorsten Ball's Writing An Interpreter In Go. A fantastically written technical book that walks through writing an interpreter for a simple programming language. It's test driven and a great introduction to the core concepts. Also a good book to get hands on with idiomatic Go code. https://interpreterbook.com/ Thorsten does a great job talking about the concepts in the book in this Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/107"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 22300940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300940", "by": "benjaminjosephw", "time": 1581445056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thorsten Ball's Writing An Interpreter In Go. A fantastically written technical book that walks through writing an interpreter for a simple programming language. It's test driven and a great introduction to the core concepts. Also a good book to get hands on with idiomatic Go code. https://interpreterbook.com/ Thorsten does a great job talking about the concepts in the book in this Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/107"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22300981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22300981", "by": "RileyJames", "time": 1581445280, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "More detailed from New York Times daily podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736..."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 22311701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311701", "by": "ojame", "time": 1581534378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steven Rinella and the MeatEater podcast[0] is an excellent source of information on Wolves (amongst other things). They\u2019ve had episode with industry experts on Wolf genetics, conservation, migration, reintroduction, hunting, habitat control and more. Recently they\u2019ve had a running commentary on wolves and Isle Royale[1]. 0: https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater 1: https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/natural-history/is..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22322359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22322359", "by": "cbhl", "time": 1581635934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audio also works well. I've been listening to the NPR News Now podcast, as well as NPR's Planet Money. When I'm feeling a little more capacity for the news cycle, I might also listen to NPR's Up First, NYT's The Daily, and NPR's The Indicator."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 22323952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22323952", "by": "hi41", "time": 1581654426, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think OP is referring to the news that only have entertainment value and one that does not empower the citizens but makes it a spectacle. There was a Hidden Brain episode just on the news topic. It is a great listen. Here is the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908..."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 22327662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22327662", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1581696471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I do not read, watch or listen the generic news. Most news is depressing anyways, and you really don't miss out on anything imo. This. I stopped actively following news around the time the iPhone 3GS came out and within a month or two I was far happier in general. Around the time iPhone 6 came out I was using flipboard on an iPad nightly for a few weeks, found it pretty miserable and quit again. Now I will look at my Google news recommendations on my phone once or twice a day for the first few articles, rarely doing more than scanning the headlines. These articles are almost always of interes"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 22328477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22328477", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1581702462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also recommend the author's other podcast \"Cautionary Tales\". It's very well produced, and fascinating. http://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22330281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22330281", "by": "reggieband", "time": 1581713558, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been watching Lex Fridman's youtube podcast and there is a recent interview with Jim Keller [1]. Keller is a chip designer famous for his involvement in multiple chips at Intel, AMD, Apple and he was co-author of the x86-64 instruction set. He also worked for Tesla. There is a point in the conversation where Lex and Jim clearly disagree about how \"easy\" self-driving AI should be. Lex is clearly pessimistic and Jim is clearly optimistic. I have to admit I was more swayed by Lex's points than by Jim's, but it is hard to discount someone so clearly (extraordinarily) expert and working direct"}, {"show": "1445901378", "hn_item": 22331985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331985", "by": "8bitsrule", "time": 1581727198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent 'Pitchfork Economics' podcast explores today's Finnish economy (free college, 5 week vacations, universal health care, taxes no higher than the US ...) , by speaking to the author of The Nordic Theory of Everything . (Link includes transcript) http://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/re-imagining-capitalis..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 22339942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22339942", "by": "StephenAmar", "time": 1581830888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm certain this was reposted because they talked about this law on today's Radiolab broadcast (a repeat of a previous episode): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91697..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22341890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341890", "by": "loceng", "time": 1581866110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, interesting, good ideas. These fit into a system I have been developing, evolving \"on paper\" - called Reputas. Basically create a system that allows leaders - thought leaders, policy leaders, security-safety leaders, etc - to be as transparent as they can by sharing and evolving (with version control to review their history of changes) their current understanding and reasoning, and present - if they have one - their arguably better solution. There will need to be centralized bodies who are the curators, governors - moderators - of these different competing filter systems. There will need "}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 22343742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343742", "by": "jonathanjaeger", "time": 1581887021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Italki Italki Italki, nothing has been better for that. I use my flashcards I made on Quizlet, listen to videos/podcasts, re-practice Duolingo, etc., but 3-6 hours per week talking to native Speakers on Italki (or any equivalent service) will work wonders."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 22348409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348409", "by": "metalliqaz", "time": 1581954014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was a recent topic on the Hidden Brain podcast. It's a very good podcast."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 22349825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349825", "by": "vosper", "time": 1581966778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast did an interesting episode about weather modeling at the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e..."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 22351628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22351628", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1581979462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Citations Needed podcast about pseudoscience in the criminal justice system: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-94-the-goofy-pseu... It's an interesting podcast, but their interviewee sucked and she didn't really cite any actual science; just hand waved away things. I've found the studies they cite on fingerprints (your fingerprint could match up with 1 in ~300 people; they're not as unique as once though -- the study that's often cited is from the FBI) but I can't find anything on gun/bullet print identification. Supposedly you can't match a bullet to a gun, especially wit"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22353496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353496", "by": "34679", "time": 1582000772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the Navy pilot who went on the Rogan podcast, the object he encountered was actively jamming his radar and targeting systems, which he also said is considered an act of war. I'm not sure how any military could consider a craft that can fly circles around ours while jamming our targeting systems to be benign. Unless it's ours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnIG-i2WCfg https://podscribe.app/feeds/http-joeroganexpjoeroganlibsynpr... \"the way the system actually works is when you see something on the radar and you designate it as your primary target all the other sensors will look a"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22354003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22354003", "by": "weinzierl", "time": 1582008536, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22355015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22355015", "by": "plesiv", "time": 1582023107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's \"AI Podcast\" has quickly grown to have one of the best list of guests on any show ever [1] - extremely impressive! [1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22355893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22355893", "by": "i_am_not_elon", "time": 1582032819, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 22356313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356313", "by": "simplyinfinity", "time": 1582036385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This describes my feeling about Lex's podcast as well. I was watching the interview with Jim Keller and was left dissapointed for the most part of the interview because of - as you said - lack of good follow up questions to presented statements and ideas. It's a shame really. However if you skip trough the first about 30-40 minutes of that same interview, it get's a bit better. Also, thanks for mentioning Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast, will check it out for sure."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22356313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356313", "by": "simplyinfinity", "time": 1582036385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This describes my feeling about Lex's podcast as well. I was watching the interview with Jim Keller and was left dissapointed for the most part of the interview because of - as you said - lack of good follow up questions to presented statements and ideas. It's a shame really. However if you skip trough the first about 30-40 minutes of that same interview, it get's a bit better. Also, thanks for mentioning Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast, will check it out for sure."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 22357451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357451", "by": "calny", "time": 1582045046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex is on HN and from a prior thread [1], seems very thoughtful and receptive to constructive feedback. While I've only recently started watching his interviews, I think that reflects one of his main strengths as an interviewer--it seems he thinks both broadly and deeply about AI, physics, and a wide range of interesting topics, which is no small feat. Of course, I'm in awe of his guest list too--kudos to him for building this series. Though I've only seen a few so far, I do sort of share the feeling that the questions can tend toward too general, at least at the outset of the interviews. Like"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22359122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359122", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1582052632, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22360022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22360022", "by": "pixelperfect", "time": 1582057693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They're both good. Sean Carroll is 'better' according to a few metrics I can think of, but for some reason I like Lex Fridman's podcast more."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 22367572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367572", "by": "danso", "time": 1582132436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember listening to this when it was recorded and I still remember details from it years later \u2013 probably my favorite Changelog podcast ever. It's obviously very foolish to make software choices based on how much you like its creator as a person. But Richard Hipp comes off as a guy so likable that goshdarnit, I hope his little project succeeds. Jokes aside, though, I don't think it's entirely coincidence that SQLite, something that is so good and reliable, was made by someone who seems so conscientious and thoughtful. Though I have to admit, I was and am still disappointed to learn that th"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22379237, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379237", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1582237715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast recently had a relevant episode on Germany's feed-in tariff. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797322305/episode-965-das-gre..."}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 22382338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382338", "by": "snoozypants", "time": 1582283564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also a great podcast called Django Chat ( https://djangochat.com/ ). If I remember, they mentioned the book or spoke about the writer quite recently and said a lot of the principles still apply. I've found they still greatly helped my projects. Things quite might change as async becomes a bit more popular with the framework"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22391298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22391298", "by": "tambourine_man", "time": 1582383323, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 22392619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22392619", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1582397820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ram Dass once recalled the first time Hollingshead gave Leary LSD. Leary, Ram Dass (who was then still Richard Alpert), Ralph Metzner, and others from their group were staying at Millbrook and continuing their research with psylocybin that they'd started at Harvard when Hollingshead turned up and offered Leary LSD. Leary at first turned his nose up at LSD, but eventually tried it. Then, Alpert reported, Leary did not speak for days. Everyone in the group was scared, and Alpert told everyone to stay away from the LSD while they waited for Leary to come back to them. After five days Leary finall"}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 22398027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22398027", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1582478126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Off topic: I love this intro: Did you pitch for a t-ball team, because thanks for that sweet setup! On topic: Some businesses require so much funding up front that it\u2019s not feasible. As always, there is a great blog post by Joel. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-... And I wish I could take credit for thinking about the consequences of making it harder for companies to be acquired, but I got the idea from Ben Thompson\u2019s (Of Stratechery fame) Exponent podcast. (This link will take you to a website at the time stamp of the podcast if you don\u2019t have Overcast installed) h"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 22400261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400261", "by": "hanklazard", "time": 1582499857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fantastic write-up, I really enjoyed all of the details on how the forensics are done for these cases. Certainly a good reminder to make frequent air-gapped backups of any mission-critical machines on the network. And even with those, as the author points out, rebuild time and effort could be horrible. Steve Gibson has been heavily covering the increase in ransomeware on his excellent podcast Security Now. From SN I\u2019ve learned some interesting points, including that Ransomeware-as-a-Service is now definitely a thing. There have been a few major operations which hand out ransomeware packages to"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22400960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400960", "by": "seisvelas", "time": 1582508720, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a software engineer currently working in offensive application security. I'm wondering what cybersecurity gems I'm missing out, whether literary, tools, or whatever. My contribution: Darknet Diaries. Excellent podcast. Can't wait to see what y'all've got!"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 22409491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409491", "by": "interestica", "time": 1582586662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the podcast 'Cautionary Tales' about the unintended consequences of certain actions. This seems like it would fit well as a great story."}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 22424193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424193", "by": "mcgrath_sh", "time": 1582733098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The LA Olympics are, from what I recall from a Bill Simmons podcast[0], going to be one of the cheapest to host in history. Salt Lake City also continues to use most venues from the 2002 games[1]. Some of the highlights from the podcast on the 2028 LA Olympics: * Only major construction that is occurring is an upgraded temporary track in the Coliseum, renovation on USC\u2019s swimming arena, and building a train line to the airport (which, IIRC, was in the long term plans already and is just being re-prioritized). The track from the Coliseum will be broken down and split among various high schools "}, {"show": "1679952983", "hn_item": 22432431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22432431", "by": "tqn", "time": 1582803814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "DHH, co-founder of Basecamp, and Jason Jacobs, co-founder of RunKeeper and host of the \"My Climate Journey\" podcast, have a deep conversation about climate change, their own personal views on it, and taking the metaphorical \"red pill,\" as it relates to the crisis. You can find past episodes on the My Climate Journey website as well as request an invite to the Slack group, where discussions on the topic are taking place among technologists, experts and entrepreneurs: https://www.myclimatejourney.co/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22434844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22434844", "by": "zenpaul", "time": 1582821654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to the Darknet Diaries Courthouse podcast about the pentest gone wrong that was referenced in the article. Highly recommended. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/59/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22435530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22435530", "by": "timwis", "time": 1582824870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in this stuff should check out the Darknet Diaries podcast for similar stories. They\u2019re great!!"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22435948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22435948", "by": "boplicity", "time": 1582827139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to today's interview with a NY Times reporter on The Daily podcast, the immunity is explained by the close relationship to the common cold. Children tend to get lots of common colds. Around 1/3rd of common colds are a form of coronavirus, because of this, their immune systems are more prepared for this new coronavirus. Over time, this immunity fades, but it takes many years. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/podcasts/the-daily/corona..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22443948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443948", "by": "bgilly", "time": 1582907623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily podcast has an episode on this called \"The end of privacy as we know it\" https://pca.st//episode/3af9bbfd-6992-429c-9b54-c646b288aef1 which discusses the reporter's info being masked and the police officer who worked with her having his access revoked."}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 22444825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22444825", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1582913149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The authors just happened to work at Google ,while having a manager that supported their work (check Go Time podcast), most of Google's relevant products keep being done in C++, Java and Python, and they are one of the biggest contributors to LLVM/clang, and ISO C++."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 22444825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22444825", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1582913149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The authors just happened to work at Google ,while having a manager that supported their work (check Go Time podcast), most of Google's relevant products keep being done in C++, Java and Python, and they are one of the biggest contributors to LLVM/clang, and ISO C++."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22445065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22445065", "by": "NortySpock", "time": 1582914573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you have links to those talks? Here's what I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA&t=1805s (94min, jump to 30m for Mr. Keller discussing Moore's law and his interpretation of it.) Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles | AI Podcast Lex Fridman, host."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 22448617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22448617", "by": "dewy", "time": 1582947416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The expert on NYT's The Daily podcast suggested that the load of the infection you are exposed to can influence the severity of the disease, in which case a health worker working with inflicted patients would presumably be at greater risk. However, I have neither the expertise in immunology or the time to look up sources to verify whether his statement is true. (They also suggested that he could just have been unlucky...) One fascinating thing they mentioned is that a large number of people in China smoke, especially among the elder generation that is experiencing the highest mortality rate. O"}, {"show": "296237493", "hn_item": 22451298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451298", "by": "Scipio_Afri", "time": 1582993362, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Heard specifically the .1% flu and 2% for COVID19 was from Dr. Adam Bernheim from Mount Sinai hospital in NYC who was interviewed as part of a Bloomberg investing podcast called \u201cBloomberg Surveillance\u201d. He\u2019s citing roughly what I\u2019ve seen in journals regarding the study of COVID (note I\u2019m not in the medical field but semi-competent and enough to find articles in medical journals, read them and understand what they\u2019re saying) but I haven\u2019t been able to find a number for typical season flu strains being \u201cabout .1%\u201d is what he specifically says and \u201cabout 2%\u201d for COVID19. He compared various aspe"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22452119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22452119", "by": "unlinked_dll", "time": 1583001496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm really intrigued by Jai because it has many of the ideas I want to see in more languages and has pretty killer syntax. The concept of a meta program that Jonathon Blow talked about on the \"On the Metal\" podcast is wild. A macro syntax that was both expressive/hygienic, but allowed for better integration with tooling (frequently tools have no introspection into expanded macro code, and debugging macros almost always sucks). I'm not sure how to solve this problem however, but I think procedural macros in Rust are a decent enough start (debugging them sucks right now, but I see no reason why "}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 22453051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22453051", "by": "throwaway3157", "time": 1583009886, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22459626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22459626", "by": "fbelzile", "time": 1583099420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast did an episode last Oct related to this [0]. It was pretty cool to hear how the rise in food delivery services (drive-throughs before that) created an entire industry for engineered cooking oil that helped keep fries crispier, longer. They also have an expert project how we'll likely have delivery vehicles in the future with deep fryers built in. [0] https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/772775254/episode-946-fries-o..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 22463244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22463244", "by": "pragmatick", "time": 1583145407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They also talked about a delivery method that may keep fries fresh and crispy for 40 minutes (or it may have been in 99% Invisible or some other podcast). Never heard about it again."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22470528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22470528", "by": "K0SM0S", "time": 1583194142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fair point; sure, there you go. (in no particular order, I'm probably forgetting many greats) ### Tech: - Lex Fridman \u2014 AI podcast: hall of fame of AI speaks there, and I really like Lex. https://www.youtube.com/user/lexfridman - EngineerMan is one of the best teachers out there for the \"get it done\" simple PoC stuff \u2014 lots of cool tricks, crystal clear explaining. Mostly devops / system. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrUL8K81R4VBzm-KOYwrcxQ - lots of conferences (all talks) get posted, so I tend to watch enough of those (not the 'big' marketing stuff like Google, more specific tech or doma"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22470881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22470881", "by": "troymc", "time": 1583197749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money (the podcast) did an episode on that: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729396914/episode-651-the-sal..."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 22472880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22472880", "by": "WoodenChair", "time": 1583224797, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 22476647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22476647", "by": "xt00", "time": 1583256638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries (ep54) had a great podcast as well on notpetya and talked to the author of Sandworm."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22477367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477367", "by": "burlesona", "time": 1583260436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Koch brothers are complicated. I found the Freakonomics interview with them very interesting: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part... The most interesting quote (from part 2 of the interview): > Charles Koch argues that the biggest threats to America these days are special interests, cronyism, and corporate welfare. Which may seem strange if you think of a corporate CEO, like Koch, as a beneficiary of those things. He also argues that our political system has turned into a dumpster fire, with both parties guilty of rent-seeking and putting their thumbs on whatever s"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22477687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477687", "by": "DiogenesKynikos", "time": 1583262452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Week in Virology is a very accessible podcast hosted by real academic virologists: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ As you can imagine, their main topic over the past few weeks has been the new coronavirus. They're very sober and rational about the new virus, but they're pretty clear that it's an extremely serious issue. One issue that they raised in this week's podcast was that work on a SARS vaccine ended years ago. After the virus disappeared, there was no more commercial interest in developing a vaccine against it. Governments should have stepped in and continued research into coronavirus "}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 22480324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480324", "by": "ortusdux", "time": 1583283950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The Adventure Zone\" role-playing podcast set one of their seasons inside this zone, which gave an elegant narrative reason to remove cell-phones from the story."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 22483018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22483018", "by": "revolu123", "time": 1583323498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As this has generated some debate, I wanted to recommend The Revolutions Podcast https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ which I think I first heard about on another HN thread."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22486880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22486880", "by": "pbhjpbhj", "time": 1583349166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wouldn't that show it harmed the consumer, to the tune of $50B (~$170 each)? I just heard Ajit Pai (sp?) talking on Freakonomics podcast, he was lying really effectively. Impressive interviewing nonetheless, probing but not badgering."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 22487082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22487082", "by": "agoell", "time": 1583350214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After this, I've been exploring other places to host our team's clusters... copied pricing below - EKS: $0.10/hour/cluster - Digital Ocean: Free (only charges for the nodes) - Azure: Free (only charges for the nodes) In the long run we'll probably try and build our stack on vendor-agnostic tools.. - Rancher - https://rancher.com/products/rancher/ - Infra.app - https://infra.app (mentioned a few weeks back on the Kubernetes podcast) - Prometheus https://prometheus.io/ - metrics The cloud providers all include their own tooling (logging, monitoring) built-in but I'm worried this will only lock u"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 22493605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22493605", "by": "I-M-S", "time": 1583417505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy the latest episode of a wonderful podcast called Decoder ring - https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2020/03/youve-got-ma..."}, {"show": "1376577202", "hn_item": 22494186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22494186", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1583421451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of the \"Decoder Ring\" podcast is about the rise and fall of indie booksellers + Barnes and Noble in NYC through the lens of \"The Shop Around the Corner\" and \"You've Got Mail\". In the movies, the (thinly veiled) B&N is the big bad and it examines just why that is and sort of why people were so against it for what now seems like stupid reasons: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-ring/"}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 22505149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505149", "by": "haagen", "time": 1583513913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to the points in this article, there is advice to not give children aspirin: https://www.healthline.com/health/headache-reyes-syndrome Kevin Rose Podcast with Dr. Andrew Weil had some suggestions I had not heard before: https://podcastnotes.org/kevin-rose-show/covid-19-coronaviru..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 22506595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506595", "by": "davidsawyer", "time": 1583523846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend listening to the Indie Hackers Podcast episode that Jen was a guest on. Super enjoyable listen. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/150-jen-yip-of-lunch-mo..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22511522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22511522", "by": "eloff", "time": 1583589076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing on the Joe Rogan podcast[1] about a theory of an impact at the end of the last glacial period, resulting in a short-term reversal of the warming trend known as the Younger Dryas Cooling Event. There was quite a bit of evidence in the form of meltglass and other things accumulating, but the theory was very much not accepted by mainstream science at the time. From the article it sounds like this idea is getting more support. Randall Carlson is pretty out there with his one massive flood theory as opposed to many smaller events. Nonetheless he's not an idiot by any means and he"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 22512872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512872", "by": "sixstringtheory", "time": 1583603395, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just listened to a 99PI episode that goes into the epistemology of song with Who Let the Dogs Out that is a fantastic listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/99-invisible/id3947753..."}, {"show": "1235937471", "hn_item": 22515407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22515407", "by": "mamp", "time": 1583628269, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I agree. I found Jonathan Frankle\u2019s interview on the NLP highlights podcast to be a great explanation of the findings, and provided some really good intuitions for how deep learning behaves. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/101-the-lottery-ticket..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22519112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22519112", "by": "ipnon", "time": 1583687062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Imagine von Neumann on a podcast like Lex Fridman's \"AI Podcast\" or Eric Weinstein's \"The Portal\". Would this diminish our view of his legacy, for him to come \"down to earth\"?"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22519112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22519112", "by": "ipnon", "time": 1583687062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Imagine von Neumann on a podcast like Lex Fridman's \"AI Podcast\" or Eric Weinstein's \"The Portal\". Would this diminish our view of his legacy, for him to come \"down to earth\"?"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 22525487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525487", "by": "kod45", "time": 1583763348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What can society really do about it though? Reminds me of the mindbending Shittown Alabama podcast This American Life did a few years back. At the end of it, all I was left feeling was society has zero ideas about how to do anything about these issues. There are blame games and anger/frustration/guilt/shame constantly expressed but I couldn't find anyone talking about solutions."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 22528418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528418", "by": "throwaway3157", "time": 1583779746, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 22547765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547765", "by": "pcubed", "time": 1583947587, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi folks, I'm an software developer who's been inactive for a few years. I do web development, but I'm a user when it comes to security and crytography tech. Years back, I used to listen to the Security Now! podcast to try to stay abreast of the best practices for security in my personal and professional life, but it was too long and often adapted to people who don't know how computers work. I follow HN somewhat via Hacker New Daily. Is there anything similar with regards to security / crytography news?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22547835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547835", "by": "jlisam13", "time": 1583947813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to Joe Rogan's podcast with Michael Osterholm and he gave an interesting perspective. He said that most nurses who have children will suffer if kids have to be sent home. They most likely don't have people that can help take care of their children while they are supporting the influx of patients. Moreover, many children rely on school provided meals so sending them home will be very tough on the families."}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 22550063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550063", "by": "behrlich95", "time": 1583958107, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22550287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550287", "by": "cm2187", "time": 1583959422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pointing to the last Sam Harris podcast [1]. He interviewed an infectious disease specialist, who like several other infectious disease specialists I heard before, isn't particularly concerned by this event. It is serious, but not alarming. I should note that Sam Harris is rather on the worried side of the spectrum (and felt compelled to add a disclaimer at the begining). [1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22550511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550511", "by": "spectramax", "time": 1583960311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Michael Osterholm was on Joe Rogan's podcast explaining in detail how this virus spreads [1] - Washing hands and not touching face is inconclusive but it makes sense to keep up the hygiene. That's not the primary means of how this virus spreads. - Virus primarily spreads via airborne means, simply by breathing (not even coughing or sneezing) is enough. It stays suspended in air (you can imagine the negligible weight of a 0.1um particle compared to the fluid mechanical forces from circulating air). - N95 masks (contrarily to the popular myth) are the most effective means of stopping the spr"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22551375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551375", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1583964745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The dude on Joe Rogan's podcast made it sound like the covid spread is mostly just a matter of breathing the same air."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22551500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22551500", "by": "dirtyid", "time": 1583965709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The This Week in Virology podcast was discussing some anecdotal stats from doctors HK who reported lower incidents in many common seasonal disease due to better hygiene. I don't believe they have population wide compulsory quarantine, so it might just be a case of mask usage + hand washing. Would be interesting if on the whole, less people died this year due to elevated vigilance as side affect of corona response."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22553042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22553042", "by": "tunesmith", "time": 1583980258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't believe the 40-70% number. Looking it up, this underscores just how horribly the internet is set up to have these kinds of conversations. If you backsource it, you discover he said \"there's a chance\" it will hit 40-70%, and then only if no countermeasures are taken. That's very different than what is represented in the cbs transcript. I saw another seemingly reputable estimate today - some disease person on Joe Rogan's podcast, who was saying that 96 million people could get it, of which 48 million would need to be hospitalized. This makes no sense unless you are predicting a virus mut"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22556585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22556585", "by": "cletus", "time": 1584019881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I encourage people to go watch the Joe Rogan podcast on this [1]. A few snippets: - He describes this as more like a \"winter\" than a \"blizzard\" in that this is going to go on for months; - No one really knows what the mortality rate is but it's become clear there are certain risk factors eg the fatality rate among people over 70 in China is about 3x for men than women but men are much more likely to smoke than women in China in this age group. - Keeping schools closed is a mixed bag. For one, kids below 9 or so don't seem to get sick or die. In China only 2% of cases are under age 19. There"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22564199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22564199", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1584066702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"it does seem like there are two strains of it\" This has been debunked on the This Week in Virology podcast[1]: Vincent Racaniello: There are a series of articles here, where there have been some claims about different circulating lineages and what that means. Are you on this, Cathy? Cathy Spindler: Right. So, there was an article that I first saw in the LA Times \"Chinese Scientists Say Second Coronavirus Strain Is More Dangerous\"[2]. But in that there's a link to virological.org, which we talked about another article posted there a couple of weeks ago[3], and they really debunk this and think"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22569407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569407", "by": "tw202003131459", "time": 1584122526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Surely this should be considered a major public health emergency in itself? Indeed. There's an episode of Sam Harris's podcast with Matt MCarthy from last summer. The episode title is The Plague Years, and they go into quite a bit of detail on this sort of thing and ruminate about how low on the radar it is for most people (if it even registers at all), despite the seriousness of the situation."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22578497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578497", "by": "djaychela", "time": 1584218390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, I think that's referred to as \"the denominator problem\". Have a listen to Sam Harris' podcast on it this week - the expert on there sees 0.6% as an upper bound for mortality for coronavirus as that's the figure from South Korea, where the testing has been most intensive, and even that doesn't cover everyone."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22581172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22581172", "by": "will_pseudonym", "time": 1584245212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"That's a great question.\" is another one that you won't be able to unhear. This Freakonomics podcast was what made me aware of it consciously. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/thats-a-great-question-a-ne..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 22584134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584134", "by": "srcmap", "time": 1584287944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That PC is only for controlling this machine and no need to be on internet, right? If so, just config the windows firewall to disconnect it from the internet? I do that on my home machines. All updates are disable and I manually enable them every 6-12 months to let win10 to go crazy for a day or so and everything is up to day. One can also monitor the podcast such as \"Security Now\" to check if the latest windows update processes have any special BSOD or silently / randomly delete all users files/profiles before turn on the update."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22598244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598244", "by": "crakenzak", "time": 1584394977, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22601888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601888", "by": "raphlinus", "time": 1584421682, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the citation from CIDRAP. I haven't watched the Joe Rogan podcast, but I did read an interview [1] where Dr. Osterholm gave reasoning, basically saying that the science is not in yet on the role that children have in the transmission of the virus. That's fair, though I think that is starting to fill in. For example, in the Imperial study [2] (one of the most important documents of the day), their modeling shows a fairly substantial improvement in deaths from closing most universities and schools compared with not doing so (I'm looking at PC_CI_HQ_SDOL70 vs CI_HQ_SDOL70 on the chart "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22601966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601966", "by": "raphlinus", "time": 1584422586, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the article link and the reference to CIDRAP. I'm trying to take in a lot of information, especially views dissenting from the mainstream. These are useful resources. > It is not the case that \"many experts are citing numbers in the high hundreds of thousands to a million people\". You are objectively wrong on this. The UCSF panel on 3/10 presented an estimate with a range of 1.5 million on the high side. Dr. Osterholm said on the Joe Rogan podcast, \"We conservatively estimate that this could require 48 million hospitalizations, and over 480,000 deaths over the next 3-7 months.\" The "}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22607200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607200", "by": "bart_spoon", "time": 1584464955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Are there countries who conduct serologic tests? PCR tests (widely used?) wouldn't catch people who got the infection, developed antibodies with no or mild symptoms, but didn't transmit the virus around at the moment test is taken. Not that I know of. On the most recent \"This Week in Virology\" podcast, they mentioned that China has recently said they won't be doing serologic testing, which lead them to think that China has reason to believe the disease is far more widespread than their official numbers show. This may be in line with the idea that most infections are asymptomatic."}, {"show": "1494781373", "hn_item": 22611075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611075", "by": "robertkrahn01", "time": 1584482997, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really liked the \"WeCrashed\" podcast [1,2], it traces the rise and fall of WeWork and is well produced. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/wecrashed-the-rise-and-fa... [2] https://wondery.com/shows/we-crashed/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22622495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622495", "by": "advantager", "time": 1584573315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Freakonomics podcast episode I recently heard that further expands on your point regarding socialist vs. welfare states: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/socialism/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 22626203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626203", "by": "mvcalder", "time": 1584614219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to a recent episode of 99% Invisible: The Weather Machine and I'm struck by the similarities. In the podcast they discuss the evolution of the data sharing agreements to do weather prediction and the birth of the idea that with that data weather was predictable. Your list of 4 could have been lifted right from that episode about weather. So, someday maybe!"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 22628477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628477", "by": "elliekelly", "time": 1584632409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I never miss an opportunity to rave about the \"Sleep With Me\" podcast.[1] Thanks to Scooter's soothing voice I no longer need medication to sleep every night. I have no affiliation other than being a very happy listener. [1] https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22630002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630002", "by": "unixhero", "time": 1584641117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Isn't this what Eric Weinstein is on about in his podcast as series The Portal?"}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 22632712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22632712", "by": "dbader", "time": 1584659063, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 22633459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633459", "by": "guiambros", "time": 1584665828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excellent interview with Chuck Peddle, originally aired in 2015 by The Amp Hour podcast. He was a true legend behind the personal computer, and unfortunately passed away last December [1][2]. From Wikipedia [3]: \" Charles Peddle (Nov 25, 1937 \u2013 Dec 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. \" [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/technology/chuck-peddle-d... [2] https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuck-pe"}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 22651653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22651653", "by": "jdbiggs", "time": 1584838363, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 22655032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655032", "by": "endlesstrax", "time": 1584886362, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 22666864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22666864", "by": "dustingetz", "time": 1584987022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "which finance podcasts do you like? i just know Macro Voices"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22667674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667674", "by": "cbhl", "time": 1584991173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're in the US, just make sure you sign into your brokerage account once or twice every year, to avoid your stocks going into escheat. Here's an episode of Planet Money which tells the tale of a man who bought some Amazon stock back in the day: (21 min podcast): https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat... (transcript): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159"}, {"show": "908982303", "hn_item": 22672874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22672874", "by": "thekhatribharat", "time": 1585036033, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22687600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22687600", "by": "virologist", "time": 1585163882, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 22693785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693785", "by": "specialist", "time": 1585232308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently learned about Superhuman. Via the Acquired podcast. Not a recommendation; I haven't used Superhuman. But I remain astonished there's an apparently very successful startup who's entire effort is a \"pro\" webmail client for gmail. It would have never occurred to me to create a better webmail. As I reach my greybeard years, I'm increasingly aware that I've been doing everything wrong."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 22703275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703275", "by": "wpietri", "time": 1585320845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Philosophy Bites podcast that talked about the high comorbidity of mental disorders. This one, I think: https://philosophybites.com/2016/01/steven-hyman-on-categori... The point that stuck with me is that, as you say, the high comorbidity is strong evidence that we have a bad model of the situation. Part of that for me is the medicalization of deviance. As an example, I saw a bit on Twitter from an autism researcher who was sitting in on a young girl getting tested for autism. She was shown an animation of triangles moving around in a way that neurotypicals would anthropomorp"}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 22707201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707201", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1585345620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Probably the best book on product development ever written. Command Line Heroes podcast on it: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic... (Disclosure: I work for Red Hat) Also worth checking out in this vein is Showstopper about the development of Windows NT which focuses on the role of Dave Cutler."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 22710523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710523", "by": "mpweiher", "time": 1585395723, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 22710584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710584", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1585396631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That Minitel book is okay, but I didn't get too much out of it that wasn't on an early Reply All podcast episode."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 22712182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712182", "by": "morvita", "time": 1585413068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All is a group of very talented storytellers working at the intersection of tech and society. I love everything they do and have been listening to PJ and Alex since before Reply All (before starting Reply All, they had a podcast called TL;DR that was a spinoff from WNYC's On the Media). The stories they tell should be of interest to the HN crowd, I'd highly recommend everyone give them a try."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 22712182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712182", "by": "morvita", "time": 1585413068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All is a group of very talented storytellers working at the intersection of tech and society. I love everything they do and have been listening to PJ and Alex since before Reply All (before starting Reply All, they had a podcast called TL;DR that was a spinoff from WNYC's On the Media). The stories they tell should be of interest to the HN crowd, I'd highly recommend everyone give them a try."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 22712286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712286", "by": "chrisa", "time": 1585413839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cStart small, stay small\u201d is good (but a bit old) Definitely check out Indie Hackers though! The whole community and podcast is built around that idea."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 22712501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712501", "by": "pascalxus", "time": 1585415477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to a number of Reply All Podcast stories and I must say, most of it, is really good stuff: I highly recommend it. Many of them seem to be like investigative journalism, but they do it on internet/social media related stuff."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 22712686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712686", "by": "odie88", "time": 1585416680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding The Mom Test. It's a fast read too, and the author was on a recent episode of the Indie Hackers podcast. For more of the same, I got a lot out of Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez. Here's a talk from Cindy if you'd like to get to learn more before committing to a book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hc7sseHbE"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 22712796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712796", "by": "joegahona", "time": 1585417357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a special place in hell for the people who work at those fake call centers in India and take advantage of elderly people. They confused my 80-year-old dad, who is slowing down noticeably, about a year ago. Luckily he gave them his debit-card number, and Wells Fargo was great about canceling the charge, but it still involved a lot of time and anxiety. I hope whomever scammed my dad gets scammed himself, when he's older. I loved the Missing Hit episode of Reply All and need to make a point of seeking out this podcast more. The only episodes I've heard, I've loved. There's another good on"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22713761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22713761", "by": "celias", "time": 1585424345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about coyotes recently https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 22714179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714179", "by": "jordanpg", "time": 1585428239, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the spectrum of podcasts wherein the hosts insist on doing this kind of thing, Reply All keeps it to a tasteful minimum. But I agree in general; podcast hosts need to learn that their inside jokes are not really funny or fun to a broader audience."}, {"show": "709617583", "hn_item": 22714538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22714538", "by": "extra88", "time": 1585431816, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is the URL from Apple\u2019s directory but you can probably also find it somewhere on WNYC\u2019s site. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tldr/id709617583"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 22715783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715783", "by": "kejaed", "time": 1585447409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Were you a team member on this team before you were promoted to lead? If so, it's going to be a tough road ahead because you are going from a peer / co-worker relationship to a manager & direct report relationship. These are tough transitions to make, and a reason the military will often transfer someone who is newly put into a leadership position. Have you started to train yourself as a lead / manager? A couple of resources I've found useful in the switch have been Manager Tools [0] (book, site, and podcast) as well as The Manager's Path [1]. While his shtick can be a bit thick at times, I en"}, {"show": "1480732807", "hn_item": 22716129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22716129", "by": "jonbaer", "time": 1585452525, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He just did a great interview @ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gary-flake-scientist-a..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22722264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22722264", "by": "kennywinker", "time": 1585512715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Totally true. Obviously nobody knows right now if that will happen or not, but that question was posed on a recent episode of This Week in Virology (great podcast, btw) and they seemed to be saying that the mutated seasonal variant is a fairly unique characteristic of the flu virus, and it would not be _likely_ to happen with COVID-19."}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 22731761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731761", "by": "dbader", "time": 1585598790, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 22750256, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750256", "by": "patrickrivera", "time": 1585757491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patrick here. Agreed. In the initial outreach I gave some context and asked to meet for coffee. Here it is: \"Hi Adam, My name is Patrick Rivera and we have not met, but since hearing about MissionU on the Rich Roll podcast I've been thinking about how MissionU has the opportunity to improve the future of education. I've spent the last two years trying to get an internship in management consulting but was repeatedly told I didn't have a chance because I don't go to a target school. Although I eventually succeeded, I realized there are millions of people today that don't have pedigree, but do ha"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22751155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22751155", "by": "zenpaul", "time": 1585761599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a good podcast on this topic recently. I learned that it's hard to follow CDC guidelines when you're sleeping 20 in a garage and there's only enough water to shower every few days. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-an..."}, {"show": "296237493", "hn_item": 22758587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758587", "by": "airstrike", "time": 1585833524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not really, sadly. I just heard him on an internal conference call we have twice a week, so don't really have a link to provide but don't think he's published his views in writing just yet. I expect a lot of similar predictions to come out now that the unemployment claims number is out (as of ~1 hour ago) For general views of very smart people on the economy and markets, I recommend Bloomberg Surveillance every morning on the Bloomberg app, radio and on your favorite podcast app"}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 22762474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22762474", "by": "baccredited", "time": 1585854726, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Chamath Palihapitiya spent an hour answering all your questions. Worth a listen! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chamath-palihapitiya-i..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 22764037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764037", "by": "qwertox", "time": 1585862715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't remember exactly which episode of the \"Omega Tau\" podcast it was, very likely \"Weather Forecasting at the ECMWF\", but in it it was stated that we're adding one day of reliable forecasting for every decade of research on the topic. https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e..."}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 22783048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783048", "by": "dirtyid", "time": 1586050539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think an hour a week is sufficient. For me the guideline for general population should be basically intermediate strength standards like the prescriptions by NASA, which are hilariously low but calibrated to maximize muscle retention, mission capability and most significantly reduce injury. Mission capability for gen pop is just to have enough muscle so you don't shatter your hips during a bad fall or injure yourself on rudimentary tasks (carrying your kids) that lead to expensive long term care. The NASA standard was something like bodyweight squats for 6-10s that most people should be able"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 22790281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790281", "by": "thesuperbigfrog", "time": 1586138140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Blissymbols ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols ) were created to address such a need. Radiolab has a great episode ( https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bliss ) that gives the backstory of the creation of Blissymbols and why they did not get as widely adopted as their creator hoped."}, {"show": "1360242294", "hn_item": 22790854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790854", "by": "DonHopkins", "time": 1586146499, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's an interview with Aaron McLeran, who has done a lot of work with CSound, and collaborated with Brian Eno on the procedural music in Will Wright's \"Spore\" computer game at Maxis, using Pure Data (PD). Immersive Audio Podcast Episode 7 Aaron McLeran https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/immersive-audio-podcas... https://soundcloud.com/user-713907742/immersive-audio-podcas... >In today\u2019s episode Oliver was joined via Skype by Aaron McLeran, Lead Audio Programmer at Epic Games. Aaron\u2019s first taste of audio programming was writing computer music in CSound while in graduate school at Universi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22797394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797394", "by": "futureproofd", "time": 1586204408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein most recently explained his Kayfabe theory on the Joe Rogan podcast, in this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA He also makes reference to this particular article."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22801450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801450", "by": "playing_colours", "time": 1586249125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have mixed feelings about Weinstein, but I am not a physicist. He said on Joe Rogan podcast that he was a not professional physicist, and he sounded quite modest about the correcness of his theories, said that he was looking for constructive feedback. To me, that's a sign of a self-aware person. On the other hand, he kind of uses his Portal community and podcast - where there are interesting important discussions on many social issues - to promote his theory. This theory sounds smart for non-physicists, they cannot see flaws in it, and he preaches passionately about it - thus he can ignite e"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 22810344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22810344", "by": "DubiousPusher", "time": 1586324147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a primer on this period take a listen to the now defunct Bing Thinking History Podcast http://bingethinkinghistory.blogspot.com/?m=1 And the early episodes of Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ Together these really disabused of the propaganda taught in American schools like that the entire world was under tyranny before the American Republic, that the founders were geniuses that came up with religious toleration, consent of governed and seperation of powers all on their own, etc."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 22820985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22820985", "by": "mjlee", "time": 1586424350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast Episode 371 is essentially two and a half hours of Chris Lattner: https://atp.fm/episodes/371 It's a bit of an outlier, most ATP episodes are Apple focussed news with adjecent tech interests. Episode 371 is not that."}, {"show": "1316769266", "hn_item": 22823350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823350", "by": "lsoenke", "time": 1586445474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify podcasts: Equity (by Techcrunch), A16Z podcast, Acquired, Master of Scale (with Reid Hoffman), Venture Stories (Village Global)"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 22823744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823744", "by": "rohansingh", "time": 1586447661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been impressed by the Go Time podcast from Changelog. Good topics, interesting interviews, well-researched and well executed. Not a huge fan of the other podcasts on that network, but Go Time seems good."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 22823744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823744", "by": "rohansingh", "time": 1586447661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been impressed by the Go Time podcast from Changelog. Good topics, interesting interviews, well-researched and well executed. Not a huge fan of the other podcasts on that network, but Go Time seems good."}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 22823879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22823879", "by": "adwi", "time": 1586448486, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Malicious Life is a very well done podcast about hacking. I\u2019d say it\u2019s aimed at mid level of tech savviness\u2014you won\u2019t feel pandered to as an expert, but they\u2019re engaging, well-explained narratives that anyone can follow and enjoy. https://pca.st/podcast/57847560-3e22-0135-9028-63f4b61a9224"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 22824874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22824874", "by": "bensonalec", "time": 1586452804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Go Time is great, most of the podcasts on the Changelog network are pretty awesome, Go Time really stands out though, the hosts and guests they bring on always have great discussion. Programming Throwdown is also really good, a little less \"professional\" but has better in-depth discussion, their episode with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas about \"The Pragmatic Programmer\" is great."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 22825102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825102", "by": "knat_lurk", "time": 1586453849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Embedded is the reason I listen to podcasts. Accessible yet informational embedded systems topics, and sometimes fascinating tertiary guests. And lightning!"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 22825556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825556", "by": "sixothree", "time": 1586456198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to Hanselminutes, .Net Rocks, sometimes TechMeme Ride Home, Full Stack Radio, Software Engineering Daily, Syntax. https://hanselminutes.com/ https://www.dotnetrocks.com/ https://news.techmeme.com/180306/podcast"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 22826091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826091", "by": "boddu", "time": 1586459523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9rdWJlcm5ldGVzcG... kubernetes podcast from google. A weekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes. The hosts takes a topic in kubernetes community and try to explain it in more detail."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22826752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826752", "by": "lukemichals", "time": 1586463490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's AI podcast: https://lexfridman.com/ai/"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 22834662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834662", "by": "floatingatoll", "time": 1586536501, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The paper includes a disclaimer: > MM and NG are cofounders of Biobot Analytics. EJA is advisor to Biobot. NE and CD are employees at Biobot. All these authors hold shares in the company. Another comment suggests that Biobot is YC. As far as I can tell, Biobot has never posted a Launch HN, but they did post a Covid page 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627746 They were in the news in 2018 for testing wastewater to measure the opioid crisis, but I can't find any HN discussions about any link or story that I can find myself, or from their list of media posts. https://www.biobo"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 22835406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835406", "by": "axiomdata316", "time": 1586540936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first learned about Bernays from attending a live episode of \"Stuff You Should Know\" in Los Angeles. The full show was about Edward Bernays. Hair nets and Bananas both owe their popularity to Bernays. The \"Stuff You Should Know\" podcast that eventually posted nicely covers all the points but I couldn't find it on their website since iHeart Radio bought them and removed their website."}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 22835998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22835998", "by": "ardme", "time": 1586543629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He made the same mistake on the \"Pomp\" podcast the other day too. He was saying we send 50k to every person in the USA for the stimulus. Well, no. 2 trillion divided by by 327 million is $6,116 dollars. So yeah maybe we should divide the 2 trillion up between the people but he got a decimal point wrong. Personally it seems more effective to send most of the money to hospitals and medical organizations because people wouldn't necessarily be able to use stimulus money for anything now anyway. Seems like it makes sense to prop up businesses since you can't build a business overnight and most peop"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 22838830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22838830", "by": "hoistbypetard", "time": 1586566156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robert Evans did two excellent episodes on Bernays on his Behind the Bastards podcast. Part 1: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... Part 2: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22841938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22841938", "by": "camelCaseCamel", "time": 1586616518, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Relevant: https://podcastnotes.org/portal-with-eric-weinstein/bret-eri... Link to full podcast (highly recommended listening): https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pSAI6UqXc2yLTdk2x4mZE"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22842359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22842359", "by": "oedmarap", "time": 1586621135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was going to link to The Portal podcast as well, then saw your comment. Related reading for anyone wanting a quick introduction to Bret's theory re: the efficacy of generational laboratory mice as test subjects: - https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1352201 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11909679/"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 22844806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22844806", "by": "eternauta3k", "time": 1586645452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, where did you hear this? What I heard in Peter Attia's podcast is that the lung fills with fluid."}, {"show": "1454097755", "hn_item": 22847784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847784", "by": "m42", "time": 1586694476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Naval podcast is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jemPACNo1_I&list=PL5QAQBV5zC..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 22853024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22853024", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1586749813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Like Iowa, Northern Illinois and Minnesota, Wisconsin was historically pretty centrist and humanitarian. It's only recently that the rural areas have swung to the right. The Revolutions Podcast also introduced me to the history of the Forty-Eighters, who had a tremendous impact on the politics of the Upper Midwest. Particularly in Wisconsin. And that's on top of a substrate of communitarian values brought by the original European settlers pushed westward from Massachusetts. It's really a post-millennial phenomenon that the politics are now dominated by a pan-US urban-rural divide. https://en.m"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 22853146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22853146", "by": "ddmma", "time": 1586751623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quackery is often described as \"health fraud\" with the salient characteristic of aggressive promotion.\u201d In the medieval times this was done by shouting in the public markets, today using affiliate marketing networks targeting millions of emails. Surely they don\u2019t target people that can reason and ignore/ delete their messages but the ones that click and follow the dodgy trail. Here is an interesting podcast about Scams - You Are Not So Smart Podcast 097 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbW18RcO8Y Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22853768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22853768", "by": "dharma1", "time": 1586761830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent interview with David Silver on Lex Fridman's podcast touches on this towards the end - https://youtu.be/uPUEq8d73JI?t=6081"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 22856268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22856268", "by": "brownbat", "time": 1586789075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> because WE are unsafe Totally agree, a system is only as safe as it's operators, so it's totally reasonable to compare worst case scenarios. But if you run the numbers on those terms, that still doesn't fully explain why nuclear is treated so differently. Extending your point, WE are the ones responsible for coal and hydro safety related deaths too. An unsafe hydro project in China killed somewhere between 80,000 and 240,000 people in 1975 after a whistleblower was ignored. With coal mining, we don't even have to look at \"worst\" cases to get to serious issues. Coal production leads US indust"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22860681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860681", "by": "mplewis", "time": 1586815422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This comment is correct. Here's a Freakonomics Radio investigation into Ticketmaster: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-sc..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 22864296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864296", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1586859497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some podcast recommendations: -Freakonomics ( https://freakonomics.com/ ) has been making some good episodes about different aspects of the current crisis. The latest episode is about the food supply market, the one before is about the $2 trillion aid package. -Planet Money ( https://www.npr.org/sections/money/ ), which was created in 2008 to help make sense of the finantial crisis, is obviously focused on the crisis. Expect 20-30 minute episodes about economic topics in the news (some of the latest episodes include \"The Big Small Business Rescue\" and \"The Economics Of Hospital Beds\")"}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 22864512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864512", "by": "Tangokat", "time": 1586861449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The markets and the economy move so fast now I prefer content which updates very regularly. A lot of material is simply outdated. Real vision[0] has some really good content. It's not super easily digestable for someone not in professional finance but I think finance is just too complicated to simplify and not lose a lot of nuance. I'm trying to learn and have to look up a lot of stuff but it has been fun. I think they have 1 month trial for $1. I recommend Raoul Pal's recent video \"The Unfolding\" as a starting point. I also think Macro Voices[1] podcasts are very solid. Again not very easy co"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22866051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866051", "by": "bawana", "time": 1586872839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1. I just watched Eric Weinstein on Lex Fridman's podcast. He is angry about how students have been emasculated by the establishment. That the death of Aaron Schwartz was a tragedy and the students should 'rise up and take back' MIT. Yet he himself has a net worth over 100mill and is doing nothing about it.He promises betterment through revolution like Batista and Castro, yet he himself is busy amassing wealth. Why does he think youth will waste itself on anything else except the pursuit of the dream that made him successful? Internet has just become another tool for control because that's ju"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22867111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867111", "by": "aivosha", "time": 1586877850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder if this is in response to Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity presentation he did on April 1st. Yesterday, on Lex Fridman's podcast, he mentioned how since he revealed his theory there wasnt any feedback from scientific community. BTW, highly recommend watching Eric's Portal."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22867151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867151", "by": "bart_spoon", "time": 1586878065, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> 1. I'm well aware of that. Is that the only new evidence that's come to light since the piece I linked to though? Would have expected something more solid than unnamed sources from inside national security (see: big hack) There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of stories produced by national security forces, but there are far more reasons to be skeptical of stories being produced by the CCP. If it's a question of who to believe, I don't know why one would pick the Chinese government. > 2. I'll grant that that's possibility in the exact same sense in which I grant the centralized cover-u"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 22867529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867529", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1586879825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not reading per se, but I've listened to Marketplace podcast [0] almost daily for years at this point, and I find it invaluable for economic news and interpretation -- especially now. Also recommend Marketplace's podcast Make Me Smart [1], which is an informal deep dive on a single subject. It's nominally a weekly podcast, but they're now releasing a 10-minute daily version. Finally, NPR's Planet Money [2] and their daily podcast The Indicator [3] are entertaining and education as well. [0] https://www.marketplace.org/ [1] https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and... [2] htt"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22867529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867529", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1586879825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not reading per se, but I've listened to Marketplace podcast [0] almost daily for years at this point, and I find it invaluable for economic news and interpretation -- especially now. Also recommend Marketplace's podcast Make Me Smart [1], which is an informal deep dive on a single subject. It's nominally a weekly podcast, but they're now releasing a 10-minute daily version. Finally, NPR's Planet Money [2] and their daily podcast The Indicator [3] are entertaining and education as well. [0] https://www.marketplace.org/ [1] https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and... [2] htt"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 22867529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867529", "by": "dacohenii", "time": 1586879825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not reading per se, but I've listened to Marketplace podcast [0] almost daily for years at this point, and I find it invaluable for economic news and interpretation -- especially now. Also recommend Marketplace's podcast Make Me Smart [1], which is an informal deep dive on a single subject. It's nominally a weekly podcast, but they're now releasing a 10-minute daily version. Finally, NPR's Planet Money [2] and their daily podcast The Indicator [3] are entertaining and education as well. [0] https://www.marketplace.org/ [1] https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and... [2] htt"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22868483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868483", "by": "hobofan", "time": 1586884057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What path is Eric Weinstein taking? I've heard about him for the first time yesterday, when a section of his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was linked, where he talked much too confidently about a subject he probably shouldn't."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22869388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22869388", "by": "lukifer", "time": 1586887877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At times, Eric has quite the way with words; yet on Lex Fridman's podcast, he really struggled to communicate Geometric Unity in a way that's even slightly accessible to a layperson, despite Lex's patient prodding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE I actually find his brother Bret to be the opposite in his manner, far more measured and comprehensible: though he'll occasionally forget that you might not know a particular term of art (telomeres, extended phenotype), his ideas are more narrowly scoped to genetic selection pressures and game theory, and a little easier to parse. (His exp"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 22870495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22870495", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1586893030, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly, I find Marketplace's obsession with politics annoying. IDK if they just have an easier time sourcing interviews from government officials because public radio or something, but it feels like even in times of non-distress they lean heavy on policy and lean on actual markets. Look at the non-COVID Make Me Smart topics as an example: - Housing policy - Corporate social responsibility - food policy to fight global poverty - the equal rights act - facebook and US elections - regulating the internet with section 230 - an interview with a senior politico editor about the school-skills-jobs "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 22870495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22870495", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1586893030, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly, I find Marketplace's obsession with politics annoying. IDK if they just have an easier time sourcing interviews from government officials because public radio or something, but it feels like even in times of non-distress they lean heavy on policy and lean on actual markets. Look at the non-COVID Make Me Smart topics as an example: - Housing policy - Corporate social responsibility - food policy to fight global poverty - the equal rights act - facebook and US elections - regulating the internet with section 230 - an interview with a senior politico editor about the school-skills-jobs "}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22870496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22870496", "by": "mellosouls", "time": 1586893032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Weinstein rented a room in an Oxbridge college to lecture on his theory of everything. His recent campaign was for his brother who he feels was badly mistreated by a Nobel laureate who he alleges failed to credit him for important related work. You can hear the latter case on a recent edition of his podcast, The Portal."}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 22873583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873583", "by": "sien", "time": 1586914809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The F14 was even quicker. 1969 selection to 1973 deployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#VFX It's interesting how things changed from that generation to the next. The introduction of sophisticated computers seems to be part of the issue. The F14's electronics, BTW, were pretty primitive. This episode of the Fighter Pilot Podcast F14 is amazing. The ways people had to keep the systems going were dramatic. In the 1990s the back seater in the F14 would sometimes carry their own tools to fix things in the plane. https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/042-f-14-tomcat..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22879672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879672", "by": "Reedx", "time": 1586967997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a writer on Sam Harris' podcast (I think Matt Taibbi in this episode[1]) who said he was having a really hard time getting interest in any article that wasn't about Trump. Interest virtually disappeared in anything else. The 24/7 reality TV show is what gets attention and it's easy to produce. So depressing. 1. https://samharris.org/podcasts/140-burning-fourth-estate/"}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 22881643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881643", "by": "jstanley", "time": 1586977213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've not heard of this before. The premise sounds incredibly appealing to me, and I am going to try listening: > For those who haven\u2019t heard (of) The Program audio series before, imagine Black Mirror as a podcast. Every episode is a standalone story set in a future in which Money, State, and God have been fused into a single entity called the Program. The world of the Program is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, as the new system produced both winners and losers - ordinary men and women who are sometimes heroes and sometimes the villains of their own lives. And to them, it is not this future th"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 22883458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22883458", "by": "nereye", "time": 1586987115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vox's 'The Weeds' podcast last episode [0] was about the stimulus bill (AKA CARES Act 2020, [1]). [0] https://www.vox.com/the-weeds [1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/354..."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 22883884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22883884", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1586989875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Small bit of feedback: The title \"The Program\" is great, but unfortunately (as I'm sure you are aware) there is another podcast called \"The Program\" and while yours has \"The Program audio series\" (note the lack of capitalization on audio series) as its title (at least in Overcast, my podcasting app) makes it harder for people to communicate orally. I understand if you feel like it is too late to change, but if you could find a title that was more searchable I'm sure it would help. The Program Arises or something like that."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 22884863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22884863", "by": "iamkroot", "time": 1586997451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The American Medical Association, which is a rotten cabal. Fantastic podcast about them by freakonomics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22885290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22885290", "by": "thorwasdfasdf", "time": 1587001957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not their fault. The disease hit New York first before it hit anywhere else in the US and hence had a lot of time to develop. I heard from one source, that it was already present in New York back in december and that one of the first worldwide cases came to New york early. that was from a Joe Rogan podcast episode."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 22891950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22891950", "by": "masonhensley", "time": 1587060556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN, I left my role running tech & security at a VC backed healthcare company a few months ago to scratch a multi year itch that I\u2019ve had since a brutal multi hour sprint planning meeting during my time at a Fortune 50. Over the last few years, I\u2019ve found myself in deja vu moments coaching Subject Matter Experts (SME\u2019s), Product Managers, developers on their user stories & requirements for normal stuff we see in most software applications... Think user management, forgotten password flows, csv uploads, common customer service tasks etc - mostly solved problems from both an Engineering & UX "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22892286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892286", "by": "mikelyons", "time": 1587063124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He just recently explained this on Lex Fridman's podcast and JRE"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22895204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22895204", "by": "loceng", "time": 1587085092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein on April 2nd posted the lecture to his YouTube channel + at the end of video he goes over to clarify some details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg I'd recommend his The Portal video podcast series as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88/videos Two other recent interviews he did with Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE and Joe Rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22895204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22895204", "by": "loceng", "time": 1587085092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein on April 2nd posted the lecture to his YouTube channel + at the end of video he goes over to clarify some details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7rd04KzLcg I'd recommend his The Portal video podcast series as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/nobani88/videos Two other recent interviews he did with Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE and Joe Rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA"}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 22898164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898164", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1587124095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Credit due to hearing about it on the rather good podcast Imaginary Worlds: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/solarpunk-the-future.... This ticks quite a few boxes for me, so I was surprised I hadn't heard about it until now."}, {"show": "1505697997", "hn_item": 22900456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900456", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1587141274, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 22903579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903579", "by": "scott_s", "time": 1587162520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read Vox and listen to Ezra Klein's podcast as well as The Weeds. They have been covering Covid-19 since before it had that name. They are a part of my regular media diet, and I consumed their coverage before the US had its first case. I knew this was seriously partially because of their coverage. I am baffled by this narrative that Vox is somehow specially to blame. Ezra Klein has a list of early stories when someone else accused them of the same: https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1241202132604162050"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 22906806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906806", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1587206930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you looked into finding English language YouTubers you could watch/listen to to get a better ear for the language? It might make your skills more native sounding. Same idea with English podcasts. I find having to study the banality of a language tedious but if I\u2019m listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast, for example, and I like tech and am trying to hear English spoken by native speakers, then it\u2019s like I am learning without the tedium."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 22908701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908701", "by": "ryen", "time": 1587226568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out On The Metal podcast for great interviews around computing history since the 70s"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 22913146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913146", "by": "siparikh", "time": 1587265235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're into listening to podcasts, I highly recommend Sean Haas's Advent of Computing podcast, which bills itself as \"the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing.\" https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22921147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22921147", "by": "Melting_Harps", "time": 1587357671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What do you make of Eric Weinstein's recent interview on Lex Fridman's AI podcast (both MIT alumni) specifically the taking back MIT portion: https://youtu.be/rIAZJNe7YtE?t=6418 I've been conflicted with MIT as an institution ever since the death of Aaron Swartz, it stood by and then participated in what ultimately took the life of a great member of the hacker/tech community, but I understand and accept that so many great minds go there to create some of the greatest innovation the Human Species' is capable of. It was sad to hear Eric's plight was the same trivial political non-sense and admin"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 22927378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22927378", "by": "tanderson92", "time": 1587410556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not so unexpected: Tracy Alloway is one of the hosts of a jointly very-entertaining and highly-informative podcast by Bloomberg, Odd Lots."}, {"show": "1487320403", "hn_item": 22929900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22929900", "by": "zrth", "time": 1587424253, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a great Podcast by Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne & Tortoise Media. 4 Episodes a ~30min: https://share.transistor.fm/s/81b87c83 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/my-mothers-murder-epis..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22931594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22931594", "by": "542458", "time": 1587440094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everything I\u2019ve read seems to say it\u2019s very, very difficult to accidentally take delivery, but it\u2019s not quite impossible. In related news, there is a Planet Money Podcast (episode called the Eddie Murphy Rule) where they interview the trader who took possession of a bunch of cattle by mistake IIRC."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22946469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22946469", "by": "sharadov", "time": 1587568751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money has an excellent podcast on this https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832149266/episode-990-the-big..."}, {"show": "1505392824", "hn_item": 22949225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22949225", "by": "eries", "time": 1587583515, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 22950654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22950654", "by": "jagiammona", "time": 1587592917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, please! I often read podcast transcripts. Conversations with Tyler, 80,000 hours, and Steve Hsu's Manifold all have great transcripts and because of that, they are the only podcasts I keep up with."}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 22955393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955393", "by": "teekert", "time": 1587646596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a bug and is already fixed, debs can be installed by clicking. (Source: Alan Pope in the Ubuntu Podcast Chatter Telegram channel)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22958726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22958726", "by": "cpascal", "time": 1587664311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a Planet Money podcast where they try to figure out the characteristics of the most typical American, or as they put it \"who is the person I'm most likely to run into?\" To construct this archetype, they used the mode of various dimensions rather than the median or average. https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755191639/episode-936-the-mod..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 22965776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22965776", "by": "k-rus", "time": 1587716503, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 22972828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972828", "by": "gingericha", "time": 1587761803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">... one of the main problems is that most of the production lines are geared up to producing large e.g. 25kg sacks, given 96% of sales are to bulk buyers for trades like bakeries, with only 4% of flour sold direct to consumers in retail outlets in small 1kg or 1.5kg bags. For anyone who's interested, The Indicator podcast by Planet Money briefly touches on this point in their most recent episode on potatoes in the US. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843437140/the-great-potato-gi..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22972828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972828", "by": "gingericha", "time": 1587761803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">... one of the main problems is that most of the production lines are geared up to producing large e.g. 25kg sacks, given 96% of sales are to bulk buyers for trades like bakeries, with only 4% of flour sold direct to consumers in retail outlets in small 1kg or 1.5kg bags. For anyone who's interested, The Indicator podcast by Planet Money briefly touches on this point in their most recent episode on potatoes in the US. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843437140/the-great-potato-gi..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22973822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22973822", "by": "roywiggins", "time": 1587769082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've heard from virologists that the amount of virus you're exposed to does matter. A gallonful of virus can quickly overwhelm the immune system, a small amount can take long enough to grow that your immune system can ramp up to deal with it before it overwhelms. It's like someone releasing one breeding pair of rats in your attic vs 100. I don't have a cite, it was from the \"This Week in Virology\" podcast. I also heard a number going around suggesting that an early group of people hospitalized and killed were Ear, Nose and Throat doctors, who obviously would have been exposed to an almost comi"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22977383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977383", "by": "notoriousarun", "time": 1587814956, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN!!! I'm a big fan of podcasts. My favourite podcasts are Joe-Rogan-Experience, The Portal By Eric Weinstein. What are your favourite podcasts? (Anything related to Life, philosophy, science, startups, coding, VC, art, marketing, design etc...)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 22977464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977464", "by": "Melting_Harps", "time": 1587816273, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did anyone catch the JRE podcast with Tom O'Neill [1], he was there detailing his findings and research on his book on Charles Manson and the Family and subsequently finding many of the associated links between Intelligence and Military agencies and personnel that were involved with MK ULTRA and other programs. Its quite the rabbit hole; I personally couldn't care less about the Manson family cult, as a kid I heard all about the scary hippy acid BS only to see them buying houses with their NIMBY tactics and driving gas guzzling SUVS in the 21st Century. Neither extremes turned out to be be tru"}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 22977888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977888", "by": "olmideso", "time": 1587820830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman. It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 22977888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977888", "by": "olmideso", "time": 1587820830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Artificial Intelligence podcast by Lex Fridman. It's mostly focused on science tech and philosophy with a lot of high-profile guests from different fields."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 22978139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978139", "by": "anmolparashar", "time": 1587823116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a founder of a startup[1] that works in the podcasting space and my personal favorites are TigerBelly, Exchange Invest Weekly, JRE, The Indie Hackers podcast! [1] useCastup.com"}, {"show": "1286906615", "hn_item": 22978700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978700", "by": "smeeth", "time": 1587827559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Intelligence Matters: foreign affairs podcast hosted by former #2 at the CIA. He\u2019s a pretty good interviewer and I\u2019ve learned a ton about how our govt perceives global threats. Pivot: Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk (mostly tech) business. It\u2019s excellent and Scott is really fun. Hacks on tap: former chief obama campaign strategist David Axelrod and republican campaign consultant Mike Murphy talk politics for an hour. They know their stuff."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22978705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978705", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1587827603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently heard on a podcast (Planet Money or The Indicator, I think) that insiders generally don't do much better at beating the market. I think that is for the \"average\" case though. Sorry I don't have a citation."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 22978705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22978705", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1587827603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently heard on a podcast (Planet Money or The Indicator, I think) that insiders generally don't do much better at beating the market. I think that is for the \"average\" case though. Sorry I don't have a citation."}, {"show": "1286906615", "hn_item": 22979393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979393", "by": "notoriousarun", "time": 1587833748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't listened the podcast. *Intelligence Matters: foreign affairs podcast hosted by former #2 at the CIA. He\u2019s a pretty good interviewer and I\u2019ve learned a ton about how our govt perceives global threats.* But, I think the understanding of cognitive bias and complex systems are very important to mitigate any global risk. ** The governments don't understand these topics. ** https://intelligence.org/files/CognitiveBiases.pdf , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 22979416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979416", "by": "hvass", "time": 1587833900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Tim Ferriss Show The Portal Stratechery\u2019s podcast (Exponent) Tyler Cowen\u2019s podcast"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22979416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979416", "by": "hvass", "time": 1587833900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Tim Ferriss Show The Portal Stratechery\u2019s podcast (Exponent) Tyler Cowen\u2019s podcast"}, {"show": "1204701206", "hn_item": 22979802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22979802", "by": "goose847", "time": 1587837082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcast is No Dumb Questions. It has Destin from Smarter Every Day and his friend Matt Whitman (from the YouTube channel \u201cTen Minute Bible Hour\u201d) They do really awesome episodes on History or aspects of history that they\u2019re interested in. The best one of these imo is \u2018Siege Warfare\u2019 episode. Other than that they talk about books and friendship. It\u2019s a fun podcast."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 22980480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980480", "by": "chkaloon", "time": 1587841650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On \"This Week in Virology\", a podcast that's been going on for quite a while but just got popular (imagine that), this was discussed, and the consensus was that there is definitely something going with clotting mechanisms and Covid-19. They started treating with Warfarin and Heparin just like they do with older conventional stroke patients. It may also be implicated in the kidney failure that seems to associate with Covid As for me I'm going to keep taking a daily baby aspirin like I have for years. I bleed like a stuck pig when I get a cut, but I can live with that!"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 22984748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22984748", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1587878843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember one of the health experts in a Sam Harris podcast saying in an interview the dosage affects the severity and that this is seen in some other viruses (though I don't recall which ones). That's one reason doctors and nurses might be getting hit so hard, due to the continual exposure."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 22987301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987301", "by": "lowdose", "time": 1587910553, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I also thought the ending was subpar compared to the genius narrative twists in the first two seasons of Mr Robot. I agree with your take on the system, Eric Weinstein's latest podcast has some pretty interesting remarks about it. The youtube video is not up yet so link to the specific portal episode https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-portal/id146999956..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22987863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987863", "by": "AussieCoder", "time": 1587915348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy. Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is. The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing. Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast. Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting. F"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 22987863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987863", "by": "AussieCoder", "time": 1587915348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy. Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is. The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing. Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast. Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting. F"}, {"show": "994349813", "hn_item": 22987863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22987863", "by": "AussieCoder", "time": 1587915348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exponent, a weekly podcast covering a topic from Stratechery, Ben Thompson and James Allworth on business and technology strategy. Friday Night Comedy from the BBC. If you like satirical comedy and an English sense of humour then The News Quiz and The Now Show are the best there is. The Art of Product , Build Your SaaS and Out of Beta are great if following along as people build bootstrapped start-ups is your thing. Startups for the Rest of Us is the OG bootstrapped start-up podcast. Planet Money and The Indicator, both from PBS, cover business, economics and society and make it interesting. F"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 22992405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22992405", "by": "coffeekitkat", "time": 1587955404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These two podcasts are tech/career podcast. \"Developer Tea\" (hosted by Jonathan Cutrell) - because being a great developer is not just write code. \"Frontend Happy Hour\" ( https://twitter.com/frontendhh ) - I like the way they do it, before they start, they will pick a word, and if you say that word, you need to drink. cheers!"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 22995273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22995273", "by": "pxhb", "time": 1587991567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my go to podcasts are: Bloggingheads.tv/meaningoflife.tv, particularly with Robert Wright, Glenn Loury, DMZ CoinTalk - commentary of events going on in the crypto space Lawfare, National security law, cyberlaw podcast Very Bad Wizards Sport/team specific podcasts"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 22997316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22997316", "by": "aalhour", "time": 1588004889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Invisibilia. Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia\u2014Latin for invisible things\u2014fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia/ 99% Invisible. A podcast about all the thought that goes into the things we don\u2019t think about \u2014 the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. https://99percentinvisible.org/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 22998399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22998399", "by": "tinus_hn", "time": 1588011471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the Planet Money podcast by NPR."}, {"show": "1297187822", "hn_item": 22998601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22998601", "by": "ethagnawl", "time": 1588012699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason Scott's podcast _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ is also endlessly interesting, inspirational, entertaining and touching. Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/jasonscotttalks Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 23006340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006340", "by": "geocrasher", "time": 1588077146, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23006650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006650", "by": "CyanLite4", "time": 1588079964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cThis Week in Virology\u201d podcast addressed this mutation issue just last week. Basically 20 out of 30,000+ genes have mutated. This is one of the slowest viral mutations, 5x slower than seasonal influenza. While most viruses tend to become milder as mutations and transmission happens, SARS-CoV-2 mutates so slow that the mortality will be high for quite some time. The good news is that a vaccine should provide long-lasting protection more like the measles shot rather than an annual flu vaccine that is hit or miss."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 23025025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025025", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1588198058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was it you on the GoTime podcast? If so the enthusiasm for webrtc and go just motivated me a ton. Kudos."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23034925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23034925", "by": "xkjkls", "time": 1588274260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> They can't handle when someone is expressive (aka the Tesla @ 420 tweet, he simply expresses his opinion) How is faking a buyout offer for your company expressive? That's fraudulent. > (weed is legal right? Yea, might smoke it, might not, does it matter? New experience is new data, hmm, doesn't seem too interesting). Smoking weed on Joe Rogan's podcast forced the government to spend $2 million investigating the drug policies at SpaceX. Government contractors, especially those with security clearance are expected to have strict drug policies. Doing so sets an obviously bad example to all of y"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 23035393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035393", "by": "chrisco255", "time": 1588276760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The advances happening in Decentralized Finance right now are very important and will power the financial infrastructure of the 21st century. This space is rapidly evolving and is undergoing a Cambrian explosion right now, which is super fascinating to watch. Having been there for the dot com era and the mobile era, this feels the same. If you're in technology, it's worth educating yourself on this space. Two of the best resources I've found are: Bankless Newsletter & Podcast: https://bankless.substack.com/ The Defiant Newsletter: https://thedefiant.substack.com/"}, {"show": "1512654905", "hn_item": 23035393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035393", "by": "chrisco255", "time": 1588276760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The advances happening in Decentralized Finance right now are very important and will power the financial infrastructure of the 21st century. This space is rapidly evolving and is undergoing a Cambrian explosion right now, which is super fascinating to watch. Having been there for the dot com era and the mobile era, this feels the same. If you're in technology, it's worth educating yourself on this space. Two of the best resources I've found are: Bankless Newsletter & Podcast: https://bankless.substack.com/ The Defiant Newsletter: https://thedefiant.substack.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23041504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23041504", "by": "koheripbal", "time": 1588337784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"History\" Channel is not an authoritative source, and the pilot himself said on the Joe Rogan podcast that they were taking creative license with a lot of \"facts\" on the case. Your 2nd source is a collection of wikipedia snippets and unsourced writting. There's no original source on any of it - nor any indication of authorship. It's scanned and has a few things blacked out to make it look like a gov't document, but there's no indication this was written by any government source."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23048944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23048944", "by": "aberoham", "time": 1588390851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is by by Vincent Racaniello, a professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University. I highly recommend his podcast, This Week in Virology, aka TWiV. Anybody have transcripts of the best TWiV episodes?"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 23051416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051416", "by": "chrisin2d", "time": 1588423327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time with Melvin Bragg from BBC Radio 4. It\u2019s a colossal podcast series split into six podcasts discussing Literature, Culture, History, Philosophy, Religion, and Science. Each episode Melvin Bragg brings together a panel of professors and experts (mostly from within the UK) to discuss a topic, event, or famous figure. The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish from Farnham Street. \u201cMaster the best of what other people have already figured out\u201d sums it up. EconTalk with Russ Roberts from the Hoover Institution. Russ brings on distinguished guests to talk about economics, finance, and more"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23051425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051425", "by": "mmxmb", "time": 1588423417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's AI Podcast. He gets to invite a lot of very interesting people (not just from AI research space). https://lexfridman.com/ai/ My personal favorite episodes are with Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup and Jim Keller."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 23051461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051461", "by": "krubrech", "time": 1588423977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 23051463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051463", "by": "ravenstine", "time": 1588424042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein's \"The Portal\" Lots of episodes of Joe Rogan (Depending on the guest) Brett Weinstein's \"Dark Horse Podcast\" Rationally Speaking by Julia Galef (Been on hiatus for a while, though) Uncommon Knowledge by Hoover Institution (I don't appreciate some of their conservative views, but they have interesting guests and are a good way to break the liberal bubble)"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 23051463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051463", "by": "ravenstine", "time": 1588424042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein's \"The Portal\" Lots of episodes of Joe Rogan (Depending on the guest) Brett Weinstein's \"Dark Horse Podcast\" Rationally Speaking by Julia Galef (Been on hiatus for a while, though) Uncommon Knowledge by Hoover Institution (I don't appreciate some of their conservative views, but they have interesting guests and are a good way to break the liberal bubble)"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23051463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051463", "by": "ravenstine", "time": 1588424042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein's \"The Portal\" Lots of episodes of Joe Rogan (Depending on the guest) Brett Weinstein's \"Dark Horse Podcast\" Rationally Speaking by Julia Galef (Been on hiatus for a while, though) Uncommon Knowledge by Hoover Institution (I don't appreciate some of their conservative views, but they have interesting guests and are a good way to break the liberal bubble)"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 23051508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051508", "by": "michaelmcmillan", "time": 1588424454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Waking Up by Sam Harris and Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. Lex Fridman and Eric Weinstein's podcasts are also pretty good most of the time."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23051508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051508", "by": "michaelmcmillan", "time": 1588424454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Waking Up by Sam Harris and Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson. Lex Fridman and Eric Weinstein's podcasts are also pretty good most of the time."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23051642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051642", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1588425914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have three favorites: Lex Fridman\u2019s AI podcast, Azeem Azhar\u2019s Exponential View, and recently I have also started listening to Eric Weinstein\u2019s Portal. Before the covid-19 period, I used to hike multiple times a week with often large groups of hikers. Now, with social distancing I have been mostly hiking by myself and I find hiking with either having a phone call with a friend or listening to a podcast makes very long solo wilderness hikes less lonely."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 23051683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051683", "by": "horsawlarway", "time": 1588426393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find podcasts with a good bit of humor fill this spot for me personally. Here's a couple that I regularly listen to, degree of \"intellectualness\" varies, but they all have episodes that require attention and make me think. Radiolab - Very well known, you've probably already listened. I like it because the hosts are genuine and they tell good stories. Older episodes hit the spot better than newer for me. The Infinite Monkey Cage - Science based panel show. If you like things like QI, this is similar, but less gimmicky. Real science discussions, plenty of jokes. Judge John Hodgman - This isn't"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 23051722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051722", "by": "mellosouls", "time": 1588426923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hardcore History (Dan Carlin) https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ In Our Time (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl But there are many interesting programmes and podcasts on BBC Sounds. Worth browsing generally. Example of one currently available: The Meaning of Life According to AJ Ayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pw9tw"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 23051804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051804", "by": "smitty1e", "time": 1588427853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a studiously centrist look at politics, I just got done with Jonah Goldberg => https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=69305785&refid=asa If you find politics emetic, the Futility Closet is somewhere between Paul Harvey and Ripley's Believe it or Not => https://www.futilitycloset.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 23051809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051809", "by": "Pandabob", "time": 1588427895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Multiple people have brought up Econtalk and Conversations with Tyler. Those two are my top 2 as well. If you're into pop culture (sports, music, TV and Movies) I'd also recommend the Bill Simmons podcast. The interviews are usually great (especially the ones with actors) and the sports takes are entertaining as well."}, {"show": "1886486854", "hn_item": 23051909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051909", "by": "dantheman", "time": 1588428995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really Good: Econ Talk - great in depth interviews and thought Bound By Oath - about 14th amendment of US constitution Serial - in depth look into a story Shit Town Politics/Policy/Current Affairs: Reason Round Table Reason Interview Reason Soho Debate Cato Daily Podcast LSE Lectures General Internet: Reply All"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 23051909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23051909", "by": "dantheman", "time": 1588428995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really Good: Econ Talk - great in depth interviews and thought Bound By Oath - about 14th amendment of US constitution Serial - in depth look into a story Shit Town Politics/Policy/Current Affairs: Reason Round Table Reason Interview Reason Soho Debate Cato Daily Podcast LSE Lectures General Internet: Reply All"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23052073, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052073", "by": "BenGosub", "time": 1588430799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are some of my recent favorites. Important to note, I find one good podcast out of like 5-10, most podcasts are not worthy of a listen. However here are some of my thought provoking favorites: - The Portal with Ryan Holiday - The Knowledge Project with Jason Calacanis - Future Thinkers with Ken Wilber, all episodes are worth a listen, my favorite is: Clean Up, Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up - Future Thinkers with Bonnita Roy - Conversations With Tyler with Ben Westhoff Conversations With Tyler with Ted Gioia - Y Combinator with Russ Roberts"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 23052090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052090", "by": "frabbit", "time": 1588430999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good technical specialist discussions of science from an explicitly left-wing perspective http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/ Light and amusing handling of a wide variety of moral/ethical issues https://www.youtube.com/user/thephilosophytube One of the few actual left-wing podcasts. Coherent, solidly-researched journalism with very high-production values. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/intercepted-with-je... Excellent BBC series. There are other In Our Time subseries also. Would recommend using get_iplayer to navigate what seems to be a deliberately self-sabotaging BBC website In Our "}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 23052140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23052140", "by": "tambeb", "time": 1588431750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somebody already mentioned my top choice, Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Lawrence Krauss, also a physicist, has a similar podcast called Origins. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9vcmlnaW5zcG9kY2..."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 23053354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053354", "by": "hezag", "time": 1588440498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Developer Tea is one of my favorites. It's about software development and psychology. https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 23055112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055112", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1588455236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Art of Manliness Podcast. Brett actually reads the material that the guest is coming on to talk about. Shocking, I know. He lets his guests talk, but reigns them in and directs the conversation well. His choice of guests reinforces the 'manliness' themes, of course, but he gets a lot of great female guests too. Each episode gets a full written transcript too, along with a lot of great links and other resources. I often find myself using bits from nearly each show and thinking about the material for weeks afterwards https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/ Some favorite episodes: The Case fo"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 23055510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23055510", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1588459969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robert Evans\u2019 The Women\u2019s War is really good, proper first hand journalism covering the incredibly unique Rojava revolution. This is the real deal and the gold standard of journalism IMO. Another great podcast is Intelligence Squared - effective and intellectual debate on loads of topics. Pretty US centric but great debates."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23058336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23058336", "by": "alexpetralia", "time": 1588504703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a podcast episode entitled \"The Science of Happiness\" on Sam Harris' Making Sense, the guest (a researcher in happiness and well-being) argues that we feel happier in our lives the more of these passing conversations we engage in. Definitely a skill worth investing in!"}, {"show": "1264391007", "hn_item": 23074754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074754", "by": "torgian", "time": 1588636241, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 23078893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078893", "by": "dividuum", "time": 1588678486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probably related Radiolab episode covering a similar/same(?) system: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 23078908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078908", "by": "mtharrison", "time": 1588678643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Radiolab episode about this system back in 2015: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 23078941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23078941", "by": "verytrivial", "time": 1588678831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab ran a story from the \"Note to Self\" podcast in 2015 about trials for persistent surveillance of this sort. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s... \"Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.\""}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 23084618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23084618", "by": "texasbigdata", "time": 1588710451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree with you but.... 4x12 = 48 weeks of compensation disbursed by the entity. Restated compared to some nightmare no severance scenario meant they effectively terminated 4 FTEs to achieve slightly less than 3 FTEs of cost savings (adjusted for healthcare costs). I'm not arguing against AirBNBs approach btw. Their CEO had a wonderful podcast on the Masters of Scale pod roughly two weeks ago. However the Rawlsian philosophy on that marginal employee that got terminated effectively to fund the severance for herself and her colleagues is a tricky ethical consideration."}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 23087842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087842", "by": "nexus2045", "time": 1588738497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pomp Podcast has had some phenomenal guests lately including Chamath Palihapitiya and Mark Cuban. Worth checking out."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23091245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23091245", "by": "doppp", "time": 1588774942, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23106591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23106591", "by": "lihaciudaniel", "time": 1588877050, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1504309446", "hn_item": 23111256, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23111256", "by": "Fermin", "time": 1588910367, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23116444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116444", "by": "micburks", "time": 1588954695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition, he is possibly the most prolific podcaster of our time. He's started no less than 6 different podcasts over the last decade or so, collectively known as the TWIx podcasts (This Week in Virology/Microbiology/Parasitology/etc. I'm a huge fan of TWIV, but they're all top-notch. https://www.microbe.tv/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 23119532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119532", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1588972401, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2022 Twitter (great for following people or sites you find on HN) \u2022 Subreddits for specific interests (like /r/Unity3D or /r/Hololens) \u2022 Podcasts, like: - Indie Hackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/) - Software Engineering Daily - Stratechery - Startups for the Rest of Us - Artificial Intelligence w/ Lex Fridman - How I Built This \u2022 https://lobste.rs \u2022 YouTube subscriptions"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 23122970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23122970", "by": "tozeur", "time": 1589010068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just heard the idea for this on a podcast a month ago! On the My First Million podcast"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 23124441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124441", "by": "sacks2k", "time": 1589030053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's pretty well known that if you go on Fox news, the other news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, etc will ban you from their station. Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew have talked about this on their podcast and so have many other people interviewed by Fox news. This creates the false impression of \"Fox News darlings\" and ends up furthering the \"us vs them\" narrative."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23132345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23132345", "by": "foobar_", "time": 1589116528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this like SARS or like flu ? SARS is no flu. In the recent Joe Rogan podcast Elon Musk was talking about the need for more accurate data. The scientific facts seem blurry at the moment. Watching the dutch news, the next steps seem to be a number of restrictions on the movements which seem sensible. Doctors have to deal with even more virues and infections. What needs to happen is, how can people work efficiently with protective gear. There is simply no other way to work otherwise, assuming this is a serious infection. The logical next steps would be to pass a law that forces each company to"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23133130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133130", "by": "herrvogel-", "time": 1589122886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A bit older, but this[1] Freakonomics episode was also great. [1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/kenneth-feinberg/"}, {"show": "1476843719", "hn_item": 23142894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142894", "by": "zg3cg", "time": 1589209382, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23144220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23144220", "by": "ochoseis", "time": 1589215950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any shot you recently listened to an episode on a podcast called The Portal? https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/7d086129-e19d-4e... They touch on how being comfortable with being uncomfortable for long periods of time is in some ways the essence of being a successful contrarian (rather than doing things differently for the sake of it)."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 23144474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23144474", "by": "wenbin", "time": 1589217340, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 23147667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23147667", "by": "scottlawson", "time": 1589234687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris, I love your work and the AmpHour podcast! Thanks for working to share your knowledge with others, I especially enjoy the episodes where you spend the entire episode interviewing someone in the industry"}, {"show": "1038108799", "hn_item": 23148002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23148002", "by": "shoo", "time": 1589236898, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> i think what many people don't understand are how many other layers will block re-opening once the gov Separately from regulation, there's also the question of how comfortable people are at returning to their old virus-care-free routines. One anecdote reported from a visit to Wuhan is that after restrictions were lifted and people were permitted to more freely move around outside, there weren't many people who were interested in going back to eat at restaurants -- to the extent that a restaurant owner who was planning to reopen a number of restaurants ended up leaving them closed. https://po"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23149057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23149057", "by": "nickik", "time": 1589242350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> His fans seem to think he is some kind of genius, but based on what he has said about COVID he doesn't really seem that smart, or at least not well informed at all. We can make an argument about under reporting, over reporting and so on. I wouldn't call either conspiracy theory, clearly both is going on, the question is the relative numbers. I agree that under-reporting is probable higher. If you listen to the totality of his comments on the Joe Rogan podcast it is quite reasonable. Yes, his is clearly more libertarian then most of the California but people who are totally over-reacting to a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23160742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23160742", "by": "derrasterpunkt", "time": 1589322045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was twice on the Joe Rogan Podcast, also recommended! https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1035... https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-1385..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23161166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161166", "by": "odnes", "time": 1589324565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He talks about this in his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. He's my favourite guest, fascinating guy."}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 23163203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23163203", "by": "mxcrossb", "time": 1589340847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> At the end of the day, people are there to come out with a degree and a good grade I\u2019ve been listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, and one thing that struck me is that early philosophers seemed to consider virtue the end goal of philosophy. That is to say, we should care less about if our physics students can do physics, and more if doing physics had made them more ethical human beings. It\u2019s quite a reversal we\u2019ve ended up with..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23166156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166156", "by": "bun_at_work", "time": 1589372875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with you here. I watched the recent Joe Rogan podcast with Musk, and was largely disgusted with the misinformation he pushed regarding COVID-19."}, {"show": "1508992867", "hn_item": 23166596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166596", "by": "carrozo", "time": 1589375945, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Great first episode of Talking Politics: A History of Ideas by David Runciman was on Hobbes - https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/talking-politics-histo..."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 23166596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23166596", "by": "carrozo", "time": 1589375945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great first episode of Talking Politics: A History of Ideas by David Runciman was on Hobbes - https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/talking-politics-histo..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 23171714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23171714", "by": "lawik", "time": 1589403203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not using it in huge scale. But I've worked with companies that run it in production, yes. There are a lot of Elixir products and systems out there and before those there were quite a few in Erlang. I don't have a sufficient sample size from my own experience but it is hardly old and disused or too new to be sure. Changelog podcast runs on it. Dockyard build with it. It seems the new default for many previously Rails shops."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23173595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173595", "by": "sfj", "time": 1589415971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner. I tried this myself on a Joe Rogan podcast, who doesn't speak Chinese and is based in L.A. and my comment was removed with 20 seconds. I very much doubt that he was the cause of the censorship."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23173972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173972", "by": "sfj", "time": 1589418611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> IMHO it makes sense that youtube removes comments that are just a slur and nothing else. The comment only needs to contain it, not solely consist of the phrase. I tried, \u201cwelcome mr. joe rogan to the land of \u5171\u532a\u201d on a Joe Rogan podcast, and it was deleted in within 20 seconds."}, {"show": "1510813211", "hn_item": 23178783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23178783", "by": "Mattasher", "time": 1589460458, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Based on an earlier discussion here on HN about Zoom burnout and latency I recorded a cast episode about that very subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/3-is-latency-killing-o..."}, {"show": "1510813211", "hn_item": 23179607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23179607", "by": "rectang", "time": 1589464883, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 23182668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23182668", "by": "three_seagrass", "time": 1589477834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The conspiratorial and alt-political videos are an extension of reality TV online. Unfortunately if you expose yourself to too much of them you end up co-opting some of their views. NYT did a really good job covering this recently with their podcast Rabbit Hole : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prol..."}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 23192892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23192892", "by": "fredsir", "time": 1589554575, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Are there any podcasts out there either with the hosts or guests telling stories like the stories in the books The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld, and Hackers by Steven Levy? I've read these books, and many others like them, but I thought it would be awesome to listen to a podcast where the characters from the stories are guests invited in to retell the stories, however I haven't had much luck finding such a podcast. There once was the Debug[1] podcast with Guy English and Rene Ritchie, and they had an awesome, and very long, \"episode series\" where t"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23196447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23196447", "by": "wnevets", "time": 1589571471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone once called Rogan's podcast intellectual tourism and I haven't been able to prove them wrong."}, {"show": "513808150", "hn_item": 23197733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197733", "by": "Chathamization", "time": 1589578410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I noticed episodes that seems to be edited lectures in both Mark Goodacre's NT Pod and Philip Harland's Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. Both are academic studies of the Christian New Testament (though the later also spends a lot of time on the surrounding society), and I enjoyed both a lot (though they can be a bit information dense at times). If you give the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast a listen I'd recommend considering starting at series 2 and coming back to series 1 later, as starting with a deep dive into Paul's letters and their historical context can be a diffi"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 23197733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197733", "by": "Chathamization", "time": 1589578410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I noticed episodes that seems to be edited lectures in both Mark Goodacre's NT Pod and Philip Harland's Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. Both are academic studies of the Christian New Testament (though the later also spends a lot of time on the surrounding society), and I enjoyed both a lot (though they can be a bit information dense at times). If you give the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean podcast a listen I'd recommend considering starting at series 2 and coming back to series 1 later, as starting with a deep dive into Paul's letters and their historical context can be a diffi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23198487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198487", "by": "KFC_Manager", "time": 1589583453, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 23200994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23200994", "by": "fredsir", "time": 1589611127, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Are there any podcasts out there either with the hosts or guests telling stories like the stories in the books The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld, and Hackers by Steven Levy? I've read these books, and many others like them, but I thought it would be awesome to listen to a podcast where the characters from the stories are guests invited in to retell the stories, however I haven't had much luck finding such a podcast. There once was the Debug[1] podcast with Guy English and Rene Ritchie, and they had an awesome, and very long, \"episode series\" where t"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23201339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23201339", "by": "marcell", "time": 1589615688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Elon Musk summed up the counter argument to this pretty well on Joe Rogan's podcast: \"If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff. Obviously.\""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 23203188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203188", "by": "ksec", "time": 1589635514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At least all host of Accidental Tech podcast shared similar feeling."}, {"show": "1435697031", "hn_item": 23209097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209097", "by": "ZguideZ", "time": 1589683807, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 23211863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211863", "by": "svat", "time": 1589722438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \u201cclaim of NASA endorsing Sanskrit\u201d is an exaggeration that is easy to debunk, but the paper itself is real: it presents (though in a vague way) something of historical interest, namely a dialect of Sanskrit that was (and is) used for giving precise definitions and statements, attempting to avoid ambiguity. Of course from one perspective this is \u201cjust\u201d a historical curiosity and an irrelevant dead end as far as AI is concerned, while from other it's an important landmark in the intellectual history of the world. (See my other comments in this thread if they're visible; trying to avoid repea"}, {"show": "1437682381", "hn_item": 23212998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23212998", "by": "qwertox", "time": 1589732603, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Somewhat related: \"The End of the World\", which is an 8-episode podcast which presents some of the ways how the world could come to an end. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-w..."}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 23217152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23217152", "by": "tdeck", "time": 1589764245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This really reminds me of how podcasts have gone. It used to be that nine out of ten podcasts I listened to had no ads - they were about spreading a message or having fun, or getting some personal recognition. They didn't have major overhead because it's cheap to come on once every week or two and chat with your buddies. Now, not only are there many high-quality professional podcasts, but the old fashioned ones I enjoy have all one by one gotten in on the game. Eventually podcasting became something you either made money at or you were doing it wrong (see also: blogs). When even BackStory and "}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23220273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23220273", "by": "xerxesaa", "time": 1589794451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Like many others, this is also my favorite podcasting app. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was using this exact app to listen to the \"Making Sense\" podcast by Sam Harris, on the topic of covid-19. This is clearly not a government source, but as usual, Sam probes with some of the most intelligent, nuanced questions on this topic. It would be sad to see discussions like these get suppressed with the rest under Google's policy. I've been a Pixel/Nexus user for about a decade. I'm feeling it's finally time to get out of Google-land and move to a more open phone with F-Droid. I don't trust Google to "}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 23223167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223167", "by": "AlexCornila", "time": 1589814014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the same idea that \u00c9ric Weinstein talks about.He calls it the Embedded Growth Obligation he has a podcast work that listening to, The Portal."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23223167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223167", "by": "AlexCornila", "time": 1589814014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the same idea that \u00c9ric Weinstein talks about.He calls it the Embedded Growth Obligation he has a podcast work that listening to, The Portal."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 23223378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223378", "by": "youngNed", "time": 1589815065, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As is the case in a lot of discussion that touches on Irish History, in this thread there are a lot of really bad takes - for anyone interested in a good, well balanced, summary delivered by experts in under an hour - i really recommend the BBC 'In Our Time' podcast on this subject - as with all of these shows, its pretty dense with info and facts from a number of sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003rj1"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 23230089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23230089", "by": "blahbhthrow3748", "time": 1589848874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast is very similar and Tracy and Joe are also very funny. Matt actually appears in a couple episodes (he has a really deep voice I didn't expect)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23231006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231006", "by": "burlesona", "time": 1589858509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have come to the (non-scientific) conclusion that this is probably genetic. I know some people who sleep a lot less than me and seem to be fine with that. I am not fine with less sleep, but I wish I was because I would love to have the extra hours each day. I thought of this for the first time when listening to a Freakonomics podcast series interviewing major company CEOs. Several of them mentioned schedules where they average 3-5 hours sleep per night, forever. They all seemed to think that was fine. I think I would be severely ill, maybe even literally die, if I averaged 3-5 hours sleep fo"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 23235392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235392", "by": "fredsir", "time": 1589899433, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Are there any podcasts out there either with the hosts or guests telling stories like the stories in the books The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld, and Hackers by Steven Levy? I've read these books, and many others like them, but I thought it would be awesome to listen to a podcast where the characters from the stories are guests invited in to tell the stories, however I haven't had much luck finding such a podcast. There once was the Debug[1] podcast with Guy English and Rene Ritchie, and they had an awesome, and very long, \"episode series\" where the"}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 23235392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235392", "by": "fredsir", "time": 1589899433, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Are there any podcasts out there either with the hosts or guests telling stories like the stories in the books The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld, and Hackers by Steven Levy? I've read these books, and many others like them, but I thought it would be awesome to listen to a podcast where the characters from the stories are guests invited in to tell the stories, however I haven't had much luck finding such a podcast. There once was the Debug[1] podcast with Guy English and Rene Ritchie, and they had an awesome, and very long, \"episode series\" where the"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 23235917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235917", "by": "gspr", "time": 1589902154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This is news to me, and I\u2019ll keep it in mind. Granted, I only have two immediate examples: * Season 2 of The Onion's hilarious true crime parody ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Fatal_Murder ) is exclusively on a platform called Luminary. I can't even figure out exactly what Luminary is, because they serve me with a special can of \"Luminary is not yet available in your location\" crap. Not that I care anyway. The first season is on regular old RSS and is fantastic (if you like the true crime genre and The Onion-style silliness). * Wind of Change ( https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23238427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238427", "by": "xoxoy", "time": 1589913542, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23238717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238717", "by": "indy", "time": 1589914823, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23241397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241397", "by": "hanklazard", "time": 1589929734, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 23241788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241788", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1589932794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently as a podcast consumer you prefer the \"premium\" Spotify model. As Thompson and Allworth have explained numerous times, they'll never be on Spotify. Centralization is not the reason for this decision, even though it's bad for humans in general. The main reason is they want a direct relationship with their customers, which may be redundant to say because does anyone on Spotify actually have a customer other than Spotify? (OK your link to some goofy aggregator instead of the actual Exponent podcast [0] sort of undercuts this; well played.) Interestingly, Thompson has explored other fund"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23242080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242080", "by": "malshe", "time": 1589935110, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 23244557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23244557", "by": "purerandomness", "time": 1589962844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jen, thank you so much for LunchMoney. It feels like you really love developing it, and it shows. I've first heard of it from the IndieHackers podcast featuring you [1] and remember myself signing up and thinking \"wow, this is exactly how I would design and build something like that\". Everything is polished, thought through, and the pace with which you push out new features is crazy. Thank you! [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/150-jen-yip-of-lunch-mo..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23244678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23244678", "by": "drak0n1c", "time": 1589964052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not quite \"never\". You may not be aware because the Joe Rogan podcast was the only outlet that covered his apologies and regret for his behavior. For years since the incident he's been telling his followers in his own show that he was wrong about it and to not harass the families. It's still the case that he changed his attitude too late, only after some of his listeners acted and the escalation became real."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23245530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23245530", "by": "seumars", "time": 1589973377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">...it has lasted so long as a completely open ecosystem It's the platforms that have contributed to the podcast boom of recent years, not the \"open ecosystem\". Anyone can start a website and upload recorded audio, which may be the reason nobody uses RSS seriously anymore because \"curated\" content is the new norm. The JRE podcast has been around for ages, and it built up an audience on YouTube because that has has been the dominating media platform for more than a decade. Now Spotify is investing heavily in big names like Gimlet and now JRE, which will help it become the next dominating platfo"}, {"show": "1462159557", "hn_item": 23250309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250309", "by": "jeffmorrisjr", "time": 1590000361, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 23254644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23254644", "by": "lidHanteyk", "time": 1590033326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't really understand why \"innocence\" is used here; I know that it can be used to denote novelty rather than naivete, but I'm not really sure that podcasts were ever so innocent. After all, podcasting draws heavily on over a century of public radio broadcasting for its media encoding and tropes. It's nigh-impossible to take this sort of posture seriously when podcasts like \"Behind the Bastards\" spend their time either talking about horrible people, or talking about the evil of iHeartRadio and how terrible their sponsors are. This isn't the \"end of podcasting's innocence;\" this is mass medi"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 23260826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23260826", "by": "spdustin", "time": 1590079500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very entertaining episode [0] of the \"Stuff You Should Know\" podcast that talks about the history of barcodes. [0]: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269..."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 23262730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23262730", "by": "lukemichals", "time": 1590085744, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Announced on https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xb2GYUPxoGAprDj3G4Idz?si=A... I've got to say, I've moved almost entirely to consuming information via podcasts and Yang Speaks is one of my top ones. 1. Find some smart people/organizations you trust 2. Listen to them daily"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23264955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23264955", "by": "cdbattags", "time": 1590093865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From a UX perspective, they do a little too much \"experimentation\" which equates to buggy clients but the actual tech is insanely complicated but universally controlled. They have a C++ layer for each client that binds into Android/iOS/macOS/Windows, etc. And as for audio and their upcoming video hand in hand with Joe Rogan podcast being an exlusive now, the way they operate in guilds/pods is one of the first examples of this democratized workflow."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23266466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266466", "by": "nyhc99", "time": 1590101289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a great point and is also true of Facebook and a number of other platforms. Roger McNamee spoke at length about this issue with Sam Harris on his podcast back when it was called Making Sense. His point was essentially that the AI that controls the recommendations is trained to maximize clickthrough rates, and so it learns in its own way to feed us articles that make us angry, because we click and share more that way. Hence the tendency to lead people down rabbit holes of extremism."}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 23267067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23267067", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1590105264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"Your Undivided Attention\" gets into the tech and public policy of this. Basically, their suggestion is to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, so that storage and retrieval is still a safe harbor for providers, but recommendation algorithms should be treated as editorial decisions and be open to the same liabilities that other communications media are exposed to. So a chronological feed of subscriptions to InfoWars, Stormfront, Plandemic, etc would be protected by law, but YouTube, FB, etc could be held liable for harm caused by content that they recommend. People"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23271177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271177", "by": "goldenkey", "time": 1590148956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His recent behavior and original status as a member of the PayPal mafia does make you question how much is his doing versus his connections and placement in spacetime. I do think he is rather intelligent as evident from the Joe Rogan podcast, that is -- long form conversation on topics. But he has shown an affinity for stupidity as well. He's an interesting man but remember that Tesla and the other companies he has been part of have been partnerships and have stellar engineers at the helm. Musk is a Muskateer, not a solo bolo."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23276660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276660", "by": "bmarquez", "time": 1590179859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Maybe he was ready to retire anyway? The article's revenue estimates are based on Rogan doing more work...setting up subscription programs, keeping up with YouTube's content policies to avoid getting kicked off the platform, and continuing to find podcast guests and creative material. Perhaps he wants to kick back, not work so hard (depending on the contract he actually signed), and collect a steady paycheck? The author likens Rogan's podcast to sitting on an oilfield (where the value of oil can be easily evaluated), but creative endeavors are hardly so cut and dried."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23276862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276862", "by": "remir", "time": 1590180797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In September, I wrote a post about how Howard Stern is getting ripped off by Sirius. I made the case that Howard Stern is making $90 million a year when he could be making 2-3x by cutting out the middle-man and doing a subscription podcast. Sure, until subscription fatigue kicks in. People pay for Spotify or SiriousXM because of the overall value. I doubt many people would be interested in paying just for Stern or Rogan's podcast. That is in addition to all the other services they're already paying for, such as Netflix, Prime, HBO, etc..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23277095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277095", "by": "lowdose", "time": 1590181897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anybody an idea what sidekick Jamie's cut is from this enterprise? Can't imagine Jamie doesn't have equity in the show and remained just a employee. On this kind of level of earnings, an important part is choosing who you share with. Cheap debt influences the cashflow multiplier in a great way when doing a discounted cash flow analysis. The estimated financial gains are off by at least a factor 2 or 3. It doesn't make sense to make a deal of 100 million when you received 30 million last year. > Joe Rogan's podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience' earned a staggering $30 million in revenue across 190"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23277420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23277420", "by": "s1artibartfast", "time": 1590183990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The criticism in the article is based on comparing Joe Rogan's' podcast to a SaaS business and is fundamentally flawed. >And make no mistake: Joe Rogan is a business...I think he is capable of, his corporation would easily be valued at over $1,000,000,000... >As I pointed out in my last post, if Rogan had added subscription, he would have owned a company that looked like the world\u2019s best SaaS business. The problem is that there is no exit for this business. Nobody is going to pay 20x past earnings for JRE without Joe. This is the difference between being a performer (literally a gig worker), a"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 23278174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278174", "by": "wpowiertowski", "time": 1590189340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My usual dialog with siri: Me: \"Hey Siri, play Radiolab podcast\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" Me: \"Radiolab\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" Me: \"Radiolab\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" ... Me: \"The first one\" Siri: \"I don't know >the first one Me: \"Siri you're useless\" Siri: \"That's not nice\" Me: \"Could be but it's true\""}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 23278174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23278174", "by": "wpowiertowski", "time": 1590189340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My usual dialog with siri: Me: \"Hey Siri, play Radiolab podcast\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" Me: \"Radiolab\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" Me: \"Radiolab\" Siri: Which Radiolab podcast, Radiolab or Radiolab: More Perfect\" ... Me: \"The first one\" Siri: \"I don't know >the first one Me: \"Siri you're useless\" Siri: \"That's not nice\" Me: \"Could be but it's true\""}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 23279699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279699", "by": "prrls", "time": 1590205363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide Computer Company https://oxide.computer/ \u201cTrue rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.\u201d Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast \"Screaming in the Cloud\", where they explain the need for innovation in that space. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud... Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap. They also have a podc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23282152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23282152", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1590234257, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23283828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23283828", "by": "notadog", "time": 1590248500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The difference between Netflix doing this and gyms doing this is gyms rely heavily on people who join and don't go (even specifically targeting that audience), while for Netflix it is less than half a percent of their users. If anyone is interesting in learning more about the economics and psychology of gym memberships, I highly recommend Episode 590: The Planet Money Workout of the NPR podcast Planet Money."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23290284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290284", "by": "akkawwakka", "time": 1590311790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pathology of COVID-19 is really interesting. As the article describes, the viral pneumonia is well-described, but there are a lot of knock-on effects from infection of epithelial cells. Namely, virus binding to ACE2 receptors causes oxidative stress which can give rise to disease and cardiovascular events. MedCram did a really great video talking through some papers on this subject. [1] If you want to learn more, also check out This Week in Virology, a podcast that has been covering COVID-19 in great detail the last few months. It features a panel of virologists and other folks in the scie"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 23293115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23293115", "by": "cbHXBY1D", "time": 1590341808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the anime Golden Kamuy, there is a character who is supposed to be a stand-in for this real life figure. If my memory serves me, he's also mentioned in Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast."}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 23301128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301128", "by": "kossTKR", "time": 1590414896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found his articles years ago about lucid dreaming, and also subsequently found lots of his 30-90 day experiments very interesting. What makes him stand out in my mind is that he actually does the challenges as opposed to so many other people writing blogspam articles or whole books without the work. It got me into self-experimentation - not with any dogmas in particular, but seeing people actually doing rather crazy long experiments gave me some courage. Also he introduced me to a lot of interesting concepts. I haven't really seen other people actually do this. The biphasic sleep experiment,"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23301340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301340", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1590416111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> For comparison with someone trying to create a similar show, Lex Fridman regularly asks some stupid, stupid questions. He's clearly approaching his guests from his own personal perspective, and not letting the individual perspective of their guests be front and centre. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. I had high hopes for Fridman's podcast after the JRE revered him as a sort of young, genius, intellectual version of JRE. He's highly respected among JRE online communities, I think because he presents himself the way most JRE listeners expect a generic smart person to sound. Y"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 23301394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301394", "by": "arcticfox", "time": 1590416456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Lots, if not all, of those people are available by themselves though and usually in much better form. For anyone that enjoys the medical / health guests on Rogan's podcast, I'd recommend \"The Peter Attia Drive\" podcast. (Not to be confused with Peter Attia's appearance on Rogan's podcast). Many of the same guests are on both, but on Attia's, they are speaking to an MD and start at a way higher level. It's a great fit for my 100/200 college level basic understanding of biology and chemistry, it usually starts from there and goes up. There's quite a bit I don't follow exactly because of that, "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23301394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301394", "by": "arcticfox", "time": 1590416456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Lots, if not all, of those people are available by themselves though and usually in much better form. For anyone that enjoys the medical / health guests on Rogan's podcast, I'd recommend \"The Peter Attia Drive\" podcast. (Not to be confused with Peter Attia's appearance on Rogan's podcast). Many of the same guests are on both, but on Attia's, they are speaking to an MD and start at a way higher level. It's a great fit for my 100/200 college level basic understanding of biology and chemistry, it usually starts from there and goes up. There's quite a bit I don't follow exactly because of that, "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23301406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301406", "by": "JSavageOne", "time": 1590416527, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy Joe Rogan's podcast, but I'm not going to start using Spotify just to listen to his podcasts. Hell Spotify isn't even available in my country. I'm sure the episodes will leak out elsewhere, and if I run into them I'll listen. If Spotify really goes hard on the copyright striking and I don't see the podcasts anymore, well then I guess I'll miss out."}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 23302029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23302029", "by": "kissickas", "time": 1590420493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NYT is currently publishing a series of podcasts called \"Rabbit Hole\" which, in its latest episode, portrayed PewdiePie as a misunderstood guy who is definitely not a white nationalist or alt-right. That said, what you are saying could be true at the same time. I don't read the paper and certainly don't care to follow the PewdiePie story. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/podcasts/rabbit-hole-PewD..."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 23311198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23311198", "by": "jashmenn", "time": 1590501647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 23314083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314083", "by": "tosh", "time": 1590514672, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23314810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23314810", "by": "MrZander", "time": 1590518248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That is a really annoying issue I have with YouTube. I occasionally watch some of the Joe Rogan podcast videos when he has a guest I'm interested in. I swear, as soon as I watch one JRE video, I am suddenly inundated with suggestions for videos with really click-baity and highly politicized topics. I've actually gotten to the point where I actively avoid videos that I want to watch because I know what kind of a response YouTube will have. Either that or I open them in incognito mode. It's a shame. I wish I could just explicitly define my interests rather than YT trying to guess what I want to "}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 23316096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23316096", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1590525381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love this post. I rarely watch the news any more. I was surprised that during the beginning of this current era, I found myself watching news for the first time (like not just clips posted elsewhere, but explicitly seeking it out) and it's honestly degraded even more than I can imagine. Most major news networks talk to their audience like children. They provide entertainment or promote the agenda of their advertisers. Years ago I stopped watching satire news too. I use to love Colbert and Stewart, but I also realized I was laughing at .. genocide. I thought that such a format might make peop"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23317686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23317686", "by": "daenz", "time": 1590536044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets. EDIT>> I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM"}, {"show": "1482889491", "hn_item": 23321740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23321740", "by": "rizzke", "time": 1590578731, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "How do you create a company culture document that has a lasting positive impact? A culture document that truly aligns your team and not just another document? Here is one way to do it! Excerpt from our latest Level-up Engineering podcast interview. #1 Take notes of your current values \ufe0f Take note of things that are meaningful to your culture and set your organisation apart. #2 Involve key people \ud83e\uddd1 \ud83e\uddd1 Involve key leaders in your company, engineers. They have a valuable perspective, seeing your culture. #3 Get an outside opinion Do you work with someone on a contract basis? Involve this person! S"}, {"show": "534941512", "hn_item": 23322144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322144", "by": "csdreamer7", "time": 1590582363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> license for that kind of devices is quite shady Would you please describe what exactly is shady in the licensing for someone looking at Qt? My bigger issue is that they are inflexible with their licenses for small businesses. Either you use LGPL, which requires copyleft on bundled mobile apps (I believe) or you pay based on the total revenue of your business, no matter how small the app is, as told by Michael Dominick on the Coder Radio podcast. Can be quick expensive if you want to launch a new product line, as Mike did. He decided to rewrite his app in C# and AvaloniaUI for Windows/Linux c"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 23327098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23327098", "by": "TeaDrunk", "time": 1590602006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although I'm no trump supporter, it would be incorrect to assume there is no democratic push to get out the vote. Vote Save America ( https://votesaveamerica.com/ ) is run by Crooked Media, who are most well known for having Obama officials running podcasts like Pod Save America and Pod Save The World (as well as noted black activist Deray hosting Pod Save The People). This is clearly a group that wants to get Trump out and they are actively organizing to encourage calling, texting, donating to democratic campaigns in swing states, and pushing for mail-in voting. (Disclaimer: I am pro mail-in "}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 23329630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23329630", "by": "arminiusreturns", "time": 1590611855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What bugs me is that so many people always jump straight to the most base and rudimentary catch phrase arguments on the topic. It's always \"private companies != free speech for others, just for them\" or the opposite \"we should be able to say whatever whenever\", inevitably followed up by a \"but you don't have a right to consequence/response free speech\"... it's tiring and shallow thinking on the subject. I just ctrl+f'd for \"public forum\" and yours was the first hit. One thing in particular I would like to comment on is that post-Trump's election I started listening to some of my SO's legal fie"}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 23334216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334216", "by": "AndreyKarpov", "time": 1590648266, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1470828290", "hn_item": 23337339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337339", "by": "ravishbhatia", "time": 1590674675, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1470828290", "hn_item": 23337343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23337343", "by": "ravishbhatia", "time": 1590674713, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "6783436225", "hn_item": 23339396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23339396", "by": "dsalzman", "time": 1590684153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Automated Podcast for Money Stuff - https://anchor.fm/talking-money-stuff/episodes/Will-the-SEC-..."}, {"show": "1134425259", "hn_item": 23340884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23340884", "by": "ragle", "time": 1590691705, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Apologies in advance for the wall of text, but this is a topic that has occupied a considerable portion of my attention for nearly 25 years. :) If any of what I share here is helpful for someone, it will be well worth drifting significantly off topic and perhaps over-sharing my personal experience. That said, my experience is my own - other people's mileage may vary depending on their background and personal makeup. Trust your intuition (and your doctor / therapist if you have one)! From your comments below (about being able to notice yourself out of existence), it sounds to me like you experi"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23342814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342814", "by": "slfnflctd", "time": 1590700871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jack Dorsey has responded to this question multiple times in several places-- I heard him address it in the Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris some time in the past year. He seemed to show a firm grasp of the nuances involved. Here is a quote from him: \"Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,\u201d [...] \u201cIt would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.\u201d He apparently feels there will be wider discussion from all parts"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23351479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351479", "by": "MaxBarraclough", "time": 1590767668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was asked about this in a podcast. Episode 148 of Making Sense . The relevant discussion starts at 56:30 and runs for 15 minutes. Unfortunately the episode is not freely available. Dorsey talks about the 'public interest' of retaining Trump's rule-breaking tweets, how people can add their opinions, how it's expected that our leaders be 'extremely expressive', how it's a 'direct line to the people', how we can 'have a conversation about it'. I consider his response to be extremely weak sauce. All he's doing is giving excuses for his failure to consistently enforce Twitter's rules. It's diffi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23354990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23354990", "by": "seesawtron", "time": 1590783456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would imagine that accounts of \"important\" people are handled personally rather than by automated algorithm. As Jack Dorsey points out in this[0] Joe Rogan podcast, the reported tweets by public or algorithm are manually checked at some point. Approx. 4000 employees of Twitter all around the world. Every day 100k (edit: 100M) tweets are sent. The reports of tweets that violate the platform policy are (reported by public) enter a queue. These are then inspected by personnel hired by Twitter (number varies proportionally to the scale reports in the queue). The personnel then go through a serie"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 23363676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363676", "by": "Eric_WVGG", "time": 1590865249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The goal of the Swift project is to create the best available language for uses ranging from systems programming, to mobile and desktop apps, scaling up to cloud services. https://swift.org/about/ > \"My goal for Swift has always been, and still is, total world domination,\" Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, said onstage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2017. https://www.businessinsider.com/developers-love-swift-apple-... I'm having trouble finding the specific bit about \"default language for computer science,\" might have been his interview on the ATP podcast. anyway"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23372873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372873", "by": "glaugh", "time": 1590960328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coronavirus have \u201cproofreading\u201d functions that make them less likely to mutate meaningfully than many other kinds of viruses. While it\u2019s true that viruses often mutate to become less potent over time (bc that makes them less detectable and therefore more likely to spread, an evolutionary advantage), any claims that this is happening should require very strong evidence to be believed. This isn\u2019t even weak evidence. Most of the above is googleable. I don\u2019t have direct citations because most of my understanding comes from the excellent This Week in Virology podcast where various virologists chat "}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 23376351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23376351", "by": "julienevermind", "time": 1590999780, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23377574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23377574", "by": "thesanjeetc", "time": 1591012874, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 23383243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23383243", "by": "matt_d", "time": 1591042590, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23386305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386305", "by": "shpongled", "time": 1591062009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard about Vince Kosuga on an episode of Planet Money. To date, still my favorite story I've heard on that podcast. I've told so many people about it"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 23386976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386976", "by": "anitil", "time": 1591067419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe Reply All did a podcast on 'services' that essentially blackmail you by taking arrest records and placing them on the first page of google. So an arrest can become a black mark on your record. Or, you pay up. Pretty scummy stuff"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23390792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23390792", "by": "yomly", "time": 1591104749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a misnomer according to a recent guest on the Joe Rogan podcast. Granted that might not be the best source, I reflected on that and the chemistry makes sense. Vitamins primarily will leach out via osmosis. Osmosis works by gradients. This probably means an exponential decay of absorption relative to concentration and as you consume more, your body will waste progressively more and uptake will be less efficient per unit mass. But it's not boolean/binary - your body doesn't suddenly stop everything after an arbitrary cutoff. There's an elegance to this - it means there is a lot of leeway"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23402538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23402538", "by": "thesanjeetc", "time": 1591186894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hello! Here's a podcast episode I created with GPT-2, after fine tuning with transcripts of Elon Musk on The Joe Rogan Experience. Voices by Google Wavenet TTS."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 23405411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23405411", "by": "throwwwy", "time": 1591202323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Programmers make a /lot/ of money. Spending this money effectively and increasing the pool of money that is spent is probably the most impactful way a programmer can support a cause. I am sure the linked resources are fantastic, but for my dollars I will be directing them towards political campaigns. Obama recently posted something talking about ensuring a focus on influencing change at all levels of government, not forgetting about local and state/provincial governments. A solid addition to this list of resources might be ways of donating to political campaigns that can flip a seat. A lot of "}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 23406666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23406666", "by": "tipsysquid", "time": 1591207922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe it was this Marketplace podcast episode[0] that talks about the UK and their relationship with Huawei. If I can recall, the UK is tied tightly to Huawei across several industries, one including nuclear reactor/plant development that has been in on going for ages and involves packages of training lots of UK workers. The podcast goes on to say that the UK is in a tough position because to break ties with any part of Huawei could have a chain reaction of cancellations/retaliations that could be extremely costly to UK in a time of uncertainty with Brexit and now covid-19. \"Damned if they"}, {"show": "1445901378", "hn_item": 23415363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23415363", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1591271294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He and his team at Civic Ventures have a podcast called Pitchfork Economics which is worth listening to: https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episodes/"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 23423743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23423743", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1591317268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The media does not usually know how to report on scientific research. Unfortunately, the increase of pre-prints seems to have magnified this problem. Taking a step back, scientific progress is poorly understood in general, even by many smart and inquisitive folks. In fact, I think no one really has a good concise, thorough description for how science unfolds. The reality of it is incredibly complex and messy (but nonetheless unbelievably effective). Even something as seemingly basic as the \u201cscientific method\u201d as it is taught in schools and seen in popular discussion is pretty misleading. It is"}, {"show": "1515774784", "hn_item": 23442705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442705", "by": "lilnuget", "time": 1591481468, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23453973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23453973", "by": "nojvek", "time": 1591595761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really cool. More than just the techy talks I am more interested in their nerdy cooking show and where they goof around. Would love to see things like twitch where they share their screen and write interesting things or play a game. I watch Suz Hinton (@noopkat) from occasionally and her stuff is pretty entertaining (Aussie accent helps too) They should get interesting folks like that on the show. The MIT AI podcast by Lex Fridman is pretty brilliant. He gets high caliber folks on his podcast. That level of intellectual curiosity would deffo make the TV station a hit amongst the niche communit"}, {"show": "1470828290", "hn_item": 23463997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23463997", "by": "ravishbhatia", "time": 1591681265, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 23467901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23467901", "by": "pmezard", "time": 1591719294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If the first 20mn turned you off, I am afraid it will get worse with the rest of the movie. That said there are nice CGI of the black hole, where the consulting part really shines. BTW, there is a \"Mindscape podcast\" episode [1] with Kip Thorne where he explains what technically accurate parts were kept, and the others where he had to (unhappily) let go. [1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis..."}, {"show": "1517336723", "hn_item": 23469599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469599", "by": "theopencode", "time": 1591729149, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 23476139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23476139", "by": "purerandomness", "time": 1591790631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a wide community of people feeling just like you, assembling in \"Maker communities\", as they call it. Good entry points are the IndieHackers podcast, and conferences like MicroConf (watch their conference talk recordings here, especially Patrick McKenzie's aka patio11 [0]) The basic idea is to create a sustainable job you love for yourself, the people that depend on you, and many others. The antithesis of \"Our incredible journey\", aka VC sellout. Once you've done this, you can do whatever you want. Build a game company. Pursue academia [1]. Join the demoscene, tour the world, join demo"}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 23477919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477919", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1591801930, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The recent episode of the Ezra Klein podcast interviews Paul Butler who argues that prison does more harm than good and that we does replace it with a system that actually improves people. He compares our current lease enforcement system to a chokehold: \"Butler describes a chokehold as \u201ca process of coercing submission that is self-reinforcing. A chokehold justifies additional pressure on the body because a body does not come into compliance, but a body cannot come into compliance because of the vice grip that is on it.\u201d That, he says, is the black experience in the United States. \" https://po"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 23477919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477919", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1591801930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent episode of the Ezra Klein podcast interviews Paul Butler who argues that prison does more harm than good and that we does replace it with a system that actually improves people. He compares our current lease enforcement system to a chokehold: \"Butler describes a chokehold as \u201ca process of coercing submission that is self-reinforcing. A chokehold justifies additional pressure on the body because a body does not come into compliance, but a body cannot come into compliance because of the vice grip that is on it.\u201d That, he says, is the black experience in the United States. \" https://po"}, {"show": "1517778490", "hn_item": 23481786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23481786", "by": "JacobWD", "time": 1591821379, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 23486523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486523", "by": "drclau", "time": 1591864854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in history, I can\u2019t recommend enough Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History podcast. I\u2019ve just listened recently to The Celtic Holocaust episode [0], which is pretty much Caeser vs the Celts, and I\u2019m astonished of how well organized the Roman military was. Also, while the Celts were considered barbarians, it seems they may have been quite developed, even if not at the same level as Rome. For instance, they had elected magistrates to run things, and they were in office for just a year and no one of their family could hold another such position during the lifetime of a magistrate. O"}, {"show": "1514792212", "hn_item": 23486671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486671", "by": "ReDeiPirati", "time": 1591866312, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 23488410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23488410", "by": "CoreFailure", "time": 1591880971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN, creator here. Near the end of 2019 I got the idea to listen through the backlog of some of my favorite long-running shows that had been going since 2010. It was possible, but not easy in most podcast clients I found, and none made it especially easy to just keep listening without manually downloading episodes or gave me an idea of my progress. Podbinge is best suited for when you want to listen through a podcast from start to finish. Audio dramas like \"The Program\" make this feel like your listening to an audiobook, where long running comedy series like My Brother, My Brother and Me ca"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23491660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23491660", "by": "blueboo", "time": 1591899101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He recently spoke quite dismissively of computer- augmented chess on the Lex Friedman podcast. Essentially, the computer knows best...so computer and human isn\u2019t meaningfully different from computer and rubber stamper."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 23492018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23492018", "by": "ebb_earl_co", "time": 1591900985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Previously in life I would be completely on the side of the ends not justifying the means, especially with respect to Tails of all things; precisely because it is billed as a tool for whistleblowers and others trying to extend/preserve democracy. However, recent episodes of Sam Harris' podcast, Making Sense, especially those with Paul Bloom, have changed my mind. The thrust of the argument is that exploiting (especially sexually!) minors is so outrageously heinous that arguments to protect bad actors in situations like this (as a subset of protecting all actors in all situations which is what "}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23492018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23492018", "by": "ebb_earl_co", "time": 1591900985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Previously in life I would be completely on the side of the ends not justifying the means, especially with respect to Tails of all things; precisely because it is billed as a tool for whistleblowers and others trying to extend/preserve democracy. However, recent episodes of Sam Harris' podcast, Making Sense, especially those with Paul Bloom, have changed my mind. The thrust of the argument is that exploiting (especially sexually!) minors is so outrageously heinous that arguments to protect bad actors in situations like this (as a subset of protecting all actors in all situations which is what "}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 23493655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493655", "by": "room505", "time": 1591912246, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23496810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496810", "by": "cepth", "time": 1591945701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What makes this more bizarre than Keller\u2019s typical short stints at previous companies is that he has done a ton of media in the last year. He\u2019s probably given more time to journalists/interviewers in 2020 than in the previous 3 decades of his career combined. A Fortune piece from May of this year gave some insights into his plans (as well as provided a nice overview of his career) ( https://fortune.com/longform/microchip-designer-jim-keller-i... ). > Keller won\u2019t talk much about the massive chip redesign he\u2019s overseeing\u2014chip designers seldom do\u2014and Intel\u2019s new chip probably won\u2019t be ready for "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23497904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497904", "by": "jstimpfle", "time": 1591958685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Keller also did a great interview on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast, which was released in February of this year ( https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA ). This is great. I'm 12 minutes in and I'm getting the kicks from the way this guy describes concepts (that I already know, more or less) in a simple way."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 23499665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23499665", "by": "Zhyl", "time": 1591972840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was actually explored in this Cracked article [0] which I heard about on the Cracked Podcast. Basically, being cynical and negative is one of the easiest ways of appearing smart because you don't need to back up any of your assertions and people are less likely to be called out for shitting on something. [0] https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-stupidest-things-that-mak..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23502707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23502707", "by": "UncleOxidant", "time": 1591989948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listening to that Lex Fridman podcast. Keller is a very good explainer. However, I'm on the part where he says that you need to throw everything out every 5 years or so and rewrite and it makes me think that that would be an area where he would've gotten a lot of push-back at Intel."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23503050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503050", "by": "animalgonzales", "time": 1591991429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was this Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-incrementalism..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23503991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23503991", "by": "rezashirazian", "time": 1591996560, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1758539536", "hn_item": 23514425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23514425", "by": "ethagnawl", "time": 1592098765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It's the same with Glenn Greenwald, who Taibbi is now allied with. Greenwald equated Michael Flynn's plea deal with the plight of poor folks being forced into bad deals by disinterested public defenders/overextended court systems on a recent episode of The Intercepted podcast. I no longer recognize the person I used to look forward to seeing as a guest on Democracy Now."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23514713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23514713", "by": "Melting_Harps", "time": 1592103079, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just love this is now starting to get the attention, this has been a worry that has robbed me of sleep and been main focus in my Life for over a decade now. But beneath my optimism is a sense of woeful regret of missed opportunities had more brilliant minds focused on this problem as there is so much potential for loss capture and cost savings that could enable a post-scarcity paradigm to occur; one that I think could potentially have massive impact on Greenhouse emission and climate change. I'll try to speak on these issues as I have a background in Ag and culinary and focused on locally so"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23522429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23522429", "by": "Swizec", "time": 1592178100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a story from Steven Levitt. He published Freakonomics together with Stephen Dubner then went back into academia while Dubner went down the podcaster route. 15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people with his work and Levitt recently started a podcast and soft quit academia after realizing that one of his best papers after years of research and hard work got 3 citations. He assumes fewer than 20 people will ever read that work."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 23525010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525010", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1592208506, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 23525207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23525207", "by": "cyberdrunk", "time": 1592210491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the latest Sam Harris podcast on this subject, he makes a ton of nuanced points that many people miss when talking about \"police brutality\"."}, {"show": "1505392824", "hn_item": 23530002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23530002", "by": "behrlich95", "time": 1592241554, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23533176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23533176", "by": "cp_mlreef", "time": 1592256446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Incredible view on conciousness from a very technical perspective while aiming to \"converge mathematics and philosophy\" to explain reality, the universe and how to create AI based on the turing test. Very disruptive and highly challenging podcast by Lex Fridman and Joscha Bach"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23536143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23536143", "by": "sooheon", "time": 1592284749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Who said anything about social stats? You did. > Dubner went went down the podcaster route. 15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people [...] I assume this is measured in terms of subscribers or listen counts. I'm not saying the Freakonomics Stevens have/haven't had quality contributions to the world, I'm not even saying anything w.r.t. average podcast quality vs. average academic paper quality. I'm only saying that people often measure impact along only one dimension."}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 23538626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538626", "by": "TimSchumann", "time": 1592312438, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just came here to post a link to his podcast. https://iprocrastinate.libsyn.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/iprocrastinate-podcast... He hasn't been very active with it in the last 3+ years, but it was a great listen."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23547024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547024", "by": "nothal", "time": 1592360608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is probably not a podcast that is frequently brought up here, but Chapo Trap House recently discussing their issues with the book White Fragility and brought up many of the same issues here (it's marketing material for a anti-racism instructor, the author is white, racism is presented as an issue that must be constantly atoned for in perpetuity [because DiAngelo would like to be hired in the future], it's geared towards the workplace which is inherently not a place people associate with emotional openness, it's geared towards what not to do as opposed to what to do, etc etc). I'm a"}, {"show": "533583161", "hn_item": 23553506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553506", "by": "mikece", "time": 1592412336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Manager Tools Basics\" podcast was not only helpful to me when I was looking to get into management but also taught me practical ways in which I could make my manager's job easier -- which is good because I decided against a life in management after getting a taste of it. https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 23557678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23557678", "by": "server_bot", "time": 1592433787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would highly recommend the \"Advent of Computing\" podcast episode on this topic: http://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=3a1d7af237bb48bb985e795c2..."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 23563862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563862", "by": "throw_away", "time": 1592493488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Invisibilia podcast where wirecard sends goons to terrorize a short-seller: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/868001948"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 23566392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566392", "by": "bwanab", "time": 1592506695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve recently gotten through this period in the \u201cHistory of Byzantium\u201d podcast series. Justinian had just recently retaken many of the old western Roman provinces, not least of which was Rome itself, and the breadbasket of North Africa. Things were finally looking good for the Romans again when the plague hit. The armies were unfortunately overextended and now half their ranks were dead or dying. It was an irresistible target for the Persians, the steppe horsemen and the Goths which ultimately weakened them all just in time for the Arab invasions."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 23568660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23568660", "by": "evan_", "time": 1592517950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're gonna use him for your argument you can listen to Marco's actual thoughts about this on the episode of Accidental Tech Podcast that dropped today, I won't spoil it but he's not on board."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 23568850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23568850", "by": "koheripbal", "time": 1592519353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wonderful series. Absolutely amazing. ...and he's now producing the set that extends through the Crusades. If you haven't listened to it, the one on the Siege of 717 deserves it's own bowl of popcorn - super super entertaining. I loved the original The History of Rome podcast that goes through to the fall of the West, but I think I've come to prefer this one even more. The first few episodes require a little patience as the author gets his footing - but it pays off. Awesome podcast."}, {"show": "1596141397", "hn_item": 23569856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23569856", "by": "anitil", "time": 1592527831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the Sound Escapes podcast by birdnote. It takes you to multiple locations where you can (among other sounds) listen to the bird calls. https://www.birdnote.org/blog/2019/07/sound-escapes"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23571988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23571988", "by": "kbottle", "time": 1592551930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I often hear people like Geo Hotz saying that he physically wants to move to the Cloud. I was wondering about the mechanics of such a notion, and even if it might sound crazy, what are some practical applications of it? In a nutshell - what do you think he really means by that? I posted a clip where he is briefly talking about that as he was a guest to the Lex Fridman podcast."}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 23573348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573348", "by": "physicles", "time": 1592566738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for being open-minded and having a dialog. I wouldn't call China loosely-enslaved; Chinese certainly don't see themselves as working for the Party, but for themselves, or for a prosperous China as a whole. Even though the information environment here is completely controlled, life really does feel free for the most part. Is it really a Pyrrhic victory when a Chinese middle class family can have a comfortable, genuinely happy life? How is that family's happiness different from that of a family of westerners that comes here and lives happily for many years, as many of my friends have done"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 23574225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23574225", "by": "sneeze-slayer", "time": 1592572683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Invisibilia did a really interesting show/podcast on one of the biggest short sellers of Wirecard and how he has been harassed for the past few years. I highly recommend people listen to if if they are interested in this crazy Wirecard tale! It's titled \"Trust Fall\" https://www.npr.org/transcripts/868001948"}, {"show": "419889705", "hn_item": 23580425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580425", "by": "faizshah", "time": 1592613481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Prototype link: https://p5stamper.com/ Glad to see they used Processing. In high school I introduced my CS classmates to Processing after hearing about it on The Creative Coding Podcast. We made tons of games and interesting simulations like the popular boids algorithm for birds and a classmate made the game Worms. I remember using it in a CS class in high school to implement minimax with alpha/beta pruning for Othello. It\u2019s a great environment to teach and learn coding in. Dan Shiffman wrote some great books to teach Processing from if you\u2019re interested."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 23587498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23587498", "by": "eebynight", "time": 1592688722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You must not know too many people that have taken statins... Sure, on paper, the LDL number goes down and according to the numbers you have a lower risk of heart attack, but the one common thing I've notice is that everyone complains that they feel terrible. Things like dizziness, nausea, low energy/libido, etc... Let's not forget that it takes mainstream science time to catch up to new research. There is a lag in existing beliefs while more research is being done and evidence solidified. That being said, lipidology is extremely complex but in the case of low carbohydrate diets the issue of ha"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23592689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23592689", "by": "vletal", "time": 1592754809, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 23598418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598418", "by": "trollied", "time": 1592816391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's also a really good Darknet Diaries podcast episode on NotPetya: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/54/ It's a brilliant podcast - there's some very interesting stories and interviews, my favourite recent one being The Courthouse: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/59/"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 23598454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598454", "by": "simon1573", "time": 1592816869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Go Time is a great podcast if you are in to Golang"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23599317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599317", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1592827865, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This discussion between Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein happened after the major reveal (and full story) on The Portal podcast between Bret and his brother, Eric. I highly recommend listening to it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-bret-weinstein-the-..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23600311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23600311", "by": "sradman", "time": 1592834740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "elindbe2 nicely summarizes Bret Weinstein's paper and the Joe Rogan clip. Eric Weinstein's 2hr+ Portal Podcast #19 on YouTube is frustrating but I'd summarize the \"new\" info from memory as: - math oriented older brother Eric thinks biology oriented younger brother Bret is Nobel Prize worthy - yet Bret and his mouse telomere paper live in obscurity - reason 1: Bret chose Evergreen rather than a top tier University - reason 2: the science establishment is biased against disruptive ideas and scientists - Carol Greider\u2019s 2009 Nobel Prize was based on work inspired by informal phone calls and email"}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 23601779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601779", "by": "ericjang", "time": 1592842023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the basic premise is that the status quo of transactions (free service for user data) has resulted in an imbalance of power for tech companies, and that by increasing the cost of acquisition, users have a means to collectively negotiate better \"market rates\" from the tech companies for services rendered. It can be regarded as similar to \"unionizing\" the users. It would be interesting to get some preliminary guidance on what tech companies would do in response (start charging for premium services? only give premium services to the most valuable users?) Andrew Yang has also mentioned in "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23602854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23602854", "by": "jszymborski", "time": 1592846375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the argument here is that scientists who work with mice are by-and-large aware of this. It's fine we're communicating this to the public, but the tone that's struck by the Rogan podcast feels a bit more like we're exposing something scientists are hiding or are unaware of."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 23617011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617011", "by": "rtkwe", "time": 1592932580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another reason is there's a lot of police that are sympathetic or even members of those far right and white supremacist groups. (eg: the Lynwood Vikings a white supremacist gang in LA composed entirely of deputy sheriffs) [0]. It's not isolated either and supremacist groups in some cases encourage members to join the police. [1] The podcast Behind the Bastards is doing a series at the moment about the direct evolution from slave patrols to police and the, lets say cozy, relationship between groups like the KKK and police. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings [1] https://www.pbs.or"}, {"show": "1573272310", "hn_item": 23629630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629630", "by": "tech-historian", "time": 1593014782, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1519491652", "hn_item": 23638811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638811", "by": "paniq1991", "time": 1593079026, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 23639194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639194", "by": "jdblair", "time": 1593082833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Invisibilia just released a great podcast about trust, based on the experience of a trader who was harassed by Wirecard. The trader, who was shorting Wirecard, was subject to surveillance, and a constant stream of phishing attacks. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/02/868001948/trust-fall"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23639804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639804", "by": "docdeek", "time": 1593087717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money\u2019s podcast this morning covered just this topic RE: Hertz."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 23639889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639889", "by": "dharmab", "time": 1593088263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Invisibilia is a podcast about emotions. The second half is fairly typical episode."}, {"show": "1161880916", "hn_item": 23652090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23652090", "by": "simonpure", "time": 1593180367, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 23653631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23653631", "by": "juanbyrge", "time": 1593188055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What the author misses is that government can play a huge role in combating climate change. There are simple policies the government can enact that would greatly improve the situation. Things like stopping fossil fuel subsidies, enacting carbon taxes, and incentivizing clean energy. There was a recent Ezra Klein podcast with Saul Griffith about this very topic. For instance , it is literally impossible in some places to put up rooftop solar due to archaic building codes. In a lot of cases the government is getting in the way. This is why protests can be effective, even if individuals may not a"}, {"show": "1494600747", "hn_item": 23654359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654359", "by": "Abishek_Muthian", "time": 1593191601, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What's impressive to me as a non-westerner about the satire media in US/Canada is the wonderful exhibition of free speech at a time when reporting factual news can get a journalist into extreme trouble, even in countries wearing 'democracy' banner. I highly recommend Onion's new podcast - The Topical[1][2] as a detox for real news by the EOD; Ironically some times Onion's news contain more truth than real(air quotes) news! [1] Google Podcast - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh... [2] Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-topical/id14946007..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23657388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23657388", "by": "greesil", "time": 1593207759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Planet Money podcast on this https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865908114/small-america-vs-bi..."}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 23665584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665584", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1593300960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \" I don\u2019t really have what you would describe as anxious thoughts. \" Dr David Burns (Cognitive Behavioural Therapist) talks about this in some of his Feeling Good podcast episodes, patients who say they don't have anxious thoughts. His position is that they do[1], but they aren't aware of them. One of his ways to identify them, is to get the patient to identify a specific time or event when they were anxious and tense (e.g. walking into a meeting, etc.), and draw a cartoon character in the same situation with a thought bubble, and then has the patient come up with any reasons why somebody - "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23667632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667632", "by": "nanonan", "time": 1593336035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have recently had the pleasure of discovering a few of these people on Joe Rogan's podcast. His three hour interview format alots enough time to dive deep enough into some of these ideas to realize they transcend left vs right and address some fundamentals about who we are as a human race and what our natural and written histories can tell us about our current times and the dangerous implications of identity politics. We, as a society, censor these people at our peril."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 23668789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668789", "by": "candiddevmike", "time": 1593353393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If the above, abridged history of Rome interests you, check out the podcast The History of Rome by Mike Duncan."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 23669589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23669589", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1593359621, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slate Money podcast was surprisingly good on Wirecard this week. Three things popped out - that this had been widely claimed as a fraud (millions in business going through offices that were just postal drops etc) but the German \"establishment\" supported them because they had no native german payment processor otherwise (and once you were in the Dax 30 it's a big deal to declare fraud). Also the failings of shorting a business - it's not enough to know they will collapse sometime, but you cannot keep covering your short for five years without wondering if the bet is worth it. But really this is"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 23670065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23670065", "by": "Melting_Harps", "time": 1593362903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If the above, abridged history of Rome interests you, check out the podcast The History of Rome by Mike Duncan. Thanks, I'll check it out. I don't have any apple products, so don't have an account on the Apple Store but I saw he has a youtube channel."}, {"show": "1718851160", "hn_item": 23670479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23670479", "by": "war1025", "time": 1593365896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A thing I heard somewhere, I think on an episode of the Permaculture Podcast [1], was to stop thinking of it as \"invasive\" plants. Plants aren't \"invading\", they're filling a niche that is under-served. The way to keep those plants from growing is to supplant them with other (potentially native) plants filling the same niche, or modify the environment to fix whatever deficiencies the unwanted plant is gaining it's advantage from. They also tied it into the immigration debate, which I thought was interesting. They mainly played off the fact that the same people who are pro-immigration are often"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23671941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23671941", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1593377357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My read was similar, I also couldn\u2019t get through Lo and Behold which set off bullshit alarms [0] and just gave me the impression of confidence being used in the place of actual explanation. It feels like an emperor has no clothes situation. For some reason people think it signals high status or intellectualism to like Herzog so they say they do. I haven\u2019t watched all of his movies so this may be unfairly harsh, but that was my initial impression. Portal podcast also came across that way to me. First interview with Thiel was interesting, but I stopped somewhere after the next couple. Too much \u201c"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23674864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23674864", "by": "abhishekash", "time": 1593411192, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I find Freakonomics, The Knowledge Project Podcast pretty intriguing. I am curious which are interesting and i missing out."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23675006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23675006", "by": "nikivi", "time": 1593412984, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Lex's AI podcast is pretty great due to breadth of great guests he had: https://overcast.fm/itunes1434243584/artificial-intelligence... This recent episode with Joscha Bach was amazing: https://overcast.fm/+OcVcduJ_s"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 23680276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23680276", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1593453722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan who also did the History of Rome podcast, did a series on the Haitian revolution. It's excellent! It may be the only successful slave revolt and a truly fascinating story. The series ran from 2015/12 through 2016/04. The podcast archives begin here: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2015/12/index.html"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23681527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681527", "by": "scruple", "time": 1593459047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yet r/stupidpol has (so far) managed to survive, which was the original Chapo Trap House podcast subreddit. edit/ There are quite a few actually disgusting subs that have managed to evade this ban, in addition to a few which I kind of expected to see banned that survived. There are also quite a few which are basically worse versions of a subreddit that was in the banwave which leads me to conclude that the Reddit admins simply don't know that they exist."}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 23681843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681843", "by": "mmcconnell1618", "time": 1593460361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Harvard Business Review podcast had an interesting take on this which suggested that the party-aligned primary system was the main cause. They applied Porter's 5 Forces to politics and suggested ranked choice voting would be one of the main ways to break to duopoly. https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/06/applying-porters-five-forces..."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 23683468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23683468", "by": "headsupernova", "time": 1593466676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great discussion of this topic on the media criticism podcast Citations Needed last week. \"How 'Polarization' Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing\" https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-112-how-polar..."}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 23684100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23684100", "by": "throwaway987978", "time": 1593469644, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to \"The Rabbit Hole\" podcast series this past weekend produced by the NY Times. They actually interviewed YouTube's CEO about this and they have realized that and have made changes to move away from that. https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 23686250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686250", "by": "SllX", "time": 1593487979, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Friedrich Hayek put the Austrian in Austrian Economics; the term was invented by the Germans and was meant to be disparaging towards him and others like him. Hayek has an extensive body of written work, the jewel of which is \u201cThe Road to Serfdom\u201d. Russ Roberts of the Hoover Institute has hosted an ongoing podcast called EconTalk[1] that while not studying Hayek specifically, often brings a Hayekian viewpoint to his discussions with guests. [1] https://www.econtalk.org/"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23687873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23687873", "by": "9nGQluzmnq3M", "time": 1593504708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've never heard of Chapo Trap House before, apparently it's a \"dirtbag left\" podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapo_Trap_House Am I being too cynical to assume it was singled out in the comms so Reddit can pretend to be fair and balanced, when the actual target was r/The_Donald?"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 23703841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23703841", "by": "tomonocle", "time": 1593623289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast often does similarly detailed examinations of planes (as well as almost anything and everything else): https://pca.st/episode/05c91470-2f6f-0135-52f9-452518e2d253 )"}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 23704328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23704328", "by": "longdefeat", "time": 1593625874, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 23711286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711286", "by": "2sk21", "time": 1593680106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is exactly Ben Thompson's point too. In the Dithering podcast he mentioned that brand advertising simply does not work well on Facebook."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 23713716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23713716", "by": "no-dr-onboard", "time": 1593701037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you heard of the podcast Darknet Diaries? Jack Rhysider (the host) does a pretty remarkable job of documenting the answers to your questions by interviewing guests (in story format) who often come from the more murky areas of the internet. In particular I recommend the episode freakyclown or OxyMonster as that seems to fit what you're looking for."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23715918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23715918", "by": "taylorfinley", "time": 1593711959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent episode of the npr podcast Planet Money that covers this story: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694548245"}, {"show": "1474245040", "hn_item": 23716492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716492", "by": "Oneiros512", "time": 1593715042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast presented by the professor of that course is also excellent. It's called The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos."}, {"show": "1514838010", "hn_item": 23726951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726951", "by": "stupidcar", "time": 1593806128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I became aware of Hancock by listening to the Our Fake History podcast series about him and his claims: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-78-who... The impression I got is... not good, to to say the least."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 23726951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23726951", "by": "stupidcar", "time": 1593806128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I became aware of Hancock by listening to the Our Fake History podcast series about him and his claims: https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-78-who... The impression I got is... not good, to to say the least."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 23751911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23751911", "by": "discoposse", "time": 1594064650, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 23752556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23752556", "by": "zevyoura", "time": 1594068404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the podcast \"Reply All\" which digs into some of these questions: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 23754420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23754420", "by": "cruano", "time": 1594082577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily podcast https://softwareengineeringdaily.com"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23756534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23756534", "by": "awb", "time": 1594105736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What's your opinion on these claims from the article? > they were running controversial experiments to find out how they might mutate to become more infectious to humans. This \u201cgain-of-function\u201d work is described in papers released by the WIV between 2015 and 2017, scientists say. Shi\u2019s team combined snippets of different coronaviruses to see if they could be made more transmissible in what they called \u201cvirus infectivity experiments\u201d. > Ebright alleges, however, that the type of work required to create Covid-19 from RaTG13 was \u201cidentical\u201d to work the laboratory had done in the past. \u201cThe very "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23757045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757045", "by": "alaxsxaq", "time": 1594111791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be thinking of the Joe Rogan podcast episode from late June with Bret Weinstein, formerly professor of biology at Evergreen State College, where the topic of gain-of-function research relative to Covid-19 is discussed in some depth. Eric Weinstein, Bret's brother, as mentioned in a later comment, is the managing director of Thiel Capital. Eric was last on the podcast in April 2020 where there was some discussion of Covid - perhaps he also discussed gain-of-function coronavirus research which is not a new subject and has been the subject of controversy - even leading the NIH to suspen"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 23761465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761465", "by": "kitsune_", "time": 1594142197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Coaching for Leaders (Gold mine with hundreds of great episodes, as an example https://coachingforleaders.com/podcast/maximize-team-perform... ) Manager Tools (They even have a section for new managers: https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/important-topic-feeds... ) Books: The Effective Manager The Speed of Trust Five Dysfunctions of a Team Turn The Ship Around If you want to look further than traditional command and control structures, I recommend looking into Deming, Sociocracy, teal organizations or the aforementioned book \"Turn The Ship Around\". Also, look into norming, stormin"}, {"show": "1333698295", "hn_item": 23761465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761465", "by": "kitsune_", "time": 1594142197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Coaching for Leaders (Gold mine with hundreds of great episodes, as an example https://coachingforleaders.com/podcast/maximize-team-perform... ) Manager Tools (They even have a section for new managers: https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/important-topic-feeds... ) Books: The Effective Manager The Speed of Trust Five Dysfunctions of a Team Turn The Ship Around If you want to look further than traditional command and control structures, I recommend looking into Deming, Sociocracy, teal organizations or the aforementioned book \"Turn The Ship Around\". Also, look into norming, stormin"}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 23761767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761767", "by": "matthewfcarlson", "time": 1594143333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a short run podcast called The Program ( https://programaudioseries.com/ ). It's a historical documentary about the rise of \"The Program\" which is basically an AI directed gig economy becoming the economy. It asks people to do strange things for seemingly arbitrary reasons but it makes sense when you realize what all it is doing."}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 23768439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768439", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1594202365, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A while ago, she was on The Ezra Klein Show (a podcast) to basically play through live a world building example. Pretty fun! Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+QLhXLnUOw Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1081584611?ct=podlink&m... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xyFQhbsjQ"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 23768439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768439", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1594202365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A while ago, she was on The Ezra Klein Show (a podcast) to basically play through live a world building example. Pretty fun! Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+QLhXLnUOw Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1081584611?ct=podlink&m... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xyFQhbsjQ"}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 23769571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769571", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1594214336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The UI was easy to change. But the form factor abd the size of the screen (3.5 inches), was pretty much spot on. What are the chances that the rumor mill would get the size just right two years before the iPhone was announced if it Apple hadn\u2019t already basically decided on a form factor by then? Even with the iPad, the first interface ideas were to just have a big iPhone interface with no accordances to the larger screen. (Source: various interviews of former employees on the Debug podcast)."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 23771964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23771964", "by": "karinakarina", "time": 1594228829, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23774147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23774147", "by": "centimeter", "time": 1594241816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Semi related, I find it fun to look at patreon top creator stats, which includes a lot of podcasts: https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators Notable are Chapo Trap House, a communist/socialist podcast making nearly $2M a year, and Cum Town, a low production value comedy podcast pulling in almost $700k."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 23774153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23774153", "by": "mikece", "time": 1594241874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While it's interesting to see how many podcasts there are in general, it would be more interesting to know how many dormant podcasts there are and how long the average podcast lasts. The original podcast, The Daily Source Code, is still technically active (there is an RSS feed that works) but you cannot download the history and there aren't any new shows (mainly because the RIAA threatened to sue Adam Curry out of existence if he published another one)."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23775199, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775199", "by": "bob1029", "time": 1594249350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't understand the need for all of this obfuscation/gamification around the act of actually performing physical exercise. What works for me regarding on-going daily exercise is rowing while listening to a podcast about something really deep (JRE, The Portal, etc.). It takes me exactly 60 seconds to get my shoes on, queue up a podcast and start into the rowing session. Anything longer than this would probably demotivate me to the point of not exercising regularly. I strongly suspect the reason a lot of this fancy exercise gear is never used consistently is because there is always some UX an"}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 23779572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23779572", "by": "rdfi", "time": 1594298793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Ubuntu podcast has a very recent episode about this: https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/06/25/s13e14-ace-of-spades/ The conversation around snaps starts at 5:20. It sounded to me that they genuinely tried to put themselves in both side's shoes."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23780062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780062", "by": "adammoelis", "time": 1594302150, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! We are Adam & Ben, co-founders of Yotta Savings ( https://www.withyotta.com/ ), an app that uses behavioral psychology to help people save money by making saving exciting. We were inspired to build Yotta by the Premium Bond program ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond ) in the UK and a Freakonomics episode on prize-linked savings ( https://freakonomics.com/podcast/say-no-no-lose-lottery-rebr... ). Premium Bonds is a government-run prize-linked savings program in the UK that started in 1956. It\u2019s a savings account where people get chances to win monthly prizes through a random c"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23782233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782233", "by": "avsteele", "time": 1594313811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Article fails to defend the NYT in any substantive way, and the writer makes obvious their biases with statements like: S.S.C. supporters on Twitter were quick to identify some of the Times\u2019 recent concessions to pseudonymous quotation\u2014Virgil Texas, a co-host of the podcast \u201cChapo Trap House,\u201d was mentioned, as were Banksy and a member of ISIS\u2014as if these supposed inconsistencies were dispositive proof of the paper\u2019s secret agenda, rather than an ad-hoc and perhaps clumsy application of a flexible policy Obviously this isn't and either/or. The lumping together of all SSC supporters is another "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23782535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782535", "by": "AzzieElbab", "time": 1594315184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been reading the NewYorker for decades. And this article makes me realize 100M Spotify is paying for Joe Rogan podcast is actually a bargain. Old media is done, they do not have a business valuable outside of adds driven model, all they can fight for is the power to develop narrative(s). In other words, they are fighting for status"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23782577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782577", "by": "ggreer", "time": 1594315360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Even when a subject's legal name is known, the NYT regularly uses a pen name or pseudonym to protect their identity. Here are some examples: - Virgil Texas, co-host of the Chapo Trap House podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sander... - Vermin Supreme, performance artist: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/us/politics/libertarians-... - Drag queens such as Lil Miss Hot Mess, Sister Roma, and Heklina: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/fashion/drag-performers-f... - Baseball statistician Tom Tango: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/magazine/why-are-some-new... - Gay "}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 23782846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782846", "by": "haberman", "time": 1594316630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Times, although its policy permits exceptions for a variety of reasons, errs on the side of the transparency and accountability that accompany the use of real names. S.S.C. supporters on Twitter were quick to identify some of the Times\u2019 recent concessions to pseudonymous quotation\u2014Virgil Texas, a co-host of the podcast \u201cChapo Trap House,\u201d was mentioned, as were Banksy and a member of isis\u2014as if these supposed inconsistencies were dispositive proof of the paper\u2019s secret agenda, rather than an ad-hoc and perhaps clumsy application of a flexible policy. Had the issue been with Facebook and "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 23785033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23785033", "by": "mgleason_3", "time": 1594327788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money just released a podcast titled: \"Police Unions and Civilian deaths\". Some of the notable quotes include: * Starting roughly in the late '50s, Rob says, state governments began allowing police officers to collectively bargain - in other words, to join unions. This is where we found a really remarkable and really horrible result....after officers gained access to collective bargaining rights ... there was a substantial increase in killings of civilians ...about 60 to 70 per year ... killed by the police in an era historically where there are a lot fewer police shootings. So th"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23787715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23787715", "by": "SilasHaslam", "time": 1594349932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant Freakonomics podcast with Maria Konnikova on her new book about luck, game theory, etc. They discuss von Neumann, and how he was actually a bad poker player, bud enjoyed the social aspect. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/konnikova-biggest-bluff/"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 23790227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790227", "by": "jcun4128", "time": 1594378928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm trying to get into it but don't know what to make. I follow Indie Hackers/Entrepreneur podcasts/wip.chat/etc... now I'm looking into Shopify stuff, make some niche API connector or something... but it will be a time sink to learn their docs/how stuff works on the Shopify aspect. Possible oversaturated market, etc... but I figure if I cruise through the forums/see recurring problems, maybe I can find something to build. Recently I had a friend who runs a shipping business have me make him a PayPal button generator built into an email template that was mailed out so they could specify a pric"}, {"show": "273772632", "hn_item": 23790974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790974", "by": "ericmay", "time": 1594385680, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I've been studying (at a layman's level) urban planning and design for the last 5 years, and wanted to share a podcast episode [1] with neuroscientist Ann Sussman [2] that I think should fundamentally alter or reinforce your preexisting understanding of the urban landscape. As a preface, it's not just about suburbia, but also the stress-inducing design of modern cities with skyscrapers. A couple of points that I've taken away: * PTSD from WW1 and WW2 led to inhumane architecture [3] * In the US in particular in the 50s we believed in technology and that humans were apart from nature and design"}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 23797744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23797744", "by": "buran77", "time": 1594423181, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Naive view of the world The irony is blinding here. The kind of entitled opinion that can only be supported by strong ignorance and is only remedied by education. Every one of your arguments can be refuted in half a line just like in all of your other comments. And you'd reject every one of your arguments if they were used against you. Are Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, etc. better off now than they were before being bombed to shit to \"fix their dictator or terrorist problem\"? Is Iran better off after making a deal with the US and sticking to it? Central America after all the \"fight"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 23798678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23798678", "by": "notRobot", "time": 1594431740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed. Those who aren't aware can read this article [1] or listen to this brilliant podcast episode from Reply All [2]. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06/inside-wi... [2]: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd/"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 23802449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23802449", "by": "welcome_dragon", "time": 1594477780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I looked at this in the past and found it to work well but is (was?) missing a couple of key (to me) features: * Customizable playback speed (at least in the past, there were no FOSS libraries for this) * Per-podcast volume controls. One podcast I listen to (Data Skeptic) needs a volume boost"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 23807594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23807594", "by": "kfogel", "time": 1594514611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Question for OP) Just curious: Were you inspired to ask this question by the recent CoRecursive Podcast interview with Jim Blandy ( https://corecursive.com/054-software-that-doesnt-suck/ ) in which he talks about how the motivation to design a CVS replacement come from the question \"What's the worst software that you use every day?\""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 23810883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810883", "by": "stunt", "time": 1594557445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast had an episode about Stuxnet and a few more about other attacks that are linked to it. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/29/"}, {"show": "1518323701", "hn_item": 23812457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23812457", "by": "wonder_er", "time": 1594570992, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I am sorry that the \"blind to institutional racism\" crowd jumped on this so hard. I'm with you, 100%. Most white people think the slavery/genocide of america's past is just that - it's in the past. So, when they hear people pushing on verbiage associated with it today, they think \"oh, that person is dredging up ancient history, why don't they get over it?\" I (and many others) would argue the legacy of that genocide and slavery is _alive and well_ and shapes our lives today, daily. [0][1] If one could reasonably complain about master/slave language in the south in the 1850s, they're reasonable "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 23814832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23814832", "by": "FabHK", "time": 1594588604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can listen to Sam Harris' podcast with Markovits for an introduction to the book [1], or Ezra Klein's [2]. I found his argument novel, thoughtful, and quite convincing and have put the book on my reading list. The claim is that elites have instituted a caste system, more or less, with enormous inequality and very little social mobility, all under the guise of meritocracy which serves to legitimise it. [1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/ [2] link at the end here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/... https://www.themeritocracytrap.com"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 23816090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23816090", "by": "schwartzworld", "time": 1594601921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "citations needed did an incredible episode on the porch pirate narrative. Listen to Episode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps by Citations Needed Podcast on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-97-porch-pira..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23820540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820540", "by": "wsc981", "time": 1594647226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast is with \"master builder and architectural designer, teacher, geometrician, geomythologist, geological explorer and renegade scholar\" Randall Carlson. Randall talks a lot about a flood happening ~12.000 years ago, during a period known as \"The Younger Dryas\" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas ). Key moments for anyone who doesn't want to watch the 3 full hours are: 0:04:16 Homo sapiens idaltu, oldest modern human skeleton> 7000 generations of humans 0:05:45 new discoveries lending credence to Graham Hancock's thesis 0:06:22 Gobekli Tepe 0:07:30 T"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23821726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23821726", "by": "sradman", "time": 1594653866, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is important because it relates to the interpretation of the data related to the same timelines that raised the sea levels and, therefore, the water table level that flooded these underground caves in the limestone karst. The interpretation of the data is wrong, but it is the same misinterpretation that is mainstream in the catastrophic climate-change literature. I watched a snippet of the Joe Rogan podcast sometime ago and Joe Rogan's exclamation at the end of the segment went something like \"wow, that is the real inconvenient truth\". The hypothesis is tied to the historic delta-O-18 [1]"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 23827446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23827446", "by": "lstamour", "time": 1594688412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to Pivot podcast, might change your mind? I\u2019d suggest it\u2019s just a journalistic style of trying to ask the uncomfortable questions. Walt was often seen as maybe too deferential, particularly later on as books and other things entered the mix."}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 23833493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833493", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1594742488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great summary of everything I feel that has gone wrong at the NYT, cancel culture, and the left-wing gladiatorial combat that is trying to root out any hint of disagreement with orthodoxy now that all center and conservatives have been purged. I highly recommend reading this. If you want more opinions from progressives that feel cancel culture has stifled free speech, is illiberal, and also illogical, listen to the Blocked and Reported podcast: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/ Very brave people make that, and it's a breath of fresh air."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 23833493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833493", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1594742488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great summary of everything I feel that has gone wrong at the NYT, cancel culture, and the left-wing gladiatorial combat that is trying to root out any hint of disagreement with orthodoxy now that all center and conservatives have been purged. I highly recommend reading this. If you want more opinions from progressives that feel cancel culture has stifled free speech, is illiberal, and also illogical, listen to the Blocked and Reported podcast: https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/ Very brave people make that, and it's a breath of fresh air."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23833599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833599", "by": "ngngngng", "time": 1594742830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Completely disagree. And I think Joe Rogan's podcast is the perfect example of how the market is suggesting exactly what you replied to. \"Normal Americans\" don't read the NYT anymore, or WSJ, or the Post, they listen to Joe Rogan on Spotify and Youtube. There's virtually no limit to who Joe will have on his show, and while he's not a remarkable interviewer, he brings the often vital opinions of his guests on all sides of many issues, and he asks sincere questions for hours on end."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23833979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833979", "by": "seppin", "time": 1594744119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Completely disagree. And I think Joe Rogan's podcast is the perfect example of how the market is suggesting exactly what you replied to. Dave Chapelle, too. Comedians are lying to you (mostly), they are regular people trying to figure shit out (often times with you listening at home). This is why they are popular."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23833984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833984", "by": "mikece", "time": 1594744136, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I might be misremembering but I thought her appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was cited by some as her making a fool of herself while trying to answer an honestly curious question by Joe (and I'm pretty sure she's been on since and will almost certainly be making a visit again soon as she's \"news hot\" right now which is the best time for an interview). As for the future of media, I wonder if long-form podcasting where the conversation goes far beyond sound bites and delves deep into the explanations for why the interviewees believe what they believe (and what their sources for believing that"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23834492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834492", "by": "ngngngng", "time": 1594745944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not actually a listener, I might watch a clip from a guest I'm interested in once in a great while. But I've never listened to an entire episode. I don't like the lack of structure in his interviews, and I don't have 2-4 hours to listen to unstructured rambling, with the occasional useful tangent. I think you mistook my comment as saying \"Joe Rogan podcast is great and everyone should listen.\" I was only saying that it is a source of \"opinions that are vital, and debate that is sincere,\" and that he has obtained a remarkable amount of working class listeners."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23834588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834588", "by": "cygx", "time": 1594746312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I might be misremembering but I thought her appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was cited by some as her making a fool of herself while trying to answer an honestly curious question by Joe She called Tulsi Gabbard an 'Assad toady' with monstrous ideas. The funny part was them looking up the definition of toady (Joe wasn't aware of the meaning of the word), but the more damning part was Bari's defense of that characterization (from memory: she didn't remember any details, but was sure she read it somewhere). That was almost but not quite as bad as Dave Rubin's appearance, where he explained how"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23834744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834744", "by": "kyuudou", "time": 1594746956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I might be misremembering but I thought her appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was cited by some as her making a fool of herself while trying to answer an honestly curious question by Joe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpurFfcSNfU She called Tulsi Gabbard, an active Army National Guard major, an \"Assad toadie\" then had difficulty recalling what exactly a \"toadie\" is."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23835099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23835099", "by": "cygx", "time": 1594748506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought that was a pretty intense debate and one that has significant importance give it's election year. Sure, there are such episodes; I can think of another one off-hand, and if I took time, probably a couple more. But remember, the JRE podcast is currently at episode 1506, and most of them aren't like that."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23836037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23836037", "by": "ncr100", "time": 1594752556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Where is the cultural critique of Weiss coming from? Is it this contribution, on the Joe Rogan podcast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo3GM760a2s&feature=youtu.be - 11m, 2019 - Weiss talks about Tulsi Gabbard (?) as a sycophant. (YT person asserts dishonesty and hypocrisy.)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23837446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23837446", "by": "blisseyGo", "time": 1594758730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Rooting people out to be more inclusive\" - Paging George Orwell As someone who had to create this second account because I feared stating my politics on my mail account which linked to my work would get me cancelled, I can sympathize with her a bit. However, I also think she's herself played part in creating the very culture she's complaining about. She claimed to be a \"conservative\" but she's far from that. Listening her on the Joe Rogan Podcast, she's a liberal on majority of the issues. She seems to be masquerading as a \"conservative\" imo. Kind of reminds me of how Tulsi Gabbard was canc"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 23842119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23842119", "by": "weddpros", "time": 1594796095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Kubernetes podcast explained just last week how moving etcd from HTTP to gRPC allowed a large gain in scalability"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23844079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23844079", "by": "Darmody", "time": 1594815283, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love how we're starting to focus on our diets to prevent or cure a huge amount of diseases. You don't need drugs, expensive treatments, nothing, only a good diet. (read the comments below for an clarification for this statement) I personally can't work on a very low carb diet. Now I'm eating carbs again but NOT refined carbs. I make sure everything I eat is nutrient dense. Well, not everything, I'm not a robot but I always try to eat stuff with a low glycemic index. And I eat everything in a span of 8 hours. The rest of the day I only drink water. Y recommend listening to Dr. Rhonda Patrick."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 23848647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848647", "by": "umc0der", "time": 1594834626, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "talk about synchronicity... sam harris recently released a podcast entailing the ever-present threat of nuclear war: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DbMBiOYCCr7LRObkqfffe"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 23858742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858742", "by": "TeaDrunk", "time": 1594906139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"If they want to re-capture their audience they need to put their journalists to work creating more audio content that people can consume in their \"found time\" along with their other podcasts.\" At least the NYT has a daily podcast, an updating podcast on the impeachment (when the impeachment happened), a podcast series on engagement algorithms in radicalizing people, I think several more. The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, NPR (So many NPR podcasts), etc. also have podcasts. I think podcasts are well covered and this argument is coming from a place of ignorance."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 23858914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858914", "by": "wenc", "time": 1594907247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Semi on-topic: pseudorandomness is an interesting idea that has interesting applications in real life. Maria Konnikova [1] mentions that poker players, even when they have an on-average winning strategy, randomize their play using the second hand on their watches. For instance, they might execute their play 3 times every 4 plays, depending what their watches tell them. For me the deeper implication is that in an environment with stochasticity (the real world is a mix between determinism and randomness), executing the same deterministic strategy all the time is likely not going to guard you aga"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 23859917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859917", "by": "ksec", "time": 1594913077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I remember reading somewhere that Chris Lattner said his goal with Swift was \"Total World Domination\" I think it was ATP Podcast https://atp.fm/205 But if you are listening to ATP most of the guest and host aren't really liking swift at all. And prefer to stick to Objective-C for as long as they could. In someway I could understand that, Swift all of a sudden has 10x increase in complexity compared to Objective-C."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 23860365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860365", "by": "Zhyl", "time": 1594915562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great Cracked podcast about this recently. Preppers are basically preparing for some Hollywood doomsday scenario where the hero overcomes challenges by putting himself first and (sometimes violently) surviving by a series of physically demanding challenges that depends on his canny and his wits. The real life pandemic scenario is 'solved' (in the same sense) by listening to Government advice, being considerate of others and staying at home and watching TV."}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 23868753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23868753", "by": "swyx", "time": 1594977606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "for people who want to go deeper on stuff like the box model and specificity and selectors, i highly highly recommend Una Kravets and Adam Argyle's The CSS podcast https://pod.link/thecsspodcast - they are the two CSS devrels from google and they really break it down in depth while explaining things in an accessible way. no vested relationship, just a fan."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23869309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869309", "by": "oedmarap", "time": 1594984172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangential is yesterday's JRE podcast with Abigail Shrier[0] who's a journalist for the Wall Street Journal. The interview discusses her new book's findings about hormone therapy given specifically to teenage girls through the means of \"informed consent\", which led to terrible developmental and reproductive damage that was in most cases irreversible. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtftWcgXjdg"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 23874149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874149", "by": "Kye", "time": 1595012478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most riots seem to be sparked by counter-protestors (the police). They could do with more training in de-escalation instead of the \"warrior\" training too many of them get. Behind the Bastards did an episode on it. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 23875053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875053", "by": "the_snooze", "time": 1595017260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts should be the gold standard for online advertising. They're perfect for everyone involved: there's no creepy tracking involved, and the ads are appealing because podcast producers tend to know and respect their audience. I never skip podcast ads because they're often entertaining in and of themselves (e.g., Reply All). I like this sort of \"personalization\" podcasts do in their ads: with human judgment where the content creators exercise editorial control, not some black box chum box any rando can dump ads into."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23880735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880735", "by": "wsc981", "time": 1595072855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A while ago (18 June) former biology professor Bret Weinstein said the same in a Joe Rogan podcast [0], that there are several indications that seem to point out the virus is engineered. One of the most interesting point he brings up, at least from my perspective, was the following: - Bats are outdoor animals - As such a corona virus that mainly targets bats should have little trouble spreading outside - However if a virus has been studied in a lab, so perhaps the virus has mutated to spread more easily indoors and \"forgot\" how to spread outdoors - Hence this could be the reason why at the mom"}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 23881315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881315", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1595079458, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In today's Slate Money podcast they interview Margret Sullivan on her new book about destruction of US local newspapers. She has an interesting factoid - those local governments with local newspapers have significantly and demonstrably lower costs of borrowing than those without - the conjecture being that over the years councils have been unable to get away with blatant corruption for fear of public humiliation- that the \"watchdog\" role of newspapers is not nice journalist ethics but actually measurable in tax dollars ICANN is part of the Internet's local government and we need to find new wa"}, {"show": "1135550416", "hn_item": 23882548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882548", "by": "ballenf", "time": 1595090013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The svelte creator talks extensively about this on a recent Software Engineering podcast: https://www.se-radio.net/2020/03/episode-402-rich-harris-on-..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 23889633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23889633", "by": "Kednicma", "time": 1595169445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the \"Behind the Bastards\" special podcast series \"Behind the Police\", which ran only a month or two ago, one of the running themes of the police is that they historically are not just entangled with corruption, but are a source of corruption. In particular, in \"How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier\" [0], they examine several cases where police unions were the primary nexus of organized crime in major cities in the USA. Another major theme of the police is that they are slave patrollers, which is where the Klan connection becomes most obvious. (And there is an entire episode, \"The Histor"}, {"show": "1518323701", "hn_item": 23889633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23889633", "by": "Kednicma", "time": 1595169445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the \"Behind the Bastards\" special podcast series \"Behind the Police\", which ran only a month or two ago, one of the running themes of the police is that they historically are not just entangled with corruption, but are a source of corruption. In particular, in \"How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier\" [0], they examine several cases where police unions were the primary nexus of organized crime in major cities in the USA. Another major theme of the police is that they are slave patrollers, which is where the Klan connection becomes most obvious. (And there is an entire episode, \"The Histor"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 23895813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895813", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1595233296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History podcasts (Mike Duncan's Revolutions and Fall of Civilizations have been working for me). Set a 15-30 minutes timer and it works wonderfully. No Dan Carlin, though. That man's voice is caffeine."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 23895813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895813", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1595233296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History podcasts (Mike Duncan's Revolutions and Fall of Civilizations have been working for me). Set a 15-30 minutes timer and it works wonderfully. No Dan Carlin, though. That man's voice is caffeine."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 23896767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896767", "by": "koheripbal", "time": 1595244691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their are some deeper news aggregations. I would argue that Twitter is just so absolutely shallow, that it offers a misrepresentation of reality. I read the Wall Street Journal for general/business/politics news. I feel that you really have to pay for news if you want accurate reporting. Goldman Sachs has an ok podcast for market updates. For transient issues, you really need to dig around for where the field experts are posting their analyses... ...but it's also important not to get sucked into every online controversy/story. Achieving your life goals is about FOCUS - and most news are just d"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 23898172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898172", "by": "wry_discontent", "time": 1595255219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought sleeping to a podcast was crazy until I found Sleep With Me, and I ended up putting it on pretty frequently, 2-3 nights/week. It's really calming. Guy incoherently recaps episodes of shows."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 23898516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898516", "by": "noelwelsh", "time": 1595257546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the wider world of startups you might like the \"Startups for the Rest of Us\" podcast ( https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ ) and the community around it. Some examples: * https://microconf.com/ * https://tinyseed.com/ * http://bootstrappedweb.com/ * https://indie.vc They are probably closest to the Silicon Valley startup world in the kinds of businesses being built. Getting further away you have things like affiliate marketers and drop shippers. The \"Tropical MBA\" podcast ( https://www.tropicalmba.com/ ) is more in that space."}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 23898516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23898516", "by": "noelwelsh", "time": 1595257546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the wider world of startups you might like the \"Startups for the Rest of Us\" podcast ( https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ ) and the community around it. Some examples: * https://microconf.com/ * https://tinyseed.com/ * http://bootstrappedweb.com/ * https://indie.vc They are probably closest to the Silicon Valley startup world in the kinds of businesses being built. Getting further away you have things like affiliate marketers and drop shippers. The \"Tropical MBA\" podcast ( https://www.tropicalmba.com/ ) is more in that space."}, {"show": "1452871448", "hn_item": 23901233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901233", "by": "cjiang98", "time": 1595274651, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1501863970", "hn_item": 23901446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901446", "by": "goulinkh", "time": 1595276227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A CLI Podcast player that I built after learning the basics of Go"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23901664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901664", "by": "read_if_gay_", "time": 1595277675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend listening to Thiels episode on Eric Weinsteins The Portal podcast if this sounds interesting to you."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23901791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901791", "by": "scop", "time": 1595278430, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend that people listen to that episode even if it's not interesting to you. Very good food for thought. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s Audio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1-peter-thiel/id146999..."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 23902260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902260", "by": "KerrickStaley", "time": 1595281626, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Science Vs. described one patient who received an experimental vaccine and had severe (but not life-threatening) fever-like side effects including fainting, nausea/vomiting, chills, and lethargy/weakness: > When I woke up, I woke up this was at noon the next day, I had to get up to go to the bathroom, on the way there I felt really nauseous and actually ended up throwing up in the bathroom and then I just collapsed. I remember waking up on the floor, though, and looking up and seeing the underside of the kitchen table, which was a very confusing sight So by taking an experimental v"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23902362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902362", "by": "noetic_techy", "time": 1595282585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> This is very visible when Thiel dismisses incremental progress with wind turbines and photovoltaic cells. I think you've missed his point which he lays out in the opener. If you've listened to him speak on podcasts about this topic (I recommend episode 1 of The Portal with Eric Weinstein) you will realize that his ENTIRE point is that incremental progress is simply refinement of things we already have since the 60s and for him thats NOT good enough. He isn't looking for incremental refinement at all, he is looking for the equivalent of the emergence of the solar cell or the wind turbine fro"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 23902406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902406", "by": "noetic_techy", "time": 1595283066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Eric Weinstein would agree with you on this point. You should really listen to his podcast with Peter Thiel where they talk about similar interests disrupting advancement (The Portal - Episode 1). I don't buy the argument that the whole system is therefore useless and corrupt, but that it very much needs intervention to keep this sort of regulatory capture from occurring."}, {"show": "1494403834", "hn_item": 23904098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904098", "by": "hosh", "time": 1595302091, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have not seen that youtube video. I have worked with visionary plant teachers and explored consciousness that way, and so the idea of a different kind of cognition outside of a nervous system is not foreign to me. I got the SharedEarth from this podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/permaculture-for-the-f... The host interviewed someone who got 100% of his food from forage or grown, for 1 year. He did not own land, and made deals with landowners to start gardens in their front yard. He was the one that mentioned this side. I had just heard about it a couple days ago as I was"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23904308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904308", "by": "andreaorru", "time": 1595305312, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 23906931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23906931", "by": "ElFitz", "time": 1595340893, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "332923870", "hn_item": 23906931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23906931", "by": "ElFitz", "time": 1595340893, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 23907393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23907393", "by": "jennstarr", "time": 1595344082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shaan Puri has a podcast called My First Million and he talks about a concept really similar to this. He's active on Twitter. You may try to get him to look at it."}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 23909257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23909257", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1595355080, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1517706248", "hn_item": 23911120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911120", "by": "110abidi", "time": 1595366351, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23914896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914896", "by": "MangoCoffee", "time": 1595404691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"It\u2019s always better to own your platform\" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with \"OK, dude\". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying \"OK, dude\" to someone. how the fuck is \"OK, dude\" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zuby because transgender activist mock Zuby and Zuby reply with \"Ok, dude\". the cancel culture in the West is destroying people from speaking freely. the cancel culture in the West i"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 23918818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23918818", "by": "ramidarigaz", "time": 1595435952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Azra Raza was also on the Mindscape podcast, really realy good interview. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/12/16/77-a..."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 23927710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23927710", "by": "scrozart", "time": 1595514595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was the topic of a recent episode of Revisionist History. Museums, art museums in the case of this podcast, horde tons of material they simply pack away and none of them ever note the actual value in annual filings. Then, when in financial trouble, they fire people and want a bailout. It reminds me of the Rolling Stone article about Johnny Depp being 'broke', despite having earned half a billion dollars. He refuses to sell a single property of the couple dozen he owns even though he would immediately be solvent afterwards."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 23928805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928805", "by": "lumens", "time": 1595520324, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell touches on this beautifully in the most recent season of Revisionist History: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dragon-psychology-101/..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 23929692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929692", "by": "throwaway987978", "time": 1595524762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really found the Manager Tools podcasts on feedback very helpful https://manager-tools.com/2005/07/giving-effective-feedback It's not about berating anyone. It's about constant subtle modifications. They compare it to driving a car. Even if you're on a completely straight road, you can't just keep your hands off the wheel and expect the car to continue going straight. You provide regular nudges to keep the car on the road. Maybe this analogy doesn't hold up that well anymore with auto-correcting cars :) I think your concern about not providing stronger feedback is valid. Highly recommend the"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 23935012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23935012", "by": "BbzzbB", "time": 1595557176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since you brought up Keller, if anyone is interested here is a great podcast/conversation/interview with Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23938803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23938803", "by": "throwaway_USD", "time": 1595594929, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally neuroscientist Andrew D. Huberman was on the JRE podcast yesterday and among the many topics/studies he discussed was one where electrodes were hooked up to brains and the subjects were given complete control over the areas they stimulated. Contrary to what one might think (or at least the scientists) that the subjects would stimulate areas of sexual response or pleasure, it turns out they elected to stimulate areas of anger and frustration. Without knowing exactly what \"news\" you found yourself reading, I think its a fair guess the majority of news now-a-days (or maybe always) "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 23939275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23939275", "by": "martythemaniak", "time": 1595597722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, season 3. Probably about 30-40hrs of content (a lot of history happened!) and I find his content is a real good for first-timers."}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 23947393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947393", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1595661220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Psychedelic Salon podcast did a long reading of Pickard's novel, The Rose of Paraselsus , which included an introduction which went in to Pickard's background. It's well worth listening to. The first episode of the series can be heard here: [1],[2] [1] - https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-609-the-rose-garden-int... [2] - Direct link to the mp3: https://media.blubrry.com/psychedelic_salon/archive.org/down..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23948637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23948637", "by": "sradman", "time": 1595679512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> seals are available in many places that don't support ruminants. My point about shellfish subsistence is that, compared to the island hopping along the Malay Archipelago, any hypothesis about a migration along Beringia has to consider clothing/shelter due to the challenging temperatures. A focus on food energy alone is not sufficient. It was a reminder, not a falsification. The \"ancient civilization pseudo-science\" I'm referring to is implied from the parent comment [1] that I replied to [2]: > This episode of the Joe Rogan podcast is with \"master builder and architectural designer, teacher,"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23949359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23949359", "by": "peroporque", "time": 1595686829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would be interesting to hear some new findings on the 2004 video from the US Navy. The pilot was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast and talked about it. I don't believe in anything \"aliens\", but I'm not really sure what to make of that story."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23949364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23949364", "by": "peroporque", "time": 1595686875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would be interesting to hear some new findings on the 2004 video from the US Navy. The pilot was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast and talked about it. I don't believe in anything \"aliens\", but I'm not really sure what to make of that story."}, {"show": "1520635484", "hn_item": 23951748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23951748", "by": "cornett", "time": 1595705546, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 23952500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23952500", "by": "caseyscottmckay", "time": 1595711806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily and Software Engineering Radio for podcasts."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 23952705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23952705", "by": "birken", "time": 1595714065, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to be incredibly angry at the ineffectiveness of the current testing regime that we as a country are heavily investing in, listen to this episode of the This Week In Virology podcast: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/ [TWiV 640: Test often, fast turnaround, with Michael Mina] The way to beat the pandemic is to have cheap, disposable instant tests that anybody can take in their homes, everyday, to see if they have a large amount of virus in their system. These instant tests will not have the sensitivity or specificity of the PCR style test, but it doesn't matter. The PCR style t"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 23953843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23953843", "by": "gfxgirl", "time": 1595729029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've forgotten what the method was but it is within the realm of possibility today for a single wealthy individual to destroy the world at their whim. IIRC it didn't require any fancy future tech or bombs. It just required the will with current tech. Like sending up 10000 balloons full of a certain kind of existing chemical into the upper atmosphere. IIRC the article was about governments deciding they need to take planet wide effecting geo hacking steps for global warming but what if they're wrong. Following some of those steps it was clear that a modestly rich individual could implement some"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 23956037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956037", "by": "henriquemaia", "time": 1595760024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend an interesting podcast series covering that topic. Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps [^1]. Some of the series is already in book form, which goes into more depth than the podcast. [^1] https://historyofphilosophy.net/"}, {"show": "1452871448", "hn_item": 23960599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23960599", "by": "cjiang98", "time": 1595801741, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23961231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23961231", "by": "Gatsky", "time": 1595809584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Weinstein mouse model thing is blown completely out of proportion, and is only so prominent because his own brother Eric put it on The Portal. The point is that everyone knows mouse models are imperfect, but they are still useful. Pointing out one of the ways they are imperfect is fine. Pretending this is a nobel prize winning earth shattering discovery that is suppressed by the establishment is just annoying. Research about how mouse models are imperfect comes out all the time, eg there was a paper about how the relatively sterile lab environment changes the murine microbiome and immune "}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 23962051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23962051", "by": "freediver", "time": 1595821212, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have to admit this has a great title. I am familiar with Neeva and listened to the podcast with its founder which I recommend to people interested in the field. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sridhar-ramaswamy-your... I am a bit skeptical about the whole thing for two main reasons: - Sridhar spent 15 years building the behemoth that is Google's ad business. It has to be hard to shrug off 'don't be evil until you do' culture and mindset that easily. - I think they can do a good job at specialized searches (like the one illustrated in the article). But the problem is that the web search"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 23972458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23972458", "by": "leoh", "time": 1595912793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry to be a jerk, but quickly rule out professors like this. Go listen to Maria Konnikova's interview on the Longform podcast here https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-400-maria-konnik... about her working with an advisor that was skeptical about the academic system. It's largely a racket and I say that having gone to an Ivy League and having worked in an elite lab in high school before working for Google. I would also listen to Thiel's talk on YouTube \"Competition is for Losers\" -- about creating genuine value and side-stepping, to the greatest degree possible, competition on metrics"}, {"show": "1493025986", "hn_item": 23981848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981848", "by": "fsociety", "time": 1595979426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Additionally consider seeing a therapist. You can figure this on your own, this is valid, however a (good) therapist will put you down the path much quicker. If you aren\u2019t sure about therapy, or want to tackle it yourself, watch Dr. K on HealthyGamerGG https://twitch.tv/healthygamer_gg . He also has the videos in podcast form."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 23984011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23984011", "by": "moltar", "time": 1596004676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This author seems to be on a PR circuit. Was on Rogan podcast recently. Heard other health podcasts mention the book and that they\u2019ll have him on soon. I\u2019m not saying it is wrong. Just to be aware."}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 23996305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23996305", "by": "blopeur", "time": 1596102812, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 23997739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997739", "by": "tomasz207", "time": 1596115081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics covered this in one of their podcasts. Their finding was that home-field advantage had more to do with the crowd influencing the calls of the officials. They would typically favor the home team. I wonder if this will change further with the use of VAR. https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/18/football-freakonomics-ho..."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 24001244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001244", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1596132518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their bias has been increasing for years. I was turned off by NPR back in 2008 after this terrible Inskeep interview: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wipedoffthemap/ I still listened to NPR for years after, but I listened to a lot of out news sources and always balanced the information I was getting with the bias I knew they held. NPR is a lot like RT, in the sense that it is sponsored by the State. Although you might say, \"Well NPR is federal grants for non-profits and RT is state propaganda\" just lines start to get blurry when you realize both have leadership that have certain agendas. I "}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 24001574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001574", "by": "Avicebron", "time": 1596134639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently listening to the \"The History of Byzantium\" podcast. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys deep dives into history as much as I do."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 24001712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001712", "by": "Avicebron", "time": 1596135587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's similar to \"The history of Rome\" podcast if you are familiar. From what I gather, the host offers a quasi-linear narrative of the history of the Byzantine empire, with small asides that focus on clarifying important aspects of daily/military/religious/bureaucratic life. It can be somewhat dense in the presentation of a lot of names, places, and religious concepts. But I find it very rewarding. EDIT: If you are asking who the host follows, it is the Byzantine (Christian) perspective, with generous asides given to explaining the myriad of cultures surrounding Constantinople and how they sha"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 24001729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001729", "by": "Fiveplus", "time": 1596135706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coming from someone whose goto history podcast is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, I appreciate you for the suggestion!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24001970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001970", "by": "anthony_romeo", "time": 1596137197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good luck finding unbiased news outlets. My main criticism of Fox, CNN, and frankly the vast vast majority of all news outlets (including smaller news outlets and your so-called \"independent\" analysts) do not present the \"other side's\" arguments fairly. NPR is one of the least \"unfair\" major US news outlets (i.e. in reports about controversial issues, you're at least exposed to adequate and coherent arguments from both sides of these issues) despite the creeping bias you allege, so I was taken aback when you lumped them in with the other blatant rage-pornography outlets on the Internet, televi"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 24002075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24002075", "by": "natchy", "time": 1596137837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey I was just thinking about doing something like this, but just on Youtube. I was recently on Indie Hacker's podcast and got a lot of followup emails from other engineers asking questions and it was cool talking with random developers. Is there a way to post a link to a youtube video on IndieLog so I can double dip?"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 24003420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24003420", "by": "frandroid", "time": 1596147055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're not already listening to the Revolutions Podcast, treat yourself... (You can skip the American and maybe British \"revolution\", and start at the French Revolution if you're not sure this is for you) https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 24004762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004762", "by": "mikecoles", "time": 1596159316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Darknet Diaries podcast series. Though it might not be what you're looking for, Clifford Stoll's \"The Cuckoo's Egg\" was an enjoyable book."}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 24004965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004965", "by": "benrbray", "time": 1596161221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm almost the complete opposite. I find that most people with a following don't understand at all what their audience finds compelling about their work. A book or an audiobook represents months or years of intentional thought put into compiling information that they think will sell. Before it reaches my eyes/ears, it has been meticulously edited to remove anything the author / editor _thinks_ I won't be interested in. In contrast, an article/blog post or podcast is much more casual, like the author's stream of consciousness. I get a real glimpse of what their life/experience/work is like, not"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24006872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24006872", "by": "thathndude", "time": 1596184920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was just thinking of this yesterday as I listened to ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast - ATP.FM). They're adding a members component to their podcast. Just $8/month. And they don't do the hard sell, but there are little perks. I listen to at least 5-7 podcasts regularly. If they all do the same thing, it's close to my cable + Internet bill from just 10 years ago. Now let's do streaming: Netflix + Disney+ and you spent another $20/month. I just don't think this model is going to work in the long term. Who knows!"}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 24008382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24008382", "by": "specialist", "time": 1596202411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup. Why doesn't Walmart complain every day that Amazon's a better tax cheat? Mutually assured destruction? The Land of the Giants podcast series also touches on Amazon's financing, capitalization. Amazon's core innovations are, in order, 1) tax avoidance, 2) profits avoidance, and 3) treating knowledge workers as an inexhaustible resource to burn thru."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 24012868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24012868", "by": "ABoldGambit", "time": 1596223807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone's interested in an in depth dive into the \"Florida Man\" meme, the podcast Citations Needed did a great (imo) episode on it: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-75-florida-ma..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 24014272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24014272", "by": "trollied", "time": 1596230390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might like the Darknet Diaries podcast (if you don't already subscribe). Often interviews reformed \"hackers\" who have turned their lives around."}, {"show": "1201968027", "hn_item": 24015757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015757", "by": "8bitsrule", "time": 1596239412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Couldn't agree more. Of course Spotify would say that. The reality is much more complicated. One idea:musicians could organize around federated servers, operated at cost-plus by tech helpers. One avenue to liberate themselves from the mass-market vultures. For a recent, nuanced view of what's happened by music historian Alan Cross, try:'Ongoing History of New Music' podcast 'Trying to be a Superstar in the 21st Century'. https://omny.fm/shows/ongoing-history-of-new-music/trying-to..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 24022404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022404", "by": "inspector-g", "time": 1596303885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The last bit of your comment, regarding misdiagnosis, reminds me of a recent episode of Peter Attia\u2019s podcast The Drive, wherein he interviews an experienced oncologist. Her opinion was strong in that we are overspending in treatment research and underspending in (early) diagnosis research. Her case, as described in the interview, made sense to me and gave me some hope that at least others could benefit in the future from such spending adjustments. But, I am sorry for what you\u2019re going through, and that such a change has not yet taken place from which you/your partner would have benefitted."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 24022404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022404", "by": "inspector-g", "time": 1596303885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The last bit of your comment, regarding misdiagnosis, reminds me of a recent episode of Peter Attia\u2019s podcast The Drive, wherein he interviews an experienced oncologist. Her opinion was strong in that we are overspending in treatment research and underspending in (early) diagnosis research. Her case, as described in the interview, made sense to me and gave me some hope that at least others could benefit in the future from such spending adjustments. But, I am sorry for what you\u2019re going through, and that such a change has not yet taken place from which you/your partner would have benefitted."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24022637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022637", "by": "MR4D", "time": 1596305589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The strategy is not had-baked, it\u2019s just half-implemented (i.e. they aren\u2019t finished yet). This is just like the Carbon/Cocoa issue back in the original OS X. 5 years from now it will be obvious to everyone that SwiftUI has been a huge leap, but with some normal transitional bumps along the way. The guys on the ATP podcast talked about this a couple weeks ago (last week maybe?) and it\u2019s a great conversation - I highly recommend it."}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 24023262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24023262", "by": "throw0101a", "time": 1596310749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more on S&P, an interview with one of the committee members: > Today on the Rational Reminder Podcast we have joining us Dr. David Blitzer who is the Managing Director and Chairman of the S&P Dow Jones index committee. He has been there from the time when indexes were barely even being traded and the first time S&P Futures began trading, and since then, indexing has turned into the massive phenomenon we all know today. Indeed, S&P indexes were (and still is) at the center of this explosion. Today Dr. Blitzer talks to us about the early days of indexing and shares some of his ideas about wh"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24026728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026728", "by": "skosch", "time": 1596348813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab has a wonderfully deep episode on this topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-... The main issue is the sheer volume of content. Four seconds \u2013 that's their estimate for how much time employees in Facebook's \"censorship farm\" centers have, on average, to make a decision about whether a reported post gets deleted or not. As a result, management decided to aim for the lowest bar: consistent enforcement of a limited set of rules. That's hard enough as is: is all blood gore? Are all references to race hate speech? Etc. etc. So the censors simply have no capacit"}, {"show": "1067471691", "hn_item": 24028452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24028452", "by": "xtiansimon", "time": 1596373375, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ". I recalled immediately this interview with Ron Howard on the Director\u2019s Cut podcast. The segment starts around 20:30 to 34:00 with a discussion of directing stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, and Brian Dennehy in Cocoon (1985) and their different acting styles\u2014particularly Don and Wilford. God speed. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-directors-cut-a-dg..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24032031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24032031", "by": "drdeadringer", "time": 1596404659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember a RadioLab podcast episode related to this."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 24038477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038477", "by": "grumpitron", "time": 1596466633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to a series of podcasts where this was mentioned on Our Fake History, though my recollection was that he seemed to think the story's accuracy was questionable."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24046240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24046240", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1596511633, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 24052776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052776", "by": "johannes1813", "time": 1596564604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me a lot of Freakonomics podcast episode ( https://freakonomics.com/2010/02/06/the-dangers-of-safety-fu... ) where they discuss different cases where increased safety measures just encouraged people to take more risk, resulting in the same or even increased numbers of accidents happening. A good example is that as football helmets have gotten more protective, players have started hitting harder and leading with their head more. Devs have been given better baseline performance for free based on internet speeds, and adjust their thinking around writing software quickly vs. performan"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 24056709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24056709", "by": "tiffanyh", "time": 1596594705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unsolicited suggestion. Hit up Courtland at Indie Hackers. He has a podcast and your story would be a perfect fit. Should help drive some traffic your way as well"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 24057706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24057706", "by": "Chirael", "time": 1596607334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you handled it well. Since he acted like a reasonable (rational) person he probably wasn't a scammer, but it's worth mentioning that there are locksmith scammers who take advantage of people in high-need situations to charge them exorbitant amounts for \"unpickable\" locks that always need to be drilled. The Reply All podcast covered this a few years ago with \"Very Quickly to the Drill\" [1] [1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24060654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060654", "by": "datashrimp", "time": 1596635054, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 24060766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24060766", "by": "K0nserv", "time": 1596635808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a discussion about the topic of MFA resets on the Risky Business podcast[0] in which the host, Patrick Gray, suggested companies require a one time fee for MFA resets. I think the suggested amount in the show was $50 which seems reasonable enough for western markets. It creates a deterrent for attackers and in the case of free products like GitLab allows the support costs to be covered. Additionally the act of payment itself can help prove identity. 0: https://risky.biz/soapbox43/"}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 24061778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24061778", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1596640800, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to do a podcast (the AWS podcast) back in 2012-2014. Now it's 2020 and I'm about to start a new podcast. Any tips or recommendations?"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24070391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070391", "by": "thingamarobert", "time": 1596717955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about this just the other day on an episode of the Radiolab podcast, if you're interested in listening to a nice narration to complement the article: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/invis..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24071193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071193", "by": "mattpavelle", "time": 1596724215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a nice Radiolab podcast about this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/25719... And also another podcast from NPR: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/notetoself/articles/cha... I found the Radiolab one entertaining."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24073862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24073862", "by": "wsc981", "time": 1596738032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, Bret Weinstein mentioned something similar regarding lab mice in a Joe Rogan podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4q-1D_Ajo"}, {"show": "1517706248", "hn_item": 24074157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24074157", "by": "spop", "time": 1596739723, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "My good friend Caroline was recently interviewed for a podcast and I wanted to share it here on HN: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/dear-hiring-manager/10-hi-im-caroline-and-my-rIQSXDBwFsq/ https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mJ8TnNqpgsEhglgFWwROd I know it's my first post and all, but promise this isn't spam (or erm, native advertising). I just enjoyed listening, learnt from it, and feel it is in the HN spirit. Thanks"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24075128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075128", "by": "dwd", "time": 1596745798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast he did with his brother Eric (The Portal #19) gives a very good history of the work he did as a grad student in finding that the telomeres of the lab mice supplied to US labs were elongated due the selective breeding process of producing as many mice as possible. The implications are quite alarming for existing testing and they talk about how he was basically ignored and the mice quietly fixed."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24078571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078571", "by": "lukeplato", "time": 1596777049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Lex Fridman's recent podcast with David Patterson [1] for anyone interested in learning about the history of RISC, computer architecture, and also interesting predictions re: Moore's Law. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naed4C4hfAg"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 24086940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24086940", "by": "eon01", "time": 1596838261, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN! My name is Aymen, and I'm here with Kenichi. Some years ago, I launched a side project. A newsletter called DevOpsLinks, then a 2nd newsletter (Shipped), then a third one (Kaptain). These 3 newsletters are now part of a bigger project that I called FAUN (https://faun.dev). We have newsletters, a Slack team chat, and a job board, but I had a feeling that something is missing... it's a podcast, right :) Last year, I discussed the idea of creating a podcast with a member of FAUN (who is Kenichi btw), but we were not really ready. That's why it took us some months to start working on it. A "}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 24092937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24092937", "by": "mxcrossb", "time": 1596904515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since Silicon Valley interviews are a hot topic here, I thought Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s podcast episode on hiring nihilism might be of interest. It was slightly strange to hear Gladwell talk about our inability to judge candidates while advertising ziprecruiter, but besides that a very interesting episode."}, {"show": "1452871448", "hn_item": 24094543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094543", "by": "cjiang98", "time": 1596915753, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 24100173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24100173", "by": "est31", "time": 1596986719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's possible to safely reopen schools provided there is a consistent and regular testing scheme. This isn't doable with PCR tests due to the expense and lab requirements. But in the \"This Week in Virology\" podcast, virology researchers suggest deploying cheap and rapid testing methods regularly to school children. It's possible to design cheap $1 per test paperstrips that diagnose saliva samples that can be administered by teachers (or even parents). The technology is there, but it's not approved by the FDA because it's not reliable at very low dosages (where the individual isn't probably inf"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 24100457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24100457", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1596988805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Habits. Pretty much all of the comments here boil down to habits. Sleep, diet, exercise, attention, focus, productivity, knowledge, workflow, socializing -- anything we do repeatedly is a habit. Right now, in each and every moment, we are all the average/sum of the daily habits of the past few years. So, the \"level\" we achieve in each domain is a lagging indicator of our habits; fat stores up over time, dirty dishes stack up, lack of knowledge is the result of lack of learning habits, etc. If you make weekly improvements to your habits, that means small changes are sticking each week. While 1%"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 24100457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24100457", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1596988805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Habits. Pretty much all of the comments here boil down to habits. Sleep, diet, exercise, attention, focus, productivity, knowledge, workflow, socializing -- anything we do repeatedly is a habit. Right now, in each and every moment, we are all the average/sum of the daily habits of the past few years. So, the \"level\" we achieve in each domain is a lagging indicator of our habits; fat stores up over time, dirty dishes stack up, lack of knowledge is the result of lack of learning habits, etc. If you make weekly improvements to your habits, that means small changes are sticking each week. While 1%"}, {"show": "1310192007", "hn_item": 24104001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24104001", "by": "jsperson", "time": 1597017529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author Ben Carlson is one half of the Animal Spirits podcast. I enjoy and learn a lot from every episode. Highly recommended. Edit: typo"}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 24107380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107380", "by": "reubensutton", "time": 1597053012, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 24121158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24121158", "by": "DanaStartupNews", "time": 1597158898, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "888586043", "hn_item": 24123192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24123192", "by": "newton23", "time": 1597167564, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 24126230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24126230", "by": "hjek", "time": 1597181546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Donziger was recently interviewed on the Chapo Traphouse podcast[0]. His case sounds utterly bizarre, almost like how Judi Bari was deemed a suspect herself when FBI put a bomb in her car[1]. [0]: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/418-the-cool-zone-fe... [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWApxvSjMKY"}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 24142399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142399", "by": "raihansaputra", "time": 1597319773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was in the same boat about Django online. The current community forum is pretty good, and I'm also subscribed to Django News for the regular updates. Really good resource. https://django-news.com/ Edit: And the Django Chat podcast is really good too"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24144663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144663", "by": "jamil7", "time": 1597333952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've never made any real money from my apps so I can't comment too much but something similar was discussed on ATP podcast fairly recently, I think this approach would go a really long way to solving 90% of iOS developers current frustrations with the appstore."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 24149140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24149140", "by": "DyslexicAtheist", "time": 1597352710, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1042283903", "hn_item": 24157805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24157805", "by": "davidmurdoch", "time": 1597412544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jake Archibald (a Googler) presents some decent points on this on the HTTP 203 podcast: https://youtu.be/0-wB1VY3Nrc I still don't agree with the removal of URLs, but I do still recommend watching the entire video if you want to get more perspective on the issue (beyond just the conspiracy theories about AMP and control)."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 24158797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24158797", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1597417281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economist Tim Harford has been running a small and occasional podcast series, Cautionary Tales. It opened with an episode discussing Perrow, produced immediately before, and releasing just after, Perrow's death last November. He's looked at risk, may be thinking of technical debt, and I've suggested Beruit. Recommended."}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 24159687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159687", "by": "cvhashim", "time": 1597421101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Throughline podcast had an episode on how the country was founded on conspiracy theories and believing in theories is seemingly fundamental to American life"}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 24159903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159903", "by": "Wistar", "time": 1597422276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although, depending on the era, sourcing all the identical ingredients may be impossible, or nearly so, due to \"culinary extinction.\" Lenore Newman's recent book, \"Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food,\" explores the foods lost to the world. In late 2019, the Gastropod podcast ran an episode with Newman and the \"Ghost Foods.\" https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction... Also, it has become very hard to find things such as true buttermilk or real heavy cream that hasn't been ultra-pasteurized, etc."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24173573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173573", "by": "roughly", "time": 1597536411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The basic idea of Joe Rogan\u2019s responsibility goes like this: Joe Rogan is engaged in an activity with potentially serious consequences. His audience size is such that, to make a contrived example, if a tenth of a percentage of his listeners become convinced by whatever jackass he gives a microphone to that, say, \u201cthe Jews\u201d run the world and decide to \u201cdo something about it,\u201d that\u2019s 30,000 people deciding to \u201cdo something\u201d as a result of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, or roughly the population of a small city now contemplating violence against a particular group. Joe Rogan has a responsibility because hi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24173843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173843", "by": "lemonberry", "time": 1597539414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you heard of Abigail Shrier's book \"The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters\"? She was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently though I have yet to listen to it. A quick search turned up, not surprisingly, some negative critiques and others that are more positive. If you have heard of it, or read it, I'd love to hear what you think of her position. I appreciate the offer to be part of a dialogue. I think it's important to improve understanding for people. As a white, middle aged (45) cismale I know I'm viewing a lot of this stuff through a very specific lens."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24174219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24174219", "by": "lemonberry", "time": 1597543409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you for the thoughtful response. I have no agenda here. I have one trans friend (that I know of). After seeing the topic on Rogan's podcast I did some quick searching online and it opened up a few lines of thought I hadn't considered or wasn't aware of. Edit: added \"(that I know of)\" to acknowledge my limited knowledge of my friend's gender or sexuality."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24175332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24175332", "by": "klyrs", "time": 1597554512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Have you heard of Abigail Shrier's book \"The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters\"? She was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently though I have yet to listen to it. A quick search turned up, not surprisingly, some negative critiques and others that are more positive. So, you're asking an honest question, but it's pretty insensitive and I hope you're curious because this is the truth. Framing that as a curious question makes me wonder if you even read the title of the book -- the title is quite obviously meant to be antagonizing to trans people. So that's not a great start. But here we go. As f"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24179583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179583", "by": "aosaigh", "time": 1597599336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are some of my current subscriptions: Making Sense (Sam Harris) After On (Rob Reid - this is on a hiatus) Revisionist History (Malcom Gladwell) Against the Rules (Michael Lewis of Moneybal etc.) Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend Case File (True crime) Last Podcast on the Left(True Crime/Comedy) Deep Cover: The Drug Wars (Series) In Our Time (BBC) Great Lives (BBC) Desert Island Disks (BBC)"}, {"show": "872292891", "hn_item": 24183772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24183772", "by": "probinso", "time": 1597636533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Natural Science : - herpetological insights - titanium physicists - common descent - in defense of plants - Daniel and Jorge explain the universe - The field guides Politics/Ethics : - The foreign American - women in foreign policy - everyday ethics - the lawfare podcast Utopianism/Revolution : - zero books - Srsly Wrong - Nice try! Single Story : - Bundyville - The women's war - bellingcat - it could happen here Pedagogy : - teaching python - interchangeable white ladies - Ben Ben blue News (America): - native American calling - worst year ever Other : - Saturday morning Tuesdays - private pa"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 24186658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186658", "by": "chmaynard", "time": 1597668202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ira Flatow interviews two of the scientists on a Science Friday podcast: https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/squid-gene-editing/"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 24188035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188035", "by": "normand1", "time": 1597677180, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 24188510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188510", "by": "jiscariot", "time": 1597680342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed the Hoover Institution interviews with Thomas Sowell. Do you have some other favorites from that series? If you ever want something a little lighter, I'd recommend \"The Fifth Column Podcast\". They discuss current events and the media, usually with a few cocktails and lots of obscure references, and much of it is pretty hilarious."}, {"show": "820806390", "hn_item": 24196065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196065", "by": "lukifer", "time": 1597735095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've enjoyed Nora Bateson's appearances on the Future Thinkers and Jim Rutt Show podcasts, very curious about this film. Had to hunt a bit to find a streaming source: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bateson"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 24203671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203671", "by": "Jemaclus", "time": 1597781036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Writing Excuses - podcast by a bunch of famous authors about writing Barside Chats - a podcast by two Wheel of Time fans about the books and the upcoming TV series from Amazon Prime The Moth - Storytellers telling short 5-15 minute stories. Very good! Our Opinions Are Correct - two Hugo-nominated/winning authors (Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz) talking about sci-fi themes 99% Invisible - about the invisible parts of life... This week's episode is about the increasing number of police on the roads LeVar Burton Reads - LeVar reads short stories!"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 24203671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203671", "by": "Jemaclus", "time": 1597781036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Writing Excuses - podcast by a bunch of famous authors about writing Barside Chats - a podcast by two Wheel of Time fans about the books and the upcoming TV series from Amazon Prime The Moth - Storytellers telling short 5-15 minute stories. Very good! Our Opinions Are Correct - two Hugo-nominated/winning authors (Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz) talking about sci-fi themes 99% Invisible - about the invisible parts of life... This week's episode is about the increasing number of police on the roads LeVar Burton Reads - LeVar reads short stories!"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24204731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24204731", "by": "edibleEnergy", "time": 1597787145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a very good 'In Our Time' podcast episode about Paul Dirac recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw0p"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 24204776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24204776", "by": "theBashShell", "time": 1597787477, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1509561884", "hn_item": 24210812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210812", "by": "hogwash", "time": 1597847899, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 24211416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24211416", "by": "savanaly", "time": 1597850986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After I listened to the podcast Conversations with Tyler interview music writer Ted Gioia [0] (one of the topics: \"how to cultivate excellent taste in music\") I would have to say a good place to start is read books by him, follow him on Twitter. He seems to have the well-roundedness, the breadth and the intelligence to be a good ad-hoc guide to the world of music. [0] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ted-gioia/"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 24216934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216934", "by": "erikw", "time": 1597873110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think this is actually true. I have not been able to find any sources referencing an actual bug and patch. Toyota, NASA, and the NHTSA did not report any issues. Nevertheless, Toyota lost a jury trial with this rather hilarious quote available on wikipedia[1]: \"Michael Barr of the Barr Group testified that NASA had not been able to complete its examination of Toyota's ETCS and that Toyota did not follow best practices for real time life critical software, and that a single bit flip which can be caused by cosmic rays could cause unintended acceleration. As well, the run-time stack of th"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24218467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24218467", "by": "cytzol", "time": 1597882678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It is possible to still make all of these work by having frameworks that hold the permission to access the functionality, or by having entitlements to more tightly restrict which applications have access to a feature. I agree with this, but I can't fully get on board with it. I've worried about the lax security model of desktop software too. Apps these days need to ask permission before accessing my documents, or my desktop, or my downloads folder, but they can still access all my company's code and SSH private keys. It feels wrong for this to be open-by-default. Same with accessing the clip"}, {"show": "1539314747", "hn_item": 24224361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24224361", "by": "devrustr", "time": 1597937921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 24226491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24226491", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1597947258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bush the Lesser made no decisions. He did what his handlers told him to do. Of course the same people who did in Mosaddegh and have done dozens of other coups (and much worse besides) wanted a less stable region. Less stable regions lead to increased spending on armaments and \"black\" budgets. As we're reminded by the recently-completed \"Blowback\" podcast [0], blowback is a feature not a bug. The machine works the same way every time, not due to a mistake or the bad luck of having bad people in control but because it is a machine that works the same way every time. [0] https://blowback.show/"}, {"show": "1517778490", "hn_item": 24229763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229763", "by": "JacobWD", "time": 1597962463, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 24232756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232756", "by": "nrclark", "time": 1597993603, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Advent of Computing did a great podcast about Coherent recently. For anybody who's interested, I'd recommend checking it out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coherent-is-not-unix/i..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24232792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24232792", "by": "tomcam", "time": 1597994275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is either a book or a great Joe Rogan podcast in your story. Thank you very much for sharing."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24240656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24240656", "by": "ZephyrBlu", "time": 1598058025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not related to this topic, but I recently watched Lex Fridman's podcast episode with him and it was really interesting as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1b_S6Qp2Q ."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24240778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24240778", "by": "meowface", "time": 1598059488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, also a good one. I'd recommend pretty much all of Lex Fridman's and Eric Weinstein's podcast episodes in general. Lots of insightful conversations with (in my opinion) some of the most interesting people in the world. Links for anyone curious: Eric Weinstein's The Portal Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq9jO8fmlPee9ezOraOHA... Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuK..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 24244962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24244962", "by": "emmastory", "time": 1598111890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really interesting episode of the Reply All podcast that acts as a good explainer for dropshipping from the perspective of people who are encountering it in the wild and have no idea what to make of it. I found it useful as someone who has seen a lot of ads for dropshipped products on instagram and elsewhere but didn't understand how exactly the method was making money and for whom. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhe3l"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24245505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24245505", "by": "marketgod", "time": 1598115938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It would help make your argument. I'd like to hear about nasal rinse making you more healthy. All I see is a Joe Rogan podcast, if that's what you are referring to?"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 24252702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24252702", "by": "smileypete", "time": 1598197719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Protection of housing from wildfires is somewhat a solved problem thanks to the pioneering research of Jack Cohen, and this excellent episode of the 99% Invisible podcast is well worth a listen: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/ There's plenty of youtube vidoes featuring his research too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL_syp1ZScM https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+cohen+wild... Perhaps a good way to encourage the work to be done is through the offering of lower insurance premiums for housing so protected."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 24259263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259263", "by": "Melting_Harps", "time": 1598265185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently heard a podcast with Andrew Yang and Scott Galloway (professor at NYU) [1] and the summary was pretty much that he attended UCLA at a time that it was not only affordable, but also when they were willing to take on local students with less than stellar or 'good enough' backgrounds, in order to remain apt to the articles title, as the lower acceptance rate wasn't something that added to the institutions supposed prestige. I think this underscores what happens when a supposed Social Good (which is funded as such at both a State and Federal Level) is used to primarily serve as a state-"}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 24260791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260791", "by": "nickjj", "time": 1598278162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep. I recently had Jon Calhoun on as a guest in my Running in Production podcast the other week where he talked about using SQLite to power his video course platform (it's focused on Go development). He has 15,000+ active users and talks about how SQLlite hasn't been a performance issue. His whole stack is on a $5 / month DO server. Here's a direct link to the SQLite part: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/42-creating-a-video-... I also have another episode coming out next week where SQLite is being used in a custom hardware appliance running on a Raspberry Pi-like device that is shippe"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 24270506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270506", "by": "Traster", "time": 1598357396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Whilst I sympathize with why this person is ranting, I find it kind of funny. People act the way they do on social media due to a mix of the design of social media, and human nature. It's not complete chance that twitter has an entire underclass of people who just yell vitriol at the blue checkmark brigade. It's not chance that reddit divides itself into lots of echo-chambers that are essentially repeating the same handful of opinions in various different colours (in reddit's defence this can be avoided using extremely hands-on moderation). Fundamentally, there aren't too many people who can m"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24273658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24273658", "by": "dx87", "time": 1598375993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was watching the Joe Rogan podcast, and one of his friends who had covid was asked by the doctor what his political leanings are, because some patients refuse to take HCQ because Trump said it was helpful."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24274349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24274349", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1598379775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Portal podcast and discord. Open minded and nuanced discussions are happening there"}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 24279638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24279638", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1598422089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't speak to how well the project has been doing, but just last week I happened to listen to his 2014 Long Now Foundation talk on this project. I didn't even know who he was before this talk, which was simply next in my podcast feed for this subscription. Maybe the ideas he espoused aren't universal to US areas, but I found plenty worth mulling. https://longnow.org/seminars/02014/apr/22/helping-revitalize..."}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 24292188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24292188", "by": "specialist", "time": 1598524591, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "While what little you highlight are directionally correct, both the backstory and current debate are far more interesting and nuanced. This recent episode of Vox's The Weeds is a really good summary. WTF is happening with USPS [2020-08-18] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtf-is-happening-with-... https://overcast.fm/+FOORtkRGM (Long concerned with USPS wrt postal ballots, I learned quite a bit.)"}, {"show": "1517706248", "hn_item": 24293254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293254", "by": "jaclynmling", "time": 1598533493, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN, My name is Jaclyn Ling and I'm the co-founder/CEO of Hatchways YC S19 (https://hatchways.io). Last summer, we launched our product that promotes internships instead of interviews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578850). Since then, we\u2019ve worked with hundreds of engineers, and if there\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve learned it\u2019s that talent can come from anywhere. One of the most interesting parts of my job is having conversations with software engineers who face a variety of barriers breaking into the tech industry, and trying to understand how we can improve the hiring process so talented p"}, {"show": "1529380833", "hn_item": 24295663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295663", "by": "iafrikan", "time": 1598547383, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 24298518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298518", "by": "giarc", "time": 1598561531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scott Galloway talked about this in a recent Pivot Podcast. He predicts it will launch after the US DOJ announces anti-trust actions against Google. If they do it soon, Google will just point to Apple to say \"We aren't the only game in town... this $2 trillion dollar company just launched a search engine on a few billion phones/tablets/PCs around the world.\" They have reason to wait."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 24308485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24308485", "by": "alexktz", "time": 1598639995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Absolutely Amen. Thank you. A list of my open source contributions include co-founding Linuxserver.io, the Self-Hosted podcast, blogging extensively about open source software (blog.ktz.me) and work for Red Hat. I say this not to be 'look at me' but to show that I try to put my money where my mouth is. I wonder what the other commenters have contributed."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 24311013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24311013", "by": "mikece", "time": 1598653917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the sources for \"raw info\" that I follow is the No Agenda Podcast (co-hosted by former MTV VJ and co-inventor or podcasting Adam Curry and former tech columnist John C. Dvorak). They position their podcast as \"media deconstruction\" and contrasting what the media say versus what is actually going on, and they slam Fox News every bit as much -- if not more -- as anyone else. I'll tell you what gives me hope though: podcasts like the Joe Rogan Show where Joe, who is very progressive, will talk with ANYONE in order to discuss and understand differences. And this is one of the biggest weakne"}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 24313416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313416", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1598674177, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The counter argument in favor of direct listing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best/i... I\u2019m not sure anyone is arguing SPACs are a better idea for the private company? SPACs can offer some certainty in what may be an uncertain market, but their entire point is that the SPAC creator is selling this certainty by finding an undervalued company they can take over on the cheap. I think a SPAC is a really bad way to go public unless you\u2019re someone like Nikola where your company is basically a fraud ripping off the SPAC, in that case probably a good way to go for the founder."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 24318922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318922", "by": "onlydole", "time": 1598730683, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1435743296", "hn_item": 24321206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24321206", "by": "bruceb", "time": 1598759209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Season 1 of The Dream podcast is an easy and informative look at mlm. https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stitcher/the-dream"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 24324241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324241", "by": "drclau", "time": 1598807934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is awesome. While listening to The History of Rome podcast, I went to Wikipedia to see whatever type of media there\u2019s to see how the people looked like. For the old times, it\u2019s of course statues, and sometimes only coins. For the late emperors there are paintings too, but fairly unrealistic."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24330489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330489", "by": "davidhariri", "time": 1598874871, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m curious to hear what other HNers listen to. I\u2019ll start us off with: Lex Fridman Podcast."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24330988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330988", "by": "Mattasher", "time": 1598878712, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24330988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24330988", "by": "Mattasher", "time": 1598878712, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "791564318", "hn_item": 24336031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24336031", "by": "sudosysgen", "time": 1598908379, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The book \"White Fragility\" was rejected pretty soundly by most leftists, actually. Corporate pseudo-progressives loved it, however. I definitely agree that a lot of people are coopting leftist languages. But ultimately, corporate diversity consultants aren't leftists, they're delusional neoliberals. Here are criticisms of \"White Fragility\" from a leftist perspective : https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/racism-george-floyd-racial-ju... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/08/divers... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dig-read-this-not-whit... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kFTtR3"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24343191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343191", "by": "yamrzou", "time": 1598975897, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 24344958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24344958", "by": "DenisM", "time": 1598984371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "California reminds me of the pre-revolutionary France #. Huge country easily dwarfing its neighbors in size and population, yet hopelessly entangled in a gridlock of various special interests to the point of strangulation. Each one pursues its own best interest, collectively dooming their host to suffocation, and none willing to budge. And it's not just the real estate, and not just California. Healthcare system comes to mind as another clusterfuck - no individual actor seems malevolent or dangerous enough, yet the total is much worse than the sum of the individual participants. # I highly rec"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 24353435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353435", "by": "throwaway894345", "time": 1599055969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My American education touched on the Greeks and the Romans, and we did read the Odyssey; however, as I recall, we quickly jumped to late-Medieval (post-Norman-conquest) England. I always wondered what was in England before these medieval kings and queens. I began learning about the Norman conquest, the Viking invasion, the Anglo-Saxons, the Roman invasion and Romanization of England, the native Celts and so on. Then I began to inquire about those people; what were their homelands like, how did they arrive in their homelands, how were their languages interrelated, and so on. The etymology in pa"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 24354929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24354929", "by": "phunehehe0", "time": 1599064547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It looks like all the replies so far disagree, so I want to let you know you are not alone. I consider a lot of different languages a form of fragmentation. To extend a naive view, I think it would be ideal if everyone can choose the languages they want to learn and use. This would make it a bit more like programming languages. There is concentration at the top if you want efficiency of communication, but also a lot of choices to explore. Of course this wouldn't work so well with human languages, since you need something to communicate with people around you. There is a little bit more choice "}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 24355655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24355655", "by": "sradman", "time": 1599068255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yesterday's Lexicon Valley podcast by John McWhorter [1] The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole is very timely: > Enslaved people developed a hybrid language that sailed from Africa to the Caribbean and\u2014unbelievably\u2014back again. [1] https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2020/09/the-englis..."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 24355962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24355962", "by": "909832", "time": 1599070023, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 24358935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358935", "by": "frereubu", "time": 1599085683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got turned on to Emily Wilson's translation by this great episode of the Ezra Klein podcast with Madeleine Miller on myth, nostalgia, and how power corrupts, which I found really compelling: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/4/24/21233353/madeline-mil... Wilson's book is next in my pile! If you're interested in enjoyable translations of Homer, I'd strongly recommend War Music by the British poet Chrisopher Logue. It's The Iliad, but he called it something like \"a retelling\" rather than \"a translation\" because it gave him more leeway. Unfortunately he died before he could finish it. Another B"}, {"show": "1763424917", "hn_item": 24363609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24363609", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1599138218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> He is the founder of Formik and co-host of The Undefined Podcast. You can disagree with him fine, but I'm quite sure the founder of Formula knows what he's talking about when it comes to React."}, {"show": "1529620656", "hn_item": 24366699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366699", "by": "jeffmorrisjr", "time": 1599155821, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24371517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24371517", "by": "moltar", "time": 1599191153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was discussed on a JRE podcast recently."}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 24373634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373634", "by": "mercer", "time": 1599215226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I understand it's much to ask, I can recommend this episode of the Trashfuture podcast that goes into the anti-semitism kerfuffle: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/anger-ramadan-feat-... or perhaps the article linked from the show notes: https://novaramedia.com/2020/04/14/i-feel-both-furious-and-v... I'm nowhere near qualified to assess how accurate all of this is, but it all feels eerily similar to how the supposed American left, the Democrats, actively undermined Bernie Sanders in ways that IMO went too far. While I'm sure that's also up for debate, I at least followed the Bern"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24373934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373934", "by": "mercer", "time": 1599218475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to that one last night, and then a few more. He's been in rotation for a while now. I don't know how I ended up subscribing to Lex Fridman's podcast, but it's both wonderful and somewhat bizarre to me. On the one hand, he comes across as the kind of character you'd expect in a horror film. Meticulous, well-dressed, friendly, but affectless in his speech and oddly emotionless and formal. But then the actual questions he asks, and the observations he makes, are IMO a step above most interviewers. I can think of a number of 'greater' interviewers, but he's definitely well in the 'very "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24379747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379747", "by": "lowdose", "time": 1599260342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But Eric Weinstein asks of his guests to practice difficult words listeners have to find in a dictionary. He practices difficult words with an ANKI spaced repetition system himself. What I find intriguing is that Peter Thiel has yet to appear on the Joe Rogan podcast while he clearly bankrolled that operation."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24380025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380025", "by": "mapgrep", "time": 1599262628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those are the founders of YouTube. The Rogan podcast has a YouTube presence but started on UStream and (pre Spotify) appears to have earned money the way many other podcasts do (sponsorships read into the podcas ) and used all the usual distribution channels including open podcast feeds. I\u2019m sure there is some YouTube revenue in the mix but seems pretty incidental. I don\u2019t think Thiel has anything to do with funding the Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 24382628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382628", "by": "astdb", "time": 1599301532, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 24384842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384842", "by": "AdmiralAsshat", "time": 1599323780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Admittedly my source is the Ubuntu podcast, and it would probably take me awhile to find the exact quote, but according to the employees, they previously had one or two employees whose full time job was simply maintaining the Chromium deb package. Switching to snaps made it much easier and freed them up to do other things. I think we should consider snaps like any other framework, be it deb, flatpak, or even something like Electron: some of them have serious downsides, but people choose them because it allows them to more easily push a single binary out to multiple platforms rather than being "}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 24387049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24387049", "by": "JamesCoyne", "time": 1599341855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Audio for a number of Damn Interesting articles can be found on their podcast feed."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24390617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390617", "by": "anonymousse1234", "time": 1599391412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "C++ Core Guidelines https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTxRF5ag27A"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 24390971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390971", "by": "sradman", "time": 1599396368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interview with the same journalist: DarkHorse Podcast with Nancy Rommelmann and Bret Weinstein [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfT_APUnp30"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24399654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24399654", "by": "timscarfe", "time": 1599489122, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "This week Dr. Tim Scarfe, Dr. Keith Duggar and Yannic \"Lightspeed\" Kilcher respond to the \"Algoshambles\" exam fiasco in the UK where the government were forced to step in to standardise the grades which were grossly inflated by the schools. The schools and teachers are all paid on metrics related to the grades received by students, what could possibly go wrong?! The result is that we end up with grades which have lost all their value and students are coached for the exams and don't actually learn the subject. We also cover the second Francois Chollet interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. We co"}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 24408297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24408297", "by": "octopoc", "time": 1599573008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you have a link for that? I've been listening to his Napoleon podcast and he seems left-leaning to me. They do talk about politics from time to time."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 24408308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24408308", "by": "alexfromapex", "time": 1599573050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was excited when I saw the name because I thought it was about Kubernetes but it\u2019s just a pun about podcasts...womp womp"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 24409696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24409696", "by": "specialist", "time": 1599580891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Overcast is my current choice. (For iOS, I don't have Android so can't comment.) I tried them all. I don't particularly like any of them. I've requested a feature and reported a bug via their Slack. I'm hopeful they'll get added and fixed, respectively. I still don't have a way to easily binge on some large archives. Like History of Philosophy without any Gaps. https://historyofphilosophy.net And Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History doesn't sort correctly in any podcast client I've tried, making it even harder to binge. What I really want is a NetNewsWire (RSS client) that can play audio (di"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24411083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411083", "by": "bentcorner", "time": 1599588795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's podcast Planet Money did a piece on brushing which goes into bit more detail than the BBC article: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/606517326"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24412514, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412514", "by": "dbalbright", "time": 1599595503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep. One such story is a podcast episode from Planet Money https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24413541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24413541", "by": "ravedave5", "time": 1599599980, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What's interesting about this particular Joe Rogan podcast?"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 24415584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24415584", "by": "abraxas", "time": 1599613737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The amount of sheer stupidity and science denial that emanates from the No Agenda podcast is mind blowing and terrifying as the podcast has a huge cult following. The amount of societal damage from media of this kind is real. Yes it's a niche market still but collectively the mongers of bullshit are overrunning the airwaves. As someone here put it aptly, these days journalism is paywalled while bullshit is free."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 24418873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418873", "by": "LatteLazy", "time": 1599641736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBC More or Less podcast did an investigation on this and found no actual evidence for the claim. It seems to be based on a study on roundabouts in one town in england and then people just assumed that all world soil was suffering the same rough treatment... This piece is just a reprint of a speech made by a UN official. No science quoted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dx986"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24433235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24433235", "by": "thanato0s", "time": 1599751805, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 24443400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24443400", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1599835679, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the case of StackOverflow, Spolsky and Atwood made podcasts from the beginning. There is a record of the whole process. It's worth noting that StackOverflow built a very narrow channel for community activity relative to typical online communities. StackOverflow Podcast #1 https://soundcloud.com/stack-exchange/stack-overflow-podcast..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 24443422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24443422", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1599835798, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 24444680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24444680", "by": "claudiulodro", "time": 1599843214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you a member? I've heard the advertisements on the Art of Manliness podcast, and I've always been curious about it."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 24445005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24445005", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1599844794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good early episode of the Reply All podcast on Minitel: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whoda One story: They got more business use than you might otherwise expect because they didn't list what services you paid for on the bill. So businessmen were racking up larger charges for sex chatrooms and what have you without having to explain them to their company."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 24447489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24447489", "by": "zerkten", "time": 1599859592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend listening the early episodes of the Stack Overflow podcast for some insights. There are a lot of nuggets buried there."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24453667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24453667", "by": "Insanity", "time": 1599929039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman recently had David Fravor on his podcast and they spoke about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E"}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 24461123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461123", "by": "llboston", "time": 1600007632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have no insider info but leaning to believe that at least Hindenburg Research's report is partially correct based on a few things: 1. I listened to Nikola founder Trevor's interview on Jason Calacanis's podcast, and was sold on the advantage of Hydrogen fuel cell over battery for long haul trucks. Such a huge market! And then Trevor said Nikola, a 400 people company, are also working on the an electric pickup called Badger to be more consumer facing. This makes no biz sense to me at all and I realized they are probably just chasing the trend. 2 At the time Nikola doing the first Earnings cal"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 24461383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461383", "by": "faeyanpiraat", "time": 1600010281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Woah this is pretty dark, but a very good read. \u201cI mourn for the people I know who are dying, which is all of them, but some much quicker than others.\u201d Looking at older people and animals around me, and instantly thinking \u201cwell, they probably don\u2019t have much time left\u201d is quite depressing. There was a Sam Harris podcast episode where he and his guest argued about whether is it better to suffer through life, or not existing at all."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 24461436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24461436", "by": "ciarannolan", "time": 1600010738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast, for anyone interested: https://samharris.org/podcasts/107-life-actually-worth-livin... > In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Benatar about his philosophy of \u201canti-natalism.\u201d They discuss the asymmetry between the good and bad things in life, the ethics of existential risk, the moral landscape, the limits and paradoxes of introspection, the \u201cexperience machine\u201d thought experiment, population ethics, and other topics."}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 24466032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24466032", "by": "jeffchien", "time": 1600049192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omnibus podcast had a great episode about it: https://www.omnibusproject.com/194"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 24471521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24471521", "by": "zeta0134", "time": 1600098399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an interesting story, but unfortunately the article is a lengthy advertisement for a larger program that does not appear to be available in text form: > To hear how Martin returned to life, listen to Invisibilia, NPR's newest program. The program debuts this weekend on many public radio stations, and the podcast is available for download at NPR.org and on iTunes. Edit, because this is still floating near the top: It's an older article, and has been released in text transcript form after all: https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928581/locked-man"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 24476745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476745", "by": "xattt", "time": 1600130615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to either at 1.5x or 2x depending on the podcast (The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Adam Savage Project, 99% Invisible). I am able to enjoy a greater variety of content or get through a back log of episodes. I\u2019ve worked myself up to 2x over time to the point where regular speech sounds slurred. There are exceptions: Pondercast is one where that takes the intimacy you\u2019re alluding to an extreme. The spoken content is tied deeply to the pacing of the music so it would be ludicrous to listen to it that fast."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 24476745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476745", "by": "xattt", "time": 1600130615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to either at 1.5x or 2x depending on the podcast (The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Adam Savage Project, 99% Invisible). I am able to enjoy a greater variety of content or get through a back log of episodes. I\u2019ve worked myself up to 2x over time to the point where regular speech sounds slurred. There are exceptions: Pondercast is one where that takes the intimacy you\u2019re alluding to an extreme. The spoken content is tied deeply to the pacing of the music so it would be ludicrous to listen to it that fast."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24484987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24484987", "by": "ProAm", "time": 1600195105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an excellent Planet Money podcast about this from NPR [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24485075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24485075", "by": "aNoob7000", "time": 1600195447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the latest episode of Planet Money. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money"}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 24491977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24491977", "by": "harpreetsahota", "time": 1600259546, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24497097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24497097", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1600286911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marco Arment on the ATP podcast said that Mail bug was finally fixed."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24497135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24497135", "by": "billforsternz", "time": 1600287067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the ATP podcast Marco Arment reported that the mail bug you describe has in fact been fixed. He was happy and surprised."}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 24502962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24502962", "by": "harpreetsahota", "time": 1600338875, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 24508384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24508384", "by": "harpreetsahota", "time": 1600368120, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24512324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24512324", "by": "dx87", "time": 1600396014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I guess they're focusing on the JRE podcast because it's so popular, but they already host podcasts that you'd think their \"LGBTQAI+/ally\" employees would be up in arms about. Just a quick look through the recommended podcasts in the web player, and I see Ben Shapiro's podcast on there, who has much more extreme views on LGBT rights than Joe Rogan does."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24512560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24512560", "by": "omosubi", "time": 1600398326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Rogan's podcast but he definitely won't talk to anyone - When was the last time there was someone on that didn't agree with him on the major issue or issues they were brought on the podcast to discuss? They may quibble over certain things but at the end of the day he wants to have a fun conversation and arguing with trans rights people for 2 or 3 hours isn't going to happen. Also they've already censored his history and as far as I can tell he agreed to it"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24512699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24512699", "by": "whoisjuan", "time": 1600399968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But RSS distribution is hard to monetize. That's why a big part of the JRE podcast business model was uploading the videos to YouTube and also create all the highlights and such. But in YouTube they got several videos demonetized, so there's really no escape. This is the distribution problem. If you don't have distribution and rely on others for that you have to play by their rules even if they are ridiculous or broken. I think that the canonical solution for Spotify would be to not run ads on the \"controversial\" episodes. Either way it doesn't affect JR since his contract seems to be lump sum"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24513141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513141", "by": "reincarnate0x14", "time": 1600405003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was always the case, it's only that recently you feel it's been extended to your particular issues. At various times in the history of the US specifically, but analogues exist in most other places, you could have been fired or otherwise pariah'ed for: Freely discussing the conditions and rights of laborers Discussing political ideologies like communism Discussing various sects of Christian belief Discussing Non-Christian beliefs Being for or against political popular movements Being against police authority Discussing or demonstrating opposition to wars Simply being one of a set of ethnic"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24513146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513146", "by": "scruple", "time": 1600405149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not arguing one way or the other here, just pointing out the absurdity of the situation... They apparently won't host Chris D'Elia's appearances on the JRE podcast but they host his comedy albums. Brilliant."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24520805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520805", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1600456568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the subject of octopuses, Radiolab did a neat \"octomom\" episode that's worth a listen. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/octom..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24521314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24521314", "by": "jonny_wonny", "time": 1600459524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His Joe Rogan podcast is pretty incredible, if you haven\u2019t seen it yet."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 24522474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522474", "by": "alexpotato", "time": 1600468099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For the audio version of this story from a different source, I highly recommend the Darknet Diaries podcast episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/50/"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 24529935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24529935", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1600544836, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've followed the Pivot podcast for a while and Kara Swisher and Scott go back and forth on this on occasion. She generally took a more pro-privacy stance and Scott is much more concerned with the arbitrary way in which tech companies seem to cooperate or resist authorities depending on how they feel at any given day. Kind of torn on the issue. In general I think Scott has a point. Having vital national security infrastructure in the hand of unaccountable private firms who'll do whatever they'll like is bad, but the US government is just about one of the worst on the planet to make that case."}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 24531755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24531755", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1600573786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "She was recently mentioned briefly but strongly positively in the Santa Fe Institute's \"Complexity\" podcast. This article greatly increases my own interest."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 24536557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24536557", "by": "username90", "time": 1600629499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Right wingers in a couple countries said that. Is Cuomo the governor for New York a right winger? He downplayed the pandemic as late as march 18. Pretty sure he wasn't the only democrat doing it either. If he didn't downplay it New York wouldn't have had one of the worst corona responses in the world. Quotes: > \"That is not going to happen, shelter in place, for New York City,\" Cuomo said on The Daily podcast by The New York Times. \"For any city or county to take an emergency action, the state has to approve it. And I wouldn't approve shelter in place.\" > \"Quarantine in place, you can't leav"}, {"show": "1531918384", "hn_item": 24538106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24538106", "by": "raybb", "time": 1600642394, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "They're also summarizing this in a podcast: https://pca.st/srocxn6v https://open.spotify.com/show/5RMdM2ropEmNNoguvU0J27 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suspicious-activity-in... Also, to see the summary as things unfold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinCEN_Files"}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 24539154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539154", "by": "neves", "time": 1600654887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The movie consulted (and interviewed) the guys from this podcast Your Undivided Attention https://www.humanetech.com/podcast It has nice episodes with deeper discussion of the social network social problem."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24547254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24547254", "by": "whoknew1122", "time": 1600715746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sure to get downvoted into oblivion for this, but Spotify has a responsibility to provide direct editorial oversight over Rogan's podcast. This isn't just him flirting with the alt-right and intellectual darkweb anymore. He's out here repeating lies about left-wing activists starting fires at the same time there are actual right-wing militias setting up paramilitary checkpoints. This has gone from Joe saying stupid stuff to Joe spewing dangerous rhetoric that may get people killed. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/oregon-fires... https://www.newsweek.com/half-million-people-evac"}, {"show": "1525973271", "hn_item": 24549092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24549092", "by": "hbadgery", "time": 1600726972, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1525973271", "hn_item": 24549123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24549123", "by": "hbadgery", "time": 1600727249, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "We launched this podcast because we want to help enterprises better manage their open source software technologies. Why? We believe that with the right corporate participation and involvement, OSS can thrive! You can also watch/listen to the podcast on: - YouTube: --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcfHi5zCTKM&list=PLA7hukZmf3... - Spotify: --> https://open.spotify.com/show/1Him9218GEeAGc4J3yN2Lu?si=fxXh... - PCA: --> https://pca.st/5z9jsva3 - Google Podcasts: --> https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8... Please leave a review letting us know what you think!"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 24559582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24559582", "by": "cinntaile", "time": 1600806995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the post. I didn't know they made a separate podcast for biology, I subscribed! Regarding the first episode on their new \"Bio eats world\" podcast, it's about the biology of aging. If that interests you, The Peter Attia Drive has quite a few podcasts related to aging as well! Does anyone know of similar podcasts to the A16Z podcast?"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 24561721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24561721", "by": "rubenerd", "time": 1600821888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Definitely! My old posts are cringe to an extreme. I think turning 30 helped with some perspective; I don't care [as much] anymore. \"Yeah my partner is a manga artist and drew me a mascot, so what?\" In my early 20s that wouldn't have even computed. But I think the best thing I've found is to own it. Quote your past self, make lighthearted fun of it, and show how you've grown and what you've learned. Between that and not taking things too seriously, it also disarms a lot of trolls. It's also helped in unexpected ways. People at AsiaBSDCon remembered me as the guy who blogs about BSD. I got Alla"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24562075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562075", "by": "Scalestein", "time": 1600825405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Who decides what counts as a quack? One of the things I find compelling about the format of the show is that the long format really exposes people, for better or worse. If you want to find out whether Alex Jones is a quack there is probably no better evidence than watching his appearance on Rogan's podcast. Same is true for Milo Yiannopoulos (often deemed an alt-right troll) who basically had his career wrecked from his appearance on the podcast. I think having guests from all over the political and 'quack' spectrum is a great example of sunlight being the best disinfectant. It is also a power"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24562110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562110", "by": "alexashka", "time": 1600825724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The same reason Howard Stern ridiculed podcasters - 'the media' is threatened by anyone who isn't part of 'the media' but can take a chunk of their audience away. Joe Rogan's podcast is not about politics, the only people upset with a dude who likes to tell jokes and has a sensible set of opinions, are people who don't like anyone who has a set of opinions that happens to differ from theirs on subjects they 'deeply care about'."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 24562138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562138", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1600826018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't listen to that many podcasts. Tyler Cowen has an excellent podcast called Conversations with Tyler, Russ Roberts is a long time podcaster/blogger with a focus on economics, Lex Fridman has a good science/compsci focused podcast and Sean Carroll's Mindscape as well as Ezra Klein's podcast I think have almost always high quality, fairly diverse guests. I'm well aware none of these have the audience that Joe Rogan has, but I find that a weird metric for comparing quality or how informative something is."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 24562138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562138", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1600826018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't listen to that many podcasts. Tyler Cowen has an excellent podcast called Conversations with Tyler, Russ Roberts is a long time podcaster/blogger with a focus on economics, Lex Fridman has a good science/compsci focused podcast and Sean Carroll's Mindscape as well as Ezra Klein's podcast I think have almost always high quality, fairly diverse guests. I'm well aware none of these have the audience that Joe Rogan has, but I find that a weird metric for comparing quality or how informative something is."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24562138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562138", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1600826018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't listen to that many podcasts. Tyler Cowen has an excellent podcast called Conversations with Tyler, Russ Roberts is a long time podcaster/blogger with a focus on economics, Lex Fridman has a good science/compsci focused podcast and Sean Carroll's Mindscape as well as Ezra Klein's podcast I think have almost always high quality, fairly diverse guests. I'm well aware none of these have the audience that Joe Rogan has, but I find that a weird metric for comparing quality or how informative something is."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24562155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562155", "by": "Scalestein", "time": 1600826123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't really get the 'truth from the garage' vibe from Rogan's podcast. To me the space he creates by not strongly challenging his guests and by keeping the guests list so varied is that of a sort of neutral ground that people can sample other viewpoints from. Almost all other podcasts are easily filtered into the left/right buckets, end up with their respective entrenched audience and help build that audiences bubble. If someone listens to Rogan's podcast they might hear some quackery along the way but they certainly won't end up in a bubble. I prefer sifting through the sludge to find what"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24562584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562584", "by": "Scalestein", "time": 1600831113, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I certainly think there is room and use for discernment in guest selection. My \"who decides\" is a bit of hyperbole in this case but my point is more that Rogan's podcast has a much wider band of guests across the political / scientific / psuedoscientific spectrum. It lets the listener be 'the decider' much more than most if not all other podcasts and media more generally."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24562623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562623", "by": "doopy1", "time": 1600831522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the JRE podcast a lot, but I come for the guests. Joe Rogan is an entertainer and taking what he says on the podcast as authoritative \"news\" is poor judgement."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24563008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563008", "by": "djflexure", "time": 1600835653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy the Joe Rogan podcast because it is unique in the current world of media. The host is a comedian and a MMA commentator, yet he talks to people from all walks of life, ranging from politicians, scientists to musicians and instagram celebrities. He doesn\u2019t have any strong political agenda or affiliating with certain groups. He\u2019s a regular dude just curious about other people\u2019s life and views, and really gave his quests enough room to express themselves. This is important to many of us, that we want a platform where we can see the real, the human side of the guests, letting them explain t"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 24570265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24570265", "by": "aaron-santos", "time": 1600885667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Finished listening to \"It could happen here\" a few weeks ago. What a prescient narrative. Coupled with Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast it helps put much of the current climate into perspective. To anyone wondering what comes next given the current trajectory, red flags to look out for, and how to gauge the severity of events as they unfold, these are good starting points (obvs not comprehensive)."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 24575726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24575726", "by": "mturmon", "time": 1600927413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve heard the same claim, and the reason given was that microlensing surveys would have found more of these black holes. The article gets into this near the end: > For example, perhaps the strongest constraints on primordial black holes come from microlensing searches [...] In these efforts, astronomers monitor bright but distant sources, waiting to see if a dark object passes in front of them. These searches have long ruled out an evenly dispersed population of small black holes. > But if primordial black holes exist at a range of masses, and if they\u2019re packed into dense, massive clusters, t"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 24580093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24580093", "by": "kawfey", "time": 1600963825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally, Behind the Bastards podcast has put out a two-part show on Mark Zuckerberg's background and the atrocities Facebook has let happen on their platform - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... BTB is quite inflammatory, but the host eloquently puts together a lot of really damning and shocking stories from inside Facebook's doors."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24580566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24580566", "by": "bad_user", "time": 1600965836, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I very much agree, but... > They recently purchased exclusivity for Joe Rogan, if you want to listen to him in the future you have to use Spotify. Joe Rogan's podcast is anti-science crap. That it moved to a walled garden, restricting access to it, I find that as being a gift to the world."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24582653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24582653", "by": "throw_m239339", "time": 1600976374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, it's the new fad in US IT. Privileged workers making more than 100K a year demand they have a say in what their employer can or cannot publish. Same thing happened at Kickstarter, and is happening at Spotify regarding Joe Rogan's podcast. Employees demand having a say in the editorial policies of these websites and the power to interfere with contracts. I guess they tried that at Amazon too, but Bezos didn't fold and fired a few of them. I am all for collective bargaining and unions, but this has absolutely nothing to do with working conditions. These employees just want to use these plat"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24584689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24584689", "by": "yamrzou", "time": 1600988633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> What would you consider the bare minimum act to be judged at human-level intelligence? Lex Fridman discussed this topic with Fran\u00e7oit Chollet in his recent podcast episode \"Measures of Intelligence\" [1]. I highly recommend it. Lengthy but really worth it. [1] https://youtu.be/PUAdj3w3wO4"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24595407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24595407", "by": "gabrielsroka", "time": 1601080075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Gosling (Java) was just talking about Simula on the Lex Fridman podcast yesterday. And Bjarne Stroustrup (C++) was too, last year."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24596497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24596497", "by": "gnusty_gnurc", "time": 1601095555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think what\u2019s dumb is that cancel culture reeks of class conflict and elitism. None of these people would survive on a construction crew. If they can\u2019t handle the talk on Rogan\u2019s podcast, they\u2019d perish sitting around a lunch truck. It\u2019s a freaking conversation. This isn\u2019t dissolving society. If you don\u2019t like what they\u2019re saying, stop listening! What a joyless existence if you feel the need to protest a podcast."}, {"show": "1508585135", "hn_item": 24604452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24604452", "by": "shawnMer", "time": 1601184900, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Very similar to Mike Green talking about how the transition form active investing to passive has led to increased volatility in the market, among other things. ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-end-game-ep-3-mike... )"}, {"show": "1587123692", "hn_item": 24606454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606454", "by": "NamTaf", "time": 1601213331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Savage's podcast Still Untitled did a really fantastic episode [1] back around Halloween 2018 where they had a molecular biologist come on and talk about his work. The stories he tells are absolutely fascinating and I thoroughly encourage everyone wiht any interest in molecular biology and crazy stories to check it out. I won't go into it because I'll spoil it, but suffice it to say that normal episodes are 20-30 mins, this one went for 70 mins and the first time I listened to it I immediately restarted it to listen to it again. The first half of the episode is a story that gets more and "}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 24606454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606454", "by": "NamTaf", "time": 1601213331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adam Savage's podcast Still Untitled did a really fantastic episode [1] back around Halloween 2018 where they had a molecular biologist come on and talk about his work. The stories he tells are absolutely fascinating and I thoroughly encourage everyone wiht any interest in molecular biology and crazy stories to check it out. I won't go into it because I'll spoil it, but suffice it to say that normal episodes are 20-30 mins, this one went for 70 mins and the first time I listened to it I immediately restarted it to listen to it again. The first half of the episode is a story that gets more and "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 24611371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24611371", "by": "will_walker", "time": 1601251489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode on ReplyAll podcast[0] about the methods for bypassing 2FA to snag accounts. Was the 2FA endpoint a SMS cell number? In that case, it's probable the thief fraudulently impersonated the victim to the cell service provider and phished the 2FA code. Sadly, the cell providers are the weakest link in that particular chain (probably much weaker than Facebook's security). I also wouldn't put it past someone to guess a password or have reused a password with another service that has been hacked. Humans are terrible at password hygene. [0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24613890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24613890", "by": "kjksf", "time": 1601277832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If podcasts were solely promotions of speakers, no one would listen. Mike Tyson or Bernie Sanders or any other guest on Joe Rogan's podcast doesn't need further promotion. If you're a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast you already are a celebrity. To state the obvious: people listen to Joe Rogan podcast because they are interested in what the guests have to say about things they are experts in and Joe Rogan is a good interviewer who asks good questions and lets the quests talk. Not to mention that interviews with people are just a subset of podcasts."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 24620223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24620223", "by": "tosh", "time": 1601320346, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 24620223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24620223", "by": "tosh", "time": 1601320346, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24625042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24625042", "by": "seppin", "time": 1601364671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If podcasts were solely promotions of speakers, no one would listen. A podcast isn't solely self-promotion, that's like a TV show only with ads. Of course they give you \"content\" as well. But the purpose, from the perspective of the participants, is to grow your audience. Ie. increase your celebrity. Which is why I thought his advice to avoid celebrity while at the same time actively trying to obtain a greater level of it was p funny. > Mike Tyson or Bernie Sanders or any other guest on Joe Rogan's podcast doesn't need further promotion. Yet they go on for specific promotional purposes. Mike"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 24638863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24638863", "by": "cowpig", "time": 1601474919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been on a bit of a roman history binge lately, fueled by the discovery of Mike Duncan's podcast, \"The History of Rome\" so I'm going to tell the story I understood from that here for context: In his telling, the Catiline Conspiracy was a product of its time: Marius and Sulla showed the Roman aristocracy that if you just ignored the law and had popular support + an army, you could basically do whatever you want, and so that became the norm for the next generation. At the time, Cicero was one of the two Consuls, the heads of state that were elected yearly by the senate. And Pompey, a charism"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 24638863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24638863", "by": "cowpig", "time": 1601474919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been on a bit of a roman history binge lately, fueled by the discovery of Mike Duncan's podcast, \"The History of Rome\" so I'm going to tell the story I understood from that here for context: In his telling, the Catiline Conspiracy was a product of its time: Marius and Sulla showed the Roman aristocracy that if you just ignored the law and had popular support + an army, you could basically do whatever you want, and so that became the norm for the next generation. At the time, Cicero was one of the two Consuls, the heads of state that were elected yearly by the senate. And Pompey, a charism"}, {"show": "1500361677", "hn_item": 24640684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640684", "by": "hosh", "time": 1601484175, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "She has a lot of resources that sprawl all over, including numerous podcast interviews and blog posts. She had been doing this for 40 years now. If you ever heard of things like \u201cregenerative growth\u201d from the business world, it came from her. The biggest thing about what she teaches is a different way of viewing the world. How to identify the paradigm, epistemology, and frame, including your own patterns of thinking. The kind of problems she is addressing cannot be solved through the paradigm that generated those problems. I would say start with _Regenerative Life_ unless you intend to try app"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 24640740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24640740", "by": "muffinman26", "time": 1601484419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good places to start for writing fiction: - Writer's Digest publishes large yearly lists of places to submit books and short stories. - The Writing Excuses podcast covers all steps of the writing process, from research and planning to publishing with an agent or going the self-publishing route. The speakers cover a wide range of strategies on each topic. - writing.stackexchange.com is a relatively useful resource on a range of writing and publishing topics"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24641415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641415", "by": "ssivark", "time": 1601487960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, the book probably expands on the following paper from a few months ago: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo... (paper linked to from blog post) There's also a recent Lex Fridman podcast episode where he interviews Jeff Hawkins on this theme: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24641765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641765", "by": "itsoktocry", "time": 1601489738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> But I know a lot of VERY smart people who wouldn\u2019t sign up for that workplace. Sure, that's the trade-off. In a vacuum we all want to \"make the world a better place\". Does cancelling academics who appear on Joe Rogan's podcast \"make the world a better place\"? Does having a coworker cancelled or fired because of a stupid joke \"make the world a better place\"? I don't know; I don't think so. On the other hand, I think there should be internal political discussion regarding policy at a place like Facebook. What are the politics relevant to your job? It's not easy to answer."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24647291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24647291", "by": "zacharycohn", "time": 1601525816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Economists value a human life at $10,000,000 USD (there's a great Planet Money podcast about this). Therefore, 100 lives would be worth about a billion dollars."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 24647721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24647721", "by": "pitzips", "time": 1601530885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently finished 2 books that helped give a nice macro level to human's \"progress\". 'Sapiens' & 'The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World' Stuff You Should Know (podcast) has also been a gem for learning broadly about industrial and material topics."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 24660903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24660903", "by": "hombre_fatal", "time": 1601632965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately it's been going on for a long time. For example, why was OJ Simpson's verdict met with adulation when everyone knew he was guilty? That's the first thing that popped in my head when I read their last paragraph about lying to ourselves, though I admit I just listened to a podcast where Sam Harris or John McWhorter bring OJ up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPHUu9sAGKo (\"Sam Harris' podcast: The New Religion of Anti_Racism\")"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24661539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661539", "by": "bonoboTP", "time": 1601638538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of Lex, but we have to see that he basically kickstarted his podcasting career by using his MIT cred then made it into a personal thing. Basically it started as the accompanying podcast for the Artificial General Intelligence course at MIT, given by Lex. Given that it's a podcast for an MIT course, he managed to get a very highly esteemed AI guest list, because who would refuse to give an interview as part of MIT lecture materials? In the beginning it had less to do with Lex as a person I think. With that ex-guest list, he managed to continue after the course as \"AI podcast\", now"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 24664065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24664065", "by": "annalandin", "time": 1601655042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My co-founder and I built Volley after listening to the How I Built This podcast (among others) and realized the value of asynchronous communication in Q&A style interviews. We thought having the ability to listen to questions, and respond at your convenience after giving your response adequate thought was incredibly valuable. Try Volley, give feedback, ask for features :)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24671331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24671331", "by": "specialist", "time": 1601725490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've thought about this. Too much. For purposes of this reply, Jordan Peterson will be the exemplar for a self described Rationalists and new atheists (whatever they call themselves) and misc intellectual dark web characters. My primary criticism is lack of novelty. I've heard it all before. Tell me something new. A positive example of this, for contrast, is how Ezra Klein is able to have constructive conversations with people he disagrees with. Most recently David French. So I've learned stuff from people I would have never given the time of day. Which reflects poorly on me, I know. But I'm t"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24673613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24673613", "by": "maxharris", "time": 1601747911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know the topic is about speech, but consider the underlying sentiment as well. Gandhi wrote his second letter to Hitler in 1940, as the world was engulfed in flames. I'd like to draw attention to his fourth paragraph, which begins with, \"We have been trying for the past half a century to throw off the British rule...\" he explains why he suspended India's struggle against the British, to resist Hitler: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gandhi-s-letter-to-hitl... I am saddened that people on Twitter are so polarized that they block me when I try to get them to read Gandhi , of all people. B"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24674006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24674006", "by": "mellosouls", "time": 1601752112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time Podcast Archive: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 24677610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677610", "by": "danjac", "time": 1601804564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the latest season of Patrick Wyman's Tides of History podcast [1] for an overview of the latest discoveries in archeology and related fields. [1] https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 24678657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678657", "by": "tsjq", "time": 1601815987, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related Podcast Episode on NPR Hidden Brain. Sep2018. BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642706138/bs-jobs-how-meaning..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24682820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24682820", "by": "yreg", "time": 1601851082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not american, but I listened to this Planet Money podcast[0] and they talked about how Trump planned to enforce the following rule: >If congress wants to add a new regulation, they have to find two outdated regulations and remove them. I have no idea how it went. [0] episode including transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/659049880"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 24683266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24683266", "by": "Igelau", "time": 1601856165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks. A google search for \"white shoe fixer\" was only returning glue and polish for shoes. Given the derogatory Ivy League sense of the term, it's a funny one for the author to use. Keefe attended Columbia, Cambridge, London School of Economics, and got a JD from Yale. Those white shoes you can see from space! His 'Wind of Change' podcast was good stuff."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24684756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24684756", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1601875207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the Planet Money podcast episode: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/918195277/call-center-call-ou..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 24691251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24691251", "by": "davidsawyer", "time": 1601926977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the Indie Hackers podcast episode with Sarah Hum from Canny from last October. Good episode! https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/124-sarah-hum-of-canny"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24696618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696618", "by": "codebolt", "time": 1601983815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Such a joy to see Sir Roger Penrose awarded with this honor. One of my favorite contemporary intellectuals. If anyone hasn't seen it, I recommend his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orMtwOz6Db0"}, {"show": "1718851160", "hn_item": 24701383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24701383", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1602012186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fair points. I have been out of the game for a while so not sure what is currently out there, but a search for \"permaculture network\" turns up 3-4 viable candidates. I didn't mean to rain on your parade, too much, but wanted to drive home that information sharing is nice, but creating permaculture businesses is more important. It's the same thing as a CSA directory (I ran one for about 10 years). The CSA directory is nice and scalable and easy, and helpful to end users, but the crux of the economic system is the CSA farm, actually delivering value to others. To make an analogy, permaculture ha"}, {"show": "1048210550", "hn_item": 24708339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24708339", "by": "josaka", "time": 1602079584, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Highly recommend listening to oral arguments once posted on Oyez: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u-s-supreme-court-oral..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 24708742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24708742", "by": "ckdarby", "time": 1602081740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a typical pattern for large compensation payout with little effort after the large initial investment. Engineering Daily podcast has various podcasts that come up around this. One that comes to mind was the one with Slack. Slack had hyper-growth, they went out and hired individuals who had already tackled these problems at the same numbers or larger. You get hired at a company, and you look around at what FAANG is using, you implement that because you can always say, \"But it works at Netflix\". You build up immense expertise in the project, the tool, etc. Switch jobs, ignore everything "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 24712489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24712489", "by": "bhupy", "time": 1602103349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Freakonomics episode that talks about this -> https://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-stea... TL;DR, the prevailing theory is that it's cultural. > SUEDEKUM: Culturally, there is a sense [that] you have to be flexible when circumstances change, when new challenges arise. This is deeply embedded in the German approach of doing things. > MARIN: That is part of a cultural thing: people trust each other. > This culture, Marin says, also manifests itself in management style. Her research has shown that German C.E.O.\u2019s are more willing to grant decision-making power to lowe"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24719584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719584", "by": "zenpaul", "time": 1602168681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In September Planet Money podcast covered how the plastic industry sold the public on plastic recycling when they know it was not realistic. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land"}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 24721348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721348", "by": "singhkays", "time": 1602177321, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 24727573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24727573", "by": "singhkays", "time": 1602227249, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 24727692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24727692", "by": "jurip", "time": 1602228685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signals and Threads has been a fantastic podcast thus far, I've really enjoyed all the episodes."}, {"show": "1459779659", "hn_item": 24729123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729123", "by": "tuna-piano", "time": 1602245900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thoughts: -I love reading Matt's stuff. The praise of his writing is totally deserving. -In my daily life there's rarely a topic I come across that I'm unable to understand. In an otherwise boring day full of mundane work tasks, his column gives me intellectual challenges that I really appreciate. -Matt's ability to understand and synthesize topics reflects incredibly highly on his intellect. I don't know anyone on Wall Street... is his level of intellect common among investment bankers and such there? -He was valedictorian at Harvard and became a public high school teacher after!? -Apparently"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 24729416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729416", "by": "FOMO_capital", "time": 1602248216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He went on Tyler Cowen's podcast"}, {"show": "1459779659", "hn_item": 24729967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729967", "by": "thedufer", "time": 1602252093, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> -I would really love a weekly Matt Levine podcast. But sadly I don't think we'll ever get that. I don't know that you do. I've found him to be a much better writer than speaker - the content was similar (brilliant, funny, interesting, etc) but his spoken delivery simply isn't very good, and where do you put a footnote in a podcast?"}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 24731351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24731351", "by": "n3k5", "time": 1602260060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People who liked these tips might also like: Bruce Shelley was on Soren Johnson's podcast Designer Notes (ep. 9, 2015). Sid Meier is in episodes 23\u201425 (2016)."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 24732736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24732736", "by": "bausano_michael", "time": 1602267261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Mindscape podcast has a recent episode on this topic - Sean B. Carroll On randomness."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 24740238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24740238", "by": "skrebbel", "time": 1602349026, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is having a board of directors full of VC big shots to answer to that different from having a boss? I listened to a Changelog podcast the other day featuring Sytse Sijbrandij (GitLab CEO) and he mentioned having to run stuff by his board and I was like woa, even someone as obviously self-made as @sytse has a boss. I'm starting to think that only by bootstrapping (or taking very little investment, at least) you really do work without a boss. Not sure if the YC path that pg promotes in this article fits that. (I'm thinking about this a lot lately because my company is currently at this crossroad"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24743680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743680", "by": "bmarquez", "time": 1602389822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Using Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, etc. is optional. Nobody has to use these platforms. Nobody has to use these platforms, unless everyone else is using these platforms. Have you ever been that one person who is being regularly invited to an event but you aren't in a Messenger or Whatsapp group to receive it? Pretty soon you stop receiving invitations. This is actually worse in the case of Whatsapp outside America, since it's used more often than it should for business, and if you don't make yourself accessible for business, you don't eat. >If you want your messages encrypted, do it yourself"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24744453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24744453", "by": "mychaelangelo", "time": 1602404623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I couldn't find this Joe Rogan podcast (don't think he ever recorded one) but this interview with Dan Patrick is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIcu-mpWA0"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 24750068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750068", "by": "adam791", "time": 1602459559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out Sam Harris\u2019s podcast \u201cThe Worst Epidemic\u201d. It\u2019s hard to listen to, but gives another perspective about this issue. Also it has some ideas about where encryption is perhaps more benign (e.g. WhatsApp) and where its introduction would increase exploitation of children (e.g. Facebook Messenger)."}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 24751371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24751371", "by": "rrdharan", "time": 1602476638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned about this from the excellent Canadaland podcast: https://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/279-did-the-new-york-... Side note, Jesse Brown (Canadaland\u2019s creator) was also a cofounder of Bitmoji, which I think gives him an interesting perspective on a few topics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Brown_(journalist)#Bus..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 24751580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24751580", "by": "dilippkumar", "time": 1602479577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A little unrelated - but can we have an update on season 2 of the \u201cOn the Metal\u201d podcast?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24755067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24755067", "by": "furcyd", "time": 1602514959, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24756158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24756158", "by": "thdrdt", "time": 1602520204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Willing was asked about the issues with the police (in the US). His response was very insightful. He observed that most problems boiled down to lack of training. For an untrained cop an arrest can be very stressful. This then can result in using way too much force. I believe he also mentions this in the Joe Rogan podcast: https://youtu.be/iUhdc1GAddk"}, {"show": "1397036566", "hn_item": 24759159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24759159", "by": "jgordon", "time": 1602535002, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1304361213", "hn_item": 24770382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24770382", "by": "dluan", "time": 1602623691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend General Intellect Unit pod which is basically if Stafford Beer had a podcast: http://generalintellectunit.net ."}, {"show": "1308717668", "hn_item": 24773450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24773450", "by": "2bitencryption", "time": 1602653856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was briefly covered in a recent episode of the podcast \"Swindled\" [0]. Highly recommend this podcast to the HN crowd. I believe the veracity of the \"crying in rage\" part was put into question as possible anti-Soviet propaganda, but I don't know if there's a final word. [0] https://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-4/episode-11-the..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24779011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24779011", "by": "shpongled", "time": 1602695463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Edward Snowden's recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast[1] was extremely interesting, and they discuss this case, among other things. Snowden is a great speaker. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rl82OQDoOc"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 24782260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782260", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1602713385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's \"Revisionist History\" podcast featured a very compelling and revealing episode titled \"Burden of Proof\" that dealt with college sports and CTE. [0]. [0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/22-burden-of-proof"}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 24784165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784165", "by": "maxharris", "time": 1602728593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with you about this being a double standard. NYT has clearly stated that they obtained Trump's tax records through an anonymous source, i.e., through means no more legal than Trump's sources on Biden: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/trump-taxes-editors-no... I think they're all shady. Why was there a media blackout on Andrew Yang again? https://vocal.media/theSwamp/a-visual-history-of-the-yang-me... Andrew Yang on Eric Weinstein's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2f0r9W2Mg"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 24784176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784176", "by": "gnabgib", "time": 1602728689, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their blog[0] has some info. There was a great Software Engineering Daily podcast about it [1] - specifically they use the Amazon Advertising API (still) although the nature of their relationship has changed over the eleven years. I imagine the affiliate rates drastically dropping during Covid, hurt them a fair bit. [0]: https://camelcamelcamel.com/blog/how-our-price-checking-syst... [1]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/05/24/camelcamelca..."}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 24786536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24786536", "by": "aksss", "time": 1602753412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting article! Shout out to Fighter Pilot Podcast episode 93 a couple weeks ago with Col. Michael Phillips (Ret.), former U2 pilot with many good details and stories about the plane, it\u2019s mission, load-out, and crapping your pants in an astronaut suit at 60k feet."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 24787948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24787948", "by": "steventhedev", "time": 1602765614, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 24788808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24788808", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1602770923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those that care about how it came to be, and is still being used, Advent of Computing podcast did a session on it and how it traces back to the 8080. https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-34-8080-vs-z80"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 24795201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795201", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1602802093, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24796245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796245", "by": "onecommentman", "time": 1602809901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two thumbs up for Melvin Bragg and In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. An archive of the last several years of his podcasts were, and probably are, available online. Magnificent moderation of a sometimes prickly crop of English-speaking academics. The most fun for me is hearing the personalities of the subcultures of the intellectual disciplines peek out of the discussions: geologists v. political historians v. literary critics v. physicists v. ..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24801852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801852", "by": "udfalkso", "time": 1602862617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're short on time you may find these notes useful: https://podcastnotes.org/found-my-fitness/found-my-fitness-p... https://podcastnotes.org/found-my-fitness/found-my-fitness-p... Also this episode of James Nestor discussing breathing on the Joe Rogan Podcast may be of interest: https://podcastnotes.org/joe-rogan-experience/joe-rogan-expe... (Disclosure, I work on Podcast Notes)"}, {"show": "985752066", "hn_item": 24809229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809229", "by": "TheGallopedHigh", "time": 1602934342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rather timely as BBC\u2019s In our Time podcast has just done a reasonable dive into the theme of Cave Art: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mqn7"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24810703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810703", "by": "wlesieutre", "time": 1602948706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to some downloaded podcast backlog, and one of the episodes was Accidental Tech Podcast where they spent a while discussing the merits of a desktop versus a docked laptop. And the main thing they complained about wasn\u2019t performance, it was how much MacBooks like to crash in this arrangement. Get an iMac and an old laptop instead for when you need to be mobile, at least those will work. It\u2019s been what, four years now since thunderbolt only MBP, and still not fixed. I don\u2019t have any thunderbolt accessories (just a DisplayPort screen) and I used to get \u201csleep wake failures\u201d a"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 24811515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24811515", "by": "wlesieutre", "time": 1602955308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well yeah, but for context the ATP podcast is hosted by Mac/iOS developers, so he was looking at his Mac options specifically"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24813251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813251", "by": "pmdulaney", "time": 1602967837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haven't heard this podcast in particular, but I highly recommend the In Our Time podcast. The host is a crotchety old guy, but his directness bordering on rudeness keeps things moving along as he discusses the topic of the week with his professor guests. The range of subjects discussed is truly amazing -- from Prester John to slime."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 24819474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819474", "by": "binaryorganic", "time": 1603041985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Media (podcast) ran a good piece Friday about how the problem with news (especially right now with the election) is that journalists are treating the candidates as the protagonists of their own stories (and the media then get the voter reactions to what those protagonists deem important) when what\u2019s needed is for us voters to be the protagonists who set the priorities for what the campaigns should be talking about."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24820281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820281", "by": "simonh", "time": 1603048111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can\u2019t recommend the In Our Time podcast enough. It\u2019s a fabulous library of high quality discourse."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24820585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820585", "by": "kennywinker", "time": 1603050876, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In our time episodes are also available as a podcast https://castro.fm/podcast/2b5f1391-0ea8-488b-8220-8bb43c7e42... :)"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 24820690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820690", "by": "hansjorg", "time": 1603051628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time episodes are also available as a podcast \"from wherever you get your podcasts\". There's a feed with all episodes and then there are separate feeds for each of history, science, culture, religion and philosophy."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24824850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824850", "by": "CoffeePython", "time": 1603101956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love how Lex's podcast has really taken off lately. His conversations very closely match to my interests. Also in general, long form podcast conversations are such great entertainment. I've learned a ton from his podcast conversations. Excited to spend the morning listening to this one. Lattner seems like an extremely fascinating guy"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24825687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24825687", "by": "jlokier", "time": 1603110370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found some of Lex's remarks and commentary during interviews insightful and intellectual. Like, we're listening to someone who thinks deeply in his own way about life, but doesn't really talk about his own thoughts so much, so have only the occasional glimpse. For me, this is enjoyable to listen to. But I haven't listened to all the interviews; perhaps I ended up choosing the ones that are more familiar subjects for him as well. For example I really enjoyed the interview with Vitalik Buterin. It felt as much like two people chewing the cud about ideas for what's being created and what we mig"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24826996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24826996", "by": "cma", "time": 1603119863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It could be in this case a kind of arranged deal. Lex made a controversial paper about Tesla driver monitoring not being needed (based on users selected from an unbiased pool of... Tesla online fan clubs), flattering to Tesla's position, and promoted it before getting peer review. A few weeks later he had Musk on the podcast and got onto the Joe Rogan podcast and brought into a kind of mutual-shilling podcast circle. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27359/mit-study-showing-high-f..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 24827080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827080", "by": "worldmerge", "time": 1603120397, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24827954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827954", "by": "kaesar14", "time": 1603125156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is not why he gets these guests. Lex is very famous in his own right. His episodes on Joe Rogan's podcast are some of the most popular he's put out. He's a well respected researcher in his own right. Chris Lattner did not go on this podcast because Lex's dad is a physicist."}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 24828592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828592", "by": "philsnow", "time": 1603128290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you dig this kind of content, they talk a lot about roguelike design + development on the podcast Roguelike Radio: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 24829715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24829715", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1603134374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Tyler Cowen's podcast."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 24832482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24832482", "by": "rafaelm", "time": 1603152297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This \"Reply All\" podcast episode explains the history behind this pretty well: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24833260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833260", "by": "seagarw", "time": 1603158917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What most of the HN community seems too misunderstand is that the very nature of being here means you're far more deeply ingrained in tech than most. Personally I'm almost a layman when it comes to hardware and compiler technologies. When Lex asks basic questions, they are the sort of things I want to hear about. Sure there's room for a more in-depth/challenging conversation but I don't think that Lex's podcast is the place for that. Theres probably a handful of people who would be able to challenge Chris properly (Maybe a conversation with another LLVM contributor or someone on the Swift team"}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 24836562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24836562", "by": "cik", "time": 1603197411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Felix Salmon has always been a pleasure to read. If you like his writing, you might enjoy him on the Slate Money podcast. https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 24853948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853948", "by": "pselbert", "time": 1603328528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the recent Thinking Elixir podcast [0] the performance is comparable. They specifically cite the performance of dialyzer, which typically runs through HiPE, as being just as fast with the new JIT. From what I recall HiPE isn't widely used and will be (may be?) removed. [0]: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/017-jit-compiler..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24856473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24856473", "by": "Darmody", "time": 1603361690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While fasting can be very beneficial, be careful if you're going to do it for long periods. A few days is ok but I wouldn't recommend anyone fasting longer without supervision. David Blaine almost dies after 44 days of fasting. Not because of the fasting but because of how they fed him afterwards. He also say he hasn't recovered and his body sometimes acts weird. There's a clip of him talking about this on Joe Rogan Podcast."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24863432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863432", "by": "fpgaminer", "time": 1603401704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> it's known that the framers of the Constitution meant for the people to have access to arms partly as a hedge against governmental use of arms against the people That's not known. Radiolab did a great piece on the 2nd amendment's history: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radio... TL;DL: The idea that U.S. citizens should arm themselves to defend against a tyrannical government appears to be a relatively new idea. The text of the 2nd amendment is vague and unclear: > A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to kee"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24865265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865265", "by": "sjtindell", "time": 1603417774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed although in the last thing I heard from Edward Snowden he was on the Joe Rogan podcast and sounded pretty unhappy with his general living situation in Russia."}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 24873564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24873564", "by": "ptx", "time": 1603484245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Sinica podcast has plenty of rational discussion, usually in the form of interviews with various academics: https://supchina.com/series/sinica/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24876448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876448", "by": "nickik", "time": 1603506615, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24884239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24884239", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1603607397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know, right? I watched this the other day: Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling | Lex Fridman Podcast #128 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIk1zUy8ehU He's apparently a self-professed anarchist, and it really doesn't sound at all like the totally crazy ideology it's made out to be in the press. I disagree with plenty of what he said here and there, but he's not some total lunatic, he's actually very intelligent. I'd say a lot of things he talked about actually deserve a seat at the \"adults table\" for a change, it's starting to seem like the \"adults\" have had"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24890008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24890008", "by": "swyx", "time": 1603661014, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "In the recent Lex Fridman podcast I noticed that geohotz was very happy about moving Comma.ai from Tensorflow to Pytorch (https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz-2). This sentiment was also echoed by Jeremy Howard doing the same with Fast.ai (https://twimlai.com/whats-next-for-fast-ai-w-jeremy-howard/) I recognize these moves were made over a longish time period and some time ago but the coincidence was remarkable (to me, a developer who has dabbled but doesnt work with either). Is there some bigger picture going on here?"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 24891579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24891579", "by": "astdb", "time": 1603672552, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 24893545, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893545", "by": "rayiner", "time": 1603696397, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I didn\u2019t post the WaPo link because it\u2019s pay-walled. I\u2019m not endorsing the Mercury News article. But the whole \u201cobstruction\u201d debate was really proof of how sideways the media coverage had gone. Obstruction without something else is a pretty bullshit charge: https://reason.com/2019/04/19/in-defense-of-trump-obstructin... . We were promised he was a Russian asset, and when that evaporated we had an excruciating technical debate about Mueller\u2019s assumptions about whether he could indict for obstruction. As to \u201cWhite Fragility\u201d\u2014Taibbi\u2019s language is colorful, but that book isn\u2019t mainstream left: htt"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 24895812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895812", "by": "joeblau", "time": 1603718221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is one I\u2019ve heard a lot on the Data Skeptic podcast. Great for math and science. https://brilliant.org/"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 24900512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900512", "by": "bensonalec", "time": 1603741817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Both of Thorsten Ball's books in that series are phenomenal, could not recommend more. He's also got a great discussion of it on the Go Time podcast, https://changelog.com/gotime/28 and https://changelog.com/gotime/107 ."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 24900512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900512", "by": "bensonalec", "time": 1603741817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Both of Thorsten Ball's books in that series are phenomenal, could not recommend more. He's also got a great discussion of it on the Go Time podcast, https://changelog.com/gotime/28 and https://changelog.com/gotime/107 ."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24904007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24904007", "by": "maxharris", "time": 1603766121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not joking, and I'm not referring to his unified field theory either (although I certainly think it's interesting). In the first 35 minutes of that podcast, he shares some of his ideas on why our institutions have collapsed. This interview with Lex Fridman is a bit more accessible, and it expands on that stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 24904568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24904568", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1603774313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was there Stranger Danger panic which of course was not based on anything substantial, but left lasting scars on society. I strongly recommend the episode of the same name on the You're Wrong About podcast."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 24919416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919416", "by": "simongray", "time": 1603896835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They did a good follow-up with the author on the Ezra Klein Show podcast a few months back: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/7/1/21308153/the-ezra-klei..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24929127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929127", "by": "untoxicness", "time": 1603968816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Grant Sanderson, the creator of Manim, talked about Manim on the Lex Fridman podcast[0]. He emphasized that he is no software engineer and did not plan on making Manim publicly available when he started. [0] https://lexfridman.com/grant-sanderson-2/"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 24929702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929702", "by": "baylessj", "time": 1603974115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm consistently listening to the following podcasts and would highly recommend them: The Bike Shed, Coding Blocks, and Soft Skills Engineering And these others are tech related but not specific to software engineering: Cortex and Linux Unplugged"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 24929702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929702", "by": "baylessj", "time": 1603974115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm consistently listening to the following podcasts and would highly recommend them: The Bike Shed, Coding Blocks, and Soft Skills Engineering And these others are tech related but not specific to software engineering: Cortex and Linux Unplugged"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 24929702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24929702", "by": "baylessj", "time": 1603974115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm consistently listening to the following podcasts and would highly recommend them: The Bike Shed, Coding Blocks, and Soft Skills Engineering And these others are tech related but not specific to software engineering: Cortex and Linux Unplugged"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 24930583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930583", "by": "tosterhaus", "time": 1603980372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey I'm Travis Osterhaus, co-creator of Repod, a podcast discovery app. Funny story I found my cofounder Emmett Harper from a HN post a few years back with this post\u2192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075337 Annnd here we are two years later sharing what we've created \u2014 Repod! If you're anything like us and are always on the hunt for a good podcast recommendation then Repod is for you :) Thanks to the HN community for helping bring our podcast app to life. We're live on Product Hunt today so feel free to check us out \u2192 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/repod-2-0"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24930920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24930920", "by": "blfr", "time": 1603982326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Will they keep providing the media like that once the threat from piracy is gone? Even right now most video platforms only offer the lowest quality to people on platforms free from DRM. I can easily get a 4k h265 video packed in mkv to play on my Linux laptop. I haven't tested lately but a while back Netflix would serve 720p max. Spotify has been very cool, going as far as delivering a .deb package and Ubuntu repo for their client. However, Rogan podcast doesn't work on Linux because it includes video. Will it before they go exclusive? Maybe, maybe not. I can easily youtube-dl the latest podca"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24933336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933336", "by": "secondcoming", "time": 1603994868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Greenwald was on Joe Rogan recently. It was very interesting. Dude has 25 dogs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA (I assume that even linking to a JRE podcast is cause for mass downvoting on here)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 24933857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24933857", "by": "nehushtan", "time": 1603996701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fun beetle sex story on Radiolab that includes a dramatization by a visiting crew of Broadway singers: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/hard-..."}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 24939023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939023", "by": "voisin", "time": 1604030588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I heard it on the FoundMyFitness podcast which has excellent discussions about fasting science. I think it may have been the last interview with Valter Longo. I\u2019ll see if I can dig it up, but their website would be a good starting point."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 24939849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939849", "by": "jg23497", "time": 1604041537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend the .NET Rocks podcast: https://www.dotnetrocks.com/ The hosts - Carl and Richard - do a brilliant job of keeping their shows entertaining and informative."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24943873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24943873", "by": "untoxicness", "time": 1604075112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brian Kernighan talked about his love of awk on the Lex Fridman podcast [0]. [0] https://lexfridman.com/brian-kernighan/"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 24946290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24946290", "by": "part1of2", "time": 1604087942, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 24947362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947362", "by": "cvhashim", "time": 1604095965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Indie Hackers - Rob Walling podcast/blogs - MicroConf Are some useful resources to start with"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 24947362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947362", "by": "cvhashim", "time": 1604095965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Indie Hackers - Rob Walling podcast/blogs - MicroConf Are some useful resources to start with"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 24948402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24948402", "by": "platz", "time": 1604108052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discussed on Sean Carroll's podcast, Mindscape: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/09/21/115-... He seems a little non-committal if not skeptical. One telling exchange near the end regarding the gravitational path integral they used: * * * \"1:18:41 SC: And there is this trick that you can introduce, \u2019cause what you\u2019re supposed to do is say, well, integrate up all of the spacetimes that match on to this particular wave function you\u2019re looking at. But the trick is, instead of integrating all the four-dimensional spacetimes that match on to this condition you\u2019re looking at, you can"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 24949899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24949899", "by": "7952", "time": 1604133347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planning is not easy. There is an Omega Tau Podcast called \"why mega projects fail\" [1] which is a good explanation. Bias is a serious problem in decision making. [1] https://omegataupodcast.net/181-why-megaprojects-fail-and-wh..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24949923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24949923", "by": "trollied", "time": 1604133904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He\u2019s also done the Lex Fridman podcast this week. His sudden appearance on two high profile podcasts seems eerily convenient, almost as if they were timed to coincide with his planned resignation."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 24950524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950524", "by": "ritchiea", "time": 1604143253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to Barton Gellman on the Longform podcast or read his book."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 24950844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24950844", "by": "tzm", "time": 1604147143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to hear the creations as a type of \"This American Life\" series. Is there a way to subscribe to Artifact as a podcast?"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 24958270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24958270", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1604222647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The removal of the right to vote is part of the systematic disenfranchisement of Black people in the US. Many states still have laws permanently removing the right to vote from people with felony convictions. Recent shenanigans in Florida pretty clearly lay out what's at stake here. Enough people are put through the criminal justice system that they would be a significant voting block... if they have the right to vote. And since they can't vote, politicians have literally no interest in ensuring that prisons are handled humanely. It's also worth considering that many violent offenders get put "}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 24958809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24958809", "by": "teekert", "time": 1604230799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah there are indeed people that care, thinly scattered around the world. I found soms nice communities, like the Jupiter broadcasting and Ubuntu podcast communities. This is where I vent my enthusiasm nowadays, and I get much better responses :)"}, {"show": "973958702", "hn_item": 24959633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24959633", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1604240454, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/page-94-the-private-eye-podcast/id973958702#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.private-eye.co.uk%2Frss%2Fitunes%2Fpage_94_ep56.mp3 Private Eye is a well known satirical weekly magazine in the UK with a reputation for decent investigative journalism. This is apparently the whole interview for a TV documentary last year. I just never imagined anyone would interview this guy - it's very weird hearing him describe the effect on his life."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 24973148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24973148", "by": "derjames", "time": 1604350231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mathematica mistook Stephen Wolfram for a plunger during an AI demonstration on the Lex Fridman podcast."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 24974300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974300", "by": "nucleardog", "time": 1604356655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz did an episode on deepfake voices[1], which is my only real exposure to the audio side of this that I know about. Certainly wouldn't say it didn't work or was terrible. [1]: https://www.20k.org/episodes/deepfakedallas"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 24975674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24975674", "by": "pacman128", "time": 1604369362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible just had a podcast on the advantages of peat and bogs over forests. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/"}, {"show": "1611851260", "hn_item": 24979357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979357", "by": "OGWhales", "time": 1604409603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly suggest looking up MMT, there is a podcast called the MMT podcast that explains these things well, but you can find other sources that may be faster to read if you search the acronym. It's simply a good way of framing these issues to make them more intuitive. edit: there are a lot of misconceptions about money printing and inflation here. Please be weary of that."}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 24979909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24979909", "by": "andriosr", "time": 1604413736, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Stripe API is great. How they do it is available online. But why was no company able to replicate it? Thinking about everything I read about them, my take is that the APIs are only the tip of the iceberg. - The first released API took 1 year and was the 4th rewrite. Even in a pre-product and pre-revenue startup. A 5 people company. - Stripe hired the first PM at 150 people, 5 years after founding. Engineers have a strong product mindset. They hire a lot of engineers with product experience. [2] - Today they use the process created at Amazon of Working backward from the press release. By the ti"}, {"show": "1537003676", "hn_item": 24981166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981166", "by": "necco908", "time": 1604421361, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 24983418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24983418", "by": "ngokevin", "time": 1604433961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sounds like it'll be a future Serial podcast or something."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 24986350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24986350", "by": "Fluid_Mechanics", "time": 1604462114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I too get all my medical advice from the Joe Rogan podcast"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 24986453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24986453", "by": "nradov", "time": 1604464145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My children know what cancer is. Progress on cancer prevention and treatment has been a slow grind with only slight improvements in survival rates year by year. I'll bet you that 100 years from now cancer will still be one of the top 5 leading causes of death. For details I recommend the Peter Attia podcast episode: \"#121 \u2013 Azra Raza, M.D.: Why we\u2019re losing the war on cancer\". It's long but packed with accurate scientific information by someone at the forefront of research and patient care. https://peterattiamd.com/azraraza/"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 24996892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24996892", "by": "joaomacp", "time": 1604569793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also tend to agree with Peter Thiel's point on The Portal podcast: a significant number of Americans lie on polls because they're ashamed of voting for Donald Trump. My opinion: I think deep down these people feel they are rationally wrong for voting in a president that promised to, and now is actually attacking USA's democracy and freedom which used to be touted as America's strong point. They know they're acting on instinct, and people tend to hide their instincts in public."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 25006443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006443", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1604656436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations podcast does a very good long-form story-telling about the invasion and collapse of the Aztec empire. I really do recommend it and the rest in the series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56WPMRERgxg"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 25007223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25007223", "by": "dalke", "time": 1604666857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Potentially. In practice, what I see is people complaining that they can't switch back to a podcast and continue playback from where they left off. I can understand the problem. With something like a 3 hour \"Hardcore History\" podcast, I'll take a break, listen to something else, then come back."}, {"show": "1368482721", "hn_item": 25008850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008850", "by": "redwoolf", "time": 1604680365, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not reading, but there's a great podcast called \"Stoicism on Fire\"[0] that I found to be enlightening. 0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoicism-on-fire/id136..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25011143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25011143", "by": "buzzerbetrayed", "time": 1604696789, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> even the bottom of the ocean would be a more habitable environment than Mars would. Fun (and mostly unrelated) fact I learned on a Joe Rogan podcast: If you are at the bottom of the ocean, it actually takes 7 times longer to get to the hospital than if you are on the international space station. If you are aboard the ISP, you can get to a hospital within about 24 hours if needed. But if you're at the bottom of the ocean, it takes about a week to surface because you have to give your body time to adjust. I think those are the correct numbers at least. It's been a while. From a super interesti"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25013423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25013423", "by": "chris-orgmenta", "time": 1604728401, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1000379943", "hn_item": 25014506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25014506", "by": "nucleardog", "time": 1604748903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We have the technology, it's just... not widely available yet. There's a lab at UCSF[1] that actually specializes in doing genome sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid specifically for cases like this. They're talked about pretty extensively in Adam Savage's \"Still Untitled\" podcast[2] and all the crazy weird things they managed to diagnose this way. We all have the impression that medicine is a solved problem, but we've still got a way to go. We're still making progress though. [1] https://nextgendiagnostics.ucsf.edu/ [2] https://www.tested.com/podcasts/adam-savage-project/854328-s..."}, {"show": "1587123692", "hn_item": 25015519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015519", "by": "mentos", "time": 1604762228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you for that link to the Adam Savage podcast with Joe DeRisi. I watched the whole thing absolutely incredible research he is doing from a layman\u2019s perspective it seems like a very bottom up approach that could take all of the guess work out of disease diagnosis."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 25018307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25018307", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1604778309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Being a centrist, I can definitely understand the desire for more conservative policies, and a rejection of more liberal policies. What has been tough for me personally, though, is to see a person as amoral as Trump get so much support. I DO agree that Trump has done some good things, things that before him neither the left nor the right was willing to do in a substantial way (mainly his forcing a re-evaluation of our relationship with China). But his utter (and ongoing) disregard for our democratic system, his incessant lying, the fact that all he cares about is loyalty to him but gives no lo"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 25019835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25019835", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1604785680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That is the million dollar question, and honestly I don't really know, but would love insightful discussion on this topic. I thought the Sam Harris podcast really hit the nail on the head. The messaging from the left for the past 10-15 years has really had very little to offer straight, white men at a psychological level. The rhetoric is pretty constant around wanting more diversity as a first, primary goal (meaning fewer straight white men), constant talk of privilege (you should be ashamed not just for trying to take pride in your own accomplishments, but you're guilty of your parents' and g"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 25022579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25022579", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1604805699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Instead, he would mock my wish to not be looked down or not be reminded that i an lesser half the time. I'm taking this as clear evidence you have never listened to a Sam Harris podcast."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 25024674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024674", "by": "graphov", "time": 1604831054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be precise, he says \"there might be as many as three revolutionary nobel-quality ideas \". And yes, their family indeed have a lot of brainpower, so I don't even see it as such a big exaggeration or boasting. TBH all I see in this twitter account and the podcast is just crapping on people by nitpicking innocuous and respectful phrases or claims and trying to make them look like a proof of some grave moral fault. I don't really want to engate with this sort of content anymore, especially via my poor keyboard, sorry. And as another user wrote in the comment - why listen to this second hand stu"}, {"show": "1805922628", "hn_item": 25027696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25027696", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1604860226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed, I listened to a recent Science Versus podcast about how the Platypus is fluorescent, prompted by finding that squirrels glow. The 6th November podcast is all about that, they didn\u2019t have HN in mind since I can\u2019t link to a page for the podcast yet: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/episodes Transcript is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTFNJ2VoWUAhCgKM..."}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 25027798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25027798", "by": "535188B17C93743", "time": 1604860787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ken Jennings has already stated he's not interest\u2013\u2013listen to his episode on the podcast \"People I Mostly Admire\"."}, {"show": "1805922628", "hn_item": 25032984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032984", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1604914138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting. Isn\u2019t this how evolution works, some metabolic pathway changes, if that change is a benefit in some way, then that gives it an edge. The Science Versus podcast looked at the Platypus, with the hypothesis that this was a deep seated trait from deep history in the origins of mammals. The thing is I\u2019d guess all mammals are more closely related to squirrels than to the platypus. Hence I have thought that mice, cats, cows, etc, etc, etc would glow. The angle in the podcast was that this was for twilight animals. So do bats glow too? Or is it all about echolocation with them?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25033306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25033306", "by": "sclangdon", "time": 1604917660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Take a book out of Eddie Hall's playbook who says the exact same thing... And he's literally the strongest man in the world. Robert Oberst, another WSM competitor also says the same thing and talks about it on the Joe Rogan podcast (#1321 I believe). To quote: \"I went from football to strongman, and in football we never did deadlifts. It was all hang cleans and power cleans, which by the way, quick little tip: if you\u2019re deadlifting to be a better deadlifter fine. If you\u2019re not, (you\u2019re) doing that for deadlift\u2019s sake, don\u2019t fucking do it. The risk to reward ratio is a joke.\" \"A lot of people "}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 25045543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045543", "by": "gawin", "time": 1605013896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Masters of Scale podcast (1) Eric Schmidt told Reid Hoffman in september that COVID-19 is limiting his ability to do what he loves to do to the extent that he shifted his main focus to COVID-19. One of the reasons for this was his decreased ability to freely move around and meet people. Getting a EU passport makes moving in the EU a lot easier. 1) https://play.acast.com/s/masters-of-scale-with-reid-hoffman/..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 25052050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25052050", "by": "bryanlarsen", "time": 1605043059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another pollsters opinion: Nate Cohn says the story is about Latino voters who are a notoriously hard demographic to poll. Source \"The Daily\" podcast."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 25052307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25052307", "by": "bduerst", "time": 1605044223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Weird to evaluate the NYT evolving the past four years and not mention The Daily podcast."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 25053024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25053024", "by": "sien", "time": 1605047874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Harford has an excellent article on why the polls were wrong: https://timharford.com/2020/11/why-the-polls-got-it-wrong/ The big quote is this: \"The pre-election numbers suggest that in a typical poll with 500 positive responses, 255 went for Mr Biden and 243 for Mr Trump. But typical response rates are 5 in 100 \u2014 often lower, says Andrew Gelman, a statistician and prominent election modeller. He says that only around 1 in 100 people respond to opinion polls. So now picture 10,000 people, 255 who called their vote for Mr Biden, 243 for Mr Trump and 9,500 who never responded. How confident "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25054363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25054363", "by": "idoh", "time": 1605056784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How about the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, which has $100 million ARR, and seems to be run by two people?"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 25056948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25056948", "by": "karatinversion", "time": 1605087560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"The Tides of History\" had a bunch of episodes on early modern Italy in general and Venice in particular, which were really eye-opening. The other interesting fact about the Italian mercantile city-states is that many of them lasted an amazingly long time. The republics in Venice and Genoa, for example, were only extinguished in 1797 by Napoleon!"}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 25068228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068228", "by": "akhilrex", "time": 1605174808, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25069923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069923", "by": "stonepresto", "time": 1605189862, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25082617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082617", "by": "tmearnest", "time": 1605278439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I literally listened to an episode of Darknet Diaries last night about this [1]. This podcast is amazingly well researched and a fascinating description of infosec case studies, often with interviews with the individuals involved. I highly recommend it! [1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/31/"}, {"show": "1504360345", "hn_item": 25084914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25084914", "by": "sequoia", "time": 1605288826, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I appreciate that you want to hear from experts. Instead of me, why not listen instead to Dr. Michael Osterholm, PhD MPH, \"an American epidemiologist, regents professor, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.\" His podcast is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-osterholm-update-c... give it a listen and let me know what you think!"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 25085043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25085043", "by": "throwaway83844", "time": 1605289432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been super self isolated. I live lone. I've seen 6 people since march 15th and those were just 2hr walks outdoors with masks on. That's it. But, it's reasonable question to ask, what's the acceptable number of casualties. The answer is not zero. We have plenty of other diseases that kill lots of people. COVID is more but we still have to pick a number. Is 1 in 100 ok? 1 in 500? 1 in 1000? 1 in 5k? (the car rate), 1 in 10k? (the flu rate). I heard about this thinking on the Sam Harris podcast. He mentioned some people claiming if we lifted all restrictions by their estimates deaths would b"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 25085694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25085694", "by": "ortusdux", "time": 1605292316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest NPR Indicator podcast did a good job covering this: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/934251081"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 25085835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25085835", "by": "dopylitty", "time": 1605293003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want scientific discussion there is plenty of it to be had. I recommend the podcast 'This Week in Virology' [1]. Every week they have a doctor on to discuss his experience in the hospital treating patients and with studies for 30 minutes or so and then they also have several academic virologists discuss recent papers such as this one showing how Covid likely killed a healthy 35 year old with a 3 month old baby by damaging her heart[2]. They also talk about other viruses and virus related news which is fascinating. Musk is, as usual, willfully ignorant of science and should be ignored (o"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 25087443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087443", "by": "sradman", "time": 1605301282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed the 2015 EconTalk podcast Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill [1]: > Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply and the challenges of running a company with employees and activity all over the world. Page talks about the role of prices in global food markets in signaling information and prompting changes in response to those signals. Other topics include government's role in agriculture, the locavore movement and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). [1] https://www.econtal"}, {"show": "1532976305", "hn_item": 25089161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25089161", "by": "rayiner", "time": 1605313701, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I love Matt Yglesias and listen to Weeds regularly. Folks like him, Ezra Klein, Glenn Greenwald, and Matt Taibbi made their names attacking mainstream journalism from the left in the early 2000s. Now, they\u2019ve decamped for platforms like Substack because they can\u2019t speak their minds at liberal media organizations which in some cases they founded! There is a great episode of Megyn Kelly\u2019s new podcast where she and Taibbi commiserate about the direction of mainstream media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/i... . It\u2019s cats and dogs lying together."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 25105508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25105508", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1605478954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should check out the How I Built This podcast, it has an episode about Method. Great story."}, {"show": "1146941306", "hn_item": 25106041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25106041", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1605483178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I encourage anyone feeling depressed here to read the book Feeling Great by Dr. David Burns. Also you can listen to his podcast: https://feelinggood.com/category/dr-davids-blogs/feeling-goo... His podcasts cover a lot of the book and have some live therapy sessions etc... If you are in the Bay area he works with a clinic that dos TEAM therapy in Mountain View. I consider myself an expert in depression and anxiety having had them since I was a teenager. His book Feeling Good helped me. I first picked it up 10-15 years ago and never read it. I finally did read some of it in the past 2 years, but"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25113025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113025", "by": "playing_colours", "time": 1605541411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The question of human mortality is growing with years on me, though I am in the middle of 30s. I am very fascinated with many aspects of religions: from the beauty of idea of devotion to a divine omnipresent entity, serving God as a meaning of life to the evolution of Christian doctrine, religious thoughts, and influence of religion on art and architecture. But I do not believe in God. I cannot take the concept of afterlife, for example, in Christianity seriously: either praising the Lord for eternity on Heavens or suffer in searing flames in Hell. In addition, such important decision is made "}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 25113802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113802", "by": "nikivi", "time": 1605545161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signal & Threads had great podcast episode with the author. https://signalsandthreads.com/build-systems/"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 25115553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25115553", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1605553171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was one account, but during that time period, there were tons of reports, every single week, from miscounted deaths. The No Agenda Podcast guys covered it pretty well. If it's just a couple here or there, there are miscounts for sure. But with news report after news report from local stations, I think the issue might be enough to be statically significant, or at least warrant investigation and not outright dismissal. Furthermore, Sweeden seems to be doing alright as far as fatality numbers across their population for the year, even though their covid orders were much more limited: https://w"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 25116535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25116535", "by": "tosh", "time": 1605558124, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 25117417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117417", "by": "mattferderer", "time": 1605563405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coding Blocks is a podcast that has a nice intro series on DDD - https://www.codingblocks.net/podcast/why-domain-driven-desig... They call out terminology as 1 of the most confusing parts of DDD. I think they do a good job of discussing it though in an easy & empathetic way. Pluralsight has a nice DDD Learning path which has 2 popular & recommended courses in the above podcast, \"Domain-Driven Design Fundamentals\" & \"Modern Software Architecture: Domain Models, CQRS, and Event Sourcing\". You're probably familiar already with the books \"Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of S"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 25120856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25120856", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1605594819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the way Roger Penrose the Oxford Physicist discusses G\u00f6del in the LexPodcast on Artificial Intelligence : https://pca.st/episode/1e63c227-af66-4d3d-ad23-8187c9e1ca74?... (19:20) There is also a more approachable overview on the In Our Time BBC podcast : https://pca.st/episode/a9d582c0-ec2a-0132-1126-059c869cc4eb"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 25138711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138711", "by": "christoomey", "time": 1605717006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Destroy All Software is absolutely fantastic and without question worth $29/month. Probably more than any other single resource, DAS provided some of the most foundational ideas that still drive how I think about software. You can also view a handful of the screencasts for free (no sign in needed). Some of my personal favorites. * https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... * https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com... * https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries Also, if podcasts are more your thing, we just had Gary as a guest on the Bike Shed"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 25141780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25141780", "by": "smcleod", "time": 1605730118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend an episode of the podcast \"You Are Not So Smart\" where David McRaney speaks with Misha Glouberman who explains \"How to talk to people about things\", it's a fantastic list multiple times over - https://youarenotsosmart.com/2018/12/17/yanss-143-how-to-tal..."}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 25143580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143580", "by": "shagie", "time": 1605739521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent podcast for Star Talk Radio ( https://www.startalkradio.net ) which, admittingly is much more of a layman's level than deep science, was about black holes. One of the topics covered in https://www.startalkradio.net/show/cosmic-queries-black-hole... was about the debate on the black hole information loss problem."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 25143773, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25143773", "by": "platz", "time": 1605740365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Original result discussed on Sean Carroll's podcast, Mindscape: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/09/21/115-... He seems a little non-committal if not skeptical. One telling exchange near the end regarding the gravitational path integral they used: * * * \"1:18:41 SC: And there is this trick that you can introduce, \u2019cause what you\u2019re supposed to do is say, well, integrate up all of the spacetimes that match on to this particular wave function you\u2019re looking at. But the trick is, instead of integrating all the four-dimensional spacetimes that match on to this condition you\u2019re loo"}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 25146322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146322", "by": "mastazi", "time": 1605761177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is looking for a really good pop music-related podcast, \"Strong Songs\"[1] released at least one episode [2] about Dolly Parton, the episode is very well made just like all other episodes I've listened to, and and I highly suggest that podcast to anyone interested in music. [1] https://www.strongsongspodcast.com/ [2] https://strongsongspodcast.com/i-will-always-love-you-by-dol..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 25146686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25146686", "by": "soneca", "time": 1605765718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would also recommend this podcast series (9 episodes) dedicated to Dolly Parton: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america It\u2019s by Radiolab\u2019s Jad Abumrad. It is fascinating, even to me, that knew next to nothing about Dolly Parton. I listened to the whole series and came out with great admiration for her."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 25150209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150209", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1605798228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The benchmark that's blown me away most so far: Marco Arment on Accidental Tech Podcast says the new Macbook Air is significantly faster to compile Overcast (a pretty big iOS app) than his 10 core $6000+ iMac Pro with 64GB RAM and a 160W CPU. https://overcast.fm/+R7DWXqqm0/1:08:11"}, {"show": "1472354896", "hn_item": 25150913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150913", "by": "roywiggins", "time": 1605802322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You'd probably be interested in the Bellingcat podcast about their investigation into MH17. https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/podcasts/2019/07/17/mh1..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 25153915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153915", "by": "URfejk", "time": 1605817411, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1515027558", "hn_item": 25156692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25156692", "by": "Nzen", "time": 1605838400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "tl;dr a landing page for a book about learning to use postgresql with a framework of interpreting NASA data about Enceladus. The author munged some JPL data from Cassini that the user will load, query, and analyze. Digital only, available for 30$ I recognize the author, Rob Conery, from the 'This Developer's Life' podcast."}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 25162544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25162544", "by": "jasonv", "time": 1605892706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His episode on the Rich Roll podcast was excellent, highly recommended."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25163845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25163845", "by": "diehunde", "time": 1605899901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone wants to learn about the history behind RISC/CISC and much more info on the topic, I recommend listening to the David Patterson's episode on Lex Fridman's podcast. David Patterson is one of the original contributors to RISC and author of one of best books on computer architecture. 2 hours of pure knowledge on the subject."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25165415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165415", "by": "klelatti", "time": 1605908653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jim Keller on another episode of Lex Fridman's podcast is also excellent when explaining things like out of order execution."}, {"show": "1538448864", "hn_item": 25170302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170302", "by": "MD3XTER", "time": 1605973849, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hello wonderful people! A few years ago, I was going through some intense anxiety and panic attacks while studying abroad in the Netherlands. At the time I was doing freelancing to sustain myself, studying, and also being a funder in a startup with no income. It was a very hard time for me and I didn\u2019t really have anyone close with whom I could share what I was going through. Luckily, I found a very good channel called The Anxiety Guy who helped me so much to understand my anxiety better and slowly heal. It\u2019s been a few years since then and I did a lot of progress. I am still healing, but I am"}, {"show": "1494037881", "hn_item": 25172377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172377", "by": "shoo", "time": 1605989047, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One of the authors of this piece, Susan Hennessey, was briefly interviewed on The Economist's \"checks and balance\" US politics podcast this week [1]. Discussion with Hennessy starts about 26:45 in. As well as touching on Krebs' firing, Hennessy also discusses the difference between political appointees and career track public service roles, and efforts to \"burrow\" political appointees in career track roles where they could potentially persist after the current administration departs [2]. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sohQelvUPLRhADJnnXZm7 [2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-did-trump-l"}, {"show": "1210383304", "hn_item": 25174120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25174120", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1606008844, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just listened to a great interview with Joel Greenblatt[0] on the subject of education. It's really worth a listen. I think the solutions are within our reach with just a little political will. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-economics-of-commo..."}, {"show": "1481398762", "hn_item": 25180092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180092", "by": "compiler-guy", "time": 1606072249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, that is him. If anyone hasn't listened to the podcast \"Dolly Parton's America\" it is totally worth a listen--even if you don't like her music at all. Totally engrossing on creativity, the history of American music, modern red-state thinking, and a generous view of Appalachia. Extremely listenable and totally engrossing. It also tells the full story behind the friendship that made the early research being this vaccine possible. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25185030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25185030", "by": "adib", "time": 1606123915, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 25191675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25191675", "by": "ptx", "time": 1606164713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Makes sense! Maybe my confusion (which was more about the format than the topic), could be solved just by some subtle sound effect to mark the switch between you talking to the guest and you talking to the listener? Since there's no video in a podcast to give this context, the listener has to exert some effort trying to deduce it from other clues. For example, Accidental Tech Podcast inserts a small jingle at the start of a sponsor break whereas Talk Python inserts a sudden awkward silence in the conversation. It took me many episodes of the latter to stop wondering if the player had crashed, "}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 25195001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195001", "by": "tylergetsay", "time": 1606188786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible had a recent episode about evacuation times of airplanes"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 25203099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203099", "by": "boberoni", "time": 1606252703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It was a dream we\u2019d be nursing for a long time as bootstrappers like Rob Wailing or Pieter Levels, and communities such as IndieHackers by the Courtland Allen had been a source of inspiration for us ever since 2010. This kinda threw me off. I think he's talking about Rob Walling, not \"Wailing\". Also, IndieHackers was started in 2016. I'll acknowledge that Rob Walling's podcast \"Startups for the rest of us\" was started in 2010. Aside from that, it's a great article about their experience failing their 1st product and succeeding in their 2nd through persistence."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 25206292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25206292", "by": "guiambros", "time": 1606282691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pretty fascinating story. Dave is one of my favorite YouTube channels (albeit pretty niche). From his video description: \" Retired Microsoft developer 'davepl' reveals little-known secrets about Microsoft Bob, a Microsoft replacement desktop shell that shipped in 1995, including the legend that that a copy of Bob was secretly included within every copy of Windows: was secret software hidden on the Windows CD? 2020 is the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Bob and this is the first I\u2019ve ever spoken of this, inside or outside the Company, with the exception of letting one other Windows developer in o"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 25208639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208639", "by": "prepend", "time": 1606308398, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few years ago I learned about the Matthew Principle [0] on an Econtalk podcast or something like that. Now I seem to see it everywhere and try to figure out if these types of winner take all are natural or just set up by interested parties to minmax. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 25209487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209487", "by": "Symmetry", "time": 1606314268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the Arms Control Wonk Podcast and I feel the same way when the go through a propaganda video of a rocket launch and get so much more information about its capabilities and testing location than the government ever meant to reveal."}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 25217348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217348", "by": "rrdharan", "time": 1606371158, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These aren\u2019t exactly what you are asking about but some recent examples of what I consider to be disingenuous and manipulative: 1. The New York Times published a scathing critique of Google\u2019s 4000 word privacy policy, neglecting anywhere to mention that their own privacy policy was 25% longer and sketchier. 2. The entire handling of the Caliphate podcast and subsequent backpedaling and retroactive reframing. 3. Similar to 2., the doubling down but silent adjustments to the 1619 project historical inaccuracies. 4. The maddening insistence on handling of Slate Star Codex author\u2019s identity and hy"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 25217582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217582", "by": "Rebelgecko", "time": 1606374025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's also interesting that (at least in part) Norton's firing was due to using a slur that refers to a group for which she belongs. Imagine if there was a similar cancellation when Barack Obama used the n word on Marc Maron's podcast. She was also pretty upfront about the moral conflict of befriending a person like weev who she considered despicable. I dont think Sarah Jeong actually wants to follow through with her violent racist tweets, but I also don't think that Norton actually hates LGBT people or non-whites. It seems like a double standard to me. wrt Sullivan, the NYT was still h"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25218326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25218326", "by": "pedro1976", "time": 1606382639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to reccommend a pretty inspiring JRE podcast with mycologist Paul Stamets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 25228414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25228414", "by": "kreddor", "time": 1606482688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, this reminds me of the Radiolab episode about cosmic rays from last year. Fascinating story! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f..."}, {"show": "994349813", "hn_item": 25229324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229324", "by": "greggman3", "time": 1606490406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have a clue what any solution looks like or even what problem is trying to be solved. Growing up in the USA home \"ownership\" is always touted as an investment but for example in Japan, it's often more like buying a car. The moment you buy it it's a used house and the price goes down just like a car would. The point being home ownership is viewed differently. Also, the recent episode of the Flash Forward podcast pondered the idea of guaranteed housing. They complained that 60% of people on minimum wage can't afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the USA but coming from Tokyo my first thought "}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 25232801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25232801", "by": "ahelwer", "time": 1606513190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fitting, since Chigurh views most people as no more than cattle - just going with the flow, no guiding principles - while he rigidly adheres to a chosen set of values to the death. The Partially Examined Life podcast did a great episode on this book: https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/ep-63-existentiali..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 25233865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25233865", "by": "Zhyl", "time": 1606522797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The More or Less podcast, also from the BBC, does a good job of digging into what the stats actually mean and whether they're correct or misleading. Their main beef over the pandemic has been when ministers and the government have been lying fairly explicitly about testing targets (counting posted tests as completed tests). I find BBC as a whole hasn't been as critical, but they certainly seem to be at least making an effort to explain and contextualise. They aren't parroting government statistics as much as they could be doing."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 25235966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25235966", "by": "simonbarker87", "time": 1606548510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best real world example Ive heard of so far is rendering an 8K video on a MacBook on just battery power. Base MacBook Pro with M1 did it and used 17% of its battery, intel MacBook Pro couldn\u2019t get through the render before its battery was 100% depleted. I can\u2019t link to it as it was discussed on the ATP podcast but those guys are pretty good sources."}, {"show": "1619378488", "hn_item": 25236814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25236814", "by": "skrebbel", "time": 1606560015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bert is a common guest at my favourite Dutch podcast, the terribly named \"BNR Digitaal\". I hope he doesn't stop doing that! All the best to you, Bert!"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 25244801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244801", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1606653321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's podcast \"Revisionist History\" featured an episode \"McDonald's Broke My Heart\" on this sad chapter in french fry history [0]. [0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my..."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 25244801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25244801", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1606653321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell's podcast \"Revisionist History\" featured an episode \"McDonald's Broke My Heart\" on this sad chapter in french fry history [0]. [0] http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my..."}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 25246366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25246366", "by": "ksmith14", "time": 1606669605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This brief excerpt really does not do the Manager Tools' feedback model justice. All of the background has been stripped from it in order to fit in a pithy blog post and without that context it does sound jarring or shallow. Over the past 3.5 years I've used the Manager Tools \"management trinity\" (including their feedback model) with my directs and found it works extremely well. If you've got a professional relationship with a direct and have briefed them on changes before enacting them, it doesn't come as a surprise and it's not seen/received as a \"drive by.\" I encourage folks to listen to a "}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25250420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25250420", "by": "DVassallo", "time": 1606706337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm cited in the comments as an instance of this scheme [1]. If you want to see how I make it all work, check out my interview on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/177-daniel-vassallo [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25249523"}, {"show": "928933489", "hn_item": 25257834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257834", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1606764558, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It\u2019s not exactly the same, but Bitcoin is essentially fiat money as its only value is what people say it is (somewhat similar to the stock market). So I think it\u2019s an apt comparison. Absolutely not. There's nothing \"fiat\" about Bitcoin. Fiat means by decree\u2014there's no Bitcoin nation or organization that decreed that Bitcoin is valuable. There's no authority that says what a Bitcoin is worth; the market decides. Bitcoin, like gold, is hard money. https://tradesmithdaily.com/educational/bitcoin-is-the-pures... https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-interview-crypto/videos... This is perhaps the be"}, {"show": "1308717668", "hn_item": 25260220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25260220", "by": "joeseppy", "time": 1606777741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of The Octopus episode of the Swindled podcast. I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually came out that pesticides/herbicides/etc are the cause."}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 25261753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25261753", "by": "tw25261371", "time": 1606791226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reddit, along with Wikipedia, seems to have already slowly been claimed by groups pushing you to buy, only they're seeking something besides (direct) transfer of stuff for cash: buy-in and validation of which political positions are even valid to consider holding, let alone actually adopting. I'm on the left myself (although I think in terms of being liberal first over being \"a part of the left\"), and as Jon Stewart said during simpler times, \" Reality has a liberal bias!\", so I don't see it as much a direct threat to my existence as say a center-right conservative would, but oh geez. It's bee"}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 25265603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265603", "by": "adriancooney", "time": 1606834038, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I found rajesh-s' thread [1] from last year to be an extremely valuable resource for knowledge and entertainment. I'd love to see a 2020 version (especially given explosion in popularity of podcasts this year). Some of my favourites I've listened to this year have been Dan Carlin's Hardcode History \"Blueprint for Armageddon\" series, Freakonomics Radio \"Does Advertising Actually Work?\" (very recent!) and The Blindboy Podcast \"Graham Norton\". Enjoyed some episodes from the Darknet Diaries and the Indie Hackers too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25265603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265603", "by": "adriancooney", "time": 1606834038, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I found rajesh-s' thread [1] from last year to be an extremely valuable resource for knowledge and entertainment. I'd love to see a 2020 version (especially given explosion in popularity of podcasts this year). Some of my favourites I've listened to this year have been Dan Carlin's Hardcode History \"Blueprint for Armageddon\" series, Freakonomics Radio \"Does Advertising Actually Work?\" (very recent!) and The Blindboy Podcast \"Graham Norton\". Enjoyed some episodes from the Darknet Diaries and the Indie Hackers too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25265603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265603", "by": "adriancooney", "time": 1606834038, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I found rajesh-s' thread [1] from last year to be an extremely valuable resource for knowledge and entertainment. I'd love to see a 2020 version (especially given explosion in popularity of podcasts this year). Some of my favourites I've listened to this year have been Dan Carlin's Hardcode History \"Blueprint for Armageddon\" series, Freakonomics Radio \"Does Advertising Actually Work?\" (very recent!) and The Blindboy Podcast \"Graham Norton\". Enjoyed some episodes from the Darknet Diaries and the Indie Hackers too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25265603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265603", "by": "adriancooney", "time": 1606834038, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I found rajesh-s' thread [1] from last year to be an extremely valuable resource for knowledge and entertainment. I'd love to see a 2020 version (especially given explosion in popularity of podcasts this year). Some of my favourites I've listened to this year have been Dan Carlin's Hardcode History \"Blueprint for Armageddon\" series, Freakonomics Radio \"Does Advertising Actually Work?\" (very recent!) and The Blindboy Podcast \"Graham Norton\". Enjoyed some episodes from the Darknet Diaries and the Indie Hackers too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027315"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 25268351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25268351", "by": "joisig", "time": 1606848360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a very interesting podcast episode [1] on the Thinking Elixir Podcast on this subject recently, an interview with John H\u00f6gberg and Lukas Larsson. Not covered in this blog post but discussed in some detail in the podcast is that because you get standard debugging symbols from the JIT, you will now be able to use gdb and prof and similar tools when working with the BEAM. [1] https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly90aGlua2luZ2VsaX..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25272904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25272904", "by": "kf", "time": 1606879410, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25275702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275702", "by": "zahma", "time": 1606911742, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interview with a nation state hacker for TAO at NSA. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296... I believe they described their toolbox as metasploit on steroids. Some other episodes of darknet diaries also interview former and current government hackers."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25276373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25276373", "by": "AntiImperialist", "time": 1606917696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Andrew Yang on the JRE podcast a few days ago and I found out that his entire political platform is built on automation taking away manual jobs, specifically truck driving jobs. Truck driving jobs aren't going anywhere, not in 10 years, not in a 100 . Neither is that of plumbers, electricians or many such skilled labors. Most programmers will lose their jobs before any of that happens."}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 25276373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25276373", "by": "AntiImperialist", "time": 1606917696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Andrew Yang on the JRE podcast a few days ago and I found out that his entire political platform is built on automation taking away manual jobs, specifically truck driving jobs. Truck driving jobs aren't going anywhere, not in 10 years, not in a 100 . Neither is that of plumbers, electricians or many such skilled labors. Most programmers will lose their jobs before any of that happens."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25276867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25276867", "by": "AntiImperialist", "time": 1606921069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm guessing you haven't listened to the JRE podcast episode then?"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 25277066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277066", "by": "mhb", "time": 1606922310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab: Baby Blue Blood Drive https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25277112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25277112", "by": "cbozeman", "time": 1606922627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Jim Keller we still have a very long way to go. Lex Fridman's podcast interview with him on YouTube is amazing."}, {"show": "1542871559", "hn_item": 25282123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25282123", "by": "olaf1998", "time": 1606945777, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 25286203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25286203", "by": "atombender", "time": 1606977930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the fascinating observations in Carlota Perez's \"Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages\" [1] is that outdated technological industries continued to provide superior returns even after they'd been supplanted. You'd have more money today if you'd invested in Exxon in the mid 1970s than if you'd put the money in IBM, even though Exxon has slipped from the top 10 to something like 40th place in the S&P. Meanwhile, railroads peaked at 60% of the US stock market around 1860, shrinking to less 2%, yet continued to beat the market for the next 1"}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 25295212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25295212", "by": "free2OSS", "time": 1607030632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a Philosophy podcast and a philosopher noted that Artisans were different than merchants. It got me thinking. Are there examples of a solo founders/Engineers being able to make sales? While I'm often praised for my Engineering abilities/content on my website, I've been unable to profit. My service is (best in class) helpful to low income people and/or Time Poor people. I have struggled putting up a paywall and made a mere 1600$ in donations over 2 years. Prior to donations I made 1k/yr off book sales. Any marketing people I hired failed to generate traffic, but I'm starting "}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 25295547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25295547", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1607031796, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Despite word of coming vaccines, the company decided to put the entire 2021 slate on HBO Max after consulting with epidemiologists. If you care enough about the future to pay experts for advice, you get different answers than e.g. those to which nightly news viewers are subjected. Like Dr. Michael Mina said recently on the Pivot podcast, \"Since May, the vaccine has been a month away.\""}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 25301113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301113", "by": "polytely", "time": 1607080399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to the Penrose episode of the Numberphile podcast, where he is interviewed by Brady Haran, it was quite interesting. https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/roger-penrose"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 25302414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302414", "by": "jkingsbery", "time": 1607091470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I think there are some merits to this approach, I think some caution is also needed. There are numerous times where I've read a lot of material quickly, not really mastering it but making a mental note of where to find that later. It's easy enough to go back and look up facts, reference material, or techniques for solving a particular kind of problem later, you don't need that to change your life. Another other problem is: it's hard to know what books will change your life. For me, Fermat's Enigma ( https://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-... ) and The Last Lecture ( "}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 25318219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25318219", "by": "rebuilder", "time": 1607201506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is really more history of philosophy, but the \"Secret history of Western Esotericism Podcast\" at https://www.shwep.net is really something. If nothing else, it'll make you want to go read Plato's works to see what your high school philosophy class didn't go into."}, {"show": "254465298", "hn_item": 25319061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319061", "by": "jonplackett", "time": 1607207619, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019ve been listening to the podcast \u2018philosophy, the classics\u2019 which gives a quick explanation of the beliefs and work of history\u2019s most famous philosophers. Good way to get a general understanding of how thought and argument progressed and followed on from one another https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/philosophy-the-classic..."}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 25321220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25321220", "by": "oa335", "time": 1607231373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those more interested in Islamic history around this time period, I would recommend http://abbasidhistorypodcast.com . For more about the history of science and philosophy, I recommend the \u201cHistory of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\u201d."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25324296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25324296", "by": "pimlottc", "time": 1607270280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Visualizations look nice, though this site could use a bit of introduction and context. I\u2019ve never heard of this podcast so I didn\u2019t know if \u201cLex Fridman\u201d was the author of the site or the host of the podcast. In fact, if it weren\u2019t for the HN article title, I wouldn\u2019t have immediately understood it was about a podcast at all - it\u2019s not mentioned until half way down the page. Just a brief sentence or two at the top to give context would help immensely."}, {"show": "1587123692", "hn_item": 25326553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326553", "by": "panzagl", "time": 1607288270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't read the article, but I listened to Adam Savage's podcast where he talked to one of the principles of BattleBots. He described the steps they had to go through to run/film during CoVid- it included dedicated compliances personnel, with continual enforcement and daily testing. So my guess is that the film company is facing a higher set of standards, and is allowed to operate because it does so."}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 25329245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25329245", "by": "DavidPeiffer", "time": 1607314100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Something that surprised me is that companies are under no obligation to disclose loss of cargo unless it contains dangerous or hazardous goods. [1] I'm sure the fact that they estimate 64 to be Dangerous Goods, and the general magnitude of the number of containers lost has led to this website being setup. Apparently ~1/100,000 containers are lost at sea, which is higher than I might have guessed. Also, I found the short podcast series Containers [2] to be an interesting introduction to shipments by sea. [1] https://www.eurosender.com/blog/en/lost-sea-shipping-contain... [2] https://www.stitch"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 25329801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25329801", "by": "kissickas", "time": 1607321928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more info on the nautical origins of the word \"average,\" check out this episode of The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2020/04/06/bonus-episode..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 25344402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344402", "by": "phgn", "time": 1607431393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There also was a free audiobook version of this article on The Daily recently, that I enjoyed hearing: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/podcasts/the-daily/tree-c..."}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 25344990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344990", "by": "cityzen", "time": 1607435435, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a really good podcast that talks about this from the New York Times called Rabbit Hole: Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rabbit-hole/id15074239... Article from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo..."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 25352955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352955", "by": "TheGallopedHigh", "time": 1607469645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m not a doctor but listening to the Meat Eater podcast with Steve Rinella they mentioned talking to a doctor about this. One simple and effective method for killing the bug is to use a non-toxic oil to drowned the bug. Once dead one can flush out the oil and the bug."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25358041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358041", "by": "PlugTunin", "time": 1607518948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I understand where you're coming from. What you might consider is that many ideas can be abstracted out and applied to aspects of life that, on the surface, aren't closely related. For instance, Range , one of the books that Gates recommends, isn't specific to any occupation, but can inform one's general perspective on the hazards (or benefits) of taking a software job that is more specialized, and whether it's the best thing for your career in the long-term. Relatedly, I can't tell you exactly what genre the You're Not So Smart or Freakonomics podcasts fit into, but like a lot of good books, "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25360378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25360378", "by": "andy_ppp", "time": 1607531452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree, their problem wasn't lack of resources it was they stopped believing in Moore's law. They started to believe that 5 and 3nm advancements were not coming and didn't make the hundreds/thousands of new inventions needed to get them there. At least that's what I get reading between the lines here... Jim Keller talks about this in this in the Lex Fridman podcast: https://youtu.be/Nb2tebYAaOA?t=1892"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25368586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25368586", "by": "m463", "time": 1607565380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Joe Rogan podcast he has said he rents now."}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 25374133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25374133", "by": "intpx", "time": 1607611321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend anybody truly curious about this check out ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast. Its the only serious analysis of the shift, with people in the know, that I have seen. No, its not all roses and sunshine but the 'community' response has been so universally full of FUD and dumb assumptions. RedHat bought the CentOS project and they did it in the service of RHEL. Its kind of amazing that something like this > happened already over the last 6 years"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 25377243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377243", "by": "bumby", "time": 1607627670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Curious if you've ever heard of any scenarios that could cause long-term hormonal changes? I'm thinking of a Peter Attia podcast where he (anecdotally) noticed that after women have their third child (or so), there's a marked change in their ability for their body to bounce back."}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 25387082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25387082", "by": "bstar77", "time": 1607702043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They would only be terrible if they are not properly updated for a laptop experience. The Overcast podcast player is a good example of an iOS app that works great as a Mac app too."}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 25389395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389395", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1607713624, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Another strong argument in favor of doing a direct listing to determine market price (and raising privately beforehand if possible). Anytime one party does a transaction repeatedly as their job and one party does a transaction once (maybe twice) in their life, the transaction will be structured to favor the first group (along with a compelling narrative/PR of why this is not the case). Airbnb lost out here. It's easy to discount since people are happy to have made money, but I'm not sure this was a stunning IPO considering that. If I was on the company side, I'd be pissed at the initial pricin"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 25392669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25392669", "by": "vladTheInhaler", "time": 1607727253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is very, very, very far from a solved problem. It is not at all clear that flagging posts does anything to limit the spread of false information. Even when we know that the information we are reading is false, we can still end up believing it, especially if we are distracted or under time pressure [1]. Yesterday, the Lawfare podcast did an interview with a researcher studying misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information which I suggest people check out if they want to learn more about the issue [2]. [1] \"You Can't Not Believe Everything You Read\" : https://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dtg/"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 25403139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403139", "by": "lantastic", "time": 1607819209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the blog post. Ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast [1] also went into detail with CentOS members. What CentOS gave you until Stream was (with some delay) the \"same\" set of packages that RedHat released in RHEL, which was (hopefully exhaustively) tested by RedHat QA, including making sure that packages interact in a sane way. That's what earned RHEL (and by extension CentOS) that designation of stability. By virtue of being upstream, CentOS Stream could have a lot more updates (the kind that would previously be internal to RedHat). I doubt same level of QA can/will be invested for e"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 25408274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408274", "by": "Dowwie", "time": 1607880893, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Related to this topic is a conversation Steve Levitt had the other day with Moncef Slaoui, who has been a scientific lead for \"Operation Warp Speed\": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moncef-slaoui-its-unfo..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 25409319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409319", "by": "klelatti", "time": 1607887613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think it is different. For example, the OpenCL specification allows for the possibility that data doesn't need to be copied between CPU and GPU. In a recent interview (I think with the Changelog podcast) I heard an Apple engineer explain that the M1 had an advantage over previous systems in that not only did the data not need to be copied (which implies this isn't new) but also that no changes to the format of the data were needed given Apple's end to end control."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 25427120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427120", "by": "aazaa", "time": 1608007753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Subscribed, and looking forward to starting. Amazing idea. I will admit that I didn't get the idea on the first fast skim of the article. I completely missed the part about Black Mirror. It sounded like just another podcast from the rest of the article. I was looking for a link in the article but found none, missing the giant banner at the top of the page. So, a link to the main page at the first two words (\"The Program\") might help skimmers like me. On the main page, \"The Program audio series is a historical podcast set in a future...\" really grabbed my attention. The article itself is a grea"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25429308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25429308", "by": "TimJRobinson", "time": 1608032138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many do. On Darknet Diaries Podcast they mentioned even the NSA buys zero days, and selling to them (if you're a US citizen) won't be (as?) illegal as selling to a foreign nation is."}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 25431012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25431012", "by": "thomasbacklund", "time": 1608045243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, I agree.. I was listening to the Command Line Heroes podcast the other day, about Bash. First version was stored on tape . So it has some legacy, hehe. Already then the requirement was to be backwards compatible with sh, so yeah, corner cases are around for sure. If writing bash I do aim at version 3, because as you say they got that on MacAttack."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 25445009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445009", "by": "gfxgirl", "time": 1608138402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to ask a serious question, what's a reasonable response? Every youtube channel and nearly every podcast I listen that brings up climate change also has frivolous merch they push and commercials for wasteful things. I know that at some level their merch and maybe the wasteful things are not a major sources of climate change but ... the attitude is. Each individual youtuber/podcaster is taking the attitude \"My income is more important than the environment\" which is basically the attitude almost everyone takes and arguably in the exact same category as fast fashion etc. Do you really need "}, {"show": "994349813", "hn_item": 25445009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445009", "by": "gfxgirl", "time": 1608138402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to ask a serious question, what's a reasonable response? Every youtube channel and nearly every podcast I listen that brings up climate change also has frivolous merch they push and commercials for wasteful things. I know that at some level their merch and maybe the wasteful things are not a major sources of climate change but ... the attitude is. Each individual youtuber/podcaster is taking the attitude \"My income is more important than the environment\" which is basically the attitude almost everyone takes and arguably in the exact same category as fast fashion etc. Do you really need "}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 25445901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445901", "by": "adolph", "time": 1608141809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The recent TalkPython podcast \"oso authorizes Python\" is great for understanding what oso does, how it goes about it, and how oso's role is different from identity providers. https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/294/oso-authorizes-pytho..."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 25456497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25456497", "by": "listless", "time": 1608219454, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The level of misinformation here is astonishing. Blocked and Reported did a deep dive on this recently with Ars Technica co-founder. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blocked-and-reported/i... And by \u201cmisinformation\u201d I mean it\u2019s either in the podcast or in this article. You be the judge."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25458241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25458241", "by": "mbesto", "time": 1608228159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> However, take some of the science positions in the book with a grain of salt. The author is notorious for being directionally correct in his opinions, I've read it and I agree. Although he does admit in the beginning that there basically is not much conclusive facts about sleep, hence his motivation for writing the book. It's implied that what he is saying is fact, and its a lot more correlation than I think panacea. > It's also commonly known that people get less sleep than they think they do. A few things IIRC from the book: - The specific number is irrelevant as long as its \"around 7~9\" -"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25459101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459101", "by": "mike_d", "time": 1608232302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> the JRE podcast is actually pretty good at summarizing whats in the book Anyone who expects to learn something from a Joe Rogan podcast should understand that it is for the most part, a podcast where people go to have their ideas go unchallenged: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experie..."}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 25459166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459166", "by": "wpietri", "time": 1608232616, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect the same will be true about artificial light. Our sleep cycles changed dramatically with the introduction of electric light. A few years back I built an automated lighting system [1] for my apartment that was basically a scaled-up version of a light-based alarm clock [2]. I got the expected benefit, getting up more easily in the morning. But it turned out the bigger benefit was going to sleep at a more regular hour thanks to lights that dimmed in the evening. It turned out that previously I just wasn't a responsible lightswitch user: if the lights were on and I was doing something in"}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 25467811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25467811", "by": "jbegley", "time": 1608304340, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 25468796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25468796", "by": "jashkenas", "time": 1608309651, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "255571403", "hn_item": 25468984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25468984", "by": "JesseMReeves", "time": 1608310502, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He briefly discusses it in this episode of \u201eDas philosophische Radio\u201c: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/wdr-5-das-philosophisc... I went on listening to other interviews with him on Apple Podcasts where he touches this and other ideas, but eventually got one of his books that is specifically about burnout (\u201cVom Burnout zum Flow\u201d) as an audiobook, where he describes such imagery exercises in detail. I also liked how he chooses his words very carefully. It\u2019s all in german however, a lot of his books have not been translated yet. He often mentions that C.G. Jung influenced him, but I\u2019m not f"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 25470486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470486", "by": "benjismith", "time": 1608317528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "YES! These are pretty much exactly the methods I used when I developed my project http://prosecraft.io You can see the emotional story arc -- the shapes of the stories -- for more than 16,000 books. I train a Word2Vec model on the vocabulary of all those books (almost 1.5 billion words) and then I use a clustering algorithm to score all those words on a sentiment scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is the most negative and 10 is the most positive). Then I break the books into 50 equal-sized chunks and aggregate the positive and negative scores for each chunk. You can click on any of the chart segments t"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25471988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25471988", "by": "nradov", "time": 1608325412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience podcast has only one full time employee beyond the host, plus a few part timers for special projects. It is hugely profitable with a valuation far higher than some whole media companies with orders of magnitude more employees."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 25480507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25480507", "by": "ehsankia", "time": 1608407137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They also advertised it in The Daily, one of the most popular podcasts around, which is how I heard about it since I unsubbed from the Caliphate feed (as it was finished). EDIT: Most charts put it at #2 in US [0]. [0] https://chartable.com/charts/itunes/us-all-podcasts-podcasts EDIT2: They also wrote a full column in the NYT itself."}, {"show": "1618050230", "hn_item": 25480916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25480916", "by": "ehsankia", "time": 1608409996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did we listen to the same podcast? It still had a lot of information and value even if you entirely remove Chaudhry's story. And even for his story, it was very clearly presented as not fully certain. I wouldn't call it \"nearly-fiction\", it's closer to your average True Crime podcast where you are presented with the known information and it's up to you to decide if you believe it or not."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 25481768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25481768", "by": "FranklinMaillot", "time": 1608416176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, Urschel was interviewed in this great episode of the Numberphile Podcast. https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/john-urschel"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 25484844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25484844", "by": "wartijn_", "time": 1608453303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few years ago the podcast Planet Money prepared a peacock according to a recipe published in 1612. This recipe was meant for really rich Dutch people, and apparently being really rich meant showing of how many spices you could afford on your food. Pretty interesting and funny read/listen. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/01/461504972/epis..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 25487244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487244", "by": "kissickas", "time": 1608481037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So much saffron! Just so I have more to add than that observation, I recommend anyone who's interested in the Middle English in these recipes to check out this episode of The History of English Podcast looking at a 14th-century cookbook: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2019/12/19/episode-132-f..."}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 25489762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489762", "by": "lelandbatey", "time": 1608500247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have had my perspective challenged a great deal, not by this article, but instead by checking my assumptions against the numbers using the Graphtreon[0] site linked in a sub-article[1] to the parent article. I'd assumed that there was a solid, or at least \"quiet but present\", middle class of content creators. I believed this because I felt like I follow a set of content creators which where pretty far outside the \"mainstream\", since I didn't observe them having \"superstar\" numbers, nor did I ever see them casually mentioned outside of their own content. Looking at the data, all of them are i"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 25489824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489824", "by": "radicalbyte", "time": 1608500710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life did a great podcast on the origins of this myth; I strongly recommend listening to it. Here's the transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript TLDR: it started as a bet/prank and became an accepted truth thanks to racism and people being simple. EDIT: this article is literally based on the podcast. Just listen go it, it's a good one :)"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 25489871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489871", "by": "selimthegrim", "time": 1608501142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The TAL podcast makes it clear it didn't start that way"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 25490700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490700", "by": "hedora", "time": 1608507792, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article was subsequently debunked by This American life, and many of the comments here are confused. Dr Kwak was a real person, and the letter contains historical facts linking it to him. His family says the letter is genuine. According to blind studies, the symptoms described in it are experienced by a small percentage of the population, but MSG is harmless to everyone else. The article links to the This American Life podcast in question, here is the transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 25498670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25498670", "by": "silveira", "time": 1608580051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the episode of the podcast 99% Invisible about this subject, The Modern Moloch. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 25517024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517024", "by": "gfxgirl", "time": 1608727815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All Podcast, ep 127/128 seemed to claim it's actually not that much better in NYC now. Instead they claim the way of reporting crimes has changed to make the numbers look better than they actually are https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25524375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25524375", "by": "thr0w__4w4y", "time": 1608774724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're right, but I'm grateful anyway. I used to listen to Joe Rogan's podcast sometimes (on Overcast, which is awesome)... since he moved to the vastly inferior Spotify platform, I don't listen to him at all. The platform is pure shit for podcasts, so I've cut Rogan out of my life, and saved many hours per week in the process. Not that his $100M is going to notice my absence!"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 25525510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25525510", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1608792080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Shor has a good bit on the Rationally Speaking podcast (someone tipped me off, I'm not endorsing the podcast itself) about how a big problem in Democratic politics is that participants aren't old enough ; campaigns and staff are dominated by 20-something ideologues who don't know how to communicate with the median voter."}, {"show": "1443178389", "hn_item": 25531892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25531892", "by": "smurf_t", "time": 1608847571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just to add to this comment. If users can't watch/read, you can listen to podcasts while you run or drive a car, it can help you to understand how people try to build a business. There was a podcast (How to Start a Startup | Podcast on Spotify) . On that note, I enjoyed also listening to those who are building projects, and share their journeys e.g. Nathan's interviews with SaaS founders ( https://nathanlatka.com/podcast-thetop/ ) and The Startup podcast( https://gimletmedia.com/shows/startup )"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25538212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538212", "by": "neillyons", "time": 1608922001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't want anything to do with cryptocurrencies but listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating. The way that guy thinks is just impressive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1b_S6Qp2Q"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 25539498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539498", "by": "jpster", "time": 1608934951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m a big fan of TWiV podcast (This Week in Virology) and I understand Racaniello\u2019s point of view. However, this thread and other info I\u2019ve read lead me to believe that this is an important new development. https://twitter.com/billhanage/status/1341857733633581063?s=..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25539728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539728", "by": "mkolodny", "time": 1608936884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That was a great episode. I've been really enjoying all of Lex's podcast episodes. He has on many of the top thinkers across many different fields. AI and CS in particular. https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman Some more of my favorite episodes (not necessarily CS related) I've listened to are: - Matthew W. Johnson on Psychedelics - Manolis Kellis on Biology and CS - Michael Malice on Anarchy - Michael Stevens on education I haven't listened to anywhere near all of them, so I'm sure I'm missing many amazing episodes."}, {"show": "1551432467", "hn_item": 25543689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543689", "by": "mercer", "time": 1608993180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hear LiveWire for Laravel is pretty decent, even if it's not quite the same. I quite liked this Elixir podcast episode where they interview the creator of LiveWire (and Alpine.js): https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/020-liveview-v-l..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25545820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25545820", "by": "saeranv", "time": 1609011325, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 25552438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552438", "by": "eggsmediumrare", "time": 1609089154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to his interview on Sam Harris' podcast. The whole thing is nonsense."}, {"show": "928933489", "hn_item": 25553537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553537", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1609097230, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Mass Mutual\u2019s $100 million investment isn\u2019t \u201cspeculation\u201d: https://www.investopedia.com/decoding-insurance-giant-massmu... Michael Saylor invested $425 million of his company\u2019s treasury into bitcoin and then issued $600 million in debt to buy more bitcoin. The podcast is worth a listen to understand why MicroStrategy and other companies are using bitcoin to preserve value: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-study-billionaires-..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 25553818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553818", "by": "hawktheslayer", "time": 1609099416, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Mine was the audio essay on this episode of The Portal: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/39-admission-to-sugar-..."}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 25553931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553931", "by": "postpawl", "time": 1609100505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really liked the whole Wind of Change podcast: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ It\u2019s about how the CIA might have written the Wind of Change song sung by the Scorpions in the 80s, but it has a nuanced take on it. There was also a really good podcast about the Iraq war called blowback: https://blowback.show/"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 25553960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553960", "by": "sid6376", "time": 1609100702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me the Changelog podcast with the CTO of Github: https://changelog.com/podcast/395 and this podcast about the slack data platform: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/01/10/slack-data-p... Edit: updated correctly that the podcast was with the CTO."}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 25554050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554050", "by": "doe88", "time": 1609101509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Technically from 2019 but heard it this year, it's 1984 (the year not the book) [1] an outstanding episode from the excellent Theory of Everything podcast [2] by Benjamin Walker. As bonus you also have an episode about the book 1984 [3]. [1] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288310 [2] https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/ [3] https://beta.prx.org/stories/288314"}, {"show": "1265002699", "hn_item": 25554148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554148", "by": "lobster45", "time": 1609102371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply all Daily tech news show After On podcast, Rob Reid"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 25554215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554215", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1609102852, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fall of Civilizations - humanizes the nature and fall of civilizations https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ History of English - why do we speak the way we do? https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 25554527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554527", "by": "lazyload", "time": 1609105500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Tiny Meat Gang - Coffee with Butterscotch - Crime Junkie - Stuff You Should Know - Serial I've tried listening to some engineering/tech podcasts, but honestly I've grown more and more fatigued with anything tech beyond the 8 hours of work."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 25554547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554547", "by": "maneesh", "time": 1609105671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The Program audio series\" is the only fiction podcast I listen to I heard about it first on HN. It's hard to single out one episode as a favorite, but I really liked a recent one that is a good standalone episode. (\"Read-only memory Computer\" == ROM-COM) is the perfect display of the show's signature combination of humor, tech, and wit. Link to the episode: https://programaudioseries.com/15-what-you-see-is-what-you-g... (but really, you should check out the whole show!)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25554644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554644", "by": "bekantan", "time": 1609106570, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25554750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554750", "by": "badrchoubai", "time": 1609107408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman Podcast A16z Podcast"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25555072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25555072", "by": "davidwf", "time": 1609110832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99pi and Changelog are great! I listen to a lot of podcasts, in alphabetical order: A Million Little Gods Bundyville Fandible Freakonomics Radio Functional Design in Clojure Lexicon Valley JS Party Sinica Software Engineering Radio Stuff You Missed in History Class This American Life <- I still listen even though I don't live in America anymore. :-)"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 25555281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25555281", "by": "serjester", "time": 1609113359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Every person I meet listens to totally different podcasts - what a great conversation starter. Personally: Peter Attia - Drive: I pay 15$ a month this is, I have gotten so many actionable tips from it. Tim Ferris Show: Amazing interviewer. Jocko Podcast: Best leadership podcast I\u2019ve come across. No fluff. Indie Hackers: like hearing about people making an independent living off software. Python__init__: One of a couple programming podcasts."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25555281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25555281", "by": "serjester", "time": 1609113359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Every person I meet listens to totally different podcasts - what a great conversation starter. Personally: Peter Attia - Drive: I pay 15$ a month this is, I have gotten so many actionable tips from it. Tim Ferris Show: Amazing interviewer. Jocko Podcast: Best leadership podcast I\u2019ve come across. No fluff. Indie Hackers: like hearing about people making an independent living off software. Python__init__: One of a couple programming podcasts."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25556241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556241", "by": "JimTheMan", "time": 1609123590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favourites: (with my own comments) Lex Fridman Podcast: He has interesting guests and a good vibe. Some don't like his monotone voice, I love it, each to their own. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (with David Puder) : He's a fantastically empathetic and inquisitive Pyschiatrist who provides a fascinating window into his field. I think there is a lot the layperson can learn about empathy, communication and insight from listening to the experiences of the pros. However as a layperson you may want to skip the ones that go into different pharmaceuticals. I would say his podcast is intende"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 25556593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556593", "by": "spicymaki", "time": 1609128566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Current List: 99 Percent Invisible What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law Hidden Brain FiveThirtyEight Politics Poetry Unbound Conversations with Tyler Reply All The Numberphile Podcast Exponent The Anthropocene Reviewed (on Hiatus) Rationally Speaking"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25557148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25557148", "by": "ecmascript", "time": 1609136065, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My absolute favorite of this year is in my native tounge Swedish and is about fires in our perhaps dystopian future: https://podd.app/podcast/p3-dystopia/brandernas-tidsalder On second place, it got to be Notpetya, by Darknet Diaries ( https://podd.app/podcast/darknet-diaries/54-notpetya ). Technically released in late december 2019, but I listened to it in januari 2020. It's about Notpetya, the virus/worm that attacked a country in 2017."}, {"show": "1299863834", "hn_item": 25557826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25557826", "by": "philosopher1234", "time": 1609146888, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Why Theory?: Incels, Misogyny, and Castration A really interesting discussion of the incel phenomena, it\u2019s connection to misogyny and conservativism, and it\u2019s roots. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id129986383..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 25558194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558194", "by": "elken", "time": 1609152316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another 'The Portal' recommendation: 41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization https://podcastaddict.com/episode/114260279 Two old friends riffing off each other about the world. I've listened all the way through twice and both times have found myself laughing out loud and deep in thought simultaneously. I look forward to seeing how Eric Weinstein will continue to evolve The Portal in 2021. No doubt he will continue to deliver outstanding content in his own uncompromising style."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25558253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558253", "by": "st1x7", "time": 1609153303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex's podcast needs a special cut which includes only the guest's part of each conversation."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25558255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558255", "by": "oAlbe", "time": 1609153343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries - Episode 65: PSYOP - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/65/ I find the whole Darknet Diaries podcast really fascinating. It covers topics like hacking (black hat, white hat), activism, hacktivism, cyber security and so forth, with a narrative approach that's very pleasant to listen to. This episode in particular talks about what PSYOP (Psychological Operations) is (basically how to use techniques to manipulate people to reach an outcome both in a war scenario and not) by talking to experts in the field and telling their stories. The episodes are all very good and high quality "}, {"show": "1456538451", "hn_item": 25558914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558914", "by": "kabirgoel", "time": 1609160905, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not Overthinking - How can we treat children morally? (Pt. 1) \"In this episode, we review Ali's unemployment, talk about how to talk about workism, and Taimur finally elucidates some concrete ideas about how society treats children immorally, and how we treat children better. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-overthinking/id145... This is the first of a two-part discussion about how society short-changes children. I don't agree with all the ideas, but it's certainly changed how I think about children."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25559086, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559086", "by": "indogooner", "time": 1609162834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CoRecursive : https://corecursive.com/ Freakonomics : https://freakonomics.com/ Dan Snow's HistoryHit : https://www.historyhit.com/podcast/dan-snows-history-hit/"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 25559663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559663", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1609167702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're Wrong About is probably my favorite podcast discovery of the last year. I generally dislike shows with the format of \"the host reads a few articles and pretends to be an expert on it.\" But they do an above-average job on this show. I haven't listened to the Disco Demolition Night episode. There was a good treatment of it years ago on the short-lived Gimlet podcast Undone: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/undone"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 25559761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559761", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1609168353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few good ones: Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda Workout tapes. Hang up and Listen: The Last Last Dance. An exploration of Michael Jordan's time on the Wizards. 99% Invisible: In the Unlikely Event. About the design of airplane safety cards and how getting people off the plane quickly saves lives. Planet Money: All Your Genes Are Belong to Us. On gene patenting. Good interview subject with the plaintiff who overturned these patents. Software Engineering Daily: Federated Learning with Mike Lee Williams. Don't usually like this podcast very much, but this episode was an excellent overview of how federa"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 25559761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559761", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1609168353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few good ones: Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda Workout tapes. Hang up and Listen: The Last Last Dance. An exploration of Michael Jordan's time on the Wizards. 99% Invisible: In the Unlikely Event. About the design of airplane safety cards and how getting people off the plane quickly saves lives. Planet Money: All Your Genes Are Belong to Us. On gene patenting. Good interview subject with the plaintiff who overturned these patents. Software Engineering Daily: Federated Learning with Mike Lee Williams. Don't usually like this podcast very much, but this episode was an excellent overview of how federa"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 25559761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25559761", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1609168353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few good ones: Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda Workout tapes. Hang up and Listen: The Last Last Dance. An exploration of Michael Jordan's time on the Wizards. 99% Invisible: In the Unlikely Event. About the design of airplane safety cards and how getting people off the plane quickly saves lives. Planet Money: All Your Genes Are Belong to Us. On gene patenting. Good interview subject with the plaintiff who overturned these patents. Software Engineering Daily: Federated Learning with Mike Lee Williams. Don't usually like this podcast very much, but this episode was an excellent overview of how federa"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 25561525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25561525", "by": "yuy910616", "time": 1609179418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to second EconTalk. Fantastic podcast. He is very much a free-market economist tho. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he is of Austrian school of economics? Nonetheless, humanity shines through in his conversations. I'd say this podcast is more about human condition through economics. Cannot recommend it enough. Some of my favs [Mindbody problem, freewill]( https://www.econtalk.org/john-horgan-on-mind-body-problems/ ) [Healthcare]( https://www.econtalk.org/christy-ford-chapin-on-the-evolutio... ) [Transaction cost and a mental model for uber/airbnb]( https://www.econtalk"}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 25563498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25563498", "by": "specialist", "time": 1609191392, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "How to pay for higher ed breaks my head. So many variables. While listening to this podcast, I had two crazy notions. The Next Four Years: Beyond the student debt debate The Weeds New America\u2019s Kevin Carey explains loan forgiveness and the deeper problems with American higher education. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-four-years-be... #1 Government underwrites student loans based on projected life time earnings. Actuaries are smart about this stuff, right? Figure out someone's future earnings to determine their \"credit worthiness\". Just like buying a house. And the student's col"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 25572591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25572591", "by": "jpster", "time": 1609264670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wish I could find estimates showing \u201cAt current / projected vaccination rates it will take X years to vaccinate 90% of the population\u201d, per country. I heard on TWiV (This Week in Virology podcast) for the US it was ~6.6 years and I believe it was based on < 90% of pop."}, {"show": "1532976305", "hn_item": 25578717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25578717", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1609304213, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "They could have been put in the massive empty emergency facilities they put up but never used. They were cramming sick elderly people into nursing homes with perfectly healthy people; nursing homes without individual rooms! They were packing sick people next to unsick people. It literally killed thousands. Janice Dean covers all the details very well in her podcast with Megyn Kelly, including reasonable countermeasures they could have taken instead of cramming sick elderly people together: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/i... > Not this again Why do you not consider "}, {"show": "1532976305", "hn_item": 25585963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585963", "by": "djsumdog", "time": 1609361556, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You do realize the majority of deaths in NYC were due to Cuomo sending sick COVID-19 elderly patients to be sent to nursing homes and kept in the same rooms as healthy elderly people right? Same with Gov Whitmer in Michigan. Janice Dean covers it very well when she reported on how her own family member was killed by Cuomo's orders: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/i... A number of people were killed because of overuse of ventilators. Many people under 40 who were put on them would have likely survived had they not been put on high pressure vents (and they're not used "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25591691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591691", "by": "Bluestein", "time": 1609413862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Above the din of chat-shows, dramas and documentaries streamed to blaring voice-activated speakers, a louder sound can be heard: ker-ching. On December 29th Spotify, an audio-streaming service, aired the first in a series of exclusive podcasts by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The next day Amazon bought Wondery, a producer of popular podcasts including 'Dirty John' and 'Dr Death', for a sum reportedly in excess of $300m. The tech giant, which got into podcasting only in September, has also signed up expensive stars such as Will Smith and dj Khaled. The deals are the latest in an industry-wid"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 25591831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591831", "by": "K0nserv", "time": 1609415388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's another angle to this that was discussed on the Risky Business[0] podcast a while back, namely the security angle. As the recent Microsoft Team's vulnerability[1] illustrated, with many Electron apps any XSS vulnerability turns into RCE. Personally I am moving away from Slack, Discord, and other electron apps like them. The browser sandbox ensures that XSS is \"only\" XSS and doesn't turn into RCE as well. 0: https://www.risky.biz/ 1: https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 25596554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25596554", "by": "specialist", "time": 1609445152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned about freemium from this (and other) Acquired podcast episodes. Tencent December 16, 2018 https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-10-tencent Caveat: Not an endorsement of freemium; it's pure evil. And I mostly don't share the host's enthusiasm for a lot of the companies they study. But I always learn a lot, esp wrt to how the various players think about these things."}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 25596776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25596776", "by": "patcon", "time": 1609446524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Santa Fe Institute! Highly recommend the Complexity podcast. So much good stuff that all dovetails with Gleick's stuff My recent favourite contained an analogy by researcher Sara Imari Walker, who had this great line about how \"If you want to understand gravity, you look to black holes, since they're the densest known objects where gravity acts insanely strongly compared to all other forces. In the same way, if you want to study information and how it operates in the world, you need to study life.\""}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 25597308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25597308", "by": "patcon", "time": 1609449818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No prob! \"complexity science + \" is usually a great starter for finding stuff from this angle. Complexity podcast by SFI is a wealth of knowledge, and had a recent episode about archeologists applying complexity thinking to history: Scott Ortman on Archaeological Synthesis and Settlement Scaling Theory https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/47"}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 25602394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25602394", "by": "toyg", "time": 1609499011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andrew Hunter Murray, one of their crew, also pops up as the host of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, which is obviously a must for UK-based listeners: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer/podcast"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 25603921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25603921", "by": "MegaDeKay", "time": 1609515234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you ever listened to this Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast on the 808? It is a good deep dive into its history, its distinctive sound, and what made it as influential as it was. https://www.20k.org/episodes/808"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 25608835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25608835", "by": "clarkevans", "time": 1609546839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Attia's podcast ( https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/ ) is focused on longevity and he has some great topics & speakers."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25613802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25613802", "by": "Felony_Fred", "time": 1609604505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cutting edge -> Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 25614180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614180", "by": "yashap", "time": 1609606942, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Total tangent, but Malcolm Gladwell has two really excellent podcast episodes about memory (Revisionist History, season 3, episodes 3 and 4: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/23-a-polite-word-for-... ). Basically, it\u2019s WAY less accurate than we think, and the least accurate part is everything about time - when things happened, and even the order than they happened in. Worth a listen if you have some time to kill."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 25618954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618954", "by": "lazyjeff", "time": 1609642890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great podcast / Youtube series called \"Fall of Civilizations\" that documents some of these collapses and why they happened: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew"}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 25618962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618962", "by": "neartheplain", "time": 1609642984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fantastic podcast. Recent two-parter on the fall of the Aztec Empire is particularly good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JVdpWCKeM"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 25621849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25621849", "by": "giarc", "time": 1609683157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to My First Million podcast the other day and they mentioned a product that was specific to Poshmark, I wonder if this was it. They went on to talk about getting in early to platforms and making a killing (ex. when FB opened their API, Shopify marketplace, Google Ad words). Poshmark seems like a giant service that likely has a lot of area ripe for development."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25624921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25624921", "by": "oli5679", "time": 1609705697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is pretty interesting study at Ebay. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w20171/w201... They tested the counterintuitive claims by performance marketers that 'brand' keywords (containing Ebay) had the highest ROI. They did an experiment and found that, contrary to attribution model, these Ebay keywords resulted in ZERO incremental sales, although they were clicked on by many people that purchased. This resulted in cut of Ebay marketing budged by $100 mn. There is now a big literature in economics looking at experiments and natural experiments, generally finding much smaller s"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25625303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625303", "by": "srg0", "time": 1609708481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish more companies would try to find out the actual value of advertising and targeting. And it probably won't be as good as FB and GOOG would like us to believe. BTW, there was a recent episode of Freakonomics Radio which talked about this eBay experiment https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25625723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25625723", "by": "gnu_beskar", "time": 1609711983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is this nice book on the subject called Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang, on why the whole ad industry might be a bubble. And this Freakonomics podcast episode on digital advertising https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/"}, {"show": "1506676994", "hn_item": 25626333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626333", "by": "duncanawoods", "time": 1609716786, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don't think it's slow but it doesn't explain itself. When you see an event or character interaction without much context, it seems irrelevant and doesn't register so it might feel like nothing is happening. When I rewatch it now, I find it fast pace with no filler. I can watch McNulty play with tide tables gurgling with joy at the delicious payoff to come but if you don't know the payoff, it no doubt just feels like a dude with some paper. As a Brit, I have no wish for subtitles. I found no difficulty with the slang or accent. There are many parts of the UK that are much more indecipherable!"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 25626494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626494", "by": "Kelamir", "time": 1609718264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> So what exactly put an end to these inhumane shows? You might want to check out the Hardcore History podcast by Dan Carlin, episode \"Painfotainment\". It has some ideas as to why that happened."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25626553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626553", "by": "mikeryan", "time": 1609718880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think there's a large \"advertising doesn't matter\" camp. For most the real question is around the efficacy of certain types of ad buys, ad targeting, SEO efficacy and the amount of fraud in the system. The real problem is that for large companies with brand awareness they're starting to find a lot of their spend may not be generating revenue. Ebay in the Freakonomics podcast turned of about $100M in ad spend with no loss of revenue. But smaller, companies usually don't have the staff/knowledge necessary to know how and where to use their ad dollars."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25627104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627104", "by": "Reebz", "time": 1609724390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Across this and the other[0] highly active digital ads post, there's 3 interesting forces at play: a) technologists screaming \"ads are literally the worst societal cost, like ever\" who don't want to understand the industry b) advertising folks taking up arms to defend their shamanistic, money-printing machines without statistics (Reason No. 7 will SHOCK you) c) A tiny, tiny group of Mandalorian-like voices who have a necessary statistics AND industry understanding who are being drowned out (this is in jest, but I double-dare you to say it isn't at least directionally accurate) Other commenters"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 25628721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25628721", "by": "debaserab2", "time": 1609746905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a pretty good interview with the Dropbox CEO in the \"How I built this\" podcast that illustrates a good example of when taking the time to build a robust product is better than releasing early. [1] https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/932199300/dropbox-drew-housto..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25629710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25629710", "by": "danboarder", "time": 1609757401, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://replika.ai/ has been doing this type of work. See the origin story in length on the Lex Fridman AI podcast: https://youtu.be/_AGPbvCDBCk"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 25631933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25631933", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1609771598, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> When I talk to colleagues in tech about unions I hear a lot of misconceptions, seemingly based in stereotypes about what unions are for and who they serve. This statement holds true regardless of which side of the argument you\u2019re on. The modern discourse around unions seems to revolve around a lot of stereotypes that aren\u2019t entirely accurate. Yes, unions can be effective for changing working conditions. However, it\u2019s important to remember who those unions serve. The most common misconception is that unions serve the general public in pushing back against the corporation. Not true. The unions"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 25634942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634942", "by": "jberryman", "time": 1609782004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Reply All\" podcast episode #166 (\"Country of Liars\"), has a pretty good analysis of the history of the Q-anon conspiracy theory. fwiw"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 25635038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635038", "by": "everling", "time": 1609782357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the podcast \"Wind of Change\", which explored the rumor that the CIA had written the hit Scorpions rock ballad as a psy-op to undermine the soviet union. As a non-American, it was quite fascinating to hear about proven past CIA ops like Project Azorian or the Mission: Impossible-inspired face masks. Moral objections aside, it seems like it could be an interesting place to work. You just might not be allowed to put it on your resum\u00e9."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 25639527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25639527", "by": "sradman", "time": 1609801447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a 24 minute Planet Money podcast named Fork the Government but the HN title has been changed to match the title in the HTML header. The show interviews two civic hackers [1] Howard Wu and Audrey Tang (Taiwan's Digital Minister) about the technical aspects of Taiwan's coronavirus response. Taiwan has had a total of 815 cases and 7 deaths [2] in a population of 23 million. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_technology [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Taiwan"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 25641711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641711", "by": "noetic_techy", "time": 1609817235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I would implore those who are skeptical of a lab leak hypothesis to listen to the evolutionary biologist Bret Weinsteins Darkhorse Podcast with Yuri Deigin on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bret-weinstein-and-yur... Related article by Deigin: https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug... The podcast is a much easier listen then the deep dive that is in the article. All in all, the facts do not rule out lab leak, and there are definitely mysteries to explain."}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 25649754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25649754", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1609874441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bloomberg's Masters in Business is a great podcast btw..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25650524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650524", "by": "saeranv", "time": 1609878242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating stuff. The idea that visual and language generation could be generalized with the same underlying model was the most interesting part of Lex Fridman's podcast with Ilya Sutskever in May: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A"}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 25651010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25651010", "by": "Andromeda88", "time": 1609880622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Attia's The Drive podcast had a guest from Fda vaccine approval committee member on covid-19 vaccines. You should listen for more insights."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25653490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25653490", "by": "Felony_Fred", "time": 1609894436, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1204911385", "hn_item": 25653524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25653524", "by": "mayneack", "time": 1609894664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've dabbled in kickstarters over the years, but my main exposure to them is through the podcast \"Your Kickstarter Sucks\". It's quite entertaining. http://yourkickstartersucks.com/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25654361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654361", "by": "jazzdev", "time": 1609903185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story was on the Freakonomics podcast too. It definitely seems like a bubble, but there's no external pressure to make the bubble pop. With the mortgage crisis, eventually, people can't make the mortgage payments and the bubble bursts. But with people happily spending money on ads that don't work, there's no external pressure to stop. Will this bubble ever burst?"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 25654661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25654661", "by": "ufo", "time": 1609907256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the topic of printf(\"%n\"), I remember hearing a fun story about that a while ago. It appears that in certain Mazda cars it was impossible to play the \"99% invisible\" podcast on the car stereo (and only that podcast), because attempting to do so would crash the software. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 25657136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25657136", "by": "type0", "time": 1609936501, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Week in Virology and their other podcasts are also greatly recommended! https://www.microbe.tv/"}, {"show": "1286906615", "hn_item": 25660025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25660025", "by": "pelasaco", "time": 1609954556, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "So, you are kind of being cynical or very simplistic in your answer. The fact is: regional superpower cannot compete with the world superpower, right? The Saudis have always seen themselves as the exclusive outside power in Yemen, for example. They called US when when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels marched on Yemen\u2019s capital city and overthrew the transitional government that came into power during the Arab Spring of 2011. So it's not just about Iran, but to assure the geopolitical control in the region (through Allies and Proxy wars), control the global price of Oil, and to avoid that - in case"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 25663650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25663650", "by": "vuciv1", "time": 1609972766, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I usually just listen to Reply All. I'm looking for something I'd enjoy just as much"}, {"show": "1485670290", "hn_item": 25664550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664550", "by": "AbdHicham", "time": 1609977170, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I like the following, perhaps you already know them but if you don't, I recommend them: (1) Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/ (My favorite) (2) Fullstack-radio: https://fullstackradio.com/ (3) Company forensics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/company-forensics-slid... (4) The Undefined Podcast: https://undefined.fm/ (5) Signal vs Noise: https://m.signalvnoise.com/ It's not tech related by I listen to JRE as well quite often."}, {"show": "1763424917", "hn_item": 25664550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664550", "by": "AbdHicham", "time": 1609977170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the following, perhaps you already know them but if you don't, I recommend them: (1) Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/ (My favorite) (2) Fullstack-radio: https://fullstackradio.com/ (3) Company forensics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/company-forensics-slid... (4) The Undefined Podcast: https://undefined.fm/ (5) Signal vs Noise: https://m.signalvnoise.com/ It's not tech related by I listen to JRE as well quite often."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25664550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664550", "by": "AbdHicham", "time": 1609977170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the following, perhaps you already know them but if you don't, I recommend them: (1) Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/ (My favorite) (2) Fullstack-radio: https://fullstackradio.com/ (3) Company forensics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/company-forensics-slid... (4) The Undefined Podcast: https://undefined.fm/ (5) Signal vs Noise: https://m.signalvnoise.com/ It's not tech related by I listen to JRE as well quite often."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 25665627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25665627", "by": "MisterBiggs", "time": 1609980910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Talk Python To Me is a really good tech podcast. It manages to almost always have a really interesting guest. https://talkpython.fm/"}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 25665755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25665755", "by": "type0", "time": 1609981372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Open Source Security https://opensourcesecurity.io/category/podcast/ Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/blog/podcast/ Talk Python to Me https://talkpython.fm/ Late Night Linux https://latenightlinux.com/"}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 25665755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25665755", "by": "type0", "time": 1609981372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Open Source Security https://opensourcesecurity.io/category/podcast/ Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/blog/podcast/ Talk Python to Me https://talkpython.fm/ Late Night Linux https://latenightlinux.com/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25666242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25666242", "by": "Clownfused", "time": 1609984468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries: True stories from the dark side of the Internet This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. https://darknetdiaries.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 25666979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25666979", "by": "dcardoza", "time": 1609990522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Excellent podcast about history. The 'Prophets of Doom' episode is my favourite. Darknet Diaries - Hacking / technology. Planet Money - Short episodes on economics and money Acquired - Analysis of Companies Tim Ferris Show - He interviews interesting people. Hit or miss for me. Lex Fridman - High quality interviewees but Lex Fridman is hit or miss. Joe Rogan Experience - Plenty of great episodes. Episodes vary dramatically in quality."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 25666979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25666979", "by": "dcardoza", "time": 1609990522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Excellent podcast about history. The 'Prophets of Doom' episode is my favourite. Darknet Diaries - Hacking / technology. Planet Money - Short episodes on economics and money Acquired - Analysis of Companies Tim Ferris Show - He interviews interesting people. Hit or miss for me. Lex Fridman - High quality interviewees but Lex Fridman is hit or miss. Joe Rogan Experience - Plenty of great episodes. Episodes vary dramatically in quality."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25666979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25666979", "by": "dcardoza", "time": 1609990522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History - Excellent podcast about history. The 'Prophets of Doom' episode is my favourite. Darknet Diaries - Hacking / technology. Planet Money - Short episodes on economics and money Acquired - Analysis of Companies Tim Ferris Show - He interviews interesting people. Hit or miss for me. Lex Fridman - High quality interviewees but Lex Fridman is hit or miss. Joe Rogan Experience - Plenty of great episodes. Episodes vary dramatically in quality."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 25667426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667426", "by": "arolihas", "time": 1609995327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This week in ML/AI (TWIMLAI) Software Engineering Daily History of Philosophy without any gaps If I Were You, very funny advice podcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25668130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668130", "by": "wenc", "time": 1610003399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t see a problem with that. Lex\u2019s podcast is aimed at a general technical audience of different backgrounds, so he often asks questions on behalf of listeners who are technical but might not be experts in the field. To be fair, machine learning and CPU design are vastly different fields with little overlap. I mean, I have a PhD and had no idea what branch prediction was until I listened to that podcast."}, {"show": "1553180943", "hn_item": 25670695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25670695", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1610025811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t think I\u2019d enter at this point, but if you\u2019re a sceptic, Preston Pysh on The Investors Podcast (We Study Billionaires) is a good source for the bullish case. That podcast is consistently good, if you\u2019re into active investing at all."}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 25673931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673931", "by": "jetti", "time": 1610039945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast - it focuses mainly on reverse engineering hardware and firmware. I haven't done any non-trivial reverse engineering projects and even the ones I have done are software but I still find it super interesting. Darknet Diaries - Podcast revolving around hackers/hacks/etc Malicious Life - Podcast centered around historical hacks or malware. Advent of Computing - about the history of computer and computer related technology ClojureScript Podcast - about clojurescript Indie Hackers - interviews with indie startup founders Revolutions - detailed history of various "}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 25675056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25675056", "by": "colmvp", "time": 1610043829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> We are rapidly getting to the point where elections are not based on merit of candidates but by what the media says and allows to be said. I mean the US is already there. I recall many years ago having to actively search for the positions and speeches from Ron Paul because he was barely given air time in debates. Same goes for Andrew Yang where I only got to know him through alternative media sources (podcasts) instead of major news channels."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25705664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25705664", "by": "djedr", "time": 1610231542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've seen some clips of his interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. I didn't catch the cold bath part. I imagine a cold bath means immersing most of your body in water. So another variant. Theory sounds plausible. Curious if you happen to know any actual research that backs it up?"}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 25712869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712869", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1610271604, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 25716108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25716108", "by": "gnabgib", "time": 1610295216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Software Engineering Daily podcast with Elio Rivero [0] (audio and transcript in link) that goes into depth on Deno, TypeScript, JavaScript support. It's interesting that compile time was the (TS) killer. [0]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/28/deno-and-typ..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25717509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25717509", "by": "pashsdk27", "time": 1610302237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Fravor on Lex Fridman's podcast mentions flying low and scaring campers for fun. Your case sounds similar."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25719993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719993", "by": "WClayFerguson", "time": 1610313541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Trump never called for any violence. However there are lots of left wing people on Twitter calling for violence and the left-wing operated BigTech think that's just fine, while they will ban any right wing person at the drop of a hat for completely made-up reasons like saying something wrong about gender pronouns. Look the Joe Rogan podcast with Tim Pool and Jack Dorsey, and try to educate yourself."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25721568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25721568", "by": "st1x7", "time": 1610321405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bidding on your name might be an even bigger waste of money than bidding on a competitor's name, especially for established brands. eBay's experience with this came up on a recent episode of Freakonomics - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/"}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 25722832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722832", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1610327429, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Cory Doctorow was talking about this on the most recent Exponential View podcast, a great riff on how that really helped the competitive landscape, at least for a while. Worth listening to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exponential-view-with-..."}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 25723757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25723757", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1610333408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I\u2019m not going to code up my website on an original Macintosh. Yet people still make games, and hardware, for cold hard cash for vintage systems like the Commodore and Atari computer lines. For example https://atariage.com/store/ is full of newer titles and in the various forums you can find all sorts of modern hardware and titles being discussed, and sold, for various vintage systems https://atariage.com/forums/ Some of us find these machines very practical, some are even still being used in commercial settings. At some point I recall one of the people being interviewed on ANTIC The Atari 8-b"}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 25727171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727171", "by": "secfirstmd", "time": 1610362025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes some of the same people (pilots, radio operators etc) where interviewed in The Fighter Pilot Podcast (which is awesome btw) and they came across very very well. The thing that I don't think the NYT story captured well was how long the incursions had been going on for (a few weeks), how wide (some where found on the East Coast also) and how many others had seen it (Mexico also picked it up)."}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 25731724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25731724", "by": "jeromegv", "time": 1610384252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CEO mentioned on Kara Swisher podcast that he felt he had zero responsibility for the content on this platform. So this moderation is mostly a PR point."}, {"show": "1647215384", "hn_item": 25734115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25734115", "by": "newhouseb", "time": 1610391160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe \"absolutely unmoderated\" speech isn't technically correct here. As I understand it, Parler does have a form of moderation wherein a \"jury\" of 5 people evaluate flagged content within a 24 hour window of being flagged. If 4 vote for removal, content is removed. [1] Naturally, if such a platform is dominated by extremists then extreme speech will remain effectively unmoderated (I can't speak to the fraction of the [former?] Parler userbase that is/was made up of violent instigators). [1] Kara Swisher's interview with the Parler CEO on the Sway podcast (I haven't actually used Parler be"}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 25734806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25734806", "by": "d33lio", "time": 1610393080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I voted for Biden, but I can easily find thousands of examples of \"threats\" on Twitter coming from far left leaning accounts. Some even from verified accounts. I still love the fact that Twitter banned Anna Kachiyan of the Red Scare podcast, assuming it wasn't a mistake? Companies bowing to play nice with the state is troubling regardless of your politics."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 25735801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735801", "by": "daemin", "time": 1610395980, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember an episode of Planet Money podcast where they went to the village where a secret agreement was signed by some farmers to divide up the communal land and farm it individually, so they could sell the surplus and make some profit. In the podcast they managed to talk to one of the original signatories to the agreement, and he lamented that fact that after his farming days he had started many businesses but they had all been taken from him by the authorities. Now given that the judiciary in China is just another arm of the CCP, there is no rule of law, there's just the rule of the CCP an"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 25740746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25740746", "by": "unethical_ban", "time": 1610412748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not doing all your research for you. I'll tell you his speech is available online, it has been covered by a number of outlets, one of which highlighting his bullshit is \"On the Media\" podcast, as well as \"Pod Save America\"."}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 25744119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25744119", "by": "leokennis", "time": 1610441971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to \u201cThe Dropout\u201d podcast, which chronicles Theranos\u2019 rise and fall. I believe Holmes and Chandrasekaran were romantically involved in the past and were still close. If you get money thrown at you by VC\u2019s, why not throw and exorbitant amount to a good friend as well... https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/"}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 25744165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25744165", "by": "Ecstatify", "time": 1610442366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Dropout podcast sheds a lot of light on the entire situation."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25751311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25751311", "by": "ProductivityPro", "time": 1610476512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, I decided roughly about 2 months ago to launch a productivity newsletter (The Big 3 Newsletter - https://productivitypro.substack.com/ ) The first thought was I want this to be my thing. I didn't want the outside influence from family and friends. Suppose that's maybe the fear of being told it's a rubbish idea. Deep down I knew (prayed) it could work. Researching and hearing many great stories on Indie Hackers, the Newsletter Crew podcast and around social media confirmed it was very doable. What made it a more lucrative offer was the fact Substack has made it ridiculously easy to launch a"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 25756247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25756247", "by": "dharmab", "time": 1610498098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The view of \"Corporations acting like people\" is an oversimplification of CU. Radiolab's More Perfect podcast did a very detailed episode. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/epi... Did you know that the FEC argued in the CU case before the Supreme Court that they had the right to prevent the distribution of books containing certain kinds of political speech? The audio of that is in the episode and it is a wild ride."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 25756247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25756247", "by": "dharmab", "time": 1610498098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The view of \"Corporations acting like people\" is an oversimplification of CU. Radiolab's More Perfect podcast did a very detailed episode. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/epi... Did you know that the FEC argued in the CU case before the Supreme Court that they had the right to prevent the distribution of books containing certain kinds of political speech? The audio of that is in the episode and it is a wild ride."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 25757220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25757220", "by": "sprainedankles", "time": 1610504861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another great episode from Paul Cooper's \"Fall of Civilizations\" podcast"}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 25760030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25760030", "by": "secfirstmd", "time": 1610531025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's worth listening to The Fighter Pilot podcast interview with him and a radar guy. It wasn't just a quick flash in the pan incident. Reports had been coming in for weeks. It had been seen on the East coast aswelll and the Mexican military also picked up on the objects."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25760105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25760105", "by": "libertine", "time": 1610531779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also David Fravor comments directly on Mick West Debunking video on Lex Fridman podcast ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBt4CNHyAck ) . Basically this would need to be a collaboration from several Navy people all for a big joke/hoax, risking their reputation for the joke/hoax itself (since as far as it's public none of them gained any money from this). Even if it was for social capital... they're US Navy pilots. It's not like they need this event to be perceived as exceptional humans in that field."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 25770814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25770814", "by": "adamnew123456", "time": 1610589293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed (a contemporary of Unix, and not Unix itself, which was something I wasn't aware of before) emphasized user power and lack of restriction to a much greater degree than much of the current computing landscape does. Why would you lock users or developers into a fixed, defined plugin API when you could write the application in such a way that they have access to whatever they need? "}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 25780097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25780097", "by": "jjyano", "time": 1610648883, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25793008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793008", "by": "rmeinl", "time": 1610729908, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 25793381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25793381", "by": "cheezerman", "time": 1610731455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out Peter Attia's podcast interviewing Luke Bennett, a performance doctor in F1. He goes into sleep and performance. https://peterattiamd.com/lukebennett/"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 25794050, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794050", "by": "vosper", "time": 1610734557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good Omega Tau podcast episode froma few weeks ago, called \u201cModern Fission Reactors\u201d, that covers modular reactors (and many other interesting reactor topics) https://omegataupodcast.net/359-modern-fission-reactors/"}, {"show": "1520451082", "hn_item": 25794675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794675", "by": "PolarBear", "time": 1610737006, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 25795655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25795655", "by": "tekromancr", "time": 1610741309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you can find people who are publicly abusive and privately kind in online communities. I just finished listening to a podcast called My Year in Mensa, which centers around an unmoderated Mensa facebook group, and the author's interactions with them. As you can imagine from an unmoderated community, it sucks and a lot of people say shitty things there. A common refrain the author heard from people defending the group is \"They're the nicest people in real life!\", which may absolutely be the case, but publicly, they are presenting abusive versions of themselves."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25796177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25796177", "by": "ThisIsTheWay", "time": 1610743511, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a complete noob when it comes to CTF, but escaping a VM to control the host is total witchcraft to me. Darknet Diaries just had a great podcast on the Pwn2Own CTF hosted by CanSecWest cyber-security conference, which includes a competition to escape a virtualized machine. Highly recommended, it's a great listen. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/82/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 25796335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25796335", "by": "dan_linder", "time": 1610744206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just donated to let them know I'm interested in their continued existence. I feel bad - my wife and I have been a user of Signal 100% for the past 4+ years and we wouldn't want to use anything else. For some Signal related education, listen to the Security Now! podcast from 2016 - Steve Gibson dives into the protocol underlying Signal, \"Open Whisper Systems\"."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 25799471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25799471", "by": "achalshah", "time": 1610764893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Futility Closet had an entire episode on the book: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/05/18/podcast-episode-58..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 25802928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802928", "by": "kratom_sandwich", "time": 1610811962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you familiar with the \"Reply all\" podcast? They have a \"recurring segment, called 'Super Tech Support' [in] which [...] the Reply All team [...] takes on odd or especially complex tech support issues that the listeners or friends of the hosts have encountered.\" Not sure if your situation qualifies, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_All_(podcast)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25804966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804966", "by": "bleah1000", "time": 1610827200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think they shot themselves in the foot over the Joe Rogan thing. I suspect that they could have increased subscriptions by a large amount, but there were PR disasters all over the place. I suspect that a number of people decided not to move because of how things were handled. Or at least the appearance that Spotify might ban or censor Rogan's podcast. Right when the biggest hype for this acquisition was happening, all of the PR was negative. I wonder if as things cool off and no other issues occur, Joe Rogan fans will slowly move over, but time will tell."}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 25806873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25806873", "by": "Meleagris", "time": 1610843118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is true. For those that would like to learn more, I'd highly recommend listening to the Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 101. Ben Felix does a great job dissecting the facts on dollar cost averaging. https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/101"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25808002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808002", "by": "pp19dd", "time": 1610856402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Might be worth something to watch part of the Lex Fridman interview with one of the pilots, David Fravor. The entire podcast is four hours long and goes over his career and experiences, I'd argue establishes him as a competent naval officer and pilot. The timecode is when he describes the actual event- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E&t=4264s In the interview he also describes the record keeping process and basically some of the head scratchers you're bringing about. One other thing the pilot confirms in that interview is the validity (authenticity) of the leaked \"Executive Summary\""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 25809686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25809686", "by": "smileypete", "time": 1610880064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Protection of homes from wildfire was worked out a long time ago by Jack Cohen. There is an excellent podcast out there called 'Built to Burn' at '99% Invisible'. That most media output has no mention of his work is puzzling and kinda interesting too.."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25810072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810072", "by": "rmeinl", "time": 1610885278, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 25811610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25811610", "by": "mgc1", "time": 1610898408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some others that you might enjoy: Mindscape (deep dives on various topics, host is a theoretical physicist): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ Brain Inspired (AI & neuroscience interviews): https://braininspired.co/ Thesis Review (interviews with researchers about their PhD thesis): https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html Machine Learning Street Talk (discussions & interviews about ML): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLtBahI5DMrt0NPvDSoIRQ"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25811665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25811665", "by": "jakosimov", "time": 1610898785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have only been listening to Lex's podcast for a few months, so I don't know a lot about its history. When did this rebranding take place?"}, {"show": "1504128553", "hn_item": 25818257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25818257", "by": "sshumaker", "time": 1610945260, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a great interview of Fauci explaining exactly how we got it done so fast. But basically - years of precursor work had been done on both other coronaviruses and mRNA vaccines. So they were in phase 1 trials in 6 weeks. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-bubble-with-and..."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 25818883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25818883", "by": "handmodel", "time": 1610951781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a very fair point but at the same time it there are one-million asians in New Jersey (mostly non-Japanese) and the link states that the pattern is true for lots of big states such as NJ, MA, NY, PA,etc. I agree there are probably cities in Japan or certain areas that have extra high life expectancy too but I think this cuts against the diet argument a bit. On a recent Tyler Cowen podcast he stated that Japanese Americans have the longest life expectancy and speculated it was a combination of genetics + wealth. I think it is a good counter to the diet argument the piece puts forward. I "}, {"show": "1497785843", "hn_item": 25824987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25824987", "by": "dhritzkiv", "time": 1610995309, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I learned about Kelo v. City of New London from the 5-4 podcast[1] (a progressive slanted podcast analyzing bad/controversial Supreme Court cases). Interestingly, it was one of the few cases covered on the podcast where the 'liberals' on the court decided the case. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kelo-v-new-london/id14..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 25827216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827216", "by": "pm215", "time": 1611007414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to In Our Time as a podcast :-) It's actually better than the radio-broadcast version because it includes 10-15 minutes of extra time with the guests where they have a bit more discussion. (rss feed: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/b006qykl.rss )"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "1472354896", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "1123461944", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 25827260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827260", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1611007650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No idea what any of those shows you listed are. My interests are science, history, computing, polictics - and there are numerous podcasts covering these subjects. To name just a few in case anyone is intersted: * Dan Snow's History Hits * Triggernometry * Lex Fridman Podcast * Atomic Hobo * Jason Scott Talks his way out of it * Darknet Diaries * Omega Tau * Rob Reid After On * Anatomy of Next * page 94 - Private Eye Podcast * Command line heroes * Full Fact * Guido Talks * Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * The Bellingcat Podcast * On The Metal Some of these podcasts have won awards (See Bellingc"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 25827407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827407", "by": "Veen", "time": 1611008533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> No idea what any of those shows you listed are. They are almost exclusively BBC Radio 4 programs, many of which are available as podcasts. I can heartily recommend The Moral Maze and In Our Time."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 25827908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25827908", "by": "markdown", "time": 1611011695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a talk by a former head of the ACLU yesterday (on the JRE podcast). His central point was that all speech (including hate speech) should be free because someone else is going to be deciding what speech shouldn't be free, and therefore nobody should get to decide that. This fellow seemed to not realise he was living in a democracy and had been doing so his whole life. He provided some examples to prove his points, and they were all from ages ago. He didn't seem to realise that the trouble we're going through now is a direct result of allowing hate-filled people to form bubble"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 25832222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25832222", "by": "mercer", "time": 1611054428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BBC's In Our Time (pretty good podcast) also did an episode on The Great Gatsby: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r4tq"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 25834267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25834267", "by": "LatteLazy", "time": 1611069835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the BBC are actually really great at avoiding the pop trap. They either do it very well or they just don't do it. I'd point to a lot of popular podcasts as \"pop\" rip offs of BBC pieces. \"Stuff you should know\" is really just \"In Our Time\" with easier topics and no experts for instance. Plus no 500 episode backlog over several decades."}, {"show": "1339849737", "hn_item": 25837596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25837596", "by": "nathanbb", "time": 1611084179, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 25842977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25842977", "by": "bigtones", "time": 1611122009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TWIST - 'This Week In Startups' is the Jason Calacanis podcast the parent was referring to, it's an acronym."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 25847236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25847236", "by": "DeBraid", "time": 1611155232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While we're at it, The Meat Eater podcast (no affiliation) is a fantastic resource for all things nature, ecology, natural history. IOW it's not dedicated exclusively to hunting, guns, cooking wild game meat (~50%). ~50% of the content is a undergrad-level education on nature: conservation, cultural & natural history of Earth (principally North America). A few favourites: * https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-197-eating-... * https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-162-landsca... List of Popular Meat Eater Podcasts: https://www.owltail.com/podcast/36913-meateater-podcast/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 25849895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849895", "by": "adolph", "time": 1611166827, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a Radiolab episode about an early version of it deployed to Dayton, Ohio. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s... Additional coverage: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur... https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1022-kee... https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/surveill..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25850562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850562", "by": "floatrock", "time": 1611169843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the link. Always good to hear the other side, especially after listening to the Lex interview a while back. Here's the summary: Loeb's argument for Ouamuamua being aliens rests on 6 observed anomalies. All but 1 or 2 have pretty reasonable rebuttals. [1]: Anomaly: There are too few interstellar asteroids to expect something like this, so it must have been aimed at us. The brand new telescope that discovered this was designed to look for interstellar rocks like this, but the fact that it discovered one so quickly is absurdly lucky. Rebuttal: Most models for interstellar rocks could b"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 25850962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850962", "by": "tompazourek", "time": 1611171592, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 25871805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871805", "by": "purerandomness", "time": 1611324775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An ecosystem of people who are building bootstrapped, non-VC-funded products. Patrick McKenzie (patio11), who famously built and sold his \"Bingo Card Creator\", and blogged about the process, is a \"prototypical\" Indie Hacker. The ecosystem consists of communities like [1] and [2], podcasts (search for \"Indie Hackers\"), and conferences like [3] [0] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... [1] https://www.indiehackers.com/ [2] https://getmakerlog.com/ [3] https://microconf.com/"}, {"show": "1248446620", "hn_item": 25883835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883835", "by": "kippinitreal", "time": 1611420955, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Great interview with Larry King focused on his interview style: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/larry-king/id124844662... Some great stories in there including one about how in his early days he would play a game with his producer where he\u2019d go in blind and try and figure out who his guest is. I guess this helped him develop his \u201caverage guy\u201d style. While series is worth a listen if interview styles is of interest."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 25884491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884491", "by": "sradman", "time": 1611424282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bloomberg's Odd Lots 1 hour podcast Why the Cost of Shipping Goods From China Is Soaring [1] with Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [2]. TLDR; [EDIT] Larger and larger shipping container ships resulted in peak capacity just before the 2008 financial crisis. 85% of capacity was consolidated in three main shipping groups. Pandemic demand increased beyond capacity mid 2020 due partly to recovery and consumer disposable income shifting to goods from services impacted by pandemic restrictions. Shippers have increased pri"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 25893548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25893548", "by": "yoz-y", "time": 1611507657, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 to Isaac Arthur videos as lullabies. The only thing I regret is that then I also need to rewind each episode multiple times because I'm genuinely interested in what's said. Recently I've also started to listen to luetin09's Warhammer 40k lore videos. They are in similar vein that they could also be podcasts. Skeptoid is another one I've used."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 25894722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25894722", "by": "andromeduck", "time": 1611515054, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You should check out the Decouple podcast :) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decouple/id1516526694"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 25899170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25899170", "by": "pid_0", "time": 1611549180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Engineering Daily IMO, engineering podcasts and pretty much anything related to work is just so boring to listen to. I listen to podcasts to relax and learn something new that isn't engineering."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 25924215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924215", "by": "oddity", "time": 1611721111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. For a taste of it, episode 412 (and 411) of the Accidental Tech Podcast gets into the pain of the process around the 15 minute mark (and 1:30 minute mark for 411). [0] https://atp.fm/412 [1] https://atp.fm/411"}, {"show": "663593797", "hn_item": 25927022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25927022", "by": "ryanmercer", "time": 1611747580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Maybe PC collecting, restoring etc. will be as big a deal but it's just early on the curve still It is a fairly big deal for a lot of us, just in this room I'm sitting in I've got 3 vintage machines from the late 70s to early 80s, and 3 generations of Windows machines (95, 98, XP), alongside my work and personal computers. There are vintage computer fairs the world around, there are vintage computer clubs (ours here in the general Indy area meets monthly) the world around, there are numerous podcasts and some sizable YouTube content creators too. There is even a healthy level of developing ne"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 25932389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932389", "by": "mercer", "time": 1611774378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bit of a tangent, but I can highly recommend the \"Thinking Elixir\" podcast. The other ones are nice too, but this one starts with general Elixir community updates and has been great for me to catch up on what's new, similar to the newsletters. And usually the interview guests are pretty great too. Plus, I've grown fond of the very short bassoon(?) two-tone intro followed by a friendly \"Hellooo\", rather than the obnoxious intro music that so many podcasts go for :)."}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 25933488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25933488", "by": "dangerboysteve", "time": 1611779279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Thinking Elixir\" is one of my favourite podcasts for all the reasons you mentioned."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 25941918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941918", "by": "foobarian", "time": 1611842968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Give the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan a listen. The French revolution was not what it seems... it was elites vs. elites, not peasants vs. monarchy."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25957317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957317", "by": "untoxicness", "time": 1611929108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"That Harvard Astronomer\" is Avi Loeb. Loeb was recently a guest on the Lex Fridman podcast where he talked about Oumuamua amongst other things. [0] I found his view on the subject fascinating and his perspective on science refreshing. [0] https://lexfridman.com/avi-loeb/"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 25957852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25957852", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1611932355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pony came up in the Corecursive podcast a few months ago, I enjoyed this episode on it: https://corecursive.com/055-unproven-with-sean-allen/ There was a big focus on both performance and stability/safety."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 25959853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959853", "by": "chihuahua", "time": 1611941287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an episode of NPR's \"This American Life\" podcast in 2010 that included the story of someone who had terrible allergy problems and ended up curing that via deliberate hookworm introduction. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/404/enemy-camp-2010/act-thr..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 25964879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964879", "by": "asiachick", "time": 1611968246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to Avi on the latest Mindscape podcast. I'm 99% on his side but I would have loved to hear responses to the idea, how do you distinguish this from hunting for ghosts, souls, E.S.P., telepathy, etc... Someone who believed in those things would pretty much make all the same arguments (eg, have an open mind). I'm sure there are good arguments to distinguish why searching harder in the directions Avi wants things to go is different from searching for ghosts. It would be nice have heard them."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 25971372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971372", "by": "kodah", "time": 1612030374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's actually both! Freakonomics did a great segment on the difference and the different types of disgust. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/disgust/"}, {"show": "1535359773", "hn_item": 25972851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972851", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1612039756, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Can I recommend the \"Another podcast\" Ben Evans has recently started up with a friend of his. They have a pretty good dynamic and you get a sense of the nuance that slides just don't convey. Also second the whole \"you can do this in powerpoint / keynote\" amazement :-) link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/another-podcast/id1535..."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 25975267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975267", "by": "a3n", "time": 1612061108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bloomberg podcast Switched On is interesting and eclectic."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 25975603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25975603", "by": "cheezeburger", "time": 1612063976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Of interest to this thread ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145 Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins."}, {"show": "1317563648", "hn_item": 25976399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25976399", "by": "JohnJamesRambo", "time": 1612072074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm reminded of a guy that used to go on Leo Laporte's podcast and had a program or joined a program where Silicon Valley tech people join government entities to make their tech and websites better. I'm sure they took massive paycuts to do this but they felt it was their duty, like military service. This guy and others like him are true heroes and patriots to me."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 25979723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25979723", "by": "sprainedankles", "time": 1612108880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had never even heard of Angkor until I listened to this episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast (I highly recommend it): https://youtu.be/ghmjIBD2Fd4 Resource management intertwined with poor leadership is a common thread in the demise of societies. Our ability to adapt to our environments is impressive, but not nearly as impressive as Mother Nature itself. I'd love if we took the hint from these histories, because the scale of change in our global climate looks like it'll far exceed past catastrophes. Some days I'm hopeful, but others, quite wary. Hmm."}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 25981901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25981901", "by": "sjg007", "time": 1612122485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend that you find a therapist to discuss your burn out. It sounds like an acute episode so seeing a professional could help. They can help you ask the right questions and stop the fly wheel. It sounds like you are engaging in some self reflection too which they can help with and you've reached out here so again I'd say a therapist will help you. It certainly helped me. Another good resource is the Feeling Good podcast by David Burns and his book Feeling Great. It takes longer to work through it. I found that my burn out left me so tired it was hard to read! I was able to listen thoug"}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 25983233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25983233", "by": "klelatti", "time": 1612132131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robert Cottrell of 'The Browser' newsletter gave a really good interview [1] on the North Star podcast about the emergence of newsletters and the future of journalism. Interestingly, of course it's partly about seeking out writers whose work you value - when of course the Economist does not identify its writers on each piece. Also, The Browser started on Substack but has now moved to Ghost - presumably to lower their costs and get more control - a good example of a major risk to the Substack model. https://perell.com/podcast/robert-cottrell/"}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 25987731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25987731", "by": "squeaky-clean", "time": 1612179116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These were quite eery the first time I heard them. I was listening to an episode of Conan O'Brien's podcast from early 2019 and in the middle was an ad (read by Conan) for enjoying Miller lite at home during the covid quarantine. I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell had just happened until I found a page promoting Spotify's dynamic ad insertion for podcasts."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 25988101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25988101", "by": "schwartzworld", "time": 1612183194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who like podcasts, Citations Needed did a great episode on the topic. https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-97-porch-pirate-p..."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 25991324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25991324", "by": "JabavuAdams", "time": 1612202693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"A $5 billion a year budget can go very far and the people should get the rewards for taking the risk, especially for a disease like HIV that has significant quality of life impacts on vulnerable populations.\" This requires the starting axiom that profits are more important than human lives with respect to global public health. This is something that we as humans can decide, not some law of nature. Big pharma's lobbying to enshrine IP rights by embedding them in the WTO has led to untold deaths from lack of access to medications in the developing world. This Citations Needed podcast on \"Vaccin"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 26006118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006118", "by": "this_user", "time": 1612297412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is indeed how it started. Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast also had a recent episode with one of the other main guys behind the original, fundamentally driven trade. It's well worth listening to. He makes some good points that the company was indeed undervalued in the teens and lower. Obviously, that is no longer where it is trading, and unless they turn into the Amazon of video games somehow, a valuation of well above $100 seems excessive. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2021-01-29/how-to-make-..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 26011016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26011016", "by": "wanderingstan", "time": 1612332017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I went down the cuneiform rabbit hole last summer after listening to the excellent \u201cFall of Civilizations Podcast\u201d episode about Sumer: https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA This led to many of Finkel\u2019s videos and the book mentioned in this post. (So far I\u2019m not too impressed with the book, TBH.)"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 26026520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026520", "by": "giarc", "time": 1612454502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chamath also made a good point on the All In Podcast yesterday. He said shorting allows people to have market neurtal portfolios."}, {"show": "1525851884", "hn_item": 26026592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26026592", "by": "pohjie", "time": 1612454809, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26033716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033716", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1612506895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 99% Invisible podcast discussed some of the effects of the skyway just last week. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-skyway"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 26033881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26033881", "by": "yodon", "time": 1612508858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26036697, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26036697", "by": "wenc", "time": 1612535758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard this on Lex Fridman's podcast a while ago. This is Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on \u201cstorytelling\u201d: Lex Fridman: Microsoft has 50-60 thousand engineers. What does it take to lead such a large group of brilliant people? Kevin Scott: \u2026 (snipped)... One central idea in Yuval Harari\u2019s book Sapiens is that \u201cstorytelling\u201d is the quintessential thing for coordinating the activities of large groups of people once you get past Dunbar\u2019s number. I\u2019ve really seen that, just managing engineering teams. You can brute-force things with small teams, but past that things start to fail catastrophically if y"}, {"show": "1518323701", "hn_item": 26037313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037313", "by": "wonder_er", "time": 1612538779, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> I can't help but wonder what the purpose of this system even is if they can literally lie to your face saying they'll send someone and just not. The system is functioning as intended. It's just not functioning as advertised : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-police/id15... This podcast is exceptional. A fair bit of profanity, takes a few minutes to get going, but it's a spinoff of the \"Behind the Bastards\" podcast. They make a good case for the modern US police force to be deputized slave patrols. :("}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 26037313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037313", "by": "wonder_er", "time": 1612538779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I can't help but wonder what the purpose of this system even is if they can literally lie to your face saying they'll send someone and just not. The system is functioning as intended. It's just not functioning as advertised : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-police/id15... This podcast is exceptional. A fair bit of profanity, takes a few minutes to get going, but it's a spinoff of the \"Behind the Bastards\" podcast. They make a good case for the modern US police force to be deputized slave patrols. :("}, {"show": "1537457578", "hn_item": 26038713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26038713", "by": "scottbucks", "time": 1612545891, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 26041829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26041829", "by": "smachiz", "time": 1612562857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It looks far from baseless. I googled - people are attaching their names to this on twitter. It's not anonymous. It's not \"I heard he did x\". It's he did X to me. We'll find out if any of it is true - but I'm going to guess that a lot of it is. Hence, resigning before he can be fired. https://twitter.com/imontheradio/status/1343598441226792960?... https://twitter.com/brianabreen/status/1341921383354224640 Also, Radiolab doesn't seem to be downplaying this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/note-..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 26042905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26042905", "by": "positr0n", "time": 1612570870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When did Jefferson sour on the French Revolution? I know he helped the Marquis de Lafayette write The Declaration of the Rights of Man. Granted that was very early in the revolution, before it turned on the liberal nobles like Lafayette. Fun fact I learned from the Revolutions podcast. Lafayette was imprisoned by the Austrians after trying to escape France through enemy lines. The US learned of his situation (this was during George Washington's presidency) and granted him back pay for his service during the revolutionary war. And that is how he survived those ~5 years in an Austrian prison."}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 26047508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047508", "by": "dbattaglia", "time": 1612628276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pretty awesome \"Philosophize This\" podcast* episode on Foucault, where he discusses crime and punishment over the years, makes an interesting point that always stuck with me regarding punishment of white collar crime: \"9 times out of 10 they are not going to see the inside of a prison cell because their behavior...doesn't really need much reformation in the eyes of the people in power. Keep doing almost everything you're doing...keep working, keep creating jobs, keep starting new companies and going to badminton on Sundays...just pay your taxes. Whereas the guy that robbed the Taco Bell..."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 26047580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047580", "by": "oa335", "time": 1612628880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the podcast Invisibilia I heard a fascinating story about a woman who could smell people who would develop Parkinson\u2019s, well before other diagnostic tests. Here\u2019s an article about her: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/8202745..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 26051310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051310", "by": "dbcurtis", "time": 1612655738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great Freakonomics podcast on the opiate crisis. If you want to get some food for thought about the American approach to pain management, how it is done elsewhere, and some background on the opiate crisis. (Looks like episodes 402 and 403, from a quick search.)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26063754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063754", "by": "FiberBundle", "time": 1612788520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> we've never observed an interstellar object before this, haven't after this, it's reasonable to think that the 99.99%+ of it's life it spent outside of the solar system means it starts with surface conditions unlike what we're used to from comets In the Lex Friedman Podcast Loeb said that another interstellar object, named Borisov, had been observed since Oumuamua and it had a typical comet shape."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 26064054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064054", "by": "criddell", "time": 1612790614, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on Sean Carroll's podcast and he sounded pretty reasonable to me. He clearly doesn't think \"aliens\" is the only or necessarily even the best explanation, just one that can't be eliminated and it's worth thinking about."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 26071216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26071216", "by": "mattm", "time": 1612823778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a good This American Life podcast about that issue: > Two towns where people got really upset about undocumented immigrants, even though in both places, that did not seem to be the most important thing happening at all. One of the towns, a small town in Alaska, has no undocumented immigrants at all, but the possibility of them arriving put the whole town at each other\u2019s throats. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/621/fear-and-loathing-in-ho..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26078776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078776", "by": "BunsanSpace", "time": 1612885515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast about owning 5 mansions and what he liked about each one. he's not humble in anyway, looking at his twitter he comes off as a real twat to boot as well."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 26079608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079608", "by": "loevborg", "time": 1612889243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't read the article yet, but McWhorter is the mastermind behind Lexicon Valley, a linguistics podcast and perhaps my favorite podcast of all times. McWhorter is both a bona-fide expert and a thoughtful, funny communicator - a rare combination. Oh, and he's also into musical theater, as you will learn very, very quickly if you listen to any Lexicon Valley episode. https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 26084887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26084887", "by": "ericd", "time": 1612921190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m a fan of the \u201cRevolutions\u201d podcast."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 26085824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085824", "by": "hnick", "time": 1612932346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the earbud recommendation. I was talking to my mother about the Sleep With Me podcast (she hates it but she's extremely picky) and I realised I need something wireless if I'll ever listen to something like that in bed."}, {"show": "1551570777", "hn_item": 26090451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26090451", "by": "simonpure", "time": 1612971037, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 26105540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26105540", "by": "devmunchies", "time": 1613069387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We do local cookie delivery[1]. We run our own mapping software and have our own drivers so most of the software is internal facing. Talked about it on Indie Hackers podcast[2], where i briefly mention SQLite as well. [1]: https://cravecookie.com [2]: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/166-sam-eaton-of-crave-..."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 26111276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111276", "by": "the-smug-one", "time": 1613112430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The medieval period was a fairly long ordeal with large differences over both time and place. Life post-black death in Europe, for example, included a heightened QoL for many as population density was lowered. Many peasants in Europe had their own plot of land but also had to spend some time working his lords' fields. Often the lords had to supplement this with paid work - peasants did not particularly like giving away their labour for free and as such did not work very hard. My source is Patrick Wyman's podcast \"Tides of History\". He has a PhD in history. He has a Substack also: https://patri"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26111946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111946", "by": "gkkirilov", "time": 1613122346, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1501956064", "hn_item": 26112568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26112568", "by": "lou1306", "time": 1613129739, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In Italy we are lucky to have a very good medieval historian, professor Alessandro Barbero, who has done a great deal of work to popularize \"peasant history\" among the general public. Most of his talks, are available on YouTube and are being collected in an increasingly popular podcast [1]. Once-obscure topics like the Ciompi revolt in Florence, the French Jacquerie, or the English peasants' revolt, are basically achieving memetic status. The podcast is only in Italian, but it could be a useful tool to learn the language :) [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/podcast-di-alessandro-bar..."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 26113771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113771", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1613138970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bump Up Vote for \"Tides of History\" - it is an excellent podcast full of rich detail while also covering a lot of ground and explaining the macro picture. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 26113888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113888", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1613139677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a pretty good documentary on Curiosity Steam called Out of the Cradle that goes over the story of early humans. The path from the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans to modern humans is not a straight line. There were a lot of forms of hominids running around until modern humans pretty much took over the planet, and these hominids were frequently cross breeding with each other. Neanderthals were certainly part of this story. If you're at all interested, I'd recommend Curiosity Stream since it's cheap enough to be worth the subscription even if you only watch a few of the videos. "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26116155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116155", "by": "perlpimp", "time": 1613151144, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26117776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117776", "by": "OnACoffeeBreak", "time": 1613159323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about the unintended consequences of planting trees in the peat tundra of Scotland spurred by the British government's tax breaks to incentivize re-forestation around the country in the 1980s: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/ EDIT: This is not to say that trees should not be planted. I wrote the post in support of using science and nuance to plant trees the right way, which I think is the major point of the article."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26121374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121374", "by": "meremortals", "time": 1613190086, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 26121856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26121856", "by": "ilikepi", "time": 1613198189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of Radiolab also discusses the origins of the panel. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/faceb..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26123786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123786", "by": "doppp", "time": 1613226814, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 26130792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26130792", "by": "theobeers", "time": 1613293890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s interesting, though, that the NYT has been willing to respect the pseudonymity of other public figures in circumstances that I would consider comparable. One example is Virgil Texas, a cohost of the perennially controversial leftist podcast Chapo Trap House. Virgil Texas is not his real name\u2014and his real name can be found with a bit of searching, as in the case of Alexander/Siskind\u2014but the Times has stuck with the pseudonym.[0] What principle is being followed here? [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sander..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26131043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131043", "by": "bekantan", "time": 1613297709, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26131723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131723", "by": "galfarragem", "time": 1613304803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really like Lex Fridman podcast because his guests don't feel under threat. In the end they open up more than if he had asked loaded questions \"a la journalist\". Probably this is the main reason why so many illustrious guests accept his invitation."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 26135460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26135460", "by": "aksss", "time": 1613331438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Intentional political anxiety - a tactic of the Cultural Revolution that was discussed on the excellent In Our Time podcast from the BBC this last week. Never knowing exactly where the next offense may come from, intentionally keeping the population on edge about committing a politically incorrect infraction that will result in consequences to you or your family. Really resonates with the trajectory of institutional rhetoric in the US these days."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26137833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137833", "by": "mjgs", "time": 1613350534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn\u2019t watch that one. So far I\u2019ve only listened to a few. I mostly listen via the podcast feed. I posted the ones I liked to my linkblog ( https://links.markjgsmith.com ): [2020-12-26] Lex Friedman Podcast #80 - Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money - Fascinating and well paced conversation with the founder of Etherium covering a wide range of topics including Satoshi Nakamoto, blockchains, proof of work and identity, PKI and digital signatures, Bitcoin, money, the Etherium origin story, smart contracts, software engineering and project governance challenges, p"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 26138167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138167", "by": "mcguire", "time": 1613353779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As I've not been commuting for a couple of years, I am way behind in my podcasts. Just this weekend, I listened to the March 10, 2020 episode of \"Naked Scientists\" ( https://www.thenakedscientists.com/ ), a British radio science show from Cambridge. Chris Smith, a virologist, ( https://www.thenakedscientists.com/users/chris-smith ), at that time, said to buy beer rather than masks; you'll enjoy the beer and it'll protect you as well as a mask. His concerns were that (1) cloth masks wouldn't help, and (2) that wearing masks incorrectly wouldn't help either. He was wrong about (1), but (2) is st"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 26140026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26140026", "by": "chillacy", "time": 1613373414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It is best to ignore journalism completely Quality journalism still exists and is invaluable, but is done as long form articles in select publications by people established enough to do it. A snippet of conversation from the All In podcast: > Jason C.: Having been a journalist...if you look at trust among republicans.. all time low in the press. And just all americans don't trust the press right now, they think there are hidden agendas... > What happened was, the internet caused the revenue streams of the press to get violently compressed or eliminated. You had craigslist take the classified"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26140247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26140247", "by": "kuyan", "time": 1613375908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Broadly, a couple reasons: - Tax prep companies like Intuit have a vested interest in keeping tax prep difficult. - Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform) believes that making filing taxes easier will make people more okay with paying taxes, and as a result, many conservative policymakers won't bite. (It's slightly more complicated than this, but I believe this assessment to be accurate.) Here's a Planet Money podcast: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis... And a ProPublica series on Intuit: https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap"}, {"show": "985845317", "hn_item": 26141659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26141659", "by": "tobr", "time": 1613388153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone wants to learn more about Chris Crawford, the Zachtronics podcast[1] had a rather good interview[2] with him less than a year ago. 1: https://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/ 2: https://www.zachtronics.com/podcast-files/Zachtronics-Podcas..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26142805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26142805", "by": "davismwfl", "time": 1613397632, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 26144090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144090", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1613405877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would like a \u201cparty line\u201d style app where moderators let people talk. Would be a lot of fun. Unfortunately normal people aren\u2019t allowed into clubhouse (yet?) and I don\u2019t give a shit enough to hassle someone for an invite code. But would be fun to login to a channel and be a blow hard. I listened to a podcast recently (Blocked and Reported) where they were critiquing how journalists have been advocating for fact checkers in every single clubhouse room. An app like this isn\u2019t news that needs to be fact checked - it\u2019s a bunch of strangers yammering on and talking out of their ass like you do at"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 26146976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26146976", "by": "dint", "time": 1613421289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discussed with Ken on the most recent episode of Oxide Computer Company's (very good) On The Metal podcast: https://oxide.computer/podcast/on-the-metal-13-ken-shirriff/"}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 26153137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153137", "by": "tminima", "time": 1613477130, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi All, I recently created an open source website[1] having a collection of podcasts about Machine Learning, Data Science, and ML Engineering. The podcast details are updated daily using GitHub actions. The source is available at the GitHub Repo[2]. Adding a new podcast is easy: just add a simple text file with YAML front matter. I want the website to become a go-to place where people find the next Data Science podcast they want to listen to. I have plans to make podcast pages more informative. My objectives of sharing the website are three-fold: 1. Share this resource with people here who mig"}, {"show": "1487585387", "hn_item": 26154716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154716", "by": "saasgraveyard", "time": 1613489195, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26154911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26154911", "by": "AlbertoGP", "time": 1613490167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just watched today George Hotz\u2019s interview in Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast from last October, 3 hours talking about many interesting things including comma.ai and how it compares with Tesla\u2019s approach. He even mentions HN a couple of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4&t=53m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4&t=2h18m17s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26156830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26156830", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1613498802, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 26158831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158831", "by": "hansjorg", "time": 1613509683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Behind The Bastards podcast has just finished a special run called Behind The Insurrections where they examine how various fascist movements came to power. They briefly discuss Eco's essay before delving into quite detailed accounts of various insurrections. The series has episodes on The Beer Hall Putsch, The March on Rome, The Spanish Civil War (with the usual caveats about Franco being a fascist or not) and the assault on the French national assembly in 1934. The historical parallels, while perhaps a tad exaggerated by the hosts, are quite interesting. https://youtu.be/erbyCO6QcX8"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 26159100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159100", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1613511424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the creator of https://datasette.io/ . Listen to a recent Talk Python To Me podcast featuring the author and these tools, https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/299/personal-search-engi... ."}, {"show": "1728389464", "hn_item": 26159788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26159788", "by": "tminima", "time": 1613515750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi All, I recently created an open source website[1] having a collection of podcasts about Machine Learning, Data Science, and ML Engineering. The podcast details are updated daily using GitHub actions. The source is available at the GitHub Repo[2]. Adding a new podcast is easy: just add a simple text file with YAML front matter. I want the website to become a go-to place where people find the next Data Science podcast they want to listen to. I have plans to make podcast pages more informative. My objectives of sharing the website are three-fold: 1. Share this resource with people here who mig"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 26161751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161751", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1613527790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duncan also did 'The History of Rome' podcast. Which was amazing. I'm still grinding through 'Revolutions' and am only on the Haitian revolution still. But, this early on, one thing I've noticed is that the cycle of revolutions is, well, pretty easy to predict. Brett Deveraux of the ACOUP blog has a good few on the greek idea of stasis . https://acoup.blog/tag/stasis/ . It's application to Duncan's 'Revolutions' is perfectly fitting. One other thing I've noticed is that in a Revolution, unless you are very wealthy or very lucky or very cunning, the best way to get through a revolution is to ge"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 26161751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161751", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1613527790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Duncan also did 'The History of Rome' podcast. Which was amazing. I'm still grinding through 'Revolutions' and am only on the Haitian revolution still. But, this early on, one thing I've noticed is that the cycle of revolutions is, well, pretty easy to predict. Brett Deveraux of the ACOUP blog has a good few on the greek idea of stasis . https://acoup.blog/tag/stasis/ . It's application to Duncan's 'Revolutions' is perfectly fitting. One other thing I've noticed is that in a Revolution, unless you are very wealthy or very lucky or very cunning, the best way to get through a revolution is to ge"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 26164572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164572", "by": "mckirk", "time": 1613555123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can only second the Huberman podcast suggestion. It's so much good information in one place and the guy does such a good job of explaining things that I'm really happy to see it gain traction :)"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 26166375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166375", "by": "beckingz", "time": 1613570796, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obligatory plug for the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. https://softskills.audio/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26170135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170135", "by": "imglorp", "time": 1613588636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Max Tegmark made a nice comment on the Lex Fridman podcast recently. This advancement tells us things about the messenger (gravitational waves) as well as the message (big objects interacting). So it's a twofer, at least."}, {"show": "1551570777", "hn_item": 26170357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170357", "by": "tosh", "time": 1613589858, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 26176723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176723", "by": "exmadscientist", "time": 1613630535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me it was overhearing a few episodes of the British History Podcast [0] (not being a podcast person myself) which prompted a click. Highly recommended if you're into this time period; the podcast just reached Episode 365, in the mighty year 1050. If you ever believed that the Dark Ages were truly Dark, there are few better ways to disabuse yourself of that notion than listening to a few episodes.... [0] https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 26176861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176861", "by": "ctur", "time": 1613631863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an excellent podcast, You're Wrong About, which goes into the disparity between things we fear and what actually happens. Similar and relevant topics they cover: - Satanic Panic - Human Trafficking - Murder - Stanford Prison Experiment etc. A very common theme is \"do-gooders\" trying to do what they very naively think is a good thing but without data or rationality to back it up. Or, worse, people who manipulate those do-gooders into accomplishing other, more selfish/nefarious/evil goals. Really interesting stuff overall. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26180441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180441", "by": "originalvichy", "time": 1613660030, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve listened to Hart a few times on JRE podcast. His heart might be in a good place \u2013 trying to destigmatize/humanize drug users, but the flip side is he is making actually addictive substances seem like no big deal. Irresponsible."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26180598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180598", "by": "alexashka", "time": 1613660662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent recent Joe Rogan podcast episode on Spotify with Carl Hart - the fella in this article, for those who want to get a more comprehensive understanding of his position. He's basically for personal freedom and responsibility , drugs included. His position is really hard to argue with, given the disaster that alcohol prohibition and this 'war on drugs' has been. The word heroin has triggered a lot of comments here - just because you've known someone who has ruined their life and feel strongly about it, does not make you qualified to draw conclusions on the effects of drug use a"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 26181222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26181222", "by": "mumblemumble", "time": 1613663397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an old(ish) episode of the Stack Overflow podcast where they interview a couple folks from the site reliability engineering team. I think this is the one: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/12/podcast-111-sre-occasi... Somewhere in there, one of the SREs said something that's stuck with me. Roughly, he said that the concept of human error is useless. Every time a human error escalates into a real problem, the deeper problem is a design flaw. At scale, human errors are a certainty, and, while documentation and training is far from useless, no amount of it can change that fact. It's ther"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 26182889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182889", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1613669897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You may like the British History Podcast. It is an excellent and detailed look at British history starting with prehistory and are currently covering the period just prior to the Norman invasion. They do a good job giving context and connecting events. https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26183508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26183508", "by": "tmfi", "time": 1613672647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26199517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26199517", "by": "kingaillas", "time": 1613777691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't edit and add to my comment... so new post. Basically what I think we're dancing around, is that perhaps the current business of model of restaurants is busted and has to change, post covid. The old model is rent a large space for indoor dining, cook/serve the food, sell high margin alcoholic drinks ;), plan for a steady stream of events/holidays (valentine's day, mother's/father's day, etc), try to locate near other office workers for a steady lunch customer base, and so on. Maybe that doesn't work as well post-covid due to work-from-home a large shift to ordering out. I mean rent alon"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26215642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26215642", "by": "onetom", "time": 1613931126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recommended \"literature\": 1. 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA ) 2. Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160 ( https://youtu.be/krB0enBeSiE )"}, {"show": "1099277290", "hn_item": 26220215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220215", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1613961919, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Very roughly : US GNP $21 Trillion China $14 Trillion Using PPP US $21 Tn (obv) China $28 Tn (!!!) China can buy more stuff from itself each year than US. It just cannot buy the most sophisticated stuff yet. This is presumably why the report puts \"reshoring\" and building out 21C manufacturing top of its priority list. source: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/macro-musings-with-dav... (worth listening too !)"}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 26227835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227835", "by": "tufirhawat", "time": 1614016938, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1476405424", "hn_item": 26231320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231320", "by": "larsiusprime", "time": 1614031642, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 26234502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234502", "by": "hestefisk", "time": 1614063063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revenue from news sources is a very small part of FBs revenue base. At least according to the episode of Pivot podcast where Prof Scott Galloway covered that question."}, {"show": "1325288920", "hn_item": 26240484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240484", "by": "mvh", "time": 1614103411, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My dad (professor at University of Arizona) interviewed Shanna Swan, a scientist profiled in this article, recently. Anyone interested can find the episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reproductive-health-sh..."}, {"show": "296237493", "hn_item": 26242298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26242298", "by": "cwwc", "time": 1614111240, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 26249032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26249032", "by": "agbell", "time": 1614168087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Conversations with Tyler - Deep Questions With Cal Newport - CoRecursive - Coding Stories (This is my own podcast, so not a listener so much as a creator)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26249938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26249938", "by": "derangedHorse", "time": 1614175717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon Musk actually commented that he had no idea of this thing's existence on Joe Rogan's podcast"}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 26250411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250411", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1614178253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The grid hasn't progressed much since the Red Scare\" -- that's a vast overstatement. The amount of changes in the last 60+ years since McCarthy's day has been tremendous. We've seen numerous technological advancements like solar, wind, gas, which provide new electrons from new distributed locales. We've seen new transmission projects, not as many as ideal admittedly. There have been new pipelines and new drilling technologies, enabling natural gas peakers while we work out renewable storage. We've also seen a decarbonization of the dirtiest coal and oil plants -- do you consider huge public h"}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 26250411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250411", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1614178253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The grid hasn't progressed much since the Red Scare\" -- that's a vast overstatement. The amount of changes in the last 60+ years since McCarthy's day has been tremendous. We've seen numerous technological advancements like solar, wind, gas, which provide new electrons from new distributed locales. We've seen new transmission projects, not as many as ideal admittedly. There have been new pipelines and new drilling technologies, enabling natural gas peakers while we work out renewable storage. We've also seen a decarbonization of the dirtiest coal and oil plants -- do you consider huge public h"}, {"show": "1554305438", "hn_item": 26250945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250945", "by": "daniellenewnham", "time": 1614180807, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1403202032", "hn_item": 26250959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250959", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1614180858, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Anyone trying to understand Michael Saylor\u2019s reasoning should listen to this podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-standard-p... He goes into great detail his logic and reasoning for doing the purchase, why he thinking it\u2019s a good investment, etc. Going to give you a much richer understanding than the spitballing you\u2019ll find in these comments."}, {"show": "1498802610", "hn_item": 26251319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251319", "by": "dkobran", "time": 1614182417, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Your balance sheet is either cash, which can evaporate overnight due to rampant inflation which many economists are predicting, or you can convert some or all of that to BTC. As a company, you need to manage your cash. Companies invest their balance sheet in debt, money markets, etc. That doesn\u2019t imply that you are somehow a fund. You have no choice but to manage your cash. I recommend just reading Michael Saylor\u2019s posts or listen to this podcast which provides a good summary of their thinking: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1VwUjvMNeoOeyiQwP3im6G?si=z..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26251494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251494", "by": "rtrdea", "time": 1614183144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the podcast 99% Invisible about generic products"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26254703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26254703", "by": "hammock", "time": 1614196054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt it was something beyond anything we know or understand. [\u2026] I have concerns, but I don\u2019t think we can do anything about it. I think this is beyond us. So: Quit worrying about it.\u201d --Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, who actually experienced the Rendlesham Forest incident Col Halt is not a UFO researcher. He has other primary duties. David Fravor (the tic tac guy) does a good job on Lex Fridman's podcast of explaining why the folks that experience these things can't/don't/won't do anything about it. Basically it's somebody else's job. So don't blame them."}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 26259399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26259399", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1614224041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As heard in the Nature podcast. I seem to remember Omni magazine being big on lucid dreaming in the eighties."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 26267657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26267657", "by": "scudd", "time": 1614284071, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a good On the Metal podcast with Jonathan Blow as the guest, where he talks about his experience with the Cell processor. He also states that in his experience, the idea didn't really pan out. https://open.spotify.com/episode/66a1dd3c2CbXLgTtMmaXUt?si=5..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 26269406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269406", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1614293772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't listened to this episode, but John was great when he went on the On The Metal podcast[1]. 1. https://oxide.computer/podcast/on-the-metal-11-john-graham-c..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26271847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271847", "by": "jereees", "time": 1614320476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Original title was Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #163"}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 26276918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26276918", "by": "AaronM", "time": 1614358806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Trash Taste Podcast on YouTube interviews an animator working in Japan (Ken Arto), really fascinating, and directly related to this discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ulkFRXkvQ"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 26277394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277394", "by": "gerash", "time": 1614360826, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26285703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285703", "by": "tpmx", "time": 1614442159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Makes me think of the two Lex Fridman podcasts with Jim Keller. The second one (last week) got quite fun/loose. It's clear that Jim is constantly reading/actively improving, sometimes doing kinda unusual things, like having a specific strategy for priming his REM sleep by thinking a lot about some current problem combined with some kind of meditation exercise."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26285892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285892", "by": "6pac3rings", "time": 1614443605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Does anyone have insight on what implications follow from Jim Keller's Tenstorrent graph processing chip? He speculates the future may have a $5 add-on chip to a child's toy which will have more intelligence than a human on #162 Lex Fridman Podcast. I get how the single threaded raster pixel gpu architecture is less evolved than a graph processor."}, {"show": "1525955817", "hn_item": 26288364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26288364", "by": "occz", "time": 1614461488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast How to Save a Planet had a good episode about this subject. I liked the part about how the interview subject planned to finance this very beneficial technology for the masses. Check it out here: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/mehklx8?utm_s..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 26291028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26291028", "by": "saxelsen", "time": 1614491820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Darknet Diaries podcast episode about Hacker Giraffe, a guy who hacked 50,000 open printers to tell the owners their devices were exposed."}, {"show": "1204701206", "hn_item": 26293056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26293056", "by": "86____", "time": 1614516825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of this site was on the No Dumb Questions podcast earlier this month, and gives a great background of the site. Well worth a listen. Here's a PocketCast link for anyone interested. https://pca.st/episode/6c543b4d-fe29-41be-a826-d3ad52bbfaa6"}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 26301834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26301834", "by": "Jgrubb", "time": 1614599334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good intro to this project from last summer or so on the Data Engineering Podcast. It's actually a project within Gitlab iirc"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 26315538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26315538", "by": "mumblemumble", "time": 1614694713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great interview with Matt Godbolt on the CoRecursive podcast: https://corecursive.com/to-the-assembly/ Touches on a lot of good reasons why someone might still want to understand assembly in this day and age."}, {"show": "1134439359", "hn_item": 26319470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26319470", "by": "scottbucks", "time": 1614713836, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "323127331", "hn_item": 26320543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26320543", "by": "Bluestein", "time": 1614718453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"In a fun episode on one of my favorite podcasts, Elucidations (Episode 42, 12/12/12), philosopher Agust\u00edn Rayo argues that the number zero exists independently of human thought and behavior.\""}, {"show": "1259360349", "hn_item": 26331415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26331415", "by": "scottbucks", "time": 1614791791, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26335927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26335927", "by": "knz_", "time": 1614811742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The entire development team would have walked if he stayed. Nobody wants to work with someone who hasn't done anything technically relevant in 30 years and can't seem to stop pushing his far-right views in places where they are irrelevant. Just a few weeks ago he went on an anti-Fauci and anti-mask conspiracy rant in the thread about him appearing on Lex Fridman's podcast, when nobody was even discussing politics."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 26341386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26341386", "by": "spiralx", "time": 1614859938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"dirtbag left\" is a particular segment of leftist podcasters who called themselves that e.g. the hosts of the Chapo Trap House podcast. The other statement seems toxic however."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 26343583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343583", "by": "tamatech", "time": 1614871669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Look into corpus callosum separation (split-brain) and some of the experiments that have been performed after this procedure. Fascinating displays of two separate consciousnesses. Sam Harris' Making Sense Podcast #234 had Iain McGilchrist to discuss this in some detail."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 26344469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26344469", "by": "superbcarrot", "time": 1614875437, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's still very debatable whether advertising works at all, not just targeted but in general. And if it does, the extent is questionable too. Freakonomics had a very good episode on this a few months ago - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26347120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347120", "by": "imbnwa", "time": 1614886705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Something I consider maintenance work is refactoring of systems as new projects are planned/implemented. Everyone knows it\u2019s a bad idea to just bolt on more and more \u201cfeature\u201d work without thinking systemically, then we all point at \u201csystemic\u201d issues in retrospective meetings. When the great CPU architect Stephen Keller was on Lex Fridman's podcast, he made a comment that architectures should be refactored every 5 years and I thought to myself, \"Good luck with that in Enterprise\" as I looked over at the 10+ year old legacy infrastructure holding back org-level velocity at work"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26351349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26351349", "by": "pantelisk", "time": 1614908451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, I am with you. I really like Joscha Bach's theory that our brains hallucinate ourselves, almost as a fantasy character that goes through life. (checkout his appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, mind blowing talk by Joscha)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26352521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26352521", "by": "gabrielsroka", "time": 1614916966, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 26361881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26361881", "by": "psmithsfhn", "time": 1614977269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I plan on launching a B2B and B2C solution soon. My strategy in a general sense will be to: * re-listen to all the Indie Hackers podcasts and take notes * stay patient I heard one guy say it may take months or years, but as a B2B, you will absolutely win, eventually, you just have to keep at it, keep iterating, etc. And, in the beginning, anything more than a 0% interest in your product is great. In short, a lot of the advice is....plan to keep working at it for a long time. If you can achieve that, there is a good change that you will be successful. Most people give up way too soon. Mark Cuba"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 26373883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373883", "by": "jorgenveisdal", "time": 1615100862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the podcast \u2018Very Bad Wizards\u2019 and their episodes about Borges"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 26382936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26382936", "by": "josephg", "time": 1615186673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep. I wish I could remember the details, but in one of the episodes of the On The Metal podcast they talked to someone who backported meltdown/spectre to a bunch of CPUs which are decades old, or really exotic. I don\u2019t know why, but there\u2019s something really surprising to me about how far reaching the issues are, when you pull them back to first principles."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 26387247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26387247", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1615219851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Something that I think is rarely discussed when this topic comes up is the loss of prestige. Working for The New York Times or The New Yorker used to have some weight with pretty much everyone in the country. That is no longer the case. It hasn't been so for at least a couple of decades. Extremely erudite-yet-mostly-apolitical people like Lewis Lapham [1] went to literary magazines and high-end journalism a half-century ago, whereas today they almost certainly avoid it. I can't name a single person that I'd consider the modern equivalent of Lapham, or even Christopher Hitchens. In some sense, "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 26387914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26387914", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1615222236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many of the people doing the best work in podcasting are journalists, make no mistake! Many who either are currently or formerly were at NPR, rotating long time contributors to This American Life, etc. For the most part, podcast reporting is closer to magazine reporting than newspapers. ('Democracy Now' is maybe the exception that proves the rule?) But given the survival rate of magazines at this point in history, it's obvious that podcasts are where you're going to see more innovation."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 26390908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390908", "by": "jve", "time": 1615234583, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because that was what the main developer and founder Jeff Atwood was familiar with. And he really liked the stack. > Atwood: We are not personally going to be language agnostic, because we need to actually build the site. And in terms of people actually working on it, Joel's in an advisory role, I'm gonna be writing code, and then a friend of mine, Jarrod, I'll be working very closely with. So it's sort of like 1.5 developers, so I need to actually get things done. In order to do that, I'm gonna fall back on what I know, and what I know is essentially ASP.NET. So ASP.NET is gonna be the platfo"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 26396013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26396013", "by": "SnackBar", "time": 1615271129, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 26396014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26396014", "by": "SnackBar", "time": 1615271129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman Lab is a podcast from Andrew D. Huberman. He is a Professor of Neurobiology and of Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. The focus of his podcast is not only to give you information on how our brain and nervous system works and interacts with our body. He also provides you with usefull tools to leverage the scientific findings to your advantage and imroove your everyday life. The topics so far include improving/optimizing sleep, learning and focus, managing pain, traumata and stress. If you look into the comments on his videos you'll find many more interesting topics to come i"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26396639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26396639", "by": "smt88", "time": 1615278885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can say that you disagree with Twitter's moderation choices if you want. That has nothing to do with this lawsuit. The lawsuit is saying that the Texas government is abusing its power to pressure Twitter to publish, distribute, and tacitly endorse things that Twitter has chosen not to. That's exactly what the First Amendment is intending to stop. > the concept that if the government can't do it, we probably shouldn't be doing it to each other The government's behavior is more restricted because it has a monopoly on many types of power (law creation and enforcement, for example). The purpos"}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 26399264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399264", "by": "drice", "time": 1615301244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was discussed on the Software Engineering Radio podcast recently: https://www.se-radio.net/2021/02/episode-447-michael-perry-o... I have found this podcast is excellent for getting an overview of subjects like this."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 26405307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405307", "by": "notJim", "time": 1615329114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard a podcast (sadly hidden behind another wonderful platform startup's paywall) featuring Judith Bennett, who is a scholar on this topic, and IIRC she makes the argument that what really drove women out of brewing was access to capital and to markets. When brewing was a smalltime village affair, it was easy for women to participate, because they would make beer for their local markets and their family. The beer didn't last very long, partly because they didn't have hops yet, so transporting it over long distances wasn't really possible. As hops were adopted, people started transporting be"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 26407316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407316", "by": "Eric_WVGG", "time": 1615345887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m surprised nobody burned me for this comment, HN usually frowns on snark ;) But I would like to add a constructive note: I\u2019ve been dabbling around the RSS space for a long time, including a ten-year-old feed service and web client. In my opinion, RSS has failed where centralized social media succeeded largely because of discoverability. I\u2019ve put RSS clients in front of plenty of users, and the response is invariably, \u201cokay, now what?\u201d Using a bookmarklet to subscribe to feeds is confusing and unnatural to them. They want getting The Atlantic RSS feed to be as easy as following The Atlantic "}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 26412737, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26412737", "by": "dangerboysteve", "time": 1615392729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "prof Scott Galloway has been screaming about this for some time on his Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher."}, {"show": "1537457578", "hn_item": 26415093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26415093", "by": "scottbucks", "time": 1615404476, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "566985370", "hn_item": 26423183, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26423183", "by": "ElectricMind", "time": 1615464735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Does this mean Google wants to track you directly and not allow others to do the same? I heard on Seth Godin podcast, this is cunning move by Google so that advertiser will not know whether ads on google are actually working or not"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 26429625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429625", "by": "2muchcoffeeman", "time": 1615500439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the Cautionary Tales podcast (I know, I know, Gladwell) and one episode featured Fukushima. Apparently follow ups of the evacuees suggest that we may have only given them an extra few days of life on average. The stress of uprooting people had nearly as large a health impact as the potential radiation. And not all of the evacuated area is uninhabitable. It was abandoned as a precaution. Even if Fukushima is uninhabitable for 100 years, that could be a small price to pay to counter climate change. I don\u2019t think the anti nuclear crowd are taking climate change as seriously as "}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 26434044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26434044", "by": "anotherhue", "time": 1615544139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was recently covered on the excellent (and my personal favourite) podcast Futility Closet https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/01/11/podcast-episode-32... It seems to predate the linked article by about a month."}, {"show": "1268047665", "hn_item": 26436198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26436198", "by": "ak_25", "time": 1615559633, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast talks about this. Casteism is a disgusting remanent of Hinduism \u2014 the least someone can do is be AWARE of their privilege and ensure that they are inclusive and fair to their fellow citizens regardless of caste or race. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rough-translation/id12..."}, {"show": "1069871378", "hn_item": 26438873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438873", "by": "frag", "time": 1615572828, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 26441157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441157", "by": "Felk", "time": 1615584366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep, it's a direct quote I remembered from the Changelog Podcast #201 \"Why SQLite succeeded as a database\" starting at timestamp 15:58 https://changelog.com/podcast/201"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 26455491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455491", "by": "loceng", "time": 1615730424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein (The Portal podcast on Youtube) has run into a similar problem with physics. He's a mathematician by trade and over the last 37 years has developed a new theory of everything he calls Geometric Unity. He wasn't able to make any headway into the physics community for a long time - and so now instead he's educating people about what he calls DISC and GIN - about the problems with these systems, and building his own audience of people while waiting for peers to get interested in learning/understanding his theory. It's happened in health too, arguably it has in all subjects, whether"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 26459130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26459130", "by": "specialist", "time": 1615755628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ya. I started chewing thru History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast last year. It's been great. Learning that many of our current debates are millennia old helped me calm down. Regrettably, since I skipped college, my awareness of the classics and liberal arts is very deficient. Now I firmly believe K-12 curriculum should include (age appropriate) ethics, civics, classics, logics, epistemology, etc. In response to \"fake news\", some progressives are advocating \"media literacy\". That's not nearly ambitious enough."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26469133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469133", "by": "sibeliuss", "time": 1615842532, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 26469366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469366", "by": "jorl17", "time": 1615843857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've played Universal Paperclips from start to finish 4 times! I loved it. In fact, I loved it so much the last time around that I wanted to have another game \"somewhat like it\" in the background -- that's where the recent Cookie Clicker tab came from. I always recommend Universal Paperclips to people who don't like cookie clicker games, because I fell in love with it the first time I tried it (heard of it from the Hello Internet podcast)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26472607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26472607", "by": "practicalpants", "time": 1615865140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure why so downvoted. I recall a psychedelics advocate/former Vice reporter on the Joe Rogan podcast couple years back who warned how his good friend had a schizophrenic break after doing shrooms. Likely some medical pre-dispositions in place, but it's not a risk free activity. I read Michael Pollan's How to Change your Mind, and concluded that it's a richer if not safer experience if you're older/figured out yourself, e.g. have more set grooves in your brain where psychedelics can help you realize new connections; and that it's probably actually pretty risky if you're young, confused, an"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 26485333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26485333", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1615943215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As heard in the People Fixing the World podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p099r62z"}, {"show": "1543617436", "hn_item": 26487640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26487640", "by": "ublaze", "time": 1615966458, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1552069504", "hn_item": 26489847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26489847", "by": "Ploskin", "time": 1615982423, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "That's quite the lengthy article. Interesting topic though. I recently stumbled over the Astray podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astray/id1552069504 ) which is also a decent look at the psychological risks (and maybe easier to consume than a 6000 word essay)."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 26490643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26490643", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1615986754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Blocked and Reported is founded by liberals who are tired of this. Highly recommend."}, {"show": "1159251584", "hn_item": 26498399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26498399", "by": "bruckie", "time": 1616026465, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Brady Heywood podcast ( https://www.bradyheywood.com.au/podcasts/ ) is great. It analyzes engineering failures, and is produced by a guy who's part of a forensic engineering consultancy. The Apollo 13 series of episodes was gripping, and they're some of my favorite podcast episodes I've ever listened to. Way more technical detail about Apollo 13 than I had been exposed to before, along with amazing story telling. (Those episodes start here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/apollo-13-teaser/id115... )"}, {"show": "1454097755", "hn_item": 26503890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26503890", "by": "bootstrapper101", "time": 1616082470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you love what you are doing, it will give you the drive to keep doing it. Listen to Naval's podcast about \"How to get rich\". He knows how to put ideas much better than me. There are no shortcuts and if I tell you my winning lottery number after claiming the prize, it's not worth anything. Discover how you can provide value in your own unique way."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26514815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514815", "by": "Ductapemaster", "time": 1616169317, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an episode of the podcast Planet Money that gives a relatively good overview within the context of a recent high-value art sale Podcast: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/12/976513031/the-69-million-jpeg Another episode of interest: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975450173/the-200k-nba-nft"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 26522500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522500", "by": "prennert", "time": 1616241028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have not read the novel, but put it on my reading list a few days back when I discovered it in the best reads list of \"The complete Review\" [1], which in turn I discovered via the excellent Conversations with Tyler [2] podcast which I started listening to in order a week or two back. I discovered this in a roundabout way via Hackernews (was mentioned in unrelated linked posts multiple times lately) Why this comment? If you don't know, please check out the fantastic Conversations with Tyler podcast. And if you are looking for a very diverse, entertaining and informative podcast, try it. Also "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26523798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26523798", "by": "danso", "time": 1616254124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money just did a 25 minute podcast with the inventor on the business side of making the pasta, including getting the patent, manufacturing the die, and finding a pasta maker who would agree to produce a limited run: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/979274990/the-new-shape-of-pa..."}, {"show": "1454097755", "hn_item": 26525108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525108", "by": "bootstrapper101", "time": 1616265974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you are a bit all over the place. I would suggest a few things: Go through Naval's podcast \"How to get rich\". Listen it once a month for 4 months. Make notes and see how his suggestions apply to you. Focus on the things that you disagree with and understand why do you disagree with them. Now on to my feedback: You are worrying too much about big competitors getting you out of business or idea already launched. Unless your product has a very small market, there is always opportunities for new players. Looks at the instant messaging space over the time we have had IRC, MSN, Yahoo Messeng"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 26526909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26526909", "by": "splittingTimes", "time": 1616283503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools has a whole pot cast on how to pre-wire meetings https://files.manager-tools.com/files/private/podcast/mp3/ma..."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 26528077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528077", "by": "biren34", "time": 1616300367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this kind of content, I'm really enjoying the latest season of the Tides of History podcast. He's focused on prehistory in quite a compelling way: https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 26532627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26532627", "by": "hellothrow4418", "time": 1616351223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just FYI. There's 'The History of Rome' podcast by Mike Duncan [1]. 'AntennaPod' is a great FLOSS podcast app. Available on Fdroid too [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast) [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/"}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 26534606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26534606", "by": "aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA", "time": 1616364592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend \u201cThe Dropout\u201d podcast. Very well done, lots of great interviews. https://abcaudio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 26537677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537677", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1616396983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is why most of the stuff I listen to as a podcast are just random factoids and trivia. (No Such Thing as A Fish, Cautionary Tales, 99pi, etc) If it's something I actually want to learn and retain, I prefer text so that I can go back, pause, skip etc as I please with an intuitive interface - my eyes =) The same thing with interviews of interesting people I may want to store quotes from. With text it's just C-c C-v to copy stuff to my notes. With audio I need to transcribe it by hand, which is tedious work."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 26539471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26539471", "by": "MaxBarraclough", "time": 1616413228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At the risk of pedantically zooming in on your choice of words: > I only listen to podcasts that are well-produced and edited. Very few actually are. I disagree. Good production is a nice extra, but it's secondary. I'd rather listen to Miles Davis on vinyl, than a mediocre musician on high-bitrate FLAC. Some examples: I recently discovered the Happy Path Programming podcast. It's a good listen as the hosts are knowledgeable and insightful. The production quality is fine, but isn't at the professional standard. The hosts acknowledge this, but make no apology for it, on the grounds that they don"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 26540616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540616", "by": "sebastien_b", "time": 1616420448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pretty sure that title was coined by Steve Gibson on his Security Now! podcast[1] (at least that's where I've first/only heard it). [1] https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-586.htm"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 26540629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540629", "by": "Eremotherium", "time": 1616420493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Or if you want the story as a podcast I can wholeheartedly recommend this episode (and the podcast in its entirety) of Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/54/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 26540822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540822", "by": "ullevaal", "time": 1616421417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Pretty sure that title was coined by Steve Gibson on his Security Now! podcast In your source he explicitly says he does not know who the originator is. > I don't know who the originator was because I saw it coming from several different sources over the past week. But I just love this. I mean, I liked the acronym IDIOT, I-D-I-O-T, which of course stands for I Don't Internet of Things. But I think even better is this slogan: \"The 'S' in IOT Is for Security.\""}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 26542899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26542899", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1616429907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I was getting at was more the fact that even if you record 3 hours of stuff, you don't need to put the unedited 3 hours out. It can be recorded on a potato microphone on a clay disk for all I care, just spend some time in the edit and cut it down to a manageable size. There are very few podcasts that can stay on topic and interesting past the 1 - 1.5 hour mark. The only exception to this rule are the Christopher McQuarrie Spoiler Special episodes of the Empire Podcast (now behind a firewall). The dude can keep spewing fascinating stuff about his movies longer than the movies' combined run"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26547867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547867", "by": "Uninen", "time": 1616450471, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a recent episode of Joe Rogan podcast (#1616) with Jamie Metzl that goes quite deep in this very topic: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aitKgecZ0fPKjT15no5jU?si=h... He's also published a blog post titled \"Origins of SARS-CoV-2\" on his Web site: https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/"}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 26550141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550141", "by": "Rendello", "time": 1616465104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A similar podcast, Malicious Life, just released a two-part episode about it too: https://malicious.life/episode/episode-106/"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 26553185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553185", "by": "say_it_as_it_is", "time": 1616494446, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Brett Weinstein spoke about this theory several times in the last year. You can hear him discuss it on his Dark Horse podcast relatively often. Here is one episode dedicated to it entirely: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bret-weinstein-and-yur..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 26554185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554185", "by": "christophergs", "time": 1616502205, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, that is definitely a key challenge for authors. If you have an existing email list or social media following it is a lot easier. Indie Hackers is a good community for learning about that side of things. I also interview course creators on my podcast: https://coursemaker.org/podcast/ If you're starting from scratch, it can make sense to validate something on a marketplace like Udemy and then next time do your own thing (or you are allowed to sell on both Udemy and your own site too)"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 26554570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554570", "by": "Symmetry", "time": 1616505245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the Arms Control Wonk Podcast and they often go into open source analysis of North Korean or Saudi or whoever's current projects based on finding test sites with pictures from this sort of commercial satellite imagery. Recommend if you think that sounds interesting. https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/"}, {"show": "1559275284", "hn_item": 26560766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560766", "by": "wojtczyk", "time": 1616535934, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 26561810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561810", "by": "cuddlybacon", "time": 1616543200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've noticed on Hacker News a tendency where people declare phones to be distracting for them and thus the only solution is to stop using them. I've been listening to the Cortex podcast recently. It is a productivity podcast by CGP Grey (youtuber) and Myke Hurley (runs a podcasting company). There is a big focus on the tech they use and how they make the most of it. There is a large focus their phones and iPads. They both would probably agree that the garden-path with modern smartphones is a distracting mess. But where they differ is that assuming that means all hope is lost. They are quite ad"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26563138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26563138", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1616555454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who enjoy podcasts, 99% Invisible talked about this in an episode last year. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-8... It\u2019s an excellent show covering a broad swatch of topics. I generally learn things from their reporting. The episode on Froebel blocks was captivating to me. I\u2019m awaiting my niece\u2019s third bday to buy her a set (choking hazard)."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 26565312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565312", "by": "Treblemaker", "time": 1616580227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a very interesting Omega Tau podcast about this very subject a while back. They go into a lot of detail about the optimization problem and how they address it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-146-conta... Also: a plug for Omega Tau, one of my favorite podcasts. https://omegataupodcast.net Edited to add: go to the Archive page and scroll down. About half the episodes are in English and half in German."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 26565372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565372", "by": "Treblemaker", "time": 1616580863, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 26565765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565765", "by": "gimboland", "time": 1616584903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"Containers\" also covers how shipping containers have shaped the mordern world \u2014 well worth a listen, though I don't recall it mentioning this aspect of their logistics."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 26567509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26567509", "by": "WhompingWindows", "time": 1616595409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I agree that race has been discussed a lot in the past few years, especially on places like NPR or Sam Harris's podcast or in politics, the reality is: poor people are often minorities, and poor people have to do more of their own car repairs than rich people. In general, if laws are related to socioeconomic status, they are also related to race indirectly."}, {"show": "1559275284", "hn_item": 26569103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569103", "by": "PartiallyTyped", "time": 1616602220, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26570346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570346", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1616607076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder how this will compare to Lex Fridman's podcast?"}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 26573107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573107", "by": "slg", "time": 1616620952, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "People curious about Mensa should check out Jamie Loftus's podcast My Year In Mensa[1]. She is a writer/journalist/comedian who wanted to investigate the organization. She passed the test, joined Mensa, and was immediately ostracized once she began reporting on her experience. I'll just charitably summarize it to say that there are a variety of reasons why people join Mensa and many join for reasons outside what we might consider traditional \"intellectual pursuits\". I don't think their members are truly representative of people with high IQs or I at least hope not. [1] - https://podcasts.apple"}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 26573381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573381", "by": "TheKnack", "time": 1616622376, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One can just listed to the podcast \"My Year in Mensa\" to confirm this as a major issue with this research. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id149..."}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 26573400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573400", "by": "TheKnack", "time": 1616622483, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The \"My Year in Mensa\" podcast is a good (and entertaining) way to understand some of what really goes on in Mensa, and what type of people are likely to join. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-year-in-mensa/id149..."}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 26586128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26586128", "by": "cricalix", "time": 1616710039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, they fall off of ships all the time, especially in rough weather (all the time is hyperbole, but it absolutely happens). So sure, you can probably push one off with a pretty big lever, but shipping containers are actually designed to \"clip\" together to an extent, to make the load more solid. Problem is, the canal is only about 24 metres deep, so you're going to end up blocking the canal with containers instead if you just push them off. The modern shipping world is all about containers, container cranes, and container ships. 99 Percent Invisible hosted some episodes of the Containers pod"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 26586128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26586128", "by": "cricalix", "time": 1616710039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, they fall off of ships all the time, especially in rough weather (all the time is hyperbole, but it absolutely happens). So sure, you can probably push one off with a pretty big lever, but shipping containers are actually designed to \"clip\" together to an extent, to make the load more solid. Problem is, the canal is only about 24 metres deep, so you're going to end up blocking the canal with containers instead if you just push them off. The modern shipping world is all about containers, container cranes, and container ships. 99 Percent Invisible hosted some episodes of the Containers pod"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 26588558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26588558", "by": "floetic", "time": 1616730422, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1289062927", "hn_item": 26604697, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26604697", "by": "whereis", "time": 1616872574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If China takes Taiwan, that would shift the balance of power due to Taiwan's role as the leading global chip fabricator. The most recent episode of the podcast ChinaTalk, \"China's Chip Dreams\", dated March 26, 2021, is relevant."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 26607220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26607220", "by": "pilsetnieks", "time": 1616894752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The (now fallen from grace) Reply All podcast did a pretty good episode on this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 26607284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26607284", "by": "Judgmentality", "time": 1616895731, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The (now fallen from grace) Reply All podcast Wow, I did not hear about that and that was one of my favorite podcasts. Currently reading as I write this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/business/media/reply-all-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26611232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611232", "by": "specialist", "time": 1616945944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nice. Will now read about \"no rentiers\". I'm curious about the consensus use cases. Most of my interest is around authenticity. Provenance, verifiability, identity, and so forth. Ian Goodfellow articulated my own hunches, beliefs about this: Detecting fraud, fakes, lies is a non-starter. Authenticity has to be out of band. So sign your works, and then record it on some trusted blockchain. Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) | Lex Fridman Podcast #19 [2019] https://youtu.be/Z6rxFNMGdn0?t=3329 Goodfellow is the first person I've read (or heard) that espouses this pretty basic,"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 26611817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26611817", "by": "radihuq", "time": 1616950034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is true, Chamath from Social Capital mentioned it towards the end of the recent All-In podcast"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 26617714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26617714", "by": "brianpan", "time": 1616992192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a relevant Radiolab episode about the right to be forgotten. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/radio..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 26617755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26617755", "by": "billbrown", "time": 1616992736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omega Tau Podcast had a great episode about this company and project: https://omegataupodcast.net/299-gravity-storage/"}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 26620155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26620155", "by": "twright", "time": 1617017794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is one of the more unsympathetic and arm-chairy threads on HN I\u2019ve seen in a while. It would appear that no one here has had an experience, tangential or otherwise, with eating disorders and are hypothesizing on it like some article on arxiv. A relative of mine has had an eating disorder their entire life, they look like a walking skeleton. In grad-school one year I went from 160 to 130 pounds because eating regular meals was often \u201cinconvenient\u201d, I\u2019m 6\u20192\u201d. To respond to comments here: Eating disorders are different from alcohol and substance abuse because no one expects you to do those t"}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 26622442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26622442", "by": "divbzero", "time": 1617029077, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The website offers related book recommendations. I would also recommend Alex Madrigal\u2019s Containers podcast series. [1] [2] [3] [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/containers/id120955917... \"iTunes\" [2]: https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg \"SoundCloud\" [3]: https://www.stitcher.com/show/containers \"Stitcher\""}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 26622442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26622442", "by": "divbzero", "time": 1617029077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The website offers related book recommendations. I would also recommend Alex Madrigal\u2019s Containers podcast series. [1] [2] [3] [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/containers/id120955917... \"iTunes\" [2]: https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg \"SoundCloud\" [3]: https://www.stitcher.com/show/containers \"Stitcher\""}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 26628537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628537", "by": "SllX", "time": 1617054071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well about that. There is presently a case before SCOTUS regarding a law in California that allows union organizers to go onto private farm property and sell their message to the workers there if the workers quarters are not accessible to organizers otherwise up to some defined amount of time for up to some defined amount of days out of the year. Google tells me 3 hours a day, 120 days a year. It is being argued by the property owner\u2019s that this is a taking. Not even a regulatory taking, just a straight up taking. Here we go: Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid ( https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files"}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 26629431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629431", "by": "bklaasen", "time": 1617059109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What Stallman said in 2019, and how the media has mischaracterised that, is largely beside the point in the current kerfuffle. What's problematic is that Stallman has resumed a role at the FSF without any community input. Paying FSF members and associates didn't get a say in the matter; it was presented as a _fait accompli_. The wider free software movement is being badly served by the current FSF leadership. The FSF's governance process is secretive, undemocratic and no longer fit for purpose. There's a very good quality discussion about that on the FLOSS Weekly podcast episode 622[1] from 20"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 26631436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631436", "by": "afarrell", "time": 1617081175, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ADHD-PI here. I use a version of Pomodoro technique with adaptations inspired by Leadership is Language by David Marquet and by what Prof. Andrew Huberman says about Dopamine. Blue: Come up with my intended outcome. Set a duration from 10 to 45 minutes in proportion to my intuitive confidence that I am \u201con the right path\u201d. If I am spending too long in blue, then say the thing I\u2019m most anxious about. State a hypothesis about it and frame my intended outcome as a test of that hypothesis. Red: Execute at speed while still noting any surprises in a notebook. Blue: Reflect on what I\u2019ve produced and"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 26649319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26649319", "by": "Bluestein", "time": 1617208305, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 26666742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666742", "by": "honkycat", "time": 1617314608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't like anti-natalism for the same reason I don't like anti-theism and militant veganism: It isn't an effective strategy for convincing people, and does little other than make people more set in their ways due to the backfire effect. [0] A lot of this conversation leads from the millennial baby bust. There is a podcast called \"Chapo Trap House\" that talked about the baby bust ( they are pro-natalist if you were curious ), and I think they put it well: We have stopped believing in the future. Constant economic downturns, the rise of fascism, the continued destruction of our environment and"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26677321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26677321", "by": "gabrielsroka", "time": 1617409816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed listening to Cal on the Lex Fridman podcast a few weeks ago. https://youtu.be/y3Umo_jd5AA"}, {"show": "1558441385", "hn_item": 26684400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684400", "by": "nickik", "time": 1617481315, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have looked into this quite a bit. Non of the materials in the battery are really scares. Building up the capacity both in terms of mining and refining will likely be slower then demand growth however, so in the next 5-10 years its hard to say raw material input prices coming down a huge amount. This effectively generates a lower bound in the mid term for battery prices. However, its not as bad as it sound. Depending on how you build your battery, the inputs are much cheaper. Iron Phosphate cathodes (LFP) are much, much cheaper. Manganese cathodes are also quite cheap and will be entering th"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 26686507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26686507", "by": "bumby", "time": 1617504345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I second this. In first heard him speak on Peter Attia\u2019s podcast https://peterattiamd.com/bjmiller/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26689525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26689525", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1617545510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's also contradictory to the answer Feyneman gave in his \"Aunt Minnie is in the hospital\" story in response to being asked \"If you get hold of two magnets, and you push them, you can feel this pushing between them. Turn them around the other way, and they slam together. Now, what is it, the feeling between those two magnets?\": https://fs.blog/2012/01/richard-feynman-on-why-questions A somewhat similar approach can be taken to the simulation question itself - rather than the default response of pondering the likelihood of it being true or how it might be implemented, I much prefer the ~\"Is th"}, {"show": "1543617436", "hn_item": 26695318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26695318", "by": "ublaze", "time": 1617596397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been thinking about this with my software podcast too! ( https://softwareatscale.dev ). Was thinking of posting something similar here. You already have more downloads than I do, so you can take my advice with a grain of salt. - My written articles have done well and drove a bunch of signups to my newsletter. That introduces people to the podcast (substack lets me do combined newsletter/podcast). People are more likely to share and read articles, and the really interested ones tend to listen to the show as well. - I use Descript to make YouTube clips of the show, and link to the full epis"}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 26698429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698429", "by": "mmcconnell1618", "time": 1617628170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scott Galloway made an interesting point in this Land of the Giants podcast about Amazon. He points out that Amazon convinced Wall Street it doesn't need to show profits and can reinvest more capital into growth than their competitors. Walmart and Target are expected to show profits to their investors on a quarterly basis while Amazon (and Netflix in this case) get to invest more cash that isn't taxed yet. This gives them a competitive advantage unless Walmart can convince investors that it will stop showing profits in order to reinvest in some growth opportunity. https://podcasts.google.com/f"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26700538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26700538", "by": "misiti3780", "time": 1617637730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the last Elon/Rogan podcast, he talked about range and said that at a certain point it really doesnt matter, because most people just end up carrying around the extra range and never using it. That number is probably around 400 miles"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 26706053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26706053", "by": "asdfasgasdgasdg", "time": 1617665587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As cynical as this take is, you aren't alone in thinking it. This has been a repeating theme among some Bernie Sanders/economic left folks. For example, the concept that the center uses racial politics against the economic left to defuse their efforts has been discussed a number of times on the Chapo Trap House podcast. I'm personally not sure whether I subscribe to this belief, but I can see how people might feel this way."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26709120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26709120", "by": "cblconfederate", "time": 1617694564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you needed to know everything about the pandemic, all you needed to listen was Michael Osterholm's interview in Joe Rogan podcast before the pandemic began. I m sure people would be a lot better prepared about the duration of the pandemic, the mode of transmission, the death rates etc if the epidemiologists had been frank about what to expect from a SARS pandemic. \"Do not exchange air\" should be an international slogan. Washing hands and groceries is just another security theater"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26714733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714733", "by": "JPKab", "time": 1617729932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That documentary is rife with inaccuracies as well. It's a consequence of having a bunch of wealthy Hollywood folks convert to veganism, and then jump on board with pushing a diet as the be-all/end-all. It's one thing to claim (accurately) that a good, careful vegan diet is healthy for a person and very healthy for the planet. It's a whole different ballgame to claim that a healthy vegan diet is nutritionally superior to any and all diets that include any form of animal products, which is essentially what Game Changers claims. There was a rather entertaining and informative debate about Game C"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 26721491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26721491", "by": "TwoNineFive", "time": 1617780875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want your jaw to drop in regards to facebook disingenuousness regarding truth telling and the media, listen to the recent Lawfare podcast here: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-tech-ceos-head-h... Go to 41:18 in and listen to the story regarding Facebook and NYU's AdObserver project. Facebook has no credibility."}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 26729741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26729741", "by": "olivermarks", "time": 1617823316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The source is my sister's practical and local experience. the Private Eye podcast covered LTN's recently in some detail also https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-the-private-ey... 15 minutes in"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 26730594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26730594", "by": "jackconsidine", "time": 1617826655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found out about TailwindCSS from the Full Stack Radio podcast, hosted by Tailwind's creator. Good for Adam Wathan. Unfortunately, the podcast hasn't been kept up in the past few months. I assume TailWind is taking all of Adam's time now?"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26733651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26733651", "by": "drewg123", "time": 1617842588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The danger of police unions is that the things they negotiate are very often not money, but rather regulations and laws that makes it harder to punish police violence and misconduct. Planet Money did a great podcast about this last year: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/871298161/police-unions-and-p..."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 26738139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26738139", "by": "phronesis", "time": 1617886695, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26740472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740472", "by": "allknowingfrog", "time": 1617898028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case anyone missed it, this article is just the text summary that goes along with an episode of 99% Invisible. It's my favorite podcast, and I would encourage any HN fan to check it out."}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 26745338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745338", "by": "nukemandan", "time": 1617927121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Zero Knowledge Podcast Episode 175. ZkSync platform overview for scaling ethereum, and much more."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 26748367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748367", "by": "hardwaresofton", "time": 1617959970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do want to take this change to thank you for you and your teams' work on this throughout the years though, I am very grateful for the CNI existing and the foundational work ya'll have done over the years. Weaveworks has also been supporting/crafting/pushing the limits in what networking (and the CNI of course) on Kubernetes could be from near the beginning. Was a treat to hear Alexis talk about the company on the Kubernetes podcast[0] (I just saw that part 2 is out, listening to it now!). I looked back in my YT history and you show up there three times (lots more videos with other folks from w"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26756006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756006", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1618001594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really hope this continues until I no longer have to hear the words \"I heard on the Joe Rogan podcast...\" followed by some fully anti-science nonsense from the overly credulous. That show has a lot to answer for."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26756316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756316", "by": "GhostVII", "time": 1618003163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know why Spotify removes Joe Rogan episodes, but keeps homophobic songs like \"Where the hood at\" (particularly relevant today) on the platform. Pretty sure that song is far worse than anything said on Rogan. I guess that song is older than Rogan's podcast episodes, and music isn't usually as serious as a podcast. But still kinda funny they remove Joe Rogan episodes, but allows songs talking about how they won't be friend with gay people. Still enjoy the song though."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26756696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756696", "by": "bgorman", "time": 1618005446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is not an absurd investment, Spotify is a commodity technology and taking away Joe Rogan podcast from their biggest competitor (Apple) provides much needed differentiation. Joe Rogan's podcast was the number one podcast on Apple Podcasts. Now it isn't available at all."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26756746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756746", "by": "brown9-2", "time": 1618005755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The opening lines of this article are a great example of how to write alarmist copy: > Just last week, Digital Music News first reported that 40 different Joe Rogan Experience podcast episodes were found missing from Spotify, now the exclusive platform for the show. Now, that number has quickly grown to 42 It quickly grew by 2!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26756837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26756837", "by": "JPKab", "time": 1618006382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only reason I have a Spotify account is for Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm a Youtube premium member, so all the music I need comes from Google, except for Joe Rogan. He's a pro weed, universal health care loving, self-described left of center guy big in the MMA and stand-up comedy circles. He now has the world's most popular podcast, but because he frequently has guests who are right wing, despite debating them about these things on the show, he is attacked for giving these folks a platform to spread their ideas. Due to his expertise in MMA and the fact that he's a formally trained fighter and m"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 26762959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26762959", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1618073952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A nicely researched put together podcast. I listened to this after the \u201cStuff You Should Know\u201d podcast that came out on the same day, this one seemed to have had the full weight of Radio 4 behind it."}, {"show": "994349813", "hn_item": 26764970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26764970", "by": "chris_st", "time": 1618087399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Flash Forward\" podcast did a great episode on Akon's projected cities and similar celebrity projects here [0] (you can listen directly from the webpage without downloading anything). Really enjoy that podcast, well researched and presented. [0] https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2020/05/26/welcome-to-celebr..."}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 26779109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779109", "by": "ch4s3", "time": 1618233785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This feels to me like a bit of a 1 dimensional appeal to authority. Consider the role of old guard media in selling the war in Iraq to the American public. Their pieces weren't well researched and turned out to have been fed to them by the administration. The Osama Bin Laden cave base diagrams also come to mind in the same vein. The NYT Daily's \"Caliphate\" podcast series is another great example."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 26779845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779845", "by": "cwwc", "time": 1618237862, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26783730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26783730", "by": "JProthero", "time": 1618254606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Muon-Catalyzed Fusion [1]. Briefly it's a genuine, and scientifically uncontroversial, form of 'cold' fusion enabled by muons \u2014 a more massive relative of the electron that was in the news recently thanks to the potentially interesting results coming out of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab [2]. Like conventional 'hot' plasma fusion, in all experiments to date the energy input needed to sustain the process has exceeded the output, but it may be possible to use it to generate power. Unlike conventional fusion though, it receives relatively little attention, and there is no well-funded interna"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 26789258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26789258", "by": "askl56", "time": 1618299736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author. Yikes."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 26790318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790318", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1618309050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What an effing great article. Not only for the clarity and care behind the writing, but also for useful links like [0]. Adam's (author) podcast Full Stack Radio is useful like this too [1]. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/menu-butto... [1] https://fullstackradio.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26795896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795896", "by": "adolph", "time": 1618335033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lex Fridman podcast interview with Jeff Hawkins is solid: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26798218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798218", "by": "aurbano", "time": 1618343657, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's podcast is consistently blowing my mind, highly recommend it"}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 26800296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26800296", "by": "jumanjisama", "time": 1618353226, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Related: This is an interview with David Dunning of Dunning-Kruger Effect. I find it highly entertaining and would recommend listening just for a few minutes in case it tickles your interest too. I've listed a couple of sources of the same podcast, just in case. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-dunning-on-the-d... https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmJsb29tYmV..."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 26809204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809204", "by": "teekert", "time": 1618417160, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This may be a good place to plug one of my favorite podcasts called \u201cSelf Hosted\u201d (not sure if related): https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/self-hosted/id14779973..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 26809217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809217", "by": "khy", "time": 1618417211, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone finds this subject interesting, I recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com ."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 26809848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809848", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1618419673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John McWhorter has argued a few times on the Lexicon Valley podcast that although English has many problems (especially spelling), it's not a terrible lingua franca. Many complexities from other languages do not exist in it. Obviously, any artificial language is going to be much simpler. But these have never caught on for a variety of reasons."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 26810031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810031", "by": "bidirectional", "time": 1618420392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's not what I'm asking about. They specifically said trading desks at banks, Citadel is a market maker. But what's really you're just parroting baseless conspiracy -- Citadel is a legitimate business which provides a great service to Robin Hood users. Payment for order flow is very good for the retail investor, reducing commissions and improving prices, the recent episode of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast with Doug Cifu went explained exactly how this works, it's a classic example of incentives aligning. Also by design no market maker gets access to all Robinhood transactions."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 26811765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26811765", "by": "Macha", "time": 1618427897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fact that people refer to google's own Go as golang relatively frequently indicates to me that googleable names are important. These days when I use a language in a query it's usually in combination with something. I might not google go, but I might google go time... which my test run indicates has an entirely different problem than what I expected, the results are go related - there is a go related podcast called GoTime, funnily enough. But I've definitely needed to disambiguate programming technologies from entirely different contexts in some queries."}, {"show": "1555138852", "hn_item": 26812358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812358", "by": "faraza", "time": 1618430870, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 26812462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812462", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1618431354, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Banks rip off companies in IPOs by underpricing the stock so their investors get a kickback. That's the least charitable way to write it, but it's somewhat close to the truth (the other part of the truth is that pricing is hard which is why we have markets). DPOs allow companies to list at a reference price without losing out on money - they can sell at the true price later. Banks naturally make up a bunch of reasons why this is bad, but it's mostly nonsense. When one side does many of these types of transactions per year (banks) and one side may only do one or two in a lifetime (founders) exp"}, {"show": "1555138852", "hn_item": 26816345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26816345", "by": "faraza", "time": 1618462930, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 26819772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819772", "by": "qwertox", "time": 1618490861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Linux Unplugged podcast (Episode 401 \"Own Your Mailbox\") they said that PipeWire now allows you to use your smartphone as a Bluetooth microphone (A2DP, first 30 seconds of the episode). https://linuxunplugged.com/401 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/... (\"Make it possible to use an A2DP source as an input device. You can then use your phone as an A2DP microphone, for example.\")"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26821408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821408", "by": "BelmundoRegal", "time": 1618499420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I calculate a 99.99% chance you have never tried any such substance and therefore know not what you're talking about. The \"long term personality changes\" are for the vast majority transformational in a positive way, as in doing away with pathological stuff forever. I encourage you to take a moment to get acquainted with what is being done clinically ( which to be honest is not what I was referring to ) ; Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICj8p5jPd3Y Matthew W. Johnson is a professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins. I could acc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26822582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26822582", "by": "spudlyo", "time": 1618504007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is my problem. In order to get a decent sound in my untreated office (reverberant bare walls, hardwood floor, etc) I need to have my dynamic mic with a low gain setting and I have to be right up on it, which makes me look like I'm on Joe Rogan's podcast or something. For Zoom I'd prefer if you couldn't see the mic."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26824284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26824284", "by": "LegitShady", "time": 1618510903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I calculate a 99.99% chance you have never tried any such substance and therefore know not what you're talking about. The \"long term personality changes\" are for the vast majority transformational in a positive way, as in doing away with pathological stuff forever. You've calculated statistics for things you've made up. >Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics | Lex Fridman Podcast #145 Please please don't quote podcasts as research, and giving me 3.5 hours of homework listening to understand your point is poor communication and ensures the maximum amount of resistance to understanding what you're try"}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 26825359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825359", "by": "scrollbar", "time": 1618516342, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just finished reading Soros' The New Paradigm for Financial Markets , and also listened to a Vox podcast episode on him https://podcasts.apple.com/al/podcast/who-is-the-real-george... He seems like a pretty reasonable and interesting guy. The Vox episode sounded like a balanced take on his legacy: mixed but generally positive impact. The biggest argument against him that resonates with me is the same that applies to all the mega-wealthy: a handful of rich individuals should not have ultimate power to craft policy decisions, rather the world would benefit from a more balanced democratic process"}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 26828661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26828661", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1618539830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I was into Morrowind I already had about ten years of practice escaping into fantasy worlds via books and games. After listening to The Blindboy Podcast (after art and history, one theme is mental health) since mid-2020 and practicing cognitive behavior therapy to make more time to act between stimulus and (too-often-harmful) response, I no longer feel compelled to escape into games. Perhaps all those hours I spent exploring imaginary spaces helped in some way (I am much more grateful to authors of books, because they helped me develop visualization) and I try not to sink into regret. Hav"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26832411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832411", "by": "jasode", "time": 1618571461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">, but considering all of the other episodes Spotify has removed I don\u2019t think so. No, in this case, Spotify's exclusive contract is not relevant because \"episode #127\" is Lex Fridman's content/channel and not Joe Rogan's. Same situation as Joe Rogan being on other shows like these: - Dan Patrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYnGfVOSLw0 - Ana Kasparian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpa6nnG7QE Joe Rogan's exclusive deal with Spotify can't remove those from Youtube because Joe doesn't have rights to others' shows. A possible confusion is that Lex interviewed Joe at Joe's studio so it mi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26832411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832411", "by": "jasode", "time": 1618571461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">, but considering all of the other episodes Spotify has removed I don\u2019t think so. No, in this case, Spotify's exclusive contract is not relevant because \"episode #127\" is Lex Fridman's content/channel and not Joe Rogan's. Same situation as Joe Rogan being on other shows like these: - Dan Patrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYnGfVOSLw0 - Ana Kasparian : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpa6nnG7QE Joe Rogan's exclusive deal with Spotify can't remove those from Youtube because Joe doesn't have rights to others' shows. A possible confusion is that Lex interviewed Joe at Joe's studio so it mi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26833920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26833920", "by": "willio58", "time": 1618581464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Whoops, you're right. I missed the detail that this was on Lex's podcast, not Joe's."}, {"show": "73802687", "hn_item": 26841167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841167", "by": "didericis", "time": 1618626845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a podcast called \u201c12 Byzantine Rulers\u201d a while back. I believe they said a number of people fleeing after Constantinople fell made it into Venice and transplanted a lot of old knowledge that had been locked up and stagnant within the city. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment were both heavily influenced by a resurgence of interest in classical work that seems to have started around the exact same time Constantinople fell. I don\u2019t know enough history to know all the reasons in favor or against that argument, but it makes a lot of sense to me that it was a contributing factor."}, {"show": "1543935702", "hn_item": 26842218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842218", "by": "lory_mo", "time": 1618643009, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 26855509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855509", "by": "otachack", "time": 1618774028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On The Metal podcast is amazing as well!"}, {"show": "1448157275", "hn_item": 26859328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26859328", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1618809664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're doing interviews, I'd love to have you on the Alchemist Camp YT channel for a Code and Bootstrapping podcast. For an idea of what would be like, check out my interview with Arvid Kahl or Julien Klapetch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj2hfq5GZ8Q&list=PLFhQVxlaKQ..."}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 26860283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860283", "by": "anw", "time": 1618820827, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm reminded of Diggnation from around 2005. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht would put out weekly videos/podcasts where they'd talk about the top news articles appearing on Digg (which Kevin helped start). Because Kevin was in the tech, media, and startup scenes, there was a lot of interesting information mixed in along with the humor and drinking. Is there a modern day equivalent to Diggnation?"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 26862119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26862119", "by": "api", "time": 1618836473, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You could start with police training: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-who-teaches-ou..."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 26873951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26873951", "by": "bumby", "time": 1618923458, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the sentiment is about how it can create perverse incentives that may be good for a small subset but bad for the population in the aggregate. I think it\u2019s about a host of different systemic issues beyond just where one person decides to live. I.e., income inequality, housing policy, class disparities etc. It just manifests itself in the problems raised in the article. Edit: The Indicator recently had an interesting podcast that demonstrates this effect.[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977533022/please-sell-me-a-ho..."}, {"show": "1543935702", "hn_item": 26874065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874065", "by": "lory_mo", "time": 1618924101, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 26876276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26876276", "by": "throwaway3699", "time": 1618933843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The real issue is the audience care about those historical conversations. The Alex Jones podcast was probably the most hilarious JRE episode full stop. I'm not going to get outraged but I don't care to watch as many episodes as I did."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26876753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26876753", "by": "throwawaysea", "time": 1618935662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts are one of the last best ways to get high quality content with easy access to ideological diversity. Given that Spotify practices censorship of content, like with the Joe Rogan podcast, I simply can't trust them with control of such an ecosystem. It would be creating another monster like we already have in so many other parts of our information economy. And I say this as a long-time paying subscriber of Spotify. Frankly their attempt to conquer podcasts makes me want to cancel my subscription. As an aside, I've also found Spotify's presentation of podcasts to be very jarring and confr"}, {"show": "987331915", "hn_item": 26878094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26878094", "by": "rchaud", "time": 1618941190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How about montonony and repetition? There are > 1000 episodes of JRE, each 1-3 hours long. An enormous amount of repetition results from this. I have watched less than 50 episodes and I know I have to FFWD when Rogan starts talking about divorce laws in California, using the same example of one unnamed friend who lost everything to his ex-wife. Podcasts with other comedians are unlistenable due to the constant navel-gazing about The Comedy Store and cancel culture."}, {"show": "987331915", "hn_item": 26878219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26878219", "by": "function_seven", "time": 1618941629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Podcasts with other comedians are unlistenable due to the constant navel-gazing about The Comedy Store and cancel culture. Yup. One notable exception to this is Bill Burr. I'll listen to any of those because Bill doesn't put up with it."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 26878938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26878938", "by": "edgyquant", "time": 1618943440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only podcasts I listen religiously are the intelligence by the economist and revolutions by Mike Duncan. I can listen to the intelligence via the economist app and Revolutions is ending this year (and I get it through the standard podcast app on iOS.)"}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 26879215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26879215", "by": "throwawaysea", "time": 1618944213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related discussion from earlier today - Spotify is Killing the Open Podcast Ecosystem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26872229"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 26879867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26879867", "by": "messo", "time": 1618946034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks! I did enjoy the occasional JRE podcast before he sold out to Spotify. This way I can keep an eye on the feed in case he has some interesting folks on."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 26881597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881597", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1618952394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a few I've considered indispensable that have shifted over time. Reply All is consistently good (but I'm a couple months behind at this point, less podcast time). Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a treat when it comes out, but that's like every 4-6 months usually. This is only a test from tested.com is good, and even though it's weekly it's topical enough I can skip a week or two and not feel like I need to go back and listen. My most recent favorite is Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, which perfectly encapsulates that feeling I used to get when I sat down with a good friend and we started "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 26881597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881597", "by": "kbenson", "time": 1618952394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a few I've considered indispensable that have shifted over time. Reply All is consistently good (but I'm a couple months behind at this point, less podcast time). Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a treat when it comes out, but that's like every 4-6 months usually. This is only a test from tested.com is good, and even though it's weekly it's topical enough I can skip a week or two and not feel like I need to go back and listen. My most recent favorite is Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, which perfectly encapsulates that feeling I used to get when I sat down with a good friend and we started "}, {"show": "918152703", "hn_item": 26882214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882214", "by": "billyhoffman", "time": 1618955187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great interview with the iMac product manager Colleen Novielli on the Upgrade Podcast in 2019, where she talked about the tremendous number of iMacs used in a business setting because of their look compared to a black plastic Dell monitors. Think reception desks, salons, hotels, etc. These colors will stand out in a way that really nothing has since the original iMac G3. https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/237"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 26882523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26882523", "by": "crocodiletears", "time": 1618956693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been a latecomer to the 'history of *' podcast genre. Recently been working through Revolutions. Antennapod lets you sort a podcast's episodes chronologically, reverse-chronologically, alphabetically, etc."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26883815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26883815", "by": "sexy_seedbox", "time": 1618964523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's podcast is much better if you want something more intellectual."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 26899471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899471", "by": "pfranz", "time": 1619073205, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Who Owns the Customer\" has been a criticism of the App Store for years. For apps, I've often been on Apple's side. I hate being messaged because I bought a PDF reader or a time-wasting platformer game. I understand both benign and corrosive reasons to \"engage\" with customers. I feel quite a bit more sympathy for subscription podcasts. I doubt large podcasts like This American Life or The Daily would have great reasons, but I can see the standard two dudes and a microphone who often to live shows to supplement their income. Usually, the fans are a more engaged group, too."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 26899471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899471", "by": "pfranz", "time": 1619073205, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Who Owns the Customer\" has been a criticism of the App Store for years. For apps, I've often been on Apple's side. I hate being messaged because I bought a PDF reader or a time-wasting platformer game. I understand both benign and corrosive reasons to \"engage\" with customers. I feel quite a bit more sympathy for subscription podcasts. I doubt large podcasts like This American Life or The Daily would have great reasons, but I can see the standard two dudes and a microphone who often to live shows to supplement their income. Usually, the fans are a more engaged group, too."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 26901815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901815", "by": "nullifidian", "time": 1619093442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/09/07/160748725/epis... This Planet Money podcast pretty much explains it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26902253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902253", "by": "cwackerfuss", "time": 1619096547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nic Carter, a bitcoiner, had some interesting points about Bitcoin's energy consumption on Lex Fridman's podcast (EP. #173) He suggests that most of the energy Bitcoin consumes generally comes from places that consistently produce an excess of energy that otherwise goes to waste. Miners, seeking to maximize profit, gravitate to areas where energy is cheap because supply > demand. I'm not sure what percentage of the energy could be considered \"excess.\" His other point was that the discussion of Bitcoin's energy consumption should be framed in the context of how much value it brings to the globa"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 26902463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902463", "by": "kimar", "time": 1619098003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Reply All podcast about local politics in the town where this plant is to be built. Beware, it's slightly infuriating. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd"}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 26908270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26908270", "by": "BurningFrog", "time": 1619125989, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omnibus podcast episode: https://www.omnibusproject.com/324"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26911296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26911296", "by": "nightowl_games", "time": 1619156083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On his recent Lex Fridman podcast appearance, Jim Keller speaks to exactly this mindset. He says that they've been heralding the death of Moore's law since he started and that the \"one trick ponies\" just keep coming. He says he doesn't doubt that they will continue."}, {"show": "1509606453", "hn_item": 26915148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26915148", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1619188308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One more comment on this, since I now heard the exact same point from a friend and talked more about this: we don't build cities. We build villages that grow into towns, that grow into cities. There are very few exceptions like Brazilia, which has lots of issues. Generally this to me is indicative that we are thinking wrong about cities. Cities aren't like massive buildings, but more like organisms. Three best results are achieved if we allow them to grow somewhat organically. I recommend the book Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities or the short podcast of the same name."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 26920109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26920109", "by": "loceng", "time": 1619217811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In-depth talk with a virologist who believes that all of these vaccines currently be dangerous - and that we should perhaps stop all of them, please watch it before you assume you understand the reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro - DarkHorse Podcast with Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein"}, {"show": "1525955817", "hn_item": 26925489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925489", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1619277531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That would be a huge and vulnerable step for my government. So much of the dominant cultural mythology is build on righteous taking from others. \u201cI was just following orders [from God]\u201d is an unhealthy excuse. Hopefully we shift our thinking about life on earth. I found helpful the 2021 April 15 episode of the podcast How to Save a Planet, as they discuss the history of protecting oil pipelines and end with ways we might change towards consuming less fuel while still enjoying a high quality of life."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 26925877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925877", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1619279889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Masters of Scale podcast on Netflix \u201cCulture Deck\u201d > https://mastersofscale.com/reed-hastings-culture-shock/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 26932883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932883", "by": "mberning", "time": 1619360355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman had Jim Keller on his podcast and they talked about his time at Tesla and his work on auto pilot and autonomous driving in general. Keller was so cavalier about the solvability of self driving. I was wondering how much of Elon\u2019s boundless optimism and reality distortion field had rubbed off on him. His basic point was that with enough high quality data the problem can be solved, but never really addressed the algorithmic complexity of driving. I used to be very bullish about it myself, but after paying more attention to my own driving and how many edge cases and corner cases there "}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 26934948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26934948", "by": "steve_adams_86", "time": 1619373889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn\u2019t actually known to be true though, is it? It seems like a compelling hypothesis, but rejection of external objects is only universal as far as our physical responses rather than emotional. For example, something threatening might be purged from the mouth, stomach, or intestines. This is something all humans do. Something undesirable to eat or drink won\u2019t universally trigger a specific facial expression, sound, or feeling. Further, if I wrinkle my nose in disgust it actually flairs my nostrils, seemingly making it easier to breathe and smell. I suspect this is the same for most humans"}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 26945176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26945176", "by": "mdu96", "time": 1619457618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a fantastic Throughline podcast episode on the Phoebus Cartel: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707188193/the-phoebus-cartel ."}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 26954535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26954535", "by": "lizknope", "time": 1619523035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omnibus Podcast with Ken Jennings did an episode on this last year. https://www.omnibusproject.com/276"}, {"show": "1543935702", "hn_item": 26954677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26954677", "by": "lory_mo", "time": 1619524230, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 26959158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959158", "by": "karlerss", "time": 1619545777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a deep dive about this in Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. Although some of the price increase was due to the industry predicting lower demand and getting rid of inventory. Another, more fundamental factor is the actual scarcity of lumber due to lower harvesting quotas set by Canadian govt. These quotas are unlikely to go up any time soon."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 26968917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26968917", "by": "theguppydream", "time": 1619615575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed 99% Invisible's podcast on the seed vault, which I had no idea about prior to listening https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/"}, {"show": "1450973990", "hn_item": 26973458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26973458", "by": "dylancollins", "time": 1619639942, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 26977689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26977689", "by": "cowllin", "time": 1619673068, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1042283903", "hn_item": 26993000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26993000", "by": "GavinAnderegg", "time": 1619788507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the HTTP 203 podcast, which is presented by two people who worked on this project. The most recent episode has some great discussions about some of the newer image formats. Well worth a listen! https://http203.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 26995511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995511", "by": "oftenwrong", "time": 1619799764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find this interesting, and you like podcasts, I also recommend The History of English Podcast: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ The host frequently speaks archaic forms of English with correct pronunciation. It's also one of the highest-quality podcasts I listen to. It's very information-dense and each episode is exceptionally well-organised."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 27001690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001690", "by": "sib", "time": 1619830058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Or, as Dan Carlin, the creator of the Hardcore History podcast says, \"The Japanese are like everyone else, only more so.\" https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/"}, {"show": "1555138852", "hn_item": 27001866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001866", "by": "NextVasanth", "time": 1619831583, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 27002613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27002613", "by": "krrrh", "time": 1619838226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is used to point out the perpetuation and reification of race as a concept by people who call themselves antiracist. There are many liberal thinkers who have not given up on the notion that race is a fiction, and that the best way to be not racist is to understand this. Race abolitionists like Kmele Foster (Fifth Column podcast) and Thomas Chatterton Williams (Self Portrait in Black and White), as well as scholars like Barbara Fields (Racecraft) point out that what people call antiracist depends on re-centering race in the discourse, which they see as promoting a race-based system of evalua"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 27003926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27003926", "by": "alexellisuk", "time": 1619851879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I did this in early 2019 to be able to work on OpenFaaS. Consulting is going well, monetising OSS, less well. Craig Box has me on the Kubernetes Podcast to talk about the journey and career from FTE to having a company https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/116-independent-open-s... With regards to your current revenue, it takes time to build up your client list and for you to understand what people are willing to pay for, that you can do. As you'll see in my journey, I quit to offer support to commercial users of OpenFaaS, many were happy supporting it themselves because we err on the side of "}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 27019217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27019217", "by": "bane", "time": 1619990990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lot of retrogaming and retrocomputing podcasts, ANTIC and Retronauts are my favorites. It turns out ANTIC interviews quite a few people from the old computer magazine and book industry, and retronauts is mostly made up of struggling video game journalists who cycle between the same magazines and being jobless or freelance. A few of them, especially the more senior folks basically have thrown in the towel and now work for other companies entirely within the video games industry. What's really interesting about the ANTIC interviews is how close those folks were to the thing that ba"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 27030405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030405", "by": "kookster", "time": 1620074754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Boston or Minneapolis or REMOTE in the US * Software Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/prx/j/47A2D3747C/ * Senior Software Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/prx/j/314E4FA8C8/ PRX is a non-profit media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling. We believe strong public media is anchored in journalism, strengthened with diverse voices, and amplified by innovative technology. Our award-winning portfolio includes top podcasts including \"The Moth\" and the Radiotopia network with \u201cSong Exploder,\u201d \u201cEar Hustle,\u201d an"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 27030405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27030405", "by": "kookster", "time": 1620074754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PRX | Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | Boston or Minneapolis or REMOTE in the US * Software Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/prx/j/47A2D3747C/ * Senior Software Engineer: https://apply.workable.com/prx/j/314E4FA8C8/ PRX is a non-profit media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling. We believe strong public media is anchored in journalism, strengthened with diverse voices, and amplified by innovative technology. Our award-winning portfolio includes top podcasts including \"The Moth\" and the Radiotopia network with \u201cSong Exploder,\u201d \u201cEar Hustle,\u201d an"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27042883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042883", "by": "danboarder", "time": 1620162272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Multitasking gets a bad rap but I would suggest that not everything we call \"multitasking\" disrupts focus. For example, many tasks become background processes and some provide rhythm for improved focus. In my experience, for example, listening to a Lex Fridman podcast while doing Photoshop design works great together and I think is better when done together than not, perhaps using different parts of the brain. Likewise, listening to music while coding are complementary tasks for me. So some tasks multitask together with others fine and improve focus, while others interrupt or disrupt focus, in"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27043027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27043027", "by": "joakleaf", "time": 1620163103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard Jim Keller (the chip-designer) say this (or something similar) recently in a podcast with Lex Fridman. It is at the 24.40 mark in \"Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast\" https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=1480 \"So there is a graph. Y-axis is productivity. X-axis at 0 is chaos and infinity is complete order. As you improve order, you increase productivity. And at some point productivity peaks, and it goes down again. Too much order -- Nothing can happen... Once you start moving towards order, the force vector that drives you towards order is "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 27044340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044340", "by": "nknealk", "time": 1620172261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Acquired podcast episode about Warren Buffet and his obsession with compounding returns. After listening to that episode, it totally makes sense why he'd be opposed to a stock split. I highly recommend it for those curious about Buffet"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27044802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27044802", "by": "afarrell", "time": 1620176084, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, the Huberman Lab podcast talks about this: humans can bifocal-task if one of the tasks can be in the background."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27049901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049901", "by": "tootie", "time": 1620223263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did an episode on it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/faceb..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 27058149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058149", "by": "tedunangst", "time": 1620264800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast had a good discussion of some more details about lumber futures, trading, and delivery."}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 27064254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27064254", "by": "Legogris", "time": 1620313326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Take your pick for where to source your news [actual answers]: 1. Newsletters. One basic example is Bitcoin Optech. I've always been the kind of person who looks at any newsletter just about long enough to put it in Trash. But I've come to understand there are plenty of greatly curated and/or written ones out there. 2. Podcasts. I can recommend Unconfirmed and Zero Knowledge, for example. 3. Discord (I know I miss out by not going here but the noise-to-signal ration and complete lack of privacy/anonymity/anything like that are both too much. It makes me a bit sad that this is where the actio"}, {"show": "1525955817", "hn_item": 27069388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27069388", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1620337390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My argument is for eating less meat because it costs so much in resources to make. A moratorium can be easier (especially when trying to avoid something unhealthy for me and which I feel compelled to consume), but rather than urge everyone to be vegetarian (consistently 5% of USA population[0]) it makes more sense to set limits for everyone, along with introducing options to help the shift. [0] podcast: How to Save a Planet, 2021-03-25, The Beef With Beef"}, {"show": "1497319762", "hn_item": 27070655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27070655", "by": "hanklazard", "time": 1620348384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Epicenter Podcast is also an excellent source for technical content that I don't see mentioned in any of the children comments."}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 27070715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27070715", "by": "knocknock", "time": 1620348899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Kevin Rose's podcast MoFi (Modern Finance). He has some great interviews and seems very knowledgeable on the topic."}, {"show": "1512654905", "hn_item": 27073832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27073832", "by": "work_for_x", "time": 1620377601, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just read coindesk.com daily. Don't read tech forums like his one. Another ressource is the crypto tier from realvision.com. Then, look for YouTube channels or Podcast. Podcasts I can recommend: - The Defiant, especially this episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0glWj5U8PUPv1YFvuDswsR Crypto currencies is mainly: - Bitcoin: Store of value/inflation trade - Ethereum and others (Polkadot, Solana, Binance Chain) as the backbone of the new DeFi (decentralised finance) What that means: DeFi is replacing Market Makers and the traditional finance space, lending and borrowing etc. So it's more us"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 27077323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27077323", "by": "hemloc_io", "time": 1620403486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really hate the framing of the \"Labor Shortage\" narrative in general. Does supply and demand only work one way? The Citations Needed podcast did an interesting episode on this kind of framing.[0] Although they skew heavily toward the left so take it with a grain of salt. I'm curious to see if the heightened unemployment benefits act as a new de facto minimum wage law, but I have a feeling everything will be cut to try and force people back into the labor force before anything super interesting happens. [0] https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-135-the-labor-sho..."}, {"show": "1123922160", "hn_item": 27078001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27078001", "by": "trompetenaccoun", "time": 1620406373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Unchained\" podcast by Laura Shin is good for that. It's mainly focused on Ethereum and Bitcoin."}, {"show": "1566441549", "hn_item": 27081695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27081695", "by": "mcla0181", "time": 1620427746, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5lK5ZeozOPsZD4cR0Ii5pM?si=cevtfknQQi-a27GD5qUCtA A shame-free space to engage in open and honest discussions about what's going on in Security. Interviews are about 30 minutes in length and explore the dilemmas and opportunities faced by real entrepreneurs, operators, engineers, and leaders. Join us and catch a glimpse into the proven technologies and techniques that solve real problems today."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 27092317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27092317", "by": "bitforger", "time": 1620523136, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of The Daily episode a few days ago about what's happening in Japan. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/podcasts/the-daily/japan-..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27093160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27093160", "by": "dota_fanatic", "time": 1620533486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast[0] recently, and in one of the earlier episodes he talks a lot about how to create the environment for neuroplasticity in the adult brain. I've only listened to most episodes once so I hope I'm not misrepresenting him, and this is simplified, but a critical component of causing the release of the chemical bath which allows for robust neuroplasticity is making errors , an experience which should feel a bit uncomfortable. \"Errors are the basis of neuroplasticity.\" Without that focused set of attempts and discomfort of trying to do something and fai"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 27097131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097131", "by": "tga", "time": 1620576633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A nicely done episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast on this topic: https://youtu.be/ghmjIBD2Fd4 https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/05/06/episode-5-..."}, {"show": "1482715810", "hn_item": 27097653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097653", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1620580096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The popular stuff is easy to find (though I love This American Life as much as anyone\u2026), so I\u2019ll mention a few that haven\u2019t had much distribution: * The Red Line, where each episode covers a geopolitical issue by interviewing 3 experts: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/ * Bangkok Podcast, for a glimpse of expat life: https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/ (places to start: https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/linguist-rikker-dockum-on-rai... , https://www.bangkokpodcast.com/thailands-freedom-of-expressi... ) * S-Town, which was incredibly popular when it was released but rarely comes up now: https://stown"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 27097876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27097876", "by": "paulz_", "time": 1620581645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few months ago Tyler Cowen had Jimmy Wales on the Conversations with Tyler podcast[0]. He spends some time talking about why he thinks Wikipedia turned out the way it did and avoid some of the potential traps you pointed out. Really enjoyed listening to it and made me think a lot of about structure of organizations. [0] https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jimmy-wales/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 27098014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27098014", "by": "agbell", "time": 1620582665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All is great, though I think it is embroiled in some controversy right now. Corecursive is my podcast about the stories behind software development. I think hn readers would like it."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27103463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27103463", "by": "syncerr", "time": 1620630551, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Two recommendations: 1/ The Bioneer - Current research on improving intelligence/working memory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsGFCg72zoA&list=PLZo07XrNsS... 2/ Huberman Lab podcast - A deep dive into the mechanisms of our brain and body - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-focus-to-change..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 27105997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27105997", "by": "platz", "time": 1620654880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Folks from the This Week in Virology podcast seem pretty convinced it didn't come from the lab."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 27108539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27108539", "by": "neither_color", "time": 1620667878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Part of what makes military diagrams so fascinating is that they look a lot like the images civilians use to do their regular workaday jobs. It\u2019s just software and hardware, after all, and there are only so many ways to draw a network diagram. Yet the scale of these systems is immense; the lines being drawn are between jets and satellites, not between a couple of web servers...No matter how abstract they are, these pictures describe systems that the U.S. military uses to make optimal, efficient decisions about killing other humans. Great article, despite the sardonic tone I found the graphics"}, {"show": "1111739567", "hn_item": 27117793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27117793", "by": "v77", "time": 1620739512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Ringers 'The Watch' podcast did a Lonesome Dove podcast read along last year if you are interested in having a virtual group to read along with."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 27128184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27128184", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1620809569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A very good episode on Science Vs podcast on this very subject. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/emhxgkd/a-seedy-lat..."}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 27134267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134267", "by": "bredren", "time": 1620848068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Flask's creator, Armin Ronacher, was asked on the Real Python podcast in July 2020 what specifically he would have done differently. He said he under appreciated how big the community would get but also the number of people who would use it. He faulted himself for not spending time thinking about the transition from him primarily working on it to others. And that he should have been thinking about how things would work when he was not involved. The specific item he was concerned about was that he did not work to build a \"community of like minded people\" which he says Django did a much better j"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 27135368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27135368", "by": "pimlottc", "time": 1620855013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Futility Closet podcast also did an episode on this topic: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/04/26/podcast-episode-55..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 27144312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27144312", "by": "tosh", "time": 1620924338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The title is click-bait, the episode is a conversation about building a bootstrapped quiz business and (imho) interesting thoughts on life and memory by one of the founders. If you are into bootstrapping the whole Indie Hackers podcast is worth checking out. Don't let the titles distract you."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27153661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153661", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1620996575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really hope for the best for Elbakyan. Sorta related, the Darknet Diaries podcast just did an ep on the Pirate Bay. The ways in which US capital flexes it\u2019s interests on sovereign nations makes me deeply uncomfortable. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 27158771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27158771", "by": "Red_Leaves_Flyy", "time": 1621020805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a dirty little, not so secret, shameful pastime of America. For the same reason that we love Dr. Phil, live pd, or judge Judy we love feeling better than stupid, ignorant, uneducated, abused, neglected, diseased, impoverished, drug addicted, poor people the narratives crafted to fit the mugshots and clips we see in the news or online. I highly recommend listening to the latest two parter from Behind the Bastards, about Dr. Phil. Part 1 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... Part 2 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... The whole darn podca"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27171577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171577", "by": "ALittleLight", "time": 1621145449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You could listen to the podcast \"Darknet Diaries\". It's got pretty engaging tales from the \"dark side\" of the web - including hacking."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27173545, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173545", "by": "mikerg87", "time": 1621171453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast covers all manner of hacking activities https://darknetdiaries.com/"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 27175131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175131", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1621184839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My fav is Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman https://www.hanselminutes.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 27179528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27179528", "by": "ProAm", "time": 1621218795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money just did a podcast about this and talked to Frito Lay they didnt deny it like this article as much but said they didnt take notes or have any records of it because they just didnt keep records of this kind of stuff [1] [1] https://www.npr.org/2021/05/12/996228628/hot-cheetos"}, {"show": "1508522747", "hn_item": 27179640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27179640", "by": "culturestate", "time": 1621220093, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The True Spies podcast also did an interesting episode with her: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-spies-espionage-i..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27189391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27189391", "by": "namuol", "time": 1621292154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a nice podcast about this fascinating subject back in 2018 (re-aired July 2020): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-..."}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 27193825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27193825", "by": "siddhit", "time": 1621341833, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 27193915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27193915", "by": "louisswiss", "time": 1621342485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sounds like you'd get a lot out of the Sales for Founders podcast: https://pod.salesforfounders.com/ I was in a similar situation to you ~10 years ago and had to learn sales the hard way. The podcast is my attempt to make it easier for others to avoid all the mistakes I made when learning sales."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 27204666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27204666", "by": "jrmann100", "time": 1621399424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed getting to know Thea and her work on an episode of the Embedded Podcast [1]. She has an infectiously positive outlook on open-source development. [1]: https://embedded.fm/episodes/359"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 27226487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27226487", "by": "jimhefferon", "time": 1621541332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Folks who, like me, are interested but not professional physicists, may find illuminating Sean Carroll's podcast. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ He is a CalTech faculty physicist with wide interests and perhaps a third of the episodes are about research physics. I remember several that discussed wormholes and associated topics seriously, from the standpoint of world-class researchers. I think anyone interested in HN would be able to follow the conversations closely."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 27229161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229161", "by": "celias", "time": 1621556934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Flask 2.0 is the subject of the current episode of the TalkPython podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/316/flask-2.0"}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 27236639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236639", "by": "cjf101", "time": 1621616212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wonder if videos are a little overused as tutorials. Videos aren't very searchable (yet), and they are unreliable to scan through (in most scrubbing implementations I've seen), so while they are nice to get started, they are hard to return to later to brush up on something. I love this podcast + text approach in theory. A podcast to talk through the material, and a really well written page to reference. The CSS Grid page is a great example of this. Aside: As someone who has been in web dev for a while, sometimes I feel like what I need is an \"unlearn CSS\" tutorial, to erase some old habits."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27238413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27238413", "by": "edejong", "time": 1621623597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab published a podcast about it in 2020: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/fungu..."}, {"show": "545045867", "hn_item": 27239416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239416", "by": "frankfrankfrank", "time": 1621628519, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You may be interested in listening to this [1]. Both of you have a very shallow and, frankly, rather naive understanding of what happened there. It will likely shock you to learn what you were told about that event is not at all honest, to put it nicely. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-horton-show-just... There also seems to be rather expansive holes in both of your understandings about what the Oklahoma city Bombing was really about. I can't find the episode of the Scott Horton Show / Antiwar.org at the moment, but here is a very long primer [2] on the extremely suspect and ir"}, {"show": "545045867", "hn_item": 27239562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239562", "by": "frankfrankfrank", "time": 1621629086, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You seem to be in need of some non-regime propaganda information. I must warn you though, you will have your rose colored glasses smacked right off your face when you hear the truth and even just learn of all the extremely suspect things surrounding just Waco and the OKC Bombing. And no, it's not some crazy stuff, it's solid fact and official record and FOIA/lawsuit based investigative journalism and reality. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-horton-show-just... https://libertarianinstitute.org/author/richard-booth/ And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you believe the governmen"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 27245437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27245437", "by": "daly", "time": 1621682230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to \"This Week in Virology\" (aka TWIV) ( https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ ) for more than a year, about 100+ podcasts so far. This is a podcast about viruses. All of the people are fully qualified active or retired virologists. They have interviewed dozens of leading virus researchers and other viral-connected individuals (including Fauci). In their professional opinion there is no possible way this virus was created in a lab."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27246900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27246900", "by": "Moodles", "time": 1621694127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dude, get new friends. They sound horrible. So many stories. My skip level manager had me in a 1-on-1 once and said something along the lines: \u201cyou probably got the green card because Trump likes your demographic\u201d. (I have an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card, and I assume they were talking about me being straight and white). What the fuck am I supposed to say there? Was absolutely speechless. Moments like that are basically shit tests: \u201care you one of us?\u201d Pretty sure I failed that test. Oh well. One time quite recently I shared a Joe Rogan podcast on slack (Moxie from Signal was on there"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 27248217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27248217", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1621702140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"History of English Podcast\" is fantastic look at both language and the historic and cultural events that impact the language. \u201cLexicon Valley\u201d is another language focused podcast that looks at how our use of language has changed over time."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 27248475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27248475", "by": "eternauta3k", "time": 1621703856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Both are excellent podcasts. I personally prefer the early Lexicon Valley episodes with the original hosts, although I hear the new host has more credentials."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27248523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27248523", "by": "therufa", "time": 1621704195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "not necessarily. before his appearance on the JRE podcast I didn't know him at all (i know i live under a rock), yet i've found his ideas compelling. Although Joe doesn't invite nobodies for the most part, so i might be wrong to some extent."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 27249720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249720", "by": "bredren", "time": 1621712962, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in recent enthusiastic (nearly effusive) discussion of Postgres and more specifically it\u2019s potential as a basis for a data warehouse, you might enjoy this episode of Data Engineering Podcast with Thomas Richter and Joshua Drake: Episode website: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/postgresql-data-wareh... Direct: (apple) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-engineering-podca..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27255456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255456", "by": "josephg", "time": 1621782307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The one aspect of Friedman I really enjoy is the quality of his guests. I don\u2019t know how he does it, but he seems to attract a lot of guests who I\u2019ve never heard of, and yet are super interesting to listen to. For example, I loved his interviews with Joshua Bach and Jim Keller. I\u2019d never heard of either of those guys before they went on Lex Friedman\u2019s podcast and they\u2019re both brilliant."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27258390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27258390", "by": "natch", "time": 1621802380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all journalists. To be fair you said journalist class, and I agree. One journalist who is clear eyed and a fantastic communicator about this case, based on having heard his interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, is Josh Rogin. Yeah similar names but no relation. Even though it\u2019s a three hour conversation, by the end you\u2019ll be wanting more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Rogin"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27262145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262145", "by": "noneeeed", "time": 1621844826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny timing. Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast had an episode about Shannon. He sounds like a fun guy to have been around. https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-fritterin-aw..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 27263884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27263884", "by": "vaughandroid", "time": 1621861639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cautionary Tales is my favourite podcast. Most episodes concern either interesting (mis)use of statistics or cognitive biases, both of which are topics I find inherently interesting, but Tim Harford and team do a brilliant job of the storytelling too. Tim Harford's other podcasts are great too - More or Less, and 50 Things Which Made the Modern Economy. Does anyone have any recommendations along similar lines?"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27263884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27263884", "by": "vaughandroid", "time": 1621861639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cautionary Tales is my favourite podcast. Most episodes concern either interesting (mis)use of statistics or cognitive biases, both of which are topics I find inherently interesting, but Tim Harford and team do a brilliant job of the storytelling too. Tim Harford's other podcasts are great too - More or Less, and 50 Things Which Made the Modern Economy. Does anyone have any recommendations along similar lines?"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 27266301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27266301", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1621873560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author of the original Damn Interesting article here. This Today I Found Out (TIFO) video is problematic, because the host of TIFO (Simon Whistler) used to be part of Damn Interesting, he was the narrator for our audiobook and some of our early podcast episodes. Our Lake Peigneur article, the one this HN thread is based upon, was one that he recorded for us. Simon joined TIFO without informing us, while still working as our narrator. And TIFO had long been poaching our articles, lazily rewriting our work and calling it their own. So you can imagine my dismay when I found out that our paid narr"}, {"show": "1574748267", "hn_item": 27267987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27267987", "by": "jandll", "time": 1621881070, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 27281096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27281096", "by": "perardi", "time": 1621969910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Lexicon Valley podcast goes into the \u201chaving a vocabulary for large numbers is actually weird\u201d thing. https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2021/03/english-la..."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 27288561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288561", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1622024586, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m in the process of memorising this and reading The Odyssey after listening to poet Dana Gioia talk about poetry memorisation\u2019s ability to shape the heart on the Tyler Cowen podcast. I very much identify with the poem\u2019s depiction of the wear of time and it\u2019s resistance by impervious optimism and dare (as said here by jandrewrogers) and I want to make it more part of myself. I can recite about a third so far, from the start and the end. I started with the end because that\u2019s what I first heard in Skyfall."}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 27291220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27291220", "by": "etxm", "time": 1622040683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Imaginary Worlds[1] had a great episode on the origin of the books and politics in the Expanse 1. https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/politics-of-..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 27292096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27292096", "by": "psalminen", "time": 1622044282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a 99% Invisible podcast related to the development of store brands[0]. Very interesting listen. [0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/podcast-episode/"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27295247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295247", "by": "rcarmo", "time": 1622058703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, congrats then! I've been waiting for news (and listening to the \"On The Metal\" podcast) for a long while now, and this seems like a great way to push the envelope on server hardware. (plus I suspect there will be more to come...)"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27296203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27296203", "by": "corysama", "time": 1622063706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven\u2019t been listening to their \u201cOn The Metal\u201d podcast you are really missing out! https://oxide.computer/podcasts It\u2019s all fun stories from people doing amazing things with computer hardware and low level software. Like Ring-Sub-Zero and DRAM driver level software."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27297407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297407", "by": "segfault720", "time": 1622071509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of this article has been on several podcasts including Lex Fridman's, where he has discussed these issues further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU ."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 27299955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299955", "by": "ddingus", "time": 1622096263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apple is not alone here, not by a long shot to be fair. I grew up ignoring the old, \"No User Serviceable Parts Inside\" stickers and embossing that appeared as the vacuum tubes were displaced by solid state. My car, computer, appliances, you name it were all reasonably easy to repair, and so I did and continue to do. This weeks, \"Amp Hour\" podcast has Dave Jones talking about a device that has a fault, and how the soft power on routs through about 6 boards that cannot be connected on the bench, making it impossible to check voltages and do other basic tasks needed to repair. I am on the side of"}, {"show": "77205482", "hn_item": 27304163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27304163", "by": "mgkimsal", "time": 1622128845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few random thoughts here: * some better tools for searching, tagging, tracking my history, etc to allow me to better use and self organize their docs on 'mdn plus' would be a useful service. it may also give them some more insight on how people are using it and what areas are of bigger utilization. * tools to allow me to ask private questions in areas of their docs, with some prioritization for answers/responses. * IDE plugins - I think there's one for IntelliJ Ultimate, but not specifically from MDN. Having more direct access to MDN info while inside my IDEs would be something probably wort"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 27309707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27309707", "by": "karaterobot", "time": 1622156715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just realized that the \"blogs\" category in my Feedly has 347 entries in it, and about half of them haven't published in more than 3 months. Here are some that are prolific and good: https://marginalrevolution.com/ Marginal Revolution: wide-ranging and prolific blog about economics and culture. https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com Anecdotal Evidence: well-written personal blog, mostly observations on books. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ Krebs on Security: about information security. It's written for a popular audience, which is about the level at which I understand the subject. https://mjtsai."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 27310571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310571", "by": "krrrh", "time": 1622163504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's an interesting question because there has been a dominant narrative that back when there were only 3 channels and everyone trusted what Walter Cronkite said there was a lot more consensus. That was true in the sense that centre-left and centre-right points of view were expressed on all networks (by law because of the fairness doctrine), also because the cold war gave a broad framework for crafting a consensus within, consolidation of newspapers left only 1 or 2 major newspapers in most markets, and because the two parties were each much more ideologically diverse. There was a consensus, b"}, {"show": "152022135", "hn_item": 27324402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27324402", "by": "indiantinker", "time": 1622285780, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is this cool podcast [0] i heard on authenticity and bragging and how to not be shameless. Especially useful when you are an introvert (like me). [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/hbr-ideacast/id1520221..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27325637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27325637", "by": "malshe", "time": 1622300193, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "HN community's recommendations of books and podcasts are amazing. (Darknet Diaries podcast has been the best suggestion ever.) Is there any website that populates books and/or podcasts mentioned on HN?"}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 27328185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27328185", "by": "frabbit", "time": 1622321971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in a skeptical take on Canada's self-presentation might be interested in the Canadaland podcast: https://www.canadaland.com/tag/indigenous/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 27345008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27345008", "by": "armagon", "time": 1622474952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"A new report says that iOS 14 tracking changes could cost the advertising revenue billions if an early trend in spending decline continues.\" Does it not follow then that advertisers are saving billions of dollars? Now, admittedly, the advertisers aren't going to be getting now what they used to get, but this Freakonomics Podcast episode, \"Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital) (Ep. 441)\" https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/ makes me wonder how much it'll really impact the people who pay for advertising."}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 27349132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27349132", "by": "proc0", "time": 1622502889, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27356872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27356872", "by": "jeffreyrogers", "time": 1622564138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, he is, at least as he publicly presents himself. There are so many examples to choose from it is hard to pick one. I'm sure some of it is deliberate to cultivate a certain image, but it's not like Satya Nadella is going on Joe Rogan's podcast and smoking weed or tweeting while on acid and the media just chooses to ignore it."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 27358069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27358069", "by": "wnevets", "time": 1622568104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Security Now podcast has a great episode [1] about why this isn't as scary as the headlines make it out to be. I'm actually quite disappointed at the sheer amount of fearmongering surrounding this technology here on HN of all places. For some reason I expected HN to be better than the general tech press when it came to these things. [1] https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/796"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27366874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27366874", "by": "moltar", "time": 1622628369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve heard on JRE podcast recently that war games are always rigged to be lost so that generals can work harder at winning next time. Also probably to get more budgets."}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 27367916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27367916", "by": "fatfox", "time": 1622637153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Back in 2016, Depop's founder, Simon Beckerman, was on an episode of BBC's The Bottom Line podcast about \"The Youth Market\" [1]. He explained his motivation behind starting Depop (app-driven alternative to eBay with a social element) and I thought it was quite insightful. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b080xk99"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 27370780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370780", "by": "pan69", "time": 1622651869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I loved listening to the Stack Overflow podcast with Jeff and Joel. It was kinda crazy that they were doing a podcast like that while they (Jeff mostly) were building it and coming up with the name, etc. Still have all the mp3's somewhere. Edit: I'm in the top 2%. Most of my rep. comes from interest earned on questions/answers I posted very early on."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 27371277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371277", "by": "xenocratus", "time": 1622653971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time podcast had a great episode on this really recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vyn6 Great stuff!"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 27373907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27373907", "by": "viraptor", "time": 1622667295, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Risky Business podcast #624 talks about pretty much all your questions if your want to listen to it. But here's some relevant info: Hardening can help, but we'll always have new exploits and some of the time the intrusion comes from standard fishing rather than automation, so tech can't solve it. Crypto coins enable payment at scale, but Russia enables the operation to not worry about consequences (a lot of ransomware will disable itself on Russian computers to avoid local prosecution). And in my opinion it's only a matter of time till something so crucial will be affected that the big gun"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 27374961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374961", "by": "zwily", "time": 1622673965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually enjoy listening to him on the All-In podcast, even though I often disagree. In fact I get most bored when he talks finance. /shrug"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 27378188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378188", "by": "freyr", "time": 1622705397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I randomly started listening to the All-In podcast a few weeks ago, without any context on Chamath or the other hosts (I thought it was a poker podcast). I find him entertaining. Everything I\u2019ve learned about him since has been pretty off-putting though."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 27378717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378717", "by": "Veen", "time": 1622710975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the development of English, I recommend The History of English podcast by Kevin Stroud. It considers the Old English Anglo-Saxon period (and much before and after) in depth. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 27382341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27382341", "by": "daniellenewnham", "time": 1622732306, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1685618673", "hn_item": 27386285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27386285", "by": "Uehreka", "time": 1622749099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sure thing. Apple told developers that webapps were the solution. They didn\u2019t give any public indication that this would change. Now, one could argue that this was just cover while they got the native SDK ready, but that Bertrand Serlet email from the other thread was the point at which they even officially decided to have a native SDK at all (months after telling devs to write webapps). I think the real issue is with the phrase \u201cApple planned\u201d, because Apple is not one person, and the people disagree on \u201cthe plan\u201d. We mythologize them sometimes as an all-planning \u201cthe Vatican thinks in centur"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 27389777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389777", "by": "triggercut", "time": 1622772841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robert Evans did a fantastic recount of how this in this Behind the Bastards podcast [1][2] and how this dangerous false premise (similar to vaccines cause autism) has persisted and informed some really toxic ideologies despite being proven inaccurate. [1] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... [2] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 27393066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27393066", "by": "donewithcoding", "time": 1622811050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I knew something was off from the very beginning once big tech started banning scientists with dissenting voices. The fact that Fauci and Zuckerberg were literally conspiring to induce greater panic in the masses is icing on the cake. Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's DarkHorse podcast have been very critical of Fauci's involvement but they would have been banned just 6 months ago."}, {"show": "1439735906", "hn_item": 27405377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27405377", "by": "vegetablepotpie", "time": 1622903624, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thank you for the book recommendation. I try to read and listen to as much content as I can about climate change. > IPCC was dramatically underestimating the thinning of ice Much of the IPCC reports summarizes work of scientist, who downplay their own results out of fear that their results will be interpreted as alarmist or biased towards an agenda. This was shown in the documentary Merchants of Doubt . The specific mechanisms employed to carry this out is outlined in this drilled podcast episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i... it talks about the media, but it u"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 27406889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27406889", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1622913752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Mike Duncan's \"Revolutions\" podcast, starting with season 3 (the French Revolution). It is really interesting to see how sometimes the even the threat of revolution brings change."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 27407597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27407597", "by": "damagednoob", "time": 1622919118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What triggered my comment was episode 225 of Rationally Speaking[1]. In it, there was an interview with Veena Dubal[2] where she (according to the podcast) is a prominent advocate for AB5 [3]. In it, she concedes that taxi drivers themselves have been polled[4] and _do not_ want be classified as employees and want to maintain their independent contractor status. So in answer to your bullet points: 1) Veena Dubal 2) Uber drivers (I mean, I could be mistaken. Perhaps this professor of law moonlights as an Uber driver. If so, I would continue to argue that this is not her main vocation.) 3) She w"}, {"show": "1580570986", "hn_item": 27409992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27409992", "by": "kgarten", "time": 1622943703, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 27409992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27409992", "by": "kgarten", "time": 1622943703, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 27413722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27413722", "by": "raphlinus", "time": 1622992262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest commit to that anonymously authored repo is over a year ago. I am a bit tired of these \"we are an anonymous group pushing the truth\" efforts; in the case of HCQ they are unmitigated bullshit. The best sourced argument for lab leak is the Drastic project[1]. This is basically the work that's been getting the media attention for the last few weeks. A good source for arguments holding the lab leak unlikely (there is of course no evidence strong enough to rule it out entirely) is episodes 760 and 762 of the podcast This Week in Virology[2]. Skeptics of authority would say that this is t"}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 27417662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27417662", "by": "anitil", "time": 1623025600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The poster (Katie Herzog) has a podcast 'Blocked and Reported' which you may find interesting [0]. It's broadly what I would consider in the small-el liberal bent. [0] https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 27419781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27419781", "by": "diebeforei485", "time": 1623048702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, Hello Internet (hosted by CGP Grey and Brady Haran, though currently on hiatus) had this section called the \"biweekly weigh-in\" where every sometimes the hosts would talk about their health gains. Using an ambiguous word like \"biweekly\" was very much intentional."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 27422216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27422216", "by": "jkingsbery", "time": 1623071964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to agree with a lot of this, but I think there is a lot that is more complicated than this essay allows for. Consider in the footnote: > There may be some things it's a net win to include in your identity. For example, being a scientist... A scientist isn't committed to believing in natural selection in the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to rejecting it. The comparison of \"scientist\" to \"biblical literalist\" is, when you think about it, sort of an odd one. Creationists get a lot of press, but strict creationists make up a minority of religious people (depending on how the "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27423996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27423996", "by": "natch", "time": 1623081095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">They were seeing and tracking levitating and maneuvering swarms of ice tic tacs for month visually and on radar. That's not what he said on Lex Fridman podcast. It was more like days. But that is according to the radar which was created by his buddy who could have been trolling him knowing he was going to be in the area. >3 is false. It clearly went nose toward him, then started matching his spiral down with a spiral up. I think the nose and the spiral are details you added. I think it \"came up\" in the same sense that someone might say \"the ground came up to meet me\" when they describe the pe"}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 27429569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429569", "by": "anitil", "time": 1623115334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andy Weir was on the 'Imaginary Worlds' podcast recently for anyone interested [0]. He's nominally plugging his latest book, but most of the interview is about how he came to write The Martian (when he was a software developer by trade) [0] https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/weir-science"}, {"show": "1359435443", "hn_item": 27429578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429578", "by": "wlesieutre", "time": 1623115382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For any Swift devs needing to put together a webpage, check out Publish: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish Haven't used it myself yet, just heard about it in John's Static Site Generation Corner on the Stacktrace podcast."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 27436392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27436392", "by": "jerodsanto", "time": 1623165796, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 27439284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439284", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1623178304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. There are some other great podcasts they do, too, like JS Party, Go Time, and Founders Talk: https://changelog.com/jsparty https://changelog.com/gotime https://changelog.com/founderstalk"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 27439284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439284", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1623178304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. There are some other great podcasts they do, too, like JS Party, Go Time, and Founders Talk: https://changelog.com/jsparty https://changelog.com/gotime https://changelog.com/founderstalk"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27439989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439989", "by": "FunnyLookinHat", "time": 1623182281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been looking for some new tech podcasts - thanks for sharing. I've also been enjoying On The Metal - which is put out by the people who started Oxide Computer. https://oxide.computer/podcasts"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 27440606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440606", "by": "CraigJPerry", "time": 1623185381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only discovered you folks in the last 6 months or so but your \u201cGo Time\u201d podcast is regularly one of the most enjoyable technical podcasts i listen to. I don\u2019t actually write much go, but i just enjoy the show. The recent changelog SRE episode discussing your latest infra improvements was pretty cool too. I wonder if you\u2019re considering adding more programming languages to your network since you seem to have cracked the format better than any others in my feed?"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 27440606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440606", "by": "CraigJPerry", "time": 1623185381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only discovered you folks in the last 6 months or so but your \u201cGo Time\u201d podcast is regularly one of the most enjoyable technical podcasts i listen to. I don\u2019t actually write much go, but i just enjoy the show. The recent changelog SRE episode discussing your latest infra improvements was pretty cool too. I wonder if you\u2019re considering adding more programming languages to your network since you seem to have cracked the format better than any others in my feed?"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 27440705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440705", "by": "adamstac", "time": 1623185924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the shout out! Love that Founders Talk podcast :)"}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 27441490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441490", "by": "CraigJPerry", "time": 1623189464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think a Rust Podcast with the dynamics of Go Time could be hard to beat. I don\u2019t know if you ever listened to LUG Radio when that was a thing, that show was magnetic for me and it was like Go Time in that regard - the presenters made it just as much as the topic being interesting made it."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 27441490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441490", "by": "CraigJPerry", "time": 1623189464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think a Rust Podcast with the dynamics of Go Time could be hard to beat. I don\u2019t know if you ever listened to LUG Radio when that was a thing, that show was magnetic for me and it was like Go Time in that regard - the presenters made it just as much as the topic being interesting made it."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27441659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441659", "by": "akadruid1", "time": 1623190184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Only this evening I was listening to Tim Hartford's Cautionary Tales podcast episode which refers to the book The Return of a King. It's a really good episode - https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-masterly-ina..."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 27442374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442374", "by": "niyikiza", "time": 1623194713, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 27442692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442692", "by": "teeray", "time": 1623197250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite episodes of the 99% Invisible podcast was about \u201cGood Egress\u201d[0]. It talked about the history of fire escapes and why you don\u2019t see metal fire escapes hanging out the side of buildings any longer. The reason for this is that in an emergency, people tend to exit the way they entered. Consequently, that\u2019s why buildings now have central fire stairs. Error handling in Go is similar. Errors are not something that live outside the flow of control. When they\u2019re out of sight, they become like the fire escape with a barbecue on it or that\u2019s covered in snow in the winter. Even if they"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 27442816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27442816", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1623198491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed\u2014I would definitely listen to a Changelog podcast on Rust."}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 27450968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450968", "by": "louwrentius", "time": 1623261363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an amazing hour long story, highly recommended. Frankly, the entire back catalog of Damn Interesting is fantastic. I think it\u2019s one of the best podcasts out there that only few people know about."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27473999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27473999", "by": "makison", "time": 1623422382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have found Huberman podcast incredibly helpful - in detail explanation(too much sometimes) of how brain works. There are 4 episodes(1.5h each) dedicated just to sleep. The whole podcast is great. https://youtu.be/nm1TxQj9IsQ"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27474738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474738", "by": "godshatter", "time": 1623425708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just came across the Huberman podcast a few days ago after seeing him in an interview with (I think) Rich Roll. Fascinating stuff, it's already been helpful to me in a couple of different ways."}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 27475549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27475549", "by": "ashtonkem", "time": 1623429760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A podcast I listen to[0] had a throwaway line that\u2019s stuck with me. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s actually correct, this isn\u2019t an area I\u2019m an expert in, but it\u2019s interesting nonetheless. > Colleges are really just real estate speculation businesses that also incidentally give you a degree in dentistry or whatever. If that\u2019s true, wouldn\u2019t it explain why colleges do things that don\u2019t make sense for education? 0 - Well There\u2019s Your Problem Podcast, Episode 71"}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 27475614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27475614", "by": "pocoloco", "time": 1623430044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, and this is exactly what Jeff Booth explains in this podcast way better that I ever could: How Inflation Is Stealing Your Wealth | Jeff Booth | Pomp Podcast #572 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqFjU9Wi4"}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 27476933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476933", "by": "eysquared", "time": 1623436422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fans of this type of thing may enjoy listening to The Allusionist podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/ ."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27477265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477265", "by": "heroHACK17", "time": 1623438394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those looking for more info and practical advice on this topic: check out the Huberman Lab podcast. The host, Dr. Andrew Huberman, spends four episodes talking about sleep. He actually draws a lot of research from the folks at UCSF (mentioned in the article)."}, {"show": "1434060078", "hn_item": 27477950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477950", "by": "pocoloco", "time": 1623442800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm afraid that if I try to retort to each point we may end up talking past each other. But I will say this, I think that your assumption in point 1 is wrong. I think that the mismanagement of the financial system worldwide has proven that there is no country currency invulnerable to manipulation. Jeff Booth talks about this towards the end of this interview which is great in it's entirety IMO. How Inflation Is Stealing Your Wealth | Jeff Booth | Pomp Podcast #572 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqFjU9Wi4"}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 27480258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27480258", "by": "prpl", "time": 1623458750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dave is 95% theatrics (faux shock jockey?) and usually those are around technique (though sometimes a food is inseparable from technique) so maybe I am more forgiving in that scenario. Cooking Issues is fundamentally a podcast about failures and attempts first and foremost, so it tends to skew a bit more towards scientific method I suppose."}, {"show": "1467292185", "hn_item": 27482154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482154", "by": "activatedgeek", "time": 1623479934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Season 2 of the Extremities podcast [1] talks in some detail about this in 6 episodes. I absolutely love the presentation, and it gets delightfully better with each season. Strong recommend! [1]: https://anchor.fm/extremities"}, {"show": "1462757524", "hn_item": 27482714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482714", "by": "jarmitage", "time": 1623486297, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The authors were on Mushroom Revival Podcast recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mushroom-revival-podca..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 27485755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485755", "by": "throwaway894345", "time": 1623517170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like grain and etymology, you might like the etymology of \u201cbarn\u201d: > barn (n.): \"covered building for the storage of farm produce,\" Old English bere\u00e6rn \"barn,\" literally \"barley house,\" from bere \"barley\" (see barley) + aern \"house,\" metathesized from rann, rasn (source also of Old Norse rann \"large house,\" Gothic razn \"house,\" Old English rest \"resting place\"). For the formation, compare Old English sealt\u00e6rn \"saltworks,\" horsern \"stable.\" In Anglo-Saxon England, barley was a primary grain crop. Barley was not always the only crop grown as the data recovered at Bishopstone might suggest "}, {"show": "1466549386", "hn_item": 27489030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27489030", "by": "bonefishgrill", "time": 1623548076, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 27491953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27491953", "by": "jschveibinz", "time": 1623587123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201c99% Invisible\u201d has a recent podcast on the topic of abandoned ships. Believe it or not, it is way more common for sailors to be stranded than you would ever expect\u2026"}, {"show": "1491523534", "hn_item": 27492477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492477", "by": "iafrikan", "time": 1623591544, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 27495894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495894", "by": "throwkeep", "time": 1623614839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> What makes someone an old school progressive, in your opinion? Those who were known as progressives prior to about 5 years ago. Eric and his brother Bret were self described progressives for decades. > I'm having trouble finding anything progressive about this person. Listen to his podcast The Portal to see. That he works with Thiel simply means that he is able to work with people who have different opinions. Guilt by association is lazy, as is dismissing a theory as crackpot, especially from a serious intellectual with the credentials (eg Harvard) to back it up."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 27496525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496525", "by": "neuronexmachina", "time": 1623618631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The term Weinstein prefers for himself is \"entertainer\": https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric... > The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author."}, {"show": "1570045623", "hn_item": 27505114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505114", "by": "dfsegoat", "time": 1623690331, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I cannot recommend the show and podcast 'Breaking Points', by Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball enough. They are top notch journalists who formerly hosted a daily news show called 'Rising' on The Hill, but left recently in order to be more independent and free of advertiser influence (censorship). While they are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. They cut through much of the partisan, mainstream BS - and get to the heart of many issues, all while debating ea. other in a civilized way. https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-k.."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 27511839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27511839", "by": "donkeyd", "time": 1623737066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're really giving too much credit to podcasts here. If you were to look at your argument from the other side, the fact that it costs next to nothing makes it a really cheap way to spread biased/false information. (See: Alex Jones) The majority of podcasts I've listened to have an obvious political bias, even the ones I would deem mostly objective clearly show some of the hosts biases. I've actually stopped listening to some because of this. ('Reply All' and 'Rich Dad Radio Show', for example, at opposite ends of the spectrum.) If you know of a podcast that purely, subjectively presents news"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 27511908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27511908", "by": "narrator", "time": 1623737802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alex Jones's biggest sin is he's boring. He repeats himself over and over again. You could listen to him for 30 minutes and then tune in 12 months later and it's the same stuff, whatever you make of it. Art Bell was a conspiracy theory guy back in the day on late night radio, but he was damned interesting and talked to all kinds of random interesting weirdos. Many of them not that credible, but at least interesting. Not to sound old and cranky, but back in my day, when you heard someone interviewed, it was up to the person listening to evaluate their credibility and not to be protected in a li"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 27519241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27519241", "by": "hackeraccount", "time": 1623780612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an episode of the Econtalk podcast that covers medical pricing. https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c... It is clearly coming from a ... more sympathetic to free markets side of the argument but I honestly believe it's interesting on it's own terms. It includes an explanation of the delightful term \"compensated uncompensated care\""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 27522885, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27522885", "by": "virgulino", "time": 1623799163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a good episode of the BBC podcast \"In Our Time\" on the history and philosophy of Zoroastrianism: \"How was the religion established in Ancient Persia, what is its body of beliefs and how have they been developed and disseminated? With Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Ancient Iranian Coins in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum; Farrokh Vajifdar, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society; Alan Williams, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester.\" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005bc5v"}, {"show": "1532976305", "hn_item": 27530431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530431", "by": "tannhauser23", "time": 1623861153, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The latest episode of the Megyn Kelly Show interviews Lue Elizondo, who headed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification program.[0] According to the article, the report will say: \"...the assessment has come up short of explaining what UAP are and that it provides no evidence to link them with any putative alien visitation\u2014despite reviewing more than 120 incidents from the past 20 years. The report\u2019s firmest conclusion, it seems, is that the vast majority of UAP happenings and their surprising maneuvers are not caused by any U.S. advanced technology programs.\" So what are they? I see skepti"}, {"show": "974946893", "hn_item": 27530638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530638", "by": "typeformer", "time": 1623862146, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The best analysis is by Cmd. Chad Underwood who actually filmed one of the videos and is a good expert on the radar and camera sensors used https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-6-lt-cmdr-chad... Also, Mick West\u2019s so called \u201cdebunking\u201d is poorly done and an insult to these pilots."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27530976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27530976", "by": "egfx", "time": 1623863864, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah any time someone brings up the FLir argument I have to remind myself that even something that can exhibit IR can also be something that is not really there as a physical mass. What interested me is that David Fravor was specifically asked by Lex Fridman in his podcast if he thought these \u201cobjects\u201d were projections and his answer was that he wasn\u2019t a physicist and didn\u2019t really know for sure but didn\u2019t think so. As such the idea of a projection cannot yet be ruled out. I actually can\u2019t believe that projections aren\u2019t more closely scrutinized to explain this whole \u201cphenomenon\u201d. [1] https://"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27531187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531187", "by": "piyh", "time": 1623864844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Carlin's interview on the Lex Fridman podcast was great."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 27532046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532046", "by": "mdoms", "time": 1623869337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first couple of seasons of Revisionist History were podcast gold. Lately though? I only listen if I'm desperate for content. It has taken a massive nosedive."}, {"show": "1319436103", "hn_item": 27537901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537901", "by": "bitshifta", "time": 1623923463, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 27540931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540931", "by": "hedari", "time": 1623944942, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thankfully this was posted again, because I haven't seen this document before. And I'm saddened if Dan Ingalls doesn't attract more attention. Dan Ingalls seems to be this unsung hero that does not get mentioned often enough in my opinion. Admittedly, when I first learned about him from FLOSS Weekly podcast[0], I've been a bit of a fanboy. Since then I have read and listened his interviews and lectures that I have been able to find. He seems to be a very modest man with a lot of interesting anecdotes. The whole era when Smalltalk was invented is fascinating. I'm currently reading through the b"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27540932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27540932", "by": "runningskull", "time": 1623944943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related and fun: the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange[1]. The person who started it has a great blog[2] about all kinds of related things. There\u2019s a really good interview[3] with him about how it started and what it takes to run it on the On The Metal podcast (highly recommended in general) 1: https://fcix.net 2: https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com 3: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/kenneth-finnegan"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27543948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543948", "by": "sxp", "time": 1623960177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Johnson was on the Lex Fridman podcast recent and discussed the helmet there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbcB6b4A2U The most interesting thing is that one of their helmets, Flow, is using IR backscatter sensing rather than the electric or magnetic sensing that most other BCI devices (including their other helmet, Flux) use. The system is still pricey at $50-100k or $3.6k/mo, but they're also planning on selling a simplified version at $5k: https://docs.kernel.com/docs/how-much-does-a-flow-system-cos..."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 27545171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27545171", "by": "camnora", "time": 1623969118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Making Sense by Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowski dig into how the Fed functions and how dollars/collateral affect the (world) economy. Very interesting if you're looking to learn more about this. Jeff also has some very informative blog posts. https://share.transistor.fm/s/b33f1c10"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27546867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27546867", "by": "wampwampwhat", "time": 1623984292, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm almost certain this thread is just a transcription of a Joe Rogan podcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27551761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551761", "by": "trts", "time": 1624032179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly off topic, but it was a lot of fun to listen to Brendan Eich on Lex Fridman's podcast talk about Brave and the browser wars of the 90s and 00s. I've been using the Browser for several months without any of the rewards enabled and appreciate that it seems to quietly remove 95% of ads and does it effectively. https://lexfridman.com/brendan-eich/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27555512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27555512", "by": "brodo", "time": 1624053921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27557087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27557087", "by": "germinalphrase", "time": 1624067916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI: Radiolab did a podcast about the discovery of Rapamycin. May 21: \u201cThe Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub\u201d"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27558725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558725", "by": "drclau", "time": 1624089809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It may be related to the horizontal eye movement, or the scanning of the environment. I heard this in Huberman Lab podcast, and iirc it's related to neuroplasticity. I wish I recalled more details, or at least in which episode he discussed this. If I do, I'll return and post more."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27576686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27576686", "by": "frogcoder", "time": 1624255064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been enjoying BBC's podcast on this subject. Darknet Diaries also has an excellent podcast episode on it. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/72/"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 27582212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27582212", "by": "AlexandrB", "time": 1624300325, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The \"You're Wrong About\" podcast recently had a very good episode on the topic of Cancel Culture[1]. For me, one big takeaway was how the modern form of this phenomenon is largely localized to a small group of people - primarily on Twitter. Thus I was not surprised to see Twitter be ground zero here as well. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 27587072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27587072", "by": "snicker7", "time": 1624326507, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27588041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588041", "by": "0des", "time": 1624336785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found this podcast [0] by Radiolab on the topic to be quite the eye opener. (ear opener?) [0] - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 27591211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27591211", "by": "elliekelly", "time": 1624367853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NYT\u2019s podcast \u201cThe Daily\u201d had a really good episode a few days ago about Apple & China that touches on these sorts of \u201cpolitical\u201d requirements. I think it\u2019s much more subtle (but no less concerning) than parent comment implies. Episode link (w/ transcript): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/podcasts/the-daily/apple-..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 27591884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27591884", "by": "zingar", "time": 1624371340, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent StackOverflow podcast[1] a guest mentions a conversation with a recruiter who is trying to find 1000 Ruby developers in 2021 for a single client. It was not really discussed, but if anyone has any insight I am very curious: 1. What kind of company/project can benefit from 1000 developers being added to it? 2. What kind of onboarding process could handle 1000 new developers in a year? 3. Are there really a thousand Ruby developers in the world who are likely to change jobs in 2021? [1]: http://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/14/podcast-338-why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-ruby-developers/"}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 27597262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27597262", "by": "NortySpock", "time": 1624396263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, the American Civil Religion? Dangerous History Podcast with Prof CJ https://profcj.org/ep124/ \"Ever get the sense that the government and politics in the United States is kinda cult-y? If so, CJ thinks your spidey sense is justifiably tingling, and what you\u2019re picking up on is the phenomenon known as the civil religion. Join CJ as he discusses: The concept of civil religion The origins of the American civil religion, and a brief word on the scholarship on the concept Some of the overtly religious elements that can be found in American government and politics, including: dogmas, rituals, sa"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 27600017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27600017", "by": "rebelos", "time": 1624414459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's incredibly reassuring to hear that he's this scared. Now we know we're getting somewhere. I'd recommend listening to the latest All-In podcast. Excellent discussion about how antitrust regulations aren't flexible enough to combat what we're seeing today and don't capture the sum total of negative externalities the tech behemoths are inflicting on the market and on consumers. They need to be updated. And the All-In crew, much to my glee, made a very obvious point I've been reflecting on a lot lately: internet-enabled companies are so effective at monopolization that Peter Thiel laid this o"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 27600741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27600741", "by": "Timothycquinn", "time": 1624421941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "GCP Gray has a great series on voting systems. Here is his one on Alternative Voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE Highly recommend his videos. Funny and informative. Also his Podcast, Hello Internet is awesome."}, {"show": "1282100393", "hn_item": 27601332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601332", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1624428780, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a really interesting dynamic where the Saudis have basically pushed the line of thinking that they have a special relationship with us going back to WWII or WWI. I generally am a bit skeptical of Cato Institute but they had a great podcast with Prof Robert Vitalis about this that shed a ton of light on exactly this question for me. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/americas-oil-myths/id1..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 27601839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601839", "by": "pwim", "time": 1624433848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did an interesting piece on gender and sports a couple years back. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dutee Gender is a nuanced thing, and there's no way to definitively divide people into the male and female categories. The episode explores the story of Dutee Chand, a professional sprinter who for a time was not allowed to compete as a women due to her hyperandrogenism, a condition that leads to unusually high levels of testosterone."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27607040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27607040", "by": "AzzieElbab", "time": 1624468424, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 27610459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610459", "by": "neartheplain", "time": 1624482830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">The situation for college students, at least a certain segment, is that people with the transgender identity are far more common than they once were. That's the base reality, not the product of any ideology. And whatever it's point of origin, this reality for these isn't going to change. A significant number of people who identity as trans later return to their original gender identity. This is known as \"detransitioning:\" https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the... It's a controversial topic, as many trans people see the existence of detrans people as a threat to the valid"}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 27610459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27610459", "by": "neartheplain", "time": 1624482830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">The situation for college students, at least a certain segment, is that people with the transgender identity are far more common than they once were. That's the base reality, not the product of any ideology. And whatever it's point of origin, this reality for these isn't going to change. A significant number of people who identity as trans later return to their original gender identity. This is known as \"detransitioning:\" https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the... It's a controversial topic, as many trans people see the existence of detrans people as a threat to the valid"}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 27612815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27612815", "by": "mch82", "time": 1624498088, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Have you thought of going on the Django Chat podcast to talk about your book? Seems like a candidate for a great episode! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/django-chat/id14515364... Not sure how to get on the guest list, but probably someone on HN can help\u2026"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 27613167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613167", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1624501523, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is an Intelligence Squared podcast episode with an author (an editor at The Economist) who wrote a book defending the meritocratic system. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-meritocracy-myth-ad... Like everything in life this is a very nuanced subject and you should think very carefully before making the knee-jerk reaction to try and eliminate rewards for people who work hard."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 27613281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27613281", "by": "selectodude", "time": 1624502709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"*The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician, but is an Entertainer and host of The Portal podcast. This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from without express permission of the author.\" Well, okay."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 27615501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27615501", "by": "Dobbs", "time": 1624527153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Back when Apple announced this there was a good discussion about it on Accidental Tech Podcast , about how this was a really smart move. It gives a price cut to the most number of people, but requires Apple to give the least amount of money away. This gives them really good press, and helps them to deal with their \"image issues\" that they have at the moment. Basically a win win."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27616380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27616380", "by": "klelatti", "time": 1624536486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Note that a podcast version of this (more or less) is also available in Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales series under the title \"Wrong Tools Cost Lives\". https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-wrong-tools-..."}, {"show": "1545294976", "hn_item": 27624863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27624863", "by": "SecureVentures", "time": 1624574476, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hi everyone! We're Secure Ventures, a podcast where we interview people in the security field to learn all about their journey, successes, failures, and much more. If you're interested in learning more about how individuals made it into security and their story, this is definitely for you. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secure-ventures-with-kyle-mcnulty/id1545294976 Check it out and let us know what you think! Thanks everyone!"}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 27625135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27625135", "by": "siver_john", "time": 1624576407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're still curious, the podcast is Trash Taste which is a bunch of friends talking about their lives really but they had an animator on their for an episode[0], the entirety of the podcast is 2 hours long and the mention of blender is fairly short. I was trying to find a clip because they do that of their own shows, however I found a tweet [1] in looking by the guest. It may still be an interesting one to watch and two of the members Joey (theanimeman) and Garnt (Gigguk) have done tours of anime studios (CloverWorks and JC Staff respectively). Edit: If Twitter wouldn't have wigged out on "}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 27649798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27649798", "by": "glogla", "time": 1624783787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "American houses aren't really built from \"wood\" as in directly from trees - they are build from \"engineered wood\" like fiberboard and particleboard. That's a lot of industrial processing with a lot of oil-based glues and so on. By weight, the houses are almost more oil than wood. Here's an enlightening chapter of \"Well there's your problem\" podcast about this with actual civil engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVodkE47aLw"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 27653700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653700", "by": "0_gravitas", "time": 1624816930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been semi-closely tracking this project for a while, and imo it's easily __the__ most interesting project I've seen in the sphere period. Serendipitous-ly, I came across an interview a couple weeks ago with one of the main bodies behind the project on the Corecursive podcast (from early 2019) (I think their name was Runar Bjarnason). Had no idea until it was mentioned almost offhandedly in the last few minutes!"}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 27656815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656815", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1624840229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey friend - Good on you for quitting all that stuff. Thats just impressive. I have 2 book recommendations for you. One is The Culture Series if you haven't run into it. Some of my favorite scifi. I used to be the same way where I would read almost entirely nonfiction and started reading a bunch of scifi. I'm actually more likely to read fiction in general now. The other one is a book called \"Feeling Great\" by Dr. David Burns. It talks about some of the newer techniques he has developed. You may find the book itself to be helpful, or while reading it you might find it interesting to try to fin"}, {"show": "1565845318", "hn_item": 27657009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657009", "by": "digianarchist", "time": 1624842116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a new podcast series on Quadriga that I recommend people listen to: Exit Scam https://www.exitscam.show/"}, {"show": "1537003676", "hn_item": 27668662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668662", "by": "ConorBronsdon", "time": 1624917064, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 27671946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671946", "by": "emsy", "time": 1624942633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who has learned and is learning multiple languages this rings true to me. Duolingo is very good for getting started and acquiring the basic vocabulary. but it plateaus rapidly. After that you don\u2019t get much from it and you should use something that uses mini stories with a larger context and preferably audio read by natives (Small aside: Duolingo has awesome mini story podcasts for Spanish and French which they should incorporate into their app). The best tool I found for the mini story approach is Lingq, which is not so good at getting you started though. You\u2019re also right about th"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27675126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27675126", "by": "erellsworth", "time": 1624971342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good interview with Avi Loeb on the Lex Fridman podcast about this very topic. His actual argument is fairly compelling and doesn't really sound sensational at all, IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU"}, {"show": "1236553683", "hn_item": 27684360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684360", "by": "dcl", "time": 1625021568, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Utterly disgusting. As far as I'm aware, the Australian government cannot do much about this either (not that they would chose to). There are laws about not interfering to preserve academic freedom (kinds of ironic here). This is made worse by our ex Prime Minister refusing to admit that this is a serious issue. (He is close personal friends with at least one University head). https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/86-coronavirus-covert-..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 27685262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685262", "by": "danboarder", "time": 1625031362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wide-ranging conversation about the structure of higher education, population growth (or lack thereof), economics, climate change, AI, and the underrated threat of nuclear war, thought provoking chat with Ben Yeoh. By the way, I recommend all of Ben Yeoh's podcast chats ( https://anchor.fm/benjamin-yeoh ), thoughtful in a similar way to Lex Fridman and the AI podcast, or Russ Roberts of EconTalk."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27685262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685262", "by": "danboarder", "time": 1625031362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wide-ranging conversation about the structure of higher education, population growth (or lack thereof), economics, climate change, AI, and the underrated threat of nuclear war, thought provoking chat with Ben Yeoh. By the way, I recommend all of Ben Yeoh's podcast chats ( https://anchor.fm/benjamin-yeoh ), thoughtful in a similar way to Lex Fridman and the AI podcast, or Russ Roberts of EconTalk."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 27685299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685299", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1625031693, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "At a macro-level it\u2019s the answer to why we have enormous buildings, cities, and went to the moon. Why people keep doing anything rather than nothing. Why we have complex societies rather than hunter gatherer lives. As a species we don\u2019t want to do nothing. There is a recent EconTalk podcast on the concept on \u201cfreedom\u201d which may be very interesting to people who have read this far in my comment. It touches on how we got to this point in human evolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 27688455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27688455", "by": "elliekelly", "time": 1625060857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to an old episode[1] of the \u201cReply All\u201d podcast from 2018 after someone on HN recommended it. It\u2019s a crazy story about Foxconn opening a plant in a small town in Wisconsin and the NDAs with local politicians made it difficult/borderline impossible for residents to push back because they didn\u2019t even know what was happening until it was already approved. [1] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd"}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 27697795, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27697795", "by": "daniellenewnham", "time": 1625134729, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 27698248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698248", "by": "papito", "time": 1625140922, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The likeliest outcome is the one described in Ezra Klein's recent pod episode on AI - most vocations will be helped by AI, but it will still require an operator to QA the results and solve the bigger problem at hand. AI is not magic. You don't just build it once and walk away. It requires constant effort in care and feeding. In our case, let's not pretend that React will be around forever. Once the new Hotness in the JS world shows up (and i't very easily distracted by shiny things and cool names), you will need to train the models, all over again. The pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas"}, {"show": "1567397702", "hn_item": 27700388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27700388", "by": "tiagorbf", "time": 1625154560, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 27707369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707369", "by": "viraptor", "time": 1625193736, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's old news. The race happens every day. AV companies upload samples to explode in a simulated environment, meanwhile malware authors started fighting back using `sleep(10000)` to avoid detection since that's longer than automation is worth running. The bad parts are not being executed until much later. Then the test environments started faking time speed ups. I think there was a good episode about that in the Risky Business podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 27710082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710082", "by": "eutectic", "time": 1625224678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also a good episode of the podcast '99% Invisible' on the topic (although not specifically in the context of COVID-19)."}, {"show": "1573483082", "hn_item": 27717448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27717448", "by": "gervwyk", "time": 1625263105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Set your goal 5 years in advance, time flies - If your unsure about something, that probably enough reason to make a change. More time makes making up your mind harder because you get more invested. - Close your eyes, to imagine how you feel if you choose either option. Just do the one that feels best. Overthinking can be a huge waste of energy and often ruins a good time. - Never be affaird to negotiate and speak your mind. - Read a lot - listen to Naval\u2019s how to get rich podcast. Read Untethered Soul by Michael Singer."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 27719649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27719649", "by": "opiopi", "time": 1625291074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested in what these labs look like, the podcast \"TWiV\" (This Week in Virology) did a video where they visit Boston's BSL-4. Software engineers might appreciate the simplicity with which redundant failsafes are attained - each Biosafety Level being contained by a less safe abstraction. Thus a BSL-4 lab is essentially 4 labs built inside themselves, like a Matryoshka doll for pathogens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAjkjGq8Ug"}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 27724100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724100", "by": "mikeiz404", "time": 1625340491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m curious as to why this was downvoted. Is it because they disagreed with some of the opinions? I was under the impression that\u2019s not what down voting was for here. Personally I think it is worth considering a social media platform, once it reaches a certain scale and depending on how content is distributed, as a \u201cpublic square\u201d or at least more towards a \u201cpublic square\u201d on the continuum between a private community and a large scale public one. Your Undivided Attention has an episode which touches on this: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/27-wont-you-be-my-neighbo... . The rest of their se"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27725732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725732", "by": "tzury", "time": 1625353532, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 27726495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27726495", "by": "mwkaufma", "time": 1625360806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Extended discussion recently on Citations Needed podcast: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-organized-crim..."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 27727072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727072", "by": "kulikalov", "time": 1625370185, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a freelancer and cloud computing consultant, I charge $200/hr. At this point I want to diversify my income, have some semi-passive income or more scalable incomes maybe. For the last 5 years I've tried to launch a few startups, I have no problems with persistency, but it seems I suck at finding PMF. What else can I try? Something based on my expertise. I thought about: - Courses about cloud computing. The target audience is small, yet the topic is lucrative, so, I guess I can price it significantly above average. Also, I have ~$10k worth of audio/video equipment. I have no audience on soci"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 27730069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27730069", "by": "mastax", "time": 1625410448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to an episode of the Ezra Klein podcast: \"Michael Lewis is asking the right question.\" Milton Friedman predicted that in the future our productivity would be so high that we'd only work 15 hours a week. Well it's the future now, and he significantly underestimated the productivity we'd have. Yet, the average worker of today works longer hours than before, and higher status people work even more than that. They talk about consumption and desire, advertising and innovation, whether it's possible or desirable that we learn to be content with less. As an anthropologist Michael "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 27731275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731275", "by": "anonuser123456", "time": 1625420159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Discipline is really the one trait that I guess leads to success in the above process, and probably everything else in life. Who knows how much of that is nature vs nurture. There was a recent EconTalk podcast about this. The author/guest is an expert in this type of behavioral change. Her opinion (which is the most informed I've read), is that discipline is not very important trait w.r.t. behavioral modification. Discipline is an active process and one must be constantly vigilant at a cortical level to execute it. Her view was situational control was the most important. With situational cont"}, {"show": "579081902", "hn_item": 27733031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27733031", "by": "aerosmile", "time": 1625436651, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating podcast!"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27733519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27733519", "by": "Rendello", "time": 1625442322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bryan and the Oxide folks have a podcast of their own called \"On The Metal\" where they interview awesome tech people, generally people who work closely with hardware. I enjoy it a lot: https://oxide.computer/podcasts"}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 27735938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27735938", "by": "KronisLV", "time": 1625476343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And yet, focusing on one facet of life for most of your personal fulfillment isn't entirely healthy, be it work, a significant other, a social clique that gives you your identity or anything else. Although i am also pretty introverted and it has definitely affected my social life so far, i also try to make an effort to explore a variety of the things life can offer me and i'd urge most people to do the same, even if it means exiting your comfort zone for a bit. None of those necessarily need to be persistent hobbies, but i'd argue that it can also be a good way to find one that you like. In th"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 27736343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736343", "by": "siwyd", "time": 1625480717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm really bad at keeping up with podcasts and On The Metal is the only one that managed to have me listen to all of the episodes."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 27739399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739399", "by": "kogus", "time": 1625501533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in the actual reasons behind the myriad eccentricities of English vocabulary, grammar, and spelling, there is an excellent podcast on that subject called simply \"The History of English Podcast\" [1]. The short short version is that English began as a Germanic language, which bumped into Greek-influenced Latin at regular intervals. Then the Norman French conquered England in 1066, and ruled it for a few hundred years, which brought in a huge French (and, because French is a Romance language, Latin) influence. Then the UK conquered much of the earth, and absorbed thousands of"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 27743889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27743889", "by": "throwaway284534", "time": 1625540910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding the Manager Tools podcast. I used to teach devs coming out of boot camps and half our time was spent on how to manage your manager. IMO, schools of all kinds need to teach their students how power dynamics are in the real world, how most jobs are about navigating through difficult personalities, and how \u201cbeing a professional\u201d is not really about winning or losing, but how you play the game. And look, I get that a good chunk of us would prefer to compartmentalize non-engineering work as much as possible. It\u2019s just that knowing the rules is the best way to decide if you want to engage "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27752281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752281", "by": "loceng", "time": 1625595367, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'll do 99 better for you: https://c19ivermectin.com/ - \"Database of all ivermectin COVID-19 studies. 100 studies, 63 peer reviewed, 61 with results comparing treatment and control groups.\" COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein https://vimeo.com/557811163 (2.5 hours; deleted by YouTube) Joe Rogan then recently had Bret Weinstein and Pierre Kory on his podcast to raise awareness of issue https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=7... (3 hours - heavily repeat of what was said in link before; Spotify desktop or mobile"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 27752281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27752281", "by": "loceng", "time": 1625595367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll do 99 better for you: https://c19ivermectin.com/ - \"Database of all ivermectin COVID-19 studies. 100 studies, 63 peer reviewed, 61 with results comparing treatment and control groups.\" COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein https://vimeo.com/557811163 (2.5 hours; deleted by YouTube) Joe Rogan then recently had Bret Weinstein and Pierre Kory on his podcast to raise awareness of issue https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=7... (3 hours - heavily repeat of what was said in link before; Spotify desktop or mobile"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 27761847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761847", "by": "Orou", "time": 1625669810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Haitian revolution ravaged the new nation's economy. The machinery used to process raw materials for Haiti's valuable export products, in particular sugar and coffee, were mostly destroyed in slave uprisings, and they could not be produced locally. Haiti also lacked the natural resources necessary to develop an independent industrial base, and even if plantation outputs increased again (as many tried to make happen), luxury goods like sugar and coffee are only valuable as trade goods. Simply put, Haiti was highly dependent on international trade for the resources it needed, which meant tha"}, {"show": "1567397702", "hn_item": 27762527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762527", "by": "tiagorbf", "time": 1625673353, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 27763667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763667", "by": "elwell", "time": 1625679085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of SQLite, this CoRecursive podcast a few days ago was enjoyable: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27766225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27766225", "by": "ampdepolymerase", "time": 1625695418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> To slim results. Elon Musk explained his new nihilism about the possibility of stopping AI advancement on the Joe Rogan podcast, when he said: \u201cI tried to convince people to slow down. Slow down AI. To regulate AI. This was futile. I tried for years. Nobody listened. Nobody listened.\u201d Rather rich coming from one of the self driving car market leaders. It certainly makes business sense to mislead academia and the policy sector into wasting resources on figuring out the best philosophical and ethical regime while large corporations benefit from regulatory capture. If he has his way, ML would b"}, {"show": "1569792895", "hn_item": 27767336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27767336", "by": "ermagert", "time": 1625704652, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 27769216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27769216", "by": "redis_mlc", "time": 1625729463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This also happened in South America. In some cases, the local rulers (Aztecs or Incans) destroyed existing libraries to cement their hold on power, before the Conquistadors arrived. In other cases (Mayans), the Spanish clergy burned most of the books, with a few \"codices\" saved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices And in the US, we have the 1619 Project, statue toppling, etc. in an effort to revise history. Fall of Civilizations (very addictive Youtube channel) https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast/videos"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 27772425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772425", "by": "tsjq", "time": 1625754709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An interesting NPR article /podcast episode on how Norway handled this . \"How To Avoid The Oil Curse : Planet Money : NPR\" https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/09/06/140110346/how-..."}, {"show": "283605519", "hn_item": 27772582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772582", "by": "shankysingh", "time": 1625755433, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1525955817", "hn_item": 27774010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27774010", "by": "vegetablepotpie", "time": 1625760897, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The dust bowl wasn\u2019t addressed until the dust made it to Washington [1]. I suspect we\u2019re not going to see real climate change mitigation in the US until Capitol Hill is flooded with sea water (elevation: 79ft). Although changes to individual actions are needed to solve the climate crisis, the impact of individual actions will be minimal, and big policy changes are needed to make meaningful impacts. The things that are actually working to produce the small policy changes we have seen so far, such as the green new deal, are protest movements like Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement [2]"}, {"show": "1525571613", "hn_item": 27782556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27782556", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "time": 1625829929, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really like this book: Amazon.com: Getting to Wow! Silicon Valley Pitch Secrets for Entrepreneurs (9798590166336): Reichert, Bill, Blendstrup, Angelika, Kawasaki, Guy: Books https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TS4RHKN Also a couple of podcasts with Reichert are worth listening to, like: \u200eMetrics that Measure Up: Getting to WOW - Secrets of Pitching to VCs - with Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures and Pegasus Tech Ventures on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/metrics-that-measure-u..."}, {"show": "1525571613", "hn_item": 27783626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783626", "by": "onion2k", "time": 1625838596, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a good episode of Metrics That Measure Up where Bill Reichert (Garage Technology Ventures) covers this - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/metrics-that-measure-u..."}, {"show": "1537003676", "hn_item": 27796642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27796642", "by": "ConorBronsdon", "time": 1625953099, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27801434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27801434", "by": "antisocial", "time": 1626016279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience\u2014how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body controls our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. The podcast also discusses tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings "}, {"show": "1537003676", "hn_item": 27811281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27811281", "by": "ConorBronsdon", "time": 1626103827, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27815451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27815451", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1626126050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excellent insight. Thank you. Since listening to a Lex Fridman podcast on how one hemisphere of the brain is more devoted to language than the other, I've been thinking about just how complex language is. I've never agreed with some linguists like Chomsky that speak about language as necessary for thought, mostly because my own mental language is far more physical and symbolic than linguistic. At one point in my life, for example, I was able to look at construction drawings and point to the weakest part of a structural system. That's not my brain using language. That's something else. That sai"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 27822326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27822326", "by": "domrdy", "time": 1626190898, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ali & James discussing the book on the NFX podcast: https://www.nfx.com/post/super-founders/ . Also available on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Super-Founders-Audiobook/15491889..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 27823832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823832", "by": "lyxell", "time": 1626198242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting read. This post seems to be written by Adam Gordon Bell who is also the host of the excellect CoRecursive podcast. Recently featured at HN in The Untold Story of SQLite [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718701"}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 27828081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27828081", "by": "Andrex", "time": 1626223288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A refrain on the Scriptnotes podcast[1] (hosted by John August and Craig Mazin) is that you're more likely to be an NFL player than a working screenwriter[2]. 1. https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes 2. https://johnaugust.com/2015/scriptnotes-ep-215-pg13-blood-bo..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27828321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27828321", "by": "erano", "time": 1626224951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent episode[1] of the Huberman Lab Podcast[0] talked about this briefly, in the context of alertness and focus: ...I haven't figured out yet how to develop a workstation where the computer is above me. I think the only way to really do that is actually to tilt one's body back, but actually that's not a good idea either. They have done studies recording from areas of the brain associated with alertness. Areas like locus coeruleus in the so-called reticular activating system. What they found is that depending on how reclined you are or upright you are, you will decrease with reclinin"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27831619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831619", "by": "crispyambulance", "time": 1626259528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What does Eric Weinstein do? He rambles about every subject, positing awkward contrarian points of view, mixing in politics, physics (not just any physics but \"theory of everything\" physics), mathematics, Jeffery Epstein, BLM, beefs about higher education (specifically Harvard)-- ALL within the same long discussions/monologues. Does that mean he's a crackpot? Well, he's definitely an outsider. He tends towards obfuscation and using turgid, roundabout rhetoric to say simple things. He will also sometimes throw out PHD level arcane mathematics vocab when he's talking to a general audience withou"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27836278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27836278", "by": "andrew_", "time": 1626286195, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Highly recommend this Joe Rogan episode with David Sinclair [1]. He touches on population growth, fertility rates, and technology. Most importantly, what the impact of living longer will have. I've dug deeper than the podcast and read some of his writing on population and it's really interesting stuff. It may make you rethink the \"we'll breed to our doom\" mantra. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/55UlxYWPfV46f7puMkZPeD"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27836956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27836956", "by": "anm89", "time": 1626289230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Naval Ravikant seems to be a divisive figure here but I think he made a profound point when he discussed this topic on Joe Rogan's podcast. The point was that, as a platform, you cross a line which is very difficult to ever revert when you optionally censor your platform in response to political pressure because both sides are then forced from a game theory perspective to aggressively pursue censoring your platform in their favor lest the other does it first. The platform ends up being collateral damage in some political war they never cared about in the first place and they can never win beca"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27849150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27849150", "by": "gervwyk", "time": 1626378028, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 27849998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27849998", "by": "jstx1", "time": 1626382399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics have a great episode on this - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27852307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27852307", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1626400759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Full article is worth reading, but the TL;DR is that one of the key studies in the Ivermectin COVID-19 narrative is full of glaring issues that suggest some or all of the data was fabricated. When this potentially fraudulent study is removed from meta-analyses, the statistical significance of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19 disappears. More recent studies also fail to show statistical significance for Ivermectin in COVID-19: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128... There are further Ivermectin trials ongoing. Meanwhile, Ivermectin has become deeply intertwined with consp"}, {"show": "1483677267", "hn_item": 27855170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27855170", "by": "nickik", "time": 1626434938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested 'TheLimitingFactor', the best channel on youtube about batteries has just released a long video on this. https://www.patreon.com/thelimitingfactor/posts It will be like a week or so until it will come out. There is an older video on the topic as well. About Clay mining and potential processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvE-UA-xw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCK1SJG5gc And an interview with somebody in the industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfffip_4C80 There are certainty people in the industry skeptical of this. No commercial lithium is currently produce"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 27857945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857945", "by": "gmays", "time": 1626452801, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 27857962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27857962", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1626452889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two recent episodes of the \"Criminal\" podcast [0] documented that it's a bad idea for even victims of kidnapping to report to police. In this case, it wasn't because the kidnappers punished the victims for reporting, but because the police themselves harmed the victims. [0] https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21/"}, {"show": "1487320403", "hn_item": 27867378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27867378", "by": "mikeiz404", "time": 1626543207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This podcast episode, \u201cThe white gold rush\u201d by The Slow Newscast, goes into depth on the recent history of the lake and the community of the Salton Sea \u2014 https://overcast.fm/+oXTWZbQac"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 27868322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27868322", "by": "uDontKnowMe", "time": 1626551767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like: Defn: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/defn/ The REPL: https://www.therepl.net/episodes/ (Seems to have gone quiet) ClojureScript Podcast: https://clojurescriptpodcast.com/ Functional Design in Clojure: https://clojuredesign.club/ (Also seems to have gone quiet since December) LispCast by Eric Normand: https://lispcast.com/ Cognitect, the company behind Clojure also has their own podcast but I haven't found it to be that interesting most of the time, at least yet: https://www.cognitect.com/cognicast/index.html Not specifically Clojure-related but has discussed a few times including wit R"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 27876557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876557", "by": "the_optimist", "time": 1626641465, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These whispers have been around for decades in certain circles, even before the weird Florida non-prosecution. The singularly most public, appropriately caveated, responsible discussion of this comes through Eric Weinstein, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/25-the-construct-jeffr..."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 27886894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27886894", "by": "dolmen", "time": 1626726282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Changelog.com has multiple weekly podcasts about programming: http://changelog.com/podcasts As a Go programmer I recommend Go Time: http://changelog.com/gotime There is a huge archive of past episodes (last episode is #188) that are as interesting (or more) than the latest ones."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 27890392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890392", "by": "LimaBearz", "time": 1626759095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe their podcast \u201cThe Daily\u201d also had an episode on it, even got the original lawyer that discovered the trick. It\u2019s a pretty good podcast for those who may not know about it"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 27891030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891030", "by": "LimaBearz", "time": 1626767531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wasn\u2019t close. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/why-suing-amazon-ju... Different podcast but that\u2019s the episode. The Daily is still good.. the one linked above is good as well"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 27904441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27904441", "by": "flipstone", "time": 1626863341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the latest episode of the Darknet Diaries podcast, which discusses a campaign of harassment aiming to get someone to give up a highly-valuable Instagram handle: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/97/"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 27914154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914154", "by": "dpeck", "time": 1626915846, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a great \u201cIn Our Time\u201d episode about this area and the archeology going on around it if you\u2019re interested in a listen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-our-time/id73330895..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27916420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916420", "by": "isaacremuant", "time": 1626939228, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The fact that it says \"promoted by right-wing figures\" shows how politicizes this whole thing is. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=I... That podcast addresses the claims against ivermectin and the double standards regarding the high bar for such a cheap and available treatment and the censorship surrounding it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27916441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916441", "by": "isaacremuant", "time": 1626939448, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Actually, the advocacy comes from many sides of the political aisle but a very specific \"anti right wing\" sentiment seems to be hell bent on shutting it down as fast as possible and ignoring real world use. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=I... That podcast addresses the claims against ivermectin and the double standards regarding the high bar for such a cheap and available treatment and the censorship surrounding it."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 27924380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924380", "by": "gcthomas", "time": 1626988141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anything from Tim Harford is going to be good. His \"More or Less\" Radio 4 series is a must listen podcast."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27924438, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924438", "by": "Jaepa", "time": 1626988418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was adapted from Tim Harharford's podcast Cautionary Tales eps Wrong Tools Cost Lives https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-wrong-tools-... If you have not listened to the series I highly recommend it. His episode \"LaLa Land: Galileo\u2019s Warning\" is by far one of my favorite pieces of media. In brief it is why redundant tightly coupled fail safes will often lead to cascading failures. https://timharford.com/2019/11/cautionary-tales-ep-3-lala-la..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 27929116, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929116", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "time": 1627035996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more by Tim Harford checkout the \"More or Less\" podcast \"explaining the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.\" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 27930186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27930186", "by": "ta988", "time": 1627045455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Tim Harford's podcast Cautionary Tales, I warmly recommend that."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 27932924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27932924", "by": "artfulhippo", "time": 1627059535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing. Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform. Is the 'metaverse' inevitable? Or is it merely sci-fi wishful thinking? If 'interoperability' and 'decentralization' means that you can't avoid targeted advertising, I'll pass. [0]: https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-c..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 27933254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27933254", "by": "superbaconman", "time": 1627060962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman has had a few astronomers on his podcast recently that go over planet and moon formation. If you find this stuff interesting definitely check those episodes out."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 27934516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27934516", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1627067783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BTW I'd love to hear this as a podcast as a tonic to the \"How I built this\" podcast's survivor bias"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 27935543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27935543", "by": "criddell", "time": 1627073790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a podcast recently (Reply All) where they spent quite a bit of time praising the TikTok recommendation engine."}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 27939829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939829", "by": "ColinHayhurst", "time": 1627124397, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What do Bing syndicates say/not say/write? Ecosia: https://info.ecosia.org/privacy - IP address (obfuscated), user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting. - Additionally, by default Ecosia sets a Bing-specific \u201cClient ID\u201d parameter to improve the quality of your search results. If your browser has \u201cDo Not Track\u201d enabled, we disable the \u201cClient ID\u201d automatically. Qwant: https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/ \u2013 The first three bytes of your IP address; \u2013 A salted hash generated from: your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27944868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944868", "by": "pepperonipizza", "time": 1627164800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://youtu.be/CI6rX96oYnY He talked about it here on the Joe Rogan Podcast"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 27946171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27946171", "by": "handmodel", "time": 1627180132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With the US level of local veto points its going to be impossible for us to ever building housing or power anywhere. Because the system defers to property owners - it gives way too much power to the few who would see some loss compared to the masses who would gain. I thought this recent Ezra Klein podcast on the issue of local control was great: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/podcasts/transcript-ezra-..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 27947613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27947613", "by": "jazzyjackson", "time": 1627200931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the latest Reply All podcast about TikTok and they theorized that one big advantage the TikTok algorithm has for getting to know you is it gets to see like 50 - 60 reactions per hour of app usage, of whether the algo was hot or cold with each minute long video. YouTube is probably jealous because most of their data is just people putting on music playlists and not interacting at all."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 27950657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27950657", "by": "Shindi", "time": 1627231669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After learning about how sunlight in the morning wakes you up on the Huberman Lab Podcast, I started going outside as soon as I can every morning. Amazing difference on my mental health. Now I need sunlight every morning or else I'll feel slow or unmotivated."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 27952173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27952173", "by": "forkLding", "time": 1627241424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I can see, podcasts vs Clubhouse is a bit like Youtube (without streaming) vs Twitch. One is more spontaneous and interactive whereas the other is consuming content. I'm guessing it's the sense that users get to participate as well (probably more than a normal stream or Twitch stream) which interests people, the value proposition is being able to contribute to a Joe Rogan podcast as a roundtable discussion instead of just listening to it."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 27956552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27956552", "by": "pomian", "time": 1627283321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An excellent source for USA/Philippine history, and other history is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. This one in particular for that topic: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-49-the-am... But all his podcasts are phenomenal"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 27958850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27958850", "by": "freddybobs", "time": 1627304600, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a good episode about homelessness in the US on the 'You're wrong about' podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homelessness/id1380008... In it they cite studies that show that efforts in the US somewhat similar to this Finland program are generally very successful, and typically cheaper overall compared to not having such programs."}, {"show": "1408974222", "hn_item": 27960706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27960706", "by": "rayrag", "time": 1627313658, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "War And Conquest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war-and-conquest/id140... Our Fake History: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/our-fake-history/id102... The History of Byzantium: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-byzanti..."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 27960706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27960706", "by": "rayrag", "time": 1627313658, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "War And Conquest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war-and-conquest/id140... Our Fake History: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/our-fake-history/id102... The History of Byzantium: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-byzanti..."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 27960706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27960706", "by": "rayrag", "time": 1627313658, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "War And Conquest: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war-and-conquest/id140... Our Fake History: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/our-fake-history/id102... The History of Byzantium: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-byzanti..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 27964895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27964895", "by": "CharleFKane", "time": 1627330762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's \"The History of Rome\" (concluded) and \"Revolutions\" (ongoing). https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ Also an enthusiastic second for \"The Fall of Civilizations\"."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 27964895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27964895", "by": "CharleFKane", "time": 1627330762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's \"The History of Rome\" (concluded) and \"Revolutions\" (ongoing). https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ Also an enthusiastic second for \"The Fall of Civilizations\"."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 27966477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27966477", "by": "mplewis", "time": 1627339964, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Boston police were started to defend the rights of property owners, not citizens. In the South, post-Civil War, police used gold star badges because they were adapted from the gold star badges used by slave patrols. You should learn more about the history of policing in America: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-america..."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 27983915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27983915", "by": "Brandwagon", "time": 1627481255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I built Birdflow in 3 weeks (part-time). Within 1 week of launching it, it was featured on HubSpot's My First Million podcast, got 100 signups, and $1,500 in ARR. ---------- Birdflow helps businesses engage with their customers on Twitter at scale. With Birdflow, any business can use personalized automations to: - Drive traffic, leads, and sales. - Grow a following by incentivizing engagement. ---------- Some examples: - Send a welcome message when someone follows you. - Send a promo code when someone retweets you. - Send a lead magnet when someone likes your tweet. - Send a gift when someone "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 27986781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27986781", "by": "roberttod", "time": 1627494201, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just finished listening to a great podcast that touches on the safety and FDA emergency approval, see https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-... . Some key points i) we have more data on these vaccines than any other in history ii) though we don't have long term data, there has never in the history of vaccines been side effects that wouldn't be detectable at this stage iii) the FDA is really dragging its feet and should have given approval by June, latest. Vaccine companies have submitted all the data for review a long time ago and previous FDA commissioners generally agre"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 27993476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993476", "by": "gokhan", "time": 1627540227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For Duolingo, you might mix it with other materials for a much better experience. I told our kids' experience learning foreign languages here [1]. My wife used the same technique to learn some French, Duolingo reinforced with audio and visual materials, songs with lyrics, regular learning books, podcasts etc. Duolingo is used daily in our house and we're paying for not seeing ads. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408576"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 27993852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993852", "by": "estaseuropano", "time": 1627543750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can only agree. Duolingo gives some basic vocabulary but after that basically is useless, especially as the way it teaches grammar forms (and on the mobile app barely any explicit rules) is 100% useless. Native speakers looking at example sentences in the target language are often shocked at the nonsense that is provided. But worst for me is that it wastes time. The unnecessarily ineffective repetitions, all the features and ads intended to upsell 'Pro', etc. There are dozens of other apps that do it better for free (e.g. good old Anki, or newcomers like Clozemaster) and when on a desktop a wh"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 27995477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995477", "by": "k_bx", "time": 1627560475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a wonderful episode of DarkHorse Podcast with Michael Mew explaining how gum can help developing otherwise-degrading-due-to-soft-food chewing muscles and to avoiding the need for braces ultimately."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 28001704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28001704", "by": "cbozeman", "time": 1627594003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People should absolutely get vaccinated. After Eric Topol's appearance on Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast, the argument has been made and it's airtight... for you , yourself going and getting vaccinated of your own volition. What should not happen - what cannot happen - is the government or private entities forcing you to be vaccinated, or you lose your means of supporting yourself. It's as un-American as it gets. Part of being a free society - a truly free society - is that people must be free to make their own choices, even if they're poor choices."}, {"show": "596346899", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "478356685", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "296189771", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "301295540", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "296499169", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "285097604", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "1012994576", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "153880765", "hn_item": 28003371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003371", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1627607235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These are the ones currently in my rotation. They're all excellent and highly recommended. Particular shout out to Group Therapy and Vision Radio - they're currently my 2 main go-to podcasts for coding. -- Trance / Progressive House / House: Above and Beyond - Group Therapy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/above-beyond-group-the... Jaytech Music https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/jaytech-music-podcast/... SuperTab Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supertab-radio-with-su... Tritonia https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tritonia/id296189771 John 00 Fleming - JOOF Radio https:/"}, {"show": "1504360345", "hn_item": 28003635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28003635", "by": "rabboRubble", "time": 1627610286, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Michael Osterholm's podcast and associated YouTube channel, The Osterholm Update: COVID-19, earned a YouTube strike against his YouTube channel for COVID-19 disinformation. I believe this strike was against episode 61: Divided by Delta, which was removed from the YouTube platform. His team challenged the strike and failed to remove the strike and his channel is at risk of being deplatformed for disinformation. In episode 62, he described his attempt at countering misinformation in episode 61 as the reason for having an algorithm capturing his post as disinformation. He's caught in the posi"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 28016590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016590", "by": "m8s", "time": 1627722747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few thoughts here: 1. LiveBook is awesome and just continues to get better. 2. The Elixir core team is pumping out some fascinating stuff, taking inspiration from other languages and ecosystems and improving upon the products. 3. The author of this post is Mark Ericksen, co-host of the Thinking Elixir podcast, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for an Elixir podcast! It's my favorite. 4. This is a really cool article, I hadn't thought of using LiveBook as an actual BI tool but I might actually try it out. I've thought about using it as documentation, and in tandem with something li"}, {"show": "1551432467", "hn_item": 28016590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28016590", "by": "m8s", "time": 1627722747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few thoughts here: 1. LiveBook is awesome and just continues to get better. 2. The Elixir core team is pumping out some fascinating stuff, taking inspiration from other languages and ecosystems and improving upon the products. 3. The author of this post is Mark Ericksen, co-host of the Thinking Elixir podcast, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for an Elixir podcast! It's my favorite. 4. This is a really cool article, I hadn't thought of using LiveBook as an actual BI tool but I might actually try it out. I've thought about using it as documentation, and in tandem with something li"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28018288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28018288", "by": "aaron695", "time": 1627740827, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics re-visit the abortion crime link and also talk about lead in 2019 - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/ The abortion model is simple. Unwanted babies to mothers who don't want them will not grow up well. We know lots of things target IQ, but the lead model is really complex, it hypothetically reduces impulse control across the entire population and with really tiny amounts in the environment. When I see it proven in mice not humans I'll be more convinced. (And not large amount of lead in their water bowl)"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 28021451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28021451", "by": "zyphr", "time": 1627764815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bitcoin mostly reuses wasted energy where there is no other better paying customer. Even if we would stop all Bitcoin mining on the planet, it wouldn't make any difference for this wasted energy, it wouldn't be put to other uses. Please take the time to watch this podcast about bitcoin and electric grids and power usage: \"The Truth About Bitcoin's Energy with Harry Sudock\" https://youtu.be/vSkEgUsgP3E And one other point: energy usage != pollution"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 28022251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28022251", "by": "bamboozled", "time": 1627773202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So where are all the crazy new mutations then ? I can tell who has been recommended Darkhorse podcast pretty quickly. I've listened to it too."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28028309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028309", "by": "anonuser123456", "time": 1627839853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I held this perspective until very recently. Listening to Charles Hoskinson on Lex Friedman's podcast changed my mind somewhat. There do seem to be some projects that are interesting from a technology and society standpoint. But it is clear the vast majority of crypto is just get-rich-quick Ponzi-esque."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 28037390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037390", "by": "dralley", "time": 1627916538, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 28039790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039790", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1627925413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone reading this thread who still has an open mind, I recommend this 2009 episode of the EconTalk podcast that talks about actually working at Walmart and how supposedly-great the \"mom and pops\" were before Walmart took over: https://www.econtalk.org/platt-on-working-at-wal-mart/ The truth about the mom and pops is that they had very limited selection, high prices, long delivery times, and often were owned by the local business man rather than a decentralized group of independent business owners. I recommend listening to the podcast before knee-jerk deciding that you know everything."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28051441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28051441", "by": "ghola2k5", "time": 1628009669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, there is an episode or more of Freakonomics podcasts about this: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/ Additionally, Angela Duckworth (an author) co-hosts with Freakonomics host Stephen Dubner another podcast called \"No Stupid Questions\" ( https://freakonomics.com/nsq/ )"}, {"show": "1510056899", "hn_item": 28051441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28051441", "by": "ghola2k5", "time": 1628009669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, there is an episode or more of Freakonomics podcasts about this: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/grit/ Additionally, Angela Duckworth (an author) co-hosts with Freakonomics host Stephen Dubner another podcast called \"No Stupid Questions\" ( https://freakonomics.com/nsq/ )"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 28056453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28056453", "by": "nadagast", "time": 1628043005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time is a wonderful podcast, always interesting content! Also, as an American, the pace of the show and way of speaking is itself interesting to me."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28057271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28057271", "by": "doppp", "time": 1628050888, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 28057573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28057573", "by": "cik", "time": 1628055254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money had a great podcast ( https://www.npr.org/2018/11/22/670313841/atlanta-falcons-cut... ) examining the other approach, the Atlanta Falcons lowering their food cost overall. I don't know if they continued down this path, but a quick search shows that it seems like they maintained low prices ( https://mercedesbenzstadium.com/food-beverage/ )."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 28058497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28058497", "by": "ImaCake", "time": 1628064385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sufficient space to say things cuts both ways. I see it all the time in scientific papers. Brevity forces you to say what you need without extra things, this can be efficent and even end up being very clear. But it is easy to screw up your explanation and lose the reader. Conversely, having a lot of space means you can carefully introduce each idea leading towards the concept or story you wish to convey. But it is easy to waffle about things that are not actually important to the story and you lose the reader because they are confused about something they never even needed to know in order to "}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 28075181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075181", "by": "jtwaleson", "time": 1628177706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That reminds me of the Revisionist History episode \"The Big Man Can't Shoot\" which is about how Rick Barry shoots underhand free throws in basketball. It's a Malcolm Gladwell podcast, so take it with a pinch of salt, but his point is that the underhand method is far superior and still no one uses it because they're afraid it looks ridiculous. In short: keep doing it the ridiculous way and ignore the serious bowlers ;)"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 28082686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28082686", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1628217355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do love listening to John McWhorter\u2018s podcast about language, Lexicon Valley"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 28083560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28083560", "by": "andrewzah", "time": 1628226948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who finds words and etymology fascinating, I highly recommend John McWhorter's podcast, Lexicon Valley."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28084454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28084454", "by": "sleavey", "time": 1628237285, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got into Lex Fridman's podcast [1] maybe a year ago and was instantly a fan of his depth-first search style. It's often frustrating in other interview style podcasts when something interesting is mentioned but not explored. Lex will often say something like \"oh that's interesting, let's talk about that\" then that becomes the subject of discussion for 20-30 minutes, but he's good at backing up to the original point after that branch is exhausted. Incidentally he's a computer scientist! [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/lexfridman"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28085782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085782", "by": "jonathanstrange", "time": 1628250153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't like Lex Fridman's podcasts because his interviews are way too long and he cannot and does not want to keep them concise. Interviews are no different from books in that respect, length does not equate to depth. On the contrary, the short ones are usually the gems. There is nothing worse than university professors and billionaires talking for hours about things they don't have much insightful to say about instead of talking for half an hour about the things they know best."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 28087369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28087369", "by": "__afk__", "time": 1628259012, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I applaud Apple for this. It reaffirms the reasons why it's one of the few companies I feel strongly about. If you can't understand the logic of a decision like this, maybe you don't realize the mountain of suffering that is caused from people trading this material. I recommend listening to Sam Harris's podcast with Gabriel Dance (#213 - THE WORST EPIDEMIC) to get a better picture of the problem. The main beef people seem to have here is the slippery slope argument. Binary choices are nice, I agree - but almost always they obscure a complex surface that deserves nuance."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 28089707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28089707", "by": "thinkharderdev", "time": 1628268428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually really appreciate that aspect of Conversations with Tyler. So many podcast are \"bring on someone who just wrote a book and let them pontificate for an hour\" which can be interesting if the topic is interesting but it often ends up sounding like a set piece as the guest just \"reads their script.\" Cowen's style of asking really oblique questions and skipping around to topics really allows guests to demonstrate a dynamic range of intellect and often say things that are interesting and \"off script.\" It doesn't always work but when it does it is brilliant."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 28090525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090525", "by": "wenc", "time": 1628271771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Conversations with Tyler are interviews rather than organic conversations per se. The lack of flow is actually part of Tyler's personality -- I've followed him for years and watched interviews with him. He has a very \"economical\" style of communication. One of his greatest gifts is that he can answer questions extemporaneously without pausing, with no umms or ahs, and definitely no pleasantries though that doesn't make him unpleasant, merely efficient. Despite that he does still comes across as kind of avuncular and soft. I actually like that his main questions are pre-meditated and that he is"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 28090872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28090872", "by": "rocmcd", "time": 1628273286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the \"hiding hand\" principle at play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_hand_principle I highly recommend anyone interested in \"megaprojects\" to listen to this EconTalk podcast episode with Bent Flyvbjerg: https://www.econtalk.org/bent-flyvbjerg-on-megaprojects/ Very insightful conversation."}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 28093215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28093215", "by": "philip1209", "time": 1628286912, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For some supply chain inspiration - I recommend this podcast with Jeremy Cai from Italic.com: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jeremy-cai-manufacture... It talks about how they could act like a software company by letting their suppliers take inventory risk. I feel like there could be a parallel here in BlackOakTV - perhaps by enabling independent studios to self-finance and have upside in the success of their content."}, {"show": "1580009576", "hn_item": 28097776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097776", "by": "ckipp", "time": 1628336176, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 28098189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098189", "by": "sintezcs", "time": 1628340238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the last episode of the \u201cCorecursive\u201d podcast. The guest of the episode is Zig creator - Andrew Kelly, and he tells about the history of Zig, it\u2019s really interesting! https://corecursive.com/067-zig-with-andrew-kelley/"}, {"show": "1467292185", "hn_item": 28103661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103661", "by": "freyfogle", "time": 1628388477, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "surprised no one has mentioend the excellent Extremities podcast, one of the seasons was about life on and history of Pitcairn https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arrival-on-pitcairn/id..."}, {"show": "1467292185", "hn_item": 28105818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105818", "by": "scrollaway", "time": 1628420378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding Wendover\u2019s Extremities season about Pitcairn. It\u2019s a YouTube channel nowadays, it seems like the podcast didn\u2019t take off much."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 28107675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107675", "by": "RajSinghLA", "time": 1628438512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Given your interests, consider building public good dApps or defi projects that leverage the latest in crypto tech like so-SNARKs and quadratic funding. Powerful emerging tech that doesn\u2019t yet have much economic incentive for companies to adopt seems like it could be fun and potentially broadly useful. Relevant podcast episode with Vitalik: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tim-ferriss-show/i..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 28122356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122356", "by": "celias", "time": 1628543441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Daniel Townsend was interviewed in the Jul 22 episode of the Talk Python podcast https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/328/piccolo-a-fast-async..."}, {"show": "1161880916", "hn_item": 28136097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28136097", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1628638038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those individuals interested in TikTok, Bloomberg has a six-part podcast series - Foundering: The TikTok Story - available [0]. Well worth a listen and discusses the origin of TikTok as well as some of the controversy that surrounds the app. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/foundering"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28137053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137053", "by": "technologesus", "time": 1628646955, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1569792895", "hn_item": 28137587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137587", "by": "ermagert", "time": 1628652285, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1534759441", "hn_item": 28141307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141307", "by": "johndcook", "time": 1628685721, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 28142402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28142402", "by": "brontoski", "time": 1628692045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily Ape by Darren Lau (t.me/thedailyape) The Bankless podcast/newsletter These are some solid news sources, if you don't have time to follow everyone on twitter"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 28142402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28142402", "by": "brontoski", "time": 1628692045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily Ape by Darren Lau (t.me/thedailyape) The Bankless podcast/newsletter These are some solid news sources, if you don't have time to follow everyone on twitter"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28163644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163644", "by": "dwd", "time": 1628814108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also appeared recently on Sam Harris's podcast to a bit more more skepticism. I thought he didn't break much new ground from his previous appearance on Lex's podcast in 2019, which I went back and listened to before listening to the latest one. But...in saying that - listening to him again triggered a multitude of aha moments for me, and got me thinking about things like: \"what is a dream\", \"how does deja-vu work\" in the context of cortical columns, 1000 brain theory, predictive voting, etc. I though his most recent explanation on how creating an artificial neocortex is not a risk in itself"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 28163644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28163644", "by": "dwd", "time": 1628814108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also appeared recently on Sam Harris's podcast to a bit more more skepticism. I thought he didn't break much new ground from his previous appearance on Lex's podcast in 2019, which I went back and listened to before listening to the latest one. But...in saying that - listening to him again triggered a multitude of aha moments for me, and got me thinking about things like: \"what is a dream\", \"how does deja-vu work\" in the context of cortical columns, 1000 brain theory, predictive voting, etc. I though his most recent explanation on how creating an artificial neocortex is not a risk in itself"}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 28166120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28166120", "by": "3np", "time": 1628836469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huawei is following their playbook from the Nortel days. Why would anyone expect them to stop doing what brought them to success? Malicious Life made a great 3 episode podcast series on that. https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-china... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Nortel"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 28168647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168647", "by": "jerodsanto", "time": 1628861716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We discuss this in detail with Richard on next week's episode of The Changelog podcast. https://changelog.fm"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 28168688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168688", "by": "metta2uall", "time": 1628861994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who prefer video there's Julia Galef's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-RZblnhjXK_krP1jDybeQ She is a co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality & host of the Rationally Speaking podcast."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 28171490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28171490", "by": "DavidPeiffer", "time": 1628873892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an industrial engineer, more manufacturing focused than specifically logistics. From what I've seen and heard from talking with other IE's at other companies, we're probably looking at a couple years before things are \"normal\" again, and they'll continue to be a mess in a way that's transparent to the consumer longer than that. As long as there are areas of the world with significant trade that are being hit hard by COVID there will be disruptions. In the last few weeks, Southeast Asia has had reduced port capacity due to a COVID surge. Heck, even in US production it's tough to get product"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 28171490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28171490", "by": "DavidPeiffer", "time": 1628873892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an industrial engineer, more manufacturing focused than specifically logistics. From what I've seen and heard from talking with other IE's at other companies, we're probably looking at a couple years before things are \"normal\" again, and they'll continue to be a mess in a way that's transparent to the consumer longer than that. As long as there are areas of the world with significant trade that are being hit hard by COVID there will be disruptions. In the last few weeks, Southeast Asia has had reduced port capacity due to a COVID surge. Heck, even in US production it's tough to get product"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 28188992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28188992", "by": "doo_daa", "time": 1629037593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a recent episode on Skeptoid.com on clearcutting. Dunning, B. \"All About Clearcutting.\" Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 20 Jul 2021. Web. 15 Aug 2021. https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4789"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 28189752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28189752", "by": "hbgngkkgk", "time": 1629042885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This case was mentioned multiple times on the This Week In Virology podcast as strong evidence that the lab leak hypothesis is nonsense. No pandemic was started despite the virus leaking from the lab. And no pandemic was started after all the other hundreds of lab accidents that we know off, including after the multiple leaks of the original SARS virus from China and Singapore labs. All the pandemics that we know off started naturally."}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 28191383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191383", "by": "postpawl", "time": 1629053767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great podcast called Blowback that goes deep into the history of both wars: https://pca.st/episode/8b3805b4-76c9-479b-89f6-efd66a71f87a The history of US involvement in those areas starts way before 9/11."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 28192660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192660", "by": "motoxpro", "time": 1629062654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "podcasts, speaking engagements, blogs, twitter, substack, HN, Product Hunt, Instagram, small communities, early customers, newsletters. The reason digital advertising is so popular with VC backed startups is because they need capacity. If you are starting a bootstrapped startups getting a flywheeling going starting with 50 people is fine."}, {"show": "1525955817", "hn_item": 28204418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204418", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1629158082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I\u2019m personally doing matters less, far less, than what we collectively do. Per the How to Save a Planet podcast (by one of the editors of All We Can Save), the percentage of vegetarians in the USA hasn\u2019t changed in thirty-some years. Better would be for 95 percent of people to eat a little less meat. Still, it is helpful when both efforts align. Since I like talking about what I do as I learn and grow alongside my toddler, here you go: - No alcohol, coffee, or chocolate, because of mental health reasons and they are expensive to make. A stronger-willed person might enjoy these as the rare"}, {"show": "1557897650", "hn_item": 28206613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28206613", "by": "ap-andersson", "time": 1629179403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in their story how the original client and architecture came to be and then how it changed to what it is today they have a podcast you can listen to: \"Spotify: A Product Story\" - https://pca.st/cbo7khrm Here's also a blog post related to the topic: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/08/04/four-lessons-we..."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 28207615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207615", "by": "ggm", "time": 1629190072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Written. I've done some podcasts, they're fun but really hard work. I go for the lowbrow explainer shortform stuff. Others do Longform slow thoughtful which I prefer to read but it's harder to write!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28208857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28208857", "by": "jemurray", "time": 1629201012, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is about Lyme disease, but let me add another word of caution while we are discussing ticks. Two years ago I was bit by the Lone Star tick. Since that time I developed an allergy to all red meat. It was hard to diagnose and a few of the doctors I worked with along the years still don\u2019t believe its true. If your interested in learning more search for Alpha Gal. There is an excellent Radio Lab podcast about it."}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 28214130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28214130", "by": "Wowfunhappy", "time": 1629230228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember listening to an episode of the Exponent podcast, in which Ben Thompson said something like (paraphrasing from memory): > People who love \"native apps\" can complain about Electron all they want\u2014but there's simply no replacement for the real-time collaboration offered by web-based apps like Figma! As someone who's not exactly thrilled with Electron and its memory usage\u2014is there a reason the two go together? Is there a reason we can't build collaborative apps in Cocoa and GTK? I think these systems are awesome, I just think they'd be even better if they weren't also running full web br"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 28218791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218791", "by": "tsjq", "time": 1629274830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came across a similar line in a Podcast 3-4 years ago. I was baffled at that line, same as the reply commenters here. it was Hidden Brain or Planet Money or Freakonomics. They didn't elaborate on that. & I forgot to dig into it"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 28218791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218791", "by": "tsjq", "time": 1629274830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came across a similar line in a Podcast 3-4 years ago. I was baffled at that line, same as the reply commenters here. it was Hidden Brain or Planet Money or Freakonomics. They didn't elaborate on that. & I forgot to dig into it"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28220680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28220680", "by": "hourislate", "time": 1629293307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Musk spoke about this (JRE Podcast) and he compared the camera to eyes. He said that the only way we'll ever achieve full self driving is creating a system that is at least as good or better than human eyes."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 28226551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226551", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1629317957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fantastic. Also a great, related, listen is the recent Corecursive Podcast with Richard Hipp as guest. He\u2019s the man who created SQLite, with good technical stories to share. \u201cThe Untold Story of SQLite\u201d https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/"}, {"show": "942809988", "hn_item": 28231821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231821", "by": "tern", "time": 1629364520, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This article does little to make its point, but I highly recommend seeking whatever indigenous wisdom you may have access to, wherever you find yourself For one lens into those worlds, see the For The Wild podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-wild/id9428099..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28233945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233945", "by": "tosh", "time": 1629381800, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28234747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28234747", "by": "criticaltinker", "time": 1629385493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For others wondering who Lex Fridman is: > Lex Fridman is a computer scientist and AI researcher at MIT, podcaster, and online public personality. His topics of research include artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction and machine learning at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [1][2][3] Can anyone provide a summary of the discussion with Joe Rogan? [1] https://wikitia.com/wiki/Lex_Fridman [2] https://lexfridman.com/ [3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28235185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28235185", "by": "raptortech", "time": 1629387344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This description of Lex Fridman's research is generous. If you listen to his own podcast (previously called the Artificial Intelligence podcast, now the Lex Fridman Podcast), you'll find that he has a knack for missing the deeper insights of guests discussing those very fields of research."}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 28235185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28235185", "by": "raptortech", "time": 1629387344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This description of Lex Fridman's research is generous. If you listen to his own podcast (previously called the Artificial Intelligence podcast, now the Lex Fridman Podcast), you'll find that he has a knack for missing the deeper insights of guests discussing those very fields of research."}, {"show": "1295289140", "hn_item": 28241063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241063", "by": "redraga", "time": 1629419710, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Two posts from Astral Star Codex * A THRIVE/SURVIVE THEORY OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM [1] - Still the best theory on the conservative/liberal divide. It changed how I view the conservative viewpoint and helped me understand it better. * MEDITATIONS ON MOLOCH [2] - One of the most famous blog posts on the internet (certainly in HN circles at least). Part fantasy, part philosophy, part game-theory - all of it brilliant. It changed how I approach my life goals and what I need to optimize for in life. A blog post so famous that it has it's own podcast[3]! [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28243115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28243115", "by": "jazzyjackson", "time": 1629439070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ll admit that the original appeal of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast to me was playing the new episode without knowing anything about the guest and trying to figure out if the guest actually knew what they were talking about or if they were full of shit and spinning tales. A game with myself to separate the \u00fcbermensch from the charlatans. I guess if someone grows up thinking that information is reliable just because they heard it on the radio, well, they missed out on some sage advice somewhere along the line."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 28243942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28243942", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1629448585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "React is UI fashion, uses lots of memory, stresses the GC in managed languages and it was already present in Haskell, it just lacked JavaScript way of pushing frameworks. JetPack Compose was created by React devs, and Swift UI still pales in capabilities to AppKit. Listen to this week rant on Apple's UI Frameworks at ATP podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28245839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28245839", "by": "md2020", "time": 1629467068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would argue the average human driver is actually a good driver. People argue that Tesla training their system to mimic a human driver is a bad idea because then it will replicate bad human driver behavior, but the fact is that human drivers don\u2019t end up killing themselves or others the vast, vast majority of the time. George Hotz of Comma.ai brought up an interesting point about this on one of his Lex Fridman podcast appearances. He said from the driving data they\u2019ve gathered, it seems that average drivers are good in the same ways, while especially bad drivers are bad in unique ways. The re"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 28249659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249659", "by": "humanlion87", "time": 1629484194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listed to an NPR Planet Money podcast regarding the housing shortage. One of the points they mentioned was that the number of people joining construction related trade schools (plumber, electricians, etc) dropped because the construction industry was decimated after the 2008 crash. It takes 5+ years for someone to go to school, get an apprenticeship and become skilled in their trade. This scarcity is also impacting the ability to build new homes (apart from the zoning laws and NIMBYism that prevents building new high-density housing). The pandemic is more of a short term supply-shoc"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 28252408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252408", "by": "salutis", "time": 1629500933, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 28260167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28260167", "by": "hoppyhoppy2", "time": 1629576774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of The Daily podcast [0] from The New York Times said that Apple executives were told by members of Congress at a hearing that if they didn't do something about CSAM on their platform the federal government would force them through legislation. And it's not a completely idle threat; just look at the proposed EARN-IT Act of 2020 [1], which would pretty much outlaw end-to-end encrypted services without a law enforcement backdoor. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/podcasts/the-daily/apple-... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EARN_IT_Act_of_2020"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 28260413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28260413", "by": "janvdberg", "time": 1629578646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side note, Richard Hipp was on this weeks Changelog podcast. Super interesting as always: https://player.fm/series/the-changelog-software-development-..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 28265276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265276", "by": "vessel", "time": 1629638727, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Untold Story of SQLite With Richard Hipp - CoRecursive Podcast https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 28268754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268754", "by": "mongol", "time": 1629660945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An interesting companion may be althttpd, that runs the Sqlite website: https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md Heard about it in the Changelog podcast the other day."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 28276805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28276805", "by": "karmelapple", "time": 1629730795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here\u2019s a very relevant 99% Invisible podcast episode about trees, shade, and plenty about Los Angeles: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/shade/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28284852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28284852", "by": "gonational", "time": 1629776620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life. Sadly, there is one thing worse: health \"authorities\" and \"experts\" completely disregarding therapeutics, e.g., Ivermectin, which is as safe and as cheap as Aspirin, and which reduces the risk of serious illness and death by up to 86% [1] (which brings the death risk to about 1/4 of the flu... aka a low enough level to not even warrant a news story), all because a politician said it works. I recommend listening to episode #1671 of the Joe Rogan podcast, in which he interviews Pierre Kory and Br"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 28285564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28285564", "by": "vlovich123", "time": 1629784767, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Mine! also discussed on EconTalk [1]. Looks like the authors are on a publicity tour. I wonder if their results in the book hold up over time. Much of Freakonomics doesn\u2019t IIRC. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28285564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28285564", "by": "vlovich123", "time": 1629784767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine! also discussed on EconTalk [1]. Looks like the authors are on a publicity tour. I wonder if their results in the book hold up over time. Much of Freakonomics doesn\u2019t IIRC. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28293721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293721", "by": "bekantan", "time": 1629833399, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1566441549", "hn_item": 28293901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293901", "by": "mcla0181", "time": 1629834186, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28299460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299460", "by": "riccardomc", "time": 1629883168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This very concept is well explored by Mariana Mazzucato's Entrepreneurial State[1]: > the United States' economic success is a result of public and state funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy. I really liked this Freakonomics episode[2] if you're more the podcast kind of person. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State [2] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/mariana-mazzucato/"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 28300738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300738", "by": "specialist", "time": 1629894214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Per ATP: Apple will compare hashes of local photos with a national registry of child pornography photos. Once a certain (unknown) threshold is reached, let's say 20 hits, some kind of escalation occurs, with some kind of manual (human) review steps. Accidental Tech Podcast - A Storm of Asterisks https://atp.fm/443 I haven't listened to the follow up episode yet. I still have zero opinion on this photo scanning kerfuffle. I just don't know enough. Of all the \"hot takes\" on this issue, ATP's has been the most comprehensive. So appreciated."}, {"show": "1082428033", "hn_item": 28303596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28303596", "by": "drewzero1", "time": 1629908708, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been thinking about this image recently thanks to the cover image of The \"Weird Al\"-phabet podcast[0] which was a parody of the cover of Weird Al Yankovic's 1992 album Off the Deep End[1], which in turn was a parody of the Nevermind cover art. Weird Al's work has often stood on the shoulders of giants, but I appreciate the way he adds something significant to it (almost) every time. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weird-al-phabet/id... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Deep_End#/media/File:W..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28306517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306517", "by": "neartheplain", "time": 1629923431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">each ad pops up as a track that you can scrobble to the end of The first time this happened to me (while loading up a Joe Rogan podcast), I legitimately thought Spotify was glitching out. There's no visual indication in the app that it's a temporary ad, or of how many ads you have to listen to before the episode starts. I made it to the beginning of the third ad track before giving up."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28306539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306539", "by": "nebula8804", "time": 1629923544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its even worse, up until a few weeks ago, you could rip his podcasts using youtube-dl. I am paying for a subscription to support him but ripping his podcasts and throwing away their garbage app in favor of Jellyfin. Now they have begun encrypting his podcasts with Widevine. :/ Since I still have to listen to ads, i'm thinking of just dropping the subscription and hoping there becomes a method to break this Widevine trash. I encounter a bug with their app on a daily basis and I am tired of it. From what I gather, there are different levels of Widevine encryption that limit video quality but the"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28306541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306541", "by": "qwertyuiop_", "time": 1629923562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> To do this, we pulled data from the analytics tool Social Blade to track the Twitter following of every guest who went on Rogan\u2019s podcast between December 2019 and July 2021. Guests generally see a surge of new followers after appearing on the show, with some gaining as many as 18,000 new followers in the week following their chat, and that effect has grown over time as The Joe Rogan Experience gained popularity. This is based on post show Twitter following of the guests. What if his loyal listeners are not into Twitter and are leaving."}, {"show": "1559275284", "hn_item": 28306618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306618", "by": "master_yoda_1", "time": 1629923898, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28306914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306914", "by": "Zelphyr", "time": 1629925167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would like to mention Armchair Expert but they cashed in at the Bank of Spotify as well. Such a shame because it's a really enjoyable podcast. That said; Jocko Podcast is good, though the subject matter can be very heavy at times. Lex Fridman podcast is good. Some people don't like his somewhat monotoned voice but he has interesting guests. Literally! With Rob Lowe is fun."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 28306914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306914", "by": "Zelphyr", "time": 1629925167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would like to mention Armchair Expert but they cashed in at the Bank of Spotify as well. Such a shame because it's a really enjoyable podcast. That said; Jocko Podcast is good, though the subject matter can be very heavy at times. Lex Fridman podcast is good. Some people don't like his somewhat monotoned voice but he has interesting guests. Literally! With Rob Lowe is fun."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 28307346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307346", "by": "SXX", "time": 1629927224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As already mentioned there is Lex Fridman. Some people including me dislike the way he speaks, but listening on x2+ speed fixes that. I also enjoyed The Tim Ferris Show and he generally have more guests who are not related to tech. Though I mostly went deeper into podcasts related to software engineering and since most of them include a lot of off-topic some are quite fun: Soft Skills Engineering, The Bike Shed, Indie Hackers Podcast, Talk Python to Me, Unnamed RE Podcast. So there is always more interesting podcasts than time I have for listening. Might be you can't replace Rogan with one sho"}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 28307346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307346", "by": "SXX", "time": 1629927224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As already mentioned there is Lex Fridman. Some people including me dislike the way he speaks, but listening on x2+ speed fixes that. I also enjoyed The Tim Ferris Show and he generally have more guests who are not related to tech. Though I mostly went deeper into podcasts related to software engineering and since most of them include a lot of off-topic some are quite fun: Soft Skills Engineering, The Bike Shed, Indie Hackers Podcast, Talk Python to Me, Unnamed RE Podcast. So there is always more interesting podcasts than time I have for listening. Might be you can't replace Rogan with one sho"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 28307346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307346", "by": "SXX", "time": 1629927224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As already mentioned there is Lex Fridman. Some people including me dislike the way he speaks, but listening on x2+ speed fixes that. I also enjoyed The Tim Ferris Show and he generally have more guests who are not related to tech. Though I mostly went deeper into podcasts related to software engineering and since most of them include a lot of off-topic some are quite fun: Soft Skills Engineering, The Bike Shed, Indie Hackers Podcast, Talk Python to Me, Unnamed RE Podcast. So there is always more interesting podcasts than time I have for listening. Might be you can't replace Rogan with one sho"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 28307348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307348", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1629927226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of may favourite instances of an optical illusion ever is this short video of a cat pouncing on a sheet of paper on which shows an apparent-motions spirals illusion. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=S4IHB3qK1KU It reveals that at least this aspect of feline and human visual perception appears to be similar. As a means of getting inside a cat's head, it's never failed to fascinate me. There's another ... perceptual phenomenon is probably a better description than illusion ... contained in an episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast. In it, a short snippet of noise is played. It sounds completely"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28307705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28307705", "by": "njovin", "time": 1629928992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's odd, though, that Rogan's podcast only started doing mid-episode ads after the move to Spotify. Prior to the move the only ads were at the beginning of the episode."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28308128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28308128", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1629931441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is probably something to this analysis, particularly for new listeners. (Rogan might be big enough that new listeners are less important?) Spotify has chosen not to use these other platforms to the extent that it could use them. This is an example (perhaps the canonical one?) of Ben Thompson's \"strategy tax\". For an individual podcast, it would be better to have something on all platforms/protocols/modalities. They want to attract Youtube viewers as well as RSS subscribers as well as everyone else. A capitalist firm like Spotify that wants to make a little money every time anyone ever li"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28308280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28308280", "by": "jack_pp", "time": 1629932377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've never heard ads on Rogan's podcast in the past few years, this might be a US only thing"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28308574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28308574", "by": "hncurious", "time": 1629934511, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you took Rogan's podcast and transported it back to, say, 2014, there would be no controversy. He would simply be seen as a liberal comedian having casual, friendly conversations with a wide variety of people. It's just that we're currently in the middle of a moral panic and the self righteous authoritarian hall monitor types are having their day in the sun. Just as we saw in the 80s/90s with Howard Stern who was offending similarly delicate sensibilities. Although today's empowered puritans are not the same group that went after Howard, they are of the same cloth, merely rebranded to the t"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28313772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28313772", "by": "mdp2021", "time": 1629979118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Which evidence do you find simple - those two links you posted? (Non rhetorical question - in case of doubt.) People who will read that evidence without full contextual intellectual preparation will not be able to be certain of their evaluation; they are not competent to review it (\"review\" as in the expression \"peer review\"). On the other hand, yesterday I started exploring the material of a medical doctor who publishes interesting conferences - found as I was looking for other material, and to my surprise, from what he practices on himself I am sure he would disagree with your previous post."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 28322137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28322137", "by": "amitkb24", "time": 1630019027, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We are one of the startups working on the metrics layer 'Transform': https://transform.co/ The founding team behind Transform worked on the early implementation of Airbnb's metric store (now popularly known as Minerva!). You can also check out this podcast on Data Engineering that dives into the Metrics layer: https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/transform-co-metrics-..."}, {"show": "1521860073", "hn_item": 28327614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28327614", "by": "BeFlatXIII", "time": 1630071316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only time I don\u2019t smash the fast-forward button during podcast ads is during the Unmade Podcast. They actually manage to continue the show\u2019s conversation while they promote Hover and Story Blocks. It also means that sometimes their ad slots (as defined by the time between \u201cand now a word from this episode\u2019s sponsor\u201d and \u201cthank you very much for supporting this episode\u201d) can be over seven minutes at times."}, {"show": "151230264", "hn_item": 28333657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28333657", "by": "aiisahik", "time": 1630103510, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "this is the podcast from the Economist that goes into a little further detail about the failures of the SF gov including the corruption issues and the anti-liberal housing policies: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/checks-and-balance-bay..."}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 28334683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28334683", "by": "pabs3", "time": 1630113282, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28337574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337574", "by": "afarrell", "time": 1630154558, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is rather uncommon to believe that people in a society where everyone can publish their opinions must be artificially manipulated into conflict and dissent. I\u2019d think that harmony and consent must instead be artificially manufactured. I\u2019m curious about your life experience here. > that everyone forgets about the most significant problem in the USA - the top 5% of the country own over 80% of the wealth I\u2019ve heard this problem discussed on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast (the most popular podcast) and by Jordan Peterson (who is fairly popular among the center-right). What percentage of Americans would yo"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 28338466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28338466", "by": "adolph", "time": 1630161830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Securing supply chain is an important effort even outside of regulation. Here is a podcast about some recent open source efforts: Kubernetes Podcast 155: Software Supply Chain Security, with Priya Wadhwa https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/155-software-supply-ch..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 28340508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340508", "by": "bbfjgktmnrnrn", "time": 1630176946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They were asked about this recently on This Week in Virology, the most important virology podcast. They said that no scientist wants to work in a remote location, they want to have a city social life. Which is why these labs are typically located in million+ cities. They also said that this is safe, because no pandemic to date started from a lab, and that eventually it will be proven that this pandemic is zoonotic too. They also said that they do not understand why a year and a half in people keep on talking about this baseless conspiracy theory."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28341784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28341784", "by": "wintercarver", "time": 1630187104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hard-hitting piece, tho not a cancer survivor myself my father is. As his ambassador of sorts to the rest of my extended family I recognize the unsolicited opinion tsunami the author describes. However, the part that really caught my eye was the reference to David Spiegel and positive mindset research (or lack thereof). By pure coincidence, I had recently come across the self hypnosis topic via the Huberman Lab medical podcast. One app mentioned was Reveri, created by David Spiegel\u2019s lab. I looked up the science references in the \u201cabout\u201d section and found a 1983 and a 2000 paper reference. See"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 28347040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347040", "by": "TimJRobinson", "time": 1630247780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Best resources I found for understanding Decentralized Finance (Which I think is the most interesting thing in decentralization right now, from a tech perspective) Finematics on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/finematics Bankless Podcast - http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ Modern Finance (by Kevin Rose, also covers NFT's a lot) - https://modern.finance/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28349529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28349529", "by": "mkolodny", "time": 1630264009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's some great research on using evolutionary computation to explore plant growing recipes (light strength, how long to leave the lights on, etc). In one experiment, researchers discovered that basil doesn't need to sleep - it grows best with 24 hours of light per day. Risto Miikkulainen shared the experiment on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://youtu.be/CY_LEa9xQtg?t=27m7s I believe this is the paper describing that experiment: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28350485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350485", "by": "lgl", "time": 1630271259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Could it be a small black hole? It could, the relevant part of the whole thing is the object's mass (and therefore its gravitational influence) and its orbit. Lex Fridman did a podcast interview a few months ago with Konstantin Batygin [0] about the topic of Planet Nine and he poses this exact question of whether or not it could be a black hole [1]. More specifically, he asks if it could be a primordial black hole which would make it a double discovery since primordial black holes are still only theoretical. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm7poMupE8k [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28354250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28354250", "by": "jbjohns", "time": 1630318452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I saw a clip from a Joe Rogan podcast some time back about a man who was doing long distance swimming. He was dropped off in the ocean in the middle of the night and had to swim toward the cost or some islands or something. With the boat out of view and no light pollution, what he could see was the stars above and the lights all in the water. If I recall correctly he said something like it became hard to tell where one ended and the other began and he had the feeling of flying through space."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 28354339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28354339", "by": "nickweb", "time": 1630319816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A podcast I listened to recently about clock synchronisation if you\u2019re interested from Signals and Threads [1]. [1] https://overcast.fm/+hrS5e2XoU"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 28367996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28367996", "by": "z3ugma", "time": 1630417688, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Like all moral panics, this is really quite overblown. The podcast You're Wrong About did a great episode on this recently about \"cancel culture\" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800... In it, they specifically call out The Atlantic's editors for their handwringing"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 28373536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28373536", "by": "teekert", "time": 1630443301, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "System76 is nice, in this podcast the CEO is interviewed: [0]. He is dedicated to transparency, open source and privacy. They\u2019re worth some extra money to me. Although I\u2019m still waiting for their custom designed, all aluminium top of the line laptop :) [0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/linux-unplugged/id6875..."}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 28376341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28376341", "by": "caturopath", "time": 1630469396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard about this on the Very Bad Wizards podcast a while back https://www.verybadwizards.com/212 -- the coverage was pretty entertaining"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28379998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28379998", "by": "esalman", "time": 1630505209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My peers had a look at the journal and described it as the Joe Rogan podcast of science."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 28381234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28381234", "by": "thedarkginger", "time": 1630510984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Storyboard | TryStoryboard.com | Remote or Los Angeles Summary: Storyboard is a platform for companies & teams to collaborate through private, internal podcasts for their employees. We are a Seed stage company focused on creating tools for teams to communicate without live meetings. Over 2,000 companies globally have launched channels on Storyboard so far. Recently named by Will Reed/Pitchbook as a \"Top 50 Seed stage company to work for\" To Apply: Please send resume to admin@trystoryboard.com. Let us know if you have background or interest in podcasts or music tech / audio engineering. --- Ful"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 28381395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28381395", "by": "jessermeyer", "time": 1630511668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentions this in passing on the Mindscape podcast (with Sean Carroll). Essentially, he's read too many studies that have participants perform so called 'rational' tests whose outcomes are largely a function of the environment and not the 'given test' -- ie, the presence of a foul smell caused a statistical difference in the outcome of the test. Our capacity to reflect and internalize is, to him, another output of a vast and continual, unconscious, shaping all life undergoes."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 28382249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382249", "by": "legitster", "time": 1630514729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cowen is truly unique. He's one of the only \"public intellectuals\" who has replied to my random emails on multiple occasions. Everyone should listen to some episodes of Conversations with Tyler. I normally hate interview podcasts, but it is bar none the best one out there. It doesn't matter the topic - the questions he is able to hit his subjects with are amazing, nothing at all like how most interviews go."}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 28382306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28382306", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1630514949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The section on art collecting highlights the limitations of an economics-based approach to defining \"talent.\" Cowen is an economist and this colors his entire approach. \u201cYou learn about other cultures, you learn different points of view by refining your eye and you develop a skill that is extremely useful for judging other things and cracking cultural codes in other settings. It\u2019s an education in market economics - art markets. Like how do you buy the best pictures in an area Haitian art, or how do you assemble a very good voodoo flag collection? How do you get artists in Mexico to do their be"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 28388579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388579", "by": "Jun8", "time": 1630555994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To supplement the material mentioned here I\u2019d suggest the excellent Philosophy Bites podcast (also available as books). Each episode is an interview with an eminent philosopher on an interesting topic and the level of discussion is very understandable."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28388916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28388916", "by": "natch", "time": 1630560235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Joe Rogan (who has COVID right now btw, for what it\u2019s worth, but not part of the point here) had on his show an ICU specialist who has developed some of the key protocols for treating COVID including with the use of Ivermectin: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uVXKgE6eLJKMXkETwcw0D?si=p... If you do open the podcast, know that it is very possible in Spotify to skip forward 15 seconds at a time to get past the many ads at the beginning. Also on the show was evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein. Long story short, the guests suggest that some of the (allegedly compromised by money) authoritati"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 28389483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389483", "by": "FranzFerdiNaN", "time": 1630567192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The excellent podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps did a whole series on African philosophy: https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/africana-philosophy And Bryan van Norden, a professor of Chinese and comparative philosophy, made a reading list for non-western philosophy: http://www.bryanvannorden.com/suggestions-for-further-readin..."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 28389808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389808", "by": "thunkshift1", "time": 1630571501, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since you asked - Have you heard 'Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire - Bill Gates and Western Media' by Citations Needed Podcast on SoundCloud? https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so... Transcript: https://link.medium.com/FXbDzrWDdjb"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 28392271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28392271", "by": "Schiphol", "time": 1630592084, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A fantastic resource on the history of philosophy, not linked to here, is Peter Adamson's \"History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\", both the books and the series of podcasts: https://historyofphilosophy.net/ . Apart from very good coverage of the usual suspects, here you have much, much more Africana and Islamic philosophy (for example) than the average Western academic philosopher has been exposed to."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 28394263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394263", "by": "tablespoon", "time": 1630600967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I suspect humans are really bad when they only have to sorta pay attention and it results in just not paying attention a great deal of the time. Exactly, there were some pretty good 99% Invisible podcasts on that topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen... https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/johnnycab-automation-..."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 28398946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28398946", "by": "Spellman", "time": 1630627559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not so sure. All of my friends who aren't getting the vaccine and vocal about it are pushing some pretty out there reasons. It may have started from relatively reasonable reasons, but it has morphed into an especially vitrolic ideology and in-group signaling rather quickly. Also, a lot of polls show there is a sticky group of people who will never get it and that population hasn't changed much over time. So at this point there's not much you can move the needle on them via facts and all that. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying. Highly recommend the You Are Not So Smart podcast on how to"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28410034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28410034", "by": "sva_", "time": 1630707412, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny, I was just listening to Lex Fridman's recent Podcast talking to Vincent Racaniello about Viruses and Vaccines, and he said \"There are no human-licensed vaccines that are DNA vaccines\" right when I saw this thread. Seems like progress in this field is pretty quick nowadays. https://youtu.be/G433fa01oMU?t=6188"}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 28415092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415092", "by": "themgt", "time": 1630763526, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A similar one I just became aware of is Dissociative Identity Disorder, or multiple personality disorder. There seems to be a huge surge of people doing TikToks etc showing themselves going through identity changes (often \"rapid switching\"), some with hundreds of thousands or millions of views and seemingly a lot of supporters. There's a whole huge sort of jargon/ontology to this intersecting with other ideas and people identify as a \"system\" e.g: Systems, Collectives, and/or Plurals are those who experience being more than one entity in one physical body [1]. Systems are under the neurodiverg"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 28415936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415936", "by": "gdubs", "time": 1630769351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a kind of parallel history of why people ended up taking ivermectin, which was The Dark Horse podcast with Brett Weinstein. On the show they talked extensively about their theory that ivermectin was an effective prophylactic against Covid-19, but because the drug was out of patent, pharmaceutical companies had not interest in slowing down the vaccines. (Their words, not mine.) IIRC some countries actually rolled out ivermectin at scale, but AFAIK, the studies have all been disappointing in terms of its effectiveness. One problem with everyone calling it horse dewormer and calling peopl"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 28416237, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416237", "by": "skinkestek", "time": 1630771319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> There\u2019s a kind of parallel history of why people ended up taking ivermectin, which was The Dark Horse podcast with Brett Weinstein. Worth mentioning: those guys on that podcast were very positive to the vaccine, they only said that it was a shame that health authorities wouldn't use both. I tried pointing it out to the friend of me who sent it. It didn't work. He is still against Covid-19 vaccines. (I'm not taking a position right here and now, except that I find it weird that my anti-covid-vaccination friend can listen to only half of what is said in that podcast)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28419031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28419031", "by": "jimmar", "time": 1630788568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They don't think they can make electric super cars in 14 years? They have plenty of notice. On a side note, John Carmack was on Joe Rogan's podcast and talked about supercharging his Ferraris. In the same podcast, Carmack said he actually prefers his Tesla over the Ferrari. The supercar companies may be in trouble, and extending the life of combustion engines is unlikely to help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_tqQNJWzc Around 11:56 he talks about why his Tesla wins in many ways over his Ferraris."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28427662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427662", "by": "splittingTimes", "time": 1630875086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stanford neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky Explains Toxoplasmosis on the Joe Rogan podcast. Utterly fascinating. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NroiGfNohPo"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28433013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28433013", "by": "dinnu93", "time": 1630931288, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28434180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434180", "by": "cowpig", "time": 1630939613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"argh everything is so broken. I wish someone would come in and just fix this mess\" Is a sentiment that I see the appeal of. But I've been listening to Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, and that's not really how it goes. Shifts in power tend to have a ton of unintended side-effects, and even most of the primary effects end up being unintended ones, for better sometimes but also for worse. I think it's easy forget just how good we have it with our flawed rule-of-law, when we haven't experienced life without it."}, {"show": "1568272504", "hn_item": 28435999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435999", "by": "arcticbull", "time": 1630949535, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Don't poo poo what you don't really understand. Don't assume anyone who disagrees with you doesn't understand haha. I'm quite familiar with the various narratives. I really do understand haha. You can support artists without NFTs, obviously, people in many western cultures just don't want to support artists. The speculation is totally unrelated to supporting artists. There's something in it for them. That's more than likely money laundering plus a few lucky folks getting swept up in the speculation or manufacturing their own speculative demand in an illiquid market through wash sales. If we "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28440956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440956", "by": "fencepost", "time": 1630989156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're not familiar with NSO Group and Pegasus, I highly recommend episodes 99 and 100 (just released) of the Darknet Diaries podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28443408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443408", "by": "molli", "time": 1631014030, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 28443408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443408", "by": "molli", "time": 1631014030, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 28446476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446476", "by": "eruleman", "time": 1631031162, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In 1997, Hastings and Randolph mailed a DVD to see if it would be delivered without damage. Netflix was created because a new market (home delivery of movies) was created by an emerging technology. 10 years later, Netflix kick started the streaming revolution. In 2008, Netflix licensed the Starz catalogue of 2,500 titles. In a podcast episode , Ben Thompson said Netflix was his favorite company to write about because they have successfully transitioned their business model multiple times to take advantage of technological shifts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ben-thompson-platforms..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 28459296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459296", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1631117941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Blindboy Boatclub, Irish artist formerly of The Rubberbandits, credits Joe Frank as an influence on his podcast style, tracing it back to Samuel Beckett as a potential influence on Joe Frank, who taught Ira Glass of This American Life, and may also have been inspiration for Chris Morris of Blue Jam and Brass Eye, programs that Blindboy experienced as a youth. (Shoutout to spaced repetition with Anki for helping me remember all this. It was one of my cloze cards to help me get back into using Anki and I didn\u2019t expect to actually reference it)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28462115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28462115", "by": "ent101", "time": 1631130490, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28465992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28465992", "by": "thread_id", "time": 1631159494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read the posting \"How doctors die. It\u2019s not like the rest of us, but it should be\" and it reminded me of a RadioLab podcast I listened to on the radio a couple of months ago while I was driving around one Saturday afternoon. Being in my sixties it was very impactful as I am facing the reality of my mortality. Statistically speaking my day will com sooner and not later. The pod cast was actually recorded in 2013. It includes a segment where they interview Ken Murray the author above. It is a very illuminating story. The medical profession knows what the rest of us don't. Everyone should liste"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 28466168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28466168", "by": "andrei_says_", "time": 1631161429, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "May I recommend this wonderful podcast on Cancel Culture? Basically the term is so distorted that it\u2019s meaningless. The podcast is very well researched and if you haven\u2019t heard \u201cYou\u2019re Wrong About\u201d you\u2019re in for a treat. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cancel-culture/id13800... As for \u201cmaster\u201d - nothing wrong with the word. It\u2019s the context that shifts. No one lives in isolation and acknowledging the context shifts sometimes makes sense. Insinuating that people sensitive to the context are somehow criminalizing the ones who deny it\u2019s existence is absurd."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28476041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476041", "by": "skyde", "time": 1631230842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I personally know at least 5 people that bought the horse version of Ivermectin because of Joe Rogan podcast. They haven't taken it yet and they told me if they get COVID they will take it. Which they assume will eventually happen since they are not planning to get vaccinated. Feed store in red state are ordering ~20 boxes of Horse ivermectin each week and are still running out."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28476693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476693", "by": "chrononaut", "time": 1631236609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> .. while a pleasingly informal new biography by the American podcast host Mike Duncan, \u201cHero of Two Worlds\u201d .. If you're interested in a podcast about the French revolution (and other revolutions), Mike Duncan's \"Revolutions\" podcast is absolutely fantastic: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28477071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28477071", "by": "seattleiteite", "time": 1631240677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author had nice, if somewhat demure, things to say about Mike Duncan. I absolutely love his Revolutions podcast and find his series on the French and Haitian revolutions to be particularly fun and interesting."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 28477577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28477577", "by": "nadagast", "time": 1631245325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan and Revolutions is great, endorse! His previous podcast, The History of Rome, is also great."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28477577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28477577", "by": "nadagast", "time": 1631245325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan and Revolutions is great, endorse! His previous podcast, The History of Rome, is also great."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 28478973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478973", "by": "krisoft", "time": 1631261784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t really understand your forest fire analogy. One slightly paradoxical thing with nukes is that anti-ICBM systems makes us less safe by making the strategic landscape less stable. If a hypothetical world power trusts their \u201cshield\u201d then they are incentivised to strike their enemies nuclear forces in the hopes that they destroy enough enemy missiles that even if they launch them all they can be reliably soaked up by the \u201cshield\u201d. And it in turn incentivises the other party to strike first or risk loosing their nuclear arsenal. That sucks. On the other hand having a survivable second strik"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 28482209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28482209", "by": "gambler", "time": 1631284836, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Are these researchers soley focused on their next grant only Yes, they are. Anyone who is saying otherwise is either gaslighting you or speaks out of their ass. The way science is funded right now is incredibly broken. This is admitted both by people who worked in research during 60s-70s (when funding worked differently) and by honest people who worked in modern academia. Alan Kay speaks about this often: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdHtYW_wcAs Dark Horse podcast spoke at length about the current system: https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/corruption-in-sc..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28498567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28498567", "by": "rg111", "time": 1631419823, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, I have seen many posts discussing books here on HN, and I am grateful for those posts. The books that I learned about from HN really added value to my life. Thanks for those posts. Let me ask you, what are your all time most favorite talks/seminars/long interviews available online? They might be related to tech, they might not be, as well. Here are some of mine: - Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet OOPSLA 97 Keynote (VPRI 0719) (https://youtu.be/aYT2se94eU0) - David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning | Lex Fridman Podcast #86 (https://youtu.be/uP"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 28503027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28503027", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1631467613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was pondering this when listening to stories of the fall of the Aztecs and the Inca empires (Fall of Civilizations podcast - some great hours-long stories there!). Officials from the Spanish empire came by and caused these meso- and south american empires to fall. The empires that fell were indeed already warmongering, and dominating their part of the continent due to fighting successful wars and/or alliances. In that sense, it was \"only\" an empire taking down another. That viewpoint is however just the politics of the history. We can't forget how it affected the people."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 28504276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504276", "by": "throwawaysdaily", "time": 1631476172, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been a fan of the Software Engineering Daily podcast for years. Within the several weeks, the SF-based host (Jeff Meyerson) has become increasingly manic, culminating in paranoid messages on his Twitter[1] and a 4 minute episode today threatening Mark Zuckerberg and accusing him of ruining his life. I don't know Jeff personally, but it appears he his having a serious mental health crisis and may potentially harm himself or others. If anyone in SF knows Jeff, can someone go check on him and get him help? [1] https://twitter.com/the_prion [2] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/09/12/"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 28504954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28504954", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1631480887, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "And then there\u2019s this gem: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-engineering-d..."}, {"show": "1549178591", "hn_item": 28505804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505804", "by": "luke2m", "time": 1631487189, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28516877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28516877", "by": "sophacles", "time": 1631567169, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an entire \"gray market\" of exploit brokers. NSO group is one of the many players. There's a good chance this is an off-the-shelf exploit. The podcast Darknet Diaries had an episode about the topic recently: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/98/ (that episode is tied to this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635576059/ about the topic) Also, I like that podcast in general - highly recommend it if you're into infosec stuff!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28520204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520204", "by": "doublepg23", "time": 1631593467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In K-pop scandals are quite toxic. Radiolab did an episode on it https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/kpopa..."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 28520580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520580", "by": "greyivy", "time": 1631597239, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This exactly. I highly recommend the podcast Maintenance Phase to anyone interested in learning more. They cover a lot of that nuance and the science behind them. Leave your biases at the door and it's eye opening."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 28522547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522547", "by": "trollied", "time": 1631614517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Saw the thread title & clicked through to post exactly the same :) It's a great set of episodes. This is without a doubt my favourite podcast. 2nd favourite being Knowledge Fight, which debunks Alex Jones and the nonsense that he spews on a daily basis."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28524100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524100", "by": "jcstauffer", "time": 1631624565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The few most recent episodes of the \"Darknet Diaries\" podcast, which are relevant, including interviews with CitizenLab, descriptions of how NSO works, Black Cube, and the market for buying exploits from Argentina. https://darknetdiaries.com/"}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 28524102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28524102", "by": "bitxbitxbitcoin", "time": 1631624582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are non insignificant scientific hurdles that need to be surpassed before this is possible from what I understand. Beth Shapiro breaks it down on the Meat Eater podcast with Steven Rinella.[0] [0] https://www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/ep-075-cloning..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28533632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28533632", "by": "pps", "time": 1631666790, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 28534134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28534134", "by": "frabbit", "time": 1631669936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People are not even \"selfish\". Wanting a nice, stable, predictable environment just like you have had it all your life could be categorized as selfish. And that's fine. Taking a massive gamble on injecting huge amounts of energy into a system which looks like it will be destabilized is just..... foolish? stupid? I dunno. According to the Canadaland podcast there is a recent survey taken during the federal election campaign which suggests that 1 in 4 voters still do not accept anthropogenic climate change as real. I am baffled. Most of us would benefit from some sort of Green New Deal with a re"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28541902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28541902", "by": "badRNG", "time": 1631726856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an incredibly well produced podcast episode on these ex-NSA engineers working for the UAE that came out a couple of years ago. Check out Darknet Diaries Ep47: Project Raven [1]. Synopsis is that the UAE hires ex-NSA employees as \"penetration testers\" and when they enter the country for cybersecurity work, some are pulled aside to be briefed to an opportunity called \"Project Raven\" to assist Emirati intelligence with targeting, allegedly in the interest of counter-terrorism. The thing is, only Emiratis have \"hands on keyboard\" while the US engineers sit beside them and guide them, whic"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 28544031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28544031", "by": "Symmetry", "time": 1631738132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to understand more about the current situation with North Korea and its strategic forces I highly recommend the Arms Control Wonk podcast. Also lots of cool info about open source intelligence! https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1213259/boiling-fish... I assume they'll have a cast on this test coming out pretty soon."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28545542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28545542", "by": "noman-land", "time": 1631746879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 for Darknet Diaries. One of the best podcasts I've ever listened to. So simple, yet so gripping, and well told in a sweet spot between hard nerds and casual enthusiasts. I listened to all 100 episodes since discovering the show in July."}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 28546334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28546334", "by": "poisonarena", "time": 1631752202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast host and Talk to me in Python Podcast host sound like the exact same person(they are not), its wild"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28546334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28546334", "by": "poisonarena", "time": 1631752202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast host and Talk to me in Python Podcast host sound like the exact same person(they are not), its wild"}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 28549231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549231", "by": "teekert", "time": 1631779269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just want to say: Thank you. Whenever I buy smart-home stuff I first check if it is supported by HA. (So no more Kasa, and Nest was a huge compromise, I'm thinking there is a place for HA to make a [OpenTherm] Thermostat, like you made the P1 smartreader [\"SlimmeLezer\", reads energy and gas usage in the Netherlands]). The new Energy dashboard is extremely cool and useful and it's making a difference. I love what you are doing and it's making Home Automation/IoT a better place. It is how Home Automation should be, with privacy and local control as founding principles. Keep it up. Edit: Amber "}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 28549859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549859", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1631786908, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I believe it. By \u201ctransitory\u201d, he doesn\u2019t mean \u201cheading back to 2019 prices\u201d. He means, \u201cno longer inflating at these rates\u201d. Thats almost certainly true. The \u201cMaking Sense\u201d podcast [0] covers the deflation / inflation debate in detail and is a great listen. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense/id1506469..."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 28549859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549859", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1631786908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe it. By \u201ctransitory\u201d, he doesn\u2019t mean \u201cheading back to 2019 prices\u201d. He means, \u201cno longer inflating at these rates\u201d. Thats almost certainly true. The \u201cMaking Sense\u201d podcast [0] covers the deflation / inflation debate in detail and is a great listen. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense/id1506469..."}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 28552848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552848", "by": "password4321", "time": 1631805254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are more interested in an advanced self-paced course instead of targeting an exam, Jason Roberts of the TechZing podcast started \"one of the most advanced high school math/CS sequences in the world\": http://www.eurisko.us discussed for about 30 minutes here: http://techzinglive.com/page/1721/337-tz-discussion-eurisko"}, {"show": "1265845136", "hn_item": 28555356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28555356", "by": "jimbob45", "time": 1631817153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard the same thing from Alan Dershowitz on Preet Bharara's podcast. I think you'd certainly need to keep your phone dark for long periods of time prior to the event and possibly have someone briefly unsheath it from the cage for plausible deniability. Even so, you're only ensuring that the prosecution can't use that piece of evidence against you - you're not exonerating yourself entirely by any stretch."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28562376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562376", "by": "jonmc12", "time": 1631864146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Learn about your body. I suggest starting with the autonomous nervous system. Then your metabolic states. Then circadian rhythm. Reconceptualize everything including the way food and exercise affect your body. There is an explosion of research about our biology, and it seems like that will continue for most of our lives. But, test what you learn on your own body and ask your doc lots of questions. Run experiments on your body over 6-week or 6-month periods, 1-2 at a time, and habituate what works for you. Layer habits on habits Atomic Habits style. For instance, consider buying an HRV monitor "}, {"show": "1570045623", "hn_item": 28569012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28569012", "by": "mothsituation", "time": 1631902696, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You might like Breaking Points with Krystal Ball (yes that's her real name) and Saagar Enjeti - they're a left-leaning/right-leaning pair who cover current events from a populist anti-establishment perspective. As a result you get lots of takes about stories the mainstream media are neglecting. They're also both really smart. You might not agree with them (I don't necessarily) but it does make legacy media seem lame, boring, and corrupt by comparison. https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints/videos https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-k..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 28571766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28571766", "by": "mannerheim", "time": 1631918858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Arizona is very hot, very arid, and also very favourable for agriculture, with significant production of lettuce and cotton. As long as you can make sure your crops get water through irrigation (which ancient Mesopotamians were very skilled at), your crops will thrive. In fact, the heat and sunlight actually provide a bit of an advantage. However, a number of factors eventually led to the collapse of the civilisations in the fertile crescent. One factor has been the region getting warmer and drier, which poses a challenge even with irrigation. As an example of how different the climate is now "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28572011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572011", "by": "dabfiend19", "time": 1631921035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "there's always graham Hancock. he has a couple books and has done some podcasts. the JRE podcast with graham and Randall Carlson always gets my imagination going on ancient societies..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 28574705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28574705", "by": "kgm", "time": 1631955312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Behind the Bastards has a two-part episode on the history of the US border patrol titled \"The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends,\" which I listened to just recently. It is entirely horrifying, and this report is entirely consistent with the sort of behavior I'd expect from ICE. It has always been thus, for as long as the border patrol has existed (which has not been forever; this did start somewhere). I recommend giving it a listen if you want more context on the history and current state of how the US polices its borders (especially its southern border). Part 1: htt"}, {"show": "894712811", "hn_item": 28577953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28577953", "by": "mvcatsifma", "time": 1631987305, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Read and internalize \"Mate\" by Tucker Max (search for ISBN 9780316349437 on Amazon, no affiliation). I read it when I was already happily maried. But this is the book I wish I read when I was about your age and that I seriously consider giving to my now 13-year old son as soon as he reaches the appropriate age. And assuming he will accept that kind of advice from his father off course :) I also enjoyed the accompanying podcast that you may find here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mating-grounds-pod..."}, {"show": "1575738174", "hn_item": 28578677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28578677", "by": "peterthehacker", "time": 1631994137, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 28578981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28578981", "by": "formatc1702", "time": 1631996447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Might also be of interest, an interview with the head designer of the 6502: The Amp Hour Podcast #241 An Interview With Chuck Peddle \u2013 Charismatic Chipmaking Coryphaeus https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28581324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28581324", "by": "esturk", "time": 1632020432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this the front leader in using CRISPR at the moment? The Radiolab podcast a few years back was saying that many labs started researching things so I imagine there's going to be a lot more biotech companies popping up soon. Just like the renaissance that came after the dark ages."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 28583088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28583088", "by": "leksak", "time": 1632045966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned a lot about Shellac from the podcast Reasonably Sound (episode: The World Remade). Highly recommended deep dive into the world of vinyl records."}, {"show": "1316769266", "hn_item": 28585928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28585928", "by": "enos_feedler", "time": 1632071125, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a Village Global podcast episode where Eric Schmidt is asked this question [1]. He basically says that leadership did not \"get\" messaging platforms. I think of this as similar to how RIM/blackberry did not \"get\" the iphone. Nor did Steve Ballmer. It's equivalent in screwup magnitude to Microsoft not getting mobile. This requires massive leadership oversight. Now, having worked at Google during these times (including the Allo launch where the team went around Google trying to rally the troops on why it was going to work), I can say that the PM structure at Google meant that a ground up"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28591165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591165", "by": "idorosen", "time": 1632123326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Zerotier seems a bit too clever about auto-discovery/peering. For comparison: WireGuard, by design, is a fairly simple protocol that requires some other software or out of band configuration to provide the peer pubkey list (among other things). As a result, there are multiple mesh configuration tools built on top of it, some of which support dynamic (auto-discovered) peers/tunnel establishment. This separation of concerns for the well-designed mesh configuration layers on top of WG make it a little safer than integrated options like ZeroTier in my opinion, because the peer config/establishment"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28593718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28593718", "by": "atatatat", "time": 1632145540, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> On an unrelated note, there is a really fun infosec podcast named Darknet Diaries, worth a listen. Are these guys paying people peoples to advertise here?"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28603886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603886", "by": "aosaigh", "time": 1632223136, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a great Darknet Diaries podcast episode about this (I assume it's the same \"David\"): https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-47-project-raven/id..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28604954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28604954", "by": "tmearnest", "time": 1632231829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just looked up the link to share this, but you already got to it so I\u2019m going to sell Darknet Diaries to y\u2019all. This podcast series is one of my favorites. It some how manages to find a balance between being technical and accessible to the average person. Jack Resider is a great story teller. The level of care and detail they put into their research is incredible and they share the primary sources if you want to go even deeper. If you like podcasts, give this a listen. Physical pentest episodes are my favorite."}, {"show": "1562884524", "hn_item": 28610213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28610213", "by": "andrewstuart", "time": 1632259761, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I \"gave up smoking\" by not giving up. I just deferred the decision to have one cigarette. When the urge came up, I put it off five minutes. And crucially, the rules allowed me to have one if I really wanted. At first there was lots of deferring and then deciding to have one. Eventually I just deferred the decision five minutes then five minutes more and on and on forever. The reasoning is that your subconscious mind does not like \"giving up\" anything. \"Giving up\" implies you are losing something you value for nothing in return. When you defer the decision to indulge your addiction, you are not"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28621227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621227", "by": "gonational", "time": 1632341977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned about Ivermectin from MedCram circa May 2020. Everybody I know personally who did not learn about it from me learned about it from Eric Weinstein on the Joe Rogan podcast. A good friend of mine watches Fox News no less than three hours a day and took both Pfizer doses months ago. I suspect you might be projecting, and perhaps you learned about Ivermectin from a neoliberal TV show. Most of the people who believe in the safety and efficacy of Ivermectin believe so precisely because they are not consuming television propaganda, and so they are still able to form their own opinions from "}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 28631059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28631059", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1632412905, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Vitalik's role is dependent on consensus of most of the community - he's not a dictator. He won ETH vs. ETC because the majority of the community thought he was right. If that changes then he'll lose his influence (imo), but from listening to him I think he's a pretty earnest guy and I've been impressed [0]. [0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intellectual-honesty-c..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28638843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28638843", "by": "kcplate", "time": 1632460506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually I think you see what you want to see. A month ago he had an interesting podcast with Jimmy Dore. That man is as far left as the most right wing guest Joe has ever had on. If I could sum up Rogan\u2019s podcast guests it would be whatever side they lean, they tend to be a bit outside the orthodox right or left. For that I give him kudos because I think it\u2019s much more interesting to hear from those off the beaten paths."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28659475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28659475", "by": "pps", "time": 1632647534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Meditation (just focus on your internal state - breath, discomfort, feeling on skin, etc - for 15min a day, one day with eyes closed, one day with open), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (read a workbook and do this by yourself everyday - Mind Over Mood by Padesky, Greenberger, would be my advice), breath work to help yourself quickly in the worst moments (look for Huberman Lab podcast videos on Youtube for things that are scientifically proven), and sleep, sleep, sleep as long as you need"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28676551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676551", "by": "throwaway4web", "time": 1632779968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Greek wiretapping case involving Ericsson equipment was not due to a \u201ctrapdoor\u201d but a malicious implant installed by a threat actor. This is documented in an excellent article by the IEEE [1] Darknet Diaries produced a podcast on the whole affair which makes for great listening. The podcast episode includes additional details which have surfaced after the IEEE article mentioned [2] [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-athens-affair [2] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/64/"}, {"show": "318345767", "hn_item": 28686081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686081", "by": "JasonCannon", "time": 1632854924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like The Partially Examined Life Podcast. I used to listen to it a few years ago, they go through a bunch of different philosophers and hit high level points about them as they roll through the history of philosophy more or less. Serves as a good introduction and from there you can dive into more specific sources. https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 28686681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28686681", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1632858452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Follow Arms Control Wonk. There's a bunch of OSINT folks in the podcast slack channel including friends of mine that have been interviewed by magazines like The Economist. I'm there more for the cyberwarfare takes, but from what I understand nobody is seriously worried about a power imbalance between China and America regarding missile speed since interceptors aren't accurate enough, but that's just me regurgitating what I see tweeted around and talked about. Edit: And don't be intimidated by people reverse engineering sidewinders in the Slack. The community is very open to humble, curious new"}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 28687096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28687096", "by": "ridiculous_fish", "time": 1632860884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in lead exposure as a global problem, I recommend the \"There's Lead in your Turmeric\" episode of The Weeds podcast. Some of the largest sources of lead are adulterated turmeric, improperly fired pottery, and others that I never would have expected."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 28688053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688053", "by": "jhickok", "time": 1632866732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My understanding is that Podman is working on a \"GUI\" since it is one of the most requested items. Taken from the interview with the founders of Podman over on the Google Kubernetes podcast: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/ ETA: Oh hey here it is: https://github.com/heyvito/podman-macos"}, {"show": "1523584878", "hn_item": 28692666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692666", "by": "togelius", "time": 1632917928, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 28693987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693987", "by": "rchaud", "time": 1632925071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "MIT Technology Review is subscription-based and they have podcasts and YT channels. You could run expensive ads in print mags like Scientific American or Harvard Business Review, but you'll reach a far bigger audience online. This will be true even if the subscription fee was hundreds of dollars per year. Podcasts and short videos are effectively low-cost infomercials for your product. Their purpose is not to make revenue by reading out intermittent ads, but attract an audience that might subscribe."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28694011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28694011", "by": "latexr", "time": 1632925204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab\u2019s \u201cDebatable\u201d episode (March 11, 2016) goes into the subject: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/debat..."}, {"show": "1575738174", "hn_item": 28694745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28694745", "by": "philg_jr", "time": 1632928288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the new podcast that Carreyrou is doing for the most updated info on the evidence and trial, \u201cBad Blood: The Final Chapter\u201d."}, {"show": "1575738174", "hn_item": 28695493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28695493", "by": "tushar-r", "time": 1632931163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the \"Bad Blood: The Final Chapter\" podcast by John Carreyrou. He's the journalist who broke the story and the podcast goes into some detail about the history and also talks about what is going on now."}, {"show": "1576801701", "hn_item": 28695968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28695968", "by": "InsideRoblox", "time": 1632932826, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 28719554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28719554", "by": "ryanbrunner", "time": 1633101326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Supercast | Software Developer (intermediate / senior) | Remote (Americas timezones) | Full Time | https://supercast.com Supercast is a premium subscription podcast platform. We're growing like crazy and we're looking for our third Software Developer to help us keep up! Looking for someone who's cool with wearing a lot of hats and getting a little bit designy and a little more producty. Folks who like working on end-user facing solutions more than deep technical problems are ideal for us. Supercast provides podcast subscription capabilities (think Substack for podcasts, or Patreon if it was sp"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 28721589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28721589", "by": "thedarkginger", "time": 1633111075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Storyboard | TryStoryboard.com | Remote or Los Angeles Summary: Storyboard is a platform for companies & teams to collaborate through private, internal podcasts for their employees. We are a Seed stage company focused on creating tools for teams to communicate without live meetings. Over 2,000 companies globally have launched channels on Storyboard so far. Recently named by Will Reed/Pitchbook as a \"Top 50 Seed stage company to work for\" To Apply: Please send resume to admin@trystoryboard.com. Let us know if you have background or interest in podcasts or music tech / audio engineering. --- Ful"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28724842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28724842", "by": "zalebz", "time": 1633134318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just recently found out about a great cybersecurity podcast called Darknet Diaries (and having been binging it ever since). Episode 9 covers Mt Gox and it goes into detail of timeline of the developers and the numerous breaches. Highly recommended. All that is to say that Coinbase and Mt Gox were operating in completely different leagues of sophistication."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 28725119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28725119", "by": "Ozzie_osman", "time": 1633136955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haven't read the book, but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is incredible. I've never binged podcasts, and I've never been a huge history buff, but I totally binged tens of hours. The episodes on the World Wars or Gengis Khan were just captivating."}, {"show": "1382983397", "hn_item": 28740264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740264", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1633292863, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a great discussion with David Roberts (who tweets under the handle drvolts) from 2018 that has been really illuminating for me on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/ky/podcast/revisited-the-informat..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 28740706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740706", "by": "cubano", "time": 1633296910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Of course there are an infinite number of alternatives...I just quickly picked something that sounded decent that tried to make my point about my observation lately that Capitalism was getting knocked around everywhere I looked. In the last Econtalk podcast that I listened to last night, they discussed the loneliness \"epidemic\" and the author ended up blaming Thatcher-based Capitalism as perhaps the main reason why people are so lonely today! I thought that was quite the stretch but imagine my chagrin when here was another spurious back-handed attack on it."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 28742169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28742169", "by": "sampling", "time": 1633312003, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Podcast \u201cTwenty Thousand Hertz\u201d did some good coverage on this radio station, also known as The Buzzer https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/twenty-thousand-hertz/id1..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28742578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28742578", "by": "rsapkf", "time": 1633316899, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 28744066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28744066", "by": "smhg", "time": 1633332472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To anyone with strong opinions (any direction) about this topic and who wants to gain a deeper insight, I'd highly recommend Radiolab's episode about it: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/faceb..."}, {"show": "1587568733", "hn_item": 28760853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760853", "by": "dmitrykan", "time": 1633448031, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Vector Podcast is here to bring you the depth and breadth of Search Engine Technology, Product, Marketing, Business. In the podcast we talk with engineers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, who put their soul into search. Depending on your interest, you should find a matching topic for you -- whether it is deep algorithmic aspect of search engines and information retrieval field, or examples of products offering deep tech to its users. \"Vector\" -- because it aims to cover an emerging field of vector similarity search, giving you the ability to search content beyond text: audio, video, ima"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 28760853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760853", "by": "dmitrykan", "time": 1633448031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vector Podcast is here to bring you the depth and breadth of Search Engine Technology, Product, Marketing, Business. In the podcast we talk with engineers, entrepreneurs, thinkers and tinkerers, who put their soul into search. Depending on your interest, you should find a matching topic for you -- whether it is deep algorithmic aspect of search engines and information retrieval field, or examples of products offering deep tech to its users. \"Vector\" -- because it aims to cover an emerging field of vector similarity search, giving you the ability to search content beyond text: audio, video, ima"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 28766122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28766122", "by": "streamofdigits", "time": 1633470636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reading the book is definitely recommended. A lot of people have an intuitive feeling of how things have gotten out of control but she places the developments in context [0]. She is quite clear that \"breaking up\" is not a solution as it will merely create a cluster of replicas. She is basically arguing for banning the business model underpinning surveillance capitalism. There are many reviews out there, find one from a source you trust. This Harvard Business Review podcast has a summary interview ~30 min [1] I don't think the issue of controlling information flow (which is a political hot pota"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28771600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28771600", "by": "tylerwhipple", "time": 1633518297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is struggling with sleep, I highly recommend episode 1-3 of the Huberman Lab podcast ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-XfCl-HpRM ), it has literally changed my life. Dr. Huberman is a Neurobiologist at Stanford and explains the science of sleep vs just telling you to not look at bright screens at night. I struggled with sleeping for 20+ years, now I easily wake up early. The biggest game changer: Sunlight in your eyes within 30 minutes of waking up. Try morning walks for 1 week (without sunglasses) and your life will be changed."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 28774869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28774869", "by": "mdoms", "time": 1633536923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a non-American, I have listened to Yang a couple of times on Sam Harris's podcast and I have to say, he is one of the least impressive people I have ever had to listen to. I'm not quite sure why Sam and his audience are so enamored with the guy."}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 28776351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28776351", "by": "p_j_w", "time": 1633544276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, Very Bad Wizards, had an episode where they discussed this story. Highly recommend. https://www.verybadwizards.com/144"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28785113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28785113", "by": "golyi", "time": 1633608068, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 28790501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28790501", "by": "yelnatz", "time": 1633632226, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Michael Dell went on John Calacanis' podcast last week too, discussing the book. It was a pretty good listen. Jobs wanted a cut on every PC sold if the deal went through. That was too much for Dell since they were selling so much PCs already, so it fell through. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/googles-game-changing-..."}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 28793351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793351", "by": "bitxbitxbitcoin", "time": 1633648466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Meat Eater podcast."}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 28797407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797407", "by": "npunt", "time": 1633686641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Worth listening to Maria Ressa's episode on Your Undivided Attention podcast back in 2019, where she talked about how authoritarian regimes like in her native Philippines have been using social media to manipulate discourse. https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/9-the-dictators-playbook"}, {"show": "1557045965", "hn_item": 28799464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799464", "by": "dgellow", "time": 1633702206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in Tether, I highly recommend the Crypto Critics' Corner podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/episode-list/ . Bennet Tomlin and Cas Piancey have done a fantastic job chronicling the story. Their blog posts are also quite good: - https://thecaspiancey.medium.com/finding-finex-3eefac0d45a2 - https://bennettftomlin.com/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28803384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803384", "by": "CharleFKane", "time": 1633722566, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revolutions with Mike Duncan. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 28803736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803736", "by": "overview", "time": 1633724427, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven\u2019t read the article, but the title irrefutably contradicts a very interesting understanding of multitasking shared by Dr. Andrew Huberman on the Huberman Lab podcast. Maybe by being provocative and choosing an absolute position on the matter, the author was hoping to attract readers. For those interested in the explanation given by Huberman, skip to the section titled \u201cMulti-Tasking Is Real\u201d found in the description of the video [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/H-XfCl-HpRM"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 28805207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28805207", "by": "panick21", "time": 1633734842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eastern Rome (wrongly called Byzantine, something most people then wouldn't even have known what Byzantium is) went on and was fully the Rome Empire. It never actually fell. All the learning and information was continued for the most part. Sadly even they had a lot of problems in the 'dark age' (not a good name either). First their was the Justinian Plague and then they had a lot of civil war and conflict over Iconoclasm. In general because of how Europe developed, and how the Renaissance happened in terms of intellectual history a lot of this history is only remember by very few people. By 10"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 28806607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806607", "by": "sam_bristow", "time": 1633748024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oooh, thanks for pointing that out. I really enjoyed their \"On the Metal\" podcast while they were running it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28810146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28810146", "by": "roenxi", "time": 1633789648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most Americans don't seem to trust the press. Faith in \"Mass Media\" has plummeted to levels appropriate to their reliability on important issues [0]. And the media is a strange place. Something like Joe Rogan's podcast is realistically more mainstream and probably more trusted than most news programs. There will be many examples like that. [0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-med..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28810595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28810595", "by": "gruez", "time": 1633792703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Something like Joe Rogan's podcast is realistically more mainstream and probably more trusted than most news programs How can you \"trust\" a podcast that just interviews everyone and takes them at face value? Do people seriously go \"yeah I heard it on joe rogan so I think it's probably true\"?"}, {"show": "1439372633", "hn_item": 28811618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28811618", "by": "smitty1e", "time": 1633800299, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Could well be. I heard abiut this on the generally outstanding American Mind podcast => https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ZOuvrIyfnonkf5BomSyuj"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 28837866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28837866", "by": "radicalbyte", "time": 1634031867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can strongly recommend the recent In Our Time podcast (subscribe, it's a hidden gem!!) episode over this very subject: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28839750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28839750", "by": "eldaisfish", "time": 1634047252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are being downvoted but this sentiment is not wrong. See also the nordic countries and this Freakonomics podcast that goes into some detail: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/happiness/ In particular, note Denmark's notoriously strict immigration system. The key point being that ethnically homogenous societies tend to work well. It isn't guaranteed but it does contribute because everyone is the same or similar. Similar ideals, similar goals and so on. The feeling one gets in these societies is stifling. We have nice things but they are for us, not for you."}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 28841647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28841647", "by": "rlawson", "time": 1634056017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OP here - One of the things that really helped me get back into coding was to listen to podcasts. Especially \"Django Chat\" and \"Talk Python to Me\". I'd put them on while jogging and they really helped me to get a survey of the Django/Python ecosystem and also what a warm and welcoming community it is."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 28844022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844022", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1634067164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I strongly recommend the 'Futility Closet' podcast that accompanies the website. It is one of the most consistently interesting podcasts out there."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28847329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28847329", "by": "darepublic", "time": 1634089852, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe a Joe Rogan podcast of the time, that I watched on youtube, featured an expert who claimed masks were basically useless"}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 28847999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28847999", "by": "xrd", "time": 1634096595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Read about Level 2 solutions like zk snarks. It's really fascinating stuff. I enjoy the podcast called \"Zero Knowledge.\" The last one with Professor Alessandro Chiesa is really great, but that's not the best one for beginners for sure."}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 28852098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28852098", "by": "bhaak", "time": 1634133356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not exactly what you asked for but the \"Designing for the Visually Impaired\" episode of the Roguelike Radio podcast has a blind player play a roguelike. The intro has a bit of screenreading but the gameplay is starting at around 1:15. While listening, you should put on headphones and concentrate very hard. It's quite fast and other sensory input might be disturbing so also close your eyes. http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/10/episode-48-designing-f..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 28853153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28853153", "by": "zulban", "time": 1634137819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"this is the last version of Windows!\" Fun fact: Microsoft never said this. Instead it was picked up by the media somehow and Microsoft simply chose never to correct anyone on it. My source is the Security Now podcast."}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 28860473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860473", "by": "doublepg23", "time": 1634185028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like his \"The Talk Show\" podcast. He has a very nice voice."}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 28864510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28864510", "by": "AzzieElbab", "time": 1634220863, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 28866630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866630", "by": "JALTU", "time": 1634229890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, just FWIW: Sam Harris' Waking Up app has many podcast style conversations with and monologues by practitioners of variations on meditation/mindfulness. I'm suggesting this as a starting point if the article's content is perhaps too esoteric."}, {"show": "1532976305", "hn_item": 28867709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867709", "by": "throwawaysea", "time": 1634234495, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A number of trans rights activists (TRAs) are trying to erase the concept of 'sex' entirely, including sex-based differences. Although this seems absurd on its face, TRAs came to this point in the debate gradually: initially there was a focus on making the claim that gender is short for 'gender identity', which is in their view entirely unrelated to biological sex. This seemed agreeable to a broad audience, but committed TRAs then started looking to erode the sex-based separation seen in spaces such as bathrooms, sports, and more. The Biden administration took this further by redefining the wo"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 28874489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28874489", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1634274175, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes there is an interview with that feature phone guy on Hanselminutes podcast."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 28882426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882426", "by": "anonfornoreason", "time": 1634328014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They also can only target cancers that have specific markers that are unique to the cancer and not normal cells, lest the treatment kill non cancer cells. Early experiments here did lead to patient deaths (in advanced already going to die cancer patients). Not all cancers have these unique markers so this therapy only works on a few types,m. Fantastic podcast covering topic by interviewing the father of these therapies: https://youtu.be/pVMl0LgdnOU Podcast available on Apple podcasts etc. The Drive episode 177. can't recommend enough."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 28882426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882426", "by": "anonfornoreason", "time": 1634328014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They also can only target cancers that have specific markers that are unique to the cancer and not normal cells, lest the treatment kill non cancer cells. Early experiments here did lead to patient deaths (in advanced already going to die cancer patients). Not all cancers have these unique markers so this therapy only works on a few types,m. Fantastic podcast covering topic by interviewing the father of these therapies: https://youtu.be/pVMl0LgdnOU Podcast available on Apple podcasts etc. The Drive episode 177. can't recommend enough."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28893063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28893063", "by": "wincy", "time": 1634432529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What\u2019s funny is that I used to love listening to the Joe Rogan podcast and hate Spotify just as much, because I tried to listen to his podcast and somehow ended up listening to about TEN MINUTES of ads and the podcast NEVER started playing. I finally uninstalled Spotify and haven\u2019t listened to his podcast since, sorry. It\u2019s mind boggling that Spotify could drop the ball so hard, as ostensibly they were trying to funnel people like me into their platform, and whiffed in an absolutely astounding manner while also alienating people like you who already use Spotify."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 28893589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28893589", "by": "hugocbp", "time": 1634439875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. I love podcasts, on my podcast app. I'm really disappointed how Spotify is buying several big podcasts and moving to their platform exclusively. I tried to listen to a Science Vs episode the other day, and now my Spotify is almost completely filled with podcasts recommendation. Plus, the experience is still far from specialized podcast apps. The result: I'll probably stop following Science Vs (and any other podcast that moves exclusively to Spotify). They could, at least, have a separate Spotify Podcast app so things wouldn't be mixed (kind of like Wealthsimple has separate apps for In"}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 28894293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28894293", "by": "squeaky-clean", "time": 1634450057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify dynamically injects ads into podcasts. I was listening to an episode of the Conan O'Brien podcast from 2018 and got an advertisement to be safe from Covid by enjoying an ice cold Miller Lite at home. It was extremely unsettling until I realized what they were doing. They replace the ad breaks that would normally be in a podcast. (Like when the hosts say \"we're going to take a quick break to talk about our sponsors for this episode\"). It's not an unskippable ad like you get when listening to music using the free tier. It's inserted directly into the audio stream. Edit: I guess it's poss"}, {"show": "1509606453", "hn_item": 28898230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28898230", "by": "np32", "time": 1634492617, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Devon Zuegel is a great thinker in a large breath of subjects -> On Urbanism: Her podcast Order without Design [0] where she interviews the Bertaud couple Fields note on Miami [1] (with beautiful pictures) Metamuse interview on cities [2] and a lot more on her blog On tech : She was the PM for Github sponsors (and I believe other open-source friendly projects), great interview of her by the changelog [4] The Pioneer series (of which this interview is an episod), favorites are Louis Pouzing and roundtable about Hamming [5] [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/order-without-design-h... [1] "}, {"show": "1439372633", "hn_item": 28898741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28898741", "by": "smitty1e", "time": 1634496501, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A related podcast from the far end of the ideological spectrum at The American Mind[1]. Blurb: \"The US is currently facing unprecedented logistical shortcomings brought on by government restrictions. Meanwhile, inflation has been steadily skyrocketing as the feds continue to print obscene amounts [of] money. In other words, the time is just right for the steady creep of a new social credit system into the limelight. \" [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rcE27wcg39GtLw5IovASU?si=D..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28901953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28901953", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1634527463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some people are wired like this. I remember listening to John Carmack on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast and he responded to one question about long hours with \u201cOh yes, definitely. You can\u2019t just keep on working. For instance, I\u2019ve noticed that my productivity drops off after about 13 hours a day\u201d. LOL. An inspiration but I can\u2019t do that. He\u2019s in his 50s and I know he still reads and writes a lot of code. Very impressive to be sure but mimicking that is likely to have a similar effect to mimicking deadlifting what Hafthor does."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 28903828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903828", "by": "gmw", "time": 1634551194, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 28913185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28913185", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1634599848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> if you are a great guy, great father, great boss, etc, but once in a while you get violently drunk and hurt people in your life - THAT thing offsets everything else. So the Manager Tools podcast had a discussion about this I can't be bothered to find. Their advice, as best I recall it, was that you should focus on two things: fixing absolute deal breakers, and honing your strengths. Imagine you come up with N dimensions you want to rate yourself across on a 1 to 5 scale from worst to best. If you have any 1 out of 5's that are clearly blocking career progress, you should focus on that. If yo"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 28928006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28928006", "by": "Crosseye_Jack", "time": 1634716818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because its not the only forum nr is it the official forum. Dave at eevblog also runs one https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/ (Chris and Dave both host The Amp Hour podcast), There is the Subreddit, there are also Chinese and Spanish forums on differnt domains too. The kicad site also states that in order to have your forum listed on the kicad site \"You do not misrepresent yourself as being an official KiCad entity\". Having a subdomain for it could imply its \"official\" and break its own rule. https://www.kicad.org/community/forums/"}, {"show": "1186480811", "hn_item": 28934495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28934495", "by": "bcaulfield", "time": 1634755660, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1843128471", "hn_item": 28935079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28935079", "by": "amrrs", "time": 1634758238, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "293436552", "hn_item": 28936486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28936486", "by": "johnzim", "time": 1634763517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember the Idle Thumbs podcast made a running joke of the fact that 2010 was supposed to be \"Year of the PS3\" because I believe Kaz Hirai had suggested that it would take multiple years for developers to unlock the true power of the system. Which is an excellent way to brand how much of a pain it was for Devs to wring performance out of it."}, {"show": "1439735906", "hn_item": 28941295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941295", "by": "vegetablepotpie", "time": 1634799799, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If anyone is interested in the details of the history and mechanics of fossil fuel propaganda, this [0] podcast is a good resource. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 28941706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941706", "by": "gnicholas", "time": 1634803727, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd highly recommend the Hidden Brain podcast When Did Marriage Become So Hard? . [1] It goes into detail on how much we expect from our spouses, and how these expectations put pressure on a marriage. Couples who are able to get all of these benefits are super happy, but for many couples it's prudent to realize that historically we've not expected so many things from our spousal relationships. This realization allows couples to adjust their expectations for what a marriage is supposed to provide, and give them permission to have some of their social or other needs met by friends/colleagues/etc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28952484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952484", "by": "t3rmi", "time": 1634862398, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend interested folks to listen to Musk on Joe Rogan's podcast. Musk gives detailed explanations on the challenges they face and how they solve them."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28954201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28954201", "by": "aerosmile", "time": 1634883549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seems like people are sharing their investment theories, so I'll add mine. Invest in 100x-ers, like Zuck or Musk. To be clear, a 10x-er is not good enough for this strategy to work. Those are the people who lead at SpaceX and make the impossible possible. What I am talking about is the person who is the 10x-er to the 10x-ers. The person who comes up with the idea and gets those 10x-ers into the same room and organizes them. Obviously, the scale of that talent is hard to estimate, and \"100x-er\" is just a figurative term. Think of it this way - there should be only 10-20 such people among the CE"}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 28957764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957764", "by": "projektfu", "time": 1634913454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Being on the purchasing end of things, I see it pretty commonly with software. While it's being sold, they tell you that it does things. During installation, they tell you those things are having the bugs ironed out and will be available soon. After installation and a few months of use, they ask you to participate in a focus group about how the features should look when they get around to starting them. However, the software people rarely try to gaslight you into believing that the features actually do exist and you don't need them anyway. At least, in my experience. And, when pressed by custo"}, {"show": "1313596069", "hn_item": 28962150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962150", "by": "massysett", "time": 1634933585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"American History Tellers\" podcast did a great series on the Great Chicago Fire. https://wondery.com/shows/american-history-tellers/episode/5..."}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 28962799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962799", "by": "TheSpiceIsLife", "time": 1634937155, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> As a reasonable person, I think that overt racism, opposition to public health measures, attacks on voting and democracy and unwillingness to accept responsibility for damage to the environment we all share are simply not reasonable points of view. One of these things is extraordinarily not like the others. You don\u2019t think it\u2019s reason to have debate about public health measures. That is definitely something I strongly disagree with. Now look, I\u2019m double mRNA vaccinated against COVID19, and I gently advocate for others to do so. Do I think governments should mandate COVID19 vaccination? Absol"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 28963998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963998", "by": "SXX", "time": 1634944963, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Problem isn't just in ease to audit. Biggest advantage of paper voting is that whole system require a lot of people to participate in orgnization and control over the process. It's a great way to make people really care about politics. And for people who vote when you have to physically come to vote it's not only require effort, but also motivate their peers and family to do the same. And it's good starter of real world political discussion. On other side if voting made low effort and truly remote and anonymous then it's will degrade people's involvment in process even more. PS: Good podcast e"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 28966135, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28966135", "by": "dmoo", "time": 1634968891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For some background and discussion the In Our Time podcast did an episode on her https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2ljg"}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 28970102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970102", "by": "jostylr", "time": 1635007467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To get some great gamified practice with some CSS concepts, I recommend https://codepip.com/ The well-regarded Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden come from that site, but there are a number of other ones. I believe they all have some mini-tutorial aspects to them in addition to using the syntax to accomplish specific goals. I also recommend two that were already mentioned but I have found them extremely enlightening: CSS-in-depth and CSS-for-JS-devs (I am a programmer first so it speaks to me). I have also enjoyed the first few episodes of The CSS Podcast though I have not gotten to far into it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28974460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974460", "by": "akira2501", "time": 1635043100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their policies are demonstrably at fault though, there are large European cities which face this same dynamic and yet they do not have anywhere near the level of problems that we have in this country. This seems to be, in large part, due to their policies. Housing is not their primary goal, addiction and psychiatric treatment are. You get housing when you comply, it's the carrot that is used to motivate people to engage with the program. The author recently did a Joe Rogan podcast and did a very good job of explaining this and it's practical effects and differences in detail."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28974533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974533", "by": "baby", "time": 1635044009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast and the solution seemed to be housing and treatment first, punishment later."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28975009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975009", "by": "s5300", "time": 1635050170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coming to conclusions about solutions via Joe Rogan's podcast is only contributing to the problem, friend."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 28975451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975451", "by": "grozzle", "time": 1635057502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the Song Exploder podcast for fans of this post. It goes deep on each component of a song, the influences, and often has interviews with the creators."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 28975500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975500", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635058333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wouldn't it be better to argue why what was heard on Rogan's podcast is wrong, rather than implicitly arguing that all solutions heard on Rogan's podcast are wrong. To me, your response seems like the bigger problem. Information (including dis- and mis-) is all around us. Arguing that information from sources you dislike is wrong because you dislike the source is illogical. Respectfully, you should address exactly why what was heard on Joe Rogan's podcast is wrong."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 28975552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975552", "by": "Splatter", "time": 1635059186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are my favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade. And I thank god for speed control (2.2x for me)."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 28978951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978951", "by": "criddell", "time": 1635090124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast did a short series on advertising and it turns out advertisers often do spend big bucks blindly."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 28984388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28984388", "by": "Xavdidtheshadow", "time": 1635134355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very different show, but I enjoy the Accidental Tech Podcast (aka \"ATP\"). It's a weekly news show that focuses on tech (mainly Apple). They do a good job with technical details and talking through tech product decisions (why did Apple/Google/FB do X? What are its merits?). People have sort of polarized opinions about each of the 3 hosts, but IMO they each have their moments."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 28986309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986309", "by": "AJRF", "time": 1635158599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really like the Jane Street podcast \"Signals and Threads\". It goes into how Jane Street (a prop trading firm) solve difficult problems in a hard problem space. https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "960902903", "hn_item": 28989797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28989797", "by": "look_lookatme", "time": 1635179561, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OP you been listening to the Meateater podcast?"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 28991918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991918", "by": "mastax", "time": 1635189515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, though the person I got this from probably does. No room for more podcasts until I finish Revolutions , so probably 2025."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 28994631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28994631", "by": "rogereur", "time": 1635205217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWNY70Oj4A Recently heard this podcast with Lex Fridman and Carl Hart (author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups) and talk about this"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 28994965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28994965", "by": "TwoNineFive", "time": 1635207569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I respectfully, and strongly, disagree. Darknet Diaries is entertainment first and foremost. It's also a for-profit podcast where it's advertising becomes a problem. I say this disappointingly, as I like good technical podcasts, but I have found very few in the security space which work well for me. The information density is low. There's a whole lot of unnecessary back-and-forth banter between hosts and the the typical kind of old-school AM radio type bullshittery. A 30 minute segment often based on a four paragraph blog post. The other big problem I have with the show is that the advertiseme"}, {"show": "1588732696", "hn_item": 28997963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997963", "by": "tmamic", "time": 1635238293, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29008646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29008646", "by": "pella", "time": 1635298584, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29011064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011064", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1635326551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Does this count for something like AV, too? I grew up in a world where AV and anti malware only worked offline / client-side. What about spam filters and AV on mail servers? I often hear a commercial for Crowdstrike on Darknet Diaries podcast, which apparently is some kind of combination of a SIEM and ML (though that might be marketing). Would that be the panacea according to this paper? Or is this specific about a client-server model where the server hosts the data? Because the solution to that is rather simple 1) FOSS client 2) public-key cryptography where the private key does not enter the"}, {"show": "1483677267", "hn_item": 29012491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29012491", "by": "panick21_", "time": 1635338404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is endless amounts of lithium deposit everywhere. A lithium deposit is essentially worthless. What matters in lithium industry, is chemical processing. Nobody cares about a lithium mining company. What matters is lithium processing. Lithium is not like a base metal, its more like a specialty chemical. The output from every mine is unique, there is not overall standard. Each output from each mine has to be qualified with each major battery manufacturer. Nevada has 100s of billion of dollars worth of lithium by itself probably. This will almost certainty not be mined. Making money from thi"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 29014040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014040", "by": "germinalphrase", "time": 1635346236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We haven\u2019t even stopped building new kinds of nuclear weapons - or reviving old ones . China recently launched a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOB) with a hypersonic glide vehicle which is a new spin on an old Cold War idea. Edit: which is to say, believing the average person has moved on from Cold War thinking is probably wishful thinking that would be immediately dispelled during near peer conflict. We are in every bit as much danger now as we were then. Edit 2: I can recommend two podcasts for those interested in a bit of low stakes learning. \u201cAt the Brink\u201d: a limited series from t"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29014335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29014335", "by": "Cycl0ps", "time": 1635347405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast just released an episode on a similar attack (via MSP) if you're interested in hearing what this looks like from a remidiation standpoint"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 29017156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29017156", "by": "pmdulaney", "time": 1635359423, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To become motivated to read Gibbon I recommend the episode about him in the BBC In Our Time podcast. I don't have my phone with me, but I think it's in the Philosophy category."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29022229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29022229", "by": "rustnote", "time": 1635393720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like what Chris Lattner said about language design in Lex Fridman podcast, that you know when you're doing something right because it \"feels\" right. Rust has a bunch of syntactic sugar which gets critised in many languages, but to me things like error returns with ? \"feels\" right. Love Go as well, and the error handling makes a lot of sense in concept but it just doesn't \"feel\" nice to look at or use. I like there's a language that has such a strong vision, but dealing in absolutes has drawbacks, a little sytactic sugar would make error handling a lot nicer."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29032749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29032749", "by": "reggieband", "time": 1635459396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm sure some are aware but in case you are not, Lex Friedman podcast recently had an episode with Richard Wrangham [1] where they discuss this. Wrangham is a primatologist that studied alongside Jane Goodall. His theory suggests human's show signs similar to what we see in other species that have been domesticated. This includes smaller face/jaws and smaller brains. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 29033729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033729", "by": "sudosysgen", "time": 1635466354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, they're not. The subreddit was, at the same time as the Trump subreddit, in a transparent attempt to do a bothsidesism and limit PR damage to . The cited extremist content were related to John Brown being justified, etc... Generally the subreddit was to the left of Chapo, and there was a signficant amount of distance between the two, with the sub and the podcasters roasting each other every so often. FWIW I originally learnt about Chapo Trap House on this website, a year and half ago or so. They're obviously a podcast so not as accurate as written publications, but as long as you take thei"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 29042555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042555", "by": "n8cpdx", "time": 1635535503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first learned about this through Twenty Thousand Hertz, a great podcast about sound that I highly recommend. I don\u2019t think about sound very often, so I find I learn a lot from every episode. https://www.20k.org/"}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 29044480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29044480", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1635548416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Keep in mind that a fair-sized codec was generally written on velum , not paper, and would have required a sizeable herd of sheep merely to provide the hides. The material cost of a book of such times could well approach or exceed 1 million dollars by present reckoning, even before labour of approximately 1 man year to copy it out by hand per copy was added. Gutenberg's revolution hinged not only on moveable type, but on rag-based paper (wood pulp wasn't widely used until the 19th century), and reduced the cost of a book by about an order of magnitude, possibly two. Far less expensive than bef"}, {"show": "1310192007", "hn_item": 29051592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051592", "by": "patleeman", "time": 1635621950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out Ben Carlson\u2019s podcast Animal Spirits, it\u2019s quite interesting. Owning individual assets doesn\u2019t preclude you from having most of your portfolio in index funds. The trick is to buy companies you believe in and just hold it. Don\u2019t check the price every day, just forget about it."}, {"show": "1561689671", "hn_item": 29054217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29054217", "by": "amerkhalid", "time": 1635650904, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There are so many podcasts that it is hard to know which are good and and which are just random people talking random stuff. Lately I am listening to these two: Good Inside - a lot of good ideas for fixing behavior issues. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-inside-with-dr-be... Stories Podcast - mostly because I have forgotten many childhood stories. I skim through these and then I am able to tell those stories at bedtime. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-podcast-a-bedt..."}, {"show": "948976028", "hn_item": 29054217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29054217", "by": "amerkhalid", "time": 1635650904, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There are so many podcasts that it is hard to know which are good and and which are just random people talking random stuff. Lately I am listening to these two: Good Inside - a lot of good ideas for fixing behavior issues. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-inside-with-dr-be... Stories Podcast - mostly because I have forgotten many childhood stories. I skim through these and then I am able to tell those stories at bedtime. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-podcast-a-bedt..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 29057124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29057124", "by": "q1w2", "time": 1635689767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Running a nuclear reactor does not produce nuclear weapons. This is simply fear-mongering fake news. Also, modern nuclear reactors are dangerous. The GenIII+ specification for all new reactors requires the use of passive shut off. Which means the operator must actively keep the reactor on. If they were to all turn into zombies, for example, the reactor would simply shut off. Omega Tau podcast also did an extensive series on nuclear waste storage that I highly recommend every skeptic listen to. Nuclear waste storage is not a problem. The problem is that naivete people seem to have that renewabl"}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 29057855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29057855", "by": "GDC7", "time": 1635695607, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1530691206", "hn_item": 29059560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29059560", "by": "kaba0", "time": 1635708100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Based on the Inside Java podcast, the reason was more along the line to ease installation in cloud environments. This new license is legally installable without clicking accept license, etc. Also, making the last 1.5 (LTS+1 year into the next LTS) years free probably doesn\u2019t mean a serious profit loss, as those primary come from things running Java 8 for another decade still."}, {"show": "1580009576", "hn_item": 29065753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29065753", "by": "ckipp", "time": 1635769235, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29075219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29075219", "by": "spir", "time": 1635812386, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My pleasure! I'd recommend the Bankless podcast and newsletter https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/ https://podcast.banklesshq.com/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29075800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29075800", "by": "throw0101a", "time": 1635817192, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Joseph \"Fed Guy\" Wang was on the Odd Lots podcast semi-recently: * https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/here-are-the-biggest... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/here-are-the-biggest-p... The also had the president of the Dallas Fed, Rob Kaplan, as well: * https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/dallas-fed-president... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Steven_Kaplan And Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari last year: * https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/minneapolis-fed-pres... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Kashkari Over the past year they've also had good episodes "}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 29076968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29076968", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1635826284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I guess I'd ask why I should care about that particular wrinkle of vote casting. I took the time to go read up on state ballot harvesting laws, and there's essentially no apparent correlation between state parties and ballot collection laws. I learned that ballot collection is kind of a big deal for Native Americans (who rely on collectors for far-flung reservations, where otherwise getting to a sanctioned ballot box might involve a multiple-hour drive) and for elderly voters in assisted living homes. There seems to be no studied connection between lax collection laws and incidence of fraud. W"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 29077262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29077262", "by": "emmanueloga_", "time": 1635828958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In my case, I saw \"Shrdulu\" and \"Zardulu\" came to mind [1] :-). There's a fun podcast about them at Reply All [2]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardulu 2: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho6j"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29088380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29088380", "by": "robomartin", "time": 1635892263, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29089242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29089242", "by": "gilbetron", "time": 1635897497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Joe Rogan is Gwyneth Paltrow for men\" is a spot on analogy I saw recently. If you want interesting science podcasts, at least do Lex Fridman!"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 29091320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29091320", "by": "unclebucknasty", "time": 1635916490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> monetize journalism outside of the usual predatory social media/aggregator set up I've had some ideas around this for a while now, but have been busy with another project. It recently resurfaced when listening to an Ezra Klein podcast wherein he talked about how journalists are now boxed in by their social media audiences, among other laments. If I was less exhausted this early morning, I'd try to dig up the episode. Anyway, good luck with it. Something that disrupts the current model is sorely needed."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 29103733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29103733", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1636001081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also learn a lot from podcasts. I've learnt so much from my favourite, The Ezra Klein Show, that I built full-text over some of its transcripts to help reinforce my learning: https://search.rememex.org/ I plan to slowly expand the number of podcast episodes that I have indexed to include multiple podcasts and thousands of episodes. Currently it's about ~100 episodes. For those that are skeptical of why you'd want this, I'd say that I regularly enough find my brain pulling out information that I heard in a podcast episode that I wanted to have the transcripts easily searchable to verify and r"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 29104869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104869", "by": "atoav", "time": 1636016913, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, but mostly German ones (which is my first language). There is one that has many English episodes (mostly geared towards aviation and engineering): http://omegataupodcast.net/ > One of the EN ones I enjoy is Dan Carlin's Hardcore History"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29105831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29105831", "by": "akudha", "time": 1636026098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Ferris, Rich Roll - not all episodes, but many are good (Rich tends to ramble). Behind the bastards - good show, but it will depress you. Bankless - if you\u2019re interested in crypto/blockchain Heist podcast - this one is fun. No murder or creepy criminal stuff. Just robbery, lol Side hustle school - very short episodes, I only listen to the side hustle episodes and skip the Q&A, advice ones Invest Like a Boss - I am a money dummy, I learned quite a bit. Depending on your financial knowledge, it may or may not be appealing to you"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 29106090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106090", "by": "feintruled", "time": 1636027711, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Me too, audiobooks really allow you to wallow deep into a subject without distraction. I find the 'zoo radio' format beloved of podcasts a little annoying and often inappropriate for the subject matter - I tried the 'Behind the Bastards' podcast that gets recommended a lot and it was all \"whoo! Soviet Russia! J-Stal in da house! Millions dead!\", very jarring. I'm sure there are many with more stolid presentation, but mock pissed-up banter seems to be the default. I do enjoy ones more in the style of radio programmes, or for that matter actual radio programmes.. In Our Time is excellent for sho"}, {"show": "1458750622", "hn_item": 29106626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106626", "by": "jon-wood", "time": 1636030975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The two podcasts I consistently listen to at the moment are: * Power Corrupts - An in-depth look at the darker side of humanity, particularly corrupt national leaders, the ways they hold on to power, and how to prevent that. * The Electronic Wireless Show - A weekly podcast from Rock Paper Shotgun, ostensibly about PC gaming, but I'm there more for the fantastic dynamic between the three hosts. Honorable mention goes out to the now concluded 13 Minutes to the Moon from the BBC World Service, the first series focuses on the final 13 minute descent from Apollo 11 to the surface of the moon, conc"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 29107979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29107979", "by": "breckenedge", "time": 1636037777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangentially related: the Acquired podcast recently put out a great episode on Morris Chang and TSMC. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 29108279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108279", "by": "hiidrew", "time": 1636039154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree with this. I recently got into strength training, started cranking out podcasts then. They've now extended in other aspects, grocery shopping, taking a walk during lunch, driving. I think it's nice to have entertainment without requiring my visual focus, especially when you stare at screen for the majority of the day. Some of my favorites: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: I've been a sick fuck with these really, started with the one over the history of nukes. Finished all the ones on spotify and paid for his library, worth every penny. - 99% invisible: Love this one as it takes introduce"}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 29108279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108279", "by": "hiidrew", "time": 1636039154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree with this. I recently got into strength training, started cranking out podcasts then. They've now extended in other aspects, grocery shopping, taking a walk during lunch, driving. I think it's nice to have entertainment without requiring my visual focus, especially when you stare at screen for the majority of the day. Some of my favorites: - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: I've been a sick fuck with these really, started with the one over the history of nukes. Finished all the ones on spotify and paid for his library, worth every penny. - 99% invisible: Love this one as it takes introduce"}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 29110034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29110034", "by": "HouseOfBagels", "time": 1636046853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Renewed my Apple TV+ subscription specifically for this show and waited for a whole year -- I'm in the camp that thinks no series or film is ever going to be better than the actual books, but in terms of what's playing and in production these days, I've been immersed in the series from the start as well as the Foundation podcast that dives deeper into every episode with some of the shows producers, it's similar to hearing the director's cut of a film."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 29112970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29112970", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1636062908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can heartily recommend the recent season of Tides of History podcast if early human history interests you. I find it particularly fascinating how we\u2019ve already evolved biologically due to one of our inventions (fire control)"}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 29126148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29126148", "by": "throwawaysea", "time": 1636157925, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Related, \u201cThe Real Reason Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Is Failing Is Because It\u2019s Anti-Nuclear\u201d: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-... The author of the above article also wrote a book called \u201cApocalypse Never\u201d that explores practical approaches to managing climate change and recently appeared on the Jordan Peterson podcast to talk about it, including the role of nuclear energy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-..."}, {"show": "1439735906", "hn_item": 29131081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131081", "by": "vegetablepotpie", "time": 1636212921, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The recycling movement was green washing from the petro chemical industry to shift responsibility of trash from the industry to individuals. It was a failure by design and never meant to create a closed loop of production and consumption [0]. You are correct by pointing out the intermittency of some renewable sources of energy. These are constraints of the technology that have engineering solutions. I don\u2019t think activists are to blame for what we see. They are a convenient scapegoat. Think about who would benefit from having us all sit quietly at home waiting for our leadership to make the ri"}, {"show": "1581807590", "hn_item": 29132912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132912", "by": "kreetx", "time": 1636225434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently listened to the Haskell Interlude podcast with Lennart Augustson where he mentions in the end that he's at Epic Games. Looks like they are investing greatly in Haskell-like things now. [1] https://haskell.foundation/podcast/2/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29133533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29133533", "by": "erikig", "time": 1636230400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I still use it regularly too - even more so after listening to Stephen Wolfram\u2019s 3 part podcast [1] with Lex Fridman where he discussed the latest developments in Wolfram, Mathematica etc [1] https://youtu.be/ez773teNFYA"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29136402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29136402", "by": "gfodor", "time": 1636256996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wolfram himself is working on physics and fulfilling a life long dream. (He was just on Lex\u2019s podcast.) Say what you will about his contributions but it is hard to argue he hasn\u2019t been enormously successful at achieving his goals of developing an entire cathedral of work he can use for his own intellectual persuits."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 29143554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29143554", "by": "bredren", "time": 1636319569, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Deno\u2019s company was planning to release something like this, called Deno Deploy. (Not sure of the status of that product) Ryan talked about it one hour in to the changelog interview published in June. How is Denoflare compare / contrast with that? [1] 1:00:00 @ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-changelog-software..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 29143884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29143884", "by": "quantisan", "time": 1636322284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics podcast discussed this vicious cycle about disposable Japanese homes https://freakonomics.com/2014/02/26/why-are-japanese-homes-d..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 29149760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29149760", "by": "kryz", "time": 1636382679, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was even more interesting to read given the context of the Standard Oil episode of the Acquired podcast recently"}, {"show": "1533115958", "hn_item": 29151763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151763", "by": "amryder", "time": 1636392759, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1533115958", "hn_item": 29151774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151774", "by": "amryder", "time": 1636392811, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29159078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29159078", "by": "jonbaer", "time": 1636446256, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29161522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161522", "by": "roeles", "time": 1636465011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought that Douglas Lenat's remarks (at Lex Fridman's podcast) about this were really insightful[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMKoSRbGVs&t=5691s"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 29162905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29162905", "by": "sgerenser", "time": 1636471444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Indicator from Planet Money podcast just did an episode on Zillow with the same thesis: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053689886/ibuyers-zillow-and..."}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 29162905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29162905", "by": "sgerenser", "time": 1636471444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Indicator from Planet Money podcast just did an episode on Zillow with the same thesis: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053689886/ibuyers-zillow-and..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29176782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176782", "by": "abrichr", "time": 1636562593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Huberman Lab podcast episode on depression touches on this. According to Dr. Huberman the quality of the trip is not important, the chemical changes the brain function regardless."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 29177720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29177720", "by": "unserialized", "time": 1636566582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The reputable and well-known podcast Software Engineering Daily has likely been hacked. It's contributor Jeff recently began releasing semi-comical, highly unprofessional podcasts containing satirical (and homophobic) rap songs about Mark Zuckerberg. As a frequent listener of the podcast, I find this bizarre and unfortunate... The hacked podcasts are released across it's podcast services and surfaced on their website. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/category/all-episodes/e..."}, {"show": "1549739140", "hn_item": 29178628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178628", "by": "millerv", "time": 1636569948, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 29185183, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29185183", "by": "laserbeam", "time": 1636613589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Why do you have to agree there is institutional racism in schools to think this is garbage writing? I'm only going to argue this point. I could claim an idea is bad because I disagree with the idea. Let's say you say that something is racist and I disagree and we have an argument about whether that thing is racist or not. The article claims (among many other things) that there are racist undertones here. However, that's not my point here. The problem here is the article claimed to talk about A (school reform) but spent 70% of it's page space on B (things suck, and racism is involved). And I "}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 29190352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190352", "by": "travisd", "time": 1636650678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At the risk of being too overly politically for HN, I posit that wokeness is a distraction that is amplified by people in power (mostly on the right) to try to create artificial class conflict (me vs the woke \u201celites\u201d). This distracts from the real class conflicts in our society. Highly recommend the recent Citations Needed podcast about this (two part on the GOPs \u201cRightwing Populism\u201d Rebrand)."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 29190897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29190897", "by": "harrisonjackson", "time": 1636653526, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "They were recently (last year?) acquired by HubSpot. I'm not that familiar with their recent content but I am a fan of their team and the HustleCon youtube vids. Their founder has a podcast that is good fuel for anyone that likes to chat about startups, business, VCs, crypto, etc. The cohost had a startup that was acquired by Twitch. They're pretty entertaining together and the content is consistently good. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-first-million/id146..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 29192873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29192873", "by": "matwood", "time": 1636663203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoder podcast had on the CEO of Anker and he explained (IIRC) that chips coming off of 12\" wafers are impossible to get, while chips from 7\" wafers are plentiful. The problem is recertification, which for autos can be a very long process. Why that occurred is another question."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29207255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29207255", "by": "theNJR", "time": 1636776167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neil Stephenson was just talking about this concept on Lex Friedman\u2019s podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAfdSak2fs8"}, {"show": "981834425", "hn_item": 29210315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210315", "by": "bredren", "time": 1636816685, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In this podcast episode with the founder of conversational AI, he describes the need to make spelling mistakes (and correct them) in order to help establish that the bot is actually a human. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-python-podcast-ini..."}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 29211051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29211051", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1636821653, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Reed Hoffman offers a great discussion on this subject > https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/masters-of-scale-with-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29221787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29221787", "by": "samstave", "time": 1636932624, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29222096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29222096", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1636935647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why is the link to spotify? The link should be to Lex Fridman's own site: https://lexfridman.com/podcast/ Isn't Spotify in the process of getting user infromation from how people to listen to podcasts?"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 29236216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236216", "by": "posnet", "time": 1637031551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fact that the poster mentioned IP multicast and Aeron implies they are talking about HFT and Stock Exchange environments, where high performance switches with explicit support for low latency multicast are the norm and not the exception. There is a Signals and Threads podcast episode that goes a bit into the history of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=triyiLwqWUI (Transcript) https://signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-the-markets/"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 29236216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236216", "by": "posnet", "time": 1637031551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fact that the poster mentioned IP multicast and Aeron implies they are talking about HFT and Stock Exchange environments, where high performance switches with explicit support for low latency multicast are the norm and not the exception. There is a Signals and Threads podcast episode that goes a bit into the history of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=triyiLwqWUI (Transcript) https://signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-the-markets/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 29240690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29240690", "by": "Nbox9", "time": 1637071902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Government corruption in the US (compared to China) was discussed very recently on Freakonomics podcast [0]. It\u2019s an interesting listen for anyone that is interested in the different types of corruption, the different names of corruption, and the different effects it can have. [0] Episode 481 11/3/21 https://freakonomics.com/archive/"}, {"show": "1471141263", "hn_item": 29247134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29247134", "by": "reborg", "time": 1637101908, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29249522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249522", "by": "reactspa", "time": 1637126419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What they've done with the Joe Rogan podcast is unforgivable. I went in looking for clips. Couldn't find anything usable. Am still watching clips on YouTube."}, {"show": "1316769266", "hn_item": 29261007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261007", "by": "jger15", "time": 1637198045, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29261460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261460", "by": "crate_barre", "time": 1637203155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure honestly. Their native iOS app feels like a cheap React Native app or something. I don\u2019t know, maybe they don\u2019t have enough money to hire better? Can\u2019t even minimize the Rogan podcast video (which might actually allow me to browse their other podcasts). They are not marking each topic based on timestamps on Rogan\u2019s show (pretty much a table of contents), where this was always done by community on YouTube. They don\u2019t have comments. I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t think they care about user experience as much they care about content. Need to care about both."}, {"show": "1172218725", "hn_item": 29265119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265119", "by": "tufirhawat", "time": 1637242135, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 29266714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266714", "by": "tpoindex", "time": 1637250320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also highly recommended, John McWhorter's podcast, Lexicon Valley. Not only English, but also dives into other languages and why they are so. Edit: add older episode archives at Slate, https://www.booksmartstudios.org/s/lexicon-valley (current) https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley (archive)"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 29270221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270221", "by": "jonnycomputer", "time": 1637267993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a certain truth to this. I'm listening to the wonderful History of Byzantium podcast, and an episode is devoted to the plague during Justinian's reign that killed maybe 40% of the population of Constantinople. Whole ships of dead sailors drifted the seas. The description of the disease progression caused by Yersinia pestis is awful. People were throwing themselves off buildings to end their suffering. So higher mortality, and more visible, less ambiguous symptoms (like necrosis, giant lymph nodes, etc.). Not to discount the seriousness of covid at all. I have a relative in his 40s who"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 29279805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279805", "by": "manbackharry", "time": 1637343049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1Password recently did this with their $200MM Series A raise in 2019. Dave Teare talks about taking the majority of the money raised off the table when he spoke with DHH on an episode of the Rework podcast - https://www.rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 29279908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29279908", "by": "taylorfinley", "time": 1637343512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These actually exist in the fiat world as well, and have been shown to increase the savings rate. Interesting coverage on the Freakonomics podcast here: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/say-no-no-lose-lottery-rebr..."}, {"show": "6783436225", "hn_item": 29288618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288618", "by": "autoencoders", "time": 1637420304, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 29288704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288704", "by": "ckvamme", "time": 1637420829, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Who are some great interviewers / podcasters for technical coding topics; like Joe is for MMA? Or Machine Learning Street Talk is for ML, etc. I'd love to hear in depth interviews with people like: - Video game lead engineer - SpaceX flight systems engineer - DeepMind infra. engineer - HFT firm engineer - etc. etc."}, {"show": "935763119", "hn_item": 29292610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292610", "by": "nanobyte", "time": 1637449579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This simply isn't accurate. My first car after college was an Audi A4, and later an S4. And then a BMW. I've lived and driven all manner of higher-end cars while working in Germany. I'd take the Model Y any day. It's the easiest and most intuitive vehicle I've ever driven. I used to think the same way about physical buttons. But in reality, as others have said, you rarely use the touchscreen while driving--and basically everything can be controlled by voice with a tap of a button on the steering wheel. Unlike other carmakers, the voice recognition actually works. I'm guessing they use Google f"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29298153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29298153", "by": "mf_tomb", "time": 1637517128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The referenced Huberman podcast is pretty thorough (from my lay-perspective) and covers most of the nuance that you mention."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 29303353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29303353", "by": "jazzyjackson", "time": 1637561372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, heard about these from 99% Invisible podcast \u201cbubble houses\u201d [0], design originated by hollywood architect Wallace Neff who got it in his head that rapid construction of bubble houses could be a boon to homelessness It\u2019s also simular in principal to Paolo Soleri\u2019s Arcosanti and Cosanti - really cool technique where you build a form in sand, pour concrete, and then excavate the sand out to reveal the dome. You can get beautiful organic forms this way, simply carving shapes and even painting the sand - pigment will be picked up by the concrete as it cures [1] [0] https://99percentinvisible."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 29308844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308844", "by": "dundarious", "time": 1637601376, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The transcript[0] for the Havana syndrome episode of Science Vs[1]. I guess I was wrong that it was \"one or two\", it was about three. You can argue I was also wrong with \"vague symptoms\", since they did leave to get medically checked out., but read the footnotes, [6] in particular. So my comment was incorrect in the specifics, but the important thing is that the transcript is an indication that mass hysteria is still a perfectly plausible option. Citations [2-12] are from the podcast. > Let's set the scene. It's 2016\u2026 and government officials from the U.S. are working in Cuba -- and before the"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 29315567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29315567", "by": "d136o", "time": 1637654005, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just listened to a podcast episode about this, basically celery cured just means \u201cnaturally found\u201d nitrites\u2026 which are the same thing as artificial nitrites\u2026 they\u2019re just nitrites. (Disclaimer: not a chemist) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/..."}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 29318802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29318802", "by": "dntrkv", "time": 1637680848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not oil-specific, but there are two podcasts I've been listening to that are really great. The Energy Transition Show and The Energy Gang. The former being a bit dry but very informative, the latter being more entertaining and maybe just as informative."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 29319725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319725", "by": "blackp1nk", "time": 1637684904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The former Coinbase CTO's appearance on Sam Harris' podcast a few months ago gave me a clearer understanding of why crypto isn't bs and where it likely will provide value in the future (beyond a store of value like gold)."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 29323033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323033", "by": "thedorkknight", "time": 1637699441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Who is the \"They\" that you all keep mentioning? I haven't heard anyone push the pangolin theory since, like, March 2020. I listen to the podcast \"This Week in Virology\" a lot and can only remember them occasionally addressing it as a discarded theory. It seems to me like people are talking about some Boogeyman here. I need specifics on this \"they\" because otherwise it just comes across as rhetoric"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29326493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29326493", "by": "guiambros", "time": 1637722481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is one of my favorite podcasts. The episode Money Maker [1], about a guy counterfeiting money, is just a fantastic story. [1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/102/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 29326701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29326701", "by": "euske", "time": 1637725003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Every time I read about decentralization, I remember this episode from NPR Planet Money (one of the best podcasts, btw). It's about Libertarian Summer Camp where they tried to spend a day without fiat money. Gold standard everything. Turned out it's actually pretty hard because you have to get gold, and make sure the gold isn't fake, all by yourself. You bought a hotdog with the gold and now you have to worry about if it contains anything FDA-banned substances, etc etc. cf. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/28/534735727/epis... Being decentralized means that all the efforts that a cen"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29329465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29329465", "by": "Jugurtha", "time": 1637758132, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 29331901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29331901", "by": "xu3u32", "time": 1637772189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most Running in Production episodes but specifically the one with HorseRecords. Rick Johnson MD on Peter Attia's The Drive podcast talking about the metabolic effects of Fructose."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29338194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338194", "by": "tornato7", "time": 1637813989, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The resource / explanation that really sold me on crypto was this specific podcast episode: Welcome to Bankless 2021 edition. I'm curious to know what you think after listening to it. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SI7tFrzOXyeQ8NLVFgIRU?si=o..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 29343528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29343528", "by": "supernova87a", "time": 1637863826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is really something to the idea that despite the daily news and political doomsaying that goes on every day, it's hard for people to remember or celebrate the long progression that we've experienced towards living in the most peaceful, materially prosperous, and positive trajectory time in the history of humanity. (I think there was a podcast on Hidden Brain about this. Also video like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU ). It's really good to periodically think about how much we benefit from, say, the miracles of air conditioning, available infrastructure and cheap travel b"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29346984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29346984", "by": "carlosdp", "time": 1637893683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The comments on this thread are... interesting. I hope I can clear up a little bit about POAPs, why people care about them, and what the point is. First, why make POAPs instead of just making your own NFT? On one hand, what they are doing is just making it really easy to make your \"proof I was at this event\" NFT, so it's a product play in that sense. The have a pretty good mobile app now that makes it super easy to claim these tokens by scanning QR codes at events or using a secret phrase, among other methods. But, they also are trying to establish a brand of legitimacy. The idea is POAP is tr"}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 29353332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29353332", "by": "inetsee", "time": 1637955562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Program Audio Series is available on Spotify, but you need to do the right search. If you search for \"The Program\" you land on something completely different. You need to search for \"The Program Audio Series\" to get to the podcast described here."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29356509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29356509", "by": "njstraub608", "time": 1637978435, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a great podcast that explains the intricacies and roles within this section of the industry: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/craig-fuller-on-the-hu..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 29357615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29357615", "by": "ethbr0", "time": 1637989434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a helluva break. Godspeed on your path forward. When you said composer, my first thought was of Haim Saban. Although you sound like you were at two very different technical levels of the industry, I still love the interview he did with the How I Built This podcast though. If you haven't heard the story: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-... (or the transcript, if audio can't be modulated to a tolerable level)"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29359653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29359653", "by": "afarrell", "time": 1638016047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "0. Start listening to the Huberman Lab Podcast 1. Turn off overhead light at 9pm 2. Wake at the same time each morning and go outside to view natural light."}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 29370291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370291", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1638117586, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wild, just got done listening to Coding Blocks podcast episode on data structure primitives where they go in depth on floating point, fixed point, binary floating point, and more. Great listen! See around 54min mark - https://www.codingblocks.net/podcast/data-structures-primiti..."}, {"show": "1557045965", "hn_item": 29370711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370711", "by": "dgellow", "time": 1638119931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CppCast is awesome, even if you're not a C++ developer: https://cppcast.com/ \"Algorithms + Data structures = programs\": https://adspthepodcast.com/ Crypto Critics' Corner may be my favorite podcast: https://cryptocriticscorner.com/ Anything from microbe.tv: https://www.microbe.tv/science-shows/ . They have podcasts covering evolution, microbiology, neuroscience, parasitism, virology, urban agriculture, and more. Lot of stuff to dig into, you can try and see which one you like. Not technical, but I like to listen to Startup Therapy, I like how they openly talk about failures and mistakes: https"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 29371406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371406", "by": "smoovb", "time": 1638124017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As Chamath pointed out on the All In Podcast, Pirate Bay and torrenting serve as competition for rights holders, keeping Hollywood pricing and quality in check, and thus a net good for consumers. The 2013 TPB documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8"}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 29373567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373567", "by": "xaduha", "time": 1638137420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> But we are definitely not allowed to have a single study where we have 1 definitely infected person stand in an air sealed room for 1 hour 6 feet away with someone not infected Why not? Studies like that are a thing. And facts don't shut down hate as much as you think they do. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/09/11/... (behind paywall, but there was also free The Intelligence podcast episode about it around that time too)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29374375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29374375", "by": "semerda", "time": 1638142120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Replication-incompetent adenoviral vectors? Lex Fridman had a virologist on his podcast talking about the mutations done to the adenovirus to make it safe for the delivery of the s-protein (used in viral vector J&J + AstraZ vax). Maybe I misunderstood that?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29381469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29381469", "by": "alexashka", "time": 1638202240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Who's going to come on Joe Rogan's podcast and pretend something going to change for the better and not for the worse now? :) I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29381624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29381624", "by": "nscalf", "time": 1638202900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here\u2019s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they\u2019re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They\u2019ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29382349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29382349", "by": "abdel_nasser", "time": 1638206074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "i remember jack on the JRE podcast having a debate with a right-wing journalist. he was put into the position of trying to deny that twitters moderation favors far-left narratives. its emblematic of the role of CEO because i have always imagined that the true challenge of being the CEO of a top company is to be stuck between honesty and the company. jack wanted to say that yes of course the moderation skews left because to do otherwise would threaten the solvency of the company. but to say it out loud would make it all redundant. a thousand people think that if only they ran twitter they would"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 29385950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29385950", "by": "jkonline", "time": 1638223950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This morning, I heard about the OP's article on the podcast \"More or Less.\" Hats off to OP, and shame on me for getting caught in the trollnet. :D . . BTW, More or Less is a great data science / stats podcast! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd"}, {"show": "1561444188", "hn_item": 29390995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29390995", "by": "astigsen", "time": 1638271404, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "572967793", "hn_item": 29397601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29397601", "by": "MarkSweep", "time": 1638307168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s not exactly what are you asking for, but the Congressional Dish podcast attempts to cover bills and hearings. https://congressionaldish.com/"}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 29398336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29398336", "by": "honkdaddy", "time": 1638311724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This has been my experience as well. A perfect example is podcasters - Anna [1] hosts a relatively popular and occasionally politically inconvenient podcast called Red Scare. No check. Alexandra [2], the host of Call Me Daddy, also a popular comedy podcast, naturally has a check. This is pretty openly discussed by e-celebs of middling fame. Until one reaches a critical mass of popularity, you won't get a check if you don't correctly toe the culture line. [1] https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan [2] https://twitter.com/alexandracooper"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 29400267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29400267", "by": "riffic", "time": 1638328641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a fantastic Radiolab episode about this legendary hacker: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/18772..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 29401094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29401094", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1638337737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> There was one major architectural difference of Snowflake vs Redshift. A very underappreciated tech shift is how much faster networks got around that time. Up until that point, the wisdom was \u201cmove compute to data\u201d, but Snowflake bet early on a full decoupling. This has been something that's hugely interested me I think ever since I heard the Jeff Rothschild episode of On The Metal . It was that podcast's host, Bryan Cantrill, whose 'Manta' storage system was one of these \"move compute to data\" systems. In software, new systems/frameworks/vendors need to be around 10x better for big corps to"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29403073, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403073", "by": "BoumTAC", "time": 1638361961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I watch the other day, the Lex Fridman podcast with Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram. He talks about the scaling issue; they were using Django at that time and scale up to 50 millions users with a small team of developers. I do not think a majority of companies have more than 50 millions users and absolutely need to go full microservices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvpNKUPbIY"}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 29405591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405591", "by": "logshipper", "time": 1638376480, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I see comments talking about Stripe's \"PR\", not just in this thread, but also the one from a couple days ago [1]. I agree that Stripe's hiring practices, based on the information available, certainly warrant criticism. But I also think it is important to distinguish between Stripe the product and Stripe the company (and subsequently its hiring practices). Based on what I've heard, developers love Stripe, and they are popular in YC too for obvious reasons. PG's essays have often mentioned the Collisons [2], and Patrick Collison is admired (presumably) universally for his smarts [3]. All the abo"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29411995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29411995", "by": "chasbean", "time": 1638413937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SEEKING WORK | Detroit, MI | Remote | Full-stack | https://www.chasbean.com Hey I'm Chas. I've been a founding engineer at several seed-funded startups and have over 7+ years of experience building products from the ground up What I bring to the table is a rich experience of designing and developing entire products that fit a market niche. I prefer to work with you and your team through the entire product process, from ideation/design to development/deployment, as I believe this is crucial to delivering focused and elegant products, but at the same time I'm happy to fit whatever role your team"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29412037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29412037", "by": "chasbean", "time": 1638414258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Ferndale, MI (Metro Detroit) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, React Native, Redux, NextJS, Elasticsearch, Postgres R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.chasbean.com Email: charlesparkerbean@gmail.com Hey I'm Chas. I've been a founding engineer at several seed-funded startups and have over 7+ years of experience building products from the ground up A bit about me: I believe strongly in being kind and open-minded to all people. I always speak my mind, and I always work to be patient and humble. I love getting to know new people, and I'm excited to talk with you about you"}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 29413218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413218", "by": "raywu", "time": 1638427306, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 29413334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29413334", "by": "jazzyjackson", "time": 1638428428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "wow that website is a treasure trove of encoding details My only exposure to number stations is the podcast \"99% Invisible\", an entertaining account sprinkled with audio clips of various stations: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 29414486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29414486", "by": "dusted", "time": 1638440899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm reading David William Plummers book, it's absolutely excellent! After finishing the \"Hello Internet\" podcast, I'm now listening through the back catalogue of \"Cortex\" which I also find interesting, if not as entertaining as HI. Side projects are confined to something that can be done in either 3 hours before bed, or are work-related enough that I can excuse spending a few hours on them during a week, which is to say, not often."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29419076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29419076", "by": "nefitty", "time": 1638465310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The far right. I'm on the opposite end and I still find it easier to conjure their talking points better than the ones I subscribe to. The right has more uniformity in terms of messaging. They seem to be able to more succinctly distill their messages. They leverage emotional affect. They target a wider swath of values, as opposed to the monotone drone of \"fairness\". Besides the technical aspects of propaganda, what really fascinates me is how well they've transmitted the meta techniques of effective messaging. I can name dozens of right wing intellectuals, but I falter with the left. Does Zize"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29431016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29431016", "by": "pps", "time": 1638544944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not books, but I recommend Huberman Lab podcast on YT (at least two episodes on sleep) and https://themattwalkerpodcast.buzzsprout.com/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29435973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435973", "by": "jimpix45", "time": 1638567743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I third Huberman Lab podcast - he has a lot of great content. His recent one about ADHD was really interesting!"}, {"show": "1458545680", "hn_item": 29437688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29437688", "by": "jffry", "time": 1638580243, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Fair enough! Just pondering what it might be like to run with a limitation too. Thanks for sharing this. For some reason it gives me a really similar vibe to 88% Parentheticals, a single-episode joke podcast made for Reply All. It's just one long rambling nested parenthetical side story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/88-parentheticals/id14..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 29437688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29437688", "by": "jffry", "time": 1638580243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fair enough! Just pondering what it might be like to run with a limitation too. Thanks for sharing this. For some reason it gives me a really similar vibe to 88% Parentheticals, a single-episode joke podcast made for Reply All. It's just one long rambling nested parenthetical side story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/88-parentheticals/id14..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29453447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29453447", "by": "cliftonk", "time": 1638739499, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "TRON is used for tether payments in Southeast Asia, so there\u2019s a decent amount of volume there. These tether takes eg \u201cprinted out of thin air\u201d etc are tiresome. They also do billions in redemptions. Even if half their commercial paper was in Chinese real estate developers (which I think is a dumb rumor), it\u2019s still likely they end up 90%+ collateralized if everything suddenly moved against them. Around halfway thru this podcast Sam bankman-fried + Matt Levine do some scenario analysis https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Oy0ZRklDSMMu40PTDiyOd?si=M... My take on all of it is that the tether doome"}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 29455122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29455122", "by": "celias", "time": 1638753695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discussed in this Numberphile podcast https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/deep-mind"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29459867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29459867", "by": "Winsaucerer", "time": 1638799671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast, and he seems to think that blue light filtering during the day is a terrible idea in terms of your body's natural rhythms."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 29461654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29461654", "by": "jerodsanto", "time": 1638807762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Richard Hipp discussed this (alongside a deep-dive on the philosophies underpinning his Fossil SCM) when we had him back on The Changelog podcast recently: https://changelog.fm/454"}, {"show": "1480884324", "hn_item": 29464864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29464864", "by": "tosh", "time": 1638821091, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1543617436", "hn_item": 29469124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469124", "by": "Abishek_Muthian", "time": 1638852054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Kailash, Great to see you here; I've been listening to your episode on 'Software at Scale' podcast[1]. What you and your team have achieved at Zerodha is commendable, Congratulations. Couldn't have asked for a better recommendation for Postal, Time to save some money on emails. Thanks. [1] https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-37-build..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 29472659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472659", "by": "thesuperbigfrog", "time": 1638886577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a link to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml \"Supernova in the East\" is his latest series."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29474969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474969", "by": "captainredbeard", "time": 1638896212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> cesspool of toxic masculinity that discusses elk hunting, mixed martial arts, anti-trans views, and harmful health information about the coronavirus pandemic. This ridiculous characterization of Rogan's podcast by \"traditional\" media is precisely why people are seeking out content from folks who intentionally break from the pop left's worldview."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 29481695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481695", "by": "LeoPanthera", "time": 1638942934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That almost every news headline or report involving a \"large number\" is misleading, and can be deconstructed starting with the question \"Is that actually a big number?\" This is the purpose of BBC Radio's \"More or Less\", which can also be found as a podcast."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 29484932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484932", "by": "thesuperbigfrog", "time": 1638973068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wonderful Radiolab episode about Charles Bliss, creator of Blissymbolics: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bliss"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29485380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485380", "by": "swader999", "time": 1638975171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True but those wavelengths will maintain your circadian rhythm if you time it correctly. See the Huberman podcast on this: https://youtu.be/nm1TxQj9IsQ"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29496519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29496519", "by": "jshaqaw", "time": 1639052353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn\u2019t fair. By 2021 we have learned that the way to judge the merits of a scientific proposal is not testability or provability but the ability to exchange Joe Rogan anecdotes on the Lex podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29498410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498410", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1639063702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh I know Donald Knuth from the Lex Fridman podcast. I am noting that it was written in 1994. Would any problems result from this?"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 29504426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29504426", "by": "ab_goat", "time": 1639091743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone that likes podcasts, there's a good podcast (1h27m) on this topic: The Ezra Klein Show / Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police? / November 23, 2021 https://overcast.fm/+oiPWjrl3U"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29509998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509998", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1639145385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HN, Indie Hackers Podcast, All-in podcast, Lex Friedman podcast, TikTok, and conversations with people I meet in virtual reality."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 29509998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509998", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1639145385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HN, Indie Hackers Podcast, All-in podcast, Lex Friedman podcast, TikTok, and conversations with people I meet in virtual reality."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 29509998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509998", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1639145385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HN, Indie Hackers Podcast, All-in podcast, Lex Friedman podcast, TikTok, and conversations with people I meet in virtual reality."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 29513705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513705", "by": "justinator", "time": 1639161514, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> is probably the same thing that causes them to die more from everything else that stresses the body. (Whatever that is.) There's a good chance that whatever that is, isn't actually a thing, and that people unfairly find fat people repulsive for no reason except that they are fat, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-being-fat-bad-for-y..."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 29516903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516903", "by": "oAlbe", "time": 1639180096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a pretty good Numberphile Podcast episode[0] about this. It doesn't go deep into mathematical details of the topic, it's more of an overview of the current state of things and an explanation of ways in which ML can help coming up with new theories/conjectures. [0] https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/deep-mind"}, {"show": "1518933170", "hn_item": 29521402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29521402", "by": "yarapavan", "time": 1639235814, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29524164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29524164", "by": "Jugurtha", "time": 1639255825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was my go-to video to put me to sleep, but it has sound effects and I found other videos. The two others are Clayton Christensen's talk at Google, and John Danaher's appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. These two are just amazing as the dynamic range of everyone's voice is so narrow. They don't have ups and downs. Their voice is rather monotonic and soothing. I'm asleep in less than 5 minutes. I know because I remember the topic I slept to, and diff it with the topic I haven't listened to. I also listen to old tool restauration videos/CNC/industrial sounds as they put me to sleep as fas"}, {"show": "622347604", "hn_item": 29531721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29531721", "by": "number6", "time": 1639331228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I assume from your handle that you understand German (?): This Podcast explains the topic much better than I could: Rechtsbelehrung - Recht, Technik & Gesellschaft: TTDSG \u2013 Cookies unter Aufsicht \u2013 Rechtsbelehrung 102 https://rechtsbelehrung.com/102-ttdsg-cookies/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29537030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537030", "by": "sshine", "time": 1639374306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only read hackernews and listen to what people tell me. I do listen to podcasts (Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss) and they do sometimes mention politics, but I try to avoid it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29542265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29542265", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1639418503, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1265826242", "hn_item": 29542950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29542950", "by": "bklaasen", "time": 1639421698, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How does it compare to the venerable \"Space Rocket History\" podcast? https://www.spacerockethistory.com/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 29551616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551616", "by": "glial", "time": 1639490979, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested, there's a great Radiolab episode about this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/no-sp..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29555805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555805", "by": "vkou", "time": 1639508403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, what we've done is that some parts of our press have denounced shilling of snake oil that doesn't work. There's no shortage of that shilling still taking place, though. And as for knowledge, step into a hospital, and you'll see plenty of medications being used to treat actual cases of COVID. Doctors don't just put an oxygen mask on your face, and wait for you to die. You'll find a bit more knowledge there than you will in a deraged InfoWars rant, or a Joe Rogan podcast. Unfortunately, that knowledge doesn't have 190 million monthly listeners. [1] [1] If the most popular podcast[2] in Ameri"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29558457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29558457", "by": "xchaotic", "time": 1639518770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I still find it enjoyable to at least try to predict trends. But I agree some things like technical analysis are 100% BS. for my feed of economy related tidbits try Financial Time Alphaville, it's free if you register: https://www.ft.com/alphaville I also listen to Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast - great episodes on nuances of supply chains recently"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29575826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29575826", "by": "somedude895", "time": 1639638505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard the story on the Darknet Diaries podcast. This article on Vice[0] seems to confirm it: > Phirippidis told the audience that the bureau managed to corner Cazes and arrest him while he was still logged in as the admin of AlphaBay by ramming a car through the front gate of his home in Thailand. [0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/59wwxx/fbi-airs-alexandre-ca..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29578192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29578192", "by": "pelasaco", "time": 1639663485, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 29579680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579680", "by": "Hippocrates", "time": 1639671057, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm pretty sure you're wildly wrong about this. Comparing metaverse to virtualboy is a big mistake. Metaverse is not vision over substance. Substance is already there and driving technology to a more refined vision. We\u2019re already spending significant parts of our days working, playing, exploring and communicating digitally. Dating is online. Commerce has moved online. Art and creators are online. Entertainment is online. Exercise is an AR experience. Connecting with IRL and new virtual-only friends is online. What is left? Food, sleep, sex, and odors? Important things, but a relatively small p"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 29579754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579754", "by": "Inversechi", "time": 1639671373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the topic of render there was a really nice podcast on Software Engineering Daily from the founder talking about their product. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2021/12/07/render-with-..."}, {"show": "1577844693", "hn_item": 29580309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580309", "by": "mastax", "time": 1639673461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many European countries have extremely generous benefits for raising children, but it has been broadly ineffective at raising birth rates - with the possible exception of the Czech Republic. I agree though that governments are going to try, and they may find a way to do it. There was a good episode of The Weeds podcast, \"Baby making vibes,\" which talked about this. Some of it is focused on the American political lens of Liberal vs Conservative birth rates, but much is broadly applicable discussion of policy and the more \"vibes focused\" angle that conservatives tend to take with the issue."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 29594408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29594408", "by": "dayvid", "time": 1639758579, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell has a great series of podcasts in Revisionist History on elite colleges and admissions that made a lot of this stuff click. Elite colleges want to be a desired place for the high class to attend. As a result of this, they have to keep a consistent ratio of high class students (with some baseline/distribution of ability) to talented students to miscellaneous students. Too many high class students, and they lose their academic prestige only to be an expensive private school. Too many talented students, then very few high class students can attend and the higher class will focus "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29607611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29607611", "by": "BbzzbB", "time": 1639855085, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 29610425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610425", "by": "SirensOfTitan", "time": 1639876408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "/r/redscarepod /r/streamentry /r/slatestarcodex /r/emacs Two here require some explanation: Redscarepod is for folks who listen to the Red Scare podcast, though I\u2019d guess 30% of that subreddit listens regularly. It\u2019s my favorite cultural subreddit. Streamentry is meditation subreddit with focus on attaining enlightenment."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29619550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29619550", "by": "mattcwilson", "time": 1639955608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree. I think his views are much more widely agreeable among the populace, as evidenced by the popularity of forums such as the Joe Rogan podcast and independent journalism on Substack. The trouble is you wouldn\u2019t notice if all you pay attention to in order to \u201cunderstand American political discourse\u201d is pay attention to the parties and the major news outlets. Also, preference falsification is a big thing."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29619642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29619642", "by": "slmjkdbtl", "time": 1639956306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaks as if \"translation\" doesn't happen in reading in native languages. A word's meaning can change every other decade, when I'm reading something in native tongue I'm constantly rationalizing what I read into my own words, which I would categorize as translation. Some good translators' work might even convey more accurate original intent than reading natively yourself because they're supposed to study the context of the writing thoroughly. One interesting point I heard from a Lex Friedman podcast is it'll be interesting to do a database of diffs between different translated versions of the "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29620186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620186", "by": "BbzzbB", "time": 1639959909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can't see GP's comment (flagged, like 7/11 OP ITT) so I don't know if I'm on-topic or not. After Bourla's appearance on Lex's podcast and the latter's mention of a 100% claim on the blue bird app which the former denied (w.r.t. infection I believe), searching his account I came up with these. They're from March 31st (1) and April 1st (2 & 3, quoting 4), third would be most eye-brow lifting today. It is arguably misleading, or odd, to just mention 100% in a tweet on 95% CI with 53.5-100.0 brackets in the study. 1: 100% efficacy against COVID-19 disease for 12-15 year olds in phase 3 2: 100% eff"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29621117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621117", "by": "mwattsun", "time": 1639969153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g... tl;dr it has nothing to do with the relative merits of the two languages --- Edit: I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8 Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Po"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 29622347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622347", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1639986196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Counterargument: most of the things you can consume at 3x speed are not worth remembering long term. For example, every day the APM: Marketplace podcast recites the returns on specific induces for the day. It can help put context to stories in other segments, but I have no need to retain it for more than an hour, if ever. And in general, the relevance of news rapidly decays; I forget where I read it (the irony!) but if you imagine a newspaper that only published once a month, it would have different headlines than one that published daily, and different again from one that published annually. "}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 29622906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622906", "by": "the-alt-one", "time": 1639993259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tides of History, In Our Time, Revolutions, Stronger by Science. I like finding and listening to lectures on Apple podcasts too, like Zizek."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29622906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622906", "by": "the-alt-one", "time": 1639993259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tides of History, In Our Time, Revolutions, Stronger by Science. I like finding and listening to lectures on Apple podcasts too, like Zizek."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 29622906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622906", "by": "the-alt-one", "time": 1639993259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tides of History, In Our Time, Revolutions, Stronger by Science. I like finding and listening to lectures on Apple podcasts too, like Zizek."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29622952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29622952", "by": "wongarsu", "time": 1639993900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> One interesting point I heard from a Lex Friedman podcast is it'll be interesting to do a database of diffs between different translated versions of the same literatures. I think stuff like this can greatly aid people's understanding of the original intents. This is quite common in many religious circles. For example if you read an interesting verse in the bible you can gain a much deeper insight by looking at multiple of the dozens of translations available. Of course it can't beat a deep understanding of the original language and culture, but it scales much better (even with just the bible"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29623071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29623071", "by": "sofixa", "time": 1639995116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently listening to the end of the Russian Revolutions part of the Revolutions podcast (the last one), and I'm quite happy with the quality and depth, i recommend it heartily. I had a decent understanding of the subject matter from generic history knowledge and The Great War series on YouTube ( which i also recommend!) and there was still a whole lot i learned. I do listen it on 1.1x however, the normal speed is a bit slow for me ( and slightly overflows the slot I've alloted for podcasts)."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 29626657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29626657", "by": "wenbin", "time": 1640017719, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29641164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29641164", "by": "yamrzou", "time": 1640115337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to The Huberman Lab Podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29642499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642499", "by": "doener", "time": 1640123159, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 29652051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652051", "by": "ukoki", "time": 1640192721, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You're Wrong About has a great episode on this https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-mcdonalds-hot-coff..."}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 29660496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660496", "by": "dazsnow", "time": 1640255326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Sinica podcast. It covers China-related topics \"without fear nor favor\". You'll here politicians and experts talk about the increasing, and often baseless, hostility of Western media over the past 5 years."}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 29668793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668793", "by": "brezelnbitte", "time": 1640308418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why Fish Don\u2019t Exist by Lulu Miller Lulu Miller, a host of the Invisibilia podcast, turns what at first is a simple story about an obsessive taxonomist, David Starr Jordan, into a deeply personal and poignant exploration of the chaos that rules are lives. This part-historical non-fiction, part memoir brilliantly sets itself up for a grand reveal at the end that will stick with you long after you finish. By far my favorite of the 62 books that I read and one of the best books that I have ever read."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29670945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670945", "by": "100k", "time": 1640327706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "During the pandemic, I got heavily into the \"Revolutions\" podcast, and I wondered about these \"liberal nobles\" who were always cropping up trying to push for civil rights. So I wanted to read something about the history of liberalism. The typical story is \"John Locke, Adam Smith, America's founding fathers (rah rah), John Stuart Mill, etc.\" But Helena Rosenblatt's \"The Lost History of Liberalism\" makes a really strong argument that this anglo-centric definition of liberalism is counter-historical, and liberalism as a named, coherent political ideology developed in France after the French Revol"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 29673258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673258", "by": "1cvmask", "time": 1640351240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All In podcast with Balaji Srinivasan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2iNXMiGEms"}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 29674389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674389", "by": "giarc", "time": 1640360033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I built OneKeynote.com - the idea is to create podcast streams of an individual you like to hear, across all the various podcasts they go on. My original motivation was hearing Chamath speak on Kara Swisher's podcast and I loved him. I wanted to hear more of him but realized the only way to do so was to search his name. This was fraught for one big reason, many, many podcasts include his name in the description, even if he isn't a guest (ex try searching Elon Musk!). So I built a quick site and used ListenNotes.com to create custom feeds. I started with tech personalities since that is my area"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 29675073, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675073", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1640364395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came across Orwell's Burmese Days while listening to the Econtalk podcast episode Hitchens on Orwell . I finally got around to reading it in 2015. Of the 210 words I hadn't encountered before, a small number (~10) were either familiar words used in novel ways (e.g. consent - Flory and the girl stopped with one consent, to look at the flowers ; bladder - Nasty old bladder of lard! ), or unfamiliar derivatives of otherwise familiar words (e.g. sinuous , seditious ). All remaining (~200) words were ones I hadn't previously encountered. Excluded were proper nouns, since they were mostly fictiona"}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 29675361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675361", "by": "dpeck", "time": 1640366221, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you\u2019re into things at the intersection of food, science, and culture I highly recommend Gastropod, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gastropod/id918896288 . Good production values, the hosts and guests are great, and I love that they\u2019re long enough to really get in depth on whatever subject they\u2019re covering. Big back catalog as well. Particularly interesting was the recent episodes on edibles, lobster, and smoke, but I can\u2019t think of one that I didn\u2019t enjoy and listen all the way through."}, {"show": "1295289140", "hn_item": 29675816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675816", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1640368400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Flighty - far and away the best app for flights, not even close. The plus subscription is worth every cent. Bottomless - my internet connected coffee scale, I love this thing. Stratechery - probably the best tech/software newsletter available. Sam Harris, Persuasion, and Astral Codex Ten - writers and podcasts I like a lot. YouTube Premium - I\u2019ll pay for a no ads version of any service I use that allows me to. Gigabit internet, ubiquiti networking hardware, T-Mobile cellular (actually super fast now compared to Verizon with 5Guc - I can get 600mbps and it doesn\u2019t require being a foot from the "}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 29676927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29676927", "by": "mellowagain", "time": 1640374177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One very unconventional suggestion for HN but I really enjoyed the \"Trash Taste Podcast\". The three hosts have really funny stories and talk about a variety of interesting topics, more than just Anime, despite being branded as an Anime podcast. They also bring in a great selection of guests."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 29677770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677770", "by": "CogitoCogito", "time": 1640380290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can\u2019t pick a best, but here are the best two: * The British History Podcast * The History of English Podcast Both are very well-made and entertaining. The second might actually be the highest quality series of lectures I\u2019ve ever heard (including sources in person like at university)."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 29677770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677770", "by": "CogitoCogito", "time": 1640380290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can\u2019t pick a best, but here are the best two: * The British History Podcast * The History of English Podcast Both are very well-made and entertaining. The second might actually be the highest quality series of lectures I\u2019ve ever heard (including sources in person like at university)."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29678977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678977", "by": "manesioz", "time": 1640390373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've enjoyed the Huberman Lab podcast a lot. https://youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab"}, {"show": "1459899275", "hn_item": 29678980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678980", "by": "malshe", "time": 1640390418, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "People have already mentioned Darknet Diaries so I will mention two other podcasts I really liked The Shrink Next Door: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shrink-next-door/i... The Always Sunny Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-always-sunny-podca..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29678980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678980", "by": "malshe", "time": 1640390418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People have already mentioned Darknet Diaries so I will mention two other podcasts I really liked The Shrink Next Door: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shrink-next-door/i... The Always Sunny Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-always-sunny-podca..."}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 29679534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29679534", "by": "s0rr0wskill", "time": 1640396681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't usually listen to podcasts but I find myself sitting through 2 hours of Trash Taste every week"}, {"show": "1099497151", "hn_item": 29679722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29679722", "by": "melling", "time": 1640398591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use mine every day for music, weather, timers, reminders, and random trivia. Have the volume automatically turn down at night so I can play music and ask random questions, and not wake anyone up. Better podcast integration would be useful It\u2019s a great idea and I hope it gets more useful. I wish I could dictate complicated notes, etc to a device without picking something up."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 29679784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29679784", "by": "silexia", "time": 1640399293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My main business, coalitiontechnologies.com, taught me those areas of business. I learned marketing working for another digital agency 15 years ago, recruiting I just carefully studied the market for years and tried and failed lots of time to learn how it worked, accounting I took two courses in, legal I learned dealing with several small claims and a couple of superior court suits plus a great class, management I learned from Manager Tools podcast and years of trial and error. My market research was just observing how hard it is to find good construction trades help and then trying to put up "}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 29680620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680620", "by": "wanderingstan", "time": 1640408933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fall of Civilizations podcast is great, and I also loved the Sumerian episode. I had no idea they predated even Egypt for so much; giving us writing, accounting, base-60 numbers for time and angles, and so many myths (especially the flood) that seeped into all western religion. I started contributing to a cuneiform Python repo. With Unicode, it\u2019s incredible to see symbols from 5000+ years ago in your terminal! \ud808\ude62\ud808\udc53\ud808\uddb7 \ud808\udda0 \ud808\udda4! https://github.com/wanderingstan/cuneifyplus"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29680630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680630", "by": "hhh", "time": 1640409042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to every episode of the Lex Fridman podcast in about 4 months."}, {"show": "1482715810", "hn_item": 29680850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680850", "by": "AmadsSalvage", "time": 1640411839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Red Line podcast has been an excellent deep-dive geopolitics podcast with some high profile guests & multiple perspectives. I always learn so much each episode, it covers a lot of my blindspots in the field. https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/ Honourable mention to Mobile Suit Breakdown podcast. The episode-by-episode analysis of the Gundam series has greatly improved my literary appreciation for a show I was otherwise only barely interested in. The hosts dig into not just the show but also the world that would have inspired the creators. A lot of background research goes into each installm"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 29681162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29681162", "by": "rolandog", "time": 1640416111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Security Now is quite a jewel of a podcast. I admire Steve Gibson for paying for transcriptions of each of his episodes [0]. That way, you can actually search for something you remembered being mentioned in an episode. [0]: https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29682329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682329", "by": "ixacto", "time": 1640431298, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Friedman podcast was by far the best This year followed by Freakanomics."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29682667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682667", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1640434534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcasts this year were Lex Fridman's: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Naval's: https://nav.al/podcast"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29683909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29683909", "by": "TimJRobinson", "time": 1640445237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the recent Tim Ferris Podcast + Naval + Chris Dixon episode on web3 ( https://tim.blog/2021/10/28/chris-dixon-naval-ravikant/ ) The podcasts Bankless and Tapping into Crypto are also good general explainers of what's going on. The biggest thing people get stuck on on HN is the \"Dropbox is a stupid idea, I can replicate it with rsync\" problem. Lots of things in web3 are possible without blockchain but they are a far worse experience. Some things I'm excited about: - Royal allows bands to sell an NFT of their songs on release, and then the owner of that NFT gets royalties on a"}, {"show": "1229502745", "hn_item": 29686579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29686579", "by": "technological", "time": 1640463428, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I love talking, so started my own podcast in my native language (Telugu). Always wanted to talk on stage or do stream on YouTube but never was confident but with podcast I can speak anything I want and don\u2019t worry about anyone judging me. Even though I don\u2019t have very large number of subscribers but I am satisfied with the few people who listen and like . I don\u2019t do any post processing, just raw recording. Any interested listeners can check out it at - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vinandi-na-sodi-telugu... https://pnc.st/s/abhi-podcast"}, {"show": "1559275284", "hn_item": 29687034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687034", "by": "zora_goron", "time": 1640467144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've enjoyed The Robot Brains Podcast with Pieter Abeel [0] -- interesting insights and anecdotes and great guests! Some of the episodes I enjoyed: - Ilya Sutskever ( https://shows.acast.com/the-robot-brains/episodes/ilya-sutsk... ) - Andrej Karpathy ( https://shows.acast.com/the-robot-brains/episodes/andrej-kar... ) [0] https://shows.acast.com/the-robot-brains"}, {"show": "1575738174", "hn_item": 29695119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29695119", "by": "william_bodie", "time": 1640544308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bad Blood: The Final Chapter John Carreyrou the journalist first to break the scandal of the blood-testing company Theranos, podcast covering the trial of CEO Elizabeth Holmes. https://www.threeuncannyfour.com/show/bad-blood/ Hanselminutes Scott Hanselman's podcast has many interesting guests covering a myriad of subjects. https://hanselminutes.com/"}, {"show": "380317598", "hn_item": 29697605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697605", "by": "insaneirish", "time": 1640563469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Larrin was on one of my favorite podcasts, Cooking Issues, to talk about various knife related things. Very good discussion. Episode link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/knives-out-with-52817284 You do not need to be a Patron subscriber to listen to the episode. Also, if you're interested in the technical side of cooking and drink making, Cooking Issues is the podcast to listen to. There's a huge back catalog of shows on their former network, HRN, as well as a bunch of shows via their new arrangement."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 29698085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29698085", "by": "otter-in-a-suit", "time": 1640568600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use SQLite quite a bit and I think it's fantastic, especially since Hipp seems to be a wonderful guy (judging by The Changelog podcast). And you're right - use the tools you know and have running. I have all sorts of schemas and tables on that old instance, since I tend to use it if I need \"anything SQL\" - when I'm at home, is it as easy as using SQLite. My latest article used Trino and Hadoop-adjacent stuff... while fascinating it its own right, sometimes it's nice to just say \"jdcb:// ...\" :)"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 29703564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703564", "by": "hnu0847", "time": 1640620945, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine was Fall of Civilizations Episode 12, about the Inca empire: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2021/01/12/episode-12-is-now-live/"}, {"show": "1454097755", "hn_item": 29703951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703951", "by": "pitched", "time": 1640623182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve yet to ever listen to a podcast episode twice, but this Akira the Done album is basically Naval\u2019s podcast set to music and I\u2019ve listened to it too many times now: https://open.spotify.com/album/4SGFW7Rig34Me2NPPA7Eur"}, {"show": "1574821838", "hn_item": 29704037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704037", "by": "cvwright", "time": 1640623712, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Recent convert to Anglicanism here. It\u2019s a lot more formal than the Baptist tradition that I grew up in. There are a lot of rote prayers for every occasion - morning, night, etc. When I was younger I would have found this inauthentic, forced, and fake. But now I find that it sort of fills a gap. It provides some of the ritual and meditation that I had admired/envied in Eastern traditions like Buddhism. I\u2019m still sort of easing my way in to all this. So far I\u2019ve been enjoying listening to morning prayer on The Daily Office Podcast [1] with my morning coffee. It\u2019s a great way to start the day. ["}, {"show": "1444720680", "hn_item": 29704491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704491", "by": "simonbarker87", "time": 1640625907, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Two really stand out to me 1. Matt Wensing on a life of entrepreneurship and software dev. Pretty recent but I\u2019ve listened twice already. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/236_matt_wensing 2. Ben Carpenter on the James Smith podcast. Two PTs talking about massive life changes seeking happiness and the downsides of life in the UK and mental health. Have listened to this three times now. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ben-carpenter/id144472..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29704499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704499", "by": "bwanab", "time": 1640625990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan\u2019s Revolutions podcast has been the Russian Revolution in 2021 and as always, is very detailed and informative."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 29704711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704711", "by": "thricegr8", "time": 1640627172, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Undoubtedly that personal award goes to Citations Needed Episode 73: Western Media\u2019s Narrow, Colonial Definition of \u2018Corruption\u2019. You can read the transcript on Medium [1] or listen on Spotify [2]. It may seem a bit bromide for HN, but it really shattered my world view. Or at least was the impetus of a rather radical shift in how I viewed global power structures, old wealth, and the evil systems in place today that continue to perpetuate global inequality. In the episode, they dig into these popular \"corruption\" indices, why the Global South is always painted as the \"most corrupt\", true source"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29704838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704838", "by": "bijant", "time": 1640627889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd not to see an episode from the Odd Lots podcast here (going by how often it gets cited in economic/supply chain discussions around here) My favorite would certainly be an Amp Hour Episode if I knew which one to pick. Have still held out for the annual Keyzermas Episode so that one could easily take the title.Chris Gammell is just an all-around cool dude who's always asking the right questions to get the most out of his guests. Honorable Mention goes to some reverse engineering podcast that must remain unnamed. Its great but far to infrequent."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 29704875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29704875", "by": "serjester", "time": 1640628056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Attia\u2019s podcast with Tom Catena. He\u2019s a doctor in war torn Africa and I\u2019d argue one of most inspirational people alive. Turned down money, resources and a comfortable life in the US to make a greater impact in Africa. Peter Attia being a fellow doctor adds tons to the discussion."}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 29705205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705205", "by": "dnissley", "time": 1640629854, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Real Story of \u201cThe Central Park Karen\u201d https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honestly-with-bari-wei... Remember the story about the off leash dog walker and the bird watcher in central park that went viral right around the time when the murder of George Floyd took place? In all of the ensuing frenzy I had personally believed the horrible portrait the media painted of this woman, but this podcast showed just how wrong that portrayal was."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 29705497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705497", "by": "_ttg", "time": 1640631196, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ezra Klein's interview with Noam Chomsky - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id154... Even though I was familiar with most of Chomsky's spiel, this was a total joy to listen to and I was very inspired by the great righteous indignation and moral clarity that Chomsky still speaks with and only he can summon. Lots of provocative thoughts on capitalism, class, American politics and a breadth of other topics, as a bonus."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 29706085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706085", "by": "lettergram", "time": 1640634687, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "How to save the world, in three easy steps. Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-save-the-world-... I personally find this to be my favorite because I found it to be the most impactful. Particularly to myself, I ended up reaching out because I saw the jump in heart related issues (likely related to vaccines) while tracking COVID19. I reached out as I saw this podcast and was able to validate several of the items discussed via CDC data. That put me on a whirlwind journey of being connected to quite a few different people and on conference calls with hi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29706085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706085", "by": "lettergram", "time": 1640634687, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "How to save the world, in three easy steps. Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-save-the-world-... I personally find this to be my favorite because I found it to be the most impactful. Particularly to myself, I ended up reaching out because I saw the jump in heart related issues (likely related to vaccines) while tracking COVID19. I reached out as I saw this podcast and was able to validate several of the items discussed via CDC data. That put me on a whirlwind journey of being connected to quite a few different people and on conference calls with hi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29706250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706250", "by": "hasheddan", "time": 1640635831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The second round of Jim Keller on the Lex Friedman podcast was my top episode of the year https://lexfridman.com/jim-keller-2/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 29706275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706275", "by": "bradlys", "time": 1640635982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m not a fan of the podcast normally but I was sent this one because my ex-wife knew it would be good for me. Spark Bird by This American Life. First off - I\u2019ve tried to pick up birding a little bit. But most importantly - about 35 minutes in - there\u2019s a story about Birdly. This family that sounds utterly insane and has six imaginary birds as part of their family. It\u2019s a really well told story - much better than the podcast normally has. Well - anyway - it turns out there are other couples/families out there that do this. We had this with our \u201cfamily.\u201d In our case (my ex\u2019s and I) we had three"}, {"show": "1569229544", "hn_item": 29706413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706413", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1640636809, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A recent 99% Invisible episode on alphabetical order was pretty fascinating. It's based on Judith Flanders's new book about alphabetical order, A Place for Everything. Among things I hadn't considered is how in Chinese \"alphabetical order\" is based on the number of strokes in the character. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/alphabetical-order/ Two other goods ones from the always enjoyable Decoder Ring: Truly Tasteless Jokes - How \"free speech\" moved from being a largely left-wing phenomenon to a right-wing phenomenon through an '80s joke book: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29706667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706667", "by": "tailspin2019", "time": 1640638493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I picked up on Darknet Diaries from recommendations in a previous HN podcast thread. Some of the physical pen test episodes are totally gripping! Well worth a listen. Great podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29706983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706983", "by": "pelasaco", "time": 1640640578, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 29707966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707966", "by": "maneesh", "time": 1640645910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By far, The Program Audio Series has been my favorite podcast of all time. It's a dys/u/topian story of a world where money, god, tech, and society all merge together into one, told in a very interesting format. It's so good that I reached out to the creator and hired him haha. He had a very interesting episode about humanity that was my favorite episode of the year: https://www.programaudioseries.com/19-abandonware/ As a disclaimer, I sponsored this episode --- but only because it's awesome."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 29708987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29708987", "by": "lee", "time": 1640652953, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Huberman Labs podcast is exceptional. So many episodes are great on their own. But the one on how to optimize your health condenses a lot of the protocols: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7yCNZihpjlmyNLI93SjmO0?si=8..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29709773, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709773", "by": "AtomicOrbital", "time": 1640660083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Mina is an immunologist, epidemiologist, and physician at Harvard and an expert on rapid paper based COVID testing ... Listen to his interview with Lex Fridman entitled #146 \u2013 Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset Lex Fridman Podcast where Mina details what the tests do and how horribly corrupt the US gov has mismanaged rapid self testing"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 29711789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711789", "by": "yewenjie", "time": 1640681553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He recently came to Sam Harris's podcast to talk about how he is donating most of his wealth in accordance with the Effective Altruism movement."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 29712173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712173", "by": "gbell12", "time": 1640686075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Corecursive podcast #069 \"The Original Remote Developer\" about Paul Lutus and writing software for the Apple II - and making it rich. Quite an orthogonal thinker, which made it inspiring even if it isn't 1985 any more. https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29712713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712713", "by": "VMtest", "time": 1640691158, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If that's what your take away is from my comment to the parent, you are missing the point, so much 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4&t=1903s | Ethereum startup story, George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132 2. https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459 | an EVM to OVM transpiler"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 29713328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29713328", "by": "marginalia_nu", "time": 1640696284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you don't mind a podcast or two, you can get a lot of context from these: Stephen West's \"Philosophize This!\" as the light-weight option, and Peter Adamsons' \"History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\" as the more academic option. Both go chronologically, from pre-socratics onward. West's podcast is a bit rough in the first episodes, but it keeps getting better."}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 29720074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720074", "by": "berkeleynerd", "time": 1640737351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in this kind of stuff (i.e., the Western Esoteric Tradition) would enjoy The Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast. Lots of great scholars and scholarship on this understudied aspect of Western civ. https://shwep.net/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29724612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29724612", "by": "h_alpha", "time": 1640784568, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine was Lex Fridman #227 - Sean Kelly: Existentialism, nihilism and the search for meaning"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 29726343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726343", "by": "robodobo", "time": 1640795410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hidden Brain - Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy - https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/minimizing-pain-maximizing-j... Life is filled with hardships and tragedies \u2014 a fact that 2020 has made all too clear for people across the globe. For thousands of years, philosophers have come up with strategies to help us cope with such hardship. This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with philosopher William Irvine about ancient ideas \u2014 backed by modern psychology \u2014 that can help us manage disappointment and misfortune."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29728970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29728970", "by": "drawkbox", "time": 1640806256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nick Szabo has been potentially mentioned as Satoshi for sometime [1] due to him working on decentralized currencies since 1998 with Bit Gold [2]. Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3] > \"Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas,\" said Musk, adding, \"he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behind it than anyone else.\" > Szabo is b"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29729376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729376", "by": "tablespoon", "time": 1640808605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3] >> \"Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas,\" said Musk, adding, \"he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behind it than anyone else.\" Why do Elon Musk's speculations have any credibility here? It's not his field, and even in his field he has a track record of making confident public statem"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29739747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739747", "by": "tosh", "time": 1640889430, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 29743109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29743109", "by": "shagie", "time": 1640908584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a bit on this - from Radiolab https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha... There was also a followup a few weeks ago - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/retur..."}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 29747880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29747880", "by": "zalebz", "time": 1640957765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great podcast called Land of the Giants and they have a \"season\" about Netflix (as well as Amazon, Google, Apple); based on the information I learned there I would certainly say it was a risky pivot."}, {"show": "1647215384", "hn_item": 29749827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749827", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1640969678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminded me of this Jaron Lanier quote from \"Sway\" podcast: \"I believe Facebook is undervalued for what it does. Because Facebook is essentially running identity for the internet, which is a very valuable function. So under a data dignity regime, I think Facebook would double or triple in value very quickly.\" I do think that digital identity is going to be an existential(pun intended) question. Ideally it would be managed by a competent government agency. That's likely in many countries. I doubt that it'll be the case in the USA."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 29752194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29752194", "by": "mihaitodor", "time": 1640982356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Happy New Year! - Dig deeper into bioinformatics and do some hands-on courses / experiments with various tools that are being used for analysing various *omics data - Contribute more code to https://benthos.dev and learn more about data streaming - Catch up on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast, since I fell behind for a few months: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ - Meet new likeminded people *wave*"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 29757365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29757365", "by": "Handytinge", "time": 1641035101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a fantastic episode of Reid Hoffman's \"Masters of Scale\" podcast[1] that goes into great detail with one of the founders, Stewart Butterfield. He also did basically the same thing to form Flickr. [1] https://pca.st/episode/2bbb5eea-de22-4825-8854-014ee29f33a1"}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 29759576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29759576", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1641052675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"Imaginary Worlds\" featured an episode that dealt with constructed languages \"conlangs\" (Klingon and Dothraki). It's available at: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/do-you-speak..."}, {"show": "6800059040", "hn_item": 29763875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29763875", "by": "floatingatoll", "time": 1641078835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accompanying podcast episode, for audio-types: https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/21/podcast-377-you-dont-n..."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 29765064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29765064", "by": "kuhewa", "time": 1641089685, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Taubes interview on Peter Attia's podcast is fascinating. He starts by laying out his career in journalism bringing light to scientific malpractice and otherwise very sharp minds totally deluding themselves when they get stuck on a pet hypothesis. The second half of the podcast was about his later career where he took on sugar. He then illustrates all of the self delusion and poor scientific thinking he had just described. It's kind of amazing. https://peterattiamd.com/garytaubes/"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 29766928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29766928", "by": "throwaway4good", "time": 1641112188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For another perspective on this I recommend Peter Daszak etc. in the This Week in Virology podcast explaining their efforts to trace the origin of COVID19: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-760/ A memorable quote is this: When you mix science with politics, you get politics."}, {"show": "1518933170", "hn_item": 29769315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769315", "by": "yarapavan", "time": 1641136467, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29769663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769663", "by": "mwattsun", "time": 1641138708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had a dream last night that expressed my recent concern that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are Pied Pipers leading our kids into virtual worlds where Meta controls everything including allowable expression and thought, where even certain concepts are banned with no allowable word for them [1]. My concern is that kids are getting VR headsets and going to a place where there is no parental control because adults don't understand VR or how to join their kids there. In my dream, and unseen voice is telling a young brother and sister how to secretly steal money from their grandparents and send it to t"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29772878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772878", "by": "hirundo", "time": 1641152696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yesterday I heard a Joe Rogan guest mention a particular non-Rogan podcast episode. It was a discussion about science and policy by two professional, well credentialed scientists and a layperson. I Googled it, couldn't find it. Same for Bing and DDG. Turns out it had been a popular YouTube video, but they objected to the conclusions and de-platformed it, from YouTube and the big indexes. It took maybe another dozen clicks to find it on one of the participant's own blog. And the podcast is still up and hosted by Apple. So it's something that you can find if you know about it, but not by searchi"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29773266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29773266", "by": "IronWolve", "time": 1641154398, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, Video got removed from twitter and youtube. But could easily be found on Rumble and Bitchute. When the video is originally hosted on Spotify on the JRE podcast. Seems crazy why twitter and google feels the need to remove legal content"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29773651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29773651", "by": "jollybean", "time": 1641156296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are confusing your data badly. Each of your references are saying completely different things. 1) non-covid excess mortality 2) mortality rate between those vaxxed and not vaxxed. 3) Reteurs was not 'debunking' point 2 or point 1. They are 'debunking' crap statements on Joe Rogan Podcast about the absollute numbers of those dying from COVID in general. Alex Berenson is terribly misrepresenting information. So when you say \"That's a Fact\" - you don't even seem to be sure what facts you're referring to, and they are obviously taken out of context, at face value. A) For point 3, the Reuters d"}, {"show": "955198749", "hn_item": 29774771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774771", "by": "strangecasts", "time": 1641162656, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "A previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715179) pointed to * Linear Digressions (now finished, http://lineardigressions.com/) * Talking Machines (http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/) * Data Skeptic (https://dataskeptic.com/) as good podcasts on machine learning or data science, but I'm curious - which other current podcasts do ML practitioners and data scientists on HN recommend? Some preferences: * Graduate level (doesn't need to explain the fundamental structure of an ANN) * Covers practical deployments of models and recently published research, not \"what can AI do in the fu"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 29774771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774771", "by": "strangecasts", "time": 1641162656, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "A previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12715179) pointed to * Linear Digressions (now finished, http://lineardigressions.com/) * Talking Machines (http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/) * Data Skeptic (https://dataskeptic.com/) as good podcasts on machine learning or data science, but I'm curious - which other current podcasts do ML practitioners and data scientists on HN recommend? Some preferences: * Graduate level (doesn't need to explain the fundamental structure of an ANN) * Covers practical deployments of models and recently published research, not \"what can AI do in the fu"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 29779312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779312", "by": "goatlover", "time": 1641205897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden receives similar criticism for having the temerity to suggest that genes play some statistically significant role in individual behavior. I don't understand why it has to be all or nothing. Surely the reasonable position is that both genes and environment have an intertwining role to play, and we can measure some of that across various psychological studies combined with genetic profiles, on a statistical basis. Paige was on Julia Galef's Rationally Speaking podcast, and her work sounds completely reasonable and hardly controversial. Unless one is ide"}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 29779427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779427", "by": "helmholtz", "time": 1641206996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fact, the Rich Roll podcast episode with James Clear is the one I'd recommend for all. Roll is a great listener and interviewer, and together they did a much better job than the book alone in focusing on the forging-an-identity part of habit formation. Highly recommended, it's something like two hours long."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29781598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29781598", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1641223362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn\u2019t know that and would need to see a source. Wuhan is a major city so I just don\u2019t know how many bats (of that specific type) live there. Also heard similar to the below comment that it was quite far away. Also seems they had just moved the entire lab to a different location. Jamie Metzl does a 5 hour podcast with Lex Fridman about it. I find his case very compelling as a layman. Not that it is definitely a lab leak, but that its obviously possible and baffling to dismiss as a real possibility."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29784187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784187", "by": "chasbean", "time": 1641234140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Ferndale, MI (Metro Detroit) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, React Native, Redux, NextJS, Elasticsearch, Postgres R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.chasbean.com Email: charlesparkerbean [at] gmail.com Hey I'm Chas. I've been a founding engineer at several seed-funded startups and have over 7+ years of experience building products from the ground up I'm looking for mature small to medium sized businesses or startups with kind people and good work/life balance. I'm most interested in working in audio, web3, or public good A bit about me: I believe strongly in being k"}, {"show": "1719979007", "hn_item": 29786013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29786013", "by": "Commodore63", "time": 1641240706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malone's been bootstrapping this \"cancelled scientist\" grift in plain sight since his appearance on Weinstein's podcast. It's a formula you see over and over again. 1) Say enough shit to get your hand slapped 2) Do the IDW podcast tour to whine about the \"establishment\" and plug your Patreon and/or supplements. 3) Get bankrolled by Thiel."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29786383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29786383", "by": "codeddesign", "time": 1641241896, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 29788909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29788909", "by": "tobessebot", "time": 1641254355, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "IIRC this is exactly what the government has been doing, they're trying to find as much space as possible near LA. Interesting podcasts for more background: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-25/the-white... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gene-seroka-on-the-log..."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 29796083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796083", "by": "dqpb", "time": 1641311515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris is pretty good, although he posts much less frequently than Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29796083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29796083", "by": "dqpb", "time": 1641311515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris is pretty good, although he posts much less frequently than Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 29797016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29797016", "by": "kyleblarson", "time": 1641315839, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I hadn't followed Theranos much until the trial but listened to the American Scandal podcast about it. I find the narration to be a bit cheesy but it was pretty informative for just a few hours of listening while exercising: https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/theranos-startup/id143..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 29801103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29801103", "by": "npunt", "time": 1641333261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the subject, I'd recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast which digs into various civilizations and their decline: https://www.patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29802680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29802680", "by": "tablespoon", "time": 1641339891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I listened to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast interview of mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone, M.D. It's certain that Dr. Robert Malone, M.D did not invent mRNA ."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 29803255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803255", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1641343353, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1719979007", "hn_item": 29806170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29806170", "by": "apostacy", "time": 1641367793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Malone's been bootstrapping this \"cancelled scientist\" grift in plain sight since his appearance on Weinstein's podcast. But he actually was censored. Just the fact that he is censored makes him worth amplifying. They have granted him minor martyrdom. I would not have bothered listening, but now I will, just to defy the censors. And if he truly had nothing worth hearing, then he should have been ignored like a creationist. Nobody censors creationists. You are blaming him for \"provoking\" his censorship. If the church systematically had an artist censored and marginalized for making blasphemou"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 29815474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29815474", "by": "1123581321", "time": 1641419245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Longform was a respected service and I wish them the best focusing on the podcast. My use of Longform declined as long, intricate articles became something nearly any publication could pull off, but I think that Longform deserves some credit for bringing about that change in journalism. There are new forms of journalism emerging and new curators will appear to popularize them."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29819452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29819452", "by": "jelliclesfarm", "time": 1641443801, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 29820997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29820997", "by": "fho", "time": 1641459176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition there is the Roguelike Radio Podcast that has a ton of good content. Sadly it seems to be on hiatus for a while now. But the last episode is on the Roguelike Celebration event: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2020/09/episode-156-roguelike-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29823869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29823869", "by": "EMRZ", "time": 1641479201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was the battle for \"the web\" and the sun+netscape partnership was an actual menace to microsoft's activex and vbscript things. There is an espisode the Lex Fridman podcast with Brendan Eich where he talks a little about that specific time.[1] The \"panic\" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29828296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29828296", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1641496048, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 29834033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834033", "by": "writingpad", "time": 1641522678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Writing Pad | Full Stack Developer | Part-Time Remote (USA) Work as few as 24 hours/week while still earning a living wage! Writing Pad is an online school that connects aspiring writers with real, working professionals behind the media they love. Imagine learning essay writing from a regular contributor to The New York Times, TV writing from the talent behind The Handmaid's Tale, podcasting from the crew of 99% Invisible, or fiction writing from HarperCollins-published authors. These aren't pre-recorded classes \u2014 they're real, live, online workshops, with great student-teacher ratios. We're s"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 29838986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838986", "by": "veganjay", "time": 1641563001, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I have developed an unusual habit: I like to listen to podcasts when I go to sleep. Initially, I listened to podcasts after waking up in the middle of the night to fall back asleep, but since then I began also listening when I initially lay down to go to sleep. I am curious if this habit is not so unusual after all. Do you fall to sleep to podcasts? And if so: 1. What podcasts? 2. What audio setup do you use? For myself: 1. Entertainment/light-hearted podcasts work best for me such as Triviality, Flip the Table, Stuff You Should Know. I like Real Python, but it gets me thinking too much before"}, {"show": "1308717668", "hn_item": 29839326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839326", "by": "badejayo", "time": 1641565024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is something I used to do as well as I had issues shutting my mind off when trying to sleep. The fact all major podcast players have a sleep timer built-in causes me to think it's not that uncommon. I started with audiobooks, but I found my comprehension and memory to be lacking when I woke up in the morning. This caused an issue because if I tried to continue the book during the day from where I left off, I got a weird sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. I started using podcasts because I see them more as in-the-moment entertainment (as such it didn't matter if I absorbed or remembered what I listened to)"}, {"show": "1494781373", "hn_item": 29839326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839326", "by": "badejayo", "time": 1641565024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is something I used to do as well as I had issues shutting my mind off when trying to sleep. The fact all major podcast players have a sleep timer built-in causes me to think it's not that uncommon. I started with audiobooks, but I found my comprehension and memory to be lacking when I woke up in the morning. This caused an issue because if I tried to continue the book during the day from where I left off, I got a weird sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. I started using podcasts because I see them more as in-the-moment entertainment (as such it didn't matter if I absorbed or remembered what I listened to)"}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 29839326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839326", "by": "badejayo", "time": 1641565024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is something I used to do as well as I had issues shutting my mind off when trying to sleep. The fact all major podcast players have a sleep timer built-in causes me to think it's not that uncommon. I started with audiobooks, but I found my comprehension and memory to be lacking when I woke up in the morning. This caused an issue because if I tried to continue the book during the day from where I left off, I got a weird sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. I started using podcasts because I see them more as in-the-moment entertainment (as such it didn't matter if I absorbed or remembered what I listened to)"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 29839539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839539", "by": "drakonka", "time": 1641566107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do this, too. I don't think it's a good habit to be honest, because I used to fall asleep just fine without podcasts. When I was able to fall asleep without them, I'd sleep faster. Now it takes me longer to fall asleep, but I feel somewhat dependent on the podcast. I usually listen to Stuff You Should Know, Sawbones, or Six Figure Authors. If it is a particularly interesting topic I often end up re-listening to it the next day. I just use the Google Podcasts app on my Galaxy Z Flip 3. No headphones, since stuff in my ears will just make it harder to fall asleep. I put the volume as low as I "}, {"show": "1475672610", "hn_item": 29839541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839541", "by": "adventureadmin", "time": 1641566119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I read somewhere that a lot of procrastination is fear of failure or fear of the unknown The Brain Science podcast from Changelog has an episode about perfectionism and how it can lead to procrastination, by the fear of rejection or failure."}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 29841022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841022", "by": "csours", "time": 1641572696, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I have some conflicting thoughts and emotions about the Holmes verdict. I believe this case was pursued due to the flagrant disregard for the health (and thus safety) of Theranos clients. If it was 'just' financial fraud against investors, I don't believe the public would have been so angry, and the prosecutor so motivated. However, Holmes was found not guilty on the charges related to blood tests. One of the jurors said they believed she was 'one step removed'. The blood test charges were also not directly health related, they were fraud charges, as in the patient was defrauded into believing"}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 29841440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841440", "by": "jdefelice", "time": 1641574348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I sometimes listen to podcasts to fall asleep. I use the PocketCasts[1] app that has the ability to pause the podcast after an episode is over or after a certain length of time, which is nice if you just want it to fall asleep too and not play all night. Podcast wise my goto is Phoebe reads a mystery[2], she reads various mystery novels and never fails to get me to sleep (sorry Phoebe). She is also the host of the Criminal podcast which is another good one, but too interesting to fall asleep to. [1] https://www.pocketcasts.com/ [2] https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 29841649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841649", "by": "jakamau", "time": 1641575337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Almost but not quite. I listen to one of two audiobooks. They are books I've read half a dozen times, so it's more about comfort and consistency. There's the added bonus that I don't have any worry about missing anything if I forget to set a sleep timer. I prune my normal podcast feed regularly so the only podcasts I have are ones I don't want to miss any details 1. \"Dune\" and \"Sandman\" are the two I listen to the most, both are really well produced ensemble casts. For actual podcasts (not used for sleep), I enjoy The Intelligence from the Economist, Writing Excuses, Hardcore History, 20,000 H"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 29841649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841649", "by": "jakamau", "time": 1641575337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Almost but not quite. I listen to one of two audiobooks. They are books I've read half a dozen times, so it's more about comfort and consistency. There's the added bonus that I don't have any worry about missing anything if I forget to set a sleep timer. I prune my normal podcast feed regularly so the only podcasts I have are ones I don't want to miss any details 1. \"Dune\" and \"Sandman\" are the two I listen to the most, both are really well produced ensemble casts. For actual podcasts (not used for sleep), I enjoy The Intelligence from the Economist, Writing Excuses, Hardcore History, 20,000 H"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29852391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852391", "by": "lettergram", "time": 1641654876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe it was Yeonmi Park - a North Korean defector - who said (on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast) how surprised and in a sense happy she was to see homeless. Effectively, you can\u2019t have upward mobility unless you let people fail (and id argue many homeless choose that life style, based on my experience working with them). She explained in North Korea there are no homeless, everyone is equally poor. Highly recommend listening to a talk with her. Truly eye opening"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 29855038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855038", "by": "ndynan", "time": 1641669093, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This essentially the same argument that Judson Brewer makes using insights from behavioral + buddhist psychology \u2013 https://drjud.com/book/ The insight is also to use mindfulness to understand the \"true\" experience of the addictive behavior and come to internalize that it is no longer valuable. Ezra Klein has a nice interview on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-anxiety-youre-fee..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29855443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855443", "by": "seoulbran", "time": 1641671360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just heard his Rogan podcast, ran the same query, got nothing. I knew something was up... time to start using an alternative."}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 29855746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29855746", "by": "rustmachine", "time": 1641673230, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Santa fe university has some interesting papers on groupthink as a complexity problem, and their podcast 'complexity' deals with it in several episodes. Mirta Galesic does research in social decisionmaking, and if you're interested i would recommend the Complexity podcast episode with her https://open.spotify.com/episode/7m3lEMqnkEDgZcKesiepcn?si=A..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29856303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29856303", "by": "SereneT", "time": 1641676190, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 29862829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862829", "by": "scary-size", "time": 1641733118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most nights I go to sleep with a podcast in my ears. I only skip it if I feel already really tired and have nothing on my mind to mull over. 1. Exclusively history podcasts: The History of Rome, Revolutions, Hardcore History, History of Napoleon. 2. I use really cheap corded in-ears: Sony MDR-EX110LPB. If they break, it's nothing to be sad about. I just get new ones. Bought the current pair in 2017. EDIT: I set a sleep timer of 30 minutes. That's enough for most nights."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29862829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29862829", "by": "scary-size", "time": 1641733118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most nights I go to sleep with a podcast in my ears. I only skip it if I feel already really tired and have nothing on my mind to mull over. 1. Exclusively history podcasts: The History of Rome, Revolutions, Hardcore History, History of Napoleon. 2. I use really cheap corded in-ears: Sony MDR-EX110LPB. If they break, it's nothing to be sad about. I just get new ones. Bought the current pair in 2017. EDIT: I set a sleep timer of 30 minutes. That's enough for most nights."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29863774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863774", "by": "loceng", "time": 1641740507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This doctor and Stanford professor, Jay Bhattacharya, on Lex Fridman podcast says differently and doesn't mention Remdesivir: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOGUYOPAsA Another reason why deaths from COVID may be so high, a pulmonary nurse stated in a 30 minute testimony to a government public committee/inquiry, is that they were treating COVID patients differently than any other lung disease related diseases; he believes there's been mass malpractice, he also references Remdesivir; suppress preventative-proactive treatment so people need hospitalization, so then they gain monetary incentive fr"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 29864502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864502", "by": "magicjosh", "time": 1641744745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An inverse relationship here. The builders are busy building stuff and don't spend much time on communications. Whereas speculators, all they have is communications, and there are many more speculators than builders, so the incentives look like 99% crap, 1% useful communications. Props to builders like the OP, Moxie, and Vitalik for building and sharing. And to podcasts like Bankless for creating venues for communication from builders. I'd love to find a \"Builders\" cryptocurrency podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29868164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868164", "by": "supperburg", "time": 1641768357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t need to show you, go listen to the Stanford professor. Lex Fridman podcast in the past week or two. Am I an idiot for believing a current Stanford professor? Is it not a reputable source?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29868357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29868357", "by": "TranquilMarmot", "time": 1641769580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Lex Fridman (pronounced: Freedman) I'm an AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and machine learning at MIT and beyond. Honestly does not sound too reputable to me on this specific subject matter. Edit: I realize now that you are saying to listen to the podcast guest, not Lex Fridman himself. Is this the episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOGUYOPAsA"}, {"show": "1773332641", "hn_item": 29869346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29869346", "by": "TaylorPhebillo", "time": 1641776958, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 29888375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888375", "by": "angry_octet", "time": 1641883539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you read this, you might enjoy Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29893306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29893306", "by": "x0054", "time": 1641917573, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to several CS heavy interviews with Lex and several guests. Knowing nothing about the host I would have assumed that he has no higher education at all, let alone a Ph.D. in CS from MIT. Am I wrong? As far as I am concerned he lucked out because someone got him into MIT and he lucked out the second time because he got on the Joe Rogan podcast. The rest is history. But I was just amazed how dumb the man sounds on his own podcast and the quality of guests he gets. I'll be honest, I am probably jealous, but damn, I almost think like his podcast has negative value. Every time his gu"}, {"show": "1491615136", "hn_item": 29895482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29895482", "by": "bequanna", "time": 1641925492, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Well, I guess I (and many others) will continue to rely on a source that pretty accurately represents reality vs completely discounting it because someone doesn\u2019t like hearing uncomfortable truth, hand waves and screeches \u201cracism\u201d. The source you posted is not well researched, balanced, and does not at all appear credible. Indeed, if you would like a glimpse into the author's political world view, you can check the below link to his podcast where he states: \"...actual Nazis are increasingly hard to differentiate from mainstream conservatives.\" So...yea. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/un"}, {"show": "1601709306", "hn_item": 29904300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29904300", "by": "rohithkp", "time": 1641980963, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 29905317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905317", "by": "chrisjc", "time": 1641989713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Regarding Alian Chan, she and her co-author appeared on the Hidden Forces podcast a few months back and it's a pretty good listen to anyone unable to squeeze a book into their busy lives. https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/lab-leak-hypothesis-alina-c..."}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 29905373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29905373", "by": "chrisjc", "time": 1641990189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also on Hidden Forces podcast a few weeks back with her co-author: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/lab-leak-hypothesis-alina-c..."}, {"show": "1347626043", "hn_item": 29916709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29916709", "by": "mgh2", "time": 1642046541, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 29927961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927961", "by": "frereubu", "time": 1642113460, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good BBC In Our Time podcast about Pessoa: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q0yj"}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 29929760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929760", "by": "michaelcampbell", "time": 1642125810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A common topic on \"No Such Thing As A Fish\" podcast, and hilarious every time."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 29930669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29930669", "by": "skipwalker", "time": 1642135553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.demetech.us/ American made. I heard a podcast about them. It might have been Planet Money. They ramped up production at the start of the pandemic, but then could not sell their supply. They were not allowed to advertise on Facebook because PPE was supposed to be reserved for the medical community, but then the medical community wasn\u2019t buying either for budgetary reasons and fear of counterfeits. https://www.wbur.org/npr/984952702/why-are-millions-of-n95-m..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 29933002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29933002", "by": "Raed667", "time": 1642158189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some \"Reply All\" podcast episodes that suspect, then later confirm the breach and Uber straight up lying about it when asked. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hler/91-the-russia... https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/xjheve/93-beware-all https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/5whmed/111-return-of..."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 29933602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29933602", "by": "q1w2", "time": 1642162948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It also reminds me of certain episodes of the The History of Rome and The History of Byzantium podcasts where they depict the collapse of complex systems when the breakdown of security occurred. During times when Roman security was good - the economy could develop complex systems of trade, which developed coinage, mathematics, architecture, and all sorts of specialists and artisans. When security was no longer reliable due to the influx of raiders, piracy, and hoards of barbarians, all of those complex activities ceased. The most complex aspects of society are always the first to collapse when"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 29933602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29933602", "by": "q1w2", "time": 1642162948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It also reminds me of certain episodes of the The History of Rome and The History of Byzantium podcasts where they depict the collapse of complex systems when the breakdown of security occurred. During times when Roman security was good - the economy could develop complex systems of trade, which developed coinage, mathematics, architecture, and all sorts of specialists and artisans. When security was no longer reliable due to the influx of raiders, piracy, and hoards of barbarians, all of those complex activities ceased. The most complex aspects of society are always the first to collapse when"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 29943964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29943964", "by": "gen220", "time": 1642226322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree that most articles are meh. In fact, most \u201cthings\u201d are meh, statistically speaking (novels included). Finding things that are good (for you) is a hard search problem. You can approach solving it in the same way you\u2019ve solved finding good novels: Good authors write good novels. Good authors tend to hang out with other good authors, and give each other shout outs. Good reviewers who like your favorite author probably like other people that you would like. The analogy goes on. On the topic of quality: Novels at least have to get through a publisher. But publishers need to make money and d"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 29946508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29946508", "by": "cebert", "time": 1642256342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SDR and GNU radio has always sounded interesting to me ever since I heard it mentioned on the Security Now podcast years ago. Does anyone know of good resources on how to get started? This is something I\u2019d love to tinker with one day. I also don\u2019t know a great deal about RF communication in general."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29948858, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29948858", "by": "tim333", "time": 1642271202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree the criticism on the basis of philosophy is kind of silly. Elon Musk's recent description of how the thing is going in real life on Lex Fridman Podcast 28 dec 21 was interesting https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1scA?t=3972"}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 29960513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960513", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1642369733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's an interesting point! I just listened to an interview with the founder of Give Directly on the Rationally Speaking podcast where he explained that they used to look at houses to identify if someone should get the direct cash donations. So again proxy for wealth"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 29960947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29960947", "by": "DamnInteresting", "time": 1642372023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I loved old school Radiolab, especially the themed episodes (e.g., Blood) but I stepped away from listening a few years ago because it started leaning too heavily on eyeroll-worthy ideas such as 'ooh, maybe there IS a mystical force behind this phenomenon!' The credulous tone was offputting for me. But I listened to a few recent episodes and it seems like they've dialed back that device. One thing that still bothers me about the podcast, however, is hard to explain: as Radiolab listeners, we might hear a few sentences from an interviewee, then the host voiceover jumps in to summarize something"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 29967035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29967035", "by": "mwattsun", "time": 1642430938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm suspicious of Bitcoin as a store of value. Some seem to think that because there is a fixed amount of Bitcoin it will automatically rise in price as demand confronts scarcity, but that assumes there will continued demand. Elon Musk says Dogecoin is better because it has some inflation built in, encouraging people to spend instead of hoard, but adds \"I'm not saying that it's the ideal system for a currency\" \"Elon Musk - SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI\", Lex Fridman Podcast #252\". Clip from a discussion about money starting minute 48:41 https://youtu.be/DxREm3s1"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 29968535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29968535", "by": "noneeeed", "time": 1642438456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While that's true, in many ways huge chunks of the fine art market exist purely as objects in warehouses, normally in freeports such as those in Switzerland, that are simply traded back and forth, often never seeing the light of day. The art market is really weird in many ways. Both the Freakonomics podcast and Malcome Gladwell's Revisionist Histories have done episodes in the last year or so on the market."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 29973711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29973711", "by": "seanlaw", "time": 1642468657, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 29974811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29974811", "by": "themarlzy", "time": 1642477329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape podcast episode on smell to be insightful on this[0]. My understanding? Not anywhere close. 0 https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/07/13/105-..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 29975644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975644", "by": "baylearn", "time": 1642485437, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The title of the article is \"Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says 'nobody cares' about Uyghur genocide in China\" shortened to fit 80 character limit Video clips of the podcast in particular that this article is referring to, can be viewed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/s6maje/billionaire_s... For reference, link to the All-In podcast, to listen to the entire episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbeHyN15HQE"}, {"show": "1576951213", "hn_item": 29976090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29976090", "by": "animal_spirits", "time": 1642490180, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From what I\u2019ve understood of category theory that sounds like exactly what you are looking for. I would recommend listening to the latest 3b1b podcast where Grant interviews Tai-danae Bradley who studies category theory, really fascinating. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory https://open.spotify.com/episode/6v01kNIPZZTmQk483nFy3H?si=8..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 29977079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29977079", "by": "EricLeer", "time": 1642499728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently the CoRecursive podcast did an episode [0] on the culture behind cocoa development and the big nerd ranch. [0] https://corecursive.com/cocoa-culture-with-hansen-hsu/#big-n..."}, {"show": "1564302864", "hn_item": 29979460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29979460", "by": "lucian1900", "time": 1642515547, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "An interesting podcast on the topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 29989107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29989107", "by": "brightball", "time": 1642558967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast episode about NSO was eye opening."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 29993768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29993768", "by": "Icathian", "time": 1642601450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite podcasts, Risky Business[0] regularly plugs Airlock[1]. They seem like they might be the one out front, at least as a paid service. [0] https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/ [1] https://www.airlockdigital.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 29994412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994412", "by": "ianai", "time": 1642604477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "...and you can hear more about it on the Joe Rogan podcast. Is there a good/extensive take on the mainstream geological and anthropological knowledge of what was going on around that period of time?"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 30015936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30015936", "by": "jcuenod", "time": 1642716877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're a neophyte like me, take a look at the Odd Lots podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/search/?ocid=c1a7b213882c4e32964... There's a ton of good info in there on what Libor is, why it needed to live, why it needed to die, and some attempts to replace it."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 30019756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019756", "by": "a_square_peg", "time": 1642744911, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This was an interesting podcast on the topic - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-is-a-right-win..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 30027416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30027416", "by": "JordanTen", "time": 1642788340, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30030648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30030648", "by": "formvoltron", "time": 1642803230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the Huberman podcast, simply elevating your legs at night can improve the glymphatic system's ability to clear out junk from our brains. I haven't been able to find any links to actual studies on that though."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30034360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30034360", "by": "SllX", "time": 1642834471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A fair point, but that story ends with French withdrawal and Maximillian I\u2019s execution after a Republican victory. You may be interested in the Revolutions podcast though which touches on these events from a couple of different perspectives, but includes an entire part dedicated to Revolution in Mexico."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 30037803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30037803", "by": "ggeorgovassilis", "time": 1642867446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30040789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040789", "by": "tosh", "time": 1642885351, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30052794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052794", "by": "hersko", "time": 1642989584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30052969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052969", "by": "pygar", "time": 1642991145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What do you think of the signal to noise ratio of the JRE podcast? It seems like he does minimal prep and just wings it with the idea that his natural curiosity will make up for it. yes, they are 2.5hrs+ long, but IMO at least half of it is chit-chat and irrelevant to the guests knowledge often about fitness/hunting/deer/monkeys. I prefer much more focused podcasts, where the interview has prepared a series of well targeted questions."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 30053588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053588", "by": "ethbr0", "time": 1642996788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone even aware of Power Rangers (or any other 90s animated pop culture), go spend 44 minutes listening to the How I Built This podcast on Haim Saban. https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-... Guy went from the son of a refuge pencil salesman (his family emigrated from Egypt to Israel when he was a kid, and his dad had to take what work he could get) to being worth $2.5+ B. Among his other moves, he turned down a deal from Rupert Murdoch to buy his company (the owner of Power Rangers etc), and said he'd only accept a 50/50 joint venture with Fox Kids itself. So he'd"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 30054182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054182", "by": "akoster", "time": 1643004312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "US/Southern California Similarly cannot get rapid test kits at drug or department stores. I too heard this was due to our government pushing for a \"warp speed\" vaccine plan but not focusing as much on testing. I am holding out for the 4x free USPS rapid tests [0]. Free PCR test collection sites are plentiful though appointment slots are not. Some used to have walk-in or drive-up options but nearly all require appointments. Many of the chain drug stores (CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid) listed on this HHS page [1] only allow booking 3 days in advance of which there will be zero availability. Shy of"}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 30054683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054683", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1643011107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts. TRIGGERnometry: https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:23460834... The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30054683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054683", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1643011107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts. TRIGGERnometry: https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:23460834... The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693"}, {"show": "1224204194", "hn_item": 30054683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054683", "by": "CodeGlitch", "time": 1643011107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts. TRIGGERnometry: https://audioboom.com/channels/4991237.rss Lex Fridman Podcast: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:23460834... The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ADV2256857693"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 30055013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055013", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1643014568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My tips would be (a bit different than those maybe): - Fall of Civilizations podcast (Has few but some absolutely gorgeous, long episodes). - People I mostly admire - Freakonomics (earlier episodes better than current IMO) - The Joy of X - Numberphile and The 3b1b podcast - In Our Time (BBC)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30055013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055013", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1643014568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My tips would be (a bit different than those maybe): - Fall of Civilizations podcast (Has few but some absolutely gorgeous, long episodes). - People I mostly admire - Freakonomics (earlier episodes better than current IMO) - The Joy of X - Numberphile and The 3b1b podcast - In Our Time (BBC)"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 30055013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055013", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1643014568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My tips would be (a bit different than those maybe): - Fall of Civilizations podcast (Has few but some absolutely gorgeous, long episodes). - People I mostly admire - Freakonomics (earlier episodes better than current IMO) - The Joy of X - Numberphile and The 3b1b podcast - In Our Time (BBC)"}, {"show": "1576951213", "hn_item": 30055013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055013", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1643014568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My tips would be (a bit different than those maybe): - Fall of Civilizations podcast (Has few but some absolutely gorgeous, long episodes). - People I mostly admire - Freakonomics (earlier episodes better than current IMO) - The Joy of X - Numberphile and The 3b1b podcast - In Our Time (BBC)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30063976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30063976", "by": "reggieband", "time": 1643058075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hate that I always end up referencing the Lex Friedman podcast but it is often relevant to discussion on HN. Recently Lex spoke with Yann LeCun and they had a brief chat about AI at Meta/Facebook [1] (where I believe Yann is currently Chief AI Scientist). He claims that AI is the core of Meta and that if you were to take ML out of Meta systems the company would literally crumble because it is completely built around AI. My feeling is this is a PR push by Facebook. All tech companies keep touting AI, especially Google but also Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. In some sense I believe these busines"}, {"show": "303688916", "hn_item": 30066286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066286", "by": "muthdra", "time": 1643071042, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A Life Well Wasted - Why Game? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-game/id303688916?i..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 30071749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071749", "by": "patrickk", "time": 1643118744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chinese price dumping from state-sponsored companies also largely wiped out the German solar PV industry[1,2]. Germany was an early innovator in solar, especially in regards to inventing the concept of a feed in tariff when solar PV was still hideously expensive, thereby driving wider adoption. Planet Money did a nice podcast on the history of it [3]. [1] https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-exports-crushing-german-solar-... [2] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/last-major-german-solar... [3] https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797322305/episode-965-das-gre..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 30072117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072117", "by": "zweiterlinde", "time": 1643120947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a small town, but the Philadelphia Tooth Fairy Project sounds similar: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/public_health/The-Phil... I first learned about this from Radiolab: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/g-pro..."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 30072233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072233", "by": "teekert", "time": 1643121580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually Traefik is open source (right?): [0] I really have to think about the post and update it, perhaps I'll get back to you and put it on a vps, not on \"the hub of my digital life\", before I share it. Actually almost everything I learned and use I heard about on the Self-hosted podcast [1], and on one of the host's GitHub repos [2] (who takes personal infra as code to the next level). [0]: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/blob/master/LICENSE.md [1]: https://selfhosted.show/ [2]: https://github.com/IronicBadger"}, {"show": "1606064746", "hn_item": 30078743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30078743", "by": "jacksonsteger", "time": 1643148107, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30083352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083352", "by": "smt88", "time": 1643188037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's ironic that the same people crying about the death of the free market are now crying about \"censorship\" and \"cancel culture\" in cases (like this one) where it is clearly just the free market. If Neil Young's contracts allow him, he is free to choose to stop using Spotify. That's all he said in his letter: Spotify can't have both his music and Rogan's podcast. Calling this \"censorship\" is authoritarian."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 30084599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30084599", "by": "sasvari", "time": 1643199277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting episode from Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales podcast about Claude Shannon and his various other interests: https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/fritterin-away-genius/"}, {"show": "1440648531", "hn_item": 30089217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089217", "by": "richardreeze", "time": 1643220408, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 30091235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30091235", "by": "adolph", "time": 1643228690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> get serious about the work of political persuasion The Conversations with Tyler Cowen podcast episode \"Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy (Ep. 106)\" has some interesting content in this regard. Tang works on the government side but the same principles are involved regardless of direction. https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/audrey-tang-tyle..."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 30091235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30091235", "by": "adolph", "time": 1643228690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> get serious about the work of political persuasion The Conversations with Tyler Cowen podcast episode \"Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy (Ep. 106)\" has some interesting content in this regard. Tang works on the government side but the same principles are involved regardless of direction. https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/audrey-tang-tyle..."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 30093605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30093605", "by": "adolph", "time": 1643239421, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Preference falsification is the act of communicating a preference that differs from one's true preference. The public frequently conveys, especially to researchers or pollsters, preferences that differ from what they truly want, often because they believe the conveyed preference is more acceptable socially. The idea of preference falsification was put forth by the social scientist Timur Kuran in his 1995 book Private Truths, Public Lies as part of his theory of how people's stated preferences are responsive to social influences. It laid the foundation for his theory of why unanticipated revolu"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 30094397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094397", "by": "smoldesu", "time": 1643244080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is anybody really all that surprised by this, though? Setting Spotify's deal with JRE aside, removing the show from the platform would set an unenforceable precedent for the majority of podcasts. If we just start banning people for saying things that go against the status quo, what would we even be left with? A handful of NPR shows minus The Moth Radio Hour? Joe Rogan is a hilariously bad entertainer and an even worse podcast host, but how could this have gone any other way? If Spotify caved, everyone would have gotten the worst of both worlds: people who don't care would have a diminished Spo"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30094854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094854", "by": "ralusek", "time": 1643246894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So my options are switching between streaming platforms or having Rogan's podcast censored down to the guests you and Neil Young like? I don't love my options."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30094929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094929", "by": "Fezzik", "time": 1643247302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Even if you don\u2019t like it, by the numbers Joe Rogan is far more relevant, today, to any dissemination of news/ideas (and even music) than Neil Young. Fewer people bought Neil\u2019s garbage music player than listen to a throwaway clip of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. Objectively, Joe Rogan would have nothing to gain from giving Neil Young air-time, while Neil Young would have everything to gain. Edit, to add: this is not a comment on the wild conspiracy theories that Joe Rogan entertains."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30095191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095191", "by": "IronWolve", "time": 1643248872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hearing people say \"Hes still on Apple\", yeah, so is the JRE podcast. Its come to a point, one platform bans someone, you can get them on other platforms. Cancel culture isnt going to work (and thats a good thing!) I'm an old school, turn the dial liberal."}, {"show": "1580570986", "hn_item": 30095531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095531", "by": "VieEnCode", "time": 1643251337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoding the Gurus podcast did an episode talking about Rogan\u2019s recent discussions pushing Covid disinfo: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malon..."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 30095531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095531", "by": "VieEnCode", "time": 1643251337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoding the Gurus podcast did an episode talking about Rogan\u2019s recent discussions pushing Covid disinfo: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malon..."}, {"show": "1580570986", "hn_item": 30095551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095551", "by": "VieEnCode", "time": 1643251456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoding the Gurus podcast did an episode on Rogan\u2019s recent discussions pushing Covid disinfo: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malon..."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 30095551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30095551", "by": "VieEnCode", "time": 1643251456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoding the Gurus podcast did an episode on Rogan\u2019s recent discussions pushing Covid disinfo: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/robert-malon..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30096409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096409", "by": "IvanaSays", "time": 1643259657, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30096722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096722", "by": "xtalx", "time": 1643263037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How long has Neil Young been out of touch? This is the most anti-rock, anti-punk, anti-free-thinker move an old rich dude can make. No matter where one stands on the content of Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, Neil Young\u2019s ideas and actions are basically irrelevant. Neil Young is beyond overrated even though many might say he\u2019s under appreciated. Last thing, before this black text turns transparent\u2026 Why does no one talk about the fact that the discussion about \u201cmisinformation\u201d basically assumes everyone is a dolt. Also, if everyone is so helplessly stupid, why don\u2019t we ban infomercials for crap products l"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30096854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30096854", "by": "bhawks", "time": 1643264117, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He recently did a full podcast with CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta. I'd imagine Dr Fauci would be welcomed as well to the show. Joe's conversation with Dr Sanjay covered a variety of topics (Covid, marijuana policy, CNNs representation of Joe). On all these topics Dr Sanjay was definitely given an opportunity to make his argument - and I believe he probably reached a good number of people through Joe's platform.[1] It is unfortunate that CNN's unprofessional representation of Joe's personal experience with Covid sucked up so much of the conversation around the episode. Dr Sa"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30097398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30097398", "by": "awb", "time": 1643268715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The only reason to make a threat like this was to attempt to get Rogan dropped from the service. Not true. Young was very willing to pull his own catalog, said as much and then did so willingly and without a fuss. And yes, artists have images to uphold. Music is displayed right next to podcasts on the Spotify Home Screen. It\u2019s totally possible for Spotify to recommend you listen to Neil Young and a Rogan podcast. And it\u2019s really only up to Young what he decides is appropriate for his brand. What seems silly to you might be really important to him. As for your other examples, this happens all"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30097427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30097427", "by": "logicchains", "time": 1643268967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> A few weeks ago, 270 doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals and professors wrote an open letter to Spotify, expressing concern about medical misinformation on Rogan\u2019s podcast. And more than 17,000 doctors and scientists signed in support of Mallone's message: https://doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/ ."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30099035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30099035", "by": "nixish", "time": 1643282076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joe Rogan should interview this guy next: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the \"inventor of email\". This would be at par with the mRNA inventor guy :), and increase Rogan\u2019s podcast credibility\u2026"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30099162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30099162", "by": "Renaud", "time": 1643283090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the crux of the issue is not that Spotify carries Rogan's podcast like they do 1000s others. It's that Spotify is paying mountains of $ to Rogan for exclusivity. Spotify is not a passive party in this, they are actively promoting and contributing money to the generation and promotion of extremely dubious content on their platform. I wouldn't mind so much if they were just carrying that particular podcast amongst a sea of others, I do question Spotify's ethics as a company that's made a conscious choice to finance misinformation. Probably nothing more than a difference of opinion, but I"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30099805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30099805", "by": "ufo", "time": 1643287197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The crux here is that spotify is actively producing Joe Rogan's podcast, not merely distributing it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30100698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30100698", "by": "vinay427", "time": 1643292358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If they're similarly guilty of misinformation, those responsible in the media should absolutely face consequences as well. This feels like whataboutism, which doesn't preclude people taking a stand against the JRE podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30102823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30102823", "by": "awb", "time": 1643302257, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> So my options are switching between streaming platforms or having Rogan's podcast censored down to the guests you and Neil Young like? Because you\u2019re acting like these two \u201ceither or\u201d options are being forced on you. The options are 1) misleading and 2) not your only options. Option #1 - Switching streaming platforms - There are already artists far more popular than Young not on Spotify ( https://www.ranker.com/list/musicians-against-spotify/ranker... ), like Prince, the Beatles, Taylor Swift, Pink Floyd, etc. If you\u2019ve ever wanted to listen to these all-time artists, you already had to swit"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 30105908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105908", "by": "chipgap98", "time": 1643314889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been learning more about music rights this week (plug for the Taylor Swift episode of the Acquired podcast). I think it depends on how much of his catalog he was the song write on? There seem to be some veto writes that songwriters get even if they have sold the rights to their master recordings."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30105963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105963", "by": "chipgap98", "time": 1643315055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see a lot of takes that it would be censorship for Spotify to remove Joe Rogan's podcast. I get where those are coming from. However, Spotify isn't just hosting Joe Rogan's content, they actively advertise for it and try to get more people to listen to it. It seems like that is a much more editorial role and something worthy of criticizing them for."}, {"show": "1559758759", "hn_item": 30106186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30106186", "by": "lawrenceyan", "time": 1643315729, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 30106620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30106620", "by": "lakotasapa", "time": 1643317282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can't according to science. We are simply not capable of multitasking. There is a great podcast on Hidden Brain: Life Interrupted. However what does seem to work is no lyric music with a rhythm that's close to your own heart rate. I listen to a genre of music someone hacked together thats seem to making gains: epic music. Popular artists I like are Two Steps from Hell and Audio Machine. I code but it seems science agrees if you find non intrusive music that you don't need to interpret but simply \"groove\" subconsciously is your best bet. Another genre I like; Baroque, chamber music ie Bach "}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 30107016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30107016", "by": "foxyv", "time": 1643319041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I honestly hate censorship in all of it's forms. If we start censoring Joe Rogan, how long will it take for them to go after Star Talk and other science podcasts. Joe Rogan introduced me to the Wim Hof method which is a lot of fun even though I don't believe half the supposed benefits. Sure, he's platforming fascists and assholes. But he also platforms people like Andrew Yang. We aren't children in elementary school. I like being able to hear something and make a decision about what is garbage and what is not. So do a lot of other people. I don't want people to tell me what is \"Safe\" for me to"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30111204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30111204", "by": "wreath", "time": 1643350260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Im really (negatively) surprised by an artist who is straight up against freedom of speech even if he disagrees with the content. We're in this weird place where we label anything we disagree with as disinformation. I'm a big fan of Joe Rogan's podcast, but not Joe himself. He brings in interesting and different people and allows them to share their thoughts and experiences without interruption you see on TV or much setup, or most importantly, censorship. You can disagree with what his guests are saying, or his views, but it's really dangerous to push for deplatforming him or his guests simply"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30114003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114003", "by": "dskloet", "time": 1643374821, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Then I don't think I understood your question. I agree the Copenhagen interpretation doesn't make sense, mostly because I listen to Sean Carroll's podcast."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 30114147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114147", "by": "atraac", "time": 1643375623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If an advert is hardcoded by the author into the file they upload, how do you suppose Spotify should remove that? They don't have rights to do that but even if they could, they would need to programmatically detect when the ad starts, ends and cut it out from the file? Soft Skills Engineering does this for example, they record their own audio for the ad and play it like it's a part of the podcast, I don't mind that as it helps authors, but that has nothing to do with Spotify. I've heard about some dynamic adds Spotify supposedly adds, that are usually not related to the podcast itself, but I'v"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30118784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30118784", "by": "erulabs", "time": 1643395919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't read this part II yet, although I very much enjoyed part I - it's an after-work read for sure - I wanted to mention for anyone interested in Roman history, spotify has \"The History of Rome\" podcast that has been going for something like 15 years now, and is super excellent. It's become my favorite thing to listen to while I cook or clean. It looks like this covers Diocletian's monetary reforms, which is one of my absolute favorite parts of roman history - looking forward to it!"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30119136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30119136", "by": "ricree", "time": 1643397748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"The History of Rome\" podcast that has been going for something like 15 years now, and is super excellent If you're talking about Mike Duncan's podcast, note that it ended in 2012 with the deposing of the final Western Emperor. There is a spiritual successor by Robin Pierson called \"The History of Byzantium\" that picks up shortly after the end and is still ongoing after over 230 episodes. Duncan's current podcast is \"Revolutions\", which covers a variety of historical revolutions. I've been listening for a bit now and am only on the third (French) of ten revolutions. Definitely recommend the "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30119136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30119136", "by": "ricree", "time": 1643397748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"The History of Rome\" podcast that has been going for something like 15 years now, and is super excellent If you're talking about Mike Duncan's podcast, note that it ended in 2012 with the deposing of the final Western Emperor. There is a spiritual successor by Robin Pierson called \"The History of Byzantium\" that picks up shortly after the end and is still ongoing after over 230 episodes. Duncan's current podcast is \"Revolutions\", which covers a variety of historical revolutions. I've been listening for a bit now and am only on the third (French) of ten revolutions. Definitely recommend the "}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 30119136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30119136", "by": "ricree", "time": 1643397748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"The History of Rome\" podcast that has been going for something like 15 years now, and is super excellent If you're talking about Mike Duncan's podcast, note that it ended in 2012 with the deposing of the final Western Emperor. There is a spiritual successor by Robin Pierson called \"The History of Byzantium\" that picks up shortly after the end and is still ongoing after over 230 episodes. Duncan's current podcast is \"Revolutions\", which covers a variety of historical revolutions. I've been listening for a bit now and am only on the third (French) of ten revolutions. Definitely recommend the "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30122026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30122026", "by": "cecida", "time": 1643413069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Rome was the very first podcast I can remember listening to on a weekly basis. It was the era when the Nokia N95 was very much the flagship almost smartphone, and I got so interested in the idea of being able to automatically subscribe to these on-demand and niche \"radio shows\" that I suffered the torture of writing an app for the Symbian OS."}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 30125012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125012", "by": "sva_", "time": 1643448406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd also like to draw attention to his previous appearance on Curt Jaimungal's podcast[0], in which he gives an extremely detailed account of his research. Really fascinating stuff, I wonder what will come out of it. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30125449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125449", "by": "caaqil", "time": 1643454302, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 30125768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125768", "by": "tomjen3", "time": 1643459584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The US marine Corps have a bunch of manuals on various tropics, which are better known as text books outside of the group. These are freely available. If you prefer them with commentary, Jocko podcast has talked about some of them."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 30131247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30131247", "by": "vgb2k18", "time": 1643495441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jocko Podcast with the author is a great listen. https://jockopodcast.com/2021/09/22/300-war-is-a-racket/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30133340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133340", "by": "finite_jest", "time": 1643510591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Young wasn't trying to remove Rogan's music. I very much disagree. We could be a bit more accurate/pedantic by saying \"he's trying to mount pressure to remove Rogan's podcast from Spotify\" instead, but that doesn't change much. > not be on a platform with people he perceived as ultra-shitty & socially-ruinous. I cancelled my Spotify a long time ago, but I don't think it's much of a social platform. If you don't want to interact with Rogan, you simply can. I think you could even mute an artist, so Spotify wouldn't even suggest their content to you."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30134075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134075", "by": "lnxg33k1", "time": 1643517467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be honest I have no time to waste with you, also because people who just avoid whole segments of articles in order to be right are usually either not genuinely taking part of the conversation or they lack comprehension skills, so one ends up being like Don Quixote fighting windmills Quoted word by word from the article: \"Last Monday, Young announced that he had asked his management and record label to remove his music from Spotify in protest of the streaming service's decision to host Joe Rogan's podcast\" If that doesn't mean that he wants to ban Joe Rogan from spotify, then what does it me"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30134274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134274", "by": "henry_bone", "time": 1643519780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What misinformation? And was it Rogan's view or that of one of his guests? And is it actually misinformation, or just controversial? Or you (& others) just disagree? I mean, a lot has been said on Rogan's podcast over the years. Not all of it is likely to be correct. Even if we restrict ourselves to considering topics related to the Sars-Cov-2 epidemic, Rogan has spoken to many people, about many aspects of the situation. I for one, quite enjoy his podcast. He speaks to many, varied very interesting and intelligent people, on range of topics. Politicians, scientists, doctors, special operators"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30135942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30135942", "by": "least", "time": 1643541274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's hard to call it a cultural trend when it's a couple famous people removing their library of music from one music service. I don't think it's unethical for a musician to stop working with a distributor if the terms of that stop being acceptable, that's wholly reasonable. But to try and answer your question; no, I think it's kind of silly. Someone like Neil Young can only do this sort of thing once and trying to use it to deplatform another entertainer doesn't seem to be the most useful (removing Joe Rogan's podcast or whatever won't make a dent in the cause he supposedly is fighting for) a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30138001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138001", "by": "nailer", "time": 1643556812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Neil and those who're following his lead are doing the right thing Which specific doctors and scientists do you think shouldn\u2019t have appeared on Rogan\u2019s podcast?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30138635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138635", "by": "extra88", "time": 1643561033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Young's objection to being on the same platform as Joe Rogan's podcast is over the podcast spreading of misinformation about vaccines. Misinformation about vaccines are not political beliefs. I'm sure Young also objects to many political beliefs expressed by Rogan's guests, and probably Rogan himself, that's unrelated to what Young did or said."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30139388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139388", "by": "nailer", "time": 1643565452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You were asked about the doctors and scientists on the Joe Rogan podcast. How are those doctors and scientists \u2018outside science\u2019?"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 30142201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142201", "by": "vivab0rg", "time": 1643584010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very inspiring interview with the co-founder on the Changelog podcast. Highly recommended! Changelog Master Feed: Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition (Founders Talk #78) https://changelog.com/founderstalk/78"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 30142201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142201", "by": "vivab0rg", "time": 1643584010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very inspiring interview with the co-founder on the Changelog podcast. Highly recommended! Changelog Master Feed: Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition (Founders Talk #78) https://changelog.com/founderstalk/78"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 30143095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30143095", "by": "Sparkle-san", "time": 1643590642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's been used in student government and there's been some research behind it. I originally heard about it on an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-powerball-revolution/ https://democracyinpractice.org/ https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00422-16"}, {"show": "1605165034", "hn_item": 30145817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30145817", "by": "urbanowiczdev", "time": 1643618063, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "We\u2019re On Air! The second episode titled: \u201cThings you didn\u2019t know about solving BUGS in software\u201d is now available. Marek, Artur and Grzegorz share their experiences, insights and tricks on dealing with beloved #software #defects (aka #BUGS). In this episode we covered: :floppy_disk: One good reason you should fix the versions of your dependencies to prevent harmful updates! :zap: Where do we think that the issues with software originate from :soccer: The shared responsibility over the quality of outcome :books: Tribal Knowledge of requirements and the inevitable :question: The importance of as"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30150726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150726", "by": "yesdocs", "time": 1643649869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We are in a pandemic, which is roughly akin to being in a crowded burning building. When authorities are directing you to an exit, this idiot Joe Rogan stands up and yells on his megaphone that there is an exit in the opposite direction. People are dying because of it. This is not a matter of free speech, or incomplete information, he is killing people. Public streaming services owe it to the public to not endanger them or kill them with misinformation. Rogan podcasts are pure garbage, interviewing fringe and long discredited crackpots in obviously weak attempts to offer \u2018alternative\u2019 views in"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30153924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30153924", "by": "calyth2018", "time": 1643661410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Too little, too late. Looking at Parliament Hill where this \"trucker\" protest is happening, where some literally cite the crackpot on Rogan's podcast as gospel that the mRNA vaccines are bad. That and Rogan basically put more fuel to the fire by saying 50,000 trucks are heading here, when it's mostly yahoos in coal-rolling pickups or RVs. These people are pissing on the National War Memorial; berate and assault hotel staff for enforcing a Provincial mask mandate; barged into a homeless shelter to demand food, and assaulted the homeless and security guard; and a literal Nazi flag was flown. Rog"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 30157187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157187", "by": "dingosity", "time": 1643676867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh. I forgot to mention this... Marketplace / Make Me Smart did a podcast on the metaverse last week: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 30157470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157470", "by": "wisemang", "time": 1643678890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This didn\u2019t start with SaaS. I know the Reply All podcast has fallen out of favor but give this episode a listen: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2hx34/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 30158980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30158980", "by": "danboarder", "time": 1643693623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story highlights the value of putting yourself in the mindset and perspective of the \"other\" that you disagree with, to see things their way, for your own benefit. The entire Tim Ferris podcast episode (from which the quoted story was told - https://tim.blog/2021/09/09/sheila-heen/ ) is good, and brought to mind an EconTalk podcast episode that explores how seeing and doing things in the interest of others is many times in one's own best interest in the long run: https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-desires-morality-..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 30168372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30168372", "by": "cybadger", "time": 1643745735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a framework, I've yet to find something better than the Manager Tools \"Trinity\" which includes coaching [0]. The short version: work with each of your directs to have a coaching goal. Help them define one or more next steps. Then let them get after it, with you holding them accountable for the steps that you defined together. You can do effective coaching in ~5 minutes per week per direct. That's not just what the Manager Tools podcast says; I've done it. Just have one coaching goal at a time. It should be something that is pretty apparent if they've achieved it. \"Get better at $COOL_TECH\" "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 30179513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179513", "by": "brutusborn", "time": 1643818320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard this on the Sam Harris podcast. If I remember correctly he explained it as a function of our memory saving the myth and _then_ the \"fact\". It is easier to recite the 1st part of the memory so some people forget the \"fact\" and thus beleive the myth more strongly."}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 30179741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179741", "by": "theanirudh", "time": 1643819262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris McCord, who built this app (and author of Phoenix) talked about it on the Thinking Elixir podcast. Excited to learn that many of the learnings that he got when building this app will make its way into Phoenix LiveView. https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/84"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 30181001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30181001", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1643823752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"On the Metal\" podcast episode[0] about the FCIX exchange was a really enjoyable listen. I had no idea that things like that could still just \"pop up\". I assume those days were long-passed. [0] https://oxide.computer/podcasts/kenneth-finnegan"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30188277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188277", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1643859531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A related story on the Darknet Diaries podcast about how the Puerto Rican lottery was rigged: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/101/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30189054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189054", "by": "tomc1985", "time": 1643866355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries tells its stories through interviews with people who were there and the podcaster's own experiences and research. I am not sure I would call the account 'factual', but he makes his best effort to get as close to the source as possible. More like investigative journalism. In any case, not sure I agree with the attitude regarding reading a transcript. Does everyone expect the \"facts\" (whatever those actually are) to be handed to them on a silver platter or something? No juice no squeeze..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 30189133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189133", "by": "signa11", "time": 1643867258, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 30192332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30192332", "by": "jdefelice", "time": 1643896233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't read the article as I'm in the EU but Criminal podcast had a great episode about lottery rigging. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-160-hot-lotto-3-12-2021/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 30203118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30203118", "by": "lkois", "time": 1643951409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But that assumes X is not an unknown, which is kinda the point. \"X-like\" is an easy pill to swallow for people who want to reduce risk, since they already know X. If you just want to poke a stick at some lesser known Y, it's harder to appeal to those who want to understand potential returns on their investment. And it seems that there was a time that predictability, and even returns, was less of a priority. I can't recall the podcast (maybe Planet Money) but they mentioned Vannevar Bush pushing for the government to act as a patron for sciences, and to take on risk that private investors would"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 30204747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204747", "by": "marcus_cemes", "time": 1643968104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't mean to advocate, I've had the opposite experience. I love listening to the guys over at the Go Time podcast, but for simple things I reach for Node (that I desperately want to escape!), and for a better language I reach for Rust, it just feels right , although I completely agree about library code being complex to understand and using a lot of magic to squeeze out every last drop of performance. As a corollary, I still haven't been able to understand Go modules and the way code is supposed to be laid out! In fact, a Go 1.16 broke one of my npm packages as it deprecated `go get` with no "}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 30204747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204747", "by": "marcus_cemes", "time": 1643968104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't mean to advocate, I've had the opposite experience. I love listening to the guys over at the Go Time podcast, but for simple things I reach for Node (that I desperately want to escape!), and for a better language I reach for Rust, it just feels right , although I completely agree about library code being complex to understand and using a lot of magic to squeeze out every last drop of performance. As a corollary, I still haven't been able to understand Go modules and the way code is supposed to be laid out! In fact, a Go 1.16 broke one of my npm packages as it deprecated `go get` with no "}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 30207804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207804", "by": "magicjosh", "time": 1643987880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nice! Sounds like the course and book aren't delivering what you want. Agree with your points about the summaries and mining doge. Bizarre. I found your reflections in these posts much more engaging than the main post for this thread. Highly recommend the MIT video course on blockchains: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63UUkfL0onkxF6M... And for a deep dive into any specific project, it there's an episode of the Zero Knowledge podcast about a project it's worth listening to."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 30213359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213359", "by": "uoaei", "time": 1644009434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You -- fallible you! -- are not immune to propaganda. Being able to understand the ulterior motives at play in advertising and PR more broadly does not absolve you of being caught under the spell. I had trouble reconciling this for a while after getting turned on to media criticism outlets, e.g. Citations Needed podcast[1]. But it is important to stay humble and remember that you are still a bag of electrified proteins that reacts essentially the same as other bags of electrified proteins, and so are subject to essentially the same forces. [1] https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 30216887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30216887", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1644031882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Joe Rogan is an idiot. But, if anything, Spotify should have just posted a disclaimer somewhere stating these aren\u2019t their views, with some links to reputable sources - even their own \u201cScience Vs\u201d podcast. It\u2019s not like now the people who believed what he was saying are going to shrug their shoulders and start reading the \u201cNew England Journal of Medicine\u201d."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 30218434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30218434", "by": "jakecopp", "time": 1644043213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A great explanation of Hanko is this podcast episode by 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hanko/"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 30218936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30218936", "by": "jiriro", "time": 1644048821, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/serenity-os/id13303295..."}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 30219203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219203", "by": "raverbashing", "time": 1644051023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> He didn\u2019t have to take the deal that removed his podcast from open distribution and put it under corporate control. But he did For 100Mi? I'd have a very long list of things I would do for that price. \"Selling out?\" For sure. I wouldn't have a podcast with the guests he picked for the show on several topics, surely (but he wasn't made to have those guests). \"Open podcast\" is hard if you have to pay for bandwidth, and also it's just one of the most time consuming ways of generating content."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30219457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219457", "by": "jillesvangurp", "time": 1644053662, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Apparently it excludes the episode with Dr. Robert Malone, which is the one that ticked off the likes of Neil Young: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SCsueX2bZdbEzRtKOCEyT . It's still online, for now. I actually listened to that one and even though I don't agree with everything that was discussed during that 3 hour interview, a few things struck me as odd in the huge wave of criticism that followed. - Dr Malone has a rather impressive CV and a rather relevant one when it comes to Covid. This is a point that is glossed over by most media. He's not some crackpot theorist but somebody with a ra"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30220600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220600", "by": "satysin", "time": 1644066279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed. As I saw someone say a while back Joe Rogan is Gwenyth Paltrow for men and that is spot on. The biggest problem, for me, with Rogan\u2019s podcast is he brings on people that know nothing about a subject but let\u2019s them talk as if they are some kind of expert. They have long conversations where Rogan as little if anything of value and just let\u2019s a lot of weirdos that will get views ramble on endlessly for 2 hours. Then things get cut and paste around social media and misinformation spreads like wild fire. A recent example is Dr Jordan Peterson talking about climate change. He lacks even a ba"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30221536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30221536", "by": "satysin", "time": 1644072389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly this. These people are more than welcome to setup a blog and write up their views should they wish but there is an astronomical difference between them posting their views on whatever subject they wish and inviting them onto a podcast listened to by tens of millions as if they are some sort of respected expert in the subject. Also as I said in my original post this is not just aimed at Rogan's podcast but the media in general. Many times I have seen experts in a subject with decades of experience sat next to a random person from MumsNet or some other online community with anecdotes and"}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 30221704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30221704", "by": "acebarry", "time": 1644073283, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yet he is wrong about nearly everything else. If you want a deep dive on Alex Jones and all his lies and schemes, the podcast Knowledge Fight has been documenting InfoWars for years."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30221900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30221900", "by": "naasking", "time": 1644074411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nobody on Rogan's podcast denied COVID."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30222059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222059", "by": "pfraze", "time": 1644075280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From your linked Wiki article: Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation, including making claims about the toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines;[4][19][6][31] using interviews on mass media to popularize medication with ivermectin;[32] and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted.[4] He said that LinkedIn temporarily suspended his account over a post stating that the Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation was also a board member at Pfizer, and other posts questioning the efficacy of some COVID-19 vacci"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30222171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222171", "by": "crateless", "time": 1644075954, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30223945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30223945", "by": "ComradePhil", "time": 1644085037, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From what it seems, the \"controversial\" COVID-related podcasts are intact. It's mostly his conversations with other comedians or political people like Gad Saad, Sargon of Akkad, Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes, Alex Jones etc. that have been removed which is a way of punishing Joe Rogan while making it look like it was about completely something else. Removing the COVID related podcasts when everyone is paying attention would be too obvious and Streisand effect could have made those removed episodes even more popular, which is the last thing the pharmaceuticals would want at this time. I stro"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30224603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224603", "by": "mariebks", "time": 1644087920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sunlight through a window is much less bright according to lumen meters than when you\u2019re outside. We have neurons that wake you up more and directly respond to bright light early in the morning. (paraphrased, source from Huberman Lab podcast)."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30224610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30224610", "by": "cudgy", "time": 1644087953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, why aren\u2019t people more upset about mainstream news putting out blathering nonsense in 2-3 minute sound bytes about the same topics almost verbatim. Instead, there is an uproar over a podcaster that releases long interviews of people across many subjects (including controversial ones). We should be encouraging more discourse like we see on Rogan\u2019s podcast, not berating it, especially if you prefer deeper discussion without fear of backlash by \u201csqueaky wheel\u201d personalities like Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30226828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30226828", "by": "ALittleLight", "time": 1644099506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First, you seem to be shifting the goalposts a bit. We've gone from \"Rogan isn't challenging orthodoxy\" to \"Rogan's challenges to orthodoxy aren't substantive in my view\". Second, perhaps I'm just not understanding you, but your comment doesn't read to me as coming from someone who has listened to Rogan's podcast. Rogan doesn't monologue about his views on the vaccine. He has on domain experts with controversial opinions and has a conversation with them."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30229948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30229948", "by": "jakelazaroff", "time": 1644128024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quoting OP: > Whereas we currently have a half dozen or so music streaming services that all have roughly the same content, we\u2019ll soon find content fragmented across 20 different platforms; each corresponding to a specific slice of consumer preferences. Many of us will have to subscribe to multiple services to get the content we seek and will not be able to mix content. E.g., many of my current playlists on Spotify would be split across several disjoint streaming platforms. Where else can you get Joe Rogan's podcast, today? Nowhere. That's fragmentation. Spotify literally signed the contract e"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30230967, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230967", "by": "Joeri", "time": 1644141157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are going to have to provide sources for these claims. Freakonomics podcast did an episode on the topic of online advertising and argued largely the opposite of what you\u2019re saying, that there is massive overspending on online advertising, and increases in sales often get misattributed to ad campaigns when they have other causes. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30234828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234828", "by": "lanstin", "time": 1644169334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure how that works with consciousness emerging from the substrate. There is no formal notion of consciousness in the simulation, it emerges after intelligence evolves or whatever. You don\u2019t want to cartoonize entire galaxies after the first intelligence evolves because you don\u2019t yet detect consciousness in those other galaxies, because then they won\u2019t get consciousness. On the other hand, Chalmers seems to allow for consciousness of varying degrees, in the additional quality or factor that is consciousness, so maybe the whole universe is watching itself a lot of the time. (Based on the in"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30237322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30237322", "by": "adolph", "time": 1644183863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't see it mentioned here yet, but the Huberman Lab podcast \"Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing For Mental & Physical Health & Performance\" covers the function of sighs and other interesting topics. \"They discuss physiological sighs, peptides expressed by specific neurons controlling breathing, and magnesium compounds that can improve cognitive ability and how they work.\" https://hubermanlab.com/dr-jack-feldman-breathing-for-mental..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30238537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30238537", "by": "donmcronald", "time": 1644192889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> You seem to be somewhat misinformed. It's not what Joe Rogan says that is under fire, it's what his guests say. Rogan mostly says stuff like \"wow\" and lets his guests speak. Rogan is providing his guests with a massive platform that can be used to disseminate information, so I think he has a responsibility to make sure his guests aren't spreading misinformation. Imagine if a popular influencer with a young fanbase had a guest on that swore eating Tide Pods was good for your health. Would you think a simple \"wow\" would be enough to absolve that influencer of responsibility for the message bei"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 30240477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30240477", "by": "tomrod", "time": 1644208513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chesterton's Fence sounds like it was retooled by Jordan Peterson in his definition of truth (broadly: anything evolutionarily useful, Making Sense podcast w/ Sam Harris). Peterson takes it to weird places, IMO, and Chesteron's Fence works better. \"Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put there.\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30241365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241365", "by": "np1810", "time": 1644218476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree, I recently found out about Lex Fridman [0] podcast and I am very satisfied with the experts in their field expressing their history and opinions, kinda reminds me of old TED... :) [0]: https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 30250731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30250731", "by": "tombert", "time": 1644266364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Taken to its logical extreme (which I realize is unfair to your point), what you are suggesting is \"people should be able to post anything about anyone at any time and spotify should host it\", which I think is ridiculous on its face? Should Spotify be hosting a Daily Stormer podcast? How about The Daily Shoah? [1] I don't think they should. Let's be honest; this is corporate America. It's not about \"principles\", it's about money. If Spotify thinks that long-term hosting Joe Rogan is going to cost them more money, they're going to get rid of it. [1] Do not look either of these things up. They a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30251783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30251783", "by": "csdvrx", "time": 1644270531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An interesting analysis about how open discussion can promote broader understanding: > \"If you Google McCullough\u2019s and Malone\u2019s appearances on the Rogan podcast, you\u2019ll see no shortage of fact-checks by various outlets, which is a good thing and to be expected, because that\u2019s how the internet works. It turns out, discussion, even erroneous discussion, can serve as an opportunity to promote broader understanding. Who would\u2019ve thought?\""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30254078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30254078", "by": "mythopedia", "time": 1644285507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is amazing to me, because I am also listening to the Revolutions podcast (just finished part 1 of the Russian Revolution, i'm sure this Stolypin guy will make some good reforms and Tsar Nicholas II will live happily ever after). However, I come away from these episodes with a completely different lesson: that the people opposed to universal suffrage were almost always the people in power who did not want to risk losing power, and so drew convenient lines to disenfranchise anybody who threatened their regime. I very much do not think there is any merit to the idea that only those who claim"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30266584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30266584", "by": "WestCoastJustin", "time": 1644364345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend Ray Dalio's new book: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail [1]. If you want interview style he was on the Lex Fridman Podcast #251 too [2]. Takes a look at historical ups and downs and gives hard data without too much colour being added. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TISMidxdZoc"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 30268316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268316", "by": "pigbearpig", "time": 1644376555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, maybe they can try to listen to the 99% Invisible podcast in the meantime. Oh wait, https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-... . 2016 was apparently a good year for Mazda infotainment systems."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 30270364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270364", "by": "nickelpro", "time": 1644395732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The name of the podcast is \"99% Invisible\", not \"%99 Invisible\". \"99% Invisible\" produces the expected result: https://godbolt.org/z/Mc9zPKWdq"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 30270410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270410", "by": "jcun4128", "time": 1644396192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh man underwater exploration is so cool, the drone sonar mapping in particular. Heard a cool podcast on Embedded FM 363 Squishy Nature Talks about electronic design under deep water pressure/Rovers Also enjoyed the Deepsea Challenge James Cameron free (w ads) on YT."}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 30270507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270507", "by": "tylerlwsmith", "time": 1644397040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is totally fair. A few years back I worked on a Laravel project when both me and the other dev were fairly new to Laravel, and neither of us were particularly adept sysadmins. Forge was a life-saver when it came time to deploy. Now that I'm _much_ more experienced with Linux server management, I found a mix of Laravel's official deployment docs and some community tutorials more than enough to spin up my Laravel apps on Digital Ocean. I think that Laravel providing Forge as an official happy path for deployment is to the benefit of newer Laravel developers. I've listened to the hosts of th"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30273818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273818", "by": "robbedpeter", "time": 1644420922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">>The 2020 presidential election monitoring project successfully recruited a diverse group of 732 registered voters in three battleground states: Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina. It preserved more than 500,000 ephemeral experiences on Google, Bing, Yahoo, YouTube, and Facebook. These are the fleeting experiences that Big Tech companies use to influence votes and opinions worldwide and that are normally lost forever. >>A preliminary analysis of the data shows that Google search results (but NOT search results on Bing or Yahoo) had a significant liberal bias \u2013 enough to have shifted at leas"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30280077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280077", "by": "softwarebeware", "time": 1644448389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Darknet Diaries podcast if you don't already. There are some episodes that reveal how top hackers were taken down by the FBI. It's the randomest stuff you would never expect too, usually not related to tech stack."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30286969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30286969", "by": "moshferatu", "time": 1644505080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I essentially solved all of my sleep problems by doing the following: Getting 15-30 minutes of bright light exposure first thing in the morning. Ideally this would be sunlight, but I don't have that option this time of year based on how early I wake up (I'm in the PNW and wake up at 6am), so I use a sun lamp I bought on Amazon. Likewise, minimizing blue / bright light after the sun goes down. If I need to use my computer, I have flux installed and set to the lowest brightness setting. I do something similar for my phone as well. Supplementing glycine, magnesium glycinate (which also contains g"}, {"show": "1565845318", "hn_item": 30291642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30291642", "by": "tchock23", "time": 1644523240, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Exit Scam is also worth checking out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exit-scam/id1565845318 (Disclosure: I know one of the producers)"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 30292299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30292299", "by": "arbol", "time": 1644526165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This brain map was constructed from fMRI scans of participants listening to fictional podcasts called \"The Moth\". The fact these words are all grouped together suggests a high level of `arousal` which may be related to an emotive part of the story's narrative. You may very well have deduced part of the story. \"child\" does seem like an outlier when you consider individual words but it's the overall context that's important. Your second example highlights many words that related to time. wife, husband, *afterwards*, *afterward*, aunt, *staying*, *months*, weeks, *slept*, *waited*, *month*, *leav"}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 30292912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30292912", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1644528651, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you want to skip past the intro segments, you can use a different player like the Apple Podcasts site. The actual interview starts at 10:00: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twenty-years-of-c-with..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30296298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296298", "by": "barbacoa", "time": 1644548110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">This is the first time I\u2019ve ever heard him speak. Is he always this awkward? Elon Musk did a Joe Rogan podcast where they smoked a blunt and drank whiskey. Elon went on random mumbling stoner pontifications. It was cringe. It was so bad it made Tesla stock tank."}, {"show": "1619378488", "hn_item": 30297368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30297368", "by": "brentroose", "time": 1644557028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've made a Dutch podcast about my first five years being a professional programmer at a web agency: clients were blatantly lied to, colleagues were pressured into doing all kinds of unethical stuff, I considered quitting programming altogether after a couple of years \u2014 it was a wild ride I made it into a podcast because I wanted to practice my editing skills, but it was also kind of therapeutic being able to talk about all this. So I don't care whether there's a huge audience. Creating the podcast was a goal in itself, which I achieved :) If you're Dutch and want to give it a listen, here you"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 30301173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301173", "by": "didizaja", "time": 1644585952, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a good episode [0] on Jane Street\u2019s Signals and Threads podcast in which the creator of MirageOS talks a fair bit about the inspiration behind and origins of it: [0]: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2glWu176Bt5h0NLD5MgaAB?si=u..."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 30301173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301173", "by": "didizaja", "time": 1644585952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good episode [0] on Jane Street\u2019s Signals and Threads podcast in which the creator of MirageOS talks a fair bit about the inspiration behind and origins of it: [0]: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2glWu176Bt5h0NLD5MgaAB?si=u..."}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 30309102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30309102", "by": "paradox242", "time": 1644630017, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As I read this, the tone and some of the topics started to ring a bell. Fly? Wireguard? I scrolled back up to the top to see who the author was and sure enough it was Thomas from the Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast that I've been listening to for the last few months. For anyone that enjoyed this kind content you should also definitely check out the podcast he is a part of, the other hosts are great as well."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30310766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30310766", "by": "jondwillis", "time": 1644651882, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just want to re-plug the Mike Duncan \u201cThe History of Rome\u201d podcast that I heard about in one of the comment sections for previous parts of this series here on HN. I\u2019m on episode 103! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id..."}, {"show": "1169261799", "hn_item": 30313537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313537", "by": "qrohlf", "time": 1644680122, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a really good podcast about why you can\u2019t get middle eastern mangoes in the USA, and the resulting smuggling operations that have sprung up to serve this niche - \u201cUnderground Aams Trade\u201d. Highly recommended. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/underground-aams-trade..."}, {"show": "129144284", "hn_item": 30315177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315177", "by": "projektfu", "time": 1644691735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His iProcrastinate podcast is very useful, as well as his book, \u201cSolving the Procrastination Puzzle\u201d."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30325332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30325332", "by": "LinuxBender", "time": 1644784282, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 30325842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30325842", "by": "zouhair", "time": 1644787571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's what actually happened with the FDA literally. The oxycodon debacle happened because the funding of the FDA went from being public to private. Companies wanting a permit for some drugs have to pay fees which end up holding huge power over the FDA. Behind the Bastards had 2 good episodes about it.[0][1] [0]: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... [1]: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 30330721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330721", "by": "leathersoft", "time": 1644837787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve been listening to the \u201cDropout\u201d podcast on Elizabeth Holmes and it\u2019s quite interesting that she\u2019d lower her voice purposely to make it feel more manly"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 30331650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30331650", "by": "shrikant", "time": 1644844840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's not the show's webpage, that's its Sounds page. More or Less' programme webpage is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd You can click on the the \"More or Less Podcast\" link in the show header there, which takes you to https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads , which has an \"RSS\" link just below the \"Subscribe in Sounds\" button."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30332164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332164", "by": "WaitWaitWha", "time": 1644847813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> While Rogan\u2019s views on vaccination are regrettable and profoundly unhelpful to America\u2019s attempts to battle the pandemic, his podcast is also a near-perfect simulacrum of the books burned by the firemen in Fahrenheit 451. Writing about dystopian societies, I find it pert how gingerly the author tiptoes around the Joe Rogan's podcast topic. He makes his point well, yet makes sure he sprinkles in the required disclaimers lest he gets attacked, demonstrating exactly what he is writing about."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30332540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332540", "by": "diego_moita", "time": 1644849680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The prophetic accuracy of Bradbury\u2019s work is evident in the recent controversy over Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors in this. Suppose I choose to personaly \"censor\" and stop paying attention to Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, reddit and that crappy podcast on Spotify, after I understand they're just cesspools of ignorance, childish memes and tribalism. Now I can use that time to read books from authors I don't necessarily agree with but that can engage me in a deeper discussion. Am I really practising \"censorship\"? My point is: selecting quality is not \"censorship\" it is "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30332746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332746", "by": "core-utility", "time": 1644850772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On an episode of Darknet Diaries [1] (great podcast by the way), there was someone in a similar situation as you who goes by DAWGYG, who found his stride after incarceration on HackerOne [2]. If I remember correctly, he holds the record for highest single payout. You could give that a try, though income wouldn't be steady you'd effectively be working for yourself and utilizing your skillsets for good. [1]: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/60/ [2]: https://www.hackerone.com/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 30332817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332817", "by": "pklee", "time": 1644851105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a similar post sometime back. That was about philippines - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30332821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30332821", "by": "notahacker", "time": 1644851110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The biggest irony is that Fahrenheit 451 is almost as big a sneer at modern media as it's a paen to books. As he's discovering books, Montag concludes that it's the rubbish that's broadcast on the giant TVs that's depressing his wife, and ends up torching the TV instead... I'm not sure Joe Rogan's podcast would escape Bradbury's flamethrower."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30333291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333291", "by": "tablespoon", "time": 1644853209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> The prophetic accuracy of Bradbury\u2019s work is evident in the recent controversy over Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. > My point is: selecting quality is not \"censorship\" it is mental hygiene. Bad discussions and bad ideas should really be discarded. When you tune out from a creationist, anti-vaxer, flat-earth prophet or global warming denier you are selecting for quality. I strongly agree, generally. And I'm not a Rogan fan and I don't listen to his podcast. However, it's also important to keep in mind that in some cases it's easy to confuse quality for ideological compatibility . So you may think you'"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30333805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333805", "by": "seandoe", "time": 1644855518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> deplatforming of the (at best, bimbo level) podcast the Joe Rogan Experience (which hasn't even happened!) Spotify Removes 70 Episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience - https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/02/04/spotify-removed-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30334610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334610", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1644858837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hmm this seems a bit involved but maybe I'll check it out. I've mostly stopped listening to Joe Rogan's podcast simply because Spotify is a terrible podcast platform and I don't really want to support podcasts moving to platforms over RSS."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 30335287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30335287", "by": "criddell", "time": 1644861121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really don\u2019t understand their strategy here. I was listening to the ATP podcast. All three hosts are big fans of Apple, they use and promote Apple products, and make all or some of their living selling apps. They all think Apple is making a huge mistake here. Is there anybody who thinks Apple\u2019s recent moves are going to be good for them long term? When even your biggest fans think you are being petulant and foolish, maybe it\u2019s time to reevaluate?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 30336069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336069", "by": "rosndo", "time": 1644863654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I was listening to the ATP podcast. All three hosts are big fans of Apple, they use and promote Apple products, and make all or some of their living selling apps. They all think Apple is making a huge mistake here. Hmmm\u2026"}, {"show": "1680897946", "hn_item": 30338113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30338113", "by": "thirdtrigger", "time": 1644871829, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 30339233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339233", "by": "cassianoleal", "time": 1644877487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the Blowback podcast. [0] It really puts the role of the media in starting, or at least helping setting the stage and muster public support for wars, into perspective. [0] https://blowback.show/"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 30339859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339859", "by": "shimst3r", "time": 1644880600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s been a recent podcast episode on this on the Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/209 All the best to your friend, may they have the power and support to go through this change."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 30339859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339859", "by": "shimst3r", "time": 1644880600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s been a recent podcast episode on this on the Go Time podcast: https://changelog.com/gotime/209 All the best to your friend, may they have the power and support to go through this change."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 30342524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30342524", "by": "devmunchies", "time": 1644896762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \u201cThis Week in Startups\u201d podcast from last week, episode 1378, interviewed the CEO. They are hiring their own drivers and building their own delivery hubs, meaning products you order are coming from their hubs, not from CVS or Walmart. They have more control over efficiency. They even acquired BevMo and are converting those into hubs."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 30345713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345713", "by": "vegai_", "time": 1644929083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I already pay premium for some things for the sake of not being a part of the ad economy. Sam Harris's podcast being one example. How about selling a premium version of Firefox, with polished versions of uMatrix and uBlock included? I might pay a small renewing subscription for that and for other things like that. Firefox apparently has less than 200 million users left. 0.1% of those taking part of such a thing (say $5/mo) would mean a monthly revenue of 10 million. That would make some sort of a dent in their finances and if they communicated this clearly, it would be harmonious with their mi"}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 30346720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30346720", "by": "loceng", "time": 1644934774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Firstly, there is more money flowing to the peaceful protestors from other sources/channels than either the GoFundMe or GiveSendGo - which this myopic propaganda news piece (to go along with the hack/leak of personal data from GiveSendGo's database) of course that doesn't include critical thinking or discuss the broader context - and then people parrot the shallow narrative because they're not thinking for themselves, but just repeat what they see in mainstream - or upvoted to the top of Reddit, etc. Likewise, we only have the demographic data for GiveSendGo. I'd bet that if the GoFundMe donat"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30347212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347212", "by": "belter", "time": 1644936943, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1565845318", "hn_item": 30348888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348888", "by": "languagehacker", "time": 1644943339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great podcast about Cotten called Exit Scam. I'm not entirely convinced that Robertson is an unwitting party to this. My guess is that the author did what she could to endear herself to Robertson to gain exclusivity on certain aspects of the story, but it comes off as more of an apology than it probably needs to be."}, {"show": "1184022695", "hn_item": 30349894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349894", "by": "loceng", "time": 1644946997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who aren't aware of the dire situation with how badly our Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been unreasonably infringed upon by our government the last 2 years, including not even doing the due process required if they wanted to reasonably infringe upon it - which there is a method to doing so but which then requires public debate which Trudeau loves avoiding as part of his controlling the narrative, please watch Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford discussing our constitutional crisis, as well as Peckford's filing a lawsuit against the Federal government a few weeks ago: \"Canadian Co"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 30353552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353552", "by": "mateus1", "time": 1644963143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Please don't take your scientific news from Joe Rogan. Science Vs. podcast has just released a great episode on the kinds of misinformation spread there... https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/49hngng"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 30357677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30357677", "by": "noduerme", "time": 1645001143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah I don't know if you listen to Jon Stewart's podcast at all, but he talks a bit about Rogan and the difference between disinformation and misinformation. Rogan's definitely the latter. I don't think he's actively trying to spread lies, and he's frankly fun to listen to sometimes. It also annoys me that the woke train have suddenly gotten their panties in a knot over him when they've probably never listened to him. But as someone who has listened to him, I think where I got pissed off is exactly what this author is talking about... it's not that he has lousy people on his show, it's that he"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 30359563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30359563", "by": "stfwn", "time": 1645017430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's such a cool nugget of information. The Versailles one is apparently A = 435 Hz, the 'diapason normal'. Nowadays we mostly use concert pitch at A = 440 Hz. The 99% Invisible podcast has a mini-story on it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/mini-stories-volume-8... They say that after Versailles: > London\u2019s Royal Philharmonic Society would still tune higher to about 439 Hz though. This was because the mandate specified that Concert A should be 435 Hz according to a tuning fork of a specific weight at 15 degrees Celsius. The temperature was specified so that the metal tuning fork coul"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 30360031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30360031", "by": "specialist", "time": 1645020201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just finished (audiobook) Projections by Karl Deisseroth. Each chapter a personal story about a distinct mental disease, using narrative and neuroscience to span the gulf between patient and caregiver. Deisseroth worked on innovative diagnostic techniques like optogenetics. A brilliant, deeply empathic writer. Left me both melancholic and weirdly optimistic. https://www.amazon.com/Projections-Story-Emotions-Karl-Deiss... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics After David Graeber's Debt: The 5000 Years reprogrammed my brain, I've been binging on anarchistic-libertarian and adjacent ideas. S"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 30360547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30360547", "by": "Torkel", "time": 1645022571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hardcore History podcast, \u201dSupernova of the East\u201d. Chances are most HN readers who upvote this story has already listened to this, but if there\u2019s someone who missed it\u2026 go listen :)"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 30360586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30360586", "by": "q_andrew", "time": 1645022747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcom Gladwell did a great segment on his podcast Revisionist History about this. He talks about the schools of thought in the US military about who and what to bomb that lead to these campaigns. It is extremely tragic that these citizen-heavy areas were absolutely pulverized. There's evidence that the US military used similar techniques in the Korean war."}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 30365158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30365158", "by": "dundarious", "time": 1645042781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm quite excited for the Blowback podcast season 3, coming out this summer. The new subject is the Korean war. Season 1 and 2, on the Iraq wars and the Cuban missile crisis respectively, are my favorite podcasts."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 30366489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30366489", "by": "tpowell", "time": 1645049471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thoroughly enjoyed his Revisionist History podcast on this and the book it bore that received the same audio treatment: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-bomber-mafia-a-drea..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30368389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30368389", "by": "imgabe", "time": 1645060691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Mobile game that divides the earth in hexagons Interesting that I hear about this twice in the space of a week or so. Neal Stephenson was talking about it on the Lex Fridman podcast too. Apparently it's not possible. You'll always need a certain number of pentagons to complete the tiling."}, {"show": "534941512", "hn_item": 30376914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376914", "by": "mrweasel", "time": 1645123389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe one of the hosts on the Coder Radio podcast moved into a home with some home automation stuff (light, heating and locks), but wasn't informed about the configuration or how to operate it. He described it as moving into a haunted house."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 30382677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382677", "by": "ragebol", "time": 1645165192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode of the Omega Tau podcast on this topic, not sure which one I mean from these though: http://omegataupodcast.net/tag/fusion/"}, {"show": "1559758759", "hn_item": 30384478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30384478", "by": "lawrenceyan", "time": 1645184040, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 30402624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402624", "by": "startblue", "time": 1645323439, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1041684187", "hn_item": 30403171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403171", "by": "crossroadsguy", "time": 1645330630, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really like this podcast. If anyone is interested in podcasts from or about India (mostly history related), here I list some: - Scroll & Leaves - https://scrollsandleaves.com/ - Incarnations: India in 50 lives - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05rptbv - History of India - https://overcast.fm/itunes1041684187/the-history-of-india-po... - Desi Stones and Bones - https://desistonesandbones.org - Echoes of India - https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/show/echoes-of-india-a-history... There are two fine BBC podcasts on modern India (last colonial years and onwards) but those are in Hindi (ones I am aw"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30403612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403612", "by": "vulcan01", "time": 1645337266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2]. For video content of a similar feel, Historia Civilis[3] is hard to beat. [0]: revolutionspodcast.com [1]: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ [2]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 30403612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403612", "by": "vulcan01", "time": 1645337266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2]. For video content of a similar feel, Historia Civilis[3] is hard to beat. [0]: revolutionspodcast.com [1]: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ [2]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30403612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403612", "by": "vulcan01", "time": 1645337266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2]. For video content of a similar feel, Historia Civilis[3] is hard to beat. [0]: revolutionspodcast.com [1]: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ [2]: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30403903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403903", "by": "mosiuerbarso", "time": 1645341710, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I love stuff like this. Thanks to the OP for suggesting this podcast, i'll be adding it to pocket casts. As for history podcast suggestions, there are many decent podcasts for specifics historical eras or events. Here's a few of my favourites: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ and old one but still an excellent: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id... I have more on my phone, but they're specific to UK history (where i live). I've not listened to first two in a while as I'm listen to a lot of history books via a"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30403903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403903", "by": "mosiuerbarso", "time": 1645341710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love stuff like this. Thanks to the OP for suggesting this podcast, i'll be adding it to pocket casts. As for history podcast suggestions, there are many decent podcasts for specifics historical eras or events. Here's a few of my favourites: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ and old one but still an excellent: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id... I have more on my phone, but they're specific to UK history (where i live). I've not listened to first two in a while as I'm listen to a lot of history books via a"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 30403903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403903", "by": "mosiuerbarso", "time": 1645341710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love stuff like this. Thanks to the OP for suggesting this podcast, i'll be adding it to pocket casts. As for history podcast suggestions, there are many decent podcasts for specifics historical eras or events. Here's a few of my favourites: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ and old one but still an excellent: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id... I have more on my phone, but they're specific to UK history (where i live). I've not listened to first two in a while as I'm listen to a lot of history books via a"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 30404142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30404142", "by": "wswope", "time": 1645344806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shadows of Utopia is a really good Cambodian history podcast. Tides of History likes to cover African/Asian/Precolumbian a lot. Highly recommend both."}, {"show": "1498060838", "hn_item": 30404417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30404417", "by": "rustoo", "time": 1645349177, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1245120783", "hn_item": 30404766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30404766", "by": "crossroadsguy", "time": 1645353885, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://overcast.fm/itunes1245120783 \u0935\u093f\u0935\u0947\u091a\u0928\u093e https://overcast.fm/p686440-1S0rdQ \u092c\u0940\u092c\u0940\u0938\u0940 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0940 - seems defunct/dead but old episodes are still available and overlaps quite some with vivechna."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30407239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30407239", "by": "foobarian", "time": 1645377200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not about India but on the topic of favorite podcasts, anything by Mike Duncan. Starting with the History of Rome series to the whole Revolutions series. Not too dramatic, but not 100% dry either."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 30408548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408548", "by": "sdsaga12", "time": 1645385721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This had been my impression of PTP too, and I think in many circumstances it's true, but I recently listened to this episode from Jane Street's Signals and Threads podcast that gave some interesting explanation of why they chose to base their synchronization system on NTP: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/ Preview: \"Yeah. I think that\u2019s roughly the conclusion I came to, that that\u2019s what makes PTP more accurate than NTP, which was surprising to me. And then I did a bunch of research and was talking to various people in the industry, and at various conferences and stuff, and t"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 30408548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408548", "by": "sdsaga12", "time": 1645385721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This had been my impression of PTP too, and I think in many circumstances it's true, but I recently listened to this episode from Jane Street's Signals and Threads podcast that gave some interesting explanation of why they chose to base their synchronization system on NTP: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/ Preview: \"Yeah. I think that\u2019s roughly the conclusion I came to, that that\u2019s what makes PTP more accurate than NTP, which was surprising to me. And then I did a bunch of research and was talking to various people in the industry, and at various conferences and stuff, and t"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30409614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409614", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1645394057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll had Cory Doctorow on his Mindscape podcast and it's been a while, but I recall it being the best case I had heard for antitrust legislation. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/10/21/69-c... Ctrl-f transcript if you prefer to read."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30415850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30415850", "by": "choletentent", "time": 1645451567, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of Lex Friedman. I've listen to most of his podcasts. But recently, he's talking to much before thinking, without adding any value to the conversation or pushing his ideas that are, at least, very controversial. Nothing against him personally. But I know his opinions on things already. I don't want listen him preaching them over and over. I noticed that his comments add so little to the conversation, that if I could trim his voice out of the podcast, that would increase the quality of it. I thought there would be some automated way of doing it using ML. I have some experience wit"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 30416786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416786", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1645456806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, built in male ev-psych concern about sex (and really it\u2019s the connection to paternity) vs female concern about resource investment. Poly people argue you can learn to get over these things, but I\u2019m not so sure. I remember reading poly tends to appear in communities where there are men with very high status and wealth. In that context it makes sense men would push for harems (like a gorilla) and try to persuade others to do this too (obviously with more complex better sounding arguments than \u201cI want a harem\u201d), but I remain pretty skeptical. Ultimately people can do what they want. I\u2019m jus"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30419747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419747", "by": "Zanneth", "time": 1645472653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to both episodes of Lex Fridman's podcast where he interviewed Chris and he seems like an extremely humble and intelligent guy. No question he is one of the leading experts on compilers too, and has a lot of hardcore engineering background to prove it. Sometimes organizations just grow to be too large and too remote to sustain a productive and respectful environment. I don't think anyone is necessarily at fault here."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 30422830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30422830", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1645491207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast had a great interview with the paper's author, here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-07/this-is-w..."}, {"show": "1474245040", "hn_item": 30427272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30427272", "by": "mightybyte", "time": 1645534167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Research suggests that happiness isn't quite that simple. It's not obvious which direction the causation arrow points. See for example this podcast on the topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happiness-lab-with..."}, {"show": "1485144537", "hn_item": 30431436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431436", "by": "ahodson", "time": 1645554199, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 30437009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30437009", "by": "y2so", "time": 1645584748, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 30437382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30437382", "by": "Forricide", "time": 1645588447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Josh Wardle, creator of Wordle, was interviewed on the Syntax podcast and they discussed exactly this. I'd paraphrase the segment (it was a really interesting bit on design philosophy) but I don't remember it quite well enough so I'd probably butcher it. But, suffice it to say the creator agrees."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 30446358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30446358", "by": "mchusma", "time": 1645649906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do recommend the book \"The High Cost of Free Parking.\" The podcast EconTalk did an episode with him too. It's very clear to me after reading these that government enforced parking minimums and free parking should go."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30453930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30453930", "by": "sorokod", "time": 1645706025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also on Revolutions podcast (quite amazing timing) https://revolutionspodcast.libsyn.com/1087-anarchy-in-ukrain..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30460021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30460021", "by": "KevinBenSmith", "time": 1645735387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haha, I know what you mean. I think almost everyone skips the ads to a certain extent. But you still end up hearing about them at some point. Some of my favorite podcasts are Lex Fridman, Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman. So there is no way around hearing some \"Athletic Greens\" ads. And after a while, I actually bought some :D Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 30468241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30468241", "by": "tpoindex", "time": 1645802812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John McWhorter's podcast \"Lexicon Valley\" has a 45 minute episode on the word if you would like to dig a little deeper. https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/john-mcwhorter-f-word-hist... If you'd like to get newer episodes of Lexicon Valley, it's been moved to: https://www.booksmartstudios.org/s/lexicon-valley"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30479747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479747", "by": "sagark1992", "time": 1645897166, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30480278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30480278", "by": "kaesar14", "time": 1645900293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sucks that the Lex podcast has maybe the best guests of any podcast out there right now and he's such a terrible interviewer. Seriously, give me this guest list with Rogan on the other side any day of the week."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30481112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481112", "by": "323", "time": 1645904716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI: Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin, and how one of his life goals is to interview him. Which apparently will happen soon. He also didn't condemn the invasion, just basically said that \"war is bad\", as if both sides are equally to blame."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30481359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30481359", "by": "hollerith", "time": 1645906107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Lex Fridman mentioned on multiple podcasts how much he admires Putin I think that is a distortion of Lex's opinions."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30483306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483306", "by": "SllX", "time": 1645918846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have insufficient data on Putin to even try in good faith to even try and analyze him, past and present. But I did just finish catching up to current on the Revolutions podcast which covers 10 political upheavals defined in the podcaster\u2019s terms as Revolutions under a broad label and what\u2019s amazing to me is that any of the Revolutions that tended to center around strongmen also tended to outstay their welcome and any of the Revolutionary Big Cheeses that lived to old age tended to lose touch with their own inner circle. The monarchs or whoever was being overthrown were also not immune to thi"}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 30486113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30486113", "by": "spiderice", "time": 1645945878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His podcast, Writing Excuses, is also a great listen. I\u2019m not a writer at all, but I listened to a ton of episodes just because it was so interesting to hear what makes good writing. Such as characters driving the plot, not the plot driving the characters. Things like that. He\u2019s been doing the podcast for years, so there is a huge backlog."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 30488131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488131", "by": "krisoft", "time": 1645967886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Ukraine had them and gave them up That is a mistatement of facts. There were Russian troops controlling Russian nukes under Russian control on Ukrainan soil. Even if Ukraine somehow seized them they couldn\u2019t have maintained them in the long run. Saying that \u201cUkraine had nukes\u201d is equivalent with saying that Belgium has nukes just because the US keeps some nuclear warheads in an airbase physically located in Belgium. If you are interested in more I recommend this Arms Control Wonk podcast episode: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1215097/deterrence-i..."}, {"show": "1601709306", "hn_item": 30488395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30488395", "by": "dombesz", "time": 1645969831, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Whenever we talk about longevity we cannot not mention David Sinclair, who is a leading researcher in longevity. His recent podcast is the most popular on the topic of longevity. https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/lifespan-with-dr-david..."}, {"show": "1570045623", "hn_item": 30491313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30491313", "by": "gspetr", "time": 1645988040, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwynHUEPo54&list=PLR1VVi2S5x... \"NBC CAUGHT Spreading Literal Nazi, Deep State Propaganda | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar\" Not a fringe or right-wing source, especially considering their position among Spotify political podcasts."}, {"show": "1482889491", "hn_item": 30499418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30499418", "by": "colemanron", "time": 1646053788, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd recommend you check out the Level-up Engineering podcast. They cover engineering management topics with a large library of content out already, and it keeps going strong. https://codingsans.com/engineering-management-podcast"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 30500144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30500144", "by": "elesbao", "time": 1646058484, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "545045867", "hn_item": 30503270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30503270", "by": "johntrain", "time": 1646073317, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-horton-show-just..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30510842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30510842", "by": "omnitheorist", "time": 1646120060, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently been listening to Lex Fridman's podcast while I go on walks, etc. I enjoy the diversity and calibre of guests he has, but I'd like to broaden my podcast listening a bit. What podcasts do you recommend in the same vein?"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30512249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512249", "by": "top_sigrid", "time": 1646129992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a Darknet Diaries episode about this heist, which is very recommendable as most of this podcast's episodes: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/72/"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 30523106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523106", "by": "bruth", "time": 1646189942, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Changelog podcast with the author: https://changelog.com/podcast/482"}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 30523923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523923", "by": "SllX", "time": 1646197088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the stated reasoning. It came out in the court case that the real reasoning was to discriminate on the basis of race without saying they were discriminating on the basis of race, and they weren\u2019t very careful about hiding the fact that the changes were racially motivated in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing. Here\u2019s the opinion: https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Coalitio... The whole opinion is worth reading, but the meat starts from the middle of page 5 onward. Their explicit goal was to change the racial makeup of the school for political purposes, and so the"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 30528121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528121", "by": "cassianoleal", "time": 1646233480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you'd like to understand better the whole deal with Iraq, from the early days until the rise of ISIS, check out the Blowback podcast [0], Season 1. [0] https://blowback.show/"}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 30529045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30529045", "by": "trts", "time": 1646238176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although he was mainly conservative, O'Rourke was a popular iconoclast with respect to both major U.S. political parties. That you could read him in the Washington Post and also find him on an NPR show like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me points to a time seemingly in the distant past when the U.S. wasn't so politically entrenched and polarized. If you didn't agree with what he said, it was still easy to enjoy his writing and find truth in it. Not sure there is any comparable figure today that comes to mind. Last week I enjoyed listening to a rebroadcast of his appearance on James Altucher's podcast"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 30531933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30531933", "by": "JordanTen", "time": 1646250268, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30537961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537961", "by": "pat2man", "time": 1646290375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a Freakonomics podcast ( https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-cities-still-so-exp... ) that addresses this head on. Essentially there used to be a lot of cheap housing that was quite unsafe. By making slums illegal we made housing expensive. And the one potential solution to this (building more housing) has been politically unfeasible."}, {"show": "189330872", "hn_item": 30562107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30562107", "by": "adrianmonk", "time": 1646437150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> makes me wonder \"why now?\" Today's episode of the Scientific American's podcast \"COVID Quickly\" ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-push-... ) had an interview with Flu pandemic historian John Barry. (The interview is the second half of the episode.) They asked him how he'd define when a pandemic is over, and he said there's a science aspect to it, but it's largely when \"people stop paying attention to it\". They also said the 1918 flu pandemic had 4 waves, and most of the US put restrictions in for wave 2. For wave 3, some areas did and some didn't. By wave 4, which was "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30571358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30571358", "by": "OrlandoHakim", "time": 1646510720, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Or, as happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, these actions could further radicalize an entire population. I think it is safe to assume that if the west applies broad and indiscriminate sanctions that devastate the lives of everyday Russians, many/most are more likely to blame the west who directly imposed the sanctions rather than their own government who will very likely use propaganda to convince them to hate their western oppressors. It is similar, in my opinion, to the broader Islamic radicalization that occurred after 9/11 when the US employed extraordinary rendition and enhanced interrogatio"}, {"show": "1295289140", "hn_item": 30572686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30572686", "by": "explodingman", "time": 1646520000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> From the perspective of your immune system's cells, what exactly does the vitamin D molecule do? Probably nothing. High vitamin D levels are a side effect of being outdoors a lot and therefore getting more exercise than the deskbound population. I recall during lockdown listening to a Slate Star Codex article (on the Astral Codex Ten podcast) which went through a stack of papers and concluded that there was nothing to see here. The article should be retitled \"Pre-Infection exercise levels associated with severity of Covid-19 illness\"."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 30573757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30573757", "by": "323", "time": 1646527757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the TWiV (This Week in Virology) podcast at one point they discussed what would be some of the consequences if the lab leak theory were to be proven. One aspect mentioned was that all the virology labs doing dangerous research would be moved outside of big cities. Then they concluded that such an act would be a terrible thing to do, since no virologist would want to work and live in the middle of nowhere."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30576844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30576844", "by": "0898", "time": 1646566921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "If there's one thing I've learned from listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast, it's that almost any important piece of computerised equipment is vulnerable to sabotage. Even obscure industrial controllers in oil refineries can be damaged if you're familiar with how they work, and you're creative enough to nudge them into an unsafe state. So when I see that 64km military convoy outside Kyiv... ...full of heavily armoured vehicles and brutal looking military gear... ...I naturally wonder: how much of this kit is computerised? How vulnerable is it to malicious code? Instead of taking down websi"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 30580498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580498", "by": "dukeofdoom", "time": 1646595768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If a government indefinitely \"freezes\" your bank account, the only practical difference from \"seizing\" is semantics. Just like you can protest freely, as long as you don't mind getting trampled by a horse or your ribs broken. If you can't win with facts, argue semantics and the definitions of words. I've heard it many times on Sam Harris podcast. So who's trying to misinform?"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 30587575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30587575", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1646660369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a book, but The History of English Podcast is excellent: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/"}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 30590912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30590912", "by": "ifokiedoke", "time": 1646675019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Nuclear waste in canisters has never hurt anyone\" This is an interesting statement, and though true I think it's a bit disingenuous. I'm no expert on nuclear or nuclear power, but I recently listened to a Canadaland podcast about nuclear waste [0] and did a little extra reading [1][2] on deep geological nuclear disposal. If what I heard/read is to believed, it sounds like although the international science community has agreed on the best and safest way to bury nuclear waste, this hasn't _actually_ ever been done. It's one thing to say to a community \"in theory, we all agree that if everyth"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30600657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600657", "by": "AlexanderTheGr8", "time": 1646751922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to read that book someday. If you liked the book, you will also like Mr Becker's podcast with Lex Fridman. Can you give a summary of the book? Thanks a bunch!"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30604563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30604563", "by": "claudiulodro", "time": 1646766259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ernest Becker died like 50 years ago -- how did he do a podcast with Lex Fridman? :)"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30622393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622393", "by": "wyre", "time": 1646877309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Huberman Lab podcast recently had Dr. David Sinclair [1] and talked about food causing aging due to it's relation to mTOR. I don't remember the details that well but they covered it very well. My takeaway was if your priority is anti-aging fasting and limiting protein is better, but I personally prefer wellness and that generally means consuming higher levels of protein. [1] https://youtu.be/n9IxomBusuw"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30622886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30622886", "by": "fmakunbound", "time": 1646882472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interview with Marcus on Sean Carroll\u2019s podcast show recently. He seems to be more of an advocate for a hybrid approach than a one or the other guy (symbolic or gradients). https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/02/14/184-... Jesus Christ though, it is pretty embarrassing about the Nethack result."}, {"show": "1584849077", "hn_item": 30626291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30626291", "by": "seer", "time": 1646916475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The work from Dr. Sinclair, and various other scientist seems to agree that its not just weight and body shape, you actually live longer and have less illnesses throughout your life. Really fascinating stuff - the Lifespan podcast really changed how I think about all of this. I'm like you and haven't had breakfast in quite a while, but recently started skipping launch as well. A lot harder, but supposedly will feel about the same when my body adjusts."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30629757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30629757", "by": "rg111", "time": 1646933802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was recently covered in the Huberman Podcast as well. One should not only maintain screen color and brightness, but also room and overall environment color and brightness. I bought a \"smart\" light after listening to that episode. No clearly visible signs of improvement yet. But it certainly feels good."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30638011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30638011", "by": "Lascaille", "time": 1646991316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Substack already tends to specialize on hyper-conservative and anti-woke ramblings; I'm curious to see how this will play out in the long term. Probably very well, for the same reason that Joe Rogan's podcast is the most listened to podcast in the US: those views are widely accepted by about 50% of the population. Despite your pejorative labelling you aren't actually finding extreme minority viewpoints on substack, you're finding modern-day mainstream conservative perspectives. The readership potential is huge."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 30644250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30644250", "by": "tnzk", "time": 1647024373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "100% agree. Maybe podcasts would suit better for this purpose? I suggest Modern Web[1] and Soft Skills Engineering[2]. Both are also available outside Spotify. [1] https://open.spotify.com/show/5FGA58foRFkJ6IgJbCFYgm?si=tDKE... [2] https://open.spotify.com/show/59I1XnvAB9fQzSj9SIKCoI?si=v58-... *"}, {"show": "1482132871", "hn_item": 30647757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30647757", "by": "geenew", "time": 1647044390, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "IANANWEONWP, but: For the number of decoys vs warheads, I /think/ the only real design limit is the throw-weight of the missile and volume of the fairing. This[0] has slightly more information on decoys. The 'it depends' remark is based on the fact that, AFAIK, the choice of decoy:bomb ratio depends on what the attacker thinks they need. Since the US ABM stuff is currently just for very limited strikes, I would guess they wouldn't waste too much space on that. But, they have an option to increase the ratio of decoys:bombs if the US ABM gets denser. The SS-28 missile has a high throw-weight, in"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 30650836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650836", "by": "merlinscholz", "time": 1647086974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See also: The Reply All podcast has an episode about this exact phenomenon: https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/n8ho3a"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 30654690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30654690", "by": "hansjorg", "time": 1647117612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not saying this is an outright scam, but given the history of ventures like this, I wouldn't give it a good chance to succeed on any level. The Behind the Bastards podcast had an interesting history of seasteading and similar schemes recently: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 30667221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30667221", "by": "yawgmoth", "time": 1647217795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of Byzantium podcast is both accessible and well done- https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 30668013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668013", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1647225867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like history, like podcasts, and are interested in Byzantium, you will love Robin Pierson's \u201cThe History of Byzantium\u201d podcast. https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/about/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 30668313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668313", "by": "acrefoot", "time": 1647229395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a pretty fun Radiolab episode ( https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91569... ) that suggested that the process of recall changes memories, and that they are susceptible to change while the memory is being recalled. I'm sure ECT is disruptive in many ways, including just through damage and toxicity to the cells. But, in your fuzzing idea--a hypothesis might be that recall is triggered, and while the memory is susceptible, it's disrupted permanently. Another possibility is that the memory is still there, but the proper mapping to it is lost. Reality is probably a com"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 30670393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30670393", "by": "TedDoesntTalk", "time": 1647251565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you aware that a person is alive for up to 15 seconds after beheading? There was a Stuff You Should Know podcast episode about that."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 30680473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30680473", "by": "almog", "time": 1647305345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm by no mean (sorry) a data scientist and this reads really well. This season of the Data Skeptic podcast is all about k-means and it's excellent as always: https://dataskeptic.com/episodes/k-means"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30682587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30682587", "by": "bdamm", "time": 1647329535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Didn\u2019t Bernie Sanders do the Rogan podcast?"}, {"show": "1494037881", "hn_item": 30682789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30682789", "by": "shoo", "time": 1647331901, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "the latest episode of the economist \"checks and balance\" US politics podcast touches on what cities in decline can do to try to turn things around: > Since the founding of America, its people and its economy have moved steadily westwards and, later, southwards. Recently, people and businesses have flocked to Sun Belt states, while cities in America\u2019s old industrial heartland are struggling. What makes American cities boom and bust? they give the example of Pittsburgh investing in \"Eds and Meds\" -- education and healthcare -- to regrow the city's economy after the decline of steel manufacturing"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30683677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30683677", "by": "ssl232", "time": 1647340411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was recently discussed in an interview with Lee Cronin on the Lex Fridman podcast [1]. The idea is that using only mass spectroscopy and a (hard to compute, but not impossible) look-up table, one can determine with vanishingly low uncertainty whether a complex molecule came from a biotic or abiotic process. This has implications for the detection of life on other planets. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 30683710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30683710", "by": "jack335", "time": 1647340651, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1557368060", "hn_item": 30687314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30687314", "by": "nickfrost", "time": 1647361695, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 30696006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696006", "by": "mahidhar", "time": 1647413350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have a couple of hours to spare, I recommend listening to the episode of the Songhai Empire by the Fall of Civilizations podcast. They go into the fascinating historical background of the Timbuktu scholars and libraries. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUT6LhBBYs >"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30703119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30703119", "by": "rhema", "time": 1647459907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, the only reason they were scrambled to begin with is that they had been tracking these objects for weeks using advanced radar. As I understand it, the radar is based on multiple resolutions. The active radar can point in the direction of objects of interest and get very very precise measurements. It's not just the video, its the radar data. The thing that pushed me over the edge in believing these things is the long podcast interview between Commander David Fravor and Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30703907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30703907", "by": "subsubzero", "time": 1647463823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So actually Commander Fravor saw the object with his own eyes, he is one of the pilots who was sent in to engage the craft after it appeared on radar from the carrier group, here is a detailed video of him talking about the incident with Lex Fridman(AI reasearcher - MIT) on his podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E"}, {"show": "1584849077", "hn_item": 30709169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30709169", "by": "seer", "time": 1647508739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Genetics is still king in life expectancy. Heard on the Lifespan podcast that recent studies of twins suggest genetics determine about 20% of your longevity, the rest is all environment / diet / lifestyle / stress etc. I hope that's not been disproven by newer studies that I haven't heard about? Almost all of my grandparents and parents have already died at (much) younger than average age, and I am really hoping the science about this is right otherwise its not looking good for me."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 30709266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30709266", "by": "seer", "time": 1647509870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently listing to the recent Hardcore History podcast about slavery and this strikes me as very peculiar human nature. Apparently back in the heyday of the trans Atlantic slave trade, most people understood that it's a bad thing, that treating those people like shit will someday bite them in the ass, with slave revolts and the like. Given the sensibilities of the time - French Revolution, American Revolution etc proclaiming that people should be free etc. everybody understood this was just a matter of time. But then you have all those voices saying - yeah its bad, but \"Think of the peop"}, {"show": "1568752165", "hn_item": 30710224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30710224", "by": "jacksonfsteger", "time": 1647518848, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 30710965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30710965", "by": "thomasjudge", "time": 1647523938, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As seen on the \"Accidental Tech Podcast\" atp.fm"}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 30715101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715101", "by": "jdeibele", "time": 1647546058, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "John Gruber's podcast recently had an episode[1] devoted to a photo-sharing app/website called Glass[2]. I'm not planning on joining it but I would be much more inclined to do that than pay money to Flickr. I was using the horrible Flickr interface to share photos with family. I had about 1500 photos with them, all family. They announced that they were going to cut off access for non-paying customers to anything over 1000 photos. I promptly moved and have no intention of ever going back. The fact that they weren't capable of implementing the restriction for years, just threatening it, gives th"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 30722671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30722671", "by": "specialist", "time": 1647613589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Churning ocean water is a terrific idea. Especially the added benefit protecting habitats. Thanks for sharing. -- I also have no clue about the economics of carbon capture. Maybe ask David Roberts? He has always answered my emails. (Note he's currently on vacation.) Roberts is my current primary source for climate and energy policy news. He definitely talks to all the right people, eg Saul Griffins. Here's a sample of his articles which may be relevant to your question: These uses of CO2 could cut emissions \u2014 and make trillions of dollars [2019] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30726079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30726079", "by": "kodah", "time": 1647629749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This is why you shouldn't get your medical advice from Joe Rogan. I mean, you should never really take advice from any expert that isn't sitting in front of you, imo. Podcasts exist to gather views and often incorporate bias and misinformation in various forms to achieve those ends. They're no different from listening to Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow in terms of information quality; they may interview SMEs but at the end of the day the way they interview them and the subjects they focus on matter much more if you're not a discerning person on a given subject. When I listen to podcasts, eve"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 30731190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30731190", "by": "madars", "time": 1647665748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can highly recommend Jane Street's Signals & Threads episode on clock synchronization: https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/ In fact, the entire podcast is exceptional."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 30735908, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735908", "by": "tomrod", "time": 1647712261, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This state of being is a focus of Sam Harris' Waking Up book, and one he discusses in some of his initial podcast episodes. The beatific state achievable by meditation, deep prayer, or psychedelics sounds very therapeutic. Note I'm not a Sam Harris acolyte, but I do appreciate his logic-first approach to understanding the world, the mind, current events, and life generally."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30742204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30742204", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1647780537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "George Hotz has been on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast a few times https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ Hotz has an interesting take on life and tech. If you have time, listen to one of Lex\u2019s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc. I like Hotz\u2019s idea of generic equipment that works on multiple types of cars. Off topic a little, but the Honda Pilot we bought a year ago has some driver assist technology, and we love it. I like driving myself, but having safety backups like monitoring blind spots, lane changes, staying inside lanes, etc. That said, I am willing to wait for f"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30743387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30743387", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1647789975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If you have time, listen to one of Lex\u2019s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc. That\u2019s a good way to do it. I really wanted to like Lex\u2019s podcast based on the hype and his impressive guest list, but I walk away from every episode feeling like it was full of good vibes but empty calories. It seems his trademark is softball questions delivered in the gentlest possible format, which I suppose is disappointing given his positioning as a hard-hitting intellectual. The Hotz episode was great for getting a sense of his energy and ambition, which are both impressive "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 30746346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30746346", "by": "deergomoo", "time": 1647808474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the latest episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast they were discussing a patent related to this fancy interconnect stuff, and it sounds like not only do they need two fully functioning M1 Max's, but they also need to be adjacent on the wafer. Although I guess at least they can still use the non-defective M1 Max in any pair."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 30748297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748297", "by": "sylens", "time": 1647821622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting interview on the Windows Weekly podcast with Chris Capossela (CMO of consumer at Microsoft) a little ways back I believe where the hosts asked Chris why there is no ability to do just this - I believe the answer was that Microsoft views these features as valuable to the user, so why would they think that a user would want to turn them off?"}, {"show": "1042631089", "hn_item": 30760035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760035", "by": "mishftw", "time": 1647898615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Dan Snow's History Hit podcast [0] where there was a guest episode on oligarchs & oligarchy in general. They mentioned Caesar because he was also an oligarch, like most of the other generals/Senators of Rome. Jeff Winters also wrote a book on this topic [1]. Caesar threatened the oligarchs of Rome by crossing the Rubicon with his legions which was heavily frowned upon by the others. Caesar threatened their power structure for sure and likely led to his death. [0] https://podfollow.com/dan-snows-history-hit/episode/94f58a73... [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11598740-"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 30760465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760465", "by": "abalaji", "time": 1647901261, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Historia Civilis really is one of the most spectacular YouTube channels out there. Not much other content out there compares to his high quality research coupled with fantastic storytelling. Once you've exhausted all of his videos, though, I would recommend Mike Duncan's History of Rome, an equally compelling podcast that cover Rome's rise in 753 b.c.e. to it's \"fall\" in 476 c.e. [1] [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30760680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760680", "by": "mannykannot", "time": 1647902384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found this engrossing: Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy - episode 37 of Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. It is about the Roman Republic's unusual (both in its time and as compared to to today) democratic institutions, and their decline as the republic stumbled towards autocracy. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/03/11/epis..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 30762760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30762760", "by": "nobody9999", "time": 1647923657, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I get it I feel it myself, but history doesn\u2019t repeat itself and groups of humans (especially civilizations) have so much more nuance to them it\u2019s a disservice to both Rome and American history. I agree, it's imprudent to try and draw direct parallels between the US and any other historical empire, including Rome. That said, we can learn much from history. And in the US and Europe, we can learn even more from the history of the \"West.\" As Eugen Weber[0] put it[1]: ...But where should we start? Perhaps the first thing to ask is what the scope of a series on the history of Western Civilization "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30763994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30763994", "by": "Tainnor", "time": 1647939218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I greatly admire Mike Duncan and I have listened to every episode of his History of Rome _and_ his current Revolutions podcast, as well as read the book this article is about, but ... I think the assertion that Mike Duncan is \"a fairly renowned historian\" needs some qualifications. For one, I don't think he has a history degree. And while he seems to be very good at compiling various sources and summarising them in a way that is accessible to the general interested public (and I do agree that he doesn't pretend everything is simple when it's not, and that he corrects his mistakes), that doesn'"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30768227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30768227", "by": "username190", "time": 1647966881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case others are curious, that (probably) was Episode 96[0] of the \"Darknet Diaries\" podcast. Very worth a listen IMO. [0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/96/"}, {"show": "1557368060", "hn_item": 30770660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30770660", "by": "nickfrost", "time": 1647978794, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 30781238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781238", "by": "devmunchies", "time": 1648057834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to an the Syntax podcast where it\u2019s a pain to setup cloudflare for Render"}, {"show": "1253186678", "hn_item": 30781961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781961", "by": "devmunchies", "time": 1648061928, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-devel..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 30783072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783072", "by": "subkamran", "time": 1648068092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is neat! I heard about MicroAcquire the other day on the Indie Hackers podcast but it's more around projects that have demonstrated revenue or profit. I guess it could be hard to determine the value of the project; without revenue it's hard to know what it's worth. You might be tempted to ask for a price based on your time spent but that doesn't translate to value-added. But maybe that's OK: it's meant for side projects. :)"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30789830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30789830", "by": "alsko", "time": 1648130302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy the Darknet Diaries podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 30792934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30792934", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1648143027, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember stuff like this from AP Psychology in high school. Also reminds me of the You Are Not So Smart podcast (and later, books). I am a bicycle mechanic, so the title task is not difficult. Drawing a penny, though, is a challenge; it is something that feels familiar but it has been a long time since I've given significant attention to what a penny looks like."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30795376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30795376", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1648156245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Has Zuckerberg been doing more media appearances recently? I don't remember him being on podcasts or other media much before but he's been on the Lex Fridman podcast [0] only last month, and now this one with Tim. Perhaps he's trying to increase the reach of more people knowing about metaverse stuff and Meta itself. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479747"}, {"show": "1204701206", "hn_item": 30800583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800583", "by": "yitchelle", "time": 1648205617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside, Destin has a really cool podcast \"No Dumb Questions\". Super interesting topics and engaging conversations for Destin and Matt Whitman. https://www.nodumbquestions.fm/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30801040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801040", "by": "bin_bash", "time": 1648209532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel I\u2019ve never noticed this podcast because I listen to No Stupid Questions from Freakonomics and never realized it was a different podcast"}, {"show": "1510056899", "hn_item": 30801040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801040", "by": "bin_bash", "time": 1648209532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel I\u2019ve never noticed this podcast because I listen to No Stupid Questions from Freakonomics and never realized it was a different podcast"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30801798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801798", "by": "dwd", "time": 1648214407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Huberman podcast with Matt Walker covered a few good strategies for coffee consumption. I think it was that podcast where it was suggested you should start your day with a dose of morning sunlight (dropping your cortisol levels); have your first coffee around mid-morning and your last sometime around midday. The 8-10 hours you mention is actually the half-life of caffeine for the average person - the point where the level in your system has dropped 50%. I would also debate whether caffeine/coffee consumption should be classified as an addiction, simply from the fact that it is not nec"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 30801827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801827", "by": "mhb", "time": 1648214577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of the great Radiolab botfly story: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91678..."}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 30804879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30804879", "by": "cirrus3", "time": 1648229028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excellent episode of the Omnibus podcast in which very, very large oil paintings become the 19th-century precursor of the modern movie theater: https://www.omnibusproject.com/366 Hosted by Ken Jennings and John Roderick"}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 30806012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806012", "by": "aresant", "time": 1648235565, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you enjoyed the Romero article there is an informative & belly-achingly funny podcast of Blindboy interviewing John and his spouse Brenda in front of a live audience in Ireland -> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brenda-and-john-romero... John is great in that interview, but Brenda almost out shines - she has a really fascinating history and experience in the gaming industry. If you're not far enough down the rabbit hole after listening to the above Brenda does a solo interview on the similarly awesome \"Retro Hour\" podcast that is a great listen as well -> https://audioboom.com/posts/7"}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 30806012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30806012", "by": "aresant", "time": 1648235565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you enjoyed the Romero article there is an informative & belly-achingly funny podcast of Blindboy interviewing John and his spouse Brenda in front of a live audience in Ireland -> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brenda-and-john-romero... John is great in that interview, but Brenda almost out shines - she has a really fascinating history and experience in the gaming industry. If you're not far enough down the rabbit hole after listening to the above Brenda does a solo interview on the similarly awesome \"Retro Hour\" podcast that is a great listen as well -> https://audioboom.com/posts/7"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30823067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30823067", "by": "ashvardanian", "time": 1648408118, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 30841453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841453", "by": "osener", "time": 1648555699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a fantastic episode of Signals & Threads podcast about MirageOS's roots, Xen Hypervisor and more with Anil Madhavapeddy as the guest. I found it very thought provoking: https://signalsandthreads.com/what-is-an-operating-system/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30841465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841465", "by": "timdaub", "time": 1648555771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, despite your comment sounding mean, I want to meaningfully respond: Where do you set the personal boundry for evaluating an experiment as a failure or success? E.g. in the case of social networks and what consequences Facebook brought us. When is the right time for Mark Zuckerberg to announce conclusive failure or success for his actions? Pessimists say he should have admitted it years ago. He himself doesn't even accept the premise of the argument. Rather he sees it as his personal calling or responsibility to build (source: see Lex Friedman podcast). Who's right here? Anyways, it isn't "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 30850428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30850428", "by": "exolymph", "time": 1648602711, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast might have been Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis... Priceonomics wrote an accompanying article: https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t..."}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 30851656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851656", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1648616668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From MAPS's comments on the Yensen/Dryer case: \"Updated announcement March 25, 2022 This a public announcement of additional information obtained regarding the conduct of former sub-investigators for a MAPS-sponsored clinical trial, initially publicly reported in 2019. We make this information public as part of our commitment to creating a culture of safety in psychedelic therapy and in alignment with our core value of transparency. The initial ethics complaint was reported to MAPS in 2018 by the participant. The complaint specifically identified the unethical conduct as occurring after the ac"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 30857125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30857125", "by": "bytematic", "time": 1648656430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcom Gladwell did a whole podcast series on this, season 2 of Revisionist History. But the idea is that some colleges like Yale, Harvard, Stanford have mega endowments that mean they can almost never lose money. Some rich people make huge multi million dollar donations just to make big headlines, but some small state college with a tiny endowment could have used that money across a much broader range of students."}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 30859757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30859757", "by": "wisplock", "time": 1648668587, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 30859976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30859976", "by": "pmoriarty", "time": 1648669789, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We're starting to see the beginning of the backlash that the psychedelic community has been dreading since the start of the so-called Psychedelic Renaissance about a decade ago. Everyone in the field knows that there'll inevitably be some adverse effects among some (as far as we know, small minority) of participants in these studies and users of psychedelics as a whole. We also know that both the media and many media consumers love sensationalism and mud-throwing, whatever the facts may be. So far the overwhelming majority of psychedelic studies have been enormously positive, but we also know "}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 30860951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30860951", "by": "quux", "time": 1648675457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's also talked about this on the CoRecursive Podcast: Andreas: Well, I don\u2019t know that I ever had a real direction with it. But in the beginning, I remember feeling kind of frustrated with finding myself using Linux again and thinking it\u2019s nice to be back on Linux. Everything is snappy. And the developer experience is really great, but I sure do miss having the source code for everything. Adam: This is a fascinating distinction to draw. Linux is open source. Everyone has access to the code. But if you listen to episode 70 with Joey Hess talking about Debian, making changes can be a bureaucra"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30864404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30864404", "by": "dmos62", "time": 1648708097, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> that would be a bad gym session. The goal is to push yourself. Not to injure yourself but to go until failure. Umm. Actually, as far as I know, that's completely false. What you're describing is a bad way to train your body. If you're failing reps, you're training your body to fail. I.e. \"one more rep\" culture is misguided. You don't want stress or exhaustion hormones in your system. If your goal is enhancing your body, that is. Looking at my notes, my source is Pavel Tsatsouline #1399 episode on Joe Rogan's podcast. If you can get a hold of that podcast, it's very informative. I won't comme"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 30867637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30867637", "by": "johnthuss", "time": 1648737146, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 30870189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30870189", "by": "katsura", "time": 1648749009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of the Darknet Diaries podcast episode 69: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/69/ Off topic: The site has a contact form and a login page, but no https?"}, {"show": "1606064746", "hn_item": 30870329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30870329", "by": "jacksonfsteger", "time": 1648749692, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 30870695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30870695", "by": "mceoin", "time": 1648751520, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "David Friedberg on All In Podcast went into this topic quite a bit. (His bona fides: ex Monsanto Exec, active founder/investor in food/ag space, previously founded climate.com). Prediction was 200-300m people facing starvation due to the food shortages. Fertilizer input costs being the major driver, with decline in wheat exports also being an important factor. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e72-impact-of-sanction..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 30872667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872667", "by": "slowmovintarget", "time": 1648763955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We are fairly far from AGI, and the current systems of ML are insufficient to arrive there. We have to also make progress on semantic processing. Sean Carroll's podcast with Gary Marcus is worth listening to on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRnuT9nLEE"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 30875269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30875269", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1648788213, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Also, in case anyone's interested, Freakonomics did an episode on Carmel's roundabouts last year. The discussion with the mayor of Carmel starts at 7:33: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/should-traffic-lights-..."}, {"show": "1439580309", "hn_item": 30879804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30879804", "by": "adrice727", "time": 1648829689, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "About 10 years ago, I started having really bad low back pain and could barely get out of bed some mornings. Different doctors told me different things. I tried chiropractic, acupuncture, stretching - nothing was helping. Then I came across one of Sarno's books. I was very skeptical, but I found that within 20 pages, he had described my situation to a tee. I followed the advice in the book and was back to running and yoga within a week, and was lifting weights again a couple weeks later. Sarno's books and theories are a bit outdated at this point, but we now have people like Howard Schubiner a"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 30884534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30884534", "by": "qbasic_forever", "time": 1648857221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on an episode of the Changelog podcast in the fall and went into similar topics: https://changelog.com/news/RRAw/visit It's a good listen."}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 30890080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890080", "by": "dnissley", "time": 1648921312, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Some pieces from Sullivan that fill in more background: We all live on campus now: https://archive.ph/r3hBu What happened to you?: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-you-e... Interview with Ezra Klein: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/andrew-sullivan-and-i-..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 30896903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896903", "by": "__mharrison__", "time": 1648993754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read that book at the end of last year. It seems like there is something to intentional action, not just going through the motions. (Had a similar thought listening to a recent Huberman podcast where the guest said that you would make more gains by imagining the muscles working during a workout.) I tried to apply this to my last attempt at doing the advent of code. I tracked every error I made with every solution. It was interesting because a few days in I would think, \"I don't want to do this because it leads to this bug\". If I were really meta, I would go back and analyze it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30905556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30905556", "by": "incomingpain", "time": 1649073002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He sat in a Joe Rogan podcast twice. Tim Pool told him exactly what he needed to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCBRHOg3PQ In the last 3 years, what exactly did he do? Nothing. The situation got significant worse. Worse yet, because of their size they are 'too big to fail' and so they flagrantly allowed to break the law and violate free speech? Section 230 liability protections limits their ability to censor. Twitter is certainly in violation of Section 230. They simply need to stop doing this. That's it. Fire any twitter employee who isn't a free speech absolutist. Eventually Twitter wi"}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 30911594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911594", "by": "amanaplanacanal", "time": 1649104166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone interested in these topics should check out \u201cThe Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast\u201d. I find it quite delightful."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 30914436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30914436", "by": "arnmac", "time": 1649123819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am already a part of several Mastadon instances. Each with several thousand users. The great thing is you can create your own environment where just your own users can communicate with each other or you can federate with other mastadon systems to be able to communicate with those off your server. This is not about branding or making it big. It is more about being able to control your own ability to control your communication channels. No canceling no deplatforming. Just communication. If you don't like someone you can block them. If you don't like the content from their server you can just c"}, {"show": "1293834627", "hn_item": 30922307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30922307", "by": "TheKnack", "time": 1649180764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apple invites this kind of reaction by not being transparent and not cooperating with the larger security community, for reasons that are difficult to understand. This week's episode of the the podcast run by the Intego Mac Antivirus company talked about a new malware affecting Macos that was severe enough that Apple released Xprotect signatures for it, but didn't provide details to the rest of the security community, so anti-virus vendors had to reverse engineer the Xprotect signatures to figure out what they were for. Apple usually only updates Xprotect for the highest severity malware that'"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30922801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30922801", "by": "cjbgkagh", "time": 1649182737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jordan Peterson really should have known better with regards to benzos. He said on a Joe Rogan podcast that science only recently found out how bad they were which I personally can't believe to be true, but if it is it is an indictment on 'science'."}, {"show": "1537897599", "hn_item": 30931018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931018", "by": "sandebert", "time": 1649245952, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30933849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30933849", "by": "jaegerpicker", "time": 1649261324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you sure? I know a huge number of users that advocate for Users that expose bigoted views or misinformation to be de-platformed. See the recent Joe Rogan podcast push. That wasn't a tiny percentage of users."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 30941000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30941000", "by": "joemazerino", "time": 1649310134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Olsterhelm stated on the Joe Rogan podcast in Feb 2020 about the virus being airborne."}, {"show": "1559120677", "hn_item": 30942992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942992", "by": "kazanins", "time": 1649330011, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 30945638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945638", "by": "NiagaraThistle", "time": 1649344923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a lot of good advice in the comments. I will just add for a great \"build a startup to generate enough income to live on\" model, I'd listen to Pieter Levels talks on YouTube and his first appearance on the Indie Hackers podcast. Then I'd spend $30US and buy his book 'Make'. It's the blueprint of how he built over 75 projects, monetized the successful ones, and makes almost $3m per year as a solo founder. I know a lot of people might be haters, and I DEFINITELY know his methods might not be repeatable everytime by everyone, but the tenets are sound: 1. Find a problem you want to solve "}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 30947232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30947232", "by": "cupofpython", "time": 1649350780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "life coach here. your feeling is valid and there is no 'answer'. It sounds like you believe you have to actually do something in order to have a point this feeling demands deep personal reflection and / or extended authentic conversation with someone who knows you well -- nothing a text forum will be able to give you so do not be discouraged if you read a hundred posts of advice and none of them do anything for you. If you want to explore more of the philosophy of this kind of feeling then I have a recommendation. There is a popular podcast called \"Philosophize This!\" by Stephen West that actu"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 30949441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30949441", "by": "ALittleLight", "time": 1649360477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a Lex Fridman podcast with Stephen Wolfram, Fridman observes that in some ways Wolfram and Elon Musk are alike. Wolfram agrees. The similarity is what Wolfram calls \"Optimism\" - a strong belief that not only can they accomplish great things but that they can do so relatively quickly. This is Elon Musk saying self-driving cars are going to happen by the end of the year, or Wolfram saying he's discovering the unified theory of everything. The idea they touch on in the podcast is that this optimism helps people do great things. If you realized the thing you want is decades away, you might not "}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 30967162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30967162", "by": "gherkinnn", "time": 1649504446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time has an episode on Persepolis [0]. Great episode of a great podcast. 0 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b4z075"}, {"show": "1611851260", "hn_item": 30976425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30976425", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1649593754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The broadest audience book is probably Kelton's The Deficit Myth: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45731395-the-deficit-myt... If you want a deeper dive in audio form, I really liked the MMT podcast sub-series embedded in Current Affairs' bird seed podcast. However they spend so much time on the basics and the \"controversy\" that they only focus on the central banking aspect of it; the critics they bring on are so bad at critiquing it that MMT really come out looking good. There are two aspects: 1) here's how money works with a central bank and what it means about, for example, US government"}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 30978722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30978722", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1649608441, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "David Shor\u2019s firing is the common example since it\u2019s the most egregious case (getting fired for retweeting a black professor's paper arguing riots are bad for black political movements). See: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin... Nastiness directed at JK Rowling and Jesse Singal because of trans stuff [0][1]. I\u2019d add Bari Weiss to this list too. [2] If the mob could destroy these people and get them fired they would. As it is the pressure from the mob makes things unpleasant for them. Most people would not continue to fight back against it. Sam Harris gets a similar l"}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 30980028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30980028", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1649614951, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It changed my mind because what I thought was a strawman is actually what some large group turned out to be arguing. Initially, I thought people were arguing that despite biological sex, there is a subset of people that feel like they should be the opposite gender (or a lot of variance within that) and work towards making that a reality. They still recognized the biological distinction though and that the groups were different. To me the Lia case showed a lot of people arguing more than that. That sex itself is a social construction and Lia is a woman just like a biological woman is and there "}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 30985132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985132", "by": "philosopher1234", "time": 1649656212, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id... https://youtu.be/EN9OdruH_qM"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 30985965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30985965", "by": "Traster", "time": 1649664541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the aspects I found fascinating about this was Scott Galloway on the Pivot podcast explaining exactly how Musk blew through a load of SEC regulations, potentially costing sellers a significant price premium, when he did this. Also how clearly other people were looking at making this play but were slowed by those same regulations. At the moment this whole saga looks like Musk is playing very fast and loose with a publicly traded company. The big question now is whether \"distractions ahead\" should be read in the boring way - \"We know have this nutty shareholder who is going to publicly th"}, {"show": "1483677267", "hn_item": 30987802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30987802", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1649680348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm in a weird place doing federal policy work that straddles a bunch of areas (tech, critical minerals, and defense mostly) but I like a few 1) The Global Lithium Podcast, 2) PetroNerds, 3) CQ Roll Call, 4) Breaking Points, 5) Conversations with Tyler"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 30987802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30987802", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1649680348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm in a weird place doing federal policy work that straddles a bunch of areas (tech, critical minerals, and defense mostly) but I like a few 1) The Global Lithium Podcast, 2) PetroNerds, 3) CQ Roll Call, 4) Breaking Points, 5) Conversations with Tyler"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 30993411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30993411", "by": "loganmarchione", "time": 1649704781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AWS Morning Brief podcast - https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/ Twenty Thousand Hertz - Stories about famous sounds https://www.20k.org/ 2.5 Admins - Two sysadmins (one is Jim Salter from Ars) share their knowledge with one non-sysadmin https://2.5admins.com/ Darknet Diaries - True stories about hacking/security/etc... https://darknetdiaries.com/ ISC Stormcast - https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 30994622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30994622", "by": "Nican", "time": 1649709411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a podcast on the subject: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis... There is a fixed rate between postal offices to ship overseas, and it may make the shipping cheaper when coming from China."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 30997131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997131", "by": "Phrenzy", "time": 1649723811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Knowledge Fight. Dan and JorDan listen to and talk about how crazy Alex Jones is. Behind the Bastards. A history about people who broke the world. They just finished a six parter about Kissinger."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 30997131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997131", "by": "Phrenzy", "time": 1649723811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts: Knowledge Fight. Dan and JorDan listen to and talk about how crazy Alex Jones is. Behind the Bastards. A history about people who broke the world. They just finished a six parter about Kissinger."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 30997447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997447", "by": "perilunar", "time": 1649726595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favourites: 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org The Art of Manliness: https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 30997447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30997447", "by": "perilunar", "time": 1649726595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favourites: 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org The Art of Manliness: https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 30999297, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30999297", "by": "tempestn", "time": 1649744724, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure about that. Polarization in the United States has certainly ebbed and flowed over time, but if you study history, there has been a rough liberal-conservative dichotomy in nearly every society I can think of, going back at least hundreds of years. There's a great podcast actually, Revolutions, by Mike Duncan - it devotes a season to each of several famous historical revolutions. Currently it's in the last season, on the Russian revolution, which is particularly interesting in the present day, as it plants the seeds for modern Russia. But given that these revolutions span centuries,"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31003932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31003932", "by": "sod", "time": 1649777113, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are people with a stroke, removed tumor or other brain injuries who recover (e.g. see Simone Giertz on yourtube). Don't underestimate the ability to adapt. Maybe you lost a few points. Maybe not. Maybe you didn't even fully utilize your brain anyway and with a few tricks you easily blow past your capabilities from before covid. Just listen to a few \"Huberman Lab\" podcasts about cognitive function and the brain. I know worrying can be a vicious cycle. Trying to improve is the best you can do to grab yourself out of it."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 31005148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005148", "by": "jahlove", "time": 1649782227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Daily podcast released an interview with the Amazon Labor Union guys yesterday, it's pretty good: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/podcasts/the-daily/new-yo..."}, {"show": "1536043190", "hn_item": 31005661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005661", "by": "TaylorAlexander", "time": 1649784316, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I also enjoyed this episode of the Marianne Williamson podcast about the recent trends in unionization with Max Alvarez from 5 days ago: https://youtu.be/SHed96HYC8I . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marianne-williamson-po..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31006781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006781", "by": "saxman001", "time": 1649789308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mark Zuckerburg addressed this question very well on the Lex Friedman podcast. He pointed out that facebook did some science around this and discovered that many top level decisions are lose-lose from a public perception standpoint. On key policy questions the losing interest group almost always manages to create a stink that outweighs the happiness of the winning group. Couple this with the well documented negative bias of the news, and it's not surprising that most corporate public figures have bleak reputations. Note that I'm not actually defending these men. I'm simply pointing out that th"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31007574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31007574", "by": "mikkergp", "time": 1649793580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics just did a good podacast about this this week: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/dont-worry-be-tacky/ . Essentially that what we talk about liking and what the general population actually like are very different. They interviewed this woman, who as an art student learned all about 'high art' and 'low art' and in a moment of loss of inspiration went back to using some low art she appreciated as inspirationn: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/flora-yukhnovich-2077868"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 31018966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018966", "by": "brittanymdavis1", "time": 1649877439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Data Skeptic podcast is currently doing a series on K-means applications (similar to KNN). Would recommend it for anyone exploring the topic: https://dataskeptic.com/episodes/k-means"}, {"show": "152024419", "hn_item": 31027759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027759", "by": "sarego", "time": 1649947841, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 31030539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31030539", "by": "goatkey", "time": 1649958602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed wholeheartedly. I was recently listening to the podcast You Are Not So Smart with an interview from an author named Britt Frank [0]. She discusses exactly the problem with low value therapists and how they can actually be really harmful as part of a broader conversation about feeling \u201cstuck\u201d. I really recommend the episode. After listening, I ordered the book, but haven\u2019t yet read it, so I cannot recommend the book just yet. [0]: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2022/04/05/yanss-229-britt-fran..."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 31033488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033488", "by": "texasbigdata", "time": 1649971404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I heard it on the This Week in Startups podcast this week (pre- takeover offer). Edit: literally first google result for Zuckerberg clown car https://www.google.com/search?q=Zuckerberg+clown+car"}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 31041074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31041074", "by": "scrollbar", "time": 1650035301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article mentions Cover Story: Power Trip podcast which I finished last night and enjoyed so much. It\u2019s by New York Magazine and the folks at Psymposia. Highly recommend as a balancing counterpoint to all the positive hype about psychedelics. For the record, I have been both helped and harmed by psychedelics and in net believe their return is positive. I\u2019ve seen enough oddities in the Bay Area psychedelics and mental health scenes to warrant some serious caution about the current path we\u2019re taking."}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 31041378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31041378", "by": "darod", "time": 1650036892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Cover Story podcast mentioned in the article. It's pretty eye opening. They mention a few centers that historically you can categorize as unsafe. The key would be to find professionals that have your best interests in mind but the podcast and this article reveal how surprisingly difficult that is."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 31043172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043172", "by": "projektfu", "time": 1650044453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is because people who were around at the time got to watch much of the media joke around this woman's suffering, never acknowledging the severe harm she suffered. Many people joked that they, too, were going to burn themselves and collect their reward. The minimization of her injury and shock at the size of the initial reward was used as part of a campaign to make other legitimate lawsuits difficult and protect clearly bad actors. Then, the case was rediscovered by a popular podcast (\"You're Wrong About\") so a lot of people now have the opposite perspective and anger at how it all played ou"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 31044696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044696", "by": "openasocket", "time": 1650051022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to military history visualized (mentioned by another commenter), I recommend: * The Chieftain: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChieftainsHatch . He has a series on the development of Armored doctrine for various nations prior to WW2 which is a very interesting dive into what military doctrine is and how it is formed. * Battle Order https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleOrder covers how troops are organized and divided into squads/platoons/companies/battalions/etc in various countries and at various times. * If you are interested in World War 2, the World War 2 in real time series on YouTube"}, {"show": "1549225698", "hn_item": 31044796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31044796", "by": "gmays", "time": 1650051450, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 31048377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048377", "by": "boomboomsubban", "time": 1650073729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Then, the case was rediscovered by a popular podcast (\"You're Wrong About\") so a lot of people now have the opposite perspective and anger at how it all played out I'd say online communities have been having this reaction for at least a decade. In 2011 a documentary came out partially about the case, Hot Coffee, and since then most mentions of the McDonalds case I've seen have turned into a version of this conversation. Actually, it probably even predates that film. The first Wikipedia entry for the case in 2003 says >Based on this summary, the case has become emblematic of frivolous and outr"}, {"show": "1554356942", "hn_item": 31048821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31048821", "by": "autoexec", "time": 1650076919, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Rule of thumb, never start a sentence with \"There are people\", it's very vague and almost meaningless. Always refer to specific groups of people. This from the person who claims the supporters of our current copyright system are by necessity \"Writers, researchers, artists, architects, musicians, composers, filmmakers, actors, podcasters, even a lot of software developers\" Not a terribly specific list there either, but examples of folks fed up with system abound and I'm prepared to offer some to get you started: musicians: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7287785 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31053433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31053433", "by": "jonathanfoster", "time": 1650125240, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you liked this article, check out the Joe Rogan podcast with Jewel[1]. She talks a lot about her rise to stardom and how she was able to maintain creative freedom with good financial decisions. This is far from a happy ending though. Jewel is an incredibly fascinating person. I highly recommend checking this one out. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TRBNGScfO2K3RWRIYJedJ?si=R..."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 31058501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058501", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1650169637, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you like podcasts check out Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History episode on slavery https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-h... And Mike Duncan\u2019s Revolutions podcast (season 4) on the Haitian revolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id70388977... Slavery is an ancient and extremely complex topic. While it is certainly a moral evil there are very few heroes we can point to as moral saviors by modern standards. African kingdoms themselves sold their rivals into slavery en masse. Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have i"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 31058501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058501", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1650169637, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you like podcasts check out Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History episode on slavery https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-h... And Mike Duncan\u2019s Revolutions podcast (season 4) on the Haitian revolution https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id70388977... Slavery is an ancient and extremely complex topic. While it is certainly a moral evil there are very few heroes we can point to as moral saviors by modern standards. African kingdoms themselves sold their rivals into slavery en masse. Anyone who says the modern world is a horror show has no idea how good they have i"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31071033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31071033", "by": "crate_barre", "time": 1650291794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you remember when book stores were still around, you would have noticed that the self-help section was one of the largest sections in the store (compared to say, Philosophy, which arguably has much deeper ideas on the human condition). YouTube is filled with self-help. You can\u2019t get through a Joe Rogan podcast without self improvement advice. It can be exhausting for sure. It\u2019s a mutation of self-pity, which is a mutation of self-absorption, if we had to root cause analyze this. To put it simply, we have a very vain and narcissistic society at this point. We can\u2019t clearly pin point if this "}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 31073025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073025", "by": "wenbin", "time": 1650299812, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31073131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073131", "by": "moshferatu", "time": 1650300160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I managed to wake up earlier by ensuring that I got 15-30 minutes of bright light exposure immediately upon waking. Sunlight is ideal, but I'm in the PNW and it was winter at the time, so that wasn't an option for me. Instead, I bought a sun lamp on Amazon. The particular model is no longer available, but it was a 10,000 lux lamp that I placed right below my monitor. The incredible thing is that it took less than a week before I was waking up before 6am without the use of an alarm clock. I learned of this from the Huberman Lab Podcast, specifically the part where he touches on advancing your b"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 31073134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073134", "by": "mikece", "time": 1650300171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Is this meant to compete in some way with PodcastIndex.org or to complement it? PodcastIndex.org is part of the Podcasting 2.0 initiative. Also part of it, which would help a podcast search engine, are the extended podcast namespace tags which include the person tag (who all is on a given episode), transcript tag (a link to where a text transcript of the podcast is), and much, much more. I like the idea of the Podcast Search Engine but I don't know if it's leveraging all of the rich data that is available through PodcastIndex.org 2. I did a search on \"Adam Curry\" (aka \"The Podfather\" who, a"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 31078416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31078416", "by": "jdcampolargo", "time": 1650327690, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "thoughts?"}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 31078481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31078481", "by": "InitialLastName", "time": 1650328321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Lewis' podcast had an episode recently where the Athena Health people related a (self-promotional) anecdote that, after they had essentially reverse-engineered the insurers' medical billing systems and were marketing it as software to providers, a major insurance company called them up and asked to license information about their own billing system because their internal systems were too complicated to understand."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31080743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080743", "by": "CamelRocketFish", "time": 1650356240, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Of course, the most digestible form of it is on this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/38RuwrVwAHNXgHLDOANtmj Sources are then linked on their site."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 31084467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31084467", "by": "tpoindex", "time": 1650382191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who like podcasts, Radiolab also had this story recently, along with a few other cases of bad programming (\u201cAre you suggesting I change my name to \u201cquote N-U-L-L quote\u201d, to match the databases you\u2019re working with?\u201d) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/null"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31087930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31087930", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1650397108, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 31088707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088707", "by": "tlynchpin", "time": 1650400541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am a fan of John McWhorter. I've recently gotten into his podcast Lexicon Valley and I recommend it highly if you are interested in language and how we use it. https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 31107896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107896", "by": "ss48", "time": 1650538680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The main thing would be to never trust a single source all the time, and question everything, no matter how much I agree or disagree with it. The process of analyzing how credible information is and how it came to be is oftentimes more advantageous than simply finding credible information I try different search terms for the same topic. Differences between the articles presented help in finding areas of disagreement that can be explored further. When I find a result that seems interesting, I search for the opposite to find opposing point, and ask which one seems more reasonable. I try to allow"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 31112218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112218", "by": "dc-programmer", "time": 1650561091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Opinionated hosts and guests is the only path to profitability for cable news. Most people read or listen to their news now; TV is for entertainment. CNN\u2019s problem is that their \u201cpersonalities\u201d are absolute snore-fests. Fox\u2019s bread and butter are their hosts but they are doing fine for now (cable will die eventually). In the current post-ironic zeitgeist, audiences are drawn to more transgressive discourse. But Don Lemon can\u2019t make hot takes when his audience is Deloitte managers and urban moms (also he\u2019s terminally unfunny). The left leaning media has become too safe and staid. I think that\u2019s"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 31114805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114805", "by": "BlameKaneda", "time": 1650573165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the How I Built This podcast, a lot of the interviewees had startups/projects that failed. I recommend checking it out: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this"}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 31116006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31116006", "by": "jdorfman", "time": 1650580464, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 31120330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31120330", "by": "perilunar", "time": 1650626800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have a listen to the Art of Manliness podcast, episode #774: How to Make Life\u2019s Big Decisions https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/decision-tim..."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 31123339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123339", "by": "infogulch", "time": 1650643249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jane Street has been publishing some interesting projects recently. See Signals and Threads podcast State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care [0] posted 2 days ago. I came across the incr_dom library [1], which efficiently calculates the diff on the projected DOM based on a diff of the model data , sorta like React but more... mathematically grounded (?). incr_dom was then reformulated in Bonsai [2] which refactors and generalizes the idea to work with more than DOM. There was a recent Signals and Threads podcast about it a few months ago [3]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 31123339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123339", "by": "infogulch", "time": 1650643249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jane Street has been publishing some interesting projects recently. See Signals and Threads podcast State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care [0] posted 2 days ago. I came across the incr_dom library [1], which efficiently calculates the diff on the projected DOM based on a diff of the model data , sorta like React but more... mathematically grounded (?). incr_dom was then reformulated in Bonsai [2] which refactors and generalizes the idea to work with more than DOM. There was a recent Signals and Threads podcast about it a few months ago [3]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 31124290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31124290", "by": "peterkos", "time": 1650646399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the more \"history\" side of things -- Podcasts! My very first introduction to anything \"old\" tech was through the TechStuff podcast[0] (re: 2011-era episodes, so sort by oldest). More recently the On The Metal podcast[1] has been a really cool deep dive into old tech history, especially the episode (season 2) with John Graham Cumming. About implementations, my first real playing around with assembly was \"Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly in 28 days\"[2]. [0]: https://player.fm/series/techstuff-2152808 [1]: https://oxide.computer/podcasts [2]: https://tutorials.eeems.ca/ASMin28Days/welcome.html"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31126863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31126863", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1650655671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts + YouTube have made legacy media close to irrelevant now . Even someone like Lex Fridman brings in bigger numbers than cable tv."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 31127431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31127431", "by": "spogbiper", "time": 1650658379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Advent of Computing podcast may be of interest. The host really strives to find accurate historical information about a variety of early computing topics. https://adventofcomputing.com/ It's also fairly entertaining"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 31127703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31127703", "by": "shadowofneptune", "time": 1650659676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like podcasts, there is Advent of Computing. It's not chronological, instead covering a different topic every episode. Most recent episodes are about magnetic core memory, INTERCAL, a hypertext system developed by the US military, and the Analytical Engine, respectively. There's over 80 episodes now so there's a lot to learn about. Website: https://adventofcomputing.com/ RSS: https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss If you want an idea of how computers work, there are toy virtual machines that are a good teaching tool ( https://peterhigginson.co.uk/RISC/ )."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 31128690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31128690", "by": "devmunchies", "time": 1650664498, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast is really good. Both speakers have CS degrees but are VCs now. Learned a ton from the TSMC, NVIDIA, Sony, A16Z, Epic, and Sequoia episodes."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 31129448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129448", "by": "jdnier", "time": 1650669527, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's largely what their excellent Signals & Threads podcast is about. https://signalsandthreads.com/ > Listen in on Jane Street\u2019s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 31130299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31130299", "by": "u2077", "time": 1650675793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Soft Skills Engineering podcast has an episode on that. https://softskills.audio/2021/06/07/episode-261-anxious-abou... The question starts @15:15"}, {"show": "1567232656", "hn_item": 31132901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132901", "by": "dugdale", "time": 1650709617, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31139233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139233", "by": "tempnow987", "time": 1650752763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you think google/netflix staff are going into the office and grinding out 40 hour workweeks - I live in the bay area - this is a total lie. They are paid very well, many especially non-engineering roles have VERY flexible work setups. Netflix had a big strike over Dave Chappelle \"Transgender Netflix employees and co-workers will stage a walkout next week protesting the streaming giant\u2019s decision to release Dave Chappelle\u2019s latest comedy special\" On Spotify we had the demand for employees direct editorial control of the Joe Rogan podcast: \"Spotify staffers are now considering a walkout or fu"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31143146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143146", "by": "ss108", "time": 1650800826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"It\u2019s not like Einstein just published a paper that said \u201cnuh uh, all the experts are full of shit and here\u2019s why\u2026\u201d and then proceeded to use powerful rhetoric to convince everyone they had been wrong.\" Of course not. He made a YouTube video with the title \"10 reasons why Newtonian physics is WRONG that the MAINSTREAM MEDIA doesn't want you to know!!!\" and appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1448635132", "hn_item": 31152160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152160", "by": "blowski", "time": 1650878315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would guess the sweets are traded internationally to have invoices that launder the money. Since the sweets never go bad, when the shop goes bankrupt, they can be resold to some other part of the laundering outfit. If you're interested in learning more about money laundering, check out the Dark Money Files podcast. https://www.thedarkmoneyfiles.com"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31155081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31155081", "by": "davidbarker", "time": 1650896033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> A guest on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast has claimed that being transgender is a \u201ccontagion\u201d similar to \u201csatanic ritual abuse.\u201d > Mr Peterson told him that being trans was a \u201csociological contagion\u201d which he compared to \u201cthe satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s.\u201d https://web.archive.org/web/20220206173028/https://www.indep..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31155232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31155232", "by": "ericmay", "time": 1650896596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry, but could you help me connect the dots here. How would a guest on Joe Rogan's podcast be relevant here? You know that both Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson are on Twitter now right? Are they forcing trans people to come out as trans? Are you suggesting that if Elon Musk takes Twitter private, that guests on Joe Rogan's podcast will be free to be on Twitter and then make trans people come out as trans? I'm really confused here. Joe Rogan has had other guests like Sanjay Gupta and Bernie Sanders on as well. Would their comments be further amplified on Twitter (or whatever you are envisioning"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31164685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31164685", "by": "benrow", "time": 1650955413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangential, but there was an interesting Lex Fridman podcast recently featuring Michael Saylor, on the advantages of bitcoin as a 'property' as opposed to a 'security' (such as shares). I mention it here as I hadn't thought about this beforehand, and many examples were given in that podcast of the advantages of property (bitcoin, real estate, barrel of oil) compared to securities (shares). Less potential for conflict of interest, stronger concept of ownership and stability over time."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 31172147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31172147", "by": "greesil", "time": 1651001803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Go listen to the Revolutions podcast on the topic of the American Revolution, or a book on the topic. The founders should not be deified. Ultimately your argument is an appeal to authority, instead of acknowledging the possibility of consequences of free speech maximalism."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 31173819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31173819", "by": "smcl", "time": 1651011183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW he's fairly anonymous outside the USA. It was in Mike Duncan's \"Revolutions\" podcast that I first encountered him properly (not counting a reference I didn't understand in \"Scrubs\" a decade or so earlier). When it comes down to it, he was a bit more of a complex Bad Guy than your Adolfs Hitler or your Judases Iscariot. What is odd is the suggestion that \"Benedict\" is ill favoured due to the memory of Benedict Arnold, while more universally and unambiguously bad guys (from the perspective of the US state) like Robert E. Lee and David Duke don't have this"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31180591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180591", "by": "devchix", "time": 1651071070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've heard the same thing on a recent NPR Planet Money podcast: No Shortage of Labor Stories (Dec 2021): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1065332194 Employers were saying they're desperate to hire, and there are plenty of people applying and not getting hired. It makes no sense. I hear more and more of these mismatched supply-demand anecdata. I can only conclude that there are not honest conversations around hiring; that is, the real requirement for the job is not being conveyed, or at least written down or said out loud. Like you said, if an employer such as Tim Horton has a desperate need for"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 31182335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182335", "by": "JackFr", "time": 1651077795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would recommend the following EconTalk podcast on the history of the American healthcare system. https://www.econtalk.org/christy-ford-chapin-on-the-evolutio... Spoiler alert -- the author being interviewed doesn't have a solution, quick, easy or otherwise. But the history is fascinating -- in the end there are a lot fewer villians than you might imagine. A lot of good faith decisions seemingly made in the public interest over the past 150 years have led us into a weird local minimum that seems inescapable. Where we are was not inevitable, and as they say if something is unsustainable it has"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31182537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182537", "by": "samhw", "time": 1651078526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That stock image makes me feel like I'm on the Joe Rogan podcast.."}, {"show": "6797243979", "hn_item": 31183850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31183850", "by": "Tepix", "time": 1651084041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recommended podcast episode: Tau ceti podcast Solar Geoengineering https://podcruncher.co/play/4GTv"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31185695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31185695", "by": "core-utility", "time": 1651093033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the same subject, Darknet Diaries podcast did an episode on PRK and the smuggling of \"illegal\" media in. It's a good listen. Episode 71: Information Monopoly https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/71/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31196323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196323", "by": "decremental", "time": 1651170575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "She has a pretty big public presence. She was on the Joe Rogan podcast with Jack. Calling someone out for being terrible never seemed to bother anyone until apparently 5 seconds ago."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31196976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196976", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1651173513, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31209670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31209670", "by": "amrrs", "time": 1651260674, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 31216115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216115", "by": "Tainnor", "time": 1651327003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Mike Duncan podcasts are great, i.e. History of Rome and Revolutions."}, {"show": "976827362", "hn_item": 31217281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217281", "by": "pessimizer", "time": 1651337026, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Magnificent Obsession , the late Jim Nayder's WBEZ show, is basically an extended AA/NA style share. This may be an archive of some sort, but I can't see it because I'm not an Apple customer. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magnificent-obsession/... edit: https://soundcloud.com/magnificent-obsession"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31222738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222738", "by": "m3ursau1t", "time": 1651386847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I experimented with various ambient noises (white, brown etc.) or recently 40 Hz tone after hearing it may increase focus on Huberman podcast. I think it improves my ability to focus. One of the reasons may be that you make your brain aware that this is 'work' time since you listen to the sound only when you need to work (or focus in general). But I think I noticed a positive change even on the first occasions. You may want to try some of this out, and perhaps it will work for you. Good luck!"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31223359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31223359", "by": "psKama", "time": 1651395826, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have just listened to a podcast episode(1) on Darknet Diaries about online cheating market and people making crazy money off it. Seeing the demand I ended up thinking why nobody is doing it at hardware level to prevent detection and here we are.. (1): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DLn0x8I0w6xR0YhIXO2h7"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 31228924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31228924", "by": "account-5", "time": 1651441009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "APL and J are on my list of programming languages I'd like to learn. I've been listening to the Array Cast podcast for a while. I just need a place to start. I don't really learn a language until I use it for something, at the moment I have nothing to use APL for. Any recommendations of where to start would be welcome."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 31246466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31246466", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1651571671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a few takes on this: - If someone's just bullshitting you straight up, and you can find multiple instances of this by examining the more straightforward parts of their statements, then you can choose this route. This also often applies where there is no there there --- where an \"argument\" is simply an endless firehose of muck, as with the Qanon case. - If the core is solid, and your goal is gaining knowledge rather than Winning Imaginary Internet Points (or playing at more substantive rhetorical games, of which there are in fact many) ... then you've won by learning something. - If t"}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 31247378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247378", "by": "camnora", "time": 1651580409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a list of podcasts that touch on macro: - Eurodollar University - The Grant Williams Podcast - Grant's Current Yield - Hidden Forces - Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut - Keeping it Simple with Simplify Asset Management - Library of Mistakes - The Macro Compass - Macro Musings - The Macro Trading Floor - Macro Voices - The Market Huddle - Money Sense - On The Margin - Real Conversations - Real Vision Daily Briefing - The Rebel Capitalist Show - Super Investors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom - Wealthion The best thing you can do is be open to hearing all opinion/theories. Some people will"}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 31247378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247378", "by": "camnora", "time": 1651580409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a list of podcasts that touch on macro: - Eurodollar University - The Grant Williams Podcast - Grant's Current Yield - Hidden Forces - Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut - Keeping it Simple with Simplify Asset Management - Library of Mistakes - The Macro Compass - Macro Musings - The Macro Trading Floor - Macro Voices - The Market Huddle - Money Sense - On The Margin - Real Conversations - Real Vision Daily Briefing - The Rebel Capitalist Show - Super Investors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom - Wealthion The best thing you can do is be open to hearing all opinion/theories. Some people will"}, {"show": "1508585135", "hn_item": 31247378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31247378", "by": "camnora", "time": 1651580409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a list of podcasts that touch on macro: - Eurodollar University - The Grant Williams Podcast - Grant's Current Yield - Hidden Forces - Inside Baseball with Old Chestnut - Keeping it Simple with Simplify Asset Management - Library of Mistakes - The Macro Compass - Macro Musings - The Macro Trading Floor - Macro Voices - The Market Huddle - Money Sense - On The Margin - Real Conversations - Real Vision Daily Briefing - The Rebel Capitalist Show - Super Investors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom - Wealthion The best thing you can do is be open to hearing all opinion/theories. Some people will"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31248274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248274", "by": "Liquid_Fire", "time": 1651585756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm also not sure why sponsoring podcasts is relevant, but FWIW I have heard ads for ProtonVPN on the Darknet Diaries podcast ( https://darknetdiaries.com/sponsors/ )."}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 31251087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31251087", "by": "akudha", "time": 1651599351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is this interesting 4 part podcast called My Year in Mensa, by comedian Jamie Loftus. It is worth a listen. Gives a new perspective (spoiler alert - not good) on Mensa"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 31255744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255744", "by": "tbihl", "time": 1651627473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Peter Attia's podcast, The Drive, for the best talks about sugar consumption and the body's response. For something to read, Gary Taubes' \"The Case Against Sugar\" was pretty good."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 31255744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255744", "by": "tbihl", "time": 1651627473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Peter Attia's podcast, The Drive, for the best talks about sugar consumption and the body's response. For something to read, Gary Taubes' \"The Case Against Sugar\" was pretty good."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 31256163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31256163", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1651632178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \" I don\u2019t have any underlying worries about your stance being motivated by selling books. \" You didn't check his profile, then? ;) He's also been on the Corecursive podcast, about Crafting Interpreters: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/corecursive-coding-storie... which happened to be one of the most recent things I was listening to while out walking."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 31258132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258132", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1651654030, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 31262784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262784", "by": "tshaddox", "time": 1651682237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an old Malcolm Gladwell podcast where he interviews (and attempts to skewer) then President of Stanford University John L. Hennessy precisely on the topic of Stanford continuing to solicit donations and increase its ambitions despite having a very large amount of money. I actually think Gladwell's arguments are mostly ridiculous, especially his \"accusation\" that Hennessy is a \"strong link\" thinker. But the topic and the interview are interesting. That podcast episode: https://omny.fm/shows/revisionist-history/my-little-hundred-... I found a partial transcript of the episode: https://ww"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31267431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31267431", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1651708092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend this episode of the Huberman Lab podcast about intermittent fasting from a Stanford professor: https://youtu.be/9tRohh0gErM"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 31274433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31274433", "by": "kamiyay", "time": 1651763797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone hasn't checked it out, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast is just fantastic."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 31286948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286948", "by": "caffeine", "time": 1651853930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great episode of Jocko podcast with Andre Huberman that just came out where he carefully addresses this specific issue. Worth listening to (it\u2019s in the first hour or so, I mention it because it\u2019s 5 hours long!!)"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31292232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31292232", "by": "akgoel", "time": 1651898990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast from Bloomberg just did an episode on the Foreign Dredge Act. As a Houstonian, I was shocked to learn that the Port of Houston is being hobbled by our inability to dredge properly, limiting container vessels to once a week, and slowing down oil tanker shipments. There is currently only one narrow lane that is dredged, and opening a second lane would improve traffic flow quadratically."}, {"show": "1500444735", "hn_item": 31299173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299173", "by": "jarl-ragnar", "time": 1651962095, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019d encourage anyone who sets high standards for themselves and others to listen to this from Jonny Wilkinson https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-high-performance-p..."}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 31308408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31308408", "by": "jackpeterfletch", "time": 1652046355, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/cover-story/id15946753... The initial episode covers a story closer to a cult. But later this podcast reflects a lot of what you\u2019ve mentioned anecdotally with respect to to modern psychedelic research."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 31315300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315300", "by": "GavinAnderegg", "time": 1652109753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who loves looking at stats, I found looking at some of my favourite podcasts to be pretty interesting. Here's an example stats page for the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP): https://podcastdetails.com/?url=https://atp.fm/rss"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 31318626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31318626", "by": "Arrath", "time": 1652124541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Citations Needed podcast recently put out an episode on the growing sports gambling push: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRhdGlvbnNuZWV..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31327769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327769", "by": "mfbx9da4", "time": 1652194099, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31328895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31328895", "by": "itsoktocry", "time": 1652199477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An interesting podcast on bells form Planet Money: When you've got two companies down the road from each other making the same thing, you can almost guess the history. Originally there was just one company, but something happened. Maybe someone got angry, somebody left, and they started a second business, a competitor. Today on the show, the rivalry between two companies that make nearly all the world's handbells. And how they eventually made peace. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1067333584/bell-wars-classic"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 31329539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329539", "by": "newsclues", "time": 1652202420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cultural issues would be the aspect other than industrial, that gave the Americans a huge advantage. Decentralized command and initiative of low level officers and soldiers was a big factor. Can't remember the episode but this has been discussed on the Jocko Podcast I think."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 31329841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329841", "by": "dangets", "time": 1652203917, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This and the surrounding ecosystem was recently featured on an episode of The Changelog podcast. https://changelog.com/podcast/481"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 31333041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31333041", "by": "chihuahua", "time": 1652218578, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite parasite story is in Episode 404 of the \"This American Life\" podcast, act 3. It's about a guy who has terrible allergies (to pollen) and fixes it by intentionally infecting himself with hookworms. It somehow calms down his immune system. For a while he sells hookworms to other people. Beautiful story. It's obviously better if you listen to it, but you can also find it in the transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/404/transcript - search for \"act three\""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 31334224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334224", "by": "xiphias2", "time": 1652227542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He had an overconfidence in himself in the last few years, and yes, that line was awful, but I\u2019m sure any of us would have an insensitive line if we would be trying to do what All In podcast does: try to say controversial things as well to get a real debate going."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 31336225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336225", "by": "yunohn", "time": 1652247955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> but I\u2019m sure any of us would have an insensitive line if we would be trying to do what All In podcast does: try to say controversial things as well to get a real debate going. \u201cAll of us have our weak moments on public television around sensitive topics like genocide, while speaking as a billionaire\u201d"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31338698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338698", "by": "hnrodey", "time": 1652270835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the early days, Instagram silently uploaded your photo before you actually officially posted as a way to improve the \"speed\" of the user experience. So go ahead and add your filters, the text for the post, etc. because then the moment you clicked Post the app presented like it happened immediately. All for the UX. Source: Kevin Systrom on Lex Fridman Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvpNKUPbIY"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 31347091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31347091", "by": "almog", "time": 1652310178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone living in a country that uses proportional representation for its electoral system, my first introduction to gerrymandering was this episode on the Data Skeptic podcast which I highly recommend: https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2021/gerrymandering"}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 31348195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348195", "by": "ClosedPistachio", "time": 1652319526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Our Fake History tackles this subject! This podcast is amazing (I discovered it on Hacker News actually!) https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-4/episode-88-are..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 31352733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31352733", "by": "ericmay", "time": 1652356988, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense\u2026\u201d yes if you are looking through a liberal western lens. You\u2019re not looking from a Putin or Russia point of view. His reasoning for invading Ukraine are much deeper and different than the things that we consider important. I though Ezra Klein\u2019s interview with Masha Gressen and some of his other interviews were quite good at helping inform: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31364406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364406", "by": "wyclif", "time": 1652426667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Black Keys talked about this on Joe Rogan's podcast. Pat Carney, the drummer, calls it \"the guy with a degree from Pepperdine who wants to tweak the high hat.\""}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 31364420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364420", "by": "t-3", "time": 1652426789, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://comparchpodcast.podbean.com/ I've only listened to the most recent episode so far, but it was great and I plan to hear the rest. BSD Now and the SANS Daily Stormcast are good too. https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html https://www.bsdnow.tv/"}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 31371623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31371623", "by": "crypto_mogul", "time": 1652469956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Europol is aggressively searching for Ruja Ignatova, the originator of the OneCoin Ponzi scam. Since Wednesday, May 11, 2022, the latter has been one of Europe\u2019s most sought fugitives. Indeed, Ruja Ignatova is at the helm of OneCoin, one of the greatest cryptocurrency frauds in history. She has also inspired the BBC, which has created \u201cThe Missing Cryptoqueen,\u201d a series of podcasts on her adventure."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 31373534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31373534", "by": "baby_wipe", "time": 1652483815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk podcast covering this topic: https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-the-nature-of-the-firm/"}, {"show": "1642793131", "hn_item": 31374388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31374388", "by": "andrewxdiamond", "time": 1652493133, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The CodingBlocks podcast is in the middle of a series on this book. Definitely worth a listen to help flesh out some of the more nuanced bits of the book. https://pca.st/episode/b6ca5e7b-0cc8-4491-8fd7-8d4794615096"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31374522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31374522", "by": "spac", "time": 1652494661, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Huberman Lab podcast on dopamine was a really cool listen. [1] Important takeaway: coffee does not lower the baseline dopamine level. Yes! [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/controlling-your-dopam..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31374659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31374659", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1652496379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed, the book Money by Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR podcast Planet Money, talks precisely about this in regards to the gold standard. One reason that it was taken off the gold standard was because monetary policy could not be fully leveraged well when every dollar was worth some amount of gold. One couldn't print new money during recessions to restart the economy, and one couldn't remove dollars from the money supply in a boom period."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 31374794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31374794", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1652498106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a Sam Altman quote about Airbnb: > for all that people worry and for all that the press loves to say, 'Ah, this happened; this thing is over,' and whip themselves up in this frenzy, it never actually kills the startup. It's a problem; people love to talk about it. And there's this schadenfreude of loving to hate on someone's perceived missteps or someone's problem. So people love to talk about it. But then they go back and they book AirBnB for their next vacation. Econtalk Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAYXUgNHHc4&t=16m25s"}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 31378455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31378455", "by": "tomhoward", "time": 1652539602, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Slack is a great product/company, but as Parker Conrad of Rippling explains in this podcast [1] (about 13 minutes in), Microsoft has been able to fend off Slack with an arguably inferior product, just by having an ecosystem that so many companies/orgs are already fully bought into. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/20vc-ripplings-parker-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31382760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31382760", "by": "eappleby", "time": 1652563998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "tangentially related: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098298392/a-12-year-old-girl... Planet Money (Podcast): A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry"}, {"show": "1440334876", "hn_item": 31383281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31383281", "by": "locallost", "time": 1652567251, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is a very specific counter example I heard recently: a woman contestant in one of those weight loss shows, overweight all her life, all her life on yo yo diets, doctors told her to lose weight if she wants kids since her hormons were messed up. Lost 200lbs in one year by dieting and exercising 6 hours a day, felt miserable, lost her period completely, doctors told her her body is behaving as if she was anorexic so she still could not get kids and of course unless she continued dieting kept gaining weight. So the images of people looking like concentration camp survivors does not mean much"}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 31383827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31383827", "by": "almostdigital", "time": 1652571975, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 31384018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384018", "by": "atom_arranger", "time": 1652573690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Similar to this article: The first few episodes of the Cracked podcast are pretty interesting."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 31409031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409031", "by": "harryvederci", "time": 1652787911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If twitter works for you then that's great, but if[0] you're purely seeking inspiration for creating a startup, you could consider listening to podcasts like Indie Hackers instead. It's probably way less of an attention black hole, but still inspirational. [0] I can't tell from your comment if that's the sole purpose. If not: never mind."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 31411149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31411149", "by": "goatkey", "time": 1652797455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The book \u201cThe Science of Stuck\u201d by Britt Frank is the best I\u2019ve read about this. She has an interview on the podcast You Are Not So Smart that could be a good low-effort way to think about it. It\u2019s been incredibly helpful for me. She reviews all of the latest and groundbreaking research about anxiety, from older therapy tactics like CBT, to how it is a physical response (eg Body Keeps the Score by van der Kolk). It\u2019s also easy to read (ie not overly academic). As an aside, one thing that helps me, as others have alluded to, is to \u201cjust start\u201d and/or break things down into very small tasks to g"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 31416840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416840", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1652825075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway on The Pivot Podcast actually called this. Fascinating."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 31425609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425609", "by": "freemint", "time": 1652896207, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 31425902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425902", "by": "KevinBenSmith", "time": 1652897772, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31427568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31427568", "by": "devops_monkey", "time": 1652907504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is actually the \"best\" answer for our plastics problem. There was an NPR/Planet Money podcast on it recently here: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/912150085/waste-land and there are plenty of other sources that all agree on this premise. I have worked in waste management a few years ago and recycling is not the long-term solution."}, {"show": "1619307049", "hn_item": 31432968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31432968", "by": "marzipanina", "time": 1652958445, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 31433480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31433480", "by": "thawaya3113", "time": 1652962231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great recent Bloomberg Podcast episode (Odd Lots?) where the CEO of FTX interactive is describing yield farming, and it dawns on everybody (Matt Levine states it explicitly) that what he is describing is a Ponzi scheme. And then the CEO guy basically says that their old school finance may consider it a Ponzi but it\u2019s the future of finance and they\u2019re just gonna end up suffering from FOMO."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31433480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31433480", "by": "thawaya3113", "time": 1652962231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great recent Bloomberg Podcast episode (Odd Lots?) where the CEO of FTX interactive is describing yield farming, and it dawns on everybody (Matt Levine states it explicitly) that what he is describing is a Ponzi scheme. And then the CEO guy basically says that their old school finance may consider it a Ponzi but it\u2019s the future of finance and they\u2019re just gonna end up suffering from FOMO."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31433625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31433625", "by": "josu", "time": 1652963173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Read Matt Levine's columns on Luna, or listen to the most recent podcast from Odd Lots with Galois Capital. They answer all your question and are much more cohesive than anything I could type here."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31439447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31439447", "by": "eslaught", "time": 1652990550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This may not directly answer your question, but the Huberman Lab podcast [1] is done by a Stanford professor and generally includes very high quality summaries of recent research. He also provides actionable suggestions (though sometimes, the research is so new that they're still in the process of figuring this out). You can scroll through the home page and see the variety of topics he covers, there are a number on gut health. [1]: https://hubermanlab.com"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 31443413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31443413", "by": "leksak", "time": 1653021539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The world is allegedly running out of sand appropriate for use in concrete products. 99% Invisible (podcast) has a episode on the topic I suggest checking out https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/ Not saying that I want plastic in construction materials or roads though: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/19/environm..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 31450402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31450402", "by": "AceJohnny2", "time": 1653068102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Starting with references to a Daily Mail interview and a podcast (even if from a purportedly reputable source) doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. The Daily Mail is gutter-level tabloid trash. If anything, it's a pretty strong anti -reference."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 31452824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31452824", "by": "lhl", "time": 1653082637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While the US health care system as a whole is mess, I don't think it's intractable if you can attack it from the right directions. GoodRX did with pharmaceuticals, and Mark Cuban seems to be doing a good job with CostPlus Drugs. (Valisure is also pretty interesting, doing in-house validation of generics). Marty Makary wrote a book a couple years back, The Price We Pay on the wicked knot of a problem that is US health care. For those mildly interested, there was a Peter Attia Podcast inteview a while back that covers the gist of it: https://peterattiamd.com/martymakary/ For those that want to g"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 31454536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31454536", "by": "whats_a_quasar", "time": 1653097050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If people are interested in pre-history and archaeology, the podcast Tides of History is doing a great series on the emergence of humans and states: https://art19.com/shows/tides-of-history"}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 31456942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456942", "by": "Kaibeezy", "time": 1653132117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This tragi-comedy comes from the same circle of hell as the long failure of the Public Service (student) Loan Forgiveness program. Exposure of its failures led, finally, to some relief. Michael Lewis podcast transcript - https://podscribe.app/feeds/https-feedsmegaphonefm-against-t... NPR article - https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1041872045/education-dept-pla..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31467211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31467211", "by": "epmatsw", "time": 1653221103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots is also a really excellent podcast, even outside of this episode. Their coverage of the past couple years of supply chain issues has been so cool."}, {"show": "1510056899", "hn_item": 31467842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31467842", "by": "wolframhempel", "time": 1653225317, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This exact topic was discussed today on the \"no stupid questions podcast\" by \"Freakonomics\" author Stephen Dubner and \"Grit\" author Angela Duckworth: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/100-is-it-weird-for-ad..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31467842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31467842", "by": "wolframhempel", "time": 1653225317, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This exact topic was discussed today on the \"no stupid questions podcast\" by \"Freakonomics\" author Stephen Dubner and \"Grit\" author Angela Duckworth: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/100-is-it-weird-for-ad..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 31470266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470266", "by": "michaelanckaert", "time": 1653238605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This blog post is mostly a recap of the Corecursive podcast in which Ron Garret talks about his experience with Lisp at the JPL: https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 31471635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471635", "by": "simoom22", "time": 1653246677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure this is true. I recall from listening to the Blowback podcast that Castro initially tried to align with the US, and there was disagreement among US leaders about whether he was friend or foe. But we had a bunch of people in Florida, among them the dictator he ousted, offering to try and kill him, so we just went with that."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 31478758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478758", "by": "mikece", "time": 1653312517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you still wish you had written Ghost in Laravel/PHP like you mentioned on the SE Daily podcast back in 2018? Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478649"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31482900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31482900", "by": "agd", "time": 1653329803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly Jim Keller spoke about this on (I believe) the Lex Friedman podcast. He said something along the lines of 'Most people are pattern matchers, they are good at applying known patterns to problems they face. However, the best people know when to pattern match, and, also, when to go deep and apply first principles thinking.' He then cited Elon Musk as a great example of this."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31483248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31483248", "by": "madisp", "time": 1653331117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "probably the Lex Fridman podcast interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BdBfsXbST8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE1R8FYUJm0 the second one is definitely where the last paragraph in the article is from. Weird that the interview is dated 2021-09-09 and the post is 2020-04-30?"}, {"show": "1680897946", "hn_item": 31491702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491702", "by": "CShorten", "time": 1653398418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love this, one of my favorite Weaviate podcasts we have done -- the webpage is beautiful, such an elegant data visualization. Really excited about how this will help us standardize and understand ANN benchmarks!"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 31514607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31514607", "by": "andrewstuart2", "time": 1653539718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the rule of three. I know I've heard it on the Go Time podcast, but I'd heard it before then. Copy your code once. If you find you've copied it again later, that's the right time to think about whether you'll continue to, and therefore whether it's worth making something reusable. So yeah, wrappers are nice. But I'm also a really big fan of lazy wrappers. Wrap the thing barely enough to get the job done so you can upgrade in one place, but don't get fancy because you will probably hate yourself for it down the road."}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 31514607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31514607", "by": "andrewstuart2", "time": 1653539718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the rule of three. I know I've heard it on the Go Time podcast, but I'd heard it before then. Copy your code once. If you find you've copied it again later, that's the right time to think about whether you'll continue to, and therefore whether it's worth making something reusable. So yeah, wrappers are nice. But I'm also a really big fan of lazy wrappers. Wrap the thing barely enough to get the job done so you can upgrade in one place, but don't get fancy because you will probably hate yourself for it down the road."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 31516999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31516999", "by": "Ennis", "time": 1653563773, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31517301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517301", "by": "sc90", "time": 1653566750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You must be referring to Fransisco de Orellana, re early Spanish chronicles. More on that on this JRE podcast clip https://youtu.be/Cn1MugPalaA?t=118"}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 31518169, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518169", "by": "sborer", "time": 1653572170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This story is also covered in one of my favourite episodes of the Criminal podcast: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-167-48-hours-6-18-21"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 31521166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521166", "by": "monroewalker", "time": 1653586539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed, earning more so you can give more is the most pragmatic approach to having the largest possible positive impact. There was a really good conversation on Sam Harris's podcast about this with Sam Bankman-Fried [1]. Based on the question though, the OP's goal might either be to (1) maximize impact or (2) just earn a living while also feeling good about their company's impact. If (1) is the goal, I'd say listen to that podcast, look into effective altruism [2], and find the highest paying job you can. If (2) is the goal, I'd recommend including GoFundMe and Rivian in the list of companies "}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 31522847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31522847", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1653596026, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Does buying private stock on EquityZen include any due diligence? I'm skeptical that it's helping with price discovery, but I don't really understand the platform. The topic reminded me of a good episode of Invest Like the Best with Carta CEO Henry Ward[1], which included a discussion of their CartaX platform for offering insiders a chance to sell private stock to institutions. [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/ma/podcast/henry-ward-transformin..."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 31535159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31535159", "by": "wahern", "time": 1653687009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would find it difficult to have any respect for Newsom if all I knew about him was his social and business life. But the older I get the more I realize that character traits are distributed much more randomly than I ever believed. People want to believe, for example, that intelligence and compassion tend to come packaged together. But then you realize that there are quite alot of very malicious yet intelligent people out there. The universe doesn't have a sense of justice, at least not to the degree we expect, and definitely not the degree we desire. Last week I heard on the radio[1] a poem "}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 31537470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537470", "by": "bin_bash", "time": 1653710154, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a big fan of Elton John but I didn't enjoy this video. He just said what the chords were and played different instruments in solo. He didn't answer his question: \"Why is it a great song?\". If you want to know why this song is great listen to the Strong Songs episode about Tiny Dancer: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tiny-dancer-and-goodby... Strong Songs actually explains why the instruments are playing what they are and how they impact the song\u2014not simply what it is."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31539927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31539927", "by": "cheeko1234", "time": 1653742248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "She was on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8Vjs84Fxg Amazing interview. Makes me hopeful for the future."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31545480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31545480", "by": "istorical", "time": 1653788638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually if you look at Ariel Ekblaw's proposals in a different article / medium, many of her designs do involve the 'cellular'/'connected closed chambers' nature you describe. Highly recommend the Lex Fridman podcast interview linked in the other comment!"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31550233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31550233", "by": "ellopoppit", "time": 1653840444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cold showers, breath exercises (i.e. Wim Hof method), intermittent fasting and physical exercise do wonders for regulating stress, boosting immunity, dopamine, and serotonin. Cutting out sugar and eating fermented probiotic foods like sauerkraut, kimchi and apple cider vinegar can also help your gut microbiome immensely. The Huberman Lab Podcast presents some very interesting data on the science behind these practices: How to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome for Brain & Overall Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #61 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R2pMqU2ok Dr. Justin Sonnenburg: How to Build, Maintai"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 31554570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554570", "by": "mym1990", "time": 1653873457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its almost the opposite, during the pandemic the All-In podcast has become quite popular and they openly talk about the shenanigans and plays they would make hah."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 31564530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31564530", "by": "csnover", "time": 1653951574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz recently did a two-part series on all of the Windows startup sounds[0][1]. They interviewed some of the Microsoft employees who worked on the various sounds, and included archival tape of Eno being interviewed by the BBC about the Windows 95 sound. (It looks like the BBC interview may be the primary source for this SF Gate Q&A.) [0] https://www.20k.org/episodes/tadaitswindows [1] https://www.20k.org/episodes/windowslogonwav"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 31564595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31564595", "by": "fimdomeio", "time": 1653952185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's two pretty interesting podcast episodes about windows startup sounds at Twenty Thousand Hertz: https://www.20k.org/episodes/tadaitswindows https://www.20k.org/episodes/windowslogonwav Also All Apple startup sounds. Really interesting how one could describe the two companies complete approach to design just from the startup sounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLEupC2OWUU"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 31566315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31566315", "by": "anitil", "time": 1653973911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would like to recommend a podcast called 'According to Need' [0] (by some of the 99% Invisible crew) which talks about homelessness in the Bay Area. I don't quite understand some of the local context, but there's only 5 episodes and I found it really interesting. [0] https://99percentinvisible.org/need/"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 31567094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31567094", "by": "disillusioned", "time": 1653983905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ha, the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz just did TWO whole episodes on this: https://www.20k.org/episodes/tadaitswindows https://www.20k.org/episodes/windowslogonwav"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 31569046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569046", "by": "adriancooney", "time": 1654002568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't already, give the Fall of Civilizations podcast [1] a listen. It's one of my favourites - informative, engaging and peaceful listening - about how civilizations rise and fall. Episode 8 is about the Sumerians in Iraq and might give you a picture of how these people lived (if nearly 1500 years earlier). [1]: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 31570676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31570676", "by": "layer8", "time": 1654010950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend submitting your question to the Soft Skills Engineering podcast, and/or to listen to a couple of relevant episodes: https://softskills.audio/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31572394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572394", "by": "ALittleLight", "time": 1654018603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Our personal mythology can attribute great significance to qualities, like being good at school, and use that significance to explain life outcomes even if that's not a particularly reasonable conclusion. Just like mythology uses simple ideas to explain complex natural phenomenon (e.g. Apollo's chariot pulls the sun across the sky) our personal mythology can use a simple idea to explain more complicated ones (because I was gifted I never tried hard and so I am not X). Without knowing more about the author's life and what she presumes her alternate life would be, it's hard to really make sense "}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 31575088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575088", "by": "rpastuszak", "time": 1654031993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sweet, I\u2019ll check it out tonight. Have you listened to The History of Rome podcast? I\u2019ve spent 3 years listening to it (twice) and I have to make conscious effort not to pick it up again. It\u2019s sooo good."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 31575875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31575875", "by": "guildan", "time": 1654037486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History lf Rome was my first podcast I've listen to. It is such a treat to listen. I've tried to continue with The History of Byzantium and it was just not the same. So now I've picked up Revolutions since I think it was really Mike Duncan style I appreciated (well that and the Romans)"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 31577869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577869", "by": "wesleywt", "time": 1654055648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The bail out tools available during the 2008 crisis is not available today. The 2008 can was kicked down the road with few safe guards to prevent what happened, happening again. You are in for a rough time. I recommend EconTalk Podcast to find out what I am talking about."}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 31585518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585518", "by": "adamc", "time": 1654106020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a pretty good \"Talking Politics\" podcast on Rawls: https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/rawlsonjustice Sadly, that series has ended, but there's a lot of good stuff: https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/history-of-ideas-seri..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31590498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31590498", "by": "latchkey", "time": 1654135941, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31595124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31595124", "by": "phphphphp", "time": 1654179154, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For future reference, Silvergate CEO has denied any relationship with Tether in a podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02VtOivOHp3spZ2qOxMhdC"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31597056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31597056", "by": "Zanneth", "time": 1654187675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had the same reaction after listening to his interview on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast. He actually seems like a humble and thoughtful person."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 31618386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618386", "by": "jmyeet", "time": 1654333672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The most important technology of the First World War was not the machine gun but the railroad I disagree. First, the railroad already existed. You can argue its use in war was new. The Germans notably built railroads to the front at huge scale. But this presupposes a relatively static front, which was the reality of WWI. Probably the most important technological development was neither of these things: it was artillery. I cannot recommend enough Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast. There is a 6 part series called A Blueprint for Armageddon [1] that is well worth the 30+ hours it'll take to"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31618551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618551", "by": "mr90210", "time": 1654335635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve moved on to another service once I realised that there was no way to remove JRE Podcast from my homepage, despite the fact I hadn\u2019t listened it in months."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31624273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31624273", "by": "al_borland", "time": 1654371478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I mostly quit listening to Joe Rogan's podcast after it left YouTube. I'd watch when he had an interesting guest that showed up in my recommendations. A while back a co-worker told me about a recent episode I should check out. Reluctantly, I went to Spotify to check it out. It took me a good 20 minute, and a lot of just scrolling through page after page of podcasts, until I actually found it. You'd think after spending $50M on the guy they wouldn't make it so hard to find. The search and navigation was horrendous. I listened to maybe 20 minutes of the podcast, quit to go do something else, and"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31634047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31634047", "by": "nradov", "time": 1654457104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in the chemical origins of life, the Lex Fridman podcast has a fascinating interview with University of Glasgow chemist Dr. Lee Cronin who has done some of the fundamental research in this field. It's long but worth a listen. https://lexfridman.com/lee-cronin/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31639342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31639342", "by": "dzhiurgis", "time": 1654516677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unsure - I've heard it over Odd Lots podcast. Could've been sixth?"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31642335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31642335", "by": "Fargoan", "time": 1654532102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is such a good podcast. Especially the Student and Saudi Aramco episodes"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 31642418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31642418", "by": "dangets", "time": 1654532523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I made a few pikchr diagrams and liked the experience, though it would be good if there was a lossless WSYWIG editor that could create and edit them for quick and dirty creation. There was a Changelog podcast episode with Richard Hipp (sqlite author) where he threw out the great idea that it would be nice if there were renderers in popular markdown engines that could display inline pikchr blocks. https://changelog.com/podcast/454 More examples of what is possible are on the linked pikchr page: https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/examples.md"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 31643995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31643995", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1654540331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also recommended: an interview with a former SR-71 pilot on the Omega Tau podcast: https://omegataupodcast.net/91-flying-the-sr-71/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31654854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31654854", "by": "heretogetout", "time": 1654612098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics published a podcast episode about this sort of thing: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-2/ > I don\u2019t actually want to kill anyone. And I don\u2019t endorse the idea of wanting to kill anyone. But if I did, and I were looking for a way to do it and get away with it, how would I do it? I\u2019d wait \u2018til they were outside, walking down the street, maybe crossing at the light \u2026 and then I\u2019d run them over in my car. Now, I\u2019d have to make sure that no one knew I was trying to run them over. But they\u2019d be dead and I, especially in New York City, would in all likelihood go scot-fr"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31659508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31659508", "by": "nomel", "time": 1654632692, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a great Lex Fridman podcast related to this, about \u201cAssembly Theory\u201d, by Lee Cronin. I thought it was fascinating. Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZecQ64l-gKM Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4U3teONvRzNh32qqtX6X2w?si=5..."}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 31662270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31662270", "by": "akeck", "time": 1654652336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read rumors a while back that the US would bomb TSMC if it looked like China could get it. It reminded me of the 1177 Bronze Age collapse - except with chips instead of bronze. (Btw, the Throughline podcast on 1177 is excellent)."}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 31666949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31666949", "by": "blorgle", "time": 1654694624, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Jeff Snider from Alhambra Partners routinely makes this distinction: https://alhambrapartners.com/2021/10/13/perfect-time-to-revi... They have a great podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/eurodollar-university/... and routinely appear on finance podcasts to explain this."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31672287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31672287", "by": "pizzachan", "time": 1654714522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Years ago I remember a Freakonomics podcast episode that delved into the hostility public and private policy makers had to running experiments. It mainly comes down to not wanting to bear the downside risk of an experiment having unfavorable or economically useless results. While if they just don\u2019t know and no else does there is no consequence for doing the status quo even if the results are poor."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31676805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676805", "by": "sqwrell", "time": 1654740009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/ This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. This is Darknet Diaries"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 31676842, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31676842", "by": "sien", "time": 1654740361, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The book that the author wrote \"Don't Trust Your Gut : Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life\" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58490565-don-t-trust-you... ) is well worth a read. There is also a good podcast episode with an interview by Steven Levitt with the author ( https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/75-self-help-for-data-... ) It might be of interest to HN types because it's essentially using loads of data to see what helps people."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31677897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31677897", "by": "evanb", "time": 1654752959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The rabbi recently on the Lex Fridman podcast told a joke that went (roughly) like Scientists come to God and say \"OK God, we've had a lot of progress lately in synthetic biology, genetics, engineering, etc. and we're pretty sure we know how you did it.\" God says \"Oh really?\". \"Yes. We'll create living creatures out of dirt to show that we can do just as you did with Adam.\" God says \"Wow, fantastic!\" So the scientists go outside with a shovel to collect some dirt. And as they're about to dig their spades in, God says \"No no no, get your own dirt!\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31681257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31681257", "by": "ecesena", "time": 1654783450, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend this podcast for context: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id... (sorry for the apple link, I\u2019m on the go)"}, {"show": "1536839859", "hn_item": 31686972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686972", "by": "westondeboer", "time": 1654809199, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a great podcast about the lolita book https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lolita-podcast/id15368..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 31699252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31699252", "by": "bigbillheck", "time": 1654894410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"This Week in Virology\": https://www.microbe.tv and sister podcasts."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 31719276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31719276", "by": "wheelinsupial", "time": 1655076706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Jocko Podcast has a long interview with the \"Godfather of TOPGUN\" Dan Pedersen [1]. [1] https://jockopodcast.com/2020/05/20/230-push-the-envelope-an..."}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 31719455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31719455", "by": "technothrasher", "time": 1655078649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fighter Pilot Podcast also has a good episode with the (then) commander of TOPGUN that compares and contrasts the school to the original film. https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/episodes/007-topgun-vs-t... I believe they have some more recent episodes about the new film too, but I'm not currently caught up on the podcast."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31731811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31731811", "by": "thephyber", "time": 1655154652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article is covered by the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast from 2022-06-13. Land Value Taxation, as opposed to property taxes. I didn\u2019t quite understand the distinction."}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 31733980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31733980", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1655171892, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ezra Klein Show has a good episode with the author of The Shallows[1]. 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicholas-carr-on-deep-..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31738376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738376", "by": "ethanbond", "time": 1655210162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What do you make of Sam Bankman-Fried describing his business as a literal Ponzi scheme on Odd Lots podcast? The commentary isn\u2019t necessary to see the insanity but here\u2019s fastest way to get to the relevant content: https://youtu.be/C6nAxiym9oc Edit: To clarify, though not sure how much a mitigation this is, yes SBF is describing much of the underlying activity he takes commission on as a Ponzi scheme. Sure, he\u2019s not operating the Ponzi itself, just keeping it operational and profiting from its continued operation. Mea culpa."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 31738532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738532", "by": "brightball", "time": 1655210763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have avoided podcasts entirely until this year when I found out about Darknet Diaries. It\u2019s fantastic and I binged all 117 episodes on my drives. On the other hand, I tried others\u2026and they are mostly fluff. Eventually I will probably find another but haven\u2019t come across much so far."}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 31738659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738659", "by": "alexandargyurov", "time": 1655211326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you'd like to hear the incredible story of the OneCoin scam, the biggest cryptocurrency scam in history to date (estimated over 14 billion USD), Jamie Bartlett created a fantastic podcast, The Missing Cryptoqueen. An 9-episode series investigating Dr. Ruja Ignatova and OneCoin. Soon-to-be released book as well."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 31750652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31750652", "by": "GraemeMeyer", "time": 1655283951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fadell also spoke about this story on the Decoder podcast recently"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 31759638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31759638", "by": "marcus0x62", "time": 1655328221, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Dr Richard Johnson has researched this extensively and, yes, fructose consumption triggers increased fat storage in almost all humans. He summarized his research findings in a book[1] and has discussed his findings in a number of interviews [2]. I highly recommend the linked podcast if this is a topic that interests you. 1 - https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Switch-Richard-J-Johnson-ebook/dp... 2 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rick-johnson-m-d-metab..."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 31769538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769538", "by": "crowdhailer", "time": 1655405318, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31777328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777328", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1655470209, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's the Youtube link [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31777616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777616", "by": "brodouevencode", "time": 1655471575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on Joe Rogan's podcast way back when, talking about AI and the other things Rogan finds generally interesting. If you'll note the history of Rogan's rise in podcasting popularity, it is that he has on people he likes and finds interesting and they just shoot the breeze for three hours. So of course they talked about AI, his experience with communism, etc. Once you're on Rogan's show you've basically cemented your own following."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31777728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777728", "by": "ryanSrich", "time": 1655472071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like he just has friends in high places. He was also on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast (several times I believe) which is basically a free ticket to then start your own successful podcast. I find Lex to be very boring, but more importantly extremely surface level and pop sci-y. His content is often cringe inducing to the point that I can\u2019t continue listening."}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 31777730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777730", "by": "ericmay", "time": 1655472088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s kind of funny. Joe Rogan\u2019s show launched a number of careers. Almost like the release of a new iPhone created a lot of ecosystem products. Lex somehow made it onto the show with what was the Artificial Intelligence podcast back in the day where he was talking to professors at MIT among others. After going on JRE he was able to land higher profile guests, and from there things just snowball. He seems like a nice guy. I\u2019ve been more picky about podcasts I listen to on road trips or walks and I really like the guests he brings on, though I don\u2019t think he is a world-class interviewer or anyth"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 31777753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777753", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1655472158, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What alternatives do people see to this podcast? I don't listen to it, so I don't know. Maybe I just haven't heard so much interesting stuff in that particular industry. One the most consistently good podcasts - or many podcasts actually - are those from the freakonomics \"network\", maybe especially People I (Mostly) Admire - for example interviewing Steven Pinker, Nathan Myhrvold, Susan Wojcicki, Daniel Kahneman etc etc https://freakonomics.com/series-full/people-i-mostly-admire/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31777766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777766", "by": "douglaswlance", "time": 1655472200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He does BJJ and has comedian friends, so he went on the Joe Rogan Podcast and established a fanbase. In podcasting, the discovery system is quite low signal to noise; because there are so many podcasts and the content itself is hard to inspect (episodes are multiple hours long and it's expensive to do transcription over the millions of episodes posted every day). So because podcast organization is hard, the strongest signal for those looking for a new podcast is popularity. Joe Rogan has the most popular podcast in the world, so he has the capability of spawning popularity boosts to other podc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31777766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777766", "by": "douglaswlance", "time": 1655472200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He does BJJ and has comedian friends, so he went on the Joe Rogan Podcast and established a fanbase. In podcasting, the discovery system is quite low signal to noise; because there are so many podcasts and the content itself is hard to inspect (episodes are multiple hours long and it's expensive to do transcription over the millions of episodes posted every day). So because podcast organization is hard, the strongest signal for those looking for a new podcast is popularity. Joe Rogan has the most popular podcast in the world, so he has the capability of spawning popularity boosts to other podc"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31777769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777769", "by": "jstx1", "time": 1655472221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Being on Rogan probably helped him get more viewers but I don't think it has the same kind of effect on potential guests who are considering whether to come on Lex's podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31777801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777801", "by": "miobrien", "time": 1655472362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've wondered this as well - specifically regarding Fridman but also other people who have become popular through social media. (As to the latter, it never ceases to shock me how various YouTube channels can amass hundreds of thousands of subscribers.) Anyway, as someone mentioned above, he was on Rogan's podcast and fits the Rogan mold of influencer: interested in AI and machine learning, politically neutral, trains in Brazilian jiu jitsu, etc. In fact, I'd describe his style as being a more intellectual Rogan, haha (which is not necessarily a compliment). His popularity has skyrocketed after"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31777919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31777919", "by": "ravenstine", "time": 1655472923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- He comes off as genuine because his personality and delivery is not typical in the entertainment business. - His conversations go on for as long as they need to, which many people prefer to shows with clear time constraints. - Big name guests - Many people are interested in artificial intelligence, Bitcoin, aliens, robotics, hacking, and tech in general. - Some of his guests/topics veer away from the norm, which adds variety. My favorite is when he interviewed a cybercriminal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1LFC0KFSw - He is able to make his guests do most of the talking and isn't overly "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31778006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31778006", "by": "andreyk", "time": 1655473418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was quite strategic about how he grew his audience. For the first ~120 episodes his podcast was called 'the AI podcast' or something similar. He started out interviewing mostly notable AI researchers (via his position as an AI research scientist at MIT), but also non-AI people with higher levels of fame (eg Guido van Rossum) and gradually switched to more tech, then just anything. My impression is that he made a lot of effort getting exposure (via high profile guests, teaching an MIT course, appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, etc.), and it just worked. One example: he published a 'paper' tit"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31783556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31783556", "by": "kklisura", "time": 1655496362, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 31786584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786584", "by": "anotherevan", "time": 1655516224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These two episodes of the Huberman Lab podcast went into a lot of details about the gut and its effects on our mood and behaviour: https://hubermanlab.com/how-to-enhance-your-gut-microbiome-f... https://hubermanlab.com/dr-justin-sonnenburg-how-to-build-ma... I found them quite interesting."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 31787897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31787897", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1655537124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you tried the Mindscape podcast with Sean Caroll? He has some really great episodes mixed with some less good ones. Definitely more of a science focus as opposed to technology, but there's a broad mix. My strategy is to skim the descriptions and try the ones that sound interesting. I probably finish about 60% of the episodes I start."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 31794115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31794115", "by": "aesch", "time": 1655588742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was just on Sean Carroll's podcast Mindscape, good listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZ_CVu2M68"}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 31794554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31794554", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1655593069, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "See also Neil Postman, particularly Amusing Ourselves to Death , and Nicholas Carr, The Shallows . Ezra Klein with Nick Carr: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nicholas-carr-on-deep-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shallows_(book)"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 31796428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796428", "by": "Gentil", "time": 1655617119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently came across You and your research from The Changelog podcast - https://changelog.com/podcast/484 . That episode was so good. By the way, you and your research is a talk at a university by Richard Hamming. You can find it in YouTube. Also another similar podcast episode was BSDNOW 455: Ken Thompson Singularity - https://www.bsdnow.tv/455 . The interesting part about Ken Thompson is a small portion if I remember it correctly. Really good episodes."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 31797409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31797409", "by": "MrDresden", "time": 1655627399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to episode 484 of the Changelog podcast[0] this week, where Brian Kernighan was being interviewed. I recommend giving it a listen. When asked for books or material he would recommend, he only mentioned two things; The Mythical Man Month and the transcript of the talk Hamming gave at Bell Labs in 1986 [1]. Having just read it just yesterday, I highly recommend it. What he says applies to any professional career, even outside research. [0] https://changelog.com/podcast/484 [1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31806828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806828", "by": "addcninblue", "time": 1655705232, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 31816496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816496", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1655761677, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I actually subscribe to Which a UK consumer reports guide. And mostly it's kind of like subscribing to the Guardian newspaper - putting a few quid where my shrivelled liberal conscience used to sit. Oddly there is a episode on this on BBC podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-bottom-line/id2643... This podcast is not the best (it's often too lightweight and too frightened to dig deep, or the format is wrong or something). But anyway this week was particularly terrible - hardly any teeth at all. But in amoung at all the annoying self serving justifications of the guests, it did tr"}, {"show": "1596141397", "hn_item": 31819460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31819460", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1655781493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Sound Escapes podcast has some longer-running audio (though I think there's also some short intro/outro discussion): https://www.birdnote.org/podcasts/sound-escapes And for completely unfiltered, vast amounts of audio, you can dig into the Australian Acoustic Observatory: https://data.acousticobservatory.org/projects/1"}, {"show": "1481398762", "hn_item": 31819880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31819880", "by": "anitil", "time": 1655785728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's hard for me to understand how such a small amount could have such a meaningful impact on someone's life. I suppose that says more about me though. Edit: Dolly _personally handed them the cheque_! I could see that being more of a motivation than the cash itself Edit 2: I would highly recommend listening to \"Dolly Parton's America\" - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america"}, {"show": "1596141397", "hn_item": 31819976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31819976", "by": "unicornporn", "time": 1655786645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Sound Escapes podcast has some longer-running audio Have you confirmed they're not just looping a few minutes of recording?"}, {"show": "1315791659", "hn_item": 31823920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31823920", "by": "parkerklein", "time": 1655819343, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31824021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31824021", "by": "mempko", "time": 1655819904, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1445509665", "hn_item": 31831374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31831374", "by": "pwthornton", "time": 1655864406, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think the argument here is that recent research indicates that a chronic lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer\u2019s, and I don\u2019t think most people realize that. Beyond that, telling people to try to get more sleep is not really medicine. It\u2019s not really specific or actionable, and it doesn\u2019t help people with understanding how to get more and better sleep. Doctors should ask how much sleep people are getting and recommend sleep studies if there sleep isn\u2019t sufficient. There are also specific things that people can do to make it more likely that they get more and better sleep, and doctors should be g"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 31833594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31833594", "by": "kuhewa", "time": 1655888947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I imagine there's probably some direct impact to muscle anabolism as well, since the anabolic hormone insulin has a low and stable profile on keto. Really interesting though to hear how your power increased. Taking carbs on big effort days seems like the best of both worlds, fat adapted but able to take advantage of both energy systems. I think on Inigo san Milan's first appearance on Peter Attia's podcast they got into this a bit, also mentioned that high level fat adapted cyclists could do a few hundred grams of carbs in a day and still maintain ketosis"}, {"show": "1607792894", "hn_item": 31836031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31836031", "by": "swyx", "time": 1655906206, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "heard a great interview of the creator of OBS recently https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/obs-with-jim-bailey/id... surprisingly its not that old!"}, {"show": "1578405214", "hn_item": 31841792, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31841792", "by": "jgeralnik", "time": 1655931583, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So @bradfitz when are you releasing https://tailscale.com/connect/ for real? :) Context for the uninitiated - as a crazy idea on the podcast Security Cryptography Whatever (hosted by tptacek and others less well known on HN) Avery and Brad of tailscale imagined an ssh client in the browser with QR code authentication to SSO to allow you to connect to your tailscale network (over tailscale SSH) from untrusted computers such as internet cafes. (Or mostly untrusted - safe from keyloggers but maybe not from a dedicated active malware that injects into your browser and tries to inject secret comman"}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 31844526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31844526", "by": "bizpodroohi", "time": 1655951422, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Start up Idea: Mentoring for Niche Topics Example: Twitter, YouTube, Podcasting, Venture Capital and more Who\u2019s in? > A platform/marketplace for mentors(where they can charge for free, pay what you want, or monthly basis) Mentees can choose from free, pay what you want, or monthly basis mentors and select 30 min mentoring Anybody want to help me build this out? or Have experience building out a mentoring platform?"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 31852095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852095", "by": "evol262", "time": 1656004091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a historian by training. The primary sources can honestly be hard to read through. I always think of history as kind of a tapestry, and filling in pieces (neighboring states, for example) can be reasonably informative. If I were working backwards, since you're into podcasts, The History of Rome is obviously quite good, and The History of England essentially picks up the historical narrative with the Anglo-Saxon states prior to the Norman invasion. Having a good, digestible background (through these) makes the \"missing middle\" easier to fit in. There are very few easy/readable histories of "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31856300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31856300", "by": "ellopoppit", "time": 1656026476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently watched a Lex Fridman podcast with Richard Wolff, a philosopher and Marxist economist and he made many of the same compelling points you are making: https://youtu.be/o0Bi-q89j5Y >It's really hard for me to see where the rigid conformity came from. Perhaps its from the concept of \"equality of outcome\", everyone is treated the same no matter what they do. >In other venues, we see rigid conformity tied to hierarchy (military, strict schools).. all venues that tend to have figurehead leaders, and disempowered individuals rather than collective empowerment. It's an interesting correlatio"}, {"show": "1647215384", "hn_item": 31857816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857816", "by": "gnicholas", "time": 1656044945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \u201cWe\u2019ve left a big customer segment off the table, which is people who say: \u2018Hey, Netflix is too expensive for me and I don\u2019t mind advertising,'\u201d Sarandos said Thursday, speaking on the Cannes Lions stage with Sway podcast host Kara Swisher. \u201cWe adding an ad tier; we\u2019re not adding ads to Netflix as you know it today. We\u2019re adding an ad tier for folks who say, \u2018Hey, I want a lower price and I\u2019ll watch ads.'\u201d This is sort of disingenuous, since they've raised the price so much. Their ad-subsidized tier will likely end up being around the price that we used to pay for regular Netflix. Of course,"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31861324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31861324", "by": "plasticsoprano", "time": 1656076810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Rogan\u2019s presence is also turning Austin into a podcasting hub, with hosts like Tim Ferriss, Lex Fridman, Aubrey Marcus, Sam Parr, Chris Williamson, Ryan Holiday, and Andrew Huberman. Tim and Ryan were here long before Joe. Regardless, I've been in Austin for 31 years and if it weren't for split custody with my kids I would have bounced out the second my divorce happened. It's hot, it lacks culture, the food, as has been mentioned, is mediocre, and the political climate is precarious and only getting worse. If you're considering it, do yourself a favor and don't."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31866191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31866191", "by": "mdaniel", "time": 1656091777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard about this in the latest Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-the-crypto-crash-mean-... although it was pretty hand-wavey (I guess as is to be expected in a general audience podcast)"}, {"show": "1435365252", "hn_item": 31866238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31866238", "by": "throwawayhnacc", "time": 1656091945, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don't want to be tinfoil about this, but I suspect there is maybe some more corporate politic stuff happening here than Zach lets on (and rightfully so). Zachtronics is wholly owned by Alliance Media Holdings. Alliance is run primarily by two people Jay Gelman (CEO) and Nathan Gelman (Director of Publishing + Stuido Operations). Last year, Nathan Gelman expressed some real crazy zionist opinions on Twitter during the most recent wave of the Israel-Palestine conflict. I didn't screenshot it, but you can sort of see some of the wake of it by searching his account name on twitter and seeing the"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31867269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867269", "by": "affgrff", "time": 1656095493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an episode of Lex Fridman's Podcast with Jamie Metzl on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K78jqx9fx2I Metzl is highly confident of a lab-leak. However, lab-leak doesn't require that the virus has been tampered with and I somewhat agree that is important to know if the virus escaped due to inadequate lab safety."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 31871222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31871222", "by": "WheelsAtLarge", "time": 1656116883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcast- NPR's Planet Money is outstanding in its simplicity and depth."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 31879364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31879364", "by": "guiambros", "time": 1656197258, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 31883539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883539", "by": "adamhowell", "time": 1656248749, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31892962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892962", "by": "cbozeman", "time": 1656328546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might find Dr. Dominic D'Agostino's websites or podcasts with various people instructive. He gained prominence after being amplified on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience , but long before that, he was developing ketogenic solutions for the ONF (Office of Naval Research), specifically using ketones and the ketogenic diet to allow SEALs to remain submerged for longer periods due to a synergistic effect with ketones and oxygen metabolism in the brain. His websites: https://health.usf.edu/medicine/mpp/faculty/ddagosti https://ketonutrition.org/ He has specifically discussed how to solve t"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31899668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899668", "by": "nonethewiser", "time": 1656358552, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What do we do when software gets too complex? We redesign and start over. That may or may not be an option with government. If it's not, we know the consequences. Paralysis. I remember a musing Elon Musk had on Lex Friedman's podcast. He noted that there was no cleansing function for laws. Something like that might be a step in the right direction."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 31899754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899754", "by": "zbrozek", "time": 1656358998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see almost all of our housing problems as direct descendants of the original sin of making it too hard to build and use structures. Any form of rent control is another form of NIMBYism, just this time with a progressive coat of paint. This article has a bunch of cringeworthy prose, but has some worthwhile graphs of data showing that price-fixing isn't the answer: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-02/berlin... See also numerous Planet Money stories about rent control: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/05/700432258/the-... https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1077086398/is-"}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 31905544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31905544", "by": "overlordalex", "time": 1656405803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> highways that made it harder to reach different parts of the city One blatant example of exclusionary infrastructure was Robert Moses building bridges in New York that were too low for busses to pass under, in order to discourage travel to his parks and beaches. I can also recommend the Well There's Your Problem podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oq0u2i4iHc"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 31915723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31915723", "by": "johnthuss", "time": 1656469203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a recent podcast episode from Hidden Brain about the power of subtraction. Removing things or taking things away is a path to improvement that we rarely consider, to our own detriment. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/do-less/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 31925970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31925970", "by": "KerrickStaley", "time": 1656538322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent episode of the Odd Lots podcast [1], they discussed an interesting phenomenon where hot startups won\u2019t want to raise when markets are down, even if funding is available, because they don\u2019t want to do a down round. Doing a down round marks the company to market and shows up as a materialized loss in the VC\u2019s fund, whereas they can keep the old valuation if they don\u2019t raise. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-23/the-behin..."}, {"show": "1559758759", "hn_item": 31942118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31942118", "by": "LordNibbler", "time": 1656647376, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 31944863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31944863", "by": "vehemenz", "time": 1656674634, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This whole piece is spot on. The most obvious example of audience capture that occurs to me is Joe Rogan's podcast. From about 2010-2013, it was a comedy podcast that was just starting to get some high-profile guests. My theory is that his numbers with the conspiracy theorists and MMA bros were doing too well to ignore, and the transition into increasingly alt-right commentators was slow enough to not scare off regular listeners. The rest is history. There is enormous latent demand for right-wing commentary. Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity dominated AM Radio and Fox News, but no"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31944963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31944963", "by": "rbinv", "time": 1656675405, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 31956526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956526", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1656739813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You (or others reason this thread) would probably be interested in the most recent Serial podcast, \"The Trojan Horse Affair\", which centers on the intersection of religion and public schooling in Birmingham. Religious education is apparently technically a requirement in the UK as well (though, in many places, perhaps more observed in the breach). If you're Muslim in Birmingham, your public school is probably teaches approximately as much Islam as St. Barnabas taught me Catholicism. (It doesn't work out great for Birmingham!)"}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 31957183, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957183", "by": "aorth", "time": 1656749616, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good podcast from 2019 that covers this story called \"The Missing Cryptoqueen\". Highly recommended. Very entertaining..."}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 31958876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958876", "by": "predictsoft", "time": 1656769080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't forget Retro Hour podcast of the guys who did Broken Sword and Beneath Steel Sky: https://theretrohour.com/beneath-a-steel-sky-revolution-soft..."}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 31963965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31963965", "by": "syspec", "time": 1656809232, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Missing Crypto Queen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-missing-cryptoquee... Is a great podcast from the BBC, detailing the One Coin saga and Ruja Ignatova"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31965486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965486", "by": "psandersen", "time": 1656828549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is it really that easy for religious folks to dismiss though? If someone believes consciousness arises from a non-physical spirit through an unknown mechanism; then it seems difficult to argue that this can only happen in the specific arrangements of biological cells that we've seen on earth and not in other ways. E.g. Donald Hoffman's view around consciousness being fundamental certainly wouldn't preclude a machine operating as a portal* in the same way humans do. *I'm only familiar with his ideas and the concept of 'portals' from his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman and TOE podcasts."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 31968496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968496", "by": "leejo", "time": 1656862684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Just curious is this 8 year streak for 1 language? No. Probably five years for one and then switching between others (German, Italian, and Spanish). > What % completion are you for a the language? I got close to the end initially then they added more to the tree so I never finished the tree as I didn't need to. I just looked at it and I'm at 50% so they've added a lot since I last checked. > Do you consider yourself proficient? I've lived in the French speaking part of Switzerland for nine years. That has made me proficient. Having French speaking colleagues, going to evening classes, giving"}, {"show": "1574002430", "hn_item": 31972214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972214", "by": "mepian", "time": 1656894241, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 31981465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31981465", "by": "BackBlast", "time": 1656966783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SaaS podcast https://saasclub.io/saas-podcast/ JavaScript Jabber I flitted around a bunch of others always looking for quality hosts and topics. I didn't like most of those I found with signal-to-noise too low. There were others, but I can't recall them off the top of my head. I didn't really maintain a list."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 31982799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31982799", "by": "juancampa", "time": 1656977739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of the podcast called \"The Program\". Without giving too much away, it's a very entertaining, dark-humored work of fiction. Think Black Mirror but kind of funny. It focuses on the topic of humanity overseen by a mysterious AI entity."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 31985395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31985395", "by": "pas", "time": 1657006217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tesla is behind because they had a fucking big pile of C/C++ + machine learned models and wanted to brute force their way to an acceptable quality. In a recentish Lex Fridman podcast Elon finally talks about how they need to solve the hard part which turns out to be ... drum roll .. world modeling! (Kids in a school zone or behind a school bus or something like that was the example I think.) Who would have thought that without a model that can provide a consistent \"abstract model\" of the world it's hard to fit incoming noisy sensor data?"}, {"show": "1455379351", "hn_item": 32001044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32001044", "by": "johnys", "time": 1657116093, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Condor Software | Product Marketer, Software Engineer, Full Stack | Remote, San Diego, New York, or Boston | Full-time Condor is building a world where finance accelerates human progress in medicine. Our mission is to help biotech finance teams save time, money, and lives by bringing more cutting-edge therapies to market, faster and more affordably. We started Condor because we realized that the life-saving treatments needed by our loved ones were held back by billions of dollars in complicated, time-consuming, and inefficient financial processes, which consistently delay clinical trial deploy"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32004943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32004943", "by": "t23", "time": 1657132362, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1627613321", "hn_item": 32006148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006148", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1657138184, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1517706248", "hn_item": 32009798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32009798", "by": "selpop", "time": 1657166962, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I did a podcast on my journey: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nkUICGSMlknQ28NGxdIzw?si=0... I started programming on graphing calculators, eventually worked up to freelancing, and from there into a \"real\" development career No degree, just a lot of time spent on programming things that I thought were interesting (mostly games when I was younger)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32009861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32009861", "by": "lulzury", "time": 1657167642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to Lex Friedman's podcast on Spotify during my walks, but the experience is pretty bad. For example, if you have put your phone in your pocket, and then decide to open the app again, there will be an inevitable stutter as the app tries to reload the podcast using the video player. This is at least better than a few months ago, where going back to the video player shifted the playback to a seemingly random location in the podcast. Also, if you go to the podcast's page and are trying to search for an old podcast, then good luck, because there's no way to search or filter for a particula"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32009990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32009990", "by": "hedora", "time": 1657169015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm really hoping Spotify's attempt to centralize the podcast industry fails. It is one of the few remaining pieces of the media not controlled by committees, bean counters, propagandists, or worse. Having said that, I read today that Trump is no longer welcome on Joe Rogan's podcast, and have to admit I'm enjoying the triple schadenfreude."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32010045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010045", "by": "mandeepj", "time": 1657169560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Trump is no longer welcome on Joe Rogan's podcast No longer? He never was Edit: Not taking my words? Read for yourself here https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-rogan-refuses-host-trump..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32010740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32010740", "by": "GorillaWarfare", "time": 1657177182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This all sounds very sensible. NPR\u2019s Planet Money podcast went into some detail about the economics of fair allocation for the New York Marathon - they reference the solutions you mentioned and a few more as well! https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793488868/episode-962-advance..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 32012196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012196", "by": "meigwilym", "time": 1657189832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A while ago I decided to change my usual music lists. First of all I decided to listen to opera. I started with Mozart then went with whatever sprang to mind or Youtube's recommendation sidebar. I'm now a fan of Puccini (predicatble?) and Nixon in China is amazing. I also decided to listen to all of Rolling Stone magazine's top 500 albums ever. After listening to each I made a short review on twitter. I managed 2-3 a day. It was impossible to \"properly\" listen to them, but at least I was getting through them. I paused at 60, and should really restart. I also listen to In Our Time on Radio4, ar"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 32015558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015558", "by": "sails", "time": 1657208904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somewhat interesting perspective on PE in this Bloomberg podcast, which does a reasonable job of explaining why ~23:30 1. PE has had an easy run - rising interest rates and rising value of equity 2. Guest finds shocking - Given 1, PE returns net of fees and adjusted for leverage have become very pedestrian relative to S&P500. If the IPO market slows due to interest rates, then this may trap PE institutional investors. https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/jim-chanos-on-why-some-of-the..."}, {"show": "1186480811", "hn_item": 32016118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32016118", "by": "bcaulfield", "time": 1657211571, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1401509765", "hn_item": 32016261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32016261", "by": "m_Bii", "time": 1657212160, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 32026179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026179", "by": "notRobot", "time": 1657282541, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1724952808", "hn_item": 32031647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031647", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1657340610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the legitimate use of violence. That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state. Absent this, one of three conditions exist; 1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state. 2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious. This is your condition of tyranny (unaccountable power). 3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition the State. The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be "}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 32032371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032371", "by": "afterburner", "time": 1657347401, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Opening Arguments had two great episodes about the legal details of this deal (note the first episode doubting this deal would go through was from 2 months ago): July 4th: https://openargs.com/oa610-elons-twitter-deal-was-a-complete... May 12: https://openargs.com/oa595-shareholders-sue-twitter-alleged-..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 32038133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32038133", "by": "uthinter", "time": 1657392664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone from Oxide is here, could you guys restart the \"On the metal\" podcast . It was the only CS related podcast I ever liked."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 32038609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32038609", "by": "mtlmtlmtlmtl", "time": 1657396008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's such a shame. I've tried listening to those recordings and it's hard to follow without the context of the \"Twitter Space\" which I'm not even sure what is because I don't use Twitter. The audio quality is also quite grating to listen to. Would love recommendations for in depth, tech related podcasts that stand on their on, like On The Metal."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 32041490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32041490", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1657422314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signals and Threads is equally as good as a CS podcast."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 32043211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043211", "by": "todsacerdoti", "time": 1657446248, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 32044849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32044849", "by": "paulryanrogers", "time": 1657461600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's curious watching all these derived password solutions evolve. They all end up taking on state, or requiring laborious transitions, if either a derived or master secret is compromised. Then their sync-free guarantees fall away. SQRL went through all these things in slow motion. Or at least that's how it felt listening to the \"Security Now\" podcast."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 32047928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32047928", "by": "MarkSweep", "time": 1657480468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to learn about the Eliza program from a podcast, the author of this website was one the Corecursive podcast recently: https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/"}, {"show": "735180050", "hn_item": 32056694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32056694", "by": "dayvid", "time": 1657550010, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's an amazing interview series with Nasir Gebelli, who made some of the first Apple II games, coded the first three Final Fantasy games and a 3d game in assembler, as well as Secret of Mana game for SNES. Highly recommended! https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/episode-3-nasir-gebell..."}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 32059052, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32059052", "by": "papito", "time": 1657560601, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you want your mind blown - \"Who really killed Blockbuster Video?\" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-really-killed-bloc... It's amazing that Blockbuster had Netflix on the ropes, until one notorious activist investor showed up and basically gave Netflix the win. One man is responsible for creating a completely different timeline when it comes to video streaming. Very similar to how we would be living in a different reality if GM's ahead-of-its-time EV1 was not mysteriously disappeared in the 90s."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 32060341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32060341", "by": "gideon_b", "time": 1657566404, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "NYT did a great article on True World Foods: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush... Archive version: https://archive.ph/ZAy6D Pod version: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sunday-read-the-un... YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqHuAJYdr8"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 32074298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32074298", "by": "stedman", "time": 1657652433, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast does case studies of successful acquisitions: https://www.acquired.fm/ It's an amazing show"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32079223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079223", "by": "umbs", "time": 1657689151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money podcast on same topic https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis..."}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 32079913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079913", "by": "pc2g4d", "time": 1657697393, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been doing a lot of listening lately about the state of IP networking and where things are headed. John Day on Programming Throwdown has been provocative, and Geoff Huston on the IPv6 Buzz Podcast also. Though progress is definitely being made, it's clear that IPv6 is the Python 3 of internetworking protocols: the switchover is taking DECADES. Some of the above blame this on IPv6's not providing much of use beyond a larger address space, an issue already mitigated using NAT. It feels like things have been more-or-less the same since the original internet protocol came together in 1975. Bu"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 32079913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079913", "by": "pc2g4d", "time": 1657697393, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been doing a lot of listening lately about the state of IP networking and where things are headed. John Day on Programming Throwdown has been provocative, and Geoff Huston on the IPv6 Buzz Podcast also. Though progress is definitely being made, it's clear that IPv6 is the Python 3 of internetworking protocols: the switchover is taking DECADES. Some of the above blame this on IPv6's not providing much of use beyond a larger address space, an issue already mitigated using NAT. It feels like things have been more-or-less the same since the original internet protocol came together in 1975. Bu"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 32081825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081825", "by": "seemaze", "time": 1657716281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Entertainingly clarified in the wonderful podcast 'Advent of Computing' ep. 36 [0]. Highly recommended! [0] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-36-the-rise-of-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32081993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32081993", "by": "sorenjan", "time": 1657717157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another similar myth is the one Malcom Gladwell made up about how it takes 10 000 hours of doing something to become an expert at that thing. It was based on research that used 10 000 as an average for 20 year old violinists. The original researcher, Anders Ericsson, focuses much more on deliberate practice than sheer quantity. https://www.6seconds.org/2022/06/20/10000-hour-rule/ Related Freakonomics episode with Anders Ericsson among others about how to become an expert: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-become-great-at-just..."}, {"show": "1619307049", "hn_item": 32082996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32082996", "by": "marzipanina", "time": 1657721499, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "318567721", "hn_item": 32083361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32083361", "by": "aarondf", "time": 1657723008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the first mention of the concept was on a podcast called TechZing. The author later wrote it down on his blog (referenced in the article) https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur..."}, {"show": "996246979", "hn_item": 32089770, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32089770", "by": "adamrezich", "time": 1657752992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "sure, if you want your podcast's business model to be \"you must pay to access this content.\" it has been argued that this is not the best business model for a podcast, as you're either locking out your entire audience until they decide to start paying, or if you go for the \"regular podcast is free but Paid Members get access to additional content\" model, then you're producing content that only a fraction of your audience gets to experience. if you're doing a weekly show with an additional bonus paid weekly show, this can lead to situations where something is discussed at length on the the bonu"}, {"show": "1630559316", "hn_item": 32094768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094768", "by": "drunkpotato", "time": 1657800039, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32099112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32099112", "by": "laichzeit0", "time": 1657820108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As Marc Andreessen said in a recent Joe Rogan podcast the goal of vision is to \u201cform and reinforce the cult\u201d. You need to trick employees into believing in something. Cults and cult leaders are exceptional examples for corporations to learn from."}, {"show": "1557045965", "hn_item": 32102816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102816", "by": "jiggawatts", "time": 1657842929, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is covered in today\u2019s Crypto Critics\u2019 Corner podcast: https://youtu.be/m6xkCDP1z2s"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 32105259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32105259", "by": "mercer", "time": 1657866730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. More than once I asked a question on the channel (now on Libera?) and the first person to answer would be Jose. I can highly recommend the series of interviews that the Thinking Elixir podcast did with him where they go through the entire history of Elixir versions: https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 32105851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32105851", "by": "RealStickman_", "time": 1657872080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Alma Linux guys seemed happy to engage with the community, for example by coming on the Linux Unplugged podcast and discussing the (at the time) future governance structure of Alma. Rocky Linux rather agressively declined to come onto that same podcast iirc."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 32110733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110733", "by": "davidatbu", "time": 1657906506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although I can't recall them off the top of my head, several guests on the Rustacean Station podcast have suggested exactly that when one is getting their feet wet with Rust (put .clone() everywhere, put Arc > everywhere, ..etc). The idea is that once you are familiar with other aspects of the language (syntax, sum types, traits, modules), you can go back and try to master the borrow checker."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 32119321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32119321", "by": "I-M-S", "time": 1657987172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an episode of \"Decoder ring\", an excellent podcast devoted to decoding cultural mysteries, on this subject: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2021/08/selling-out"}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 32131954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131954", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1658096004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I appear to have lost my bookmark, it was about 30 minutes in to an episode of the podcast The Energy Gang, or their sister podcast, during an interview with a CEO that has raised nearly a billion dollars over the years for battery related businesses. This is vague enough that perhaps you shouldn't take my word, but I unfortunately don't have the 15 minutes this weekend to track it down... if I find it again I will try to email you."}, {"show": "1247652431", "hn_item": 32134827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134827", "by": "axolotlgod", "time": 1658120106, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Simplecast: https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/9b52b824-909f-4be5-aaf0-10f... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1NtZEcZ093NGVh22l9I7CB?si=f... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irl-online-life-is-rea..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 32142864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142864", "by": "slowmovintarget", "time": 1658174241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On \"not the path to AGI\": Gary Marcus on the Mindscape podcast is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRnuT9nLEE&list=PLrxfgDEc2N... Transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/02/14/184-... \"...And then there\u2019s natural language understanding and reasoning, and I would say we have not really made progress at all. GPT-3, which we may wanna talk about, gives the illusion of having natural language of understanding, but I don\u2019t really think that it does. And we are nowhere near, for example, an all-purpose general assistant. ...\""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 32143649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143649", "by": "slowmovintarget", "time": 1658178120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a false dichotomy. Select the name Gary Marcus, right-click, and search (on my browser it defaults to Duck Duck Go, but that returns the right result). The Mindscape Podcast is hosted by Sean Carroll. You have a very sharp quantum physicist interviewing an expert in the field of AI research. The podcast is worth the time, and the quote is representative of an expert's take on the matter. He elaborates, but I don't need to write an essay just to argue on the internet."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 32145370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32145370", "by": "sweuder", "time": 1658186213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Based on: >but also I gotta have my \"expert on topic talks to me about interesting thing\" content. You should absolutely be listening to podcasts. This is literally the main strength of the format. What do you mean you \"never know how to play them\" ? Whichever phone you have there will be abundant free podcast players in the app store, you can look up and subscribe to their feeds and listen through that. Longform interviews or conversations on every topic imaginable."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 32145935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32145935", "by": "ChrisGammell", "time": 1658190676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EEs are pretty far away from the money. That really impacts earning potential. Most EEs who went the traditional route and want to keep doing electronics in some form but make money become Field Application Engineers (FAEs) to get closer to the sale and show their value to the company. The crustiest old engineers are buried deep within a corporation and it's hard to show value on the bottom line. Similarly, the FAANG/MANGA folks of the world are beneficiaries of being closer to the end customer, at least in terms of always being able to track customer usage of products. And hey, some of the hi"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 32152224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152224", "by": "prosaic-hacker", "time": 1658241749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I teach Computer Support for a living so I need to hear about tech trends from a support and development point of view. I also need to like the style of the presenter if I am going to spend time listening to them for months or years. In no particular order. Richard Campbell Runas Radio ( https://runasradio.com ) [Selected Episodes] and Dotnet Rocks (dotnetrocks.com) [Selected Episodes] Greg Faro Packet Pushers (packetpushers.net) various podcasts [Selected Episodes] Ed Horley, Scott Hogg, and Tom Coffeen (packetpushers.net/series/ipv6-buzz/ Steve Gibson - Security Now. twit.tv/sn I have a non "}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 32153901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32153901", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1658247375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see you've also listened to the My First Million podcast episode with Levels."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32157895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32157895", "by": "elil17", "time": 1658264363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a very interesting podcast episode on \"Freakonomics\" where they interview a researcher who posits that there are forms of corruption that speed economic growth at the cost of fairness and other forms which do not speed economic growth. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/season-11-episode-12/"}, {"show": "1161880916", "hn_item": 32159071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32159071", "by": "greg7gkb", "time": 1658271506, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: The Foundering podcast did a great series on the origins of TikTok and how it evolved from a Silicon Valley startup into the juggernaut it is today. https://open.spotify.com/show/6hETi9oBd26vc0bRgXYN5W?si=d87d... See season 2."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32162029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162029", "by": "andrewstuart", "time": 1658297085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They don't need the entire catalogue. They just need to promise to fix the problems that content creators like Fran are unhappy about. Alot of YouTube content creators are very unhappy but they have no choices offered to them. Bring over some of the biggest YouTubers by buying them - such as Linus Tech Tips. Offer better terms than YouTube does for monetization to the long tail of content creators. Money talks, and those big companies have more money than you can fit in a phonebooth. Spotify did something similar when it paid big money for the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 32166459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32166459", "by": "sheepybloke", "time": 1658328277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ahhh love the podcast! You guys and Embedded helped me learn a lot as an EE going into embedded. Thanks for putting on a great and informative show!"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32169919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32169919", "by": "hirvi74", "time": 1658340890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As much as I love the Huberman podcast, I do feel he spoke outside of his domain a bit too much on that episode in certain sections. Sure, he is far more credentialed than I am, but it's not like he conducted any of the research himself. He is merely spouting off what one could find on PubMed, APA, etc.. While I think mindfulness can be beneficial, the research he cited about just 17 minutes (or whatever arbitrary number) can have permeant changes in the brains of individuals both with and without ADHD to be ridiculous. I also find any research relating to ADHD and fish oil supplementation to "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32172063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32172063", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1658349890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2) Most VCs (and founders) hate down rounds. So a lot of existing companies are stuck because they previously raised at $X valuation, and now the market price is $0.75X, and either the VC doesn't want to push for a down round or a founder won't accept it, or both. They discussed this phenomenon at length on a recent Odd Lots podcast, and I can\u2019t understand it as anything but a market inefficiency that some smart VC firm will eventually exploit. Values (and thus prices) go up and down. Putting your head in the sand about it can\u2019t be a winning investment strategy."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 32172380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32172380", "by": "occz", "time": 1658351450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "UX is merely the functional side of designing things, and the best resources to help me understand that has been: - The book The Design of Everyday Things - The podcast 99% Invisible"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 32177636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32177636", "by": "Zhyl", "time": 1658399087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Give Well is a research organisation that publishes reports on the effectiveness of charities. They do select a 'Top 9' of best charities for a range of issues, and also run a 'donation index' where you can allow your donation to be distributed to the top charities (purportedly without a fee being taken). I've heard of Give Well being mentioned on various Stats podcasts (e.g. the BBC's More or Less) and Our World in Data is very reputable."}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 32182215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32182215", "by": "stoicjumbotron", "time": 1658424567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OP's Running in Production podcast episode was a good listen: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/105-tinypilotkvm-let..."}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 32188282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188282", "by": "chriskrycho", "time": 1658461623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thirded. I think \u201cpick a GC lang\u201d is an eminently reasonable default stance! I use JS/TS all day every day and am on record on the main ongoing Rust podcast just a few weeks ago saying most folks shouldn\u2019t be teaching for Rust just because. There are things which require it, though, and cases where even if it isn\u2019t a hard requirement it makes a big difference in experience whether you have to boot a VM or not! I also think there\u2019s a high value to really great performance even in cases which don\u2019t demand it, but in those cases it\u2019s really a matter of whether and how the productivity trade offs "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 32194993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32194993", "by": "SnowProblem", "time": 1658512367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's far from perfect, but I believe this to be the best RCT we have on masks out of Bangladesh: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069 We found clear evidence that surgical masks are effective in reducing symptomatic seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2. Although cloth masks clearly reduce symptoms, we find less clear evidence of their impact on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, with the statistical significance depending on whether we impute missing values for nonconsenting adults. I don't believe we have any good studies out of the US or Europe. There's a discussion about this and mor"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 32200096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32200096", "by": "tomger", "time": 1658547561, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This Hidden Brain episode about working from home contains interesting research findings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 32200510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32200510", "by": "mtlmtlmtlmtl", "time": 1658552086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Doesn't he work on QC from the theory side? I assume he has at least some faith if he's spending his time on it. He's on Sean Carroll's podcast talking about this stuff but I can't remember what stance he took on it. I know Stephen Wolfram isn't too excited. But I believe his issue was more that algorithms end with \"and then a measurement happens\", which might be quite tricky and possibly even cancel out any potential gains. Not sure about the details of that, but it makes superficial sense given the nature of measurement in QM."}, {"show": "350580455", "hn_item": 32201537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201537", "by": "harryf", "time": 1658565793, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a great episode with Blake Lemoine on the Duncan Trussel podcast (Duncan created the Midnight Gospel on Netflix) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NXNvJtRQSuWl4HM1MvhD0?si=V... Listening to that it seems clear Blake knew he was likely to be fired but in his eyes it\u2019s some kind of a duty to tell the world. One interesting point he makes in the Podcast is Lamda is not one thing like GPT-3 but a bunch of different systems across Google interacting as one and he argues the interaction of the whole is what makes sentience. It\u2019s a pretty \u201cfar out there\u201d podcast but worth the time IMO"}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 32201957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201957", "by": "krispyfi", "time": 1658571090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm pretty sure the Hamilton Morris podcast would like to interview your friend. Anonymously, of course. https://www.patreon.com/HamiltonMorris"}, {"show": "1364539980", "hn_item": 32202399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202399", "by": "possiblelion", "time": 1658576333, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is a option that shouldn't be discounted. Listened to the excellent Popular Front podcast on CLODO ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anti-tech-militant... ). These were very sophisticated, probably computer scientists themselves who were horrified at how the tech would be used and sabotaged a lot of the infrastructure. Seemingly just to make a point in the history books that the way things went was not without resistance."}, {"show": "1434325501", "hn_item": 32204754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32204754", "by": "bbkane", "time": 1658593418, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've just started listening to the ArtHoles podcasts and it turns out some of the greatest artists were complete disasters in every other respect. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artholes/id1434325501"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32212717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32212717", "by": "tomohawk", "time": 1658665109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in some of the history of the Haitian revolution, one accessible way to learn more is Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html He covers a number of revolutions in detail, with his own spin, but is entertaining and educational. The Haitian revolution and the French revolution are both covered."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32212803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32212803", "by": "tomohawk", "time": 1658665822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wikipedia is, at best, a starting point for further discovery. The tell is how definitively they summarize things in such a brief space. I'm sure the authors there think they are telling you what is important, but they end up leaving out other things. If it's important for you to know, dig deeper. For something more in-depth, but still very accessible, check out Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. He does a series on Haiti. He has his own obvious biases, but is much more in-depth than wikipedia, and gives a much better sense of things."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32212933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32212933", "by": "cowpig", "time": 1658666882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Surely the historical context is important in understanding how things came to be? If an export-based economy is cut off from international trade because it isn't recognized as a nation, and also forced to pay off a massive debt, surely that influences the way it develops? Surely it discourages the evolution of sustainable systems and encourages unsustainable ones, similarly to how poverty creates those issues for individuals? Note that I am not claiming to know anything about Haiti's history, I've listened to the Revolutions podcast series on it and read a bit but I know very little. I am jus"}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 32213585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32213585", "by": "jger15", "time": 1658671332, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32218200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32218200", "by": "dwd", "time": 1658699951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Shermer who this was named after is quite an interesting person and his podcast is worth a listen. He generally talks to the same group of public intellectuals you see on Lex Fridman, Sam Harris, etc and often asks different questions."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32219566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219566", "by": "manwe150", "time": 1658712083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also some research suggesting that defaults in organ donation (so called presumed consent) may decrease rates of actual donations in those countries. I can't find the original podcast where I heard about it (I assume related to either Planet Money or Freakonomics), but found this source: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2017/09/25/organ-donati..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32219566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32219566", "by": "manwe150", "time": 1658712083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also some research suggesting that defaults in organ donation (so called presumed consent) may decrease rates of actual donations in those countries. I can't find the original podcast where I heard about it (I assume related to either Planet Money or Freakonomics), but found this source: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2017/09/25/organ-donati..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32220785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220785", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1658726565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently found out Lex Fridman's podcast and I thoroughly enjoy it. Episodes I listened to are Jack Barsky, Stephen Kotkin, and currently the one with Neal Stephenson. He interviews a broad spectrum of people, about a myriad of topics. I skipped the CEOs though some here may find interview with Zuck or Elon interesting."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32220952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220952", "by": "Curzel", "time": 1658728424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have some, let me know which ones you like, I might have more suggestions for you! In no particular order: Lex Friedman podcast, lots of scientific interviews: https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman Crecganford, This one I discovered recently, expert in ancient and prehistoric mythology: https://youtube.com/c/Crecganford Isaac Arthur, science and futurism, some sci-fi, but very very stimulating: https://youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g Matt Ferrel, weekly interesting topics, generally about coming soon scientific products (like, it\u2019s is joe possible to do X with grapheme, how does it c"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32229731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32229731", "by": "kergonath", "time": 1658777350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was complicated. It was a constitutional monarchy at the time, and killing the king was at least one sub-revolution away. Seriously, there were many, many ways he could have avoided being executed. The Revolutions podcast has a decent summary of all of it, including Louis XVI\u2019s many mis-calculations and stupid PR mistakes. If you can call \u201ca summary\u201d 20 hours worth of podcast. They were at war with half of Europe though, and directly threatened by the Austrian army, amongst others."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32235058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32235058", "by": "docdeek", "time": 1658816995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting - I had never heard of these guys before the most recent episode of the Planet Money podcast on NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1113115868/little-house-on-th..."}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 32239414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32239414", "by": "MuchoMaas", "time": 1658848152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At this point, it's pretty silly that it is still considered \"conspiracy theory\" to aver that intelligence agencies have placed agents in major corporations throughout the world. Even mainstream limited hangout-type sources have started to acknowledge this. They discuss it on that Wind of Change podcast about the theory that the CIA wrote the Scorpions' song. Or, to be more precise, it's silly that it is considered \"conspiracy theory\" in the way most people use the concept, as coterminous with \"a false idea.\""}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 32240499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240499", "by": "aganders3", "time": 1658853187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rustacean Station had a great podcast episode with Quentin Ochem from AdaCore and Florian Gilcher from Ferrous Systems. They do a great job explaining what \"safety-critical\" means and the work that goes into validating software for such applications. I work in a slightly-less regulated field (medical devices) and found the discussion really interesting. https://rustacean-station.org/episode/067-quentin-ochem-flor..."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 32244407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32244407", "by": "cxr", "time": 1658871538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> your progression from QA > Dev Although it may be true of the specific person you're replying to (though I'm not sure that it is), this presumes something, so ends up missing the point. To see the point made here about luck, castes, et cetera requires grappling with the existence of folks who were developers before taking the \"shitty testing job\". There is no QA-to-dev progression there\u2014just someone without the good fortune to be able to say \"no\" to the first job they were offered. A recent guest on Tyler Cowen's podcast made this point wrt to law school graduates: > The bigger thing I would"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 32245495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32245495", "by": "tchock23", "time": 1658879661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out episode 246 of the Indie Hackers podcast. They talk about how podcasts work nicely as a supplement to a newsletter. Might be worth creating a newsletter to complement/grow your existing podcast."}, {"show": "1363389413", "hn_item": 32247279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32247279", "by": "dendrite9", "time": 1658901103, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I remember that article. This podcast about the nutrition and planning for an unsupported 100 day crossing of Antarctica was absolutely fascinating but somehow felt nearly useless in terms of things to apply to my own (far far less substantial) trips. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keto-2700-km-through-a..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 32250522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250522", "by": "throwaway894345", "time": 1658930700, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like etymology, I highly recommend The History of English Podcast. It covers the history of ampersand among many, many other things."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 32252764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252764", "by": "gramie", "time": 1658940135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm on about episode 108 of the podcast \"The History of English\" https://historyofenglishpodcast.com , which taught me about ampersand's origins. I highly recommend the podcast!"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 32254942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32254942", "by": "CoastalCoder", "time": 1658948092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A bit of a tangent, but the Corecursive podcast has a really interesting interview with the creator of SQLite: [0] [0] https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32264063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32264063", "by": "ConceitedCode", "time": 1659015253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the USA, \"officially\" a group of 8 economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research decides when a recession starts. I suspect other countries have their own definitions. \"The NBER's definition emphasizes that a recession involves a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months. In our interpretation of this definition, we treat the three criteria\u2014depth, diffusion, and duration\u2014as somewhat interchangeable. That is, while each criterion needs to be met individually to some degree, extreme conditions revealed by one criterion"}, {"show": "1428670055", "hn_item": 32268607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32268607", "by": "mikewave", "time": 1659034117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find this interesting, the excellent Mac Folklore Radio podcast has a few episodes on this: https://macfolkloreradio.com/2021/06/21/bob-hearn-a-brief-hi..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32271408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271408", "by": "KboPAacDA3", "time": 1659051769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast episode 105 tells a cautionary story about these dedicated secure phones."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32289610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32289610", "by": "tomohawk", "time": 1659209771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While current events do rhyme a bit with the English Civil War, the French Revolution seems more like it. Once the radicals took over and were able to otherise any opposition, the reign of terror started, and didn't abate for a long time. A lot of people died in the name of reason. If you're interested in the history of either revolution, the Revolutions Podcast covers both of them in a fairly entertaining way."}, {"show": "1403202032", "hn_item": 32292966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32292966", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1659239070, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019ve been in this space for a long time, know a lot of people. Lebanon is another country that is heavily using crypto. You will see a lot of countries with corrupt governments and central banks become bottom-up crypto centric, but this won\u2019t be reported for a long time until suddenly the NYT will release an article and only then it is \u201cactually\u201d happening. Here\u2019s an informative episode on a podcast if you actually care https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-standard-p..."}, {"show": "1403202032", "hn_item": 32293036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32293036", "by": "simonw", "time": 1659239900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The summary of that podcast episode says: > Thomas Semaan is an ex-student of Saifedean who has been active in the Lebanese bitcoin scene. He joins us to tell us about the Lebanese fiat crisis, how bitcoin has helped him and other bitcoiners, and compare its effectiveness to political activism and delusions of reform. This is the problem. Obviously bitcoin is of use and interest to bitcoiners. What we're trying to understand is if regular, non-bitcoiners are getting value from it on a large scale. Is crypto in Argentina and Lebanon something that has a real impact on regular people who are not"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 32302659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32302659", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1659334363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For history stuff, I just love: https://historyofeverythingpodcast.com The creator got started on TikTok doing weird history trivia with is wife and has started a podcast after that. For my \"going to sleep\" podcasts, I use \"The Indicator from Planet Money\" (the ads are a bit distracting at times), \"More or Less\" (facts about numbers in the news), \"Robot or Not\" and \"Ungeniused\". All are long enough to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to start listening."}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 32302659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32302659", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1659334363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For history stuff, I just love: https://historyofeverythingpodcast.com The creator got started on TikTok doing weird history trivia with is wife and has started a podcast after that. For my \"going to sleep\" podcasts, I use \"The Indicator from Planet Money\" (the ads are a bit distracting at times), \"More or Less\" (facts about numbers in the news), \"Robot or Not\" and \"Ungeniused\". All are long enough to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to start listening."}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 32305163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32305163", "by": "zip1234", "time": 1659357869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a podcast call \"You Are Not So Smart\" that talks about all the ways our brain tricks us. https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 32306532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32306532", "by": "papito", "time": 1659364505, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you want to get your life back, read Stolen Focus. It has all these tips and tricks but it does a lot more - it explains why our focus is shot, and dissects the forces behind it. It's much more sinister than most people suspect. https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Focus-Attention-Think-Deeply/d... I was spending hours per day on Twitter, and then I learned that overusing social media rewires your brain, and you essentially unlearn to digest information in bigger chunks. This book will horrify you, and that's exactly what needs to be done. And if a book (to listen to) is too much for you to focus "}, {"show": "1455379351", "hn_item": 32310304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32310304", "by": "johnys", "time": 1659378942, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Condor Software | Software Engineer | Remote, San Diego, New York, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Boston | Full-time Interested in building software that makes a meaningful impact on end users and a big impact on medicine? With proven demand, a large seed round, and a team of \"good humans,\" we're looking for more product-leaning software engineers interested in tackling a big, hairy, complex business domain, value building \"code that is easy to delete,\" and geek out about going \"six levels down\" ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-six-levels-d... ). Condor is building a world where finan"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32315757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315757", "by": "itsmemattchung", "time": 1659422043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to a Huberman podcast episode on type 2 diabetes and intermittent fasting and in order to build intuition around my own glucose levels, I started pricking my finger with a lancet ever hour for the last few weeks (going on week 3 now) .... only to discover that I'm actually prediabetic. I wonder how many others are silently walking around, unaware of their prediabetes."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 32316354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32316354", "by": "Orochikaku", "time": 1659429151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signals and Threads[0] is a podcast featuring interesting conversations from engineers at Jane Street [0] https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32319682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319682", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1659453623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History of Rome Revolutions The History of Bizantium The British History Podcast"}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 32319682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319682", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1659453623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "History of Rome Revolutions The History of Bizantium The British History Podcast"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 32325213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32325213", "by": "Mizza", "time": 1659480109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Section 1-21 is interesting to me right now as I'm currently listening to season 3 of the Blowback podcast and this season is all about the Korean War. Their history of events is very different than how it is presented here."}, {"show": "1679952983", "hn_item": 32327330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32327330", "by": "imsd", "time": 1659497321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I made the transition from fintech to working at the intersection of web3 and climate. There\u2019s an emerging movement around \u201cRegenerative Finance\u201d and it\u2019s quite exciting. There\u2019s very real potential for impact here. A good starting spot to get the pulse on these trends is the \u201cMy Climate Journey\u201d podcast."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 32335028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335028", "by": "bredren", "time": 1659550036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mike, thanks for this reply and your work on SQLAlchemy. My employer uses your framework, but not yet the newest versions featuring async. Previously, and still in my personal projects, I have been a Django and Django ORM person. I got away with by and large avoiding SQL statements in building web apps and have sometimes struggled to understand why SQL statements seemed much more forward-facing in SQLAlchemy in comparison. Then I listened to your recent Talk Python podcast episode with M. Kennedy [1] and it helped me understand where the framework is coming from with regards to expectations fo"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32345640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32345640", "by": "jiripospisil", "time": 1659633481, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1401509765", "hn_item": 32346929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32346929", "by": "m_Bii", "time": 1659639616, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32347172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172", "by": "todsacerdoti", "time": 1659640990, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32347536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347536", "by": "affgrff2", "time": 1659643009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's Podcast is what I listen to when doing sports, will take me weeks to get through it but I am really looking forward for this episode."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32347557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347557", "by": "rmason", "time": 1659643134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Other paywalled sites included a full list of subpoena's that include Jason Calacanis. So three of the four besties (All-In podcast) received subpoena's. Calacanis who has a daily podcast has so far not mentioned it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32347809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347809", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1659644452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are exactly my feelings with Lex Fridman Podcast. I tried with so many of his guests, the lineup is amazing! But every time I end up dropping early on the conversation. Surprisingly, I find him even worse than Joe Rogan as a host (surprising because Joe doesn't have a technical background, whereas Lex does). Joe at least is an apparently neutral host with some charisma and guests get to portray their ideas clearly. Lex somehow sucks all the fun out of the conversation. Contrast with, for example, Tyler Cowen which also hosts a wide range of interesting guests, and still is able to pose i"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32348478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348478", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1659648293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He turned his youtube lectures channel on self driving into \"MIT AI Podcast\", which helped him get a ton of top ML people on and then pivoted that into \"Lex Fridman Podcast\" with a lot more IDW style crackpots mixed in, lending them credibility that they don't deserve."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32351326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351326", "by": "galfarragem", "time": 1659671142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People that rarely (or never) give interviews are not afraid to go to Lex\u2019s podcast. This is huge. Could he push a little bit more? Yes he could but probably potential guests would start to refuse his invitation. I see Lex podcast almost as a terapist. People go there, talk their mind, they are not pressed or judged."}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 32351348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351348", "by": "suby", "time": 1659671304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pivot happened ages ago, his podcast was originally called something like the Artificial Intelligence Podcast, and then changed to the Lex Fridmin podcast along with a change in more general guests. I do wish he focused more on computer related topics, but his guests still tend to be very interesting."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 32351456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351456", "by": "disantlor", "time": 1659672228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was surprised by how out of touch and un-self-aware he seemed on the recent Sam Harris podcast episode. Never heard him speak before. But having heard him in his own words, I am now completely unsurprised by this article."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32351549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351549", "by": "prvc", "time": 1659672858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The context for the timing of this hit-piece is that he was recently a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32356001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32356001", "by": "Aunche", "time": 1659706924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "JRE Alex Jones appears as my first suggestion as soon as I type \"JRE Al\". \"JRE Robert\" initially didn't show Robert Malone, but I didn't know who he was, and after I searched his name, his Joe Rogan podcast appeared as a suggestion. Honestly, it sounds like you're coming into this with a huge preconceived notion that Google goes out of the way to mildly inconvenience the far right. If you really care about \"conservative censorship\", ask your Republican representatives to make Google a common carrier instead of virtue signalling about how bad big tech is to score cheap political points."}, {"show": "1548524534", "hn_item": 32359881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32359881", "by": "ARobby", "time": 1659723710, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 32363447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363447", "by": "spuz", "time": 1659744679, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not blogs but two podcasts: Knowledge Fight for details on every awful thing Alex Jones and his crew have done over the years: https://knowledgefight.com/ Opening Arguments: more general law stuff but the last couple of episodes have covered how dumb Alex Jones'lawyers are in this case: https://openargs.com/oa619-ok-alex-joness-lawyers-really-don..."}, {"show": "1070996136", "hn_item": 32363459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363459", "by": "59125throwaya", "time": 1659744835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in more insight on how Russia now and in the past is not like the west, I have found The Eastern Border podcast to be illuminating. https://theeasternborder.lv/ Look for the episodes prior to the war in Ukraine."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32366533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32366533", "by": "jstimpfle", "time": 1659778854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends how pedantic you are with your \"looks like C\" judgement, but in my perception many hardcore programmers write \"C flavoured C++, not modern or template-heavy C++\" by their own account. John Carmack is only the last whom I've heard say this, just yesterday in the new Lex Fridman Podcast episode."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 32367152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32367152", "by": "rpastuszak", "time": 1659785868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time (the BBC podcast) has a decent episode on the subject: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010f8z"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 32367699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32367699", "by": "artichaud", "time": 1659790770, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 32368776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368776", "by": "dharmaturtle", "time": 1659798619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got my mother listening to The Drive with Peter Attia. https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/ It's probably her personality type, but she's taken to completely binging the episode archive. As for your parents (and anyone else honestly): major in the majors and minor in the minors. Get your diet, exercise, and sleep right first. Only then start looking for pills and supplements. Nothing will be as effective as these three. Avoid sugar as much as possible, especially liquid sugar (soda, fruit juice, icecream). Do resistance training and zone 2 cardio several days a week. Get blackout curtains."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32371113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32371113", "by": "baal80spam", "time": 1659816311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this about AGI? Carmack is on it, so I would bet he succeeds. He speaks of this quite a lot in the last Lex Fridman podcast (linked on HN yesterday)."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 32372981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32372981", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1659834804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pleasantly surprised that these are actually a bit spicy and the title wasn\u2019t just click bait. > Like 95% of the immediate problems of AI policy are just \"who has power under capitalism\" I\u2019m with Jack and Ted Chiang[1] on this one. I\u2019ve never really been at all interested in AI policy despite being very interested in AI, exactly because it is obvious to me that the problems are \u201cpower under capitalism\u201d. Most AI policy is totally misdirected because it doesn\u2019t attack the actual problem with AI technology. 1. See Ted on Ezra Klein Show podcast"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 32375171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375171", "by": "lextuto", "time": 1659865422, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Full disclosure: I have no medical training whatsoever. Exercise (a combination of cardio and resistance training) seems to be a very, if not the most important thing. That's the takeaway from two podcasts I listened too recently. In the first one[0] Stuart Phillips talks about how important resistance training is for older people. He also says that if you exercise then supplementing your diet with protein is really just the \"sprinkling on top\". Doing the exercise is far more important. In the second[2] one the author (who was diagnosed with MS in her 20s but is not taking any medication and i"}, {"show": "1352860989", "hn_item": 32375171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375171", "by": "lextuto", "time": 1659865422, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Full disclosure: I have no medical training whatsoever. Exercise (a combination of cardio and resistance training) seems to be a very, if not the most important thing. That's the takeaway from two podcasts I listened too recently. In the first one[0] Stuart Phillips talks about how important resistance training is for older people. He also says that if you exercise then supplementing your diet with protein is really just the \"sprinkling on top\". Doing the exercise is far more important. In the second[2] one the author (who was diagnosed with MS in her 20s but is not taking any medication and i"}, {"show": "1442080847", "hn_item": 32378520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32378520", "by": "vivegi", "time": 1659896790, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For those who are interested: The author also has a History podcast titled \"Echoes of India\" https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/echoes-of-india-a-hist... https://open.spotify.com/show/3gyenNhpv2JIvu5nTccaFr"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32380266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32380266", "by": "echobear", "time": 1659909188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "not strictly a youtube channel, but I love Lex Fridman's podcast"}, {"show": "1291423644", "hn_item": 32385293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32385293", "by": "fumblebee", "time": 1659966334, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Steven Bartlett has a really insightful with Tom Blomfield about this [1], and then also with Starling CEO Anne Boden [2]. While I'm generally not a great fan of his podcast, these two I found to be fascinating. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/e86-monzo-ceo-on-death... [2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e107-starling-bank-bui..."}, {"show": "1293834627", "hn_item": 32386467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386467", "by": "deltasevennine", "time": 1659971831, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ">These are transient objects for humans passing through their years. A useful novelty, a pleasant experience, that\u2019s all they want. There is huge drive to position the products in this way. Consumers including you are manipulated to think this way for products that traditionally aren't thought of this way. It has become so ingrained that you can't tell the difference. >You cite no evidence. https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/01/apple-lawsuit-portugal-planne... https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apples-planned-obso... https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/08/apple-to-pay-34m-... https://nypost"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32392673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392673", "by": "2muchcoffeeman", "time": 1660004069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics guys have podcasts and they are fairly good. There\u2019s no boiling things down to a simple sound bite. Have not reads the books."}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 32392878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32392878", "by": "ralfj", "time": 1660005803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Which podcast was that? A Rust podcast with the main Zig dev sounds very interesting!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32393388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32393388", "by": "2muchcoffeeman", "time": 1660009973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have not read the Freakonomics books. I have not read any Gladwell books either. But I have listened to Gladwell's podcast. Gladwell by comparison seems to be, to use what other people have said, a story teller. An easy listening story teller. Dubner and Levitt's podcasts in comparison, are more likely to interview interesting people, and I leave with more things to consider. This isn't to say they are infallible. And you don't have to agree with everything they say or write. But Galdwell seems more interested in a neat narrative."}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 32393750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32393750", "by": "SpikedCola", "time": 1660013195, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Highly recommend the Criminal Podcast episode on Ken McElroy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-66-bully/id809..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32396193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32396193", "by": "luketrader67", "time": 1660042420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESLZhusAkFfsNsApnjF_Cg/fea... 4 Friends go all in on everything topical"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32396203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32396203", "by": "luketrader67", "time": 1660042491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ALl-In Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESLZhusAkFfsNsApnjF_Cg/fea... 4 highly successful besties go all in on everything topical"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32396277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32396277", "by": "mslupski1", "time": 1660043152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Carmack mentioned that he's shocked by how little interest Big Capital has in nuclear fission (he's more into fission that fusion). He talks a lot about it in a recent Lex Fridman podcast, a good listen if you're into this. It's weird that this isn't the main focus of the whole energy industry."}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 32399361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32399361", "by": "lurkshark", "time": 1660059195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great episode of the Criminal podcast on this topic https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-138-starlight-tours-4-17-..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 32409071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32409071", "by": "readlikeasloth", "time": 1660118865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If you're 100% serverless then this doesn't really apply, but if you're spinning up eight different Kubernetes clusters for eight different teams then you probably need to collaborate a bit better. This is exactly the situation I\u00b4m currently in. Company decided to migrate from big on-prem kubernetes to AWS. Now every team got their own account and well... good luck, you\u00b4re on your own now. We\u00b4re a small team of three developers. Although we have three certifications under our belts (AWS Dev, CKA, CKAD) it took us almost three months to configure AWS and set up the Terraform pipeline and defi"}, {"show": "1629454648", "hn_item": 32412715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412715", "by": "kranke155", "time": 1660142246, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You should read reports by actual experts instead of media. The RUSI - Royal United Services Institute - is a leading UK military institute that had boots on the ground assessing the situation. Here is their assessment. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-r... \"At present, however, several Russian advantages and Ukrainian weaknesses are leading to an attritional conflict that risks a protracted war, eventually favouring Russia.\" And here's the companion podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-turning-point-in-ukr... It will tell you a lot of things, including tha"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 32412715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412715", "by": "kranke155", "time": 1660142246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should read reports by actual experts instead of media. The RUSI - Royal United Services Institute - is a leading UK military institute that had boots on the ground assessing the situation. Here is their assessment. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-r... \"At present, however, several Russian advantages and Ukrainian weaknesses are leading to an attritional conflict that risks a protracted war, eventually favouring Russia.\" And here's the companion podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-turning-point-in-ukr... It will tell you a lot of things, including tha"}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 32417607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32417607", "by": "iamwil", "time": 1660161696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On our podcast, The Technium, we covered Semantic Web as a retro-future episode [0]. It was a neat trip back to the early 2000s. It wasn't a bad idea, pre se, but it depended on humans doing-the-right-thing for markup and the assumption that classifying things are easy. Turns out neither are true. In addition, the complexity of the spec really didn't help those that wanted to adopt its practices. However, there are bits and pieces of good ideas in there, and some of it lives on in the web today. Just have to dig a little to see them. Metadata on websites for fb/twitter/google cards, RDF triple"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 32422627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422627", "by": "filoeleven", "time": 1660203344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Along the same lines, folks interested in this will also like learning about Rep. Barbara Lee, the only person in Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorized Use of Military Force after 9/11. > She \"warned her colleagues to be 'careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target'\". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee#AUMF_opposition The Radiolab podcast episode is IMO the best way to hear the telling. The link is to their re-release, which has a bit extra at the end IIRC. https://radiolab.org/episodes/60-words-20-years"}, {"show": "1635750997", "hn_item": 32431450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32431450", "by": "londont", "time": 1660250450, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 32433305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32433305", "by": "mr90210", "time": 1660262417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Go Weekly by Cooper Press (Newsletter) - Awesome Go (GitHub repo) - threedots.tech (Blog DDD w/ Go) - Go Time by Changelog (Podcast)"}, {"show": "1375877915", "hn_item": 32442247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32442247", "by": "tylerFowler", "time": 1660328929, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The usual line that I've heard on nonstick pans is that the leaking process happens at very high temperatures. In general one shouldn't use very high heat on a non-stick pan & certainly not an _empty_ non-stick pan. David Chang's podcast has an interesting episode on this specific topic, though he brings on a domain expert who definitely has a lot of bias (but expertise nonetheless). https://open.spotify.com/episode/7joCX2xx4GU50myfbtVm44?si=4..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32447123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447123", "by": "stickfigure", "time": 1660367638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This question is phrased weirdly because it's not like I listen to the same audiobook over and over every time I take a long drive. Presumably you're looking for \"good book that worked well in audio format and is long enough to keep me occupied on a long drive\". I've been on road trips that lasted over a year. Some options that kept me stimulated: * Most audio plays that target public radio (BBC, ZBS, etc). Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe, etc etc. * Anything from the Teaching Co. Pick a subject that interests you, you won't be disappointed. If you don't know where to"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32447123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447123", "by": "stickfigure", "time": 1660367638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This question is phrased weirdly because it's not like I listen to the same audiobook over and over every time I take a long drive. Presumably you're looking for \"good book that worked well in audio format and is long enough to keep me occupied on a long drive\". I've been on road trips that lasted over a year. Some options that kept me stimulated: * Most audio plays that target public radio (BBC, ZBS, etc). Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe, etc etc. * Anything from the Teaching Co. Pick a subject that interests you, you won't be disappointed. If you don't know where to"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32447123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447123", "by": "stickfigure", "time": 1660367638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This question is phrased weirdly because it's not like I listen to the same audiobook over and over every time I take a long drive. Presumably you're looking for \"good book that worked well in audio format and is long enough to keep me occupied on a long drive\". I've been on road trips that lasted over a year. Some options that kept me stimulated: * Most audio plays that target public radio (BBC, ZBS, etc). Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe, etc etc. * Anything from the Teaching Co. Pick a subject that interests you, you won't be disappointed. If you don't know where to"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32447569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447569", "by": "branko_d", "time": 1660374271, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32451778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451778", "by": "Daniel_sk", "time": 1660410600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related and very interesting podcast: Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 32452125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452125", "by": "opo", "time": 1660413033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible did a good podcast covering the Red Car. From their overview article on the episode: >...Henry Huntington took his money and headed for Los Angeles. He purchased the biggest transportation system in the city, the Los Angeles Railway (LARy), and then incorporated it into a new company called Pacific Electric. Huntington also started building hundreds of subdivisions on the periphery of Los Angeles and used Pacific Electric trains\u2014bright red trolleys\u2014to connect the subdivisions to downtown Los Angeles. >Over time, though, Huntington had built so many subdivisions that h"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32452186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452186", "by": "ninesnines", "time": 1660413575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eh maybe its because I've spent a lot of time studying neuroscience and psychology, but I think the jump from the split brain phenomena due to cutting the corpus callosum to having multiple internal 'people' is kind of a large jump. It also seems obvious to me that parts of your brain are communicating, and if you cut a large connection, then they will need time to form new connections and ways of perceiving the world. And of course we all contain many layers in terms of personality etc. I also would be careful at taking Freuds words too closely -- a lot of his works were not backed explicitly"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 32452578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452578", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1660416165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth a listen: the Omega Tau podcast episode on container ships: https://omegataupodcast.net/146-container-shipping/"}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 32452877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452877", "by": "ironmagma", "time": 1660418208, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For anyone interested in this topic, I recommend season 41 of the podcast American Scandal, which depicts the DuPont cover-up of C8 dumping and how it was discovered. Great narration. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-scandal/id143... There is also a less dramatic version in book form, called Exposure by Robert Bilott, the attorney who prosecuted DuPont."}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 32453320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453320", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1660421349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to context about this (tl;dr, the growing number of deployment targets for modern apps/libs/frameworks) from the recent Syntax podcast. See the 27:01 mark, https://syntax.fm/show/496/supper-club-headless-ecommerce-wi... ."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 32454463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454463", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1660430154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM\u2014the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey. For more niche, \u2018serious\u2019 interests, Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, The Drive, and it\u2019s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris\u2019 podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 32454463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454463", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1660430154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM\u2014the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey. For more niche, \u2018serious\u2019 interests, Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, The Drive, and it\u2019s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris\u2019 podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 32454463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454463", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1660430154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM\u2014the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey. For more niche, \u2018serious\u2019 interests, Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, The Drive, and it\u2019s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris\u2019 podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32454463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454463", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1660430154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM\u2014the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey. For more niche, \u2018serious\u2019 interests, Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, The Drive, and it\u2019s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris\u2019 podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 32454463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454463", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1660430154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For casual listening, I really like Connected, and Cortex, from Relay FM\u2014the former being an Apple-centric podcast, the latter being anything productivity-adjacent, and co-hosted by CGP Grey. For more niche, \u2018serious\u2019 interests, Peter Attia\u2019s podcast, The Drive, and it\u2019s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris\u2019 podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 32454528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454528", "by": "jpm_sd", "time": 1660430717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy: The Greatest Generation https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/ The Greatest Discovery https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-discovery/ Other good ones that are more serious: Triple Click The Ezra Klein Show Ear Hustle BBC In Our Time BBC 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy The Amp Hour PCB Chat On Track PCB Design Podcast Internet History Podcast Smartless The Well Song Exploder"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 32454528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454528", "by": "jpm_sd", "time": 1660430717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy: The Greatest Generation https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/ The Greatest Discovery https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-discovery/ Other good ones that are more serious: Triple Click The Ezra Klein Show Ear Hustle BBC In Our Time BBC 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy The Amp Hour PCB Chat On Track PCB Design Podcast Internet History Podcast Smartless The Well Song Exploder"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 32454528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454528", "by": "jpm_sd", "time": 1660430717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy: The Greatest Generation https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/ The Greatest Discovery https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-discovery/ Other good ones that are more serious: Triple Click The Ezra Klein Show Ear Hustle BBC In Our Time BBC 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy The Amp Hour PCB Chat On Track PCB Design Podcast Internet History Podcast Smartless The Well Song Exploder"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 32454528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454528", "by": "jpm_sd", "time": 1660430717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy: The Greatest Generation https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/ The Greatest Discovery https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-discovery/ Other good ones that are more serious: Triple Click The Ezra Klein Show Ear Hustle BBC In Our Time BBC 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy The Amp Hour PCB Chat On Track PCB Design Podcast Internet History Podcast Smartless The Well Song Exploder"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32454594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454594", "by": "ripplefringe", "time": 1660431380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A suggestion I would have is treat the podcast a library to choose from and not a subscription. For example: * maybe you don\u2019t love Marc Maron but you LOVE David Sedaris. Just listen to that interview. * maybe you hate news but you\u2019re curious about a specific current event. See if \u201cThe Daily\u201d has an episode on that. I\u2019d recommend finding high quality podcasts and looking through their archive. There is no better podcast than hearing a high quality operation like \u201cThis American Life\u201d tell a story all about one of your interests. In that vein, I keep an eye on: The daily This American life Today"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 32454594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454594", "by": "ripplefringe", "time": 1660431380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A suggestion I would have is treat the podcast a library to choose from and not a subscription. For example: * maybe you don\u2019t love Marc Maron but you LOVE David Sedaris. Just listen to that interview. * maybe you hate news but you\u2019re curious about a specific current event. See if \u201cThe Daily\u201d has an episode on that. I\u2019d recommend finding high quality podcasts and looking through their archive. There is no better podcast than hearing a high quality operation like \u201cThis American Life\u201d tell a story all about one of your interests. In that vein, I keep an eye on: The daily This American life Today"}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 32454616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454616", "by": "kentrf", "time": 1660431755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- ADSP - Embedded.fm - CPPCast before they called it quits - Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast - Darknet diaries - Open source security podcast And for those who understand any Nordic language, I can't recommend P3 Dystopia enough."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 32454616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454616", "by": "kentrf", "time": 1660431755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- ADSP - Embedded.fm - CPPCast before they called it quits - Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast - Darknet diaries - Open source security podcast And for those who understand any Nordic language, I can't recommend P3 Dystopia enough."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 32454675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454675", "by": "oonny", "time": 1660432425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My First Million The review below is pretty accurate. It ruined all other business/startup podcasts https://twitter.com/ishverduzco/status/1557794282009817088?s..."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 32454680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454680", "by": "slyall", "time": 1660432472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My top ones would be: Tech: - Kubernetes Podcast from Google - O11ycast - The Kubelist podcast Non Tech: - Exploring the Lord of the Rings - Tolkien with lots of Dad Jokes - The Prancing Pony Podcast - Tolkien line by line - The Song of Urania - History of Astronomy"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 32454779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454779", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1660433529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Knowledge Project All In Conversations with Tyler Lex Friedman Tim Ferris Show Bankless Hardcore History I find that with most podcasts you have good and bad episodes. Also even really medicore podcasts often have 1 or 2 really good episodes."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 32454779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454779", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1660433529, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Knowledge Project All In Conversations with Tyler Lex Friedman Tim Ferris Show Bankless Hardcore History I find that with most podcasts you have good and bad episodes. Also even really medicore podcasts often have 1 or 2 really good episodes."}, {"show": "663379413", "hn_item": 32454797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454797", "by": "andelink", "time": 1660433720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, made an account to respond to you. Check out The Energy Gang. My favorite podcast in this space. I think it meets your requirements. I listen to every episode and can\u2019t recommend it enough"}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 32454821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454821", "by": "hestefisk", "time": 1660433954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "2.5 Admins - with Jim Salter from Ars. It\u2019s a great sys admin podcast BSD Now - everything *BSD. Quality has declined quite a bit since Benedict joined, though. Corecursive - some really great stories on software development. The recent one on debugging LISP in deep space is great. Changelog - Sometimes decent interviews with founders and in-depth tech interview. Avoid JS Party though, it\u2019s really daunting. Cyber - stories on hacking and cyber security from Vice / Motherboard. 2600: Off the hook - legendary."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 32454973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454973", "by": "KevinEldon", "time": 1660435370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Martyr Made, History on Fire, Jocko Podcast, and Hardcore History I hear History of Rome and Revolutions are good."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32454973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32454973", "by": "KevinEldon", "time": 1660435370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Martyr Made, History on Fire, Jocko Podcast, and Hardcore History I hear History of Rome and Revolutions are good."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 32455109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455109", "by": "t-3", "time": 1660437053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "News: NPR News Now POLITICO Playbook Daily Briefing POLITICO EU Confidential World Socialist Web Site Daily Podcast SANS Internet Stormcast Misc: Grant's Current Yield Intercepted War on the Rocks Tech: The Array Cast Digital Forensic Survival Podcast Computer Architecture Podcast ACM ByteCast BSD Now Hackaday Podcast"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 32455109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455109", "by": "t-3", "time": 1660437053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "News: NPR News Now POLITICO Playbook Daily Briefing POLITICO EU Confidential World Socialist Web Site Daily Podcast SANS Internet Stormcast Misc: Grant's Current Yield Intercepted War on the Rocks Tech: The Array Cast Digital Forensic Survival Podcast Computer Architecture Podcast ACM ByteCast BSD Now Hackaday Podcast"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 32455149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455149", "by": "yakubin", "time": 1660437435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Array Cast - an array programming podcast (sometimes featuring core people involved in the languages): https://www.arraycast.com/episodes > Oxide and Friends - stories from low-level programming world (firmware, operating systems, etc.): https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/oxide-and-friends/ > On The Metal (discontinued) - same as above, from the same people: https://oxide.computer/podcasts > (edited: I thought Oxide and Friends was discontinued, but I was wrong. Removed the misinformation.)"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 32455149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455149", "by": "yakubin", "time": 1660437435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Array Cast - an array programming podcast (sometimes featuring core people involved in the languages): https://www.arraycast.com/episodes > Oxide and Friends - stories from low-level programming world (firmware, operating systems, etc.): https://toppodcast.com/podcast_feeds/oxide-and-friends/ > On The Metal (discontinued) - same as above, from the same people: https://oxide.computer/podcasts > (edited: I thought Oxide and Friends was discontinued, but I was wrong. Removed the misinformation.)"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32455216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455216", "by": "vosper", "time": 1660438018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ones and Tooze - shortish weekly podcast about world events and economics, with Adam Tooze The Inquiry, The Briefing Room, and Analysis - BBC podcasts about current events Revolutions - great series which has had its final ever episode, but as a history podcast it\u2019s not going to become out of date."}, {"show": "932499233", "hn_item": 32455216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455216", "by": "vosper", "time": 1660438018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ones and Tooze - shortish weekly podcast about world events and economics, with Adam Tooze The Inquiry, The Briefing Room, and Analysis - BBC podcasts about current events Revolutions - great series which has had its final ever episode, but as a history podcast it\u2019s not going to become out of date."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 32455226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455226", "by": "shantara", "time": 1660438124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape. Lots of other great podcasts have already been mentioned, such as BBC In Our Time, Darknet Diaries and On the Metal."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32455226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455226", "by": "shantara", "time": 1660438124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape. Lots of other great podcasts have already been mentioned, such as BBC In Our Time, Darknet Diaries and On the Metal."}, {"show": "1548524534", "hn_item": 32455318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455318", "by": "nyellin", "time": 1660438973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Open Source Startup Podcast https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io/ I'm CEO of an open source startup in the Kubernetes space ( https://robusta.dev ) and it's been an incredibly useful source of information."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 32455318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455318", "by": "nyellin", "time": 1660438973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Open Source Startup Podcast https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io/ I'm CEO of an open source startup in the Kubernetes space ( https://robusta.dev ) and it's been an incredibly useful source of information."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 32455319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32455319", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1660438988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. Mike Duncan is an awesome storyteller. He has now written a couple good books too. \"Revolutions\" is so good that I listened to the whole thing a second time during the pandemic. \"The History of Byzantium\" by Robert Pierson is also excellent and is still ongoing. \"The show was created to continue the narrative established by Mike Duncan\u2019s wonderful podcast \u201cThe History of Rome.\u201d I have tried to remain faithful to Mike\u2019s structure of half hour installments told from a state-centric perspective.\" [ https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ ]"}, {"show": "1718851160", "hn_item": 32456034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32456034", "by": "voisin", "time": 1660447180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Rich Roll - The Drive with Peter Attia - Legacy of Speed with Malcolm Gladwell - Huberman Lab - FoundmyFitness - Modern Homesteading Podcast - The Permaculture Podcast - Redemption Permaculture Podcast"}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 32456034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32456034", "by": "voisin", "time": 1660447180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Rich Roll - The Drive with Peter Attia - Legacy of Speed with Malcolm Gladwell - Huberman Lab - FoundmyFitness - Modern Homesteading Podcast - The Permaculture Podcast - Redemption Permaculture Podcast"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32456034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32456034", "by": "voisin", "time": 1660447180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Rich Roll - The Drive with Peter Attia - Legacy of Speed with Malcolm Gladwell - Huberman Lab - FoundmyFitness - Modern Homesteading Podcast - The Permaculture Podcast - Redemption Permaculture Podcast"}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 32457074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457074", "by": "BossingAround", "time": 1660460092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You probably don't like audiobooks on history. He's just great at telling captivating historical stories and finding interesting historical angles. If that's not your thing (or if you have a PhD in historical studies and think he's crazy/wrong/too reductive/...), that's totally OK. By the way, he also has a podcast called Common Sense, which is focusing on politics (as the name suggests)."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 32457085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457085", "by": "BossingAround", "time": 1660460208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed, I too find podcasts to be fairly bad at with deeply technical topics. The best I found are podcasts like Linux after dark or Stack Overflow Podcast. Anything more technical than that and I just zone out. Might be just me."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 32457181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457181", "by": "BossingAround", "time": 1660461368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many great suggestions in this thread. I would add the following, omitting those that are already mentioned: Intelligence Squared Podcast - Great debate-style episodes on amazing topics (such as \"Should the west engage with Russia,\" or \"Should the west engage with Saudis\") mixed with interviews of book authors. Must listen! Making Sense Podcast - Very deep interviews on topics with crystalized rationality. Another must listen! No Stupid Questions Rework HBR IdeaCast Stay Tuned with Preet"}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 32457181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457181", "by": "BossingAround", "time": 1660461368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many great suggestions in this thread. I would add the following, omitting those that are already mentioned: Intelligence Squared Podcast - Great debate-style episodes on amazing topics (such as \"Should the west engage with Russia,\" or \"Should the west engage with Saudis\") mixed with interviews of book authors. Must listen! Making Sense Podcast - Very deep interviews on topics with crystalized rationality. Another must listen! No Stupid Questions Rework HBR IdeaCast Stay Tuned with Preet"}, {"show": "1510056899", "hn_item": 32457181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457181", "by": "BossingAround", "time": 1660461368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many great suggestions in this thread. I would add the following, omitting those that are already mentioned: Intelligence Squared Podcast - Great debate-style episodes on amazing topics (such as \"Should the west engage with Russia,\" or \"Should the west engage with Saudis\") mixed with interviews of book authors. Must listen! Making Sense Podcast - Very deep interviews on topics with crystalized rationality. Another must listen! No Stupid Questions Rework HBR IdeaCast Stay Tuned with Preet"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 32457388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457388", "by": "robga", "time": 1660463967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BBC More or Less Behind the Stats. Making sense of the numbers that surround us. BBC The Life Scientific - talks with leading scientists about their life and work. BBC In Our Time - the ideas, people, and events that have shaped our world. The History of English. The History of England. \u2026 and an embarrassingly high number of True Crime podcasts."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 32457421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457421", "by": "fuzzygroup", "time": 1660464371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm currently doing an 18 hour drive and binging the Acquired podcast. Their analysis is excellent."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 32457923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457923", "by": "penguin_booze", "time": 1660470571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Straight out of my Podcast Republic app subscriptions: 99% invisible, ACM bytecast, Against the rules, Analysis (BBC), Boris (BBC), Cautionary Tales, Conversations with Tyler, CoRecursive, Feakonomics Radio, Functional Geekery, In or time (BBC), Myths and Legends (bed-time listening only!), Planet Money, Revisionist History, Guardian Science Weekly, Seriously (BBC), Sideways, Software Engineering Radio, Anthropocene Reviewed (no new episodes, but had a good run), The infinite monkey cage, The inquiry (BBC), The joy of why, The numberphile podcast, This is Love, Trillions (Bloomberg), Twenty Th"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 32457923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457923", "by": "penguin_booze", "time": 1660470571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Straight out of my Podcast Republic app subscriptions: 99% invisible, ACM bytecast, Against the rules, Analysis (BBC), Boris (BBC), Cautionary Tales, Conversations with Tyler, CoRecursive, Feakonomics Radio, Functional Geekery, In or time (BBC), Myths and Legends (bed-time listening only!), Planet Money, Revisionist History, Guardian Science Weekly, Seriously (BBC), Sideways, Software Engineering Radio, Anthropocene Reviewed (no new episodes, but had a good run), The infinite monkey cage, The inquiry (BBC), The joy of why, The numberphile podcast, This is Love, Trillions (Bloomberg), Twenty Th"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 32457986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457986", "by": "cassianoleal", "time": 1660471397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm excitedly waiting for S3 of the Blowback podcast [0]. The first 2 were incredibly good. [0] https://blowback.show/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32458760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458760", "by": "zvikinoza", "time": 1660480694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[1] Rustacean Station - https://rustacean-station.org/ [2] Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast [3] Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/ [4] Philophize This! - https://www.philosophizethis.org/ [5] On The Metal - It's no longer active, but prev episodes/guests are amazing - https://oxide.computer/podcasts"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 32458760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458760", "by": "zvikinoza", "time": 1660480694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[1] Rustacean Station - https://rustacean-station.org/ [2] Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast [3] Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/ [4] Philophize This! - https://www.philosophizethis.org/ [5] On The Metal - It's no longer active, but prev episodes/guests are amazing - https://oxide.computer/podcasts"}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 32458760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458760", "by": "zvikinoza", "time": 1660480694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[1] Rustacean Station - https://rustacean-station.org/ [2] Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast [3] Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/ [4] Philophize This! - https://www.philosophizethis.org/ [5] On The Metal - It's no longer active, but prev episodes/guests are amazing - https://oxide.computer/podcasts"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 32458808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458808", "by": "akudha", "time": 1660481157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side hustle nation Nomad Capitalist Behind the Bastards Citations Needed (I highly recommend this one) Love Fruit - the fruit fest podcast My no code story"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 32458808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32458808", "by": "akudha", "time": 1660481157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side hustle nation Nomad Capitalist Behind the Bastards Citations Needed (I highly recommend this one) Love Fruit - the fruit fest podcast My no code story"}, {"show": "1621757273", "hn_item": 32459601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459601", "by": "sqwrell", "time": 1660487843, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You might like this https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/hot-money-who-rules-po..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 32459742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32459742", "by": "jmmv", "time": 1660488752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know is my favorite. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen it mentioned here yet: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269... Their cousin Stuff They Don\u2019t Want You To Know is also entertaining."}, {"show": "1189978971", "hn_item": 32460664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32460664", "by": "_emacsomancer_", "time": 1660495352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For tech things, I like Joe Ressington's podcasts[1] (e.g. Late Night Linux, 2.5 Admins) and Saron Yitbarek's[2] (e.g. Command_Line Heroes, Code Newbie). And on the darker side of tech, the podcast Tech Won't Save Us[3] is really excellent (and prolific). [1]: https://joeress.com/ [2]: https://saron.io/ [3]: https://techwontsave.us/"}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 32460664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32460664", "by": "_emacsomancer_", "time": 1660495352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For tech things, I like Joe Ressington's podcasts[1] (e.g. Late Night Linux, 2.5 Admins) and Saron Yitbarek's[2] (e.g. Command_Line Heroes, Code Newbie). And on the darker side of tech, the podcast Tech Won't Save Us[3] is really excellent (and prolific). [1]: https://joeress.com/ [2]: https://saron.io/ [3]: https://techwontsave.us/"}, {"show": "6800059040", "hn_item": 32461652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461652", "by": "syspec", "time": 1660501939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accompanying podcast: https://pca.st/episode/af3ea556-c30b-4784-a901-404f7b8c03e5"}, {"show": "477248343", "hn_item": 32461837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461837", "by": "m8s", "time": 1660503307, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Buy now pay later schemes are usually really terrible ideas. Companies like Klarna and Afterpay should be avoided at all costs. Often the loan repayment schedules are intentionally confusing and predatory. Here\u2019s a relevant You Need A Budget podcast episode for those looking for more on this topic: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Z9NQoseq5nvutAInURR2r"}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 32463370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32463370", "by": "lorisdev", "time": 1660514245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Coding Blocks is probably the podcast that was most influential in my career https://www.codingblocks.net/ - Coder radio for fun and rants https://coder.show/ - Grumpy old geeks for fun and more rants https://www.gog.show/ - The Program was launched here on HN and it's some of the best sci-fi you can listen to https://programaudioseries.com/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32464649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32464649", "by": "erenyeager", "time": 1660524804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know PayPal \"Buy-in-4\" has no interest or late fees in its terms. So in that regard, it really is a 0-interest loan, paid in 4 installments. I haven't looked into Klarna, but there's an NPR Planet Money podcast about these types of schemes. The profits are made up by the fact that demand increases compared to credit cards (many are ineligible for credit cards, or don't use them for whichever reason), and that the merchant is charged a higher rate by the BNPL company."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 32465009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32465009", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1660528110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For the benefit of those reading here, it's a lot of episodes from Built to Sell , My First Million , Startups for the Rest of US and other bootstrapper-focused podcasts."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 32465363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32465363", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1660532107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been an avid fan for years and get the feeling that Melvyn Bragg is getting ready to pass the baton but there is a huge back catalogue of interesting conversation. BBC in general has a deep Podcast bench a few that stand out are More or Less, Witness, the Inquiry, occasionally the Real Story, and always never miss a Reith Lecture."}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 32475611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32475611", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1660598815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's been covering this topic in great detail with Josh Barro on the ATPL and Serious Trouble podcasts. He's not remotely like a Vox/Salon writer."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32480037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32480037", "by": "simonswords82", "time": 1660633891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't remember what episode it was but there was a really interesting chat between Joe Rogan and David Goggins on the Rogan podcast where David said in his view it's better to work out every day and ensure that you don't wake up the next day sore. His logic was that daily 80% threshold workouts are better than 2-3 times a week at 110%. Consistency is key - and that stuck with me. There's something nice about having muscle ache but it's counter productive to wanting to get back in the gym for most people!"}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 32481649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32481649", "by": "pipeline_peak", "time": 1660650945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to survive, you gotta watch what you say. Life isn\u2019t some Alex Jones podcast."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 32482717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32482717", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1660657915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "when they said CICO is \"just wrong\" they should have said \"just different for every person\". My wife listens to a pretty entertaining podcast called Maintenance Phase and they did an episode on CICO where they basically call it BS because of all the other variables. I have a hard time dealing with CICO being wrong because I just don't see getting around the physics. In my mind, what's missed in CICO is the numbers and measurements are different for each person. A calorie limit for one person that results in weightloss may not work for someone else. It seems pretty obvious to me that calorie co"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32485102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485102", "by": "hombre_fatal", "time": 1660667406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They could be talking about dumbbell weight, as 10lb is entry level but 50lbx10 requires some shoulder development. Either way, I don't see the issue with doing 50 reps of something if you're failing at the end. The main issue is that it's boring and more mentally taxing than 6-10 reps I think. There's a Huberman Lab podcast with some expert who also says the ideal rep range is anywhere from 6 reps to 30+ reps to make the point that we overly fixate on it. Lifting something until you can't is the operative goal. I personally like drop sets for this purpose (decreasing weight until failure) bec"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32486948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486948", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1660675282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a good Odd Lots podcast episode[1] that kind of touches on this (back to the Binder Boys). [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-05/odd-lots-..."}, {"show": "1557045965", "hn_item": 32487287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32487287", "by": "dpedu", "time": 1660676688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This recent episode of Crypto Critics' Corner podcast talks about the current situation in El Salvador and what difficulties the country is facing that led them to make this investment. https://cryptocriticscorner.com/2022/03/29/episode-63-we-nee..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 32489375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32489375", "by": "NicoJuicy", "time": 1660686280, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Site of the foundation is offline. Not really a trustworthy source. Additionally, a lot has changed since the article was published ( July). Fun fact: the winter that Germany attacked the USSR, a lot of nazi's were 3 years on speed ( daily) and were having severe withdrawal symptoms. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-nazis-drug-fueled... I wouldn't attribute it too much on \"Russian\" experience. We have seen the contrary the last months and the indoctrination is probably similar now as then. And the USSR wouldn't have survived without foreign aide ;). Eg. The lend and lease act that Uk"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32500884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500884", "by": "trollied", "time": 1660765765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in the Lex Fridman podcast with Brian Armstrong as a guest. https://lexfridman.com/brian-armstrong/ I couldn't stop laughing when he said older banking systems run on \"cobalt\"."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32502669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502669", "by": "zora_goron", "time": 1660776008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HN discussion on his full podcast with Lex Fridman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32347172 (which is where these comments are from)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32514703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514703", "by": "vlod", "time": 1660855780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Carmack's view [0] on debuggers (from Lex Fridman Podcast podcast video) TLDR: He doesn't understand why a lot of SV big-tech companies are hostile to debuggers. [0] https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=3410"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 32518644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518644", "by": "timvdalen", "time": 1660897559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard about this on the Changelog podcast recently, great interview!"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 32521505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32521505", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1660919787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll sheepishly admit I'm so low on time that I can't listen to Econtalk as much as I'd like these days. Knowing Munger, I'll assume they talked about the heuristic's application in automated systems and it's prefect application there? Also, dear HN reader, if you don't listen to EconTalk already, you're missing out on one the best podcasts out there."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 32523651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32523651", "by": "californical", "time": 1660929228, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Really great podcast about standard western diets and some of the affects on gut microbiome, where the guest is a leader of this field in the US: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/..."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 32527574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32527574", "by": "godelski", "time": 1660953713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sure. It is rather complex to be honest but I'll do my best to give a high level abstract. I should first off explain that there's no clear definition of intelligence. You might see some of my other comments use the term HLI, which is Human Level Intelligence. It is a term gaining in popularity due to this difficult to define definition and allows for more a porn like definition -- I know it when I see it. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and many others have been contemplating the definition of intelligence for centuries and we're still not quite there. But we do have some good i"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 32529067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529067", "by": "InTheArena", "time": 1660969492, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've of two minds on this topic. The first is that the vast majority of concerns are coming from the Independent developer iOS/Mac scene. Some of these concernes are legit. There is unquestionably problems with Apple's quality with some software. The new SwiftUI based Settings app in Ventura is not yet stable, and when Apple's entire raison d'etre has been it just works, it's understandable that people get upset when things just don't work. If I were a independent mac developer, with my only source of revenue depending on Apple's goodwill and development APIs, I can see being upset. On the oth"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32529897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529897", "by": "codekansas", "time": 1660979049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly this gave me a good chuckle. There was a recent rerun on the Freakonomics podcast about American hyperindividualism and how it leads to us having an unusually high rate of violent crime, which is definitely something I saw play out. Like if CHAZ had happened in Japan (which would have been pretty weird from the premise) it probably wouldn\u2019t have ended with a bunch of shootings and turf wars"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 32530642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530642", "by": "hydrogen7800", "time": 1660987300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author was a guest on the Omega Tau podcast back in 2015 [1]. There is a sort of follow-up podcast with a different guest on the same topic [2]. [1] https://omegataupodcast.net/184-societal-complexity-and-coll... [2] https://omegataupodcast.net/238-societal-complexity-part-ii-..."}, {"show": "1329231773", "hn_item": 32531675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32531675", "by": "mmahemoff", "time": 1660999831, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don't know, but Heist podcast covered it. They're always entertaining. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heist-podcast-episode-..."}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 32535249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535249", "by": "kekebo", "time": 1661030693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's good you point that out. Two studies should almost never sufficient for a conclusive argument, especially not in a field where physiological variability may be more decisive than probability distributions derived from group studies (On average peanuts don't kill people but that's not a useful metric if you happen to be allergic). In terms of informational frameworks regarding nutrition I have to say the landscape is quite bleak. Understanding broccoli or its effects on the human body make big pharma no money, publications are only slowly picking up speed with new (crowd-) funding options."}, {"show": "1480311435", "hn_item": 32535958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535958", "by": "belugacat", "time": 1661037006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the \u201cOffice Ladies\u201d podcast (where actresses from the TV show The Office recount their days working on it), they mention the writers had a similar \u201ccandy bag\u201d they\u2019d put ideas in when they couldn\u2019t work them in the episode they were working on, from which to pull down the line."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 32538211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538211", "by": "Apocryphon", "time": 1661068361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Accidental Tech Podcast is the successor to Hypercritical. The negativity is by design."}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 32540323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32540323", "by": "__s", "time": 1661090722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly Will MacAskill was interviewed on the last People I (Mostly) Admire podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/a-million-year-view-on-mora..."}, {"show": "1346207297", "hn_item": 32541794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32541794", "by": "Wowfunhappy", "time": 1661099693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Today, Explained podcast had an episode on Sesame Street a while ago, which got into how the show has been funded over the years and the compromises Children's Television Workshop has had to make. https://dcs.megaphone.fm/VMP1713252129.mp3"}, {"show": "1260742439", "hn_item": 32542892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542892", "by": "gkoberger", "time": 1661105962, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is so completely off topic, but if the idea of an improv musical about Spiderman's dating life sounds up your alley, you should check out this episode of Off Book: The Improvised Musical. The premise is Spiderman + MJ in couples therapy, and it's phenomenal. https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/marvel-sing-ematic-uni..."}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 32544490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544490", "by": "dogcomplex", "time": 1661116289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Venkatesh Rao (??? post-postmodernist tech philosopher?). Nicholas Taleb (skeptic/economist), Alexander Wales (rationalist author), /r/rational (rationalist fiction), Chapo Trap House podcast (leftist politics, comedy), Richard D Wolff (economist), Stephen West (philosophy historian), Jonathan Blow (game designer, skeptic programmer), Vitalik Buterin (kinda the only crypto person I trust who is genuinely smart) Then of course Noam Chomsky / Slavoy Zizek (famously-rigorously-intelligent leftists). William Macaskill (Effective Altruism, moral utilitarianism at its finest). Adam Curtis (prescient"}, {"show": "1580570986", "hn_item": 32545662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32545662", "by": "thomassmith65", "time": 1661125548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Decoding the Gurus' podcast is germane to that point: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm"}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 32545662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32545662", "by": "thomassmith65", "time": 1661125548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Decoding the Gurus' podcast is germane to that point: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 32556481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556481", "by": "bitinerant", "time": 1661198655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of Flet was interviewed on Talk Python To Me podcast: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/378/flet-flutter-apps-in..."}, {"show": "351953012", "hn_item": 32558267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32558267", "by": "theptip", "time": 1661208361, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's interesting, this is the sort of thing that Angus Deaton suggested when he argued against the EA program in a Rationally Speaking podcast[1]. His premise is that cash transfers to the needy won't work in a country where an oppressive government can just take the cash for themselves. Perhaps this is part of the effect here? (Bribes, taxation, etc.) I'm a bit skeptical that this is a knock-out argument against the GiveDirectly program, but it's definitely something to keep in mind and explore further. [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deaths-of-despair-effe..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32559036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32559036", "by": "derbOac", "time": 1661213996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a podcast a few years ago -- This American Life, or Criminal? I don't remember -- about a corrupt cop that tried to frame someone and get them committed to a psychiatric unit for some reason in retaliation for something. It sounded preposterous, except the person had recorded audio of them busting into their home and they played it on the podcast. Chilling."}, {"show": "1807016239", "hn_item": 32559821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32559821", "by": "swyx", "time": 1661221020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "very kind. the silicon valleyite answer is annie duke's thinking in bets. get the book or crank up any of the 3000 podcast interviews she's done. the realer answer is have about ~16 years of being in love with/thinking about microeconomics. maybe do some math/linear algebra (where you get very used to projecting spaces onto different dimensions), and then make a few high stakes decisions with regards to job negotiations optimizing for cash, salary, learning value, career path, etc. but dont think for a second i have any of this figured out haha. i just write well."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 32560131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560131", "by": "Zamicol", "time": 1661224822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Matthew Green did a recent podcast episode on Bankless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBddJ18rACU"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32563072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32563072", "by": "jger15", "time": 1661252977, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 32565712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32565712", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1661266160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is late but I was going back through my comments and found yours. Yeah , i have problems with the podcast on those terms too. I get their point that fat-shaming is harmful and I totally agree however, if someone is overweight then it's very much a good idea to try and reduce weight and not just consider it normal and healthy like the podcast sometimes implies. Granted, overweight people are a favorite prey for every charlatan out there and i feel like the podcast does an acceptable (but not perfect) job of calling them out. oh and we (my wife and I) found the Maintenance Phase podc"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 32565712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32565712", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1661266160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is late but I was going back through my comments and found yours. Yeah , i have problems with the podcast on those terms too. I get their point that fat-shaming is harmful and I totally agree however, if someone is overweight then it's very much a good idea to try and reduce weight and not just consider it normal and healthy like the podcast sometimes implies. Granted, overweight people are a favorite prey for every charlatan out there and i feel like the podcast does an acceptable (but not perfect) job of calling them out. oh and we (my wife and I) found the Maintenance Phase podc"}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 32566669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32566669", "by": "spuz", "time": 1661269697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He won't be forced to make the purchase because the court will determine that will cause more harm to Tesla shareholders than benefit to Twitter shareholders. The litigation will probably take about 10 years though. That's according to Andrew Torez from the Opening Arguments podcast."}, {"show": "735180050", "hn_item": 32569935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32569935", "by": "ddingus", "time": 1661282323, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-7-jordan-mechn... John Romero did an interview with Jordan that goes into early Apple 2 days. It is a good complementary listen to this PDF."}, {"show": "1575351789", "hn_item": 32573374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32573374", "by": "vyrotek", "time": 1661300007, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1581807590", "hn_item": 32575630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32575630", "by": "general_pizza", "time": 1661323046, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It\u2019s not text but there\u2019s a podcast with Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell person) talking about his new job at Epic working on verse. Starts around 50s in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-haskell-interlude/..."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 32586056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586056", "by": "n8cpdx", "time": 1661376779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "WinForms is fine but there are issues with support for things like high DPI. Maybe that\u2019s fixed now. I wouldn\u2019t use it except for a very small utility, but nowadays I just use python scripts for small utilities. Based on the .NET Rocks podcast, it sounds like Blazor is the new WinForms. Given the situation with Windows, I don\u2019t see it being a great choice for a monoplatform app (unless that app is a game) - chrome books and Mac are getting more popular, and web works everywhere."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32590177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32590177", "by": "imgabe", "time": 1661407868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in John Carmack's recent interview on Lex Fridman's podcast. He'd probably be one of the leading candidates for \"best programmer\". One thing that's common to people who are unreasonably great at something is that they do it a lot. Like, an order of magnitude more than what a normal person would consider reasonable. For Carmack that was pumping out a new game every week when he was working for a mail-order software company before he became famous. Everyone talks about how the Beatles played tons and tons of shows all over Germany before they made it big. Great comedians "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32591513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591513", "by": "bowsamic", "time": 1661420149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry but hearing what he said on Lex's podcast about how he aims to solidly work for 10 hours a day or something crazy I absolutely do believe he has \"magical discipline\""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32597444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597444", "by": "samueldebrule", "time": 1661450197, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32607582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607582", "by": "_fat_santa", "time": 1661522180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mark was on Joe Rogan's podcast the other day. So expect a ton of low effort news stories about stuff he said during the podcast. I would highly recommend the JRE podcast as well as his previous appearances on Lex Friedman's podcast. Very interesting to hear his own takes on things, rather than reading articles about it."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32607582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607582", "by": "_fat_santa", "time": 1661522180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mark was on Joe Rogan's podcast the other day. So expect a ton of low effort news stories about stuff he said during the podcast. I would highly recommend the JRE podcast as well as his previous appearances on Lex Friedman's podcast. Very interesting to hear his own takes on things, rather than reading articles about it."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 32615092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32615092", "by": "zacharybk", "time": 1661568058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slack was, and is, a business tool; It was never intended for communities (though they clearly didn\u2019t discourage this type of usage). In Lenny\u2019s podcast (link below), you can listen to Slack\u2019s former head of product and growth, Merci Grace, talk about why they never implemented a block feature. The answer, like this 90 day limitation, is obvious once you look at it from the lens of a business tool. When you mistakenly look at Slack as a community tool, this change is bound to upset you. On a personal level, loss aversion sucks, and I\u2019m sorry to lose all of the slack history that my wife and I "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32618119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618119", "by": "ramoq", "time": 1661602469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast had an ex-CIA agent on it recently and he mentioned how bcs of issues like this in Europe the war in Ukraine has to end by the fall. His words were \u201cNATO needs Russian sanctions lifted\u201d. He implied the war will be over by the fall (in his assessment)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32626186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626186", "by": "jstx1", "time": 1661666959, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 32630379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630379", "by": "goopthink", "time": 1661709181, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Peter Reinhardt (Segment\u2019s CEO) goes in depth about this journey (and more) in the \u201cLearning How To Sell\u201d episode of Patrick O\u2019Shaughnessy\u2019s \u201cInvest Like the Best\u201d podcast. Likely the original source for this post: - https://open.spotify.com/episode/61c5XhkcxEave8Cd6j55w1?si=F... - https://american-podcasts.com/podcast/invest-like-the-best/p..."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 32632948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32632948", "by": "surfpel", "time": 1661727581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a podcast they did on the Embedded FM podcast: https://embedded.fm/episodes/419"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 32633252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32633252", "by": "mattcdrake", "time": 1661729840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been falling asleep to a podcast called \"Sleep With Me\"[0] for the last two years or so. For most of my life, I've had a lot of trouble falling asleep thanks to a fun combination of anxiety and an overactive mind. Thanks to the podcast, I fall asleep within ~20 minutes of lying down almost every day. In each episode, the affable host tells a story (or reads a catalog, or recaps a Star Trek episode, etc) in the most meandering, boring way possible. It sounds weird, but it's just interesting enough for me to stop thinking about other things - but not interesting enough that I want to stay a"}, {"show": "1240056193", "hn_item": 32634193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32634193", "by": "colordrops", "time": 1661739985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A secular buddhism/meditation revolution is currently happening in the west, with many neuroscientists and other academics involved in the mix. It kind of matches what you are describing. I'd recommend starting with Michael Taft's \"Deconstructing Yourself\" podcast, in which he interviews many of the most prominent western representatives of meditative traditions and human potential movements, most secular. He also is the chair of a meditation center in San Francisco called The Alembic that opened recently."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 32636421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32636421", "by": "drakonka", "time": 1661767708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sometimes, and I think it's a problem. I find on those nights I don't actually tend to fall asleep in a peaceful way, and my sleep tends to not be as good in general. Sometimes the audio will keep me awake past my natural falling asleep point, and then I become alert again to turn it off. The audio itself is usually a podcast, ranging from some kind of sleep sounds podcast, to a sleep meditation, to a Waking Up (heh) conversation, to some financial podcast or Stuff You Need To Know. None of them have been ideal and I don't like that I'm sometimes compelled to reach for one of these things as a"}, {"show": "1450005207", "hn_item": 32645188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645188", "by": "ricktdotorg", "time": 1661818457, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> David Tennant uses his Scottish accent for jokes in a show where he normally sounds English may i ask that you clarify this point? tennant made a personal choice NOT to use his native/normal scottish accent for Dr. Who. he discusses this with Jodie Whittaker (also someone with quite a strong native accent) in an episode of his podcast, he TL;dr said it didn't feel quite right for him to use his native accent for the role [1]. whenever tennant does TV \"as himself\" (for example the voiceovers he has done for various shows or charity events like comic relief etc) he uses his own/native accent, "}, {"show": "1621757273", "hn_item": 32649023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649023", "by": "vinnyglennon", "time": 1661858974, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32649930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649930", "by": "pookha", "time": 1661864996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rogan's sort of like an unfiltered Oprah for men. Some of Rogan's content is hilarious, some of it's interesting and some of it's boring. But I've never listened to a Rogan podcast and felt the urge to be an angry dude behind a keyboard and rage over moron's, a \"dumb guy\", \"misinformation\" etc. It's just a long form conversation with a comedian and martial arts analyst. The people that feel that much hate over some casual bro having long talks should switch their Chai Lattes to decaf."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32650638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32650638", "by": "jmyeet", "time": 1661868392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Joe Rogan as recently as last week said the vaccine is mostly safe - \"How Joe Rogan Became a Cheerleader for Ivermectin\" [1] - \"Fact-Checking Joe Rogan\u2019s Interview With Robert Malone That Caused an Uproar\" [2] - \"What the Joe Rogan podcast controversy says about the online misinformation ecosystem\" [3] > But his main disagreement is pretending that it\u2019s okay that biological males vs biological females is fair. Sports isn't fair, period. It's why there's no \"under 6 foot\" NBA league. It's only with trans people that people suddenly (pretend to) care. > And to correct you further, the 90s were"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32651703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32651703", "by": "kyleee", "time": 1661874069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it goes to show just how upset it makes people that the JRE podcast exists and is successful. a peculiar insight into how controlling people are that they'd casually suggest we may need \"a more authoritarian model of speech\" just to combat a weird celebtrity talking to people for 2-3 hours"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32654829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654829", "by": "ramblezeus", "time": 1661892414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent discussion on the topic \u201cShould Public Transit Be Free?\u201d on Freakonomics Podcast https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-public-transit-be-fr..."}, {"show": "444083093", "hn_item": 32657200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657200", "by": "doublepg23", "time": 1661908426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My friends and I would listen to The r/NoSleep Podcast during sleepovers, it was a great resource for Reddit generated creepypastas. https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1081967784", "hn_item": 32660061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660061", "by": "noduerme", "time": 1661937842, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm going to get on this. I'm really interested in the subject of how we can make news feeds our own again. This was my last question to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32560395 The Commentary Magazine podcast yesterday made some pretty phenomenal points about how media no longer situates itself in any way other than aggregating riled-up audiences, but also about how and why it was possible in the age of national broadcast news hours for those news channels to put their politics aside to each appeal to 1/3rd of the national viewership. https://open.spotify.com/episode/26Z04b7FrckHLNmF"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 32660721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660721", "by": "andreareina", "time": 1661944755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 32676099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676099", "by": "dontlaugh", "time": 1662039767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Blowback podcast is pretty good on this topic https://blowback.show/Season-1"}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 32677472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32677472", "by": "rootforce", "time": 1662044992, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 32680339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32680339", "by": "tosterhaus", "time": 1662054887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Repod ( https://repod.io ) | Full Stack Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time/Part-Time Hey I\u2019m Travis, CEO of Repod, an all-in-one podcast app/community platform that helps podcasters to turn their listeners into a community. Repod is like Substack/Patreon, but for podcasts. We're a young company that recently raised a pre-seed round. We are looking for a full stack engineer that will take on a CTO/cofounder type of role. The ideal person is someone who\u2019s familiar with building, iterating, and launching things of their own. Repod started as a mobile iOS/Android app but your role will primari"}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 32680721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32680721", "by": "ipnon", "time": 1662056409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find clandestine chemistry interesting, then listen to Hamilton Morris\u2019 podcast. He has interviewed many clandestine chemists, mostly retired. They\u2019re a class of prohibited scientists, hellbent on advancing psycho-chemical knowledge against all the odds. A sample of recent episodes: \u201cInterview with a clandestine MDA enantiopurifier\u201d \u201cThe psychedelic supply chain\u201d \u201cThe True Story of the Penis Envy Mushroom\u201d Stranger stories are hard to find."}, {"show": "1630559316", "hn_item": 32681740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681740", "by": "drunkpotato", "time": 1662060431, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 32683577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32683577", "by": "digdugdirk", "time": 1662068028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"The Hamilton Morris Podcast\" (hamiltonmorris.buzzsprout.com) for those intrigued by the above comment like myself."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 32686137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686137", "by": "sndean", "time": 1662087981, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook had Kyle Harper on their podcast recently [1] and he went over topics in this book for about an hour. He brought up that people that lived in railroad towns in the US in the 19th century were shorter than they were elsewhere, resulting from more stressors related to living in a population-dense area with higher rates of disease transmission. And the same applied to urban parts of the Roman Republic/Empire. But, here [2], another group make the case for pollution being the cause of stunted growth in the UK, which reminds me of this article in The Atlantic point"}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 32705077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32705077", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1662232425, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. (JK Rowling is behind her by billions of copies and only Shakespeare comes close to her.) I honestly really love her novels. Sometimes they're a bit contrived, but they're fun and somehow not as dull as other murder mystery novels that I've tried to read. I can zip through one of her books in 4-5 hours. Here is a great podcast about her: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/185-agatha-christie/id..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 32708179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32708179", "by": "john-radio", "time": 1662251315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have any huge problem with eastdakota's comment here, and I think I agree with Cloudflare's action (I listened to a Behind the Bastards podcast recently that covered an individual who was bullied until they committed suicide by kiwifarms, so I understand the stakes) but - there is nothing in their comment that presents \"actual information\"; it does not present any facts; it just presents the perspective that their legal team would like all of us to take on their action. dmw_ng's criticism is entirely fair."}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 32710847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32710847", "by": "lukeck", "time": 1662277929, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard your recent interview on the Retro Hour podcast. Thanks for writing this. I\u2019m looking forward to reading it."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 32711044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711044", "by": "pinkwinds", "time": 1662280118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Empire podcast by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand has been fascinating and the first few episodes are exactly about the British East India Company."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32715412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715412", "by": "merryje", "time": 1662312371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice. He's definitely an interesting guy. I've been following comma.ai for some time now it's really cool seeing how much they've accomplished. August 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcYp-XT7UI October 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L3gNaAVjQ4"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 32720930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32720930", "by": "firecall", "time": 1662356314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, not really a huge surprise! :-) But interesting that a professional expressed the opinion so readily. TBH I don\u2019t really tend to hear much about mainstream modern cars in my day to day life! I do recall the hosts of the Accidental Tech Podcast (Marco Armant and Friends) complain about BMW reliability."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32732984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32732984", "by": "kfrzcode", "time": 1662439862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Which AI has beat humans at poker? I'm curious as I just heard a guest on Lex Fridman's podcast say differently... I'm not up to speed with that realm"}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 32735459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735459", "by": "Ygg2", "time": 1662462599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, yeah the article is meant to promote it. They had podcast and everything. Same with Rust podcast."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 32739325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32739325", "by": "thedorkknight", "time": 1662481335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">If it's true, then Peter Daszak, surely would have evidence that would exonerate him, along with corroborating witnesses Disagree, since you can't really prove a negative. I'm not sure what evidence could \"exonerate\" him in a way that would remove everyone's suspicion. Besides, I listened to the podcast \"This Week in Virology\" A lot during covid, and they talked about Daszak multiple times, especially since some of the hosts have professional connections with him. Prof. Racaniello, the main host, has even interviewed him, pre-pandemic. Unfortunately, all of their discussion around the lab lea"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32743565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743565", "by": "joegahona", "time": 1662500384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you for sharing this -- I didn't realize this existed. Instagram is covered in your link, and you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pvpNKUPbIY These lists always kind of remind me of popular bands that changed music over time. The most drastic \"pivot\" I've ever come across in a known band is Ministry, who went from a benign new-wave Depeche Mode clone in 1983 [1] to a pseudo-Cabaret Voltaire in 1986 [2], then to full-on metal by 1991 [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFqVRepm6U [2] https://www.youtube.com/"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 32747289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32747289", "by": "the_arun", "time": 1662533290, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I liked Slack's story too. Here is the podcast from Guy Raz (How I built this) with Stewart Butterfield - https://podcasts.apple.com/bs/podcast/slack-flickr-stewart-b..."}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 32750079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32750079", "by": "svacko", "time": 1662556282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the most recent episode of the Last Week in AWS podcast Corey Quinn just talked about this topic https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/how-google-cloud-and-aws-... For AWS, there is also Customer Carbon Footprint tool available https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/aws-launc..."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 32751246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751246", "by": "technofiend", "time": 1662561563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a genre-specific discord for litrpg and although it was originally geared towards readers many of the authors hang there. Verified authors get a tag and probably even their own channel, but I'm not sure about that since I'm not a verified author. The downside I see for authors is like HN it could prove a distraction, possibly even more so if the general public discovers it for all the usual reasons. It sounds like a great project for someone who wants to spend the time and energy moderating a forum, slack, discord or what have you. The issue will be gatekeeping \"real\" and aspiring auth"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32758781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32758781", "by": "vlod", "time": 1662593813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly, the CIA spy that Lex Fridman had on [0] his podcast said that all the spy agencies use MBTI and that he (interviewee) thinks they are of value. [0] https://youtu.be/T3FC7qIAGZk?t=6127"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 32759149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759149", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1662595694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kinda tangential to your actual comment, but you might be interested in this recent episode of the Rational Reminder podcast on \"Shared Identities and Decision Making\".[1] Even groups more arbitrary than these influence our decision-making, problem-solving, cooperation, etc. It goes beyond who's suited for what job to who's suited to be right about what kind of topic. Wild stuff. [1]: https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/214"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 32759523, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759523", "by": "seibelj", "time": 1662597943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If EMTs were so hard to find, they would be paid more money. In Massachusetts it\u2019s significantly less training and requirements to be an EMT than a hair stylist (for whatever government-regulated reason). McDonalds and Walmart jobs are often valued less by people (such as yourself) who see them as some sort of hell-on-earth so the wage reflects the value to the organization and what has to be paid to keep competent people there. McDonalds has created more Latino millionaires than any other company on earth, and I enjoy their food once in a while. I don\u2019t denigrate people who work there. Maybe "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32759868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759868", "by": "sammalloy", "time": 1662600733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Freakonomics podcast. They have a three-part series on the hidden side of the art market that is eye-opening. https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/the-hidden-side-of-the-..."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 32761116, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761116", "by": "dreamcompiler", "time": 1662610449, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks for the tip. I learned a lot listening to this [0]. My takeway: Optane was good technology that was killed by Intel's thoroughly wrong-headed marketing. It's cheaper than DRAM but more expensive than flash. And much faster than flash, so it makes the fastest SSDs. But those SSDs are too expensive for everybody except niche server farms who need the fastest possible storage. And that's not a big enough market to get the kinks worked out of a new physics technology and achieve economies of scale. Intel thought they knew how to fix that: They sold Optane DIMMs to replace RAM. But they also"}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 32763863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32763863", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1662634957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excellent recommendations. There\u2019s a good podcast that analyzes the Fed (and other things) in a somewhat critical light without getting sidetracked by conspiracy theories the way many such things do: Eurodollar University My description doesn\u2019t do it justice. It really is a thorough and informative podcast."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 32775131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32775131", "by": "nunez", "time": 1662695815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Maintenance Phase\" is an excellent podcast that discusses this issue in depth. My take away from listening to it is that obesity is something misunderstood but very socially stigmatized because it just is. The scientists' findings with the mice definitely tracks."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32787151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32787151", "by": "dhosek", "time": 1662776797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s interesting to see how much the New York Times has been moving into the podcast space. They also own the This American Life spinoff Serial, now."}, {"show": "1833578417", "hn_item": 32788564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32788564", "by": "olvy0", "time": 1662794058, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1630559316", "hn_item": 32789947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32789947", "by": "drunkpotato", "time": 1662812006, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 32793511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793511", "by": "closewith", "time": 1662836107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode of the podcast More or Less addressed that statistic. It turns out that 40% of provinces in Pakistan have declared an emergency due to flooding. Only (a still enormous and heartbreaking) 10-12% of the country is actually under water."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32793543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793543", "by": "hollerith", "time": 1662836297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree that it would be misleading to maintain that most of us are addicted to our smartphones. My favorite definition of addiction is \"a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure\" (source: episode 33 of the Huberman Lab podcast: https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/episode-33-dr-anna-lem... ) caused by an all-encompassing involvement with a substance or activity. Most of us do not have an all-encompassing involvement with our smartphone that is gradually removing or has gradually removed our ability to take pleasure in anything other than our smartphone. But smartphones an"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 32796391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32796391", "by": "rjbwork", "time": 1662864080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have to ask, do you listen to Sam Harris' podcast? His last two episodes have touched on both aspects of your post - the paradigmatic shift that can occur simply by changing the perspective from which you view something as simple as looking at the moon, and the nature of status and the status games humans play."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 32800809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32800809", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1662912429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When I went to schools (40 years ago) history was all about the saxons, romans and vikings. Plus a bit about WWI and the Russian revolution. I don't remember doing anything much about the British Empire. But it was always tacitly assumed that the British Empire was \"a good thing\". I think most educated British people now know there is quite a lot that was \"problematic\" about the empire. Interestingly there is a very good new British podcast called \"Empire\" which talks in a lot of detail about what the British did in India and it is not comfortable listening. I would say the British Empire wasn"}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 32802768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32802768", "by": "sgt", "time": 1662926568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim is also a legend in the Amiga and TV/audiovisual community. Just listened to a fascinating interview with him on the Retro Hour podcast. Highly recommend it. I still need to watch Tim's Vermeer."}, {"show": "1376577202", "hn_item": 32810391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32810391", "by": "ctur", "time": 1662991323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decoder Ring podcast did an episode[1] recently about the supposed death of the mall. It's a fun listen and covers a lot of the history and evolution of the mall as a concept and how it shaped, and was shaped by, transportation changes in the US. It also goes into the social importance they have had over the years and how that has evolved. [1] - https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2022/07/is-the-shopp..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32815829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815829", "by": "snthpy", "time": 1663012009, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 32817730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817730", "by": "tern", "time": 1663020711, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There are huge geopolitical forces fighting to preserve the Amazon. The cost of deforestation is quantified and states pay millions if not billions (I forget the numbers) to people in order to leave it untouched. Of course, it's political and 'we're not doing enough,' etc. but individuals have more influence over the Amazon than most things. Great podcast on the subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-i-mostly-admire..."}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 32823100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32823100", "by": "jes", "time": 1663069960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know if I have favorite resources to recommend. I know there are a ton of YouTube videos and podcasts that offer a lot of good ideas. I like reading the Linux Kernel Mailing List and tech notes. Simply buying any one of the cheap boards you can find online (if they have supply) and trying to get something like a JTAG debugger working will be beneficial to you. Just try to get something simple going on bare metal. It's been a while since I worked with PIC microcontrollers, yet as I remember there is a lot you can do with some of the cheap PIC devices, a breadboard, and an investment of "}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 32828474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828474", "by": "cbozeman", "time": 1663094252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This wasn't meant for you, but the other guy deleted his question, so here we go. Instagram is a photo-sharing application at it's core. So when you share photos, you're sharing your lifestyle. You're advertising. This is especially prevalent down here in Miami. So much so that people oftentimes at clubs don't exchange phone numbers; they exchange Instagrams. The women can see by your Instagram posts what kind of life you live and whether or not they're interested. You can see by their Instagram who and what they are. If you go to it and you're inundated with a ton of booty pics in string biki"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 32833727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32833727", "by": "caspg", "time": 1663134753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should check out https://microconf.com and their youtube channel. They also have Slack community called \"MicrConf Connect\" and podcast \"The Startups For the Rest of Us\". Lots of good resources there."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 32835426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835426", "by": "dusted", "time": 1663152890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As far as I recall from an old episode of the \"Hello Internet\" podcast, such a company exist, it might have been Israeli but I can't remember."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 32843413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843413", "by": "alecco", "time": 1663189894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a nice Corecursive podcast episode with the authors about their last book. https://corecursive.com/023-little-typer-and-pie-language/"}, {"show": "1493229344", "hn_item": 32844849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32844849", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1663197754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On Sam Harris's latest podcast he talks with Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch and Jonah mentioned that The Dispatch is looking to hire a reporter who is focused on environmentalism but not climate change because not every environmental issue, let alone every storm or heat wave, is about climate change. Hearing that was a breath of fresh air to me -- I miss the old days when learning about an environmental initiative meant learning about something other than climate change."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 32850287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850287", "by": "isaacfrond", "time": 1663242333, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 32858022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32858022", "by": "dmihal", "time": 1663273716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should check out the Zero Knowledge podcast ( https://zeroknowledge.fm/ ) It's a crypto/blockchain podcast, but very technical, it's focused around the advanced technology that makes up the ecosystem (zero-knowledge cryptography, multi-party computation, consensus algorithms, miner-extractable value, new blockchain programming languages, etc). Very technical, almost nothing about investing. The downside, some episodes may be a bit hard to jump into due to the technical nature."}, {"show": "1796964076", "hn_item": 32864870, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864870", "by": "cebert", "time": 1663329207, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32868290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32868290", "by": "danjoredd", "time": 1663344982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If those users are legit, sure. But lets be honest...writing bots in Reddit is stupid easy. I have done it myself. Most things that appear on the front page are most likely not legit. Darknet Diaries, a podcast on hacking, had an episode proving how Apple Podcast top 10s are rigged through bots. Episode 27, specifically. And the thing is...if we can easily do it by pushing mediocre podcasts to the top of a list, why can't we do so with Reddit posts? The API even has calls to upvote/downvote posts and leave comments. This is a thing that Reddit as a company actively supports. I highly recommend"}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 32870766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32870766", "by": "iamwil", "time": 1663355922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm working on a programming environment for making interactive programs. It's focused on addressing how to handle state and network through three main parts. 1/ an embedded functional database as the scope and environment for variables 2/ a managed syncing of database state across the network 3/ the interactivity extends to the compiler itself. I've been following the Tools for Thought crowd for a long while, and recently started looking into why we still have problems building interactive web apps, and where the issues and complexities arise. It's lead to examining the Clojure, Haskell, and "}, {"show": "1543617436", "hn_item": 32870785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32870785", "by": "musha68k", "time": 1663356033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cSoftware at Scale\u201d podcast often has great systems related interviews as well: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/podcast"}, {"show": "323127331", "hn_item": 32878937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32878937", "by": "jhickok", "time": 1663433276, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a great podcast on this topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/episode-61-jeff-buechn..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32879166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879166", "by": "perlwle", "time": 1663434691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I built a historical feed builder[0] so I can listen to previous episodes in one feed. Most podcast feeds only include last ~100 episodes. Podcasts such as Planet Money and Radio Lab have more than 1000 episodes in total. Manually combining the feeds is too time consuming and I enjoy building this tool. [0] https://backpod.podcastdrill.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32884049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884049", "by": "marban", "time": 1663470389, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1611851260", "hn_item": 32885859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32885859", "by": "squillion", "time": 1663492761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem with this topic is that it's highly contested. Be prepared for foundational and often ideological controversies. You know, a lot's at stake. To get an idea of the mainstream and where the general mood is, I'd start from Wikipedia. For bank money: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_money - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_circuit_theory For central bank money (basically cash): - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartalism Note that both monetary circuit theory and chartalism are considered _heterodox_ economics. Yes, \"regular"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 32886565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32886565", "by": "csilverman", "time": 1663500061, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It wouldn't surprise me if the constant threat of genocide has a lot to do with it; Israel's technological advantage is why it continues to exist. More directly, there's a fascinating Darknet Diaries episode about Unit 8200, which is basically Israel's version of the NSA. 8200 seems to be pivotal to Israel's tech industry, mainly because it attracts some extremely smart, capable people and gives them the training and connections to succeed after they leave the military: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296..."}, {"show": "996246979", "hn_item": 32896856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896856", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1663586476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would think about it for sure. My comparison point would be a Patreon podcast membership that\u2019s $5 a month for weekly bonus podcasts. I would do this ASAP if you plan to. As in the \u201cpodcast\u201d model you\u2019re getting more than what youre used to receiving for free. Here you\u2019d be restricting free content to something less than people have gotten used to."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 32898735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32898735", "by": "SamBam", "time": 1663597375, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's also an excellent Exra Klein podcast where he talks to game-philospher C. Thi Nguyen about Twitter's Like button's effect on journalists. [1] He says that as a journalist on twitter (which almost every journalist is) it's nearly impossible to get away from measuring your worth/impact by the number of likes you get. It's so buit into our minds, we can't not use Likes as a proxy for how engaging our story is. The issue is that it subtly, though completely, changes how you write a story. For example (taking as a premise that even plain factual reporting is essentially political at this po"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 32899493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899493", "by": "gina_schalala", "time": 1663600517, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32899580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899580", "by": "davisoneee", "time": 1663600893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Magnus Carlsen has himself commented a sentiment similar to the article , on the Lex Fridman podcast (although not the exact same terms, I think if you _try_ to give the article a favourable interpretation, you can understand what they're trying to say). You need 'subterfuge and misdirection' in the sense that (as the world no-1 puts it), it's a semi-bluff...a weird/not-really-analysed position, but that will still end up in a draw if the opponent responds appropriately. Lex: \"Is there a sense in which it's ok to make sub-optimal moves?\" Magnus: \"You HAVE to, because the best moves have been a"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 32899629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899629", "by": "cdaringe", "time": 1663601100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Volts podcast had the dude who did bike lanes in east bay area on. It was an interesting interview, directly relevant to this space"}, {"show": "794030859", "hn_item": 32902819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32902819", "by": "neaden", "time": 1663615904, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ken Ragan is the world regarded expert on detecting cheating on Chess through statistics and he says there is no proof of Hans cheating: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-hans-niemann-cheat..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 32903934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32903934", "by": "robga", "time": 1663621439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Serial was blowout success, but flawed in many ways. For me, chief amongst these is not updating the podcast with new (and potentially exculpatory) information as it came to light over the years. What really progressed the case was the Undisclosed podcast [0]. Rabia Chaudry, a childhood friend of Adnan and an attorney, first took Adnan's story to Sarah Koenig, who documented it in the Serial podcast. But in Undisclosed, Rabia and her colleagues Colin Miller and Susan Simpson dissected the case with scalpel, found new evidence, and ultimately set the groundwork for today's result. Undisclosed s"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 32904374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32904374", "by": "hardtke", "time": 1663623483, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe Serial launched the modern commerically produced crime podcast format, but I'd give a shout out to The History of Rome by Mike Duncan as the \"defining podcast.\" It started quite a bit earlier (2007) and proved that there is a big audience (65 million downloads) for obscure topics covered in depth. Serial spun out of This American Life, so it had some audience to begin with, but THOR is truly \"let me put this out there and see if anyone listens.\" It's also interesting to see how apologetic Mike Duncan was when he introduced monetization through direct to consumer ads, and this is now the "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32905413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905413", "by": "bearcobra", "time": 1663629106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This assertion has always been strange to me. This American Life was releasing their episodes as podcasts for something like 7 years before they decided to do Serial. Shows like Adam Corolla, WTF with Marc Maron, the BS Report, Joe Rogan Experience, etc were all very successful before Serial. Major media companies like NPR, CBC, BBC were releasing podcasts and dedicated podcast companies like TWiT.tv had existed for years. I think you can kind of credit Serial for popularizing true crime podcasts but it gets way too much credit for the success for the medium."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 32905413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905413", "by": "bearcobra", "time": 1663629106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This assertion has always been strange to me. This American Life was releasing their episodes as podcasts for something like 7 years before they decided to do Serial. Shows like Adam Corolla, WTF with Marc Maron, the BS Report, Joe Rogan Experience, etc were all very successful before Serial. Major media companies like NPR, CBC, BBC were releasing podcasts and dedicated podcast companies like TWiT.tv had existed for years. I think you can kind of credit Serial for popularizing true crime podcasts but it gets way too much credit for the success for the medium."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32905682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32905682", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1663631054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> 'Serial' was the podcast that launched all podcasts. It feels like we were listening to This American Life in podcast form in the car for at least five years before Serial even existed. And Serial was being marketed on TAL during what I'd describe as TAL's slow decline from popularity, with Ira personally shilling for Serial and teasing the first entire episode on TAL, IIRC. If either of these were responsible for launching the modern podcast era, I'd point at TAL, not Serial."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32906087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32906087", "by": "fasthands9", "time": 1663634057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fairness I think Bill Simmons, Joe Rogan, Marc Maron and Adam Carolla have had their praise for moving podcasts along. Same with This American Life. Serial was different, though in that it was a multi episode look at something. This American life had segments and still had to be designed with the radio listener in mind - who was probably only in the car for 30 min. I don't think Serial is that uniquely good - but it was different. We just are kinda dumb for having all of \"podcasts\" under one term instead of a bunch of genre terms."}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 32906087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32906087", "by": "fasthands9", "time": 1663634057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In fairness I think Bill Simmons, Joe Rogan, Marc Maron and Adam Carolla have had their praise for moving podcasts along. Same with This American Life. Serial was different, though in that it was a multi episode look at something. This American life had segments and still had to be designed with the radio listener in mind - who was probably only in the car for 30 min. I don't think Serial is that uniquely good - but it was different. We just are kinda dumb for having all of \"podcasts\" under one term instead of a bunch of genre terms."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32907504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32907504", "by": "jeffdn", "time": 1663646452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you listened to Revolutions, his more recent podcast? Also great \u2014 and there are ten seasons, each about a different revolution, in-depth."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32908312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32908312", "by": "awb", "time": 1663654739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Semi-related recent This American Life Podcast about deadlines: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/776/i-work-better-on-deadli..."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 32910724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32910724", "by": "Mattasher", "time": 1663676687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those like me who had never heard of Kiwi Farms until recently, the podcast Blocked and Reported ( https://www.blockedandreported.org/ ) has a couple recent episodes that do deep dives into the site and controversy around it."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 32918300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32918300", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1663710755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Patrick, Just to be clear, I'm absolutely not blaming Joel or previous FogBugz employees for this state of affairs. But I know I would be deeply hurt if one of my products was bought by someone who tried these sort of dark practices on my one-time customers. Ps/ Well done on the recent 'Planet Money' podcast appearance."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 32920348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32920348", "by": "mecha_ghidorah", "time": 1663728851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probability isn't beyond reasonable doubt though. Like I finished the Serial podcast thinking Adnan probably was at least involved in her death, but I still think \"just convict the boyfriend/husband based on a single testimony and probability\" is a lower standard than I'd like."}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 32924049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924049", "by": "manuel2258", "time": 1663763360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy the Open Source Security Podcast. There is quite a bit to learn while beeing entertaining and relaxing. The early episodes where more freestyle and grew more profesional over the time. Listening to older episodes is even a kind of history lession as it covers everything that happend in the last ~5 years."}, {"show": "1515786216", "hn_item": 32928815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32928815", "by": "skadamat", "time": 1663783292, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Good question! 1. Deep Life Principles: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-204-deep-life-princ... 2. Decoding the Deep Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-200-decoding-the-de... 3. Quieting the Ambitious Brain: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-199-quieting-an-amb... 4. Fun experimental episode on Shop Class as Soulcraft: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-116-re-reading-shop... Also as the person below me pointed out, the Core Ideas playlist is great: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8xK8kBHHUX43VVxO3b7s... Most of them have the same format (except the las"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32931864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32931864", "by": "kranke155", "time": 1663796356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only so-called \u201cjustification\u201d flows like this: - Russia is a Superpower - Superpowers have a \u201cnatural right\u201d to a sphere of influence - therefore Russia has a right to a sphere of influence. - In Russia\u2019s view, Ukraine is within their sphere of influence. - therefore Ukraine has no right to sovereignty, and certainly not to join adversarial alliances. - in fact, according to current Russian doctrine, *the Ukrainian people has no right to even choose its own government* if their choice is a government that is not an ally of Russia\u2019s. This is of course a completely monstrous view of history"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32934698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32934698", "by": "tlrobinson", "time": 1663819735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good summary of this on the All In Podcast last week (in the context of Adobe buying Figma) https://youtu.be/_UpczzfeAFA?t=1162"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32937126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937126", "by": "John23832", "time": 1663843574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Saks talked about this on the last All In podcast. Teams just had to be good enough to be included into Microsoft\u2019s \u201cBundle\u201d. Once it\u2019s free and available, it gets adopted by prior bundle purchasers."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 32937949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937949", "by": "neillyons", "time": 1663849895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They talked about this on All-In Podcast this week [0]. Essentially Microsoft teams doesn't need to be \"good\" to compete with Slack or others. It just needs to exist and part of the Microsoft bundle to be a viable option to the decision makers in a company. [0]: https://youtu.be/_UpczzfeAFA?t=1099"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32939602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32939602", "by": "darawk", "time": 1663858266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not quite that straightforward. What happened according to Zuck (on the JRE podcast) was that the FBI came to FB and said \"We believe some kind of Russian disinformation is about to drop in the next couple of weeks, be on the lookout for that\". When the Hunter Biden laptop story came out, FB reasonably concluded this was what the FBI warned them about, and suppressed it. It's now clear that this story was not \"disinformation\" in any normal sense, and FB should not have censored it. Whether or not this rises to the level of a first amendment violation is a tricky question though. It seems "}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 32940352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32940352", "by": "xeromal", "time": 1663860782, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Stuff you should know has a nice little podcast episode about this. It's probably not as scientific as this, but they delve into the unwarranted belittling of neanderthals that most people have. I believe they discussed some cave art that was made by neanderthals in spain way before sapiens arrived in the area proving that it was their art instead of a just a mimic which seems to align with what this article was discussing. https://podcasts.apple.com/la/podcast/what-happened-to-the-n..."}, {"show": "1135550416", "hn_item": 32943671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32943671", "by": "vs2", "time": 1663875507, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I have a long train journey and looking for some podcast episode podcasts to while away the time"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 32943718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32943718", "by": "bfm", "time": 1663875761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed Jane Street's podcast during my last long drive https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 32945153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945153", "by": "themagician", "time": 1663883867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much better than today's \"podcasts.\" It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard Stern, the BBC or NPR. What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 32945153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945153", "by": "themagician", "time": 1663883867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much better than today's \"podcasts.\" It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard Stern, the BBC or NPR. What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling."}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 32945153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945153", "by": "themagician", "time": 1663883867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much better than today's \"podcasts.\" It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard Stern, the BBC or NPR. What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling."}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 32945153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32945153", "by": "themagician", "time": 1663883867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much better than today's \"podcasts.\" It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard Stern, the BBC or NPR. What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 32946301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32946301", "by": "corysama", "time": 1663891885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"On The Metal\" podcast had an interview with someone who had to deal with debugging DRAM drivers. But, I don't remember which one it was..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32947160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32947160", "by": "arcticbull", "time": 1663898730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can you find any article anywhere which quantifies the magnitude of the Cantillon effect because I certainly have looked and found absolutely nothing. Crypto is hardly inflation-proof, with major cryptos having fallen 80% or more in the last 6 months putting it on pace with the Lira - if you then adjust it for inflation you lose another 10%. It's somehow managed to do all that in the single most inflationary period in 50+ years. I was pretty sure we'd given up on that silly narrative. Crypto is a high-beta speculative play on US dollar liquidity in the global financial system, not a hedge on i"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32950357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950357", "by": "djtango", "time": 1663932054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure why you were downvoted, seems like a very valid concern. If we turned off oil and coal tomorrow the world would fall apart. The OddLots podcast has been covering this issue on various episodes but the world of energy is a super complex system of competing interests. Ultimately we need energy to power our transition away to clean energy but the old energy industries have suffered from chronic underinvestment. There was some stat where a university course for oil (or coal?) had dropped to 1 student. But as we're seeing, without supply prices start to shoot up so unless the world is prep"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 32950692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950692", "by": "oxff", "time": 1663934229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Only podcast where I felt the information value was high enough to listen to was \"Signals & Threads\", and even they provide a transcript. You can just put on most Youtube videos to 2x too. It's just such a useless thing, podcasts. Maybe if you have a long commute in public transport so you zone out for the duration."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32950793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950793", "by": "sien", "time": 1663934893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh gawd no. Podcasting is much, much better than radio ever was. Radio never had anything like Lex Fridman, Omega Tau, The Internet History Podcast, Gradient Dissent, or Econtalk. Where people with real expertise interview people with real expertise. In Econtalk's case you have interviews with a number of winners of the Economics sort of Nobel. There was never anything on any radio that was like that. There couldn't be. So much of this kind of thing is too niche for almost all radio. It's estimated that there are ~500K active podcasts ( https://www.thepodcasthost.com/listening/podcast-industry"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 32951080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32951080", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1663936728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not going to look up all the start dates but quite a few from NPR (e.g. Radio Lab), 99 Percent Invisible, Freakonomics, etc. I agree that Serial became an event for a more mainstream audience but lots of people listened to podcasts before that--especially once smartphones became common."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 32951676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32951676", "by": "jonpurdy", "time": 1663939786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personal recommendations of good podcasts that are 95-100% content ( - Accidental Tech Podcast: Apple-related stuff. https://atp.fm - The Sajin: photography in Korea. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1324087 - Skeptics Guide to the Universe: scientific skepticism and related topics. https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts Podcasts that I would listen to more if they weren't filled with ads and \"waffle\": - Tim Ferris show: like a more intellectual Joe Rogan. https://tim.blog/podcast/ - Huberman Lab: (he gets a pass since the advertising is all front-loaded, and no \"waffle\") https://hubermanlab.com/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 32951676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32951676", "by": "jonpurdy", "time": 1663939786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personal recommendations of good podcasts that are 95-100% content ( - Accidental Tech Podcast: Apple-related stuff. https://atp.fm - The Sajin: photography in Korea. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1324087 - Skeptics Guide to the Universe: scientific skepticism and related topics. https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts Podcasts that I would listen to more if they weren't filled with ads and \"waffle\": - Tim Ferris show: like a more intellectual Joe Rogan. https://tim.blog/podcast/ - Huberman Lab: (he gets a pass since the advertising is all front-loaded, and no \"waffle\") https://hubermanlab.com/"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 32951807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32951807", "by": "pwinnski", "time": 1663940368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"two people talking\" podcasts are popular, but my all-time favorite is still a one-man production: Mike Duncan's The History of Rome [0]. Even his follow-up, Revolutions , was great. No other podcast has grabbed and held my attention as much before or since. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32951807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32951807", "by": "pwinnski", "time": 1663940368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"two people talking\" podcasts are popular, but my all-time favorite is still a one-man production: Mike Duncan's The History of Rome [0]. Even his follow-up, Revolutions , was great. No other podcast has grabbed and held my attention as much before or since. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 32953682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953682", "by": "doctorhandshake", "time": 1663948699, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just this morning listened to an episode of David Roberts\u2019 Volt podcast that gave me some great ideas - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1... The TL;DR is show up at the local places where policy is being decided (state and local public comment meetings) and be the potentially one voice in the room with any comment at all."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 32957141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957141", "by": "sien", "time": 1663967560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True. Radio 4 make some really good podcasts of their shows now too. In Our Time and More or Less are excellent. But in radio times if you weren't in the UK you couldn't listen to them."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 32957141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957141", "by": "sien", "time": 1663967560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True. Radio 4 make some really good podcasts of their shows now too. In Our Time and More or Less are excellent. But in radio times if you weren't in the UK you couldn't listen to them."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 32959534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32959534", "by": "arcticbull", "time": 1663990495, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Odd Lots on this suggested the same thing, using their buying power to sell spot and buy long-dated to straighten out the price curve. [edit] Pretty sure it was this episode. [1] [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?..."}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 32962562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32962562", "by": "Aulig", "time": 1664027197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've sold all of my crypto for a while because it just felt like gambling. Recently I listened to the rational reminder podcast [0], where they dug up some studies that basically show that people investing in crypto think they have high financial literacy but are measurably financially illiterate. Note that the bar for financial literacy really isn't high, they discuss that in the podcast too. That really cemented my opinion about crypto. [0] [The Rational Reminder Podcast] The Expected Returns of Financial Literacy (EP.217) https://podcastaddict.com/episode/144952992 Relevant part starts at 1"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32966122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966122", "by": "Klonoar", "time": 1664049939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am fairly certain the seed oils talking bit can be traced back to a quack doc interviewed on Rogan\u2019s podcast, which people then ran with. It\u2019s the soy meme version 2.0, just grounded in even less reality."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 32971457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32971457", "by": "rcarr", "time": 1664114760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, I believe a large portion of UK depression cases are due to factors largely outside the individual\u2019s control. Doctors have even labeled this \u201cshit life syndrome\u201d. It is particularly pronounced in coastal towns of the UK where high paying jobs and opportunities are scarce. Subsequently, the town becomes something of an open air prison; you know you could live a better life if you could afford to move but you can\u2019t earn or save enough to do so. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/25/ask-phi... That being said, I can hypot"}, {"show": "1506469669", "hn_item": 32978961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32978961", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1664162128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Euro and Yen and almost all currencies are also down significantly vs the dollar, so I don\u2019t think this is a Brexit thing. This is a strong US dollar thing as the world grapples with collateral shortages and a relative dollar shortage. Edit: I highly recommend the podcast \u201cEurodollar University\u201d on the subject."}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 32983591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32983591", "by": "danjoredd", "time": 1664202610, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Art of Manliness podcast, there was an episode recently on how athletes with traditions and rituals tend to perform better than those without, even if they are tiny. Its something inside our monkey brains that helps us with our confidence and performance. Weird stuff, but interesting"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 32984621, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984621", "by": "chrsw", "time": 1664207274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That would be amazing. A dream come true. The Amp Hour podcast has touched on this a little bit. https://theamphour.com/577-product-lifecycle-management-with... I guess it's a pretty complicated problem. There are so many suppliers, standards, file formats and competing interests. But it does seem like it's a market ripe for disruption... somehow."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32987423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987423", "by": "_Microft", "time": 1664221566, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32989973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32989973", "by": "sthatipamala", "time": 1664234994, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1192165009", "hn_item": 32990783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32990783", "by": "tschwimmer", "time": 1664242892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This title is the clickest of bait. In an exception to the \"use the title from the article rule,\" I suggest retitling to something like \"TechCrunch podcast interview with Michael Siebel\" or something similar."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 32997426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32997426", "by": "abhinavkulkarni", "time": 1664295489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can keep track of Mike Duncan's podcast activity here: https://jkstream.com/#/personality-mike-duncan-Q361250"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 32998274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998274", "by": "gina_schalala", "time": 1664299170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex's podcast always makes for a solid listen. Thanks for sharing!"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33000023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000023", "by": "williape", "time": 1664307243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the excellent Planet Money podcast on the same: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993754418/planet-money-the-10..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33004159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33004159", "by": "faeriechangling", "time": 1664338183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m interested to hear your beef with Greg Rosalsky because I do listen to his work as he\u2019s part of the most popular economics podcast in the world, Planet Money. I\u2019m not expecting super rigorous cutting edge economics from NPR but I do actually expect a well informed conventional take on economics. Who should people listen to? NPRs level of competence in economics already far outstrips mine."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 33007366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007366", "by": "fareesh", "time": 1664370006, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Eric Weinstein sat down with Ashley Mathews (Riley Reid) and discussed this a few years ago on his Portal podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/21-ashley-mathews-aka-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNBCVGH34c&themeRefresh=1"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 33011267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011267", "by": "flanbiscuit", "time": 1664388909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Scott Tolinski (Syntax podcast, LevelUp tuts) did a video about Penpot on the day that the Figma acquisition was announced. Check it out to see how it compares to Figma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj7D0tSNmEg"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 33034597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33034597", "by": "jrochkind1", "time": 1664544674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately, disastrously, it is more or less true, yeah. Here's a recent episode of the podcast 99% Invisible, about the Japanese TV show about toddlers running their \"first errand\" alone (which has become popular in the USA via netflix, perhaps because it seems so wild in the US?), and comparing US (and apparently Canadian) physical landscapes for children. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/ The episode touches on the fact that in Japan dropping off your children to school by car is generally prohibited , with a principal explaining why. I have heard this is true in Germa"}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 33035683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33035683", "by": "scarface74", "time": 1664549550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish I could take credit for this observation. But Ben Thompson summed it up best in the Dithering podcast this morning. An ad company is incapable of selling things to consumers. The entire organization is built around giving things to people for free and selling ads. Everything else that Google has done has been a failure. Microsoft and Apple have decades of experience with selling stuff to people."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33040462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33040462", "by": "indigodaddy", "time": 1664570221, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33044715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33044715", "by": "nixarn", "time": 1664608968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There can't be any objective discussions about Elon any more =) John Carmack finds Elon to be smart and really knowledgeable (listen to the latest podcast from Lex Fridman). And you would think HN trusts the words from Carmack? But most think Carmack, who knows Elon personally is wrong, and their opinion based on some random internet articles, is right."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33046353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33046353", "by": "graderjs", "time": 1664629955, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 33052555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052555", "by": "danielodievich", "time": 1664681368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maya's system of writing is very comprehensively destroyed and is completely unrecoverable. A plug here for the fantastic Fall of Civilizations podcast ( https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ ). It's Maya episode is incredibly riveting and informative (episode 3, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnFaRXeep5Y ) and goes at length into that exact destruction."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 33052709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052709", "by": "epicureanideal", "time": 1664683277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, Fall of Civilizations is an amazing podcast. The Sumerian episode is also great, but all of them are equal to the best documentaries I\u2019ve watched anywhere."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 33053581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053581", "by": "jgaa", "time": 1664693707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It was a joke, built on some comments on a recent Security Now podcast, where they made fun of Quantum computing's current inability to compute the simplest things accurately, and the possibility that Quantum computing never will evolve into something that can surpass legacy computers."}, {"show": "1485021241", "hn_item": 33055579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33055579", "by": "rhaksw", "time": 1664716029, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I wasn't comparing academia to nazis. Rather, I was saying that even in the most extreme situations e.g. nazis and communists, open and civil discourse is still better than censorship. It's also worth noting that FIRE was expressly founded to deal with free speech violations in higher education. FIRE's president often discusses this, for example in a recent interview with Nick Gillespie [1]. FIRE recently expanded to cover all free speech issues, but that is where they got started. They've taken over a role that the ACLU has largely abandoned, since they now construe rights to be in conflict w"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33056459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056459", "by": "s0berpotato", "time": 1664723006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was introduced to the idea through a podcast of Lex Fridman hosting John Vervaeke. The idea is that being trained in some methods enables you to better re-frame ideas, reality etc. when under the effect of these substances and then to be able to integrate them to your life once you are sober. Basically to identify when something you identified and felt while under the effect is more \"real\" since your brain makes connections which don't usually happen. The training allows you to see these connections as something more than noise."}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 33057289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33057289", "by": "marstall", "time": 1664727488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to Rhonda Patrick's podcast, FoundMyFitness. She's a Sauna buff and cites studies saying 175 degrees for 20 minutes 4-7 times a week is the sweet spot in a \"Finnish Sauna\" (ie not infrared)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33057488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33057488", "by": "molli", "time": 1664728380, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey everyone, I used karpathy's lexicap and named entity recognition to create the chart"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33058435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058435", "by": "tingletech", "time": 1664733306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "related: The Science & Health Benefits of Deliberate Heat Exposure | Huberman Lab Podcast #69 (April 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ3GjpGq5Y8"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33060930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33060930", "by": "wslh", "time": 1664749231, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Mark Zuckerberg says in a recent podcast [1] that the next VR headset will scan gestures perform eye contact. He says that will be available in October. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gxrAActH18RGhKNza598"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 33062151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062151", "by": "ryantgtg", "time": 1664758587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NYTimes The Daily podcast described the voluntary request as \u201cthe state asked people to not charge their EVs\u201d (paraphrase). Poor quality information everywhere."}, {"show": "1512654905", "hn_item": 33066762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066762", "by": "ETH_start", "time": 1664801418, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Any one who promoted this project should be branded as totally bereft of any integrity or sense of judgment, and denied any kind of platform to influence society. There are celebrities who got involved in the crypto market, but did so thoughtfully, and not in the manner of Maywather and Kardashian. Case in point, Terry Crews: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/everyone-can-be-rich-i..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33067947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33067947", "by": "snarf21", "time": 1664807085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Planet Money podcast in the spring that went into this in more detail. I don't have all the details on full recollect but I think the gist was that in the past, he grew up where interest rates were too high for small business to grow or access capital. He saw these small business have to raise prices to create capital or shutdown because of no capital and has locked in this perspective. He is all in on easy money for businesses to grow is key to preventing inflation. But obviously he doesn't get the part of too much money chasing limited supply."}, {"show": "1209559177", "hn_item": 33069753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33069753", "by": "DavidPeiffer", "time": 1664814479, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you ever have a chance, I highly recommend going near a port and watching operations. I used to live near the Mississippi River in Iowa, and it was always impressive to see the barge traffic and think about the sheer volume of product moving. South of St. Louis, the barge tows can be up to 45 barges. Visiting Savanah, Georgia and watching the ships come and go was also impressive. There's a bridge that was built in 1953, replaced in 1991, and is in consideration for replacement again because the ships keep getting larger. I'll also recommend the Containers podcast, an 8 part series discussi"}, {"show": "1434218167", "hn_item": 33069753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33069753", "by": "DavidPeiffer", "time": 1664814479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you ever have a chance, I highly recommend going near a port and watching operations. I used to live near the Mississippi River in Iowa, and it was always impressive to see the barge traffic and think about the sheer volume of product moving. South of St. Louis, the barge tows can be up to 45 barges. Visiting Savanah, Georgia and watching the ships come and go was also impressive. There's a bridge that was built in 1953, replaced in 1991, and is in consideration for replacement again because the ships keep getting larger. I'll also recommend the Containers podcast, an 8 part series discussi"}, {"show": "1543179653", "hn_item": 33070920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070920", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1664818669, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33075051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33075051", "by": "WheelsAtLarge", "time": 1664840054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's \"Planet Money\" does an outstanding job in explaining economics and finance in general. The podcast has been around for years so you can listen to past episodes until you get sick of it. I don't know the number but they have to be in the hundreds. To get a bit of background here's a book that's fun to read. It doesn't get too deep in the weeds. It gives you just enough info to be dangerous. \"New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz\" Also, \"The Ascent of Money - Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson\" is a great read as away to get some historical background on how our "}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 33085379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085379", "by": "francisofascii", "time": 1664911226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard of him on Stackoverflow podcast #25, when Steve was working at Google. https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W25795"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 33091903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091903", "by": "ZacnyLos", "time": 1664950309, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 33096656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33096656", "by": "fordicejw", "time": 1664983068, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33111633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111633", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1665079099, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "186908455", "hn_item": 33111645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111645", "by": "NegativeLatency", "time": 1665079142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly depends on the podcast for me. I don't generally listen to the conversational ones, and usually I listen to podcasts while doing something else like cleaning or working on my house. Arms Control Wonk, In Defense of Plants, The Long Now, and The History of English are some of my more favorite information dense podcasts."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 33111645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111645", "by": "NegativeLatency", "time": 1665079142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly depends on the podcast for me. I don't generally listen to the conversational ones, and usually I listen to podcasts while doing something else like cleaning or working on my house. Arms Control Wonk, In Defense of Plants, The Long Now, and The History of English are some of my more favorite information dense podcasts."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 33111645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111645", "by": "NegativeLatency", "time": 1665079142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly depends on the podcast for me. I don't generally listen to the conversational ones, and usually I listen to podcasts while doing something else like cleaning or working on my house. Arms Control Wonk, In Defense of Plants, The Long Now, and The History of English are some of my more favorite information dense podcasts."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33111944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111944", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1665080331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nope. I find good podcasts to be at the right level. Hidden brain for the most part hits that. To me, information density isn't as important as to how it is communicated. I actually like some interviewer interviewee panels because they draw out connections that you may not get in an information dense dump. Some of these podcasts episodes (like this one) though are interviews about the book the interviewee wrote, so the density you are looking for is likely in the book. If you like information dense podcasts you'd like Huberman's podcast as he just lays everything out there."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 33113168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113168", "by": "n8cpdx", "time": 1665085912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends on the podcast but Hidden Brain has always been more on the easy listening/infotainment side of things, rather than something more serious. You might like The Economist, which has the entire publication professionally read each week, and you can listen at 2x speed, just like a podcast."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 33113922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33113922", "by": "zamalek", "time": 1665089458, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> homelessness at 71% Stereotypically, not conclusively, speaking: The most bizarre thing about this problem is that both sides don't want it solved. The NIMBY crowd obviously doesn't want affordable housing, or housing programs, anywhere near their million-dollar home, or city for that matter. The YIMBY often oppose extremely effective (although never perfect) approaches to this crisis. These people are bringing one of these attitudes with them to wherever they move. The homeless [generally] aren't the cause of homelessness, the homed are. I'm sure many of the QoL problems will follow these p"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33114361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33114361", "by": "sthatipamala", "time": 1665091933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I made a similar thing for the Lex Friedman podcast. It transcribes the audio and runs it through a summarization model. You can then search the entire corpus to find relevant snippets from episodes: http://lexicon.lol"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 33117430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33117430", "by": "atty", "time": 1665116723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m rooting for both Intel and Samsung. It sounds to me like Intel is ever so slowly getting back on track with Pat there (good interview on the Decoder podcast with him recently, if anyone is interested), but I\u2019d guess we won\u2019t really be able to see if Intel can get their crap together until ~2024-28, considering how long the lead time is for stuff like this. I don\u2019t think Samsung had basically a failed decade like Intel did, but they haven\u2019t been as quick or have as good yields on the last few nodes as TSMC has been, if I understand correctly. TSMC being a node or 2 ahead has basically let t"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 33132734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132734", "by": "bwhaley", "time": 1665240471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Notexisting is worse than pain and suffering. That\u2019s a stretch. Far more important to come to terms with mortality than extend life indefinitely. Is it even still living to have a heartbeat but with motor control, limited or no ability to speak, and no memory? Is \u201cliving\u201d in this way best for the next of kin? I found a recent episode of the Making Sense podcast in this topic to be thought provoking. You might give it a listen. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/297..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 33145315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145315", "by": "louwrentius", "time": 1665349334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe this has always been obvious to everybody but the American justice system is not about truth or fairness. The goal is to convict no matter what. That is how the incentives are lined up. Case in point: the (famous) Serial podcast started about the (now evidently) wrongful conviction of a teenager. He was recently released after 20+ years because of a note found written by a prosecutor that pointed to other plausible suspects, information never shared with the defence. You are very unlikely to ever be judged by a jury of your peers. You are much more likely to not 'risk' that and take the "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33148823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148823", "by": "nickff", "time": 1665387806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The UK's bond issues have a lot to do with how their pension funds are structured. If you want to learn a bit more about it, the latest Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast is quite good: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-06/odd-lots-..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 33157951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157951", "by": "Hextinium", "time": 1665447482, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business posited last week on their podcast that since Operation Aurora[1], where China hacked a bunch of companies, Google has just pulled out their checkbook to ensure that it never happened again. And it seems like they have successfully done so. [1] https://www.blackhatethicalhacking.com/articles/hacking-stor... Ninja edit: seems like dekhn just confirmed what I said above"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33159186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33159186", "by": "imgabe", "time": 1665458807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't had a drink in 27 days, which is the longest I've gone in a while. Left to my own devices, I tend to settle into a pattern of 2-4 drinks per night, 5-6 nights a week (I actually tracked this for a while with a spreadsheet). It's not like, ruin my life, wake up in a gutter type situation, but it leads to just feeling somewhat crappy all the time, and I didn't like it, so I wanted to stop. Some things that helped / are helping: I have an app Habit Tracker. It's a pretty simple app with a list of habits you want do do, you can set on some schedule. When you do them, you tick them off an"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33159357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33159357", "by": "waynecochran", "time": 1665460584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This blows my mind, I just this last week learned about xenobots on Lex Fridman's podcast with Michael Levin. I had no idea how fast evolution can work..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33162492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162492", "by": "chunk_waffle", "time": 1665491027, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't even wanted to drink since watching that Huberman Lab Podcast. I used to drink a bottle of wine or a few beers nearly every weekend and have completely stopped."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33162853, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162853", "by": "jonathanfoster", "time": 1665493340, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Andrew Huberman has a great podcast episode on the effects of alcohol on the body and brain[1]. Huberman is a professor of neurobiology at Stanford and he does a great job of explaining things in layman\u2019s terms. I recently cut back on my drinking significantly after listening to this podcast. Give it a listen and maybe you\u2019ll find something that resonates with you as well. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-alcohol-does-to-y..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33163099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33163099", "by": "TheUndead96", "time": 1665494885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The really bizarre thing is that I found myself enjoying this podcast, perhaps even more than the average Joe Rogan podcast. This didn't feel quite as hollow as the average AI-generated content."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33163268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33163268", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1665495865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ray Kurzweil discussed something like this on the Lex Fridman podcast. He fed all his late father's writing into an AI system and it's able to ask it questions and get answers that seem believable to agree with what his dad would have said."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33164569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164569", "by": "sixhobbits", "time": 1665502309, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't see an upvote button[0]. It's not hidden because I already upvoted it -- see the 'unvote' link that appears in the one directly above for anything I've upvoted (the one below is an ad so doesn't have an upvote button). Same thing on my phone too, so not a cache/browser issue. [0] https://imgur.com/a/AGI3Fsc"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 33164764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164764", "by": "wazoox", "time": 1665503097, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An excellent discussion on the matter on the excellent Volts podcast: https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#de..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33168106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33168106", "by": "creativemonkeys", "time": 1665516671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Lex Fridman's podcast, Carmack says he's officially only working 1 day at Meta in advisory capacity, though sometimes chimes in on other days as well. He also says he wants to completely focus on AGI, so I wouldn't rely on Carmack to push the VR field forward in the near future."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33170296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170296", "by": "dbish", "time": 1665528667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not 100% true. He stated on Lex\u2019s podcast that he is part time (1 day/week AR/VR) with the rest of his time on his new AI startup"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 33170724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170724", "by": "mkl", "time": 1665531639, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 33179840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179840", "by": "xebiozo", "time": 1665594187, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 33185248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185248", "by": "akerl_", "time": 1665617967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m lazy, I\u2019ll probably wait a couple days for the folks on the Serious Trouble podcast do the math for me. But point taken."}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 33185250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185250", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1665617984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think in theory he's still making these, but what you really want to do is subscribe to \"Serious Trouble\", Ken White's (same guy) podcast with Josh Barro."}, {"show": "1436447503", "hn_item": 33187630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33187630", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1665639481, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Obligatory Podcast on this : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subject-to-change/id14... \"Subject to change\" is a surprisingly great podcast and this is a pretty good episode."}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 33190882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33190882", "by": "account-5", "time": 1665668923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm intending to learn an array language at some point. Im an avid listener to the Array Cast podcast. As usual I don't know where to start, ideally open source. I'm stuck on whether it's J or BQN. J is ASCII, BQN has the traditional unicode glyphs. I do like the fact BQN is newer so can pick and choose the best of the array languages though."}, {"show": "1649541362", "hn_item": 33195953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33195953", "by": "ArtRichards", "time": 1665692120, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1649541362", "hn_item": 33196308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196308", "by": "ElijahLynn", "time": 1665694223, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Would be nice to see this on Spotify and Google Podcasts too. I searched and it looks like Apple Podcasts only for right now. tldr from this 2 minute intro is that they caught Sabu and said you can have 120+ years in prison or join them... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-hacker-and..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33206368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33206368", "by": "user_7832", "time": 1665768049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is not particularly surprising, lack of sleep causes an increase in dopamine (the theory is that the brain tries to \"compensate\"). There was a very recent episode on the Huberman Lab podcast on using this to \"reset\" the circadian rhythm and depression (to some extent)."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33211090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33211090", "by": "djklanac", "time": 1665800786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first and only occurrence I\u2019ve heard of this claim was Rogan\u2019s podcast. The article lumps him in with other claimants. But it doesn\u2019t actually demonstrate that his anecdote is fabricated. How does this portion of the article make it past the editor? It\u2019s entirely possible that his story is completely made up. It is also possible that it\u2019s not made up. Tabloid journalists make conjectures. Real journalists substantiate their claims. We deserve better reporting."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 33211563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33211563", "by": "8f2ab37a-ed6c", "time": 1665805786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "3h podcast with Meg Smaker on the Waking Up podcast: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/300..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 33211609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33211609", "by": "2muchcoffeeman", "time": 1665806331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about this first from Sam Harris\u2019 podcast. Then went to the go fund me, and Harris gave $25k! I\u2019m not sure why she doesn\u2019t run a kick starter as well. I\u2019d pay to get a digital download of the movie."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33213104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33213104", "by": "cuu508", "time": 1665824447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman podcast, Sam Harris podcast"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 33213104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33213104", "by": "cuu508", "time": 1665824447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman podcast, Sam Harris podcast"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 33213316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33213316", "by": "mablopoule", "time": 1665827492, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lawfare blog, and especially its podcasts: https://www.lawfareblog.com/topic/podcasts Close second, \"War on the Rocks\" podcast: https://warontherocks.com/podcasts/ Lot of \"National Security / Foreign politics\" content has been a breath of fresh air, because while this is clearly biased toward an American viewpoint, there is an intellectual respect toward other peoples/states situation, objectives, and possibility of getting to those objective. In practice, that means that when talking about Putin, they debates around why Putin is doing that, and why Putin would be doing it that way, what are t"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33214951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33214951", "by": "chunk_waffle", "time": 1665842689, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lion's Mane extract in my coffee, Neuriva, Cognium, Fish Oil and the occasional Alpha Brain powder in water when I need to be particularly alert. I also have been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast and working some of his suggestions into my routine."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 33215555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215555", "by": "irsagent", "time": 1665846922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Sam Harris podcast Making Sense the director clears up the claim made by the guardian. If you\u2019re interested in getting a better factual grounding on this issue I would recommend listen to it. In addition, the NYT article shows many inaccurate steps like the guardians and others took when writing about a film they hadn\u2019t seen and simply passed along the protested opinion of others who they themselves didn\u2019t see the film."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 33215555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215555", "by": "irsagent", "time": 1665846922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Sam Harris podcast Making Sense the director clears up the claim made by the guardian. If you\u2019re interested in getting a better factual grounding on this issue I would recommend listen to it. In addition, the NYT article shows many inaccurate steps like the guardians and others took when writing about a film they hadn\u2019t seen and simply passed along the protested opinion of others who they themselves didn\u2019t see the film."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 33218076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33218076", "by": "dxs", "time": 1665863872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts... BBC: am--Global News Outlook https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn/episodes/downloads BBC: pm--Newshour https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnk/episodes/player BBC: Witness History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd/episodes/downloads BBC Reel [video] https://www.bbc.com/reel/ CBC News: As It Happens https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens CBC News: World at Six https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8-cbc-news-the-world-... CBC: The Current http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-information... CBC: Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/docume"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33218076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33218076", "by": "dxs", "time": 1665863872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts... BBC: am--Global News Outlook https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn/episodes/downloads BBC: pm--Newshour https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnk/episodes/player BBC: Witness History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd/episodes/downloads BBC Reel [video] https://www.bbc.com/reel/ CBC News: As It Happens https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens CBC News: World at Six https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8-cbc-news-the-world-... CBC: The Current http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-information... CBC: Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/docume"}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 33218076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33218076", "by": "dxs", "time": 1665863872, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts... BBC: am--Global News Outlook https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn/episodes/downloads BBC: pm--Newshour https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnk/episodes/player BBC: Witness History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd/episodes/downloads BBC Reel [video] https://www.bbc.com/reel/ CBC News: As It Happens https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens CBC News: World at Six https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8-cbc-news-the-world-... CBC: The Current http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/current-affairs-information... CBC: Ideas http://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/docume"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33230995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33230995", "by": "tux1968", "time": 1665994946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Levin recently appeared on the Lex Fridman podcast*, and here he goes over much of the same amazing material, but along with a visual presentation. * Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman https://youtu.be/p3lsYlod5OU"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33234882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33234882", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1666020491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting proposal. However, will it stop the compulsive gamblers? Maybe they'll just find somewhere else to gamble. This already happens in countries where gambling is illegal like China. This reminds me of the No-Lose Lottery concept by Freakonomics as well: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-america-ready-for-a-no-l..."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 33241230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33241230", "by": "Tossrock", "time": 1666051209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find this interesting, there's a very long, very good episode of the Omega Tau podcast about how seafloor mapping is done in practice. The host goes aboard the HMS Enterprise - a Royal Navy survey ship - and interviews a bunch of different officers and crewmen about the process. https://omegataupodcast.net/277-life-and-work-on-hms-enterpr..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 33248818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248818", "by": "chrisjc", "time": 1666106916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"The Browser\" episode from the Acquired podcast might shed some light on the reasons why. If one of the key figures in the development of Mozilla and JavaScript didn't choose it for his own new browser, why would anyone else? :( The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-browser-with-brendan-ei..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33253036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33253036", "by": "absolute100", "time": 1666123264, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of The Huberman Lab Podcast, and Juan Pablo Aranovich captures many insights that can be practical when designing your office space. What would you adopt to change your work environment at home? What about your office? Do you want to mark spaces for creative work? Maybe recommend them to move rooms when working on a different type of work?"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 33255330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255330", "by": "deamanto", "time": 1666134723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a Hidden Brain podcast recently which told me to try and think of the amount of time we have left with any experience like meeting our parents, visiting X place etc. and it's supposed to make you appreciate the situation more and not to sweat the small stuff. What you've wrote about time with our parents is sad but in a beautiful way."}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 33257594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33257594", "by": "suby", "time": 1666153071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was also a good conversation as well with him on Curt Jaimungal's podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0TNfysTazc"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33258486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258486", "by": "zoogeny", "time": 1666161274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nick Lane is another interesting person who is exploring alternative ideas related to cells. Although their work is not exactly the same, I find it interesting to ponder these ideas together. Some videos: 1. Krebs cycle and Transformers at Royal Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiIDwBOqQA 2. A wide-ranging discussion on Lex Friedman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOtdJcco3YM"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 33263420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33263420", "by": "jalk", "time": 1666192419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Making Sense podcast episode with Russ Roberts[1] touched on these points with a reference to Charles Darwin who at some point made a pros/cons list of getting married. All the pros were rather boring practical things. Roberts argue that it was missing all the positive things that you don't see as a bystander (emotion based). The same goes for having children - you cant see the warm feeling inside that most parents still have for their kids despite all the hard work that is very visibile to others [1] https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/299..."}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 33269868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33269868", "by": "bredren", "time": 1666229492, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The definition can cover a fair amount of ground. My experience with the product has been that it has made very clear attempts to provide the user ID for SaaS implementations of the payments system. I first heard of someone who was using stripe to store all user data on the Running in Production podcast, I thought they were nuts. But then I went to reimplement the services this year due to the deprecation the \"legacy\" popover modal on Checkoit. The new version seems more about locking builders to stripe than it is about anti-fraud, checkout UX or developer experience. It\u2019s subtle but can be di"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 33273892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273892", "by": "advaitruia", "time": 1666270288, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favourite podcasts: Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com JS Party - https://changelog.com/jsparty Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/ Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast Corecursive - https://corecursive.com/ Any others that people here recommend?"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 33273892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33273892", "by": "advaitruia", "time": 1666270288, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favourite podcasts: Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com JS Party - https://changelog.com/jsparty Darknet Diaries - https://darknetdiaries.com/ Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast Corecursive - https://corecursive.com/ Any others that people here recommend?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33274405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33274405", "by": "fareesh", "time": 1666272540, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan podcast with Vijaya Gadde, Jack Dorsey and Tim Pool gives the outside world a good look at how Twitter is run. They should have been able to wipe the floor with every concern that was raised. Instead Jack Dorsey comes off looking lost and Vijaya Gadde comes off looking like a bad lawyer."}, {"show": "1553180943", "hn_item": 33277276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277276", "by": "nh23423fefe", "time": 1666284145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "argument free exposition by a dilettante > Lately I\u2019ve been drilling down on the difference between Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake. Why does it matter? > I used to think it didn\u2019t matter too much. oh what changed? > At the risk of expending too much airtime on it here in the portfolio update, I will direct you to two episodes of The Investors\u2019 Podcast network with Preston Pysh: [...] It\u2019s over two hours long and it takes Lowery a long time to lay the foundation for his case. Hang in there. Once he squares the circle you\u2019ll get it. When I finished this episode it gave me absolute clarity on w"}, {"show": "404963432", "hn_item": 33277898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277898", "by": "hellojesus", "time": 1666286804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the clarification. I was running off of memory from a Peter Schiff podcast where he talked about the Jones Act. That is still an issue though. Those ships need to try and maximize on board cargo at every port. They have wasted dollars if they don't. There is zero reason for this law to exist except to prohibit free trade and stomp out domestic competition."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 33291479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33291479", "by": "willy_ph", "time": 1666377275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who might be interested, the Behind the Bastards podcast did an episode on Pullman and the issues associated with the Town that led to the strike: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33293800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33293800", "by": "flreln", "time": 1666392501, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1286906615", "hn_item": 33304777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33304777", "by": "notjulianjaynes", "time": 1666502357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've noticed the podcast Intelligence Matters, all the ads are literally for like the newest Lockheed Martin fighter jet. Surely some of the audience are decision makers about buying those jets, but it can't be the majority of listeners. Granted the host is former deputy director of the CIA, but the content is news of national interest.. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/intelligence-matters-a-cbs-news..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 33305226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33305226", "by": "scyzoryk_xyz", "time": 1666509844, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Reminds me of this [0] fascinating episode of a podcast called \u201eFall of Civilizations\u201d. It talks in depth on how abundant walrus in Greenland drove the existence of a thriving Viking empire out there for a period of time. Those walrus tusks were apparently a highly desired global commodity all around Europe until ivory from Africa replaced them. [0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/7j6Iix39liJLuVr5rsbyyr?si=Y..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 33306347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306347", "by": "alias_neo", "time": 1666527252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is ad-segment or sponsor-segment free podcasts a thing? I too pay for Spotify and I tried to get into some podcasts, starting with Darknet Diaries, but the ad and sponsor segments are just too jarring. I guess I'm not paying enough in my Spotify subscription to get it without that stuff, so who/what/where do I pay to get some podcasts I want to listen to without it?"}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 33311495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33311495", "by": "LesZedCB", "time": 1666569495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the Philosophize This podcast has a great episode on this that's very approachable https://youtu.be/ic6Z9tPiYYI I also really enjoyed Facing Gaia, however it's a bit of a slog."}, {"show": "1498802610", "hn_item": 33311627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33311627", "by": "mch82", "time": 1666570618, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "GDP doesn\u2019t need to grow indefinitely. It measures industrial output, but not wealth or prosperity. Here are economists whose perspectives you may find offer a way out of the trap it feels like we\u2019re in: Mariana Mazzucato ( https://marianamazzucato.com ) talks about the spectrum of models capitalism can take in this interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prof-g-show-with-s... . \u201cBetterness\u201d by Umair Haque talks about the need for metrics that augment GDP by serving as indicators of wealth: https://store.hbr.org/product/betterness-economics-for-human... (also available on Amazon, "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33312142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33312142", "by": "reality_inspctr", "time": 1666576057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Lex Fridman and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the need to this, generally, on their new podcast episode together"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 33320326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320326", "by": "adameasterling", "time": 1666635557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> suffering from the same insanity It isn't exactly clear what this means, but when I read it I thought, \"we all seem to be suddenly hysterical about nuclear war.\" I listened to the most recent episode of the Arms Control Wonk podcast[1] last night. In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis observed that yes, paid media and social media is hysterical about nuclear war right now, but also, that the underlying emotional anxiety that fuels this sort of coverage/discussion is the natural result of nuclear deterrence. It's supposed to feel tremendously frightening. He noted that the word itself, \"deter,\" "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33324653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324653", "by": "r3trohack3r", "time": 1666658295, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven\u2019t watched the episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast with Jack Dorsey, I\u2019d recommend them. It\u2019s amazing how he carries himself when discussing charged topics and where his headspace is at for social media. He spends a bit ranting about the potential of a permanent public ledger backing a social network and how for-profit moderation could play a role in that world."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33327160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33327160", "by": "gqz", "time": 1666681513, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the state of the literature is a little more complicated than you surmise from Huberman's podcast. For example, note especially their careful wording around its neurotoxicity, as well as the clinical dosing assumptions they make their claims within, which likely differ from those of casual users. As a cautionary example, you should look into alpha-Methyldopamine. Last I checked (which was, admittedly, several years ago), there was not a good rebuttal to its neurotoxic potential. Though this potential is less serious than the neurotoxicity demonstrated by the botched study which injecte"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33327920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33327920", "by": "lockeddown", "time": 1666687795, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33331745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331745", "by": "sanman811", "time": 1666711071, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Slightly off topic but I would recommend this podcast from Andrew Huberman on the Effects of Cannabis. I learned a lot from it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953..."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 33335701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33335701", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1666729664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought his might be another case [1] where there was an imperial to metric conversion problem that led to insufficient fuel on board and a semi miraculous glide down landing where thankfully everyone walked away. The story is far more nuanced on examination and for those interested Tim Harford [2] has an excellent Cautionary Tales podcast episode outlining the details within a wider context. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/us/jet-s-fuel-ran-out-aft... [2] https://timharford.com/2022/09/cautionary-tales-when-the-pla..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33344460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33344460", "by": "jarenmf", "time": 1666795446, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentioned in Lex podcast that he still drinks 8-9 diet cokes everyday."}, {"show": "1512654905", "hn_item": 33356994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33356994", "by": "xrd", "time": 1666876488, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I was recently listening to this podcast by The Defiant, a \"DeFi\" conversation. In it, Ali Yahya, GP at a16z, notes that blockchain applications are the first software applications that cannot be turned off by a centralized authority. https://thedefiant.io/ether-goes-deflationary For example, as we all talk about often on HN, Google often cancels services, services that might have millions of people using them. You could imagine someone developing a \"service\" (in this case, a smart contract) running inside Ethereum which could not be turned off by a centralized authority. You could imagine som"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33362630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362630", "by": "eduction", "time": 1666898324, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you think there should be podcast that are paywalled, or are you against that on principle? And if you support paywalled podcasts, what, in your mind, would be the correct way for Spotify to implement them? (I'm genuinely curious your answer, but to lay my cards and biases on the table: I prefer paid podcasts to the ad supported ones; I'm tired of hearing all the Casper and Squarespace ads woven into the content. And I have trouble imagining a typical Spotify listener (interested in, say, Joe Rogan podcast) properly moving a personalized premium RSS feed into another client without a ton of"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33362775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362775", "by": "boilerupnc", "time": 1666898956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a Planet Money podcast [0] last month that was really interesting and helpful (for me at least) to understand the aggregate price breakdown and the different aspects which contribute to the sum (e.g. transport, refinement, drilling, taxes, etc ...) price for a unit of gasoline. In particular, one portion talks about how tankers aren't beholden to the original manifest when they leave port A to go to port B. Mid voyage, they can suddenly pivot to port C if the spot buying price there is better than port B. And so on and so forth. So, until the tanker reaches a particular port - th"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 33364294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33364294", "by": "joshstrange", "time": 1666906118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Do you think there should be podcast that are paywalled, or are you against that on principle? I have zero issue in paywalled podcasts, in fact I pay about $35/mo across various podcasts. Every single one of those gives me a special RSS feed with a token in the URL. There is no need for a service/platform to support this, it works perfectly today. A few of those podcasts are from Patreon and they have support for this built in (not that the \"tech\" behind this is groundbreaking). I almost always pay if it's an option because I abhor ads in every form. I don't listen to many \"mass market\" podc"}, {"show": "1549324835", "hn_item": 33371259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33371259", "by": "f0e4c2f7", "time": 1666964437, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This video might be useful as a broad overview of oil and gas[0] This podcast on nuclear energy was pretty informative but ultimately still left me with many questions.[1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWyhKobyM68 [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-nuclear-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33376517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33376517", "by": "brigandish", "time": 1666985580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would've thought a lot of people know her from Joe Rogan's podcast and especially the sections where Tim Pool challenged her."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33376593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33376593", "by": "pchristensen", "time": 1666985837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's phenomenal. There were dozens of thought provoking discoveries and conclusions drawn from what I had previously thought was an esoteric subject. Nick Lane has also been on some good podcast interviews: - Long and in depth on Lex Fridman, plus it was funny because he is about the only guest that didn't play along with Lex's goofy off the dome ideas - https://lexfridman.com/nick-lane/ - Sean Carroll - a more serious discussion - https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/05/23/198-nick-lane-on-powering-biology/"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 33385334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33385334", "by": "pinkwinds", "time": 1667059784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also in the same vein Dalrymple and Anita Anand have a podcast called Empire."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33387586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387586", "by": "nasalter", "time": 1667074590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an interview with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS on the CoRecursive podcast here: https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/"}, {"show": "1224204194", "hn_item": 33403248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403248", "by": "rpastuszak", "time": 1667204808, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Relevant episode of Arthur Isaac\u2019s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/science-futurism-with-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33407458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407458", "by": "mcorcuera", "time": 1667231155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We created summaries of all Lex Fridman episodes in audio & text form. We transcribed the episodes using OpenAI\u2019s Whisper and then summarized the podcasts using AI. Finally, we created audio versions out of the summaries such that you can listen to them."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33407571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407571", "by": "joegahona", "time": 1667231605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sacks knows his stuff. Calacanis is more of a henchman and acknowledged begrudgingly on the All-In Podcast that he's incapable of coding."}, {"show": "1504443346", "hn_item": 33407942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33407942", "by": "nonrandomstring", "time": 1667233089, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think we all know the main issues here on HN. And what a complex tangle of interests and compromises it really is. Yes codification is a nightmare. I'm no lawyer, but it's clearly a challenge that a lot of good minds need to sit down and think through. At the end of the day, we can't keep trashing the planet for a little bit of extra corporate profit and consumer vanity. Making durable, repairable and reusable technology isn't rocket science. We managed it for centuries before the insanity of late capitalism took centre stage in the past 30 years or so. FWIW, I did an interview with Gerry Mc"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33409144, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33409144", "by": "hintymad", "time": 1667236811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In Podcast had a chart ( https://youtu.be/A-bIpJdaCnM?t=2126 ) that compared the Meta's investment on VR with the investment that changed human history in the past, all inflation adjusted. It's pretty interesting. iPhone: $3.6B, Tesla: $25B, Boeing: $32B, Apollo: $253B. And Meta's Reality Lab: $4B a quarter !"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33412099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33412099", "by": "shadowtree", "time": 1667246623, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You can get an insight into their thinking in their weekly podcast called \"All-In\", together with Chamath Palihapitiya and David Friedberg. Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja... Also on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESLZhusAkFfsNsApnjF_Cg Supposedly has a couple million listeners. Sacks and Calacanis were named in the lawsuit between Twitter and Musk. And it is very clear that none of them have any real tech insight, but a lot of VC / raccoon mindset."}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 33417862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417862", "by": "sigil", "time": 1667285719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The War on the Rocks podcast is good, in particular the regular analysis from Michael Kofman. https://open.spotify.com/show/5ec5TBvVh3w4aobgx0qgYj The Institute for the Study of War aggregates open source intel into daily control of terrain maps. https://twitter.com/thestudyofwar"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33423775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423775", "by": "endorphine", "time": 1667321439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related discussion on Lex Fridman's podcast, where social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues about the negative effects of social media. For example, he argues kids shouldn't be allowed on Twitter and Facebook until 16 or 18. https://youtu.be/f0un-l1L8Zw Pretty interesting discussion."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 33425581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425581", "by": "thedarkginger", "time": 1667328132, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Storyboard | TryStoryboard.com | Remote or Los Angeles Summary: Storyboard is a platform for companies & teams to collaborate through private, internal podcasts for their employees. We help companies connect with employees who are distributed or can't access conventional channels (like drivers, airline pilots, or frontline health care workers) with over 4,000+ company channels to date. We're a ~30 person team with strong runway that is looking to make several key hires in the Engineering and Product side of the business. In the past, we were named by Will Reed/Pitchbook as a \"Top 50 Seed stage"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33426566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33426566", "by": "memish", "time": 1667332435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best engineers in the world working at SpaceX and Tesla disagree. Here's Andrej Karpathy's (ex-Tesla, even better) take from a couple days ago on Lex's podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 33432562, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33432562", "by": "jefc1111", "time": 1667376382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another recent Elixir / BEAM convert here. I have touched on a few languages in recent years (Scala, Haskell, Rust) and Elixir is the first that has really got to sit up and take notice. Coming from pretty strict OOP I have found it quite hard, but ultimately it has really got me to sit up and take notice. Id also like to mention Gleam[1] which is a type-safe language running on the BEAM. It's equally friendly and enjoyable to use. The community has also been very welcoming. Also recommend the Thinking Elixir podcast[2} which is a joy to listen to (I am about 25 episodes in so far) [1] https:/"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 33434093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33434093", "by": "nonoesp", "time": 1667388646, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1336023443", "hn_item": 33437310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437310", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1667402524, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hey man, sounds like you are depressed. But you can get through this, you're gonna have to break things down into very small steps and take breaks in between what you do. First, make sure you eat well, take some B vitamins and fish oil. Also stop drinking if you drink. If you can get out for a nice walk in the fresh air do that too. After that, find a cognitive behavioral therapy service. Get a referral from your GP. If you are interested in self-help there's the Let's Talk about CBT by the British CBT association: www.babcp.com . That gives you a good overview of what to expect. Try this epis"}, {"show": "6797243979", "hn_item": 33438390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438390", "by": "adolph", "time": 1667406189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those are one concept of and one method to achieve Deming's ideas. [0] 0. https://www.uthsc.edu/its/business-productivity-solutions/le... Recommended podcast episodes about Deming: https://smallbatches.fm/search?query=deming"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33443510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33443510", "by": "JacobThreeThree", "time": 1667426469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The problem is not short term vs long term, it's the magnitude of the planned expenditures. Amazon and other large companies created new products with small fractions of the funds that Meta is proposing spending. As illustrated nicely in the All In podcast, the only thing that compares in magnitude is the Apollo space program. https://youtu.be/A-bIpJdaCnM?t=2098"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33457366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457366", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1667508865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Last week's Lex Fridman podcast featured Andrej Karpathy (former director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI) and they discussed this aspect briefly also. The usefulness of neural networks has not ceased, despite researchers' early ideas and hopes about its biological analogies having somewhat sheared away."}, {"show": "130068596", "hn_item": 33465590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465590", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1667565652, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33469038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469038", "by": "trashtester", "time": 1667578192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> First, I don't see this kind of split ever working. How do you monetize it? Moving a centralized service to federated would be a massive destruction of value. Maybe Elon can afford to take a loss to achieve this? Or maybe the platforms ARE able to find ways to split add revenue (and other revenues) in ways that don't really destroy value. > In politics corporate interests transcend politics and cross party lines. How much financial support is Meta and Tik-Tok giving to Republicans? In fact, I think it's primarily Meta that has a lot to lose from this, out of the American companies. Alphabet/"}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 33472314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472314", "by": "yunwal", "time": 1667589709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NYTimes has investigated itself from time to time and publishes remarks that reflect poorly on themselves. Last example I can remember is the Caliphate podcast scandal https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/world/middleeast/caliphat..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 33477011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33477011", "by": "curious_cat_163", "time": 1667614011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would you share some insight on why Intel failed at making EUV work? Gelsinger said on a podcast (Decoder) recently that in fact they fought it. Obviously, they are kind of big enough to do both \u2014 make a half hearted attempt and fight it all the same due to some internal politics. However, for something this existential, one would think that the smart people and the leadership would try to put some focus on the field. Was it that bad? Really, looking for some insight on what really went down."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33477839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33477839", "by": "Joe_Boogz", "time": 1667621216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m a big fan of Tony. Everyone should listen to the episode where he was on the Lex Friedman podcast. It\u2019s pretty interesting."}, {"show": "1569202378", "hn_item": 33478738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33478738", "by": "EricHaptics", "time": 1667631915, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don\u2019t know the strap 3, never tested. For the buttkicker the real issue is the chair itself. It filters a ton of stuff and rattles. A good experience are the Dbox chairs, the problem is that they cost 5 k. Relevant club podcast with the CTO https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ERkgfJxm7QCZlp1p5eIGD?si=E..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 33481417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481417", "by": "simplotek", "time": 1667655906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Would you share some insight on why Intel failed at making EUV work? Gelsinger said on a podcast (Decoder) recently that in fact they fought it. A cursory Google search results in multiple search hits from recent news pieces announcing Intel buying their EUV kits from ASML. If Intel is handing out small fortunes to ASML to deliver a machine that in the past Intel was expected to develop in-house, that does not sound like a success story. Here's a Reddit thread on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/miar30/why_is_in..."}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 33481585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481585", "by": "zikzak", "time": 1667657143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's also playing a role in his shareholders of Tesla view Musk. A recent Opening Arguments podcast explains how they could actually sue him for irresponsible behaviour that goes against his fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. He basically tanked Tesla shares raising money for the Twitter deal. That's not maximizing the value of the shares, it's the opposite."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 33488396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488396", "by": "kjellsbells", "time": 1667703525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an excellent introduction to Kropotkin in the BBC's In Our Time podcast feom February this year. A good way to spend an hour."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 33492754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33492754", "by": "evilos", "time": 1667743611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just saw a great interview of Robert Parker that touched on some of this. Highly recommend the \"Decouple\" podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4mGbTiRC8U"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33492979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33492979", "by": "wafflemaker", "time": 1667744997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vit D here, 80ug, double the dose I take in summer. Live in Norway 300km from northern polar circle. From what I've understood from Huberman Lab podcast, sun affects mood mainly in two ways : 1. Vit D production, 2. Circadian Rhythm timing control. 1. First one can be supplemented. I use 80ug, as 40ug that I use in summer doesn't cut it. Found this dose trough experimenting. Too much feels like having overdosed on coffee. Too little and I don't have energy to do stuff unless I really must do it. 2. Circadian Rhythm - recommend listening to Huberman's episodes on Sleep (around 4 eps), Dopamine "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33495151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33495151", "by": "chiefalchemist", "time": 1667756642, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 33500547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33500547", "by": "marcusverus", "time": 1667789628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the podcast Writing Excuses. Start from the beginning. There is some really helpful and blissfully actionable storytelling advice in there, much of it given by one of the most successful writers of Fantasy (Brandon Sanderson). As for tips to get started, i\u2019m partial to the following advice (paraphrasing Asimov): Everyone is capable of writing good books, but there\u2019s a catch. The catch is that is that the first million words that anyone writes will be crap. Before one can write great prose, one must first get those million crappy words out of their system. I personally find this to be"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 33500769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33500769", "by": "senorsmile", "time": 1667791783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend listening to this specific episode of the Peter Attia podcast: https://pca.st/episode/eafed9b7-a673-4b84-8dc3-46684eeba9ad"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33508702, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33508702", "by": "h99", "time": 1667841014, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 33511516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33511516", "by": "kmorehouse", "time": 1667851238, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a software engineer and part-time editor for a podcast with millions of downloads, internal podcasting sounds like an intriguing concept! I've sent in an application for this Full Stack Engineer position, and I'm excited to learn more! Looking forward to hearing from you! Kevin"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33512391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33512391", "by": "SilverBirch", "time": 1667854915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think one of the very common errors surrounding Musk is ascribing him too much credit. Musk does something dumb and people shout \"he's playing 4d chess!\". I think there is a heuristic at play here - which is that he's a billionaire and therefore a genius. But it goes against another heuristic - when people tell you who they are, believe them. Musk just has a very simplistic approach to this problem, he doesn't understand the issues and hasn't shown any interest in learning. So yeah, he can run a company employing smart people who use massive government subsidies to build rocket ships and he "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 33518936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518936", "by": "cletus", "time": 1667915750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If this interests you, I highly recommend Dan CArlin's Hardcore History podcast [1], specifically his King of Kings series dealing with the notable Kings of Persia. Episode 3 deals with Alexander specifically. Something Dan said has really stuck with me. He says that science is less interesting. If you don't invent a light bulb, someone else will. It's inevitable. Science can of course impact history (eg the development of the atomic bomb) but a lot of other events could go either way and it dramatically changes history. IIRC Cyrus (one of the great Persian kings in that podcast) ordered the r"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 33522296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522296", "by": "thedorkknight", "time": 1667931569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's not quite the right way of phrasing that question. Models are made with and without interventions taken into account, and the lockdowns were a reaction to models showing reduced deaths and hospital strain if lockdown measures were in place. I'm not sure what that guy is talking about. But if you're actually interested, you should go and read the papers used for modeling yourself, since the odds of finding a rando on hacker news who is an actual epidemiologists is zilch. The ones who were public communicators that I followed over COVID were the podcast \"This Week in Virology\" which is ju"}, {"show": "1528042740", "hn_item": 33522774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522774", "by": "projektfu", "time": 1667933786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They were running a handful of tests on their proprietary machines. They were also diluting blood samples and running them on off-the-shelf machines. (cf. WSJ, the Dropout podcast)"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33528287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33528287", "by": "ge96", "time": 1667977073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh that's cool he does the Corecursive podcast."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 33530719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530719", "by": "marviel", "time": 1667997690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is awesome. It reminds me of what they do on the podcast \"Song Exploder.\" In that podcast, the host rarely talks, and instead all you're left with is the artist, and their explanations of where the stems for their songs came from, along with clips of those stems."}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 33537936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33537936", "by": "openasocket", "time": 1668028467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also highly recommend the writings and statements by Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies Program at CNA (the Center for Naval Analyses). Particularly his regular updates on the state of the war at the War on the Rocks podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33539124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539124", "by": "h99", "time": 1668033708, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1455379351", "hn_item": 33541959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541959", "by": "fatneckbeardz", "time": 1668052013, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "hee hee IMHO its not actually that hard to figure out what to work on if you talk to enough people. There is often some \"L6\" (the person six levels down in operations) who already knows what needs to be worked on but nobody has ever asked them ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-six-levels-d... )"}, {"show": "932499233", "hn_item": 33544509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544509", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1668075407, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33550416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550416", "by": "mediaman", "time": 1668102903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many of these VCs seem to just be grifting into whatever market they can get the most potential capital gains from the 'greater fool theory.' In other words, they don't care what value it generates; they care if there's a good opportunity to cash out capital gains by conning other people to pay much more than what they paid. A while ago, the Freakonomics podcast interviewed Arianna Simpson, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and who manages some of their crypto investments. The host, Stephen Dubner, asked what is now the classic question of 'what problem does crypto solve?' A question y"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 33551749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551749", "by": "e40", "time": 1668108499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Hard Fork interviewed (with disguised voices) 2 current twitter employees (both had been there a long time). The GP is right, it's a terrible environment."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 33554688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554688", "by": "vallanceroad", "time": 1668120344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I'm not sure how I feel about it. I feel like it feels kind of hollow. Like there's a lot of energy in it, but the vocaloid part just feels so emotionless. In Japan, the term is \"denpa\" (\u96fb\u6ce2\u30bd\u30f3\u30b0). Denpa music is intentionally strange as it is catchy, and hypnotic as it is awkward. There are many producers creating high-BPM electronic vocaloid music that is chaotic for effect. It is a bit more twee than the western sounds, as you mentioned, but it can be quite enjoyable if you're in the right mood. More on denpa music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song Nanahira playlist, an example of a "}, {"show": "1499296059", "hn_item": 33559011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33559011", "by": "dools", "time": 1668162342, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is an excellent podcast on the same topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-eleventh/id1499296..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33565006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33565006", "by": "ethanbond", "time": 1668192712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was the time where SBF openly described a Ponzi scheme to Matt Levine and the Odd Lots podcast hosts and suggested that that's what FTX is powered by. He wasn't really saying FTX is a Ponzi, but it was an open admission that they're providing the infrastructure for Ponzis and taking fees. If you're someone who believes in the concept of personal principles, this was pretty decent signal SBF was sorely lacking on at least the dimension of financial responsibility. Levine paraphrased as, \"we're in the Ponzi business, and business is pretty good.\""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 33565672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33565672", "by": "ynx", "time": 1668195479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rent control can, and sometimes does work. However, it has faltered in recent years, in large part because property management companies are using software to aid in pricing rents as high as the market can bear (to the heavy detriment of tenants), and are willing to evict and retain an unconscionable amount of empty units if overall profits rise, even at the cost of human suffering, rather than keep tenants around. The latest \"Behind the Bastards\" podcast \"Part One: Why is the Rent So Damn High?\" explores some of this, if you have the time and inclination to listen."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33569091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33569091", "by": "Tempest1981", "time": 1668216776, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Try listening to a non-exciting podcast, played at 75% speed. It works for me. Lex Fridman's voice/tempo is perfect. The Overcast app can be set to turn off after N minutes."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33569272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33569272", "by": "Flatcircle", "time": 1668218709, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019d encourage you to listen to the odd lots podcast where Sam gets lost in the explanation of what crypto does and his soon to be famous hypothetical \u201cx coin,\u201d and the \u201cbox\u201d it uses to derive value from it. Begins at about the 24 min mark https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SXncXpdjwH6WIxhM2V9zZ?si=D..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 33577860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33577860", "by": "pfdietz", "time": 1668292571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At this point I want to recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast, available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 33580121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580121", "by": "specialist", "time": 1668314279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard someone from \"a16z\" describe cryptocurrencies as a \"digital asset class\". Um, what? That kind of talk flips bozo bits. - I'm pretty sure it was this episode. (Totally not worth listening to.) A Crypto Optimist and a Crypto Skeptic Walk Into a Podcast Studio The Ezra Klein Show https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-ezra-klein-show-2/episode/..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 33580463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580463", "by": "oddly", "time": 1668318749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found these two episodes of the \u201cFall of civilizations\u201d podcast to be very informative about the Sumerians and Assyrians. It\u2019s episode 8[1] and 13[2], definitely worth a listen in my opinion. [1]: https://youtu.be/cq1g8czIBJY [2]: https://youtu.be/Qr4FiT0ks7I"}, {"show": "1469270123", "hn_item": 33580703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33580703", "by": "specialist", "time": 1668322299, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Inflation Reduction Act addresses climate crisis. As much as good be accomplished, considering the opposition's intransigence. So there's much more left to do, of course. Dave Roberts has a bunch of great explainers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-roberts-on-the-p..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33581140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581140", "by": "binarynate", "time": 1668327772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We didn't know what the balance sheets of FTX and Alameda looked like, and most of us don't know enough about the space to guess this was happening. Brian Armstrong (founder of Coinbase) was on the All-In podcast yesterday and said he was curious how SBF had so much liquidity, but even he admitted he didn't see this coming in the slightest: https://youtu.be/Id7cNqwqt1I?t=2612"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 33581910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581910", "by": "brtkdotse", "time": 1668337174, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can\u2019t find the source but Hard Fork podcast said that after these layoffs Meta headcount is down to where they were in March THIS YEAR"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 33582835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582835", "by": "SilverBirch", "time": 1668346128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to the All-In podcast, or the Pivot podcast there have definitely been some rumblings about certain VC firms doing extremely questionable things with regards to crypto. They don't name names because... well, they don't want to burn bridges/get sued. But it's not difficult to guess which firms will be under scrutiny, Chris Dixon obviously is the most outspoken crypto guy. The question over the next few years is - how have his funds performed. If they've performed anything like crypto he's going to give terrible returns, if they haven't performed anything like crypto I think people"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33582835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582835", "by": "SilverBirch", "time": 1668346128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to the All-In podcast, or the Pivot podcast there have definitely been some rumblings about certain VC firms doing extremely questionable things with regards to crypto. They don't name names because... well, they don't want to burn bridges/get sued. But it's not difficult to guess which firms will be under scrutiny, Chris Dixon obviously is the most outspoken crypto guy. The question over the next few years is - how have his funds performed. If they've performed anything like crypto he's going to give terrible returns, if they haven't performed anything like crypto I think people"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33583270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33583270", "by": "lizknope", "time": 1668349028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You don't have to listen to me or another expert saying that FTX was a ponzi scheme. Literally just listen to SBF himself. He described his business as a ponzi scheme. If that isn't obvious then I don't know what is. This is Coffeezilla's summary of SBF on the Odd Lots podcast with financial analyst Matt Levine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sucxhGOv9ww"}, {"show": "1461771083", "hn_item": 33587646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33587646", "by": "zahma", "time": 1668375737, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is kind of fringe medicine podcast territory, but I learned a lot listening to these two discuss breathing and its physiological impacts. There\u2019s quite a big overlap here between stress and sport performance. Sometimes I try this when I go running and am always curious with the results. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/103-youre-probably-bre... Box breathing is also a strategy I think was developed and used by special forces to control stress in critical environments. That\u2019s not me, but it certainly has helped me regain composure when I feel my heart race or am distracted. Fascinatin"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33590959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33590959", "by": "reustle", "time": 1668409190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brian Armstrong from Coinbase was on the latest All-In podcast and talked about this. It sounds like they're not at much risk as they are US based and are regulated to have much higher standards of keeping reserves https://twitter.com/theallinpod/status/1591388975385612288"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33594284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594284", "by": "jefftk", "time": 1668435811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a little weird, but I do feel like I ought to disclose a bias here, which is that I like Sam Bankman-Fried. I have done a few podcast interviews and events with him, and I have always found him likable, smart, thoughtful, well-intentioned and candid. That is not in any sense investing advice or whatever; it\u2019s just how I feel. I am rooting for this all to work out for him and FTX. People sometimes assume that I am a sort of antagonist to Bankman-Fried, in part because he has sometimes said things in our talks that are \u2026 let\u2019s say surprisingly candid. Most notably, people keep bringing u"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 33596278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33596278", "by": "JTon", "time": 1668442664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree in general. Crypto winter is here and appears to be getting worse. But I also am a frequent listener of Darknet Diaries podcast and basically every shady exchange of money online is facilitated in crypto. So it has a non-zero value."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 33597838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33597838", "by": "tayloramurphy", "time": 1668447747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm guessing this was posted because he was on Lenny's Podcast[0] very recently. I do recommend this episode as I found it quite informative. [0] https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-fire-people-with-grace-..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33598807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33598807", "by": "JTon", "time": 1668451311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I happened to catch the Odd Lots podcast episode where Matt Levine and SBF of FTX were co-guests soon after it first came out [1]. Matt's reactions were priceless. Well worth the listen now, considering FTX blowup [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYqL79GDXU"}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 33600566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33600566", "by": "chipotle_coyote", "time": 1668457911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I\u2019ve just started reading it, Casey Newton\u2019s \u201cPlatformer\u201d newsletter seems like genuinely informed coverage of the tech industry. Stratechery is focused more on the business side, so they\u2019re not identical, but I do think Thompson can be a little more blinded by his own biases\u2014his analyses are often of the \u201cclearly, [thing X] happened because of [theme I keep returning to],\u201d and as entertaining as his articles are, they\u2019re starting to feel a bit like cork boards covered with index cards and colored twine, where all the links are to things he\u2019s written previously. (Disclosure: I\u2019m a Strate"}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 33601077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33601077", "by": "scop", "time": 1668460082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Weinstein had a great segment on his Portal podcast about this very thing. I can't recall the interview (maybe with Balaji?), but if it comes to me I'll comment it. The gist was that he was talking about Covid and he observed that the guest had to spend an inordinate amount of time saying what he was not saying, to the point of being absurd. He had to constantly preface his comments with a long series of statements of disassociation. \"Now I'm not saying X, or Y, and I'm definitely not a P, and I don't agree with everything Z said but...\" How can you have a conversation if so much time is "}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 33603021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33603021", "by": "savryn", "time": 1668469102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cThe idealism of every era is usually the cover story of its greatest thefts.\u201d this is my favorite eric quote, which he also just applied to the ftx mess. Eric's way of seeing things isn't a linear thing I can summarize, there's a few youtube vids you can search for the concepts of Kayfabe or his anger at the Consumer Price Index methodology which he's been making noise about for a decade, way before all the cool kids today tweeting about inflation. It's about seeing narrative frames and language games that institutions play to intrinsically hide (to others and themselves) the mechanics of pow"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 33608669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608669", "by": "tootie", "time": 1668517589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do pretty routinely. I sub to the NY Times because it's thorough, accurate and has a lot of fun stuff like cooking, crossword, Wirecutter. I peruse cnn.com too but mostly browsing headlines because it's so incredibly broad in it's coverage. If you want less of a time investment, my picks would be npr.org and/or Axios. They're more concise and linear. I'd also add in a local source, preferable a public one (I read Gothamist). A lot of people do a daily podcast news digest like The Daily from NYT or The World by PRX. They're very good but I never go into them, I prefer to read. Occasionally I "}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 33608669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608669", "by": "tootie", "time": 1668517589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do pretty routinely. I sub to the NY Times because it's thorough, accurate and has a lot of fun stuff like cooking, crossword, Wirecutter. I peruse cnn.com too but mostly browsing headlines because it's so incredibly broad in it's coverage. If you want less of a time investment, my picks would be npr.org and/or Axios. They're more concise and linear. I'd also add in a local source, preferable a public one (I read Gothamist). A lot of people do a daily podcast news digest like The Daily from NYT or The World by PRX. They're very good but I never go into them, I prefer to read. Occasionally I "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33612376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612376", "by": "tuyguntn", "time": 1668533806, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 33613224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613224", "by": "wwkeyboard", "time": 1668537975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Having a news source that you can \"finish\" for the day, and that you trust will tell you tomorrow if something really important happens today, is important. I've found the NPR Up First podcast to reliably cover major event of the previous day. Marketplace from APM is also great, but tries to couch their coverage in economic terms. Both of these are radio shows by professional journalists and broadcasters that are available in podcast form."}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 33616928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616928", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1668556252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The passage appears in the Phaedrus , and has Socrates quoting an earlier Egyptian, Thamus: SOCRATES: \u2026 Among the ancient gods of Naucratis in Egypt there was one to whom the bird called the ibis is sacred. .... The story goes that Thamus said much to Theuth, both for and against each art, which it would take too long to repeat. But when they came to writing, Theuth said: \u201cO King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom.\u201d Thamus, however, replied: \u201cO most expert Theuth, one man can g"}, {"show": "1610914569", "hn_item": 33618491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33618491", "by": "dools", "time": 1668569626, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just the other day I was listening to this Dave Troy podcast \"against long termism\"[0] and it's the first time I ever heard the term \"effective altruism\", however within the last few days of having listened to EA has come up multiple times. I also remembered when listening to it that the title screen of the Baba Is You videogame on the nintendo switch promotes the \"Giving what we can\" charity. Very interesting stuff, I highly recommend checking out not only that podcast but the rest of the Oil, Gold, Crypto and Fascism series from Dave Troy. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/against-lo"}, {"show": "1333698295", "hn_item": 33618510, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33618510", "by": "pbadg3r", "time": 1668569801, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Shameless plug! Erik and I recorded a podcast on the early days of Cobalt, including the first fundraise. Check it out! https://open.spotify.com/episode/45mdsE71r7wNHtEQyz13wl"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33618942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33618942", "by": "KerrickStaley", "time": 1668573649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A related thing Brewster didn't mention: When libraries \"buy\" ebooks from publishers, what they're actually buying is a license to lend the ebook a fixed number of times. For example, after a library lends a HarperCollins ebook 26 times, it disappears from the library's virtual shelf until it's purchased again. A hardcover physical book by comparison will typically last for 30 - 100 checkouts before it becomes too worn out. The above is from a fascinating Planet Money podcast on the relationship between ebook publishers and libraries. Transcript at https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135639385 . "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33619028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619028", "by": "idatum", "time": 1668574438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> SBF describes coins like a ponzi with no shame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc Just offering that just a few minutes into that video, I saw everything I hate about many youtubers' style, generally. I can't describe it, but there it is. I listen to Odd Lots. Generally, that podcast keeps things thoughtfully presented. I remember that episode and it reinforced distrust of crypto."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 33619216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619216", "by": "tornato7", "time": 1668575876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the 'Intro to Bankless' podcast is a really good way to start learning the nuances. There are many parts of the crypto community that are very welcoming to newbies. /r/EthFinance is one of the best. Crypto is indeed very complex. You have everything from AMMs to no-loss lotteries to Arweave perpetual endowments. I spend 10 hours a day in crypto finance and don't understand all of the nuances, so I can see how it might be intimidating. The best way to learn IMO is send a few dollars to Polygon to play with different protocols like Uniswap, Aave, PoolTogether, things like that."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 33621965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621965", "by": "nuccy", "time": 1668601418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris in his Making Sense podcast interviewed Timothy Snyder [1] about this topic, they had a decent dive into the history, relationship between the countries and meaning of the war for both sides. 1. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/301... the interview starts at about 13:30."}, {"show": "402434575", "hn_item": 33622017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622017", "by": "hikingsimulator", "time": 1668601778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CSIS on YouTube is okay-ish, atlantist so to take with some grain of salt sometimes. Personally, I liked the podcast of the Chair of War Studies at King's College: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/warstudies/war-studies-podcast (note: I've not listened to any potentially new episode for the past 2-3 years)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33622422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33622422", "by": "jger15", "time": 1668604606, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33623162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623162", "by": "spaceman_2020", "time": 1668607767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Andrej Karpathy's interview on the Lex Friedman podcast. Karpathy said that Elon's superpower is \"human engineering\" and limiting \"entropy\" in large organizations. If you trust Karpathy as a source, it seems like working for Elon would be the opposite of working for a bureaucracy."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 33626776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626776", "by": "haroldp", "time": 1668619192, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> English has no formalized second person plural, so you might use \"y'all\" or \"everyone\" as a kludge. It used to! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-problem-with-you/i..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 33628925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628925", "by": "divbzero", "time": 1668626409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent podcast episode from 99% Invisible explores this contrast in societal norms: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/"}, {"show": "1526137629", "hn_item": 33635874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635874", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1668668734, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Georgescu-Roegen is one of the GOATs of ecological or thermodynamic economics. I only learned that Daly studied under G-R within the past year or so, from a podcast interview. There are a few interviews with Daly on the CASSE podcast \"The Steady Stater\". There are at least two episodes featuring him and I'm not sure which this appeared in. I think it may have been \"Giving Thanks\", airing in 2020: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/giving-thanks-a-conver... > Otherwise possibly: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-herman-daly-reall... >"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 33638404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638404", "by": "account-5", "time": 1668690930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I intend to learn an APL at some point. I'm an avid listener of the Array Cast podcast [0]. Can't say I u derstand all of what they talk about but I definitely feel like APL has its place for number crunching. [0] https://www.arraycast.com/episodes"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 33641280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641280", "by": "schwartzworld", "time": 1668702619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Yes, 2_& {&/x!/:2_!x}'!R is very understandable. Just as much so as \u057d\u0578\u0582\u0580\u0573 or \u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\u30fc or \u05e7\u05e4\u05d4. > Offtopic, but I really dislike how so many information out there is the inaccesible format that is \"podcasts\". I can't think of a better format for what they are trying to do with the ArrayCast. It's not teaching people array programming, just a conversation between people who are proficient in it. What do you think makes podcasts inaccessible? For example, I often recommend https://soundcloud.com/lambda-cast to developers looking to understand functional programming. The conversational approach works"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33642564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642564", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1668706752, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have the same question. My best guess is that these VCs need to deploy so much capital that they don't really do due diligence, instead they go by \"founder vibes\" and \"vision\", a watered down version of \"invest in the team, not the product\". Sequoia, SoftBank, a16z all seem to be guilty of this. Anecdotally, Chamath Palihapitiya, in the recent All-in Podcast [0], said that they met with SBF and as a condition to invest they wanted to get rid of dual class voting shares (or something like that) and a board. FTX leadership (not necessarily SBF) replied with \"fuck you\". So I guess you have some"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 33642703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642703", "by": "aflukasz", "time": 1668707217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somewhat related: Oliver Burkeman has some interesting thoughts about time management and how people have this tendencies to schedule too much as a coping mechanism to deny their limitations around the time they have and how much they can accomplish given their constraints. I didn't read any of his books, but heard him on Sam Harris' podcast/app and found his take interesting and stimulating reflection about my own behaviors. Certainly worth looking up, if you believe you might be affected by similar phenomenon."}, {"show": "1333698295", "hn_item": 33642783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642783", "by": "pbadg3r", "time": 1668707529, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1333698295", "hn_item": 33642784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642784", "by": "pbadg3r", "time": 1668707529, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "John and Ryan McLinko started Astranis in 2015. Both spent time in traditional aerospace and wanted to use geostationary satellites to deliver internet to billions of people, at a pace that would make traditional companies blush. Astranis is now worth >$1B and is prepping deployments that will get internet to millions of people in Alaska and Peru. They build 2-7x faster than traditional companies, shipping a first prototype satellite in 3 months, and getting to space a year later. This podcast dives into what makes Astranis move fast, including John's thoughts on when to go slow, and examples "}, {"show": "1649845905", "hn_item": 33642784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33642784", "by": "pbadg3r", "time": 1668707529, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "John and Ryan McLinko started Astranis in 2015. Both spent time in traditional aerospace and wanted to use geostationary satellites to deliver internet to billions of people, at a pace that would make traditional companies blush. Astranis is now worth >$1B and is prepping deployments that will get internet to millions of people in Alaska and Peru. They build 2-7x faster than traditional companies, shipping a first prototype satellite in 3 months, and getting to space a year later. This podcast dives into what makes Astranis move fast, including John's thoughts on when to go slow, and examples "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33646147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33646147", "by": "unboxingelf", "time": 1668721097, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "listen to chamath\u2019s explanation on the latest All In podcast, he puts it pretty succinctly."}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 33647205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647205", "by": "sgloutnikov", "time": 1668726141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently heard it from Scott Galloway on the Pivot podcast in regards to Musk."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 33654004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33654004", "by": "obruchez", "time": 1668776739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've read Burkeman's book and heard him on Sam Harris' podcast and app (Waking Up). A lot of people would benefit from his ideas. The core idea being: we think that we need just \"a little more time\" or \"just another productivity hack\" to be on top of things, but this is the wrong way to approach things. Creative people will always have too many projects/tasks on their to-do list."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 33654004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33654004", "by": "obruchez", "time": 1668776739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've read Burkeman's book and heard him on Sam Harris' podcast and app (Waking Up). A lot of people would benefit from his ideas. The core idea being: we think that we need just \"a little more time\" or \"just another productivity hack\" to be on top of things, but this is the wrong way to approach things. Creative people will always have too many projects/tasks on their to-do list."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33661071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33661071", "by": "dilyevsky", "time": 1668801165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Two of them are on All-in podcast with Chamath. It did not sound like they opposed anything Elon was doing."}, {"show": "1719979007", "hn_item": 33667388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667388", "by": "User23", "time": 1668837253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Weinstein podcast on lab mouse telomeres is pretty interesting. I\u2019ve heard various refutations claiming it doesn\u2019t matter, but my grug brained undergraduate biology training tells me that maybe it does and the bigbrain sophistry is a case of trying too hard to rescue now questionable research. Short version is that for a long time scientists thought mice had naturally long telomeres, but actually that is just an unintentionally selectively bred for trait in lab mice, because wild field mice have normal mammalian telomeres. And supposedly the upshot of that is lab mice are really good at ce"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 33670478, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670478", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1668868846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's fine to work on and release these models, where things fall apart is in how some large companies market them. Listen to 1:35:30 of this Bill Simmons podcast interview to see how an average person interprets the capabilities of these models: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh..."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 33671476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671476", "by": "simonpure", "time": 1668874754, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33682104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682104", "by": "chiefalchemist", "time": 1668960869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just happened to listen to this Freakonomics podcast yesterday. The bits on The Politics Industrial Complex were helpful. It puts into words what my gut has been telling me. Given your question, give it a listen, it's worth your time. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33686111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686111", "by": "marginalien", "time": 1668982993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any specific recommendations? For instance, Tim Urban\u2018s Wait But Why blog and the Lex Friedman podcast go into the direction I am looking for. I wonder if there is any \u201ehub\u201c, social network or community similar to HN that one should be aware of."}, {"show": "1299863834", "hn_item": 33688536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33688536", "by": "philosopher1234", "time": 1669002828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Note: I added my email to my profile after writing this. Feel free to reach out if you\u2019re curious. I have a deep love for psychoanalysis. I stumbled upon it by chance. I don\u2019t know of a great patient introduction, but I linked some explainers on the ideas below. Psychoanalysis as I understand it is about understanding your relationship patterns and changing them. The analysis I\u2019m in works through free association, I speak what\u2019s on my mind (including my most disgusting or hateful thoughts, criticisms of my therapist, doubts\u2026) and my analyst mostly just listens, but occasionally pokes and prods"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33691086, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691086", "by": "ryzvonusef", "time": 1669027350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> No one controls Mastodon\u2014or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each one chooses which servers it \u201cfederates,\u201d or exchanges information with. Don\u2019t like the users who belong to a specific server? Just block them. > Unfortunately for some of the journalists who have joined the service, this mass-blocking (or \u201cdefederation\u201d) approach is now being applied to them. A server that caters specifically to journalists was set up recently by Adam Davidson, creator of NPR\u2019s Planet Money podcast. At last count, the server, called jo"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 33691750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691750", "by": "SilverBirch", "time": 1669033497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is just a stupid and absurd article. Yes, if you want to you can go around and cherry pick articles and opinion pieces that are flattering to crypto and point out they turned out to be wrong in retrospect, but that's what a free press is. You are going to have people with different opinions saying different things, and sooner of later some of them will be wrong, and some will be right and we'll all be better off for having heard the arguments. But to try and pretend there hasn't been media critical of crypto is just deliberately ignoring the facts. How could we have seen this coming? Mayb"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 33693265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693265", "by": "bklaasen", "time": 1669042919, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a terrific episode about BEFLIX on the \"Advent of Computing\" podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m1EPM2w1oX9aPoNyXa6Bb"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33694564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33694564", "by": "bitexploder", "time": 1669048873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Carmack even discusses this on the Lex Fridman podcast. Carmack basically had high school level math around that era and was a voracious reader of every scrap of game programming lore he could find. And outside of it. He is a very intellectually honest guy and it is refreshing to hear him talk about how he worked in those days. I came up similar to Carmack and he is my programming hero, so, I have a lot of admiration for how he managed to do things."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33700318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33700318", "by": "DonHopkins", "time": 1669077671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's one of my long time interests and hobbies, which I write about on HN and discuss with other people frequently. I'm supposed to be doing something else right now so I'll quickly drop a few disorganized quotes and links here. (Sorry I didn't have time to be more concise!) A few years ago I ran across Max Bittker's beautiful \"Sandspiel\", which is a delightful cellular automata toy that simulates sand and other rules: https://sandspiel.club/ A few days ago I saw him tweet some amazing stuff that resonated with me, which then led me to discover what he's been working with Lu Wilson (TodePond"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 33702994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702994", "by": "gabcoh", "time": 1669101335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If we\u2019re thinking of the same clip with Matt Levine, I think your characterization is a bit misleading. IIRC Matt Levine was definetly not calling FTX a Ponzi scheme, but yield farming. SBF and FTX (or maybe Alameda?) participated in yield farming, but that has little to do with the aspect of FTX that actually ended up falling apart. For those interested I think the clip is in an episode of the Odd Lots podcast with both SBF and Matt Levine."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 33708781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33708781", "by": "tfigment", "time": 1669140367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Felix Salmon on Slate Money podcast this past weekend suggest that its still net positive given alternative is those people don't even try to make world better. More nuanced than that but my take on the position."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33708819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33708819", "by": "abriosi", "time": 1669140541, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33709156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709156", "by": "kryogen1c", "time": 1669141833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> here\u2019s my take on effective altruism: I think it\u2019s a justification for being ambitious, for getting as rich as possible, and (in many cases) by any means possible, and keeping your conscience clear along the way. Can someone explain to me what happened here? The last I knew about EA was from a JRE podcast in 2017 with macaskill, where his ideas were to spend currency where it had the greatest impact and with the greatest efficiency while presenting the least friction to give, and I recall these ideas and the charity being supported by thinkers like Sam Harris and others. Now I'm reading conn"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 33709567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33709567", "by": "satvikpendem", "time": 1669143400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why are you trying to do all or nothing? Start bootstrapped, focus on generating revenue, then quit your job. IndieHackers is a great site for this, their podcasts in specific are worth a listen to see how others did it [0]. Filter by \"Indie Hackers\" on the left sidebar, they have a few series but I'm talking about this series in particular which has interviews with those already making some amount of money and they're asked how they started. [0] https://www.indiehackers.com/podcasts"}, {"show": "1410611499", "hn_item": 33710321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33710321", "by": "djbeadle", "time": 1669146176, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone (the comedy podcast) had scientist Ralph Harvey on to talk about collecting meteorites in Antarctica in episode 208. He made the point that any rock you find out there lying on top of the ice is probably a meteorite and there are scientists out searching for meteorites that have collected in water channels formed from melting ice in the warmer seasons. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-208-the-land-way-do... Here's an article that also interviews Ralph Harvey: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/hunt-meteorites-resear..."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 33710370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33710370", "by": "tchock23", "time": 1669146365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rob Walling coined the \"Stair Step Approach\" as a way to get yourself into startups in a lower risk way: https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stair-step-method-of-b... He has also talked about it on his \"Startups for the Rest of Us\" podcast: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-222-... Might be worth trying Rob's approach before leaving your job and betting the farm on a startup idea..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33724649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33724649", "by": "yashap", "time": 1669238243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed the article, lots of interesting tidbits! Also, side note, ty for the CoRecursive podcast, lots of excellent episodes :) I especially like the more \u201cstory time\u201d ones, e.g. ppl talking about the early days of Apple/Unix/SQLite, being a sort of pioneering remote developer, etc. My main piece of constructive criticism would be that the episodes on functional programming don\u2019t translate too well to a podcast - interesting to read about, but too much detail to ingest in podcast format, I\u2019ve started to skip those (even though I am a fan of FP). IMO the podcast would be more consistently gr"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 33728284, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33728284", "by": "aemreunal", "time": 1669270642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly, I think Jonny Ive makes good industrial design (minus the far too extreme \"minimalism\" push with the butterfly keyboard MacBooks; they really need an \"editor\" like Steve Jobs) but their UI/UX design has really not been good. Alan Dye is way worse. I find modern Apple software UI/UX design to be really devoid of functionality, information density, etc. I'm not the only one with this opinion (just listen to any Accidental Tech Podcast episode where they talk about it)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33729520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33729520", "by": "nuccy", "time": 1669283883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As pointed out in [1], it seems machine learning takes the same path as physics already did. In the mid-20th century there was a \"break\" in physics, before individuals were making ground breaking discoveries in their private/personal labs (think Newton, Maxwell, Curie, Roentgen, Planck, Einstein, and many others) later huge collaborations (LHC/CERN, Icecube, EHT, et al.) are required, since the machinery, simulations, models are so complex, that groups of people are needed to create, comprehend and use them. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0 Lex Fridman podcast with Andrej Karpath"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 33731290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33731290", "by": "louwrentius", "time": 1669298066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Damn Interesting podcast is amazing please subscribe. They release not often and the long-form stories are super interesting and well-produced. Also I like Damn Interesting Week podcast that discusses fun news articles, they have so much fun with them."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 33732715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33732715", "by": "robga", "time": 1669305227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brief discussion of Takahe in the TalkPython podcast here https://youtu.be/LhBfMoR3bvI?t=2369"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33733525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733525", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1669309226, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The claim is that they\u2019ll use the opportunity to grill him with hard questions and check his lies on the spot. In reality, I have a hard time believing that after watching Kanye West\u2019s recent media tour where he steamrolled his interviewers and used their platforms to repeat his claims over and over again. Even the podcasts where interviewers supposedly pushed back the most (Lex Fridman is often given as an example) barely resulted in Kanye acknowledging the pushback and didn\u2019t stop him from repeating his points over and over on the platform. The NYTimes event is especially weird because it\u2019s "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33736935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736935", "by": "ALittleLight", "time": 1669328699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't get this from skimming the first page - but what will this let me do? If I take this course will I be able to mess with a cell or will I just learn some stuff about biology. I saw a recent Lex Friedman podcast where the guest talks about \"bioelectric patterns\" and somehow getting a worm to grow a second head by messing with those patterns. I would absolutely start on this course now if it was a realistic pathway to doing something like that."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33749154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33749154", "by": "JoeyBananas", "time": 1669428644, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should go on Joe Rogan podcast and give a lecture on this theory"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33751206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33751206", "by": "mongol", "time": 1669454074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman, podcaster, and Lex Friedman, podcaster. I was confused for a moment."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33754010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33754010", "by": "Steven-Clarke", "time": 1669480086, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33754689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33754689", "by": "todsacerdoti", "time": 1669483836, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33755052, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755052", "by": "coffeeblack", "time": 1669486075, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Guido was today on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 33756926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756926", "by": "michalxnet", "time": 1669497966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to Behind the Bastards podcast episode 31/32 about this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko This guy basically fooled his ways of agriculture and biology, rejecting genetics for decades resulting in Holodomor and many more deaths."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 33760111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33760111", "by": "cocacola1", "time": 1669520880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to John August's Scriptnotes podcast (fantastic and ad-free) but I haven't tried out Highland 2 yet. Will check it out \u2013 thanks!"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 33763448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763448", "by": "germinalphrase", "time": 1669562192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They do - but that\u2019s only part of the risk. The logistics around nuke delivery is more complicated (or course). For the interested: \u201cArms Control Wonk\u201d podcast and blog with Jeffery Lewis and Aaron Stein are good resources."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 33763720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763720", "by": "sdht0", "time": 1669564384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Richard Feynman has a good talk on this tendency to do \"cargo cult science\" [0]: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself\u2014and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you\u2019ve not fooled yourself, it\u2019s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. The history of science is rife with examples where eventual well established theories had a hard time getting off the ground because mainstream thinking at the time actively refused to consider them (plate tectonics, inflation, etc). I remember r"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 33766533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33766533", "by": "monero-xmr", "time": 1669580791, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Stablecoins such as USDC and Tether (although despised by many) are used for non-criminal cross border transfers and savings accounts. Here is a recent episode of EconTalk that explains the use case in Argentina https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33770076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33770076", "by": "behnamoh", "time": 1669612729, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 33778155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778155", "by": "GavCo", "time": 1669662898, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1526053750", "hn_item": 33778155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778155", "by": "GavCo", "time": 1669662898, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33783363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783363", "by": "w0x3", "time": 1669692575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Impressed by frequency of Lex Fridman podcasts pulled via YouTube API dates of all #341 videos and created a graph of frequency. Seems he does over 90% of videos within a week of the previous one."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 33785340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785340", "by": "niels_bom", "time": 1669713244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember something from the Changelog podcast that Github has a number of single- or two-person projects that are experiments but are then used by a non-insignificant amount of people. So then they choose to keep it on life support with minimal resource expenditure."}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 33792748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33792748", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1669753367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Soul of a New Machine and Showstopper are very much cut from the same cloth. For anyone interested, we did a Command Line Heroes podcast episode on Soul of a New Machine a few years back. https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-4/minic... I was actually interviewed for the episode but I got left on the cutting room floor because we were able to arrange more interviews with people directly involved whereas I was just second-hand."}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 33793133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33793133", "by": "fosefx", "time": 1669755232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can not recommend the podcast series \"Rabbit Hole\" (2020) from the NYT enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prol..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33797093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797093", "by": "Isuckatcode", "time": 1669783352, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 33798859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33798859", "by": "gina_schalala", "time": 1669802666, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1581807590", "hn_item": 33800600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33800600", "by": "lou1306", "time": 1669815862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People interested in program repair and related topics may also check out this episode of the Haskell Interlude podcast: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/18/ Full disclaimer, Matthias is a colleague of mine :)"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33801102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33801102", "by": "hayst4ck", "time": 1669818103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would look for books that either: 1. Increase context on problems being solved 2. Improve tactics/strategies/systemic understanding 3. Improve physical health/mental health If you want to think better, I think physical health and mental health will have the highest return by far. Thinking is kind of like driving. Imagine driving a car where some parts are broken (mental health problem) or a really uncomfortable seat (obesity), improper fluids (can cause parts to break or decay faster), or lack of routine maintenance (exercise). You can think of dopamine kind of like fuel and it will directly"}, {"show": "1680897946", "hn_item": 33801220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33801220", "by": "thirdtrigger", "time": 1669818685, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 33802211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33802211", "by": "smcl", "time": 1669822764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is where it starts to become complicated. I am not the best person to properly enumerate these complications so if this comment made you curious, check the podcast Maintenance Phase and their episode \"Is Being Fat Bad For You?\"[0]. However I can briefly try to summarise some of them for your curiosity: - it is received wisdom that if you are fatter you are \"unhealthier\" and this is reflected in a lot of data whenever this is studied - however this tends to not get controlled for some important factors (e.g. lower income people are generally more unhealthy overally than those on higher inc"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33803513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33803513", "by": "Fervicus", "time": 1669827289, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33806915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33806915", "by": "rrishi", "time": 1669838987, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was wondering if there's much utility in reading and learning about the ways higher ups set up and/or manipulate the socio-economic systems. I personally feel pretty much like a cog in the machine that can't really influence the machine overall, just play my part in it. I recently came across the book \"Seeing like a state\" in the podcast Balaji S did with Lex Fridman. Though it's intellectually interesting to learn about how the state works and what alternative think tanks propound (ex communism, libertarianism), delving into history I have found that things happen in really grand ways (i.e."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33815898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33815898", "by": "t0mkaka", "time": 1669901156, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi fellow hackers, I made a website to search full episodes in podcasts. You can search by terms/words, or list all episodes of podcast and view their transcripts. (To list available episodes, click on the podcast name in the search result) - Search in transcripts - View Full transcripts of episodes - Highlight important section of podcast episode - Currently only for English podcasts There is another feature in transcripts which highlights important sentences in the podcast. The website has around 2500 episodes transcribed from around 80 podcasts. I am working on adding around 1000 episodes p"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 33816299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816299", "by": "bumby", "time": 1669903359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> wages started to rise I think everything you said made sense. But just to balance it out, there was a recent Planet Money podcast that explained that wage inflation is not the primary cause and that 55% of inflation is attributed to increased profit margin. The rebuttal from another Econ is this is just temporary anomaly and we\u2019ll see wages rise to erode those profits."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 33817911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33817911", "by": "alecco", "time": 1669910015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Besides being overweight and smoking, the best way to naturally boost Testosterone (and Estrogen) is with at least 2 hours of bright sunlight per day and fixing your breathing. Huberman Lab: The Science of How to Optimize Testosterone & Estrogen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXKhu5UZwk https://podcastnotes.org/huberman-lab/episode-14-how-to-opti..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 33820511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33820511", "by": "papito", "time": 1669919712, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "\"Elon Musk pulls a date out of his butt\". I am on to this act. All these dates are not something his engineers tell him that's possible, or at least he doesn't care if they are truthful. If you say \"no\" in a meeting with him, you might as well go back to your desk and pack your stuff. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-i-do-not-like... Note that the podcast was done long before Twitter, back when Musk had some serious personal cache, so it's probably the most both-sides pod in the series. It really dives into the myths that he has created of himself. The part where they mentioned h"}, {"show": "1108171208", "hn_item": 33828282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828282", "by": "rhaksw", "time": 1669971159, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Just FYI, hate speech being free speech is an American thing. Other democracies in the world have frameworks for limiting/prioritizing basic rights, right to free speech included (take, for example, German moderation laws) and have not become a totalitarian dystopias yet. There are plenty of critics living in those countries who think it's a bad idea to limit free speech beyond limiting imminent incitement of violence. Nadine Strossen discusses this in, I believe, her appearance on the Higher Ed Now podcast [0], including this excerpt, 14:20: \"Countries like Germany which were in the vanguar"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 33828810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828810", "by": "rhaksw", "time": 1669977097, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Facebook are notorious for basically doing zero content moderation in Asian countries (see Myanmar) None of us know what kind of content moderation went on there. There is no public index of what gets removed, and according to Brandon Silverman, even Facebook itself does not review it: > \"violating content... in a lot of cases what happens is it gets removed, it gets taken down from the platform, and more often than not, essentially deleted, just disappears forever. A lot of that violating content is really important to the public interest, and it would be enormously valuable if we were able"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33833957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33833957", "by": "sgt", "time": 1670003425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of Guido, be sure to check out the podcast with Lex Fridman. Guido is such a down to Earth guy."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 33834723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834723", "by": "Veen", "time": 1670006184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I pick a random episode of the In Our Time podcast and listen to it until I'm asleep."}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 33841115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841115", "by": "fattire", "time": 1670047692, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is an account of the whole laptop decision on Kara Swisher's podcast from the perspective of Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-twitters-former-sa..."}, {"show": "1074084805", "hn_item": 33843729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33843729", "by": "rhaksw", "time": 1670077934, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Glad to have clarified some things. Regarding the first amendment stuff, I suppose the turning point for you was this line, > Biden was influential, and that makes these conversations interesting, particularly in light of what Josh Hawley has been sharing regarding this admin's communications with Facebook. Perhaps you don't see the connection because you're unfamiliar with what Senator Hawley's been up to. If that's the case, I'd recommend checking out that video, his questioning of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during a hearing on threats to national security. Here is the"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 33847755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847755", "by": "mhd", "time": 1670104051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"If Books Could Kill\"[1] podcast had a pretty decent summary of his work recently. [1]: https://pod.link/1651876897"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33854209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854209", "by": "huseyinkeles", "time": 1670165809, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions?"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 33854209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854209", "by": "huseyinkeles", "time": 1670165809, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions?"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 33854390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854390", "by": "darthrupert", "time": 1670166923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone! The closest you can get to an AD&D game without playing it. Decoding the Gurus. Quillette Podcast. The Political Orphanage with Andrew Heaton."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 33854390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33854390", "by": "darthrupert", "time": 1670166923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone! The closest you can get to an AD&D game without playing it. Decoding the Gurus. Quillette Podcast. The Political Orphanage with Andrew Heaton."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 33856990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856990", "by": "watchdogtimer", "time": 1670182939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kris described hachyderm's infrastructure operating in her basement on the Oxide and Friends podcast in mid-November. Kudos to her for being able to keep it going there so long!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33859094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859094", "by": "TeeMassive", "time": 1670195630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listed to their appearance on the JRE podcast. I didn't know much about them before that. The first half of the show they present their case relatively well (the flooding in particular kinda makes sense). But when they started talking about quantum physics and the multiverse my bullshit-o-meter went through the roof."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33859102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33859102", "by": "lethologica", "time": 1670195739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To preface, I have absolutely no idea about archeology or academia. I watched the first episode and I've been aware of Graham Hancock since his first appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, but I had to stop watching this new show after the first episode. It felt like he was just purely on the defensive against 'big archeology' from the very get go, rather than presenting an interesting argument for why a civilisation like Atlantis might have existed. I may be misremembering, but I don't remember his style being so defensive when he first came into the public eye with these ideas. I think I'll st"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 33860667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860667", "by": "nadieyninguno1", "time": 1670206981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While back I was listening to a Jocko Podcast episode wherein the host was discussing his watching the meltdown in Iraq. Internally, the military had some reporting on \u201cSignificant Activities,\u201d major protests and bombings and infrastructure attacks and such. I\u2019ve always wondered is there anything open-source of that nature - tracking \u201cactivities\u201d like these?"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 33866404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866404", "by": "mistersquid", "time": 1670252136, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Scott A. and the author he reviews seem to thrive a little too well in the world of muddy explanations. The problem of this causal explanation perhaps lies with the source material Scott Alexander cited without adequate critical analysis, namely David Brooks\u2019 _BoBos in Paradise_. \u201cIf Books Could Kill\u201d, co-hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri, analyzes and humorously takes down book-length transgressions against critical thinking. A recent episode adroitly and conclusively disassembles Brooks\u2019 _BoBos in Paradise_ as quite harmful and comically wrongheaded. [0] [0] https://podcasts.app"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 33869090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33869090", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1670263039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just hard, but expensive. The Acquired podcast episode on AWS[1] highlighted a particularly ironic angle of this: > David: I can do you one better. Another example. Amazon.com used Oracle databases when it was started. Amazon.com did not finish their migration off of Oracle databases and onto AWS products until 2019. > Ben: Oh, my God. > David: Thirteen years after AWS launched. > Ben: That is insane. > David: It took that long for Amazon itself to migrate off of Oracle. [1]: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/amazon-web-services"}, {"show": "1419746491", "hn_item": 33879173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879173", "by": "jessaustin", "time": 1670332625, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "DeSantis should be sentenced to Gitmo for the war crimes he committed there. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ron-desantiss-military..."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 33884238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884238", "by": "lexx", "time": 1670349312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here are some of my current material: - I have a great time listening to \"Software Unscripted\" podcast. - On youtube the channel \"code opinion\". Although I don't like or use DDD and C#, I think that it has high quality and rewarding content. - I am currently finishing \"A Philosophy of Software Design\" by John Ousterhout. - Regarding articles, I read stuff related to my day's obsession or problem. I can't point you out to one. I mean, what do you need to evaluate/learn? If you need something more specific topic-wise I am glad to share with you"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33884501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884501", "by": "coffeeblack", "time": 1670350215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In podcast about this is worth listening to. Considering that part of the money went to you-know-who, it\u2019s no surprise that those groups don\u2019t ask any tough questions."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33886906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33886906", "by": "jwatt", "time": 1670360141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman had an interesting podcast on IQ a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 33890722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890722", "by": "fuzzythinker", "time": 1670388589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hidden Brain had a pretty good podcast on this https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904660038/the-halo-effect-why... . Link includes a quick summary."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33891529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891529", "by": "uxcolumbo", "time": 1670396816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly. I think one of the lead engineers on Lex Friedman\u2019s podcast explained vision is enough and why radar isn\u2019t needed\u2026 can\u2019t recall all the details. Just more BS coming out of Elon\u2019s company\u2026 he created that culture. I\u2019d not trust anything coming of his mouth or sub-mouths\u2026 the information just isn\u2019t reliable."}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 33896895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33896895", "by": "ribasushi", "time": 1670432591, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33899186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33899186", "by": "xdavidliu", "time": 1670442127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Noam Brown: Lex Fridman Podcast #344"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 33902897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902897", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1670462744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just fyi, you can also bootstrap with that cash, you don't have to raise (and indeed in this macroeconomic climate, raising is harder than it has been). Check out the IndieHackers podcast (also a website/forum like Reddit but I found the podcast more useful) [0], YC Startup School on Youtube [1], read the Mom Test, Lean Startup, and so on. [0] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2l... [1] https://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator/videos If you have an email or other means of contact, I'm available to discuss further."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 33902897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902897", "by": "cercatrova", "time": 1670462744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just fyi, you can also bootstrap with that cash, you don't have to raise (and indeed in this macroeconomic climate, raising is harder than it has been). Check out the IndieHackers podcast (also a website/forum like Reddit but I found the podcast more useful) [0], YC Startup School on Youtube [1], read the Mom Test, Lean Startup, and so on. [0] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2l... [1] https://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator/videos If you have an email or other means of contact, I'm available to discuss further."}, {"show": "1042517353", "hn_item": 33913267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33913267", "by": "trifit", "time": 1670532925, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33915252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33915252", "by": "joemckenna", "time": 1670541972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a side project, I created a search engine for the Lex Fridman podcast. It uses https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v... to encode the YouTube auto-generated captions. Feedback is greatly appreciated!"}, {"show": "1334821500", "hn_item": 33921444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33921444", "by": "jger15", "time": 1670595635, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1081584611", "hn_item": 33924259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33924259", "by": "longdefeat", "time": 1670608191, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 33924263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33924263", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1670608228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hold up with this one. The author of this article appears to enjoy and appreciate The Tipping Point (as apparently Tyler Cowen did, at the time, and me as well, though not any more). That's problematic, because the society we're a part of (HN, the Internet, whatever) has roundly concluded that Gladwell is a farce, and it's become a genuflection to that society to dunk on Gladwell wherever his name pops up. But this is an interesting article. The one thing most serious critics of Gladwell --- by serious I mean, not quipping message board comments --- can agree on is that Gladwell is an effectiv"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 33926046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33926046", "by": "mturmon", "time": 1670617428, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Bomber mafia: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a... Roundup of a few (follow links): https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/02/29/the-patern... If Books Could Kill (worthwhile, as is the Freakonomics episode of the same podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 33926046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33926046", "by": "mturmon", "time": 1670617428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bomber mafia: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a... Roundup of a few (follow links): https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/02/29/the-patern... If Books Could Kill (worthwhile, as is the Freakonomics episode of the same podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl..."}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 33932554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33932554", "by": "rimeice", "time": 1670679939, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Slightly misleading Guardian source. Their number includes all migrants, not just those migrants who\u2019ve worked in construction and not those who just worked on construction projects to do with the World Cup, their figures are for literally all migrants. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/more-or-less-behind-th..."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 33937259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33937259", "by": "adrian_mrd", "time": 1670709208, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33940075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33940075", "by": "tapanjk", "time": 1670732835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Guido van Rossum and Lex Fridman discuss this in a recent podcast[1]. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DVyjdw4t9I&t=6905s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33943109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943109", "by": "jerrygenser", "time": 1670766337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just looked this up. This is surprisingly similar to how Kanye (Ye?) appeared on the Lex Friedman podcast recently. Even though they are split, is Kim still taking hints or strategies they learned or developed together? I actually could barely recognize Ye in terms of silhouette, but could understand his voice on the podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33944179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944179", "by": "nsikorr", "time": 1670773939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Only related to software engineering but the Lex Fridman Podcast should be in this thread."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 33944279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944279", "by": "jcutrell", "time": 1670774426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2018m the host of Developer Tea. It\u2019s not for everyone (not a technical podcast), but you may enjoy it! I also recommend Hidden Brain, SyntaxFM if you are into JS especially, and Soft Skills Daily."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 33944322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944322", "by": "mh8h", "time": 1670774677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business: It's a podcast about information security. Even if you're not directly working on security, listening to this podcast will help you have security in mind in your every day developer work."}, {"show": "1619140476", "hn_item": 33944467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944467", "by": "geekjock", "time": 1670775446, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm the host of the Engineering Enablement podcast: https://getdx.com/engineering-enablement-podcast We interview developers and leaders who work on \"platform\" teams (e.g. devex, devprod, infrastructure) that focus on making developers happier and more productive. If you're interested in this kind of work, or the subject of developer productivity, I think you'd enjoy checking it out. A couple recent episodes include an interview with a former Dropbox engineer about how they approach measuring productivity, and a conversation with a couple of engineers from LinkedIn who've built ways of gatheri"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 33944492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944492", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1670775592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've learned useful things from all of these: The Stack Overflow Podcast, Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, Software Engineering Radio, and Coding Blocks."}, {"show": "769189585", "hn_item": 33944492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944492", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1670775592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've learned useful things from all of these: The Stack Overflow Podcast, Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, Software Engineering Radio, and Coding Blocks."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 33944492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944492", "by": "andrewl", "time": 1670775592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've learned useful things from all of these: The Stack Overflow Podcast, Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman, Software Engineering Radio, and Coding Blocks."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 33944728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944728", "by": "dochtman", "time": 1670777006, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On the Metal has been discontinued, but highly recommend giving it a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/on-the-metal/id1488187... . In the security/cryptography space, Security Cryptography Whatever is pretty great (with tptacek): https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/ ."}, {"show": "1578405214", "hn_item": 33944728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944728", "by": "dochtman", "time": 1670777006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Metal has been discontinued, but highly recommend giving it a listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/on-the-metal/id1488187... . In the security/cryptography space, Security Cryptography Whatever is pretty great (with tptacek): https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/ ."}, {"show": "1039210992", "hn_item": 33944909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944909", "by": "KronisLV", "time": 1670777971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personally I occasionally listen to the Complete Developer Podcast: https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/ To me the hosts seem pleasant and the topics relevant, it might not be the most detailed podcast out there, but it sure is a comfy one to listen to. Also, occasionally The Changelog Podcast is nice to listen to: https://changelog.com/podcast And the CoRecursive Podcast as well: https://corecursive.com/ The latter two have a greater variety of people to talk to, about all sorts of projects in the industry. One of them had a pretty good interview about SQLite, which was an interesting listen"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33944909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944909", "by": "KronisLV", "time": 1670777971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personally I occasionally listen to the Complete Developer Podcast: https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/ To me the hosts seem pleasant and the topics relevant, it might not be the most detailed podcast out there, but it sure is a comfy one to listen to. Also, occasionally The Changelog Podcast is nice to listen to: https://changelog.com/podcast And the CoRecursive Podcast as well: https://corecursive.com/ The latter two have a greater variety of people to talk to, about all sorts of projects in the industry. One of them had a pretty good interview about SQLite, which was an interesting listen"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 33944909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944909", "by": "KronisLV", "time": 1670777971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Personally I occasionally listen to the Complete Developer Podcast: https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/ To me the hosts seem pleasant and the topics relevant, it might not be the most detailed podcast out there, but it sure is a comfy one to listen to. Also, occasionally The Changelog Podcast is nice to listen to: https://changelog.com/podcast And the CoRecursive Podcast as well: https://corecursive.com/ The latter two have a greater variety of people to talk to, about all sorts of projects in the industry. One of them had a pretty good interview about SQLite, which was an interesting listen"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 33944925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944925", "by": "rashidujang", "time": 1670778059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Developer Tea has been my go to wind down podcast after a long day. Thank you!"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 33944934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33944934", "by": "lsowen", "time": 1670778109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business is a great weekly cybersecurity podcast: https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/"}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 33945036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945036", "by": "qxxx", "time": 1670778726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "oh yeah! Developer Tea is my favorite podcast, it is short, so it is enough if I go for a walk (or drink some tea)"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 33945330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945330", "by": "bkishan", "time": 1670780367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To add, the name of the podcast is Signals and Threads."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 33945351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945351", "by": "qbasic_forever", "time": 1670780476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More recently he's been on the Changelog podcast in the last year and it's a great listen: https://changelog.com/podcast/454"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 33945552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945552", "by": "gronky_", "time": 1670781522, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Programming Throwdown is awesome. Their last episode on quantum computing is one of my all-time favorite episodes of any podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/programming-throwdown/..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 33945745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945745", "by": "yashap", "time": 1670782598, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019m a fan too, especially the episodes from 2020 onwards. Some of my favourites: - Talking with Richard Hipp about SQLite: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto... - What it was like working at Apple in the early 2000s: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto... - The birth of UNIX with Brian Kernighan: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto..."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 33945774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945774", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1670782744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed listening to and being a guest on Running in Production, and I'm sorry to hear you see the podcast as a failure. One difference I notice between Running in Production and some other podcasts that are popping up in this thread (e.g., CoRecursive , Darknet Diaries , Lex Fridman ) is that those podcasts focus on people and stories, whereas Running in Production focused more on technology. After writing my blog for several years, I noticed a pattern in that the majority of my popular posts were stories from my life rather than technical posts about a particular technology. The stories we"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 33945774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945774", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1670782744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed listening to and being a guest on Running in Production, and I'm sorry to hear you see the podcast as a failure. One difference I notice between Running in Production and some other podcasts that are popping up in this thread (e.g., CoRecursive , Darknet Diaries , Lex Fridman ) is that those podcasts focus on people and stories, whereas Running in Production focused more on technology. After writing my blog for several years, I noticed a pattern in that the majority of my popular posts were stories from my life rather than technical posts about a particular technology. The stories we"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33945774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945774", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1670782744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed listening to and being a guest on Running in Production, and I'm sorry to hear you see the podcast as a failure. One difference I notice between Running in Production and some other podcasts that are popping up in this thread (e.g., CoRecursive , Darknet Diaries , Lex Fridman ) is that those podcasts focus on people and stories, whereas Running in Production focused more on technology. After writing my blog for several years, I noticed a pattern in that the majority of my popular posts were stories from my life rather than technical posts about a particular technology. The stories we"}, {"show": "1541407369", "hn_item": 33945799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945799", "by": "stux", "time": 1670782963, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My two favourites at the moment that haven\u2019t already been mentioned are: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/algorithms-data-struct... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-unscripted/id..."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 33945799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945799", "by": "stux", "time": 1670782963, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My two favourites at the moment that haven\u2019t already been mentioned are: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/algorithms-data-struct... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/software-unscripted/id..."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 33946099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946099", "by": "willi59549879", "time": 1670784509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed listening to: - Command Line Heroes ( https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes ): super polished, mostly about high level concepts and history. - Data Engineering Podcast ( https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/ ): Podcast about Data engineering and Databases."}, {"show": "1530691206", "hn_item": 33946465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946465", "by": "carimura", "time": 1670786344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For Java developers check out the Inside Java Podcast where we interview the folks working on the Java Platform for an inside look at important innovations (eg Loom, Panama, Amber, JavaFX, secure coding guidelines, contributing to OpenJDK, etc.) https://inside.java/podcast I haven't found many that hit 100%, so subscribing to a bunch and allowing your podcast app to store say the \"latest 3\" is how I pick and choose the episodes I'm interested in."}, {"show": "1359435443", "hn_item": 33946637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946637", "by": "liamwire", "time": 1670787297, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019ve been listening to Stacktrace for some number of years now, and it\u2019s been consistently quality. Primarily focused on Apple ecosystem development, both hosts have a great dynamic. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stacktrace/id135943544..."}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 33946931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946931", "by": "fuy", "time": 1670789303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of the ones that I haven't yet seen mentioned: \"Oxide and Friends\" is a great interdisciplinary podcast with a lot of focus on hardware and low-level stuff, but always looking at a big picture. \"Array Cast\" is a pretty unique podcast about array languages (think APL, J, K and friends). \"Type Theory Forall\" - podcast about formal methods and type theory, some absolutely great guests there! I also have to mention \"IPv6 Buzz\" and in general \"Packet pushers\" family of podcasts on networking - listening to it helped me a lot when I had to implement some IPv6 functionality at my job and didn't "}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 33946931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946931", "by": "fuy", "time": 1670789303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of the ones that I haven't yet seen mentioned: \"Oxide and Friends\" is a great interdisciplinary podcast with a lot of focus on hardware and low-level stuff, but always looking at a big picture. \"Array Cast\" is a pretty unique podcast about array languages (think APL, J, K and friends). \"Type Theory Forall\" - podcast about formal methods and type theory, some absolutely great guests there! I also have to mention \"IPv6 Buzz\" and in general \"Packet pushers\" family of podcasts on networking - listening to it helped me a lot when I had to implement some IPv6 functionality at my job and didn't "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33946969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946969", "by": "phlipski", "time": 1670789556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only recently discovered Lex Fridman's podcast (2 monthes ago), but I've been obsessed! The Fiona Hill episode (#335) was great. The climate change discussion between Bjorn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin (#339) was very educational. Ray Kurzweil (#321) was awesome as well. I wonder how that guy (Lex) has time to work his real job since he seems to put out 2 episodes a week and they're all 2-4 hours in length and he clearly does his homework!"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 33947319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947319", "by": "peterfirefly", "time": 1670791645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Read books. East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, for example. Or collections of Sherlock Holmes stories. Or Asimov's Foundation series (skip the last couple of books!). Or Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. Or Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke. Or go through lists of famous opening lines of novels and maybe pick up a novel that you really like the beginning of (\"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife\", \"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times [...]\", \"It was a bright cold day in April, and the "}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 33947390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947390", "by": "thealienthing", "time": 1670792125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Programming Throwdown is a pretty good podcast Ive been listening to it for a few years. The first 20 or so episodes, they had a segment that focused on a specific programming language, the history, application and quirks which was a fun way to learn more about coding and the different tools (languages) available. They\u2019ve since evolved to cover more practical topics such as test driven development, AI etc. it\u2019s a good one. If you\u2019re a python fan, Talk Python To Me is a great podcast. Covers so many topics within python from libraries, frameworks and special tools. The thing I like about these "}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 33947390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947390", "by": "thealienthing", "time": 1670792125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Programming Throwdown is a pretty good podcast Ive been listening to it for a few years. The first 20 or so episodes, they had a segment that focused on a specific programming language, the history, application and quirks which was a fun way to learn more about coding and the different tools (languages) available. They\u2019ve since evolved to cover more practical topics such as test driven development, AI etc. it\u2019s a good one. If you\u2019re a python fan, Talk Python To Me is a great podcast. Covers so many topics within python from libraries, frameworks and special tools. The thing I like about these "}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 33947939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33947939", "by": "emptysongglass", "time": 1670795480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm ready having a hard time finding really strong Kubernetes and DevOps podcasts. The DevOps Paradox duo don't really have a sense for tight editing (especially that intro that is neither funny or timely). The official Kubernetes podcast hosts are very boring. Red Hat was doing a great one on Kubernetes but dropped it. Any suggestions?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33949055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33949055", "by": "cyberlurker", "time": 1670803347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is not my field and I am genuinely curious, are we fucked or not? I just listened to a 3 hour podcast from Lex Fridman with these guests: \u201cBj\u00f8rn Lomborg is author of \"False Alarm\". Andrew Revkin is a climate journalist (21 years at NY Times).\u201d They refute many of the claims in this article about how much of a doomsday event faces us. Are they full of shit? Is this article sensationalist? My gut tells me Lex\u2019s guests are downplaying too much and this article is sensationalizing the issue, but that may be my bias to look for the middle ground."}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 33950714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950714", "by": "sthatipamala", "time": 1670817729, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a cohost of The Technium. Please check us out! It's a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, my cohost Wil ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamwil ) and I introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Wil and I started this show because we found that most tech podcasts were focused on career development or Big Tech drama. We wanted a show where we could be optimistic and excited about the future of software, especially things which were not mainstream. Some of my favorite episo"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33952609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33952609", "by": "EZ-Cheeze", "time": 1670836615, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently heard the idea that the price of energy is going to start approaching zero from Chamath Palihapitiya on Lex Fridman's podcast. It hit me as a big, all-changing thing. If fusion is really solved, we can probably mass-produce it within years if not months, so we should start thinking of the implications now"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 33954603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33954603", "by": "GTP", "time": 1670853225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the problem of distinguishing a bot from a human, I suggest the following podcast episode from Cautionary Tales [1]. I found it both enjoyable and interesting, as it shows an interesting point of view about the matter: if we already had bots that passed as humans long ago, is because we are often bad at conversations, not necessarily because the bot is extremely good at it (and indeed in most cases it isn't). [1] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnR..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33957472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33957472", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1670866191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I barely use Spotify at this point and I've been meaning to go through it and export lists of my playlists but alas, laziness... My two biggest gripes with Spotify is how poorly it runs on every platform I use it on (web, Android, desktop), and the pushing of podcasts. It constantly has weird glitching and missing UI elements that show up a few seconds later. As much as I listen to podcasts every single day, that's not what I want to use Spotify for, as the podcast player is also atrocious. It has lost my position in my podcasts so many times. The only reason I no longer listen to the JRE podc"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 33958722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958722", "by": "papercrane", "time": 1670871843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny seeing this here. I've been going through the past episodes of a podcast, Futility Closet, and they covered this: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/03/05/podcast-episode-19..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33959896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33959896", "by": "didericis", "time": 1670877354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m quite sympathetic to that line of thinking. Your language is suggestive of an interview on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast/am guessing you\u2019ve listened to it. Nietzche also basically recognized this over a century ago, though he put it in different terms/couldn\u2019t articulate in as much mathematical detail as evolutionary game theorists allegedly can. That\u2019s actually precisely why I think evolutionarily adapted embodied perceptual systems need to be a part of any true knowledge: reality is so incredibly complex that we don\u2019t know what our perception is or is not doing. We just know it\u2019s doing something"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33960181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33960181", "by": "donsupreme", "time": 1670878737, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 33973833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973833", "by": "Mountain_Skies", "time": 1670957464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joe Rogan's podcast probably comes close, with multiple three hour or more episodes each week, though he does take breaks, which TikTok does not."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33974689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974689", "by": "gjvc", "time": 1670960901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "warning: link referencing James Gosling is to a Lex Fridman podcast"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 33979412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33979412", "by": "mikesabat", "time": 1670985980, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the All In podcast Chamath used a term 'Fraudulent Conveyance'. The idea is that if someone receives money from a fraudulent actor, the entity that received the money has to give it back. Madoff was mentioned somewhere in the comments and the story is that people that got funds out of the Madoff situation before it fell apart had to give the money back. We will see how it goes this time, but I suspect a lot of the donations will need to come back to the entity."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 33979705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33979705", "by": "buildbot", "time": 1670988939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Behind the Bastards did an episode on SBF, it referenced this article! And made fun if it extensively"}, {"show": "808014240", "hn_item": 33979749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33979749", "by": "eternalban", "time": 1670989417, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not fair. They ran a \"rigorous diligence process\" at the time of their investment. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhKq6zQUoAIUJ1W These two sources claim Ramnik Arora played a \"crucial role\": https://diyatvusa.com/2022/11/24/meet-ftx-insider-ramnik-aro... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-is-ramnik-arora-th... There is that Moonstone Bank thingie again: Ramnik was there too: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ramnik-arora https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/moonstone-bank Fluent Finance & Moonstone Bank issue \"US+ Stable Coin\": https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/10/24/2"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33985734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33985734", "by": "sshine", "time": 1671034923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've commuted a bit on the German highways. I only run Autosteer, which is cruise-control + lane-control, and it disengages almost every time there's roadwork. It is very bad at handling ambiguity when the road has both white and yellow navigation lines. There's a number of scenarios, some of which involve criss-crossing lines, some where they run mostly in parallel. The car sometimes wants to follow the white lines when the yellow are actually overrides. When the yellow lines are wrong (and should rightfully have been scraped off), this always leads to disengagement. For stretches where the y"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 33986551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33986551", "by": "cocacola1", "time": 1671038109, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The If Books Could Kill podcast also have a review of the book. I found it amusing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-brookss-bobos-in..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 33999362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999362", "by": "sweezyjeezy", "time": 1671111912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=7960 Guido discussing this recently on Lex Friedman's podcast. tl;dw, he is open to the idea, he thinks it will be painful, he isn't convinced the demand is high enough yet ."}, {"show": "1526071842", "hn_item": 34005453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34005453", "by": "zoklet-enjoyer", "time": 1671136975, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's a great podcast about Wendy Carlos https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MZsp6Bfxf8PnOd7ODRmc4?si=8..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34010130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010130", "by": "atleta", "time": 1671164308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It gets better very quickly and we have no idea where its limitations are. In other words, we have no idea when the development will slow down significantly and how much of the bottom will it have chopped down by then. Whether it's 10% or maybe a 100. > Basic income or revolution. That's going to be our choice. I'm definitely pro basic income, but I've heard an interesting remark a few weeks ago. And that's that COVID was kind of a UBI experiment (in the US), albeit very limited, and it turned out that if people don't have to worry about making a living and don't have a job to work in then the"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34012233, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34012233", "by": "NtochkaNzvanova", "time": 1671179638, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34015668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34015668", "by": "kkielhofner", "time": 1671204713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Every person (no matter how wealthy or powerful) has routines in all aspects of life and you're right that elonjet flies somewhat predictable routes. All of my points about the security of any routine aspect of elonjet movement applies to Elon and his family outside of elonjet. Again, restaurants, external meetings, offices of his various companies, etc. For his family it's likely even more predictable - schools, playdates with friends, extracurricular activities, etc. I am genuinely trying to understand the \"security risk\" argument for this move. At the risk of the internet classic \"I have a "}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 34016434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016434", "by": "inbx0", "time": 1671207887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Offtopic, but Signals and Threads is my absolute favourite programming podcast, maybe even favourite podcast overall. They go into interesting topics deeply, instead of the way too common \"interviewer read the summary of the wikipedia page about the subject and is now interviewing someone who actually read the entire page.\" Hoping they'll get more content out soon."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 34017585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34017585", "by": "cybadger", "time": 1671212385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding Manager Tools podcasts. Use their \"Map of the Universe\". Professional Success -> Professional Skills -> Meetings gets to most of the meeting casts. Having an agenda and sticking to it plus setting ground rules helps a lot, whether it's remote meetings or in-person. https://manager-tools.com/map-of-the-universe#269"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 34018365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34018365", "by": "chrisbaker98", "time": 1671216120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to some Sam Harris podcast I vaguely remember listening to years ago, publishers generally don't want to publish short (like Which is one reason why 90% of \"business\" books are forgettable wastes of paper that contain one or two ideas stretched out over 250 pages and serve little purpose except to advertise the author's consulting company."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34022736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022736", "by": "sxg", "time": 1671237430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Carmack did a 5 hr podcast with Lex Fridman recently [1]. Moving away from Meta seemed like something that had been happening slowly over a long period of time. [1] https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/"}, {"show": "1672056885", "hn_item": 34023209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34023209", "by": "richardfeynman", "time": 1671240438, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34024161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34024161", "by": "willhinsa", "time": 1671247299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEFo3a1AnI Dr. Chris Palmer: Diet & Nutrition for Mental Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #99 > My guest this episode is Chris Palmer, M.D., a board-certified psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He explains the important connection between nutrition, metabolism and mental health and his pioneering work using the ketogenic diet to successfully treat patients with various mental illnesses, including depression and schizophrenia. Dr. Palmer explains how the ketogenic diet is an evidenced-based treatment f"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34025522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34025522", "by": "YetAnotherNick", "time": 1671260185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> mostly informative and almost completely anti-entertaining I don\u2019t agreee with this. I love Lex Fridman podcasts and watched almost all episodes, and most of the times I watch it for entertainment. There is some surface level information in few episodes, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be the norm."}, {"show": "1453085489", "hn_item": 34032433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34032433", "by": "dools", "time": 1671312536, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34035123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035123", "by": "lemming", "time": 1671338713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is great. Since I also found the discoverability of podcasts annoying, I wrote a tool to download the Huberman Lab transcripts and convert them to an ebook: https://github.com/cmf/huberman . They still take a while to read though!"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 34035729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035729", "by": "papito", "time": 1671348955, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Behind The Bastards had the most mild episode they've ever had about Elon, as the host was too torn about giving him a hard time, but this was before all this: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-i-do-not-like... I listened to it back then, and it was just something that was notable at the time, in a \"yeah, good to know\" kind of way, but in lieu of Musk's current antics, it all makes sense now."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34037761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34037761", "by": "ambrose2", "time": 1671372571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m curious too, in the Lex Friedman podcast/interview, John described he oftens \u201cruns on\u201d a diet of pizza and Diet Coke. https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34040273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040273", "by": "raphlinus", "time": 1671386232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coffee's recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast gives more background to these investigations, and specifically why you're not seeing them in mainstream media. Basically, Coffee is taking a lot of risk, as the scammers apply a lot of pressure, including legal threats and not so legal threats, to suppress knowledge of their wrongdoing. Mainstream media tends to give in to these threats, but Coffee is in a somewhat unique position of being able to take them on. I've lately become slightly addicted. The production style is appealing, and the stories compelling. The fact that people like Loga"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34040590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040590", "by": "bko", "time": 1671387286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This may be too meta, but there are a number of topics where I find the HN comments really low quality. There is an iteration of this comment on nearly every post in the last few months about Twitter or Musk. It doesn't add any value. It's not an interesting or unique insight. It's just a personal attack and name calling. And for whatever reason people who would normally call out such low quality comments upvote it because they, I don't know, think they're sticking it to him or something. It's just weird behavior. Imagine any other subject and this being the top comment. Another top post right"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 34042957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042957", "by": "froster", "time": 1671395784, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I have so many questions that the answers are in podcasts. To find that answer, watching the whole podcast is too time-consuming, and sometimes the answer doesn't come in one podcast, so I need to watch another podcast, which takes too much time. Do you know any search engines for podcasts? Thank you!"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 34043189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34043189", "by": "ahansen", "time": 1671396723, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's not a short summary, but if you are into podcasts then Behind the Bastards have a two parter on him. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/part-one-the-ballad-of..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34044861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044861", "by": "robbomacrae", "time": 1671403700, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Sacks would follow also. Seeing him constantly defend Musk on that All In podcast is painful. \"he will never do that\" one week turns into \"ok he did that but...\". It's like a weekly no true scotsman act watching him try and reinvent an argument that fits the very short lived situation into some grand humanity saving strategy. And you have to seriously question his motivation."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34044972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044972", "by": "paxys", "time": 1671404019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The silicon valley VC class failed a basic history lesson - never prop up a dictator thinking your are his equal and will be spared from having to kiss his ring. They are all going to have to fall in line or be labeled the enemy. The All In podcast crew must be sweating right now."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34045996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045996", "by": "krashidov", "time": 1671407751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So do you have the entire Huberman podcast transcript in the context of the prompt?"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 34047962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047962", "by": "John23832", "time": 1671419805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Leo, I've listened to all of your podcast (Security Now, Twit, even Windows Weekly as a non windows user) for ages (maybe since I was 15?). Pre-vista (I remember you and paul going on about that). I think I came across you while watching diggnation (though obviously you stand on your own). Thanks a lot."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 34047962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047962", "by": "John23832", "time": 1671419805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Leo, I've listened to all of your podcast (Security Now, Twit, even Windows Weekly as a non windows user) for ages (maybe since I was 15?). Pre-vista (I remember you and paul going on about that). I think I came across you while watching diggnation (though obviously you stand on your own). Thanks a lot."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34050368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050368", "by": "windsignaling", "time": 1671444140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If in doubt, you can always check out the Lex Fridman podcast with Numpy creator Travis Oliphant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEE3w7F0ww They pronounce the \"Py\" as \"pie\"."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34050895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050895", "by": "mfsch", "time": 1671449032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible did a podcast about P-22 very recently \u2013 worth a listen if you want to learn about this story. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cougar-town/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34053156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053156", "by": "jsonne", "time": 1671463627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been in some dark places myself with it all culminating about 4 years ago with the birth of my son and I had everything going \"right\" and all the things you claim to desire. I had a successful small ad agency, was married, lived in a cool city, etc. and yet was still in a dark place. Don't fall into the trap thinking that simply ticking these boxes will improve your life, certainly material changes to things can make a big difference but they won't \"solve\" it. I emphasize this because most of the advice here is focused on changing your material condition (which makes sense this is a forum"}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 34054184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34054184", "by": "blitz_skull", "time": 1671468170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a lot of good advice here but I\u2019ll chime in with something that I think is both underrated and immediately useful. Most people don\u2019t pay enough attention to what they\u2019re filling their heads with. The things you listen to, and the stuff you watch become the ways you think, almost invariably. So you should find things to listen to that prime your mind to embrace the difficult process of change. My recommendation? The Jocko Podcast."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34055119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055119", "by": "Kerrick", "time": 1671472301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was very excited about this, and then I tried it. I gave a talk at a local meetup 8 years ago [0] that wasn't mic'd properly, but I uploaded it anyways. It was never the most pleasant thing to listen to, but the audio was understandable enough that for years it was a top search result for \"javascript promises\" on YouTube and accumulated 39K views. However, when I ripped that video's audio and put it through the linked AI filter (Adobe Podcast's Enhance Speech), it went from being unpleasant-but-understandable to perfectly clear gibberish [1]. For example, about 15 seconds in I said: > [...] "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34056715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34056715", "by": "huseyinkeles", "time": 1671479291, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions? (Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn\u2019t get any traction. Sorry if it\u2019s against the rules to send again)"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34056715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34056715", "by": "huseyinkeles", "time": 1671479291, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions? (Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn\u2019t get any traction. Sorry if it\u2019s against the rules to send again)"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 34057003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057003", "by": "seanhunter", "time": 1671480738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not tech-related, but \u201cConversations with Tyler\u201d, Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution\u2019s) podcast[1]. It\u2019s consistently thought-provoking and he has some amazing guests on. [1] https://conversationswithtyler.com/"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 34057332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057332", "by": "trashymctrash", "time": 1671482293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Making Sense with Sam Harris. There are so many good podcast episodes. If you don\u2019t like the first one you listen to, browse the list of episodes. There\u2019s a ton of evergreens."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 34057347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057347", "by": "danwaterfield", "time": 1671482345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cortex by CGP Grey and Myke Hurley. Hon mentions to Accidental Tech Podcast, Connected, and Upgrade."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 34057399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057399", "by": "throwaway6734", "time": 1671482625, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the history of Byzantium podcast and Count Belisarius is on my list of things to read. Great to hear that it's good!"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34057406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057406", "by": "ackatz", "time": 1671482660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business podcast ( https://risky.biz/ ) is by far the best InfoSec news podcast in my opinion. As far as a single episode, I really enjoyed this Lex Fridman podcast with John Carmack: https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 34057406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057406", "by": "ackatz", "time": 1671482660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business podcast ( https://risky.biz/ ) is by far the best InfoSec news podcast in my opinion. As far as a single episode, I really enjoyed this Lex Fridman podcast with John Carmack: https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34057446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057446", "by": "x-n2o", "time": 1671482839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Huberman Lab Podcast"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 34057453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057453", "by": "dvirsky", "time": 1671482868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+100 to Heavyweight, it's my favorite podcast. Each one is like a little gem. More tech related, and excellent podcasts: Offline, a new-ish podcast from Crooked (the Pod Save America guys). It has a very anti silicon valley agenda that is sometimes annoying but there are some excellent interviews there. Hard Fork, a tech news podcast from NYT, that gives a nice weekly roundup and some deeper dives on the week's drama in tech, in a mostly funny manner."}, {"show": "1529931681", "hn_item": 34057476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057476", "by": "meestaahjoshee", "time": 1671482962, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This Is Important It's just the Workaholics guys podcast where they riff on whatever for an hour but I just relate to them and their sense of humor a lot being around the same age and their nostalgic angle of the 90s/2000s on everything. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-important/id15..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34057487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057487", "by": "rarid", "time": 1671483002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. Andrew Huberman (Probably the greatest podcast ever). Provided so many useful scientific tools to improve my overall health. 2. Lex Fridman 3. Sam Harris"}, {"show": "1618050230", "hn_item": 34057503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057503", "by": "robga", "time": 1671483103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "New to me in the 12 months. Fall of Civilizations - catalogue is now 16 long (3 hour) episodes. https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ Sweet Bobby - crazy phishing story, told in 6 tight episodes. https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/ Proof: a True Crime Podcast - investigative true crime as it should be. https://www.proofcrimepod.com/ The Trojan Horse Affair - the ugly underbelly of politics and more. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-hor..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34057503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057503", "by": "robga", "time": 1671483103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "New to me in the 12 months. Fall of Civilizations - catalogue is now 16 long (3 hour) episodes. https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ Sweet Bobby - crazy phishing story, told in 6 tight episodes. https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/sweet-bobby/ Proof: a True Crime Podcast - investigative true crime as it should be. https://www.proofcrimepod.com/ The Trojan Horse Affair - the ugly underbelly of politics and more. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-hor..."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 34057505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057505", "by": "helloguillecl", "time": 1671483114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Drive [0] by Peter Attia. Smart, educational and possibly life-changing. [0] - https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 34057508, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057508", "by": "foofoo4u", "time": 1671483135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Capitalisn't [0] > \"Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is\u2014or more often isn\u2019t\u2014working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it.\" EconTalk [1] > \"Econlib carries the podcast, EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. The weekly talk show features one-on-one discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, professors, Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs, leaders of charit"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34057520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057520", "by": "vanilla_nut", "time": 1671483171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huge fan of Avery Trufelman's Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ). She used to be a correspondent on 99% Invisible and originally developed the series as a subsection of 99PI. She also briefly worked on a podcast called \"Nice Try!\" in the same vein: deeply exploring weird facets of the world around us. Articles of Interest does that, but for clothes, and the latest season has been especially interesting to me as it dives into the history of US colleges and their influence on fashion. Well produced content, very talk-radio-y, Avery really sticks to a"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 34057520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057520", "by": "vanilla_nut", "time": 1671483171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huge fan of Avery Trufelman's Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ). She used to be a correspondent on 99% Invisible and originally developed the series as a subsection of 99PI. She also briefly worked on a podcast called \"Nice Try!\" in the same vein: deeply exploring weird facets of the world around us. Articles of Interest does that, but for clothes, and the latest season has been especially interesting to me as it dives into the history of US colleges and their influence on fashion. Well produced content, very talk-radio-y, Avery really sticks to a"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34057561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057561", "by": "chrsw", "time": 1671483319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Michael Levin episode of the Lex Fridman podcast blew me away. https://lexfridman.com/michael-levin/ I had to pause it multiple times to let it sink in."}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 34057564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057564", "by": "lunchladydoris", "time": 1671483326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles of Interest [0]. It's a podcast about clothes. I have little interest in fashion but for some reason this really clicked with me. [0] https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 34057576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057576", "by": "joe463369", "time": 1671483399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd suggest listening to this More or Less podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dh54qb"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34057602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057602", "by": "mkaic", "time": 1671483475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To my surprise, his interview with Shapiro was also really good! I strongly disagree with Shapiro on many fronts, but his appearance on Lex's podcast is the most pleasant I've seen him act in any situation. It was fascinating."}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 34057619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057619", "by": "loeg", "time": 1671483554, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the Josh Barro podcasts for keeping up with US news and politics -- Serious Trouble ( https://www.serioustrouble.show/ ) and Very Serious ( https://www.joshbarro.com/podcast )."}, {"show": "1204911385", "hn_item": 34057660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057660", "by": "beepbooptheory", "time": 1671483712, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "TrueAnon. history, science, culture, and politics - https://www.patreon.com/TrueAnonPod/posts Your Kickstarter Sucks. consumer markets, economic trends, web entrepreneurship - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-kickstarter-sucks..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34057713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057713", "by": "ranger207", "time": 1671483968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan. The series is wrapping up after almost a decade, and the 13 appendix episodes he's just finished releasing are a great summary of the causes, courses, and effects of revolutions throughout history. https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ The Prince by Sue-Lin Wong of the Economist. 10 episodes, but see also the followup weekly podcast from them called Drum Tower. It's interesting as a biography of Xi Jinping, but more insightful, I thought, as a recent history of the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to control society. https://www.economis"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 34057745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057745", "by": "lunchladydoris", "time": 1671484150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to EconTalk since 2007. It's one of the only podcasts that I never skip an episode, even if the topic or author doesn't initially seem too interesting."}, {"show": "708371900", "hn_item": 34057777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34057777", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1671484297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll give three: \"Philosophize This\" by Stephen West is a quite good and accessible series on philosophy. It's largely worked through the historical overview and several of the recent segments have been on (reasonably) modern and unfamiliar (to me) topics, with the \"Ethics of Care\" episode this post August being standout excellent. https://www.philosophizethis.org/ > Ethics of Care episode: https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-158-the-cre... > My notes on EoC: https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/60cf1410e72f013a68ef44... > Peter Adamson's \"History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps\" "}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 34058093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058093", "by": "darthrupert", "time": 1671485772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/ Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/"}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 34058093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058093", "by": "darthrupert", "time": 1671485772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/adventure-zone/ Decoding the Gurus: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/"}, {"show": "1308717668", "hn_item": 34058566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058566", "by": "zoklet-enjoyer", "time": 1671488413, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Swindled is one of the best produced podcasts I've heard. They tell stories about financial and corporate crimes. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1R4mEpogS2auhyKnppCmrD?si=1... https://valuedlistener.com"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34058924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34058924", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1671490227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The single best episode for me was this: Climate Change Debate: Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin | Lex Fridman Podcast #339 Getting climate change out of the framing of \"if we don't stop all CO2 emissions by 2030 we're going to roast the world\" and into \"yes, it's important, and we need to deal with it, in a reasonable manner\" was quite a relief. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gk9gIpGvSE"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 34059492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34059492", "by": "nunez", "time": 1671493377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maintenance Phase! Michael Hobbs and Aubrey Gordon have amazing chemistry and are doing the Lord's work by debunking the fitness industry one diet at a time. Michael's new podcast, \"If Books Could Kill\", is showing strong potential."}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 34060473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34060473", "by": "Ao7bei3s", "time": 1671500664, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omega Tau, a science & engineering podcast, with a light focus on aviation. For each episode, they invite a technical expert (e.g. they've had astronauts, various types of pilots, scientists/engineers, etc. on) and go in depth for 1-3 hours. They let their guests speak and they don't dumb it down too much, as they assume that most of their audience has some type of science/engineering background. No music / other filler content. It's from a German team but half the episodes are in English (and many of their guests are native English speakers). https://omegataupodcast.net/category/podcast-en/ F"}, {"show": "1499140700", "hn_item": 34061803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061803", "by": "lilsoso", "time": 1671513124, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Are You Garbage? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-garbage-comedy... All-In https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34061803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34061803", "by": "lilsoso", "time": 1671513124, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Are You Garbage? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-garbage-comedy... All-In https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34062542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062542", "by": "rsj_hn", "time": 1671519447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy all of these: * Geopolitics - \"The Duran\" [realist foreign policy school] (on youtube). Two Greeks, one a reporter and one a former lawyer/civil servant in the UK. Alexander Mercouris is fantastic and has his own daily short videos. * History - \"Revolutions\" podcast [Academic/liberal]. Formerly \"The History of Rome\" A great series on the transition of the West towards liberalism, and very well researched. On Spotify and perhaps other platforms. * History/Education -- \"Historia Civilis\" [Academic/Educational]. A great podcast with animations suitable for educational use. Very entertaini"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 34062542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062542", "by": "rsj_hn", "time": 1671519447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy all of these: * Geopolitics - \"The Duran\" [realist foreign policy school] (on youtube). Two Greeks, one a reporter and one a former lawyer/civil servant in the UK. Alexander Mercouris is fantastic and has his own daily short videos. * History - \"Revolutions\" podcast [Academic/liberal]. Formerly \"The History of Rome\" A great series on the transition of the West towards liberalism, and very well researched. On Spotify and perhaps other platforms. * History/Education -- \"Historia Civilis\" [Academic/Educational]. A great podcast with animations suitable for educational use. Very entertaini"}, {"show": "1452114380", "hn_item": 34062718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062718", "by": "ablatt89", "time": 1671521067, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm not sure what \"conventional wisdom\" was upended. Basal metabolic rate doesn't change so much with age, and metabolic rate is largely affected by your weight, muscle mass, and activity. This stuff is well known in the fitness community, particularly by natural bodybuilders or sports nutritionists. As a small sample of this being well talked about in the fitness world: https://bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/4-determinants-of-met... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/metabolism-myths-age-s..."}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 34065395, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065395", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1671542042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Blindboy Boatclub podcast [0] - it can be a little hit and miss, but when it hits it's just the best. This was the episode I started at [1] and it turned out to be a really good place to start. [0] https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy [1] https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/the-quantum-bones-of-st-ro..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34065412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34065412", "by": "kklisura", "time": 1671542125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love and regularly watch Lex podcast, but honestly, he does not have any qualifications for this."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 34066704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066704", "by": "twistedcheeslet", "time": 1671548177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes absolutely a Pi is likely plenty assuming it's fairly light load. That said, if you prefer x86 you may have better mileage using an older thinclient or perhaps even something like the ODroid H3 (or frankly any old laptop). Just be sure to have a decent backup system in place as consumer grade equipment like the above may fail rather abruptly with little route to recovery. Edit: you may want to check out Jupiter Broadcasting's Self-Hosted podcast. The show is very much geared towards DIY enthusiasts/small businesses."}, {"show": "957430475", "hn_item": 34067533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34067533", "by": "jamincan", "time": 1671551385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see a list like this potentially being more harmful than helpful in a few respects: 1. By saying certain phrases could be understood to be harmful, even when they aren't commonly understood to be and explicitly don't have racist or sexist etymologies, the list is actually reinforcing the threads of harmful stereotypes in our language. Black box is not a racist term; adding it to a list like this just associates black=bad, which is not something we should want at all. 2. Lists like this encourage black-and-white thinking about language that ignores context. It's the same sort of thinking that"}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 34069153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34069153", "by": "darrenf", "time": 1671557450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBC have had a podcast called \"The Missing Cryptoqueen\", digging into OneCoin and searching for Ruja Ignatova, since September 2019. It's a fascinating listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84"}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 34070167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34070167", "by": "subpixel", "time": 1671561310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great BBC podcast on this coin (\"The Missing Cryptoqueen\") in which they interview an engineer who was offered the job of creating a blockchain, despite the fact that the coin was already in circulation and being sold as a blockchain-based cryptocurrency. The developer also alluded to getting shot, if I recall correctly, an incident that the podcast did not explain or return to. The whole thing was a scam thunk up by smart but criminal MLM pros whose success had clearly already attracted the attention and involvement of Eastern European organized crime."}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 34076195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34076195", "by": "TruffleLabs", "time": 1671592021, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is The Array Cast podcast that covers mainly APL and it's related languages (k, q, J, etc.) that is helpful for learning what is happening in array focused languages. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-array-cast/id15688..."}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 34077730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34077730", "by": "upon_drumhead", "time": 1671608126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While it's not 3M, American Scandal (Podcast) did a season on a coverup by DuPont that's totally worth listening to. https://wondery.com/shows/american-scandal/season/41/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34079564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34079564", "by": "transitivebs", "time": 1671624280, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "191636169", "hn_item": 34080472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34080472", "by": "bamboozled", "time": 1671629479, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Windshield wipers add weight and complexity but more importantly add to the budget. These things are designed only to serve the mission. This rover was designed to last 1 year and went for 4 so it\u2019s a pretty good result. Some good discussion here [1] on Astronomy Cast regarding this topic and potential solutions NASA is working on. Such as an electrostatic dust blaster. 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/vu/podcast/astronomy-cast-ep-661-..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 34080901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34080901", "by": "dumpsterlid", "time": 1671631731, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think one of the ways we could avoid wars is by putting war criminals like Henry Kissinger in jail. I hope when Henry Kissinger finally gives up his frail grasp on life that his departure to the next life is painful and drawn out. Obligatory Behind The Bastards on Kissinger https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-kissinger/id1..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 34082231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34082231", "by": "xrayarx", "time": 1671637900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Link to Stackoverflow podcast. Transcript: https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/t..."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 34083945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083945", "by": "edent", "time": 1671645008, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I did a similar commute for a few years. The trick, I found, is to do something which leaves you mentally relaxed. In no particular order - sleep, podcasts, reading a book, playing games, writing blog posts, knitting, Duolingo, Sudoku, chatting with friends, and - finally - work. I asked my boss if I could leave slightly early as long as I was working on my commute. That's possible if your job is mostly answering emails and you have a laptop and a stable data connection. Ultimately, the real solution is to move somewhere with a simpler or shorter commute. In a few months you'll have more work "}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 34085452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34085452", "by": "gnicholas", "time": 1671651855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Program was the first podcast that I ever subscribed to. I now listen to lots of podcasts and am grateful to The Program for getting me onboard the audio train. I actually enjoyed The Program so much that I cold emailed the creator and offered to have my startup sponsor an episode. It's been super fun working with IMS over the last few years and seeing what he has accomplished!"}, {"show": "1437997652", "hn_item": 34087705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34087705", "by": "chordalkeyboard", "time": 1671664861, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "see also The Philosophy and Physics of Cormac McCarthy with Patrick O'Connor https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hermitix/id1437997652?..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34095019, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095019", "by": "awillen", "time": 1671726150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast is great for this. They cover a number of different finance/economics related topics, but they've done some great deep dives into supply chain stuff - they've had the head of Flexport, the guy who runs the Port of LA, a long-haul trucker and a whole host of other folks. Just scroll through their list of old episodes until you see supply-chain related ones."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 34098814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098814", "by": "nescioquid", "time": 1671743803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone on the Lawfare podcast quoted a judge who said that how a case is settled is very often not the most important thing. Rather, what is most often of paramount importance is just that a case is settled, so that the disputants can move on with their lives. Whenever I find myself agonizing over marginal trade-offs, I think of this quote."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 34100759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34100759", "by": "dools", "time": 1671754422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Galdwell discussed the trend away from \u201cmainstreaming\u201d and its social impacts on his Revisionist History podcast recently in the episode series beginning with \u201cWhen Will Met Grace\u201d https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/when-wil..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 34101639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101639", "by": "cirrus3", "time": 1671761979, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only said check it out, there is a lot of content there useful to the wider topic and the page clearly states what it is and isn't. >>> IMPORTANT!!! What this calculator is NOT . . . It is NOT a \u201cPassword Strength Meter.\u201d Since it could be easily confused for one, it is very important for you to understand what it is, and what it isn't: The #1 most commonly used password is \u201c123456\u201d, and the 4th most common is \u201cPassword.\u201d So any password attacker and cracker would try those two passwords immediately. Yet the Search Space Calculator above shows the time to search for those two passwords onlin"}, {"show": "1101278771", "hn_item": 34105725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105725", "by": "klondike_klive", "time": 1671803221, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Tim Clare is a novelist and also writes about writing. He also happens to be very funny. I recommend his podcast Death of 1000 Cuts where he gives writing advice and sometimes reads and critiques the first 250 words of contributors' novels. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/death-of-1000-cuts/id1... Edit: One of the things he does really well is explaining the nuts and bolts \"rules\" of writing, like the Primacy/recency effect, the importance of what he calls \"crunchy specificity\", and lots of other stuff that will stay with you and help you make stylistic decisions in many different contex"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34106047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106047", "by": "skp1995", "time": 1671805185, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1478198107", "hn_item": 34107901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34107901", "by": "mooneater", "time": 1671814191, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sounds similar to what Google's SayCan is doing. https://say-can.github.io/ They taught it separate skills. When a situation arises, the skills (which you could almost consider sub-agents) compete to decide who is most likely to be relevant here. Then that skill takes over for a bit. They also have a version called \"Inner Monologue\" in which the different parts \"talk to each other\" in the sense of collaboratively creating a single inner monologue, allowing for reactiveness/closed loop behaviour. I interviewed 2 authors of SayCan/Inner Monologue here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/karol"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 34108603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108603", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1671817639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BBC In Our Time podcast, 150 years since HMS Challenger set sail: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcvd"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34108656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108656", "by": "skp1995", "time": 1671817971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "LexGrep: allows you to search over all Lex Fridman podcasts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106047"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34109275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109275", "by": "bryan0", "time": 1671821294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anyone else think dang would make a great guest on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast??"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34109628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109628", "by": "puzzlingcaptcha", "time": 1671823279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Last week I tried to find all of the Odd Lots podcast episodes with Matt Levine as a guest. This turned out to be impossible in the Google Podcasts app that I normally use - you cannot search a podcast for keywords, and searching all podcasts gives you the wrong results. Incredible for a company that built their business on searching. So instead I imported the Odd Lots feed into my tt-rss instance and immediately had the answer."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34114472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34114472", "by": "mcraiha", "time": 1671862375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do not do that. There is a good podcast episode about this in Freakonomics that explains why it will most likely fail https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-are-there-so-many-bad-b..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 34121401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121401", "by": "williamsmj", "time": 1671918512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy Wolf's appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas... ."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 34128221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128221", "by": "nequo", "time": 1671983602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probably Google with Android. They were working on it at roughly the same time as Apple but released it later. This interview with Chet Haase on the CoRecursive podcast is an interesting account of those years: https://corecursive.com/android-with-chet-haase/ So today Android might have a larger market share. Maybe the Windows Phone would still be a thing."}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 34128441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34128441", "by": "narrator", "time": 1671985176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Lindsay goes into the history and mechanics of woke starting with Herbert Markusa and the start of the new left in the 60s. It's a long long back story. If you want to get deep in the weeds as he goes line by line through all the founding works of the new left you can listen to his excellent \"New Discourses\" podcast. Thousands upon thousands of professional activists have been trained in these teachings, done PHD theses on these subjects and infiltrated vast networks of charitable foundations and higher education in their so-called \"long march through the institutions\" to spread the woke"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 34134446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34134446", "by": "e40", "time": 1672027371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> To me, that's a clear evolution of the search engine, especially with all the SEO & ad spam that's plaguing Google and others currently. Clearly Google thinks so, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-goo... The podcast Hard Fork discussed the idea of searching being enhanced with this tech in their first ChatGPT episode. Microsoft invested $1B in OpenAI. (As Hard Fork said) will we all be using Bing in 5 years?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34134459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34134459", "by": "photochemsyn", "time": 1672027466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to freak out the MIT administration and see just how much 'freedom of expression' is allowed, then start a movement to open-source / free-license all of MIT's patents and other intellectual property (all of which were funded at least in part with taxpayer dollars). That's a lot more significant - and at the heart of what's gone wrong with American academics, i.e. the corporatization and privatization of public resources that's erased long-standing traditions of open sharing of research results - than any of this social justice warrior hysteria stuff that the media likes to talk abo"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34135415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135415", "by": "Jimmc414", "time": 1672037966, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34138737, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138737", "by": "hnu0847", "time": 1672070508, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "What were your favorite podcast episodes of 2022? Mine were: Hardcore History Blitz 68 - Human Resources (https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/) - discusses the history of the Atlantic slave trade Fall of Civilizations 16: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ - discusses the rise and fall of the Bagan Empire of Myanmar Lex Fridman #309 - John Carmack (https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/) The Missing Cryptoqueen 11: Operation Satellite (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads) - this is the latest episode in an ongoing BBC series t"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34138737, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138737", "by": "hnu0847", "time": 1672070508, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "What were your favorite podcast episodes of 2022? Mine were: Hardcore History Blitz 68 - Human Resources (https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-68-blitz-human-resources/) - discusses the history of the Atlantic slave trade Fall of Civilizations 16: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ - discusses the rise and fall of the Bagan Empire of Myanmar Lex Fridman #309 - John Carmack (https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/) The Missing Cryptoqueen 11: Operation Satellite (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads) - this is the latest episode in an ongoing BBC series t"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 34139311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34139311", "by": "kranke155", "time": 1672073300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pretty sure r/AskHistorians considers Hardcore History to be really innacurate. BBC\u2019s In Our Time podcast is a far superior counterpart, where academics from leading universities discuss a chose topic. It\u2019s well moderated and beautifully informative."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34140522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140522", "by": "youniverse", "time": 1672080545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me. The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34141002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34141002", "by": "gmassman", "time": 1672083504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anaka Harris on Lex\u2019s podcast was fascinating. I loved hearing her perspective on consciousness and the limits of scientific inquiry. Second to that was the John Carmack interview which lots of folks on HN seemed to enjoy!"}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 34141956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34141956", "by": "mch82", "time": 1672089253, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 34153669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153669", "by": "InvaderFizz", "time": 1672174497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is not very useful for consumption by the general public, who is not the target of this. I was unfamiliar with UATX, which is not University of Texas - Austin. Apparently it was founded in 2021 to be a more conservative/free speech oriented institution. Heather Heying is the spouse of Brett Weinstein, of Evergreen College infamy. The two of them are evolutionary biologists and have a podcast called Darkhorse Podcast. They have been highly critical of the COVID regime of the past three years. I am familiar with their work in general as I consume their podcast on a regular basis. What I gat"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34153676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153676", "by": "no_butterscotch", "time": 1672174530, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this a \"buy low\" opportunity? Or realistically, as discussed by someone (Brad G?) on the \"All In\" podcast, should the COVID years just be seen as a write-off? In other words, this is the real value, regardless of any \"fake high\" they achieved over the past ~3 years."}, {"show": "753552884", "hn_item": 34161536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34161536", "by": "barbariangrunge", "time": 1672239477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis, the author famous for American psycho and less than zero. The book was available as an unedited serialized podcast this year but the hardcover is coming out in January. Sort of a coming of age story that takes place in the shadow of a serial killer Illuminations, by Alan Moore, the author famous for watchmen, v for vendetta, etc. A short story collection with some unique story structures and great settings"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34164736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34164736", "by": "andrewstuart", "time": 1672255373, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Vikings arrived in North America in 1021AD\u2026. long, long before Columbus. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58996186.amp https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/4-the-greenland-viking... Or: https://youtu.be/lmbY-GrM8pI"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 34166153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34166153", "by": "koller-m", "time": 1672262522, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 34166830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34166830", "by": "scoofy", "time": 1672266169, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I read the book. I think it's fairly obvious that the research he presents is pretty speculative. That said, it's a very popsci book, which is not really where you should be getting your facts from. It's fine, and was an interesting read on the current state on some theories coming out of Berkeley. Ironically, this is why i really liked Freakonomics. All the studies they uses were just Levitt's studies, and you could just look them up and read them. I recently listened to a podcast criticizing the book and I couldn't even take it seriously, because you had a couple of laypersons who are politi"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 34167116, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34167116", "by": "trts", "time": 1672268005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I've seen this guy appear on at least a half dozen shows and podcasts including Lex, Tim Ferris, Sam Harris, Fresh Air, TED Radio, Hidden Brain... seems like 5 years or so ago he was everywhere. This site lists 67 appearances: https://www.owltail.com/people/Uw4Ky-matthew-walker/appearan... In general the media has very low science literacy and loves someone credentialed, self-assured, and with an erudite accent and story to tell that can easily fill airtime. Acknowledging that junk science has managed to platform itself on some of the podcasts you mentioned, for myself I'd say that the"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34167125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34167125", "by": "reducesuffering", "time": 1672268037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The book's author was on Lex's podcast."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 34170625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34170625", "by": "BMc2020", "time": 1672301940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Gibson discusses it at the end of his latest podcast. He says there's no fact based reason to. Security Now episode 903 https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/903?autostart=fa..."}, {"show": "1573272310", "hn_item": 34171474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34171474", "by": "lambertsimnel", "time": 1672311873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about this on BBC radio's Today. The BBC website seems not to mention it. Maybe the interview will be included in the Best of Today podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrtvg/episodes/downloads"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34173576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34173576", "by": "ftio", "time": 1672327649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in learning more about Roman Britain, there's a fantastic episode[0] about it on the Fall of Civilizations Podcast . Highly recommend the podcast in general. If history class had been this interesting I'd have paid a lot more attention. 0. https://www.stitcher.com/show/fall-of-civilizations/episode/..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 34181201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181201", "by": "kleinishere", "time": 1672368454, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not an answer to your question, but interesting context for how eBooks work with libraries. And how not checking out a second time effectively is a loss of one \u201cuse\u201d that may have directed the library to spend more on this book, rather than another. Sounds like you\u2019re aware. Loved this Planet Money podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834..."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 34184975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34184975", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1672408286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In my journey to engineering manager/team lead, I found the following resources to be very helpful: * CTO Lunches: https://ctolunches.com/ A global and local group of engineering leaders. The email list has fantastic discussions and the lunches, if you can make one, are great for conversations with experienced leaders * Rands Leadership Slack: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ over 20k engineering leaders across the world. In particular, they have an 'anonymous advice' channel that you can ask questions on. * The Manager Tools Podcast: https://www.manager-tools.com/p"}, {"show": "1580570986", "hn_item": 34187684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34187684", "by": "synu", "time": 1672423127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good new podcast called The New Gurus from the BBC which explores this."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34190375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190375", "by": "0x008", "time": 1672436035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually they don't. You can listen to the podcasts by Lex Fridman with Yan Le Cun or Andrej Karpathy regarding that topic. But basically what Le Cun is saying is that the information density in text is not high enough in order to learn a realistic representation of the world from it."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34190452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190452", "by": "transitivebs", "time": 1672436495, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "My favorite podcast is the All-In Pod, but search and discovery is tough for podcasts. So I built a semantic search index that lets you search across every episode of the pod with Google-level accuracy. It uses OpenAI's latest ada-2 embedding model and Pinecone to index the embeddings + k-NN search. Wrapped up in a Next.js + Vercel webapp. The project is designed to work with any YouTube channel / playlist. I'm just using All-In as a demo. Would love to hear feedback & suggestions. Open source here: https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/yt-semantic-search Note that the source is designed to w"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 34190793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190793", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1672439004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Could even switch over to Bandit which was on a recent Thinking Elixir podcast > In recent performance tests, Bandit's HTTP/1.x engine is up to 5x faster than Cowboy depending on the number of concurrent requests. When comparing HTTP/2 performance, Bandit is up to 2.3x faster than Cowboy https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34192843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34192843", "by": "brigandish", "time": 1672453635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had that surgery, more than once, and I have trouble breathing when I sleep. I'm finding it hard to get a CPAP (I'm abroad in a non-English speaking nation so that's probably a factor). Have you tried taping your mouth closed? If you're definitely safe using the CPAP then you might try it, that's my plan. Aside from that, I've found yoga and meditation that uses the breath as an object helps with my breath quality when awake, and recently I'm trying hot/cold contrasts (a hot bath and cold shower) as outlined in this Huberman Lab podcast[1]. I've noticed that my sinuses are clearer afterwards"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34194336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194336", "by": "chirau", "time": 1672470307, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "In his podcast session with Lex Fridman, Chamath mentions how he coined the term data scientist for a new recruit at Facebook and how that started the whole data scientist role/field. I was just curious how accurate this is. Was this the first instance of the term? I found it quite interesting Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQUDCgMjRc&t=2255s"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 34200282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200282", "by": "mustache_kimono", "time": 1672517683, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 34200489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200489", "by": "ss108", "time": 1672519173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really great seeing the Lawfare podcast on here."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34206049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34206049", "by": "eurekin", "time": 1672579105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a quick one-offs OP could also try Adobe Podcast AI enhancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWdOsO92gCY"}, {"show": "1584849077", "hn_item": 34211409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211409", "by": "amts", "time": 1672610104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a recommendation from one Ukrainian doctor on Youtube to take senolytics for a 1 week per month rather than continuously, because apparently it takes ~20 days for a new generation of senescent cells to form. But David Sinclair, as evident from his Lifespan podcast, seemed to take a couple of senotylics on a more continuous basis, for months probably."}, {"show": "1672056885", "hn_item": 34212711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34212711", "by": "richardfeynman", "time": 1672618822, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This doesn't answer the question, but I thought it might be relevant to mention here that I've been using chatGPT + resemble.ai to create what I believe is the first kid's stories podcast created entirely by AI. Here's how it works: - Kid requests a story about a, b, c on www.makedupstories.com - chatGPT generates the text for a story, summary, and title - we send this to resemble.ai (sounds like Tortoise TTS would work just as well), which has a clone of my voice - the audio file then gets sent to anchor.fm you can listen to example episodes here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6liL"}, {"show": "1659969123", "hn_item": 34212711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34212711", "by": "richardfeynman", "time": 1672618822, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This doesn't answer the question, but I thought it might be relevant to mention here that I've been using chatGPT + resemble.ai to create what I believe is the first kid's stories podcast created entirely by AI. Here's how it works: - Kid requests a story about a, b, c on www.makedupstories.com - chatGPT generates the text for a story, summary, and title - we send this to resemble.ai (sounds like Tortoise TTS would work just as well), which has a clone of my voice - the audio file then gets sent to anchor.fm you can listen to example episodes here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6liL"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34213160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34213160", "by": "iAm25626", "time": 1672622971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Lex Fridman. His podcast expose ideas that's novel to me. I suspect it appeal to many other like me. It's all relative. If you are the smartest person in the room..."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 34213182, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34213182", "by": "jvandonsel", "time": 1672623173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The title of the podcast is \u201cConversations with Tyler\u201d but it just sounded like Tyler reading a list of canned questions, mispronouncing a couple of names along the way. Not exactly a conversation."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34213420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34213420", "by": "sureglymop", "time": 1672625468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A good example of this would be Jordan Peterson. As for Lex Fridman, he at least sometimes has interesting guests so those podcast episodes are interesting and moreso entertaining. His questions and interviewing skills aren't bad unless he looses himself in \"the beauty of life\" and starts to overly romanticize. Although I don't really know anything else about him or his \"research\", he's a decent entertainer but I would watch his show for the guests (some) and not him."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 34214644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34214644", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1672636937, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Point 3 also hit me a few months ago during a Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History podcast about Rome. Napoleon got back from his conquests and half the senate wanted to punish him for crimes against humanity that he conducted during his wars. However, he also claimed massive amounts of land for Rome. Long story short: he wasn\u2019t punished. And this happened 2000 years ago."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34215942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34215942", "by": "el_jay", "time": 1672650756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of Joscha Bach\u2019s definition of a nerd, from his Lex Friedman podcast episode: \u201cThe definition of a nerd is someone who thinks conversation is for peer reviewing ideas.\u201d \u201cWhat do non-nerds think conversation is for?\u201d \u201cNegotiating alignment.\u201d A good difference to keep in mind when we want to bend parallel conversations with the alignment negotiators to intersection."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34219490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34219490", "by": "pigcat", "time": 1672675801, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start with things that really worked for me last year: I began every day with a short daily walk in the morning. 15 minutes. It's a fairly easy goal so it's possible to stick to it, and it made a surprising difference in my mood. Got this one from this episode of the Huberman podcast [1]. Then I changed from doing hot yoga/HIIT three times a week to doing it daily at 6:30am, which requires going to bed at 10pm. This was harder to get in to, but I suffered for a couple weeks and it's now a habit. This year, I'm continuing with the above but adding cold showers. Note that these are all phys"}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 34222642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34222642", "by": "angry_moose", "time": 1672688502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omnibus Podcast (Ken Jennings and John Roderick) did a good episode about it as well: https://www.omnibusproject.com/340"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 34237008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237008", "by": "pschuegr", "time": 1672775431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd rather be a prisoner than listen to that. Was my first thought. Second thought for anybody that found this interesting: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ explores the idea that the CIA was responsible for the writing of the Scorpions hit Wind of Change."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34238883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238883", "by": "amalgamated_inc", "time": 1672784047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They hinted at this (\"our brother the VC\") on the All-In podcast several times now. Not just this author's opinion."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34242907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34242907", "by": "bilater", "time": 1672816054, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "This was a cool project. I took the youtube transcripts of Lex Fridman's podcast, created embeddings, stored them on Pinecone and served them via fly.io. I wanted to see if I could develop an app around semantic search. Originally was going to use OpenAI's new model but ended up using something lighter (I might change it up to see if there is a significant improvement)."}, {"show": "1610028432", "hn_item": 34247902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34247902", "by": "UntrimmedDisk", "time": 1672850808, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Spotify did an episode of their Development podcast that touched on this recently. I thought it was quite interesting. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0erUH7oqqbW5HDUjcnK6cb?si=q..."}, {"show": "1496674902", "hn_item": 34247902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34247902", "by": "UntrimmedDisk", "time": 1672850808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify did an episode of their Development podcast that touched on this recently. I thought it was quite interesting. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0erUH7oqqbW5HDUjcnK6cb?si=q..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34253822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253822", "by": "transitivebs", "time": 1672876746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I built a similar open source app recently that you can use with any YouTube channel / playlist. The demo uses the All-In Podcast. https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/yt-semantic-search"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34254481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34254481", "by": "msikora", "time": 1672880822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex is the undisputed King of Cringe. Most of the stuff that he comes up with himself is IAm14AndThisIsDeep level. Also his voice has tendency to put people to sleep. He has really good guests on though. Not sure how he pulls them, but somehow he does... So I'll continue listening to the Lex Fridman podcast. Just wish they changed the host, but probably not gonna happen."}, {"show": "1617654665", "hn_item": 34261079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261079", "by": "opyate", "time": 1672932807, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The below are not necessarily indie/solo focused, but interesting nonetheless. - Sausage Factory by Cane & Rinse: https://caneandrinse.com/category/sausage-factory/ - Industry & analysis: https://twitter.com/unboxingpod - Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo experimented with a podcast (Tales From GameDiscoveryLand), and I really want him to continue: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-gamediscove... - Designer Notes: https://www.designer-notes.com/category/podcast/ (I'm currently working my way through the series) There are a whole bunch of others which I listen to on and off (see "}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 34261079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261079", "by": "opyate", "time": 1672932807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The below are not necessarily indie/solo focused, but interesting nonetheless. - Sausage Factory by Cane & Rinse: https://caneandrinse.com/category/sausage-factory/ - Industry & analysis: https://twitter.com/unboxingpod - Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo experimented with a podcast (Tales From GameDiscoveryLand), and I really want him to continue: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tales-from-gamediscove... - Designer Notes: https://www.designer-notes.com/category/podcast/ (I'm currently working my way through the series) There are a whole bunch of others which I listen to on and off (see "}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 34263676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263676", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1672941249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Tides of History\" podcast recently finished a whole season (100+ episodes) about Prehistory and the Bronze Age that goes deep into these types of genetic studies. Fascinating stuff, definitely recommended. One highlight for me was the \"The Austronesian Expansion\"."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 34263809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263809", "by": "melanieb421", "time": 1672941703, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1377920930", "hn_item": 34266629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34266629", "by": "HNDen21", "time": 1672953020, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Besides Tides and hardcore history ...... History on Fire has some good episodes.. I like the Caravaggio and Diogenes ones http://historyonfirepodcast.com/ I like the Ancient World as well.. https://ancientworldpodcast.com/ \u200eThe Hellenistic Age Podcast.. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hellenistic-age-po... And finally history of the second world war podcast... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-second-..."}, {"show": "1506640611", "hn_item": 34266629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34266629", "by": "HNDen21", "time": 1672953020, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Besides Tides and hardcore history ...... History on Fire has some good episodes.. I like the Caravaggio and Diogenes ones http://historyonfirepodcast.com/ I like the Ancient World as well.. https://ancientworldpodcast.com/ \u200eThe Hellenistic Age Podcast.. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hellenistic-age-po... And finally history of the second world war podcast... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-second-..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34266715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34266715", "by": "rjtavares", "time": 1672953422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Definitely Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, which just wrapped up. I recommend you start with the French Revolution (season 3). Another favorite of mine is \"Fall of Civilizations\". It takes the almost-audiobook approach of Hardcore History, and almost all episodes have been fascinating. Favorite so far is probably the one about Han China."}, {"show": "1039714402", "hn_item": 34267319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34267319", "by": "eirki", "time": 1672955599, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Different time period, but definitely check out History of the Twentieth Century. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-the-twe..."}, {"show": "1041684187", "hn_item": 34267851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34267851", "by": "hermenton", "time": 1672957978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This one has just one episode but goes a little bit into the early genetic history of India. The History of India https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-india/i..."}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 34271863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271863", "by": "ebb_earl_co", "time": 1672989402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What kind of hardware do you have that makes it feasible to process thousands of hours of podcasts? I want to do the same but I\u2019ve heard that Whisper requires some serious GPU might for decent accuracy (Linux Unplugged podcast specifically)."}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 34273647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34273647", "by": "SilverBirch", "time": 1673005355, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Fadell also just talked a bit about this on the \"On with Kara Swisher\" podcast : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peering-into-the-futur... He says a similar thing, but the tone comes across quite different."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 34274469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274469", "by": "conor_f", "time": 1673012671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this, you would probably enjoy the Corecursive podcast on them and similar fun topics. From memory, I don't think there's anything on quines specifically in the podcast that's not on the Wikipedia page, but it's still a fun listen: https://corecursive.com/quines-polyglot-code/"}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 34274864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274864", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1673015087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Unscripted and Data Skeptic are great podcasts, but honestly, I don't think there's a whole lot of other quality audio technical content about software. And I haven't had much luck listening to courses while driving. [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts Rather than limiting yourself to \"career\" content, maybe try enriching yourself with some classic literature and non-fiction? I personally love listening to essay collections on readtrips! I highly recommend Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor and any collection from David Foster Wallace. [2] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new Rather "}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 34274864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34274864", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1673015087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software Unscripted and Data Skeptic are great podcasts, but honestly, I don't think there's a whole lot of other quality audio technical content about software. And I haven't had much luck listening to courses while driving. [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts Rather than limiting yourself to \"career\" content, maybe try enriching yourself with some classic literature and non-fiction? I personally love listening to essay collections on readtrips! I highly recommend Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor and any collection from David Foster Wallace. [2] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new Rather "}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 34280247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280247", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1673035572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jane Street is responsible for the Signals and Threads podcast[1], which I always enjoy. They also contribute a lot to the OCaml language, standard libraries, and do a great job of explaining why OCaml is a great language and paradigm. I've learned a lot because of Jane Street's sharings. I have no connection or interest in Jane Street but this sure gives me a positive impression of the company. [1] https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 34280247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280247", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1673035572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jane Street is responsible for the Signals and Threads podcast[1], which I always enjoy. They also contribute a lot to the OCaml language, standard libraries, and do a great job of explaining why OCaml is a great language and paradigm. I've learned a lot because of Jane Street's sharings. I have no connection or interest in Jane Street but this sure gives me a positive impression of the company. [1] https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "1545870104", "hn_item": 34285390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34285390", "by": "brainbicycle", "time": 1673067823, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ":disclaimer I work at Artsy: cool to see this on the front page! If this interests you be sure to check out the artsy org on github: https://github.com/artsy Artsy is open source by default so there are a fair amount of interesting repos and projects, including our website and mobile apps (react and react native). I am biased of course but I think the engineering culture at Artsy is pretty unique and special. The blog and podcast may also be of interest: https://artsy.github.io/open-source/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artsy-engineering-radi..."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 34286959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34286959", "by": "zwaps", "time": 1673088585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The main point here is that Large Language Models are crushing through barriers that people like Gary Marcus have previously deemed impossible to surpass. Check past episodes by these guys on Machine Learning Street Talk podcast (the whole \"symbolic AI\" crowd) for some gold quotes that just seem silly now! I mean, we are not that far from 2017, when LLM's couldn't really write coherent text. And, for example, we had people saying then that they would never be really coherent because text is too sparse, see Chomsky etc. etc. Instead, all they would do is to copy+paste training examples. Natural"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34294717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34294717", "by": "jger15", "time": 1673138261, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34295641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34295641", "by": "Jakawao", "time": 1673147591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics recently did an episode on their podcast trying to answer this very question: -Is Google Getting Worse? https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/ To their credit, Google actually participated in the episode."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 34296700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34296700", "by": "zote", "time": 1673160220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend listening to episode 78 of the CoRecursive podcast https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 34302899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34302899", "by": "saasdev", "time": 1673210653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great question. As a founder and CTO, I too have been through this. Couple recommendations: Books: -The Personal MBA by Kaufman is a great start -Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports Next advice is to learn investing. I\u2019ve learned a ton by studying public companies, listening to earning calls, reading 10Ks, etc.. Audible books are great for consuming biz books on marketing, mgmt, teamwork, etc.. Founders podcast for just learning entrepreneurship and it being awesome."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 34309385, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309385", "by": "achow", "time": 1673265706, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sam Altman addresses that when asked that question in 'How I Built This' Podcast. Essentially: OpenAI did not realize the massive scale they needed for them to be successful. When they realized this, they could not raise any funding as 'non-profit'. They asked govt, who did not want to fund it, and other sources, at the end they did not have any other recourse. Sam Altaman says: 90% of funding was needed for compute power, but that also was needed for things like buying dataset and then to pay employee so that they can compete with likes of Google to retain them. If they would not have done th"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 34309979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309979", "by": "sidmitra", "time": 1673270345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1#french is pretty good for starting out. Try and get out of Duolingo mode(law of diminishing returns!) and move to native audio(radio, podcasts, movies, songs) in your target language. Get used to being uncomfortable and not understanding anything at first. If you can make a game/habit out of this, you will make progress in due time(think a few years, not months/days). Search around for \"immersion learning\". I went into the rabbit hole a while back and learnt spanish but eventually being immersed in the language is the only way that seems to work."}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 34310550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310550", "by": "jventura", "time": 1673273902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One podcast I really like is The Art of Manliness podcast [0]. I learn about a lot of interesting topics and get good book recommendations from it. All episodes are interviews with book authors regarding a specific book. Brett, the interviewer, seems to be very well prepared for the questions and the conversation has always a good pace with every episode mostly under 50 minutes. [0] https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 34310583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310583", "by": "makeitdouble", "time": 1673274056, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Books are curated content that has been reviewed by editor This is a very low bar. Lower than having a podcast fact checked on NPR or a research paper on peer reviewed publication. Think business books, biographies, testimonies of popular events, self help and diet books. The bar to pass is not if it\u00b4s remotely true or helpful, it will be if it sells. Review and edition will be on the style and writing, not on content. Sometimes the author\u015b name or the press campaign surrounding the book will be enough for it to sell, with very few people actually engaging with the book in its details. There"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34315750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315750", "by": "Roll_The_Bones", "time": 1673297015, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 34323446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34323446", "by": "LadyCailin", "time": 1673351771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure if you\u2019ve heard about the podcast Cautionary Tales. It\u2019s wonderful, especially if you like these kinds of things."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34325583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34325583", "by": "akskos", "time": 1673361944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Lex Friedman podcast with the CEO of Coinbase. I don't remember exactly what all they talked about but at least there was stuff about wallet innovation."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 34325848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34325848", "by": "lordleft", "time": 1673362929, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to the Microsoft-centric \"Windows Weekly\" podcast when I was a teenager 15 years ago. I have been always fascinated by Microsoft as a technology giant and never understood the vibe I got from others in the industry that MS was a musty corp past its heyday. It had gobs of money, a focus on developers and an organization maturity that gives it a serious advantage. This is not to say that MS is perfect, but counting it out like so many others is baffling to me."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34327099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34327099", "by": "throwaway909900", "time": 1673367299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently drained my bank account so low I wouldn't be able to pay the rent. I've been working 2 years on a solo startup in fits and starts. I've never in my life ever had to worry about missing rent. There was always a good savings safety net. It was such an incredible experience. It was this distinct feeling of not being able to breathe - of a tightness in the chest. Really unique to me. I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast recently and he talked about his experience of first making a decent paycheck after going for years being a comedian barely making rent each month. He also described the fe"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 34328602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34328602", "by": "koller-m", "time": 1673372914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Admira in six words or less: Instant advice from an expert knowledge-base This is my second project using a vector database and OpenAI's API's. I initially created Startup AI which took the entire Y Combinator Podcast and generated answers to startup questions. Startup AI was sort of a litmus test to see if I could build something like this. I even used Startup AI to help generate the idea for Admira. The advice being to look for an industry that is underserved by tech/startups. I think we all run into relationship and dating problems at some point in our lives. I went through a bad breakup in"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34329116, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329116", "by": "dmos62", "time": 1673374804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You've received so much feedback, so I imagine my comment will be lost in the weeds, but I'll say it anyway. I want to work with programmers like you. I really do. I don't want colleagues that can dive through stacks untangling complicated messes effortlessly. I want colleagues that are sensitive to every cognitively burdensome aspect of the codebase and _need_ to fix it to continue working. These are programmers that will be methodical and wholesome in their approach, and will deliver code that is easy to work with. I'll choose a programmer like you over a young-gun-star-code-cowboy every day"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 34329809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329809", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1673377526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools has a podcast series on 1:1, from the manager\u2019s viewpoint, including episodes for specific roles, https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/important-topic-feeds... If the company is big enough, you can maintain an evolving map of your team\u2019s dependencies and contributions to other teams, then compare notes with your manager about this model vs reality. That\u2019s one way to orient tasks within a larger and ever-changing context, and it provides a fallback discussion topic which accrues over time into a shared asset."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 34329872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329872", "by": "28304283409234", "time": 1673377759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Manager Tools Podcast has a lot on this topic, from a managers perspective but still a trove of info: https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/one-ones"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 34330373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34330373", "by": "beckingz", "time": 1673379642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manager Tools is a good podcast."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34332923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34332923", "by": "anotherevan", "time": 1673393060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Huberman Lab podcast episode may be of interest here: Effects of Fasting & Time Restricted Eating on Fat Loss & Health https://hubermanlab.com/effects-of-fasting-and-time-restrict..."}, {"show": "1484511465", "hn_item": 34334701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34334701", "by": "FabHK", "time": 1673407737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not GP, but pretty sure they\u2019re referring to Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (the \u201cUndercover Economist\u201d), which is gripping, informative, and entertaining. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34334871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34334871", "by": "ssag2", "time": 1673409628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone listens to the All In podcast."}, {"show": "981330533", "hn_item": 34339399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34339399", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1673450468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A fun option to get more into this might be to start listening to the \"Blank Check\" podcast. They go through individual director's filmographies and help to place them in context of both the director's life and the surrounding culture happenings (and they're hilarious)."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34340021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34340021", "by": "fiat_fandango", "time": 1673453560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IMO the folks at the All In podcast nailed this - at work so I don't have time to find the exact clip but basically their synopsis went like this: When money was cheap to borrow, borrowing against stock and increasing headcount was seen as a metric that could pump stock price. Hence, hire as much as possible (especially engineers since they drive the most value at many of these huge tech orgs). Problem is, money is no longer cheap to borrow and real revenue is king now - having excess headcount that isn't resulting in clear value (something these companies are exceedingly good at measuring) me"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 34341432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341432", "by": "wmeitzler", "time": 1673458670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hear you. I took many electronics classes over the years and never seemed to be able to build much intuition. I've often joked that 80% of my engineering training came from YouTube, and it seems to line up. I found Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer project[1]incredibly helpful in grokking both low-level computers and the electronic theory. https://eater.net/ I also highly recommend the channels bigclive [2], ave [3], eebvlog [4], Louis Rossman [5], and electroboom [6]. For podcasts, I've found The Amp Hour [7] and Embedded.fm [8] to be invaluable. There's also Contextual Electronics [9] "}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 34341432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341432", "by": "wmeitzler", "time": 1673458670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hear you. I took many electronics classes over the years and never seemed to be able to build much intuition. I've often joked that 80% of my engineering training came from YouTube, and it seems to line up. I found Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer project[1]incredibly helpful in grokking both low-level computers and the electronic theory. https://eater.net/ I also highly recommend the channels bigclive [2], ave [3], eebvlog [4], Louis Rossman [5], and electroboom [6]. For podcasts, I've found The Amp Hour [7] and Embedded.fm [8] to be invaluable. There's also Contextual Electronics [9] "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34341529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341529", "by": "Anonboxis", "time": 1673458964, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34341730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34341730", "by": "subbu", "time": 1673459583, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your youtube playlist combined with NanoGPT and your Lex Fridman podcast is like having a university level degree with a free internship guidance. Thank you!"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34344748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34344748", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1673470906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not terribly surprising because co-CEO/founder Ryan Peterson was just on the Odd Lots podcast again to talk about the \"Great Recession\" in the shipping industry.[1] This is also interesting because Dave Clark joined as co-CEO after leaving Amazon, where he most recently spearheaded the dramatic increase in fulfillment center capacity due to the pandemic[2], probably the most visible indication that Amazon leadership misread the situation. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-05/odd-lots-... [2]: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/how-amazon-ended-up-with-too-m..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34348295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34348295", "by": "kerng", "time": 1673489998, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34376365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34376365", "by": "m348e912", "time": 1673660312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not lack of available homes that causes homelessness, it's lack of available treatment (addiction & mental) that is the underlying issue. I'm not an \"All-In\" podcast fanboy, but they touch on this on the latest episode and I think they actually have it right."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34379796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34379796", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1673699671, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast recently did two episodes on US trucking that were interesting. The first with an actual trucker, \"The Trucking Episode: Why the Industry Is Such a Mess\": * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trucking-episode-w... * https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/the-trucking-episode-why-the-... Interesting observations on tracking in that episode: > Gord: (23:44) [\u2026] So they regulate the drivers, right? And there's going to be another book being published next month by an academic at Cornell named Karen Levy, which is called \u201cData Driven: Truckers, Technology and the New Workplace "}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 34382464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34382464", "by": "labrador", "time": 1673720193, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34383685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34383685", "by": "Decabytes", "time": 1673726933, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34384422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34384422", "by": "thisismyfakeacc", "time": 1673732425, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Today I was watching the Lex Friedman podcast on Youtube with Hikaru Nakamura who mentions that hey plays Geometry Dash. A few seconds after, I paused the video and opened a new Chrome tab and typed \"geo\". Search suggestion in the address bar was Geometry dash. Same thing when I was watching some tv show on CraveTV where they character said that an assailant used \"wifi circuit breakers\". Auto complete/suggestion for \"wifi\" in my address bar was \"wifi circuit breakers\" I know search suggestions are enhanced by recency of something you were browsing but not entirely sure how this is possible bas"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34387601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34387601", "by": "jljljl", "time": 1673769321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you don't have reserves, borrowing from the Fed would be your very last resort. The first thing you would do is borrow short term from other banks to meet your reserve needs. This is what the Overnight Federal Funds rate represents -- the rate that banks use to lend to other banks short term. AS a very last resort, you might borrow from the Fed, but banks will generally avoid this as much as possible -- The Fed often charges a higher than market rate to discourage banks from using the discount window too much. Furthermore, borrowing from the Fed's discount window comes with a lot of stigma,"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 34391074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34391074", "by": "Alex3917", "time": 1673803377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Indie Hackers podcast, or How I Built This with Guy Roz."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34397145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397145", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1673846815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had an interesting podcast on the open office predating the pandemic [1]. I like my current office, we have an open office but plenty of more private areas where I can think. [1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/yes-the-open-office-is-terr..."}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 34397888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397888", "by": "julian_sark", "time": 1673854070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly! Jason Pargin, aka David Wong, is the main reason I listen to (and yes, re-listen) the Cracked podcast. I have recommended some of his articles to many folks over the years for it's insightful content, and occasionally revisit them myself. It's literally a case of \"come for the jokes, stay for the insightfulness\". Sadly I never really got into his comedy horror books (even though I own one or two). But Pargin has said so many insightful things that are meaningful to me and my psyche, I have once asked him to compile these things into a genuine self-help book. But the man's to humble, I"}, {"show": "1539292794", "hn_item": 34402067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402067", "by": "xqcgrek2", "time": 1673885557, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 34402332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402332", "by": "ripe", "time": 1673886834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Capital doesn\u2019t just exist out in the world for us to use. Economic value is actively created by the legal system. Our current economy is built on top of a \"feudal calculus,\" according to Katharina Pistor, a professor of comparative law and the director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University. And her most recent book, which is called \u201cThe Code of Capital,\u201d completely re-imagines how we think about this base layer of our economy. Legal tools developed hundreds of years ago in England to protect the rights of landlords over commoners have been applied to more and mor"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 34403089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403089", "by": "calindrimbau", "time": 1673890241, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 34403129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403129", "by": "calindrimbau", "time": 1673890404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! Excited to share Lenny's Podcast Search with the HN community. I'm a big fan of Lenny Rachitsky, devouring every single edition of his newsletter and podcast. This product is exactly what it says on the tin. A semantic search engine on top of Lenny's Podcast content. Let me know what you think."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 34403320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403320", "by": "vicpara", "time": 1673891165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts become very conversational which make it pleasant to listen to. Long chats reduce the signal to noise ratio and waste listeners' time. The Lenny's podcast semantic search gives me the chance to find only the 'filet mignon' of the content without much faf. I love it as I built it to satisfy a personal need. Disclosure : I helped build it. We are adding more content to it. What shall we add next and what needs do you have around searchable podcasts and expert knowledge?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34405561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34405561", "by": "CompleteWalker", "time": 1673903690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This post is over half a decade old, I wonder what percent of American budgets are spent on groceries in 2023? More or less than 8%? There is more to this story. Freakonomics did an episode about the Cold War \"Farms Race\". https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-the-supermarket-helped-..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 34411728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411728", "by": "smcl", "time": 1673959037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest \"Talk Python To Me\" podcast episode features one of the people involved in producing the recent images of the M87 black hole that demonstrate the Einstein ring, in case anyone's interested: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/398/imaging-black-holes-..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 34411769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411769", "by": "EricLeer", "time": 1673959431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Corecursive podcast has also done an episode on the history of Eliza[1] [1] https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/"}, {"show": "1587142091", "hn_item": 34413158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413158", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1673967594, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34417428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417428", "by": "collyw", "time": 1673983839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed I take an interest in health and nutrition, but it honestly gets a bit silly following some people to the letter The Huberman podcast for example, really interesting, but how many supplements do you actually need and how big a benefit do they give you? You can usually find contradictory studies on almost anything. Refined sugar and processed crap seem to be the one thing that everyone agrees are bad. And exercise and proper sleep are good. I live a balanced lifestyle. A reasonable amount of alcohol or cannabis but I eat well and do plenty of exercise. I seem in better shape than most pe"}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 34417665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34417665", "by": "FreakLegion", "time": 1673984700, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Netflix pays ongoing residuals. These aren't secret agreements, you can find good overviews from the guilds and even read the legalese. The WGA's explanation [1] for example is very clear, and it's been discussed at length over the years on the Scriptnotes podcast [2] (both hosts have been WGA board members and directly involved in strikes and collective bargaining). > My bad for forgetting that people on HN like to miss the forest for the trees. Yeah no. You were wrong. Suck it up instead of being passive-aggressive insulting. Your argument was based on the claim that Netflix \"does not pay re"}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 34418734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34418734", "by": "moltude", "time": 1673988318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interview with the authors on the Lawfare podcast https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-how-spy-your-poc..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34422762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34422762", "by": "fortuna86", "time": 1674009333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Somebody listened to Joe Rogan's podcast last week."}, {"show": "1523312400", "hn_item": 34425282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34425282", "by": "qwertyuiop_", "time": 1674038448, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Why this Universe podcast is an outstanding resource in this subject. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zQsqfpx1p3fBUsqLGtHnM"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 34429100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429100", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1674060251, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "381704095", "hn_item": 34445437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34445437", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1674161500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd strongly recommend some ancient philosophy. The History of Philosophy podcast gives a good introduction starting with the Greek / pre-Socratic philosophers. https://historyofphilosophy.net/ > There are a few others, including Stephen West's Philosophize This ( https://www.philosophizethis.org/ >) and Carneades: ( https://www.carneades.org/ >)."}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 34445549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34445549", "by": "GavCo", "time": 1674162065, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast episode is great as a high-level introduction https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/147-quantum-computing-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34446785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34446785", "by": "abudabi123", "time": 1674168820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came across a mention of a notation for describing ballet moves in connection to IBM and thought of John Carmack's description of how he did Judo on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and since seeing John Carmack's Tweet on his use of LambdaLabsApi or somesuch, you can imagine two Boston Dynamics Atlas robots going through the motions as if fighting UFC MMA or the Powerslap League."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 34448593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448593", "by": "gibspaulding", "time": 1674182948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to Atomic Hobo's podcast about Threads, and as someone with a bit of a fascination with nuclear history, I sort of want to see it, but I can't quite decide if it's something I want to put myself through."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 34451509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451509", "by": "actionfromafar", "time": 1674213185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SAAS Podcast Ukraine: the Latest Startups for the Rest of Us You're Wrong About Built to Sell Radio Disrupting Japan Advent of Computing Darknet Diaries The Art of Product Podcast Signals and Threads Practical Founders Podcast I Dream of Cameras"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34451509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451509", "by": "actionfromafar", "time": 1674213185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SAAS Podcast Ukraine: the Latest Startups for the Rest of Us You're Wrong About Built to Sell Radio Disrupting Japan Advent of Computing Darknet Diaries The Art of Product Podcast Signals and Threads Practical Founders Podcast I Dream of Cameras"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 34451509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451509", "by": "actionfromafar", "time": 1674213185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SAAS Podcast Ukraine: the Latest Startups for the Rest of Us You're Wrong About Built to Sell Radio Disrupting Japan Advent of Computing Darknet Diaries The Art of Product Podcast Signals and Threads Practical Founders Podcast I Dream of Cameras"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 34451509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451509", "by": "actionfromafar", "time": 1674213185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SAAS Podcast Ukraine: the Latest Startups for the Rest of Us You're Wrong About Built to Sell Radio Disrupting Japan Advent of Computing Darknet Diaries The Art of Product Podcast Signals and Threads Practical Founders Podcast I Dream of Cameras"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 34451509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451509", "by": "actionfromafar", "time": 1674213185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SAAS Podcast Ukraine: the Latest Startups for the Rest of Us You're Wrong About Built to Sell Radio Disrupting Japan Advent of Computing Darknet Diaries The Art of Product Podcast Signals and Threads Practical Founders Podcast I Dream of Cameras"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34451598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451598", "by": "holler", "time": 1674213841, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Have enjoyed the All-In pod for macro tech/biz/culture/etc https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja..."}, {"show": "1049420219", "hn_item": 34451667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451667", "by": "bluehatbrit", "time": 1674214390, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been really enjoying the Hacked podcast for about a year now. It's quite similar to Darknet Diaries but episodes are typically shorter and they seem to be branching out a bit more past just security. They don't seem to have a website so here are some of the useful links: * https://twitter.com/hackedpodcast * https://open.spotify.com/show/21zZfOy7VCSIIWlJ64DElv?si=f1ad... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacked/id1049420219"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34451667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34451667", "by": "bluehatbrit", "time": 1674214390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been really enjoying the Hacked podcast for about a year now. It's quite similar to Darknet Diaries but episodes are typically shorter and they seem to be branching out a bit more past just security. They don't seem to have a website so here are some of the useful links: * https://twitter.com/hackedpodcast * https://open.spotify.com/show/21zZfOy7VCSIIWlJ64DElv?si=f1ad... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacked/id1049420219"}, {"show": "1265527976", "hn_item": 34452010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34452010", "by": "jjarvis", "time": 1674216804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I like Future of Coding. The show combines interviews with paper reads. One of my favorite interviews was with Miller Puckette who created Pure Data and the original version of the Max/MSP software. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-of-coding/id126... I also enjoy the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast. This podcast takes a much needed critical take of tech and SV culture. I feel like this is what tech journalism should be as opposed to the usual cheer leading we usually see. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id15..."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 34452010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34452010", "by": "jjarvis", "time": 1674216804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I like Future of Coding. The show combines interviews with paper reads. One of my favorite interviews was with Miller Puckette who created Pure Data and the original version of the Max/MSP software. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/future-of-coding/id126... I also enjoy the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast. This podcast takes a much needed critical take of tech and SV culture. I feel like this is what tech journalism should be as opposed to the usual cheer leading we usually see. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id15..."}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 34452139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34452139", "by": "azangru", "time": 1674217537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "http203 was my favorite while it lasted. Both highly enjoyable and informative. I also want to give a shoutout to the CSS podcast by Adam Argyle and Una Kravets. It isn't easy to listen to, because it's trying to describe verbally what's essentially visual; but it is full of useful information."}, {"show": "1580009576", "hn_item": 34458584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34458584", "by": "mtk0", "time": 1674243513, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "although it is specific to scala, chris kipp's tooling podcast is fascinating. there is much to learn about tooling in general and if you're a scala developer, the technical insight is invaluable. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tooling-talks/id158000... https://www.tooling-talks.com/"}, {"show": "1151670380", "hn_item": 34462285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462285", "by": "_fat_santa", "time": 1674260841, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The rabbit hole of wrongful convictions goes deep but long story short there are a number of reasons, most of which is \"tunnel vision\", that is when a prosecutor or detective gets a lead, they will often ignore other evidence in favor of that lead. It's less about dirty prosecutors and more about how psychology and our brains work. I would highly suggest listening to a couple of episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom[1] and check out the Innocence Project[2], both are fantastic for getting into the world of wrongful convictions. [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wrongful-conv"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 34473425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473425", "by": "turndown", "time": 1674353575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This exact anecdote appears in The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan, if you are into podcasts."}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 34477690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477690", "by": "pabs3", "time": 1674397815, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 34478198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34478198", "by": "jonmasters", "time": 1674401017, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "281400220", "hn_item": 34480456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480456", "by": "zuminator", "time": 1674411766, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "TV as a medium is different from the big screen. People watch sporting, talk shows and live events on TV, rarely at the movies. And the convention is for those types of things to be viewed at higher frame rates. Films can be viewed at higher frame rates but then they tend to have a TV-ified look. Which is ok, if you personally dislike the film look and prefer movies to look like daytime television. But for many people, film shot in high frame-rate, particularly in slower, less action-oriented scenes, looks too much like a broadcast experience and too little like a cinematic experience. On a re"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34485451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485451", "by": "cbracketdash", "time": 1674447952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You likely know of Lex Fridman and many of his older podcasts really interview people you might not normally see in the \"mainstream\". Many of those people were especially leaning towards CS and would likely appeal to you, my fellow HNer :)"}, {"show": "1437997652", "hn_item": 34485526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485526", "by": "50", "time": 1674448683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't listen to podcasts at all but oddly enough, I just came across the Hermitix[1] podcast today and found myself listening to it most of the day. > Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe philosophy, obscure theory, weird lit, underappreciated thinkers and movements, and that which historically finds itself 'outside' the academic canon. 1. https://anchor.fm/hermitix/"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 34485673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34485673", "by": "trog", "time": 1674450096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was like this until I found the NPR Planet Money podcast. I am not 100% sure why I found this so engaging but here are my guesses: 1. They cover a subject I was interested in (economics), but knew basically nothing about. This made it easier to listen to as I found I didn't space out when they were talking about things I already knew. 2. Nice, tight editing and good production. No hosts blathering on for hours - they keep it short and to the point. Most episodes are 20 minutes and easy to get through."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 34488439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488439", "by": "rsynnott", "time": 1674480297, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> podcasts' focus on guests (and hosts) Not all podcasts do that, though. I listen to about ten podcasts fairly regularly; one (\"Behind the Bastards\") has regular guests, though their purpose is largely to have someone for the host to tell a story to, two (\"The Rest is History\" and \"The Rest is Politics\") have occasional expert guests, on perhaps 10% of episodes, the remainder don't have guests at all."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34488669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488669", "by": "randomifcpfan", "time": 1674481832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some good history-related podcasts that I recommend: History of Rome Revolutions History of Japan And the podcast-like YouTube video series \u201cComputer History Museum Oral Histories\u201d."}, {"show": "1313596069", "hn_item": 34488810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488810", "by": "massysett", "time": 1674482643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to podcasts that take a lot of production. One favorite of mine is \"American History Tellers.\" It is well edited and tightly scripted and thoroughly researched. Check out a big podcast producer like Wondery. They approach podcasts with production and professionalism. It takes a team to produce a good podcast. If a professional podcast is like network TV, the podcasts you're describing are like the old public access channel on cable. They're both the same medium, sure, but they're in different leagues entirely. I don't listen to the podcasts with a random person with a mic chatting abo"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34488889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488889", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1674483071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman Lab podcast seems pretty trustworthy, he does his homework and has excellent guests One guest made an interesting point, you should use medical papers more as a guide what not to do than what to do, negative effects are more reliable due to the constraints in studies"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34489008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489008", "by": "zoltanse", "time": 1674483643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Definitely my favourite podcast. The only other comparable one Revolutions by Mike Duncan."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34489193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489193", "by": "DoughnutHole", "time": 1674484462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> My pet peeve is shows that have interviews with people and preface it with 30 minutes of \"banter\" that doesn't interest anyone who hasn't listened to the previous 420 episodes. Repeat listeners are most podcast producers' bread and butter, and those listeners tend to be invested in the hosts, and typically enjoy the banter. It's sort of the reverse of radio. In a radio show you want to pander to the widest audience - every show must stand alone and can't rely on the audience's familiarity with the host or past content. In a podcast there's no one tuning in at random because it's something in"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 34489410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489410", "by": "ChicagoBoy11", "time": 1674485524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd give \"In Our Time\" from the BBC, and Econtalk, by Ross Roberts, a try if I were you. They both follow the traditional podcast format with a host and guest, but there is a lot of work done by the hosts ahead of time to ensure your time is well spent. Definitely high-density content."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 34489748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489748", "by": "gangstead", "time": 1674486903, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Over the years I have adopted almost this same rubric. The way I describe my filter is \"two people read wikipedia to you for an hour\". I have 2 of the ones on your list: 99PI and Cautionary Tales and I notice that they are both publish about the ~30 minutes episodes once per week. I think all these podcasts that are 60-120 minutes > 2 times per week are really just replacing talk radio on people's long commutes. It's just a pleasant way to fill the air, not to actually learn anything."}, {"show": "955596067", "hn_item": 34489927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489927", "by": "rg111", "time": 1674487701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. I find 2+ hours of podcasts episodes way to long to listen. I simply cannot find the time. After work + learning + side projects + social life + friends and family + hobbies (both creative and consuming types), I don't have the time for 2+ hours podcast episodes. I have found 20-30 minutes lengths as the sweet spot. Like: Darknet Diaries, History of Philosophy without Gaps, BBC in our Time Science, etc. Shorter than that, I feel it doesn't penetrate my mind enough, like: Moments of the American Mathematical Society, Developer Tea. Larger ones, I simply can't fit into my day: Huberma"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34489927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34489927", "by": "rg111", "time": 1674487701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. I find 2+ hours of podcasts episodes way to long to listen. I simply cannot find the time. After work + learning + side projects + social life + friends and family + hobbies (both creative and consuming types), I don't have the time for 2+ hours podcast episodes. I have found 20-30 minutes lengths as the sweet spot. Like: Darknet Diaries, History of Philosophy without Gaps, BBC in our Time Science, etc. Shorter than that, I feel it doesn't penetrate my mind enough, like: Moments of the American Mathematical Society, Developer Tea. Larger ones, I simply can't fit into my day: Huberma"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 34490046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490046", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1674488260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My trick with podcasts (as with books and other content) is to be interest driven , and to seek out podcasts which address my interests. That might be searching for specific podcasts within a topic area, specific creators, or (and most usefully) searching by episode for a specific topic or interview subject. Occasionally there will be references within one podcast to another which I find useful as well, though ... this occurs far less often than such promotions are presented, most especially those which are commercial promotions rather than the more-organic spontaneous mentions of a host or gu"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 34490077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490077", "by": "layer8", "time": 1674488396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to the In Our Time suggestion by a sibling comment, I can recommend Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape podcast ( https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ ). And for some good fun (and some occasional new insight), the Soft Skills Engineering podcast ( https://softskills.audio/ )."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 34490077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490077", "by": "layer8", "time": 1674488396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to the In Our Time suggestion by a sibling comment, I can recommend Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape podcast ( https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ ). And for some good fun (and some occasional new insight), the Soft Skills Engineering podcast ( https://softskills.audio/ )."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 34490077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490077", "by": "layer8", "time": 1674488396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to the In Our Time suggestion by a sibling comment, I can recommend Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape podcast ( https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ ). And for some good fun (and some occasional new insight), the Soft Skills Engineering podcast ( https://softskills.audio/ )."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34490876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490876", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1674491151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revolutions podcast was too in-depth for me (think, hundreds of episodes for each revolution). But I've been listening to his podcast-closing appendix (12 appendix episodes, that tells you something about being verbose), and it's fun :)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34491130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34491130", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1674492000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you described the problem with the Lex Fridman podcast :). I've only ever tuned in if the guest was exceedingly interesting. Not that Lex hits all your points, but it's some of them."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 34493407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34493407", "by": "achow", "time": 1674500757, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sam Altman addresses that when he was asked that question in 'How I Built This' Podcast. Essentially: OpenAI did not realize the massive scale they needed for them to be successful. When they realized this, they could not raise any funding as 'non-profit'. They asked govt, who did not want to fund it, and other sources, at the end they did not have any other recourse. Sam Altaman says: 90% of funding was needed for compute power, but also was needed for things like buying dataset and then to pay employee so that they can compete with likes of Google to retain them. If they would not have done "}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 34502450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502450", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1674561139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here\u2019s what caught my interest: > What has annoyed Swisher though is that the New York Times has repurposed the RSS feed of Sway [a podcast] to launch Hard Fork. What I mean is that they\u2019ve taken the existing feed \u2013 along with all its subscribers/followers and rebranded it with new artwork. What\u2019s more, old episodes of Sway have dropped off the bottom of the RSS feed."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34507033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507033", "by": "heroHACK17", "time": 1674581919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent episode of the All In podcast, one of the hosts made a remark along the lines of \"in the future [when AI has replaced the knowledge worker], insatiable demand will exist for people who are experts in querying NLPs.\" I think we're seeing that here."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34507260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507260", "by": "bglazer", "time": 1674582856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t think Levin is a crank. He went on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast and talked about his bioelectricity work and morphogenesis. Like you said, I think people who don\u2019t know much about development took that to be the whole story, when in reality it\u2019s just one academic doing what academics do best: talk about their own work. Edit: one small quibble with your comment is that it\u2019s too reductive to say that morphogenesis is all encoded in the DNA. It\u2019s really an emergent property of the whole system. Like DNA is only a few billion base pairs, which is not nearly enough to store the precise positions o"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34516735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34516735", "by": "gala8y", "time": 1674643031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "eg. https://huberman.rile.yt/ based on popular The Huberman Lab podcast."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 34518651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518651", "by": "raspberry1337", "time": 1674657112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To add further, research has gone further into how intensity and low intensity improves different things - different fibres, genetics, factors of health etc. Huberman lab and The Drive podcast that I listed to have had several academics in this field discuss the divergent effects of different modes of training."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34524717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524717", "by": "tshaddox", "time": 1674683817, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You can also listen to it on the Apple Podcasts website, e.g. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 34525485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525485", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1674688303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was interested to read the article and comments here because I am a very happy user of Apple Podcasts, but had not thought about the service from a content creator standpoint. One question I had is: if you want to make money from a podcast, is it really so bad to just pick one platform like Apple Podcasts, or YouTube, or, etc.? As a small business, isn\u2019t having one simple to use platform pretty good? Also, I have experienced \u2018free\u2019 access to one Premium podcast, and I never minded that I only got to listen to part of it. That was Sam Harris\u2019s podcast, and I would be surprised if that was an "}, {"show": "1667708685", "hn_item": 34525512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525512", "by": "bastawhiz", "time": 1674688436, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The podcasts in question can't be played in the browser. It always forces you to open Apple Podcasts. Here's an example: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/test-podcast/id1667708..."}, {"show": "1667708685", "hn_item": 34525603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525603", "by": "bastawhiz", "time": 1674688917, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No: this isn't just any random podcast from the iTunes homepage. It only applies to podcasts which are hosted by Apple, not ones which Apple lists in its directory. This is a very small percentage of shows. Here is an example. Curious if you can get it to work on Windows, because I physically cannot save the audio to a normal file on Mac. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/test-podcast/id1667708..."}, {"show": "1667708685", "hn_item": 34525660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525660", "by": "bastawhiz", "time": 1674689300, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's an example show, I'm curious if it works for you: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/test-podcast/id1667708..."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34525930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525930", "by": "burgerguyg", "time": 1674690935, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34525941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525941", "by": "discodave", "time": 1674690990, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was an Odd Lots episode where they went deep on how complicated the ASML supply chain is. I think it was this one (though there might have been another one): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asml-the-obscure-power..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 34528826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34528826", "by": "yonran", "time": 1674718882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For an explanation of the shift in policy around 2006 that caused the Great Recession and the current housing shortage, I recommend Kevin Erdmann, \u201cHousing Policy, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession\u201d https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3667309 and his other articles https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/kevin-erdmann . Erdmann disputes the standard explanation of the Great Recession that excess credit and behavioral economics caused a housing construction boom which caused a pop (e.g. the first Planet Money podcast The Giant Pool of Money , the movie The Big Short , the book "}, {"show": "996246979", "hn_item": 34530388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530388", "by": "ESMirro", "time": 1674732375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is pretty clearly Apples attempt to create a Patreon podcast competitor. This program is not the only way to host podcasts on iTunes nor even the recommended method. The DRM, the fact there\u2019s no RSS feed, the initial hosting cost - it all stems from the fact this is a service designed to host paid podcasts that subscribers can pay to access - of course it\u2019s going to be closed off and restricted\u2026 https://podcasters.apple.com/support/892-apple-podcasters-pr..."}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 34530484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530484", "by": "Joeri", "time": 1674733120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, like many of the bad things in American politics, they both do it. Relevant podcast: America's hidden duopoly. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly_rad... Both the Democrat and Republican parties like the system as it stands, because it guarantees nobody else can join the table."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34531334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531334", "by": "istjohn", "time": 1674739548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explains mainframes, bit rot, and software reliability engineering on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34532919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34532919", "by": "jpn", "time": 1674747092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics recently did an episode about popular financial literature vs what academics say: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-personal-finance-gurus-..."}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 34534357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534357", "by": "rzwitserloot", "time": 1674752044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As the Opening Arguments podcast (one of the two hosts is a lawyer) said: If as a lawyer you do what was asked - just parrot what an AI tells you to parrot, you're going to get sanctioned and possibly disbarred. As a lawyer you are responsible for what you say and argue, and if you argue something that you know to be false, you're in violation of the ethics standards; just about every bar association lists that as sanctionable, or even disbarrable, offense *. Thus, effectively, the only thing you could do is a watered down concept of the idea: A lawyer that will parrot the ChatGPT answer, but "}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 34536292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34536292", "by": "nequo", "time": 1674757749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author is Ron Garret. He was also interviewed last year on the CoRecursive podcast about the merits of Lisp at JPL, and the opposition to it. It\u2019s worth listening to: https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/"}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 34537421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537421", "by": "sthatipamala", "time": 1674761395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a cohost of The Technium. Please check us out! It's a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, my cohost Wil ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iamwil ) and I introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Wil and I started this show because we found that most tech podcasts were focused on career development or Big Tech drama. We wanted a show where we could be optimistic and excited about the future of software, especially things which were not mainstream. Some of my favorite episo"}, {"show": "1589280156", "hn_item": 34545114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545114", "by": "trifit", "time": 1674821119, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34548154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548154", "by": "ax8080", "time": 1674837925, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, I'm Alex. I created Eightify to take my mind off things during a weekend, but I was surprised that my friends were genuinely interested in it. I kept going, and now it's been nine weeks since I started. I got the idea to summarize videos when my friend sent me a lengthy video again. This happens to me often; the video title is so enticing, and then it turns out to be nothing. I had been working with GPT for 6 months by the time, so everything looked like a nail to me. It's a Chrome extension, and I'm offering 5 free tries for videos under an hour. After that, you have to buy a package. I'm"}, {"show": "6800059040", "hn_item": 34549572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34549572", "by": "palmbeachjeff23", "time": 1674843198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Golden Squirrel: goldensquirrel.io Premise: Get all the upfront information you need to know as a software engineer before applying to a job. Accompanying podcast called \"Chasing Squirrels\". Price: $0 (implementing stripe next to charge employers for job posts) Cost to me: $500/mo in SaaS fees + podcast related fees Why do it? I became frustrated with how hard it is to find information about the engineer you'll actually be working for at the job, which is one of the biggest if not the biggest factor in looking at new roles. I wanted to de-risk the hiring process for devs by providing as much i"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34550213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34550213", "by": "funfunfunction", "time": 1674846155, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Edit: here is a link to a Chatbot of all Huberman Lab podcast episodes. There are about 50 other Chatbots like Lex Fridman, All-in Podcast, Tim Ferriss, etc on our homepage. https://addcontext.xyz/search/huberman-lab Original text: Me and my friend wanted to do a project with all the new LLM tech that has been released and this is what we came up with. A little bit of background on how it works: 1. User enters a link to the playlist they want to chat with. 2. Download all videos in playlist and store in GCS. 3. Transcribe all videos using Whisper via replicate.com. 4. Break transcripts into ~3"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34550213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34550213", "by": "funfunfunction", "time": 1674846155, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Edit: here is a link to a Chatbot of all Huberman Lab podcast episodes. There are about 50 other Chatbots like Lex Fridman, All-in Podcast, Tim Ferriss, etc on our homepage. https://addcontext.xyz/search/huberman-lab Original text: Me and my friend wanted to do a project with all the new LLM tech that has been released and this is what we came up with. A little bit of background on how it works: 1. User enters a link to the playlist they want to chat with. 2. Download all videos in playlist and store in GCS. 3. Transcribe all videos using Whisper via replicate.com. 4. Break transcripts into ~3"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34550213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34550213", "by": "funfunfunction", "time": 1674846155, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Edit: here is a link to a Chatbot of all Huberman Lab podcast episodes. There are about 50 other Chatbots like Lex Fridman, All-in Podcast, Tim Ferriss, etc on our homepage. https://addcontext.xyz/search/huberman-lab Original text: Me and my friend wanted to do a project with all the new LLM tech that has been released and this is what we came up with. A little bit of background on how it works: 1. User enters a link to the playlist they want to chat with. 2. Download all videos in playlist and store in GCS. 3. Transcribe all videos using Whisper via replicate.com. 4. Break transcripts into ~3"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34552830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34552830", "by": "pjmq", "time": 1674859149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Short-form podcasts are being looked at as sort of a syndicated content. Like there'd be a list of interesting shows like 'The Daily', 'Business Wars Daily' etc that you could subscribe to and have injected into the stream when appropriate! Obviously, I'd expand this with more full-fledged shows if people liked the format. You could even configure it with \"I listen to my podcasts in the morning / after noon / when I'm driving\" etc in settings and Rad would factor that in when choosing when to play em."}, {"show": "1147092464", "hn_item": 34556829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556829", "by": "trollied", "time": 1674906346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's 2 great episodes of the Opening Arguments podcast that cover the begginings of this extensively: https://openargs.com/oa675-gizmodos-critical-hit-piece-on-wi... https://openargs.com/oa677-our-critical-hit-piece-on-the-giz... The Legal Eagle youtube video on this subject is also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZQJQYqhAgY"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34561910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34561910", "by": "DonHopkins", "time": 1674940227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am a huge fan of Sandspiel, which Max described in this article from 2019, and recently I was delighted to discover that he and TodePond have been doing a huge amount of wonderful work since then. What happens when you combine Sandspiel with a Scratch-like blocks based visual programming language that lets you look inside and see how rules work, tweak and modify them, and even define your own rules for different types of particles? And then form a community around it for sharing Here is Max's and TodePond's brilliantly ambitious visually programmable sequel, Sandspiel Studio! https://studio."}, {"show": "1574755368", "hn_item": 34566058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34566058", "by": "mpweiher", "time": 1674980898, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34571401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34571401", "by": "spookthesunset", "time": 1675018701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an older podcast from Darknet Diaries[0] that was about a very popular chat app called \u201cKik\u201d. Kik was targeted at teens and younger, with an estimated install base of 1 out of every 3 American teenagers. Long story short they were bought by some holding company that completely neglected the platform and stopped any kind of moderation, DMCA notice or anything else. The result? It became a huge magnet for trading child porn. While listening to this podcast I thought of how Elon gutted twitter to the bone and probably fired entire teams designed to deal with this kind of content\u2026 [0] ht"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 34573267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34573267", "by": "michaelg7x", "time": 1675029862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a FoundMyFitness [0, transcript] podcast [1, audio] on this subject and was struck by the simple anecdote of how when ageing we will eventually need to hurry out of the way of some approaching car \u2014 and struggle to do so, and thereafter perhaps stop going out, reinforcing our decline. Interesting episode. [0] https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/stuart-phillips [1] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0LmZvdW5..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34575945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34575945", "by": "steve_adams_86", "time": 1675055038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I\u2019ve read and heard recently is that if caffeine is consumed after adenosine is mostly flushed out after waking (90 minutes or so after a good rest), it seems as though it doesn\u2019t interrupt sleep for most people that night. This is not true if you continue consuming caffeine past late morning, or early afternoon at the very latest. This causes your adenosine to be useless as caffeine will still be plugging receptors by bed time. That doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t have negative side effects and generally make you jittery or wired; that\u2019s a price some people seem to pay regardless. Outside of that "}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 34577460, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34577460", "by": "papito", "time": 1675069660, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "People were exactly fine with it. The regulations only became a thing after \"Unsafe at Any Speed\", 1965. Cars had no seat belts and people drove drunk ALL the time. Coincidentally, I randomly just listened to a Stuff You Should Know episode just a few hours ago: \"Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps\": https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-fo..."}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 34579444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34579444", "by": "31337Logic", "time": 1675086186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm with you, here. And I'm a seasoned IT Consultant of almost 3 decades. I've seen (and argued for) \"both sides\" of this argument and I now believe the net gains of giving each student a monetized ad-machine (aka Chromebook) are FAR outweighed by the net losses. I'm certainly not the first or only one advocating this, of course, and there is a large and ever-growing body of evidence to support the claim that Chromebooks specifically (i.e. not just a dumb laptop, disconnected from the Internet and social media) are hugely detrimental to students development, both academically and socially. Don"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34579634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34579634", "by": "drexlspivey", "time": 1675087182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article is like a rehashing/transcription of the recent Odd Lots podcast episode, seems like the author didn\u2019t really understand it either. The argument there was that the trust could start selling the BTC and buying back their own shares to pocket the difference but that would be a one time profit. By keeping the BTC in there they can keep getting their fees year after year."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 34581374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34581374", "by": "born1989", "time": 1675094153, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Yes. Best talk on teeth hygiene and anatomy (in that order) I\u2019ve heard - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/patricia-corby-d-d-s-i..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 34582416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34582416", "by": "gigatexal", "time": 1675097230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe this could help get you by? https://www.userinterviews.com/hello disclaimer: I have no relationship with them. I just heard they were a sponsor of Talk Python To Me -- a podcast I listen to and I thought the idea was interesting."}, {"show": "1428670055", "hn_item": 34589343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34589343", "by": "mjhagen", "time": 1675127043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also available in podcast form on the great Mac Folklore Radio: https://macfolkloreradio.com/2022/03/01/next-cube-aa001032.h..."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 34590053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34590053", "by": "m8s", "time": 1675131654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joran Greef (TigerBeetle's CEO) had a fascinating conversation with Richard Feldman on his Software Unscripted podcast. Highly recommend giving it a listen! https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted/status/1584695054563954689"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 34591974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591974", "by": "seb1204", "time": 1675146914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked listening to the Hardcore History podcast by Dan Carlin http://www.dancarlin.com"}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 34592431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34592431", "by": "Fezzik", "time": 1675150910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s a podcast (or started as one) but is much like a lecture series - The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. It is both as brief as possible yet as thorough as needs be, and is truly gap-less. Peter Adamson does a fantastic job explaining the historical context and progression of philosophy along with the interplay between philosophy, science, politics, religion, and society. I find the episodes consistently both informative and amusing. https://historyofphilosophy.net/"}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 34595529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34595529", "by": "danrl", "time": 1675176086, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The LLM you played with has no real problem solving skills because it lacks a sufficient model of reality and planning capabilities. Highly recommend this 1h interview with Yann Lecun to put things into perspective. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-technology-podcast... I myself learn construction and the trades on the side. In the US this is quite a safe bet. And I wanted to build a house anyway, so why not do it myself and learn? I\u2019m also not scared of losing my job to a LLM. I do so much detailed problem solving that I wouldn\u2019t mind assistance that 10x my work by taking away all lo"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 34618985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34618985", "by": "zoba", "time": 1675290878, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ezra Klein covers ChatGPT & Bullshit on an episode of his podcast. The episode title is \u201cA Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution\u201d https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34619399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34619399", "by": "hollerith", "time": 1675292793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman says it in episode 2 of the Huberman Lab Podcast. Sorry I don't recall where in the episode. Huberman never specifies how low in the sky the sun needs to be for the sunlight (and my guess it is specifically the indirect fraction of the sunlight) to have a strong effect on the timing of the circadian clock. \"Indirect\": scattered by the atmosphere. I tried to corroborate with other sources, but gave up after about 60 min in a search engine. I have corroborated by my own experience though (I aim to go outside about 10 minutes before sunrise, but sometime I am delaye"}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 34627906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627906", "by": "askiiart", "time": 1675351910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's what I have, plus a bit of stuff I should add: * SSH set up for pubkey auth only, exposed to the internet. * Tailscale - for accessing stuff when away from home. A unique, very cool VPN, check it out if you haven't already. [0] * IMMICH - photos [1] * Transmission - BitTorrent client [2] * NZBGet - Usenet/NZB downloader [3] * Sonarr - TV Shows [4] * Radarr - Movies [5] * Lidarr - Music [6] * Prowlarr - indexer management [7] * Jackett - makes torrent sites into the Torznab API, so you can add them as indexers. [8] * A normal VPN - e.g. OpenVPN or WireGuard. I haven't gotten one set up y"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 34641925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641925", "by": "vanilla_nut", "time": 1675436695, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is one of those moments where I realize other folks on HN have almost exactly the same Firefox setup as me. Nice list of add-on recommendations! I would add in a couple more, for anyone tempted to switch away from Chrome or Safari: - Redirector: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/ Very helpful for redirecting \"new\" reddit to old.reddit.com, AMP links to normal links, Twitter to Nitter, etc. - RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhanc... Provides built-in image preview and lots of other subtle goodies for old.reddit.com. I have a ver"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34645001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645001", "by": "amadeuspagel", "time": 1675446784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just to counter a possible bias of people pointing out only weird results: I looked for podcasts like \"conversations with tyler\" and got other podcasts produced by the mercatus center, other podcasts about economics, other wide-ranging podcasts. Nothing weird, at least among those I recognized. I added \"lunar society\" and I discovered a podcast about design called 99% Invisible, which looks interesting."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 34645077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645077", "by": "gre", "time": 1675447007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe Adam Johnson of the Citations Needed podcast is just and entirely made up persona? https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7C..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 34658976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34658976", "by": "tintor", "time": 1675548923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"According to the Planet Money podcast, in the US alone, there are 400,000 fewer accounting clerks today than in 1980, the first full year that VisiCalc went on sale. But Planet Money also found that there were 600,000 more jobs for regular accountants. After all, crunching numbers had become cheaper, more versatile, and more powerful, so demand went up. The point is not really whether 600,000 is more than 400,000: sometimes automation creates jobs and sometimes it destroys them.\" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47802280"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34666450, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34666450", "by": "alexfromapex", "time": 1675616256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This pilot and another, commander David Fravor, have both given separate accounts that there are very technologically advanced craft well beyond US capabilities in US airspace (detected by multiple radars/instruments) on Joe Rogan's podcast. It's very interesting and would love to hear honest reports from the government on how much the level of activity is increasing."}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 34668035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668035", "by": "sthatipamala", "time": 1675624915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Technium: a podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each episode, we introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. https://youtube.com/@techniumpod"}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 34673291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673291", "by": "suby", "time": 1675657138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The man listed as inventor of this patent, Salvatore Pais, has been on Curt Jaimungal's podcast a few times. Here's a link to the first time he was on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6QyAhTB3o I listened to each of them but I frankly didn't understand any of it. I did come out of it with the impression that this stuff was all based on his personal theories, that he can't get anyone to take him seriously in academia, and that we don't actually have anything like this working in secret. But again, considering that it's all over my head, I'd also put little stock in my take away from the interv"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34673489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673489", "by": "Azek", "time": 1675659107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Tic Tac' is another interesting and unexplained UFO sighting: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-... The commanding officer in this indicent, David Fravor, who saw the objects first-hand did a podcast episode with Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/david-fravor/"}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 34679735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34679735", "by": "hellojesus", "time": 1675700668, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My comment was specifically referring to transphobia (or more appropriately anything that doesn't paint trans% in a supportive light) being rehashed Marxism. For detail there: https://www.stitcher.com/show/new-discourses/episode/queer-t... \"\"\" We often hear that Woke Marxism is a new ideology in the world. I've even said so. Well, it isn't. It's just an old one repackaged in various ways without any essential changes made to it at all. Critical Race Theory is Race Marxism in the same way as what we usually call Marxism is Class Marxism. Radical Feminism is Sex Marxism. Gender ideology and Quee"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34681933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34681933", "by": "lightning19", "time": 1675708499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recall this from Lex Fridman's podcast, maybe it will help address some of your questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk6mo-BCkzg I hope your wife gets better."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34687016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34687016", "by": "phs318u", "time": 1675731397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, yet I find David Fravor's response to the points that Mick makes (on the Lex Fridman podcast) quite compelling. It's possible that this entire endeavour (the military witnesses and the release of the videos by the pentagon) is one huge psyop, but given the number of years, the number of individuals involved, that quickly starts getting into conspiracy theory territory itself."}, {"show": "1569800816", "hn_item": 34688849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34688849", "by": "roywiggins", "time": 1675744860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a BBC podcast, \"The Great Post Office Trial.\" You can find an RSS feed for it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j/episodes/downloads There is also a book by the same reporter."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 34692730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34692730", "by": "rcarr", "time": 1675778114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s interesting because I\u2019ve experimented a lot and this is almost the exact opposite to what I like my morning routine to be though I do see the benefits of the approach. Breaking it down: - Silence I suppose my mornings are silent by default atm but I should probably start playing some music again as it normally gets me going a bit more. - Affirmations I feel like first thing in the morning is the period of time when I least need to hear an affirmation. For me, an affirmation is most useful when things are going to shit. Though I can see how doing them regularly in the morning might lead to"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 34696500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696500", "by": "amacalac", "time": 1675793332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Overcast podcast has been doing something similar very well for the past few years. Kudos to @marcoarment for this!"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34702331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34702331", "by": "yourabstraction", "time": 1675817137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chamath talked about manager bloat on a recent All-in podcast in a way that seemed to make sense. Basically there is pressure to grow your career by moving from being an IC to a manager and once a manager there are incentives to grow your number of reports. The organizational efficiency suffers when you have top tier ICs start managing teams of average people. You might get a team of 6 engineers that\u2019s only doing 2x as much work as the former IC that\u2019s managing them used to do, which means the cost per unit of work has increased tremendously."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34708074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708074", "by": "sdn90", "time": 1675864770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a professional but I think I follow markets pretty closely for a retail trader. Twitter / FinTwit is the best Level of discussion is not always great but I find its way better than anywhere else. Twitter Spaces usually have great discussions since people are less likely to troll vs tweets. One thing I've found though is if the person is getting too cocky and going on victory laps, it's pretty much always a good time to counter trade them. You'll be able to find some great Substack's, Podcasts, Youtube channels from Twitter as well if you're following the right people. Some that I follow - "}, {"show": "1646659885", "hn_item": 34711739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34711739", "by": "jdbiggs", "time": 1675878329, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I started a podcast about this. I'm sick of the rah-rah confident founder BS we see on here and all over the Internet. Sometimes we need to learn from our failures. Anyway, check it out. Keep Going: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keep-going-a-podcast-a..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34718880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34718880", "by": "vlod", "time": 1675908823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI He was on the Lex podcast [0] ~3.5hrs [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34719723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34719723", "by": "justapassenger", "time": 1675916597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was as famous as Lex Fridman was before his podcast took off. Sure, some people in the industry knew him, but working for Tesla and selling their dreams of FSD really put him on the map."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34721638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34721638", "by": "laughingman2", "time": 1675935322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am working on RL and robotics. I came across Levin in Lex's podcast. And then went on a binge of his other podcast appearences. I agree totally with you, I would very much like to build agents that adapt to different circumstances like \"simple organisms\". I am not familiar with biology, but I plan to build competence here to follow Levin's work to a point that I could potentially collabrate with biologists or learn from their work. Any suggestions (books etc) that would be salient towards this goal is much appreciated!"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 34721871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34721871", "by": "ly3xqhl8g9", "time": 1675937440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also focused on the work done by the Levin lab after the Sean Carroll podcast [1]. In order to familiarize myself with the subject matter in a more practical manner I started writing a wrapper and a frontend, BESO [2], BioElectric Simulation Orchestrator , for BETSE [3], the Bio Electric Tissue Simulation Engine developed by Alexis Pietak which is used by the Levin lab to simulate various tissues and their responses based on world/biomolecules/genes/etc. parametrization. Reading the BETSE source code, the presentation [4], and some of the articles referred through the source code has been a "}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34724246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724246", "by": "m_fayer", "time": 1675952415, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "As I think is the case for many HN readers, I've become a fan of the Huberman lab podcast: it's helped to crystallize a lot of my pop-biology and pop-medicine dabbling, and lit several paths around mid-life health and longevity questions. The podcast presents a world of medicine that is utterly divorced from anything I've experienced. In this world, scientifically-minded time and resource rich doctors work together with patients to continuously monitor biomarkers, nutrition, and life circumstances in order to nip problems in the bud and implement small and precise interventions. In my world, d"}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 34725384, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725384", "by": "sebg", "time": 1675956339, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 34726426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726426", "by": "omni_analytics", "time": 1675959881, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 34732058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732058", "by": "sfaxon", "time": 1675979476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I felt a loss when the On the Metal podcast series wrapped up. Big same. I was so happy to find the Oxide and Friends podcast that I went through the entire backlog in the last couple months. It really helped solidify my thoughts on debug-ability as a first class property of a programming language/environment/system. It's a great mix of tech history, personal accounts from industry, practical conversations about development and debugging and current industry happenings. A few standout episodes: Engineering Culture Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives The Rise and Fall of DEC"}, {"show": "1668002688", "hn_item": 34735535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735535", "by": "simsspoons", "time": 1676002469, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 34737157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34737157", "by": "rcarmo", "time": 1676018319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm still catching up on the Oxide and Friends \"birdsite\"/\"discord\" recordings/podcast, and look forward to listening to this one in a few weeks (I save them for my walks in the big blue room). In a time when tech is imploding under the weight of its own hype, the amazing retrospectives, history lessons and low-level hardware/software lore contained in that podcast has been the highlight of my days every. Single. Time. It reminds me that there is a side to this industry that is still actually solving real problems (from testbench design to firmware/software supply chain and attestation) instea"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 34739662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34739662", "by": "ab_goat", "time": 1676037732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a Feb 7 published Pivot podcast (Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway) with him as guest. Here\u2019s a link to the segment: https://overcast.fm/+OwaI1feis/41:38"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 34743069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34743069", "by": "ericmcer", "time": 1676051467, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The reality is super bleak. Listen to the Indiehackers podcast and you will see that most of the 'crazy success' stories involve someone getting lucky and ending up with $10k/mo, that is a low junior dev salary at a FAANG. The most recent episode featured a guy who was an expert at building and selling Shopify apps. He built 10 different apps, but 97% of his revenue was coming from 1 of them. Even in his own special niche he had a 10% success rate. It was something like the 4th product he had launched also, so it wasn't the product of lessons learned. I don't want to make it sound bleak becaus"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34752001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34752001", "by": "fumblebee", "time": 1676120765, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm sure many folks here will be familiar with Andrew Huberman. If not, I highly recommend listing to his podcast, The Huberman Lab Podcast. Relevant to this discussion is his brilliant episode on alcohol [1]: \"What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health\". Boy, was this episode a life-changing listen for me. The conclusion is the same as the linked study, that no level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health . [1] https://hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 34755662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34755662", "by": "jMyles", "time": 1676145032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Awesome! I love KLCC. Oregon has great public radio, with KOPB of course being super popular, but I think the smaller KLCC is just as good. Also, don't sleep on KBOO in Portland. As for the notion that I work in radio: I have flirted with radio, including a stint at my college radio station and a one-year contract at WNYC, which was a formative part of my career for sure. But I work in cryptography at the moment, and I'm working on pushing boundaries regarding publishing of media via blockchain tech in the hopes that the spirit of public radio can live on in a new economy. So let's look at tod"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 34758328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758328", "by": "shantara", "time": 1676164178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the same vein, I\u2019ve heard historians theorize that Doggerland was the most comfortable area for human habitation in Northern Europe during its existence, with its lowlands, lakes and river systems perfectly matching the landscape of the other ancient civilization centers. The lands of the modern UK and Scandinavia were by comparison inhospitable highlands, where humans have moved after their ancestral lands were flooded. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland and the episode of BBC In Our Time podcast on the subject."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34763787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34763787", "by": "pixl97", "time": 1676217449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A bunch of incendiary balloons in a dry windy summer on the west coast would be rather messy for a rather large area. We've already had a million+ acres per year burning as it is. Wouldn't be hard to burn 10M+ acres that way. That said, I do believe we'd consider that an outright act of war if it wasn't in a middle of a war. Of course on all things relate to fire it seems like the US has been about dumb as possible. 99% Invisible podcast episode 'built to burn' goes over this rather well."}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 34763961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34763961", "by": "mre", "time": 1676218576, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "We are building the open source tool Open Podcast, which provides deep listener insights to podcast hosts. Demo dashboard here -> https://openpodcast.dev/demo Get insights about your audience: - Episode performance: When do people drop out? - What are interesting topics? How long do people listen to it? - Age/Gender groups and their favorite episodes. - Supports custom graphs and SQL queries (everything is transparent and open). Tech details: - Open Source! We love to get feedback or contributions at https://github.com/openpodcast - We extract data from Spotify and Apple and store all raw- and"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 34769626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769626", "by": "tbihl", "time": 1676256840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the most medical-establishment-adjacent space I could find in serious metabolic/longevity experimentation/ research, Peter Attia's podcast, the host talks about monthly 3-day fasts as an entering argument for decent garbage collection functioning (autophagy) that would potentially suppress/inhibit cancerous growth. https://peterattiamd.com/ama13/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34772079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34772079", "by": "gkanai", "time": 1676285272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots Podcast interviews patio11"}, {"show": "1520085146", "hn_item": 34776718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34776718", "by": "caitlinclarisse", "time": 1676309052, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm Caitlin Ner, Chief of Staff at PsyMed Ventures and Business Trip. I recently joined the technology industry and have found a job in the business of psychedelics that excites and motivates me. My journey to this point has been a personal and professional rollercoaster. I come from a low-income background and was the first in my family to attend college and was absolutely confused at Harvard University studying computer science to neuroscience then psychology then environmental science then ultimately ending up in economics and computer science. I interned and landed a full-time job at Black"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 34778556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778556", "by": "burkaman", "time": 1676315300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But in interviews about the Bing partnership, Sam has been saying that while ChatGPT was a bad tech demo, Bing Chat is using a better model with way better features that everyone should be using. He's been talking about how great it is that it cites its references, integrates the latest data, etc. I'm specifically thinking of the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast he was on ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/podcasts/bings-revenge-an... ), but I suspect he's been saying the same things to everyone. He's been marketing Bing Chat as a significant improvement ready for mass usage, when it really"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34779951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34779951", "by": "benatkin", "time": 1676320322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Last week there was a NYTimes' The Daily podcast episode about how SF's downtown is empty. Some balance is good."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34782358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34782358", "by": "seizethecheese", "time": 1676330039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman podcast episode on caffeine."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 34786111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786111", "by": "archon810", "time": 1676355793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangentially related, but Hard Fork is my new favorite podcast. The flow, the humor, the interviews, and the tidbits of information the two hosts share and discuss make for such a great listening experience. These guys (Kevin Roose and Casey Newton) are pros, and it shows."}, {"show": "1664299388", "hn_item": 34788648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788648", "by": "graderjs", "time": 1676379555, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 34793405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34793405", "by": "dotty-", "time": 1676398186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I never understood how companies worth billions can fumble having the most basic features across all of their platforms. For example, Spotify's desktop UI for podcasts: on mobile, I'm able to look at my liked podcasts and have a chronological list of the newest episodes across all of them. On the desktop app, that entire feature is missing. I have to check each individual podcast on the desktop app to find new episodes. It's such a frustrating experience and it's been like this for years. Also, my understanding is that you cannot purchase podcast subscriptions on Spotify. One of my favorite po"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34794078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34794078", "by": "myaccount80", "time": 1676400607, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to listen podcasts on the Apple Podcast app but then I tried to listen to the same podcasts in Spotify and the audio quality was so much better. Anyone else felt the same? I mainly listen to Lex Fridman"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34795027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34795027", "by": "unsupp0rted", "time": 1676404574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. I don't use Spotify for podcasts, even though I pay for premium, because I have Pocket Casts . I listen to podcasts at 2.7x. Not the 2.5x or 3.0x speeds Spotify insists I have to choose among. I have podcast-specific settings. Podcasts like Lex Fridman start at exactly 7 minutes in, so that I avoid predictable ad segments. The player cuts out silence and skips pauses automatically. It's nice that it tells me how many hundreds of hours I saved last year just by skipping silence. Pocket Casts doesn't put up one banner after another warning me to learn more about Covid, just in case pe"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 34796376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34796376", "by": "cschmidt", "time": 1676410484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://serialpodcast.org/ from the This American Life (NPR) people"}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 34796779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34796779", "by": "ThatGeoGuy", "time": 1676412068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vehicular cycling is such a ridiculous ideology and mantra. John Forester has done more damage to not-cars-means-of-transportation than pretty much any other person riding a bike, and many more outside of that group. The \"Well there's your problem\" podcast goes over a lot of his ideas in great detail [0]. The crux of it is what the above study says: if you want to encourage cycling you have to build dedicated infrastructure (and maintain that infrastructure in all weather and conditions) in order for people to view it as something reliable. The key is to avoid what the parent poster specified "}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 34798207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34798207", "by": "lmm", "time": 1676420105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The \"Well there's your problem\" podcast goes over a lot of his ideas in great detail [0]. The crux of it is what the above study says: if you want to encourage cycling you have to build dedicated infrastructure (and maintain that infrastructure in all weather and conditions) in order for people to view it as something reliable. I can't read videos, but how does he sustain this claim given that Tokyo exists and has a large cycling modal share with virtually no bike lanes? Vehicular cycling is absolutely right IME. If you want to build \"dedicated infrastructure\", junction priority changes and "}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 34798906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34798906", "by": "mbreese", "time": 1676424873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny thing - this works very well, so long as you don\u2019t use the UI. At least, it has recently, I do t know if things changed. I was listening to a history podcast (British History podcast), which has been going on for years. I listen while running, so it\u2019s managed on my phone. For a while, I would occasionally get the app trying to skip ahead, but only if it had issues downloading the next episode (again, I was out running). I eventually just downloaded batches of 10-20 episodes and everything worked perfectly in chronological order. And more recently, it all \u201cjust worked\u201d even while new epis"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 34800601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34800601", "by": "aliqot", "time": 1676440705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It may be different for other sectors but it seemed like they sponsored every episode of Changelog podcast for quite some time. At the very least they must have sponsored every episode I listened to."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 34800645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34800645", "by": "zhynn", "time": 1676441394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is so lovely, and my gut says it's spot on (, but that's far from proof. :) The biological machine simulation theory of consciousness has some rigor behind it. I am reminded of the Making Sense podcast episode #178 with Donald Hoffman (author of The Case Against Reality). More succinct overview: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-evolutionary-argument-aga... I don't know that I am with him on the \"reality is a network of conscious agents\" endpoint of this argument. But it's interesting! I think that the brain is doing lots of hallucinating. We get stimulus of various kinds, and we create "}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34800928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34800928", "by": "distances", "time": 1676444890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure why the podcasts are so hated in Spotify. Yes the home screen podcast carousel unnecessarily ate some premium space, but for me they otherwise stayed out of view. Also, I do like them in the same app. Never in my life had I ever listened to a podcast before trying Fall of Civilizations in Spotify. Podcasts were totally irrelevant to me as a concept, similar to radio. But I've now added this to my habits, so I guess the strategy works when targeting casual listeners."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34802576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34802576", "by": "Karsteski", "time": 1676461711, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. I like the JRE podcast but not enough to use Spotify and their terrible podcasting experience. Now I really only catch an interesting YouTube clip every few weeks."}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 34808285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34808285", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1676485491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wouldn't say they're telling outright lies, but I certainly wouldn't characterize the writing as truth-seeking, either. I'd say they have a big axe to grind and that their coverage of tech companies is poor quality. One example completely unrelated to Twitter, that I saw as a sign of shockingly poor research, was when the founder went on the Big Technology Podcast and spoke at length about \"John Carmichael\" and VR work at Meta. It's hard to believe that anyone actually in the software world, especially someone talking about VR with such confidence wouldn't be familiar enough with John Carmac"}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 34809382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34809382", "by": "TaylorAlexander", "time": 1676489732, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've been trying to understand why on earth these companies would release something as an answer engine that obviously fabricates incorrect answers, and would simultaneously be so blinded to this as to release promo videos where the incorrect answers are in the actual promo videos! And this happened twice with two of the biggest and oldest companies in big tech. It really feels like some kind of \"emperor has no clothes\" moment. Everyone is running around saying \"WOW what a nice suit emperor\" and he's running around buck naked. I am reminded of this video podcast from Emily Bender and Alex Hann"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 34811053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34811053", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1676497526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Epstein being interviewed on the Econtalk podcast provides a good introduction to the book. https://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specializa..."}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 34812730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34812730", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1676505037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We obviously have a 2-tier system. We didn't need SBF to show us that; we knew long before, decades before. The expectation that SBF would be the breaking point where we fix that system is irrational, which is what makes this a banal conversation. There's nothing for anybody to learn from it. I'm not the only one making this point; I'm shoplifting it from Ken White, who has spent his career working on and advocating for some of these issues, and who is loudly sighing and complaining about the coverage of SBF's bail on the Serious Trouble podcast. There is interesting stuff going on in this cas"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 34818634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818634", "by": "dopylitty", "time": 1676555905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in media criticism the podcast Citations Needed[0] is very well researched and covers media issues both in modern day and with a historical lens that shows how media has operated and does operate with relevant source quotes. 0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34820789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34820789", "by": "gspencley", "time": 1676564759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This discussion was just had on Joe Rogan's podcast about a recent CBC article, which appeared to be deliberately trying to equate the word \"freedom\" with \"something bad and scary\" through a guilt-by-association argument. https://youtu.be/Imh5qst3gCg"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 34825473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34825473", "by": "HybridCurve", "time": 1676579217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a known problem with cable news, relevant info from the FCC: https://www.fcc.gov/broadcast-news-distortion Spreading disinformation from politically aligned media sources is a fundamental authoritarian strategy. Politicized news is used to generate outrage which excites the electorate into participating in elections. There was a good episode of Freakonomics on NPR concerning negative bias in the media and why people respond to it. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-u-s-media-so-negativ... You can't fix negativity, but you can better regulate media to be accountable without infring"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 34832757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34832757", "by": "SixDouble5321", "time": 1676627123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SQRL and SpinRite are current, and his main works. SpinRite has a new version on the horizon supporting UEFI. Shields Up is timeless, but doesn't do IPv6 and probably never will. There are some smaller apps that were done recently, less notably. Security Now podcast is ongoing."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34834517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34834517", "by": "mightybyte", "time": 1676641267, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 34834623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34834623", "by": "ralphc", "time": 1676641925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Changelog Podcast had a good talk with someone who teaches mainframes and helps people get jobs. \"This week we\u2019re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you\u2019ve been curious about mainframes, this show will be a great guide.\" https://changelog.com/news/mainframes-are-still-a-big-thing-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34836708, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34836708", "by": "aeonik", "time": 1676651283, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure exactly what the parent comment has in mind, but the Lex Fridman podcast recently covered race topics relating to this: https://youtu.be/g9RxrsvcS-k The YouTube video is obviously a touchy subject, and I haven't had time to dig into the interviewee yet to verify his claims, I only skim the Wikipedia article relating to the subject, and it's very thorough. There's a lot of argument around it."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34838342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34838342", "by": "notlukesky", "time": 1676658203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The last time I saw Techcrunch mentioned is when they wrote an article attacking Mr Beast for being an ableist for doing 1000 free cataract surgeries mentioned on the All In Podcast. Till then I had assumed that Verizon had shut it down. I guess it still exists and they still have readers."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34842743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34842743", "by": "tkanarsky", "time": 1676682019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's a downright clever guy who knows exactly what he's doing to maximize entertainment value, and, by proxy, clicks and therefore revenue. He was on the Lex Fridman podcast a few weeks back, pretty good listening."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34844467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34844467", "by": "mtam", "time": 1676701195, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 34845151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34845151", "by": "codeape", "time": 1676709293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joel Spolsky's (harsh) comments on SOLID, from a 2009 episode of the Stack Overflow podcast ( https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/22/podcast-38/ https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?pg=pgWiki&comm... ): \"And, when I was listening to them, they all sounded to me like, to me, extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.\""}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 34859925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859925", "by": "ufo", "time": 1676828912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fun fact about %n: Mazda cars used to have a bug where they used printf(str) instead of printf(\"%s\", str) and their media system would crash if you tried to play the \"99% Invisible\" podcast in them. All because the \"% In\" was parsed as a \"%n\" with some extra modifiers. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34860880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34860880", "by": "lchengify", "time": 1676834647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately, I picked most of this up from school (shout out to Babin's Engineering Entrepreneurship class @ Penn) and from my stepmother who is a capital markets attorney. However the two finance podcasts I follow really closely are \"Odd Lots\" from Bloomberg [1] and \"The Compound and Friends\" from Josh Brown and Michael Batnick. Both take a more broader look at the economy than just venture capital, and are super smart folks. Also honestly, they're fun to listen to which makes it easier. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCompoundRWM [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots-podcast"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34861824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34861824", "by": "wanderingstan", "time": 1676840477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: I was introduced to Sumerian history by this excellent episode of the \u201cFall of Civilizations Podcast\u201d: https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA"}, {"show": "1576728291", "hn_item": 34868498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34868498", "by": "kengine_express", "time": 1676904047, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 34869128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34869128", "by": "zeptonaut22", "time": 1676907631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired Podcast - \"stories of well-known business and the playbooks that built them\". Awesome podcast if you enjoy learning about the intersection of tech + business. Startups For the Rest of Us - far on the other side of business + tech spectrum in the indie hacker space. Find it lends a really nice counterpoint to Acquired. How I Built This - well-known and fantastic interviewer Guy Raz interviews company founders about their stories. Definitely has more a consumer than tech bent. Planet Money - because it's awesome."}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 34869128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34869128", "by": "zeptonaut22", "time": 1676907631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired Podcast - \"stories of well-known business and the playbooks that built them\". Awesome podcast if you enjoy learning about the intersection of tech + business. Startups For the Rest of Us - far on the other side of business + tech spectrum in the indie hacker space. Find it lends a really nice counterpoint to Acquired. How I Built This - well-known and fantastic interviewer Guy Raz interviews company founders about their stories. Definitely has more a consumer than tech bent. Planet Money - because it's awesome."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 34881258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34881258", "by": "specialist", "time": 1676988235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Belated followup: I'm wrong. Coincidently, If Books Can Kill reviewed The Population Bomb. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id... I still think the Ehlrichs are moral cripples, and that they should not have made policy prescriptions. Like the '20s era Progressives (and others), early leftist environmentalists advocated terrible policies for \"those people\" while minimizing their own inconvenience. Eugenics, notably. However, I was not aware of the zeitgeist about \"overpopulation\" at the time, nor how that meme came to support the reactionary project. For instance, morph"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34882412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882412", "by": "leetharris", "time": 1676994384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He talked a little about this on Lex Fridman's podcast about 6 months ago. I'd recommend listening to him discuss it as I will butcher a TL;DR."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 34885146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34885146", "by": "mistermann", "time": 1677005520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who listened to every single Stackoverflow podcast as it was being built, I would love to be a fly on the wall eavesdropping on Jeff and Joel's conversations (preferably with a bit of alcohol in them) about what Stackoverflow has become. Jeff especially was absolutely hardcore on perfection, I can't imagine he wouldn't be freaking out on some level with this nonsense."}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 34891934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34891934", "by": "darthrupert", "time": 1677043160, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 34899944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34899944", "by": "burkaman", "time": 1677089184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowingly: https://www.propublica.org/article/youtube-promised-to-label... > YouTube decided against labeling 22 channels identified by ProPublica, but it's not entirely clear why. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-uses-youtube-an... > YouTube said the clips did not violate its community guidelines. > The warehouse accounts on YouTube have attracted more than 480,000 views in total. People on YouTube, TikTok and other platforms have cited the testimonials to argue that all is well in Xinjiang \u2014 and received hundreds of thousands of additional views. https://themarkup.org/google-the-"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 34903652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34903652", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1677103769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I do use the similar feature in the Overcast Podcast Player for most podcasts where the story telling is not important but for audio books, I\u2019m more about the experience of the book. I could just read it but an audiobook is more enveloping."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34905064, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34905064", "by": "000ooo000", "time": 1677111534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andrew Huberman of Huberman Lab podcast discusses this in the first 4-5 episodes of the podcast. The takeaway is: it's late-night bright light, rather than blue light, that has effects on the circadian rhythm. It's an appeal to authority but I think I'll go with the professor of neurobiology and opthalmology on this one."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 34905560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34905560", "by": "notfunnyrando", "time": 1677115383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard on a Joe Rogan Podcast with a CIA 'influencer' that the Federal Reserve is now laundering cartel money through Colorado's legal pot dispensaries"}, {"show": "1772772350", "hn_item": 34915594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34915594", "by": "dtaht", "time": 1677182187, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 34918743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918743", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1677197287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A bunch of successful media empires owe their success to NPR and PBS. So many shows modeled after This Old House So many cooking shows. So many podcasts modeled after This American Life and Radiolab. It goes on and on."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 34918743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918743", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1677197287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A bunch of successful media empires owe their success to NPR and PBS. So many shows modeled after This Old House So many cooking shows. So many podcasts modeled after This American Life and Radiolab. It goes on and on."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 34924987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34924987", "by": "Cenk", "time": 1677250075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \u201cReply All\u201d podcast had an episode about this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34929902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929902", "by": "jasode", "time": 1677271624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">What do people think that this push to get knowledge workers working back in the office mostly revolves around? Well, the ugly topic that most workers really don't want to discuss is that management at Google/Meta/Apple/etc thought productivity severely decreased from remote work. It was interesting listening to the guys at the All-In Podcast saying too many remote employees were goofing off and/or secretly working for multiple employers (and bragging about it on TikTok). COVID was the prime opportunity for workers to convince companies that zero productivity would be lost (or even higher pro"}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 34930441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34930441", "by": "caoilte", "time": 1677274512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> One limiting factor was that this wasn't scalable - so a lot of people would be comfortable with it because there is little potential for widespread abuse - there just aren't enough resources to search & monitor everyone's mail and houses at all times. It's recently started to emerge that US opened and censored all international mail 1950-1989. We're talking millions of letters a week. It started as a measure to remove all reference to US use of biological weapons in the Korean War and grew from there. (the third season of the Blowback Podcast did a couple of interviews which covered it real"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 34939607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34939607", "by": "mirkules", "time": 1677353095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The goal of environmental initiatives is to try to ensure the environment stays habitable to humans for longer. The goal of companies is to be profitable. The ultimate goal, then, is to find an intersection between those two concepts that makes sense for both the environment and profitability. \"Reduce, reuse, recycle\" is the order in which this is achieved, from least to most expensive. Recycling has become incredibly expensive [1] and it's hardly making financial sense anymore. \"Reducing\" is the least expensive because it doesn't require any energy, but we (consumers) like to buy stuff, so on"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 34941278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34941278", "by": "ryukafalz", "time": 1677365493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Atlantic certainly doesn't read as right-wing to me. It does seem however that there's been some more awareness on the left lately of cases where too much red tape can hurt progressive causes. This recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show had a good perspective, I think: https://nytimes.com/2023/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ni..."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34941468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34941468", "by": "samdotdesign", "time": 1677367272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey. I\u2019m Sam, lead designer on the Adobe Podcast team. Sorry about this! The enhance speech feature is down, something happened overnight. We\u2019re on the move for getting a fix out as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience! We\u2019re really sorry about the inconvenience."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34941521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34941521", "by": "felpeth", "time": 1677367622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you have an estimate of when the service will return? I have Videos to post on YouTube, and I need Adobe podcast to handle the audio, this will delay my schedule"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 34944268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34944268", "by": "cm2187", "time": 1677403997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And also Iannucci managed to make a comedy while addressing the horror and brutality of his regime which I didn't think was possible (though there was also Benigni's Life is Beautiful). It's a comedy with an execution every 10 minutes. The last season of the Revolutions podcast from Mike Duncan, mostly focuses on the Lenin era but does cover the ruthlessness of Stalin from way before he got even close to power, all the way to his accession to power."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 34945695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34945695", "by": "ttul", "time": 1677420991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The This Week In Virology podcast has been talking about the lab leak concept since the early days of the pandemic, with various experts opining on the likelihood. In [1], the expert discusses how the virus itself does not seem engineered; it\u2019s most likely a naturally created virus. However, this is exactly the sort of virus that they study at the BSL4 lab in Wuhan, quite legitimately - and they produce good science from this work. But because this is China, if a lab accident happened, it won\u2019t be getting reported in the media. It\u2019s a state secret. The Energy Department gave a low probability "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 34946635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946635", "by": "alphabetting", "time": 1677428101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest Sam Harris podcast with Alina Chan who wrote a book on the lab theory is fantastic."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 34953442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953442", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1677476744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Fall of Civilizations does a great job of telling the astounding, heartbreaking story of how Tenochtitlan got conquered by the Spanish. What really blew my mind is that it was not at all inevitable. It always seemed to me growing up that the Europeans took over the Americas due to superior tech or something, but I don't think that's true at all. I also had to confront the complex reality that the Aztecs were certainly not some kind of benevolent empire, nonetheless, the conquest was an incredible humanitarian catastrophe."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 34957888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34957888", "by": "kashyapc", "time": 1677513474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[Hi, I am not trying to be confrontational.] > [...] and then links to a page of advice on the internet [...] There's a world of difference between an armchair internet-dietitian (no, I'm not implying you are one) and a registered dietitian that is the \"director of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital\" (the author of the said article). It's not appeal to authority\u2014we have to start somewhere . That doesn't mean the said page is 100% accurate. > But let me ask about your personal experience with keto or fasting [...] No, I did not try Keto. Yes, I've don"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 34959440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959440", "by": "cullenking", "time": 1677519648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I will also say that getting your own labs done, even if you are footing the bill, is relatively cheap. You don't need to go to the doctor and have them refer you. Check out ulta labs (obtuse, some learning curve) if you want to DIY, otherwise there's a couple services out there that make the learning curve shorter. One I see come up a bunch is Inside Tracker. Health and fitness is a fun little side hobby that you can turn into a fairly intellectual exercise. Get hooked on Peter Attia's podcast, read a bunch of studies, get labs done, put together an exercise and nutrition plan and then get DX"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34959905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959905", "by": "kkielhofner", "time": 1677521650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As has happened many times throughout history (back to mainframes and thin clients of the 90s) there are swings/trends in how infrastructure is hosted. Listening to the \u201cAll In Podcast\u201d yesterday even those guys were talking about revenue drops in the big cloud services and noting we\u2019re currently in the midst of a swing back to self-hosting/co-location/whatever thinking and migrations out. IMHO those building greenfield solution today should take a hard look at whether the default approach from the last ~10 years \u201cof course you build in $BIGCLOUD\u201d makes sense for the application - in many case"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34962226, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34962226", "by": "__derek__", "time": 1677533866, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Recent-ish episode of the Odd Lots podcast that's relevant: What Truckers Already Know About the Future of Electronic Worker Surveillance.[1] [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-truckers-already-..."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 34965727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34965727", "by": "mhb", "time": 1677559567, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 34968414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968414", "by": "A_Venom_Roll", "time": 1677586194, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for sharing this. This month there was a interesting Retronauts podcast episode [0] about Popeye in which not only this version, but also Don Priestley spectrum version was discussed [0] https://retronauts.com/article/2013/retronauts-episode-513-p..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 34972415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972415", "by": "forkerenok", "time": 1677606598, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IIRC, on Darknet Diaries podcast they shared that one of the approaches is that someone comes to a location that services T-Mobile customers and has T-Mobile terminal (not necessarily a T-Mobile brand boutique shop). They come with a random request and wait for an employee to sign into the terminal and then pull it out of their hands and run away. They then run against the clock (whatever time it takes to report theft to central T-Mobile office and block the device) to perpetrate the fraud. I guess a second factor confirmation on every modifying request would solve the issue?"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 34977815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977815", "by": "daly", "time": 1677636177, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is interesting. A group of internationally known virologists have a video podcast. They have nearly 1000 casts and have interviewed virologists worldwide. See This Week in Virology ( https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ ) They have said that they do not believe it would be possible, given the current state of research, to engineer Sars-Cov2 I'm more likely to take the opinion of world experts in Virology than the Director of the FBI. Your opinion may differ."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 34977983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977983", "by": "jlhawn", "time": 1677637474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of the Odd Lots Podcast (Feb. 27, 2023) titled \"Why We Don't Build More Apartments for Families\" > On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we explore the hidden incentives and regulations that deter builders from making more family-friendly buildings."}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 34978013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34978013", "by": "mcint", "time": 1677637719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For someone doing related work in the open (and least remarkably in the open), Oxide Computer told some storied about the difficulty of bring up of a new motherboard, and mentioned a lot of gotcha details and hack solutions for managing their AMD chip. They talked about their bring up sequence, boot chain verification on their motherboard, and designing / creating / verifying their hardware root of trust. I heard mention of this on a podcast recently, trying to find the reference. I'm pretty sure it was [S3] - \"Tales from the Bringup Lab\" https://lnns.co/FBf5oLpyHK3 - or \"More Tales from the B"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 34981189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34981189", "by": "Tepix", "time": 1677670390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, check out the Lex Friedman podcast episode #333 around minute 52 where Andrew Karpathy talks about the OpenAI project \"World of Bits\" that did this. https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?t=3013"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 34982987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34982987", "by": "boringg", "time": 1677682126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a podcast recently (Maybe Ian Leslie on EconTalk) talking about people who are goal seeking vs people who get pleasure out of the process. The people who are goal seeking achieve their next goal but are never satiated - once achieved they need something to fill that \"hole\". It seems he might be one of those goal objective people. It's obviously more complicated than that but it does make a lot of sense intuitively."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 34984013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34984013", "by": "sammybhie", "time": 1677687404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is Adobe podcast broken again? I am having issues with it now"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 34984532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34984532", "by": "grej", "time": 1677689323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related comment I head on the All In Podcast related to flipping OpenAI to closed-source and for-profit, \"Sam Altman is the Kaiser S\u00f6ze of this generation.\""}, {"show": "886009669", "hn_item": 34985674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985674", "by": "goatlover", "time": 1677693187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What is your opinion on the NPR Reveal podcast episode about how the prominence of reading recovery instead of phonics has led to 1/3 of children by fourth grade reading at a substandard level?"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 34997334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34997334", "by": "mastax", "time": 1677772811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember CGP Grey talked about staying with his wife's family in rural Hawaii, on his Cortex podcast. His address included something like \"take a left at the big tree\". The additional complication was that the USPS wouldn't deliver to the house, so they got a PO box, which is common in rural areas. But the USPS won't allow private carriers to deliver to PO boxes. So you need to use a different address depending on which carrier is taking the package. A lot of stores (Amazon!) won't tell you which carrier they're going to use! So he would see packages slowly make their way to his island, then"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 35002793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35002793", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1677795035, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ah, at first I confused the name with Gaspard (Duval), a photographer who documents the catacombs. He did an episode of the Duolingo podcast: https://podcast.duolingo.com/episode-86-paris-les-catacombes..."}, {"show": "872292891", "hn_item": 35006807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35006807", "by": "vishnugupta", "time": 1677828442, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ">...because other managers are terrible... It's interesting you should say this because this is one of the categories of Bullshit jobs as defined by David Graeber in his book. And incidentally only y'day I was listening to him on a podcast[1] speaking about BS jobs. His favourite example is corporate lawyers. Companies are forced to hire them just because other companies have them and are in fear of getting sued. I hadn't thought of managers to fall in this category, which makes sense. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/srsly-wrong/id87229289..."}, {"show": "1673732491", "hn_item": 35012070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012070", "by": "findelsberger", "time": 1677862477, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 35012070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012070", "by": "findelsberger", "time": 1677862477, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 35044397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044397", "by": "asebold", "time": 1678124573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author here - Sorry about that. Since I haven't been much of a success, I didn't think people would be interested in my recommendations. But here are a few that I found really helpful: Indie Hacker Podcast (the forum on the site was also a great resource for me): https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast How I Built This Podcast: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this Stacking the Bricks: https://stackingthebricks.com/ Books: The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris, The E-myth by Michael Gerber, Running Lean by Ash Maurya As the other posted said, any resources provided by MicroConf ar"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 35044397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35044397", "by": "asebold", "time": 1678124573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author here - Sorry about that. Since I haven't been much of a success, I didn't think people would be interested in my recommendations. But here are a few that I found really helpful: Indie Hacker Podcast (the forum on the site was also a great resource for me): https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast How I Built This Podcast: https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this Stacking the Bricks: https://stackingthebricks.com/ Books: The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris, The E-myth by Michael Gerber, Running Lean by Ash Maurya As the other posted said, any resources provided by MicroConf ar"}, {"show": "1123461944", "hn_item": 35048798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35048798", "by": "dzhiurgis", "time": 1678142396, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Listen to a podcast about them, it's quite amazing what they able to achieve: https://podcasts.apple.com/lt/podcast/garrett-langley-standi... TLDL: licence plates can be stolen, but they still can identify cars by unique features like scratches, dents, mods, tyres, etc."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35052320, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35052320", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1678171304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Katherine de Kleer said \"It's like Io is the massive polluter of the Jupiter system\" on the Lex Fridman podcast #184, the Io part starts ~14mins in for the curious"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35054282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35054282", "by": "peter_d_sherman", "time": 1678189600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266 (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2G3PhGm-g"}, {"show": "78780644", "hn_item": 35070805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070805", "by": "schwartzworld", "time": 1678292011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant podcast: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-97-porch-pirate-p..."}, {"show": "1161880916", "hn_item": 35071255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35071255", "by": "tosh", "time": 1678293874, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35073603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603", "by": "genmon", "time": 1678303694, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I ask"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 35074305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074305", "by": "ehershey", "time": 1678307289, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35074386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074386", "by": "astroalex", "time": 1678307715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love this project!! Ever since my partner and I discovered In Our Time a few years back, it\u2019s been our go-to podcast to listen to together. Part of the allure is that the archive is so vast, but that makes it hard to browse. My partner made her own archive of In Our Time here, if you\u2019re interested: https://shelby.cool/melvyn/ She used Wikipedia to find and categorize each episode. I also really like that she indexed episodes by guest, too. Certain guests are REALLY good and have been on many episodes. Super excited to see someone else make an archive; we\u2019ll definitely be exploring yours!"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35074746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074746", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1678309698, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's really impressive. I've had a mild idea for ages to have a sort of annotated In Our Time. Listening to the podcast on a webpage as the text rolls by links could appear to explain or give background to the item or person being discussed. SMIL is the multi-media mark up language. Generally if one thinks of something there's someone on the Internet who has already had that idea. Additional: I think the BBC is very careful about transciptions. They've sold a book of the transcripts of several episodes, but it would be a great way to go through a subject."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 35074895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074895", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1678310470, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35074898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074898", "by": "EamonnMR", "time": 1678310493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time is one of the best podcasts out there. Are there any similar ones?"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35076330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35076330", "by": "viburnum", "time": 1678318992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love it! \"In Our Time\" is the first podcast I listened to, way back in 2004, and I still listen to every episode."}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 35076362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35076362", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1678319187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Woah. Ok dude, I'll try to help you out here, but be advised that I am not a super duper expert on these things. Just a rando on HN. Most of my evidence here is fueled by what I've been seeing and hearing via the internet, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm, thankfully, not in theater. That said, these sources do seem to be 'experts' of some sort or another behind their own fog of war: War on the Rocks, podcast and online Foreign Policy Magazine, online edition Washington Post, print and online New York Times, print and online Philips P O'Brien, publications and twitter Trent Telenko, interv"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 35079699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079699", "by": "gadders", "time": 1678354723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is pretty cool. If you like In Our Time, I would also suggest the BBC World Service equivalent, The Forum. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p004kln9 It's also a shame the BBC delays the In Our Time podcast by a month unless you use their shite BBC Sounds app (which I think only exists to make the Spotify app look good in comparison)."}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 35087811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35087811", "by": "nh23423fefe", "time": 1678401341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "found the boring autocomplete criticism and the timnit is a genius blurb > AI has all the hallmarks of a classic pump-and-dump, starting with terminology. AI isn't \"artificial\" and it's not \"intelligent.\" \"Machine learning\" doesn't learn. On this week's Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete \u2013 not our new robot overlord. \"some podcast told me ai is nothing but autocomplete, i will now use this bad analogy unthinkingly\" > the \"stochastic parrots\" paper, a comprehensive, measured roundup"}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 35091921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35091921", "by": "mschuster91", "time": 1678436745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> AI has all the hallmarks of a classic pump-and-dump, starting with terminology. AI isn't \"artificial\" and it's not \"intelligent.\" \"Machine learning\" doesn't learn. On this week's Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete \u2013 not our new robot overlord. For what it's worth: a lot of \"office work\" is repetitive bullshit that could be done just as well with decent automation or assisting \"artificial intelligence\" (=lawyers writing letters, ...)."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 35095367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35095367", "by": "JoeJonathan", "time": 1678461409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kevin Roose made some version of it on the Hard Fork podcast."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 35096277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096277", "by": "specialist", "time": 1678464676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pure gold. And I just love the format. Hobbes and Sarah Marshall's \"You're Wrong About\" podcast, also golden, introduced the \"moral panic\" phenomenon to me. Explains so much ."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35103547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103547", "by": "uoaei", "time": 1678495063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Notably, chemistry is the lowest-level \"layer of abstraction\" on physical reality where this is true. Unless you consider category or set theory \"real\". I forget whether it was on Complexity podcast from SFI, or on Prof. Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast, but this insight can be attributed to Dr. Sara Imari Walker."}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 35103547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103547", "by": "uoaei", "time": 1678495063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Notably, chemistry is the lowest-level \"layer of abstraction\" on physical reality where this is true. Unless you consider category or set theory \"real\". I forget whether it was on Complexity podcast from SFI, or on Prof. Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast, but this insight can be attributed to Dr. Sara Imari Walker."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35106067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35106067", "by": "triggercut", "time": 1678516723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember listening to an episode of Odd Lots a couple of months back discussing how someone was using the the Fed Discount Window. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnR... I'm not finance savvy enough to determine if this fits, but I've been wondering if some kind of event might follow"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 35107079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107079", "by": "notadev", "time": 1678530372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast This American Life did a story on Adrian in 2010. You can hear parts of the audio recordings as well. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/414/right-to-remain-silent/..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35109904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109904", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1678552628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really good explainer podcast by NPR's Planet Money back in 2009 on the FDIC takeover of a community bank in Washington State which covers this: \"Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover\" (2009) On a mid-January night, some 80 agents of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. pull into Vancouver, Wash. Their rental cars are generic, their arrival times staggered. One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk. They're here to take over the Bank of Clark County, which the FDIC has decided is insolvent. It's the agency's job to insure American bank depo"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35109927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35109927", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1678552753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Beat me to the punch by about an hour ;-) I just tried submitting this. This was a really good explainer podcast by NPR's Planet Money back in 2009 on the FDIC takeover of a community bank in Washington State which covers this: Among other aspects, it addresses what happens to employees of the failed bank: The FDIC agents announce that, through the weekend, the staffers will be temporary employees of the FDIC. Stay and help us, the agents say. FDIC liquidators themselves often come from previously-failed banks as well, though that's a small fraction of former banks' employees. (Obvious relatio"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 35110340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35110340", "by": "chronicom", "time": 1678554793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very intriguing podcast episode by Stuff You Should Know about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I would definitely recommend giving it a listen to anyone who is interested in the story of the wreckage. They also touched on how Lightfoot modified the lyrics in his song to reflect new findings, which was a very kind thing of him to do, especially when you consider that many families lost loved ones in the tragic accident."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35111090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111090", "by": "notlukesky", "time": 1678559319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They mentioned this report in the All In Podcast this week."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35119704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35119704", "by": "studentrob", "time": 1678626948, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Wonder what Sacks will say. He was saying there should be more regulation on All In https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35120904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120904", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1678633723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with you. I listened to the usually fantastic All In Podcast yesterday. Usually, I find the content very interesting but yesterday I felt like all four of them were all about protecting their little world. To me, it sounds like SVB cut a lot of corners and SV customers enjoyed advantages of some of these cut corners. I am deeply sympathetic to people who may not get paid for a while, or have their startups go under. That said, there are precise laws covering what the FDIC can and can not do. I think the general public is tired of very connected people and companies getting special trea"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35122335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35122335", "by": "starkd", "time": 1678639188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested, the All-In podcast did an excellent job covering this on Friday. Particularly, David Sacks stressed this would not be a bailout, but merely backstopping deposits. SVB did nothing illegal or wrong, so it is not an Enron situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEee7dAk25c"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 35122525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35122525", "by": "hoofhearted", "time": 1678639877, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recently listened to an episode of the How I Built This podcast with one of the members of the PayPal mafia. He mentioned that one of Peter Thiels greatest abilities is to spot and predict upcoming economic declines. Max Levchin said that Peter seemed to always know when to get in and out of markets. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35122740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35122740", "by": "paxys", "time": 1678640676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is the latest Joe Rogan podcast out already?"}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 35123680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35123680", "by": "kennywinker", "time": 1678644021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did they control for anti-fat bias? Unlikely. Especially in the medical system, fat people don't get their body issues taken seriously. The stress of being treated poorly by everyone in your life undoubtedly has a huge impact on your lifespan. Did they control for efforts to change you body? Most fat people are trying to be thinner. Plenty of ways that people are told to change their body involve extreme stress to your body (caloric restriction, extreme diets, stimulant pills). Did you know that being underweight is ALSO associated with health problems, sometimes as extreme as the ones associa"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 35125033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35125033", "by": "mindcrime", "time": 1678649434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of my favorites include: Professor Leonard (math: mostly lectures) - https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard Math Sorcerer (math: book reviews, lectures, comedy, etc) - https://www.youtube.com/@TheMathSorcerer Up and Atom (science) - https://www.youtube.com/@upandatom Physics Girl (science) (sidebar: get healthy again soon Diana!) - https://www.youtube.com/@physicsgirl Last Best Tool (tool reviews) - https://www.youtube.com/@lastbesttool Torque Test Channel (tool tests: sometimes destructive) - https://www.youtube.com/@TorqueTestChannel NC Bassin' (bass fishing: mostly on Lake Norman in"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35128622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35128622", "by": "kamikaz1k", "time": 1678666274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People who want a full picture and like listening to a conversation instead of an article can listen to the recent All-In Podcast episode which discusses root cause and options. https://youtu.be/CEee7dAk25c"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35128738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35128738", "by": "0xDEF", "time": 1678666796, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "lol The right-libertarian techbros at All-In Podcast are the last people who will tell you the truth about this. They are at the core of the rot. David Sacks will probably do his usual monologue blaming dead Ukrainian children."}, {"show": "1611851260", "hn_item": 35130785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35130785", "by": "bfdm", "time": 1678679588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Warren* Mosler, one of yhe founders of Modern Monetary Theory. Lead author was Phil Armstrong, and he did a great discussiom of the paper on the MMT podcast."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 35131989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35131989", "by": "refurb", "time": 1678689966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looking forward to the Econtalk podcast on this. Russ Roberts usually has some pretty knowledgeable people on who know behind the scenes stuff. Should be fascinating what comes out over the next few months."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35137647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35137647", "by": "ex3xu", "time": 1678723595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think your understanding will improve if you view the content of this link as nothing but a scathing review of the book in question. I get the sense that your confusion comes from thinking that the linked article is trying to make points about the subject of the book, when really the point of the review is to trash the book as a waste of time (while recommending better options, linked throughout the review). For instance, when the reviewer states \"Problems with style and pacing are problems of thinking\", the primary intent is not to make some sort of generalized insight applicable to you, bu"}, {"show": "1610914569", "hn_item": 35142980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35142980", "by": "dools", "time": 1678742696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Dave Troy podcast Dave Troy Presents"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 35151240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35151240", "by": "karlmdavis", "time": 1678800947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cYear of Efficiency\u201d? Hoo boy\u2026 is Zuck picking up his management strategies from a podcast/YouTube channel? I mean, I shouldn\u2019t/wouldn\u2019t be surprised by that but still, wow. Playing in the kiddie pool. (Strongly reminiscent of the Cortex podcast\u2019s \u201cyearly themes\u201d. Which I like! But\u2026 I\u2019m not running one of the world\u2019s largest companies, am I?)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 35154236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154236", "by": "shadowgovt", "time": 1678811840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Radiolab as entertainment podcasting, but it's worth knowing that they're surface-skimming their topics and frequently make meaningful errors on the details. I recall vaguely a story they did about how it was hard to walk straight while blindfolded and how weird that was, and I immediately flashed back to a college professor demonstrating this in a controls theory class... But as a proof of how inaccuracy mounts in an open-loop control system, because that's actually entirely expected (the odds random error would sum consistently to zero is what would be weird and unexpected)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35158911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158911", "by": "unsupp0rted", "time": 1678828846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve been a Kurzweil supporter since high school, but to the wider world he was a crackpot (inventor who should stick to his lane) who had made a couple randomly lucky predictions. He wasn\u2019t taken seriously, especially not when he painted a future of spiritual machines. Recently on the Lex Fridman podcast he himself said as much: his predictions seemed impossible and practically religious in the late 90s and up until fairly recently, but now experts in the field are lowering their projections every year for when the Turing test will be passed. Half of their projections are now coming in line w"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35158968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158968", "by": "barking_biscuit", "time": 1678829025, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">UI stuff just has an input problem. But it is not that hard to think that ChatGPT could place widgets once it can consume images and has a way to move a mouse. I remember one of the OpenAI guys on Lex Fridman podcast talking about how one of the early things they tried and failed at was training a model that could use websites, and he alluded to maybe giving it another go once the tech had matured a bit. I think with GPT-4 being multi-modal, it's potentially a very close to being able to do this with the right architecture wrapped around it. I can imaging an agent using LangChain and feed it "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 35161780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35161780", "by": "jabloczko", "time": 1678839784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I've noted is that GPT is really good at things that have really good documentation. The example of kube-tf in this repo is a perfect example. The Kubernetes documentation and all of Hashicorp's documentation is excellent. GPT will have infinite examples of good code to stitch together code for the task in this example. Now I've been running a private cloud at work on the OpenNebula platform, which has documentation that is definitely lacking. I tried to ask GPT to write some basic code in Python such as \"Give me a list of VMs from the OpenNebula API in a powered off state that have a sta"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35162360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35162360", "by": "sanderjd", "time": 1678843086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The disconnect comes from the question of whether there is actually a magical thing where government can provide insurance to private entities without it costing society anything. Of course that magic doesn't actually exist. Public subsidies always cost something. I liked this definition of what a bailout is, which meshes with mine but puts it in better words, via Dan Davies on today's Odd Lots podcast: > \"When the state steps in and provides insurance so that something economically destructive doesn't happen.\""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35171312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35171312", "by": "dragonwriter", "time": 1678899804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I liked this definition of what a bailout is, which meshes with mine but puts it in better words, via Dan Davies on today's Odd Lots podcast: > \"When the state steps in and provides insurance so that something economically destructive doesn't happen.\" So the FDIC existing is a bailout to start with, so arguing over whether SVB should get a bailout isn\u2019t about the systemic risk exception being invoked at all, but about the existence of public deposit insurance in any form ?"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 35172961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35172961", "by": "tosh", "time": 1678906209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Founders at Work (2007) [0] is a great read. Looking fwd to tune in to the podcast this weekend. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_at_Work"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 35175153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35175153", "by": "breck", "time": 1678916720, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1310192007", "hn_item": 35190167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35190167", "by": "christophilus", "time": 1679007793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There were plenty of financial podcasts that were saying, \u201cwhy don\u2019t we just keep doing this?\u201d Animal Spirits, for example."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35193121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35193121", "by": "dforrestwilson", "time": 1679027293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That first part is fine. Killing risk is key. But within 24 hours we had VCs from Founder\u2019s Fund and the All In podcast personas who intentionally and knowingly fueled a panic on social media. That panic was designed to benefit them and it worked, to the detriment of everyone reading this who has a deposit at a US bank, and who will now be assessed a fee to cover the cost."}, {"show": "1482715810", "hn_item": 35198428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198428", "by": "troydavis", "time": 1679067313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CSIS conducted some of the most detailed simulations of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and a US-led defense. For more, listen to part 3 of this episode of \"The Red Line\" podcast: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/episode-90-east-asian... (starting at 51:36). It's an interview with the leader of this war game series. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2023/01/csis-wargame-ch... is another analysis of CSIS\u2019s sim (and includes outside perspectives), but the interview above is easier to follow."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 35202971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35202971", "by": "savanaly", "time": 1679087561, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Conversations with Tyler is an interview podcast hosted by economics professor and blogger Tyler Cowen. Ahead of episodes releasing he frequently polls his commenters about what he should ask his next guest, and in this case he is implying his next guest will be Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) as depicted by GPT. It's unclear to me if this post is some meta-satire or genuine."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 35204836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35204836", "by": "HybridCurve", "time": 1679100377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Similarly related: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-u-s-media-so-negativ... Freakonomics had a decent episode which explained some of these mechanisms."}, {"show": "1526490428", "hn_item": 35205227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35205227", "by": "ttyprintk", "time": 1679103838, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This interview explains how nukes can be misplaced, and the nightmarish amount of paperwork afterward: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i..."}, {"show": "1526490428", "hn_item": 35205588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35205588", "by": "ttyprintk", "time": 1679108029, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Iirc, 3 of the 4 safety systems had tripped. This switch is an actual, wired switch. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35205796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35205796", "by": "davideg", "time": 1679110602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mornings that I spend outside experiencing my five senses and staying in my body leave me feeling refreshed, grounded, and energized[1]. From this place I tend to have more attention and patience. I seem to have better access to empathy. Mornings that I spend from the minute I open my eyes glued to my phone screen leave me feeling basically the opposite. My attention is completely fractured. My general sense that I'm okay is harder to access and instead I often feel baseline anxiety and uneasiness. I feel less patient and more judgemental. I can't claim that this causes me to be more caustic o"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35209216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35209216", "by": "haswell", "time": 1679148271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Convincing people that sleep is a problem worth caring about is half the battle. There are many resources available that get into the practical/tactical aspect of improving sleep. But if you don't believe sleep is a problem yet, you won't seek those out. The Huberman Lab has put out a number of good resources for this [0] including a podcast episode speaking with Matt Walker, PhD, sleep researcher and author of Why we Sleep [1] (also a good read). I've been a night owl for most of my life, and only more recently did I fully realize how connected this behavior was to traumatic situations growin"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 35210244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210244", "by": "jmyeet", "time": 1679155790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recommendation: the Hardcore History podcast by Dan Carlin [1]. He has a series on the Kings of Ancient Persia and an episode on Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Dan talks about this concept a lot. In his words, who invented the light bulb doesn't matter. If someone didn't do it someone else would. But what is far more interesting are these turning points in history that could've completely changed the course of civilization. What if Alexander the Great hadn't died? Dan mentions one of the Kings of Persia was responsible for rebuilding the Temple of Solomon without which Judaism may well have died o"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 35211652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35211652", "by": "ilamont", "time": 1679163386, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fellow '91 BU grad. Loved reading this. Don't know the author, but I did know many of the places mentioned. Not sure where the loft was located, but it sounds like the area around Fort Point channel which used to be an artists colony (and also near the site of the infamous Channel nightclub) which is now one of the most expensive pieces of luxury real estate in Boston, the \"Seaport\" district. One observation about 80s and '90s tech communities: it's fascinating how groups of people would coalesce around interests, schools, small businesses, or whatever. In Taiwan, my landlord's eldest son eage"}, {"show": "1346207297", "hn_item": 35212652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35212652", "by": "brianjking", "time": 1679170239, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/supermarket-supermerge... https://www.vox.com/money/23641875/food-grocery-inflation-pr..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35219188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35219188", "by": "jasode", "time": 1679235752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">The largest shareholder who owns 10% of the company was asked if he was going to put up more cash last week and he categorically said he won't. This arguably started/accelerated the fall, he probably regrets that now. All-In Podcast said that a plausible reason for the Saudi Arabian investor capping at 9.9% was due to government rules. Deep link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYwfiqYocc0&t=11m20s That said, I have no idea if the government rules about owning more than 10% is just a minor inconvenience or a A Really Big Deal."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35220376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35220376", "by": "starkd", "time": 1679242122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quite a few. I try to listen to what everyone is saying. It always makes me nervous when the media seem to march in lockstep. Looks into what David Sacks has been saying. He got into it on the ALL-in podcast a couple of weeks ago, but you can find him on Twitter. He says the corruption in Ukraine right now is off the charts. Higher than anything in any corrupt Latin American country. Its difficult to decipher what is going on in Ukraine right now, because there's so much propaganda from all sides."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 35221794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35221794", "by": "paulcole", "time": 1679249277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast is a good mix of informative and entertaining. Daring Fireball is also a regular listen for me for similar reasons. For both of these, I like that the hosts are clearly biased."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 35221834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35221834", "by": "andrefuchs", "time": 1679249546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is my favorite podcast. (darknetdiaries.com)"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35221970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35221970", "by": "layer8", "time": 1679250373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the thought experiment you describe, I think the premise is that there won\u2019t be any suffering for yourself, because the poison will kill you when you\u2019re asleep. (Of course, family and friends may suffer after your death.) Morality in many-worlds is an interesting question. It\u2019s a topic that sometimes come up in Sean Carroll\u2019s Mindscape podcast (for example in [0] IIRC), you may be interested in that. Personally I don\u2019t think it matters in practice, because whether you will do that experiment or not (or maybe rather, in which branches you will do that experiment) is already predetermined by "}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 35222204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222204", "by": "Strongbad536", "time": 1679251923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Techmeme Ride Home ( https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/ ) - Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod ( https://techpod.content.town/ ) - Pivot ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot ) - The Vergecast ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast ) - Decoder ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel ) - Daily Tech News Show ( https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ ) - Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) ( https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork ) Going more specifically into Software - Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 35222204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222204", "by": "Strongbad536", "time": 1679251923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Techmeme Ride Home ( https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/ ) - Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod ( https://techpod.content.town/ ) - Pivot ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot ) - The Vergecast ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast ) - Decoder ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel ) - Daily Tech News Show ( https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ ) - Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) ( https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork ) Going more specifically into Software - Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 35222204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222204", "by": "Strongbad536", "time": 1679251923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Techmeme Ride Home ( https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/ ) - Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod ( https://techpod.content.town/ ) - Pivot ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot ) - The Vergecast ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast ) - Decoder ( https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel ) - Daily Tech News Show ( https://dailytechnewsshow.com/ ) - Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) ( https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork ) Going more specifically into Software - Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 35222212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222212", "by": "jacksgt", "time": 1679251978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"CoRecursive: Coding Stories\" (from Adam Gordon Bell) is one of the Podcasts I look forward to the most. Incredible high production value, yet very personal and down to earth. Probably one of the best episodes is the interview with Andreas Kling, the author of Serenity OS https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 35222251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222251", "by": "guilhas", "time": 1679252296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Commandline Heros - https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes I Spy - https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ispy Security Now - https://twit.tv/shows/security-now Floss weekly - https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35222258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222258", "by": "dan_lannan", "time": 1679252366, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers. -- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b... https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f... -- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4... -- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35222258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222258", "by": "dan_lannan", "time": 1679252366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex is great. Some of my favorite episodes of him are with some really cool software engineers. -- Chris Lattner -> Wrote the LLVM Compiler and lead/(leads?) development of the Swift programming language. Done a bunch of other cool things with RISC-V development too -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/5fpAb2OpRL3Uy8ZTq94vD8?si=b... https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fzFCgBznLjKvG2tJFLk3I?si=f... -- Bjarne Stroustrup -> Creator of C++ programming language -- https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nfoXUYySjgyCtJVglb5LV?si=4... -- David Patterson -> Turing Award Winner (Don't remember exactly what this"}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 35222440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222440", "by": "rlawson", "time": 1679253347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Django Chat Talk Python To Me The Real Python Podcast"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 35222440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222440", "by": "rlawson", "time": 1679253347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Django Chat Talk Python To Me The Real Python Podcast"}, {"show": "1451536459", "hn_item": 35222440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35222440", "by": "rlawson", "time": 1679253347, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Django Chat Talk Python To Me The Real Python Podcast"}, {"show": "994349813", "hn_item": 35223840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35223840", "by": "slyall", "time": 1679261284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI the author of the article is Rose Eveleth and she did the excellent \"Flash Forward\" podcast. She's recently wound it up but I'd recommend the old episodes (probably don't start with the final season though). https://roseveleth.com/"}, {"show": "1570691014", "hn_item": 35225278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225278", "by": "trowers_newz", "time": 1679270798, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 35228367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35228367", "by": "Hapa", "time": 1679297422, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 35232325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232325", "by": "dileep31", "time": 1679323803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my Data Engineering and Data Science list: Data Stack show ( https://datastackshow.com/ ) Data Engineering podcast ( https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/ ) Data Skeptic ( https://dataskeptic.com/ ) The Data Scientist Show ( https://www.youtube.com/c/thedatascientistshow/videos ) I also like Business wars but that's not \"tech\" exactly."}, {"show": "890348705", "hn_item": 35232325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35232325", "by": "dileep31", "time": 1679323803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my Data Engineering and Data Science list: Data Stack show ( https://datastackshow.com/ ) Data Engineering podcast ( https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/ ) Data Skeptic ( https://dataskeptic.com/ ) The Data Scientist Show ( https://www.youtube.com/c/thedatascientistshow/videos ) I also like Business wars but that's not \"tech\" exactly."}, {"show": "1570829565", "hn_item": 35235539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35235539", "by": "fdgsdfogijq", "time": 1679334392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What people arent saying: VCs received cheap loans and financial services from SVB if they got their portfolio companies to bank with SVB. There were in some sense backdoor deals, which resulted in these odd loans and bad portfolios. It was all built on an assumption of cheap capital. People are not discussing how incestuous SVB was with VCs, and many will get off the hook for unethical financial behavior. I dont think calling SVB poorly run is accurate, it was run for profits. The decision making is opaque at this point, and my guess is if the curtain is pulled back, it was run exactly as int"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 35236454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236454", "by": "bcantrill", "time": 1679337479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hubris is a part of booting on our systems in that it executes on both our root of trust and on our service processor -- but both of these execute long before the host CPU. To understand how we boot our host CPU (AMD Milan) on an Oxide compute sled, see my OSFC 2022 talk[0][1], as well as the episode of our Oxide and Friends podcast on holistic boot.[2] [0] https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bi... [1] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-... [2] https://share.transistor.fm/s/24beb248"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 35237150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35237150", "by": "chatmasta", "time": 1679339991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested, the author of that patent, Salvatore (\"Sal\") Pais joined the Theories of Everything (TOE) Podcast to talk about it. It's worth a watch on a rainy Sunday (when I do most of my UAP \"research\" :D), but I'm not sure he does much to dispel the many reasons to be skeptical of this patent. If anything, he sounds more like a disinformation agent than someone with experimentally valid, groundbreaking physics. But it's a fun watch. Personally, in general, my justification for consuming UAP content is that it's led me down some really fascinating rabbit-holes of \"actual\" educational"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35237150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35237150", "by": "chatmasta", "time": 1679339991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested, the author of that patent, Salvatore (\"Sal\") Pais joined the Theories of Everything (TOE) Podcast to talk about it. It's worth a watch on a rainy Sunday (when I do most of my UAP \"research\" :D), but I'm not sure he does much to dispel the many reasons to be skeptical of this patent. If anything, he sounds more like a disinformation agent than someone with experimentally valid, groundbreaking physics. But it's a fun watch. Personally, in general, my justification for consuming UAP content is that it's led me down some really fascinating rabbit-holes of \"actual\" educational"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 35239742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239742", "by": "steveklabnik", "time": 1679351363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Server racks? Not just yet! Soon though. As we get closer, we\u2019ve talked about it more and more, see this recent Oxide and Friends, for example: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1200412 We also have a ton of projects on our GitHub, including the web framework we developed for our API that I\u2019m alluding to above. Of course, that\u2019s not the core product, but you can see what we\u2019ve got going on."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 35241800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241800", "by": "jeffhwang", "time": 1679365445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been using Overcast pretty much since it launched and I've also be listening to Marco's Accidental Tech Podcast for even longer. A bunch of changes over the years but still love the smart speed and other features. Glad to see indie developers can still make a sustainable living in the App Store!"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 35243729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35243729", "by": "afandian", "time": 1679387250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the Manager Tools podcast, especially the \u201chall of fame\u201d (HOF) episodes. Good advice but also friendly supportive chatter from people who\u2019ve done this all before."}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 35244109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35244109", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1679390844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently the Malicious Life podcast has been covering the Lawrence Berkeley hack in depth https://malicious.life/episode/episode-210/"}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 35245298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245298", "by": "SideburnsOfDoom", "time": 1679401985, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Japan's population .. Robots are one solution. FYI, the last episode of the \"Tech Won't save us\" podcast focuses on robots for elder care in Japan. Entitled \"Robots Aren\u2019t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright\" https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/robots-arent-the-solut..."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 35245360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245360", "by": "3pt14159", "time": 1679402438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you would like to understand the arguments they're out there. Arms Control Wonk blog and podcast. My personal view is that we should build them to shield from states like the DPRK, but the contrasting view is that it destabilizes Mutually Assured Destruction. We don't know how many of their missiles we'll be able to intercept in the event of a mass strike, so it could make our leaders overly confident to take actions that would escalate. That's the critique, and I think it has some merit, but I also think that there are people that I admire, like Jeffery Lewis, that hold that view or someth"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35245863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245863", "by": "nextworddev", "time": 1679405678, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman's podcast is a treasure trove of knowledge from eminent minds. I was wondering what'd it be like to simulate a chat with Lex Fridman and his show's guests. Features: - Simulated Q&A with a virtual Lex Fridman - Simulated chat with any guest appeared on his show - Search"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 35247904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247904", "by": "javiercr", "time": 1679413739, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On Episode 01 of The Social Radars podcast [1], Paul Buchheit, creator of GMail, explains that the Gmail invite-only beta was actually due to shortage in hardware and difficulties to scale the service, rather than a just a \"growth hack\". It seems they were running the service for a long time near 100% capacity. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0oRAHcP9g41jcEzpDtOa4b?si=1..."}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 35254339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254339", "by": "miklosme", "time": 1679441481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They talked about this article on the Blocked and Reported podcast (13th on the list). They said the numbers in this article are inflated."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 35254339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254339", "by": "miklosme", "time": 1679441481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They talked about this article on the Blocked and Reported podcast (13th on the list). They said the numbers in this article are inflated."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35254903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254903", "by": "pentagrama", "time": 1679444704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't listen to Joe Rogan podcast, but one day I stumbled upon an interview to Oliver Stone and was instantly glued to him, a mix of wacky and elocuent."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35256386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256386", "by": "anonu", "time": 1679455052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe that's where podcast shows have taken over... Guys like Lex Fridman and, dare I say, Joe Rogan help further the interval conversations of today."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 35258000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35258000", "by": "prennert", "time": 1679471043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Cautionary Tales podcast episode talks about him [0]. Both were invented in the service of DuPont. CFC at least helped making refrigeration safer and helped getting it to the masses. Leaded gasoline on the other hand was always known as a bad idea. In both cases though, DuPont fought back hard to prevent bans of these solutions. They rather kill the planet than their profits. Suitably enough he killed himself with another one of his inventions that used pulleys to overcome mobility issues due to his Polio infection and helped him get out of bed. I guess health and safety was really not hi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35260278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260278", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1679489811, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 35260959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35260959", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1679493049, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In fact it almost never had a chance, especially in the current environment where anticompetitive moves are no longer really pushed back on by the govt. They used to have a great market share of 100%, but then Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, which was much easier to install than Netscape Navigator. Netscape then became the basis for the open source Mozilla Firefox project. As a side-note, the name Mozilla was derived from Mosaic Killer. Mosaic is the browser that was created by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at th"}, {"show": "1349523628", "hn_item": 35261017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35261017", "by": "michaelje", "time": 1679493369, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Why should controlling inflation be used to transfer wealth from individuals to a for-profit third party (banks)? Also, it doesn\u2019t target the entire population fairly - surely there is a better way? I found this a thought provoking starting place: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/abc-news-daily/id13495..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35262033, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35262033", "by": "mtlmtlmtlmtl", "time": 1679497026, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He provides download links to most his papers on his website: https://nick-lane.net/publications/ As for a good introduction to what his(and the many other people working in his lab) research is getting at, I really recommend the podcast episode he did on Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35266134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35266134", "by": "YeGoblynQueenne", "time": 1679514063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> Sure it does. It tells you exactly how its not done on the other! I agree. We sure have learned a lot about how our mind doesn't work, with recent AI results. But that's a very long way to get to how it does work. Still, I do think it's interesting how every once in a while we figure out that it doesn't quite take a human mind to do X, but then we also learn that human minds do something else than X, after all. So we do learn something. I once commented to Ivan Bratko, great dean of Prolog programming for AI, that maybe humans are not that good at chess, after all, seeing how a dumb machine"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 35271992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35271992", "by": "nicbou", "time": 1679561750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of what Dan Carlin called \"rolling the monarchy dice\" in his Hardcore History podcast. If you get a good dictator, things get done with little friction, because the power rests on a single person's shoulders. But if you get a bad one, you're stuck with it. Democracy might be slower and less inefficient, but it's reliably slower and less efficient."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 35282573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35282573", "by": "TeaBrain", "time": 1679611846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Learned about DNP from the Peter Attia podcast. As I recall, it was discovered in part due to factory workers who worked with DNP losing significant amounts of weight."}, {"show": "1663611710", "hn_item": 35284440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35284440", "by": "who_is_mr_tux", "time": 1679626064, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1542623849", "hn_item": 35287360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35287360", "by": "llllllllew", "time": 1679654867, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 35289002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289002", "by": "tosh", "time": 1679665550, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 35295258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295258", "by": "gordon_freeman", "time": 1679690986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'Marketplace' [0] daily and 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me' [1] on the weekend. [0] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace [1] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/344098539/wait-wait-don-t-tell-..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35295306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295306", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1679691197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Hidden Brain, Planet Money and Marketplace. I can't keep up with all the podcasts I'd like to."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 35295306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295306", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1679691197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Hidden Brain, Planet Money and Marketplace. I can't keep up with all the podcasts I'd like to."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 35295306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295306", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1679691197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like Hidden Brain, Planet Money and Marketplace. I can't keep up with all the podcasts I'd like to."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35295415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295415", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1679691627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to Planet Money I recommend \"The Indicator from Planet Money\", a daily 10m economics podcast. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-plane..."}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 35295415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295415", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1679691627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In addition to Planet Money I recommend \"The Indicator from Planet Money\", a daily 10m economics podcast. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510325/the-indicator-from-plane..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35295433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295433", "by": "adamgordonbell", "time": 1679691674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Besides great podcasts like Embedded and Planet Money, NPR is also home to NPR Training which has lots of helpful information.[1] Their ear traing guide is great. [2]. [1] https://training.npr.org/ [2] https://training.npr.org/2017/01/31/the-ear-training-guide-f..."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 35295433, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295433", "by": "adamgordonbell", "time": 1679691674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Besides great podcasts like Embedded and Planet Money, NPR is also home to NPR Training which has lots of helpful information.[1] Their ear traing guide is great. [2]. [1] https://training.npr.org/ [2] https://training.npr.org/2017/01/31/the-ear-training-guide-f..."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 35295461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295461", "by": "Rolcol", "time": 1679691798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marketplace isn\u2019t an \u201cNPR\u201d show. It\u2019s owned by American Public Media. I wonder if this page is more of a generic podcast feed and player"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 35295519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295519", "by": "strict9", "time": 1679692041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Starting with This American Life, podcasts were a daily part of my life at home for more than 15 years. Then the pandemic happened and for reasons I can't fully explain I just stopped listening to all of them. Part of it was the subject matter became less compelling. There were also internal drama issues like with Reply All and I just lost interest. Kind of a shame as the podcast format is great way to consume media when you're primarily doing something else like cooking or doing the dishes."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 35295519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295519", "by": "strict9", "time": 1679692041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Starting with This American Life, podcasts were a daily part of my life at home for more than 15 years. Then the pandemic happened and for reasons I can't fully explain I just stopped listening to all of them. Part of it was the subject matter became less compelling. There were also internal drama issues like with Reply All and I just lost interest. Kind of a shame as the podcast format is great way to consume media when you're primarily doing something else like cooking or doing the dishes."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 35295534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295534", "by": "blamazon", "time": 1679692121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This part is at least good for me as an Embedded fan who has been frustrated by the irregularity of appearance: > NPR says that the investigative podcast series Embedded, which has appeared irregularly, will become the umbrella under which all of NPR's investigative and enterprise narratives series will stream. Officials say it will become a frequent, dependable channel for listeners to consume NPR content."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35296712, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296712", "by": "dcormier", "time": 1679698034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've enjoyed Planet Money for a long time. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money"}, {"show": "1097696129", "hn_item": 35297148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297148", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1679701083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've adjusted my habits and now every time I start a podcast I immediately hit the \"fast-forward-30-seconds\" button 2-3 times and just start listening from whatever spot that lands me on. Once in a blue moon I'll rewind a bit if I really want more context. And for stupid podcasts (that I still listen to occasionally for some reason (like The Fifth Column)) I'll just keep fast-forwarding 30 seconds until the joking has stopped and there is only one person speaking at a time."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 35297863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297863", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1679705704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life, Radiolab are some I like. NPR was basically podcasting before podcasting became the thing."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 35297863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297863", "by": "theGnuMe", "time": 1679705704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This American Life, Radiolab are some I like. NPR was basically podcasting before podcasting became the thing."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 35297887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297887", "by": "subpixel", "time": 1679705880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m right there with you and it\u2019s the homogeneity that killed podcasts for me. To be fair, it started with This American Life, which managed to become so repetitive stylistically that the subject matter suffered. Then that approach was in large part copied by Planet Money and associated programs. There were a couple novel podcasts worth a binge and then everything started getting turned into a podcast series nobody has time for. In the end it\u2019s the chasing of engagement over solid reporting and storytelling, a slide towards mediocrity that moves the needle right up until it doesn\u2019t. Nowadays I"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35297887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297887", "by": "subpixel", "time": 1679705880, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m right there with you and it\u2019s the homogeneity that killed podcasts for me. To be fair, it started with This American Life, which managed to become so repetitive stylistically that the subject matter suffered. Then that approach was in large part copied by Planet Money and associated programs. There were a couple novel podcasts worth a binge and then everything started getting turned into a podcast series nobody has time for. In the end it\u2019s the chasing of engagement over solid reporting and storytelling, a slide towards mediocrity that moves the needle right up until it doesn\u2019t. Nowadays I"}, {"show": "1671691064", "hn_item": 35298234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35298234", "by": "matt-attack", "time": 1679708362, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not sure if the subject interests you, but this is a well-made Podcast that's still trickling out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-..."}, {"show": "1268047665", "hn_item": 35299337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35299337", "by": "sdenton4", "time": 1679718018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rough Translation was one of my favorite podcasts; this is a major loss."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 35305471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305471", "by": "BeFlatXIII", "time": 1679768573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> But they never stop trying even the most obsolete methods as the automated scripts are what they have available. As described on the Security Now podcast, this is now part of \"internet background radiation\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35305561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305561", "by": "ftxbro", "time": 1679769064, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 35305940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305940", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1679771106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've similarly lost interest in most direct-broadcast listening on NPR, though I'll catch a newscast a few times a week, perhaps. Among podcasts: - Fresh Air. Terry Gross and Dave Davies are both consummate interviewers, the guest list is excellent, and long-form interviews (30--40+ minutes typically) allow real exploration of a topic, beyond what a 2--6 minute news segment might address. The topical coverage is broad and includes numerous aspects well beyond my own typical interests. There's also a tremendous back-catalogue in the Fresh Air Archive: https://freshairarchive.org/ > - NPR Headli"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35305950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305950", "by": "ilrwbwrkhv", "time": 1679771184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find Lex Fridman to be the most boring podcaster on the planet. And I have heard plenty of drones in the past, but he takes it to the next level."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35306224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306224", "by": "alexchro93", "time": 1679772546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most definitely. The interview-style podcast I listen to the most is Odd Lots [1]. I'll listen to any Odd Lots episode regardless of the guest because of the personalities of Tracy and Joe. I also listen to re-runs of Car Talk [2] (which, I guess maybe isn't a podcast?) because of the hosts. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots [2] https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 35306447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306447", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1679773619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, I exclusively listen to podcasts based on the personalities of the hosts. I listen because I want to hear them talk, regardless of the topic. The best episodes of one of my favorite podcasts is about getting a fridge delivered https://www.relay.fm/rd/102 and having a colonoscopy https://www.relay.fm/rd/202 I really enjoy The Verge's interview podcast Decoder, mostly on the back of Nilay Patel's personality and skill he brings to interviews."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35306882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306882", "by": "ftxbro", "time": 1679775648, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman is one of the podcasters on the planet right now, hosting celebrity guests for long form interviews."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35306909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306909", "by": "AJRF", "time": 1679775815, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35307934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35307934", "by": "sillysaurusx", "time": 1679781923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I meant the Lex Friedman podcast. Can that play this too? Maybe there\u2019s an option to download the audio off safari somehow, but it doesn\u2019t seem like it through any of the standard controls."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35308512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308512", "by": "motoxpro", "time": 1679785667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pattern Recognition is the most similar to a \"Lex style interview show\" but there are many episodes in the 20-40 min range. Mostly with founders of companies. Really really good interviews. https://open.spotify.com/show/3Q267Ar7l43e1NeQIvUanv?si=2b7e... Indicator by Planet Money is 15 mins with news about the economy in a fun way Adam Grant's podcast has a bunch of episodes that are 40-45 mins about organizational psych that are awesome. This is the highly produced one you are looking for https://open.spotify.com/show/0uFXKiNiC05GOrjE9AXnkn?si=2172... HBR's ideacast presents an idea in a rigor"}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 35308527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308527", "by": "josephg", "time": 1679785760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Right; but there\u2019s also a big difference between scrolling 25 second TikTok videos and settling in to listen to a 2 hour podcast with interesting people. I think the latter is better for our brains somehow. I don\u2019t think the highly produced nature of TikTok makes it \u201cbetter\u201d. As for 25 minute, produced podcasts? I really enjoy The Economist\u2018s Intelligence podcast for that. It\u2019s definitely in the middle ground. Each episode is about 25 minutes. They\u2019re tightly produced. They come out every week day. And each episode talks about 3 things going on in the world. If that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for, "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35314742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35314742", "by": "Pandabob", "time": 1679840590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of reasonable people seem to hold this view. Sam Altman himself mentioned believing this in the Lex Friedman podcast. Here are tweets from famous HN users Simon Willison[0] and Patrick Mckenzie[1] endorsing the viewpoint as well. [0]: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1639692312585572352 [1]: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1639787193580519424"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35317473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35317473", "by": "lambo4bkfast", "time": 1679853942, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam altman said it had 1T parameters in the Lex Fridman podcast"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 35325682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325682", "by": "abhi9u", "time": 1679919420, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "DrPawd is a GPT powered app for answering questions from podcasts. Not only does it provide the answer but also provides the timestamps in the relevant episodes where the hosts discuss the topic. It also features a personalized episode page where the user can ask questions specifically to the episode, read summary of the episode and find related episodes which they might find interesting. Right now some of the most popular podcasts such as HubermanLab, Peter Attia's TheDrive, StarTalk and Stuff You Should Know are supported with more to come. This is still early stage and UI needs more refinem"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 35327583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35327583", "by": "mats852", "time": 1679929289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And also the billions of tests they run against every builds! https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html I enjoyed the CoRecursive podcast with Richard Hipp, it's fascinating. https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#billio..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35332407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35332407", "by": "yieldcrv", "time": 1679950362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just watching Altman's interview from the Lex Friedman podcast a few days ago It really does feel like YC was a plot to fund the harvesting of all with an OpenAI climax. Not a serious conclusion I have, its just funny to watch it unfold, as if nobody even cares about the optics."}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 35333654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35333654", "by": "kelseyfrog", "time": 1679956068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're the kind of person who likes reading original sources, you're in luck[1]! > The surviving writings are four treatises and ten letters. The four treatises are: 1) On the divine names (DN) (Peri theion onomaton, in Greek; De Divinis Nominibus, in Latin), the longest work of thirteen chapters that deals with affirmative or kataphatic theology, namely, the names attributed to God the creator in scripture and also in pagan texts, but also exploring the limits of language and therefore also involving negative or apophatic theology. 2) On the celestial hierarchy (CH) (Peri tes ouranias hier"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35358126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35358126", "by": "sdht0", "time": 1680101522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Ted Chiang, ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web I found an interesting counter perspective on the Mindscape podcast[0]: And Ted Chiang, in that article, suggests that ChatGPT and language models generally can be thought of as a kind of blurry jpeg of the web, where they get trained to compress the web and then at inference time, when you're generating a text with these models, it's a form of lossy decompression that involves interpolation in the same way. And I think it's a very interesting test case for intuitions because I think this metaphor, this analogy, parts of it are pumping the righ"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35359583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35359583", "by": "adamsmith143", "time": 1680107405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is frankly a bad and cavalier take on an extremely important subject. Many on the list are Academics outside AI/ML and/or leaders of AI orgs at the very top of the field that have no need to catch up to or slow down OpenAI to benefit themselves. Risks from AI are very real and Sam Altman himself has said so numerous times. He also in fact advocated for slowing down AI progress on Lex Fridman's podcast this month."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 35361283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35361283", "by": "PuppyTailWags", "time": 1680114726, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Note that this isn't an unbiased source. This is working with Jon, the co-writer of The Coddling Of The American Mind, which uhhh is not without its critics for inaccuracies and stretching of truth. Check it out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am..."}, {"show": "1439372633", "hn_item": 35361283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35361283", "by": "PuppyTailWags", "time": 1680114726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Note that this isn't an unbiased source. This is working with Jon, the co-writer of The Coddling Of The American Mind, which uhhh is not without its critics for inaccuracies and stretching of truth. Check it out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 35367316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367316", "by": "gibspaulding", "time": 1680144998, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1570045623", "hn_item": 35372011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35372011", "by": "Sakos", "time": 1680181426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been approaching this from the same perspective and I'm wondering the same thing. It feels like there's a lot of spinning going on and I'm not sure people are aware of it. This seems to be a common sticking point: > to address any risk arising from any covered transaction by any person where a covered transaction is > (A) IN GENERAL.\u2014The term \u201ccovered transaction\u201d means a transaction in which an entity described in subparagraph (B) has any interest (including through an interest in a contract for the provision of the technology or service), or any class of such transactions. > (B) COVERED"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35374516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35374516", "by": "ftxbro", "time": 1680190954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For context this is a new Lex Fridman podcast episode with Yudkowsky who has spent his life thinking how to not let AI destroy all humans; yesterday Yudkowsky wrote an impassioned article in Time Magazine telling regulators to shut down AI right now or it will literally kill their children https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no... discussed on hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35377147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35377147", "by": "labrador", "time": 1680201472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I listened to the first 7:56 of this interview and imho he's out of his f*ckin' mind and spreading dangerous disinformation. \"We don't know if there's a person in LLMs\", \"We understand more about the human mind that we do about LLMs despite having complete read access\". He's insane. Nobody should listen to him. Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 35379381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379381", "by": "gsala", "time": 1680213718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you need the full context. That's from the interview from the Decoder podcast"}, {"show": "1680897946", "hn_item": 35379855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379855", "by": "bobvanluijt", "time": 1680216146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Faiss is awesome but note that it's an ANN library that might not be suitable for all use cases; hence vector databases exist. Two things that might be of interest: the main contributor of Faiss on the Weaviate podcast: https://youtu.be/5o1YTp1IL5o and Weaviate as vector DB itself: https://weaviate.io"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35381590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381590", "by": "bick_nyers", "time": 1680228943, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "John Carmack mentions this in the Lex Fridman Podcast, basically the argument is that AGI performance characteristics will be similar to that of LLM (which is another way of saying that AGI will NOT be hyper efficient, P != NP), and that the performance characteristics pose a problem for fast takeoff. The bottleneck to performance in training these models is GPU memory bandwidth when the entire model fits inside VRAM, which on modern cards is 1TB/s, when the model cannot fit in GPU memory, the performance now instead scales along PCIE, which is currently 32GB/s. AGI (or an LLM) attempting to r"}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 35383010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383010", "by": "runjake", "time": 1680240729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Instead of trying to become smarter, I've been focusing on trying to be less stupid . Gurwinder Bhogal goes over this a bit on episode #602 of the Modern Wisdom podcast at roughly 15:00. https://chriswillx.com/podcast/ Some things in particular: - Focus more on writing and thinking clearly. - Try to think more slowly. https://sive.rs/slow - Avoid posting inane/uninteresting stuff on social media. - Avoid engaging in debates. - Avoid ideologies, groupthink, and assumptions. - Avoid correcting people on the Internet. - Avoid taking things at face value (eg. news and opinions) - Avoid \"poseuring\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35383586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383586", "by": "nsbk", "time": 1680245550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently predicting is the most efficient way of running a brain, as opposed to reacting. Your brain is a predicting machine. Lisa Feldman, a top neuroscientist and writer, goes over this topic in a podcast episode with Lex Fridman. This is the chapter on the predicting brain, but the whole of it is worth a listen, mind blowing stuff: https://youtu.be/NbdRIVCBqNI?t=1443"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35384027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35384027", "by": "wcoenen", "time": 1680249445, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I cannot tell why I'm seeing this all over Hacker News I wasn't aware that others had made the same comment. But afterwards I noticed that there was an episode on the Odd Lots podcast (23rd of March) where they interview professor Saule Omarova on this topic. So it's definitely an idea which has gained some momentum. If you don't see the point of it, I recommend listening to the podcast episode. > Get out of here with these comments. You feel like astro-turfing. I am not astro-turfing. Not every idea different from your own is a conspiracy."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35388957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35388957", "by": "hamburga", "time": 1680277926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am trying really hard to understand the AI optimists' perspective, but I am shocked at how hard it is to find people responding to the substantive arguments made about AI existential risk. As far as I'm concerned, you sort of have to address the big, tough points in Bostrom's Superintelligence[1], and probably Yudkowsky's List of Lethalities[2]. They have to do with intelligence explosions, with instrumental convergence, and with orthogonality of goals, and all kinds of deceptive behavior that we would expect from advanced AI. Throw in Bostrom's \"Vulnerable World\" thought experiment for good"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35392482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392482", "by": "okareaman", "time": 1680292060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My reason for posting was I was appalled by this interview, which I think was quite irresponsible. I've lost all respect for Lex Fridman for playing the hapless dupe \"just asking questions\" and not pushing back harder. Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 35402039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402039", "by": "poopypoopington", "time": 1680369481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've heard Altman (on the Lex Friedman podcast) and Sundar Pichai (on the Hard Fork podcast) say things to this degree. The thing that OpenAI really managed to crack was building a great product in ChatGPT and finding a good product market fit for LLMs."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35402039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402039", "by": "poopypoopington", "time": 1680369481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've heard Altman (on the Lex Friedman podcast) and Sundar Pichai (on the Hard Fork podcast) say things to this degree. The thing that OpenAI really managed to crack was building a great product in ChatGPT and finding a good product market fit for LLMs."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35402272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402272", "by": "moonchrome", "time": 1680371089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've seen multiple top people in AGI space say that total annihilation threat from AGI exists. I think I've heard Karpathy say something along the lines of worst case scenario of AGI is worse than a nuclear armageddon on Lex Friedman podcast. Honestly the fear of AGI worst-case scenario is worse than any other fear I've experienced. I've accepted the fact that I can die a long time ago, I was afraid but mortality is something everyone has to deal with. But every member of humanity being wiped out at the same time is an existential dread I'm not willing to face. When you consider the shitshow t"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 35402560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402560", "by": "dochtman", "time": 1680372890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They were trying to get out in front of the NYT breaking the news of GMail, see The Social Radars podcast episode with Paul Buchheit ( https://www.thesocialradars.com/episodes , great episode)."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 35405069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35405069", "by": "csw-001", "time": 1680390359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was my first thought - originally described a prison designed in a way that a central guard tower can see into all the cells. Even if prisoners aren\u2019t actually being watched, the theory is they behavior better because they know they could be being watched at any given moment. Just happens to be this week\u2019s 99% Invisible podcast is all about panopticon history!"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35406717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406717", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1680404402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I never watched any Willink stuff before but gave a listen to his interview on Huberman's podcast and he had a great quote that goes something like \"discipline beats motivation\". Looking it up on youtube here's another clip of him describing it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sut_6KGzIlI"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35408097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35408097", "by": "DuckFeathers", "time": 1680420422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lex Fridman podcast[1] with Aaron Smith-Levin, a former scientology insider (who grew out of it), made me believe that Scientology has been overly vilified, most likely because it threatens power of specific people, just what the scientologists claim. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lN9zkK_k0"}, {"show": "1437997652", "hn_item": 35421420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421420", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1680519307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not a tech podcast, but I enjoy Hermitix. They are mostly interviews with authors of philosophy/literary studies books. Probably the only \"podcaster\" that I will listen to on a regular basis. https://www.youtube.com/@hermitixpodcast"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 35421709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35421709", "by": "tosh", "time": 1680521262, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35422644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35422644", "by": "sschueller", "time": 1680526277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So Joe Rogan may become a WWE commentator? I find that hilarious as he isn't a wrestling fan. \"Back in 2014, Joe Rogan caught heat from pro wrestling fans after making fun of wrestling when comparing it to MMA. Rogan noted that MMA was real, while wrestling \"was some weird, f**ing jerk-off thing that strange guys do when they sit in front of the TV and pretend that they don't know it's fake.\" Rogan later said he was just making a joke and didn't really hate pro wrestling. In May of last year, Rogan spoke with comedian Patton Oswalt on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast about pro wrestling being "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35424741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424741", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1680533930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I kept thinking what Java had to do with all this, but thanks to this comment it finally connected that it refers to Joe Rogan's podcast. I'm not very familiar with his podcast but there was some American podcaster who ended up being a covid denial fanatic. Might've been him. The thing I dislike about Lex is that he doesn't really critically interview. If you interview someone, you put your credentials at stake to interview them, and it must be critical IMO. Instead, Lex is more of a marketeer, giving the interviewee room to spout their message via his platform."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35428402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428402", "by": "ryanwaggoner", "time": 1680544524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're talking about his appearance on Lex's podcast, he didn't say this. He said that the additional accuracy wasn't worth it. Which to me sounds like it was more accurate, but they didn't want to deal with the additional cost and complexity and thought that vision only would be good enough. But the link we're commenting on, along with the ongoing complaints about FSD, seem to indicate that the real world results haven't proven that theory out."}, {"show": "1574002430", "hn_item": 35438500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35438500", "by": "tosh", "time": 1680611271, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 35440893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35440893", "by": "jcranmer", "time": 1680620900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't take credit for this quote (I think I got it from a War on the Rocks podcast, but I'm not sure), but it's definitely apt here: Putin may have been hoping to Finlandize NATO. Instead, he NATO-ized Finland."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 35446001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35446001", "by": "DrZootron", "time": 1680643309, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35449794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449794", "by": "tastysandwich", "time": 1680673350, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in the topic, Jonathan Haidt has written a fair bit on this. He's got a number of articles if you Google his name, and he's also appeared in a few podcasts (eg Lex Fridman's)."}, {"show": "1056312052", "hn_item": 35449807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35449807", "by": "3xa", "time": 1680673491, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Unfortunately in German only. A superb \u201eOMR\u201c podcast episode with Klaus and his son as guests talking about past, present and future as well as some insights. https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/omr-podcast/id10563120..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35460399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35460399", "by": "alpark3", "time": 1680728859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listening to the Lex Fridman podcast, Sam talks generally about how they want to hand off powers to the users. Users maybe not meaning the end-users, but the users of the API that create products on top of GPT, about how they tuned the model to treat the system message with \"a lot of authority.\" But even firmly telling GPT-4 in the system message to generate \"adult\" content fails. Where's the line drawn? The altruist in me wants to believe that they're going to slowly expand the capabilities of the API over time, that they're just being cautious. But I don't feel like that'll happen. Time to w"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 35464862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464862", "by": "antupis", "time": 1680762199, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think this episode gives hint https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/270-exiting-for-millio... you almost hear how CSallen and ChanningAllen brains are ticking."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 35472738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472738", "by": "danielmichaelyc", "time": 1680807211, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35493437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35493437", "by": "gumballindie", "time": 1680963919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Lex Fridman in his podcast said \u201cif you\u2019re anxious about GPT4 its probably because you\u2019re a shitty programmer\u201d. This sob story is proof he\u2019s right."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35494042, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35494042", "by": "rvz", "time": 1680967015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I don\u2019t see a long-term career in software anymore. Any dreams I had of earning decent money as a software engineer are slowly fading. Lex Fridman in his podcast said \u201cif you\u2019re anxious about GPT4 its probably because you\u2019re a shitty programmer\u201d. I mean, I\u2019m not the smartest in the room but I have generated value with the software I\u2019ve made. And was convinced that I\u2019ll make decent money as long as put in the work. I\u2019m just not that sure anymore. The flushing of the mediocre has begun. Already scared of a bullshitting sophist and Lex Friedman is correct on this. This also puts title inflation"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 35496107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496107", "by": "kevin_vanilla", "time": 1680978079, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Context: I was just listening to the latest Soft Skills Engineering[1] (a podcast I highly recommend, by the way!) and they were consoling a junior eng who bombed an interview by saying everyone has a story about doing this at some point. I thought it'd be nice to crowd-source these stories in case others are feeling bad about their interview experiences :) I can start: My first tech interview ever was the summer going into my Junior year of college. I was still very raw and had no idea what to expect, and got asked a pretty standard string manipulation question. I fumbled around for a while b"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35499445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35499445", "by": "codethief", "time": 1681005683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "(Disclaimer: I have no idea what the author's political views are, so my comment is not about the author & his article specifically but rather about a general phenomenon I have come across various times.) > Even though his podcast is firmly rooted in the masculine space of \u201cbody optimization\u201d While there's no doubt that self-optimization topics seem to attract more men than women, why is it that people who are into gender, equality and \"toxic masculinity\" topics \u2013 and, for the sake of this argument, let's assume the author is one of them \u2013 always have to put a label on everything, such as \"Thi"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35499657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35499657", "by": "jvican", "time": 1681008477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Firstly, I disagree with the core premise of the article. What Huberman does is worthy of applause and respect; I've watched about 20 videos of his, and I've never had the impression he pushes supplements on people. On the contrary, he sometimes even acknowledges people that prefer not to take supplements and says that's a completely reasonable stance as well. His job is informative, and he only recommends what he actually takes and has experimented with. Secondly, I often find it useful to regard The Huberman Lab (his podcast) as a natural extension of his teaching at Stanford. He just goes a"}, {"show": "1505372978", "hn_item": 35500700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35500700", "by": "dpbrinkm", "time": 1681025553, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 35503457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35503457", "by": "specialist", "time": 1681052991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just finished The Prince podcast. Pretty good. I learned quite a bit. The later episodes cover how the CCP deals with criticism. The Prince: Searching for Xi Jinping \"Xi Jinping is the most powerful person in the world. At China\u2019s 20th Communist Party congress in October he secured a third term as party chief, and may rule China for the rest of his life. But the real story of China\u2019s leader remains a mystery. The Economist\u2019s Sue-Lin Wong finds out how he rose to the top in our eight-part podcast series. The Prince is the epic story of Mr Xi\u2019s turbulent past, how he has changed China and how "}, {"show": "508376907", "hn_item": 35506552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35506552", "by": "nelox", "time": 1681075025, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast covers the state of the art, including the spherical tokamak: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/babbage-from-the-econo..."}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 35506968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35506968", "by": "altacc", "time": 1681078393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Going back through my history, it's actually an episode of the Criminal podcast: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-211-crazy-eddie-3-17-2023..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35512142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512142", "by": "mikhailfranco", "time": 1681134006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discussed on Sean Carrol's podcast: Mindscape 222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyVT21vVQg"}, {"show": "1449636432", "hn_item": 35514146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514146", "by": "glomgril", "time": 1681144239, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For those interested, there is a podcast about this book and some cases it's been relevant in: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hit-man/id1449636432"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 35522636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35522636", "by": "dolmen", "time": 1681204361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend to listen to Andreas Kling (the leader of that project and the author of the post) interview on the Corecursive podcast to learn about his background in working on web browsers code: https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 35522864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35522864", "by": "dolmen", "time": 1681206536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend to listen to his interview on the CoRecursive podcast: https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/"}, {"show": "529997900", "hn_item": 35529970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35529970", "by": "deanCommie", "time": 1681240646, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Watch (or listen to) some of the old Steve Jobs interviews at ALl Things Digital: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-jobs-at-the-d-al... It is remarkable how prescient he is about the future that was a decade away. How revolutionary some of the things he demo'd were at the time that we now take absolutely for granted. The man was mercurial and probably not fun to work for. And many a marriage or personal relationship was probably ruined by the intense Apple work environment at the time. But he shaped (not built) a lot of our future. No one else at the time was as visionary. And I say "}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 35532945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532945", "by": "roncesvalles", "time": 1681254525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also has a podcast called Empire."}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 35532964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532964", "by": "alphakappa", "time": 1681254603, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "So interesting to see William Dalyrumple pop up on HN. He has been writing fascinating history books for decades, particularly about India. He\u2019s currently hosting a podcast called Empire[1] (season 1: British Empire, season 2: Ottoman Empire). This podcast is one of my favorite things 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empire/id1639561921"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 35532964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532964", "by": "alphakappa", "time": 1681254603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So interesting to see William Dalyrumple pop up on HN. He has been writing fascinating history books for decades, particularly about India. He\u2019s currently hosting a podcast called Empire[1] (season 1: British Empire, season 2: Ottoman Empire). This podcast is one of my favorite things 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empire/id1639561921"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 35544609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35544609", "by": "xsmasher", "time": 1681324661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listed to a podcast (Freakonomics M.D.) about the effect raising the minimum wage in nursing homes; paying more lead to better outcomes. One of the theories was that less turnover meant that the caregivers were more familiar with a particular patient and therefore more likely to notice when something changed. Someone coming in cold might not realize that \"confused and incontinent\" was not the normal state for this particular patient. An AI that chats with the patient every day could definitely notice changes. Of course it has dystopian overtones - it sounds a lot like the baseline test "}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 35550031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35550031", "by": "sega_sai", "time": 1681352377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a very good Lawfare podcast with the Bellingcat investigator on that https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-rid-and-toler-la... which goes into more details on this."}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 35554364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35554364", "by": "EarthIsHome", "time": 1681388923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a recent episode in the Citations Needed podcast [0] (episode 179) that discusses public libraries. There is a bit of history that is presented about Andrew Carnegie's contributions to the current system we have today: how the US library system started out with private funding before transitioning to public funding. [0]: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-179-from-budget-c..."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 35559953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559953", "by": "InitialLastName", "time": 1681410605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It also helps editors later be more flexible with the format... if someone wants to reuse the insight you taped in a new medium (say, they want to put it in a documentary) they might want to have you saying the whole thing rather than to provide the context of \"there is also an interviewer\". The Song Exploder podcast does this very well; each episode is recorded as an interview between the host and the artist, but because the artist is answering the questions with a restatement of the question, they can edit it so that it just sounds like the artist talking through their project (you almost ne"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35572441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572441", "by": "braindead_in", "time": 1681494565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow, that blog led me down a rabbit hole. Wonder why Yarvin didn't comment on the societal and political impact of LLMs. Sam Altman semed to be supportive of Democratic Socialism and central planning on Lex Fridman's podcast."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 35573069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573069", "by": "andris9", "time": 1681497202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, it is so similar because I blatantly copied it. I had the old Changelog podcast episode with Mike Perham pretty much on repeat when I tried to figure out how exatly to set up my business."}, {"show": "1644526501", "hn_item": 35579722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35579722", "by": "SnoJohn", "time": 1681559143, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35583013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583013", "by": "spaceman_2020", "time": 1681582039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I\u2019m a tech noob, but I recently finished the Lex Friedman podcast with Max Tegmark. This is a serious person with strong credentials ringing the warning bell about AI. Yet, a lot of people in my tech circle seem to swing between being unconcerned and unimpressed by AI. Where exactly are we with AI as a legitimate threat if we continue down our current path? Are people like Max just jockeying for attention? Or is there merit to their concerns?"}, {"show": "1159251584", "hn_item": 35583398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583398", "by": "msiemens", "time": 1681584419, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Another recommendatation in a similar vein: The Brady Heywood Podcast's Apollo 13 series [1]. It's almost 6 hours in total, includes a lot of original voice recordings and explains a lot about what's going on in the background. Really worth a listen if you're into podcasts :) [1] E.g. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brady-heywood-podcast/..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35583812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35583812", "by": "psyklic", "time": 1681586958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jonathan Blow just tweeted: \"Something to understand, about all the excitement around AI and how fast things seem to be moving... This is what computers in general used to feel like, across the board. New cool stuff was happening all the time in all sectors. This started slowing down in maybe 1994, maybe more in 2004, but people who remember, remember. I was listening to the latest All In Podcast, where they were breathlessly talking about how ChatGPT was going to super change every aspect of everything (some plausible, some not), and I was just thinking, \"It's like it is 1992 and I am reading"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 35590200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590200", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1681654502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Sold a Story\" podcast, which is mentioned in the article, absolutely blew my mind. I listened to the entire series three times over because I just couldn't get over it. It is astonishing that people who get degrees in education basically don't even know what reading even is. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 35593505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35593505", "by": "cardamomo", "time": 1681673659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Like others, I heartily recommend the \"Sold a Story\" podcast. It explores this issue in depth, and you'll walk away with a more complex understanding that you'd have after reading this article alone. Case in point: \"balanced literacy\" is not exactly a \"method of teaching,\" as portrayed by this article. Rather, it's a loose conceptual framework that teachers and other curriculum planners have used in many ways. In theory, it does include phonics as one of the 5 core components of reading, and I know teachers (myself included) who have taught balanced literacy programs with an emphasis on phonic"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 35597283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35597283", "by": "giardini", "time": 1681711390, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 35600897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600897", "by": "Dem_Boys", "time": 1681740483, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I host a very very small ( I'd like to build a small web app but I'm not sure exactly what yet. This will be just for experimental purposes. Maybe something like a super basic twitter or yelp clone would be a nice level of complexity for chatGPT. One person could work on the frontend while the other works on the backend. I've been a backend dev most of my career but I'm comfortable doing frontend work too. We collaborate to fulfill some feature. Push our code to a repo. Once that feature is done, we'd record a remote video podcast about it discussing what it was like getting AI to generate the"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 35601419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601419", "by": "tabbott", "time": 1681742336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those readers who are skeptical whether this curriculum is really in widespread use, it definitely still is. I have young kids and before listening to this podcast, my wife and I spent a bunch of time last Fall looking at schools for our eldest to start Kindergarten, because San Francisco's lottery system means there's no default school. A lot of schools, even fancy private schools, used materials designed for this three cues reading curriculum. We were really puzzled why the reading curriculum featured stupid books where each page had a picture of a mouse and another object, and you were "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35606608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606608", "by": "cowmix", "time": 1681765643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Lex Fridman podcast, he pretty much admitted he's not an AI (per se) and isn't the most excited about the tech (as he could be)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35608454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608454", "by": "kmod", "time": 1681777364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't quite understand this. The returns to scale have always been sublinear (ie \"diminishing\"), but the scale-maximalists didn't worry about that before. Also I heard Sam tout on the Lex Friedman podcast how amazing it is that the scaling laws worked so well for GPT-4. So I wonder what changed? Sure yeah the cost numbers are getting very large and we can't keep scaling forever. But Google could easily 10x the training cost of GPT-4 if they thought it would protect their search business. I'm still skeptical that scaling is enough to reach the thresholds we want, but I'm surprised that it's b"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 35639326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639326", "by": "FormulatedEdits", "time": 1681995970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case you hadn\u2019t seen this story, which I believe fits a similar bill, here is the case of the Cyberbunker. This took place in the Netherlands. Darknet Diaries has an (excellent, as always) episode about it. If it wasn\u2019t that podcast it might have been Malicious Life. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-b..."}, {"show": "1252417787", "hn_item": 35639326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639326", "by": "FormulatedEdits", "time": 1681995970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case you hadn\u2019t seen this story, which I believe fits a similar bill, here is the case of the Cyberbunker. This took place in the Netherlands. Darknet Diaries has an (excellent, as always) episode about it. If it wasn\u2019t that podcast it might have been Malicious Life. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/the-cold-war-b..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35642315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642315", "by": "jackbeck", "time": 1682007483, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rick Doblin recently went on a Joe Rogan podcast where he went more in depth about his experience with this."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 35643725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643725", "by": "aorth", "time": 1682013499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ah yes! This is an interesting tidbit I learned while listening to the excellent Fall of Civilizations podcast. The episode about Byzantium was so good. Paul and his team do such a good job on the audio and visuals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzoAfpCvbw"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35644025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644025", "by": "foo42", "time": 1682014803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just heard about this charity the other day listening to a fascinating episode of the Lex Fridman podcast with Paul Rosolie who seems very involved or possibly the founder. Fwiw he came across as very genuine (given some comments on here were skeptical of the charity)"}, {"show": "73802687", "hn_item": 35644160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644160", "by": "infamia", "time": 1682015411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Byzantine history is interesting and vastly underappreciated (IMO). If you'd like to learn a bit more, the \"12 Byzantine Rulers\" podcast is a good place to start. It starts off a touch stiff, but loosens up and is great overall. https://12byzantinerulers.com/"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 35644520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35644520", "by": "throwaway6734", "time": 1682016894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of this book was a guest on the History of Byzantium podcast. It's a great listen that picks up where the History of Rome left off."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 35645669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645669", "by": "bjackman", "time": 1682021676, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can also recommend the History of Byzantium podcast for anyone that wants to to extremely deep into the timeline. I've listened to all 265 episodes so far, and I'm still thrilled every time a new one comes out!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 35645863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645863", "by": "SN76477", "time": 1682022744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics I believe it was, had a podcast on how Journalism is a public service. Meaning, it should be funded by grants. Why and how is it a public service? I wish I could remember the episode. 1. When journalists investigate their local politicians it helps keep those politicians clean. 2. Strong local papers and journalism is taken into account by loan officers who in turn save the municipalities tons of money by shaving off a percentage of a loan. This is massive returns when it takes 20million to build a local high schools, Libraries, etc."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 35647370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35647370", "by": "panick21_", "time": 1682029556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Glad my memory for useless information I retained from podcasts paid off for once. I think it was Oxide and Friends episode on SPARC but not sure."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35655424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35655424", "by": "gspencley", "time": 1682091607, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These types of things need to be studied with an appropriate methodology, otherwise we're just sharing anecdotes and opinions. I will share with you one specific anecdote. One of the people I admire most in this world, who taught me everything that I know about software engineering, who - we both suspect - might be on the high-functioning autism spectrum and has the exact personality and knowledge profile typical of someone who cares. This person straight up told me that \"convenience trumps privacy\" for them. This is a concrete example of someone telling me that they don't care if companies pr"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 35659337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35659337", "by": "kelseyfrog", "time": 1682107783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What a mess of an article. If you're looking for a history of the English civil war that's more easily understandable than the article and genuinely engaging, I can't recommend Mike Duncan's podcast on it enough[1]. 1. http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 35660607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660607", "by": "ZunarJ5", "time": 1682113326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chapo Trap House recently did a series too: https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35665881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665881", "by": "twoodfin", "time": 1682166202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This hypothesis is testable in the market, and there are any number of investors\u2014including private equity firms and activist investors\u2014on the lookout for feathered-nest C-suites and other misaligned executive incentives. There was a great little aside a couple months ago on the Odd Lots podcast[1] about investors forcing a radical change in oil company executive incentive compensation that had been draining shareholder value for decades. [1] https://overcast.fm/+5AWMJLBNw"}, {"show": "1668002688", "hn_item": 35666990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35666990", "by": "tim_sw", "time": 1682174245, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 35667338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667338", "by": "el_nahual", "time": 1682176233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb. He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project. He tells the story in an episode of the podcast \"The Social Radars.\" Pretty good listen."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 35667575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667575", "by": "harryvederci", "time": 1682177578, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 35670645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35670645", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1682195567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-ge... is just one example Most dietary deficiencies take many decades to play out. Vegans require many artificial supplements to fill the gaps. My questions is mainly, are these sufficient or are natural sources better? I'd recommend checking out this Huberman podcast for a set of protocols for assessing your strength, endurance, and more. https://youtu.be/CyDLbrZK75U tl;dr if you focus on one type of athletic ability, you are not optimizing correctly. For example, endurance athletes will have issues with bones and balance loss reaction"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 35671938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671938", "by": "godelski", "time": 1682207222, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I do wonder how much drawing with your finger is going to translate into remembering how to do the same thing when you\u2019re holding a pen Having done it for both Chinese and now Korean, I can say pretty well. I mean you'll have messy penmanship but it does translate. But I think the more important part is that it is forcing you to pay attention to the actual construction of the letters and believe that this is the main motivation for this practice. Similar to how it is good to take notes in a class even if you never reference them. > My hunch from reading the blog posts they put out is that th"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 35672751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35672751", "by": "nemo", "time": 1682216247, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">also surprising to me is that there are things like Duolingo podcast, but that this is not accessible in-app It's worse. It used to be that the iOS app, at least, had podcasts in it, and you could listen to them to get points. It was great, though they only added a limited number, and eventually just dropped it. I'm a fan of immersive learning, and they _removed_ out an immersive learning tool that was actually pretty effective."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 35676657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35676657", "by": "sjm", "time": 1682261057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don't know why you're getting downvoted -- this viral tweet was a huge catalyst to getting people aware of this issue. There's even a Reply All podcast about it: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hw3d"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 35682219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35682219", "by": "Twisol", "time": 1682295846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hosted by good ol' Dirk! (For those not in the know, this is an in-joke originating at least from the Hello Internet podcast, with CGP Grey and Brady Haran. \"Veritasium\" is, indeed, the correct spelling.)"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 35682813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35682813", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1682301136, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Russ Roberts (host of Econtalk podcast) says: take the teacher, not the class , meaning (at least in economics) you'll get more value from a great teacher of a boring topic than from a poor teacher of an exciting topic. I feel that describes my YouTube preferences: I'd prefer to see amazingly intelligent/engaging content on any topic than just average content on topics I'm ostensibly very interested in."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35685617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35685617", "by": "clnq", "time": 1682331005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we should not judge Joe Rogan for the guests he hosts or who he gives platform to. And I think he is right to interview people some might consider reprehensible. The conversations are interesting and illuminating, and he is skilled at respectfully interviewing those he does not align with. This is all valuable in our society, and it\u2019s helpful in breaking up echo chambers. I am not a big fan of Joe Rogan, but I respect podcasters like him or Lex Fridman who facilitate exchange of various ideas without judgement. Would you disagree?"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 35690298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690298", "by": "JohnFen", "time": 1682355851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a huge amount of data, going back at least a hundred years, that backs my statement up. But just to be very clear, I'm speaking statistically. You might be the exception to this (but I wouldn't bet on it). The reason smart people are no more resistant to being conned than anybody else is because conning people is an emotional approach, not an intellectual one. Any given specific con may not be one that will sucker everybody (in fact, it certainly won't), but con artists tailor their cons to their target. The one a smart person will fall for is different than the one a dumb person will"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35692202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35692202", "by": "WestCoastJustin", "time": 1682365485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't make the connection until now, but Jim Keller was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice [1, 2] and it was awesome. In terms of founders this is pretty great team. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb2tebYAaOA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4hL5Om4IJ4"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 35693472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35693472", "by": "sasas", "time": 1682371414, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Peter Attia has an interview with Robert Sapolsky that was recently \u201crebroadcasted\u201d - \u201c The impact of stress on our physical and emotional health\u201d [1] Highly recommended listening. As a neuroendocrinology researcher, much Robert Sapolsky\u2019s life work revolves around the questions your pondering on. He has spent years studying wild baboons in Kenya, \u201c .. specifically, Sapolsky studies the cortisol levels between the alpha male and female and the subordinates to determine stress level.\u201d [2] [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 35694315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35694315", "by": "santiagobasulto", "time": 1682376622, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What a coincidence. Just yesterday I was discussing 1pwd\u2019s series A with a friend and I remembered about a podcast the founder (David Teare) did with DHH (Rework Podcast). In it, he literally cites this. He says they raised money for a bunch of things, and one, was to add metrics, but he wanted them to make them anonymous. We\u2019ll see how it plays out. Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6RZm7V8IcvuMuaCmVBE4EG?si=v..."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 35694826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35694826", "by": "jeffhwang", "time": 1682380543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quite good and fair article about the changing scientific consensus and the various reasons that the \u2018French paradox\u2019 got so popularized ~30 years ago. The Maintenance Phase podcast did a good episode on this updated thinking (September 27, 2022): https://podtext.ai/maintenance-phase/the-french-paradox"}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 35698867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35698867", "by": "pabs3", "time": 1682421384, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 35701513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701513", "by": "kaba0", "time": 1682435263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It won\u2019t really answer your question, but I found the Signals & Threads podcast fantastic, and it made me appreciate OCaml much more (it is produced by someone working at Jane Street). I personally found the MirageOS, build systems and language design episodes terrific."}, {"show": "1619136598", "hn_item": 35710083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710083", "by": "jstarbucks", "time": 1682489159, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-end-a-new-jersey-... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5o6Kt-FoA https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/27/donald-norcross-gift-qata..."}, {"show": "622347604", "hn_item": 35712653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712653", "by": "FinnKuhn", "time": 1682512412, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "As I understand it current EU law (both the AI team and the photographer are in Germany so this seems relevant) explicitly allows data mining (for example to train AI) if that data is available online and no machine-readable reservation of rights has been made, but please correct me if I am incorrect in my believe. The German law Podcast \"Rechtsbelehrung\" also has an Episode [2] on copyright law and AI that touches on this topic and might be interesting for any German planning on using AI. > ...In the case of content that has been made publicly available online, it should only be considered ap"}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 35714264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35714264", "by": "Ciantic", "time": 1682519654, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interestingly today's Vergecast episode \"ActivityPub is the next big thing in social\" [1] touched on monetization. What I understood from Mike Cue, the monetization implementations won't come from Mastodon, but from established companies building new things, like Flipboard or Medium. They are also thinking what needs to be added to protocol to support monetization. IMO it doesn't need any features for monetization. ActivityPub allows creators to create accounts and allow only paid followers, or send their toots to payed subset of followers. Problem is what servers would the masses gather? Who "}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 35720944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35720944", "by": "dopylitty", "time": 1682548850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The IPv6 Buzz podcast had a recent episode[0] making the claim that IPv6 is happening on your network whether you intentionally enable/control it or not these days and I had a similar reaction to the one in the post. Definitely something to think about though if you\u2019re in a position to worry about such things. 0: https://packetpushers.net/podcast/ipv6-buzz-123-why-you-need..."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 35728054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728054", "by": "ttul", "time": 1682603235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism. 5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever e"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 35728054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728054", "by": "ttul", "time": 1682603235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism. 5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever e"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35728054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728054", "by": "ttul", "time": 1682603235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism. 5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever e"}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 35728054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35728054", "by": "ttul", "time": 1682603235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about things WSJ would not put on their front page. Good data journalism. 5. YouTube: Lex Fridman interviews, machine learning channels, Minecraft hardcore play throughs, and whatever e"}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 35730826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35730826", "by": "SubiculumCode", "time": 1682613837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You mean both the current and last president? Our military strategic leaders well know the predicament, and have been pulling back outsourcing of strategic necessities. Look at their actions, not the bluster. And for factual information, try The Truth of the Matter podcast by CSIS."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 35733854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35733854", "by": "0xBDB", "time": 1682626091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reading (daily): Google News, HN, the Ground News blindspot feed. WSJ, NYT, various RSS on Feedly. Reading (occasional): Techmeme, Techdirt, Metafilter, Memeorandum. More RSS on Feedly. Podcasts (Daily or as often as they come out, while exercising): NPR News Now, Risky Business, WSJ Minute Briefing, The Dallas Morning News, Cyber Security headlines, Politico Playbook, SANS Internet Stormcenter, AWS Morning Brief. Podcasts (Occasional): Economist Intelligence, Control Loop (OT cybersecurity), FT News Briefing, Ones and Tooze, lots of others on road trips. YouTube is for entertainment."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 35737155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737155", "by": "elliotpo", "time": 1682652326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good Radiolab about this: https://radiolab.org/podcast/211213-sky-isnt-blue"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 35737541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737541", "by": "tintedfireglass", "time": 1682656980, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 35738666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738666", "by": "rcarmo", "time": 1682668394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to. Look it up."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 35745806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745806", "by": "basementcat", "time": 1682709279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is in reference to a 2021 \"Planet Money\" podcast. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1018915121"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 35748753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35748753", "by": "thtmnisamnstr", "time": 1682727635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should sit down with the OP and author of this article, Adam. He has a really good podcast called Corecursive, and your story seems right in its wheelhouse."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35758323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35758323", "by": "nullsense", "time": 1682811043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard one of the guests on a recent Lex Fridman podcast remark that a professor friend of his was involved in some research where they proved that, for any given thing, if you optimize it then things improve up to a point, but if you continue to optimize for that one thing endlessly then it always gets worse in the end. Does anyone know what paper he's referring to??"}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 35758353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35758353", "by": "nichohel", "time": 1682811338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to episode 157 of the excellent podcast \"Blocked and Reported\" before you think this is real."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 35761689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35761689", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1682855115, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've picked up so many mental models from these podcasts. I constantly refer to things I've learned over the years from these fantastic shows: \u2022 99% Invisible: design in everyday life \u2022 Akimbo (by Seth Godin): incredible wisdom on business and design \u2022 The Anthropocene Reviewed (by John Green): deeply human musings \u2022 Articles of Interest: histories of fashion and social convention \u2022 Conversations with Tyler: deep conversations Some of them are listener-supported, so consider donating :)"}, {"show": "1258545975", "hn_item": 35767957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35767957", "by": "dopylitty", "time": 1682902193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s always useful in these threads to mention some top anti-union talking points that get trotted out. There\u2019s a podcast from Citations Needed that covers them and how they\u2019re incorrect[0] 0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-177-popular-anti-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35772463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35772463", "by": "gspencley", "time": 1682947440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My wife and I have played chess against each other off and on throughout the years. Once or twice I had started to get \"serious\" about levelling up my game but quickly dropped it due to other priorities. Then I saw the Botez Sisters on Lex Friedman's podcast and started checking out their content. Holy crap is online chess ever entertaining as hell these days. Not only are the various streamers on Twitch and YouTube great, but there are so many different variations of the game to come out, like Duck Chess. The bots that Chess.com creates every few months are more entertainment fodder. There is"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35773030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773030", "by": "ilaksh", "time": 1682950391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to be fairly unconcerned about AI being dangerous. But part of the Yudkowsky interview on Lex Fridman 's podcast changed my mind. The disconnect for me is that Yudkowsky posits that the AIs will be fully \"alive\", thinking millions of times faster than humans and that there will be millions of them. This is too big of a speculative leap for me. What I can fairly easily imagine in the next few years with improved hardware is something like an open version of ChatGPT that has a 200 IQ and \"thinks\" 100 times faster than a human. Then Yudkowsky's example still basically applies. Imagine that"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35776279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776279", "by": "king_magic", "time": 1682962526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It wasn't on Lex Friedman's podcast, but on another recent podcast that Yudkowsky said something that has been haunting me: > but what is the space over which you are unsure? We have no idea what the mind space of AGI / ASI will be like. I don't particularly want to find out."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35782426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35782426", "by": "hn-throw-away", "time": 1682993617, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35793164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793164", "by": "ricopags", "time": 1683057062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congratulations on the launch preview! This is exciting, as I've been waiting for this announcement since Jim Keller's callout on Lex Fridman podcast two years ago[0]. I'm curious about the teasing around open source. Obviously the amount of money and the slick product launch dictate a need to capitalize on this pooled expertise. Don't want to give away the game to the hyperscalers. I wonder what the revenue and license models are going to end up looking like. A cloud of their own, professional services to HW manufacturers to optimize their performance, professional services to hyperscalers? C"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 35793179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35793179", "by": "bcrl", "time": 1683057121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a time when that would work, but more rental properties won't help if all the landlords are colluding^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husing cloud software to manage their rental properties that use \"data\" to set prices. Have a listen to the Behind the Bastards podcast on the topic over at at https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... to get a bit of an idea how we got to where the market is today."}, {"show": "1538448864", "hn_item": 35799032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35799032", "by": "MD3XTER", "time": 1683097334, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This must be one of the best advices that I saw here! I completely agree on letting a job just be a job. We are so much more than our work. A phrase I was practicing a while ago was: \"I am not my work, my family or my friends\". I would repeat it a few times over and over. It helped me a lot to detach myself from my worries/expectations about work, friends and family. I actually did a podcast on the exact same topic \"You are not your Work, Family or Friends\" that might be useful for someone: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5q1hAzjRCYkCEsLERvr1zE?si=Z..."}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 35799200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35799200", "by": "blowfish721", "time": 1683098828, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a good podcast (American Scandals) covering that. https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/american-scandal/id143..."}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 35801911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35801911", "by": "tosh", "time": 1683119162, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35805689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35805689", "by": "andrewstetsenko", "time": 1683137450, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN, I'm a big fan of John Carmack, and I just loved his recent podcast with Lex Fridman. As a fun little project, we used AI-powered search to enhance the episode. Now, you can ask any questions and an answer will be generated based on the content of that episode. I am excited to hear what you think :slightly_smiling_face:"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 35807445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35807445", "by": "nebulous1", "time": 1683146287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very Bad Wizards also have an episode on it if podcasts are more your thing: https://www.verybadwizards.com/175 Nagle discussion starts at 50:00"}, {"show": "534941512", "hn_item": 35818666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818666", "by": "16bitvoid", "time": 1683219843, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coder Radio podcast uploaded the document to the show notes for their latest episode[1]. The first link[2] in the PDF does link to some internal Google resource that requires an @google.com email address. 1: https://jblive.wufoo.com/cabinet/af096271-d358-4a25-aedf-e56... 2: http://goto.google.com/we-have-no-moat"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 35820186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820186", "by": "moogly", "time": 1683225763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Aren't micro reactors meant to be like one-use batteries? That's the info I got from listening to the Omega Tau podcast about this."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 35821727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35821727", "by": "EGreg", "time": 1683232691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is it just me or is continuing to race to the precipice amid these kind of pronouncements absurd: \"I think maybe there's something like a 10-20% chance of AI takeover, many most humans dead, \" Paul Christiano said on the Bankless podcast. \"I take it quite seriously.\" The \u201cshrug\u201d emoji best captures the AI industry these days. PS: the community shoild be renamed from Huggingface to Shruggingface"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35829128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35829128", "by": "MrResearcher", "time": 1683294494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Covered in lots of details in Lex Fridman's podcast #279 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxIazwNP_0 Unfortunately, transcript isn't available. Potentially has big practical applications as it allows for construction of chemical computers that compute through chemical reactions."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35830916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35830916", "by": "roenxi", "time": 1683301968, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It'd be a reasonable guess that more people will hear about this on Joe Rogan's podcast than on Fox News. If Tucker Carlson starts a podcast it is plausible more people will be deciding their opinions based on what he says than based on what Fox News says. We are fortunate to live in an era when groups like the CRTC are incapable of silencing opinions that they disagree with. Still distasteful though."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 35841235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841235", "by": "DubiousPusher", "time": 1683380227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stories like this make me really miss, the \"Reply All\" podcast and its \"Super Tech Support\" segment."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35841886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35841886", "by": "stevenhuang", "time": 1683384508, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> A car equipped with more sensors, will always be better at handling more situations Yes, integrating seamlessly is the hard part. For Tesla, they found the increased sensor fusion complexity made the overall system less reliable, which was what informed their attempt at vision only. Karpathy went into this on Lex Fridman's podcast. Only with better sensor fusion algorithms that worst case the overall system performance doesn't degrade with additional sensors. Tesla could have hit compute bounds in order to meet latency requirements for example (or they couldn't find the right technique/algor"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 35846104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35846104", "by": "dmuso", "time": 1683413716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How do you deal with \u201ctalking to the void\u201d at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I\u2019ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can\u2019t seem to get motivated to do it as I can\u2019t see/interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think \u201coh that\u2019s nice I guess\u201d and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can\u2019t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 35847667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847667", "by": "aszantu", "time": 1683430362, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I heard this in some Peter Attia podcast. The kidneys turn salt into fructose as far as I know. When u're diabetic and you consume salt it's much better to have it in liquid form. I don't think the reasons are known, but it doesn't raise the serum sodium as much."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 35858590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35858590", "by": "34679", "time": 1683525585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Radiolab episode on this topic and the person who first isolated it. https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 35866137, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866137", "by": "john-tells-all", "time": 1683575055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Damn Interesting also has podcasts -- https://www.damninteresting.com/podcast/ My wife is addicted to \"Damn Interesting Week\" <3"}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 35870575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35870575", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1683610781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adobe was in a similar place, Sean Parent from C++ fame had a very important role to change that, and bring Photoshop into OS X. Check his interview on \"ADSP: The Podcast\", https://adspthepodcast.com/2021/05/21/Episode-26.html https://adspthepodcast.com/2021/05/28/Episode-27.html https://adspthepodcast.com/2021/06/04/Episode-28.html As for Rhapsody and \"Yellow Box\" for Windows dying, not sure if it would make a difference, OpenSTEP also did not work out that well, not even for Sun, other than being an influence to Java and Java EE (originally an Objective- C framework). By the way, my graduati"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35871103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871103", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1683616253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Manolis Kellis discussed similar concepts on the Lex Fridman podcast. He mentions the idea that the West is very big on resolution and 'happily ever after', whereas the Greeks have a taste for all emotions and experiences in their film, song and poetry. It's discussed in the Life sucks sometimes and it's okay section of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06rkOOUa7g#t=1h13m"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 35872735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35872735", "by": "Mordisquitos", "time": 1683631951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What I find most incredible of these methods is their insistence on pictures, pictures, pictures! Take cues from the pictures! . I recently listened to the \"Sold a Story\" podcast, which takes a strong stance against these cueing methodologies, but I felt constant frustration that nobody ever seemed to point out that not every text has accompanying pictures! How do the believers in cueing methods expect a kid to read a headline? Or a sign? Or this very comment?"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 35872817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35872817", "by": "Wowfunhappy", "time": 1683632586, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just want to second the recommendation for the Sold a Story podcast, which will put all of this into context."}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 35879275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879275", "by": "generalenvelope", "time": 1683660653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lots of people here are assuming that supplementing vitamin D will \"treat\" a low level of it, which isn't necessarily true. The level might not change, but you also might care a lot less than you think about the level specifically. Many problems can cause the level to be low, and won't be affected by raising it. Highly recommend the Barbell Medicine podcast on Vitamin D: https://soundcloud.com/user-344313169/vitamin-d-mixdown-1"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 35879338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879338", "by": "dmreedy", "time": 1683660932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a longer-form treatment, Patrick Wyman's podcast, Tides of History, has been going through an extended series about prehistory, including the bronze age collapse. It's a lot, and mostly through a particular thinker's lens, but still worthy I think."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 35879398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879398", "by": "DubiousPusher", "time": 1683661168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patrick Wyman's, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction. Yale's introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycenaean empire and its fall."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 35885815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35885815", "by": "huksley", "time": 1683716727, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Curiously, just yesterday I watched this episode on Bronze age collapse [1] in the \"Fall of civilizations\" podcast. While I am being fascinated with ancient history, I find it is strangely difficult to read story OP posted. - [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fp6O8oAYbegrMqVnbjZju?si=1..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35892585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892585", "by": "techbruv", "time": 1683748276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The idea that GPT-4 is 1 trillion parameters has been refuted by Sam Altman himself on the Lex Fridman podcast (THIS IS WRONG, SEE CORRECTION BELOW). These days, the largest models that have been trained optimally (in terms of model size w.r.t. tokens) typically hover around 50B (likely PaLM 2-L size and LLaMa is maxed at 70B). We simply do not have enough pre-training data to optimally train a 1T parameter model. For GPT-4 to be 1 trillion parameters, OpenAI would have needed to: 1) somehow magically unlocked 20x the amount of data (1T tokens -> 20T tokens) 2) somehow engineered an incredibly"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35892645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892645", "by": "sebzim4500", "time": 1683748629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">The idea that GPT-4 is 1 trillion parameters has been refuted by Sam Altman himself on the Lex Fridman podcast. No it hasn't, Sam just laughed because Lex brought up the twitter memes."}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 35892980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892980", "by": "hxugufjfjf", "time": 1683750308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually literally just heard the host of the Rust podcast Rustacean Station refer to himself as a professional programmer, and immediately realising how off that sounded, corrected it to \u00abgot paid to write code\u00bb or something of the sort."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 35892980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892980", "by": "hxugufjfjf", "time": 1683750308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I actually literally just heard the host of the Rust podcast Rustacean Station refer to himself as a professional programmer, and immediately realising how off that sounded, corrected it to \u00abgot paid to write code\u00bb or something of the sort."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 35908240, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35908240", "by": "caseyohara", "time": 1683838427, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently there was a great episode on the Freakonomics podcast, actually the final episode in a three part series on airline economics. It talks about the history of airline price regulation and the related economics. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-your-plane-ticket-too-ex... > Back when the industry was regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board, or C.A.B., airlines were not allowed to lower prices to win customers. So they had to find other ways to compete. > They would compete against each other by adding more flights on the route. Since you couldn\u2019t cut the price, what you would do is s"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 35917006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35917006", "by": "nscalf", "time": 1683902459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might be worth listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Nintendo. They are very far from perfect, and have had a good number of serious failures, along with some very strange decisions that clearly hurt them. Nintendo has a die hard stance on modding that is definitely net negative. Just a few weeks ago they went after some giant Twitch streamers for playing modded content. They also consistently ship technology that is generations behind. One big thing they pointed out is the type of gaming they target. While the Playstation and Xbox general aim for very serious, high \"skill\" players, "}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 35924690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35924690", "by": "semihsalihoglu", "time": 1683942756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to listen to a very illuminating episode on law firms hiring based on a handful of firms, how bad this is, I highly recommend this episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-tort... You should start listening around 31m:30s in the podcast, where he interviews someone who has analyzed the correlations between how successful a lawyer will be in different firms and the actual features/statistics of candidates. And one of the biggest conclusions this person says is that one feature that doesn't matter much (close to 0) in predicting h"}, {"show": "1687287441", "hn_item": 35927018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927018", "by": "xexi", "time": 1683972275, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 35928713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35928713", "by": "felarof", "time": 1683987735, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1479120204", "hn_item": 35933885, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35933885", "by": "ada1981", "time": 1684021147, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you are a Phish fan, here is an interesting thread from fans about it. https://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1378868388 And here is a podcast episode about it, it\u2019s actually the season 1 episode 1 opener of Long May They Run - A Pattern Language. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3H5olGsalhWfMbEhyzOu9P?si=p..."}, {"show": "1544393261", "hn_item": 35933915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35933915", "by": "bko", "time": 1684021469, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listened to a podcast with Scott Aaronson that I'd highly recommend [0]. He's a theoretical computer scientist but he was recruited by OpenAI to work on AI safety. He has a very practical view on the matter and is focusing his efforts on leveraging the probabilistic nature of LLMs to provide a digital undetectable watermark. So it nudges certain words to be paired together slightly more than random and you can mathematically derive with some level of certainty whether an output or even a section of an output was generated by the LLM. It's really clever and apparently he has a working prototy"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 35936951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35936951", "by": "abhi9u", "time": 1684060389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is what I argue in my post on AI's impact on programming jobs -- my take is that if AI ends up automating low end tasks, then it opens up opportunities for us to spend our time on more creative and challenging problems. The current generation of models know all the data structures and algorithms but do they have the ability to extrapolate their knowledge to come up with novel solutions to unseen problems -- which is what we are good at. Similarly, there are tons of interesting problems which are unsolved in other domains and we could use AI's help to tackle those. Naval Ravikant talks abo"}, {"show": "1546548821", "hn_item": 35938593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35938593", "by": "abhi9u", "time": 1684077256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, that's true. Saturn's gravity is slowly pulling the particles in the ring. In a few million years, the rings will completely disappear. Source -- StarTalk podcast ( https://drpawd.com/search?query=are+saturn%27s+rings+falling... )"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 35940465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940465", "by": "TexanFeller", "time": 1684091164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hugo Mercier was recently on Sean Carroll's podcast talking about the concepts from his new book The Enigma of Reason. The gist of it is that most of the function of what we call reasoning doesn't exist to implement logical reasoning, but rather evolved to provide the social utility of providing \"reasons\" to convince or placate other humans. I guess what I'm saying is we may be closer to ChatGPT than we think - we may not usually be logically reasoning when we provide reasons, but inventing after the fact reasons that are statistically likely to be accepted for what we did or what we want to d"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 35940732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940732", "by": "beagle3", "time": 1684093010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should really take a look at https://beyondloom.com/decker/ - It has a web implementation (so, usable everywhere including iOS), and an SDL implementation. It captures the original HyperCard spirit better than anything Apple would release today. The language is not HyperTalk or AppleTalk - it's a mix between Lua and APL, which is about as readable but much nicer to write. And if you find this interesting, look for the ArrayCast podcast episode where they interview John Earnest about Decker (and the associated language, Lil). IIRC, there are two episodes where John is interviewed, and this "}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 35941392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941392", "by": "urschrei", "time": 1684098874, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The best thing to read is Eden Medina\u2019s \u201cCybernetic Revolutionaries\u201d ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262525961/cybernetic-revolution... ). There\u2019s also a good Tech Won\u2019t Save Us episode featuring the author: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id15..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 35944935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944935", "by": "rorads", "time": 1684136684, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good retrospective on the inflection point for this cohort of digital media in the generally excellent Odd Lots podcast recently (Search \u201cEnd of an Era for Digital Media). Their conclusion on Vice was that it was never in the same league as BuzzFeed or similar in terms of traffic, but had one of the most pure and influential brands in the space."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 35945769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35945769", "by": "danpalmer", "time": 1684144343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating story, and a great retelling on the Behind the Bastards podcast if anyone is interested. The history of Liberia isn\u2019t the nicest topic, but something that doesn\u2019t seem widely known and maybe should be."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 35947150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35947150", "by": "felipesabino", "time": 1684153889, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is very coincidental with PJ Vogt new podcast \"Search Engine\", they released a preview episode in the last days titled \"How Sad Are Monkeys In The Zoo\" [1] that tackles this problem of animal emotions. I was very surprised to learn that most animals in Zoos are on constant anti-depression and anti-anxiety prescriptions. https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/welcome-to-search-engine Edit: typo"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 35950923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950923", "by": "mauvehaus", "time": 1684168646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of English podcast just released a bonus episode about this. Highly recommended to anyone interested in hearing how it was historically used and how its use has changed over time. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2023/03/31/bonus-episode..."}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 35964231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35964231", "by": "cma", "time": 1684254793, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In his newest podcast interview ( https://open.spotify.com/episode/7EFMR9MJt6D7IeHBUugtoE ) LeCun is now saying they will be much more powerful than humans, but that stuff like RLHF will keep them from working against us because as an analogy dogs can be domesticated. It didn't sound very rigorous. He also says Facebook solved all the problems with their recommendation algorithms' unintended effects on society after 2016."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 35965761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965761", "by": "bostik", "time": 1684261842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because transporting any large company from location A to location B involves a lot more than just shipping the machinery. TSMC is the tip of the iceberg, the thing you can see jutting out of the waters. We don't see the invisible - but implicit - support structure that makes the company possible. Freakonomics podcast had a couple of episodes on Taiwan some time ago, and one of the points brought forward was that TSMC is a spearhead. In Taiwan, there is more semiconductor industry, and an established education structure able to produce the ongoing stream of skilled workers at every level. Thes"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 35976259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35976259", "by": "bcraven", "time": 1684335699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The (fantastic) Reply All podcast episode #144, \"Dark Pattern\" covers tax returns.[0] In summary, the US government made a deal with private industry that as long as that industry offered a free tier of tax returns, the government would never create its own tax filing system. I wonder what has changed! [0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nhgol"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35980879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980879", "by": "NumberWangMan", "time": 1684355460, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His point of view, that he's stated on the Lex Friedman podcast, is that AGI is potentially dangerous and inevitable, but safer to develop as soon as possible and try to make it safe by studying real-world models empirically, rather than waiting until computing power is much greater and risking a \"fast takeoff\". I don't know that I agree with this strategy, but I can respect that it's a consistent viewpoint. So what I hear from him is \"Yes, this is dangerous stuff, and we're trying our hardest to make it safe, but we can't control everyone, so we need regulation ASAP because market forces are "}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 35992659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35992659", "by": "zoklet-enjoyer", "time": 1684437041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech Won't Save Us is a biased podcast. Listen to their shitty episode about how Bitcoin is right wing software to see what I mean"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 35998848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35998848", "by": "silisili", "time": 1684481451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, after listening to Keller speak about it on Lex's podcast, I'm convinced he probably knows more than about anybody. Another vote for not dead."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36006922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006922", "by": "chatmasta", "time": 1684530830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With ChatGPT, the only thing new was the chat interface. In fact even Sam Altman mentioned this on Lex Fridman's podcast, IIRC - he said what he was most surprised about was the outsized effect the interface had on bringing LLM to the forefront of public consciousness, despite the existing maturity of the underlying GPT models. At least in that case it was OpenAI adding interactivity to its own existing models. But similarly, from a more holistic viewpoint, OpenAI productized existing research from Google. Transformer models were \"old tech\" since Google published \"Attention is all you need\" in"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 36009685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009685", "by": "csnover", "time": 1684562179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The link in the article about emphasising phonics[0] vaguely answers that question in the reverse, in terms of what was being taught instead; a podcast series from 2022 called Sold a Story[1] (transcripts also available at the link) gives a much more detailed answer about why. [0] https://apnews.com/article/phonics-science-reading-c715dea43... [1] https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 36009958, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009958", "by": "benrapscallion", "time": 1684566215, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1088864895", "hn_item": 36020267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020267", "by": "sfmike", "time": 1684672651, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Tim said it best with the recent Kevin Rose podcast and he stated single is just swapping problems from a relationship. Famous and not is similar just problem swapping. You can fly private and solve problems with capital but maybe a stalker shows up at your house."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 36026543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36026543", "by": "bin_bash", "time": 1684720503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible did a podcast recently where they talked about a very similar issue: the privatization of parking meters in Chicago. Parking meters have a similar problem. The purpose is for drivers to pay their fair share to use some real estate in a city, however the city and elected officials in charge have a vested interest to keep prices low . Nobody wants to be the mayor known for raising parking rates. Privatization makes some sense in this case since a private company can actually make the meters charge closer to what parking should cost. However, it ended up being a pretty bad deal for "}, {"show": "1608747545", "hn_item": 36032013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032013", "by": "iamwil", "time": 1684766214, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One interesting thing is that io_uring can operate in different modes. One of the modes enables kernel-side polling, so that when you put data into the buffer, the kernel will pull the data out itself to do IO. That means from the application side, you can perform IO without any system calls. Our general take was also that it has a lot of potential, but is relatively low level that most mainstream programmers aren't going to pay attention to it. Hence, it'll be a while before it permeates through various ecosystems. For those of you that like to listen on the way to work, we cover io_uring on "}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 36039937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36039937", "by": "Leftium", "time": 1684817242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history \"Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past \u2014 an event, a person, an idea, even a song \u2014 and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36044216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044216", "by": "ilaksh", "time": 1684849595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't assert anything except for what was in the comment. I linked to the Wikipedia article which has a lot of different viewpoints. If anything I was just trying to suggest that the mind (or soul) and body aren't completely separate things as some religious or pre-scientific viewpoints might hold (touched on in part of the Wikipedia article I linked to). Maybe I didn't do a great job of stating where I was coming from. You sound like Donald Hoffman when he was on the Lex podcast. I agreed with a lot of things he said.. I mean the idea that literally reducing things to smaller and smaller p"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 36047864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36047864", "by": "TurkishPoptart", "time": 1684863563, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a fan of Bret Weinstein's Darkhorse Pod. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bret-weinstein-darkhor..."}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 36050151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36050151", "by": "SirLJ", "time": 1684872415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hello and thank you for coming to the conclusion that is not a grift as this is not my intention. I am going through Startup School as well as listening to the podcast, so the idea for the referrals came from some of some of the lectures and examples there... Please note, I am not trying to determine where the market will go over one weekend, the idea of getting the email on Friday is that if you have to change something (again changes happen once per year on average), so sill have the whole weekend to make the change and honestly even if you make the change one week later it won\u2019t mater much "}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 36051016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36051016", "by": "adolph", "time": 1684877001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "SE Daily podcast episode \"CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer\" touches on it a bit. On the whole an excellent episode. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/05/12/cap-theorem-..."}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 36058116, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36058116", "by": "Henk0", "time": 1684936549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, great point So many of the people who opine about AI, its trajectory, and its possible effects on society, have latched on to one or two possible effects - like it overtaking jobs, or massively increasing misinformation. These are both very valid concerns, but they're only a tiny part of the big picture The thinker who I perceive as having the best holistic (in the non-wooey sense of the word) understanding of how the rapid development of AI will affect this and a number of other social and existential risks is Daniel Schmachtenberger. He lays it out well in this episode of the Theories o"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36061547, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36061547", "by": "givemeethekeys", "time": 1684949945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This article's intended audience seems to be high school children. For a detailed take, listen / watch the Huberman Lab podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY (What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #86)"}, {"show": "1682047968", "hn_item": 36063612, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063612", "by": "phronesis", "time": 1684960909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "David Runciman did a great podcast about Montaigne last week: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/history-of-ideas-monta..."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 36063888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063888", "by": "garrett_c", "time": 1684962609, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36074816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074816", "by": "uptownfunk", "time": 1685042060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow, why so much hate against a16z. There's a really funny clip about Marc on the Rogan podcast where he is like \"I have to come on Rogan, there's so much clout\" or something to that effect. Rogan was immediately like \"igghh\"."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 36077212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077212", "by": "hugs", "time": 1685053835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm A1 in French and got there primarily with Duolingo, a little Pimsleur... and lots of beginner audiobooks. Also a fan of RFI's \"Easy French Newspaper\" daily podcast, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to have a tech-focused version of the concept. On that note, another suggestion: Offering a mobile-friendly readable transcript to go along with a the audio. (RFI does this.) Reading along with the the audio is my preferred way to \"listen\" to French audiobooks. Also, presenting the transcript in a readable form is another way to gate content behind a log in and/or upsell. Of course"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 36081926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36081926", "by": "lakySK", "time": 1685093224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've started taking some tutored classes from Preply, that helps. Watching shows on Netflix, listening to random podcasts also helps. But bridging this Duolingo-to-fluency gap, that's exactly what I'm trying to explore at the moment with the other projects on https://hn.lingually.ai/ . I think AI can give something no other approaches can. So essentially, I've now got a Chrome extension to get immediate feedback on text I write. Then I have a POC for a text-adventure game to practice chatting with GPT-powered characters (dm me at https://twitter.com/LukasPlatinsky and I can set you up with a l"}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 36083571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083571", "by": "nusaru", "time": 1685106482, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36086335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36086335", "by": "broguinn", "time": 1685118693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This, so much this. My family often jokes about how I'm the health and fitness \"freak\", because I care about my wellbeing and stress levels. However, this is very normal in my social circle - and I would argue - in my class and generation. A few examples come to mind: - The rise of social/fitness loci. Young people socialize through sports, cycling groups, climbing gyms. - The advent of data-driven fitness. So many people have wearables, sleep trackers, follow the science behind health (Huberman podcast, Rhonda Patrick, etc.). - More people are opting for healthier living, generally (regular b"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 36095479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095479", "by": "jccalhoun", "time": 1685200654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He should be in jail. Behind the Bastards podcast has done a multipart series on how he is a war criminal https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1482715810", "hn_item": 36096069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36096069", "by": "shreyshnaccount", "time": 1685205487, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Probably only the euro. The yuan isn't the best option for reasons you mention, and the next largest reserve which countries hold is only the euro. Link to interesting podcast episode about exactly that: The Red Line Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DVtj0E1v6pRgAiZwytmbo"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36097125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097125", "by": "malkia", "time": 1685212909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to Signals and Threads podcast, and I remember listening to this episode - https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/ (I don't know neither Ocaml, nor Haskell, or any ML language), but the podcast is always fun to listen to (not only programming also) Now would relisten this, and may actually understand it!"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 36097125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097125", "by": "malkia", "time": 1685212909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to Signals and Threads podcast, and I remember listening to this episode - https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/ (I don't know neither Ocaml, nor Haskell, or any ML language), but the podcast is always fun to listen to (not only programming also) Now would relisten this, and may actually understand it!"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36097859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097859", "by": "faitswulff", "time": 1685218580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was Steve Klabnik who said that it's basically the version of Rust with a garbage collector that people ask for. Might have been this episode of Oxide and Friends: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1208089"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 36099706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36099706", "by": "malkia", "time": 1685231954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are probably right, wrong recollection then, or it might've been an episode where some time was spent on talking about other important points - culture, life, etc. Podcasts (not only this one) have evolved a lot! (another fav of mine is \"Go Time\" and many others)."}, {"show": "1571508315", "hn_item": 36100757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36100757", "by": "shagie", "time": 1685242736, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It goes back a ways to when power companies couldn't offer power in adjacent states. NPR's podcast: The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004840920/the-disconnect-power... ... and the files for that appear to be missing... (if you have Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-p... ; Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2l3VBG6RfEGehHm7Y7HfF4 ; Amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5d4dd6d6-bcbd-41a7-b418-7d... ). I especially suggest listening to the episode \"The Fallout\" Texas set up an energy market t"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 36102012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102012", "by": "nazgul17", "time": 1685259948, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend the podcast series \"Supernova in the East\" by Dan Carlin, which covers Japan during WW2. He is a great storyteller, and goes into a lot of historical detail, fitting lots of primary sources. The atomic bombs are in the last episode, but I recommend it all. Warning: it's 6 episodes about 4-5 hours each. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2lqNevhLx08QPmvCLjhS4g"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 36106812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106812", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1685300904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although it\u2019s not a book, you can listen to Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History podcast in his Kings of Kings episodes. There, he talks a lot about the struggles (and wars) of the people then and how religion often played a major role. For example, a king would sometimes \"safe\" a village\u2019s statue of their god which would be like taking their power away from the perspective of the villagers."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 36109175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36109175", "by": "tambourine_man", "time": 1685319702, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Nice podcast episode with him on the Ezra Klein show. https://podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id... https://overcast.fm/+oiPVWKYM0 Couldn\u2019t get a direct link to the show at the NYT that didn\u2019t involve a paywall."}, {"show": "1578096201", "hn_item": 36129646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129646", "by": "idopmstuff", "time": 1685475959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have to say I've become a big fan of Bloomberg's podcasts - the quality of hosts and guests is high, and they use the format well, getting to a greater level of depth on each topic than you get out of most news media. Odd Lots is fantastic if you're into economics/finance and/or supply chains (they've really moved towards the latter since the pandemic and get great guests - e.g. when the ports were all back up, they had the guy who runs the Port of LA on for an episode). What's Next TBD and The Big Take are both great as well. I just wish they'd get Matt Levine to do a podcast."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 36129782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129782", "by": "ironmagma", "time": 1685476478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am subscribed to 115 different podcasts but just end up listening to Dear Hank and John episodes on repeat. It\u2019s a sad state of the podcasting world. The only other show I found that was really enjoyable to listen to was Hello Internet (actually one of the first popular podcasts) and it went on indefinite hiatus years ago."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 36129911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129911", "by": "morsch", "time": 1685477015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interview and talk podcasts have always been popular. I'm not sure why that's surprising? It's an established format in all media, and in my experience podcasts aren't bad at it -- certainly much better than TV which these days seems to be universally terrible at it; there are some tradeoffs when compared to written formats. Individual talk podcasts or episodes tend to be as good or as bad as the people in them. This is also not surprising? Edit -- here's a somewhat tenuous Top 10 list from 2005, via Web archive via USA Today (of all places) via Wikipedia History of podcasting . A few of them "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 36130098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130098", "by": "zerkten", "time": 1685477762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's hard to evaluate your experience without knowing more about you and the podcasts you subscribed to. Can you share more? In my experience, repeat listening is going to depend on the content and style of the podcast. Some will naturally bring you along while others can't generate great output consistently. The pattern I see is guest participation in the great episodes. Guests can't sustain a podcast unless there is a strong pipeline. A podcast like Accidental Tech Podcast is consistently great for the fanbase, to the point where they'll pay for unedited versions. There have only been a few "}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 36130859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130859", "by": "jjeaff", "time": 1685481062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone made a good point on a recent episode on the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. They were discussing how the social media scare is similar to the moral panic in the 90s and early 2000s over video games. And millions of kids played all those violent games relentlessly and we didn't collapse as a society. However, one of the hosts pointed out a big difference today that wasn't the case back then. Those of us who played things like Mortal Kombat or GTA rolled our eyes at the supposed dangers. But with social media, lots of young people will openly state that they think it is harmful for their menta"}, {"show": "1142790530", "hn_item": 36131178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131178", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1685482385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Engadget podcast is basically now just The Verge podcast. Nilay Patel is still on it (and Paul Miller was on it until relatively recently when he was cut during covid times)"}, {"show": "1142790530", "hn_item": 36131218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131218", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1685482559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Podcasts today are fundamentally different from podcasts of yesterday. [...] Most top \"podcasts\" today are just people talking. It's like roundtable discussions with no script, no sound design and often no real production of any kind. I hate to sound like that guy , but when's \"yesterday\"? First podcast I listened to, and loved, was the Official Lost Podcast from the creators in 2005, which had a structure but was otherwise pretty loose. Engadget podcast was a great listen with a lot of shucking and vibing. \"Incredible radio journalism\" podcasts with high production values and presenters rea"}, {"show": "1508035243", "hn_item": 36131511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36131511", "by": "EGreg", "time": 1685483858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You\u2019re not biased at all. I am pretty humble but when it comes to engaging on substance, I am rather bold. I am not a professional podcaster and I don\u2019t have millions of dollars or followers. But I have met and had real discussions everyone from Andrew Yang to Tim Berners-Lee to the guys from Stable Diffusion, to top Christian apologists etc. If a topic matters to me, I will go and try to speak with the people who have something major to say. Sometimes you have to punch above your weight to get quality discussions. I am probably the least well known guy who had all those people on my show and "}, {"show": "1636929259", "hn_item": 36132775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132775", "by": "molly0x57", "time": 1685490682, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Molly here. I went on the Bankless podcast six months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Itd3g23QI . I debated Charles Hoskinson on a panel about \"the future of crypto\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5p2gt7htDM&t=998s . I went on the Unusual Whales crypto podcast/Twitter space: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unusual-whales-pod-13-... . I've repeatedly gone on CoinDesk's show \u2014 sometimes for more adversarial conversations than others. I provided \"The Bear Case for Crypto\" on a two-part series by Scott Galloway https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh... (Michae"}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 36132775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132775", "by": "molly0x57", "time": 1685490682, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Molly here. I went on the Bankless podcast six months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Itd3g23QI . I debated Charles Hoskinson on a panel about \"the future of crypto\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5p2gt7htDM&t=998s . I went on the Unusual Whales crypto podcast/Twitter space: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unusual-whales-pod-13-... . I've repeatedly gone on CoinDesk's show \u2014 sometimes for more adversarial conversations than others. I provided \"The Bear Case for Crypto\" on a two-part series by Scott Galloway https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh... (Michae"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36139452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139452", "by": "gen220", "time": 1685546860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have a direct answer, but the \"Acquired\" podcast did a two-part series on Nvidia in 2022Q1, it's a good/deep answer to why they are the way they are. part 1: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993... part 2: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning..."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36143255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143255", "by": "dralley", "time": 1685562618, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36143969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143969", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1685565325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's no shortage of Tesla owners in topical HN threads saying they never/rarely use Autopilot for any number of reasons, ranging from it's bat-shit crazy to phantom-braking still being a frequent occurrence. So you really need the number of Teslas being operated by autonomous functionality, not the gross number of Teslas on the road, to make any kind of judgement here. And even within that set, if you had the data, it needs to be normalized for operating in ideal conditions vs. regular cars in ideal conditions. The autonomous problems have seen enough coverage that everyone is aware at this"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36147040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147040", "by": "hentrep", "time": 1685587454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related episode of Radiolab from 2014: https://radiolab.org/podcast/9-volt-nirvana"}, {"show": "1553326065", "hn_item": 36147618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36147618", "by": "mosiuerbarso", "time": 1685594206, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listened to it on audiobook and found it a bit hard to understand at times. I'm a great admirer of Joseph Campbell and I love cumulative mythology. I found this podcast series of his old lectures much more fun and entertaining. He was a great lecturer with good sense of humor: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pathways-with-joseph-c... The audio quality is very good to say how old the lectures are."}, {"show": "1172287016", "hn_item": 36149720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149720", "by": "janandonly", "time": 1685618629, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The USA poured several millions in the research for solar panels for their space program. Then Germany created tax incentives for producers to scale-up production. Then China started investing in production capacity, to the extent that now in 2024 the forecast is that more solar panel GW capacity will be produced than has been installed until now worldwide . Sources: * https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/goed-nieuws-schone-ene... * How Solar Energy Became Cheap (2019), Gregory Nemet: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecaf.12365 * Empirically grounded technology forecasts and th"}, {"show": "1172287016", "hn_item": 36149726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149726", "by": "janandonly", "time": 1685618723, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The USA poured several millions in the research for solar panels for their space program. Then Germany created tax incentives for producers to scale-up production. Then China started investing in production capacity, to the extent that now in 2024 the forecast is that more solar panel GW capacity will be produced than has been installed until now worldwide . Sources: * A Dutch podcast on this subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/goed-nieuws-schone-ene... * How Solar Energy Became Cheap (2019), Gregory Nemet: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecaf.12365 * Empirically gro"}, {"show": "1619378488", "hn_item": 36149726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149726", "by": "janandonly", "time": 1685618723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The USA poured several millions in the research for solar panels for their space program. Then Germany created tax incentives for producers to scale-up production. Then China started investing in production capacity, to the extent that now in 2024 the forecast is that more solar panel GW capacity will be produced than has been installed until now worldwide . Sources: * A Dutch podcast on this subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/goed-nieuws-schone-ene... * How Solar Energy Became Cheap (2019), Gregory Nemet: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ecaf.12365 * Empirically gro"}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 36156093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36156093", "by": "exogen", "time": 1685647425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this kind of question, I highly recommend the Wind of Change podcast, about whether The Scorpions song of the same name was written by the CIA. Super entertaining! https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 36164921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36164921", "by": "andosina1", "time": 1685713286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Allinpod.ai is a speech and video generation app for content creators, powered by the latest AI technology, inspired by All-in podcast. Create engaging audio and video content with Besties."}, {"show": "1532110146", "hn_item": 36166783, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166783", "by": "dinvlad", "time": 1685721149, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Pretty much :-) Text generation (and rudimental comprehension) is perceived to be a sign of higher intelligence, simply because it's our natural human UI. Ironically, we tend to limit our imagination on what _we_ could do that computers won't, while simultaneously overuse it to imagine what they _could_ do but won't. One very good example of this is humor - LLM models at present are terrible at generating anything but dad jokes, and are even worse at their attempts to explain \"deep\" humor. Gary Marcus had a recent episode on it, very interesting insights from top experts in the field: https://"}, {"show": "1532110146", "hn_item": 36167345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36167345", "by": "dinvlad", "time": 1685723785, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think you're severely overestimating the abilities of this \"AI\" and underestimating the abilities of the human mind here :-) However, if you'd like to be pessimistic on it I won't argue, I have that tendency too ;) And to lighten up the mood, I highly recommend listening to this episode with Gary Marcus, where he invites experts in the field of humor to discuss how distinctly bad the LLMs are at explaining what comes naturally to us: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-ai-make-you-laugh/..."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 36169933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169933", "by": "freddybobs", "time": 1685735291, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is an episode of the \"you're wrong about\" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided housing. The studies based on those projects showed that overall the cost was less that not having some housing and services. The podcast goes into more details, but as I remember this was because * It removes much of the medical and police cost * If people who are struggling don't have a roof over their head, it makes it incredibly hard for them to get a job. Having some stability me"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36170516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36170516", "by": "swat535", "time": 1685738665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the related Radiolab episode: https://radiolab.org/podcast/169879-patient-zero"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36172390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36172390", "by": "sva_", "time": 1685750924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A small note, to those who like Podcasts: Gilbert Strang has been on Lex's Podcast in 2019 (damn, time flies nowadays): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZPfmGCEk0"}, {"show": "1669813431", "hn_item": 36173466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173466", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1685763477, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From a recent podcast [0] it seems unlikely that they make profit from gpt-3.5-turbo, at least not in the sense that it pays for employee salaries. Instead, from the conversation, it seems like OpenAI is aiming to make money mostly from enterprise partnerships, probably to fine tune GPT-4 or what not to your own private data. I think this makes sense, you keep competitors at bay by offering a good-enough, dirt-cheap API and then ask the big bucks for the private setup. This mirrors Stability AI's strategy, which is basically that but with open source models. [0] https://open.spotify.com/episod"}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 36182462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36182462", "by": "baron816", "time": 1685845477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was covered in a recent Plain English podcast: https://www.theringer.com/2023/4/4/23668556/myth-busting-wel... The evidence for the health benefits is extremely weak. It can help accelerate \u201crecovery\u201d from exercise, but at a cost of diminishing the benefits of the exercise in the first place. Your body gets sore when you workout for a reason. The only reason you\u2019d want to stop that process is you\u2019re in a multi day competition, which you\u2019re not."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36185469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36185469", "by": "aethertap", "time": 1685885595, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've struggled with very similar issues for about 25 years. I finally started to break through it just recently, and I give credit to two basic things: Listening to the Huberman Lab podcast (which echoes a lot of good advice in this comment section, and focuses on physiology), and using the system from \"Building a Second Brain\" to get myself organized. I've always had a problem with having too many ideas and not enough time and energy to pursue them all. Having to choose between them leads fear of missing out on the others, and I never actually managed to finish (or even start, usually) any of"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36186487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36186487", "by": "mch82", "time": 1685893342, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 36187065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187065", "by": "mikece", "time": 1685896957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This has been discussed on the No Agenda podcast -- with clips to emphasize the point -- for over three years. Listening to that podcast is like listening to the news three years in advance."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36187610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187610", "by": "justasking7000", "time": 1685900397, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey everyone! Excited to share CloneDub - a tool that allows you to convert audio into any language while keeping the same voices. We currently translate to: English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, German, Polish, and Portuguese. The voices are cloned so that the podcasters sound the same! For example, if you were to upload a Lex Fridman podcast interviewing Sam Altman and requested that it was translated into Hindi, it would sound like Lex Fridman and Sam Altman, but just in a different language/accent! How does CloneDub work? Audio Upload: Upload your audio file, paste a YouTube Link, or t"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36196103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36196103", "by": "dilippkumar", "time": 1685972693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Taylor Swift episode on the Acquired podcast actually does a fantastic job of explaining how this works and why artists barely make money on streaming services - as opposed to radio broadcasts for example."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36197244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197244", "by": "throw0101b", "time": 1685977658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> - yuan The Odd Lots podcast just had an episode on this: > There's a lot of discussion these days about de-dollarization and whether the US dollar will lose its standing as the world's sole reserve currency. Generally, people seem open to the idea, but they also don't see many good alternatives out there. The renminbi is the obvious candidate to take share away from the dollar, given the size of the Chinese economy and China's role in global trade. But for various reasons, the currency isn't suited to be a global reserve currency. So what would it actually take to become one? And what would "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36203788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203788", "by": "deepzn", "time": 1685999934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seeing the interview with Chris Lattner on Lex Fridman podcast on developing Mojo, and how he's learnt from developing Swift, or LLVM is very interesting, and how the path they've taken with Mojo is different from Python. It also seems like a lot of languages especially the new ones are converging with the best features from past languages which also makes sense. This is super ambitious, but a great project to work on to better your understanding. And I applaud you, especially as an undergrad student( I assume as you stated final exams in the post). I wish I'd done more projects like this back"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 36204236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36204236", "by": "makeitdouble", "time": 1686001303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TBF, there's an equal amount of \"I haven't touched the product, nor even read reviews of people handling it in their hands, but I'm totally gonna buy this only based on the marketing material\" I kinda loved how Accidental Tech Podcast's host joke about not having even heard of the product yet but they'll probably buy it for personal use either way. The pendulum has fully swinged the other way for the a sizeable chunk of people I think."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 36205009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36205009", "by": "basisword", "time": 1686004236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> Host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast and author of \u201cRoad to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation\u201d So\u2026man who hates tech hates new tech. Shocker."}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 36213847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213847", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1686063584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author was shown far more than a 10 second clip. He along with John Gruber got to do a full hands on demo. They talk more about it in their (paid) Dithering podcast."}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 36214271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214271", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1686065068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He went into more details on the Dithering podcast. He was able to have a much fuller demo than a few clips."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36214391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214391", "by": "barbariangrunge", "time": 1686065474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> T\u0336o\u0336 \u0336b\u0336e\u0336 \u0336f\u0336a\u0336i\u0336r\u0336,\u0336 \u0336C\u0336a\u0336r\u0336m\u0336a\u0336c\u0336k\u0336 \u0336h\u0336a\u0336d\u0336 \u0336b\u0336e\u0336e\u0336n\u0336 \u0336p\u0336u\u0336s\u0336h\u0336i\u0336n\u0336g\u0336 \u0336f\u0336o\u0336r\u0336 \u0336a\u0336n\u0336 \u0336a\u0336l\u0336l\u0336-\u0336o\u0336u\u0336t\u0336 \u0336d\u0336e\u0336v\u0336i\u0336c\u0336e\u0336 \u0336b\u0336u\u0336t\u0336 \u0336g\u0336o\u0336t\u0336 \u0336s\u0336i\u0336d\u0336e\u0336l\u0336i\u0336n\u0336e\u0336d\u0336 \u0336b\u0336y\u0336 \u0336Z\u0336u\u0336c\u0336k\u0336'\u0336s\u0336 \u0336p\u0336u\u0336s\u0336h\u0336 \u0336t\u0336o\u0336w\u0336a\u0336r\u0336d\u0336s\u0336 \u0336c\u0336h\u0336e\u0336a\u0336p\u0336 \u0336a\u0336n\u0336d\u0336 \u0336s\u0336c\u0336a\u0336l\u0336e\u0336.\u0336 (I might have mis-remembered) According to the Lex Friedman podcast interview with Carmack, Carmack has been pushing for lower spec, cheap VR, probably on a phone, IIRC. Something people can afford and use day to day Then, using better use of hardware resources to push more performance out of vr/ar apps. He believes more in optimization than ordinary programmers."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36216063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36216063", "by": "EddieEngineers", "time": 1686071905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This feels like what GPT-4 would say on the Rogan podcast after mushrooms"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36225294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225294", "by": "Guthur", "time": 1686135464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter has such an obvious bias, and desire to sell his books. He looked positively unhinged on the Joe Rogan podcast. The over simplification of the Ukrainian situation is unreal, it's like we all collectively forgot the last 8-9 years of open civil war."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36225488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225488", "by": "phatfish", "time": 1686137116, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most guests are on the Rogan podcast to sell a book, or shill something. Unless they are one of his inner circle. This guy seems unusual however, probably one of the few used as plausible deniability to prove he doesn't exclusively have right wing conspiracy theorists on, to keep the Spotify money flowing."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36227956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227956", "by": "goda90", "time": 1686151237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to make a plug for the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Last month was the Carthage episode. Here's the audio version(video version hasn't been released yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqX9twdyYo"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36232850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232850", "by": "machdiamonds", "time": 1686168710, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't understand how Google messed up this bad, they had all the resources and all the talent to make GPT-4. Initially, when the first Bard version was unveiled, I assumed that they were just using a heavily scaled-down model due to insufficient computational power to handle an influx of requests. However, even after the announcement of Palm 2, Google's purported GPT-4 competitor, during Google IO , the result is underwhelming, even falling short of GPT 3.5. If the forthcoming Gemini model, currently training, continues to lag behind GPT-4, it will be a clear sign that Google has seriously d"}, {"show": "1287042803", "hn_item": 36232955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36232955", "by": "jcarterwil", "time": 1686169201, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36242313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36242313", "by": "danpalmer", "time": 1686234058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone wants to get more of a feel for this, listen to the Huawei episode of the Acquired podcast. They get a bit more into the weeds on the practical differences between companies in the US/Europe and in China, and what it means for how they're run, how they compete, etc."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 36244857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36244857", "by": "zengid", "time": 1686242794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If they can get into a FAANG, I think they're already maximizing their income compared to the rest of the industry (not everyone in Tech works at FAANG). I would focus on broadening my knowledge of as many things as I find interesting and not try to specialize for a few years because platforms and languages are always going to change, but there are a lot of core things that everyone needs to know: - HTTP/TCP/UDP and basic networking - Client/Server architectures - Machine learning basics - Cloud Computing basics Every platform has a different flavor of these things, but if you understand the b"}, {"show": "281261324", "hn_item": 36250388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36250388", "by": "wpietri", "time": 1686264868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree it's terrible and very American, but I don't think it's recent. There's a good bit in this Backstory podcast where they talk about how part of the shift to sleeping straight through the night (as opposed to the previous behavior of first and second sleep) was partly driven by puritan busybodies (from the temperance movement, I think?) who thought that it was virtuous to sleep a bare minimum or less: https://backstoryradio.org/shows/on-the-clock-4/ And that of course goes back to the Puritans around at America's founding, who were deeply opposed to anybody having fun or enjoying themsel"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 36250394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36250394", "by": "sco1", "time": 1686264895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> How does Apple's refunds work? I don't know how monthly subscriptions work, but yearly subscription refunds are pro-rated. > I'm surprised more people don't do one-time purchases to avoid these subscription refund stories I keep hearing I'm not, at least not for apps like this that need consistent revenue to support regular maintenance and/or server costs in an era where customers balk when an app costs more than a few dollars. To achieve this you end up balancing whether or not to serve ads, hope you can just grow enough new users forever, charge for major updates, charge a subscription, or"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36251836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36251836", "by": "mfiguiere", "time": 1686273118, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36252483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36252483", "by": "cloudking", "time": 1686278957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting take, I thought he would be pretty excited a major player is entering the space he's been working on since they acquired Oculus. Apple would have done research to validate this product and market before entering it. Edit: he did acknowledge this a bit on Lex Fridman podcast https://youtu.be/C_fpCVtGR6I"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 36254117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254117", "by": "m_mueller", "time": 1686292509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's still a couple of years out, but what about a little thought experiment: Let's say you had a pair of normal looking glasses that do everything that Vision Pro is doing now [1] and cost, say, 1500 USD. This would IMO be a no-brainer, as you can then augment any space and activity you want with having views into the digital world - for work, for hobbies, you name it. That would IMO be a mass market device on the level of today's smartphones. Now, the question is, how much worse can it be and still sell well? How good is good enough? How soon will we see the plastic iPhone 3G equival"}, {"show": "1289062927", "hn_item": 36257604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257604", "by": "mablopoule", "time": 1686317738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly. On that subject, I cannot recommend enough an episode of a Lawfare-related podcast (ChinaTalk) called \"Hoover, Communism, and the FBI\" [1], which explore the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the zeigeist of the early twentieth century, and an revisiting the \"red scare\" in light of the since declassified information of Russian spying networks on US soil. Related to this is the \"Venona project\" [2], where US agency could break the encryption of old soviet telegraph, and learn a great deal on soviet spy network. [1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/chinatalk-hoover-communism-and-f... [2] https://www."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36259956, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36259956", "by": "retskrad", "time": 1686326918, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 36263406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36263406", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1686341082, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Reddit wasn't \"co-opted\" by venture capital. It was built by venture capital! It literally started as a result of the founders taking money from YC and pivoting away from their original idea and to Reddit at Paul Graham's request. Hear the story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-found..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36264191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264191", "by": "dmbche", "time": 1686344954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The effects kept going after the training, and you made no conscious effort to change the waves, the discomfort from the stuttering was driving the brain to lower delta waves. This is all from a JRE podcast years back, so I'm probably wrong, but I think the logic was that this could be applied to other subconcious processes (like regulating your heartbeat to stay in some optimal value, or the serotonin levels in the brain), and that the effects were not conscious. Kind of setting a new normal for yourself."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 36270589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270589", "by": "jyscao", "time": 1686406114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You mean Dan Carlin, and his Hardcore History podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36270716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270716", "by": "drones", "time": 1686406998, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Just watched a Lex Fridman/Zuckerberg podcast clip[0] about facebook's new LLaMA model. I am so utterly unconvinced that Facebook of all companies are only holding their LLM progress back because of safety/alignment concerns. I see the entire company-led \"safety discussion\" around AI at the moment as nothing more than OpenAI wanting to reduce competition and the rest to afford themselves enough time to catch up. My impression is that we're in the middle of a gold rush, and if companies are sitting on technology which could dethrone OpenAI they would do it in a heartbeat. How are LLM's, right n"}, {"show": "1627613321", "hn_item": 36274107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274107", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1686425152, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was an interesting podcast about the Unabomber and his eventual capture - \"Project Unabom\". [0] Some of the episodes feature material about his relationship with his family and the pool of other suspects that emerged during the investigation. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-unabom/id16276..."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 36276705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36276705", "by": "deadeye", "time": 1686442525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Run your audio through Adobe podcast. It's insanly good."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 36278752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36278752", "by": "anjel", "time": 1686464897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "American TV actor Marilu Henner has this condition/ability and demonstrated it when interviewed on Marc Maron's podcast a few year ago. [1] https://www.podgist.com/wtf-marc-maron/episode-1058-marilu-h..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 36279971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36279971", "by": "tommypalm", "time": 1686479062, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really recommend everyone listen to the 4 part series on MK Ultra from Behind The Bastards[1]. Its absolutely insane that the government did this and BTB really delves deep on how it all came about. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-mkultra-when-..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 36280402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280402", "by": "kekebo", "time": 1686483431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast covered this issue in this episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/75/"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 36282845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282845", "by": "kahirsch", "time": 1686501184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's what Ted Kaczynski wrote in February 2018 about the experiments in a letter[1] to journalist Andrew Kaczynski (no relation): > ... media reports about me have generally been loaded with bull manure. In particular, reports about the Murray study have been wildly, wildly exaggerated. People write to tell me how sorry for me they feel because I was \"tortured\" again and again by the Murray group as part of an \"MK Ultra experiment allegedly carried out by the CIA. Actually, there was only one unpleasant experience in the Murray study; it lasted about half an hour and could not reasonably hav"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36284947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284947", "by": "machdiamonds", "time": 1686513117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a user, I think Twitter is better now, notably with the Community Notes feature that even Zuckerberg commended on Lex's podcast - I hope he introduces a similar concept. The option to post extended threads is appreciated. I hardly come across political content as I avoid engagement with it, and I find it beneficial that creating an account is no longer necessary for viewing Tweets and responses."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 36291225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36291225", "by": "TRiG_Ireland", "time": 1686565766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Futility Closet, an excellent podcast about historical curiosities, had an episode on this. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/03/29/podcast-episode-33..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36291609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36291609", "by": "teh_klev", "time": 1686568243, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, where Chris Lattner talks to Fridman about Mojo and other things, might be of interest to readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 36294385, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294385", "by": "madeofpalk", "time": 1686581050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend Decoder, the podcast of which this is a transcript of. Matt Mullenweg was on it earlier in 2022 also https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22977857/wordpress-tumblr..."}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 36295062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295062", "by": "md2020", "time": 1686583269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a terribly ignorant take and disappointing to see coming from a science fiction author. > AI isn\u2019t \u201cartificial\u201d and it\u2019s not \u201cintelligent.\u201d \u201cMachine learning\u201d doesn\u2019t learn. On this week\u2019s Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete \u2014 not our new robot overlord. This is just argument by assertion. We have no good definition of intelligence, so I have no clue how he can be so confident. \"Machine learning doesn't learn\" is a crazy take, since \"backprop + gradient descent does learn\" i"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 36313123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313123", "by": "thyselius", "time": 1686675320, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This essay seems inspired by this amazing episode of Hidden Brain, i strongly suggest take a listen if you find this subject interesting https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 36315646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315646", "by": "penguin_booze", "time": 1686684649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had a couple of related episodes: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-you-trust-private-eq... ."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 36315981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315981", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1686685991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> What if Americans got together, with a similar degree of concern about the public health risk that the current barriers to learning to swim present? What if we invited more of the community to use underused private pools? What if the U.S. government incentivized the construction of more public pools to serve especially underserved populations? US used to have a lot of public swimming pools. The problem is racism and desegregation. There is a great Marketplace podcast on this [0]: > Draining public swimming pools to avoid integration received the official blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court in"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 36317209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317209", "by": "jonny_eh", "time": 1686689899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Many in the community, such as the long-running Retronauts podcast, use 10 years as the line when something becomes \"retro\". By that definition, the PS4 becomes retro later this year."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 36318441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36318441", "by": "trog", "time": 1686695024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money Indicator podcast just did an episode[1] of this topic as it relates to Turkey, where the big cheese decided that in fact, no, high interest rates don't fix inflation, and that it was low interest rates that fixed inflation. The results have been grim for the lira, to say the least. The episode finishes with a note that they've appointed a new finance minister who has said \"the country has to return to a rational basis for its economic policy\". So we'll see what changes are made - or whether this person lasts in this role for very long. 1. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/118"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 36322886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36322886", "by": "yreg", "time": 1686729692, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money is an insightful podcast in general."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36325962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36325962", "by": "PragmaticPulp", "time": 1686750790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The health podcast industry is making this problem even worse. Many people consume content like Huberman\u2019s podcast and assume he\u2019s an expert because he speaks so confidently and at such lengths. Yet Huberman\u2019s podcasts are well known to contain a lot of errors on very basic concepts and extreme exaggerations. He appears to well-versed in topics related to his domain of study, albeit with exaggerations of his findings to appease a podcast audience. Once he steps outside of his domain and starts talking about dopamine this and dopamine that, his podcast will make neuroscientists roll their eyes."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 36326150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326150", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1686751479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yikes. You'd think that VCs would have learned their lesson from the whole \"Web3\" and crypto debacles. I remember late last year listening to a Planet Money podcast that had a partner from Sequoia (I think) espousing the future of crypto and Web3 and how they were deploying millions of dollars into crypto startups. I just remember thinking to myself how this partner had completely drunk the Kool-aid. Now they're dumping money into anything vaguely AI related, whether it has the potential to actually generate value in a space that's rapidly approaching commoditization."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 36326902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326902", "by": "boc", "time": 1686754349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What are your opinions on Peter Attia\u2019s podcast? They seem similar but it\u2019s impossible for a lay person to judge if they\u2019re trustworthy."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 36327128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36327128", "by": "causi", "time": 1686755303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We are so close to AI-powered podcast sponsorblock I can taste it."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36328332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36328332", "by": "hnu0847", "time": 1686759991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very good Radiolab episode that discusses this: https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36333828, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36333828", "by": "arcticbull", "time": 1686782433, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Listening to Jigar Shah, head of the DOE loans program, indicated part of the reason it's so expensive to build NPPs is that each nuclear power plant is a bespoke operation and requires a ton of custom work, planning and certification, etc. The suggestion he made was to create a basic design that you can just copy-paste where suitable, allowing you to leverage economics of scale. This would seem at least at first glance to align with the recommendations in the article. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/jigar-shah-on-the-does..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 36337803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36337803", "by": "jwestbury", "time": 1686817874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> What is hard about things like this is it ultimately boils down to self control. I'd recommend the research of Wendy Wood, a psychologist who studies habit. The tl;dr here is that willpower doesn't actually have much impact. There's an episode of the podcast Hidden Brain[0] which features her, and I think this soundbite is a pretty good encapsulation of the ideas behind her research: WOOD: They found that - contrary to all of our expectations, that people who are high achievers, who we think of as having good willpower, good self-control, they didn't actually experience many temptations. The"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36340130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36340130", "by": "chang1", "time": 1686835562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had a similar moment of existential career crisis as OP. I'm at the 20 year mark as well, in terms of developing software professionally. I've always felt like with new technology, I could grok at a high level how things worked. But LLMs like GPT seem like magic and I went through stages of initial astonishment -> despair realizing the potential impact it would have on the industry -> acceptance. While I still feel uncertainty and fear about the future, as others have echoed, I'm realizing it's a tool for developers to use. We can either choose to accept it and understand how to work with it"}, {"show": "1530428904", "hn_item": 36341012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341012", "by": "sramji", "time": 1686839210, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I got to speak with Yuliia Tkachova two months ago ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-human-right-to-pri... ) and what Masthead is building is technically different and powerful: metadata logs at the center of the architecture for operational analysis of BigQuery workloads, without ever accessing data. Pretty cool."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36346378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346378", "by": "QuercusMax", "time": 1686862356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've just started listening to the Fall of Civilizations podcast ( https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ ), and their second episode is on the Late Bronze Age collapse. The theory they put forward as to one of the reasons the big successful Bronze age civilizations got out-competed is that bronze is very expensive / hard to acquire, primarily because of the need for tin. (Copper is very common but unsuitable for weaponry without turning it into bronze.) Iron is extremely common and cheap, but requires much much higher temperatures to work with than bronze. Once the furnace technology was out"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36349175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36349175", "by": "pfdietz", "time": 1686875449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations podcast episode on the Assyrians starts with Xenophon's experience."}, {"show": "1650657462", "hn_item": 36352625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352625", "by": "atourgates", "time": 1686899341, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019d even say that the scholarly consensus on Revelation goes a bit further: that it was written as a type of political commentary on current events. Also interesting to note that Revelation was nearly rejected for canonization because it depicts Christians in heaven continually feasting, while asceticism and a life of poverty were hallmarks of Christianity at the time. Wild to compare those values to the \u201cprosperity\u201d gospel of today. If you\u2019re interested in the history and development of Revelation, I\u2019d recommend Bart Ehrman\u2019s Great Courses lecture[1], or his Podcast episodes on the topic[2]. "}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 36359915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36359915", "by": "robg", "time": 1686934548, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Loved this podcast with Rubin and him being asked right up front what a music producer does. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sMxk3DfydYWasJVZ4Nqy5?si=J..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36365323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36365323", "by": "the-smug-one", "time": 1686957622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Since the post is tagged 2016, I think it is also more likely than not that John would agree with this now; it's very possible that he'd also agree with it then, but I didn't go beyond the linked comment. He completely agreed with his 2016 self in the Lex Fridman podcast he did last year."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36365606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36365606", "by": "skwirl", "time": 1686959793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Carmack was on the Lex Fridman podcast last year and doubled down on these comments and actually went even further. He has not changed his mind at all."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36370841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370841", "by": "leroy_masochist", "time": 1687014503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Does this apply to Longfolia leaf (Tongkat Ali)? No -- Tongkat and other naturally occurring compounds like Fadogia increase testosterone by stimulating the body's production of Luteinizing Hormone, which in turn spurs the testes to produce more testosterone. If you want to know more about this, the Huberman Lab podcast has visited the topic several times. His view is that Tongkat and Fadogia are safe to take for long periods of time without interruption (\"cruise\") and he has stated that he himself takes them as a supplement."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36377309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377309", "by": "Jimmc414", "time": 1687062298, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36377607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377607", "by": "Jimmc414", "time": 1687066578, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36377771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377771", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1687068816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We can draw parallels to why biologists (at least in general) don't accept these sorts of oral \"debates\" with creationists. Quoting https://creationwiki.org/Evolutionists_don%27t_accept_debate... > The proper venue for debating scientific issues is at science conferences and in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In such a venue, the claims can be checked by anyone at their leisure. Creationists, with very rare exceptions, are unwilling to debate there. > Public debates are usually set up so that the winners are determined by public speaking ability, not by quality of material. > Debate formats"}, {"show": "1480311435", "hn_item": 36377781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377781", "by": "aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA", "time": 1687068976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should be aware of the Office Ladies podcast. https://officeladies.com/"}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 36378991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36378991", "by": "GeekyBear", "time": 1687084865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Meanwhile, the usually very blunt Kara Swisher (who has experienced all the leading AR/VR hardware including Apple's) just posted a rave on her Pivot podcast. https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36385816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36385816", "by": "phaedrus441", "time": 1687133110, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the recent Acquired podcast episode about Lockheed Martin. They spend a while discussing the development of the SR-71 (and other Skunk Works projects): https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/lockheed-martin"}, {"show": "1660122987", "hn_item": 36388003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36388003", "by": "phanivuyyuru", "time": 1687156800, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36390360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390360", "by": "_hao", "time": 1687178197, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 36395080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395080", "by": "nereye", "time": 1687200655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See \"Why did you fork radare2?\" [1] from the Rizin FAQ. For more details, see (well, listen to) the episode of the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast which covered Rizin/Cutter [2]. [1] https://rizin.re/posts/faq/ [2] https://unnamedre.com/episode/45"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36398582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36398582", "by": "Yinnerston", "time": 1687223943, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am about to graduate from university this year, and I had an idea to create a mobile app similar to TikTok but for OnlyFans. Interestingly, the inspiration to replicate TikTok came from an episode of the Acquired Podcast discussing Meituan. It seemed somewhat ironic to copy a Chinese app. I ran out of money to pay rent though, so I\u2019m looking for jobs here in Sydney instead now. I want to keep working on this project in my spare time and would appreciate any feedback and particularly guidance for how to run an open-source project!"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 36409363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409363", "by": "nvartolomei", "time": 1687289859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This topic was recently brought to attention by David Friedberg in the latest episode of the All-In podcast. https://youtu.be/5cQXjboJwg0?t=6645 (1:50:45)"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36412218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412218", "by": "infamouscow", "time": 1687303769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The status of the project and it's future have rapidly deteriorated since that article was written in early 2022. Ashley Williams is far too kind in detailing the situation on Oxide and Friends: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1367163"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36416177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36416177", "by": "kfrzcode", "time": 1687338371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lex Fridman podcast also is a fascinating discussion with Dr. Levin. Mind-blowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU&t=2467s"}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 36422626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422626", "by": "Firmwarrior", "time": 1687373199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny you mention that, I was just listening to the Tropical MBA podcast, and last week they had a guy who works in private equity come on the show. He explained a lot of basics of how PE works, since the podcast is mostly about small-scale bootstrapping and hiding out in cheap locations. It sounds like having a ton of headcount actually does make you look way more valuable to business investors, at least at the low end he was talking about.. I could see how that would scale up"}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 36422779, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422779", "by": "davesque", "time": 1687373858, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This paper was discussed, in typically irreverent fashion, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast a while back: https://podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/skin-deep/id557975157?..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 36422785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422785", "by": "JimtheCoder", "time": 1687373877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know if the HN community is a fan of the All In Podcast or not, but they did a piece about this a while back... https://youtu.be/3slYsEzJZoY?t=2873"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 36423490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36423490", "by": "droopyEyelids", "time": 1687377291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As we went over in the last discussion, \"Sold a Story\" can be a grueling podcast because of the ratio of information to cliff hangers. The short version, and maybe the entirety of the information in the 15+ hours of podcast is: Phonics works. While some kids can learn to read English without phonics, many kids can't, and there are periodic trends to teach reading without phonics, which causes a lot of problems when a school district follows one of those trends."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 36425432, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425432", "by": "animal_spirits", "time": 1687385678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did an excellent podcast investigation on the corruption and efficiency of the Delaware legal code regarding corporations, bankruptcy, tax evasion and money laundering. According to the people they interviewed, almost all laws regarding any business practices are written not by lawmakers but by lawyers. Honestly, I couldn't figure out whether that was good or bad, but it seemed dishonest because lawyers aren't responsible to adhere to the values of the constituents of the state. - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-does-one-tiny-state-set..."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36426532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36426532", "by": "__d", "time": 1687392777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your designers don't have former colleagues they can ask? Anyway, I've recently been enjoying the Oxide and Friends podcast series, and they talk a lot about the (high level) issues they experience with hardware design, testing, manufacture, etc. Maybe a \"what's on the bench?\" episode is worth suggesting?"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 36426753, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36426753", "by": "nagonago", "time": 1687394832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked how the Hard Fork Podcast compared it to Wikipedia. When Wikipedia first came out, people were up in arms about how dangerous and untrustworthy it was. Wikipedia is going to ruin society with widespread misinformation! Then we adapted. People learned about Wikipedia's strengths and weaknesses. People use Wikipedia as a useful tool for research but don't trust it blindly. I think the same will happen with LLMs."}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 36427859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36427859", "by": "arp242", "time": 1687406193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This has been an on-going (escalating) trend for a while; over 20 years ago the short-lived sketch show Bruiser already did a parody of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_dIsnDJGk And it pretty much matches my experience in school at the time. You could also see this with school books, where the older books were \"serious\" and the newer ones \"fun\". I also find it rather funny that the \"Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong\"[1] that was mentioned in another thread is only available as a podcast, and isn't a written story (there's a transcript, but it's very hard to follow). ["}, {"show": "1764220926", "hn_item": 36430581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430581", "by": "bylde", "time": 1687433907, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 36431092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431092", "by": "rsynnott", "time": 1687436861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If I'm doing something else at the same time, I would rather listen to music because anyway I won't be focused enough to not lose track of the podcast every 30 sec. I tend to listen to then when doing something relatively mindless (walking, cleaning, on the bus, etc etc). I don't find concentration to be an issue there; your mileage may vary. I found I listened to them a lot more during the pandemic, when I really wanted to avoid silence. > It makes you feel like you did something productive, when you actually barely listened, achieved nothing This... feels like a weird way of looking at it?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36433468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433468", "by": "troyvit", "time": 1687447083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Debates can also be structured enough that if the debaters follow the rules it becomes possible to see clear winners, or at least surface important ideas for people to chew on. The James Baldwin / William Buckley debate is a good example[1]. Somehow though I don't think you'd get that kind of structure in a Joe Rogan podcast. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tek9h3a5wQ"}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 36433897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433897", "by": "erikw", "time": 1687448528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked his podcast Lexicon Valley so much that I went back and listened through every episode. It\u2019s had a large impact on my thinking about language and empathy for communication. I went from thinking there was a \u201cright\u201d way to use language, to understanding that it\u2019s all about communication, and there are nearly endless patterns in which languages are structured."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36439724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36439724", "by": "DiogenesKynikos", "time": 1687471374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not debate with people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Debate moves science along, but it's debate between people with many years (or even decades) of scientific training. This debate mainly occurs in print, and is based on rigorous analysis of data. The \"spectators\" are also experts, and basically everyone involved agrees that the debate will be adjudicated by the data in the end. The kind of debate that would occur on Joe Rogan's podcast would be very different. First of all, one of the participants would have no scientific training at all. Second, it would basically come down to who could score "}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 36449146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36449146", "by": "loeg", "time": 1687537897, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Also good coverage of the case on Serious Trouble (podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-legal-brief-beyond..."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 36450543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36450543", "by": "billclerico", "time": 1687544892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth mentioning her new podcast (along with Carolynn Levy), The Social Radars, which is sort of a podcast version of Founders At Work: https://www.thesocialradars.com/"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 36450543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36450543", "by": "billclerico", "time": 1687544892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth mentioning her new podcast (along with Carolynn Levy), The Social Radars, which is sort of a podcast version of Founders At Work: https://www.thesocialradars.com/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36454707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36454707", "by": "fortenforge", "time": 1687571982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came away with the exact same takeaway. If you really want to convince people that content moderation is a hard problem, just ask them to listen to this Radiolab episode about Facebook's struggle: https://radiolab.org/podcast/post-no-evil It's much more convincing."}, {"show": "1070996136", "hn_item": 36457027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457027", "by": "shusaku", "time": 1687598505, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Eastern Border podcast has been my go to for awhile: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prigozhin-crisis/id107... The fog of war over Ukraine does continue to frustrate. You really wish there was live, perfect info sources to keep you in the know, but even ten years from now there are sure to be questions."}, {"show": "1611129886", "hn_item": 36458561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36458561", "by": "sgt", "time": 1687613663, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Be sure to listen to his recent interview on the Shuttlepod podcast. Direct link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-2-10-the-house-of-q..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36461105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36461105", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1687630014, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Could you clarify what you mean? I don't think I'm dismissive nor arrogant. I've watched a Lex Friedman podcast with John Vervaeke but can't say I particularly remember it very well."}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 36462906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36462906", "by": "recvonline", "time": 1687642955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am the author of \u201cRust Web Development\u201d (Manning) [1] and I am using Rust now at my third job full time for \u201cweb development\u201d (which is: for backend services). What I like about Rust, and where it makes the biggest difference to my previous jobs, is the type system and the compiler. I am using it currently to build distributed systems, using gRPC, adding GraphQL services etc. So there is enough there to take you started without having to rewrite everything yourself. The community is great to get answers, even many crates have active GitHub discussions or Discord servers. Sure, there are diff"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36466095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36466095", "by": "digitcatphd", "time": 1687681865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mark Zuckerberg made a good point in his Lex Friedman podcast referring to LLAMA, that he foresees not one master model but a bunch of speciality purpose smaller models built on base models with fewer parameters"}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 36473122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473122", "by": "schlauerfox", "time": 1687730995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are different state by state, but Anti-SLAPP is meant to protect from vexatious litigants, that is someone rich threatening to sue you to shut you up. I'm not a lawyer, I just listen to Serious Trouble podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36473177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473177", "by": "mhoad", "time": 1687731333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a million times better than some attempt to talk over the top of the other person an a Joe Rogan podcast and pretending that something even vaguely resembling science or a debate has occurred."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36476744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36476744", "by": "azangru", "time": 1687764372, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> some attempt to talk over the top of the other person an a Joe Rogan podcast Do you have a particular example in mind when that happened? I am trying to remember any live debate on Rogan, and could only come up Tim Pool vs Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde; but I do not remember them talking over each other."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 36478896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36478896", "by": "voxadam", "time": 1687782818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Julia Evans,[0] the author of this zine, was recently interviewed[1] about this specific topic and publication on the Embedded.fm podcast.[2] [0] https://jvns.ca/ [1] https://embedded.fm/episodes/452 [2] https://embedded.fm"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 36484945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484945", "by": "worstestes", "time": 1687809306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested in an expansive podcast detailing the history of the Byzantine Empire, check out The History of Byzantium podcast! https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ It\u2019s truly in depth and picks up around where Mike Duncan stopped (roughly) after the History of Rome podcast ended."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36485085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36485085", "by": "pawelkobojek", "time": 1687809898, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's wonderful podcast on Spotify - Fall of Civilizations which has an episode on that subject: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iiSrljKh9sVHBgMPd9EPd"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 36493219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36493219", "by": "a_c", "time": 1687875749, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I assume the article is a transcript of an episode of \"How I Built This\", if podcast is more your thing https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/atlassian-mike-cannon-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 36493481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36493481", "by": "wimagguc", "time": 1687876636, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics has a great episode on Uber and their dataset: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-uber-is-an-economists-d... ...which makes me think that Uber ratings may have less to do with the driver and more to do with the person giving the rating. I, for one, struggle giving people a bad review knowing that their livelihood depends on it \u2014 it's either 5 stars or crickets."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 36502298, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36502298", "by": "danradunchev", "time": 1687926527, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 36511429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36511429", "by": "TaylorAlexander", "time": 1687980722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Of course everyone's struggle is personal. For me, I have been listening to the Maintenance Phase podcast, reading Aubrey Gordon's new book, and learning that a lot of what we hold as fact or \"common sense\" about weight loss is untrue, that individual bodies respond very differently to the same diet and exercise schedule, and that a lot of the ideas around fatness are rooted in a cultural anti-fatness that views fatness as a personal failing, rather than another parameter of the body like height or hair color. This has helped me learn to simply be happy with my size. Our bodies are not all mea"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36514855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514855", "by": "Anisa_Mirza", "time": 1687999374, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "first off, thank you for diving into this. As someone who studied neuroscience at college, we\u2019re getting into some of my favourite topics :) So, to answer your question there is actually a ton of research on the influence of gamification, reward mechanism and positive conditioning and their effects on learning outcomes. If podcasts are your thing, there is a wonderful Huberman Lab series on this too. I will link towards the end here. Dopamine, the chemical which controls pleasure, learning and memory in the brain, can be used to hijack motivation and increase attention spans among learners \u2013 a"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36514878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514878", "by": "Anisa_Mirza", "time": 1687999539, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Forgot to link the Huberman Lab podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/1olAVb6VJe5us6yZvgy3FG?si=O... Curious to hear your thoughts!"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36515851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515851", "by": "chihuahua", "time": 1688007857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like thinking about this sort of thing, there are several (3-6) good episodes of the Lex Fridman podcast that talk about these issues. There's also one that discusses the development of life on earth, it's very interesting and makes it sound like a miracle that we ended up with complex multi-cellular lifeforms."}, {"show": "1709375714", "hn_item": 36521242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36521242", "by": "BinaryBuddha", "time": 1688050518, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 36524041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524041", "by": "dist-epoch", "time": 1688061033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marc Andreessen on the Sam Harris podcast yesterday arguing that we don't need to worry about AI: > The moral of every story is \"the good guys win\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMnH6KYNuWg&t=3064s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36524312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524312", "by": "eis", "time": 1688061884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was also on the Lex Fridman podcast a week ago. Seems like he's doing something of a roadshow related to AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDjAxvJ8"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 36524620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524620", "by": "kenjackson", "time": 1688063067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What you point out is maybe partially true. There was an episode on the Hidden Brain podcast recently about the famous marshmallow test that speaks to what you're stating. On this show they point out that the discipline to eat or not eat the marshmallow is also a function of if you believe that the person will actually give you the second marshmallow when they return. The predictability. But most Black students face this level of unpredictability moreso every day leading up to college admissions. Another, unrelated study, asked teachers to watch for misbehaving kids -- with a mixed race group "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 36524896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524896", "by": "kristiandupont", "time": 1688064270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just heard him on Sam Harris' podcast. It was a weird experience because he spoke with the patience and respect of someone who is intellectually honest and quite articulate, but at the same time, his reasoning struck me as really na\u00efve. Some of his arguments include \"even if AI becomes super smart, it won't be a threat because the smarter humans aren't even in charge as it is\", \"We can talk to it (GPT-4), so we can just ask it what its intentions are\", and my favourite: \"Meh, the good guys always win anyway\". I think it's great to hear counter points to the dystopic fear mongering, in fact, "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36532463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532463", "by": "lawrencechen", "time": 1688118485, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 36534780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36534780", "by": "arrowsmith", "time": 1688132660, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You might enjoy the podcast If Books Could Kill : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/atomic-habits/id165187..."}, {"show": "1204701206", "hn_item": 36546642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546642", "by": "CSMastermind", "time": 1688186263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started reading the Wheel of Time books this year and I discovered their surprisingly active subreddit where they have an active read-along including spoiler free first time reader threads. I listen to the No Dumb Questions podcast and the official episode discussion threads are on Reddit. As are the official discussion threads for the Nebula original Jet Lag episodes. As are the best unofficial discussion threads for newly aired TV show episodes. When new Age of Empires or Planet Zoo patches/expansions drop the only place to find thoughtful discussion is the subreddits for the games. The ac"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36552131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552131", "by": "mbStavola", "time": 1688230781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Congrats to the Oxide team, this is a massive achievement. Now that racks are shipping it'd be awesome to see a top-to-bottom look at the hardware and software. They've given a lot of behind the scenes peeks at what they're doing via the Oxide and Friends podcast, but as far as I'm aware there is no public information on what it all looks like together."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 36552259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552259", "by": "bcantrill", "time": 1688231343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide has been discussed on HN a bunch over the last 3+ years (e.g., [0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7]), and while nothing is without its detractors, we have found on balance this community to be extraordinarily supportive of our outlandishly ambitious project -- thank you! [0] When we started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360 [1] On the Changelog podcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037207 [2] On our embedded Rust OS, Hubris: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468969 [3] On running Hubris on the PineTime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30828884 [4] On compliance: http"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 36554046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36554046", "by": "zengid", "time": 1688239555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend folks check out the Oxide and Friends calls on discord, usually on Mondays 5pm PST. More info: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends Disclaimer: I am a fan, not affiliated."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36561592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561592", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1688306718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Genuinely curious, do you happen to have a link about that? When did it happen? The \u201870s, the \u201880s? There was a recent Odd Lots podcast on the genesis of the Eurodollar market. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-19/josh-youn... Or, if you prefer video or don't pay for Bloomberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0EN8_WuvK8"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 36562333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562333", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1688311661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's probably a combination of a lot of factors (full disclosure: I'm quite unsure about whether extraterrestrial life exists, but I am hopeful that it does). More sensors capturing more data, newer developments in drone tech that are being mistaken for UAPs, and an increased willingness on the part of military servicemembers to speak out about things they've seen with less concern about the repercussions. That said, if you are referencing the recent discussion fomented in part by Leslie Kean about the U.S. government having actual physical alien ships, I am much more skeptical as to t"}, {"show": "529997900", "hn_item": 36567120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36567120", "by": "deanCommie", "time": 1688342426, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's interesting that this is always the shot against Apple, in every generation. And I'm not judging, I was myself like this since a young geek in the 90s to a greybeard in the early 2010s, before something finally clicked in my head. While us geeks were criticizing the productivity/effectiveness of the Mac, the iMac, the iPhone (and presumably soon the VisionPro), Apple was casually changing computing for everyone (literally for all of humanity) and forever. What cemented it for me was re-watching 10-20 year old videos of Jobs at All Things D: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-jobs"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36571372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36571372", "by": "tosh", "time": 1688383139, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 36576957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36576957", "by": "ethanbond", "time": 1688408699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If or when AI is capable of doing all the great things people proclaim it to be able to do, then it will also be capable of doing immense harm, and we should be putting more work into mitigating that. Like it really is that simple. AI generally, LLMs specifically, and certainly this crop of LLMs in particular might end up being inert pieces of technology. But to the precise extent that they are not inert, they carry risk. That's a perfectly sensible position. The optimist position isn't even internally consistent. See Andreessen on Sam Harris's podcast: AI will produce consumer utopia and driv"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 36580157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580157", "by": "adriand", "time": 1688426930, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I believe he has mentioned it more than once, but one podcast that includes that discussion IIRC, and many other AI-related topics, is the April 7 episode \u201cWhy A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy\u201d. If you\u2019re on iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id..."}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 36587741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36587741", "by": "the_third_wave", "time": 1688483553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "James Lindsay has been writing/publishing on the subject of Marxism being a Gnostic religion for quite a while now for those interested in this subject. Here's a summary of what he says on the subject in The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 108 [1]: Marxism is not a philosophy. Neither are its derivatives, like \u201cWokeness\u201d (Woke Marxism). These are a strain within a broader category of cult religious movements that pose as economics, sociology, and politics. The broad name for these Esoteric cult religions is \u201cGnosticism,\u201d but that\u2019s a confusing label for a number of reasons. "}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 36591910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591910", "by": "zengid", "time": 1688501339, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Howdy Folks, I'm wondering if there is a good course or survey on the fundamentals around the software business. Topics such as different business models, licensing, balancing open-source with patents and intellectual property, venture capital, and other things in the business-domain. I love listening to podcasts like Acquired [0] and Lenny's Podcast [1], but some of the jargon goes over my head. Thank you! [0] https://www.acquired.fm [1] https://www.lennyspodcast.com"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36596109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596109", "by": "DeRock", "time": 1688537375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a fascinating episode diving into this very topic: https://radiolab.org/podcast/body-count"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36602456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602456", "by": "a_wild_dandan", "time": 1688573380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Turns out GPT-4 was 8 kids in a trench coat. And hey, why not? If the brain can have regions, perhaps that's a likewise a useful abstraction for LLMs. I'd love more info on model performance differences between monolithic vs manifold/subdivided architectures. Does model composition give us a \"more than the sum of its p\u0336a\u0336r\u0336t\u0336s\u0336 weights\" phenomenon, or just some implementation conveniences? Side note: I loved the George Hotz interview on Lex Fridman's podcast. I strongly disagree with some of his opinions, but thoroughly enjoyed hearing them. I highly recommend it, if you're looking for some en"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36611875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611875", "by": "taylorfinley", "time": 1688623179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This post reads like a neoluddite AI-skeptic trashing someone for trying new things. Every CEO should be trying to automate human tasks with AI right now--not to fire all the humans, but to increase their efficiency. Good on your CEO for trying. Sounds like they've largely failed to execute, which is a valid thing to criticize, but at least they're trying. The CEO of my company has also been trying, and we've done some really cool things. I've been hearing a lot of AI criticism lately from folks who clearly haven't gotten deep with GPT-4, like geohot/George Hotz's recent interview on the Lex F"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 36616618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616618", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1688654389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be referring to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, though the timescale for the onset of that climatic event was tens of thousands of years, not hundreds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_The... In Our Time did an excellent podcast on it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36618521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618521", "by": "Kye", "time": 1688661018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NYT's Hard Fork podcast did an interview with the one of the key people working on Threads. If you were curious about the official Meta position on all your concerns and want answers to questions you have, that's the one to listen to. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 36618521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618521", "by": "Kye", "time": 1688661018, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NYT's Hard Fork podcast did an interview with the one of the key people working on Threads. If you were curious about the official Meta position on all your concerns and want answers to questions you have, that's the one to listen to. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/podcasts/special-episode-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36618627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618627", "by": "ajhernandez95", "time": 1688661373, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Engage with AI in Thoughtful Debates 1. Pick a topic or randomize 2. Choose the persona for the debate such as Elon Musk, physics expert, etc., or randomize. 3. Start the debate --- The idea was inspired by Marc Andreessen's discussion on the Lex Fridman podcast about how he uses AI for debates to develop his ideas. --- Awesome ways to use it: - Test your strong opinions by debating with the AI. You might learn something new! - Got a business idea? Pitch it to the AI and listen to the counterarguments. - Want to debate with Elon Musk or Ben Shapiro? Now's your chance. - Or, simply watch the AI"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 36625031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625031", "by": "garyrob", "time": 1688687709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the Adam Mosseri interview on the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast today, and I came away with the strong impression that it will interoperate bidirectionally. He was asked what the business reasons are for doing that, and he defended the idea that it's a better idea for the long run. Unless I completely misunderstood what he was saying. This doesn't mean, in my mind, that we can count on it forever, but I would be surprised if Threads is not a full-fledged two-way member of ActivityPub at the start of its ActivityPub participation and for at least a substantial amount of time a"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36626456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36626456", "by": "npunt", "time": 1688698118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fall of Civilizations podcast is good https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 36626888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36626888", "by": "cheshire137", "time": 1688702060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Here's their episode on the Mayans: https://youtu.be/SnFaRXeep5Y"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 36632403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36632403", "by": "skapadia", "time": 1688740706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love listening to Guy Raz's \"How I Built This\" podcast - a common element in almost every success story is the number of failures it took to reach success. Failure, the ability to keep working / pivot through failures, and being okay with failure seem to be requirements to succeeding. Failure is literally a key ingredient to success."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36632498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36632498", "by": "1PlayerOne", "time": 1688741088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listening to Lex Fridman's podcast with tech bros and billionaires, kind of easy to see what Paul Krugman is talking about."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 36633473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36633473", "by": "ultrasandwich", "time": 1688744717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learned a lot about this kind of predictive modeling function of our brains from _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. He was on Sean Carroll's podcast not too long ago and they had a great conversation on this topic."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 36640422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36640422", "by": "aaronmoodie", "time": 1688779369, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is great. For me, visually representing this data always has more impact. If you\u2019ve not read it, I recommend Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. https://www.oliverburkeman.com/books And I just listened to this episode of Hidden Brain the other day which has a similar theme. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/the-best-years-of-your-life/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36650983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650983", "by": "bitcurious", "time": 1688870414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> My totally amateur pet theory is that paranoia is threat pattern recognition gone bonkers. Supposedly OCD is your brain\u2019s cause-effect loop being too potent. As in, you have a random fear I.e. \u201cstove is on, fire will burn down house,\u201d you go to check the stove, and the act of checking (regardless of its being on) creates the feeling that you saved your house from burning down, so now you feel compelled to check every time. Paraphrased from the Huberman podcast."}, {"show": "1802105177", "hn_item": 36664285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664285", "by": "diminikolaou", "time": 1688984607, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series. Full episode of last essay and more: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4028... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 36664285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36664285", "by": "diminikolaou", "time": 1688984607, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series. Full episode of last essay and more: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4028... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1802105177", "hn_item": 36668771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668771", "by": "wondercraft", "time": 1689006800, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series. Full episode of last essay and more: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4141... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 36668771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36668771", "by": "wondercraft", "time": 1689006800, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Paul Graham Essays, now in audio in a podcast series. Full episode of last essay and more: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2NodnpVFh51xjE6XxiJcLE?si=4141... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 36670262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670262", "by": "gymbeaux", "time": 1689011703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a Python podcast a few months ago where they were hating on macOS/Macs and it really resonated with me. They were saying it was becoming a common sentiment to move away from Macs, and this is after their throttling issues seen in Intel macs. Anyway they\u2019re just opinions. I can list the reasons macOS makes my life harder, or doesn\u2019t do things it used to do, for example display scaling on 1440p displays, but ultimately it doesn\u2019t matter, because it works for you!"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36671381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36671381", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1689015983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You have to do those spammy things and probably do 100x more of them you expect to do and I'm not kidding. See for instance what Pincecone has done for \"posting to Hacker News\" https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pinecone.io When I was in college I was a DJ at our college radio station and I wanted a set of keys so I ran for public relations officer and won. My mission was to get people to turn up for our dances which had a bad reputation and little turnout. On a small campus of maybe 1600 students I would print a ream of paper worth of posters (500 sheets) with maybe 20 different designs. "}, {"show": "1455379351", "hn_item": 36674943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674943", "by": "johnys", "time": 1689034917, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Condor Software | Software Engineer, Full Stack (Django, React) | Remote, San Diego, New York, or Boston | Full-time Condor is building a world where finance accelerates human progress in medicine. Our mission is to help biotech finance teams save time, money, and lives by bringing more cutting-edge therapies to market, faster and more affordably. We started Condor because we realized that the life-saving treatments needed by our loved ones were held back by billions of dollars in complicated, time-consuming, and inefficient financial processes, which consistently delay clinical trial deployme"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36675871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36675871", "by": "vaxman", "time": 1689043799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They have three trillion reasons to protect their IP from appearing on the lenses of a Meta Quest or an HTC Vive. All it takes is for the wrong person to post on Threads or Twitter and a pontificator to bloviate into the wrong podcast and it all winds up on a Bloomberg terminal. AAPL has a lot riding on this."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36686605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36686605", "by": "chipotle_coyote", "time": 1689106278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author finding this thread very late! This is one of the better responses I\u2019ve found. It doesn\u2019t seem likely to me that many people will think Mastodon is just on Threads, but your counterexample about Spotify and podcasts doesn\u2019t seem likely to me either \u2014 yet I know it\u2019s true. So it\u2019s definitely something to think about! I guess the flip side, though, is figuring out just how podcasts and their infrastructure have been affected. They\u2019re still out there, still open, and over the last year, Spotify has been pulling back from investing in podcasts and making more of their previously Spotify-exc"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36687130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687130", "by": "LinuxBender", "time": 1689109061, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No I don't think so. Not because of the content but rather the lack of it. The people that already have some idea of the missing content are not the general audience that would benefit from this. In my opinion a TED talk is not an appropriate format. TED barely gave him enough time to tell us the sky is going to be falling. People will need more depth to see what that might look like and how it might apply to them and what it even means to look for it. I believe the format should be that of a 3 or 4 hour long-format podcast. Oh and not just one but many. There should be at most 3 guests on eac"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36697153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36697153", "by": "Jimmc414", "time": 1689179441, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36697747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36697747", "by": "bhouston", "time": 1689181250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At least Ketamine: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ketamine-use-secur... and also pot (Joe Rogan podcast from a couple years ago.) Wouldn't be surprised if he is also microdosing LSD, it is quite popular right now in high-tech circles (see: https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-microdosing-keta... ), but I don't think someone has accused him of that yet."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 36698434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36698434", "by": "b8", "time": 1689183345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found Headland's blog post about quant trading useful [0] and as well as their other blog posts [1]. Jane Street's podcast and blog are insightful too [2]. I read somewhere that Dr. Simons (one of the founds of RenTech) has this book in his office [3]. 0. https://blog.headlandstech.com/2017/08/03/quantitative-tradi... 1. https://blog.headlandstech.com/ 2. https://blog.janestreet.com/ and https://signalsandthreads.com/ 3. The Econometrics of Financial Markets, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691043019/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36703051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703051", "by": "slowhadoken", "time": 1689204294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Functionality seems fine to me. It appears that they're making improvements and that's causing slight disruption that lasts for at most a day. And I care about content moderation, I don't know why you're using quotation marks. It was huge a issue when Jack Dorsey ran things. He and Vijaya Gadde got grilled on Joe Rogan's podcast and then in front of a US Senate hearing about it. It's all anyone is talking about lmfao"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36703832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703832", "by": "bwdey", "time": 1689210191, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36703833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36703833", "by": "bwdey", "time": 1689210191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pod is great but they\u2019re so long I don\u2019t listen to all the episodes. TLexDR is the free newsletter that summarizes the most insightful tidbits about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power from episodes of the Lex Fridman Podcast."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 36706972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706972", "by": "robertlutece", "time": 1689242829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles of interest as part of the 99% Invisible podcast did an episode [1] on Aloha shirts. 1: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hawaiian-shirts-artic..."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 36709356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709356", "by": "xdennis", "time": 1689257155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> T word, the F word, the D word, the S word, and the M word God, this is so childish. Perhaps you think that list should also only list words as \"f-word\" and have software interpret what it refers to so as not to offend anyone reading the code. Funny anecdote about this: in the podcast \"Blocked and Reported\" one of the presenters tells a story she heard from a mother. Her child learned in school that \"under no circumstance is it okay to say the n-word because it's the most vile, horrible, unforgivable thing anyone can say\". The kid is 7 years old (or about that age) and has no idea what the n"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36717294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36717294", "by": "world2vec", "time": 1689289468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mark Zuckerberg said in Lex Fridman podcast that they learned a lot from the community by open sourcing LLaMA, even name-checked llama.cpp and that they're now using their own version of it internally. Looking forward to see what they've learned and improved in the past few months. This is quite exciting approach when compared to what OpenAI and Anthropic are doing."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36719948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719948", "by": "codeyperson", "time": 1689313885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's said in his interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, that he wants to get AI in front of people as fast as possible to give us the longest amount of time possible to start to adapt to it. I think he wants to scare people a little in a somewhat controlled way to onramp us to this new reality as fast as possible."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 36722624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722624", "by": "3cats-in-a-coat", "time": 1689336141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The lead dev of Threads did an interview on the Hard Fork podcast on July 6, which is the day when Threads launched. And he predicted the fast initial pick-up, the slow-down and then the drop-off of activity we see now, and covered how they'll grow it from there. So none of this is truly news, it's expected. And normal. But of course Elon Musk's entourage on Twitter is having a laugh right now."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 36722624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36722624", "by": "3cats-in-a-coat", "time": 1689336141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The lead dev of Threads did an interview on the Hard Fork podcast on July 6, which is the day when Threads launched. And he predicted the fast initial pick-up, the slow-down and then the drop-off of activity we see now, and covered how they'll grow it from there. So none of this is truly news, it's expected. And normal. But of course Elon Musk's entourage on Twitter is having a laugh right now."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36727768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36727768", "by": "loufe", "time": 1689358315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm surprised nobody here has brought up the sensorship in this model. Listening to Mark Zuckerberg on Lex Friedman's podcast talk about it, it sounds like the model will be significantly blunted vs its \"research\" version release."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36729673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36729673", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1689367476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started playing with it last weekend, the 100K token limit is very useful for things like \"Give me a summary of this 5 hours Lex Fridman podcast in about 10 sentences: \""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 36739431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739431", "by": "dventimi", "time": 1689444189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Chapo Traphouse podcast did an entertaining miniseries on the 30 Years War (including the defenestration of Prague) in their Hell on Earth series: https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36740190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36740190", "by": "tinco", "time": 1689449612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What was his spat with AMD about? I think he complained about AMD's drivers being shit on the Lex Fridman podcast but that's not eye brow raising right?"}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 36741367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36741367", "by": "DangerousPie", "time": 1689458674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Economist's obituary section is usually well worth the read, and this is a nice example. You can also listen to it through their free Intelligence podcast."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 36757359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757359", "by": "sph", "time": 1689596569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've heard this for months, and the only thing is obvious is that there are a lot of crooks. I mean, the recent Ezra Klein podcast with the journalist that is \"researching\" these phenomena and oral accounts is quite telling of the state of things."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 36757598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36757598", "by": "danpalmer", "time": 1689598101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> They don't do that and none of their competitors do that. Booking.com charges hotels 15% in commission on their sales and that's it. This is how Expedia worked for many years. Booking didn't start out doing this, but I think both are now large enough that they all do a bit of both. Some googling suggests Booking may not be buying wholesale directly, but may be just listing inventory from other wholesalers. There's a good episode of the Acquired podcast on Booking.com that goes into some depth on their business model if you want more info."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 36762204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36762204", "by": "100k", "time": 1689619100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If this interests you, I recommend The History of English podcast. The episodes on Old English cover similar linguistic evolution that happened due the influence of Old Norse. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 36768466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36768466", "by": "mikhailfranco", "time": 1689660409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcast discussion of this topic from Freakonomics: Are You Having a Midlife Crisis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQzxEC-qbU4"}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 36773370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36773370", "by": "wondercraft", "time": 1689692008, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Link for Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1802105177", "hn_item": 36773370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36773370", "by": "wondercraft", "time": 1689692008, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Link for Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pg-essays/id1696269981"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36776479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776479", "by": "javajosh", "time": 1689702284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No-one does real intelligence studies in humans because it's such a third-rail in academia. Think \"The Bell Curve\". Some scientists seem to believe that intelligence is intrinsic. The analogy with dog breeds, with their different temperaments and capabilities, with individual variation, applies to humans as well. See Richard Haier: IQ Tests, Human Intelligence, and Group Differences | Lex Fridman Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g"}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 36779165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36779165", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1689714728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the last two episodes of ADSP Podcast with Sean Parent, regarding Val. Adobe Research labs is seriously sponsoring its development. https://adspthepodcast.com/"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 36782326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782326", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1689743461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fair enough. Stugeon's Law holds. There's also the whole publishing / academic clique environment which incentivizes such styles. And there are refreshingly clear and accessible authors in philosophy from both the present time and the past. I've been following a number of podcasts for a few years now which tend to be both reasonably high quality and quite listenable: Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy , Stephen West's Philsophize This , a set of podcasts each from Nigel Warburton nd David Edmunds ( Philosophy Bites , Philosophy Sites , and a few more) and David Runciman ( Talking Politics ,"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36782436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782436", "by": "hncommenter13", "time": 1689744635, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great book by CS professor Steven Skiena about the automated betting system he built (using early 90s-era technology!) to place bets on jai alai. The Book: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/jaialai/ 2008 presentation: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/tmp/oreilly.pdf Odd Lots Podcast: https://news.stonybrook.edu/facultystaff/computer-science-pr..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 36782567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36782567", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1689746001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now it has official backing from Adobe, if you listen to ADSP Podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36786381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36786381", "by": "58x14", "time": 1689774862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard recently (on Lex Fridman's podcast with Marc Andreessen) that Oppenheimer was called a \"cry-baby scientist\" by President Truman, and that his groveling campaign was considered by many to be self-aggrandizing, albeit in a self-deprecating way. Apparently, his involvement was less significant than many others in the Manhattan Project, but his name became one of the most well-known due to his public outcries, and of course his iconic quote. I haven't yet seen the movie and I'm looking forward to it; I wonder how much of this is portrayed. Funny enough, I'm planning a double feature with O"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36786486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36786486", "by": "dralley", "time": 1689775300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> on Lex Fridman's podcast with Marc Andreessen There's two to talk."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 36794843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36794843", "by": "lowkey", "time": 1689808485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be fair, I went down the RFK Jr rabbit hole before he went on the All-in podcast - so thought leader? It\u2019s no secret I am a huge fan of him, not so much the rich VC schmucks tho."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 36794877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36794877", "by": "gkanai", "time": 1689808660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Theo Baker was interviewed on the Longform Podcast recently: https://longform.org/player/polk-award-winners-theo-baker"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36800154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800154", "by": "natnat", "time": 1689859801, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really good episode of the Odd Lots podcast where they discussed this. Arizona is a very favorable location for semiconductor fabs because there's a very low risk for natural disaster (no hurricanes or earthquakes), the temperature changes are relatively predictable, land and electricity are relatively cheap, and Intel already has a large fab there. Water is a little bit of a struggle, but they can buy water rights from farmers, who use most of Arizona's water."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 36807738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807738", "by": "corysama", "time": 1689892822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide's \"On the Metal\" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by people who lived them. \"Deep\" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there were more episodes. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just as good. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 36817108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817108", "by": "geonaut", "time": 1689962072, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "\u201cExxonMobil\u2026 [acquired]\u2026 a smaller Texas oil and gas company with the U.S.\u2019s largest network of pipelines designed to carry carbon dioxide.\u201d There was a great episode of the Volts podcast, about a startup aiming to make synthetic shipping fuel (methanol), where waste CO2 was one of the main inputs. Some good discussion of where they sourced their CO2, and the practicalities of CO2 distribution. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36818300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818300", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1689967326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Radiolab podcast two weeks ago that covered how tree ring width patterns could be decoded to match hurricane season intensity and this was matched to sun spot activity. They pinpoint a lull that allowed sugar to become a cash crop in Caribbean, allow chattel slavery and later piracy to flourish and noted that right now is a similar inflection point for an end to a lull and start of worse weather via the sun\u2019s cyclical activities. We\u2019ve only just begun."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 36820631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820631", "by": "thewanderer1983", "time": 1689977500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"\u201ctrust the science\u201d or \u201ctrust the experts\u201d is usually right.\" This statement and general belief is antithetical to science. Dr. Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying talk about this misconception of science on their Darkhorse podcast all the time. Dr Brian Keating nicely summarises this issue in this short video https://youtu.be/gAqq72m-ipo You should \"trust the scientific method\" when done correctly."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 36827435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36827435", "by": "beginning_end", "time": 1690042293, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really liked the interview with the three scientists in the \"Decoding the Gurus\" podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-worobey... (Interview starts roughly 33 min into the episode)."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36828111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828111", "by": "youssefabdelm", "time": 1690047604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a drug called Rapamycin discussed in this Radiolab episode https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub The drug supposedly helped delay the doctor's cancer and extend his lifespan until he stopped taking it, then it came back \"with a vengeance\" and he passed away. He wanted to stop taking it to verify whether it was actually working or not. I wonder if it might help this person? He might have to be on it for life though. Don't take my word for it though, this is FAR from my field of expertise."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 36830469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36830469", "by": "overlordalex", "time": 1690064002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obligatory Behind the Bastards podcast episode: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 36837401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36837401", "by": "amorriscode", "time": 1690132475, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent How I Built This podcast about Zipline who is doing this. They're doing some real deliveries. https://pca.st/6imicbz4"}, {"show": "1516498673", "hn_item": 36857589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857589", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1690256545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They talked about it in the Stack Exchange podcast years ago. IIRC, the vision of the perfect question was one with a canonical answer. They didn\u2019t want to be Quora. I think that concept made and makes a lot of sense, but doesn\u2019t capture the \u201cmeta\u201d issues surrounding how you litigate the form of the question, especially as questions get more nuanced."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36861257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36861257", "by": "mschuster91", "time": 1690288085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Raises some good points indeed, however it assumes that the Saudis ordered Musk to buy and crash Twitter directly, and it assumes that the Tesla shares he used as collateral would go to zero. It's also possible that they got approached by Musk and saw a good timing to exploit a rich Western idiot to further their interests. I mean, Musk being deranged enough to call a rescue diver a pedo, smoking weed in Joe Rogan's podcast or give names to his children that are completely bonkers even for celebrities? The signs that he's not completely well mentally were there for years. Loaning him 20 billio"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36862377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862377", "by": "jawerty", "time": 1690293764, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36862378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862378", "by": "jawerty", "time": 1690293764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! In this video I scrape audio from podcasts (for now George Hotz and Lex Fridman as an example) to generate a dataset for a Retriever/Reader system (using a small home grown vector db and LLama 2). I also go through how to load and prompt LLama 2 using the retrieved context and getting an answer. Check out my last video if you want to see how to fine tune LLama 2 on a Google Colab single GPU."}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 36864034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864034", "by": "aresant", "time": 1690299890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you enjoyed this article The Retro Hour podcast has an awesome business / creative interview with Tim Jenison that was founder / CEO of NewTek that brought this product to market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDS8ARFeZc"}, {"show": "1602541473", "hn_item": 36869589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36869589", "by": "puzzydunlop", "time": 1690319306, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Very cool idea and I think there\u2019s a thread worth pulling here. The CEO of Unlearn AI on this podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/whats-your-problem/id1... ) talked about using AI to simulate a larger sample size for clinical trials which is similar to what you are doing here Looking forward to seeing where this goes :)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36878977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36878977", "by": "jawerty", "time": 1690384169, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 36880623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880623", "by": "evo_9", "time": 1690389636, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1526164119", "hn_item": 36883398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36883398", "by": "krawczstef", "time": 1690399198, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 36884890, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884890", "by": "whycome", "time": 1690404896, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> She refused the playing of US national anthem before her concerts, drawing further public scorn. Was this a thing?! A good episode of \"You're Wrong About...\" covers the controversy of her: https://open.spotify.com/episode/265qKOV5C7XBqlyXMjp7VF https://podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor-wi..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36886784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886784", "by": "evo_9", "time": 1690415325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Watch the Lex Fridman podcast on July 4th, 2023. 2+ hours of thoughtful dialog. You\u2019ll learn everything he believes from his own words which is something very many people prefer we don\u2019t do."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36887754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36887754", "by": "evo_9", "time": 1690421851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Right and he wrote a whole book on it and cited facts with multiple papers backing up his claims. And ask yourself this - how is it that that book is still sold if it\u2019s all bullshit? That was one of the many things bouncing around the back of my head as I smugly dismissed him until I watched the Lex Fridman podcast. Look, I used to think exactly like everybody on hacker news, until I actually listen to the man. Do I agree with everything he says, no, but pretty close\u2026 And if you take the time to actually listen to him, you\u2019ll find that he\u2019s pretty reasonable on every single topic. And he\u2019s wil"}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 36897205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36897205", "by": "variedthoughts", "time": 1690479214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Python community is awesome because of the people. Python People is a weekly podcast about getting to know the people who help make the Python community great. It's less about the tech, and more about the people. First 3 episodes are with: - Michael Kennedy - Paul Everitt - Brett Cannon"}, {"show": "6800059040", "hn_item": 36898439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898439", "by": "rdhyee", "time": 1690484144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accompanying podcast: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02425-8 I'm surprised by the results (from what I've heard so far on the podcast) and a bit skeptical given the involvement of Meta. Looking forward to reactions from various scientific and technical communities."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36901451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901451", "by": "opello", "time": 1690500574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There were Radiolab episodes about this too: - https://radiolab.org/podcast/alpha-gal - https://radiolab.org/podcast/return-alpha-gal"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 36901676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901676", "by": "fberger", "time": 1690502406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a great episode about it in 2016: https://radiolab.org/podcast/alpha-gal"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36904295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36904295", "by": "sentientmachin3", "time": 1690533033, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lex Friedman podcast with J. Carmack goes over all the major innovations in every game, really interesting episode, strongly advised if you have time (roughly 5 hours long)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36905093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905093", "by": "adamddev1", "time": 1690541343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Carmack talked about how they released those first games on the Lex Friedman podcast. Having a previous framework and pipeline seemed to help get them out really quick. https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 36905674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905674", "by": "hoherd", "time": 1690545996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris podcast episode 210[1] had guests William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense and founding member of Nuclear Threat Initiative[2], and his grand daughter Lisa Perry, Communications Director at At The Brink[3], to talk in large part about that scary aspect of nuclear weapons, and how an accidental nuclear war is more likely than a deliberate one. [1] https://youtu.be/NVnwc4rZI_0?t=12m40s Episode 210 (no paywall) [2] https://www.nti.org \"focused on reducing nuclear and biological threats\" [3] https://atthebrink.org Podcast about the modern situation with nuclear weapons"}, {"show": "369032477", "hn_item": 36908084, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36908084", "by": "lawkwok", "time": 1690557423, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here\u2019s a podcast that talks about how Dollorama (and Walmart) is changing city design. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-strong-towns-podca..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 36909008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36909008", "by": "boberoni", "time": 1690560575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \u201cIf Books Could Kill\u201d has a great episode that breaks down and debunks the book \u201cNudge\u201d. The podcast also factchecks various other pop-science and so called \u201cairport books\u201d."}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 36909925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36909925", "by": "fossuser", "time": 1690563956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The licensing discussion I heard between Ben Thompson and John Gruber on their Dithering podcast (not sure the details). Even ignoring that, I think it's still a good outcome for Tesla - they effectively own and control a large percentage of all charging infrastructure in the world. Every other car company adopting their standard means they have a lot of customers that will pay them to charge at their stations (even independent of the licensing). That plus avoiding a future where without making this transition they could end up isolated with an obscure and incompatible charger that would event"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 36920258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920258", "by": "oneplane", "time": 1690638287, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Because the government can put you in jail and the marketing agency can't. (I think I head this simplified response on the Risky Business podcast) Realistically, scraping people for their data like this should just not be allowed at all. People are more important than corporations."}, {"show": "1530577069", "hn_item": 36930418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36930418", "by": "jslakro", "time": 1690719520, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I heard about https://tiiny.host from a podcast episode. A boring pdf hosting site that grew to offer more services. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dZUDBsZW9EOo2G61ZaTpM?si=W..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 36935708, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36935708", "by": "anon84873628", "time": 1690749544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For the layperson I highly recommend The History of English Podcast. Although the focus is on English is starts from square one with the Proto Indo European people -- what we know about their culture/technology, the various migrations and branches, how the language was reconstructed, etc. The host is always careful to point out how these conclusions were drawn and where there are competing hypotheses or uncertainty. I love how the show weaves the evolution of language together with many aspects of history."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 36936415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36936415", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1690754119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recent Freakonomics episode might have some insights: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/will-the-democrats-make-ame... Namely many of the major spending bills passed by the Biden admin focuses on actually building things in the US."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 36942808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942808", "by": "nova22033", "time": 1690812882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cHey just buy this thing from me, and trust me that I will do something great with your money and eventually return it to you, I promise!\u201d Sounds like SBF talking about \"the box\" on the Odd Lots podcast.."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 36944442, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944442", "by": "atchoo", "time": 1690818534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hmm. My faith in the BBC's commitment to decentralisation and open standards has been damaged by the artificial month delay they added to their podcast feeds to try and drive traffic to their centralised Sounds app. I've been listening to the In Our Time podcast for 20 years and then they go and vandalise it as a growth hack. There is no way I am using multiple proprietary podcast apps so I end up listening to topical comedy a month out of date... which is just weird."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 36944759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944759", "by": "petepete", "time": 1690819699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I agree the delay is a killer for topical news/comedy content, it's hard to argue the same for In Our Time. In Our Time is the only show I regularly listen to in podcast form."}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 36945253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36945253", "by": "HenryBemis", "time": 1690821680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Lo barato sale caro\" which translates to the \"the cheap becomes expensive\" 99% true with some very few exceptions. I remember Evan Davis' on a BBC podcast called \"The Bottom Line\". In said podcast he was interviewing various business people. One of them was the CEO of Primark. Over 'here' (in Europe - in multiple countries) you can see MASSIVE stores (I haven't yet been on a Primark store that was smaller than a football pit (per floor - typically two floors - lower for women, upper for men and kids), and they have shockingly low prices. I haven't visited a Primark outside Europe yet, so I "}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 36949526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949526", "by": "1vuio0pswjnm7", "time": 1690841155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A number of BBC podcasts set their rss url to http:// instead of https:// . One can still get these feeds over https/443 (see below). But podcast apps will try to use http/80 of course. Why does BBC do this. Or maybe it's the podcast apps that do it. Weird. \"In Our Time\" is one example. printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\\r\\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\\r\\nConnection: close\\r\\n\\r\\n' \\ |nc -vvn 125.252.212.113 80 > 1.rss printf 'GET /b006qykl.rss HTTP/1.0\\r\\nHost: podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk\\r\\nConnection: close\\r\\n\\r\\n' \\ |openssl s_client -connect 125.252.212.113:443 -ign_eof > 1.rss"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 36950594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36950594", "by": "jcpst", "time": 1690848125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great podcast from Huberman Lab covering a lot of science around caffeine use. https://hubermanlab.com/using-caffeine-to-optimize-mental-an... A few takeaways: * stopping caffeine ingestion 8-12 hours before you plan to sleep is beneficial to your sleep. Even for people who can drink coffee late in the day and still go to sleep. * delaying the first dose 90 minutes after waking up can help mitigate the \u201cafternoon slump\u201d many people experience."}, {"show": "1557897650", "hn_item": 36955851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36955851", "by": "nirvanis", "time": 1690897435, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 36968993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36968993", "by": "andersco", "time": 1690971565, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Podcast that describes many of the specifics of how her and another researcher faked their data: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834..."}, {"show": "1387529624", "hn_item": 36969764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969764", "by": "implements", "time": 1690978257, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not in the field, but this recent podcast covers it: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/two-psychologists-four... Harkening back to episode 73, Alexa and Yoel discuss recent evidence of fraud documented in the Data Colada blog post \"Clusterfake.\" The post is the first in a series of four, which will collectively detail evidence of fraud in four papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. [\u2026] Finally, they consider what this means for a field still struggling to build a more trustworthy foundation."}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 36969923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36969923", "by": "michaelhoney", "time": 1690979229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Very Bad Wizards podcast talked a little about this case in a recent episode ( https://verybadwizards.com/episode/episode-263-free-yoel - main topic is also interesting, about a professor not getting hired for what seem like not-great reasons). The podcast notes include a link to the Data Colada post about the Gino fraud: http://datacolada.org/109"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 36974726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974726", "by": "CSMastermind", "time": 1691000229, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll be the divergent voice here and say that I read it because I often heard it referenced here and it was one of the worst books I've ever read. Part of what makes it so terrible is that Bullshit Jobs is an interesting premise. The fact that some percentage of people think that their jobs don't need to exist is an interesting observation that merits deeper study. If anyone ever does that study and writes a book about it I would love to read it but Graeber's book is not that. Rather his book discusses the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs and then diverges into an incoherent political rant. I saw S"}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 36975145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975145", "by": "mumblemumble", "time": 1691001845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We probably don't. Empirically demonstrating the effectiveness of an advertising campaign is notoriously difficult and expensive and few people in the adtech industry have any interest in paying for that kind of research. See, for example: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1963405.1963431 There was a point in an episode of the podcast You're Wrong About where one of the hosts made a comment about how much you can learn about people just by observing what kinds of things we don't require evidence to believe. I think that the effectiveness of tracking-based advertising might be one of those thi"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 36979516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36979516", "by": "Pulcinella", "time": 1691020486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I originally reported this in August 2022. Apple replied once in October 2022 to say \"we can't reproduce this, please provide a demo app\". I provided the app that reliably reproduces the problem within an hour of their reply, but they've been silent since. This came up on the ATP podcast recently. Feedback is a very, very crappy front-end for Apple's internal bug tracker Radar (which itself I've heard is not great). Long story short, you have to submit an entirely new bug report through Feedback with the sample project attached. Apple's developers basically can't see replies to Feedbacks. I be"}, {"show": "1460240829", "hn_item": 37014669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014669", "by": "throwaway290", "time": 1691257963, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In meantime I can recommend BBC's https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D1... , it's not terrible. Tbh this is a bad move for the company. I would rather prefer they ignored Russian gov. Just let them make all iphones illegal and see how the kids of happy unseeing unhearing \"I am above politics\" rich upper middle class in Russia finally wake up to the clusterfuck and make the next revolution happen. Joking but only sorta"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37014923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014923", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1691259665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Okay, so you have posted an excellent reply. It is clear that you have at least given the matter a cursory amount of thought. I object to the materialist story on many levels that seem so clear and obvious to me that it is sometimes difficult for me to appreciate that people who buy the story are operating in good faith. First, there is the fact that the story of Darwinian evolution driven by Random Mutation combined with Natural Selection has a simplicity to it that a lot of people appear to mistake for elegance and explanatory power. It makes sense of the beaks of finches on the Galapagos Is"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 37025503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025503", "by": "dist-epoch", "time": 1691349289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent Sean Carroll podcast he said the galaxy/dark matter problem is the easy one to solve. There is another one, much harder - acoustic oscillation immediately after the Big Bang, visible in the microwave background, which MOND can't account for. Basically normal matter goes both ways, back-and-forth, compresses and expands, but dark matter goes only one-way, only expands. And this can be seen in the microwave background."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 37029663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37029663", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1691378230, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 37037945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37037945", "by": "benzible", "time": 1691430423, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Highly recommend this \"If Books Could Kill\" episode on the concept of \"nudges\": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nudge-part-1-a-simple-... (critical of the concept but I think quite fair and well-researched)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37045235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37045235", "by": "mikhailfranco", "time": 1691476022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Keller's appearances on the Lex Fridman podcast, and also the chat with his (Keller's) brother-in-law Jordan Peterson."}, {"show": "325404506", "hn_item": 37050806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37050806", "by": "maclombardi", "time": 1691509621, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 37058207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058207", "by": "hirvi74", "time": 1691549835, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While we are on the topic of helpful sleep podcast, here I two I used to use: Sleep With Me https://www.youtube.com/@Sleepwithmepodcast Jason Stephenson's Sleep Meditations https://www.youtube.com/@jasonstephensonmeditation"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 37067152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37067152", "by": "FanaHOVA", "time": 1691608222, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I co-host the Latent Space podcast with swyx, and I've built smol-podcaster to automate a lot of the menial work that we do: - It uses Whisper to transcribe and label speakers from your audio with timestamps - Formats the transcription in Markdown for the show notes - Creates chapters with timestamps for each topic using Claude-100k - Generates title ideas as well as tweets with both Claude and GPT-3.5; I've found Claude to be better, but not everyone has access to it. You can find the code on Github [0]. We've been using this for all of our latest episodes to see a \"demo\", you can read the la"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37071874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37071874", "by": "stefcoetzee", "time": 1691640864, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More likely should he do a podcast with Lex Fridman, no?"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 37076130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076130", "by": "furkangok", "time": 1691675331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We try to make online audiovisual information as open and accessible as text. Currently we have public AI assistants for the following: - Human Behavioral Biology by Robert Sapolsky - Stanford - Lex Fridman Podcast - Philosophize This - Veritasium - Financial Markets by Shiller - YaleCourses - Principles of Microeconomics - MIT Open Courseware - Justice with Michael Sandel - Harvard University - Crypto Startup School - a16z - Y Combinator Podcast - Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson - Death with Shelly Kegan - YaleCourses - We Study Billionaires - The Lunar Society Podcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37076130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076130", "by": "furkangok", "time": 1691675331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We try to make online audiovisual information as open and accessible as text. Currently we have public AI assistants for the following: - Human Behavioral Biology by Robert Sapolsky - Stanford - Lex Fridman Podcast - Philosophize This - Veritasium - Financial Markets by Shiller - YaleCourses - Principles of Microeconomics - MIT Open Courseware - Justice with Michael Sandel - Harvard University - Crypto Startup School - a16z - Y Combinator Podcast - Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson - Death with Shelly Kegan - YaleCourses - We Study Billionaires - The Lunar Society Podcast"}, {"show": "992277217", "hn_item": 37076130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076130", "by": "furkangok", "time": 1691675331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We try to make online audiovisual information as open and accessible as text. Currently we have public AI assistants for the following: - Human Behavioral Biology by Robert Sapolsky - Stanford - Lex Fridman Podcast - Philosophize This - Veritasium - Financial Markets by Shiller - YaleCourses - Principles of Microeconomics - MIT Open Courseware - Justice with Michael Sandel - Harvard University - Crypto Startup School - a16z - Y Combinator Podcast - Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson - Death with Shelly Kegan - YaleCourses - We Study Billionaires - The Lunar Society Podcast"}, {"show": "1311004083", "hn_item": 37083005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37083005", "by": "omwow", "time": 1691709648, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "They interviewed Robbie on the Broken Record podcast a while back where he told his story. Great listen if you're interested: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rewind-robbie-robertso..."}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 37088684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088684", "by": "zurfer", "time": 1691761949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love it. I am also a regular listener to \"PG Essays\"[1]. I would never have read so many of his essays as I'm listening to. [1] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkyLndvbmRlcmN..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 37090005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090005", "by": "Coryodaniel", "time": 1691768708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible had a great podcast on this \u2026 it\u2019s a particularly interesting listen with all the frothing over AI. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen..."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 37094051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094051", "by": "maxbond", "time": 1691788072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The commentary I've heard from prosecutors in the media, I believe from the Lawfare podcast but I can't swear to it, is that this gun charge is so minor it wouldn't normally be charged unless it was in combination with something worth prosecutor's time. (He lied on a piece of paperwork to get the gun about doing drugs. There's no evidence afaik that the gun was used in a crime. It's a federal crime, sure, but that is just not a huge deal.) Engaging in consensual commercial sex is generally not viewed as being worth the time of a federal prosecutor. Same for using drugs. Hunter Biden's influenc"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 37096005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096005", "by": "satvikpendem", "time": 1691803515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some people like those, some of the time. I too enjoy a good Conan or Hardcore History podcast but many other podcasts I listen to are basically audiobooks where, if the voice is good enough, I'll listen to them. History of Rome is a prime example, it's essentially a very long audiobook where the reading voice makes nearly no difference to me."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 37102667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102667", "by": "DonPellegrino", "time": 1691863345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the Jane Street podcast (Signals & Threads) discusses a recent optimization to the GC (pointer prefetching) that's had impressive results. Part of why it has worked so well is the pointer tagging/63-bit integers. Great episode, I highly recommend it to all interested in language runtime design. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/episodes/memory-manag..."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 37102667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37102667", "by": "DonPellegrino", "time": 1691863345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the Jane Street podcast (Signals & Threads) discusses a recent optimization to the GC (pointer prefetching) that's had impressive results. Part of why it has worked so well is the pointer tagging/63-bit integers. Great episode, I highly recommend it to all interested in language runtime design. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/episodes/memory-manag..."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 37106966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106966", "by": "taesiri", "time": 1691904645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not one place, but there are some people tweeting about new papers daily (@arankomatsuzaki, @_akhaliq, @omarsar0) other people summarizing papers (@davisblalock, @rasbt). Latent Space podcast is also great and of course r/LocalLLaMA/ is an amazing place to share and learn."}, {"show": "1700146207", "hn_item": 37108966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37108966", "by": "desio", "time": 1691926851, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 37113046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113046", "by": "philipov", "time": 1691953293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's the book that Mike Duncan wrote following up his work on the History of Rome podcast. The first of the two books he wrote while running the Revolutions podcast, with the second being a biography of Lafayette."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 37113143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113143", "by": "placesalt", "time": 1691953752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The basic premise I got from Mike Duncan's podcast was that: when Rome ran out of dangerous external enemies to fight (ie Carthage), people in Rome found internal enemies to fight. That was fine for a few centuries, until external enemies re-emerged, and then it really fell apart."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 37118308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37118308", "by": "yarapavan", "time": 1691997078, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "396903391", "hn_item": 37124650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37124650", "by": "__rito__", "time": 1692037522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define the limits of science. A notable harsh criticism (or the impossibility) of use of human languages to capture the reality can be found in Nagarjuna [0]. Nagarjuna's writings are esoteric. A gentle introduction can be the podcast episode [1] in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Prof. Peter Adamson. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna [1]: https://historyofphilosophy.net/nagarjuna-change"}, {"show": "1518323701", "hn_item": 37127731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127731", "by": "phatskat", "time": 1692053241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast miniseries Behind the Police does a better job with the details, but policing in the US came out of two places: in the north, it came out of protecting the assets of businesses. In the south it was the same thing, but those assets were\u2026people. Either way, policing came from the need for those with money to protect their \u201cproperty\u201d."}, {"show": "1469394914", "hn_item": 37135272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135272", "by": "meling", "time": 1692113822, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast from The Journal [1] goes a bit deeper into why the judge eventually put him in jail. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-journal/id14693949..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37135640, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135640", "by": "fl0ki", "time": 1692115579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Personally, in my early 40s, I feel my brain is back in 20s. Software like GPT should be a tool, not a crutch. There is a lot that people can do to maintain their mental acuity over the decades, and I know first-hand the difference between doing it and not doing it. Those who do nothing, and especially those that increasingly lean on crutches, soon learn just how much worse it can get. Even a genetically lucky brain can be squandered. Watch the Huberman Lab podcast and ask yourself if you'd like the kind of mental acuity that 48yo Dr Andrew Huberman effortlessly demonstrates every single tim"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 37136849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37136849", "by": "aworks", "time": 1692120778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a heavy Bill Simmons podcast listener as well as with other podcasts on the Ringer Network. I had only head music by Taylor Swift sporadically in the past. Those podcast discussions about Swift in the last several years have heightened my awareness of her music. I'm not particularly a fan but I now stream each new release. I think media publicity benefits both sides. And my experience of the world is slightly bigger as well."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 37150973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150973", "by": "jsomers", "time": 1692208651, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 37153744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153744", "by": "shekispeaks", "time": 1692219539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OMG somebody just listened to the OddLots podcast. We are all sheeple."}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 37156426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156426", "by": "noman-land", "time": 1692239097, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been working on this podcast transcription project for a couple months and it's been super rewarding. I listen to a podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish[0], where some researchers talk about their favorite facts they learned that week. Then they riff on it and are generally smart and funny. I listened to the series so many times that I decided I wanted to listen to the show on shuffle, not at the episode level, but at the fact level. Since I have been playing around with whisper.cpp in python this seemed like a perfect way to combine some technologies I've been wanting to play with. I"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37156865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156865", "by": "monological", "time": 1692243441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.podshorty.com/ Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow along. Click on the timestamp to jump ahead. Summarization target percentage is set to about 50%. So if you want to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast, this can save you half the time."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37163781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37163781", "by": "bazmattaz", "time": 1692288189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Matt walker appeared on the Huberman Lab podcast and it\u2019s definitely worth a lid if you like the book."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 37164516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164516", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1692290919, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "below is a review I wrote of the book. despite my criticism, I'm glad I read it. But for a lot of people the ROI won't be good. \" I rated this one star, but understand the context, that I am very sympathetic to both the mission and perspective of the authors. I wanted to love this, and want them to be right. In general their key points are interesting ones to consider. The modern state is not inevitable. Past people were as smart and creative as we are, and likely experimented with a vastly greater range of societies than we are familiar with. We could learn a lot from them, and should conside"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 37168532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37168532", "by": "epiccoleman", "time": 1692308608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was just on Sam Harris's podcast talking about the book - I learned a lot from him. Good stuff. Now I just need to lose 50 pounds and get back on the wagon with exercise again ..."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 37172563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37172563", "by": "beefpies", "time": 1692345421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article mentions Paris Marx, who runs a podcast called Tech Won't Save Us. I doubt most people here would particularly enjoy listening to it, but might find it interesting to hear from strong critics of the tech industry. Sometimes they raise good points. https://www.techwontsave.us/"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 37172940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37172940", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1692348693, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a great recap of the present role. I have been following a conversation around the AI Engineer as a label (although I like Applied AI better) from the Latent Space podcast team so a fair amount of meme hypecycle, but also active and actionable. They are setting up a conference in October and you can see the discussion unfold around the blog post below on X-itter. https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 37181480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37181480", "by": "waprin", "time": 1692389666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a successful self-funded entrepreneur but Im working on it and I\u2019ve studied a lot of the greats. DHH and Jason Fried blog and books like Rework Arvid Kahl is a successful software bootstrapper and has a few great books and a bootstrapper newsletter Everything by Rob Walling is focused on software bootstrappers, and his associates brands / YouTube channel, Microconf community etc Indie Hackers podcast , interviews, and website Founders at Work is written by a YC founder but ironically had lots of bootstrapped interviews like Craigslist and Joel Spolsky (Trello) Patio11 blog is classic MJ De"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 37181480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37181480", "by": "waprin", "time": 1692389666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not a successful self-funded entrepreneur but Im working on it and I\u2019ve studied a lot of the greats. DHH and Jason Fried blog and books like Rework Arvid Kahl is a successful software bootstrapper and has a few great books and a bootstrapper newsletter Everything by Rob Walling is focused on software bootstrappers, and his associates brands / YouTube channel, Microconf community etc Indie Hackers podcast , interviews, and website Founders at Work is written by a YC founder but ironically had lots of bootstrapped interviews like Craigslist and Joel Spolsky (Trello) Patio11 blog is classic MJ De"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 37184598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37184598", "by": "SnowProblem", "time": 1692409414, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more on TSMC's history, Acquired podcast's episode is incredible: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 37184628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37184628", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1692409640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast on TSMC should be listened to, or the transcript read. One thing I learned is that TSMC is a sort of public/private partnership with the Taiwanese government. They put up 50% of the initial capital. > David: 50% by the government and the other 50% were owned by the investors. Morris got nothing. > Ben: And just got to keep his salary. > David: He was a government employee. > Ben: Wow. > David: There by the grace of the government. > Ben: Oh my God. > David: Isn't that unbelievable? This is so the opposite of Silicon Valley. > Ben: How is he worth $3 billion today? > David:"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 37187576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37187576", "by": "southwesterly", "time": 1692443499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also shoutout to The History of Rome podcast. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast... One of the best podcasts I\u2019ve ever heard."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 37190651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190651", "by": "sheepshear", "time": 1692463753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your guest appearance on The Amp Hour podcast was the first time I heard about PartsBox and I've been using it ever since. https://theamphour.com/542-component-management-with-jan-ryc..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 37190841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37190841", "by": "rohith2506", "time": 1692464898, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 37191652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37191652", "by": "pstuart", "time": 1692469841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab has a great episode on how language literally defines our reality. https://www.radiolab.org/podcast/91725-words"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 37197193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197193", "by": "andrewpakers", "time": 1692519678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I caught Simon on the Latent Space podcast and have spent the last few weeks going through his blogs and various YT videos. As a former journalist, I\u2019ve been wanting to try to learn some data journalism. Maybe I\u2019ll try it when this is available."}, {"show": "1428670055", "hn_item": 37216180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216180", "by": "mikewave", "time": 1692656874, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 37216843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216843", "by": "anjel", "time": 1692661935, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37226143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37226143", "by": "catlover76", "time": 1692726166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Given it's still a mystery, could an enterprising PhD student or prof could make this their primary research focus, formulate a plausible explanation, get published in an academic journal, communicate their findings to the lay audience via an insubstantive book on the subject that would have been better off as an article in The New Yorker or something, and subsequently appear on the Huberman podcast to talk about how to optimize caffeine consumption for optimal defecation?"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37238869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37238869", "by": "adriand", "time": 1692809641, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This might go beyond how you feel and into direct biological impacts. I don\u2019t listen to the Huberman Lab podcast much these days but I did listen to the episode with David Linden, which I found quite interesting. [1] At one point, they are discussing the mind/body axis and the latest scientific developments in exploring how mental states can affect the body. There is a fascinating although very untested - but, testable - hypothesis that meditation may be able to slow the growth of cancerous tumours. The mechanism here is via nerve endings that reach the tumour and their effect on immune respon"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 37244582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37244582", "by": "ja27", "time": 1692846683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They\u2019re out of date now but John Siracusa\u2019s toaster reviews on the ATP podcast were amazing content."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 37245927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37245927", "by": "md_", "time": 1692860906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Amusingly, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton made a ChatGPT-authored cocktail recipe on \"Hard Fork\" a while back: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/podcasts/hard-fork-ai-poi... . I think the review was basically, \"I\u2019ve had worse cocktails. I\u2019ll be honest.\" So...meh?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37249295, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249295", "by": "aent", "time": 1692888092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Zuckerberg talked about it on Lex Fridman podcast https://youtu.be/Ff4fRgnuFgQ?t=1113"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37254761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254761", "by": "Hippocrates", "time": 1692912465, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I highly recommend listening to this podcast episode. Lex Friedman interviews Andrej Karpathy (former director of AI at Tesla): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id... 1:32:39 Andrej explains why Tesla removed Radar and relies on vision. Part of it is that more/different sensors bloat and complicates the software needed to interpret data coming in. What if they get conflicting signals? What if the calibration is off? Or there is some discrepancy between the sensitivity of different versions of the sensor? You need to normalize that in your software. I find this explanat"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37255843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37255843", "by": "yreg", "time": 1692919426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Karpathy explains the reasoning on Lex's podcast[1]. This was after he left Tesla, but of course he's hardly impartial. [1] https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?feature=shared&t=5279"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 37256414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256414", "by": "talldatethrow", "time": 1692924083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By \"I'm not an encyclopedia of links\", I meant that I do not have a collection of links of past things I have read to pull from and provide to you. That is why I didn't give you a link. You seem to have reading comprehension problems. It's possible you shouldn't trust what you read anyway, so maybe ask someone you trust to summarize all the anti covid vaccination data and talking points. What do you want me to do? Go into Google or youtube and find you one document or video to explain what has taken people dozens of videos to slowly compile and explain? I dont know you or like you even at this"}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 37256605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256605", "by": "CyberDildonics", "time": 1692925581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You have nothing to provide to back up what you say apparently. Go into Google or youtube and find you one document Yeah, find one document. Why is it so hard for you to show a shred of evidence? Dark Horse Podcast This guy? https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/local-covid-vaccine-sk... Weinstein, host of the DarkHorse Podcast, spent almost three hours talking to the scion of the Kennedy dynasty, who says childhood vaccines are linked to autism, Sirhan B. Sirhan didn\u2019t kill his father, 5G cell towers are being built to control our behavior, and Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates conspired with Big "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37256605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256605", "by": "CyberDildonics", "time": 1692925581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You have nothing to provide to back up what you say apparently. Go into Google or youtube and find you one document Yeah, find one document. Why is it so hard for you to show a shred of evidence? Dark Horse Podcast This guy? https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/local-covid-vaccine-sk... Weinstein, host of the DarkHorse Podcast, spent almost three hours talking to the scion of the Kennedy dynasty, who says childhood vaccines are linked to autism, Sirhan B. Sirhan didn\u2019t kill his father, 5G cell towers are being built to control our behavior, and Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates conspired with Big "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37262803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262803", "by": "LVB", "time": 1692977269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy the interview with him on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast, too. Some repeat of the book, and some new material."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 37266396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266396", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1692993951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a pretty interesting discussion on e141 of the All In Podcast regarding the IPO climate. I'm not an expert on this so worth consulting the podcast, but essentially they made some interesting points. Basically an IPO will fix the cap table for companies with very convoluted warrants and pref stacks. So while some investors will take write-downs the company was structured in such a way that it basically couldn't raise money. Not sure if this applies to instacart but according to the podcast an IPO event in some cases converts everyone to common which might be a necessary thing. This is"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 37266685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266685", "by": "eYrKEC2", "time": 1692995638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First time caller, long time listener: You have a blog too! Hurrah! I celebrate your entire catalog. If you start another podcast, please be sure to mention it on oxide and friends. It was crickets over there in the \"On the Metal\" podcast, but when you guys made that last episode I had 2 years of oxide & friends, so perhaps that was ok."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 37269654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269654", "by": "tauwauwau", "time": 1693019844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its discussed in a recent Planet Money podcast https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 37269694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269694", "by": "JSavageOne", "time": 1693020284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money just did a podcast on this a week ago https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194467863/europe-vacation-ho... They interview MIT professor Tom Kochan who says that in the 1930s U.S unions like the AFL actually pushed against federally guaranteed worker benefits like paid vacation because then there'd be less need for unions. Other benefits Americans never got were federally guaranteed health insurance and pensions. To quote the podcast transcript [1] \"The big three - pensions, health insurance, time off through vacations - were left off the table. Instead, we got collective bargaining"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37270219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270219", "by": "baron816", "time": 1693028600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love this Freakonomics podcast ( https://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-unions-still-work/ ) with the head of the AFL-CIO. It\u2019s a very softball interview, until the end where Dubner says (to paraphrase) \u201cthanks to the Newspaper Guild\u2014I hated it so much that quit my job at the NYT and wrote books and did podcasts instead\u201d. People at the NYT were rewarded for tenure, not merit. Real quote this time: \u201cI thought, \u201cOh, I have to sit here for 20 years to get that pay, no matter how good I am, no matter how much I produce.\u201d So I thought, \u201cI\u2019m going to go away now.\u201d\u201d People like to go on about how unio"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37270470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270470", "by": "gamblor956", "time": 1693033366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dubner was simply wrong (which is par for the course if you've ever tried following Freakonomics and realized that it was just poorly researched pop sociology that sounds good in a podcast but doesn't hold up to any sort of scrutiny). For starters, there is no such thing as the \"Newspaper Guild;\" the News Guild represents staffers at the NYT and a number of other newspapers. While it does set minimum wages based on seniority, it does not mandate lockstep wages or anything else like that; guild members are free to negotiate higher packages than the minimum, and many (like Maureen Dowd) did."}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 37273423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273423", "by": "umate", "time": 1693061500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "i would also recommend the podcast called \u201cUndivided Attention\u201d from the same authors"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37276462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37276462", "by": "cbozeman", "time": 1693080928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think they have any desire to use this knowledge for their own gain, since they explicitly say that your data will not be used to train their future models - both OpenAI is saying that about their trainable ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo model, and Azure OpenAI Service was clear on that as well. I think the future is extremely well-trained base models that are then fine-tuned on specific domain knowledge. I'm already seeing that with Meta's Llama 2 personally at home. My company has access to Azure OpenAI Service's GPT-4 trainable model that we've been working with on all our documentation, and the"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 37278889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278889", "by": "thefourthchime", "time": 1693103000, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "They did an interview with the guys from NYT's Hard Fork ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034... ). When asked what their act of protest was against, they said \"cars in general.\" They're very anti-car and, although they acknowledge that self-driving cars will be much safer in the long term and could transform a world full of wasteful single-car ownership, they are adamant that cars shouldn't exist. Yes, they're in their 20s and enjoy riding their bikes in San Francisco."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 37295049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295049", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1693234537, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am a fan for Cal Newport's books and podcast. In general I think that the more consumer choices, the better. I agree however that Threads doesn't serve any of my purposes. I tried it for a few days. I get a lot of value from Mastodon ( https://mastodon.social/@mark_watson ) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/mark_l_watson ) for very different purposes: Mastodon is where I post personal and some tech stuff and read a lot of fairly random stuff. I follow specific tech people on Twitter/X and that is my \"morning tech news.\""}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 37297235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297235", "by": "monero-xmr", "time": 1693242313, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "An excellent episode of EconTalk came out today on this very subject: Open: https://simplecast.econtalk.org/episodes/vinay-prasad-on-can... Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i... Highly recommend the episode and show. The gist is that cancer is only 4% of deaths, and screening only reduces those 4% by 20% (so it does not help whatsoever 80% of cancers). But there is a lot more to the episode. The most important thing you need to do to prevent early death is reduce heart attack and stroke, and that requires better diet and exercise. Really the best drug of all is"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 37297987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297987", "by": "queuebert", "time": 1693245440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That 4% number is extremely wrong. Either you or the podcast has a misunderstanding. Though I guess it is EconTalk, not MedTalk."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 37300661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37300661", "by": "kylehotchkiss", "time": 1693258289, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Sorry to hear about your mother. PJ Vogt (of former Reply All podcast) recently did a really thoughtful podcast about \"What's it like to slowly go blind?\" He interviewed Andrew Leland who shared his own experience with slowly losing his eyesight. I really appreciated the discussion in this podcast and it helped me gain better respect for the challenges that blind people may face. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 37300661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37300661", "by": "kylehotchkiss", "time": 1693258289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry to hear about your mother. PJ Vogt (of former Reply All podcast) recently did a really thoughtful podcast about \"What's it like to slowly go blind?\" He interviewed Andrew Leland who shared his own experience with slowly losing his eyesight. I really appreciated the discussion in this podcast and it helped me gain better respect for the challenges that blind people may face. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425..."}, {"show": "1521860073", "hn_item": 37301801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301801", "by": "TruckMangione", "time": 1693266890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brady Haran of Numberphile, Computerphile, Periodic videos YouTube channels also has a podcast with his friend, titled: The Unmade Podcast. For a while they had a segment in each episode about commemorative spoons because Brady's cohost has a large collection of them from his parents. The segment seems to have fallen to the wayside this year. Here's a page of the spoons that have been discussed. https://www.unmade.fm/spoon-of-the-week"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 37302540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37302540", "by": "jzl", "time": 1693273480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Paywalled, but there\u2019s a great Radiolab episode about this: https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon"}, {"show": "1566025458", "hn_item": 37310768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310768", "by": "later_space", "time": 1693328548, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1554578197", "hn_item": 37311231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311231", "by": "davidjade", "time": 1693330614, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Foremost I am absolutely of the opinion that plastic in the ocean is not a good thing. But I was surprised to hear that at this point, according to at least one person that studies this, removal may have consequences as well. It\u2019s been there long enough for new eco systems to evolve. This was rather enlightening in that nothing is as simple as it seems. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unexplainable/id155457..."}, {"show": "1471141263", "hn_item": 37319520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319520", "by": "refset", "time": 1693388319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest JUXT Cast episode on bitemporality, XP, the state of Agile, and developer safety. Available across various podcast platforms: https://pnc.st/s/juxt-cast/736d5a29/juxt-cast-special-with-k..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 37320741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320741", "by": "dagw", "time": 1693396941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This weeks 99% Invisible podcast is on this exact topic. The bottom line is that while it is technically possible, it is really expensive and only makes financial sense if you create luxury apartments that can charge the very highest levels of rent. Also the legal and regulation red tape is a massive problem making many projects impossible to do, even if on paper they might be viable. In most cases the most practical solution, after taking financial and regulatory considerations into account, is simply to leave the building empty and hope for a future upswing in commercial real estate."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37329471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37329471", "by": "sshine", "time": 1693431470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use both GPT-based search ( I would be very interested in an integration with Wolfram Alpha and an LLM; I heard Stephen Wolfram talk of this on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast. Essentially, I still open Python as my calculator, and my search engine for currency conversion; quick access to data sets and ease of composition is not in my toolbelt yet."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 37332844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37332844", "by": "navneeraj", "time": 1693459906, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 37338567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37338567", "by": "apgwoz", "time": 1693495172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Has anyone tried https://thestorygraph.com/ as an alternative? I don\u2019t read enough to want something like this, but I remember hearing about the story of this in the CoRecursive Podcast ( https://corecursive.com/the-story-graph-with-nadia-odunayo/ )"}, {"show": "1453324743", "hn_item": 37343413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343413", "by": "sebg", "time": 1693514479, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 37343732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343732", "by": "andrewstuart", "time": 1693516284, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I hope some mega billionaire is printing all the books and Wikipedia to metal tablets and storing multiple copies in hidden caves around the world, and in low lying areas where the coming floods will hide the tablets and reveal them again when the seas recede in millennia to come. On a different topic... this episode of the \"Fall of Civilisations\" podcast is where I heard about the Library of Ashurbanipal. It's probably the best podcast episode of all time on any topic that I've ever listened to: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/13-the-assyrians-empir... 3.5 hours long! \"Fall of Civilisat"}, {"show": "1493025986", "hn_item": 37346358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346358", "by": "smcin", "time": 1693537841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"sex positive\" actually means \"pro-prostitution, pro-porn, anti-tradition and anti traditional morality\", couched in terms that try to cast a better light on it and to cast people who object to it as joyless prudes. It's a political term. No it isn't inherently either politically loaded or a euphemism or proxy for any particular platform, no more than 'liberal', 'conservative', 'libertarian', 'family', 'hard-working'. It merely means regarding sex and sexual expression as good and healthy. But there is no shortage of groups who want to coopt it to their political views, just like the other l"}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 37346358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346358", "by": "smcin", "time": 1693537841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"sex positive\" actually means \"pro-prostitution, pro-porn, anti-tradition and anti traditional morality\", couched in terms that try to cast a better light on it and to cast people who object to it as joyless prudes. It's a political term. No it isn't inherently either politically loaded or a euphemism or proxy for any particular platform, no more than 'liberal', 'conservative', 'libertarian', 'family', 'hard-working'. It merely means regarding sex and sexual expression as good and healthy. But there is no shortage of groups who want to coopt it to their political views, just like the other l"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37349746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349746", "by": "smokeydoe", "time": 1693570301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan podcast with Jewel."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 37354678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354678", "by": "iscrewyou", "time": 1693593921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a test episode on this. It\u2019s fascinating!! https://radiolab.org/podcast/octomom"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 37358757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358757", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1693632390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came to know Brady Haran not through Numberphile but via the Hello Internet podcast with CGP Grey. Unfortunately it seems to have died off in 2020. http://www.hellointernet.fm/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 37359134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359134", "by": "ed_westin", "time": 1693637940, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37369340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37369340", "by": "nvm0n2", "time": 1693738352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Whether you heard them or not, they have been saying it on loud repeat and most of us did hear them. For example: \"So it\u2019s easy to criticize, but they\u2019re really criticizing science because I represent science.\" -- Fauci or https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-antiscience-m... \"[Antiscience] targets prominent scientists and attempts to discredit them. The destructive potential of antiscience was fully realized in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin.\" - Dr Peter Hotez And please don't play No True Scotsman games, Fauci was employed due to his scientific credentials and was therefore very "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 37375346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37375346", "by": "NelsonMinar", "time": 1693781137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hopefully it's an ongoing lawsuit, although my memory is the various gifts the state gave to Foxconn came with very little in the way of guarantees. Some of this debacle was very well documented in a 2018 Reply All podcast. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd"}, {"show": "1313596069", "hn_item": 37375454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37375454", "by": "bredren", "time": 1693782090, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It\u2019s not just private citizens that have benefitted from this. Los Angeles was able to snag land key to its early water supply due to lack of transparency around land acquisition. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-history-telle..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 37378657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37378657", "by": "ughitsaaron", "time": 1693819198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first couple of episodes of the podcast \u201cThe History of English\u201d about PIE are fascinating. I\u2019d highly recommend it for anyone interested in a quick intro to PIE (or the rest of the podcast in general, if you\u2019re interested in the history of the English language)."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 37379034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37379034", "by": "gjvc", "time": 1693822895, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1636302430", "hn_item": 37392010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392010", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1693923617, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37414397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37414397", "by": "xwowsersx", "time": 1694057075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An insightful podcast from Andrew Huberman: \"Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Huberman Lab Podcast #39\" \u2014 https://youtu.be/QmOF0crdyRU And a clip: \"Andrew Huberman - What Overusing Social Media Does To Your Brain\" \u2014 https://youtu.be/Zh-AcF_4Hao"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 37415177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415177", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1694065618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard about the story on this podcast episode of \u201cCautionary Tales\u201d. I thought that an article would be a better post. https://overcast.fm/+5K6ZISYMc"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 37419391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419391", "by": "JshWright", "time": 1694096914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's always interesting to me when topics like this pop up in several places at once. I wonder what the common prompt was. Cautionary Tales (a great podcast, BTW, if folks aren't already familiar) published that episode last week. Half as Interesting also published a video about it a couple weeks before that. 99% Invisible brought it up in a parking related episode back in May (I wouldn't be shocked if that's what prompted HAI and CT to look into it), around the same time as this Chicago Tribune piece."}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 37424299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424299", "by": "cjohnson318", "time": 1694114756, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Q-Anon is into gematria: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-168-the-mutant..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37424461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424461", "by": "qwertox", "time": 1694115471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI \u2013 Lex Fridman Podcast #381 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173382 - June 2023 (1 comment) While it didn't get traction, it's a good interview which talks a lot about the language."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 37427970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37427970", "by": "nickaflip", "time": 1694135232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are curious about NSO Group, Pegasus, or Citizen Lab - Darknet Diaries podcast (Episode 100) does a good job diving into the history."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 37432154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37432154", "by": "dcormier", "time": 1694172259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries had an episode about them a while back. It\u2019s a good listen (as that podcast always is). https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37433013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37433013", "by": "Iamhadeh", "time": 1694178645, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37433014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37433014", "by": "Iamhadeh", "time": 1694178646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have listened to Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, you will find a few ideas you can apply to money, life, and happiness. These are some of the important ones that are worth sharing."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 37439362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37439362", "by": "__loam", "time": 1694206862, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1539214532", "hn_item": 37447556, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447556", "by": "gre", "time": 1694279060, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "People are renting/living in groups or with parents, are unemployed or underemployed, and can't live in the areas where they would want to live. Building more houses is not simply the answer since they are unaffordable to the people who need them. The problem is the for-profit housing industry. Skyrocketing Rents & Skyrocketing Homelessness: Why Are US Homes for Profit Not for Living In? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/skyrocketing-rents-sky..."}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 37447931, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447931", "by": "max_", "time": 1694281093, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBC Global News podcast. Well done summary of global events & current affairs. [0]: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RjYXN..."}, {"show": "1483677267", "hn_item": 37451756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37451756", "by": "panick21_", "time": 1694306056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just to be clear, I'm not a chemists. This is just what I have learned from following this industry. Any real domain expert feel free to correct or expand. Lithium comes in many forms, on a high level there are 3, hard rock, clay and brine. Hard rock was initially common, when lithium was new and was mined in North Carolina. It turn out it was cheaper to produce lithium from brines in South America. This basically means pumping salty water from below the earth and using the sun to evaproate the water [2]. However since the battery revolution, Australia has been a leading miner of Spodumene [1]"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 37464396, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37464396", "by": "ChristopherDrum", "time": 1694420301, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards did 2 episodes on this very topic. Blame Frank Lorenzo! https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 37469403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469403", "by": "ryanklee", "time": 1694448722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a podcast called This Week in Virology that's run by some prominent virologists and I hear this term used often, so I don't think that it's fallen out of fashion. Laypersons probably never much used the term to begin with."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37477605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477605", "by": "grey8", "time": 1694501248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a podcast episode of Lex Fridman talking with Mark Zuckerberg, and in this episode Mark states that the reason Llama is (and will stay) open source is that that is the deal that Meta has with the engineers. To get top engineers, there had to be some agreement, and this agreement apparently is that the engineers want their work open sourced. Pretty cool, IMHO."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 37481907, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481907", "by": "CShorten", "time": 1694529078, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey everyone! I am SUPER excited to share a clip from our newest Weaviate Podcast announcing Weaviate on the AWS Marketplace! This clip explains how Hybrid SaaS works and different perspectives on Multi-Tenancy from the cloud instances to Weaviate users having multiple users! This illuminates the nuances of data privacy within organizations and the optionality available! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzii5HhCHM"}, {"show": "1482715810", "hn_item": 37489077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37489077", "by": "jupp0r", "time": 1694555751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure what you are implying. Cost of nuclear power plant projects have been well documented in the past and there are lots of current projects to look at. The initial investment costs, cost overruns and high interest rate environment just make it very unattractive economically to build nuclear plants with current designs. There was an excellent podcast episode of The Red Line podcast recently going into details of the capex calculations if you are interested: https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/post/episode-102-the-econo... . This is not saying that technological advancements like SMRs ca"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 37494985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37494985", "by": "kherud", "time": 1694602092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you for sharing! On a tangent: I'm wondering if there are any good open source models/libraries to reconstruct audio quality. I'm thinking about an end-to-end open source alternative to something like Adobe Podcast [1] to make noisy recordings sound professional. Anecdotally it's supposed to be very good. In a recent search, I haven't found anything convincing. In my naive view this tasks seems much simpler than audio generation and the demand far bigger, since not everyone has a professional audio setup ready at all times. [1] https://podcast.adobe.com/"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 37495125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37495125", "by": "earthnail", "time": 1694603137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We've been researching an audio denoiser for music that we will present at the AES conference in October. Description page: https://tape.it/denoising We'll also publish a webapp where you can use the denoiser for free. Mail me if you want beta access to it (email in profile). It won't be open-source though, although the paper will of course be public. It will also only reduce noise, and not reconstruct other aspects of audio quality. However, it can do so on any audio (in particular music), not just speech like Adobe Podcast, and it fully preserves the audio quality. It's designed exactly for "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 37500227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500227", "by": "maf2020", "time": 1694631178, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately, most folks in the community seem to be hiding their heads in the sand with the hope that it was some kind of mistake or misinterpretation. Those that have been raising a red flag for months have been largely ridiculed by people on this board. As for the MSM - have you heard anything about it? Even those non-MSM forums that are supposedly \"plugged into\" current events that impact software startups, like the All-in Podcast, are radio silent. Which is odd considering that this tax change is at least as lethal to the community as the SVB bankruptcy that they droned on for months abo"}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 37501178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37501178", "by": "jiripospisil", "time": 1694636184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also worth listening to the ADSP podcast where Parent talks specifically about Rust and why he's more interested in Hylo (formely Val): Episode 137: Sean Parent on Val (vs Rust)! https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/07/07/Episode-137.html Episode 138: Sean Parent on Val! (Part 2) https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/07/14/Episode-138.html https://www.hylo-lang.org"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 37508145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37508145", "by": "itielshwartz", "time": 1694695266, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I am introducing my new podcast, Kubernetes for Humans: A Podcast, trying to uncover how Kubernetes adoption really looks like. :)"}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 37513754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37513754", "by": "john-tells-all", "time": 1694720142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a wonderful story! I listened to the podcast version of this Damn Interesting post: https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portu..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 37537259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537259", "by": "HenrikAngelstig", "time": 1694888735, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 37537260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537260", "by": "HenrikAngelstig", "time": 1694888735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Every horizontal platform faces the threat of being unbundled by vertical players. The Acquired podcast compares Airbnb to eBay: eBay had great network effects, but was slowly unbundled by 1000 niche e-commerce players. Amazon, in contrast, has fended off all threats of unbundling. This begs the question? How can a platform like Airbnb prevent the same fate as eBay, and instead be more like Amazon? The answer I came up with is to: Focus on perfecting the hard-to-perfect \"anything-features\" that are common among all your supply. For every product on a platform, there are some features that diff"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37537323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537323", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1694889120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Something that struck this home for me was noticing the Freakonomics podcast, \u201cteach me something I don\u2019t know\u201c. That taught me that scratching the itch to learn and novelty can just be pure entertainment, and not some grand purpose or value that\u2019s intrinsically any better than other forms of entertainment. That realization made me more choosy about when or how I get sucked into learning."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 37538917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37538917", "by": "catlover76", "time": 1694899994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I chose them mostly based on pedigree, reputation, and vibe. For OCaml in particular, I have been listening to Jane Street's Signals & Threads podcast, and I figure that if these incredibly smart and accomplished people really like OCaml, it must be pretty cool and worth checking out. Elixir was also something that seemed interesting. I like that it has a focus/specialty (real-time, highly concurrent systems), and its specialty is relevant to several of my interests. > I looked at Haskell and read Learn You a Haskell and did some Exercism exercises but never got anywhere close to being able to"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37540970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37540970", "by": "mathisfun123", "time": 1694918539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your bringing up \"curious conversation\" yet again finally made something click for me: this is the Joe Rogan podcast approach to discourse. Let anyone voice whatever opinions they want, no matter how harmful, and never contradict. I guess this tracks with the DNA of this place."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37541757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37541757", "by": "ramraj07", "time": 1694927826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marc Andressen mentioned in the Lex podcast that Larry Page mentioned his plan for \u201cfunding humanity\u2019s future\u201d would just be to give all his money to Elon and let him do whatever. I wonder if he will still say that, after learning Brin divorced his wife for likely cheating with Musk. This seems like a perfect encapsulation of this person (and the snobbery of everyone involved of course)."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 37542174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37542174", "by": "ramraj07", "time": 1694932935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone even remotely interested in learning how research happens and how research should happen if it happens well, you should listen to the Peter Attia podcast with Richard Miller who runs the ITP program mentioned here. It\u2019s definitely the most thoughtful research program that I can think of that\u2019s currently running. https://peterattiamd.com/richardmiller/ Having said that Acarbose was still only shown to extend life in mice. The moment something is about gut microbiome I start losing confidence in the ability of mouse models in predicting human behavior. When I originally heard about Ac"}, {"show": "1642630194", "hn_item": 37543800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37543800", "by": "baby", "time": 1694949506, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "To paraphrase the first episode of https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-and-a-half-coins/i... the banking world was already decentralized, so much that it\u2019s inefficient and insecure. Crypto, at least part of the technology, is about simulating some sort of centralization by using a distributed database (which is resilient to byzantine faults). So banks can switch backbone for a more efficient and secure one, users don\u2019t have to know or care about it."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 37548009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37548009", "by": "HenrikAngelstig", "time": 1694975568, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Any software \u2013 even email \u2013 can be designed so users enter a flow state. They key things to optimize for is SPEED and GOALS. If you create a compelling goal, and optimize your application for speed, the natural outcome is flow. This podcast episode from Acquired explains how: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hNxHPkfzucjeoJ5DmKp2S"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 37551131, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551131", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1695000145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a new book about them. They weren\u2019t anti-tech. They were workers who saw the first industrialization destroying their safe well paying jobs at home that gave them autonomy and replaced it with they having to be generic low paid cogs in a very dangerous factory they had to commute to with no say over their working conditions. They wanted a say over their destiny. Some autonomy. A share of the benefits that came with technology instead of all the downsides with 100% of the upside going to the rich owners. Any of that sound familiar to things workers complain about today? From the podcast"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 37557595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37557595", "by": "r3trohack3r", "time": 1695051110, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1569800816", "hn_item": 37567155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567155", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1695113399, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was an excellent Radio 4 series about this scandal, available as a podcast here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-post-office-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37568492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37568492", "by": "jillesvangurp", "time": 1695123339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's true right now though there are a lot of people working on different ways to get python to have near native performance. I'd say it could be a fixable problem. I was listening Lex Friedman's podcast featuring Chris Lattner a few months ago. He's is working on Mojo, which is basically a fast superset of python that can be fast (if you opt in to a few things) and worst case just falls back to being as fast as regular python. The intention is to give people enough means that they can optimize such code to be actually fast or just run it as is. I'm not much of a python developer myself, even "}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 37569069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37569069", "by": "thinkmassive", "time": 1695127066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a free report from Google. It\u2019s cloud agnostic, and relevant to anyone who runs any managed or self-hosted k8s clusters. I discovered it from Google\u2019s Kubernetes podcast, so that might be worth a listen (although there\u2019s more tangible information in the executive summary and key findings, 3 easy pages): https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/205-state-of-cost-opti... If you don\u2019t want to submit the form, a quick search should provide a direct link to the PDF."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 37574528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574528", "by": "Pxtl", "time": 1695149621, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's no need to be sexist in either direction. I was just listening to the 6-part Behind the Bastards podcast about Henry Kissinger, and basically their conclusion was that his greatest power was being the ultimate suck-up who could intellectually and artfully validate anybody, no matter how vile. He used it to manipulate presidents and have a place in the white houses of both parties, and also keep a slew of beautiful women and power-brokers on his arm. His ability to suss out whatever anybody wanted to hear and then say it to them in a way that made him sound like he was providing intelle"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 37576330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37576330", "by": "runamok", "time": 1695156531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards did a 2 part episode on how these \"books\" are preying on children and busy parents: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37577225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577225", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1695159802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/elon-musk-bi... Walter Isaacson, the book's author, gave a long-form interview recently on The Lex Fridman podcast. In case you'd like to form your own opinion about the book's legitimacy, its writing/Musk-supported research is substantially discussed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOV5R7M1Js"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 37580114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37580114", "by": "canucker2016", "time": 1695180936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Rick Johnson, Prof. of Nephrology (kidney) at U. of Colorado, on a Peter Attia podcast, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V02z9mqTWzg&t=6856s , states that high blood pressure is an inflammatory kidney disease. What causes the inflammation? There are several causes, including vaso-constrictive drugs like cocaine, but one major cause is high uric acid due to high fructose (caused by high fructose dietary intake or high sodium intake, which over a long enough time, will cause the body to convert glucose to fructose, which then goes along the high fructose dietary intake path)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 37583468, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37583468", "by": "tibbydudeza", "time": 1695214011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like their take of the ATP podcast - they love Apple stuff but are not afraid to criticize when necessary (the quality of MacOS releases) - Gruber at this point might as well join Apple as an evangelist."}, {"show": "1669584141", "hn_item": 37585285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585285", "by": "mlinhares", "time": 1695223002, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The reality is that farming only works in medium to large scale, people that try to grow food for themselves do it either because they have no other option and will die otherwise or they have too much money and time in their hands. My grandpa was a medium scale farmer for most of his life and when he retired he kept a couple dozen cows for milk and he paid every single month to keep it going. It was his hobby and he knew that, he said he'd need a couple hundred again to make it at least pay for itself. It's one of the reasons I LOL hard whenever I hear tech people saying they will \"retire and "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37588117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37588117", "by": "easyThrowaway", "time": 1695235105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True, but The Right is way, way better at marketing. Which has been historically true since the beginning of the 20th century, Futurism and their extremely well crafted manly art paved the way for Fascism. Check the production values of most socialist-inclined (not liberal, big difference) content on youtube/podcasts vs those coming from the right. I mean, look at those Lex Fridman videos. Like, sure, dude is probably going to support the cause for a new All-American \u00dcbermensch or something like that - But he looks coool while doing it, can't deny that. More than 70 years ago Pasolini explicit"}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 37589436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37589436", "by": "swyx", "time": 1695240468, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "yes - i want to be clear that i'm not a crypto shill or anything but I do think the term evokes a landmark change that signals the end of a previously unchallenged dominance. hence repurposing it for this. i genuinely listen to HN Recap and PG Essays every single day now and if you asked me a year ago if I'd have any AI generated podcasts as part of my daily rotation I would have laughed at you. in the meantime - the human podcasting industry is in decline. Spotify is shutting down their stuff (good riddance). NPR laid off a bunch of their people. Rogan and All-In have gone mostly political. e"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 37590306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37590306", "by": "divbzero", "time": 1695244660, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This analysis, like many from Charlie Munger, is worth considering carefully but misses two curious aspects of the Coca-Cola story. First, the price of a 6.5 fl. oz. bottle of Coca-Cola was set at 5\u00a2 in the 1880s and remained 5\u00a2 through the 1890s, the 1900s, the 1910s, the 1920s \u2026 all the way until the 1950s when the price was finally raised. The dynamics that led to this remarkable phenomenon is described in a Planet Money podcast [1] and on Wikipedia [2]. Second, \u201cstarting in Atlanta, then succeeding in the rest of the United States, then rapidly succeeding with our new beverage all over the"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 37595915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37595915", "by": "mattw2121", "time": 1695294198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My understanding of scammers in India has been formed by Youtube videos, where the host \"scams the scammer\", and from the Reply All podcast ( https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk ). Saying that scammers do not buy office space doesn't seem correct. Are you saying they wouldn't buy (or lease/rent) office space? If so, the Youtube videos and Reply All directly contradict that."}, {"show": "1597212401", "hn_item": 37596858, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37596858", "by": "HenrikAngelstig", "time": 1695300566, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37604973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604973", "by": "gnicholas", "time": 1695333449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A Yale professor offers a nuanced perspective on the unintended consequences of ESG investing on this Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-e-s-g-investors-actuall..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 37608434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37608434", "by": "anArbitraryOne", "time": 1695362705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These people hate Sam Harris's podcast"}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 37610744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610744", "by": "harywilke", "time": 1695383339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Strong Songs Podcast had a really excellent dissection of this movie. https://strongsongspodcast.com/episode/talking-heads-stop-ma..."}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 37611189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611189", "by": "dopylitty", "time": 1695386162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to a very good IPv6 related podcast with knowledgeable hosts (IPv6 Buzz) and all it's done is convince me that IPv6 is a poorly thought out mistake. Every other episode seems to be about a different new RFC that's replacing another RFC because the original ended up having a bunch of holes and edge cases. That's somewhat understandable for a new protocol but the protocol have been around for almost 30 years and is just so overly complex that it's rife with these situations. As an example the most recent such episode was on rfc6724[0] which describes these convoluted algorith"}, {"show": "1708577958", "hn_item": 37613620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37613620", "by": "raghavankl", "time": 1695397966, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 37616999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616999", "by": "henrikschroder", "time": 1695412865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Rubicon by Tom Holland I'm currently listening my way through The Rest Is History, the podcast he does with Dominic Sandbrook. Very entertaning, highly recommended!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37628927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628927", "by": "alexanderson", "time": 1695514964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics most recent podcast episode was about this very topic, and the data that indicates how valuable two-parent households can be to the parents and the children. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-did-marriage-become-a-..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 37634167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634167", "by": "celias", "time": 1695570582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know did an episode on hookworms https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 37634570, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634570", "by": "thadk", "time": 1695573135, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "According to this podcast, Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge, used his economist-oriented federal government department to delay and block legislated regulation related to protection for silicosis during the Obama administration. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 37643882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37643882", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1695650234, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yesterday I was listening to The Changelog podcast with Steve O'Grady called \"Open Source is at a Crossroads\". In it he says something along the lines of: We have companies come to us saying they want to release their source under an encumbered license and we tell them that they can definitely do that but they can't call it open source, because open source means something fairly specific to developers. We work with them on getting their specific license terms set up but they come back saying \"We really want to call it open source, because developers find open source cool, and we want to attrac"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37647610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37647610", "by": "brandall10", "time": 1695663256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "George Hotz was the first to mention on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast, and there have been several others close to OpenAI who confirmed."}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 37653519, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37653519", "by": "e-brake", "time": 1695694854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard about this on the wonderful Blindboy podcast, recent episode, \"The Colonial History of Pumpkin Spice Lattes\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37655887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37655887", "by": "ecmascript", "time": 1695714655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have never really understood why people view Carmack as some kind of genius. Sure what he did with Id software was impressive and I applaud him for that but there are many people who create successful businesses out there. I was listening to the Lex Friedman podcast with him and man, he really sounds like a person who has been told he's a genius so many times that he started to believe it and look down on other people. I think you'll have to be humble in order to succeed, especially in such a complicated field."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 37657397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37657397", "by": "throwaway914", "time": 1695725637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Brian Heater is the Hardware Editor at TechCrunch. He worked for a number of leading tech publications, including Engadget, PCMag, Laptop, and Tech Times, where he served as the Managing Editor. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.\" ? This site isn't my first choice for news, but I'm not sure how any of that dismiss"}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 37658542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658542", "by": "stewx", "time": 1695732740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kiwifarms was down for like 2 days. Side note: the Blocked and Reported podcast looked deeply into the allegations that led to that that site being initially shut down and they concluded they were bogus."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 37658542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658542", "by": "stewx", "time": 1695732740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kiwifarms was down for like 2 days. Side note: the Blocked and Reported podcast looked deeply into the allegations that led to that that site being initially shut down and they concluded they were bogus."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37661504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37661504", "by": "mardifoufs", "time": 1695744858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think I've ever had a JRE podcast recommended to me on Spotify. They seem to have dialed down the podcasts in the front page (or at least they did so for people who care less about them, like me). I still get some and I agree that it's pretty annoying especially when I misclick on a podcast (especially jarring since podcasts have ads even with premium!)"}, {"show": "1597212401", "hn_item": 37665010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37665010", "by": "HenrikAngelstig", "time": 1695758186, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 37675535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675535", "by": "progre", "time": 1695826503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I can remember when he was on the Amp Hour podcast, what he is asserting is that some of the current atmo temo data is wrong, or biased in some way that makes it seem worse than it is. No outright denial though."}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 37680301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680301", "by": "shric", "time": 1695844318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My recent exposure to array programming languages came via a podcast called The Array Cast[1] Not affiliated, just recommending. The regular co-hosts appear to each be experienced with various array languages such as J, APL, etc. They don't get deeply technical, but it's a nice introduction, especially on explaining the appeal. A recent episode had Rob Pike (UTF-8, Go, etc.) on to talk about his array based calculator, Ivy[2] [1] https://www.arraycast.com/ [2] https://github.com/robpike/ivy"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 37683634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37683634", "by": "SonicScrub", "time": 1695861432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You'd be surprised. The architecture and design podcast 99% Invisible did an episode on this recently. Give it a listen if you're interested in learning more. Here are some details from memory. Internal space without windows can't legally be made into residential. Plumbing and ventilation requirements are vastly different (in offices these go to larger centralized areas, in residential they go to smaller distributed locations). There are very few buildings that can be easily converted to apartments, and the costs of conversion for those that can be is expensive. Meaning what few conversations "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 37684358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684358", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1695867216, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is a 40-minute interview with a developer who specializes in converting office buildings into apartments: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-really-takes-t... It is from this interview that I learned that the plumbing often has to be entirely redone."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 37690100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37690100", "by": "velcrovan", "time": 1695911382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In 2014, the 99% Invisible podcast did an episode on this story. Not only did they credit Diane Hartley and her thesis, but they interviewed her about it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37695023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37695023", "by": "tinycombinator", "time": 1695931411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman Lex Fridman is a Russian-American computer scientist, podcaster, and writer. He is an artificial intelligence researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast, a podcast and YouTube series."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 37699387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699387", "by": "febed", "time": 1695962910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Checkout Dwarkesh podcast, he has great questions and does comparatively better research."}, {"show": "958230465", "hn_item": 37704571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37704571", "by": "rbrown", "time": 1695996809, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1326503043", "hn_item": 37706964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37706964", "by": "iskander", "time": 1696006597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I gave the \"industry\" a pretty thorough deep dive; I learned Solidity, wrote a bunch of smart contracts, tried a lot of DeFi, and listened to ~100 episodes of the Zero Knowledge podcast. My impression on the other end of it is that the \"tech\" is interesting in a purely academic sense but most of the participants are building things they know have no use and engaging in a lot of motivated reasoning about the future to justify drawing money in from the outside. Like, it can all be a lot of fun! And some techniques, like all ZK folding schemes, are mathematical magic. But, no one wants code to be"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37738867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37738867", "by": "whiddershins", "time": 1696258159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a whole Joe Rogan podcast where a guest kept advocating for using nuclear to balance out the intermittent nature of solar and wind. I could never wrap my mind around how this makes sense. Nuclear has a fixed output, it doesn\u2019t scale up and down the way fossil fuel plants do. If your nuclear capacity can cover the worst case where solar and wind aren\u2019t producing, it can cover all cases, and the solar and wind become irrelevant. Seems like the linked concept is similarly making something more complicated in the hopes that somehow makes it better. Like bundling subprime mortgages."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 37745214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745214", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1696285147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am saying that Apple has a software and hardware division that work in concert. Chris Lattner, the inventor of the Swift programming language and the open source LLVM was once interviewed on the Accidental Tech Podcast and he was asked whether bytecode could be used to allow Apple to switch architectures without forcing them to require developers to recompile and still have native compilation. He made up some half truth about whether that would be possible. Years later when the S chips in the Apple Watch became 64 bit, he admitted that at the time of the interview, he knew that the 64 bit S "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37750010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750010", "by": "_trackno5", "time": 1696328991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Man that\u2019s just sad. I remember a while ago Lex Fridman had a girl on his podcast talking about the changes in academia and self-censorship."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37753581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37753581", "by": "gs17", "time": 1696348565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone interested, Freakonomics has an \"Economics of Everyday Things\" podcast with a good episode on gas stations: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/gas-stations/ They said they get $0.30 per gallon which mostly goes toward the other overhead, leaving $0.07 of profit per gallon."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 37756109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37756109", "by": "onedognight", "time": 1696359912, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Yann Collet went from project management, to programming his calculator, to creating zstd. This podcast detailing his journey in quite inspiring. From Project Management to Data Compression innovator: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto..."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 37762403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762403", "by": "jwestbury", "time": 1696408036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really interesting episode of the podcast Hidden Brain last year about using medical data, but with a different approach -- the economist/sociologist Sara Heller did some research into predicting crime using medical data, or, more specifically, data about gunshot wounds. It turns out, you can predict gunshot victims quite well: They generated a large dataset for Chicago, then produced a list of the top 100 (IIRC) likely victims of gunshot wounds in the next year, and the people on that list had something like a 10% likelihood of being shot in the next year -- a more than 100x incre"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 37767499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767499", "by": "syndicatedjelly", "time": 1696436687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's amazing that there aren't clear-cut lawsuits against companies with a \"no {demographic group}\" policy. There is some bizarre ambiguity happening in the culture right now where \"white men\" are not considered a demographic group, while at the same time the language definition of what a \"demographic group\" actually is, seems to be changing. Under-represented groups should be receiving better opportunities from day 1, in grade school. Not at the meritocratic finish line where we are trying to measure whether any of those efforts have worked, as Coleman Hughes put it nicely on the All-In podca"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 37768327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37768327", "by": "jnsie", "time": 1696439528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Behind the Bastards podcast did a good (3-part IIRC) series on MKUltra. Well worth a listen."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 37779506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779506", "by": "fipar", "time": 1696518117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations podcast is also very interesting and, despite the title, actually covers each civilization from origin to fall. I do believe Cholula, and this particular pyramid, are mentioned in the episode about the Mexica empira. That one also includes readings of sources contemporary to the early stages of the colonian era in native Nahuatl."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 37792649, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37792649", "by": "jsomau", "time": 1696608712, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adobe Podcast | https://podcast.adobe.com | New York City, Bay Area, Remote | Full Time The Adobe Podcast team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for creating great product experiences. Be part of a tightly knit team developing cutting edge innovations in the world of audio on the web and help define the future of this medium as it takes over the world. Senior Software Engineer, Web Audio Products & Services: https://careers.adobe.com/us/en/job/R138749/Senior-Software-..."}, {"show": "1448635132", "hn_item": 37801315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37801315", "by": "xmcqdpt2", "time": 1696683165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Our product was not in any sort of legal gray area (e.g. crypto) and fit within the bounds of existing law. From the day we started until the day we shut down, we\u2019d spend millions of dollars to build a best-in-class compliance program to sit alongside our offering. I worked in AML for a short time, and this: > There were myriad buckets of n users who loved having a financial account designed just for them. A few examples from our own data: coparents, houses, art collectives, extended families who get along, teams, people who share livestock, churches, punk bands, weekend hustles, extended fa"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 37807867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37807867", "by": "ChatGTP", "time": 1696739330, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I this a bit of a fringe website ? I've been catching up on other podcasts featuring Chris Field [1] and he seemed a LOT less alarmist. He was on the Sam Harris podcast from September 6. Maybe the world has begun to implode since then? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Field"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 37809705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809705", "by": "auxym", "time": 1696766240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If the markets were truly efficient, randomly picking stocks would beat SPX ~50% of the time. Since markets are not super efficient, basic exposure to performance factors (small cap, value, momentum...) puts you at a fairly high likelyhood of beating SPX. This assumes that the expected return of a single, randomly-picked stock is symmetrically-distributed. It is not, single stock returns are highly skewed and \"lottery like\". Index returns come from the fact that a small number of stocks do exceptionally well, while most of them do poorly. This becomes even worse if we talk about timing: stoc"}, {"show": "1573141757", "hn_item": 37814764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814764", "by": "yonz", "time": 1696802229, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Saw that, total legend. Looks like he runs the interpreter team https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-66-bob-mcgrew-the-s..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37816873, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37816873", "by": "000ooo000", "time": 1696824883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope I don't come across as the \"well ackshually\" guy, and I'm not definitely telling you to change, but maybe this could be useful to you: the alcohol episode of Huberman Lab podcast mentioned briefly at about 1:02:40 that in a discussion with a Stanford sleep researcher, it was said that having any alcohol at all on board interferes with sleep to the point that those in the field call it pseudo-sleep because it lacks most of the restorative value of sleep."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37820769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820769", "by": "coffeebeqn", "time": 1696861596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m skeptical of meta as anyone but seeing the \u201cvideo\u201d call between Lex and Mark (Lex Friedman podcast on YouTube) with the photorealistic scanned 3D avatars looks really interesting. I only get to see my family about once a year and the zoom calls are hardly an antidote for much"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37821367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37821367", "by": "purpleblue", "time": 1696864895, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "872292891", "hn_item": 37823123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823123", "by": "parski", "time": 1696873696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON and he was a guest on the Srsly Wrong podcast. DEF CON: https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=EBlHqv2tmKICIYhT Srsly Wrong: https://srslywrong.com/podcast/297-platform-decay-and-how-am... It's a great podcast. I recommend the episodes on degrowth and half earth socialism in particular."}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 37823687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823687", "by": "AlexandrB", "time": 1696876776, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> cambridge analytica level style access to American social data. Have you read/seen any of the follow up[1] on the CA scandal? Basically CA couldn't do most of the things they promised they could do with the data they collected. Their supposed ability to manipulate the public was effectively a \"fake it till you make it\" startup pitch. I find it funny that it keeps getting brought up as a worst case scenario when it seems like it was a nothingburger. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-213-rewriting-..."}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 37831227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831227", "by": "maxmynter95", "time": 1696941114, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "There was a similar thread in 2021 and I think it's time for a revamp. I personally liked the Land of the Giants episode that discussed the rationale behind Musks Twitter behaviour, how it benefited Tesla in the past and putting a strain on its reputation now. Land of the Giants, how Tesla became the Elon Musk Co https://open.spotify.com/episode/61L2CsrApb23ERJ749PoJR"}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 37831437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831437", "by": "rfreytag", "time": 1696942452, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 37833334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37833334", "by": "groovybits", "time": 1696951674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see a lot of misinformation, or misunderstanding, of Passkeys in this thread. I highly recommend reading Steve Gibson's notes on Passkeys from his Security Now! podcast episode #870: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-870-notes.pdf (p. 10-13) For context, Gibson developed, and completed, an entirely secure and working solution to the problem Passkeys aims to solve, called SQRL (which I argue is better than Passkeys in a few ways). He is familiar with this problem space, and explains Passkeys in a straightforward way. You can find this full podcast episode on Twit.tv: https://twit.tv/shows/security-no"}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 37844947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844947", "by": "medianwaterr", "time": 1697034977, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I want to build a platform for different groups of people to generate podcast. They could choose chracter in the show and topic they want them to talk about."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 37848188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37848188", "by": "mfsch", "time": 1697048191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: The podcast \u201cOn the Media\u201d had a story recently about how infrasound may have affected pidgeon races \u2013 highly recommended! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/curious-ca..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 37851606, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37851606", "by": "benatkin", "time": 1697066235, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I hear more and more that disadvantaged people want access to markets instead of having stuff procured for them, with medicine as one possible exception. If you get a Section 8 Voucher but the amount is too cheap, that isn't access to the market. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fond-du-lac-apartm... I think maybe this would be better solved by improving the financial situations of people with permanent disabilities, because then they might be able to afford a ride to the national park and not just entrance. One possible unintended side effect is reducing services given to visitors of"}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 37858323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37858323", "by": "mateuszdrozd", "time": 1697123481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hello, I'm pleased to present a fan project I have been working on recently. It serves as a quick, accessible way to interact with content from the Y Combinator Podcast. It has access to 111 podcast episodes and conversation with founders built into its knowledge base, all to provide you helpful insights on demand (with links to source materials). Give it a try and let me know what you think! https://www.mateuszdrozd.pl/chatbots/y-combinator"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37865902, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37865902", "by": "pliesfan97", "time": 1697164675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I still wonder what Paul Stamets was alluding to about crimini mushrooms and cancer risk on his episode of the Joe Rogan podcast where he seemed unable to talk freely"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37869706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869706", "by": "tibbydudeza", "time": 1697199087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I thought Starbucks pricing would be more relatable to the audience here. But I got a bean to coffee machine at home and last night I watched to several lectures by noted biochemist Charlie Lane after he appeared on the Lex Friedman podcast, he talked about the origin of Eukaryote cells 2m years after bacteria (learned that there are two groups who are related but using a different chemistry) and how the Krebbs cycle plays the role in life and death. Admittedly some of the chemistry was beyond me."}, {"show": "1557529524", "hn_item": 37869754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869754", "by": "solarkraft", "time": 1697199472, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "How sad, maybe he was ahead of his time. Nowadays it seems like the institutions (mainly governments at all levels) are slowly but intently waking up to the idea of supporting new companies being valuable for society. Somewhat relatedly there's the german federal SPRIND initiative ( https://www.sprind.org/en/ ) with a great podcast ( https://pca.st/podcast/4c1e6440-67ad-0139-341a-0acc26574db2 ), which Kai would be great to hear on."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37871462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871462", "by": "nairboon", "time": 1697209547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Frenkel was also recently a guest on Lex Fridman's podcast, very interesting."}, {"show": "1530577069", "hn_item": 37874176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37874176", "by": "kimchidude", "time": 1697223482, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Saw Rob Walling was on Indie Bites this week (SFTROU is my other fav startup podcast), and this prompted me to re-listen to some of my favourite IH episodes. I know the IH podcast is pretty popular with this community, so I\u2019m just curious which episodes are your favourites?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 37876720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876720", "by": "xnyan", "time": 1697239713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's podcast (Accidental Tech Podcast) and he mentioned that ad detection and skipping is something that he's looked into and considering, but as far as I know it's not an overcast feature today."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 37886400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37886400", "by": "alextheterrible", "time": 1697337737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't listened to it in close to 10 years, but a podcast called \"Manager Tools\" had some helpful ideas and techniques. https://manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 37888314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888314", "by": "__jf__", "time": 1697362282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tom Uren and grugq did a podcast on this recently in Risky Business News [0] I think the main point was that these attacks are physical, don't scale very well, and are untargeted because they depend on luck, so an adversary probably would use more efficient techniques. Unless of course these USB charging points happen to magically cluster around important secret carrying government buildings or other points of interest. [0] https://risky.biz/BTN46/"}, {"show": "1711958664", "hn_item": 37889367, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37889367", "by": "slattfbs", "time": 1697374830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "someone looking to expand their knowledge horizon, Orthogonal Insights Podcast offers a fresh perspective, one book at a time."}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 37891010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891010", "by": "mannykannot", "time": 1697386643, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My impression, albeit from someone who was only vaguely aware of this issue until Emily Hanford's influential podcast Sold a Story , is that \"balanced literacy\" is a reasonable-sounding concept that has been so widely used as to become almost meaningless, and, in particular, that there was not much balance in Calkin's method. This opinion is undoubtedly influenced by my skepticism over the reasons offered for substituting exercises like guessing the word for those involving \"sounding out' a word. While practiced readers do use context clues a lot (probably too much, IMHO, to the detriment of c"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 37892829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37892829", "by": "IggleSniggle", "time": 1697399479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Please. Drama is already incredibly easy to invent even when all is objectively well. Greek tragedy shows the way: systematic problems can make even a group of people making all the \"right\" decisions (individually) result in disaster. For examples, I highly recommend the podcast \"Cautionary Tales.\" Start from Episode 1."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 37895053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37895053", "by": "nonameiguess", "time": 1697420013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IMDB itself already includes podcasts. I think your question is really why you and others don't seem to know that. The Joe Rogan Experience, which as far as I understand is far and away the world's most popular podcast, has 4.5k total ratings. Gen V, which has existed for a month, already has 19k. Podcasts just aren't that popular. But it's nothing specific about the format. Largely informational, non-fiction content, even extremely high-quality, long-running classics, don't get much attention from critics and discussion groups. Nova has been running for nearly 50 years now and has 3k ratings "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37900793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37900793", "by": "xuying_li", "time": 1697468593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, I'm Xuying, the developer of AI-daily news. AI-daily news is my first open-source project and being continuously updated. It's an AI-generated podcast that addresses information anxiety for AI enthusiasts, providing the most important, low-hype AI news in a personalized way. If you're an AI and podcast enthusiast, you must give it a try! -- Key features: - Stay informed on AI advancements in a few-minute AI-generated podcast. - Providing the most important, low-hype AI news but a wide range of insights--Technology news, Podcasts, Technology blogs, and Cutting-edge papers. - Customize the p"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 37903047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903047", "by": "dskloet", "time": 1697476672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did an episode about this in 2015: https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky They actually did do a surveillance experiment in Dayton Ohio in 2014: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/new-surve..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 37913844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37913844", "by": "is_true", "time": 1697545186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure they know how to measure traffic correctly. When I saw a post from Planet Money I opened my podcast app"}, {"show": "1712111005", "hn_item": 37914922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914922", "by": "diminikolaou", "time": 1697550210, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "We're laying out the infrastructure to get to a point where everyone can choose themes, topic etc and get a hyper personalised podcast delivered in their feed every day. For example you can opt in for World, Tech and SF News, Football scores, a startup story, and a daily book recommendation and you'd find a daily 10' podcast in your feed every day. I know I'm missing out of ton of details (e.g. what sources will you use, what's the technical implementation etc), but I'm keeping this light and I can answer any questions in the comments. In short, we've been running Hacker News Recap for 6 month"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 37922615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37922615", "by": "mihaitodor", "time": 1697582974, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After reading this article, I recalled that Sean Carroll interviewed Stuart Bartlett for his Mindscape podcast. [1] [1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/07/20/106-..."}, {"show": "1584849077", "hn_item": 37924391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37924391", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1697597850, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first learned about Spermidine on David Sinclair's Lifespan podcast last year [1]; it's one of the supplements he takes daily [2]. [1]: https://www.lifespanpodcast.com/nmn-nr-resveratrol-metformin... [2]: https://fastlifehacks.com/david-sinclair-supplements/"}, {"show": "1711958664", "hn_item": 37927951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927951", "by": "slattfbs", "time": 1697633856, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 37932057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932057", "by": "mikesickler", "time": 1697650842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry if dumb question, but is LSP similar to what Steve Yegge talked about years ago, I think on a StackOverflow podcast, whereby a language would declare its capabilities to tooling?"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 37935829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37935829", "by": "grvdrm", "time": 1697669218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe I can suggest a middle-ground that is sort of best of both worlds: put on a podcast that isn't one that you're certain you want to be focused on? I listen to The Daily and variety of others when I do dishes. When I'm certain I want to really ingest a podcast, I listen during dedicated time. So, I think we're just conflating a bit - ok to have something in your ear while, in reality, you focus on just one thing - dishes. Just remember that you're not going to remember the thing in your ear all that much."}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 37940322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940322", "by": "akuji1993", "time": 1697706315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The search seems to be very overwhelmed by traffic. I tried to find my own podcast \"Code & Conquer - The Indie Hacker Podcast\" but it doesn't show up. Or it showed up once, but I couldn't interact with the element? Not sure what I'm supposed to do after it found the podcast I'm looking for. The + button doesn't do anything."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 37942993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37942993", "by": "yashbagal", "time": 1697723862, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Basically, you can generate engaging titles, show notes, transcripts, and viral social posts from your recorded episodes."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 37945040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945040", "by": "astroid", "time": 1697733043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I mentioned this in another comment, but I think it bears repeating since you mentioned \"FAIK, podcast owner often provide show notes, not the whole text version for their show.\" -- take a look at the podcasting 2.0 specs, they absolutely do provide transcripts to whole shows. It's an open source standard which includes transcripts, chapter art, and a bunch of other added functionality which is being driven by Adam Currey, who is known for the original creation of podcasting, was an MTV VJ who ran mtv.com before MTV realized there was value there, and now hosts the No Agenda podcast. I have a "}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 37947467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37947467", "by": "ddol", "time": 1697743520, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019m unfamiliar with the show, but a search turned up the January 13th episode: \u201cChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is \u2018M3GAN\u2019 Real?\u201d https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 37952595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37952595", "by": "j45", "time": 1697779259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relative to this article Perhaps being able to keep a perspective on hope and of hope for long enough is part of the shift, assisted by ingestion or not. Placebo as science is learning is relative. The body does literally change based on thought. A recent Huberman podcast literally stated the brain itself is a pharmacy and creates certain substances as triggered. Not implying it\u2019s the same for everyone, but interesting nonetheless. If ketamine/shrooms push and hold a different perspective for long enough that it is difficult to unsee, unfeel or unexperience, that\u2019s kind of interesting for sure"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 37959242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959242", "by": "immannino", "time": 1697824020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a fantastic \"Go Time\" podcast episode on this on how they used Go to service some of the site. Highly recommend this episode and this podcast. https://changelog.com/gotime/154"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 37959242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959242", "by": "immannino", "time": 1697824020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a fantastic \"Go Time\" podcast episode on this on how they used Go to service some of the site. Highly recommend this episode and this podcast. https://changelog.com/gotime/154"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 37961884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37961884", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1697838148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell had a series on guns for his Revisionist History podcast a little while, and episode four (\"Moral Hazard\") found some interesting numbers: * https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/guns-par... * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl7c_O_XtfU From the transcript: > Now, think about the implications of that in a place like Washington, DC. In the last 30 years, the number of homicides in Washington in a typical year has been cut in half. People look at that statistic and say, \"Oh, the city's gotten a lot safer.\" But isn't some part of that decline simply that Eddie Cornw"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 37970850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37970850", "by": "AliRahemtulla", "time": 1697925550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An accurate transcript for a great interview Brian Chesky gave on the Social Radars podcast. EDIT: I'm making transcripts, and trying to automate them to this level of quality. If anyone wants me to produce transcripts like this for them, please feel free to reach out! I'd like to add relevant links to the text, and (un)fortunately the infrastructure needed for that will probably be needed to make transcripts as accurate as this one. So that's what I'm working on now."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 37974299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974299", "by": "f4c39012", "time": 1697971672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a short series on this, https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/stealing-art-is-easy-gi..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 37974580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974580", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1697975629, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who don't follow the Fall of Civilizations podcast, this is worth a listen/watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JVdpWCKeM"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 37974787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37974787", "by": "drawkbox", "time": 1697977991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The identity probably isn't one person but there are people that stand out. Nick Szabo has been potentially mentioned as Satoshi for sometime [1] due to him working on decentralized currencies since 1998 with Bit Gold [2]. Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3] > \"Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas,\" said Musk, adding, \"he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the "}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 37990628, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990628", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1698090588, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm so glad to see all of your comments here. I've been fascinated by your setup ever since hearing about it on the Oxide and Friends podcast. The part that I'm most curious about is the part where you weave together auto-generated interface code with hand-implemented mock implementations\u2026 I'll have to go read your code and see how that happens. [Edit, after reading a bit of the code] Am I correct in understanding that the generated code maps API calls to a typed interface, and then the hand-built implementation simply implements that interface? So rather than complex weaving where you want ha"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 38002126, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002126", "by": "bityard", "time": 1698167569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a small vocal cult of secbros on HN and Reddit that have some kind of beef with Gibson because he gets things wrong once in a while and make predictions that don't pan out. You know, like literally all of us. And also he sells ONE product that in 2023 has admittedly dubious value (SpinRite), and I will also admit that the website oversells it quite a bit. But all of the complaints I've seen about it basically boil down to those people not really understanding what it's for or what it does. It's not for \"undeleting\" data, it's not for fixing your broken filesystem, it can't recover dat"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 38012456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012456", "by": "itsuka", "time": 1698239805, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's a fine-tuned model trained on shadcn/ui components. > It's something that we've created in partnering with a few different companies and really the the core of this comes down to data that we've built and fine tuned ourselves. > We actually went ahead and built a bunch of different variations using these components to help and have seed the data. Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forget-no-code-adios-l... (Stack Overflow podcast, seek to 2:30)"}, {"show": "1317563648", "hn_item": 38013248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013248", "by": "criddell", "time": 1698244496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Earlier this year I experimented with writing a work log each day. Every time I finished a task or I reached the end of the workday, I would make some notes. After a few months I stopped. Occasionally I found it very useful for reloading context on a Monday morning. Other than that it seemed like just another job I had given myself. Going back and rereading my notes from that time I see that I didn't put down enough information. Most of them don't make much sense to me today. I kept my log in OneNote and created a shortcut that I could click on to jump to that page. It worked great and for me,"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 38024296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024296", "by": "eddyg", "time": 1698320708, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you don\u2019t listen to their \u201cOn the Metal\u201d podcast, you\u2019re missing out. So many great stories from legends in the industry. Just start with the first episode. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38024574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024574", "by": "jjice", "time": 1698322912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And they currently run a podcast weekly called \"Oxide and Friends\" where they talk about miscellaneous things in the software space. The most recent few episodes have been about corporate open source and they've had excellent guests, like Kelsey Hightower. Definitely the best computer related podcasts out there. Bryan and Adam are great hosts and their humor is always a delight."}, {"show": "1289062927", "hn_item": 38024852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024852", "by": "addy34", "time": 1698324787, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For anyone interested in the the details, China Talk released a podcast last week on the updated export controls, which discussed the enormous quantity of ASML machinery purchased by China in the leadup to the regs being tightened [1]. From Bloomberg: \"China accounted for 46% of ASML's sales in the third quarter, compared to 24% in the previous quarter and 8% in January to March.\" [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emergency-pod-export-c... [1] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGluYWVjb250YWx..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 38024992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024992", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1698325617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This is too startup-y and niche and too small to attract enough companies on the market. From their press release: > Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services organization. Additional installments at Fortune 1000 enterprises will be completed in the coming months. * https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-10-26/oxide-un... From an interview: > And what was the reaction of lucky rack customer #1? \u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say that the customer has appreciated the transformationally different (and exponentially faster!) process of going from"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38025057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025057", "by": "minton", "time": 1698325910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think VR can enable human connection where it otherwise isn\u2019t possible due to distance. Of course, it isn\u2019t a full substitute for in-person interaction, but it doesn\u2019t have to be either or. We can have a great remote connection via VR and still exist in the real world. Check out this podcast[0] between Lex Fridman and Mark Zuckerberg where they meet remotely via the metaverse. [0] https://youtu.be/MVYrJJNdrEg"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 38025911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025911", "by": "dilippkumar", "time": 1698329818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a long time follower from the first \"On the metal\" podcast and as someone who has been cheering for you silently from the sidelines - Congratulations! You all have arrived. Wishing you decades of prosperity and good fortune."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 38026222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38026222", "by": "fbdjdjfb", "time": 1698331275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Added to my podcast player - Thanks! In a similar vein, Embedded.fm is a great podcast for embedded SW. Though I bet Oxide's take on embedded rust is a lot different than the hosts of that show!"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38027777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38027777", "by": "NortySpock", "time": 1698337161, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Oxide and Friends podcast had an episode on virtualizing time, specifically for the purpose of live-migrating a container from rack to rack without the VM being aware, and allowing operators to take the rack offline on their schedule. Otherwise, apparently, you end up having to leave racks running because you cannot evacuate all of the containers currently running on it. (e.g. perhaps your contracts or SLAs are such that you cannot afford even the few seconds of downtime a shut-down-here-and-spin-up-elsewhere would cause) I believe the episode name was \"Virtualizing Time\" https://pca.st/ep"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38034527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38034527", "by": "sedivy94", "time": 1698379072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I (and many others, I\u2019m sure) had the pleasure of listening to him on the Lex Friedman podcast. I\u2019ve listened to that episode three times, I really enjoy it. Not only did he discuss his research, but he also dips into the philosophical domain - connecting electromagnetic communication between cells to philosophy of the mind and the self. I don\u2019t know what that itch is, be he scratched it."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 38034717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38034717", "by": "bobthecowboy", "time": 1698381057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're willing to spend money on rack-mounted gear you definitely have options, and what you get sort of depends on what you're interested in playing with. A lot of homelabbers (and even some small businesses) go for Proxmox as a virtualization distribution. I don't use it myself, but IIUC it's effectively a Debian distro packaged to run KVM/LXC, with support for things like ZFS, Ceph, etc. It has some form of HA, an API used by standard open source devops tools, handles live migration, etc. So buy some used rack-servers on Ebay (or new, if you're ballin'). A lot of businesses sell their ol"}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 38038529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38038529", "by": "rtkwe", "time": 1698415307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like this has been known for a while. Months ago he essentially admitted to the core of the charges on a morning show and refused to stop after that. The Serious Trouble podcast, hosted by former (I think?) Twitter legal commentarian PopeHat/Ken White, has covered it a lot and just how much he's screwed his own legal defense. This was even before the bouts of witness tampering attempts that landed him in jail instead of plush house arrest."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 38038999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38038999", "by": "jpalawaga", "time": 1698417336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PJ Vogt (formerly Reply All) recently did an interesting episode on his new podcast about this exact topic[0]. It's worth a listen. It really helped to clarify some meta-thoughts about how attention works, how media consumption influences us, and how I think about Twitter (and people's relation to it). Like, at one point, PJ talks about how he's witnessed people at the bar talking to a friend (purportedly), but in a format that seems to be talking to an imaginary twitter audience. The way people talk, communicate, quip, etc on twitter is bleeding into discourse OUTSIDE twitter. I tend to agree"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38044321, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044321", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1698442609, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 38058313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058313", "by": "ProllyInfamous", "time": 1698585387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent Freakonomics podcast/guest (Dr. Sapolsky) mentions that when you bite down softly on a wooden pencil, it makes eyes' crow-feet express, which artificially tricks your proprioception into thinking that you're smiling. This tactic can be used to with minimal conditioning/tolerance."}, {"show": "1554578197", "hn_item": 38059001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059001", "by": "acrefoot", "time": 1698590219, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast explains the three theories and adds the Benign Violation Theory: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-so-funny/id15545... . Their theory can be summed up as \u201csomething is wrong, but ok/safe\u201d, but it takes some illustrating. I liked this skittles study, pulled from the transcript: MANDY: The skittles study goes like this. Participants go into a room to fill out a survey. There's a table and a bowl of skittles, and there's an actor posing as a research assistant. And the goal of the study is to figure out the funniest way the actor can offer the bowl of skittles. They ran th"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38059586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059586", "by": "hbt", "time": 1698594009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">> I have had to run to a bomb shelter almost every day First, I didn't know you were Israeli. I live in Canada, far from the conflict and although it has been going on for decades, this moment feels different. It feels we are witnessing collective punishment on a large scale (and it's only beginning) and no one is attempting to de-escalate or even consider the future and its ramifications. Having said that, I don't live under an \"iron dome\" and my life is not at risk; so, I can sympathize but will not be commenting on that as I have no lived experience of that level of stress and anxiety. No "}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 38059765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059765", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1698595012, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not necessarily true for (b): quiet inhabitants may be ratted out by other inhabitants. Birds will literally call out \"snake\" (in their bird language) or \"puma\" to alert others. Stuff You Should Know covered it on an episode \"How We're Learning to Talk to Animals\": https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269..."}, {"show": "1712450613", "hn_item": 38067941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067941", "by": "iliashad", "time": 1698664259, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38069769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38069769", "by": "bparsons", "time": 1698675624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author seems to only be interested in people who appear on podcasts targeting lonely men between the ages of 20-40. I can assure him that there is a whole world of serious thinkers and doers that have never appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38070039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38070039", "by": "mcpackieh", "time": 1698677039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It really seems like Lex Fridman was boosted as a \"safe Joe Rogan\", a stoner/intellectual/macho podcaster guy, but one who won't lead his audiences into conspiracy theory territory. Or maybe it just seems that way to me because Lex obviously idolizes Joe Rogan and either smokes too much weed before his interviews or acts as if he does. I really can't wrap my mind around how he managed to get so many high profile guests so fast, except to guess that his father's connections had a lot to do with it. Every part of his meteoric rise seems inorganic to me."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38072211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072211", "by": "AlbertoGP", "time": 1698685386, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As the sibling comment by idkwhatiamdoing says, Geoff is Geoffrey Hinton: \u00abGeoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead\u00bb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771104 Yoshua is Yoshua Bengio: \u00abYoshua Bengio: How Rogue AIs May Arise\u00bb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36042126 LeCunn is replying to Max Tegmark: \u00abAsk HN: What is the apocolyptic scenario for AI \u201cbreaking loose\u201d?\u00bb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35569306 \u00abMax Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371\u00bb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38073341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38073341", "by": "daoboy", "time": 1698689461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This seems unnecessarily negative towards the trend of self-optimization. Self help media has been around for a long time, and this is just a new evolution of it targeted to a specific audience. I have only watched a handful of episodes of the Huberman podcast, but I really appreciated that they have an actionable science-based takeway to help with the area you want to focus on."}, {"show": "1480370173", "hn_item": 38075567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075567", "by": "hilux", "time": 1698698910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like this kind of thing, \"The Missing Cryptoqueen\" is an enjoyable podcast."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38083820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083820", "by": "hnuser9002", "time": 1698755735, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "While this may be true most of the time, there are cases where the CEO has taken full responsibility. A podcast [1] by Darknet Diaries on a breach in 2015 at mobile provider TalkTalk in the UK tells of such a case. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fihCSOPKrIDXPB2azNgOc?si=3..."}, {"show": "1510124746", "hn_item": 38086486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38086486", "by": "rot256", "time": 1698766608, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "As pointed out by Mark Galeotti, both the sources are less than reliable... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows-120... Whether dead or not, it is frankly disappointing that western media lends so much credence to sources which have been consistently wrong and made outright ridiculous claims before. Even if they try hedging it by calling them rumors, until more reliable sources emerge it is just noise..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38090257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38090257", "by": "wdr1", "time": 1698780828, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator, discussed this policy on Lex Friedman's podcast. Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm4hb5yNxyE The policy has been widely misreported as \"we don't negotiate with terrorists\", which is wrong. The actual policy is we won't make concessions to terrorists."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38090619, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38090619", "by": "11thEarlOfMar", "time": 1698782355, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "918152703", "hn_item": 38093620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38093620", "by": "alwillis", "time": 1698802556, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From someone who was briefed by Apple [1], this is Apple segmenting these processors. The M1 Pro and the M2 Pro were closer to their respective Max variants. With the M3 series, the M3 Pro is more of a mainstream processor vs. being closer to the M3 Max. [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upgrade/id918152703?i=..."}, {"show": "918152703", "hn_item": 38094794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094794", "by": "1123581321", "time": 1698815394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard a good lay explanation on the most recent Upgrade podcast (around 30:00.) The explanation was provided by an anonymous Apple employee. Dynamic caching is about setting the allocated memory per GPU thread. Historically, threads received fixed allocations. These had tradeoffs since overallocation caused performance bottlenecks and right-sized allocation underutilized the RAM. Dynamic cacheing adjusts per-thread allocations so the memory per utilized thread adds up to the max available amount more often. Developers do not need to change any code to benefit. If all that is true, it sounds "}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 38095434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095434", "by": "__rito__", "time": 1698823070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really liked some episodes of Fall of Civilizations [0] and History of India by Kit Patrick [1]. [0]: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com [1]: https://historyofindiapodcast.libsyn.com"}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 38095597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095597", "by": "LanternLight83", "time": 1698824916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For something more playful, I'd happily reccomend the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast. We tend to focus on arguments and theories that either entered the mainstream long-term or were prescient in retrospect, but many philosophers (some you've heard of, some you haven't!) held the /wildest/ of world-views. The host is great, love his voice and enthusiasm, and while I did fall off eventually, I'd love to pick it back up. There's a lot of media I wish I had more time for. https://shwep.net/podcast/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38099935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38099935", "by": "enragedcacti", "time": 1698853801, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "As far as I am aware this is mostly BS and numerous analyses have found that housing prices have far more of an effect than drug use. This podcast episode covers the common arguments about homelessness, drug abuse, and mental illness. Feel free to check the sources and see if everything adds up. If Books Could Kill: https://podcasts.apple.com/lv/podcast/san-fransicko/id165187..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38101049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101049", "by": "Pixie_Dust", "time": 1698857391, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 38102780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38102780", "by": "epiccoleman", "time": 1698863589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> William MacAskill, who got SBF into EA, is extremely explicitly working for 10^54 future emulated humans This is where I betray how out of the loop I am on this, I suppose. Last I heard from MacAskill was like a decade ago on Sam Harris's podcast, where he seemed to basically just be an acolyte of Singer, making the whole \"would you ruin your suit to save a drowning child\" argument. Guess this is why people don't like utilitarianism, it sure lets you make some silly arguments."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 38109254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38109254", "by": "al_borland", "time": 1698901895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recently 99% Invisible podcast about how turning office space into housing isn't as straightforward as it sounds. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/office-space/"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38110916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110916", "by": "brigandish", "time": 1698916997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ignoring the fact that I wasn't thinking of the total extra calories of anyone eating a piece of chocolate (a piece being undefined in size anyway) to end at that piece of chocolate\u2026 The UK's top selling chocolate is Cadbury's Dairy Milk. It's 45 grams in total, and each of the 60 pieces is indeed 40 calories. Most people I know eat the whole thing, and those people are overweight, like the majority of the UK public, an obesity rate that is matched in many countries world wide. As of a couple of years ago, diabetes diagnoses have doubled in the last 15 years > that over 4.9 million people are "}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 38112888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112888", "by": "m_mueller", "time": 1698930006, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "does anyone know what happened to Hello Internet? I kinda miss that podcast..."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 38113104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38113104", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1698931073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was someone on the Volts podcast[1], either David Roberts or a guest, who made the point (I'm paraphrasing) that one of the most helpful things a regular person can do is start to think of solar arrays or windmills as beautiful; if building them isn't \"climate but eyesore\" but rather a \"climate and beauty\" proposition, they are much more likely to get built. 1: https://www.volts.wtf"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1242537529", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1320118593", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1603639502", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "661011349", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1150800298", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 38114591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114591", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1698937804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ones I listen to every episode of: Marketplace (APM/NPR): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id20185303... This American Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id2... Radio Lab: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 Search Engine (Reply All's pseudo-successor): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425... On The Media: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id7333071... What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-roman-mars-can-le... 99% Invisible: https://podc"}, {"show": "1464774523", "hn_item": 38114592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114592", "by": "slipperlobster", "time": 1698937805, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listen to a few podcasts focused on US politics: David Pakman (has a finance background, very level-headed in his viewpoints): https://davidpakman.com/ I Doubt It: https://dollemore.com/ I also listen to non-politics stuff: Factually: https://www.adamconover.net/ Dumb Dad Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dumb-dad-podcast/id146..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 38114602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114602", "by": "Cenk", "time": 1698937839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast: https://atp.fm"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 38114608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114608", "by": "daniel_reetz", "time": 1698937865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For curious hacker types interested in aerospace, infrastructure, and the history of computing, I HIGHLY recommend Omega Tau Podcast . For computing nerds, check out, for example, Episode 248. For flight nerds, Episode 91, for infrastructure nerds, Episode 146. http://omegataupodcast.net/"}, {"show": "369032477", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "480486345", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1718851160", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 38114610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114610", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698937868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I maintain a list with ratings here, but it's a bit outdated: [1] https://taylor.town/podcasts 99% Invisible Articles of Interest Conversations with Tyler Dan Carlin\u2019s Hardcore History Everything Everywhere Daily Nice Try! Radiolab The Memory Palace Quanta Science Podcast Cortex Good complete series: The Anthropocene Reviewed S-Town On the Metal Hello Internet --- EDIT: I can't update my website because cloudflare is down haha I'll try to update later today. A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time --- EDIT: Series that I enjoyed at some point in the pas"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 38114627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114627", "by": "d1str0", "time": 1698937918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone is my all time favorite podcast. 3 brothers and their dad playing DnD but they don\u2019t take the rules as seriously as many other actual-play podcasts. The Critshow is another great one."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38114631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114631", "by": "thepablohansen", "time": 1698937944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an avid consumer of podcasts. Here are my recommendations Interviews - Sam Harriss - Sean Carrol - Lex Fridman - Possible (Reid Hoffman) - Manifold Lifestyle/Thoughts - 80k hours - Hackers Incorporated - Startup Therapy \"Creator Economy\" - Colin and Samir - Media Empires - The Editing Podcast - Creator Science (Tech) News - The Journal - Hard Fork Investing/Business - Art of Investing - Acquired"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38114631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114631", "by": "thepablohansen", "time": 1698937944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an avid consumer of podcasts. Here are my recommendations Interviews - Sam Harriss - Sean Carrol - Lex Fridman - Possible (Reid Hoffman) - Manifold Lifestyle/Thoughts - 80k hours - Hackers Incorporated - Startup Therapy \"Creator Economy\" - Colin and Samir - Media Empires - The Editing Podcast - Creator Science (Tech) News - The Journal - Hard Fork Investing/Business - Art of Investing - Acquired"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 38114636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114636", "by": "dpbriggs", "time": 1698937956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only one I listen to consistently is the Rational Reminder podcast."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38114648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114648", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1698938003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HH and Conversations with Tyler are both great, will check out some of your other recommendations. For history, the Fall of Civilizations Podcast is also fantastic."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 38114648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114648", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1698938003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "HH and Conversations with Tyler are both great, will check out some of your other recommendations. For history, the Fall of Civilizations Podcast is also fantastic."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 38114676, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114676", "by": "houseatrielah", "time": 1698938107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bankless is an Ethereum podcast. Below is an interesting episode. 120 - Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z | Reinventing the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXHITeaGB8Q"}, {"show": "1435516849", "hn_item": 38114726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114726", "by": "Ajay-p", "time": 1698938286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love the podcast Lore by Aaron Mahnke. It is very pleasing and easy to listen to. I also listen to American Scandal, Business Wars, and American History Tellers. The Wondery network has some really engaging content."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38114731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114731", "by": "jcpst", "time": 1698938328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman Lab Osterholm Update TapeOp Podcast The Canadian Bushcraft Podcast The Working Songwriter How to build a sustainable music career and collect all revenue streams"}, {"show": "1504360345", "hn_item": 38114731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114731", "by": "jcpst", "time": 1698938328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman Lab Osterholm Update TapeOp Podcast The Canadian Bushcraft Podcast The Working Songwriter How to build a sustainable music career and collect all revenue streams"}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 38114762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114762", "by": "thaddeusmt", "time": 1698938459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few tech and Python specific podcasts I've been listening to while I do dishes: The Real Python Podcast Talk Python To Me Software Engineering Radio Maintainable"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 38114762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114762", "by": "thaddeusmt", "time": 1698938459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few tech and Python specific podcasts I've been listening to while I do dishes: The Real Python Podcast Talk Python To Me Software Engineering Radio Maintainable"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38114768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114768", "by": "kennethologist", "time": 1698938500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman Huberman Podcast Stratechery My First Million All In Pod PG Essays The Knowledge Project Not Investment Advice The Tim Ferris Show"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 38114768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114768", "by": "kennethologist", "time": 1698938500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman Huberman Podcast Stratechery My First Million All In Pod PG Essays The Knowledge Project Not Investment Advice The Tim Ferris Show"}, {"show": "1696269981", "hn_item": 38114768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114768", "by": "kennethologist", "time": 1698938500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman Huberman Podcast Stratechery My First Million All In Pod PG Essays The Knowledge Project Not Investment Advice The Tim Ferris Show"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38114771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114771", "by": "withzombies", "time": 1698938504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles of Interest is _so_ good. It's a great take on the 99% Invisible \"design of everyday things\". I was definitely blind to clothing and textiles and Articles of Interest is really enlightening. You may enjoy Search Engine by PJ Vogt[1], it's really well done. Its the quality of the original Gimlet Podcasts and a bit different than his previous show (Reply All). [1] https://pjvogt.substack.com"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 38114771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114771", "by": "withzombies", "time": 1698938504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles of Interest is _so_ good. It's a great take on the 99% Invisible \"design of everyday things\". I was definitely blind to clothing and textiles and Articles of Interest is really enlightening. You may enjoy Search Engine by PJ Vogt[1], it's really well done. Its the quality of the original Gimlet Podcasts and a bit different than his previous show (Reply All). [1] https://pjvogt.substack.com"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38114772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114772", "by": "xbpx", "time": 1698938514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Politics: Know Your Enemy, The Dig About movies (and politics): Michael & Us, Unclear and Present Danger Tech: Oxide and Friends, Twenty Thousand Hz Science: Nature Podcast, Quanta Magazine Podcast"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 38114825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114825", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1698938721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It turns out too many of them are hosted on YouTube, so my listening habits will have to change. Hello Internet Cortex The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens The Amp Hour Podcast Beau of the Fifth Column Peter Zeihan The Business of Machining The Wee Scone Variety Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman Dark Horse with Bret Weinstein The Portal with Eric Weinstein Joe Rogan (if he's got a good guest) The Anthropocene Reviewed"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 38114825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114825", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1698938721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It turns out too many of them are hosted on YouTube, so my listening habits will have to change. Hello Internet Cortex The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens The Amp Hour Podcast Beau of the Fifth Column Peter Zeihan The Business of Machining The Wee Scone Variety Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman Dark Horse with Bret Weinstein The Portal with Eric Weinstein Joe Rogan (if he's got a good guest) The Anthropocene Reviewed"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 38114825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114825", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1698938721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It turns out too many of them are hosted on YouTube, so my listening habits will have to change. Hello Internet Cortex The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens The Amp Hour Podcast Beau of the Fifth Column Peter Zeihan The Business of Machining The Wee Scone Variety Show Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman Dark Horse with Bret Weinstein The Portal with Eric Weinstein Joe Rogan (if he's got a good guest) The Anthropocene Reviewed"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38114840, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114840", "by": "SkyMarshal", "time": 1698938756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon Musk and Joe Rogan were just complaining about one of them on Rogan\u2019s podcast a day or two ago. He was on the cover of Time magazine, but I can\u2019t find it on Time\u2019s site. If you dig up that podcast on YT you should be able to see it."}, {"show": "1886486854", "hn_item": 38114910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114910", "by": "t-3", "time": 1698939013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few I don't think I've mentioned before: Nuntii in Lingua Latina - headlines in Latin and the original languages Cato Daily podcast - very high quality and in-depth discussion"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 38114923, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114923", "by": "ebb_earl_co", "time": 1698939081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only podcast I make sure to keep up with is Making Sense with Sam Harris [0] [0] https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes"}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 38114947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114947", "by": "darrylb42", "time": 1698939120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- CanadaLand - Behind the tech with Kevin Scott - Childish - Dev interrupted - Doug Loves Movies - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - The HanselMinutes Podcast - Law Bytes - Maintainable - StackOverflow podcast - Midnight Local - Newcomer"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38114964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114964", "by": "Koealaquillage", "time": 1698939203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, some of those are in french, other in spanish and some in english: - L'ap\u00e9ro du Captain (french, comedy/news) - 2 heures de perdues (french, comedy/movies) - El hilo (spanish, latin american news) - Las noches de Ortega (spanish, character comedy) - Podcast Science (french, science) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, comedy) - Planet Money (english, economy) - Histoire du Monde (french, locked-in on France Inter application, news) - RadioLab (english, news/investigation) - Freakonomics (english, news/economy) - How I built This (english, company building) - Gastropod (english, food)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38115068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115068", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1698939576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I keep track of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's podcast releases and listen to em when the guest seems interesting. I've listened to some episodes of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal when he has interesting guests on. For example he recently did two podcasts with Joscha Bach who is always a really creative guy to hear from. Also learned about Machine Learning Street Talk because Joscha Bach was a guest on there and he was promoting his appearance. Godbolt, the guy that made Compiler Explorer, also had a few podcast episodes which I enjoyed. Someone already mentioned it, but Conversations"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38115068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115068", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1698939576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I keep track of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's podcast releases and listen to em when the guest seems interesting. I've listened to some episodes of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal when he has interesting guests on. For example he recently did two podcasts with Joscha Bach who is always a really creative guy to hear from. Also learned about Machine Learning Street Talk because Joscha Bach was a guest on there and he was promoting his appearance. Godbolt, the guy that made Compiler Explorer, also had a few podcast episodes which I enjoyed. Someone already mentioned it, but Conversations"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 38115068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115068", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1698939576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I keep track of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's podcast releases and listen to em when the guest seems interesting. I've listened to some episodes of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal when he has interesting guests on. For example he recently did two podcasts with Joscha Bach who is always a really creative guy to hear from. Also learned about Machine Learning Street Talk because Joscha Bach was a guest on there and he was promoting his appearance. Godbolt, the guy that made Compiler Explorer, also had a few podcast episodes which I enjoyed. Someone already mentioned it, but Conversations"}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 38115068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115068", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1698939576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I keep track of Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan's podcast releases and listen to em when the guest seems interesting. I've listened to some episodes of Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal when he has interesting guests on. For example he recently did two podcasts with Joscha Bach who is always a really creative guy to hear from. Also learned about Machine Learning Street Talk because Joscha Bach was a guest on there and he was promoting his appearance. Godbolt, the guy that made Compiler Explorer, also had a few podcast episodes which I enjoyed. Someone already mentioned it, but Conversations"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 38115113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115113", "by": "guhcampos", "time": 1698939758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few I haven't seen on the list, by looking at my recent listens. I'm not saying all of them are good, I'll often listen to podcasts as background noise, so don't take this as sanctioning or recommentations: - Science Vs (science) - Freakonomics Radio (curiosities) - If Books Could Kill (politics I guess) - The Atlas Obscura Podcast (curiosities) - Robinson's Podcast (philosophy of science) - Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound engineering) - Tiny Matters (science) - Unexplainable (curiosities) - Talk Python to Me (programming) - Decoder Ring (curiosities) - Ologies with Alie Ward (science, most of "}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 38115113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115113", "by": "guhcampos", "time": 1698939758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few I haven't seen on the list, by looking at my recent listens. I'm not saying all of them are good, I'll often listen to podcasts as background noise, so don't take this as sanctioning or recommentations: - Science Vs (science) - Freakonomics Radio (curiosities) - If Books Could Kill (politics I guess) - The Atlas Obscura Podcast (curiosities) - Robinson's Podcast (philosophy of science) - Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound engineering) - Tiny Matters (science) - Unexplainable (curiosities) - Talk Python to Me (programming) - Decoder Ring (curiosities) - Ologies with Alie Ward (science, most of "}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 38115113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115113", "by": "guhcampos", "time": 1698939758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few I haven't seen on the list, by looking at my recent listens. I'm not saying all of them are good, I'll often listen to podcasts as background noise, so don't take this as sanctioning or recommentations: - Science Vs (science) - Freakonomics Radio (curiosities) - If Books Could Kill (politics I guess) - The Atlas Obscura Podcast (curiosities) - Robinson's Podcast (philosophy of science) - Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound engineering) - Tiny Matters (science) - Unexplainable (curiosities) - Talk Python to Me (programming) - Decoder Ring (curiosities) - Ologies with Alie Ward (science, most of "}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38115113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115113", "by": "guhcampos", "time": 1698939758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few I haven't seen on the list, by looking at my recent listens. I'm not saying all of them are good, I'll often listen to podcasts as background noise, so don't take this as sanctioning or recommentations: - Science Vs (science) - Freakonomics Radio (curiosities) - If Books Could Kill (politics I guess) - The Atlas Obscura Podcast (curiosities) - Robinson's Podcast (philosophy of science) - Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound engineering) - Tiny Matters (science) - Unexplainable (curiosities) - Talk Python to Me (programming) - Decoder Ring (curiosities) - Ologies with Alie Ward (science, most of "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38115152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115152", "by": "Koealaquillage", "time": 1698939897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech: None really Comedy: - L'apero du Captain (french, discussion about tech news and general news, and other less reputable things) - Deux heures de perdues (french, movies spoils with critics) - Las noches de Ortega (castellano, character impersonating and improbable stories) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, porn book spoil and critics) Science: - Podcast Science (french, everything is in the name) - PlanetGeo (english, condensed lecture about geoscience topics) - ScienceDiction (english, links an actual word with an often suprising scientific stories) - Undiscovered (english, stories about"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 38115152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115152", "by": "Koealaquillage", "time": 1698939897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech: None really Comedy: - L'apero du Captain (french, discussion about tech news and general news, and other less reputable things) - Deux heures de perdues (french, movies spoils with critics) - Las noches de Ortega (castellano, character impersonating and improbable stories) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, porn book spoil and critics) Science: - Podcast Science (french, everything is in the name) - PlanetGeo (english, condensed lecture about geoscience topics) - ScienceDiction (english, links an actual word with an often suprising scientific stories) - Undiscovered (english, stories about"}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 38115152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115152", "by": "Koealaquillage", "time": 1698939897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tech: None really Comedy: - L'apero du Captain (french, discussion about tech news and general news, and other less reputable things) - Deux heures de perdues (french, movies spoils with critics) - Las noches de Ortega (castellano, character impersonating and improbable stories) - My Dad Wrote a Porno (english, porn book spoil and critics) Science: - Podcast Science (french, everything is in the name) - PlanetGeo (english, condensed lecture about geoscience topics) - ScienceDiction (english, links an actual word with an often suprising scientific stories) - Undiscovered (english, stories about"}, {"show": "1107682538", "hn_item": 38115361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115361", "by": "billbrown", "time": 1698940576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best interviewer I've found is Peter Robinson for his Hoover Institution podcast \"Uncommon Knowledge.\" He's got great guests and really elicits great answers. (He was a speechwriter for Reagan and the one that wrote his \"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall\" speech.) The best investing podcast I've found is \"The Week Ahead\" by Complete Intelligence. I look forward to it every weekend for its variety of guests and subjects. Patrick O'Shaughnessy's \"Invest Like the Best\" podcast has a good variety of guests and he asks incisive and insightful questions. National Review's \"The McCarthy Report\" "}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 38115392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38115392", "by": "epiccoleman", "time": 1698940653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "General interest - my favorite is Very Bad Wizards. The two hosts are university professors in psychology and philosophy. They cover all kinds of different things - usually some piece of media like a book or movie, where they will sort of analyze it deeply and just generally chat about it. They'll also often cover a silly or interesting philosophy or psychology paper as an opening segment. They're just fun to listen to. They hardly ever touch anything political which is very refreshing. For their Patreon supporters they have also been going episode-by-episode through Deadwood, which I watched "}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 38116091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116091", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698942814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used GPT to add links and short descriptions :) My current listens: \u2022 99% Invisible ( https://99percentinvisible.org ): Design's unnoticed marvels explored. \u2022 Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ): A podcast about clothing, style, and wear. \u2022 Conversations with Tyler ( https://conversationswithtyler.com ): Tyler Cowen's dialogues on economics and culture. \u2022 Derek Sivers ( https://sive.rs ): Musings of a musician turned entrepreneur. \u2022 Radiolab ( https://www.radiolab.org ): A journey through curious scientific and philosophical landscapes. \u2022 The Memo"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38116091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116091", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698942814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used GPT to add links and short descriptions :) My current listens: \u2022 99% Invisible ( https://99percentinvisible.org ): Design's unnoticed marvels explored. \u2022 Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ): A podcast about clothing, style, and wear. \u2022 Conversations with Tyler ( https://conversationswithtyler.com ): Tyler Cowen's dialogues on economics and culture. \u2022 Derek Sivers ( https://sive.rs ): Musings of a musician turned entrepreneur. \u2022 Radiolab ( https://www.radiolab.org ): A journey through curious scientific and philosophical landscapes. \u2022 The Memo"}, {"show": "1492147103", "hn_item": 38116091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116091", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698942814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used GPT to add links and short descriptions :) My current listens: \u2022 99% Invisible ( https://99percentinvisible.org ): Design's unnoticed marvels explored. \u2022 Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ): A podcast about clothing, style, and wear. \u2022 Conversations with Tyler ( https://conversationswithtyler.com ): Tyler Cowen's dialogues on economics and culture. \u2022 Derek Sivers ( https://sive.rs ): Musings of a musician turned entrepreneur. \u2022 Radiolab ( https://www.radiolab.org ): A journey through curious scientific and philosophical landscapes. \u2022 The Memo"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 38116091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38116091", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1698942814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used GPT to add links and short descriptions :) My current listens: \u2022 99% Invisible ( https://99percentinvisible.org ): Design's unnoticed marvels explored. \u2022 Articles of Interest ( https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest ): A podcast about clothing, style, and wear. \u2022 Conversations with Tyler ( https://conversationswithtyler.com ): Tyler Cowen's dialogues on economics and culture. \u2022 Derek Sivers ( https://sive.rs ): Musings of a musician turned entrepreneur. \u2022 Radiolab ( https://www.radiolab.org ): A journey through curious scientific and philosophical landscapes. \u2022 The Memo"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 38117605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117605", "by": "danenania", "time": 1698948168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out Dwarkesh Patel\u2019s podcast."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 38117824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117824", "by": "UtopiaPunk", "time": 1698949087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For news, I like \"Today Explained\" by Vox Media. Episodes are about 25 minutes long. Each episode they dig into a single issue for the entire episode. Sometimes they will discuss some aspect of a hot button issue (there's a few recent episodes on the Israel/Palestine/Hamas conflict), but sometimes they'll talk about other interesting topics too. A couple of recent examples are the 50 year history of hip-hop, or how some healthcare services or moving into stores like Dollar General. Another podcast I like a lot is Maintenance Phase. It's basically about debunking ideas on health and nutrition. "}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 38119387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38119387", "by": "BasilPH", "time": 1698955921, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1689798044", "hn_item": 38119648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38119648", "by": "stranded22", "time": 1698956898, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have found a new podcast to listen to - Paper Cuts. They summarise the UK newspapers each weekday at midday. I\u2019ve listened for 2-3 weeks and love it. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/paper-cuts/id168979804..."}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 38120917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120917", "by": "ethanbond", "time": 1698962698, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend the podcast Sleep With Me. It\u2019s extremely weird and the guy\u2019s voice isn\u2019t exactly \u201ccomforting\u201d the way most sleep-inducing things try to be, but give it a few tries. It\u2019s basically bedtime \u201cstories\u201d that are more like improvised narrative mazes that are just interesting enough to keep your interest (and exhaust your brain) but not interesting or meaningful enough to keep you awake. I went from laying awake for hours and hours as a general nightly routine to falling asleep reliably in 10-20 minutes. I didn\u2019t even know it was possible to fall asleep that fast. As a tip: There\u2019"}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 38123089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123089", "by": "kseifried", "time": 1698974450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the #osspodcast Open Source Security Podcast. It cured my baldness and also is a great additive to soups and milkshakes. https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.com/ I was not paid to post this message. This is a totally organic high quality review! Seriously though, I wasn't paid, we do this for free."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38128766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38128766", "by": "bbyford", "time": 1699019553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AI or game dev stuff mostly: - machine ethics podcast - future of life institute - infinite monkey cage - Lex Fridman - Designer notes - game makers noteboook - three moves ahead"}, {"show": "79930757", "hn_item": 38131657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131657", "by": "willcipriano", "time": 1699031053, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Puscast, ended a bit ago: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/persiflagers-infectiou... Same guy, also ended: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-gobbet-o-pus/id32920... A lot of knowledge there if you listened end to end."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 38132178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38132178", "by": "callalex", "time": 1699032922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This podcast by Robert Evans (of Behind the Bastards fame) covers the history and thinking of the movement pretty well. https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-effective-alt..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 38133778, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38133778", "by": "signal11", "time": 1699039335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> English is a pretty dumb language\u2026 I am native Hindi speaker Pretty much every one of your criticisms is true for every human language. Calling any of them \u201cdumb\u201d is more a reflection of yourself than of the language. Eg Hindi has grammatical gender, which could be pretty wtf to say, Bengali speakers, or speakers of Hungarian, but that doesn\u2019t make Hindi \u201cdumb\u201d. > better languages out there which not only have less complex and confusing rules but are much more expressive and scientific \u201cScientific\u201d \u2026 sigh. Human languages are not scientific. All of them have quirks. All. You want a \u201cscientif"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 38134745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38134745", "by": "Tossrock", "time": 1699044222, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's true - the Lyapunov exponent shows that even arbitrarily close points in the system's phase space become separated by exponentially larger distances in time. So even with a computer the size of the universe, you can't really go further than 14 days. I'd highly recommend this Omega Tau podcast episode if you're interested in hearing more about chaos and predictability: http://omegataupodcast.net/119-chaos/"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 38137239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38137239", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1699061902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Changelog podcast last month with the author that I enjoyed listening to: https://changelog.com/podcast/561"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 38138642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138642", "by": "tlavoie", "time": 1699078906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probably the Changelog podcast episode mentioned by another poster. Not only did it cover the story of the software, but also the various things that make it cool. (e.g. lightweight, can still copy/paste text from it, scalable with fonts just like videos aren't and so on.) https://changelog.com/podcast/561"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 38145315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145315", "by": "dossss", "time": 1699133321, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Heya, I'm wondering where I can find some really good communities with chat and content like Lenny's podcast but for B2C founders, specificly in the iphone app space. Recommendations for people to follow in that industry would also be welcome! Thanks"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38146559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38146559", "by": "ruthie_cohen", "time": 1699142587, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s a recent Darknet Diaries episode about Predator for anyone interested: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296..."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 38149989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149989", "by": "Hedepig", "time": 1699181474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If it's some consolation, I've just listened to a recent podcast on This Week in Virology (as recommended by another comment on this post. And they are talking about research that uses the CMV virus which has certain properties that make it a very effective and crucially long lasting vector that can potentially protect us against all manner of infections and cancers."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 38158609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158609", "by": "js2", "time": 1699242255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Diane Van Deren is an ultra runner who had part of her brain removed to treat her seizures. It also affected her ability to perceive time and to read maps. She originally started running to self-treat her seizures, but eventually running no longer staved them off. Oddly, not being able to perceive time may have benefitted her running: > Dr. Gerber credits her endurance in part to her brain limitations. He says runners who can better track time and map where they are can be distracted by the details. But Van Deren has a special facility for what he calls \u201cflow\u201d that lets her transcend the angui"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38176015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38176015", "by": "pipes", "time": 1699360029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not drinking. I only drank at weekends. But pretty much every weekend for 25 + years, this is totally normal from where I'm from. I read the book alcohol explained https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alcohol-Explained-William-Porter-eb... Listened to the Huberman podcast about alcohol. And realised I don't want to drink anymore. It's really strange, I used to struggle having a single weekend with no booze. Now I actively just don't want to. I look around me and see people boozing and I think it's insane. I'm 8 weeks in. I doubt I'll drink again. I really regret not realising much earlier in life how shit"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 38180190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180190", "by": "datadrivenangel", "time": 1699379357, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "151230264", "hn_item": 38180323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180323", "by": "mvdtnz", "time": 1699379804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That price point seems about right to me. I just signed up to The Economist Podcasts+ for a similar price because I listen to virtually every piece of content they produce. Sure it's just one publication but it's an excellent one in my opinion. If these folks think they can bring a similar level of value, go for it. I personally wouldn't pay a single solitary cent for people to write about video games but that's just my personal preference."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 38181475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38181475", "by": "lnwlebjel", "time": 1699384762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a huge fan of Peter Attia's the Drive podcast which I learned about on HN. Scan the archive for a topic of interest, they are almost all good. He's an MD, former surgeon, with a background in math and an appropriately skeptical point of view when in comes to health news. He isn't one, but he would be a very good scientist as he understands very well the methods of science."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 38184900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38184900", "by": "ortusdux", "time": 1699401528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested, I highly recommend The Lawfare podcast episodes wherein \"Members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board discuss their recent report on FISA Sec. 702.\" https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-par... Direct link to the PCLOB report: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23993279/2023-pclob-7..."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 38211768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38211768", "by": "iso8859-1", "time": 1699566133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Similar points were raised on the Decouple podcast by James Krellenstein . https://www.decouplemedia.org/podcast/episode/3195740d/small..."}, {"show": "1159251584", "hn_item": 38218390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38218390", "by": "closewith", "time": 1699622106, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Brady Heywood podcast had a great series on Apollo 13 that covered parts of the earlier missions. Unfortunately they \"remastered\" and rereleased it with the same awful pacing and music, but the originals are still available in the feed."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38220056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38220056", "by": "gpm", "time": 1699630250, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huge disclaimer that I'm not an expert on this, but: Googling suggests that you're trading off electricity used to cool the data center with electricity used to blow the air over the electronics, and that ~25C is the temperature where the sum of those is minimized: https://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/whitepap... On Oxide and Friends (a podcast by a startup building servers) they claims their choice to use larger quieter fans reduces the power consumption of the fans from ~20-30% of the power a rack consumes to ~2%. Which might suggest that that ~25C number is actually a result "}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 38220823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38220823", "by": "james_david", "time": 1699633649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, how I miss the Futility Closet podcast! Truly the best corner of the web."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 38221124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221124", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1699634984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Futility Closet did a brilliant podcast 'featuring \u201cforgotten stories from the pages of history\u201d \u2014 surprising and curious tales from the past.'. I think it stopped because of health issues. But it is well worth checking out: https://www.futilitycloset.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 38221627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221627", "by": "Verdex", "time": 1699637039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was also a guest on the \"On the metal\" podcast over at Oxide: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/jonathan-blow"}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 38233154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233154", "by": "iteygib", "time": 1699728047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have been using it for about 3 years, perhaps at a max of twice per week. I started using it for the same reason as you, I had issues staying awake. I only drink coffee when absolutely needed as I get very irritable withdrawals when off it. I gave the gum a try after hearing about the use of it from a Hamilton Morris podcast. I personally have not felt any lingering affects outside of some drowsiness after wards. It seems like an easy enough habit to drop as well, as I have done so for a few months at a time for surgery recoveries. I am in agreement with the study linked in this article that"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38238216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238216", "by": "skeptrune", "time": 1699775177, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Everything used to create this demo is open source. Self-host your own for a specific use case with ease."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 38239251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239251", "by": "CM30", "time": 1699787799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not at the moment, as unfortunate as that may be. Same with Mastodon, BlueSky, Cohost, etc. And the main reason for that is very simple; if there's an interesting new story, discussion, discovery, etc, it's still almost certainly going to be found on Twitter/X first. Or maybe Reddit, Discord, YouTube, etc. I've never seen such stories start out on Threads or other Twitter replacements. I've never learnt about a TV show, film, video game, web project, podcast, site, etc for the first time from a Threads post. The majority of official communications from government agencies and media outlets sti"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38239289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239289", "by": "redhale", "time": 1699788254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the \"If Books Could Kill\" podcast episode that covers this book."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38247469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38247469", "by": "bemmu", "time": 1699855500, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 38248444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38248444", "by": "truckerbill", "time": 1699867201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The supply and demand curve doesn't always cross with imperfect information. A lot of free market presuppositions fail actually. This is accepted by many contemporary economists. Samuel Bowles on Mindscape podcast was an interesting high level discussion"}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 38252498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252498", "by": "krisoft", "time": 1699895524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in the topic I recommend the Arms Control Wonk podcast for on-going non-proliferation news. Or if you are interested in more historical stuff The Reason We're All Still Here or The Deal podcast from the same folks."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 38253388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253388", "by": "rfreytag", "time": 1699899975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 'Writing Excuses' is also doing a series to help people complete a novel in a month: https://writingexcuses.com/ See the Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 12th episodes so far."}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 38253416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253416", "by": "rfreytag", "time": 1699900090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 'Writing Excuses' is also doing a series to help people complete a novel in a month: https://writingexcuses.com/ See the Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 12th episodes so far."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38259075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38259075", "by": "tomschlick", "time": 1699935313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon mentioned on the JRE podcast the other day that the clearance for FAA, F&W, Coast Guard, etc is so extensive that they even had to try and calculate the likelihood of hitting a shark with debris which is so astronomically small of a chance that its pointless and ridiculous. So yeah, I think they have the human factor of the safety planning covered."}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 38270027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38270027", "by": "AlexErrant", "time": 1699997124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Feldman was on Peter Attia's podcast [0] and I was not impressed. ApoB (the protein in LDL) seems causal in the process of ASCVD. (In particular, it seems necessary, but not sufficient.) 0: https://peterattiamd.com/davefeldman/ I wonder if OP could continue keto, but go on a statin/pcsk9 inhibitor/bempedoic acid/ezetimibe. Of course, these are prescriptions, so he'll need to find a willing doctor. And have money to shell out."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 38280861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38280861", "by": "alexashka", "time": 1700074908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author may be surprised to find out what happens outside of Silicon Valley. The techies didn't invent the ways of the world. They merely joined the existing power circles because tech turns out to be a pretty powerful lever. That's all that's happened. If you think techies came up with uniquely 'evil' masterplans that weren't commonplace at the time of their rise to prominence - you're wrong. Have one listen to that delightful All-In podcast if you want a glimpse into how unoriginal and devoid of insight billionaires who think they have insight are. Imagine what the rest are like. Techies "}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38289083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38289083", "by": "dorfsmay", "time": 1700140202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Huberman's podcast, cold exposure after a workout is not optimum for the muscle as it reduces the exercise induced inflammation. Hot exposure increase that inflammation which increase the exercise benefit."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38298513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298513", "by": "bronco21016", "time": 1700187579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Friedman podcast with Elon where they discuss that war is an inevitability of the human condition. The idea of world peace may not be a worthwhile goal as what it is to be human is to have suffering, to some degree. As I navigate dating, I've found the perfectly \"compliant\" or even \"subservient\" relationships are just as shallow as the ones fueled by lust. Sadly, when relationships are as replaceable as water, there's not much thirst for anything real, including the ups and downs. I guess what I'm musing is that I feel bad for the people stuck in the empty loops of \"perfect\" satisfaction a"}, {"show": "1381008946", "hn_item": 38299538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38299538", "by": "troymc", "time": 1700194885, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Kevin Scott (the CTO of Microsoft) interviewed her in an episode of his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/simone-giertz-inventor..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38299887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38299887", "by": "raajg", "time": 1700198329, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently listened to her on Lex Fridman's podcast - would highly recommend. Made me want to dig out the raspberry pi's and esp32 boards from my closet and build something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgIo36F6Fsg"}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 38302927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38302927", "by": "TomaszZielinski", "time": 1700226328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few years ago I started my own battle with social anxiety, which I'd had for my whole life. At that time I couldn't really name the problem and I didn't know how to approach it, so I started searching for podcasts--self-help, psychology, you name it. I found a podcast named \"Feeling Good\", co-hosted by dr. David Burns, author of a book with the same title. And without much exaggeration, it changed my emotional life (or at the very least: it started/kicked off the process of change). Just in case it might help someone, I quickly search for \"shame attacking exercises\" (technical name for makin"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 38309718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309718", "by": "ldjkfkdsjnv", "time": 1700253290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "WOW! Clearly some funny business going on at OpenAI, as people have speculated. I always assumed Sam Altman was too smart to be in a situation like this. I have heard grumblings about suspicious corporate structuring, behind the scenes profit taking, etc. All speculation though. The All In podcast had some words about this a few months ago, though they spoke in generalities."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38313646, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38313646", "by": "theptip", "time": 1700270763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I understand why your ideals are compatible with open source models, but I think you\u2019re mistaken here. There is a perfectly sound idealistic argument for not publishing weights, and indeed most in the x-risk community take this position. The basic idea is that AI is the opposite of software; if you publish a model with scary capabilities you can\u2019t undo that action. Whereas with FOSS software, more eyes mean more bugs found and then everyone upgrades to a more secure version. If OpenAI publishes GPT-5 weights, and later it turns out that a certain prompt structure unlocks capability gains to mi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38316767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316767", "by": "leobg", "time": 1700294628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This was about stopping a runaway train before it flew off a cliff with all of us on board. Believe me, the board and I gave him tons of chances to self-correct. But his ego was out of control. > Don't let the media hype fool you. Sam wasn't some genius visionary. He was a glory-hungry narcissist cutting every corner in some deluded quest to be the next Musk. That does align with Ilya\u2019s tweet about ego being in the way of great achievements. And it does align with Sam\u2019s statements on Lex\u2019s podcast about his disagreements with Musk. He compared himself to Elon\u2019s SpaceX being bullied by Elon\u2019s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38316821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316821", "by": "painted-now", "time": 1700295107, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon Musk was talking about his view on OpenAI and especially the role of Ilya just 8 days ago on Lex Friedman Podcast. Listening to it again now, it feels like he might have know what is going on: https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5100 Edit: Especially this part: \"It was created as a non-profit open source and now it is a closed-source for maximum profit... Which I think is not good carma... ...\" https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8?si=WnCdW45ccDOb3jgb&t=5255"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38318059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38318059", "by": "throwaway290", "time": 1700305475, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For more related, see the Lazarus Group (also discussed in an episode of Darknet Diaries featuring the guy who wrote the book about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296... )"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 38319147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38319147", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1700313133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, an interesting point was brought up by David Sacks on the All In Podcast. While technically Altman has (reportedly) no shares in OpenAI he has significant shares/control in the weird entity the profits go. So technically he has kind of a Peter Theil 401k type loophole that allows him to amass control of a potentially massive amount of money while on paper it technically isnt his."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38328032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38328032", "by": "salad-tycoon", "time": 1700361821, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been reading up on the insight offered up on this site. Seems like a lot of these board members have deep ties around various organizations, governmental bodies, etc. and that seems entirely normal and probable. However, prior to chatgpt and dalle we, the public , had only been allowed brief glimpses into the current state of AI (eg Look this robot can sound like a human and book a reservation for you at the restaurant -Google ; look this robot can help you consume media better -many). As a member of the public it went from \u201coh cool Star Trek idea, maybe we\u2019ll see it one day with flying cars\u201d "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38328119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38328119", "by": "salad-tycoon", "time": 1700362382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been reading up on the insight offered up on this site. Seems like a lot of these board members have deep ties around various organizations, governmental bodies, etc. and that seems entirely normal and probable. However, prior to chatgpt and dalle we, the public , had only been allowed brief glimpses into the current state of AI (eg Look this robot can sound like a human and book a reservation for you at the restaurant -Google ; look this robot can help you consume media better -many). As a member of the public it went from \u201coh cool Star Trek idea, maybe we\u2019ll see it one day with flying cars\u201d "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38333141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333141", "by": "zzzceo", "time": 1700405512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was not at all surprised re: Altman's ouster, and OpenAI should be both firm and unapolegetic in keeping him out. What took them so long!? I remember when I dumped him myself, after watching Altman's snore-inducing interview on the ever-engaging Lex Fridman podcast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Guz73e6fw&pp=ygUSbGV4IGZyaWR... Lex's questions were the only inciteful part; Altman's responses, if you could call them that, were uninteresting to the extreme. This is the billionaire CEO of the hottest tech company around? WTF? Now I can see why Hacker News never changed, still has 1999 interfac"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38336919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38336919", "by": "theptip", "time": 1700422687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree with this take. Sam previously stated (eg on Lex\u2019s podcast) that a slow takeoff soon was his goal, to give society maximum time to adjust and to prevent an unexpected fast takeoff from capability overhang. I bought his take when he said it. Going off and trying to accelerate hardware capabilities (especially with an outside company that presumably sells these processors on the open market) seems indefensible in this framework unless you have already solved alignment, which they clearly have not."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38340003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38340003", "by": "bakuninsbart", "time": 1700437990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For a very long time I thought Eliezer was one of the least likeable people on the internet, which should be a pretty high mountain to climb. But watching him on the Lex Friedman podcast was really interesting, and putting a face to the writing helped quite a bit in humanizing him. He's obviously neuro-divergent, and obviously very flawed in a number of personality traits, but he's quite intelligent and completely obsessed for more than a decade on a specific topic. I wouldn't just outright dismiss that."}, {"show": "1484511465", "hn_item": 38341586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38341586", "by": "next_xibalba", "time": 1700448293, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Tim Harris just did an episode on this as part of his Cautionary Tales podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cautionary-tales-with-... Coincidence?"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 38341586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38341586", "by": "next_xibalba", "time": 1700448293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Harris just did an episode on this as part of his Cautionary Tales podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cautionary-tales-with-... Coincidence?"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 38342159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38342159", "by": "BenFranklin100", "time": 1700453539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible had a good podcast on Sears Homes: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38342546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38342546", "by": "endorphine", "time": 1700457045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only got to know Altman from the Lex Fridman podcast, but he never striked me as particularly ethical or insightful. For a while I felt more hopeful about OpenAI being truly open and benefiting everyone (perhaps I was naive). I hope he doesn't end up being the CEO again."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38342730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38342730", "by": "francisduvivier", "time": 1700458072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed, on the Lex Fridman podcast, Musk said it was a very tough recruiting battle for Ilya. Now it looks like they have a shot at getting him back."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 38343107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38343107", "by": "hsrada", "time": 1700460181, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Death. The default consequence of AGI's arrival is doom. Aligning a super intelligence with our desires is a problem that no one has solved yet. \"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.\" ---- Listen to Dwarkesh Podcast with Eliezer or Carl Shulman to know more about this."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38343342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38343342", "by": "jbgt", "time": 1700461485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discovered Joscha Bach on a Lex Friedman podcast earlier this year, and found him a clear and coherent philosopher. I wanted to share this latest interview which discusses among other topics the AI doomerism narrative."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 38344301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344301", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1700467487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not quite, I did a search inspired by Tim Harford\u2019s Cautionary Tales podcast, Laser vs Parchment: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-laser-versus... Which contrasted this with the Windrush scandal where the Home Office destroyed the legal documents of people welcomed from the Caribbean in the Sixties, and in their absence started to deport them. Update: that is an excellent video, setting the context of the problem and walking through the fix. I doubt I would have found it."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 38362498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38362498", "by": "TotalCrackpot", "time": 1700568154, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1643307527", "hn_item": 38364650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364650", "by": "anonymouse008", "time": 1700579438, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38374867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374867", "by": "jcims", "time": 1700628751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lina Khan is the chair of the FTC and was just on Hard Fork podcast. Pretty interesting. I heard the episode this past weekend and today it occurred to me that the sheer incompetence demonstrated by OpenAI is actually something they would likely see as a threat."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38382975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38382975", "by": "hackandthink", "time": 1700677316, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38389220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38389220", "by": "Jugglerofworlds", "time": 1700713145, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I follow the UFO community, that stuff is still going on. The military man, David Grusch was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast where he talked about steps moving forward. The next big thing coming down the pipeline is ensuring that \"The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023\" proposed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer passes the house. Yes this is the real name of the act, and has already passed through the Senate as part of the NDAA. The opposition in the House is coming from members from districts with entrenched military/military contracting interests."}, {"show": "1204521130", "hn_item": 38390647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38390647", "by": "gardenhedge", "time": 1700727775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Perfect timing! I'm going through Andrew Ng's course, Machine Learning Guide podcast and I have an hour free this morning to watch this :)"}, {"show": "1874648722", "hn_item": 38395914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38395914", "by": "fredgrott", "time": 1700764450, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Note what has not really got attention yet, except in a Jason Calacanis podcast. Several VC firms in one specific US state were passing around instructions on how to do pump and dump schemes on these exchanges...the exchange mention was FTX. This is the tip of what is coming as far as US govt investigations and court cases. Investor wise what are the compliant safe exchanges? Anyone? Exactly, no one has any idea as of yet and that should scare all of us who want to use crypto."}, {"show": "724226804", "hn_item": 38410991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410991", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1700883780, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If your goal is to provide access to audiobooks and similar text, I'd strongly suggest not using a smartphone or tablet. Smooth flat glass without tactile feedback, advertising-focused producer intent, and frequently-changing UI/UX are all the antithesis of high usability for the visually-disabled and elderly. Android is not particularly good for the visually or otherwise disabled, in part because there's simply so much variance amongst devices and vendors. I'm not sure that iOS is particularly better but it is at least far more consistent . I'd strongly suggest looking into physical players. "}, {"show": "1078098622", "hn_item": 38410991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410991", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1700883780, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If your goal is to provide access to audiobooks and similar text, I'd strongly suggest not using a smartphone or tablet. Smooth flat glass without tactile feedback, advertising-focused producer intent, and frequently-changing UI/UX are all the antithesis of high usability for the visually-disabled and elderly. Android is not particularly good for the visually or otherwise disabled, in part because there's simply so much variance amongst devices and vendors. I'm not sure that iOS is particularly better but it is at least far more consistent . I'd strongly suggest looking into physical players. "}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 38420430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420430", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1700992159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As per ArrayCast podcast, financial institutions. Although not necessarily APL specifically, rather languages from its linage. https://www.arraycast.com/"}, {"show": "1529608643", "hn_item": 38421659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421659", "by": "mikefbattle", "time": 1701007440, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 38428611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38428611", "by": "daemonologist", "time": 1701063965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Construction labor productivity in the US has been _decreasing_ since the 60s (in contrast to pretty much every other sector)[0]; it's crazy and the subject of much conversation. Freakonomics Radio recently did an episode on the subject: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-it-so-hard-and-expen... . [0] - https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/the-strang..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38450831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38450831", "by": "captainkrtek", "time": 1701203381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent interview of Sam Altman (Hard Fork podcast) he mentioned that due to the load they have been trying to make optimizations, disable certain features, etc. so it\u2019s not outside the realm of possibility that some tweak caused this."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 38451381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451381", "by": "loganfrederick", "time": 1701205928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A legend of the business and investing world. Acquired podcast got to do one of (possible the) last interviews with him a month ago for anyone looking for recent content from him: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/charlie-munger Also Stripe Press is releasing just next week a book (technically re-release of an older book) on his collected thoughts: https://press.stripe.com/poor-charlies-almanack"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 38451631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451631", "by": "hintymad", "time": 1701207353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He did an interview with the Acquired Podcast a few weeks ago. Sharp as a whip. I wish I could be like him when I get old."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 38460823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460823", "by": "txprog", "time": 1701272618, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi Hacker News community! I wanted to share a project I've been working on, \"Paper Brief.\" It's a podcast that uses OpenAI's APIs to turn complex AI research papers into engaging, easy-to-listen episodes. The idea was to make high-level AI research accessible to a broader audience, including those who prefer audio content over traditional reading. Each episode is build using OpenAI's RAG for content generation and advanced Text-to-Speech technology for narration. The papers are sourced from a well-curated list on Huggingface, covering a wide range of AI topics. I'm looking forward to the Hacke"}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 38464796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464796", "by": "iancmceachern", "time": 1701289594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode of The Verge's podcast titled \"Land of the Giants: \"The Tesla Shock Wave\" uncovered how Tesla's work culture led to many problems for the employees like extremely long hours, unsafe working conditions, harassment, scandals, fines, lawsuits, and even the slightest of mistake could lead to termination.\" Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livemint.com/companies/news..."}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 38464796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464796", "by": "iancmceachern", "time": 1701289594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode of The Verge's podcast titled \"Land of the Giants: \"The Tesla Shock Wave\" uncovered how Tesla's work culture led to many problems for the employees like extremely long hours, unsafe working conditions, harassment, scandals, fines, lawsuits, and even the slightest of mistake could lead to termination.\" Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livemint.com/companies/news..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38468214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468214", "by": "jorisboris", "time": 1701308960, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Somewhere around a decade ago there was a lot media hype around their digital government. How's that project going now? Reason I ask: was listening Balaji on Lex Fridman podcast. My take-away is that governments who manage to digitize their bureaucracies will win. Hence Estonia came to mind."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 38468526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38468526", "by": "breput", "time": 1701310777, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do yourself a favor and listen to at least one of the six part series that Behind The Bastards podcast[0] did on Kissinger. It will give you a background, with sources, on the \"controversial\" statesman that you'll read eulogies about over the next few days. [0] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-one-kissinger [1] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-two-kissinger [2] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-three-kissing... [3] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-four-kissinge... [4] https://omny.fm/shows/behind-the-bastards/part-five-kissinge... [5] http"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 38469951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38469951", "by": "seanhunter", "time": 1701321463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're expecting a podcast titled \"Behind the Bastards\" to be an objective source?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 38471839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471839", "by": "latexr", "time": 1701339821, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This idea that \u201cthe HN crowd\u201d is an amorphous blob needs to die. Some people use the expression to mean \u201cpeople like me\u201d, others to mean \u201cpeople with characteristic I don\u2019t like\u201d. The people who frequent HN are more diverse than the people who use that phrase think. Stern is known to many technologists who follow the Apple world, as she has gotten exclusive interviews with the higher-ups like Craig Federighi. Those have been referenced and praised by well-know commentators (Accidental Tech Podcast; Daring Fireball). I\u2019ll say it again: the fact that you do not know her does not make her a rando"}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 38472527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38472527", "by": "makeitdouble", "time": 1701346276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I never heard of the Age of Napoleon podcast, seems to be a series by a Texas resident revisiting Napoleon's history after getting fascinated by the subject. There's a ton of distance between the author and the subject, it's about something they deeply enjoy and decided to dedicate more than a hundred episode to, and I'm not sure how much being Marxists matters here, when Marx started becoming famous after Napoleon died. That's a lot different from discussing a politician of your own country who's still alive and untried at the time you do your podcast series."}, {"show": "528458508", "hn_item": 38482546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482546", "by": "PlunderBunny", "time": 1701399770, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I heard mention on a podcast recently [0] that if you hold down the button in the iPhone camera app it will capture a set of photos and then mark the one that it thinks is the 'best' (based on, for example, the photo where everyone has their eyes open). Not the same as what happened here of course. (I keep forgetting to try this, not least because I always try to get the people out of my photos!) [0] This one, I think: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-talk-show-with-joh..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38496077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38496077", "by": "renegade-otter", "time": 1701493670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Search Engine podcast has a great recent episode on this. Pharmaceutical Speed was super abused back in the day, and this was the source of drug categorization under Nixon. Schedule 1 drug, etc. This led to a dramatic drop in drug use. Big Pharma, in the quest to restoe its profits, pivoted to children. Child fidgety? Can't pay attention? ADDERALL! The episode is based on the author's first-person experience. I won't spoil the big reveal."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 38514229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514229", "by": "yawaramin", "time": 1701670971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone pointed out that this article seems like an AI-generated (badly) summary of the Jane Street Signals & Threads podcast episode. It would be better to listen to or read the transcript of the podcast itself rather than this editorialized version: https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38514821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514821", "by": "hackernewds", "time": 1701677212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify is not merely surviving. They have numerous monopolistic exclusive contracts and paid $200M for Joe Rogan's podcast. Be the judge on whether that's worth 1500 employees keeping their job"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38514833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514833", "by": "danwee", "time": 1701677326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had to google him > Stand up comic, mixed martial arts fanatic, psychedelic adventurer, host of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Why do we keep feeding these kind of people? Ah yeah, because of money."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38517184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517184", "by": "andsoitis", "time": 1701697998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience has continued to be at the top of Spotify's podcast charts in 2023. It has the biggest weekly audience in the US (Edison Research) and is estimated to bring in 11 million listeners per episode. It is also the top podcast worldwide on Spotify. Second place goes to Crime Junkie, which has half the listener numbers. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/03/top-pod..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38517202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517202", "by": "andsoitis", "time": 1701698105, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I don't get why people listen to him... People have different tastes. That's OK. The Joe Rogan Experience has continued to be at the top of Spotify's podcast charts, bringing in 11m listeners an episode. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/03/top-pod..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38517312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38517312", "by": "andsoitis", "time": 1701698600, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Joe Rogan Experience is at the top of Spotify\u2019s U.S. podcast charts, and had the biggest weekly audience in the U.S. so far this year, and is widely estimated to bring in 11 million listeners per episode. His show is the top podcast worldwide on Spotify each of the last three years \u2014 nearly double the second-place podcast, true crime series Crime Junkie, which has an estimated 5.9 million listeners per episode. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/03/top-pod..."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 38519020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519020", "by": "dundarious", "time": 1701706233, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the last few months, several podcasts that were only available on Spotify, have become available via traditional podcast means. For example, Heavyweight. Others did so earlier, though for specific reasons (Science Vs had a spat with Rogan over \"dis/misinformation\", where I largely agree with them factually, but disagree with them on the use of those terms, etc.). I think it's fair to say there's a reasonable indication that Spotify exclusivity has been a bad bet for a decent amount of their podcast portfolio. Maybe it works still for Rogan-sized podcasts, but even that's unknown. I wouldn't"}, {"show": "1483654175", "hn_item": 38520663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38520663", "by": "borg16", "time": 1701713094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Title reminded me of this episode of \"The Wild\" podcast[1] > This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-covered mountains. I met a guy named Dan Olsen, who records killer whale calls using an underwater hydrophone. [1] https://www.kuow.org/stories/eavesdropping-on-orcas-love-gri..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 38521252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38521252", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1701715519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also a podcast for Fall of Civilizations if audio works better for you"}, {"show": "1247222547", "hn_item": 38527253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527253", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1701752032, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On the topic of solo game devs... if this sounds like your jam (and modern mobile games isn't your jam) then consider the console homebrew scene as an outlet. All the \"retro\" platforms still have a pulse and several are thriving enough to have competitions and forums and podcasts. 8-bit NES and 16-bit Genesis (Mega Drive) both have a supportive community and one or two publishers who can take your game from ROM.BIN to physical cart and/or digital purchase. Hardware limitations naturally demand fewer man-hours to build out a \"complete\" game. You won't make a fortune. Or a dime. But then neither"}, {"show": "1592405358", "hn_item": 38527253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527253", "by": "emptybits", "time": 1701752032, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On the topic of solo game devs... if this sounds like your jam (and modern mobile games isn't your jam) then consider the console homebrew scene as an outlet. All the \"retro\" platforms still have a pulse and several are thriving enough to have competitions and forums and podcasts. 8-bit NES and 16-bit Genesis (Mega Drive) both have a supportive community and one or two publishers who can take your game from ROM.BIN to physical cart and/or digital purchase. Hardware limitations naturally demand fewer man-hours to build out a \"complete\" game. You won't make a fortune. Or a dime. But then neither"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38529900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38529900", "by": "bede", "time": 1701778617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I also lost faith in certain scientists (and many more politicians) during the pandemic. But be wary of generalising about a such a large and interdisciplinary group of people. Voices amplified by the media (indeed like Robert Malone on Rogan's podcast) often grossly misrepresent scientific consensus."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38537475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537475", "by": "mbowcut2", "time": 1701813330, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I just don\u2019t understand how Lex has been able to build such a successful podcast. As far as his credentials (which are frequently criticized), at best he\u2019s a fizzled MIT post doc. Why are all these big name people willing to go on his podcast?"}, {"show": "1553736450", "hn_item": 38537638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537638", "by": "outdig", "time": 1701814236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "atticora has a good answer. In addition, he created his podcast in 2018, and a youtube channel in 2006. \"Fridman began his podcast in 2018. It was originally titled The Artificial Intelligence Podcast\" It just goes to show that with a little credentials, a little intelligence and consistent effort, after 17 years, goes a long way. Tell me a case where someone who has all 3, after 17 years didn't have something to show for it."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 38543889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543889", "by": "Kye", "time": 1701870891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are mostly available on podcast apps, but some come out faster on YouTube. Latent Space is among the least hype-y of ML/AI podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV Decoder is a good general tech podcast: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel Hard Fork is good for informed analysis of hot topics: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Same for Sharp Tech (occasional free episodes): https://sharptech.fm/ Techquickie is YouTube-only: https://www.youtube.com/@techquickie/videos It's very silly, but probably the shortest path to keeping up."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38543889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543889", "by": "Kye", "time": 1701870891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are mostly available on podcast apps, but some come out faster on YouTube. Latent Space is among the least hype-y of ML/AI podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@LatentSpaceTV Decoder is a good general tech podcast: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel Hard Fork is good for informed analysis of hot topics: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork Same for Sharp Tech (occasional free episodes): https://sharptech.fm/ Techquickie is YouTube-only: https://www.youtube.com/@techquickie/videos It's very silly, but probably the shortest path to keeping up."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38546506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38546506", "by": "santy-gegen", "time": 1701882163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kurzgesagt on Youtube is interesting. Lex Fridman's podcast is also great."}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 38549025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38549025", "by": "switchbak", "time": 1701894367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is an important set of concepts, but I must say the tone here really makes it hard to tune in. Within the first few paragraphs I've already heard how OOP is bad, not in-line with a high performing architecture, that design patterns were a mistake, etc - ok got it! I think this coming from a game developer makes sense, especially with the obsessive focus on performance. I really appreciate that point of view, especially when I have to optimize something that wasn't considering performance at all. One really does need to architect software with an eye to how it performs from the very beginn"}, {"show": "1461716128", "hn_item": 38557293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38557293", "by": "NoNotTheDuo", "time": 1701962322, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds, Dust of Dreams, and The Crippled God - aka Malazan Book of the Fallen - all by Steven Erikson. Talk about a renewed interest in reading. After getting through Gardens of the Moon, I realized that I didn't really know what was going on or why these characters were doing what they were doing. I found a readalong podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ten-very-big-books-a-m... ), which really helped me put into context the storylines throughout the seri"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 38559451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559451", "by": "iambateman", "time": 1701971539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This makes me miss the ReplyAll podcast. They were the best at tracking down obscurities like this and telling a fun story about them."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38559620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559620", "by": "ParacelsusOfEgg", "time": 1701972363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PJ Vogt has a new podcast called Search Engine that is worth a try."}, {"show": "1509307460", "hn_item": 38560039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560039", "by": "stickfigure", "time": 1701974424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sounds like you would enjoy this podcast, if you haven't listened already: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ A whole 8-part podcast series about the origin of the Scorpions song \"Wind of Change\". But really a vehicle for lots of interesting cold war history."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38560401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560401", "by": "zwieback", "time": 1701975925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money (best podcast of all times) did an episode on this a while back: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954459"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 38561174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38561174", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1701979771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sometimes NPR's Planet Money podcast does this but it's generally 10-15 minutes at a pop coverage of a specific theory or news item for general audience, they covered buffets recently in a different way https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1197954459/all-you-can-eat-bu..."}, {"show": "1442690446", "hn_item": 38561865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38561865", "by": "gxqoz", "time": 1701983478, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-4... It's not just a glut of \"bad games.\" There are a number of specific things big companies such as Atari did that made them more vulnerable to this crash than they otherwise would have been."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38561910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38561910", "by": "jess-desu", "time": 1701983752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've only gotten through two short books this year: Forget the Funnel by Claire Suellentrop and Georgiana Laudi - concise and insightful overview of modern marketing thought, moving beyond MQLs Pocket Guide to Product Launches by Mary Sheehan - a nice introduction to product launches from a product marketing perspective or a helpful refresher with lots of fresh insights. I've also been really enjoying the podcast \"If Books Could Kill,\" which questions and fact-checks many poplit \"airport books\" with a lighthearted vibe."}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 38562161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562161", "by": "artembugara", "time": 1701985161, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38566098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38566098", "by": "pipes", "time": 1702017944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The status game by Will Store, non fiction, heard about it on Sam Harris pod cast. Once I'd read it I started seeing status games everywhere. Alcohol explained, this changed my mind on booze. Basic theory is that it gives you a mild high followed by anxiety that is relieved by having another drink. This plus the Huberman podcast episode on alcohol have resulted in me going from always boozing on weekends and finding it a struggle not to, to not having drunk in nearly 3 months. Edit, honestly I've read other give you alcohol books and they don't even come close. This one just clicked. It has a "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38568000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38568000", "by": "drtournier", "time": 1702037173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just read two paragraphs and sounded like someone asked ChatGPT to write this thing as a Joe Rogan podcast."}, {"show": "1710609544", "hn_item": 38575872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38575872", "by": "dphuang2", "time": 1702076351, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 38578132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578132", "by": "AlchemistCamp", "time": 1702091388, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38578867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578867", "by": "schmichael", "time": 1702099292, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Oh my Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri are going to be smug. They did an excellent podcast on what a joke this whole thing is in October: Teaser: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-organized-retail-c... Subscribers only (worth it imho): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-organized-retail-c..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 38593589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38593589", "by": "zengid", "time": 1702232572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree here, and I think Icaza is just motivated to make something for himself, because as he explained in the talk, he loves Apple products and APIs. Swift cross-platform would be a great thing.. I see that The Browser Company is using it for their browser project [0]. It's got a good mix of speed and ergonomics, and Apple seems hell bent on using swift for everything, even at the kernel level (I can't look up sources atm but Sean Parent has said this on ADSP podcast, and you can see the various talks from C++ conferences about swift as a \"successor language\"). You're right though, Swift is "}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 38599017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38599017", "by": "mjlee", "time": 1702287198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an episode of the podcast Go Time hosting \"Adrian Hesketh, the creator of Templ, and Joe Davidson, one of the maintainers on the project.\" https://changelog.com/gotime/291"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 38601388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38601388", "by": "donatj", "time": 1702308083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was initially skeptical, because I feel like the built-in HTML templating is really powerful and good. Recently however, I listened to an episode of the \"Go Time\" podcast[1] featuring the author and he made some very compelling cases for it. The most compelling to me is that Templ templates are compile time safe, rather than crashing at run time like the built-in templates. 1. https://changelog.com/gotime/291"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 38601388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38601388", "by": "donatj", "time": 1702308083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was initially skeptical, because I feel like the built-in HTML templating is really powerful and good. Recently however, I listened to an episode of the \"Go Time\" podcast[1] featuring the author and he made some very compelling cases for it. The most compelling to me is that Templ templates are compile time safe, rather than crashing at run time like the built-in templates. 1. https://changelog.com/gotime/291"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 38605591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38605591", "by": "wazoox", "time": 1702329380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're taking it backward. You must not kill children. Everything else flows from this point. If your \"solution\" implies to kill children, it's not a solution, it's not defensible, it's not to be debated. Period. Else you're just as bad (or worse) as the other side. If you're not a fascistic fanatic (like the other side), then don't call for murder and crime (like the other side). Simple, uh? In war there can be no justice. Now consider what is more just: not killing perpetrators, or killing innocents? Obviously, not killing is preferable. As Socrates said 2400 years ago, it's worse to commit "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 38607260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38607260", "by": "afandian", "time": 1702339453, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You may find this episode of the Acquired Podcast interesting. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?..."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 38613388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613388", "by": "namtab00", "time": 1702394860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jane Street is all-in on OCaml. Their podcast titled \"Signals and Threads\" is quite interesting."}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 38613405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613405", "by": "amalinovic", "time": 1702394923, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1460030305", "hn_item": 38640332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640332", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1702554329, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think you misunderstood what I was saying, so I will try to be more clear: I was describing myself as an observer and participant in different waves of AI tech. I was not admitting to being wrong, rather, just someone who was lucky enough to be a small part of AI. What I don\u2019t know right now: if AI will help solve difficult societal/energy/medical/scientific problems and propel humanity into a better future (I bet on this outcome) or that the AI-doomers are correct (not my view). I try to absorb the AI dangers arguments and keep an open mind. Good resources: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 38640509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640509", "by": "chubot", "time": 1702555829, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My recommendation of Fall of Civilizations podcast from a few days ago [1] seems relevant here: https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations/videos Maybe it will be some solace that's excellent work done by one your countrymen :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38514078"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 38642218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642218", "by": "danesparza", "time": 1702566862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If I have learned anything from Dan Carlin (and the excellent \"Hardcore History\" podcast), it's that the steppe people ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians ) were no joke -- so it doesn't surprise me that the oldest fortress would be located there."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38644667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644667", "by": "ABS", "time": 1702576912, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1437527206", "hn_item": 38645024, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645024", "by": "coupercox", "time": 1702578289, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1710609544", "hn_item": 38650161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650161", "by": "tvvocold", "time": 1702605093, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38652129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652129", "by": "maciejgryka", "time": 1702628346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide and Friends just did an episode talking about this: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1643335"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38660980, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660980", "by": "nagonago", "time": 1702690807, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately the encrypted phone market is a total mess. The Darknet Diaries podcast has a good episode about this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/105/"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 38661515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661515", "by": "yreg", "time": 1702698061, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of Jonathan Mann[0], who makes a song every day. I remember him from the song about the iPhone 4 antenna[1], the one Steve played at a keynote. Recently I've stumbled upon his YouTube channel and was shocked that he still, to this day continues with one song a day. It's very impressive to me. What I find even more interesting, is that he's not some social media star, he usually gets 100-200 views on those videos. He does it for himself. BTW, he also made the outro for Accidental Tech Podcasts, which has some listeners on this forum :) [0] https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanMann [1] ht"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38663852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38663852", "by": "Emutopia", "time": 1702731334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I watched the entire Stephen Wolfram episode and that's the problem. In several verifiable ways Stephen Wolfram is a genius that has produced great work. (Wolfram Alpha + cellular atomota). However his communication style in his book 'A New Science' and the Lex Friedman podcast make it clear he optimises for a wow response from his audience more than concise and conclusive communication. For example his notion of 'computational irreducibility' is equivalent with the word 'reality' but sounds a lot fancier and revelatory without adding substance. When people claim to be authorities they must be"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38673782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673782", "by": "nunez", "time": 1702829435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri did a really interesting deep dive into this book and its author in their podcast \"If Books Could Kill\". Recommended listening. TL;DR: It is theorized that the author (Robert Greene) studied classics and wanted to write a book about influential leaders throughout history, but the only way to get such a book green-lit by a publisher was to wrap the history around a \"self-help for men\" context, which naturally gravitates towards building empires and making more money. This is why, like many self-help books, the advice is dubious, but unlike almost all self-help"}, {"show": "1201968027", "hn_item": 38694824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38694824", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1702989691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't agree more, The Ongoing History of New Music is required listening for anyone who likes music. This show (and podcast) are amazing."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 38696804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696804", "by": "SeanAnderson", "time": 1702999785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The hosts of the All In podcast have used it, but they're billionaires. They think highly of Ultra. Early on they just talk about the paper that's released, but then they drop that they've used Ultra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKUcpU5-Xk&t=3667s"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38708915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38708915", "by": "adamlgerber", "time": 1703081753, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might love Conversations with Tyler, the podcast hosted by Tyler Cowen. https://conversationswithtyler.com/ I used to enjoy Terry Gross and many other interviewers, but Tyler Cowen just blows past everyone by getting so much deeper so much faster than anyone else. You can tell that the interviewers are often relieved to finally get asked real questions. Some people are put off by his style but I find it exhilarating."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38711892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38711892", "by": "thisisit", "time": 1703096803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like this. Another idea maybe is to build a podcast search engine too. The descriptions are there but many times the content is built up to ensure a particular podcast running time. One thing I am struggling is adding videos. I was trying to see if I can add Huberman's podcast videos on YT and then find specific parts on say light therapy rather than going through the whole set of videos or even the video on sleep. I get the OTP but nothing works."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 38712388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38712388", "by": "chilmers", "time": 1703099497, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened the podcast Our Fake History's two parter on Machiavelli and can recommend it as a nuanced look at his life and work. Most particularly, the host points out the context that Machiavelli wasn't writing The Prince in a vacuum, it was likely intended to win him a job in the restored Medici government in Florence. And that the most brutal advice is specifically given as applying to rulers who have recently seized power through force of arms, not as applying to all rulers in all situations. https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-5/episode-94-how..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 38722741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722741", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1703176602, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ezra Klein's podcast has a good summary of the recent report: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show-1/what-we..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38736314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736314", "by": "barbazoo", "time": 1703265610, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interesting podcast episode about Musk's life I got recommended yesterday: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7dxqaAKNQhLzRzfOTJ60mI"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38738340, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38738340", "by": "akerl_", "time": 1703277185, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I would recommend https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-are-drug-dealers-p... , but the TL;DR is roughly \"drug addicts are highly motivated by their addiction to find the most powerful drugs they can, to get the most powerful high they can get. Fentanyl being so strong that people overdose is, in this regard, a selling point\""}, {"show": "1548524534", "hn_item": 38739495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38739495", "by": "JoeMayoBot", "time": 1703285319, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Newsletter - Contrarian Thinking https://contrarianthinking.co/ Podcast - Open Source Startup Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ossstartuppodcast"}, {"show": "1520085146", "hn_item": 38740558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740558", "by": "caitlinpsymed", "time": 1703292430, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 38753959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38753959", "by": "aragonite", "time": 1703430888, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 38753986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38753986", "by": "xtiansimon", "time": 1703431076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few random thoughts\u2026 Curious what they consider to be a \u201ccrime\u201d, such that a person comes into money, does something \u2018criminal\u2019, and is subsequently labeled a recidivist. If you lived your entire life with financial struggle versus having fallen on hard times, I think the former would have the imagination of the hustle, which would not be entirely subverted by \u2018winning the lottery\u2019. How does one rehabilitate their moral judgment? Education? Not by only winning the lottery. I\u2019m reminded of Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s reporting of the Starvation Experiment in his podcast Revisionist History. He discuss"}, {"show": "1527018692", "hn_item": 38758813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758813", "by": "RiskOfRuinPod", "time": 1703468729, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38759655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38759655", "by": "Levitz", "time": 1703477519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">This sounds entirely ripped off from a Joe Rogan podcast. Sounds like you are in the WASP bubble. You likely haven't experienced living in the hood, having to be treated like a Muslim in the US, having to deal with MAGA people bitching about your existence as a Mexican migrant and many other scenarios. Yet African Americans are WAY better off than those in Africa, and Muslims and Mexicans migrate to the US for better conditions.There is plenty to improve in the US, sure, but it's a better place than the majority of the world, why on the world do you think people go there in the first place? H"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 38760741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38760741", "by": "RobinL", "time": 1703491493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This one keeps coming back to me, from Jacob Mikanowski on Tyler Cowen's podcast about Eastern Europe: > It was a really different political economy in the \u201970s and \u201980s. You were not waiting to save up for an apartment; you were usually on a list that your parents put you on, and you were waiting to be granted the right to an apartment. You didn\u2019t have a hope of a car. And jobs were \u2014 not exactly a crapshoot, but you were going to be assigned something. You could actually start \u2014 if you went through college (even if you didn\u2019t), you might be in a position to have a place to live and an income"}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 38766333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766333", "by": "svec", "time": 1703540050, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you like his games, or that book, check out this great interview with Sid Meier as part of the Designer Notes podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/designer-notes-23-sid-... It's 4 episodes long (episodes 23-26). It's an overview of Sid's career, and so it's very similar to his autobiography, but I enjoyed listening to Sid talk about it in a different way than I enjoyed reading the book."}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 38766983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766983", "by": "ACS_Solver", "time": 1703544246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sid's a very interesting game designer, he's phenomenal at making fun games - in any genre - but his games are fundamentally simple ones. If you take Civ 2-4, or SMAC, the strategic depth largely comes from the likes of Brian Reynolds and Soren Johnson. The mechanics they've designed are more complex than what Sid does, but Sid started it with his genius intuition for what makes a game fun. For those so inclined, CivRev, the game that was basically \"civ on consoles\" is an actual Sid Meier and an interesting window into how he would have continued the series (the latest Designer Notes podcast g"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38771604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771604", "by": "justanotherjoe", "time": 1703597570, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm an atheist, but the book of genesis put it very well on this subject. There is one emotion that is unique to humans. It is not compassion, or sense of justice or fairness, aninals have those. It is shame. Which is unique to humans. On a related note, I heard some interesting theory by Robin Hanson on Lex Fridman's podcast. The guy said that the ego is our brain's attempt at forming a story around the brain's decisions (which are made pre-thought). It's crazy to consider that what we are is just our brain attempt at storytelling to justify ourselves."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38783891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783891", "by": "spunker540", "time": 1703696272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It's likely fair use. I agree. You can even listen to the NYT Hard Fork podcast (that I recommend btw https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/podcasts/hard-fork-execut... ) where they recently had Harvard copyright law professor Rebecca Tushnet on as a guest. They asked her about the issue of copyrighted training data. Her response was: \"\"\" Google, for example, with the book project, doesn\u2019t give you the full text and is very careful about not giving you the full text. And the court said that the snippet production, which helps people figure out what the book is about but doesn\u2019t substitute for t"}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 38784302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784302", "by": "lpolovets", "time": 1703698534, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Three episodes that I really enjoyed (from an engineer-turned-investor's POV): https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/palmer-luckey-inventin... (Palmer Luckey) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-conversation-with-ch... (Charlie Munger) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcWqzZ3I2cY (Jeff Bezos)"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 38784349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784349", "by": "benwoodruff", "time": 1703698782, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "SBF on Odd Lots describing yield farming [1]. For context, this was before the FTX meltdown or any allegations about Alameda using FTX customer funds. Was honestly stunning to hear someone unintentionally explaining their business as a ponzi scheme. [1] - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sam-bankman-fried-and-..."}, {"show": "1507423923", "hn_item": 38784413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784413", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1703699198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 on those two Hardcore History podcasts, they were really interesting. Joscha Bach is always an interesting guy, this was his latest appearance on Lex Fridman's podcast [0]. Edit: If we're including longform video essays, Down The Rabbit Hole made a 6 hour video on the history of Eve Online [1]. It's interesting to see how pure capitalist systems evolved and shaped the game. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qJsk1j2zE [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSeISYcoyI"}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 38784479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784479", "by": "freetonik", "time": 1703699553, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "- Scott Aaronson: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Math / Theories of Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scott-aaronson-the-gre... - Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI / Lex Fridman Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/386-marc-andreessen-fu... - Solo: The Crisis in Physics / Sean Carroll's Mindscape https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solo-the-crisis-in-phy..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 38784479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784479", "by": "freetonik", "time": 1703699553, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "- Scott Aaronson: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Math / Theories of Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scott-aaronson-the-gre... - Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI / Lex Fridman Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/386-marc-andreessen-fu... - Solo: The Crisis in Physics / Sean Carroll's Mindscape https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solo-the-crisis-in-phy..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 38784479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784479", "by": "freetonik", "time": 1703699553, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "- Scott Aaronson: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Math / Theories of Everything https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scott-aaronson-the-gre... - Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI / Lex Fridman Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/386-marc-andreessen-fu... - Solo: The Crisis in Physics / Sean Carroll's Mindscape https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solo-the-crisis-in-phy..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 38784758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784758", "by": "Simon_ORourke", "time": 1703700941, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most (almost all) of Dan Carlin's podcasts are nothing short of excellent. Twilight of the \u00c6sir Parts I and II are top quality. Apart from that I used to listen to Mike Duncan's Revolutions series, even though he finished up that project in 2022. Likewise the BBC produced an Apollo-era podcast called 13 Minute to the Moon, which was excellent, and technical enough to keep even a space nerd like me interested. Shout-out too to the Space Above Us, for technical excellence in all things Mercury to STS. Wild card was any of the Anomalous Podcast Network's output, which seems to have stopped around"}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 38784847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784847", "by": "pcthrowaway", "time": 1703701366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Who Owns Our Code\" parts 1 and 2, by the Go Time podcast - https://changelog.com/gotime/252 - https://changelog.com/gotime/263 Or \"Examining Capitalism's chokepoints\" with Cory Doctorow on the Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast/535 or \"Modernizing packages to ESM\" with Mark Eriksen - https://changelog.com/jsparty/290"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 38784847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784847", "by": "pcthrowaway", "time": 1703701366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Who Owns Our Code\" parts 1 and 2, by the Go Time podcast - https://changelog.com/gotime/252 - https://changelog.com/gotime/263 Or \"Examining Capitalism's chokepoints\" with Cory Doctorow on the Changelog - https://changelog.com/podcast/535 or \"Modernizing packages to ESM\" with Mark Eriksen - https://changelog.com/jsparty/290"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 38784915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784915", "by": "nmca", "time": 1703701718, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Lazarus Lake on Conversations with Tyler: https://open.spotify.com/episode/75PyLxu7sZa7GkZtOUI3lJ?si=E... (Lazarus Lake organizes ultramarathons. He's a legend. You don't need to be a runner to enjoy this) Amir Srinivasan on CWT too: https://open.spotify.com/episode/496WOLb5hZmrcH7vt1OqFq?si=6... (I recall the arguing being fun, but not many of the details) Carl Shulman on Dwarkesh: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ij1JOaafeXoqT0m6sXtBl?si=_... (Carl thinks seriously about how to reason about AI scale-up) Overall Dwarkesh seems like the most underrated podcast atm, with Conversations with Tyl"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 38784915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38784915", "by": "nmca", "time": 1703701718, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Lazarus Lake on Conversations with Tyler: https://open.spotify.com/episode/75PyLxu7sZa7GkZtOUI3lJ?si=E... (Lazarus Lake organizes ultramarathons. He's a legend. You don't need to be a runner to enjoy this) Amir Srinivasan on CWT too: https://open.spotify.com/episode/496WOLb5hZmrcH7vt1OqFq?si=6... (I recall the arguing being fun, but not many of the details) Carl Shulman on Dwarkesh: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ij1JOaafeXoqT0m6sXtBl?si=_... (Carl thinks seriously about how to reason about AI scale-up) Overall Dwarkesh seems like the most underrated podcast atm, with Conversations with Tyl"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38785202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785202", "by": "hellohihello135", "time": 1703703253, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "His episode on sleep is also excellent. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953..."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 38785403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785403", "by": "pwenzel", "time": 1703704338, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I enjoyed the Heather Radke episode of the \"You're Wrong About\" podcast. They discuss the book \"Butts: A Backstory\", which I'm wrapping up here on the holiday break. Insightful stuff. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-most-normal-girl-i..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 38785439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785439", "by": "ilikepi", "time": 1703704604, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab's \"The Interstitium\" https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 38785572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785572", "by": "cavisne", "time": 1703705339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Coast (OSM founder) on Minds behind Maps [1]. Erik Prince on Shawn Ryan show - the host is a bit cringe but Erik has very unique perspective. My dream podcast for 2024 would be Erik Prince w/ Dwarkesh (someone a bit smarter to push back and get more insight). [1] https://youtu.be/uB9NxbnE1i0?si=C8gU9tkmh37kStBd"}, {"show": "521594713", "hn_item": 38785578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785578", "by": "snerc", "time": 1703705379, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You Are Not So Smart #257 with Celeste Kidd covers her research on conceptual overlap. https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00072... It's psychology for STEM folks. podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1a5HmrGiV6K8q9HYlhjLnm Mindscape 229 with Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology is a banger too. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5F2xk9MicNS7mELYoe9rt5"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 38785578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38785578", "by": "snerc", "time": 1703705379, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You Are Not So Smart #257 with Celeste Kidd covers her research on conceptual overlap. https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00072... It's psychology for STEM folks. podcast link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1a5HmrGiV6K8q9HYlhjLnm Mindscape 229 with Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology is a banger too. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5F2xk9MicNS7mELYoe9rt5"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 38788255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788255", "by": "FergusArgyll", "time": 1703720502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Dwarkesh, his podcast is phenomenal. But every article/post of this kind immediately begs the question; What is AGI? I have yet to hear even a decent standard. It always seems like I'm reading Greek philosophers struggling with things they have almost no understanding of and just throwing out the wildest theories. Honestly, it raised my opinion of them seeing how hard it is to reason about things which we have no grasp of."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 38789097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38789097", "by": "trackofalljades", "time": 1703728654, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an amazing episode of Revisionist History about this. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/way-to-g..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38789245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38789245", "by": "kamikaz1k", "time": 1703729962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In an effort to share a Huberman podcast, I found a guy reacting (negatively) to it. And the critic was talking about something called \u201cActive Focus\u201d. I\u2019m going to leave this link [1] here for you to follow. Since I am just falling down this rabbit hole myself. But if you do go down this rabbit hole, feel free to share info in this thread\u2026I might also add my email in the bio. Anyways, good luck! [1] https://youtu.be/YtL9rL-u_7g?si=yatVs11qOt9U-iZq"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 38794274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38794274", "by": "aragonite", "time": 1703777036, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1207947873", "hn_item": 38810202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810202", "by": "kseifried", "time": 1703884090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We covered this back then on the #osspodcast: Episode 269 \u2013 Do not experiment on the Linux Kernel https://opensourcesecurity.io/2021/05/02/episode-269-do-not-... Josh and Kurt talk about the University of Minnesota experimenting on the Linux Kernel. There\u2019s a lot to unpack in this one, but the TL;DR is you probably don\u2019t want to experiment on the kernel."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 38812538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812538", "by": "bag_boy", "time": 1703905783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out the Lenny podcast and find a relevant episode"}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 38815487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815487", "by": "throw0101b", "time": 1703946353, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Haha yeah, the whole \"Galileo was mean\" is just insight porn nonsense. Evidence-free claim. The Our Fake History podcast had a two-part series on this: * https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Episode-163--What-Was-The... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-163-what-was-t... * https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Episode-164--What-Was-The... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-164-what-was-t..."}, {"show": "1514838010", "hn_item": 38815487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815487", "by": "throw0101b", "time": 1703946353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Haha yeah, the whole \"Galileo was mean\" is just insight porn nonsense. Evidence-free claim. The Our Fake History podcast had a two-part series on this: * https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Episode-163--What-Was-The... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-163-what-was-t... * https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Episode-164--What-Was-The... * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-164-what-was-t..."}, {"show": "1515827446", "hn_item": 38818347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38818347", "by": "petsormeat", "time": 1703965553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Conspirituality podcast episode \"Coaches Coaching Coaches\" discusses how the wholly unregulated \"life coaching\" trend operates very much like network marketing, and cons buyers with similar claims to freedom from wage work. What seems constant is how many people dislike being employees. https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/coaches-coaching-co..."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 38827665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38827665", "by": "chrisaycock", "time": 1704058045, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Then you might enjoy Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting: https://johnaugust.com/scriptnotes It's hosted by John August ( Big Fish , Corpse Bride ) and Craig Mazin ( Chernobyl , The Last of Us )."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38828389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828389", "by": "chatmasta", "time": 1704065219, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "----------- Space / Futurism ----------- - Isaac Arthur: https://www.youtube.com/@isaacarthurSFIA He releases weekly 40-minute episodes covering topics like far-future engineering, aliens, planetary science, and all sorts of insane questions most people would never think to ask let alone spend 40 minutes answering. I stumbled upon this channel in 2020 and am so glad I did. - John Michael Godier: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnMichaelGodier He produces similar content to Isaac Arthur but in shorter chunks, generally 20 minute episodes that are the ideal content for falling asleep (in a good way)."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 38832337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832337", "by": "renegade-otter", "time": 1704122328, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Procrastination is not a new thing. And ADHD is a pretty rare condition - just look at the diagnosis rate from country to country. The US has the highest one because doctors here are basically legal Speed drug dealers - for children. The author of the Search Engine pod just had a two-parter about his \"ADHD\": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whyd-i-take-speed-for-... (The history of regulating Speed in the US is actually fascinating). I could focus just fine all my life, then suddenly I couldn't. I've talked to other adults who are experiencing the same. And it's funny how people get super"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 38834268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38834268", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1704134940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cortex podcast: https://www.relay.fm/cortex It\u2026 isn't my thing. But CGP Grey has a nice voice and is like an excited puppy, so I find myself listening anyway?"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 38837630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38837630", "by": "a_bonobo", "time": 1704165037, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nine months ago HN user genmon posted the results of his experiments to classify the BBC In Our Time podcast using ChatGPT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603 It's the same principle. Give the podcast text to ChatGPT in chunks, ask it to classify using Dewey decimal system, pull out guests and mentioned books, and summarise the episode. It's funny that user nl posits that 'We are months away from being able to do this with images too' - we were indeed months away! End of September, to be precise https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 38841929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841929", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1704205728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to a Podcast about the book Eve, it sounds very interesting. One of those guest podcast shows People I Mostly Admire, being played on the Freakonomincs podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-gynecology-the-best-inno... This is the book by Cat Bohannon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eve-Female-Drove-Million-Evolution-..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 38843610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843610", "by": "aragonite", "time": 1704213711, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1602572955", "hn_item": 38846667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38846667", "by": "aragonite", "time": 1704227052, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38851158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851158", "by": "throwawaynyt", "time": 1704260717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It doesn\u2019t escape notice that the hit piece against Substack mentioned in both links in this comment thread came from the NYT, an organization that slanted news in favor of actual Nazis running up to the war [1] and has recently rehired a pro-Hitler reporter [2]. Having read many thousands of Substack articles, I\u2019ve seen recommended content from a wide swath of the political spectrum from many countries but never anything Nazi related. Given the history of Platformer, it's likely they are trying to stir up and monetize outrage. It\u2019s also worth pointing out that Casey is currently working for t"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 38851188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851188", "by": "edbaskerville", "time": 1704261075, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This interview with Fervo CEO Tim Latimer on the Volts podcast was really fascinating: https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally As a layperson I was certainly impressed by the notion that enhanced geothermal could get us the last x% of firm energy needed for a stable grid once solar+wind+batteries have gone as far as they can go. Another interesting tidbit is that you can actually use their system to store excess energy from, e.g., wind and solar."}, {"show": "1042631089", "hn_item": 38853959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853959", "by": "rraghur", "time": 1704289529, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Dan Snow's history hit podcast just started a series on him - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ispIHiXbKt6ocJJH4RqN6"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 38856566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856566", "by": "becausepc", "time": 1704301867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Social Radars podcast: https://pod.link/1677066062/episode/3ad4c8281658c6cac78f4353... Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/637e441f17ae0f45578bb..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 38859739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38859739", "by": "inanepenguin", "time": 1704315180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"If Books Could Kill\" does a great episode about \"Rich Dad, Poor Dad\" where they talk about the book in context of the time while still discussing the issues with it. https://pod.link/1651876897/episode/1a9316ba1134a0c2484e8fc6..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 38860579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860579", "by": "zengid", "time": 1704319954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ADSP podcast (named after Wirth's book) just had an episode on the history of Pascal https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/12/29/Episode-162.html"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38872067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38872067", "by": "pengaru", "time": 1704401436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This subject about CO being fit came up recently when Robert Lustig was on the Huberman podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28W4AmvMDE&t=7000s"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 38886505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886505", "by": "ntonozzi", "time": 1704497283, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This trial made no sense. Try stepping on your accelerator and brake at the same time and see what happens: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blame-game/id111938996... ."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 38903141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38903141", "by": "orangepinyata", "time": 1704648706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll admit I haven't read them that recently but from what I recall the Vital Question is slightly more readable than Oxygen. That said, all of his books are very 'thorough' in the sense that he's definitely posing them as trying to make an argument as opposed to just educational, which does definitely make them less readable than they could be. Less bedtime reading and more something to actually make time for I guess? I have seen him give talks in person before and they've been a lot clearer - maybe there's some on youtube? He's been on a few of the 'In Our Time' podcast episodes, so they mig"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 38913611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913611", "by": "mhuffman", "time": 1704728739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like podcasts you might check out the Array Cast podcast if you haven't. > https://www.arraycast.com/"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 38914736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38914736", "by": "kurinikku", "time": 1704732669, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 38916168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38916168", "by": "yinser", "time": 1704739230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For once Jason on the All In podcast had an interesting point that you could see bolt-on data sources to your ChatGPT experience where you opt-in to having NYT available to the ChatGPT retrieval step. There's no reason that a data provider shouldn't be paid for the information they create, and I think most of HN would agree with that. The problem is how do you know a model didn't bypass your walls to include your data in the model itself, or as part of retrieval."}, {"show": "1111739567", "hn_item": 38921070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38921070", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1704763825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can get an exact timestamp. I will show you how on desktop and then you can post it here. 1. Go to the link https://peterattiamd.com/lancearmstrong/ 2. At the bottom \"Watch Podcast on Youtube\" 3. Click \"More\" on the Description field 4. It will expand 5. Scroll down past the field to Chapters 6. Scroll past that to \"Explore the Podcast\" 7. You will see a section titled \"Transcript\" 8. Click \"Show Transcript\" 9. A dialog box will open on the right 10. Use Cmd-F on Mac or Ctrl-F on Windows/Linux to get your browser's Find in Page functionality 11. Type in \"proud\" 12. You'll find it quite qui"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 38929162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38929162", "by": "yreg", "time": 1704822214, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In shorter form, I recommend the 6th episode of the Fall of Civilizations podcast[0]. I've found the topic super interesting. Both the podcast and the book shared by parent argue against the previous Mulloy/Jared Diamond theory of ecological suicide by building more and more statues. [0] Easter Island - Where Giants Walked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j08gxUcBgc"}, {"show": "1618050230", "hn_item": 38931605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931605", "by": "LiquidPolymer", "time": 1704831976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"True Crime\" as a genre is littered with unscrupulous hosts. But not all of it is in the gutter. In fact, some of it produces a public good. I admit I am attracted to these stories and try to choose carefully. If I may - two recommendations: \"My Only Story\" - an adult man notices with horror that the man who secretly raped him as a school boy in South Africa is still working as a teacher. He quits his job and starts a podcast about how grooming works and how the school system is letting pupils down. All the while he is trying to expose this man for who he is without being sued - so he has to d"}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 38939762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939762", "by": "pbowyer", "time": 1704899675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And if you're not sure if you want to subscribe, Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast [1] provides a great roundup of their main stories in inimitable fashion. 1. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast"}, {"show": "135067274", "hn_item": 38947455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947455", "by": "dazzaji", "time": 1704946187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Evidently, there is now a legislative push for parliament to reverse these convictions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h48cft \u201cUK to bring in law to quash wrongful Post Office convictions\u201d According to the BBC Global News Podcast \u201cThe legal step followed public outrage after a TV\u201d"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 38949501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949501", "by": "blowfish721", "time": 1704962840, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He (Michael Easter) was actually on \u201dThe Drive\u201d with Peter Attia recently. https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/..."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 38949501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38949501", "by": "blowfish721", "time": 1704962840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He (Michael Easter) was actually on \u201dThe Drive\u201d with Peter Attia recently. https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/the-peter-attia-drive/..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 38953006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38953006", "by": "CalRobert", "time": 1704985129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a Behind the Bastards from last month on him as well. I am not endorsing it (I am only half an hour in) but https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 38955632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38955632", "by": "tallowen", "time": 1704994776, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I found this podcast with Jesse Jenkins to be a really helpful start to understand non fixed energy resources. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-sun-isnt-alwa... I thought that the most cost effective way to supply energy would require a certain amount of base load. It seems like this is a misunderstanding because of how much cheaper and more available these non fixed resources are than fixed resources. Energy this cheap gives us a huge incentive to change our energy use patterns to match power abundance rather than to take energy demand as a constant."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38957289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957289", "by": "smugglerFlynn", "time": 1705000518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a highly relevant and resent research on the state of play, nicely summarised on Huberman Lab Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyZIWeBpRw"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 38960884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960884", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1705014722, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 38963492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38963492", "by": "mac-attack", "time": 1705031740, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kudos to Casey Newton. Looking forward to his informal breakdown on Hard Fork podcast tomorrow."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38967300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38967300", "by": "beecurios", "time": 1705062937, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "My interest was piqued by a conversation on Joe Rogan's podcast featuring mycologist Paul Stamets and it was featured many years ago. (Sorry to find out late :D) Surprisingly, Stamets suggested that the development and refinement of Japan's train system were influenced by the patterns of slime mold. Upon hearing this, I was initially skeptical: Wait, how can this be true? Driven by curiosity, I embarked on a deeper investigation to verify the accuracy of this claim. This newsletter delves into the research of three scientists who conducted an experiment with slime mold, focusing on developing "}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 38969246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969246", "by": "math_dandy", "time": 1705073651, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Article mentions Sentry's shift from tracking to \"brand and awareness marketing\". Thanks to their recently acquired Syntax Podcast (recommended), I am now quite aware of their brand. Seems like a positive, creative approach to marketing. I wonder if there is a noticeable \"Syntax effect\" in their business metrics."}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 38970002, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38970002", "by": "supertron", "time": 1705076738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend The Guardian's podcast episodes covering this: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/jan/08/revisited... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audio/2024/jan/08/revisi... Also some Private Eye podcast episodes: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/95"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 38973979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38973979", "by": "willmadden", "time": 1705093189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sans the lore; look into interviews with Bob Lazar, both from the 80's and recently. His story hasn't changed in decades, and he has nothing to gain from it financially, at least that I can tell. Also, his wikipedia page has been edited into a hit piece against him, which makes the story even more interesting. He predicted the discovery of Moscovium 115 before it was synthesized in an unstable form by Russian scientists. He claimed (and claims) that a stable form of element 115 is the \"fuel\" in antimatter reactors. It's an intriguing story. There's a Joe Rogan podcast interviewing him."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 38976749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38976749", "by": "smdyc1", "time": 1705112622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This makes me think about the Roman Republic. Yes, it failed in the end, but the idea of having two Consuls is appealing to check each others ambition. As an aside, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has a multiparter called Death Throes of the Republic which is highly entertaining. Edit: can you imagine what it would be like though if the US had a dual presidential system and Trump and Obama were both in power at the same time? Somehow I think it would be more dysfunctional."}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 38982929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982929", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1705170510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \" I imagine that it takes a stupendously small amount of characters to do this. \" You're right, but it's not just codegolf; ideally the few characters are a clean high level way to express intent - and that is in tension with caring how a machine executes the algorithm most quickly. > \" This is not an issue in the imperative/functional cases, because they don't have to generate the array in step 1, they can just loop/recurse/lazily generate the values (i.e. memory is O(1) for this) \" It kind of is the same problem, just pushed down a level or two; writing it casually in Python will not get y"}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 38984310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984310", "by": "elad_e", "time": 1705178350, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Kafka stability is hard to achieve, especially in high throughput environments. If you wish to hear about the the challenges of handling Kafka clusters in production you can listen to my interview on the Data Engineering Podcast (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/kafka-troubleshooting-in-production-episode-406?fbclid=IwAR27bYXVK7MS2KNAF3Y2I4Z2wiydhrwi46zLarfChq_GNF-lkHB2dIHpNn8) where I talked about real production issues that can occur in Kafka clusters and how to handle them. These production issues are also covered in my new book (https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 38984756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984756", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1705181271, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am often in these threads on HN arguing in defense of the underdog (array languages); I do tend to agree with you here. I think the early days of APL (and Prolog) were that they were high level casually-typed REPL based interpreted languages, in a world of Fortran, PL/1, COBOL and C, and the amazing nature of them back then is stuff we take for granted writing items=[1,2,3] and lookup={'key':'value'} in Python and not worrying about allocating and freeing memory or pre-declaring the variables and their types, the string length, and compiling, and whatever. Still, there is a fun about a desk "}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 38988801, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988801", "by": "i_don_t_know", "time": 1705223760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The creator of Decker talked about the motivation behind Decker, its design and the design of its scripting language lil on the ArrayCast podcast: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode43-john-earnest-de... Very interesting episode!"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 38992802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38992802", "by": "anileated", "time": 1705256082, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Remember, you own a copyright to your image*. If someone posts a private photo or video of you that you don\u2019t like, whether there\u2019s nudity or not, you can DMCA the hell out of that post while you are waiting for police to do something (which they still often don\u2019t**). * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release ** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296..."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 38993265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38993265", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1705258627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like articles like this even though I'll never write a screenplay because it's fun to think of ways to apply it to ordinary persuasive writing. That said: if the craft of screenplay writing interests you, and if you haven't already, immediately subscribe to the Scriptnotes podcast, which is Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, Last of Us) and John August (Go, Big Fish), for like 600 episodes."}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 38995108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38995108", "by": "z3ugma", "time": 1705271559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Irreverent and funny firsthand look at the Corredor Interoce\u00e1nico from a railroad engineer who consulted on the first trainsets. > Well There\u2018s Your Problem > This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a leftist perspective, with jokes https://wtyppod.podbean.com/e/episode-143-corredor-interocea..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 38996829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38996829", "by": "vonnik", "time": 1705286045, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Robert Lustig makes the point in this podcast with Huberman that the sugars and transfats in processed food are responsible for a lot of inflammation that comes from the modern diet. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953... ~51st minute"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 39005215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39005215", "by": "jononomo", "time": 1705347977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My synopsis: 1. The Apple Podcast app has been updated to longer automatically download episodes of a show if the listener has stopped listening to the show. 2. This has resulted in the \"download count\" metric crashing for several high profile podcasts the publish frequently -- The Daily from NYTimes is mentioned. 3. This lowers advertising rates and is basically bad for the publishers of those podcasts -- the \"download count\" for some shows has fallen by 40%. --- Now to me this seems like an obviously good move because podcast episodes can be long and can eat up a lot of space on a device -- "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 39015729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015729", "by": "jen20", "time": 1705424963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting segment on the Accidental Tech Podcast [1] recently about microwaves, I did not realise that there were effectively only a couple of actual microwave units on the market and everything else is brand wrapping around it. I replaced my need for a toaster recently with a Breville Joule oven, and am quite impressed, I'd definitely buy one of their microwaves if I ever needed one. [1]: https://atp.fm/560"}, {"show": "1174983594", "hn_item": 39015919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015919", "by": "doener", "time": 1705425788, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 39026741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39026741", "by": "dtnewman", "time": 1705494174, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am personally happy with this decision. I don\u2019t love flying spirit but I respect them, ever since hearing their former CEO speak on a Planet Money podcast. He said straight up that Spirit Airlines is aiming to be the Dollar General of the skies. If you want something luxurious, go elsewhere. But he called out the other airlines who pretend like they are the Nordstrom of the skies, but don\u2019t actually live up to that."}, {"show": "1549929357", "hn_item": 39027605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39027605", "by": "penguin_booze", "time": 1705499341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> You were misinformed. As I could be now. My sources were the BBC and PrivateEye podcasts. What are yours?"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 39038653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39038653", "by": "TMWNN", "time": 1705559547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">2. This has resulted in the \"download count\" metric crashing for several high profile podcasts the publish frequently -- The Daily from NYTimes is mentioned. >3. This lowers advertising rates and is basically bad for the publishers of those podcasts -- the \"download count\" for some shows has fallen by 40%. As I understand it, when YouTube about a decade ago started using more accurate metrics, it turned out that the viewership for some very prominent corporate channels was way overinflated. This is why The Onion , CollegeHumor , and Funny or Die all suddenly vanished. (And probably also why Q"}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 39038679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39038679", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1705559755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just can't stand a podcast where it's just 2-3 (usually) men shooting the shit in front of microphones for multiple hours. There is no subject, no editing and no point. They might end up with a few 20-30 second funny clips on TikTok. There are podcasts that are actually edited, those are the good ones. They stay on subject, boring / unfunny bits are edited out etc. My favourite example in this is the No Such Thing As A Fish -podcast from the QI crew. I didn't know at first it was carefully edited, but then they started releasing the outtake bits as bonus episodes and the curtain was lifted ="}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 39043496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043496", "by": "meristohm", "time": 1705594236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For more, listen to The History of English podcast"}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 39044336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044336", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1705597715, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If someone can actually point out a real example on the real world how all this madness helps to a better world, much appreciated, because honestly I don't see it. Anecdote time. My sister, who doesn't care much about computers, found ChatGPT useful in her job, as it gave her a template to build from that included things she'd not thought of initially. I've just listened to the latest Numberphile podcast, and was surprised to hear Donald Knuth saying similar about a handful of the responses it gave him when he was playing with it. I play around with the GPT models regularly, even before Chat"}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 39044504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044504", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1705598435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've just listened to the latest Numberphile podcast, and one of many surprising anecdotes from Donald Knuth was that as a kid he'd been disillusioned by maths when he \"proved\" that 1=0 and his teacher couldn't find the mistake. > meanwhile ChatGPT just bullshits endlessly with no possible way to punish OpenAI for it Sure there are, and more importantly there's also ways to \"punish\" the models themselves \u2014 that's what the \"thumbs down\" and \"regenerate response\" buttons in the chat UI are for."}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 39049446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39049446", "by": "keyringlight", "time": 1705620569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Well there's your problem\" podcast did an episode on 'five over ones' (five stories of wood over one concrete) and touched on this - IIRC they were most likely to burn down during construction when the fire suppression wasn't installed and active yet."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39051741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051741", "by": "abrichr", "time": 1705640528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Perhaps this qualifies: Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVYrJJNdrEg"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 39054797, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054797", "by": "danparsonson", "time": 1705668345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally I just finished listening to Dan Carlin's two-part \"Hardcore History\" podcast about the Vikings, Twilight of the Aesir - highly recommended and currently available for free (via podcast apps or https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ )."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 39060376, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060376", "by": "downrightmike", "time": 1705694739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "being null routed is really the only thing they can do. Then then undid it and they had to do it again. This wasn't a standard DDOS attack, which they normally handle just fine. Good coverage of the event: Security Now! Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehfV7cRLkFE"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 39062406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39062406", "by": "hotpotamus", "time": 1705704418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You know, I spent some time in college learning economics, and lots of time after that listening to podcasts about economics (\"Planet Money\" has long been great), but like almost every other belief I had when I was younger, I seem to have lost this one as well. Supposedly we've had decades of productivity growth, so you'd think that it would be possible for a smaller cohort of workers to keep everything going, and yet it is apparently a creeping disaster that there may not be enough of them to maintain modern civilization in the not-so-distant future. Like many aspects of modern life, it just "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39064584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39064584", "by": "structure7", "time": 1705723844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics Radio has a recent related piece on academic fraud in scholarly publishing. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-academic-fraud-be-stopp..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39074751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39074751", "by": "r3trohack3r", "time": 1705802502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As Jeff Bezos recently said on the Lex podcast: one of the greatest compliments you can give an inventor is that they\u2019re invention will be taken for granted by future generations. \u201cIt won\u2019t be any more wickedly cool than the internet\u201d - saying something won\u2019t be any more wickedly cool than the most profound and impactful pieces of infrastructure human civilization has erected is a pretty high compliment."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 39077355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39077355", "by": "gary_0", "time": 1705834195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I might be off base since I've been an electronics hobbyist (plus one time I got snookered into doing it for a job) for 30 years, but I feel like there's isn't that much electronics-specific theory behind designing larger projects (outside of the general skills needed for any kind of engineering). I feel like hooking together large software systems is much more complex, whereas with electronics once you learn the principles and skills for single-purpose circuits it's not that hard to figure out how to make something that solves multiple problems. At the end of the day, it's all connected with "}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 39077355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39077355", "by": "gary_0", "time": 1705834195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I might be off base since I've been an electronics hobbyist (plus one time I got snookered into doing it for a job) for 30 years, but I feel like there's isn't that much electronics-specific theory behind designing larger projects (outside of the general skills needed for any kind of engineering). I feel like hooking together large software systems is much more complex, whereas with electronics once you learn the principles and skills for single-purpose circuits it's not that hard to figure out how to make something that solves multiple problems. At the end of the day, it's all connected with "}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 39087809, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087809", "by": "lsofzz", "time": 1705915975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hmm. There are \"plenty\" of Rust jobs outside of crypto stuff. They are: - Your typical service driven stuff (aka full-stack/backend/microservice et. al) - Tons and tons of opensource projects from AWS (investing), Microsoft (investing) and Google (yes, investing) to name a few off the top of my head. - Startups have so to speak started embracing Rust https://corrode.dev/podcast/ - Embedded Systems traditionally . - Rust ecosystem is maturing faster than anything I have seen in the past (ok, maybe Go's ecosystem was fast as well). Regarding AI and ML stuffs: While I do agree that chasing such h"}, {"show": "1665265193", "hn_item": 39088955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088955", "by": "iamflimflam1", "time": 1705927968, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39095661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39095661", "by": "Ductapemaster", "time": 1705958618, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a fascinating Radiolab episode about anesthesia that is worth a listen: https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39113217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39113217", "by": "scirpaceus", "time": 1706066546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is also an argument that didn't sit well with me when I heard Guillaume Verdon / Beff Jezos on his recent Lex podcast state that the universe wants to produce more entropy, and that life evolved the way it has because it's more efficient at producing heat and entropy than, say, a rock. Perhaps he said that loosely as a figure of speech, because it should be obvious (religious beliefs aside) that the universe does not \"want\" anything. The remaining question is whether the emergence of life as an efficient entropy generator is coincidental to the laws of thermodynamics, or incentivized (in "}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 39122477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39122477", "by": "bee_rider", "time": 1706129531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Software is tricky in this regard because of the dependency mess. If you throw your \u201clittle garden path\u201d program up on GitHub and somebody decides to use it to build their \u201chighway,\u201d it really ought to be on them, not you. Edit: I suspect any reasonable law would account for that, and these are the folks who do the Lawfare podcast, right? It is pretty good. I haven\u2019t finished the paper yet but I\u2019d be surprised if they missed this."}, {"show": "1505742140", "hn_item": 39123068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39123068", "by": "serial_dev", "time": 1706133182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Work with code on any machine\" is confusing because it's not what you expect by glancing over the headlines. In the section they describe what they actually meant by it... It means that you can collaborate with others who have zed installed and run things on their computer, edit code etc. I vaguely remember them being on the Rust podcast and I believe they said that they want multiplatform support but they first need to nail it on one platform before they go for the next. https://rustacean-station.org/episode/antonio-scandurra/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39124386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124386", "by": "r3trohack3r", "time": 1706140931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Neil Greshenfeld of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms was recently on the Lex Friedman podcast to talk about self-assembling robots, FabLabs, and the future of last mile manufacturing. It's very close to what you're talking about here. Breaking the material/tech of civilization down into a small number (double digits) of building blocks that can bootstrap a process of converting the building blocks into assemblers of assemblers for manufacturing. It is a fascinating listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDjOS0VHEr4"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39126500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39126500", "by": "keepamovin", "time": 1706160625, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1633300324", "hn_item": 39139651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139651", "by": "wolfeidau", "time": 1706252610, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39142313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142313", "by": "r2_pilot", "time": 1706275262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I second this. I watched this episode of Fall of Civilizations podcast(on YouTube) while recovering a few weeks ago, and it's very informative and well-produced (as are all the episodes)."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 39143104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143104", "by": "carols10cents", "time": 1706280023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> these are the folks who do the Lawfare podcast, right? Yep, and they had a podcast episode with the author of this paper: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-jim..."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 39143729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143729", "by": "simonbarker87", "time": 1706282896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very cordial to begin with, mainly because the Spanish had allied with a large number of other tribes, many of which were enemies of the Aztecs. The Aztecs invited them into the city as honoured guests/curiosities. After many months the Spanish (and their tribal allies) massacred the city after a series of events internal and external to the city. It\u2019s a fascinating episode in history, if you don\u2019t want to read a book then the Aztec series of the podcast The Rest Is History gives an amazing 7 parts walkthrough of the saga."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 39147355, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39147355", "by": "drivers99", "time": 1706298982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm really enjoying The History of English Podcast which covers this. It's about the English language along with all the history along the way."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 39149633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39149633", "by": "tlavoie", "time": 1706308162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their Signals and Threads podcast is very interesting, and talks quite a bit about OCaml. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 39149633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39149633", "by": "tlavoie", "time": 1706308162, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their Signals and Threads podcast is very interesting, and talks quite a bit about OCaml. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 39151614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151614", "by": "Tagbert", "time": 1706320754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Of course, if you are into podcasts, there is the fantastic \u201cThe History of English\u201d podcast by Kevin Stroud. He has been taking an historical journey through the development of English from proto-Indo-European and is currently up to the Elizabethan period and 172 episodes so far. There are also lots of side trips to specific topics to mix things up. Very enjoyable listen."}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 39151936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39151936", "by": "firecall", "time": 1706323811, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard Cory Doctorrow speak on the Pivot podcast about that! Labels were investors in Spotify\u2026.. So to boost profits for IPO they had incentives to reduce payouts to artists\u2026 Or something like that. It all sounded very corrupt!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39152238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152238", "by": "xorbax", "time": 1706326395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid. The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks. * I originally said Reply-All"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 39152272, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152272", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1706326665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a weekly paper reading group around the Latent Space podcast folks"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39152348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152348", "by": "boomboomsubban", "time": 1706327518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They meant Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 39152420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152420", "by": "totetsu", "time": 1706328283, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Is this a rhetorical question? Look at the guest list here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-bites/id257... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-for-our-tim... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophers-zone/id13..."}, {"show": "1151965239", "hn_item": 39152420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152420", "by": "totetsu", "time": 1706328283, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Is this a rhetorical question? Look at the guest list here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-bites/id257... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-for-our-tim... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophers-zone/id13..."}, {"show": "135353439", "hn_item": 39152420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152420", "by": "totetsu", "time": 1706328283, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Is this a rhetorical question? Look at the guest list here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-bites/id257... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophy-for-our-tim... And here https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophers-zone/id13..."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 39154358, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154358", "by": "ulysse_mn", "time": 1706351361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Cliff, This Story about His Elementary School's Teacher teaching him about Matrices cracks me up every time (From a Numberphile podcast) https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8tfa5wN/"}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 39154461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39154461", "by": "pbhjpbhj", "time": 1706352438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm pretty sure I've seen an infographic of this maybe a decade or more ago, but it was also a fact on No Such Thing As A Fish (the QI elves podcast) recently. I wonder if the Reddit poster picked it up from them. https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/pdst.fm/e/arttrk.com/p/ABMA5/dts.podt... - \"513: No Such Thing As Upside-Down Space Rain\", 4m36 Shout out to AntennaPod, installed from F-Droid app store; far-and-away the best podcast listening app I've found."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 39157674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157674", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1706376816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to an episode of the \u201cThe Daily\u201d podcast on what they called hybrid malaise about 15 min ago. It was so obviously biased toward RTO I was yelling at the radio and my wife had to tell me to calm down. Gaslighting was exactly what they were doing with things like \u201cyou\u2019re not going to get promoted unless you go back to the office\u201d and \u201cwhen looking for workers to layoff the ones remote are the first to go \u201c etc. really pissed me off because some people will take the podcasters seriously and not see the manipulative motive behind them."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39160616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160616", "by": "salad-tycoon", "time": 1706395092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just heard about this on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast with Marianna Van Zeller. Gotta say hearing about the murdered prisoners plasticized and used in exhibits sent chills that I\u2019m still thinking about days later. Worse, some of these poses are extremely degrading. There are exhibits where a two bodies are simulating sex with the women\u2019s abdomen cut away to show the full penetration and their faces and bodies contorted to simulate sexual pleasure. There is more than one. It\u2019s disgusting. Joe also tells the story of a 6-8 month pregnant woman who was having an affair and the wife who worked"}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 39163161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163161", "by": "jsemrau", "time": 1706424754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I write long form paper reviews and coding example for autonomous agent tech on my substack (Encyclopedia Autonomica). In my highly subjective experience High velocity social like Twitter or LinkedIn (where I maintain a digest with about 350 subscribers) do not at all provide traffic to my posts. Reddit, where content exists longer since people are discussing about it works better. What I enjoy about Substack compared to Medium (where I am in the Partner program and was a top 5% global business writer) is that I own the distribution list and can configure the economic benefits. Media in 2024 i"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 39167820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39167820", "by": "FL33TW00D", "time": 1706463013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly doubt this is an individual matter. Cramming (massing) for exams is literally the antithesis of SRS. Look into Andy Matuschaks work: [Dwarkesh Podcast]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmeRQN9z504 ) [How to write good prompts]( https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ )"}, {"show": "1530735460", "hn_item": 39173123, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173123", "by": "vitaly-pavlenko", "time": 1706507577, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks for asking! I went to music theory specifically because I didn't want to produce anything before I analyze enough music (like, thousands of compositions). That is, I didn't want to talk music and do marketing on my compositions until I learn it on a level of B2, at least. I personally felt very dumb from all guides on how to start making music in an hour. I felt like I've given a nice caligraphy pen (and a helium balloon) to say something, yet I haven't read even anything in the language that I'm gonna be talking in. Should I, at the bare minimum, understand any structural context of wh"}, {"show": "1459712981", "hn_item": 39176736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39176736", "by": "finfrastrcuture", "time": 1706539175, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The showrunners agonized over making the show historically accurate vs fitting the story into a TV format. It sounds like they traded the minor details to get the broad brushstrokes right - and especially dissect the themes around hubris, willful ignorance, and so on. The 'making of' podcast where they discuss this is quite interesting: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 39179043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179043", "by": "syndicatedjelly", "time": 1706548875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Economist, usually podcasts while getting ready in the morning. - All-in podcast when I feel like being entertained 99% of news is generally irrelevant to daily life, maybe once a month something catches my eye and I feel like being more informed about the topic"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 39181951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181951", "by": "zengid", "time": 1706559745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to their original podcast 'On The Metal' it was infamous for it's overly repeated use of 2 or 3 pre-recorded self promotions, so much so that a fan recorded their own commercial for them to air. 'Oxide and Friends' however isn't really what I would consider a podcast, but a recording of live \"spaces\" or group calls, beginning on Twitter and now happening in Discord. IMO it's not really best consumed as a podcast, but rather to participate in live. If you tune in live you'll pick up on the vibe of the recordings a lot better. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 39181951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39181951", "by": "zengid", "time": 1706559745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to their original podcast 'On The Metal' it was infamous for it's overly repeated use of 2 or 3 pre-recorded self promotions, so much so that a fan recorded their own commercial for them to air. 'Oxide and Friends' however isn't really what I would consider a podcast, but a recording of live \"spaces\" or group calls, beginning on Twitter and now happening in Discord. IMO it's not really best consumed as a podcast, but rather to participate in live. If you tune in live you'll pick up on the vibe of the recordings a lot better. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends"}, {"show": "1043699613", "hn_item": 39183228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39183228", "by": "paulcole", "time": 1706565206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haralabob Voulgaris is a pretty well known NBA (basketball) gambler. He has talked about how his biggest lifetime score ever was betting Biden after it was clear Biden was going to win but before the race was called. He talked about it on Bill Simmons Podcast and was just incredulous at how people could be that stupid and how much money had made betting on something that was a stone cold lock."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 39184276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184276", "by": "rurp", "time": 1706571395, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I could not disagree more, and there are a great many experts and practitioners in this space that would agree with me. The history of the cold war is terrifying . MAD is incredibly flawed, but it stuck around because nobody could come up with a better option that could actually get adopted. A system that relies on near-perfect alert systems and requires leaders to always make calm rational decisions about the fate of the world with limited information and only minutes to decide is not a stable system. SDI wasn't an isolated case, there were a number of times when either the US or Soviets grew"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39192318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39192318", "by": "stillpoint", "time": 1706633322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With respect to working memory, this week's Huberman podcast (Tools to Enhance Working Memory & Attention) could be insightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQlTmOFM4Qs"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 39193341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39193341", "by": "TillE", "time": 1706637479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Verge is great, especially Nilay himself. I don't listen to a ton of tech podcasts, but Vergecast and Decoder are some of the best."}, {"show": "1707026865", "hn_item": 39198108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198108", "by": "starkparker", "time": 1706661359, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Some context: https://www.al.com/news/2021/03/former-alabama-chief-justice... https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2023/05/innocence-project... https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/us-supreme-court-declines-to... And the Earwitness podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/earwitness/id170702686..."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 39223667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223667", "by": "pimlottc", "time": 1706835797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was also on an episode [0] of the Song Exploder podcast where he talked about how he uses a spreadsheet to catalog all his song ideas, with columns for key, tempo, mood, etc. So when he has an idea for a song, he can search for riffs and phrases that might work together. 0: https://songexploder.net/weezer"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39227251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39227251", "by": "somesnm", "time": 1706870900, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 39228293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39228293", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1706880534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He has been featured on the Talk Python podcast, https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/327/little-automation-to... . A great episode!"}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 39232661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232661", "by": "cowboyscott", "time": 1706900128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time (Diggnation was an early podcast fav of mine)! Glad to see he's still at it."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39232914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39232914", "by": "nox101", "time": 1706901410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree the tone was aggressive but this is arguably a real issue and it's not as simple as it seems at first Israel as a \"Jewish state\" is arguably a place that would not exist if they let in unlimited immigration because it would soon be majority not Jewish. I see that's in conflict with the idea that people should be/do whatever they want. I don't see how to reconcile the two sides. Radiolab had an episode on this issue WRT to Samoa ( https://radiolab.org/podcast/americanish-2306 ) My memory of the episode is the first half they paint the picture of a particular seemingly \"racist\" local try"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39234464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234464", "by": "8f2ab37a-ed6c", "time": 1706908308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish there was a Joe Rogan's podcast where all of Joe is edited out, and I get to enjoy the guests without any of his commentary about the crazy college kids, and the woke cultural marxists, elk meat and DMT trips. Same with the Lex Friedman podcast, where we don't have to listen to the \"Tell me how this is all about love\" question ever again."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39234464, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234464", "by": "8f2ab37a-ed6c", "time": 1706908308, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish there was a Joe Rogan's podcast where all of Joe is edited out, and I get to enjoy the guests without any of his commentary about the crazy college kids, and the woke cultural marxists, elk meat and DMT trips. Same with the Lex Friedman podcast, where we don't have to listen to the \"Tell me how this is all about love\" question ever again."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 39246681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246681", "by": "loeg", "time": 1707010908, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Odd Lots did a very interesting podcast on the subject recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-economics-of-build... Transcript: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-06/transcrip..."}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 39251643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39251643", "by": "barkerja", "time": 1707064351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Safari was an early adopter of JPEG XL. In the past couple years, actually, the team at Apple responsible for Safari has been making inroads on features and spec work. Jen Simmons especially has been astounding, particularly with her engagement with the community. She was recently on the Syntax Podcast, and I thoroughly enjoyed the talk. Can catch a bit here: https://www.threads.net/@syntax_fm/post/C22hyslOABy/"}, {"show": "1625387454", "hn_item": 39257344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39257344", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1707107431, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is an entertaining podcast series on this called Persona: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/persona-the-french-dec..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39259483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259483", "by": "crashingintoyou", "time": 1707128744, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been hoping to Spotify to go out of business since they went and took Rogan's podcast and a few others as Spotify-exclusive. Not always a Rogan fan, but he's occasionally had some interesting guests. However the Spotify experience was so bad I abandoned podcasts that required me to use their client. (Suppose I should think of dialing back my Spotify hate a little now that apparently in the renewal they're no longer keeping Rogan as Spotify-exclusive)"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 39263768, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39263768", "by": "rconti", "time": 1707153865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NYTimes \"The Daily\" podcast had an informative episode on the matter[1] I'm out of the loop since my college days are behind me, and I don't have kids. I had heard colleges were going to rely less on standardized testing (and many dropped the requirement during Covid when SAT tests didn't take place at all). I had also heard that there was controversy over reliance on standardized tests, because the wealthy can more easily afford expensive test prep, which initially seemed reasonable to me. But then when I listed to the podcast I was stunned that the colleges seemed to think relying much more "}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 39266974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266974", "by": "TSiege", "time": 1707166256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Volts Podcast had an interview with the CEO of KoBold. It was definitely interesting and a needed improvement in finding resources considering the stakes. Hoping this isn't a Jevons Paradox and we don't ruin equally valuable ecosystems in our path. This is a real ethical concern given that the amount of resource extraction has grown so much year over year. https://www.volts.wtf/p/getting-better-at-mining-the-mineral... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/31/raw-mate..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 39271354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271354", "by": "lawik", "time": 1707200066, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Worth mentioning is the new browser engine in town. Ladybird https://ladybird.dev/ Ladybird and Serenity OS are both weirdly heartwarming projects. If you want to catch up on it I think the Changelog podcast was a good starter."}, {"show": "1451196082", "hn_item": 39272590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272590", "by": "rock_", "time": 1707213114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the latest about it from Prof Sepp himself on the Industrial AI podcast channel. See the link below. He consistently called Transformers... \"nonsense\" and said that xLSTM has beaten Transformer-based models across several small dataset benchmarks. They are busy scaling the training to large datasets and planning to keep the technology in Europe. I doubt they will make it public once it is available. The coming months will be interesting. More about the interview here. https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9raXBvZGNhc3Q..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39283500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39283500", "by": "b0dhimind", "time": 1707270628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Still experimenting with about ~20mg of coffee every other day. Great as part of my pre-workout (as indicated by Huberman's podcast) especially with fats. If I don't add the fats, I definitely feel the edginess and jitteriness... I don't really need it though, wondering if I'm better off just avoiding it? Heard of many other longevity and neural benefits... something I was expecting in this pretty empty study. Self-experimenting continues..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39288808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288808", "by": "basil-rash", "time": 1707315351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everything is only something. The question is more how much it costs to produce and distribute that thing, and who is paying for it, and whether they negotiated for exclusive hosting rights as part of their financing deal. Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast is just an audio file, but Spotify pays to make it so only they can host it."}, {"show": "1106971805", "hn_item": 39289400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289400", "by": "rmeertens", "time": 1707318242, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> To be sincere, I have a strong preference for written content. At the InfoQ podcast we always create a transcript of the whole episode. It takes quite some time to turn the spoken content into written content, but it's amazing how many people come to me to tell me that they only read the podcast, but never listen to it. Makes you wonder why one would not immediately write an article rather than spending the effort to create the spoken content."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 39289950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39289950", "by": "caoilte", "time": 1707320908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You get ads outside the UK, which is always weird for me when i get back from holiday and have a bunch of shows i downloaded while I was in another country and haven't listened to yet. Actually, I say bunch - but I've deleted everything except In Our Time. Australian Broadcast Company does more better podcasts than BBC these days."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 39290006, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290006", "by": "OwlsParlay", "time": 1707321150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I dropped the two BBC podcasts i'd been interested in (News Cast and In Our Time) for this reason, it's such a weird tack to take in order to chase views."}, {"show": "1121407665", "hn_item": 39291007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39291007", "by": "ajmurmann", "time": 1707325318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm concerned that Xi might be more concerned with leaving a legacy than with practical goals when it comes to Taiwan. The civil war was never fully won and resolving that seems important to him. I hope it's just posturing. On the feasibility of an invasion: there was a very good episode of the Sinica podcast on wargaming this: https://thechinaproject.com/2023/08/17/wargaming-a-taiwan-in... Very scary for everyone and especially the US. Think several lost carriers within the first 24-36 hrs Edit: important to note that at the end of the episode they discuss that the wargaming exercise assumed "}, {"show": "6818639164", "hn_item": 39296037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296037", "by": "yreg", "time": 1707350858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IIRC Marco also said that he is happy with the status quo. He really doesn't want to have responsibility for any moderation/curation and is happy to defer to Apple in that matter. This was shortly after Apple removed Alex Jones' podcast from the directory."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 39296901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39296901", "by": "jmyeet", "time": 1707357397, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of the excellent series \"Blueprint for Armageddon\" in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast [1]. It's about the First World War. WWI tends to get less attention than WW2 and while there are good reasons why we focus on the atrocities of WW2, in some ways WWI was far more devastating. The artillery production mentioned here reminds me of how scales changed from the beginning to the end of the war. At the outbreak, IIRC Russia produced ~35K artillery shells per month and was using ~25K per day. By 1917, there was a battle where a combined total of ONE MILLION artillery shells wer"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39314127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39314127", "by": "xu_ituairo", "time": 1707482007, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 39318775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39318775", "by": "bouncing", "time": 1707504839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In February, I, along with real estate developer Bobby Fijan, went on the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots to talk about why it\u2019s so hard to find a family-sized apartment in the United States. I argued that North American zoning and building codes work together to drive up the size of multi-bedroom apartments in particular, putting them financially out of reach for many parents raising children. In other words, even if developers built more two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, you probably wouldn\u2019t be able to afford one, because they would have to be so much larger than units with the same n"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 39318775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39318775", "by": "bouncing", "time": 1707504839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In February, I, along with real estate developer Bobby Fijan, went on the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots to talk about why it\u2019s so hard to find a family-sized apartment in the United States. I argued that North American zoning and building codes work together to drive up the size of multi-bedroom apartments in particular, putting them financially out of reach for many parents raising children. In other words, even if developers built more two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, you probably wouldn\u2019t be able to afford one, because they would have to be so much larger than units with the same n"}, {"show": "1521578868", "hn_item": 39327651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39327651", "by": "1123581321", "time": 1707583475, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What podcast client do you use? Every podcast in the iTunes directory has a public RSS feed. If you're having trouble figuring out the feed from that directory, you can use a tool to show you the link from the podcast's directory page. For example, paste Smartless' page https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smartless/id1521578868 into https://www.labnol.org/podcast/ to get https://rss.art19.com/smartless At this point, just about the only podcasts that don't have public RSS cost money, now that Spotify has abandoned its exclusives strategy. If you were subscribed to a public feed that moved to"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39329409, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329409", "by": "dysoco", "time": 1707593179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might be interested in Huberman Lab's podcast, he must have some episodes on memory or learning."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39336542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336542", "by": "favourable", "time": 1707672055, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 39340186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340186", "by": "zharknado", "time": 1707697221, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the Sold a Story podcast (mentioned elsewhere) for a synopsis accessible to laypeople. A big part was guilt by association with a behaviorist view of education. Phonics is very rote and mechanical, which clashes with notions of whole, meaningful problem solving. By analogy, think reps on Spanish flash cards vs speaking Spanish to solve a mystery or order lunch. At first blush mechanical drills feel divorced from an authentic lifelike context, which can lead to poor engagement and generalization. Then there\u2019s the affective layer\u2014how you feel about the subject and your ability i"}, {"show": "1492171651", "hn_item": 39342802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39342802", "by": "philoinvestor", "time": 1707727309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am the writer of the article. I do consider the dynamics of the businesses involved - when I Write about a single company I consider it very deeply, when I write about a basket of stocks, I adjust my message to provide for that. I have written tons about differentiating between business models, and have spoken about that on my recent podcast interview with Value Hive. To get to the punch, Open AI being valued at $100bln may not be ridiculous to you, but it is to me. What is your risk/reward? Abysmal. Even if you hit your targets, no biggie. I have written about Duolingo, which was (and is) c"}, {"show": "1492171651", "hn_item": 39343938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343938", "by": "philoinvestor", "time": 1707739761, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39349790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39349790", "by": "nradov", "time": 1707768700, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No, Jeff Bezos has it right. There is some nuance to his data analysis approach and I recommend listening to his interview on the Lex Fridman podcast to understand what he was getting at. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5D4rToJ6IW2JsilsvuKeA1?si=X..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39352111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39352111", "by": "nickpinkston", "time": 1707780876, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with most techno-optimism, but e/acc is a pretty braindead version of it unfortunately. Nadia's article here seems like a much more reasonable version of this philosophy that embraces political solutions instead of naive pure tech ones. By contrast, \"Beff Jezos\" (Guillaume Verdon) says he wants to be a \"cultural engineer\" [1, Lex podcast], but when recently challenged by Lex Friedman and Connor Leahy [2], he comes across like a dorm room libertarian who has an immature idea of what he's saying, not someone with something new to say, which I think is at least partially him trying to mai"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 39364248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39364248", "by": "rwalling", "time": 1707866364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the kind mention in this article. I\u2019m going to be honest, I started blogging and writing books (and now podcasting) because I was SO TIRED of the vague business advice I saw on the internet. A couple weeks ago I saw a founder ask: \u201cWhat podcasts should I listen to for practical advice on bootstrapping a SaaS?\u201d And people responded with suggestions like Tony Robbins, GaryVee, and the Founders podcast (which summarizes business biographies). Don\u2019t get me wrong, those resources have their audience and fulfill a need. But that\u2019s not what a bootstrapper needs to hear at that point in tim"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39364445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39364445", "by": "adfm", "time": 1707867823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joe Rogan ceased his podcast the moment he signed with Spotify. The Joe Rogan Experience lives in a walled garden and I stopped paying attention to it as a result. Did the move get Spotify more subscriptions? Maybe. It turns out he recently renegotiated his contract to include other outlets, which is telling."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39365601, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39365601", "by": "patrickwalton", "time": 1707877313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fall of Civilizations Podcast talks about this with the article on Mesopotamia!"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 39366889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39366889", "by": "sefk", "time": 1707889218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a fair number of podcasts. The Accidental Tech Podcast is my favorite by a mile."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 39368591, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368591", "by": "sdht0", "time": 1707909294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> what justifies our choice of a particular prior Right that's a good question. I'll point to an answer Sean Carroll gave in an AMA episode [0] of his Mindscape podcast: The pros and cons of Bayesian reasoning are almost all in the choice of a prior. People who are pro-Bayesian will say, look, as long as your priors aren't completely crazy, if you collect enough data, the priors cease to matter. [...] The promise of Bayesian reasoning is that data overwhelms your prior ultimately. And therefore, there is no algorithmic way of choosing what your prior should be. It's a little bit fuzzy to say w"}, {"show": "1492171651", "hn_item": 39369453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39369453", "by": "philoinvestor", "time": 1707916780, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 39374454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39374454", "by": "groggo", "time": 1707940729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've found ChatGPT great for this. It's way better than a translator at giving you context for grammar and phrases. My stack is Duolingo + Podcasts + Instagram + ChatGPT: Duolingo - daily consistency, grammar Podcasts - \"comprehensible input\" from intermediate french podcasts (InnerFrench, French with Panache) Instagram - Just follow a ton of french accounts. They often have subtitles. Listen to native speakers talk at a normal pace about stuff you're interested in. ChatGPT - answer basic questions about grammar or phrases. I've even started using this for conversation practice too."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39396692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396692", "by": "morbicer", "time": 1708090020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are some darker bits in Navalny's history (ultra nationalism) but man, this is a downer. He was one of the only visible people in Russia pushing against Putin. RIP Check what Citizen Lab disocovered earlier https://deibert.citizenlab.ca/2017/05/from-russia-with-taint... I remember some related Darknet Diaries podcasts"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 39403529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403529", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1708120952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Galton was a brilliant thinker and a deeply horrible human being. I miss the Futility Closet podcast. Well worth listening to their back catalogue. IIRC one of the founders had health issues. I hope they are doing ok now."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39407189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39407189", "by": "alumic", "time": 1708154354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I drove around today listening to the most recent Lex Fridman podcast, in which the founder of Boston Dynamics was describing replacing human labor with machines that were capable of learning by seeing. I have family in the trades. I pursued tech and fell in love with the field. Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples' livelihoods with plasticized fingers. Work is equivalent to worth. We are not biologically or sociologically prepared to differentiate the two. How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39408338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408338", "by": "atombender", "time": 1708167363, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "As far as I'm aware, this has been thoroughly debunked, especially by Hunt and Lipo [1], who have argued against the \"ecocide\" theory, pointing out that the deforestation appeared to have had a positive effective on the islander's agriculture, and that contrary to Diamond's claims, the population was increasing, not falling, at the time of European contact. The deforestation was almost certainly caused by the Polynesian rat, as archeological research has shown that the same type of deforestation happened on other islands where rats where accidentally introduced, but not on settled islands wher"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 39409271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409271", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1708176967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first 50 episodes of the Indie Hackers podcast had a big influence on how I approached bootstrapping. The episodes that stood out in particular are: - Pieter Levels: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-no... - Tracy Osborn: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/029-tracy-osborn-of-hel... Josh Pigford (who sold Baremetrics for $4M) has also documented all of his failed ventures: https://joshpigford.com/projects"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 39410151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410151", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1708182868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Migration Assistant does this quite well. This is the built-in first-run cloning tool when you start a new Mac. I'm on maybe the fifth or sixth generation of cloned user environment in however many years. Apps, preferences, data, all copied from older machines to newer ones. I recently ran into a scenario where that didn't work (on an iPhone) when a device is managed by MDM. This is the first time I've seen it fail other than 15 years ago on an edge case. For a Mac, Homebrew has an option (or maybe another tool leverages it) to create a manifest of sorts to reinstall all the right tools. That'"}, {"show": "1633300324", "hn_item": 39417622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417622", "by": "aflukasz", "time": 1708249034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Postgres FM podcast, e.g. available as video on Postgres TV yt channel. Good content on its own, and many resources of this kind are linked in the episode notes. I believe one of the authors even helped Gitlab specifically with Postgres performance issues not that long ago."}, {"show": "1592984136", "hn_item": 39418068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418068", "by": "dools", "time": 1708254004, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "325757845", "hn_item": 39423937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423937", "by": "Adrig", "time": 1708293886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case you don't already know, the indiehacker community is now quite mature with a few folks sharing their stories and lessons up to a few $M of ARR. Microconf is also very high quality with great talks out there, a podcast and a slack community. Focused on SAAS software. Rob Walling, the founder, wrote a book recently. Not my area, but I heard good things about it. I also like the Tropical MBA podcast. They get stories from entrepreneurs outside the shiny bubble (agency owners, Amazon FBA, SEO software, affiliates, etc) Books that might interest you : Company of one by Paul Jarvis ; Profit "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39428094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428094", "by": "xnorswap", "time": 1708338763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe. I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed. Only if I scroll really further than I've ever scrolled before could I find it. Spotify shows me: \"Made for xnorswap: \": 5 \"daily mixes\" which have always been a bit rubbish because they're not really mixes, they seem to pick a song I like then they're that song's radio. The \"Discover Weekly\" mix is decent, the daily ones are not. \"Jump back in:\" Continue listening to various playlists or albums. "}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 39440588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440588", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1708433394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard about it on the Blindboy Podcast. His meandering takes through culture and history are always worth a listen https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/the-lost-irish-tra..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39451539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39451539", "by": "gkanai", "time": 1708505358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chip War is good. Acquired Podcast has done a great TSMC deep dive. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc Asianometry has done a lot of semicon videos with lots of ASML EUV videos. https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39460503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460503", "by": "nequo", "time": 1708554455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just to add to what you're saying, the Acquired podcast has a couple long-form episodes on Nvidia and its competition: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993... https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning... CUDA itself is also a non-negligible factor in their success."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39481196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481196", "by": "ashu_trv", "time": 1708699756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "LLMs are great with text, but they don't help you consume or create video clips. Checkout PromptClip - Use natural language to describe the what you want. - Instantly get video clips with the help of LLMs like OpenAI or Claude. Few interesting prompts we tried while building it and loved the results. There's no limit to creativity with this. *Shark Tank Videos:* [Find every moment where a deal was offered]( https://console.videodb.io/player?url=https://stream.videodb... ) *Useful Gadgets* [Show me where the host discusses or reveals the pricing of the gadget]( https://console.videodb.io/player"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 39482736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482736", "by": "cal85", "time": 1708705979, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure about high quality, but they discussed this question a bit on the recent All-In Podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39484643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39484643", "by": "cglong", "time": 1708714270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think I read that the \"pays less\" thing was FUD, but am unable to find it now. Will share if I can dig it up later :) Re podcasts: Very true, I didn't like that push either. FWIW, Spotify recently agreed to let Joe Rogan's podcast be distributed on multiple platforms again."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39487490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487490", "by": "mdhb", "time": 1708730991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might actually be interested in this but last week the ex chief of operations for the CIA who was involved in both the Chile and Iran Contra fiascos sat down for a 3 hour chat about it amongst other topics in a fair amount of detail. If for no other reason than to just understand how those things came to be and what the chain of command actually looks like in real life covert action programs and how things go wrong because I think you and maybe a lot of people here who don\u2019t have any real background on these things outside of what they heard on a Joe Rogan podcast for example are missing s"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39488260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39488260", "by": "nicbou", "time": 1708737800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Darknet Diaries in general is a little like that. It explains a lot of these, often by inviting the criminals themselves. It's fascinating."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 39489079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39489079", "by": "bombcar", "time": 1708748291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ATP podcast was mentioning someone who had a similar issue. Apples cloud is drippy."}, {"show": "1727278168", "hn_item": 39491504, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39491504", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1708782930, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39492335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492335", "by": "ceejayoz", "time": 1708789373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did an episode about people in this pickle. https://radiolab.org/podcast/null"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 39492686, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39492686", "by": "surprisetalk", "time": 1708791536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are some great episodes about tacit programming on The ArrayCast, a podcast about APL/J/K. [1] https://www.arraycast.com"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 39497198, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497198", "by": "mtrower", "time": 1708829990, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probably, they are like me, meaning we seem not to be on the same page as you regarding the term 'podcast'. To me, a podcast is just an audio talk session, mastered and distributed as a digital audio file. That's it. Distribution can take many forms, but the podcast is the file. 10 or so minutes of google-based research seems to offer support to this notion. > universe of media distribution that happens via an open protocol that is not controlled by any one company What is this protocol that you speak of? Searching \"podcast protocol\" leads to absolutely no useful links on the subject. Podcasts"}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 39503173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503173", "by": "bko", "time": 1708884661, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think its not right to think of the OF type of person a traditional sex worker. Online sex work used to be the domain of women in failed states, who had no other options for work. But OF and the growing acceptance from the sex positivity crowd has attracted women that leave respectable corporate jobs or school to pursue this line of work. I listened to a lot of them on the Whatever podcast, and it strikes me if OF didn't exist, they would likely be working in HR or communications department in some large organization. They'd probably be getting paid less short term but long term I think it w"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 39515120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515120", "by": "thechao", "time": 1708972590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast in Revisionist History where he likens museums to dragons (hoarding art); I think that's wonderfully apt. Whenever I see institutions, like Harvard, endlessly accumulating wealth above-and-beyond what they \"need\", I always think of them as \"another kind of dragon\". I think this interacts with Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy[1]. [1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 39525066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525066", "by": "_fat_santa", "time": 1709047058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think sponsorships work better for more niche products on niche podcasts / YT channels. One great example I can think of are the sponsorships on the Syntax Podcast[1]. IIRC LogRocket was a sponsor a few years ago, I gave it a try based off their ad and I've been a happy customer ever since. Other products they rep are things like Sentry and Sanity and I think those companies are definitely seeing an ROI because they keep coming back. The problem with the sponsorships you mentioned is they are all broad scale B2C where \"everyone\" is a potential customer. So you end up with channels that have "}, {"show": "1586219793", "hn_item": 39550076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550076", "by": "bullox", "time": 1709218452, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I thought Foundation was great. A direct adaptation of the books would have been terrible, which is why nobody had done it yet. In case it helps, the companion podcast gives an episode-by-episode story of the changes - I agree with most of them, but can understand why they're controversial. https://podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/foundation-the-officia... https://open.spotify.com/show/1SIqjOZcJrJSrpcDjI9fyy"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 39552731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39552731", "by": "mandevil", "time": 1709229653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So the basic problem is that basic building design is a major stumbling block here. (I learned this from listening to the Odd Lots podcast cited below when it came out, so this is all from memory.) Modern offices are designed to be big open warehouses, trying to maximize the number of desks you can fit into a space. Big square footprint with central core for restrooms, stairs and elevators has been the dominant paradigm here because it maximizes the number of desks you can fit into a given lot. But apartments want perimeter, everyone wants windows and massively more plumbing necessary to give "}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 39554077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554077", "by": "_xivi", "time": 1709236023, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 39554773, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554773", "by": "mre", "time": 1709239384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, host here. Thanks for sharing this. I started the podcast because I was looking for some real-world Rust stories and couldn't find much; so I started 'Rust in Production'. It is closely modeled after the 'On the Metal' podcast by Oxide Computer ( https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal ). Should anyone have thoughts on potential guests or know someone who would be an incredible guest, I'd love to hear about it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39555903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39555903", "by": "dsubburam", "time": 1709244749, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 39564486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564486", "by": "lenerdenator", "time": 1709315510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Heard about it on Syntax podcast. There is nothing wrong with JS-based development that can be fixed by _more_ ways to do the same thing, even if it adds a few new neat tricks."}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 39565117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565117", "by": "nightshade999", "time": 1709318255, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 39566592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39566592", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1709325913, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 39574919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39574919", "by": "gclawes", "time": 1709405947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, it's the DarkHorse Podcast music! I forgot that was Wintergatan, cool!"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 39589021, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589021", "by": "soapsommelier", "time": 1709549988, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 39591165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591165", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1709563808, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are times when the right algorithm dominates, and you end up using something written in a language that doesn't fit your expertise/deployment system/preferences/etc. because it's the only thing that implements a particular thing well. There are a lot of great tools like Redpanda (C++) where there isn't a memory-safe alternative filling the same niche. But as a professional programmer for 25 years now, I'd say the fraction of our job that boils down to finding, designing, or implementing the right algorithm is sadly tiny. It's all the messy details that end up soaking our time and attenti"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39591282, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591282", "by": "HarHarVeryFunny", "time": 1709564494, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd guess a bit of both, perhaps more on the data side. One could also flip the question and ask how is this new Anthropic model able to beat GPT-4 in some benchmarks? As far as data, OpenAI haven't just scraped/bought existing data, they have also on a fairly large scale (hundreds of contractors) had custom datasets created, which is another area they may have a head start unless others can find different ways around this (e.g. synthetic data, or filtering for data quality). Altman has previously said (on Lex's podcast I think) that OpenAI (paraphrasing) is all about results and have used som"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 39592975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592975", "by": "wand3r", "time": 1709572728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am not a Google employee but my comment is referring to the prolific reports that at Google trust & safety is basically DEI enforcement. The All In podcast does a deeper dive on Google culture and how the trust and safety department actually operates but it is not the only reporting on this. It seems like from the outside Google is captured by the \"oppressor/oppressed\" idealogy so the right people are read as \"oppressors\" in my comment above."}, {"show": "1296655154", "hn_item": 39593208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39593208", "by": "joshaustintech", "time": 1709573614, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 39599999, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39599999", "by": "aaronbrethorst", "time": 1709619275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check out this recent episode of the Volts podcast with guest Jigar Shah, head the DOE's Programs Loan Office, where David Roberts and Jigar go into quite a bit of detail about the energy needs of data centers over the coming decades, and why nuclear is going to be a necessary component of any CO2-free energy solution. https://www.volts.wtf/p/nuclear-perhaps"}, {"show": "1555992459", "hn_item": 39611563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611563", "by": "arshadgc", "time": 1709692153, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 39620280, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39620280", "by": "casperb", "time": 1709753794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just finished the last episode of The Talk Show podcast, where John Gruber says that Apple doesn\u2019t hold a grudge and is only doing things because they make business sense. He said that because Apple approved Epic\u2019s account and that they would be allowed their own App Store. I already that it was a bad take, but this shows it."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 39621984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621984", "by": "axpy906", "time": 1709761431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great too see you on here. Love Latent Space podcast."}, {"show": "1477102175", "hn_item": 39633728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633728", "by": "chapulin", "time": 1709840738, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 39633832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633832", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1709841190, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The 'Empire' podcast ran a series about Russia: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921 It is clear from listening to the podcast that Russia has always been nightmare to live in (unless you perhaps belonged to a tiny elite) or have as a neighbour. Serfdom wasn't abolished until 1861."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 39633832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39633832", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1709841190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Empire' podcast ran a series about Russia: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921 It is clear from listening to the podcast that Russia has always been nightmare to live in (unless you perhaps belonged to a tiny elite) or have as a neighbour. Serfdom wasn't abolished until 1861."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39635363, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635363", "by": "celias", "time": 1709850517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a podcast about some cases such as voting precinct tallies that don't follow Benford's Law https://radiolab.org/podcast/breaking-benford"}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 39635872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635872", "by": "xdennis", "time": 1709853781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The left and the right live in completely separate bubbles. You may not be aware of this story, but the right is. See https://www.faa.gov/pwdp . The Federal Aviation Administration has set a target of hiring people with \"severe intellectual disability\". > The Secretary of Transportation has set a hiring goal of three (3) percent per fiscal year for individuals with targeted (severe) disabilities. > Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. The targeted disabilities are: Hearing"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39642812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39642812", "by": "dsubburam", "time": 1709916102, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 39648810, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648810", "by": "aedon", "time": 1709950093, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly. MSFT is who won here. I highly recommend you all watch OpenAI section of the new ALL-IN Podcast. Sam and OpenAI is in a very bad situation if Elon gets heard by a fair judge."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39650807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39650807", "by": "Culonavirus", "time": 1709980781, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But but but arllms gen ai is the futureeeee, agi here we gooo. Seriously though, the last Lex Fridman podcast with Yann Lecun is hilarious at times. Lex is desperately trying to be the llm poster boy and Yann is always like \"um, no.\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39650964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39650964", "by": "Duxon", "time": 1709982824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, it was quite like that in the Lex podcast when Yann went on about joint embeddings."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39669502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669502", "by": "jason-phillips", "time": 1710171346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And Lex's podcast/interview with Guillaume Verdon, one of said founders. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEEbKJoNbU&pp=ygUVbGV4IGZyaWR..."}, {"show": "1557969596", "hn_item": 39678725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678725", "by": "neomantra", "time": 1710246886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had these strong feelings and the OP describes it really well. Despite being a polyglot programmer, I really struggle with Python, both in expression and performance (unless it's just config for GPUs). Some of this frustration was recently an \"Unpopular Opinion\" on the Go Time Podcast regarding Python being great for \"data exploration\" but not for \"data engineering\": https://changelog.com/gotime/304#t=3196 I've been yearning for better interactive tooling and ML-related libraries to bridge this gap and started using some even in just the last week: * GoNB (Golang-support for Jupyter noteb"}, {"show": "1032830083", "hn_item": 39678725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678725", "by": "neomantra", "time": 1710246886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've had these strong feelings and the OP describes it really well. Despite being a polyglot programmer, I really struggle with Python, both in expression and performance (unless it's just config for GPUs). Some of this frustration was recently an \"Unpopular Opinion\" on the Go Time Podcast regarding Python being great for \"data exploration\" but not for \"data engineering\": https://changelog.com/gotime/304#t=3196 I've been yearning for better interactive tooling and ML-related libraries to bridge this gap and started using some even in just the last week: * GoNB (Golang-support for Jupyter noteb"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 39681319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39681319", "by": "concinds", "time": 1710260406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "True, but the world has changed and so have Apple's biggest fans (the ones that drive purchasing decisions for their social circles) and indie devs. They didn't mind back then, now they do. See the Accidental Tech Podcast guys for example, but there are many others (the infamous DHH and geohot just recently). People's attitudes towards huge corporations have changed. Things formerly rationalized as \"for the user experience\" are now seen as cash-grabs. Even many pro-Apple people are worried that rent-seeking is leading to product neglect."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39690067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690067", "by": "LopovJack", "time": 1710327958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ones I currently listen that might fit the bill are: Modern Wisdom, Lex Friedman Podcast, Conversations with Tyler, History on Fire. Try to add your favourite YT channels to your rss app. That is what I do."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 39690067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690067", "by": "LopovJack", "time": 1710327958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ones I currently listen that might fit the bill are: Modern Wisdom, Lex Friedman Podcast, Conversations with Tyler, History on Fire. Try to add your favourite YT channels to your rss app. That is what I do."}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 39690067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690067", "by": "LopovJack", "time": 1710327958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ones I currently listen that might fit the bill are: Modern Wisdom, Lex Friedman Podcast, Conversations with Tyler, History on Fire. Try to add your favourite YT channels to your rss app. That is what I do."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39695025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695025", "by": "hal918", "time": 1710352965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend these: Lex Friedman podcast, More or less: behind the stats, Planet Money, Big Technology, Hard Fork."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 39695025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695025", "by": "hal918", "time": 1710352965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend these: Lex Friedman podcast, More or less: behind the stats, Planet Money, Big Technology, Hard Fork."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 39695025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695025", "by": "hal918", "time": 1710352965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend these: Lex Friedman podcast, More or less: behind the stats, Planet Money, Big Technology, Hard Fork."}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 39695025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39695025", "by": "hal918", "time": 1710352965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can recommend these: Lex Friedman podcast, More or less: behind the stats, Planet Money, Big Technology, Hard Fork."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 39696248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39696248", "by": "jetrink", "time": 1710358153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The first software I made that had users other than myself was a Lemonade Stand clone for the TI-83 Plus. I shared it with people at my school using a link cable and, as there wasn't much competition in the calculator game market, it was a big hit. The next school year, I attended a drivers ed class at our crosstown rival high school and found that my game had somehow spread to that school as well! I have no idea how it happened, but it was very satisfying seeing something I made have a life of its own. Ben Brode was on the Search Engine podcast recently and shared a very similar story.[1] I w"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 39699058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39699058", "by": "100k", "time": 1710374313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's some interesting companies in this space. https://gofourth.com/ - focusing on grid storage, uses graphite (carbon) and liquid tin for heat transfer https://antoraenergy.com/ - industrial heat and electricity https://rondo.com/ - industrial heat You can find interviews with their founders on the Volts podcast."}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 39702975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702975", "by": "kylecazar", "time": 1710419102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tyler Cowen, as others have mentioned, is great. It's my favorite listen. If you are interested in the nature of creativity and the artistic process, Rick Rubin's Tetragrammaton is worth a listen. Because of his status as a top producer, he gets the biggest names in the field, but includes lesser known talent. I recommend Ed Norton. And anything with John Frusciante. Lex Fridman (everyone thus far has misspelled his name haha) -- I frankly just don't get it. He seems to struggle with interviewing, even the framing of basic questions. He has a strange (and to me superficial) obsession with the "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 39712626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712626", "by": "blinding-streak", "time": 1710484447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast covered this really well last year: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-frances..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39714548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714548", "by": "noneeeed", "time": 1710503830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting two-part series on the Freakonomics podcast about academic fraud, and it covered this case. It's all incredibly depressing. I really feel for all the junior researchers who end up wasting their time, and often derailing their careers because they followed a path based on other people's academic fraud. https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/academic-fraud/"}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 39714784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714784", "by": "unripe_syntax", "time": 1710505847, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "990871441", "hn_item": 39719346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39719346", "by": "the-chitmonger", "time": 1710528785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in creative writing or reading critically, I highly recommend the Writing Excuses podcast [0]. The podcast was started by Brandon Sanderson (he wrote the Mistborn series as well as The Stormlight Archive ), Howard Tayler (he made the webcomic Schlock Mercenary ), and Dan Wells (he wrote I Am Not a Serial Killer ). The episodes are on the short side (15 minutes), but I find that it strikes a nice balance between feeding you information and giving you something to ruminate over. There are 5 hosts in the current season (I am admittedly a bit bummed that Sanderson isn't partic"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39724273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39724273", "by": "blankton", "time": 1710578483, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"Fall of Civilizations\" Podcast by Paul Cooper is a outstanding long-form History Podcast. Definitely worth a listen."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39725312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725312", "by": "imgabe", "time": 1710591986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a podcast (Darknet Diaries) that went into great detail about a money counterfeiting operation, including how they had to source the paper from a specific place, and how to pick up the shipment without being detected or making it harder to trace back to you. Things like this are generally covered under the 1st amendment. There's no reason for a chatbot to censor it in the first place. There are books in the library about how to make bombs and such. Why are we moving backwards towards less freedom?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39735211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735211", "by": "SOLAR_FIELDS", "time": 1710690146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting. Maybe not Reply All but I would expect most Americans to know about Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast if not what it\u2019s called. He is absolutely massive in the States, and last time I checked his podcast was the biggest in the world. OP\u2019s topics lean more tech and programming related. Reply All is kind of a tech show but as the description implies it\u2019s more of a society show centered around tech topics. It\u2019s also, as grandparent implies, one of the biggest and more mainstream tech ancillary podcasts. It is quite good by the way, if you\u2019ve never listened to it. I would have wanted more technical "}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 39735211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735211", "by": "SOLAR_FIELDS", "time": 1710690146, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting. Maybe not Reply All but I would expect most Americans to know about Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast if not what it\u2019s called. He is absolutely massive in the States, and last time I checked his podcast was the biggest in the world. OP\u2019s topics lean more tech and programming related. Reply All is kind of a tech show but as the description implies it\u2019s more of a society show centered around tech topics. It\u2019s also, as grandparent implies, one of the biggest and more mainstream tech ancillary podcasts. It is quite good by the way, if you\u2019ve never listened to it. I would have wanted more technical "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 39735819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735819", "by": "tootie", "time": 1710694415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a story on it. It's really bizarre how it was discovered and popularized https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 39736254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39736254", "by": "ryanbuening", "time": 1710697084, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> more interested in the author\u2019s own list of podcasts. op here. One of my favorites is Soft Skills Engineering ( https://softskills.audio ). Check it out if you get the chance!"}, {"show": "1547740313", "hn_item": 39743430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39743430", "by": "starbugs", "time": 1710765173, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend the following podcast episode as a fascinating and fun to listen to anecdotal story of someone who \"successfully\" predicted the market: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/risk-return-the-jesse-..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39746921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746921", "by": "xyst", "time": 1710781010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the John Oliver segment touches lightly on the issue and at least it brings light on the issue. I personally liked the podcast episode from Darknet Diaries on this issue - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 39748285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39748285", "by": "jerpint", "time": 1710787440, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was a recent episode on The Latent Space podcast where they spoke with one of the Suno founders, I really enjoyed it https://open.spotify.com/episode/2c1yL8hlttlkCs6nPysVi0?si=O..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 39749400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749400", "by": "mac-attack", "time": 1710792847, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a deep dive into it via the 'Search Engine' podcast (Has PJ Vogt from 'Reply All' fame). The episode is called \"Who's behind these spammy texts that I keep getting\" https://open.spotify.com/episode/72VDFILrotJIhQFnz0OWsV?si=7..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 39749400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39749400", "by": "mac-attack", "time": 1710792847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a deep dive into it via the 'Search Engine' podcast (Has PJ Vogt from 'Reply All' fame). The episode is called \"Who's behind these spammy texts that I keep getting\" https://open.spotify.com/episode/72VDFILrotJIhQFnz0OWsV?si=7..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39758463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39758463", "by": "mhb", "time": 1710870865, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 39759008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759008", "by": "altruios", "time": 1710874390, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "An interesting look at Steve Jobs, from 'behind the bastards' (last episode of the job's series came out about last week). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-terrible-... Available on apple podcasts..."}, {"show": "498897343", "hn_item": 39762404, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762404", "by": "adamontherun", "time": 1710902117, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Great episode of the Lawfare podcast recently where Shane Harris interviewed Benjamin Breen about his book, Tripping on Utopia, which tells the story of how Mead\u2019s research into expanded consciousness and psychedelics. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 39763184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39763184", "by": "tda", "time": 1710913550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to know more of the origins of SQLite I can highly recommend this episode of the Corecursive podcast https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 39775462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775462", "by": "pascal_blaze", "time": 1711003032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Behind The Bastards podcast was speculating about Scientology creating an AI chat phone app trained on L. Ron Hubbard's prolific output so you could chat with The Founder on your phone whenever you wanted. I doubt they'd do it though. AI Chat is too unpredictable for a cult that wants to tell each adherent exactly what to do in every part of their lives. Hubbard's writings are also likely to be wildly inconsistent and they wouldn't be able to be sure the AI would pick the 'correct' party of his writings to regurgitate. On the other hand, releasing an app they _said_ was a way to privately "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39777833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777833", "by": "infecto", "time": 1711025080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IMO that's the key there. I think a lot of people who make comments like the GP have either just been using the chat interfaces or perhaps have not gone deep with implementation on some of these models. If you could both speed up inference time and reduce cost of GPT to 3.5 levels, there are incredible amount of possibilities that open up that could actually help solve a lot of problems have had with trying to interface software to the real world (robotics). 4-Turbo is actually pretty amazing but its still a tad pricey for some tasks. Altman made a comment on Lex's podcast about compute and I "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39779071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779071", "by": "rubenbe", "time": 1711032206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast recently had an episode on this type of scam: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 39779754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779754", "by": "bumby", "time": 1711034945, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The podcast \"Search Engine\" recently had an episode about this [1]. One aspect that came to light is that while some targets will sometimes waste these callers time by playing along just to mess with them, they can actually be putting these people in harms way. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whos-behind-these-scam..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39781317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39781317", "by": "bun_terminator", "time": 1711040734, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on Lex podcast again? Someone please tell me what that guy has on people. The ratio of success to skill is the biggest I have ever seen in pretty much everything."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 39783955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783955", "by": "thefourthchime", "time": 1711052842, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PJ Vagt (from Reply All) has a FANTASTIC episode about this. Give it a listen, it's one of the most interesting podcasts I've heard since the golden days of Reply All. https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 39783997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783997", "by": "FireInsight", "time": 1711053112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All is still my comfort podcast for short walks. Nothing has yet reclaimed the throne of being my most listened from it. Search Engine carries the torch somewhat, and is really good for it's scope, wjch obviously differs from the scope of Reply All."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 39783997, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783997", "by": "FireInsight", "time": 1711053112, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reply All is still my comfort podcast for short walks. Nothing has yet reclaimed the throne of being my most listened from it. Search Engine carries the torch somewhat, and is really good for it's scope, wjch obviously differs from the scope of Reply All."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 39788222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788222", "by": "slau", "time": 1711093021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting couple of episodes from the podcast Search Engine, asking the question \u201cWhy do dealers put fentanyl in everything?\u201d [1] & [2] The grim conclusion was that dead clients are a calling card for dealers. People addicted to drugs don\u2019t think \u201coh crap, this guy might kill me\u201d, they think \u201coh wow, that must\u2019ve been a hell of a high\u201d. [1]: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f... [2]: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39789181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789181", "by": "cornedor", "time": 1711103164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Sam Altman in a podcast with Lex Fridman this week, there is no real indication that it will be dropped this year. They will release a new model, but it might not be GPT-5"}, {"show": "461288283", "hn_item": 39792864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39792864", "by": "klondike_klive", "time": 1711128200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for reminding me of it, I used to play it all the time but haven't even installed it for several years. I bought it after a recommendation from Roguelike Radio, the podcast hosted by Darren Grey, one of the ADOM and TOME devs (If I remember correctly)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 39797682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797682", "by": "CountGeek", "time": 1711171450, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "And what if the government does eventually get its hands on aliens and their flying saucers? \u201cIt\u2019s not their job [to keep it secret],\u201d he says. \u201cIt would immediately get turned over to Nasa, and Nasa would immediately disclose it to everybody. That\u2019s their job.\u201d Oh OK, NASA will disclose it like they did with the footage of a UFO entering earth(1)? For those who are interested, these two podcasts are insightful (2) and (3). (1) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-accused-of-cutting-live-fe... (2) https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Gg4Qi578G5SXoEtaLVVpx?si=r... (3) https://open.spotify.com/episode"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39800046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800046", "by": "HarHarVeryFunny", "time": 1711203007, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes - seem a much better, more general, approach. There was an interesting interview of Lee Cronin on Lex Fridman's podcast a while ago. For anyone unfamiliar, Assembly Theory is based on the idea that the more structurally complex something is, such as a molecule, the less likely it was created by chance, and the more likely it was created by an assembly factory of sorts, one type of which is life in it's potentially diverse forms."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 39801744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801744", "by": "john-tells-all", "time": 1711216294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I adore the idea of a podcast/blog search engine! And results can be streamed via RSS, wonderful! I use Feedly to subscribe to important RSS feeds, including specific Hacker News authors. Current database is a bit light: it didn't have \"Science Vs\", a popular podcast. Added. For comparison, https://www.podchaser.com/ only has podcasts but it's more fleshed out."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 39804076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804076", "by": "jordanb", "time": 1711239958, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If Books Could Kill (a podcast dunking on crappy airport books from the 2000s) did their first episode on Freakonomics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics/id1651876..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39804076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804076", "by": "jordanb", "time": 1711239958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If Books Could Kill (a podcast dunking on crappy airport books from the 2000s) did their first episode on Freakonomics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics/id1651876..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39804154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804154", "by": "dashundchen", "time": 1711240922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to a few episodes of this podcast, I don't think they are necessarily fair with each book they discuss. There are, however, many problems with Freakonomics drawing conclusions that aren't justified. They quite rightly point a few out. I wouldn't say the hosts' ideology is \"DEI\", whatever you mean by that."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39804216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804216", "by": "guhcampos", "time": 1711241518, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to their whole catalog and the only book I can remember getting more heat that it deserved was actually Freakonomics. While it has quite a lot of correctly pointed out issues, I find the book entertaining and informing enough that it should be read, while most the other hooks they review are indeed harmful, and not bacause of any DEI misalignment in general, but mostly because of pseudoscience. I don't remember ALL episodes of course. I'm not sure they listened to the Freakonomics podcast either, because I find it as left leaning as possible for anyone that can consider themselve"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39804896, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804896", "by": "smcin", "time": 1711250032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found the episode, but although it cited some sources, can't see an actual publication with that finding, but other sources plus some plausible conjecture by people who are fairly informed: Freakonomics Radio Episode #338 \"How to Catch World Cup Fever\" Jun 13, 2018 https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-to-catch-world-cup-feve... [5m00s-onwards]\" the World Cup isn\u2019t just a gargantuan sporting event; it\u2019s a microcosm of human foibles and (yep) economic theory brought to life.\" Click on 'Read Full transcript'. In the audio, jump to 11m29s, where they talk to Stefan Szymanski, professor of econom"}, {"show": "1727278168", "hn_item": 39805765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805765", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1711267966, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39808039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808039", "by": "endominus", "time": 1711296382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Per Wikipedia [0], the Freakonomics analysis holds up. Levitt addressed the disagreement on a podcast as well [1]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime... [1]: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 39808771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808771", "by": "maxutility", "time": 1711301936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Act III of episode 585 of This American Life (a WBEZ radio show broadcast on NPR and distributed via podcast) discussed this phenomenon and spoke with a few individuals with HSAM: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/585/in-defense-of-ignorance... One of the individuals was a script supervisor in Hollywood responsible for ensuring continuity between scenes during filming. But it also ventures into powerful emotionally resonant territory, touching on the bittersweet implications of experiencing loss when memories never fade."}, {"show": "1716035740", "hn_item": 39823235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39823235", "by": "nl", "time": 1711415373, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On the podcast interview now Groq CEO Jonathon Ross did[1] he talked about the creation of the original TPUs (which he built at Google). Apparently originally it was a FPGA he did in his 20% time because he sat near the team who was having inference speed issues. They got it working, then Jeff Dean did the math and the decided to do an ASIC. Now of course Google should spin off the TPU team as a separate company. It's the only credible competition NVidia has, and the software support is second only to NVidia. [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0V9kRgNS7Ds6zh3GjdXUAQ?si=q..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 39827614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39827614", "by": "DicIfTEx", "time": 1711460019, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Was a report sent to the king of Spain about the brutality of conquistadors? Yes, most famously from Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas. If you'd like to see how Christopher Columbus was viewed by his contemporaries, I'd recommend the three-part podcast series from Behind the Bastards : https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... Similarly, there were many contemporaries to slavery and other periods of colonialism who were very openly critical of them and organised in opposition. The key difference is that these tended to be ad hoc social movements and rarely international, whereas t"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 39831589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831589", "by": "gcj", "time": 1711479874, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's become clear the great age where being a software developer meant you could never be unemployed is done. One of my favorite podcasts (Soft Skills Engineering) has been talking about it for months. My article about how to easily find a job as a dev, which got me literally hundreds of e-mails of thanks, no longer makes sense https://gcj.io/blog/how-to-get-a-better-dev-job/. I myself have just been laid off, and since I was foreseeing the decline of the company, I have been firing CVs away for MONTHS and couldn't find any decent offer. Not even a half decent one. Hell, a friend who's"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39833888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833888", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1711494652, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 39837119, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837119", "by": "f6v", "time": 1711532867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Romans at least got to enjoy a couple hundred years of wine, revelry and decadence before things broke down completely. I\u2019ve been enjoying The History of Rome podcast. It seems like the most consistent thing was civil wars which were followed by purges."}, {"show": "1730476827", "hn_item": 39837991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837991", "by": "hasheddan", "time": 1711541369, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 39841113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39841113", "by": "ed", "time": 1711555946, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Mom Test in easily digestible podcast form: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indie-hackers/id120616... Start Small, Stay Small has some good ideas but is out of date. X is where I find the most helpful and relevant SaaS tips."}, {"show": "1434325501", "hn_item": 39844875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844875", "by": "jpfr", "time": 1711575326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree! The ArtHoles podcast is superb. There were some updates on his Instagram lately. Fingers crossed for more episodes. This is the first online-first content producer I'd consider paying real money for..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39845983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39845983", "by": "mattgreenrocks", "time": 1711582877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a Freakonomics podcast about this topic that\u2019s worth a listen. It helped me work through what it felt like to be in this position. I\u2019d class myself as a reluctant staff eng at this point who has no wish to progress further at this time. Most interesting part of the podcast is how it talks about how companies know this happens but let it happen anyways because it\u2019s the least of all evils on their eyes. One suggestion to beat it is wild: random promotions. As I\u2019ve gotten older and seen how titles/pay are tied closely to experience and age I\u2019ve started to see that maybe it isn\u2019t the worst"}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 39846444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39846444", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1711586408, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "However, Andrew Sharp, Ben\u2019s cohost on SharpTech was a lawyer and he also says that the judicial system is not the way to go and they should pass laws. But you don\u2019t have to be a lawyer to know the statements of fact are in correct as far as the technology. They also condemned EUs ruling against Facebook where Facebook can\u2019t even give users a choice of having an ad free experience by paying. I have no problem paying money for stuff I want. I think that\u2019s an honest transaction. On Dithering, Gruber commended the EU for actually passing a simple law forcing Apple to open up NFC and the USB C man"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 39848264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848264", "by": "Swordfish12345", "time": 1711606972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would love to see a study on how banning social media impacts ADHD symptoms. The current wisdom is as soon as a diagnosis is made: go straight on the meds because there is minimal side-effects. So environmental modifications as treatment are not explored. Plus, once meds are involved, you now have a stimulant dependence to deal with too involving a afternoon crash, and increased anxiety, etc. Then your on anti-depressants to counteract these side-effects, etc. etc. I was listening to the All-In podcast and Chamath's child got a diagnosis recently, and they said: absolutely no meds. Then took"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39849258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849258", "by": "sph", "time": 1711619554, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If one wishes to keep an open mind and explore non-mainstream views of the modern world economy, I recommend the first chapters of The Bitcoin Standard, by Saifedean Ammous, an actual trained economist. He has been interviewed by Lex Fridman if you prefer to hear him in podcast version. These chapters are not about bitcoin, but the societal shift that happened at the turn of last century when countries abandoned the gold standard to finance their wars. The Keynesian economic policy. The concept of time preference which shifts when the value of a currency is diluted by inflation. How very rich "}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 39852788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852788", "by": "mtrovo", "time": 1711639949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a related episode of the Hard Fork podcast about the subject https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/podcasts/hard-fork-apple-... . The conversation touches a lot on how peer pressure has a lot of power on keeping kids around those apps and this fact is just amplified by the fact that IRL interactions are very limited to younger generations compared to the older ones where you could just walk to your friends house and spend your whole day outside without too much adult supervision. There's no doubt that there's an addiction problem on how these apps play with younger folks mind and as muc"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39862717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39862717", "by": "joenot443", "time": 1711711152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The March 25 New York magazine cover story laid out a stunning tale about Huberman\u2014that he was seeing six women simultaneously. Further, that story says, his lab at Stanford, \u201caccording to knowledgeable sources, barely exists.\u201d Whether or not you care about infidelity and hosts\u2019 personal lives, listeners to Huberman\u2019s podcast should not sweep aside the contents of the New York mag story as mere gossip. I've seen _so_ much chatter about this on X and it can't help but leave me a bit confused. Respectfully, why should one care about the personal life of someone who gives you diet advice? Would"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 39865412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865412", "by": "JSeymourATL", "time": 1711726907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> listeners to Huberman\u2019s podcast should not sweep aside the contents of the New York mag story as mere gossip. Followed by an artful downward social comparison, his life\u2019s work is also a disaster. Quite a hit job."}, {"show": "932499233", "hn_item": 39865929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865929", "by": "mvdtnz", "time": 1711729591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That depends completely on the podcast, it's weird to impugn an entire category of media because you've picked bad podcasts. Podcasts like The Economist, Slow News Cast, Sensemaker and The Inquiry have basically no wasted time whatsoever. They are punchy as any radio story, which is why I prefer this category of podcast. I for one can't stand to listen to long rambling repetitive conversations from guys like Huberman or Rogan, which is why I don't listen to them."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 39867180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867180", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1711735824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Any favorite intermediate French ones? I already have One Thing In A French Day, Duolingo French, and Francais Authentique. I've got a bunch of native French podcasts as well, mostly on science, but they're often past my limit. About the only one I can handle is Il \u00e9tait une fois, which is also very slow, targeted (I think) to Francophone children. BTW: I use Pocket Casts. It does a really good job of rendering these at 80% or 90% speed, for a bit of extra help."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 39867419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867419", "by": "cbhl", "time": 1711737048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you do not have a job and are not actively looking for work, you are not part of the \"labor force\". The \"labor force\" is defined as (working + actively looking). Also, the denominator of the unemployment rate is the size of the labor force, not the size of the working-age population. In particular if someone gives up on looking for a job because they're too discouraged, or if someone decides to become a stay-at-home parent, this causes the size of the labor force to go down by one person. Search for: \"labor force participation rate\". Also some definitions here (US-specific): https://www.bls"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 39867746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867746", "by": "ldjkfkdsjnv", "time": 1711739004, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm generally harsh on podcasters, but Dwarkesh has had some of the best LLM content by far. He dives right into the details of the models and where the industry is headed. Whereas most AI podcast content is too high level, and borderline click bait/useless."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39873161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39873161", "by": "jexp", "time": 1711790034, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really awesome deep history of TSMC on the Acquired podcast https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39878605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878605", "by": "8thcross", "time": 1711832392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "this is the conundrum the US Pharma is facing. GLP1 took NN 10+ years of investment to come up. Acquired podcast has a great story about them. The middleman is what is different between the various country healthcare systems. USDOJ is trying/tried going after but one word - lobby. The regulation required is for consumer to directly buy from pharma skipping all middlemen. my 2cents."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39879935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39879935", "by": "phkahler", "time": 1711843597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you watch Sam Altman talking on the Lex Friedman podcast, he clearly thinks ChatGPT 4 is kinda cool and that 5 will be better. But he really dropped the hype and sounded more like this article."}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 39882872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882872", "by": "mcBesse", "time": 1711879087, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Articles of Interest podcast did an episode on Paisley if anyone wants to know more"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39896097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896097", "by": "bombcar", "time": 1711989780, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some podcast did an \"update\" on Freakonomics and according to them the majority of the difference could be explained by double custody/double claims and people not getting SSNs in time."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 39898788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898788", "by": "dw_arthur", "time": 1712003096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Autor was just on the Odd Lots podcast, so if you don't feel like reading the paper you can listen to the interview where he talks about it."}, {"show": "1562119447", "hn_item": 39899867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39899867", "by": "circafuturum", "time": 1712008603, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just listened to a podcast episode of the Flying High with Flutter podcast [1] where Celest founder, Dillon, was on as a guest. He came across as capable, hungry to get Celest out into the world, and focussed on solving problems around running dart in the cloud. All the best, Dillon, I'm looking forward to see where Celest goes! [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/celest-the-flutter-clo..."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 39900377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39900377", "by": "zerd", "time": 1712012216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast that kills the car stereo episode of Reply All is pretty funny https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/brh8jm"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 39900534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39900534", "by": "badbart14", "time": 1712013464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast episode on the Bronze Age Collapse to learn more about the Sea-Peoples ( https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbw?list=PLR7yrLMHm11XAuYuZMPHPn9Hz... ) . They discuss how the Sea-Peoples may be a symptom and a cause of the bronze age collapse, and the whole episode is extremely engaging and educational. (As all the episodes of this podcast are, cannot recommend it enough)"}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 39901895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39901895", "by": "a_gnostic", "time": 1712025963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That one's good! For an alternate perspective, check episodes 0028 and 0027 of The Dangerous History Podcast (1) 1. https://profcj.org/"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 39902094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902094", "by": "Ar-Curunir", "time": 1712028422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tides of History is also really good! Both are two of my favourite podcasts =)"}, {"show": "1578096201", "hn_item": 39902302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902302", "by": "richrichie", "time": 1712031056, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Podcast version here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/71CRr8vnJ9YJrdnrZEWOZV?si=D..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 39902872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902872", "by": "fullymanaged", "time": 1712038817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your feelings are dead wrong. First, they have not hit a plateau. If you're in any ways involved with AI research you'd know that there is an insane amount of low hanging fruit in terms of data (synthetic and real world), architectural improvements, loss function improvements and scaling. I also doubt their main motivation is collecting more data. Their motivation is directly competing with Google on their search business. The early success of Perplexity has shown that an answer engine built on top of LLMs is an improvement over a list of ranked web pages. OpenAI would be stupid to not go afte"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39906082, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39906082", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1712067841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mitnick, at this point, has deceased. Read up on red teaming and social engineering in general. Many more examples of red teaming are available, for example. I thoroughly enjoy these specific stories on Darknet Diaries podcast."}, {"show": "1507242265", "hn_item": 39911949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39911949", "by": "tr90814", "time": 1712100314, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Super cool - reminds me a bit of The Secrets Hotline https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-secrets-hotline/id..."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 39918010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918010", "by": "shmatt", "time": 1712154667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suggest everyone listen to the current season of the Serial podcast. >processing masses of data to rapidly identify potential \u201cjunior\u201d operatives to target. Four of the sources said that, at one stage early in the war, Lavender listed as many as 37,000 Palestinian men who had been linked by the AI system to Hamas or PIJ. This is really no different than how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to Gitmo and other more secretive prisons, or bombing their location More than anything else it feels like just like in the corporate world, the engineers in the army are overselling "}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 39919204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39919204", "by": "hiAndrewQuinn", "time": 1712160331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We know from the Corecursive podcast on the hidden story of SQLite that Dr. Hipp did indeed reference and pull at least one alg straight from Knuth's books, which he had behind his desk. What a different world that must have been!"}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 39922549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922549", "by": "itishappy", "time": 1712175591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Hidden Brain podcast came to the same conclusion in the Escaping the Matrix episode featuring Jonathan Haidt. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/escaping-the-matrix/ TL;DR: It's phones and social media. We're social creatures who rely on dynamic networks of diverse opinions, but social media perverts this. We build static networks affirming our own opinions and that leaves us afraid of the unknown. My favorite point Jonathan made is that if you look at the world as a whole, the spectrum of morality is actually incredibly diverse! Nobody sets out to build an evil ideology. Empires, caste syste"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 39925632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925632", "by": "dagelf", "time": 1712194891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All of the above, stealing of money, secrets, AI model weights, destruction, access to crypto passphrases, spam, impersonation, blackmail ... maybe not directly to systems with good security, but its like picking a lock, every bit of progress helps, security exists in layers, and one weak layer compromises the next... ssh is a pretty fundamental technology, and highly trusted. There are wonderfully colorful podcasts about this. Darknet Diaries is pretty decent, and entertaining, for public consumption."}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 39929925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39929925", "by": "rootforce", "time": 1712236115, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 39930685, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930685", "by": "kaliszad", "time": 1712240077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andres Freund will also be on the Oxide and Friends podcast with @bcantrill and @ahl on April 9th at 5pm PT. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 39930834, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930834", "by": "K0nserv", "time": 1712240772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Risky Business is a fantastic podcast in general, well worth listening to weekly if you are interested in infosec."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39930888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39930888", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1712241039, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast did an episode on the history of Visa that covers a lot of how the credit card industry works. As another commenter noted, this article doesn\u2019t pull out clearly how this whole credit card reward scheme actually works. The Acquired episode does, by the end. It works like this: the \u2018luxury\u2019 credit card providers, partnering with Visa, take money away from merchants in order to extract profit for themselves while keeping the credit card consumers happy. The merchants are pissed about this, and regularly make lawsuits to regulate interchange. The money extracted by the credit "}, {"show": "1467292185", "hn_item": 39935875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39935875", "by": "zilti", "time": 1712265203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really nice series of episodes on the Extremities podcast about Pitcairn."}, {"show": "1452395408", "hn_item": 39949011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39949011", "by": "1vuio0pswjnm7", "time": 1712364753, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No \"paywall\": https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/costs-at-some-colleges-near-... https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/revenue-strateg... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-much-should-you-pa... https://boglecenter.net/bogleheads-speaker-series-with-ron-l... https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/11/some-c... (2019)"}, {"show": "366931951", "hn_item": 39950978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950978", "by": "cuu508", "time": 1712393070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Startups for the rest of us\" podcast is alright."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 39958103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39958103", "by": "ccorcos", "time": 1712462520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast episode about Visa explains this. The high fee for rewards cards can be justified to merchants because those are their best customers, i.e. rich people, people to travel a lot, etc. It\u2019s actually kind of messed up because rich people are getting a larger discount on goods than poor people who can\u2019t get a rewards card."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 39960719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39960719", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1712497337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Valve asked Nintendo in advance about allowing the Yuzu emulator on the store. Nintendo said no and Valve didn\u2019t put up a fight. I heard about it on a recent Decoder podcast. But this is the first reference I saw on the web. https://kotaku.com/yuzu-nintendo-switch-emulator-steam-deck-..."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 39982053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39982053", "by": "smokel", "time": 1712684846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also interesting in this context is the podcast series \"The Advent of Computing\" [1] by Sean Haas. Episode 36 is specifically about CP/M, and there are several episodes that paint the history of the x86 architecture that we're still working on today. A real treat! [1] https://adventofcomputing.com/"}, {"show": "1597594188", "hn_item": 39984335, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984335", "by": "bachmeier", "time": 1712697335, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For a review from 2009 that I think does a good job of summarizing the views of economists (though it's not my research area): https://www.nber.org/papers/w15098 \"Such models provide little support for the Donohue and Levitt hypothesis in either the US or the United Kingdom.\" Related: Levitt did a podcast recently that got a lot of attention, where he looks back on his career and discusses his retirement at age 58, and discusses this topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steven-d-levitt-freako..."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 39984496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984496", "by": "throw0101d", "time": 1712698241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decouple podcast recently had three-part series on Vogtle: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGySq7QBRiY * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfkoMUmmUCI * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbKf_TbI000 It mentions a few 'macro' issues with Vogtle: the first being the choice of using an AP-1000 design (Westinghouse Toshiba). Not because it is/was necessarily 'inherently' a bad design (the guest, James Krellenstein, describes himself as an \"AP-100 fanboy\"), but rather because it was (at the time) never built before. That, combined with the fact that the US had little/no institutional knowledge of"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 39984645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984645", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1712699299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IMHO this podcast is way too biased in favor of nuclear, and exemplifies the entire problem with the nuclear industry: too much magical thinking and not enough hard retrospective self-criticism. Are we going to be able to construct nuclear in the future? Probably? Maybe? But if folks like this are in charge of the efforts, then my answer is a firm \"never.\" Take for example when Jigar Shah went on their podcast. Shah is a huuuge nuclear fan, and IMHO is way too optimistic too (for example the DoE's LPO Liftoff report on nuclear gave it a 30%-50% cost advantage out of nowhere in order to make it"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 39984760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984760", "by": "throw0101d", "time": 1712699997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> IMHO this podcast is way too biased in favor of nuclear, and exemplifies the entire problem with the nuclear industry: too much magical thinking and not enough hard retrospective self-criticism. Why do things have to be balanced or unbiased? The anti-nuclear folks have their platforms, why can't the pro-nuclear people have theirs? It is \"biased\" because it is run by a nuclear advocate ? But given they had a three-part series on the problems and what went wrong with Vogtle, it's not like they're trying to hide everything under the rug. A little while ago they published a video on a debate wit"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 39984850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984850", "by": "louwrentius", "time": 1712700640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If Books Could Kill: Freakonomics is a biased but stil enjoyable podcast episode that touches this topic as part of the whole book History is full of instances where new scientific theories were resisted by those who found them inconvenient. By and large, history hasn\u2019t been kind to the resisters. Quite tone-deaf, makes me mistrust their results even more (although I\u2019m in support of abortion) it almost reads as a threat"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 39984850, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984850", "by": "louwrentius", "time": 1712700640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If Books Could Kill: Freakonomics is a biased but stil enjoyable podcast episode that touches this topic as part of the whole book History is full of instances where new scientific theories were resisted by those who found them inconvenient. By and large, history hasn\u2019t been kind to the resisters. Quite tone-deaf, makes me mistrust their results even more (although I\u2019m in support of abortion) it almost reads as a threat"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 39985643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39985643", "by": "mustache_kimono", "time": 1712707953, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 39988943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988943", "by": "desert_rue", "time": 1712743593, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d recommend listening to the Hard Fork podcast to answer some of these questions. In particular the March 22nd and 29th episodes."}, {"show": "1494350511", "hn_item": 39991196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991196", "by": "taylorbuley", "time": 1712759888, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 40001056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40001056", "by": "oakpond", "time": 1712835416, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I just found FLOSS Weekly [1] and I'm wondering what else is out there. [1] https://hackaday.com/floss"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 40001653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40001653", "by": "8ig8", "time": 1712840703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Syntax podcast recently did an episode on Transformers.js and the developer\u2026 https://syntax.fm/show/740/local-ai-models-in-javascript-mac..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40011127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011127", "by": "jijijijij", "time": 1712918334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Compare the last two S. Altman interviews on the Lex Fridman Podcast. Dude already got lawyers breathing down his neck not to make unsubstantiated claims. I guess, they can't deliver, and the suspicion of fraud is in the air."}, {"show": "1520085146", "hn_item": 40016788, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016788", "by": "caitlinpsymed", "time": 1712950491, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1520085146", "hn_item": 40016789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016789", "by": "caitlinpsymed", "time": 1712950491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sharing a new Business Trip podcast episode with PsyMed General Partner Matias Serebrinsky and renowned psychedelics experts, Nolan Williams, Allison Feduccia, Matt Baggott. This was from a live panel in San Francisco. Nolan is a Stanford professor currently researching ibogaine among other areas in psychiatry and radiology, and he's a founder of TMS company Magnus Medical. Allison is the founder of Psychedelic Support, a platform providing psychedelic education, community and a provider directory. And Matt is founder and CEO of Tactogen, a biotech company developing compounds similar to MDMA."}, {"show": "332516054", "hn_item": 40020122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40020122", "by": "knighthack", "time": 1712977355, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an Art of Manliness podcast that talks about this: https://www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/homeownership/declu... It really opened my eyes to the fact that most of what you value or hold dear will have no value to others, especially if it can't be resold. As a practical minimalist (rather than a strict one) it's informed my personal practices a fair bit."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 40023799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023799", "by": "spmurrayzzz", "time": 1713022614, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked Steve Yegge's quote on the Latent Space podcast late last year: \"I'll believe in agents when somebody shows me one that works.\" That's really all I require, just show me an agentic workflow that doesn't routinely implode at various stages and I'll buy in to some of the broader claims about the future of agents."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40026754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026754", "by": "HenryBemis", "time": 1713047343, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't live in the US, so I don't 'interfere'. I do monitor/watch US tv/media online (i.e. Tucker Carlson AND Stephen Colbert AND SNL AND others..)(yeah I know..) I also listen to podcasts, and very recently Lex Fridman had Mark Cuban on (I've binged at least 10y worth of Shark Tank in the past). There was one thing that Mark Cuban said that it hit me. \"Trump never admits being wrong\" (or something to that effect). And since he's a human (with 3 marriages, a porn-star affair/whatever-that-was while married, everyone near him quits or goes to prison, etc. It hit me! \"He never admits being wron"}, {"show": "1641358361", "hn_item": 40026930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40026930", "by": "kdmoyers", "time": 1713048753, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Green's interview on the Butter No Parsnips podcast. He sounds like an amusing guy! https://open.spotify.com/episode/6WNG3aoS0sAu4Uija7xP3X"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40034011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40034011", "by": "game_the0ry", "time": 1713125294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember hearing this story on the Joe Rogan podcast. I was so astonished, I could not believe it until I looked it up myself."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 40035333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035333", "by": "JumpCrisscross", "time": 1713136234, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Also this Planet Money episode [1]. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834..."}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 40035549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035549", "by": "netsharc", "time": 1713138225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I knew of Werner Herzog but recently got really interested in his work after he guested on Conan O'Brien's podcast. I'm reading his autobiography right now. It's fascinating how he was begging some investor about how he had to make the movie Fitzcarraldo, because if he didn't, his life would be purposeless (I do hope I'm remembering this right). It got me wondering how he got away with things like forcing his crew to carry tonnes of ship over a mountain, but, also why shouldn't he get away with it, why should there be a strict construct of what's allowed or not."}, {"show": "1614211565", "hn_item": 40043417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043417", "by": "sgt", "time": 1713202568, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Elon Musk even says so himself that he believes Chinese EV's are good. His personal experience from a couple of years ago, and also as per his team feedback recently. Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/in-good-company-with-n... (Episode from 9 Apr 2024 - interview with Elon Musk)"}, {"show": "1614211565", "hn_item": 40043434, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043434", "by": "sgt", "time": 1713202610, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 40043849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043849", "by": "bumby", "time": 1713204748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cSearch Engine\u201d podcast did a recent episode on this topic. https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40044374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044374", "by": "ImPostingOnHN", "time": 1713207606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm trying to imagine the CEOs I've worked under, randomly swooping into an Engineering meeting once or twice a month, \"making a decision\" that doesn't respect the chain of command, with no knowledge of the subject matter or history, and never checking back or caring about the results. Then calling themselves an \"engineer\" because \"they make engineering decisions\". That would be really disempowering. Engineers \"make engineering decisions\" for their primary day job, not just on the occasional weird drug-fueled power-trip through the engineering department in between shitposting on twitter and b"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 40052875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052875", "by": "youraimarketer", "time": 1713279759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've always been someone who can easily come up with new business ideas, but I've noticed that many of my friends and colleagues struggle with this. Take Y Combinator, Shark Tank, Gary Vee, and the My First Million podcast, for example. These platforms and personalities offer incredible insights into the business world through their conversations, guests, and real-life business stories. Now I know what you're thinking - spending hours watching these videos might not be the best use of your time. That's why I created an AI agent to do the work for me! This AI agent goes to my selected YouTube c"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 40053035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053035", "by": "semanser", "time": 1713280441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is also a video on Lenny's podcast (feat First Round Capital) about the exact same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1Uwhfxacs"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40053990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053990", "by": "koliber", "time": 1713284768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent Radiolab podcast episode about how often cosmic rays cause computer errors in practice. It's engaging and educational: https://radiolab.org/podcast/bit-flip I always knew about the theoretical cosmic ray bit flips. Before listening to this episode, I did not stop to think how often they actually cause problems."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 40054235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054235", "by": "light_triad", "time": 1713285925, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great they share specific metrics and give a sense of how they evaluate companies, although all First Round articles have this tendency to be so overdesigned it takes away from the content. The discussion on Lenny's podcast is easier to digest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1Uwhfxacs I think the 4 P's is a valuable framework for getting to PMF: Persona, Problem, Promise (Pitch), and Product. Usually startups that don't work have a fundamental problem with a few of these (they try to solve too many problems for too many people in a subpar way - i.e. they don't have a strong answer to: which"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 40057359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40057359", "by": "justin66", "time": 1713302394, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, bullshit. Marketplace is also a great podcast."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 40058470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40058470", "by": "nox101", "time": 1713309196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "RadioLab did the same thing. Was science for the first ~10 yrs, then turned politics from a fairly left POV. I finally stopped listening after they passed the torch. This American Life is also pretty far left. It's still on my podcast list but I only listen when I run out of others. And then, 2 out of 3 times the story a race/identity piece and fast forward to the next part."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 40058914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40058914", "by": "UncleOxidant", "time": 1713312357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In the end, NPR deserves all the credit / responsibility for what it broadcasts. I think it's more like: In the end, your local NPR station deserves credit/responsibility for what it broadcasts. Not all of the shows they broadcast are NPR shows. There's PRI, for example. The other thing is that sometimes there are multiple NPR options that could be presented. EDIT: I checked the schedule of my local NPR station: The morning/afternoon schedule: - Morning Edition (NPR) - On Point (seems to be NPR out of WBUR) - Here and Now (also NPR out of WBUR - I actually think this one is generally pretty "}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 40060124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060124", "by": "semireg", "time": 1713324551, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Humane couple were interviewed on \u201cHow I Built This\u201d last month. The interview has the \u201cI worked at Apple\u201d vibe because both husband and wife did work at Apple. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40065620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065620", "by": "mdrzn", "time": 1713365956, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"64K tokens context window\" I do wish they had managed to extend it to at least 128K to match the capabilities of GPT-4 Turbo Maybe this limit will become a joke when looking back? Can you imagine reaching a trillion tokens context window in the future, as Sam speculated on Lex's podcast?"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40074657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074657", "by": "hilux", "time": 1713435488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FYI, it links to the Apr 18th episode of the Odd Lots podcast."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40077950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077950", "by": "chaoz_", "time": 1713457853, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't express how good Dwarkesh's podcast is in general."}, {"show": "1728547478", "hn_item": 40078193, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078193", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1713458993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dnsmasq was recently the subject of a FLOSS Weekly podcast episode: https://hackaday.com/2024/03/27/floss-weekly-episode-776-dns..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40078312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078312", "by": "lordswork", "time": 1713459542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex walked so that Dwarkesh could run. He runs the best AI podcast around right now, by a long shot."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40079046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079046", "by": "HarHarVeryFunny", "time": 1713463882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a difference to being a good chatshow/podcast host and a journalist holding someone's feet to the fire! Dwarkesh is excellent at what he does - lots of research beforehand (which is how he lands these great guests), but then lets the guest do most of the talking, and encourages them to expand on what they are saying. It you are critisizing the guest or giving them too much push back, then they are going to clam up and you won't get the best out of them."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40079062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079062", "by": "machdiamonds", "time": 1713463960, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He said they were using Bing and Google on the Dwarkesh podcast."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40079762, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40079762", "by": "lordswork", "time": 1713467813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My earlier comparison was basically saying now that high-profile guests are talking to a much better interviewer (Dwarkesh), we no longer have to rely on Lex as the only podcast with long-form interviews of these guests."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40085070, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085070", "by": "jesseduffield", "time": 1713522539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconding this opinion: Dwarkesh's podcast is really good. I haven't watched all of the Zuck interview but I recommend others to check out a couple extra episodes to get a more representative sample. He is one of the few postcasters who does his homework."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40089447, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089447", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1713546996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I think Graham Hancock wrote a book on it. Just popped up on my news feed, \"Archaeologist braves the Joe Rogan podcast to counter Graham Hancock's nonsense\": * https://boingboing.net/2024/04/19/archaeologist-braves-the-j... Episode in question, \"Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble\": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL1_EMIw6w (Entire episode is 4h26m long: I don't have to interest/patience for that personally.)"}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 40090049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090049", "by": "feross", "time": 1713549670, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 40103091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103091", "by": "nirui", "time": 1713671921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently learned from a The Verge podcast that the U.S. has law in place to limit how many shares can be owned by a foreign shareholders if the company is a news/media company (??? Alert: I'm not so sure about the detail). Which is in fact a fairly common idea among the nations: > U.K. Moves to Bar Foreign State Ownership of Newspapers, a Blow to Telegraph Bid > https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/business/media/jeff-zucker-telegraph-delay.html as well as: > https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/68072 I guess it's too bad that the industry are calling this kind of service \"Social Media \". (Of "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40103317, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40103317", "by": "bjornsing", "time": 1713676273, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Stewart Butterfield, former CEO of Slack, recently described a dynamic within tech companies behind much of the over-hiring. He noted on Bloomberg\u2019s Odd Lots podcast in late May that when there\u2019s no real constraint on hiring, \u201cyou hire someone, and the first thing that person wants to do is hire other people.\u201d The reason is that \u201cthe more people who report to you, the higher your prestige, the more your power in the organization\u2026So every budgeting process is, \u2018I really want to hire,\u2019 and that to me is the root of all the excess.\u201d I\u2019ve seen this first hand. One place where I worked HR even ha"}, {"show": "1734784429", "hn_item": 40107568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107568", "by": "panrobo", "time": 1713721166, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40109009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40109009", "by": "suriyaG", "time": 1713731874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Zuckerberg's reasoning on AI/ML seemed very justifiable to me in the Dwarkesh podcast IIRC, - Having a better model is a competitive advantage in fighting against spam - Better models enables facebook itself to understand their code vulnerabilities, better employee productivity etc. - Being in the frontier of open source, keeps them at an advantage in terms of updates from community"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40110107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110107", "by": "EcommerceFlow", "time": 1713742150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "GPT4 was released a year ago, and trained two years ago. I wouldn\u2019t sleep on OpenAi, especially how confident Sam Altman sounded in his Lex Friedman podcast. The real race is to AGI anyways, as whoever gets there first will immediately capture 100% of the market."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40110142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110142", "by": "dragonwriter", "time": 1713742491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I wouldn\u2019t sleep on OpenAi, especially how confident Sam Altman sounded in his Lex Friedman podcast. How confident Sam Altman sounds doesn\u2019t figure much into my assessment\u2019s of reality, other than the reality of Sam Altman\u2019s promotional skills. > The real race is to AGI anyways, as whoever gets there first will immediately capture 100% of the market. AGI has no actual objective definition, and nothing supports this beyond naked conjecture and quasi-religious dogma."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40111324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40111324", "by": "mfiguiere", "time": 1713758780, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 40112569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112569", "by": "perelin", "time": 1713776451, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi all, a few weeks ago I found myself in a situation without anything interesting to listen to. Been through all podcast recommendations from friends and the usual recos from itunes, etc were not cutting it for me. So I build myself a podcast search engine. Based on the data from podcastindex.org and some other available infos. It doesnt (yet) have all available podcasts, only the ones I could find some rating/engagement infos on. But its still around 60k podcasts to discover :) One can search / filter / sort by category, rating, popularity, episodes, language, update date, etc. There is also"}, {"show": "958825741", "hn_item": 40113568, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113568", "by": "isolli", "time": 1713787827, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Good point. It reminds me of an observation made by Paul Sutter in his podcast [0]. Paraphrasing, there so many layers of emergent phenomena, most of whom we will probably never figure out: - From quantum fields to atoms - From atoms to chemistry - From chemistry to biochemistry - From biochemistry to cellular life - From cellular life to multicellular life - From multicellular life to consciousness - From individual consciousness to social phenomena [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/en/podcast/ask-a-spaceman/id95882..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 40115582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115582", "by": "pavel_lishin", "time": 1713801427, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "fwiw, the author's previous book (\"The Coddling of the American Mind\") was ... featured ... on If Books Could Kill: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 40115785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115785", "by": "nh23423fefe", "time": 1713802688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't come away convinced by his recent appearance on Conversations with Tyler. Similar conversation on Ezra Klein podcast which I also found unconvincing. It seems like people are making themselves miserable with their social media addiction and want someone else to solve their inability to control their attentional problems. > I can't stop myself from doom-scrolling. We should ban tiktok. > I can't make my kids go outside. We should ban IG. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas..."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 40115785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115785", "by": "nh23423fefe", "time": 1713802688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't come away convinced by his recent appearance on Conversations with Tyler. Similar conversation on Ezra Klein podcast which I also found unconvincing. It seems like people are making themselves miserable with their social media addiction and want someone else to solve their inability to control their attentional problems. > I can't stop myself from doom-scrolling. We should ban tiktok. > I can't make my kids go outside. We should ban IG. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40116707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116707", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1713807638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, he was quite explicit that he believes that open-sourcing has worked out for them in the past and they're interested in it in the future but they'll only do it so long as it helps them. If they make something awesome that it would be worse for them to release he won't release it. And the license is anti-competitor (if you have 700 million users or more, you can't use Llama) so he's quite clear that this is a business decision."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40117743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117743", "by": "mvkel", "time": 1713813404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. Zuck on Dwarkesh's podcast definitely seemed to be doing some aggressive retconning, making it seem like AI was always the plan, and the metaverse never was. Of course the opposite was true."}, {"show": "1463460577", "hn_item": 40118614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118614", "by": "_aavaa_", "time": 1713815378, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> but the ones that are most concerning that those we have little choice but to play And boy are they ever increasing! For anyone interested in other good gamification resources I recommend C. Thi Nguyen [0][1]. [0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/the-philosophy-of-game... [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/55-games-against-human..."}, {"show": "1515827446", "hn_item": 40118614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118614", "by": "_aavaa_", "time": 1713815378, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> but the ones that are most concerning that those we have little choice but to play And boy are they ever increasing! For anyone interested in other good gamification resources I recommend C. Thi Nguyen [0][1]. [0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/the-philosophy-of-game... [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/55-games-against-human..."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 40119899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40119899", "by": "suprjami", "time": 1713817904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good timing, the latest Skeptoid podcast takes a critical look at recycling: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4932 tl;dr - PET and LDPE are worth recycling in the US, those have 1 and 2 in the recycle symbol Other countries check your local area. Different local government can recycle different things."}, {"show": "1458750622", "hn_item": 40136136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136136", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1713900483, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The author's podcast 'Power corrupts' is really excellent. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-corrupts/id14587... The associated book 'Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us' is also very good."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40138180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138180", "by": "Jhsto", "time": 1713912051, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting point in the recent Acquired podcast about Microsoft vs IBM. Supposedly IBM revenue only decreased after 2012 and Microsoft only passed it in revenue in 2015."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40139502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139502", "by": "benknight87", "time": 1713923028, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really good Radiolab episode about cicadas and their bizarre 17 year cycles. https://radiolab.org/podcast/279210-cicadas-are-coming"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 40139670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139670", "by": "Willish42", "time": 1713924589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> And in my next newsletter, I'm going to walk you through how a very specific kind of managerial mindset has poisoned Silicon Valley, making career failures unfathomably rich while your favorite tech products decay. I look forward to this one as somebody with a personally vested interest! More seriously, Ed Zitron's podcast Better Offline is great for those who enjoyed this article. I love his opinionated perspective even when I don't wholesale agree (though in this case I do), and I find him a breath of fresh air in tech journalism. I work in a ... similar company and find his perspective to"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 40143225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143225", "by": "tiew9Vii", "time": 1713959390, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I discovered \u201cDeveloper Voices\u201d recently https://youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices . It\u2019s more a podcast style channel, with a different guest on each episode with experience in a different area of tech/computer science they discuss. No memes, no clickbait, no how to be a tech lead just mixed varied interesting computer science content/topics. Agree with the other posters though, generally tech channels are junk full of charlatans."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40144055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40144055", "by": "gorbypark", "time": 1713964803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think it's really being \"generous\" with their competitors business value. Meta has a track record of open sourcing the \"infrastructure\" bits behind their core products. They have released many, many things like React/React Native, GraphQL, Casandra (database), Open Compute Project (server / router designs), HHVM and dozens of other projects long before their recent AI push. Have a look here, I spent five minutes scrolling and got 1/4 of the way through! https://opensource.fb.com/projects/ With Llama, they now have an army of people hacking on the llama architecture, so even if they don"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40144238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40144238", "by": "mindwok", "time": 1713965832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People keep saying this, but I don\u2019t see how an LLM is a complement to a social media website. People don\u2019t consume more social media with more LLMs. Whats the link here? Also on the Dwarkesh podcast, Zuck indicated one thing they\u2019re afraid of is walled garden ecosystems they have to go through to reach users like with Apple and Google, and releasing open models is a way of preventing that happening with LLMs."}, {"show": "1201968027", "hn_item": 40148328, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148328", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1713986030, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a great episode of the Ongoing History of New Music on this topic What A Drag It Is Getting Old (Musically) https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/what-a-drag-it-is-gett... \"Ah\u2026there it was again: an example of how someone\u2019s musical tastes evolve with age\u2026 it\u2019s just something that happens with most people\u2026 most of take that as a given\u2026not me, though\u2026this is something that\u2019s always fascinated me\u2026there has to be some science behind why we listen to different types and styles of music as we go through life\u2026 So I tracked down this science and I have some answers\u2026we\u2019ll call this episode \u201cwha"}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 40156617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156617", "by": "erinnh", "time": 1714047733, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think hes talking about this podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/can-substack-ceo-chris..."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 40164452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164452", "by": "edzitron", "time": 1714089241, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hey all! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-man-that-destroyed... if you wanna hear this instead of read this, check out the podcast version."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 40174497, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174497", "by": "quickslowdown", "time": 1714166791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"If there's one thing to learn from all of human history, it's that we've never learned a single goddamn thing from all of human history.\" - Robert Evans, a podcaster (Behind the Bastards)"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 40177486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40177486", "by": "coldtrait", "time": 1714195354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've genuinely never understood a single thing he's talked about ever. I remember he was on Sam Harris' podcast talking about his ideas and none of it made sense to me at all. I don't think I'll get a response, but I'll try anyway. Can anyone point me in the right direction?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40179308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40179308", "by": "_heimdall", "time": 1714219385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Friedman's podcast episode [1] with Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, is an extremely interesting one. They go into detail on what she found regarding the nuclear football, why it was created in the first place, and how insane it is to expect anyone to make such a decision. [1] https://lexfridman.com/annie-jacobsen/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40180824, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180824", "by": "runjake", "time": 1714232646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman* There is also a Lex Friedman who does another podcast but they are two distinct people."}, {"show": "1743414087", "hn_item": 40182922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182922", "by": "thedg", "time": 1714247695, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hi HN, I'm the co-founder of a Series A startup called Jam. I think not enough founders talk about what it's really like week to week, trying to build something from scratch. So this week, my co-founder, 2 teammates and I started a podcast. It's called Building Jam and it's a real conversation with the team about what it\u2019s actually like to build our startup each week. No fluff, just real decisions, moments and challenges. We recorded the first episode this week at our team offsite. On it, we discuss: 0:00 This week\u2019s offsite and building in person 4:32 Bringing up difficult or confrontational "}, {"show": "1614211565", "hn_item": 40197787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197787", "by": "sgt", "time": 1714395838, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40205028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205028", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1714430793, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A good 101 on an illegal story is by Jack Barsky, on his own account. He wrote a book on it, there's various interviews with him, a podcast series (The Agent) and he got interviewed by Lex Fridman (#301). I recomment The Agent podcast series [1] on his (life) story. Also available on Apple Podcast. [1] https://open.spotify.com/show/5DToOunQsM18OmGD5eVRXR"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 40209539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209539", "by": "edanm", "time": 1714474351, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> It's based on my reading from various people who were there and who have commented on the process afterwards. There is a massive gap between how this is discussed in the American popular media and how it's discussed among experts. Ok. Can you tell me who some of these experts are? I'd genuinely like to read more about this, having recently read quite a bit about the negotiations. > Camp David was utterly unacceptable for the same reasons I've discussed earlier. You keep talking about Israel \"offering\" something unacceptable. We're talking about a negotiation, both sides having something they"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40210092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210092", "by": "nickfromseattle", "time": 1714478701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Altman said in the latest Lex Friedman podcast that OAI has consistently received feedback their releases \"shock the world\", and that they'd like to fix that. I think releasing to this 3rd party so the internet can start chattering about it and discovering new functionality several months before an official release aligns with that goal of drip-feeding society incremental updates instead of big new releases."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40223114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40223114", "by": "itsoktocry", "time": 1714570977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I see more Teslas coming on the roads around here then any other EV (not as many cybertrucks though). Because we can't buy vehicles from the Chinese competition. > However Tesla is still far ahead of the competition Are they? Did anyone catch the recent All In Podcast? They were talking about Tesla's robotaxi lead, so Calacanis showed them a video of Waymo operating robotaxis today and Chamath and Sacks had literally never seen it before ; \"This is amazing!\". Pretty easy to believe Tesla is the leader when you don't know what's out there."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 40225172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40225172", "by": "stephendeyoung", "time": 1714579410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm less concerned about regulations and more about utilities. Many of them are still stuck in a mind set of using fossil fuel power plants to meet peak demand. Recently Georgia Power and Duke Energy in the south east of the US said they would need to build more gas power plants to meet data centre demand. But they don't need to do that. VPPs plus additional grid optimisation negates the need for more fossil fuel generation. The Volts podcast talked about this recently: https://www.volts.wtf/p/rising-electricity-demand-requires"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 40227998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227998", "by": "greedo", "time": 1714591102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good podcasts and videos can't be replicated by AI. I watch two channels on YT; Eric Rosen playing chess, and a guy nicknamed Hoover who runs Pilot Debrief. Both bring subject matter expertise that can't really be fooled. I also listen to the ATP podcast, and do so because of the personalities and experience the three members have."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 40230054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230054", "by": "caseyohara", "time": 1714600754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd argue this is a bit different than your typical suburban HOA restrictions. Cities are shared spaces, and design consistency is pleasing to humans. Beautiful architecture and good city planning are obviously subjective, but aesthetically, design consistency creates a sense of harmony, unity, and comfort compared to a disjointed hodgepodge without a cohesive architectural through line. Functionally, it can also promote things like walkability and sustainability, making it a nicer place to live and work and visit. The 99% Invisible podcast recently had an episode about Sante Fe, NM. The city "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 40234087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40234087", "by": "l33tman", "time": 1714639999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really recommend listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast (available on Spotify at least). Really high-quality interviews with both ex and current hackers, cybersecurity professionals etc."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 40235575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235575", "by": "andrew_eu", "time": 1714654156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I often discuss Jane Street as a great model of employee branding. They do well placed adverts/sponsorships (e.g. Standup Maths[0]), they produce a quite decent quality podcast (Signals and Threads [1]), and they have consistent monthly puzzles [2]. That level of investment in branding only makes sense, I think, at a large size. I'm kind of surprised they only have ~2500 people. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths [1] https://signalsandthreads.com/ [2] https://www.janestreet.com/puzzles/current-puzzle/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40241201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241201", "by": "beambot", "time": 1714682924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sama & Lex Fridman literally talked about disrupting search in their latest podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40244011, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40244011", "by": "kamaal", "time": 1714710137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure how true this is, I heard in the Joe Rogan podcast, cardio vascular fitness, like the extreme kind correlates with nearly the entire disease spectrum. It doesn't apply to something like 'acts of god' type things like Cancer or COVID. But it seems to be the best bet against aging, and other diseases. My favorite exercise in this regard is Swimming and Kettlebell training. Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement for Swinning and Kettlebell training."}, {"show": "1436651521", "hn_item": 40250764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250764", "by": "dangets", "time": 1714761122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I assume this is a good spot to give a shout-out for the Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest podcast - kid-friendly story-telling podcast great for long car rides. The author likes to point out deviations between original stories and later re-tellings. I believe the first 2 seasons are free. * https://pinna.fm/library/kids-shows/pinna-podcasts/grimm-gri..."}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 40251089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40251089", "by": "feross", "time": 1714762986, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 40253937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253937", "by": "gnabgib", "time": 1714784378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've read quite a number of these (can't help but notice the 7 lists have plenty of dupes), but.. a lot of these titles are on the PodCast If Books Could Kill [0] - a podcast that targets \"airport books\", popular nonfiction books often marketed as pop science or smart thinking that might be found in airport bookshops (and have poor arguments, poor data use, factual errors, unsound conclusions, overgeneralizations). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Books_Could_Kill"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 40255148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40255148", "by": "wnc3141", "time": 1714800879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think your'e right that the playbook in reality looks more like a short term squeeze of cashflow with schemes far less imaginative than you'd think. Some recent news stories I have enjoyed on the matter *about Authentic Brands Inc - which in short parks on defunct retail brands and liscences out the manufacture while owning no capital themselves. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1209684529/retail-bankruptcy-... Two part podcast on implications of private equity form Freakonomics (I find balanced, rigorous, and asks challenging questions of its contributors) 1) https://freakonomics.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40257243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257243", "by": "celias", "time": 1714826719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab and 99% Invisible have podcasts about this https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 40257243, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257243", "by": "celias", "time": 1714826719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab and 99% Invisible have podcasts about this https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/ https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon"}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 40259887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40259887", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1714852523, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) is a free and open-source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy. It would be helpful to link \"open data\" to an op3.dev/opendata page that either defines data usage rights or states something like \"podcast analytics data is intended for use by individual podcast publishers. For usage of aggregated data, please contact []\". Maybe an FAQ with examples of acceptable commercial usage. The \"listener privacy\" text could be linked to op3.dev/privacy."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 40260532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40260532", "by": "WirelessGigabit", "time": 1714859056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know there is the famous Target case where Target sent pregnancy related ads to the living-at-her-parents daughter. That's how the dad found out. I remember a podcast about this. Maybe Reply All. But I cannot find it anymore."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40262747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262747", "by": "MR4D", "time": 1714891173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s already there in some respects. This week on the Odd Lots podcast [0] there was an excellent interview with the founder of Duolingo who talks about how they use AI to personalize the learning for each user. But even before that, we had adaptive tests. Not AI, but on the path to adaptive learning systems. [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/luis-von-..."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 40262747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262747", "by": "MR4D", "time": 1714891173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s already there in some respects. This week on the Odd Lots podcast [0] there was an excellent interview with the founder of Duolingo who talks about how they use AI to personalize the learning for each user. But even before that, we had adaptive tests. Not AI, but on the path to adaptive learning systems. [0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/luis-von-..."}, {"show": "1499409058", "hn_item": 40267407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267407", "by": "lottin", "time": 1714936797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I asked if we have evidence because the author made an interesting point in a recent interview on the \"Bankless\" podcast: \"When we hear people like Tether saying we're successfully banking the unbanked, you can look at the median transaction over the Tron network, and it's between $100 and $300. If you looked at comparable numbers in the US for credit card transactions, the median transactions is between $40 and $80. And so, do you buy that they're banking the unbanked third world who are moving a lot more money around than people in the US do?\""}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 40270071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270071", "by": "hackerlight", "time": 1714956650, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It's easy to forget tangible win-win examples like this[1] or this[2]. Speaking from my personal experience, it's improved my life by reducing tedium associated with writing code. Small wins, but there's lots of them spread over many people. They are not abstract and it's harder to write grand narratives about them. > Precipitated a new class of computationally intense and expensive systems at a time when we desperately need to be focused on sustainability and reducing power demands/increasing efficiency. Microsoft are building over 10GW of firmed renewables which will partly power their AI da"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40270746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270746", "by": "jiggawatts", "time": 1714964376, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are all facts coming from publicly available information, such as the Llama 3 paper and recent interviews. I'd dig up the specific timestamps, but I'm working at the moment and can't spend the next hour scrolling through long interviews. The interviews are: \"Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, $10B Models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW Datacenters\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg \"Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416 \": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40 The total FLOPS used in training is in bunch of places, I can't f"}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 40275892, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275892", "by": "pimlottc", "time": 1715009894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great episode of the Futility Closet podcast about the Doves Type and the dispute that lead to it being dumped into the Thames: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/09/04/podcast-episode-16..."}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 40279582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279582", "by": "browningstreet", "time": 1715029953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend James Clear's first appearance on the Rich Roll podcast. Him speaking about the book is a lift."}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 40281680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281680", "by": "cebert", "time": 1715048620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I often listen to the Windows Weekly podcast. Paul Thurrott talks a lot about how Windows, especially Windows 11, is getting worse. He mentions problems like more prevalent ads, the computer not using the internet browser you like, slower performance, missing features, and pushing other Microsoft services like OneDrive on users. Tiny11Builder doesn\u2019t fix all the issues, but it does make Windows 11 easier to use (they even talked about it on last week\u2019s episode of Windows Weekly)."}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 40291203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40291203", "by": "toomuchtodo", "time": 1715114526, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 40292610, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292610", "by": "VelesDude", "time": 1715123779, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly podcast who said that all these companies don't really care about privacy. Apple takes billions of dollar a year to direct data towards Google via the search defaults. Clearly privacy has a price. And I suspect it will only get worse with time as they keep chasing the next quarter. Tim Cook unfortunately is so captured in that quarterly mindset of 'please the share holders' that it is only a matter of time."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40296624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40296624", "by": "steveBK123", "time": 1715166532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is a policy problem. There was an OddLots podcast on the topic of NYC CRE to Resi conversions a while ago. One issue is theres longstanding zoning laws on conversions that limit what can be converted based on year of construction. The year doesn't automatically move forward annually so a new law has to be passed to adjust it otherwise it remains stuck at 1965 or something like that."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40297744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297744", "by": "MaxBarraclough", "time": 1715173987, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They might have been thinking of the recently discovered hardware backdoor issue, CVE-2023-38606 (see also Operation Triangulation ). There was surprisingly little reporting on it. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783112 Transcript of Security Now podcast episode discussing the issue: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-955.htm"}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 40300596, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300596", "by": "TheCleric", "time": 1715188865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His recounting of the recording of \u201cIn Utero\u201d on Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s podcast (along with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic) is a fantastic hour of storytelling and rock history. Can\u2019t recommend it enough. https://www.earwolf.com/episode/dave-grohl-krist-novoselic-a..."}, {"show": "652522142", "hn_item": 40300696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300696", "by": "nwsm", "time": 1715189271, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "RIP. I just bought Shellac's debut album recently, and they have another set to release soon. I recommend the Kreative Kontrol podcast episode with him and Fred Armisen from last year where they talk about their experiences in the Chicago music scene. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BeHekAjVm72b9Sc9FlCtu?si=6..."}, {"show": "329875043", "hn_item": 40302784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40302784", "by": "fogbeak", "time": 1715202963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested, Steve (Albini) goes into detail about his father and his contributions to wildfire science during an interview on the Marc Maron podcast. It's fascinating listening."}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 40309322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40309322", "by": "amath", "time": 1715268996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Developer Voices podcast is one of my favorites."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 40310848, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310848", "by": "vosper", "time": 1715277111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s the trap of the weekly science/academic podcast. There isn\u2019t enough science, they eventually run through their expertise, their friends\u2019 expertise, but they gotta keep cranking podcasts out. Quality inevitably goes downhill. Most of them become part of the book-promotional podcast circuit. Just look at EconTalk."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 40311969, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40311969", "by": "zengid", "time": 1715282478, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Relevant Oxide and Friends podcast episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvVmYhclAg"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 40317526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317526", "by": "harywilke", "time": 1715339306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are efforts to attack the car tyre noise problem by grinding groves into the surface of the road. it's called \"Next Generation Concrete Surface\" I remember hearing about it on the \"Twenty Thousand Hertz\" podcast [0] [0] https://www.20k.org/episodes/sonicutopia"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 40320129, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320129", "by": "Staple_Diet", "time": 1715354799, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If Books Could Kill is a decent podcast that covers a few of the worst examples of book grifts."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40320706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320706", "by": "mfiguiere", "time": 1715357854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired Podcast did a 3 hours episode on the history of Renaissance Technologies last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KjW4BqNFy0"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40327110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327110", "by": "exz", "time": 1715420775, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40327445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327445", "by": "Bostonian", "time": 1715426389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'Elon Musk\u2019s bedtime routine is giving him nightmares. To hear him in public is to catalog a running list of his greatest fears: end-of-the-world type stuff, killer AI threats and, in recent years, the scourge of what he calls the Woke Mind Virus. \u201cI listen to podcasts about the fall of civilizations to go to sleep,\u201d Musk said this past week during an appearance at the Milken Institute conference. \u201cSo perhaps that might be part of the problem.\u201d One provocateur, in particular, has caught his attention of late: Gad Saad, a marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and author of th"}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 40329319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329319", "by": "gdcbe", "time": 1715447133, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The latest \u201cDecoder\u201d episode was about local smart homes. Mainly about \u201cMatter\u201d, but also about Thread: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat... Might be of interest if Thread is of interest to you."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 40329319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329319", "by": "gdcbe", "time": 1715447133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest \u201cDecoder\u201d episode was about local smart homes. Mainly about \u201cMatter\u201d, but also about Thread: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat... Might be of interest if Thread is of interest to you."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40334632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40334632", "by": "bjackman", "time": 1715523060, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm getting a bit off topic here but regarding the pseudo-archaeology that's popular on YouTube: Graham Hancock (who had a 10 part Netflix series called Ancient Apocalypse about an advanced global civilization during/before the last glacial maximum) recently appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast alongside Flint Dibble who is an archaeologist that does public communication on YouTube. At least according to my own YouTube bubble it seems we are in a pretty big moment for pseudo-archaeology! Here's an informal discussion about it from Stefan Milo who I highly recommend for anyone intereated in prehisto"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40335155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40335155", "by": "throwawaycities", "time": 1715527082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Graham has been appearing on Rogan\u2019s podcast for years now. It\u2019s Grahams exposure from Rogan that actually got Graham his Netflix show not the other way around. In terms of proliferation of \u201cpseudo archeology\u201d - whatever that is - yes, lots of people are realizing they can profit from this, so more content than ever is being created to monetize the attention capture. It\u2019s not unlike flat earth content that people have been able to successfully monetize. It\u2019s not all bad, Graham is no doubt responsible for getting people interested in history, archeology, and even geology. It\u2019s really not socie"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 40336887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40336887", "by": "matt-attack", "time": 1715542339, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s an excellent 2hr or so podcast episode on free will that has drastically changed my mind on the notion of determinism. The main argument is that the notion of \u201cchoice\u201d is in fact an illusion and when you dive into what you\u2019re actually doing when you \u201cchoose\u201d you realize that it\u2019s really just determinism under the hood. In other words a deterministic universe is actually completely consistent with our experience once you realize that the mechanism of us \u201cchoosing\u201d anything is really an illusion. Highly recommend it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-sense-with-sam-..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40340859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340859", "by": "belter", "time": 1715587795, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 40344452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40344452", "by": "michael_fine", "time": 1715614260, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40344763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40344763", "by": "senkora", "time": 1715615970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I sometimes listen to (parts of) the All-In podcast because I think it is useful to understand what powerful people in our industry think. The four of them are really quite unlikable, and I can confidently say that if any of them happen to read this comment then they would not care in the slightest that I said that."}, {"show": "1316769266", "hn_item": 40344917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40344917", "by": "huevosabio", "time": 1715616859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually, I think I like them more as people that I would like to hangout with every now and then. They have a silly sense of humor that I like (though JCal tries too hard). I find their commentary to be so incredibly biased that it is 99% useless. They are all peddling their investments, positions etc. Chamath, for example, claimed that he did not know what Waymo was: either he is an idiot (since knowing this shit is his job), or this is all a show to promote their positions. I believe the latter. It does help for picking up certain topics if you were out of the loop. However, I find that my "}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 40344938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40344938", "by": "strongpigeon", "time": 1715616972, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve tried some of them, but I was put off by some of the \u201cI got all the answers\u201d vibes most of them have. The only exception for me has been the Dalton & Michael videos/podcast where they just both seem to really, really care about helping out. You can feel that what they\u2019re saying comes not just from 1-2 successes, but also from hundreds of failures that they\u2019ve seen. They also seem aware of (and are vocal about) the limits of their advice. I don\u2019t, know. Maybe I\u2019m drinking the cool-aid, but they did convince me to apply to YC\u2026"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40346425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346425", "by": "nopinsight", "time": 1715624069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam mentioned on several occasions that GPT-5 will be much smarter than GPT-4. On Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast, he even said the gap between GPT-5 and 4 will be as wide as GPT-4 and 3 (not 3.5). He did remain silent on when it\u2019s going to be launched."}, {"show": "1703615331", "hn_item": 40348711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348711", "by": "api", "time": 1715635693, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1703615331", "hn_item": 40349579, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349579", "by": "nielsbot", "time": 1715641231, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Apple Podcasts link FWIW: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-companies-say-th..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40349772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349772", "by": "ripper1138", "time": 1715642741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got the same vibe from him on the All In podcast. For every question, he would answer with a vaguely profound statement, talking in circles without really saying anything. On multiple occasions he would answer like 'In some ways yes, in some ways no...' and then just change the subject."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40350371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350371", "by": "heed", "time": 1715647747, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Altman talked a little bit about this in his recent appearance on the All-In podcast [0]. I'm paraphrasing, but his vision is that ai assistants in the near term will be like a senior level employee - they'll push back when it makes sense to and not just be sycophants. [0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM"}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 40368563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40368563", "by": "who-shot-jr", "time": 1715788340, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Click Here podcast - 129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy \"In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy \u2014 he\u2019s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they\u2019ve charged with hacking. What\u2019s more, he says more attacks are coming.\" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/click-here/id122507730..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 40372929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372929", "by": "bishbosh", "time": 1715810366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Googling it, everything I am seeing says that no part of discord is end-to-end encrypted. Do you have a source for that, I thought they were pretty adamantly against it? I don't know that I agree with your point about data being necessary for QoS. Many of the issues I have with Discord go ignored, and I've found that more than ignorance, resources are the issue with features and reliability of open source projects. Further I Googled around a bit to see if I could find if Discord was profitable yet, and didn't see anything suggesting it was. There were some revenue break downs, but obviously th"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 40372937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40372937", "by": "kridsdale1", "time": 1715810436, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ted Chiang on the Ezra Klein podcast said basically the same thing: AI Doomerism is actually capitalist anxiety."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 40377431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40377431", "by": "cuu508", "time": 1715862097, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He talked about the book in a recent Conversations with Tyler podcast episode: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jonathan-haidt-a... It's an untypical episode, usually Tyler just rapid-fires questions, but here he takes the opposite view (on the balance, social networks are a good thing for teens) and debates quite a bit."}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 40378940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378940", "by": "madeofpenwool", "time": 1715869842, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey all, I\u2019ve spent the majority of the last year hammering away at Pinepods. It\u2019s a Rust based podcast management system that manages podcasts with multi-user support and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it. It\u2019s complete with a browser based client and your podcasts and settings follow you from device to device due to everything being stored on the server. AntennaPod is great and all but sometimes I want to listen to podcasts from my laptop. Here\u2019s a great solution to that problem that keeps all your data in your network. There\u2019s also a client edition that you can down"}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 40380982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40380982", "by": "runnr_az", "time": 1715880771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's a good Omnibus podcast ep about Mummy Brown: https://www.omnibusproject.com/19"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 40382032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382032", "by": "faizan-ali", "time": 1715887051, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is an excellent behind the bastards podcast on this: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kSz7fsdOV9fzFFC93tdS7?si=U..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40382898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382898", "by": "unclad5968", "time": 1715892304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Graham himself debated an actual archeologist on the Rogan podcast not too long ago. I think he makes it pretty clear that he's mostly advocating that there is a nonzero amount of evidence for a pre ice age civilization that was significantly more advanced than immediate post ice age civilizations. Im not convinced he's correct, but that doesn't make his stuff invalid. He's basically just presenting an alternative interpretation of the data and academic archeology is vilifying him for it, which they've done to several people before who ended up being right. Of course in his shows he presents e"}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 40383051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383051", "by": "theossuary", "time": 1715893126, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maintenance Phase did a really good podcast episode on Ozempic and this new class of weight loss drugs in general. They go into detail on the individual trials Ozempic went through and the results after two years, where most gained back a majority of the weight they lost. They also discuss how the trials themselves weren't just the medication, but also weekly meetings with a dietician and monthly meeting with a councellor; so the numbers the studies have about 1/3rd of participants losing 20% of their body weight should be taken with a grain of salt. It's worth listening to if you're consideri"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 40385016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385016", "by": "mambrogi", "time": 1715905417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was able to try the app out, really love the concept. Often find it easier to sneak in audio throughout the day than reading. Are the 'podcasts' designed to be more of a condensed version of the original article in the same tense? Or are they more of a narrative like Founders podcast or something?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 40388334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40388334", "by": "yreg", "time": 1715941696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By any chance I know, because I clipped it in Overcast. It was on Accidental Tech Podcast #415, 26:19. The topic starts at 25:40 https://atp.fm/415"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40388935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40388935", "by": "yumong", "time": 1715947224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Lex Friedman's podcast's episode with Matthew Cox."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40390719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390719", "by": "jnnnthnn", "time": 1715958282, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40392098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392098", "by": "cameldrv", "time": 1715966089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is concerning to me if Schulmann is in charge of safety now. He was on the Dwarkesh podcast the other day and Dwarkesh asked him a lot of safety questions. He had very short timelines for superintelligence, and no real answers for any of the safety questions Dwarkesh asked."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40395249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40395249", "by": "refulgentis", "time": 1715989650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "honestly, I hadn't heard of him until 24-48 hours ago :x (he's also the new superalignment lead, I can't remember if I heard that first, or the podcast stuff first. Dwarkesh Patel podcast for anyone curious. Only saw a clip of it)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40404152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404152", "by": "SOLAR_FIELDS", "time": 1716090923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sounds very much like something that someone might hear on Joe Rogan's podcast and think it's a good idea because someone who knows how to put two sentences together sounded like they knew what they were talking about."}, {"show": "1739823286", "hn_item": 40417965, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417965", "by": "quicknick123", "time": 1716226805, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 40423643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40423643", "by": "shmatt", "time": 1716260993, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its not just the US. A western democracy has never been issued a warrant like this. It's not that hard to find crimes being committed by western leaders (is no one listening to this seasons Serial podcast? Guantanamo is still open). If this goes through every western leader past and present can have a warrant out for them at any minute, it really doesn't take much to find 1 suspected violation and a need to arrest and stand trial to see if they are guilty."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40424365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40424365", "by": "gkanai", "time": 1716268035, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast had an ex-CIA officer, Phil Houston, on in April of 2024. He was promoting a new book but he had a lot of great advice for anyone to use regarding 'tells' when people are lying. Murati was clearly lying- that's obvious then and now. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-ex-cia-officer-expl..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 40431976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431976", "by": "Dig1t", "time": 1716315916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have heard what OP is talking about referred to on econ podcasts like Planet Money and Freakonomics."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 40431976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431976", "by": "Dig1t", "time": 1716315916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have heard what OP is talking about referred to on econ podcasts like Planet Money and Freakonomics."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 40432689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40432689", "by": "srndsnd", "time": 1716319449, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am currently ~400 pages into the Power Broker. I was motivated to pick it up again by a \"read along\" with Roman Mars from the 99% Invisible podcast. He's spacing out the book over the course of a year and interviewing fellow Caro fans and recapping major portions of the book. Never been a better time to tackle the beast! I am not sure I'll ever read a better biography in my life. At least, not until I read the Lyndon Johnson books."}, {"show": "1710689578", "hn_item": 40439439, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439439", "by": "walterbell", "time": 1716374730, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40440576, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440576", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1716383847, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 40442389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442389", "by": "seattle_spring", "time": 1716392814, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I highly recommend people look into this book and the claims it makes before giving the authors any of your time or money. There are tons of resources about this available online. This episode [1] is easy to digest, but there are many others [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-identity-trap/id16..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40445281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40445281", "by": "tsunamifury", "time": 1716406400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The two basic places to start are Yan LaCun on Lex Podcast and Hintons lecture at University of Toronto on YouTube -- both are easy to find."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 40458548, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458548", "by": "JessicaWong90", "time": 1716490896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "#1 Product on Product Hunt, May 22nd Identify, assess and collaborate with B2B opinion leaders from Linkedin, Youtube, Substack and Apple podcast. Leverage an AI-powered search engine to spot the trendsetters, unique KPIs for audience insights and outreach capabilities to engage at scale."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 40463733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463733", "by": "purple-leafy", "time": 1716535073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me here are some revolutionary apps and products - Protonmail - Proton pass and aliases are amazing. No more spam emails or unsubscribes. - Apple Podcasts. Really enjoy CoRecursive, Darknet Diaries, and Advent of Computing - Goodreads - Flightradar helped me get over a massive fear of flying (I would check flight radar for every plane flying overhead and it literally fixed me) - Codewars has been really fun for programming challenges - Svelte was fun to play with - Ultrawide curved monitor, amazing for dev - Switching from Windows, to Linux, to Mac has been great I\u2019m really grateful for th"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 40463733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463733", "by": "purple-leafy", "time": 1716535073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For me here are some revolutionary apps and products - Protonmail - Proton pass and aliases are amazing. No more spam emails or unsubscribes. - Apple Podcasts. Really enjoy CoRecursive, Darknet Diaries, and Advent of Computing - Goodreads - Flightradar helped me get over a massive fear of flying (I would check flight radar for every plane flying overhead and it literally fixed me) - Codewars has been really fun for programming challenges - Svelte was fun to play with - Ultrawide curved monitor, amazing for dev - Switching from Windows, to Linux, to Mac has been great I\u2019m really grateful for th"}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 40463894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463894", "by": "srge", "time": 1716536650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Although I'm not an expert on this case, it's wise to remain skeptical when hearing only one party's perspective on a court decision. The science in question might be dubious, but there could be other evidence, or the story might be more complex than it appears. I tend to root for the underdog against an institution, but we've already witnessed significant exaggerations and manipulations from the defense in public cases. The Serial podcast comes to mind, as well as the series Making a Murderer."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 40467880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467880", "by": "cotechdama", "time": 1716568776, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 99% Invisible podcast is doing a book club on The Power Broker that is absolutely delightful, even (and maybe especially?) if you haven't read the book. https://99percentinvisible.org/club/"}, {"show": "1734784429", "hn_item": 40468204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468204", "by": "panrobo", "time": 1716570527, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1011668648", "hn_item": 40468706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468706", "by": "flakiness", "time": 1716573360, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "FYI it is an excerpt from the decoder podcast. - https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-a... - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat... It is a nice podcast with various CEO interviews."}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 40468884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468884", "by": "jjulius", "time": 1716574282, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I tend to root for the underdog against an institution, but we've already witnessed significant exaggerations and manipulations from the defense in public cases. The Serial podcast comes to mind, as well as the series Making a Murderer. None of what you're referring to is new at all, and, unless this idea/concept is new to you (which is OK!), shouldn't really cause a shift in worldview. Parties on each side of cases such as these will often exaggerate and attempt to manipulate the court of public opinion, have done so for eons, and will continue to do so."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40479484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479484", "by": "paulryanrogers", "time": 1716692371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the \"Security Now\" podcast. He explains how SpinRite works every 3rd or 4th episode, with testimonials on every show. He seems open minded and mostly harmless, both in his tool (which I find works better than free alternatives), and in his armchair security analysis. Sometimes though he oddly contradicts his own best practices, like nearly blind faith in LastPass for years based on (IIRC) a white paper and the early execs being very chummy and accessible. Thankfully the audience calls out the questionable stuff."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40479634, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479634", "by": "naikrovek", "time": 1716694886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast is called \u201cSecurity Now\u201d but what it should be called is \u201cprivacy now\u201d because Mr. Gibson fails to understand a lot of contemporary security problems yet is quite sure that Windows collecting telemetry is the most severe problem on the planet today. unless you use his software to fix it, that is. Every episode having a 15-minute commercial for spinrite (via testimonials which all sound like they were written by the exact same person) should be more than enough for anyone to start to question the guy."}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 40479920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479920", "by": "MarkSweep", "time": 1716700621, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I understand some of the vibes the author picks up (can one guy who writes all his programs in assembler really have the answers to hard drive maintenance and recovery?), the article does not seem to go much beyond this vibe and speculation based reasoning. It would be more convincing if there were experiments testing the claimed benefits of using SpinRite, specifically around performance improvements caused by running a scan. Personally I think the claimed data recovery capabilities of SpinRite are less relevant these days due to file systems like ZFS that have scrubbing and data recove"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40479920, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40479920", "by": "MarkSweep", "time": 1716700621, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While I understand some of the vibes the author picks up (can one guy who writes all his programs in assembler really have the answers to hard drive maintenance and recovery?), the article does not seem to go much beyond this vibe and speculation based reasoning. It would be more convincing if there were experiments testing the claimed benefits of using SpinRite, specifically around performance improvements caused by running a scan. Personally I think the claimed data recovery capabilities of SpinRite are less relevant these days due to file systems like ZFS that have scrubbing and data recove"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40480675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480675", "by": "jexp", "time": 1716713951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "RenTec was covered in much depth at the Acquired podcast. Basically algorithms from signal processing applied to huge volumes of historical and current data to determine buy and sell signals. Originally developed for national defense. Very secretive all external partners were bought out. Only hundred or so people benefited in the billions per person. Including Robert Mercer of Trump campaign financing and Cambridge Analytica fame. Very interesting but also disheartening episode about smart people only caring about getting richer. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/renaissance-technologies"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40483491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483491", "by": "starttoaster", "time": 1716741899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you listen to the Security Now podcast, Steve Gibson often says it hasn't seen an update because it hasn't needed an update. I'd imagine there's at least some truth to that. Drives change all the time, but does hard drive interface technology change all that much?"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40483806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483806", "by": "guilhas", "time": 1716744090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would definitely recomend Steve and Leo's podcast 'Security Now' quite good at explaining CVEs and other security news I don't know about SpinRite but I would imagin it is just like any tool, useful for someone"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40487494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40487494", "by": "tivert", "time": 1716783220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If you listen to the Security Now podcast, Steve Gibson often says it hasn't seen an update because it hasn't needed an update. I'd imagine there's at least some truth to that. Drives change all the time, but does hard drive interface technology change all that much? It definitely needed one. I briefly had it several years ago, and I don't think it supported large disks that were common then (maybe 2TB was its limit) and it did not also support GPT partition tables."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40488092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488092", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1716790345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Something surprising Sam Altman mentioned on the Lex Fridman podcast was that it only takes about 6 months to get a top physicist up to speed and productive researching AI. So the team could largely be newbies to AI (with extremely good fundamental knowledge/skill), rather than folks we've all heard of from the AI scene."}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 40493555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493555", "by": "etoulas", "time": 1716836280, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Adding a smiley improves performance according to Logan Kilpatrick, head of developer relations at OpenAI. > There's a lot of really small silly things, like adding a smiley face, increases the performance of the model. > You could imagine on the order of one or 2%, which for a few sentence answer might not even be a discernible difference. Again, if you're generating an entire saga of texts, the smiley face could actually make a material difference for you, but for something small and textual it might not. He mentioned that in Lenny\u2019s podcast at 24:37. Transcript available here: https://www.l"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 40493555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493555", "by": "etoulas", "time": 1716836280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adding a smiley improves performance according to Logan Kilpatrick, head of developer relations at OpenAI. > There's a lot of really small silly things, like adding a smiley face, increases the performance of the model. > You could imagine on the order of one or 2%, which for a few sentence answer might not even be a discernible difference. Again, if you're generating an entire saga of texts, the smiley face could actually make a material difference for you, but for something small and textual it might not. He mentioned that in Lenny\u2019s podcast at 24:37. Transcript available here: https://www.l"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 40500713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500713", "by": "devgoth", "time": 1716903922, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "hey everyone! i've recently started to walk and run more often and love listening to podcasts while i do it. i enjoy software engineering-focused ones to stay up to date on things. what recommendations do you have for software engineering podcasts? i'll start: Thinking Elixir - https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40500718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500718", "by": "vroomik", "time": 1716904009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Memory is sometimes considered as a network where \"pieces of memories' are pulled together to create a memory for \"present you\". Traumatic memories from the past aren't that traumatic after many years after, and are being changed every time when being recalled (that's one of the theories). You can lisen to recent Lex podcast with Charan Ranganath, i got it timestamped when talking about child memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuepdI3wCU&t=885s"}, {"show": "1741574582", "hn_item": 40505428, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505428", "by": "m_ke", "time": 1716929122, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 40511631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40511631", "by": "floatrock", "time": 1716988423, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> restaurant and public space designers have stopped thinking about sound. Most bars opened in the last 15 years have cement floors, very little sound insulation, and they\u2019re based on the idea that you\u2019re not having a good time unless your ears are ringing. Recently listened to a really good podcast about this phenomenon https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gastropod/id918896288?... (or pick your favorite podcast app) Couple takeaways I remember: - \"Silence is the new luxury\" -- restaurants can have good sound design, but it doesn't come cheap. Upscale restaurants are starting to differentiat"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40514722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514722", "by": "whoami_nr", "time": 1717005099, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentioned it on the Dwarkesh podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg"}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 40517678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40517678", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1717020820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey Nick, good to hear from you again! > You know it must have been stressful when you were compelled to list your desserts in order. Haha, that's true, but I also get more excited than the average person about desserts. > Now that we're almost in June, does it feel like the deal happened a million years ago? I know when stressful things happen and time passes, it always feels like it was so long ago even when it was only a month or 2 back. Yeah, I hadn't thought about it, but you're right. We're only about six weeks out, but it feels like it happened six months ago. It was funny during due di"}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 40518465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40518465", "by": "amanzi", "time": 1717026102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I loved your Running in Production podcast. Any chance of a return in the future?"}, {"show": "1730476827", "hn_item": 40519031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519031", "by": "trsohmers", "time": 1717031168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Founder of REX Computing here; I highly recommend checking out my interview on the Microarch Club podcast linked elsewhere on the thread; will also answer questions on this thread if anyone has them."}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 40519863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519863", "by": "yaya_yazi", "time": 1717040581, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 40519865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519865", "by": "yaya_yazi", "time": 1717040613, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 40519872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519872", "by": "iam_a_user", "time": 1717040682, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 40519876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40519876", "by": "iam_a_user", "time": 1717040727, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40526431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40526431", "by": "rgrmrts", "time": 1717090510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knuth was talking about a very specific thing, and the generalization of that quote is a misunderstanding of his point. Source: Donald Knuth on the Lex Fridman podcast, when Lex asks him about that phrase"}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 40528273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40528273", "by": "spacetimeuser5", "time": 1717101005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Science of Everything podcast by James Fodor (probably) on podbean.com for a 6 part \"How computers work\". He sort of is studying for a PhD or something, and he mentioned (in the 2nd part) that the uncertainty principle is actually applied in computer electronics for electron energies."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 40540630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40540630", "by": "brigandish", "time": 1717191877, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Dr Goldberg, who I heard on Huberman's podcast[1], morning sunlight so you can get red light. Dusk/twilight also has red light, but I've heard that it's helpful to combat the effect of bright light before sleep, like that from screens, for some reason I forget. Now I make sure to get a bit of both. [1] https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-jeffrey-goldberg-how-..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 40541814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40541814", "by": "richardw", "time": 1717202738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine is Mindscape podcast. The AMA episodes are multi hour and filled with intelligent information. I do worry that on bad nights I might not be getting the sleep my brain needs because there\u2019s a feed of input unrelated to my life."}, {"show": "1479000931", "hn_item": 40544302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40544302", "by": "nabla9", "time": 1717235526, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "As podcast: Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/the-gentlemen-hackers-... https://www.withsecure.com/fi/whats-new/podcasts/herrasmiesh..."}, {"show": "1469394914", "hn_item": 40544618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40544618", "by": "chapulin", "time": 1717239664, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40548708, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40548708", "by": "upon_drumhead", "time": 1717272713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab also did an excellent podcast on the topic https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40561926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40561926", "by": "robocat", "time": 1717416871, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096"}, {"show": "1116303051", "hn_item": 40572241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40572241", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1717491713, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Depends how narrowly you want to focus on embodied. I follow TWIML&AI and Two Minute Papers, but both are much broader than just embodied though they do cover it: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-twiml-ai-podcast-f... https://m.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers"}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 40580494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580494", "by": "eaurouge", "time": 1717550183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> On some of the world\u2019s most popular health podcasts, such as Huberman Lab, hosted by Stanford professor Andrew Huberman, and The Drive with Dr. Peter Attia, CGMs have been both advertised and discussed on dedicated episodes. (Dr. Attia, in a disclaimer, notes that he is a paid advisor to Dexcom.) https://www.fastcompany.com/90859142/continuous-glucose-moni..."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 40580494, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580494", "by": "eaurouge", "time": 1717550183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> On some of the world\u2019s most popular health podcasts, such as Huberman Lab, hosted by Stanford professor Andrew Huberman, and The Drive with Dr. Peter Attia, CGMs have been both advertised and discussed on dedicated episodes. (Dr. Attia, in a disclaimer, notes that he is a paid advisor to Dexcom.) https://www.fastcompany.com/90859142/continuous-glucose-moni..."}, {"show": "1712665877", "hn_item": 40583509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583509", "by": "VagabundoP", "time": 1717585167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Core.py episode on the transition to the parser mentioned limitations of the LL(1) parser wrt to new syntax.[1][2] There were some positive side effects to the move and it enabled better exceptions, with more detailed information. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-8-the-new-pars... [2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-7-the-old-pars..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40587781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587781", "by": "photon_lines", "time": 1717608425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "'It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue.' - Sorry, but I disagree with this. I have no 'internal voice' or monologue - whenever I see a problem, my brain actually and fully models it using images. I believe 25% of the population doesn't have the internal monologue which you're referring to and this has been tested and confirmed. I highly recommend listening to this Lex Friedman podcast episode to get a full grasp on the complexities of modelling language and general modelling present in the human brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Jd9GI6XqE"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40590715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590715", "by": "g9yuayon", "time": 1717622141, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In podcast mentioned research on the concentration of micro plastic particles in human body. I was wondering if banning single-use plastics can somehow reduce that concentration as well."}, {"show": "1594675355", "hn_item": 40591352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591352", "by": "steveylang", "time": 1717626457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in learning more, there is a podcast series by New York Magazine called Cover Story: Power Trip that goes pretty deeply into MAPS. It is just one perspective on it, but a very valid one. Many of these concerns have been raised within the psychedelic community for years but basically brushed aside by MAPS. It all came out yesterday though. (my personal opinion is that psychedelics are or can be of great therapeutic benefit, but the MAPS/Lykos clinical trial was definitely problematic.)"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 40591985, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40591985", "by": "del82", "time": 1717631965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Omega Tau Podcast did a really great episode [0] on container shipping, including the optimization of container placement and route planning, highly recommended. [0]: https://omegataupodcast.net/146-container-shipping/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40602420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40602420", "by": "DANmode", "time": 1717707995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There were more shares being claimed than were owned. What more is there to prove? It's not even unusual to do. Explainer: How were more than 100% of GameStop\u2019s shares shorted? NEW YORK, Feb 18 (Reuters) - One area of focus from a U.S. House of Representatives panel on Thursday will likely be on the role short selling played in the GameStop (GME.N), opens new tab market mayhem. Executives from trading platform Robinhood and hedge funds Melvin Capital and Citadel will be grilled following the retail-driven trading frenzy that sparked wild gyrations in GameStop and other heavily shorted stocks. "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40604027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604027", "by": "sea-gold", "time": 1717719859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in the history of Costco, there is a great Acquired podcast episode[1]. [1] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco"}, {"show": "1237401284", "hn_item": 40608008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40608008", "by": "azangru", "time": 1717763089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Has it died? I am getting mixed signals. For example, the Javascript Jabber podcast, which targets front-end web developers in general, ran an episode with some sort of introduction to web3 (and not in the negative sense) just two months ago [0]. 0 - https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/javascript-jabber/episodes/w..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40609492, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609492", "by": "takinola", "time": 1717773312, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are a fan of the business side of companies, I highly recommend The Acquired podcast. They go deep into the history of (mostly tech) companies and analyze the strategic choices made along the way. If for nothing else, the enthusiasm the hosts bring to the discussion is infectious."}, {"show": "1750258813", "hn_item": 40612085, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40612085", "by": "vinnyglennon", "time": 1717788727, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1526490428", "hn_item": 40613484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613484", "by": "willyt", "time": 1717798167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The tank commander, (edit2) David Render, in this podcast has a pretty amazing description of joining at age 18, landing on the beaches and not long afterwards finding himself commanding a squadron of tanks in Normandy. Absolute humility and incredibly sanguine about what happened to him. No bullshit about glory and bravery. Just a straightforward but very engaging description. https://www.historyhit.com/what-it-was-like-to-be-a-young-ta... Edit: think I found a link to the podcast that doesn\u2019t require you to login https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 40617333, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40617333", "by": "mojomark", "time": 1717852327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want a great deep dive on this offbeat topic (with interview directly from the person who selects/fabricates/implements car paint colors at Subaru), I highly recommend this Freakonomics podcast episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40621900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40621900", "by": "blharr", "time": 1717905179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Terrence Howard (actor in Ironman, Empire TV show, etc) believes he has discovered \"a new math\" where 1x1=2. I believe he has gained recent notoriety because he was on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he got a platform to say his beliefs to many people, but he has had these beliefs for many years. As far as I can tell, his reasoning is literally that 2x2=4, so if you divide both sides by 2, you get 1x1=2."}, {"show": "1107682538", "hn_item": 40624483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624483", "by": "sneak", "time": 1717941629, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "None of it is declared war; it\u2019s all just \u201cspecial military operation\u201d kinda stuff. It\u2019s actually crazy how many different places the US has boots on the ground. More details in the ET podcast episode, in public rn and can\u2019t find/transcribe. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Fcid5hjKbdgLWmvHreOpV"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 40625582, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40625582", "by": "winternewt", "time": 1717950776, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you enjoyed this article I recommend the \"Cautionary Tales\" podcast by the same author."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 40627007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627007", "by": "wcoenen", "time": 1717962413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That seems plausible. There is a trend happening where businesses are increasingly offering different prices to different customers. The Odd Lots podcast just did an episode about it. One of the more memorable examples discussed was to offer a higher price to customers who have probably received their paycheck today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46T--lB2P3Q"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40627394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627394", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1717965439, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Going back to the root comment of this thread\u2026 Most of the guests on Dwarkesh\u2019s podcast are working full-time in the industry, many of them in extremely senior."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40630684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630684", "by": "kettleballroll", "time": 1717999624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside > His work has been featured everywhere from Scientific American to the Lex Fridman podcast and The New Yorker. This is a weird way to posit someone's scientific achievements. Had they said eg Lancet, Nature and Science -- ok, clearly someone publishing in those venues is a scientific heavyweight. But being featured in pop-science, a famous podcast and a general audience magazine only tells me how well someone can explain/sell their research, but doesn't actually say anything about the strength of that research."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 40640088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40640088", "by": "sedev", "time": 1718059303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The byline is kinda small, but it's helpful contextual information that this article is by Mike Duncan, who is likely to be familiar to HN readers as the guy who did the Revolutions and The History Of Rome podcasts."}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 40640859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40640859", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1718065159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard of Solarpunk from the Imaginary Worlds podcast: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/solarpunk-th... Which prompted me to post the Wikipedia link 4 years ago, several others posted similar links prior to that, and others have posted interesting links here too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=3&prefix=false&qu... Fiction is nice, but from a technology angle key technology would be - solar - wind - perhaps geothermal (microwave beam borehole drilling down 7km) - battery - microgrid (district scale) - grid forming technology (or maybe using DC power instead of "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40652307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652307", "by": "nostrademons", "time": 1718144438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My pet theory is that Musk basically unraveled when the study came out that there does not exist enough CO2 on Mars to terraform the planet: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/mars-terraforming-not-poss... Note the date on that: it was published in Nature on July 30 2018, and it wouldn't surprise me if somebody would've sent a preprint to Musk up to a month before then. The \"pedo guy\" tweet during the Thai cave rescue was July 18 2018. Musk's \"funding secured\" Tweet that the SEC sanctioned him over was Aug 7 2018. His appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast was September 2018. Most of his children "}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 40657990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40657990", "by": "cauliflower99", "time": 1718199244, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Haidt appeared on the Huberman podcast a few days ago talking about this. Highly recommend: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-jonathan-haidt-how-sm..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40665704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40665704", "by": "godelski", "time": 1718249931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1/2 Sure, this is probably nearer to my expertise. I research ML (generative models) and my partner is an economist, so we have these discussions quite a lot. I'll try to keep it short. The tldr is I don't know and I'm pretty sure no one knows, and I'm even more concerned about the lack of discussion. First off, I'd highly recommend watching the recent Dwarkesh video with Francois Chollete[0]. I normally wouldn't suggest Dwarkesh, but Francois is an oddball for that podcast. The reason I suggest this is to understand the difference between AGI and ML. It's probably important for the framing an"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40668531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668531", "by": "seydor", "time": 1718279783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We must thank the author for the content-free article, so each of us can freely ramble on tangents, as if we are looking at an abstract art piece. My beef is with the Dwarkesh Patel podcast. While he has some very good interviews (Carl Shulman, or even Zuckerberg) he seems to have a lot of rambling-on conversstion by very young employees of AI startups (openAI). I don't get value from those because they don't really say anything other than patting each other's back about how awesome they are for having been hired by their companies. I think he should focus on people with actual contribution to"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 40668951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40668951", "by": "dude01", "time": 1718282462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been enjoying the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast, they talk to real practioners on real topics."}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 40669525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669525", "by": "spanktheuser", "time": 1718286083, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Damn Interesting feels like the last vestige of the golden age of the Internet. While simultaneously being the best podcast still going today."}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 40681041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681041", "by": "lottin", "time": 1718373936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's some responses to Mr McGill's remarks, which I think are interesting. Drs. Baraki and Feigenbaum's (from Barbell Medicine) response: https://player.fm/series/barbell-medicine-podcast/episode-29... Jonathon Sullivan's response (author of The Barbell Prescription): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O491cW89Ky8"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40685206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685206", "by": "tivert", "time": 1718399631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep? I think Steve Gibson (of the Security Now podcast, and absolutely not a doctor), had a \"healthy sleep formula\" of taking a time release melatonin and a time-release niacinamide supplement, and he claimed his Zeo would register more deep when he took it. I got the impression he thought his own sleep was poor and was trying to fix it, and just talked about his personal project on his podcast. I tried it, and anecdotally I did feel like I slept deeper."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 40685994, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685994", "by": "philip1209", "time": 1718406231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Uri, co-founder of Waze, mentioned this on the Lenny's Podcast last week. I wonder if this prompted the post: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-from-a-two-time-unicor..."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 40686044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686044", "by": "eightysixfour", "time": 1718406690, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam Harris' podcast, \"Final Thoughts on Free Will\" finally pushed me over the edge into believing that we don't have free will in the way we seem to want to. In particular the argument that if you really examine your own lived, conscious experience that you call free will, you'll find it isn't as free as you thought. Random/stochastic processes don't generate free will, they just add noise to a deterministic system. Just as importantly, I'm not sure that it really matters."}, {"show": "1730476827", "hn_item": 40691592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40691592", "by": "kayson", "time": 1718475553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed. There's a great episode on the Microarch Club podcast (#10) about open source tooling and Verilator specifically. While Verilator is in an impressive state, it doesn't get any use by the big players."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 40693974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693974", "by": "waldothedog", "time": 1718500903, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interesting podcast discussing, among other things, why being cheap on cost/kwh isn\u2019t enough https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1..."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 40695650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695650", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1718527914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, but not for lack of trying. I stopped using Duo almost a year ago after reaching a 2500 day streak, having repeatedly turned the whole tree (it was a tree not a path when I started) gold more than once, only for most of the lessons to be reset as more content was added. I'd decided to stop using it before that point, and only continued to get a round number. It kept giving me the illusion of knowledge, but when it came to actually trying to talk to native speakers I was getting perhaps three words in four, which isn't enough for any but the most basic of sentences. My current apps of choic"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 40724324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724324", "by": "pugio", "time": 1718765967, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It could very quickly become racist, but it isn't necessarily. The Masters of Scale podcast recently did a nice episode on using a voice clone of Reid Hoffman to help with various dubs and edits: https://mastersofscale.com/meet-reid-ish-the-story-of-clonin... There's a segment where the various staff/producers all try to imitate Reid's style, and then apply the voice transfer model to here their impression in his voice. I've also used an open source TTS model conditioned on an actor whose voice I like to read the transcript from a podcast host whose voice I have a hard time tolerating. Here's "}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 40725318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40725318", "by": "chickenbig", "time": 1718777193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a good Decouple Podcast for background on how the US got to the point where it had outsourced its enrichment and had insufficient centrifuge capacity of its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQVGbNk2dE The whole saga is politics (the US can build bigger/better; the US can help secure the world by soaking up Russian supply; the US can do it without relying on Uernco). I think the concept of a \"minimum SWU/enriched uranium price\" is appealing ... at least for Urenco."}, {"show": "1543822668", "hn_item": 40730705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40730705", "by": "pseudolus", "time": 1718819718, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "\"Untapped New York\" featured an interesting article about the pneumatic tube mail system that was used in NYC: https://untappedcities.com/2023/10/17/pneumatic-tube-mail-ne... A lot of the material was also incorporated in their podcast about the same subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pneumatic-tube-mail-in..."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 40733354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733354", "by": "bediger4000", "time": 1718838472, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's worth listening to the Knowledge Fight podcast episode about the episode of Info Wars where Jones talks with Chomsky"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40734045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40734045", "by": "an-allen", "time": 1718847323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the latest Lex Friedman podcast from the Amazon jungle and there was an interesting comment that the \u201creality is a simulation\u201d folks have never had to survive in the Amazon and that the belief is somewhat of a side effect of the relative safety of everyday life."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40737501, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737501", "by": "ferrantim", "time": 1718883582, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 40740037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40740037", "by": "ttcbj", "time": 1718898359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might find the recent Verge/Decoder podcast with Cohere's CEO interesting: https://www.theverge.com/24173858/ai-cohere-aidan-gomez-mone... The host is clearly trying to push the CEO of Cohere on how all this is going to make money (or just be economic). The CEO is confident, but not in a very specific way. There is a great moment where he is like \"we did some proof of concepts with 5 users, and they were pretty good, but when you tell CFOs about the running costs for a full user base, its not viable.\" What fascinates me about AI right now is that it seems to have very different economics f"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40742808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742808", "by": "Workaccount2", "time": 1718914215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sam said on Lex's podcast that people should temper their expectations for GPT-5, not in that it will necessarily suck, but that they want to ramp up ability slowly over time rather than discrete large steps."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 40743865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743865", "by": "nickff", "time": 1718920562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I disagree that there is a 'shared understanding'; for instance, the latest Freakonomics podcast episode featured an interview where the subject stated that live theatre was a social good that was critical to a functioning society, and worthy of public subsidy. I like theatre, but think it's a luxury good. There are many similar 'interests'."}, {"show": "300973784", "hn_item": 40745898, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40745898", "by": "aardvark92", "time": 1718940989, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This paper gets ripped into in my favorite podcast, TWiV (This Week in Virology)! Essentially, yes, neomycin in the nose, if timed perfectly, can activate the innate immune system, but en mass this practice would cause the spread of antibiotic resistance. Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-virology/..."}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 40750868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750868", "by": "yogurtboy", "time": 1718985477, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Hello Internet, CGP Grey's old podcast, he complained about Londoners complaining about heat waves. The heat waves seemed to come every year, right around the same time. Saying something is a disaster is totally different from saying it falls under the purview of FEMA. Like cold snaps, heat waves are reliable, predictable weeks in advance, and a disaster only if our public infrastructure is already a failure. I realize the same could be said of something like Hurricane Katrina, but the greater scale and lesser frequency of such failures put them in a different class. I don't support stretch"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40751183, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751183", "by": "jwuphysics", "time": 1718987457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PBMs hold an incredible amount of power. The Acquired podcast did a marvelous breakdown of the American pharmaceutical industry while covering Novo Nordisk ( https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/novo-nordisk-ozempic ). If you have three hours to spare, I highly recommend giving it a listen. Another great interview comes from Mark Cuban, who is serious about disrupting PBMs with his Cost Plus Drug Company ( https://www.drugchannels.net/2024/03/mark-cuban-five-ways-th... )."}, {"show": "551088534", "hn_item": 40753291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753291", "by": "colinprince", "time": 1719000559, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 40753316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753316", "by": "agarren", "time": 1719000718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The excellent \u201cFall of Civilizations\u201d podcast covers this well, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyzrie_les&list=PLR7yrLMHm1... Takeaway: Jared Diamond\u2019s Easter Island collapse theory seem remarkably out of touch."}, {"show": "1040481893", "hn_item": 40753755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753755", "by": "Zhyl", "time": 1719003665, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd love to cross reference this against all the Eggcorns from the Adam and Joe show (and subsequently the Adam Buxton Podcast)."}, {"show": "1069871378", "hn_item": 40757348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757348", "by": "frag", "time": 1719044027, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1069871378", "hn_item": 40757379, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757379", "by": "frag", "time": 1719044441, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 40757521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757521", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1719046639, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just remembered In Our Time has a podcast on this from 2005, seems long time ago, not as long as 1520 though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9dl"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 40758534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40758534", "by": "renegade-otter", "time": 1719058528, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These guys in the Valley were all \"borrowing\" from each other all the time. This cross-pollination was what made fast progress such as we saw possible. They were so petty about it, it's kind of pathetic. I think it was to Job's advantage that he left this world before social media really blew up. He was a brilliant product visionary but a pretty horrible human being. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-terrible-..."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 40759683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40759683", "by": "orev", "time": 1719069557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The CoRecursive podcast has an episode with Chet Haase where he specifically outlines how they were cloning BlackBerry and then had to drop everything and rebuild when they heard about the iPhone OS. He directly states that Android wouldn\u2019t have had a touch interface if the iPhone didn\u2019t exist. GUI interfaces using a capacitive touch screen became good because of iPhone, not as part of a natural progression of technology."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 40762453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40762453", "by": "lobsterthief", "time": 1719092490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was a fantastic episode of the Planet Money podcast; highly recommended"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 40765948, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765948", "by": "koliber", "time": 1719134200, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a recent episode of the Radiolab podcast about aphantasia. They specifically talk about a test for the condition. It\u2019s worth the 30 minute listen."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40779638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779638", "by": "auc", "time": 1719256687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would recommend listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Hermes. While the bag is very \u201coverpriced\u201d, they are genuinely the highest quality bags on the market in basically every important dimension."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 40779823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779823", "by": "kogus", "time": 1719258072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "English today is a delightful, expressive train wreck of grammar and spelling madness. But Old English really was not. It was a much more earthy, simple, and consistent language. Old English had a total of about 40,000 words. Today's English has almost half a million. I'll take the opportunity to plug a fantastic podcast on the history of English, creatively named \"The History of English Podcast\". https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40780099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780099", "by": "tylervigen", "time": 1719259605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I did too. Actually I was introduced to the Acquired podcast by the WSJ last month[1] and Hermes was the first episode I listened to. I wonder if this was just another WSJ reporter falling down that same rabbit hole. [1] Via https://www.wsj.com/business/media/acquired-podcast-tech-bus..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40780588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780588", "by": "Gormo", "time": 1719262202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The world's most popular podcast used to be The Joe Rogan Experience, but since Spotify acquired exclusive rights to it, it is no longer distributed as a podcast, and is only available as a Spotify channel. Despite continuing to call it a \"podcast\", it isn't actually a podcast anymore."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 40782880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40782880", "by": "macNchz", "time": 1719275594, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good Darknet Diaries podcast episode that interviews someone with hands on experience with this, and the efforts he went through to conceal his identity while shipping large volumes of illicit USPS packages: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/132/"}, {"show": "1608205390", "hn_item": 40790525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790525", "by": "mre", "time": 1719333127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I spoke with Folkert, one of the developers on this project, on the 'Rust in Production' podcast. Some of you might find it interesting: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s01e05-tweede-golf/"}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 40790525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790525", "by": "mre", "time": 1719333127, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I spoke with Folkert, one of the developers on this project, on the 'Rust in Production' podcast. Some of you might find it interesting: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s01e05-tweede-golf/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40794299, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794299", "by": "itsoktocry", "time": 1719353774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an episode of The All In podcast a month or two ago. Friedberg brought up driverless Waymo being available in San Fran. Chamath hadn't even heard of it. He looked it up live and it blew his mind. These guys are all about tech and couldn't believe there were companies ahead of Tesla, what do you think the normies know?"}, {"show": "1436651521", "hn_item": 40796304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796304", "by": "smugma", "time": 1719375059, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Decent article but a shame there was no mention of the excellent (and oftentimes gruesome) children\u2019s podcast Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grimm-grimmer-grimmest... https://pinna.fm/library/kids-shows/pinna-podcasts/grimm-gri..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40796750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796750", "by": "studymonkey", "time": 1719380382, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1570644971", "hn_item": 40798744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40798744", "by": "kmgrassi", "time": 1719401496, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://www.placekey.io/how-it-works Deep dive on how it works: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-of-daas/id157064..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40808195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40808195", "by": "rabf", "time": 1719473015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired Podcast has a great episode on the history of Microsoft. Well worth a listen for any one interested. https://www.acquired.fm/"}, {"show": "1717240005", "hn_item": 40808775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40808775", "by": "moodmanipulator", "time": 1719480260, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 40813390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813390", "by": "haswell", "time": 1719512155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I became aware of this while listening to episode 980 of the Security Now podcast [0], in which Steve Gibson points out that this attack is not limited to close proximity attackers. Any compromised routers out there can be used to stage this attack against vulnerable Windows PCs on the network, making a significantly larger portion of real users directly vulnerable to PC takeover (vs. being in direct proximity of an attacker). - [0] https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/980"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 40815490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815490", "by": "devmor", "time": 1719524783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in how often people get away with this kind of scam, and how they get away with it, I strongly recommend the two episodes on the subject from the popular podcast \"Behind The Bastards\" titled \"Part One: The Fake Doctors Who Gave Everyone Alzheimer's\" and \"Behind the Bastards (2018) Part Two: The Real Bastard Was Health Insurance Companies All Along\" These episodes detail several people who pulled off these same scams, including how others tried to turn them in for it and were ignored."}, {"show": "1497785843", "hn_item": 40816105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40816105", "by": "kristopolous", "time": 1719529331, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you've been around the valley long enough to hear pitches, you've surely met some remarkable bullshitters who can convincingly describe with clarity and crispness something that is actually nonsense and simply is not real. There's a group of attorneys that host a podcast on SCOTUS that present a pretty convincing case for this interpretation, at least to me. Here's the most recent episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-4/id1497785843?i=100... or https://player.fm/series/series-2622019/garland-v-cargill"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 40819984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819984", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1719577868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was discussed on the Latent Space podcast a few days ago: https://www.latent.space/p/llm-training-2024 That was a good episode, worth listening to for hearing justifications behind some of these decisions."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 40820453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820453", "by": "BasilPH", "time": 1719581392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Volts podcast dove into this recently (with transcript): https://www.volts.wtf/p/new-yorks-congestion-pricing-fiasco"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40823431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823431", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1719598870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To pseudo-quote an influential American Conservative via the All-in podcast: ~\"That's right, I want Congress dead-locked, I don't want any new laws passed!\" - David O. Sacks"}, {"show": "1749139894", "hn_item": 40834115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834115", "by": "jdmark", "time": 1719704742, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 40835517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835517", "by": "msteffen", "time": 1719729716, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ok, I admit I was bristling a bit at the \u201cit's really quite simple\u201d tone. FWIW, here\u2019s my actual view on this: there\u2019s a great episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast where Brian & co. talk to Kelsey Hightower about Hashicorp changing the Terraform license to exclude a lot of companies in the TF ecosystem\u2014the ultimate \u201cwe\u2019re the maintainers we can do what we want\u201d move. Kelsey has maintained many open source projects and understands the importance of maintainers having freedom to focus their energy where they see fit regardless of what the peanut gallery thinks. His view, which I agree with, "}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 40835581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835581", "by": "msteffen", "time": 1719730868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a great episode of the Oxide and Friends podcast where Brian & co. talk to Kelsey Hightower about Hashicorp changing the Terraform license to exclude a lot of companies in the TF ecosystem\u2014the ultimate \u201cwe\u2019re the maintainers we can do what we want\u201d move. Kelsey has maintained many open source projects and understands the importance of maintainers having freedom to focus their energy where they see fit regardless of what the peanut gallery thinks. His view was: what is ultimately needed is upfront clarity from maintainers about how they\u2019re going to govern the project. If you want to hav"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 40839475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839475", "by": "reidacdc", "time": 1719775453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Slightly OT, but if you are interested in this sort of thing, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand co-host the Empire podcast, which has many episodes and guests and recommended reading covering lots of ancient history. I'm not affiliated with it, I'm just a fan. https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/empire"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 40847234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40847234", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1719850472, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I found the Developer Voices discussion[1][2] with Joran Dirk Greef, creator of TigerBeetle, to be fascinating. They mentioned that the rigorous correctness proofs that exist for Raft and Paxos assume an absence of disk faults, but that more modern theory includes fixes for that, as long as you marry the log writing and consensus algorithms together properly rather than keeping each as a separate black box. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/databases-ambitions-an... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayG7ltGRRHs"}, {"show": "1727769913", "hn_item": 40855935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40855935", "by": "romellem", "time": 1719923070, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A law podcast reacting to the ruling: - https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ep-43-well-so-much-for-the-... - (non-paywall link) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-43-well-so-much-for..."}, {"show": "1669603130", "hn_item": 40860016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40860016", "by": "seanlane", "time": 1719951032, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On a podcast series covering some of the history of the intersection of business and technology in Utah (The 4th Node), the hosts had an episode with Bruce Bastian. Covers his background and the history of WordPerfect, for those curious to learn more and/or hear from Bruce himself: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1z0AEyFvPN30WFbQc317T6"}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 40868054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868054", "by": "ilikehurdles", "time": 1720027309, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your understanding of these issues seems entirely colored by incendiary headlines and the communities around them. If you want a deep dive into Supreme Court rulings and what they actually say, give the Advisory Opinions podcast a chance. Seriously. I'm not sure yet that I agree with the decision on presidential immunity on official acts, but I can understand the reasoning behind it. Ultimately it categorized what sort of presidential act is immune from future consequences and what is not, and punted the decision back to the court. It never said that any of Trump's actions he's on trial for we"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 40870283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870283", "by": "dbspin", "time": 1720043122, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know about SOTA, but 'Adobe Podcast Studio' a web app that I believe is still free / in beta offers excellent sound cleanup. So much so that many podcast / radio producers I know no longer frequently use Izotope RX - one of the industry standard tools. Adobe are obviously horrendous, but if its for a one time use I'd give it a go. The feature you want is the 'enhance speech filter'. https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 40873143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40873143", "by": "achenet", "time": 1720079406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the counter quote to that is John Carmack, who was originally a fan of the \"it'll ship when ready philosophy\", saying he 'largely recanted from that now' when discussing Rage on the Joe Rogan podcast. Or Duke Ellington: \"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.\""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40875337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875337", "by": "baal80spam", "time": 1720104188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After watching Lex Fridman's podcast with this man, I take everything he says with a copious amount of salt."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 40879772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40879772", "by": "todsacerdoti", "time": 1720152595, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 40881057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881057", "by": "Avneron1", "time": 1720170147, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN community, I've always found myself learning better by listening on the go, but sometimes it was hard to find the right content for what i wanted to learn. That led me to create this product. So after a lot of work, me and my team are excited to share Genepod with you all! Genepod is an AI-powered podcast generator that transforms your ideas into high-quality podcasts instantly. How it works: Input Your Ideas: Simply provide the topics or scripts you want to turn into a podcast. AI-Driven Production: Our advanced AI processes your input, creating a polished and professional podcast. Inst"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40882968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40882968", "by": "punkspider", "time": 1720189043, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "1. I recognized that many times I answer in a way that's more to entertain me, than actually useful for my discussion partner. 2. It clicked some time after reading \"Never split the difference\" by Chris Voss. A negotiation book. At first I understood that I'm listening to understand what my counterpart really wants, that is not saying directly. An example (I won't remember this correctly and am oversimplifying) was with a Filipino terrorist who was justifying his actions, and the taking of hostages, due to decades of USA injustices to his country. He was asking for a massive amount of money. T"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 40886289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886289", "by": "yzydserd", "time": 1720215751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The BBC podcast In Our Time did a recent hour long episode on panpsychism, which in this listener\u2019s ears represented a thorough dismantling of the baloney. Fabulous episode, it had me roaring with laughter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl96"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 40887031, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887031", "by": "nobody9999", "time": 1720222681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Only tangentially related, but I've been auditing \"The History of English Podcast\"[0] and if this sort of thing interests you, you'll probably like that too. [0] https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes/"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 40889946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889946", "by": "AugurCognito", "time": 1720268022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thinking Elixir podcast is great if you work in the Elixir ecosystem."}, {"show": "1737204926", "hn_item": 40889977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889977", "by": "eapriv", "time": 1720268304, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-a-frog-have-scorp..."}, {"show": "1106971805", "hn_item": 40890084, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890084", "by": "rethab", "time": 1720269517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- Software Architektur im Stream (mostly German, but sometimes English) - 2.5 Admins (sysadmins Talking) - A Bootiful Podcast (Java / Spring) - Risky Biz (IT Security News) - Software Engineering Radio - The Engineering Room with Dave Farley - Ship It (What happens after git push) - ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast - Big Ideas in App Architecture (Cockroach DB Makers) - OpenSource Security Podcast (Two guys talking about OS) - InfoQ Podcast - Engineering Enablement"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 40890200, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890200", "by": "azemetre", "time": 1720270914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m slowly reaching the same conclusion only with a more cynical bent. Most programming podcasts are just paid interviews it seems. It\u2019s always the same guest on the same podcasts making the same comments. Very few hosts ask relevant questions or try to have a dialogue. It always comes across as extremely disingenuous when you can tell they are just sucking up to the person they are interviewing. The only podcast I consistently listen to is Oxide and Friends, it comes across is genuine even if it\u2019s basically an advertisement for Oxide Computers. Probably more to do with who the hosts are as pe"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 40890876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40890876", "by": "pseufaux", "time": 1720278825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case anyone hasn't found it yet, I've been enjoying his newest podcast, Better Offline. Currently only about 28 episodes in. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 40892069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892069", "by": "kratom_sandwich", "time": 1720289389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[1] Click Here - https://therecord.media/podcast [2] Reply All (which apparently ended in 2022 as I just learned) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_All_(podcast)"}, {"show": "1225077306", "hn_item": 40892069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892069", "by": "kratom_sandwich", "time": 1720289389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[1] Click Here - https://therecord.media/podcast [2] Reply All (which apparently ended in 2022 as I just learned) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_All_(podcast)"}, {"show": "1745257325", "hn_item": 40892427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892427", "by": "carterdmorgan", "time": 1720292456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I co-host a podcast called Book Overflow ( https://bookoverflow.io ) where each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We keep the conversations fairly dense. We've even interviewed a few of the authors, like Brian Kernighan!"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 40894758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40894758", "by": "bglazer", "time": 1720318182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m begging everyone on HN to understand that Michael Levin\u2019s work is not the beginning and end of biology. This is not meant to disparage his research, it\u2019s really quite cool, but bioelectric signaling is just one piece of a very complex, very large, and very interesting story. I only say this because he is invariably mentioned in any story related to biological research. I think this is partially because his work is cool, he has been on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast several times, and he\u2019s very good at talking about his research. So, again, not knocking his work, just don\u2019t forget there\u2019s a lot more"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 40902007, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902007", "by": "throwitaway1123", "time": 1720403536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup, AWS actually created a JS runtime called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) based on QuickJS exactly for this purpose (reducing Lambda function cold start time). The Syntax podcast just released an episode with one of the developers behind LLRT."}, {"show": "1780071801", "hn_item": 40910703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40910703", "by": "RedCardRef", "time": 1720479733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Y Combinator Startup Podcast: How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills | Dalton & Michael Podcast Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes..."}, {"show": "1236907421", "hn_item": 40910703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40910703", "by": "RedCardRef", "time": 1720479733, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Y Combinator Startup Podcast: How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills | Dalton & Michael Podcast Episode webpage: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ycombinator/episodes..."}, {"show": "1451196082", "hn_item": 40914837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914837", "by": "BobWue", "time": 1720524635, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 40915975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40915975", "by": "crabmusket", "time": 1720532143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few episodes of Signals and Threads, a podcast from Jane Street, go into parts of it."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 40924859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924859", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1720600169, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1512847066", "hn_item": 40938925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938925", "by": "knodi123", "time": 1720719848, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie I recently (randomly!) listened to the \"What Went Wrong\" podcast episode about Popeye. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id15128470... It was _hilarious_ . But the one thing that went perfectly was the casting of Shelley Duvall. The podcasters said \"If you gave god a bunch of popeye cartoons and told him to make a real human version of Olive Oyl, you'd get Shelley Duvall.\" And Shelley herself said that she grew up being called Olive Oyl, and hated it because of all that it implied- but now that it got her cast in a big budget movie, she said th"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 40939281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939281", "by": "fallinditch", "time": 1720722457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kermode and Mayo's Take (film reviews) Weekend (The Guardian) Economist Podcasts In Our Time (BBC) Football Weekly (The Guardian) Behind The Money (Financial Times)"}, {"show": "151230264", "hn_item": 40939281, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40939281", "by": "fallinditch", "time": 1720722457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kermode and Mayo's Take (film reviews) Weekend (The Guardian) Economist Podcasts In Our Time (BBC) Football Weekly (The Guardian) Behind The Money (Financial Times)"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 40940880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940880", "by": "fidla", "time": 1720734378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In podcast"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 40958503, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40958503", "by": "elil17", "time": 1720925868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Short answer re: investing in active managers (based on my many years listening to rationalreminder.ca) is that, if you eliminate some of the worst active managers, the average returns net of fees are the same. However, eliminating the worst managers is challenging (but not impossible) to do ex-ante. Even then, you\u2019re only getting the same average returns as indexing, not better. Plus, you will experience a higher dispersion with active managers (greater chance of extreme negative or positive outcome), which is not desirable. Because of these two issues, It\u2019s definitely better to pick an index"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 40961246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40961246", "by": "spiffytech", "time": 1720968246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Probably not what the GP meant, but an interesting data point: CGP Grey is a Youtuber who became well known for deeply-researched videos on subjects of nerdy interest. Many years after going full-time doing this, he encountered Zettelkasten and realized that \"taking notes\" is supposed to including paraphrasing, write things in your own words, and making connections to other facts you've found. (Cortex podcast #105) He thought notes were just the transcription version of using a highlighter in a book: exclusively verbatim quotes, just to save you from rereading the whole book. Synthesizing know"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 40964603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40964603", "by": "Aurornis", "time": 1721007067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Books like \u201cWhy We Sleep\u201d and podcasts like Huberman Lab are kind of like a junk food version of science: They deliver some bits of information that can be helpful, but they\u2019re so coated in stretched truth, overconfidence, and stories crafted more to sound good than to be accurate that it\u2019s not really accurate science material. In a case like yours (difficulty sleeping) that might actually be fine, to be honest. A lot of people find relief from simply feeling like they understand a subject, rather than from having absolute accuracy of information. The confidence begets a feeling of control, wh"}, {"show": "1794175249", "hn_item": 40966909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966909", "by": "haydenbannz", "time": 1721043359, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 40967093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40967093", "by": "mianos", "time": 1721045223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Considering just before the AI hype came along they were in trouble according to Jensen on the Acquired podcast."}, {"show": "1745257325", "hn_item": 40968714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968714", "by": "carterdmorgan", "time": 1721057296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love it! One of my big hesitations in using LLMs in any projects is the inherent instability of it, so I'm excited to see some concrete strategies on how to mitigate that. Actually, I host a podcast called Book Overflow ([YouTube link here]( https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod ), but we're on all major platforms). Each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We also love to interview the authors when possible. Our [interview with Brian Kernighan]( https://youtu.be/_QQ7k5sn2-o?si=bi3omgmNW7bs50NQ ) actually went viral here on HN last week, peaking at #3. If you're willi"}, {"show": "1199780143", "hn_item": 40969998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969998", "by": "nonameiguess", "time": 1721065982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The long and short of it is that it's basically impossible to do interventional studies on sleep deprivation in which you can see longitudinal as opposed to acute outcomes. Interventional studies are all short duration because no research subject is going to be willing or probably even able to comply with long-term sleep deprivation, and interventional studies on the order of decades over which things like cancer and death tend to happen are rare anyway simply because you can't intervene in a research subject's life for that long a span of time. So understand the limitations of observational e"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 40975215, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975215", "by": "doctorhandshake", "time": 1721126165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Climate! Listen to the Volts podcast ( https://volts.wtf ) \u2026 I\u2019d say about half of the episodes make me want to quit what I\u2019m doing and beg the guest for job at their startup. Climate solutions is a wide-open field, jammed with entrepreneurs and scientists going head-on with tough scientific, engineering, sociopolitical, and business problems, with pretty much everything on the line. The stuff people are working on ranges from fintech products to full on science fiction. There\u2019s something there for you work-wise and mission-wise."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 40989998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989998", "by": "ethagknight", "time": 1721247883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love this! I doubt I would buy it because I'm perpetually frustrated with WatchOS's reasonless limitations (someone texts you a photo and you want to zoom in on your tiny screen? sorry nope! plus a thousand other little things). Reminds of the 'naked robotic core' discussions from Accidental Tech Podcast, could create some really interesting possibilities and a way to sell a whole lot more 'watch cores'."}, {"show": "1794175249", "hn_item": 40995332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995332", "by": "haydenbannz", "time": 1721309006, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 40998670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998670", "by": "dventimihasura", "time": 1721329152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Chapo Traphouse podcast touched on the Erie Canal in Episode 557 \"The Inebriated Past 10: Mormons, pt. 1\", especially as the backdrop for the story of Joseph Smith and the creation, of course, of the Mormon church. It's a rousing tale told well beginning around 15 minutes in. The general thrust is that the burst of economic activity that both motivated the creation of and was in part sustained by the Erie Canal extended a tentacle of capitalistic social dislocation which, in part, was a factor in religious revival movements in upstate New York like the Mormons. I can't vouch for the accura"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 41001891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41001891", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "time": 1721360948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Republican party is the de-facto party of exploitative plutocrats. As reflected by their tax policy for the last half century plus, by their repeal of anything limiting business. Tech bros might pay homage & try to pump their rebel thinker cred by declaring for this shit show, but there is zero interest whatsoever in reeling in the excessive capitalism & unchecked growth-for-shareholders-at-any-cost mentality that is toxified this poor sad exploited misbegotten world. Part of the furror against Biden is that he is the first dude in a generation to turn the tables at all against big busines"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41010691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010691", "by": "oicu812", "time": 1721420409, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast [1] did a whole episode on this topic. It's one of the more fascinating episodes in my opinion, and I can't eat a banana now without thinking about the Gros Michel. [1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-most-interesting-fruit-..."}, {"show": "1568736386", "hn_item": 41016561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016561", "by": "dylancollins", "time": 1721484061, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41022471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41022471", "by": "lowkey", "time": 1721537705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like Trump\u2019s immigration stance has evolved significantly in the seven years since this article was written. A few weeks ago he appeared on the All-in podcast and promoted the idea of giving green cards en masse to foreign students upon graduation. I support the idea even if I don\u2019t support the candidate."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41023025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41023025", "by": "mikeiz404", "time": 1721544428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think some commenter\u2019s may be misunderstanding the motivation for doing this. \u2026this is \u201cthe first time that the legs of a legged robot are concurrently utilized for locomotion and for a different task.\u201d This is distinct from other robots that can (for example) open doors with their feet, because those robots stop using the feet as feet for a while and instead use them as manipulators. So, this is about a lot more than cigarette butts, and the researchers suggest a variety of other potential use cases, including spraying weeds in crop fields, inspecting cracks in infrastructure, and placing n"}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 41029480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029480", "by": "_heimdall", "time": 1721605606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it may have a been on the Dangerous History Podcast, but I listened to an episode of the hodtory of American Policies parties. It was fascinating to hear how often they flipped and was seems to have been the reason when parties did change or disolve."}, {"show": "1319436103", "hn_item": 41031862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41031862", "by": "gbanfalvi", "time": 1721635165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great episode on the Failure to Launch podcast on the 28th of June that goes into detail on how the theft took place. https://x.com/launch_failure/status/1806667561129447739"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41037764, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037764", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1721672453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ballmer was quoted in the Acquired podcast about his failed acquisitions \u201call we lost is money\u201d. Apple can sustain the revenue loss as long as it has to stomach to do so and as long as it can justify it for other business reasons - like maybe making the bundle more attractive."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 41038201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038201", "by": "rexarex", "time": 1721674085, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "The eTicket is what we use for flights today instead of physical, paper tickets printed on special paper. My understanding of the lore is that it was invented by Southwest Airlines or a company they acquired. That's what I heard on a How I Built This podcast episode with the founder of JetBlue. It's also mentioned in this research paper here https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Historical-adoption-of-e-tickets-by-IATA-airlines-Data-sources-IATA-and-Peter-P_fig9_268425966 Strangely, when I was googling I found what I suspect to be planted misinformation in a Bangkok Post article where someone na"}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 41040421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040421", "by": "_heimdall", "time": 1721686599, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Found a link to the episodes, it was a two part series. The Dangerous History Podcast: Ep. 0118: Party Systems in American History, Part I Episode webpage: http://profcj.org Media file: https://chrt.fm/track/95538/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL66387574..."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 41040618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040618", "by": "metaphor", "time": 1721688206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Amp Hour podcast episode #526 [1] circa Jan 18, 2021 seems contextually relevant. [1] https://theamphour.com/526-why-iot-is-difficult-with-jonatha..."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 41040963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040963", "by": "philipkglass", "time": 1721691551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's a hobby. I read a lot and I have enough formal education to digest primary sources (mostly; my highest qualification is auditing a neutronics course while in grad school). If you too would like to know way more about nuclear weapons than is useful in civilian life, I'd recommend reading: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb The nuclear weapons FAQ, authored by Carey Sublette, a hobbyist researcher who is extraordinarily dedicated to understanding nuclear weapons from declassified documents and physical principles: https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq0.html Anne C. Fitzpatr"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 41046827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41046827", "by": "jayrot", "time": 1721747592, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It warms my heart to see that Steve's website appears frozen in time (and works just fine). I bought Spinrite nearly two decades ago and it saved my bacon more than once. Also loved to listen to him and Leo on Security Now in the very early days of podcasts (\"netcasts\" lol)."}, {"show": "1300577518", "hn_item": 41048588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41048588", "by": "mandmandam", "time": 1721755563, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If anyone has an interest in Irish mythology and data centers, I'd highly recommend a listen of the Blindboy podcast's hot take on it: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rivers-lakes-and-data-..."}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 41050884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050884", "by": "jvandreae", "time": 1721768871, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Has anyone written on this issue dispassionately? Chris Williamson of the Modern Wisdom podcast has interviewed many public intellectuals from different sides on the subject in a fairly even-handed way. I'm currently reading Mary Harrington (\"Feminism against Progress\") and Louise Perry's (\"The Case Against the Sexual Revolution\") books on the subject, and find them fairly convincing. > This baby brained \u201cmen bad\u201d or \u201cwomen bad\u201d discourse belongs in the dumpster. Amen."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 41053087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053087", "by": "cirrus3", "time": 1721787926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Gibson of GRC (SpinRite, Security Now podcast, etc) made a free Windows tool specifically for this called ValiDrive: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm If you are a Windows user, ValiDrive seems like the much easier choice."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 41053107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053107", "by": "cirrus3", "time": 1721788150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve is an interesting guy and while his website and software development methods are downright ancient, I would trust his programs over almost any other vendor. SpinRite has saved me also. I'd encourage anyone who isn't familiar with him to check out the Security Now podcast. I have been listening since 2005."}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 41053530, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053530", "by": "chriscappuccio", "time": 1721794064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hamilton Morris podcast 96 on Barry Kidston talks all about one of the (slightly) well known deaths from the MPTP by-product of botched MPPP synthesis. Barry tried to synthesize MPPP and got Parkinson's-like symptoms."}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 41054755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054755", "by": "amrtn", "time": 1721809222, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you liked it, you'd probably also enjoy the three Omega Tau Podcast episodes with David Woods, one of the contributors of the NASA Apollo Flight Journal [1] https://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/ https://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/ https://omegataupodcast.net/176-the-gemini-programme/ --- 1: https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41056140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056140", "by": "largbae", "time": 1721823081, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In podcast predicted this exact strategy for keeping OpenAI and other upstarts from disrupting the existing big tech firms. By giving away higher and higher quality models, they undermine the potential return on investment for startups who seek money to train their own. Thus investment in foundation model building stops and they control the ecosystem."}, {"show": "1493229344", "hn_item": 41056633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056633", "by": "FeloniousHam", "time": 1721825989, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was a recent interview with Ballmer on The Dispatch Podcast[0]. I've been longtime casual Ballmer-hater because of Microsoft's treatment of Linux, but at least for 30 minutes, found him to be a genial, thoughtful, and interesting bazillionaire. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-data-we-trust-inter..."}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 41057166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057166", "by": "coryfklein", "time": 1721829343, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 41058053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058053", "by": "llamaimperative", "time": 1721834823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots (an excellent Bloomberg podcast) recently did a great episode on this topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2024-06-03/odd-lots-how... Lina Khan's FTC continues to look where attention is warranted. I'm not sure there's anything necessarily bad going on here, or presumably there's some bad/some good, but it's definitely something that regulators should be paying close attention to. Tech + data enables totally new and very opaque pricing schemes."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 41058053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058053", "by": "llamaimperative", "time": 1721834823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots (an excellent Bloomberg podcast) recently did a great episode on this topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2024-06-03/odd-lots-how... Lina Khan's FTC continues to look where attention is warranted. I'm not sure there's anything necessarily bad going on here, or presumably there's some bad/some good, but it's definitely something that regulators should be paying close attention to. Tech + data enables totally new and very opaque pricing schemes."}, {"show": "1493298222", "hn_item": 41065230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41065230", "by": "dendrite9", "time": 1721887887, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I found this podcast interview to be pretty interesting when I listened to it a few years ago. You might find it intresting as well: In this episode Hazel speaks with paraclimber Anna Foo and psychologist Doreen Hoerold who is Anna's friend and sight-guide. We talk about climbing blind, living blind, the relationship between climber and sight-guide... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/anna-foo-climbing-blin... There also was this New Yorker article about a climber who uses a camera and an array of electrodes on his tongue to climb. That was in 2017, I wonder if the technology has changed m"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41066201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066201", "by": "divan", "time": 1721895912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics Radio podcast recently featured a good episode on the subject: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-companies-be-owned-b..."}, {"show": "1624704966", "hn_item": 41066248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066248", "by": "IanCal", "time": 1721896309, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a big fan of the Origin Story podcast, where they dig into words/concepts and look at where they started and how the use has evolved over time. They also cover some things like people, or conspiracy theories. Their Woke episode might be worth a listen. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ncWO9Aj1kMtQxBsHf0aYg https://pod.link/1624704966/episode/0b0e2c363a94280fe0ae576b..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 41070100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41070100", "by": "s1artibartfast", "time": 1721922798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "yeah, It is really fascinating to learn about the historic and academic study of these challenges. Most of them have been explored, mapped, and debated by economists in a very robust manner for 100+ years. One interesting perspective that I gained from a recent Econtalk podcast[1] is that neither profit driven corporations or democratically governed worker collaboratives are perfectly efficient. It is rather a question of when and how the two perform or fail in contrast. It is easy to build criticisms of each when comparing it to an idealized alternative, where all of the challenges have been "}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 41076672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41076672", "by": "ladyanita22", "time": 1721980441, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1745257325", "hn_item": 41083472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41083472", "by": "jrpelkonen", "time": 1722038897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interestingly enough, John Ousterhout was a recently on Book Overflow podcast and he says he uses this very refactoring but on reverse to teach good software design. So it\u2019s good for something!"}, {"show": "1886705492", "hn_item": 41087094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087094", "by": "3abiton", "time": 1722093184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Funny enough I also heard recently about Fiducial Statistics as a 3rd camp, an intriguing podcast episode 581 of super data science, with the EiC of Harvard Business Review."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41089791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089791", "by": "whyenot", "time": 1722119444, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast 99% Invisible is doing a series of monthly episodes on The Power Broker. I don\u2019t live in NY and I don\u2019t pretend to really understand NY, but it\u2019s so interesting to listen to the hosts as they work their way through Caro\u2019s massive book. I really enjoy it and just wish the episodes were more frequent than once a month."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41091714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41091714", "by": "captn3m0", "time": 1722150433, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The third half of the recent 99% Invisible podcast goes into the same proposal with a bit more detail: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-2024-olympics-spe... Play at 30:30."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 41106307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106307", "by": "muggermuch", "time": 1722317867, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a Harper's and Lapham's Quarterly subscriber, I have been a huge fan of his quirky editorial style. Specifically, I'd like to call out his podcast (\"The World In Time\"). Its past episodes remain treasure troves of wisdom, with LL's resonant voice asking the kind of engaging questions that are a rarity these days. Highly recommended."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 41110452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41110452", "by": "bronco21016", "time": 1722354876, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a great podcast about a company providing an AI service of this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/latent-space-the-ai-en..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 41112565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41112565", "by": "ecshafer", "time": 1722364302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Faber, who Logitech appointed as CEO in October, said that members of a \"Logitech innovation center\" showed her \"a forever mouse\" and compared it to a nice but not \"super expensive\" watch. This is not a good idea. The fact their \"innovation center\" came up with a subscription is hilarious. I do actualyl like Logitech mice, this would turn me off of them permanently."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41115392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115392", "by": "tyleo", "time": 1722385391, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 41119706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41119706", "by": "CSSer", "time": 1722437453, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can anecdotally attest that the market, at least in agency spaces, has definitely shifted to offshoring/outsourcing mode. I think it\u2019s a reaction to our swelling salaries during the pandemic during the hiring craze, and like always, although they think it\u2019s different this time, I think it\u2019ll swing back once they realize (again) that there is more to our jobs than just pounding out lines of code, outsourced business interests don\u2019t always align with their own, and dealing with the extra communication lag is a headache. As for the sluggishness, I listened to an interesting podcast called Marke"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41124331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41124331", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1722465971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While we wait for the Acquired podcast on them, I'll just have to assume that it's monopolistic behavior? Also, I just learned that it's now \"Essilor Luxottica\" after the merger."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 41128108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41128108", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1722511911, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "you guys might be interested in the latest Machine Learning Street Talk podcast [1] which right from the start is all about how LLMs are great for creativity, as in novel combinations of trained data (from memorization) -- but are not capable of the reasoning skill needed to verify if any idea is actually plausible given a set of constraints. [1] Do you think that ChatGPT can reason? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1WnHpedi2A"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 41129458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41129458", "by": "Strongbad536", "time": 1722522566, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/chinese-swimme... Worth noting that the WR was from a Chinese swimmer and there's a current controversy around whether or not a large contingent of swimmers from the Chinese team violated anti-doping rules after a banned substance was found in their test results several months prior. Reports are self-policed because it would spread the IoC or other international bodies too thin (ahem... convenient), and the Chinese reporting body \"Chinada\" dismissed it after saying \"trace amounts were found in the kitchen where the athletes were staying at a meet\"."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 41131564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41131564", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1722534124, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ftfa \"They added that the bomb was a high-tech device that used artificial intelligence.\" really curious about the AI part of this. Maybe it had a camera and detonated when it identified the target by facial recognition? \"AI\" is used to mean so many things, many readers will associate this with something like chatgpt where it doesn't remotely make sense. I think the authors are doing that on purpose. I've listened to a NYT \"The Daily\" news podcasts about drones used in the Ukraine war and the authors were intentionally using the \"AI\" umbrella to draw a parallel between something like target id"}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 41133353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133353", "by": "TaylorAlexander", "time": 1722544642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well in my case, it turns out the benefits of adderall are extremely helpful. I can\u2019t imagine I\u2019m the only one who at 39 years old still had never tried adderall and also struggled with weight loss, who finds the combination of effects beneficial. Meanwhile when I consider ozempic myself instead, I\u2019d get the weight loss but not the focus benefit I\u2019ve sorely needed. I am really not the type to seek a \u201cweight loss drug\u201d so I don\u2019t know the state of mind of those who do (big fan of the Maintenance Phase podcast!), it just seems to me if people want focus and weight loss at the same time they migh"}, {"show": "1644964247", "hn_item": 41137585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41137585", "by": "SnoJohn", "time": 1722594371, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here are his last two interviews. I hope I can be as insightful at that age. 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lewis-lapham-money-and... 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glcTLgnEEGE"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 41139529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139529", "by": "whatamidoingyo", "time": 1722611848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Surviving a Startup\" by Steven Hoffman was a fantastic read. Lots of practical advice on how to go about things (e.g. legal, funding, building a team, etc.). I also really enjoyed the \"How I Built This\" podcast by Guy Raz. I listened to it maybe 3 or 4 years ago and it was absolutely the most motivating and interesting podcast I ever listened to. There's also a book (that I found last year); I'll read it soon. In the podcast, he interviews founders from well-known companies and basically asks them questions on how they got started. I imagine the book is a condensed version of the interviews f"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41141208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141208", "by": "monkellipse", "time": 1722622739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lex Fridman had Cronin on his podcast, quite an interesting discussion."}, {"show": "1077418457", "hn_item": 41141927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141927", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1722627589, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I want an ML model that can squash image memes on Mastodon. I have a long list of keyword blocks against the hateful content that https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-politics-has-... warns you about but hateful image memes (1) evade the blocks and (2) get shared disproportionately, even by people who should know better. Personally I am happy to see all the images memes go so just something that blocks images with prominent text in them would go a long way."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 41144644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144644", "by": "wanderingmind", "time": 1722658754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hidden Brain had an episode on the recent studies challenging the Marshmallow test https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/when-to-eat-the-marshmallow/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41144928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144928", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1722664624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I tried growing my own strawberries this summer. Fully organic, full sun. They tasted awful. I won\u2019t be rerunning that experiment. The store bought ones are hit and miss. The problem is it\u2019s basically impossible to tell the difference. I also tried the \u201csweetest batch\u201d thing that the All In podcast recommended. Still mediocre. Grapes, mangoes, and nectarines are consistently a far better option."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41148211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41148211", "by": "mgiannopoulos", "time": 1722708873, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41150814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41150814", "by": "dooglius", "time": 1722739212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At a glance, this paper seems extremely questionable. It appears to take an offhand comment by Kahneman in a Lex Friedman podcast regarding the limits of AI and interpret it as asking whether there is a problem that humans can solve but machines cannot -- which is definitely not a reasonable interpretation IMO as in context Kahneman is talking about the limitations of present AI systems, and computability is a totally different question. The paper's claim to have found such a class of problem would mean the Church-Turing thesis is false, and so it is quite surprising that the Church-Turing the"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41155868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155868", "by": "whatsdoom", "time": 1722801092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab also did an episode [1] which I really enjoyed, excited to listen to the 99% one [1] https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon edit: I saved this comment to reply back and by the time I did others had posted the same thing"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 41160500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41160500", "by": "pera", "time": 1722859573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really like The Amp Hour by Dave Jones (EEVblog) and Chris Gammell, if you are into electronics I think it's a brilliant podcast: https://theamphour.com/"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 41161563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161563", "by": "datadrivenangel", "time": 1722867373, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a fan of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. It's an advice show about all the non-technical parts of software engineering, and the hosts are very funny. Link: https://softskills.audio/"}, {"show": "296237493", "hn_item": 41161734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161734", "by": "everybodyknows", "time": 1722868447, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bloomberg Surveillance daily before-opening podcast: None this morning, not on Apple mobile."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41167155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167155", "by": "KolenCh", "time": 1722908476, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was just listening to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?... They pointed out that a monopoly is not the sin, the sin is to abuse that market position for unfair advantage. So your summary of their verdict in a way is what the US view of antitrust is."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41170635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170635", "by": "robotguy", "time": 1722950486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excerpts from my list that might be popular here: Embedded - a podcast about making and loving gadgets. It is for hardware and software engineers, makers, and hobbyists. No Such Thing as a Fish - QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they\u2019ve discovered over the last seven days. A Problem Squared - dedicated to solving problems of all kinds Imaginary Worlds - an episodic science fiction and fantasy podcast that deconstructs the genres and their themes. Twenty Thousand Hertz - stories behind "}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 41170635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170635", "by": "robotguy", "time": 1722950486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excerpts from my list that might be popular here: Embedded - a podcast about making and loving gadgets. It is for hardware and software engineers, makers, and hobbyists. No Such Thing as a Fish - QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they\u2019ve discovered over the last seven days. A Problem Squared - dedicated to solving problems of all kinds Imaginary Worlds - an episodic science fiction and fantasy podcast that deconstructs the genres and their themes. Twenty Thousand Hertz - stories behind "}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 41170635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170635", "by": "robotguy", "time": 1722950486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excerpts from my list that might be popular here: Embedded - a podcast about making and loving gadgets. It is for hardware and software engineers, makers, and hobbyists. No Such Thing as a Fish - QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they\u2019ve discovered over the last seven days. A Problem Squared - dedicated to solving problems of all kinds Imaginary Worlds - an episodic science fiction and fantasy podcast that deconstructs the genres and their themes. Twenty Thousand Hertz - stories behind "}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 41170635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170635", "by": "robotguy", "time": 1722950486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Excerpts from my list that might be popular here: Embedded - a podcast about making and loving gadgets. It is for hardware and software engineers, makers, and hobbyists. No Such Thing as a Fish - QI researchers Dan Schreiber, James Harkin, Anna Ptaszynski and Andrew Hunter Murray share the most bizarre, extraordinary and hilarious facts they\u2019ve discovered over the last seven days. A Problem Squared - dedicated to solving problems of all kinds Imaginary Worlds - an episodic science fiction and fantasy podcast that deconstructs the genres and their themes. Twenty Thousand Hertz - stories behind "}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 41182930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182930", "by": "imakwana", "time": 1723048109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rational Reminder podcast for a highly technical deep-dive on all topics Investing & Personal Finance. They have interviewed multiple highly cited/influential Professors from leading universities."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 41183393, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183393", "by": "mbreese", "time": 1723051140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW, the British History Podcast does a pretty good job of covering Scotland and the migration of people through this period. I actually don\u2019t know how good it is, but I do at least remember all of the names and places you mentioned. :) The podcast is quite England heavy, but does also cover Scotland and Wales, as well as the relevant parts of France, Ireland, and Denmark (as appropriate)."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 41185677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41185677", "by": "andrefuchs", "time": 1723065672, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries - one of my favorite podcasts. https://darknetdiaries.com/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41191130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41191130", "by": "jamincan", "time": 1723122722, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At least one podcast I listen to (If Books Could Kill) seems to place The Atlantic in the \"reactionary center\" or at least sympathetic to it. I don't fully grok the term, but it mainly seems to include people who sit near the center political, generally view themselves as progressives, but feel that things have gone too far and therefore push against the supposed excesses of the left."}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 41195465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41195465", "by": "abalaji", "time": 1723146565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sounds similar to the theme system that CGP Grey and Mike advocate for in the Cortex podcast. https://www.themesystem.com/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41200047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200047", "by": "mznmel", "time": 1723193672, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a couple of podcast episodes that I keep revisiting. One standout is Lex Fridman's interview with John Carmack, published 2 years ago. Despite its age, it continues to offer rich, valuable insights that I find relevant today I'm curious about other podcast content that has truly stood the test of time. Let's imagine we're giving out \"Test of Time Awards\" for exceptional podcasts. What would be your nomination of content that: 1. Was published at least 2+ years ago 2. Still provides valuable insights or knowledge today 3. You find yourself revisiting or recommending to others These co"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41200973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200973", "by": "dmitrykan", "time": 1723204603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm working on the tool, that includes AI. My original target is to test it on my https://www.youtube.com/c/VectorPodcast by offering something that Lex Fridman does for his episodes. Current features: 1. Download from YT 2. Transcribe using Vosk (output has time codes included) 3. Speaker diarization using pyannote - this isn't perfect and needs a bit more ironing out. What needs to be done: 4. Store the transcription in a search engine (can include vectors) 5. Implement a webapp If anyone here is interested to join forces, let me know."}, {"show": "1028908750", "hn_item": 41204681, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41204681", "by": "jackbravo", "time": 1723231671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The `Make the world sparkle again` episode of the podcast Hidden Brain podcast ( https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/making-the-world-sparkle-aga... ) talks about the same topic. They interview Tail Sharot a neuroscientist and author of the ` Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There` book. Similar advice, learn new things, take smaller (3 dayish) but more frequent vacation instead of longer ones, change your environment."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 41221242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221242", "by": "kindjeff", "time": 1723438142, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1559758759", "hn_item": 41229241, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229241", "by": "SamCoding", "time": 1723496245, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1747129182", "hn_item": 41234550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234550", "by": "jgroenen", "time": 1723550108, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hey HN! I'm Jim, and I'm excited to share Digest.fm - a platform I built that automatically creates and publishes AI-generated podcasts every day at 6 AM. TL;DR: Digest.fm turns any newsletter or URL into an AI-generated podcast, published automatically to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The problem: Like many of you, I was struggling to keep up with the firehose of information in the tech world. I wanted to stay updated on AI developments and Product Hunt launches but couldn't find the time to read everything. The solution: I built Digest.fm to create daily podcast digests for me. Now, "}, {"show": "1747555538", "hn_item": 41234550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234550", "by": "jgroenen", "time": 1723550108, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hey HN! I'm Jim, and I'm excited to share Digest.fm - a platform I built that automatically creates and publishes AI-generated podcasts every day at 6 AM. TL;DR: Digest.fm turns any newsletter or URL into an AI-generated podcast, published automatically to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The problem: Like many of you, I was struggling to keep up with the firehose of information in the tech world. I wanted to stay updated on AI developments and Product Hunt launches but couldn't find the time to read everything. The solution: I built Digest.fm to create daily podcast digests for me. Now, "}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 41234550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234550", "by": "jgroenen", "time": 1723550108, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! I'm Jim, and I'm excited to share Digest.fm - a platform I built that automatically creates and publishes AI-generated podcasts every day at 6 AM. TL;DR: Digest.fm turns any newsletter or URL into an AI-generated podcast, published automatically to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The problem: Like many of you, I was struggling to keep up with the firehose of information in the tech world. I wanted to stay updated on AI developments and Product Hunt launches but couldn't find the time to read everything. The solution: I built Digest.fm to create daily podcast digests for me. Now, "}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 41234876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234876", "by": "jgroenen", "time": 1723552849, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the question! I actually hadn't heard of PocketPod before - it looks pretty cool. The main difference is that Digest.fm is more of a general-purpose tool. You can point it at any URL or newsletter and it'll create a podcast from it. So it's not just for news, but for any content you want to listen to instead of read. Some key points: 1. You choose the exact sources. Could be niche blogs, newsletters, whatever. 2. Make multiple podcasts on different topics. I've got one for Product Hunt and another for AI news. 3. It publishes straight to Spotify, Apple, YouTube etc. 4. Super simple "}, {"show": "918896288", "hn_item": 41236407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41236407", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1723562994, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am not deaf, however I often find places hard to hear people, and hard to be heard. I understand audio treatment of rooms is expensive, but it does add a lot to a place. The Gastropod podcast recently discussed this: https://gastropod.com/transcript-why-are-restaurants-so-loud... One of the presenters keeps apologising for sounding very English, perhaps she is being overly polite."}, {"show": "1740594155", "hn_item": 41238598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41238598", "by": "artimaeis", "time": 1723576276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a lot of attempts at investigating those questions. Here's a couple of pages I'd recommend to peruse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe If you're into podcasts at all, I'd strongly recommend Crash Course Pods: The Universe. The first (full) episode goes into detail on that first fraction of a second in our universe and it's pretty enlightening without being to thick on the math."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41239400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41239400", "by": "mportela", "time": 1723580649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics did a very good deep dive into this world recently: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-your-eyeglasses-cost..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41245851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245851", "by": "paulryanrogers", "time": 1723642254, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TLDR: yes \"If Books Could Kill\" also did a critique for those who prefer to listen to a podcast. I found the book appealing as naive young person. Yet so little of its advice was within reach to me. And the house I bought was a modest net loss compared to rent I would've paid. It boils down to buy cheap real estate and antiques that will be desirable in the future. I.e. be born in the right place, right time, to not too poor people, and make lucky choices. Also financial fraud wherever you can get away with it."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41245880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245880", "by": "noelwelsh", "time": 1723642443, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"If Books Could Kill\" podcast discusses this book and others in the same genre. The two hosts are reasonably thorough in their research, and quite amusing as well."}, {"show": "1618050230", "hn_item": 41249348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41249348", "by": "skar02", "time": 1723661840, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "My brother and I, both Stanford CS students, built an AI True Crime Podcast Generator. Give it a prompt, and in 1-2 minutes, it will generate a podcast based on that prompt\u2014no matter how recent, how broad or specific, or where the event occurred. Check it out! For reference, this is a sample podcast I generated with Golpo with the prompt (\"Bangladesh recent\"): https://shorturl.at/eqr8O"}, {"show": "1691189730", "hn_item": 41255972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41255972", "by": "lenerdenator", "time": 1723729403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This mainly comes from people who wish to post their business or other commercial page on Facebook and have, for a reason that isn't particularly clear, been prevented from doing so, and no one at Meta can give them an explanation. I don't have it in front of me right now but there's a Python podcast episode I listened to recently where a person involved with the Pandas project was banned from having some sort of presence on a Meta property. The theory was that the content moderation algorithms had marked his account as being related to the exotic animal trade because of the words \"python\" and"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41258959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41258959", "by": "tocs3", "time": 1723746299, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I still write checks and members of my family do more so. 38 sounds about right. For me about 30 maybe 2 credit cards income tax (no state just federal) and maybe a few miscellaneous. Addition: My mother worked at the Fedral reserve clearing check for 40+ years. A podcast episode I enjoyed from Planet Money on the subject. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/229224964"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 41266639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41266639", "by": "myfonj", "time": 1723817713, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "* (2021) IIRC one of the best episodes of the Corecursive podcast I've heard so far."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41266894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41266894", "by": "fullshark", "time": 1723819524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People listen to people they admire, and think they have it all figured out, even if they are just skilled in one area. Listening to Tom Cruise's opinion on anything other than acting is as bad as listening to the All-in podcast for anything other than where to put your VC money."}, {"show": "1139926236", "hn_item": 41268486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268486", "by": "bloopernova", "time": 1723829700, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "And mothman was allegedly seen in Chicago too! Kyle Kinane does a fantastic Chicago Mothman accent: https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/chicago-mothman/id1139..."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 41268799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41268799", "by": "bostik", "time": 1723831732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is quite fitting that another HN darling, Jane Street, uses similar architecture in their exchange(s). Event input queue, fully deterministic matching engine, and an output queue. Plus importantly, a sequencer to guarantee that the events going into the input queue have a known order. Aspects of their architecture and design decisions have been made public through their podcast series, Signals and Threads.[0] 0: https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "135353439", "hn_item": 41272302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272302", "by": "totetsu", "time": 1723872159, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just listed to a podcast interviewing Alexandre Lefebvre about his book \u2018Liberalism as a Way of Life\u2019 He draws a parallel with Sorin Kierkegaard\u2019s idea of \u201cChristendom\u201d and a new kind of \u201cliberal-dom\u201d. Where our personal values system is born out of the sea of liberal institutions that we love in, like constitutions. Philosopher's Zone: https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/philosophers-zone/id13..."}, {"show": "1465767420", "hn_item": 41281424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41281424", "by": "renegade-otter", "time": 1723976331, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Since this is a YC site, \"Who really killed Blockbuster video\": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-really-killed-bloc... We SHOULD have been streaming on Blockbuster and not Netflix today, but history is just a chain of blunders stitched together."}, {"show": "80867514", "hn_item": 41287825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287825", "by": "andrewstuart", "time": 1724041752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Really interesting talk from Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast. 2018 but its still worth listening to. https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts/when-the-platform-is-y..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 41295932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295932", "by": "SCUSKU", "time": 1724116458, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! If you're a listener of the Ezra Klein Show podcast, you know he asks his guests 3 books they recommend. This side project catalogues all those books into a searchable and sortable list. It was my first time hiring a designer from Upwork to do the design, and overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's built using django, htmx, alpinejs, and tailwind. Happy to hear any and all feedback! Thanks!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 41298213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298213", "by": "ClumsyPilot", "time": 1724144649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> thugs will use it to stop passing vehicles to make kidnapping easy! We already have this thing, it\u2019s called a red light. Is there a name for this, when people come up with a plausible sounding scenario for crime driven disaster, but it does not actually have basis in real world? The \u2018razor blades in candy\u2019 scares parents every Halloween but is completely made up and has never been reported. Peter Thiel had a similar moment on Joe Rogan podcast where he explained his elaborate social theory based on how chimps behave, but got the basics of chimp behaviour totally wrong TL DR: tech people suck"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 41299041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299041", "by": "dangus", "time": 1724153854, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s not even about \u201coffensive\u201d or \u201ccancelled.\u201d It\u2019s about the pure economics of in-theater movies. The whole business model of comedy movies released to theaters was that they had mediocre theater box office numbers but the theater release would drive a crazy home rental business for years after the movie came out. That entire business model doesn\u2019t work anymore. After a comedy movie leaves the theater it\u2019s basically worthless and does nothing to drive streaming subscriptions. Examples like Rogan, South Park, Chappelle, do not apply here. Rogan\u2019s podcast is not a comedy. And he\u2019s a terrible s"}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 41304005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304005", "by": "unquietwiki", "time": 1724187575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States I think the \"Well There's Your Problem\" podcast mentioned this ship in a recent episode. Fastest ship for its day; I thought it was nuclear-powered, but apparently not?"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41304157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41304157", "by": "devatbsh", "time": 1724188539, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 41312232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312232", "by": "dominuskelvin", "time": 1724260360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had an amazing conversation with Kamran Ahmed, the self-taught developer and entrepreneur behind Roadmap.sh, a platform guiding over 1.25 million developers through their learning journeys. Kamran shares how he built this massive community while working full-time, and eventually transitioned it into a thriving business. Takeaways Roadmap.sh is a platform that provides learning paths for different skills and technologies, helping beginners and intermediate developers navigate their learning journey. The platform offers free content and resources, making learning accessible to everyone. Kamran"}, {"show": "1227971746", "hn_item": 41312232, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41312232", "by": "dominuskelvin", "time": 1724260360, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I had an amazing conversation with Kamran Ahmed, the self-taught developer and entrepreneur behind Roadmap.sh, a platform guiding over 1.25 million developers through their learning journeys. Kamran shares how he built this massive community while working full-time, and eventually transitioned it into a thriving business. Takeaways Roadmap.sh is a platform that provides learning paths for different skills and technologies, helping beginners and intermediate developers navigate their learning journey. The platform offers free content and resources, making learning accessible to everyone. Kamran"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41313110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41313110", "by": "zimmerfrei", "time": 1724266723, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41321729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41321729", "by": "yobbo", "time": 1724342717, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of these \"convolutions\" is called center-embedding. It's discussed on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://lexfridman.com/edward-gibson-transcript#chapter9_cen... It's objectively less comprehensible, and there is no benefit to it other than sounding legalese."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 41323868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41323868", "by": "haswell", "time": 1724356625, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been using a very simple app called \"OTP Auth\" since I heard Steve Gibson talking about it on his Security Now podcast. It's a few dollars, works well, and I've been really happy with it after using Authy for years."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 41324081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324081", "by": "munchler", "time": 1724358165, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nate Silver was on Ezra Klein\u2019s podcast recently to shill this book and it was surprisingly disappointing. I had previously thought of Silver as a careful, data-driven analyst, but he came across as an unrelatable tech bro vaguely defending Silicon Valley weirdness and MAGA tendencies. Not what I was expecting. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 41332041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41332041", "by": "lucifargundam", "time": 1724439945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just wanted to say I first heard of Fly.io from \"The Changelog\" podcast"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 41333635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41333635", "by": "lostlogin", "time": 1724452201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I have family with disabilities. This has an interesting history. I\u2019m struggling to find it and hope I have it right. John Gruber or maybe Accidental Tech Podcast did a segment on an podcast ages ago in relation to accessibility settings on the iPhone. Whoever it was credited a particular Apple engineer who pushed hard with accessibility features arguing that at some point, everyone has some sort of issue (sight, hearing, movement etc). I\u2019ve tried, but can\u2019t find the episode, which is a shame as this sort of thing is Apple at its best, which does get lost in the swamp of depressing decisions"}, {"show": "1713365771", "hn_item": 41344662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344662", "by": "jsavanna", "time": 1724564055, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm reminded of this podcast with Bart Epstein. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-your-edtech-really-... We have a collective action problem."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 41346304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41346304", "by": "krapp", "time": 1724583031, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "QAnon started as a gag on 4chan and then ate the Republican Party because it was too on the nose. 4chan itself is a great example - it used to be \"ironically\" racist, now it's just racist racist, and that's the joke. And I was listening to a Behind the Bastards podcast about the history of the Illuminati and how a lot of the modern conspiracy beliefs about the Illuminati come from the Discordian movement parodying conspiracy beliefs. On the one hand you have to appreciate when people game so hard they manifest a zeitgeist entirely out of their own irony-poisoned fart clouds, but on the other h"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41354350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354350", "by": "jaimex2", "time": 1724651173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to a Lex Fridman podcast and wrote an article on it. Nice."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 41372825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372825", "by": "zonkerdonker", "time": 1724791601, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would recommend this podcast from Darknet Diaries. [1] Not quite an article, but there is a transcript if you'd prefer to read. Includes interview with the people actually selling these hacks, and it is fascinating [1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/115/"}, {"show": "1169885840", "hn_item": 41376075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376075", "by": "lokimedes", "time": 1724820843, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It makes good sense for humans to have this ability. If we flip the argument, and see the next frame as a hypothesis for what is expected as the outcome of the current frame, then comparing this \"hypothesis\" with what is sensed makes it easier to process the differences, rather than the totality of the sensory input. As Richard Dawkins recently put it in a podcast[1], our genes are great prediction machines, as their continued survival rests on it. Being able to generate a visual prediction fits perfectly with the amount of resources we dedicate to sight. If that is the case, what does aphanta"}, {"show": "1206165808", "hn_item": 41376141, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376141", "by": "priyankap25", "time": 1724821752, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started \"Founder Stories with Priyanka\" to continue the legacy of the Indie Hackers podcast and learn from bootstrapped founders. Each episode dives into: -The story behind their product ideation & getting their first few customers -Unconventional growth strategies -Practical conversion tactics -Raw truths about the bootstrapping journey(life lessons) As someone from a non-tech background, I created this podcast to gather and share insights on launching and growing profitable businesses without external funding. I'm Priyanka, the host. AMA about the podcast or the founders' stories! You can "}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 41377532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41377532", "by": "jamessb", "time": 1724836056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Software Engineering Daily podcast had an interview with Emil Ernerfeldt (co-founder and CTO of rerun) a couple of weeks ago: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2024/08/07/creating-gui..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41378224, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378224", "by": "nsbk", "time": 1724843333, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We are. At least that's what Lisa Feldman Barrett [1] thinks. It is worth listening to this Lex Fridman podcast: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works [2], where she explains among other ideas how constant prediction is the most efficient way of running a brain as opposed to reaction. I never get tired of listening to her, she's such a great science communicator. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Feldman_Barrett [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRIVCBqNI&t=1443s"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41381633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381633", "by": "voisin", "time": 1724864631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> destroy small business On the All-in Podcast they said it was only on unrealized gains over $100m. This is meant to target the Bezos and Musks of the world who can avoid taxes by borrowing against unrealized gains."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 41383480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383480", "by": "gherkinnn", "time": 1724874577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Verge's Decoder podcast interviewed her in October 2022. What a great person she is. https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messagin..."}, {"show": "1261944206", "hn_item": 41389418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389418", "by": "smcl", "time": 1724928631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are correct, he's also been a guest on \"Well There's Your Problem\" (an engineering disasters podcast/channel) and TRASHFUTURE (UK tech/politics podcast) a few times."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 41391308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391308", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1724942548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> not because Mark Zuckerberg is a nice guy Mark Z was clear on Dwarkesh's podcast that when he has things open he does so because he thinks it will benefit Meta and he explicitly says it's not altruistic and that if it stops being useful he'll stop making things open."}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 41396239, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396239", "by": "switchbak", "time": 1724972479, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sounds like a perfect recipe for an episode of the Corecursive Podcast!"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41403829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403829", "by": "cseleborg", "time": 1725046895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent podcast called Acquired with a 3-part episode covering the birth and evolution of NVIDIA, highly recommended."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 41411978, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411978", "by": "ccity88", "time": 1725138418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would thoroughly recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast episode on the ancient Phonecians. It goes into detail about life in Phonecian society, particularly Carthage, and its rivalry with Rome and ultimately the Punic wars. It's quite long, but well worth it if you want a broad picture of how life was like in that period. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dbdVhVSat8"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 41412154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41412154", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1725139756, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 41416190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41416190", "by": "elawler24", "time": 1725191862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Lenny\u2019s newsletter podcast episode with him, he goes through what I assume are similar topics - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41418445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418445", "by": "aerospades", "time": 1725210118, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "George Hotz calls this \"the button\" on his last Lex podcast. https://youtube.com/watch?v=dNrTrx42DGQ&t=5247 > \"This is Mark Zuckerberg reading that Paul Graham asking and being like, I\u2019m going to show everyone how alive we are. I\u2019m going to change the name [from Facebook to Meta]. Does Sundar Pichai have the authority to turn off google.com tomorrow? They have the technical power, but do they have the authority? Let\u2019s say Sundar Pichai made this his sole mission. He came into Google tomorrow and said, 'I\u2019m going to shut google.com down.' I don\u2019t think you keep this position too long. Now, does"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41422164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422164", "by": "0xbadcafebee", "time": 1725244385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wow. They have got to turn this into a 99% Invisible podcast episode. (if you stopped at the weaving - which is incredible in its own right - you missed the much more amazing story)"}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 41422786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422786", "by": "zX41ZdbW", "time": 1725254015, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Probably here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product..."}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 41422789, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422789", "by": "zX41ZdbW", "time": 1725254047, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Maybe this? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product..."}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 41422790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422790", "by": "zX41ZdbW", "time": 1725254065, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product..."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 41422820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422820", "by": "willvarfar", "time": 1725254564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd have guessed that goods from Sri Lanka got to Rome via the Red Sea? My recollection of an \"Empire\" podcast episode I listened to recently (warmly recommended!) is that as much as half of all Rome's tax was raised at Egyptian ports on goods coming up the Red Sea."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 41426818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426818", "by": "canjobear", "time": 1725295032, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Leslie Valiant was on Sean Carroll's podcast to talk about the same topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW-nBIZc2g"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 41435496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435496", "by": "oo0shiny", "time": 1725374919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to the Search Engine podcast episode [1] where the author talked about this story. It's wild. The author (Joseph Cox) is also a founder of 404 Media[2], which is a great tech blog. [1] https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/what-s-... [2] https://www.404media.co/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41436709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41436709", "by": "WithinReason", "time": 1725382057, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 41446255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41446255", "by": "gravitino", "time": 1725460112, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 41451275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41451275", "by": "brailsafe", "time": 1725486778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think ironically people hate CBC because they've been told it's gov funded. I watch CBC Marketplace, Fifth Estate, podcasts, 22 minutes, it's all pretty good. Sure you can dig into it and be skeptical of the narrative or w/e, but I think they do a decent job of neutrality, especially more than obviously right leaning publications like National Post. Rarely does CBC make the current administration look good. CBC was making Trudeau look bad long before everyone else jumped on."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41468304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41468304", "by": "blobbers", "time": 1725645345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All-in podcast was presenting RFK recently who highlighted autism rates of 1/22. Is it just me or is the spectrum of autism now just labeling anyone with social awkwardness or challenges expressing feelings as autistic? Because I feel like there is socially awkward, and then there is 'Dating on the spectrum' level autistic. I'm not super up to date yet, but is there an actual 'science' based test (blood, dna, something other than observing behaviors). I've seen the diagnosis of l1, l2 and l3 autism, but this isn't cited by the paper (or at least wasn't in my skim). The paper does indicate that"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 41473466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41473466", "by": "voidee", "time": 1725711176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. Good idea. Another thing. There are several podcasts who have a free feed and paid one. Sam Harris\u2019 Making Sense comes to mind with their free feed and a paid one for full access to all content. But they understand not everyone can pay. If one is unable to pay, they can simply email to ask for a free annual membership. Pay what you want albums on Bandcamp are another example of a sliding scale. Suggested price $10, but artists can define their minimum."}, {"show": "1739642851", "hn_item": 41478134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478134", "by": "shagie", "time": 1725768233, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Another space book series that I'm going to toss out there... * completely* different take on the universe and human nature... Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper series. The author read (and is a very good reader) the first books as a free podcast. https://www.scribl.com/books/P2A75/quarter-share and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/traders-tales-from-the... depending on your devices."}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 41478665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478665", "by": "taxicabjesus", "time": 1725778310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My introduction to Hallelujah was via Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. A good portion of Season 1, Episode 7 (2016) was dedicated to the evolution of Leonard Cohen's song from 'forgotten B-side track' to the song that is commonly known and covered today. https://youtu.be/4OKQTl09vCk?t=1180 (link to 19:30) https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/halleluj... The author of this submission mentions this podcast: > On his podcast, Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell presents his theory on two types of artists: conceptual innovators and experimental innovators. Conceptual innovators create "}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 41478665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41478665", "by": "taxicabjesus", "time": 1725778310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My introduction to Hallelujah was via Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. A good portion of Season 1, Episode 7 (2016) was dedicated to the evolution of Leonard Cohen's song from 'forgotten B-side track' to the song that is commonly known and covered today. https://youtu.be/4OKQTl09vCk?t=1180 (link to 19:30) https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/halleluj... The author of this submission mentions this podcast: > On his podcast, Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell presents his theory on two types of artists: conceptual innovators and experimental innovators. Conceptual innovators create "}, {"show": "1508854933", "hn_item": 41480962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480962", "by": "doitLP", "time": 1725809346, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just in case you weren\u2019t aware, these guys have been doing deep dives on the series with a chapter by chapter breakdown, digging into every single reference and historical mention in the books. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lubbers-hole-a-pat... After reading Aubrey-Maturin 5 times through I didn\u2019t think I could appreciate it even more but this podcast revealed a whole new depth of awe for the author. Like Steve Jobs insisting the inside of the Apple II looked beautiful even if no one would see it level of craftsmanship."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 41482995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41482995", "by": "hirvi74", "time": 1725827741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am also bothered by mainstream definitions of intelligence and our humanity's egocentric ascription. I personally really appreciate the definition of intelligence from Dr. David Krakauer, a mathematical biologist. Krakauer once said on Sam Harris' podcast (episode 40): Intelligence is, as I say to people, one of the topics about which we have been most stupid. All our definitions of intelligence are based on measurements that can only be applied to humans. An IQ test is not interesting if you\u2019re trying to calculate the intelligence of an octopus \u2014 which I would like to know, because I believ"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 41492334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492334", "by": "gherkinnn", "time": 1725908926, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The War on the Rocks podcast recently published a related episode about \"Cyber in the defence department\" [0]. WOTR regularly features guests with deep expertise or of high calibre. Good stuff. 0 - https://warontherocks.com/2024/08/the-smartest-conversation-..."}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 41492747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492747", "by": "tlavoie", "time": 1725911259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of Kris Jenkins' Developer Voices podcast talks with a couple authors of a new book on DuckDB, and does a great job of explaining the sorts of things that make it so unusual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nA3uDx1rlg"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41498273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498273", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1725954818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a few podcasts, like 99% Invisible, Talk Python To Me, and Stuff You Missed in History Class. These are similar to what the link quotes Clara Papenoe Thor as describing as \"radio shows (which sometimes include 'pod' in their titles ...)\". I've tried to listen to other podcasts, but most end up being people yammering forever on topics they only partially understand, or as the link summarizes Thor's characterization, \"the format as such revolves around half-baked ideas.\" If that's what most podcasts are like - which seems to be the case given the jokes I hear - then I agree."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 41498273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498273", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1725954818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a few podcasts, like 99% Invisible, Talk Python To Me, and Stuff You Missed in History Class. These are similar to what the link quotes Clara Papenoe Thor as describing as \"radio shows (which sometimes include 'pod' in their titles ...)\". I've tried to listen to other podcasts, but most end up being people yammering forever on topics they only partially understand, or as the link summarizes Thor's characterization, \"the format as such revolves around half-baked ideas.\" If that's what most podcasts are like - which seems to be the case given the jokes I hear - then I agree."}, {"show": "283605519", "hn_item": 41498273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498273", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1725954818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a few podcasts, like 99% Invisible, Talk Python To Me, and Stuff You Missed in History Class. These are similar to what the link quotes Clara Papenoe Thor as describing as \"radio shows (which sometimes include 'pod' in their titles ...)\". I've tried to listen to other podcasts, but most end up being people yammering forever on topics they only partially understand, or as the link summarizes Thor's characterization, \"the format as such revolves around half-baked ideas.\" If that's what most podcasts are like - which seems to be the case given the jokes I hear - then I agree."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41505249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505249", "by": "motoxpro", "time": 1726000696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is insane! To be able to listen to a conversation to learn about any topic is amazing. Maybe it's just me because I listen to so many podcasts but this is Planet Money or The Indicator from NPR about anything. Definitely one of the coolest things I have seen an LLM do."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 41505249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505249", "by": "motoxpro", "time": 1726000696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is insane! To be able to listen to a conversation to learn about any topic is amazing. Maybe it's just me because I listen to so many podcasts but this is Planet Money or The Indicator from NPR about anything. Definitely one of the coolest things I have seen an LLM do."}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 41513631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41513631", "by": "aanet", "time": 1726076819, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "William Dalrymple is one of the finest historians and authors who has previously brought to life the story of East India Company and how it led to British India. In this book, he focuses on, among other things, how Buddhism spread all over. It's a fascinating topic. He also has a very successful podcast [1][2] -- with his co-host Anita Anand -- The Empire Podcast, which chronicles the rise and fall of empires. Highly educational, not to mention entertaining. Recommended!! [1] Empire Podcast - Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921 [2] On Spotify - https://open.spotif"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 41513631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41513631", "by": "aanet", "time": 1726076819, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "William Dalrymple is one of the finest historians and authors who has previously brought to life the story of East India Company and how it led to British India. In this book, he focuses on, among other things, how Buddhism spread all over. It's a fascinating topic. He also has a very successful podcast [1][2] -- with his co-host Anita Anand -- The Empire Podcast, which chronicles the rise and fall of empires. Highly educational, not to mention entertaining. Recommended!! [1] Empire Podcast - Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921 [2] On Spotify - https://open.spotif"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 41520162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41520162", "by": "ianbooker", "time": 1726144723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is exactly the Volvo / Polestar philosophy. There is a Decoder podcast with their CEO about just this sentiment."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 41521823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521823", "by": "anon84873628", "time": 1726153748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations podcast, as usual, did an awesome job covering this topic: https://youtu.be/7j08gxUcBgc?si=GGZW_hawmTKTULMg"}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 41525647, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525647", "by": "astroid", "time": 1726175649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This, like most bs we have had to endure, is certainly due to them changing the definition of hearing aids. (no, I am not joking). This is why you can buy 'hearing aids' from costco now, without ever seeing an audiologist. I think this is great that the tech is more accessible, IF the consumers are informed about how and why things changed. Adam Currey (of the No Agenda podcast / headbangers ball fame) did a really good critique about this when it happened, and it was one of Nancy Pelosi's pet projects that made her a bunch of money. He made a strong case (as a person deaf in one ear and an au"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41527565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41527565", "by": "hjaveed", "time": 1726194591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After listening to @levelsio on Lex Friedman\u2019s podcast, I became obsessed to simplify my deployments: Do startups really need complex cloud architecture? Inspired, I wrote a blog exploring simpler approaches and created a docker-compose template for deployment Curious to know your thoughts on how you manage your infrastructure. How do you simplify it? How do you balance?"}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 41536983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536983", "by": "WD-42", "time": 1726280167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He did an interview about this book on the podcast \u201cThe Rest Is History\u201d which has become one of my favorite podcasts of all time. This particular episode was really funny. They ask him a few tough questions too: Interviewer: \u201cOk but your family wasn\u2019t really great to the people of Peru\u201d Habsburg: \u201cWe were learning.\u201d"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41538127, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538127", "by": "authorfly", "time": 1726298934, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The creation and iteration of ARC has been designed in part to avoid this. Francis talks in his \"mid-career\" work (2015-2019) about priors for general intelligence and avoiding allowing them. While he admits ARC allows for some priors, it was at the time his best reasonable human effort in 2019 to put together and extremely prior-less training set, as he explained on podcasts around that time (e.g. Lex Fridman). The point of this is that humans, with our priors, are able to reliably get the majority of the puzzles correct, and with time, we can even correct mistakes or recognise mistakes in su"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41538457, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41538457", "by": "gtsnexp", "time": 1726303815, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can you create an application that processes Lex Fridman's podcasts and removes his voice?"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 41541462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541462", "by": "Bluestein", "time": 1726336058, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 41546283, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546283", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1726391300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen the Founders podcast. Then you can learn from multiple great business books."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 41549664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549664", "by": "jhickok", "time": 1726428462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm glad you like his style! I find him incredibly approachable and clear for some of the reasons you outlined above. He also take great pains to be a clear communicator, which you can see in pieces of media like his appearance on Sean Carroll's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0evRaWV_HU Anyway, I was not a philosophy undergraduate and so a lot of my exposure was either to popular level works (surveys, etc), or big historical names (Descartes, Hume, Plato), or to very specific areas of research (I was big into metaphysics and philosophy of mind \"realists\", like Chalmers, Searle, Flan"}, {"show": "1768464164", "hn_item": 41551370, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41551370", "by": "kakaly0403", "time": 1726443066, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I am creating a podcast using AI. The episodes focus on how engineering teams in big tech companies are using LLMs to solve novel use cases, as well as latest research from the academia. I have recorded 14 episodes so far, including some exciting ones like: - How Uber engineering uses GenAI for mobile testing. - How OpenAI's latest reasoning models work. - How Box uses Amazon Q to power Box AI. - How DoorDash uses LLMs to enrich its SKUs. The episodes are semi-automated and fully powered using: - Exa search and some python code for researching content - NotebookLM from Google for TTS - Riversi"}, {"show": "1665265193", "hn_item": 41553705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553705", "by": "iamflimflam1", "time": 1726472494, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 41564926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41564926", "by": "seadan83", "time": 1726555381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Re: yawning I listened to a \"Science Vs\" podcast on it (or perhaps it was \"unexplainable\"), yawning is not yo increase oxygen levels. Study participants sat in an oxygen enriched room and also a depleted room without a change in yawn rates. What did affect yawn rates was brain temperature. Yawning lowers brain temperature. Importantly, when ambient temperature is higher than body temperature, yawn rate dramatically goes down. These resource [1] [2] goes into some of the details if you want to skip listening to the podcast [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/scienc... [2] "}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 41570218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41570218", "by": "dhx", "time": 1726593951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the accused * The article states the accused launched the app 9 years ago at the age of 23. The app previously had the domain ghostecc.com whose historical WHOIS records indicate creation on 2016-04-13, so the dates approximately line up. * The accused was living with his parents in a property they seemingly purchased in 1996 (when the accused would have been 4 years old) and live in today. From business registration records associated with the property, the family appears to operate a commercial cleaning business as well as a more recently formed skip bin hire business. The app * ghostchat"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 41571412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41571412", "by": "renegade-otter", "time": 1726599816, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Pretty much. This Behind the Bastards two-parter was recorded before Musk went full Red Pill: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/part-one-i-do-not-like... The host off the bat says that he is conflicted about this episode because of Musk's contributions, but I am confident this would go differently now. Back in 2020 Musk could still pass for an \"eccentric billionaire\" and not a complete fascist-curious shitbag."}, {"show": "1768464164", "hn_item": 41573881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573881", "by": "kakaly0403", "time": 1726614734, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hey HN, I\u2019ve recently launched a podcast that dives into how companies are leveraging large language models (LLMs) to solve real-world problems in unique and creative ways. Each episode explores case studies, technical blogs and research papers to explain how LLMs are applied. Some of the cool episodes we\u2019ve released so far: - Uber's Use of LLMs for Mobile Testing. - DoorDash Enriching Product Information with LLMs. Each episode dives deep into the why and how, breaking down technical implementations, business impact, and the broader implications of using LLMs in innovative ways. If you\u2019re wor"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41578736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578736", "by": "shahzaibmushtaq", "time": 1726661476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe you are right. My comments make it sound like it is easy to do, but actually I said it was not as difficult as before. You don't have to travel far and much to get a worldview, now the world has become a global village thanks to the internet. Market is oversaturated because of awful books being published every year and it will surely become supersaturated with AI authors. That's why I gave the example of Pieter - link in the parent comment. He self-published his e-book to bypass the oversaturated market and was recently invited by Lex Fridman on his podcast."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41578776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578776", "by": "cromulent", "time": 1726661746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some background from Freakonomics a few months ago: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41590656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590656", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1726745005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminds me of a fascinating podcast by Radiolab - 9 Volt Nirvana: https://radiolab.org/podcast/9-volt-nirvana/transcript > SOREN: So what Sally had stumbled into was something called TDCS. It stands for 'transcranial direct current stimulation.' The idea is you take a couple little electrodes, you place them on your scalp, connect it with wires to a battery. You send a little bit of electricity into your brain, and then all kinds of things happen if you believe the claims. ... > MICHAEL WEISEND: So almost every person that we put this on says they get into what they call a \"state of flow,\" whe"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 41594259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594259", "by": "sn9", "time": 1726767307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of the podcast Invisibilia covers a man who teaches blind children the skill of echolocation: https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-be..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41594550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594550", "by": "0cf8612b2e1e", "time": 1726769070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights Little blurb \u2026who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. \"Dolls,\" which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of \"toys,\" which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar signs. it just so happened that one of their clients, Marvel Comics, was importing its action figures as dolls. \u2026 So Sherry and Indie went down to the customs office with a bag of XME"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41595125, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595125", "by": "IG_Semmelweiss", "time": 1726772339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the article: >>>> struggling to put away their laptops when asked \"One of my principles generally is look at what rich people are doing and see whether or not they know what they're doing and that could be more broadly learned. And, you do see this sport red shirt, \"academic\" red shirting. So, it's for academic reasons, not athletic reasons, but this is relatively common in upper middle class circles. (parents will have their kids restart the grade, voluntarily). And, indeed some private schools do it almost by default. They have a second year of pre-K [pre-Kindergarten]. And that second "}, {"show": "1079172742", "hn_item": 41598221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41598221", "by": "mattbarrie", "time": 1726798864, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "AI\u2019ll be back. Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/macro-voices/id1079172... Macrovoices link https://www.macrovoices.com/1347-macrovoices-446-matt-barrie"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41601181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601181", "by": "mdp2021", "time": 1726834135, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41601190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601190", "by": "mdp2021", "time": 1726834241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "...I just found out that Lex Fridman is now adding formatted transcripts to his interviews records. Rejoice https://lexfridman.com/podcast"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 41601963, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601963", "by": "kulor", "time": 1726839838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Similar points were covered in the recent Tyler Cowen podcast with Tobi L\u00fctke[1] regarding economic stagnation in Canada & Germany (relative to the US). The UK has a cynical view on progress, likely leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US seems to have a contrasting view with an optimistic by default outlook. 1. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/tobi-lutke/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 41612097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612097", "by": "dachworker", "time": 1726946742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Musk claimed on the All In podcast, that he was merely trying to abide by the law, and that the situation that arose was that the government was requesting action that went against the laws of the same country. I don't know how true that is, but it sounds plausible. He also made it clear that the policy was not \"free speech by US standards\" but rather allowing speech up till what is permitted by every respective country. That sounded way more reasonable to me than what I have heard before on the issue."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 41618490, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618490", "by": "webninja", "time": 1727026070, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">spread democracy We even have a presidential candidate that spouts similar propaganda that she is going to \u201cSave Democracy\u201d ! Yeah right, save it by subverting it at every possible point. First she was appointed into the VP role, then her party skipped holding a primary election, then she was installed into the candidacy. None of those 3 easy steps to power even vaguely resembles a Democracy. If those 3 succinct points aren\u2019t enough, here\u2019s a few more succinctly in one sentence: Members of her party have tried to deplatform her opposition, cancel her opposition, remove her opposition from the"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 41628373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628373", "by": "xist", "time": 1727111995, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stuff You Should Know had a podcast last year on it with the back story of how it was created https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-stuff-you-should-know-26..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 41628392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628392", "by": "Vegenoid", "time": 1727112067, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a good episode of the Mindscape podcast (hosted by Sean Carroll) interviewing one of the authors (Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas) about the paper: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/08/19/286-..."}, {"show": "916273527", "hn_item": 41632964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41632964", "by": "leejoramo", "time": 1727149569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Imaginary Worlds has often covered Science Fiction and Fantasy from around the world and different cultures. Just reading the show notes will give you authors to check out and other links. Even the episodes that are more focused on standard USA/UK works often bring in wider view points than we typically get. Just a few example shows: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/african-sci- ... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/creating-hin ... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/octavia-butl ... https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/postcolon"}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 41649539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41649539", "by": "smokel", "time": 1727284156, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41655208, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655208", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1727332891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to a Planet Money podcast about GPS ( https://overcast.fm/+AAYs-52QVys ) while it wouldn\u2019t be \u201cglobal\u201d, the US did have a terrestrial alternative location system until 2010 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C ). With today\u2019s technology, enhanced LORAN would have been more accurate if funded as a backup to GPS"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41659775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659775", "by": "JadoJodo", "time": 1727365585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics had an episode on rent control a few years ago that I found interesting. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-wor..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41660855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41660855", "by": "quaintdev", "time": 1727370962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The creator of this website was on Lex Friedman podcast[1]. He has dozen of other projects like these. RemoteOK and nomads are two projects that I remember. He talks at length of how he started all these projects single handedly. [1]: https://lexfridman.com/pieter-levels/"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41661522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661522", "by": "everlier", "time": 1727374992, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a \"Deep Dive\" podcast generated with the NotebookLM using information from Harbor's Wiki. Harbor is a containerized LLM toolkit that allows you to run LLMs and additional services via a concise CLI. Repository: https://github.com/av/harbor"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 41661687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41661687", "by": "game_the0ry", "time": 1727375976, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OpenAI founded as non-profit. Sam Altman goes on Joe Rogan Podcast and says he does not really care about money. Sam gets caught driving around Napa in a $4M exotic car. OpenAI turns into for-profit. 3/4 of founding team dips out. Sketchy. This whole silicon valley attitude of fake effective altruism, \"I do it for the good of humanity, not for the money (but I actually want a lot of money)\" fake bullshit is so transparent and off-putting. @sama, for the record - I am not saying making is a bad thing. Labor and talent markets should be efficient. But when you pretend to be altruistic when you a"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 41664635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664635", "by": "sharadov", "time": 1727392959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope to read the Power Broker some day. Listening to the series on the 99% Invisible podcast until then.."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 41664960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664960", "by": "cebert", "time": 1727395927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I am an SpinRite customer. I primarily purchased a copy to support Steve Gibson because I enjoy his SecurityNow podcast. I didn\u2019t care or expect much from the tool. I have experienced SpinRite improving the read time on some older SSDs I own. However, it\u2019s rather difficult to get to run on newer hardware, though I believe Steve is working to or has made that a better experience in 6.1. I had to take drives out of a EFI-based machine to one that still had BIOS compatibility for success."}, {"show": "1482984603", "hn_item": 41668652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41668652", "by": "repelsteeltje", "time": 1727433723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like the stone soup narrative on AI. It was mentioned in a recent Complexity podcast, I think by Alison Gopnik of SFI. It's analogous to the Pragmatic Programmar story about stone soup, paraphrasing: Basically you start with a stone in a pot of water \u2014 a neural net technology that does nothing meaningful but looks interesting. You say: \"the soup is almost done, but would taste better given a bunch of training data.\" So you add a bunch of well curated docs. \"Yeah, that helps but how about adding a bunch more\". So you insert some blogs, copy righted materials, scraped pictures, reddit, and sta"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 41672148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672148", "by": "foobarian", "time": 1727452752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find it interesting to think about this while listening to historical content like the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Tl;dr, if you want something to survive for millennia, it needs to be carved in stone or you need to arrange for monks to keep transcribing it"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 41672721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672721", "by": "ca_tech", "time": 1727455473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is a case of economic security. US National Security Advisor Daleep Singh spoke about this on the Odd Lots podcast a month ago. The goal is an integrated supply chain across all three countries, and an end result of marketing the ice breaker capacity to other allies. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/odd-lots/how-the-white-... Transcript Notes at 00:17:51"}, {"show": "1448635132", "hn_item": 41673803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673803", "by": "stickfigure", "time": 1727460474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Expecting the intersection of these to be literally zero is an unreasonable standard. Nobody expects the intersection to be zero - not the banks, not the regulators. The rule is that banks must take prudent measures, and the definition of that has evolved over time (as financial crime has evolved over time). Google \"risk-based anti-money laundering approach\" or if you'd like a more thorough introduction, listen to the Dark Money Files podcast. I have libertarian sympathies too, especially since most AML rules were originally established to fight the war on drugs (my sympathies lie with the d"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41683738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683738", "by": "ArmanTsaturian", "time": 1727567647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1802105177", "hn_item": 41683738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683738", "by": "ArmanTsaturian", "time": 1727567647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "550040326", "hn_item": 41687600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687600", "by": "squircle", "time": 1727619574, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 41691862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691862", "by": "wenc", "time": 1727652751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I gave it some of my Google Docs and it generated an amazing back-and-forth audio podcast conversation that was quite believable! The only issue was that it got some things wrong (like my gender, but my name is gender neutral, so) and factually nothing was wrong, but it harped too much on one little quote that was really not very consequential. If only there was a way to tweak the podcast script... But otherwise, it's really very good. The vocal inflections were all very natural. The two presenters' banter was somewhat trite, but that's par for the course even for the average human podcast. If"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41693941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41693941", "by": "lynx23", "time": 1727675223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seriously, hardcore history? I dont even remember where I heard from him, but I think it was a Lex podcast. So I checked out hardcore history and was mightily disappointed. To my ears, he is rambling 3 hours about a topic, more or less unstructured and very long-winded, so that I basically remember nothing after having finished the podcast. I tried several times again, because I wanted it to be good. But no, not the format for me, and not a presentation I can actually absorb."}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 41694090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694090", "by": "phreeza", "time": 1727677248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yea there are much better examples of quality history podcasts, that are non-rambling. E.g. Mike Duncan podcasts (Revolutions, History of Rome), or the Age of Napoleon podcast. But even those are really just very good digestions of various source materials, which seems like something where LLMs will eventually reach quite a good level."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 41694090, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694090", "by": "phreeza", "time": 1727677248, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yea there are much better examples of quality history podcasts, that are non-rambling. E.g. Mike Duncan podcasts (Revolutions, History of Rome), or the Age of Napoleon podcast. But even those are really just very good digestions of various source materials, which seems like something where LLMs will eventually reach quite a good level."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41694477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41694477", "by": "llm_trw", "time": 1727681516, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the contrary, the mainstream eats any slop you put infront of it as long as it follows the correct form - one needs only look at cable news - the super niche content is that which requires deep thinking and novel insights. Or to put another way, I've heard much better ideas on a podcast made by undergrad CS students than on Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1510056899", "hn_item": 41695100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695100", "by": "untoasted12", "time": 1727687687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's just a common format for podcasts. Sounds exactly like 'No Stupid Questions' to me."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 41697635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697635", "by": "the8thbit", "time": 1727707143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not the person you're responding to, but no, it doesn't really bother me at all. What does bother me is that I don't have confidence in the value of the output, where as if I listen to This American Life, or a podcast or audiobook from a trusted authority, I don't have to worry about that."}, {"show": "1295289140", "hn_item": 41698049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698049", "by": "pbw", "time": 1727708961, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoy these. I\u2019ve listened to them while driving \u2014- blog posts by Astral Codex Ten or Paul Graham that I had never bothered to read. There are millions of real podcasts, but now there are an infinite number of AI generated ones. They are definitely not as good as a well-made human one, but they are pretty darn decent, quite listenable and informative. Time is not fungible. I can listen to podcasts while walking or driving when I couldn\u2019t be reading anything. Here\u2019s one I made about the Aschenbrenner 165-page PDF about AGI: https://youtu.be/6UmPoMBEDpA"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 41700511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700511", "by": "vietjtnguyen", "time": 1727721705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of my favorite ChatGPT uses is voice chat during long drives as a pseudo, albeit interactive, podcast to learn about various technical topics at the edge of my knowledge base. This podcast generation is pretty amazing, but hopefully they make the \"competency level\" of the hosts tunable. One thing I love is being able to guide ChatGPT to the technical level I'm looking for. Maybe I'm just bad at finding podcasts, but only Signals and Threads [1] really has that interesting depth. [1]: https://signalsandthreads.com/"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41702727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702727", "by": "quantadev", "time": 1727734590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Deep Dive Podcast generator is amazing. Astounding even. I found out about it today and generated a couple. I generated on using a 38 page long PDF however and the 40 minute podcast it generated was awesome, but at 20 minutes (halfway thru) the conversation was mostly a repeat of things that were already said even though there was much more very important content that they omitted. So it works great but just needs a bit of work to be done to cleanup things like that repetition. I wondered if this happened because there was a big \"Table of Contents\" in the doc, and maybe that made it see ev"}, {"show": "1768464164", "hn_item": 41704700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704700", "by": "kakaly0403", "time": 1727758407, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "The best way to understand how GenAI adoption will evolve over time is by looking at how mature AI teams at big tech companies are applying it today. A couple of weeks ago, I launched a fully automated podcast, AI Arxiv that focuses exactly on this. I have built an automated pipeline that does the research for this podcast by sifting through various sources such as engineering blogs, research papers, youtube videos etc., extracts high signal content, categorizes it and feeds it to Google's NotebookLM for audio generation before getting published on public RSS feeds, Spotify and Apple podcast. "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41708833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708833", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1727792499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a really great Radiolab podcast Dealing with Doubt [0] that talks about how high level competitive poker has evolved over the years. ANNIE DUKE: Sometimes you have to be 40 percent sure. Sometimes you have to be 30 percent sure. You know, if there's $70 in the pot and you only have to call $10, you know, now you're in the 15 percent range in terms of how certain you have to be that your hand is good. JAD: In that case, you can bet this hand that you're really not sure about knowing that while you might lose this time ... MIKE PESCA: If I do that a million times in my poker life, the la"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 41709914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709914", "by": "criddell", "time": 1727797504, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It isn't always money. Sometimes it's just lulz. Reply All had did a podcast (ep #178) about people who are running bots on Counter-Strike that ruin the game. They tracked down a person who does this and they just basically do it to be annoying. > [... ]what\u2019s the point of running them? Like, what do you get out of the exercise? > There are many reasons to run them. Most if not [all] casual players dislike bots (which is a reason to run them)"}, {"show": "513734888", "hn_item": 41711139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711139", "by": "bostik", "time": 1727802213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Comedy is a complex, living, writhing thing. With rules. This article feels like the author has taken the concept of one-liner (arguably the densest form of standup comedy) and extended that to be comedy at large. I feel like you could take the Comedian's Comedian podcast episode with Gary Delaney, and get a much more effective lesson with the same content. Disclosure: I've done standup. It is frightening. It's also a lot of fun."}, {"show": "1472535519", "hn_item": 41713423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41713423", "by": "chriskrycho", "time": 1727812673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Monument (45min S of Denver), Colorado, United States Remote: Yes, only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - TypeScript and JavaScript (including Node) - Rust - CSS, HTML Long ago, also Postgres. I have lots of front end infra/engineering effectiveness experience from my almost-5-year tenure working on LinkedIn.com, where I was the tech lead until a year ago. I built the Ember TypeScript team, got LinkedIn\u2019s TS effort funded and was the tech expert for the effort\u2014when other folks hit an area they couldn\u2019t figure out how to write safe and accurate types for, they pinged me. I also "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41714944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41714944", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1727821662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t know anything about wheelchairs, but there\u2019s a similar very high-margin market for eyeglasses. Freakonomics did a podcast about it: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-your-eyeglasses-cost... Frames have crazy 100x markups and the market is dominated by a small number of companies. They interviewed people from Warby Parker (a newer, more inexpensive brand) and even they said they had to raise prices so they didn\u2019t seem like knock-offs."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 41737265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41737265", "by": "viktor_von", "time": 1728009461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I remember one of the initial transformer people saying in an interview that they didn't think this was the \"one true architecture\" but a lot of the performance came from people rallying around it and pushing in the one direction. You may be referring to Aidan Gomez (CEO of Cohere and contributor to the transformer architecture) during his Machine Learning Street Talk podcast interview. I agree, if as much attention had been put towards the RNN during the initial transformer hype, we may have very well seen these advancements earlier."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41743827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743827", "by": "ortusdux", "time": 1728064368, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Planet Money podcast reciently did a great episode about this topic: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/1200121013/money-happiness-ka..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41744479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41744479", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1728068202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The If Books Could Kill podcast did a good episode about this topic and Haidt's book in particular: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15546366-the-anx... >"}, {"show": "1073779629", "hn_item": 41747158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747158", "by": "TaurenHunter", "time": 1728093572, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41750863, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41750863", "by": "cowmix", "time": 1728144515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I keep thinking about Sam Altman\u2019s March \u201923 interview on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast\u2014this was after GPT-4\u2019s release and before he was ousted as CEO. Two things he said really stuck with me: First, he mentioned wishing he was more into AI. While I appreciate the honesty, it was pretty off-putting. Here\u2019s the CEO of a company building arguably the most consequential technology of our time, and he\u2019s expressing apathy? That bugs me. Sure, having a dispassionate leader might have its advantages, but overall, his lack of enthusiasm left a bad taste in my mouth. Why IS he the CEO then? Second, he talked a"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41759312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759312", "by": "mfiguiere", "time": 1728241422, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "508376907", "hn_item": 41762513, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762513", "by": "api_or_ipa", "time": 1728271754, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Babbage podcast from the Economist had a great episode recently on it. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LCTSD4k9bNDn6i8DzLv9r?si=D..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41765418, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765418", "by": "mikewarot", "time": 1728304795, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm aware of VAX/VMS's versioned files, which was super useful back in the 1980s. Hello;1, Hello;2, etc. We've got GIT, and other version control systems, but this idea came up last night during Lex Fridman's podcast with the team from Cursor.[1] Has anyone experimented with branching file systems? [1] https://lexfridman.com/cursor-team-transcript#chapter13_branching_file_systems"}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 41769930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769930", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1728328982, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He also does a very good history podcast, 'Empire': https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921"}, {"show": "1504443346", "hn_item": 41774254, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41774254", "by": "nonrandomstring", "time": 1728367729, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One of the nasty impacts comes from the low-tech metal recovery process that washes out heavy metals like cadmium, mercury, lead, arsenic into the sea. Fish from the West coast of Africa are basically lethal to eat. Did a podcast with a researcher named Gerry McGovern (World Wide Waste) on this a couple of years ago [0]. Something that impedes recycling and repair is status display . I was proud of the old Nokia I kept for 10 years, all stuck together with tape, despite the scowls and snickers from the crowd with their latest iPhone who supposed I must be some freakish homeless person who wand"}, {"show": "1668002688", "hn_item": 41789735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789735", "by": "tldl", "time": 1728491296, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41792003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792003", "by": "inheritedwisdom", "time": 1728504010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d read that\u2026I\u2019d love to hear an Acquired podcast on the path of Long Distance Discount Services -> WorldCom -> MCI -> Verizon. They laid down a lot of fiber."}, {"show": "1518683867", "hn_item": 41798631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798631", "by": "oDot", "time": 1728567171, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I spend a lot of my time researching live-action anime[0][1], and there's an important thing to learn from Japanese animators: sometimes an animation style may seem technically lacking, but visually stunning. When animator Ken Arto was on the Trash Taste podcast he mentioned how Disney had the resources to perfect the animation, while in Japan they had to achieve more with less. This basically shifts the \"what is good animation\" discussion in ways that are not as clear from looking at the stats. [0] https://blog.nestful.app/p/ways-to-use-nestful-outlining-ani... [1] https://www.youtube.com/wat"}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 41799589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41799589", "by": "rjprins", "time": 1728572617, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Generated podcast on this. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c612a580-2990-44d7-95..."}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 41803502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803502", "by": "juliansimioni", "time": 1728593731, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's also the infamous bucket brigade from Hurricane Sandy. There was a Stack Overflow podcast about it but it looks like it disappears, here's a read though: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/reliving-sand..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 41807130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807130", "by": "crabmusket", "time": 1728631313, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've recently started using Zulip a lot more after the Changelog podcast soft migrated their community from Slack to Zulip. I've also been following along with Zulip's official dev group, and some other community groups. And it's really good. I don't mind Slack at work at my fairly small company. It's definitely a distraction, but only a fairly small one. But coming back to a community chat after a day or three of not paying attention, having that index of topics with new messages, lets me triage what I'm interested in, get up to date on those chats only, and \"mark as read\" the rest."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 41822440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41822440", "by": "nunez", "time": 1728766240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So I was, also, a firm believer of the \"gotta fix your lifestyle\" school of thought regarding weight management until I was introduced to the Maintenance Phase podcast (hosted by Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes). This podcast, and Aubrey's book \"What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat,\" opened my eyes to the fact that many people are just _born_ hungrier than others. The body will weigh what the body wants to weigh, no matter how many fad diets or drugs you throw at it. Unfortunately, those whose bodies that don't conform to our modern, eugenicized definition of \"healthy\" and don't pa"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41824476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41824476", "by": "Olshansky", "time": 1728783750, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1493896209", "hn_item": 41824851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41824851", "by": "worstspotgain", "time": 1728788687, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-flux/id149389..."}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41826711, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41826711", "by": "w-m", "time": 1728814567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're not bored with it yet, here's a Deep Dive (NotebookLM, generated podcast). I fed it the project page, the arXiv paper, the GitHub page, and the two twitter threads by the authors. https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/a240cb12-8ca1-41b4-ab... (7m59s) As always, it's not actually much of a technical deep dive, but gives a quite decent overview of the pieces involved, and its applications."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41830550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830550", "by": "lopespm", "time": 1728845727, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 41833310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833310", "by": "crabmusket", "time": 1728869073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm also no expert, but from reading around the subject a little (Flash Boys by Michael Lewis was pretty cool, also Jane Street's podcast has some fantastic information)... no. I doubt you'd be on a public cloud if low-latency trading is what you're doing."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 41851443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851443", "by": "ctippett", "time": 1729016258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Darknet Diaries podcast features a lot of fascinating first-hand accounts of penetration testers breaking into places. One of my favourite episodes is the account of two people breaking into a US courthouse[1], it's both exhilarating and terrifying. [1] https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/59/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41851987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41851987", "by": "cynicalpeace", "time": 1729019076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This reminds me of a recent Lex Fridman podcast with an expert in ancient American civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzzE7GOvYz8"}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41873136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873136", "by": "ghshephard", "time": 1729194813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99.9? There are roughly 3mm podcasts out there right now - I listen, regularly, to about 10 over a year (in any given week maybe 3-4). I'm therefore ignoring 2,999,990 or 99.9997% of podcast. I definitely agree with you that this isn't a problem. (Also - ironically, one of the podcast out of those 10 that I listen to regularly - it's the Deep Dive on AI. A NotebookLM production! )"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41873899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873899", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1729199859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I created a \u201cpodcast episode\u201d (???) of my personal blog (not trying to get traffic to it. It\u2019s more of a journal) using NotebookLM. It sounded just as bland and overproduced as a \u201cprofessional\u201d podcast by NPR like \u201cPlanet Money\u201d and \u201cThe Indicator\u201d. Whether that is saying how high quality NotebookLM is or how low quality NPRs podcast are is an exercise for the reader. The only reason \u201cStuff you should know\u201d is better is because of the random off topic discussions they go into and that\u2019s not a complaint about SYSK."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 41873899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41873899", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1729199859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I created a \u201cpodcast episode\u201d (???) of my personal blog (not trying to get traffic to it. It\u2019s more of a journal) using NotebookLM. It sounded just as bland and overproduced as a \u201cprofessional\u201d podcast by NPR like \u201cPlanet Money\u201d and \u201cThe Indicator\u201d. Whether that is saying how high quality NotebookLM is or how low quality NPRs podcast are is an exercise for the reader. The only reason \u201cStuff you should know\u201d is better is because of the random off topic discussions they go into and that\u2019s not a complaint about SYSK."}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 41874476, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41874476", "by": "sgerenser", "time": 1729204323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s a normal, human generated podcast called Deep Dive: AI ( https://deepdive.opensource.org/ ). There\u2019s also a confusingly similar named podcast Deep Dive AI that appears to only have one episode and is NotebookLM generated. Which one are you referring to? Edit: If I'm understanding it correctly after some googling, supposedly the \"name\" of all podcasts generated by NotebookLM is \"Deep Dive\"? That's just confusing."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 41879643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879643", "by": "gamerDude", "time": 1729260647, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm thinking of starting a video podcast that selects a startup and gets deep into their sales, product, financials, etc. in order to point out how to succeed. I'll bring an investor and a potential customer on with us to get real feedback/customer interviews live. Would you go on the podcast? Or watch it? What would you want to see more of?"}, {"show": "1554567118", "hn_item": 41879909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41879909", "by": "kiyanwang", "time": 1729262689, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1712805847", "hn_item": 41884567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884567", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1729296396, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 41886791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41886791", "by": "kgarten", "time": 1729331162, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "493890455", "hn_item": 41897901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41897901", "by": "omegared8", "time": 1729452879, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Like you I was out of the loop. This was a good catchup https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shoptalk/id493890455?i..."}, {"show": "1721813926", "hn_item": 41899467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899467", "by": "Hikikomori", "time": 1729467785, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Can recommend the Bad Hasbara podcast if you want to listen to a sane discussion on Israeli propaganda, only a tiny amount of penis jokes. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-hasbara-the-worlds..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41914124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914124", "by": "zimpenfish", "time": 1729604206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \"If Books Could Kill\" podcast did a good demolition of \"Outliers\" if podcasts are your thing (plus the rest of the episodes are worth a listen.) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/11658428-malcolm..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41914452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914452", "by": "_aavaa_", "time": 1729606081, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Oh you are by far not alone. You'll enjoy: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/malcolm-gladwells-outl..."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 41918209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918209", "by": "jarl-ragnar", "time": 1729628094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d recommend listening to Lenny\u2019s podcast."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 41918812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918812", "by": "giarc", "time": 1729631865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just that demographic, every demographic. There was a Planet Money podcast episode just the other day called The Subscription Trap. The podcast host and the founders of this tool, all seemingly young, tech enabled people all had hundreds (if not thousands) in unknown subscriptions. It's a problem top to bottom."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41919741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919741", "by": "zahlman", "time": 1729638982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I try rather hard these days to avoid talking about so-called \"culture war\" issues publicly, but this particular one is admittedly catnip for me. I'll say up front before I get into more specific issues: I'm very much not a fan of this analysis. To me it exemplifies many of the problems with current feminist discourse. In this frame, for example, when women were a minority at university, this was problematic and evidence of discrimination against women (in straightforwardly parsable ways); now that they are the majority, this is also problematic, and still evidence of discrimination... against"}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 41923152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41923152", "by": "nickt", "time": 1729673589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in the backstory of how these sounds were originally made, a recent episode (417) of The Retro Hour podcast has an interview with Sam Dicker who worked at Williams on Defender and Sinistar (and then on the Amiga) which is well worth listening to. https://theretrohour.com/williams-electronics-and-designing-..."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 41925419, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925419", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "time": 1729693921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Which is part of what is so troubling about tech today, that it's ranks are filled with managers who don't build anything. His podcast role is Chief Cynic but man I love listening to Ed Zitron's Better Offline . What I'm about to link is an extremely hard & direct a polemic, especially the second about the specific people at the largest companies, but damn. It was so enervating to hear. The Shareholder Supremacy episode ties it all to Jack Welsh making everything awful forever everywhere, managing by number-goes-up. And then How Shareholders Are Destroying the Tech Industry is such a real shar"}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 41936847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41936847", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1729785745, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 41942708, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942708", "by": "teslabox", "time": 1729837237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "McDonald's was bullied into changing its fryer oil by Phil Sokolof [0], who himself was tricked into believing his 1966 heart attack was caused by saturated fat. This article says Sokolof paid for ads to bully McDonalds in 1988: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-22-op-1193-s... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Sokolof I said McDonald's was 'tricked' in ~1990 into switching to vegetable oil. This was trickery both because the fries became less healthy (Omega-6 oils are inflammatory, etc), and less tasty. Malcolm Gladwell's podcast McDonald's Broke My Heart is about how the f"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 41945771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945771", "by": "gmd63", "time": 1729867582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While folks such as the Reply All podcast believed and shared the story that big tech uses clever ways to infer what you\u2019re talking about based on indirect information such as search history of other users close to you, Cox Media Group has in the past admitted its software is used to create ad cohorts based on \u201cActive Listening\u201d that\u2019s legal because it\u2019s buried in Terms of Service agreements that customers agree to when they download apps their software is bundled into."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41949592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949592", "by": "fouronnes3", "time": 1729889323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Radiolab episode where they interview the person who had NULL as his license plate. https://radiolab.org/podcast/null/transcript"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 41960058, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960058", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1730006749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This week's episode of the Radiolab podcast also covers these events. https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-unpopular-vote"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 41966691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41966691", "by": "ttul", "time": 1730073818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The more I listen to NotebookLM \u201cepisodes\u201d, the more I am convinced that Google has trained a two-speaker \u201cpodcast discussion\u201d model that directly generates the podcast off the back of an existing multimodal backbone. The two speakers interrupt and speak over each other in an uncannily humanlike manner. I wonder whether they basically fine tuned against a huge library of actual podcasts along with the podcast transcripts and perhaps generated synthetic \u201cinput material\u201d from the transcripts to feed in as training samples. In other words, take an episode of The Daily and have one language model "}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 41968091, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41968091", "by": "marviel", "time": 1730093426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm building Reasonote, a platform where you can learn anything with personalized, interactive lessons, and podcasts. Imagine a fusion of Duolingo, Spotify Podcasts, Anki, ChatGPT, and Claude Artifacts. We have custom AI-generated podcasts that generate faster than NotebookLM, that you can queue up for yourself. (Many more features coming here soon -- like more engaging podcasts and better voices) Our classroom mode can generate interactive lessons, complete with an AI tutor, on any subject. Flow mode allows you to practice deeply, with infinite activities to test your skills. All of this is d"}, {"show": "1773332641", "hn_item": 41971465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971465", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1730126309, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 41973962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973962", "by": "treefarmer", "time": 1730137741, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For those interested in hearing more about the criticism behind Freakonomics, there is an If Books Could Kill podcast episode going over it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wHpooGMRsSBrUHhQZbOZp I don't agree with all of their criticism but it contains many valid points"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41973962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41973962", "by": "treefarmer", "time": 1730137741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in hearing more about the criticism behind Freakonomics, there is an If Books Could Kill podcast episode going over it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wHpooGMRsSBrUHhQZbOZp I don't agree with all of their criticism but it contains many valid points"}, {"show": "1633544405", "hn_item": 41974022, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974022", "by": "berkeleynerd", "time": 1730138062, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Either the classic \"A Mind Forever Voyaging\" or the Lovecraftian \"Anchorhead\" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging https://store.steampowered.com/app/726870/Anchorhead/ If you want to live these games vicariously I can also recommend the Eaten by a Grue podcast over at https://monsterfeet.com/grue/"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41974037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974037", "by": "mbowcut2", "time": 1730138143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I understand the complaints, but I don't think the Freakonomics podcast should necessarily be expected to meet the high standard of peer review. Is it really that bad for Levitt to take published research at face value, trusting that gatekeepers upriver have done their due diligence?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41974113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974113", "by": "k4j8", "time": 1730138463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author disagrees with Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, whom Levitt interviewed on his podcast, People I Mostly Admire, which is part of the Freakonomics radio network but not the main show, Freakonomics. The author thinks Levitt should have been more critical of his guest. Perhaps, but this is a podcast and not a peer review. In my opinion, Levitt didn't even say he agreed with Langer, although he did compliment her work. Disclaimer: I'm a hug fan on all the Freakonomics shows. I appreciate the author pointing out some opposing views and think the post is well-written, although exaggerat"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 41974113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974113", "by": "k4j8", "time": 1730138463, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author disagrees with Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, whom Levitt interviewed on his podcast, People I Mostly Admire, which is part of the Freakonomics radio network but not the main show, Freakonomics. The author thinks Levitt should have been more critical of his guest. Perhaps, but this is a podcast and not a peer review. In my opinion, Levitt didn't even say he agreed with Langer, although he did compliment her work. Disclaimer: I'm a hug fan on all the Freakonomics shows. I appreciate the author pointing out some opposing views and think the post is well-written, although exaggerat"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41976180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976180", "by": "gs17", "time": 1730148875, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Freakonomics has a history (IMO) of being way too uncritical of the podcast's guests and PIMA seems worse about it. Personally, I think the article is a bit too harsh, but it's in the same direction as why I stopped listening. > First, Levitt starts out by accepting that a certain suspect claim \u201cactually has been replicated a number of times.\u201d Going with your interviewee can make sense in a podcast, but, again, it\u2019s counter to Levitt\u2019s earlier goal of asking, \u201cHow do you know whether you should believe surprising results?\u201d I haven't listened to the episode, but Levitt really should have pushed"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41976293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976293", "by": "randomdata", "time": 1730149622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Shouldn't that be expected of any interviewer? No? Imagine how ridiculous that would become if interviewers actually followed that logic. \"Great gameplay out there, , but nevermind the sport we are all watching, my research identified that you erroneously wrote 1+1=3 in Kindergarten. What was your thought process?\" The podcast in question is known as \"People I (Mostly) Admire\" from the Freakonomics podcast network. The name should tell you that it is going to be about the people, not diving deep into their work. Perhaps there is room for a Podcast that scrutinizes the work of scientists, but"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 41976293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976293", "by": "randomdata", "time": 1730149622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Shouldn't that be expected of any interviewer? No? Imagine how ridiculous that would become if interviewers actually followed that logic. \"Great gameplay out there, , but nevermind the sport we are all watching, my research identified that you erroneously wrote 1+1=3 in Kindergarten. What was your thought process?\" The podcast in question is known as \"People I (Mostly) Admire\" from the Freakonomics podcast network. The name should tell you that it is going to be about the people, not diving deep into their work. Perhaps there is room for a Podcast that scrutinizes the work of scientists, but"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 41976507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976507", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1730150760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Your example completely and ridiculously mischaracterizes my point. A better example, to piggyback off your sports analogy: Suppose a podcast titled \"People I (Mostly) Admire\" decided to interview Barry Bonds, and the interviewer asked \"Wow, how did you get to be so good in the second half of your career?\" and Bonds responded \"Just a lot of hard work!\" Yeah, I would totally expect the interviewer to push back at that point and say \"So, your steroid use didn't have anything to do with it?\" Point being, I'm not asking the interviewer to be knowledgeable about the subject's kindergarten grades. I"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 41976812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976812", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1730152366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you like the king of awful, straw-man analogies or something? Will just say I think your attempt to redefine this podcast and the Freakonomics brand to just \"light, fluffy entertainment\" is BS. These other comments put it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975342"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41980000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41980000", "by": "szundi", "time": 1730183269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cursor is pretty uniqe and advanced in this regard. They tell a lot about this in the Lex Fridman podcast, very interesting."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41982814, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982814", "by": "tyleo", "time": 1730201809, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast also supports this claim in a 2-part episode on Microsoft I\u2019ll link below. Their evidence is from interviews with current and former Microsoft employees who worked with Ballmer IIRC including Ballmer himself. They basically describe him as being the rock that cheerlead, navigated, and held the company together through a decade of legal troubles. He also started many important businesses like enterprise, gaming, and cloud. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 41984145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41984145", "by": "rco8786", "time": 1730211847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The founders did an episode on Lex Fridman's podcast that covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfVt3S51T4 But to summarize, Copilot is an okay ChatGPT wrapper for single line code completion. Cursor is a full IDE with AI baked in natively, with use-case specific models for different tasks, intelligent look-ahead, multi-line completion, etc. If Copilot is a horse, Cursor is a Model T."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 41987153, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987153", "by": "anshulbhide", "time": 1730223191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I guess Steve Ballmer deserves to be richer than Bill Gates today because he held onto his MSFT stock while Gates sold the majority of his :) Also, the Acquired podcast also makes the strong argument that Ballmer lay a lot of the foundation of what powered MSFT\u2019s growth under Nadella e.g. Azure."}, {"show": "1070322219", "hn_item": 41994823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994823", "by": "adamtaylor_13", "time": 1730296653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Stop identifying yourself as neurodivergent. Besides it being an incredibly unspecific term, it gives you a way to identify, and hence behave. Instead, identify as something else that\u2019s easier to get along with. This isn\u2019t some \u201cwoo magic thinking\u201d suggestion, but it\u2019s well-documented that we humans behave in ways that are congruent with our self-image. Change your self-image, change your behavior. (Or at least facilitate that change) One other suggestion is to start filling your head with positive material that reflects who you want to be. For example, I wanted to stop giving myself excuses s"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 41995594, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995594", "by": "xnorswap", "time": 1730299859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not in cyber but \"Risky Business\" ( https://risky.biz/ ) is a good podcast to keep up to date. They always have a lot of outgoing links in their show-notes that should get you started with the rest."}, {"show": "1750757108", "hn_item": 42020069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42020069", "by": "mempko", "time": 1730485719, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 42024274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42024274", "by": "jcims", "time": 1730525832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He made a few appearances on the RadioLab podcast. Always one of my favorite to listen to."}, {"show": "1467679266", "hn_item": 42040630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040630", "by": "KempyKolibri", "time": 1730720391, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> I am interested in the things you've said and linked, and my opinions have changed, but I think I'm well past what I am able to follow or interested to continue. Ok, that's unfortunate but obviously your prerogative! I will try to post some more lay-friendly links in this response that may convey my points more straightforwardly. > if the CAC score measures something is it always definitely plaque buildup? Because then repeated CAC scores have the potential to be good for telling if plaque buildup is changing over time in response to dietary changes in people with non-zero scores and CAD. No"}, {"show": "1235694853", "hn_item": 42047470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42047470", "by": "alembic_site", "time": 1730765748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This includes the Trialogues and other discussions from Ralph Abraham as taken from the Psychedelic Salon Podcast ( https://psychedelicsalon.com/ ). https://alembic.site/tags/Ralph-Abraham"}, {"show": "1526053750", "hn_item": 42048262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048262", "by": "next_xibalba", "time": 1730776284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AI used to create illustrations for classic public domain books. One of the authors, Jason Gauci, is also the co-host of the Programming Throwdown podcast (also worked at Google Research and Facebook AI)"}, {"show": "427166321", "hn_item": 42048262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048262", "by": "next_xibalba", "time": 1730776284, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AI used to create illustrations for classic public domain books. One of the authors, Jason Gauci, is also the co-host of the Programming Throwdown podcast (also worked at Google Research and Facebook AI)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42048399, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048399", "by": "cbhl", "time": 1730777927, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you use the Cursor IDE: the folks that wrote it talked about their use of speculative decoding to make \"Apply\" faster on the Lex Friedman podcast last month. Here it is on YouTube, although you can also find it on Spotify and other podcast platforms: https://youtu.be/oFfVt3S51T4?t=1206"}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 42052754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052754", "by": "justtinker", "time": 1730823620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to the Embedded podcast. https://embedded.fm/ They on occasion talk about the process to make boards that are ready for manufacturing. They talk about the difference between boards that will me be made in small quantities (less than 100) or large (10,00k to 1 Million) The rule of thumb they used was BOM (Bill of Materials) should be 30% of the retail cost of the board. Large scale manufacturing can lower the the percentage. Remember the cost of firmware (hours paid to develop) is not included in the BOM cost but is divided up over the number of units made using that firmware revision."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 42056895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056895", "by": "forks", "time": 1730860817, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fantastic podcast interviewing the author: https://thesearch.space/episodes/1-the-poet-of-logic-program..."}, {"show": "1432369172", "hn_item": 42059205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059205", "by": "djtango", "time": 1730887843, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Yes and the media needs to stop being so obviously biased because it both undermines their role as the arbiters of truth and it undermines the party they allegedly want to win I liked this podcast from Zachary Elwood: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5DYBm6we1WcTtktFpqHj7K?si=A..."}, {"show": "1510124746", "hn_item": 42059318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42059318", "by": "eecc", "time": 1730888256, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Wait, what\u2019s this meme? Wasn\u2019t the price of eggs something big in Russia? https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42065538, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42065538", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1730913265, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42065704, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42065704", "by": "shrubble", "time": 1730913812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I watched the Joe Rogan podcast (well 90% of it) with Trump - he talks about this in an intelligent way, which is, 3rd party candidates don't really have a chance in national politics. There are 2 choices and the system as currently set up, only allows there to be 2 choices."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42066944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42066944", "by": "nostrebored", "time": 1730917805, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Misinterpreting data is easy. To be clear -- I think the All In podcast is frequently flagrantly wrong, but basically all podcasts that try to foretell events are. Chamath mistaking 0.85 absolute as 0.85 relative is fairly easy to do. Even the critique's interpretation is very shallow -- things like second order effects, like the fiscal multiplier contribution, aren't considered. But macro is an art more than a science, and what people interpret as 'true' depends immensely on their assumptions about how the world actually works."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42067539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42067539", "by": "indy", "time": 1730919909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's the best description of the All-In Podcast I've read. It's often infuriating to listen to someone being confidently wrong, but occasionally there are some good insights."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42070756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42070756", "by": "jimmydoe", "time": 1730933240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Infotainment is entertainment after all. All In podcast, President talks about people eating pets, they are just same type of garbage."}, {"show": "1504048545", "hn_item": 42075142, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42075142", "by": "thenaturalist", "time": 1730972055, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I really can\u2019t follow your line of thinking at all. You claim things (RFK can\u2019t be a danger) but can\u2019t back them up other than \u201cI think so.\u201d. Know who called Trump a fascist? Not me, not the Democrats, but Mark Kelly, a four star general and his Chief of Staff who spent hours working with this person. Howard Lutnik, a NY billionaire and chief headhunter of Trump\u2019s transition team is on video saying that all admin officials must show fidelity and loyalty to Trump: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JKyRO7MOeyo He is also running around talking about charging past critics, like Kelly, with treason. I"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42077560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077560", "by": "nojvek", "time": 1730993881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All-in podcast is very pro Trump and Elon. I listened to their conference series. Some made sense, some didn\u2019t. But kudos to Trump. He painted himself as the progressive. Embracing crypto and AI. He got the tech bros vouching for him in big numbers. Even my hairdresser said he listened to All-in podcast and brought some Trump coins. It\u2019s gonna go up he said. He voted so his coins go up."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42080672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080672", "by": "science4sail", "time": 1731011770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-In podcast should not be listened to as a reliable source of news, but rather as a data point providing insight into the perspectives and attitudes of Silicon Valley's leadership class. If one finds their views to be objectionable/incorrect, then that means that the hosts' peers are likely also holding objectionable/incorrect views of a similar form."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 42081149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081149", "by": "throwitaway1123", "time": 1731014292, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The front end bundler ecosystem has been a hot mess forever though. The bundler situation wasn't ideal for a few years, but I've been really happy with esbuild lately. It's incredibly fast, has zero dependencies (besides the Golang sys module which is a de facto part of Go's extended standard library), and is much easier to configure than Webpack. I even heard DHH praise esbuild on The Changelog podcast recently, and he's a notable anti-build evangelist."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 42081780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081780", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1731018283, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ed Zitron has an interview with Mike Masnick (Techdirt, board member of Bluesky) on the latest ep of the Better Offline [0] podcast. Pretty interesting, though I wasn't entirely convinced that Bluesky will deliver the solution we need. But it's encouraging to see progress in the various efforts to wrest control of the web from big corporations. I'm a fediverse fan, myself. [0] https://www.betteroffline.com"}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 42083674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083674", "by": "PikachuEXE", "time": 1731034652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/sustainability-tyranny-21s... Sustainability is going to be the buzzword of the century. Everywhere we turn, we hear about sustainable practices in business and industry, sustainable foods and agriculture, sustainable energy, and so on. Businesses and governments sign on to \u201cSustainable Development Goals,\u201d and so civil responsibility is framed in terms of this seemingly simple idea: sustainability. What does sustainability entail, though? What informs it? In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Linds"}, {"show": "1694064646", "hn_item": 42085030, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085030", "by": "ibz", "time": 1731051724, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I got interested in Ham radio after listening to this episode with NVK: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nvk/id1694064646?i=100... Seems that the movement is going through a small renaissance now. Basically - yes, the internet made it irrelevant for a long time if you think about Ham as a way to form communities, meet random people on the other side of the planet... But imagine having devices talk to each other without the internet. This is where it starts to become really interesting!"}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 42085571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085571", "by": "PikachuEXE", "time": 1731058448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). This set of guidelines and associated materials were drafted by the Sustainable Web Design Community Group. The WSG explains how to design and implement digital products and services that put people and the planet first. The guidelines are best practices based on measurable, evidence-based research; aimed at end-users, web workers, stakeholders, tool authors, educators, and policymakers. They are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to hel"}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 42086378, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086378", "by": "baddspellar", "time": 1731069354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's discussed in this Nature podcast https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03646-1 One of the investigators on this project is a guest on this segment. He does a nice job of describing it in an understandable way"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 42087575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087575", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1731079886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast had a episode featuring Mr. Edwards: https://www.20k.org/episodes/youvegotmail"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 42088818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42088818", "by": "Qworg", "time": 1731088037, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The first part is arguable, the second isn't - it just isn't true. Usually, you get large, monopolistic industries that are propped up by the state. So worse products and services than what's available internationally for higher costs as you don't have to compete against all comers. Only a few countries have ever escaped this trap - there's a great Odd Lots about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-how-industrial..."}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 42089381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089381", "by": "canucker2016", "time": 1731091422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart's podcast about billionaire influence in the USA presidential election. Listen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ_2Q3a0NRs"}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 42092185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42092185", "by": "PodExtra", "time": 1731120198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PodExtra is an innovative AI-powered podcast tool that provides transcripts, summaries, mind maps, outlines, highlights, and takeaways for your favorite podcasts. It allows you to quickly browse through the content, saving time and improving efficiency."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 42097062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097062", "by": "naxmax", "time": 1731188443, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "RODCast turns Reddit threads into fully narrated podcasts, curated by our AI host, Rod. It pulls comments from any subreddit or thread, analyzes the content, selects voice tones, and stitches together a seamless listening experience. It\u2019s Reddit, but hands-free. RODCast is ideal for people who love Reddit but prefer audio content \u2013 perfect for commutes, workouts, or background listening. We\u2019re experimenting with AI-driven moderation, topic analysis, and live show options. Feedback welcome, especially on which subreddits to cover or features to add!"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 42108069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42108069", "by": "theanonymousone", "time": 1731340791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is an episode of Freakonomics podcast about the same(?) topic: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-does-the-lost-world-of-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42117411, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117411", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1731431769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see this type of comment on HN frequently. I have a dim view of national certifications for software engineering or computer science. Are there any highly advanced economies that have \"a formal assessment by the national engineering council\" for software engineering or computer science? If so, are they useful? Do they actually indicate quality? For me, the field(s) are changing so fast, that it hardly makes sense. If you are working in an area that is not life threatening, I am not a believer in certifications. It all seems like a bunch of gatekeeping. Today, I was listening to the Lex Fridm"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 42118988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118988", "by": "Fade_Dance", "time": 1731440984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my list of finance/trading podcasts, clipped from a longer post I made on Discuit with the context being resources for new traders. I have fairly broad interests and am always interested in \"why\", so it isn't specifically about \"lines moving up and down.\" On the other hand, the list may be a bit monotone to anyone who doesn't have some specific interest in the area. I do feel I have a decently curated list though: _______ Great Podcasts, ranked by value: Market Huddle (#1 general trading/finance podcast) Forward Guidance (an incredible knowledge base, especially if you go back to critic"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 42118988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118988", "by": "Fade_Dance", "time": 1731440984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my list of finance/trading podcasts, clipped from a longer post I made on Discuit with the context being resources for new traders. I have fairly broad interests and am always interested in \"why\", so it isn't specifically about \"lines moving up and down.\" On the other hand, the list may be a bit monotone to anyone who doesn't have some specific interest in the area. I do feel I have a decently curated list though: _______ Great Podcasts, ranked by value: Market Huddle (#1 general trading/finance podcast) Forward Guidance (an incredible knowledge base, especially if you go back to critic"}, {"show": "1527018692", "hn_item": 42118988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118988", "by": "Fade_Dance", "time": 1731440984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my list of finance/trading podcasts, clipped from a longer post I made on Discuit with the context being resources for new traders. I have fairly broad interests and am always interested in \"why\", so it isn't specifically about \"lines moving up and down.\" On the other hand, the list may be a bit monotone to anyone who doesn't have some specific interest in the area. I do feel I have a decently curated list though: _______ Great Podcasts, ranked by value: Market Huddle (#1 general trading/finance podcast) Forward Guidance (an incredible knowledge base, especially if you go back to critic"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 42125009, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125009", "by": "jackdh", "time": 1731496415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a very good set of podcasts[0] by Cautionary Tales about the German V2 rockets in WW2 which tried to use this. It was so hard the Allies allowed them to continue wasting money on it during the war. Well worth a listen to if you're into that. [0] https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-the-v2-trilo..."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 42126285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126285", "by": "adtac", "time": 1731507516, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A much more useful trick I learnt from Tyler Cowen's podcast is to ask what they think is the most underrated / overrated thing in the category. Everyone understands that the answer is going to be subjective, so there's no pressure to be diplomatic. And in my experience, the answers are also high variance, which leads to more interesting conversations (most people agree that Messi is the greatest of all time, but everyone has a different opinion on who is the most underrated / overrated)."}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 42128865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128865", "by": "monocularvision", "time": 1731524637, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend Advisory Opinions ( https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/ ) for legal podcasts. The two hosts are center-right, but I think their takes are largely pretty fair. Note: Sarah Isgur worked in the Trump Justice Department but is hardly a fan of Trump\u2026 again, I find her pretty fair minded)."}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 42129245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129245", "by": "cvoss", "time": 1731527400, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See also the Advisory Opinions podcast if you like to consume your analysis of court arguments and opinions by listening."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 42133972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42133972", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1731570749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent Planet Money podcast talks about how the latest microchip innovation was proposed by a nuclear weapons researcher and cost the us government roughly 300-400 million but the engineering research to make a practical ultraviolet etching machine cost ASML nine billion and twenty years of development, they said if they knew it would take that long they might never have attempted it but they are now the sole maker of such devices which seems to have made the investment worthwhile."}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 42134499, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134499", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1731576958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I wonder if there will be an analog for intellectual work. Will people be going to \"mental\" gyms in the future? Already do \u2014 that's what \"brain training\" apps; consumer EdTech like Duolingo and Brilliant; and educational YouTube and podcasts like 3blue1brown, Easy German, ElectroBOOM, Overly Sarcastic Productions all are."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42134697, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134697", "by": "robinhouston", "time": 1731579071, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's been a bumper week for interesting podcast interviews with an AI theme! In addition to this, there are Lex Fridman's series of interviews with various key people from Anthropic [0], and a long discussion between Stephen Wolfram and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the theme of AI risk [1]. 0. https://youtu.be/ugvHCXCOmm4 1. https://youtu.be/xjH2B_sE_RQ"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42134935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134935", "by": "nutanc", "time": 1731581208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Experimenting with creating semantic chunks of large podcasts. Got the following chunks, https://gist.github.com/nutanc/a9e6321649be5ea9806b4450b0bd6... Dwarkesh has 18 splits. https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/i/151435243/timestamps I got 171. So roughly 9 context discussions in one time stamp."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 42136604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136604", "by": "lenerdenator", "time": 1731595702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Somewhat ironic since The Onion could be brought down in the same way by defamation lawsuits. Unlikely. It's worth remembering that Jones was never actually tried for defamation. He instead received a default judgment. In the US, both sides of a civil case have the right to a fair and speedy trial. If there's delays, you had better have a good reason for them and they need to fit the rules of procedure. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, more-or-less refused to participate in the trial. The Knowledge Fight podcast has some episodes dealing with the discovery and deposition process f"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 42137270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42137270", "by": "davecyen", "time": 1731598796, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I help run a YC alumni-led fund, and one of the questions that always comes up for our group is: What's the optimal number of YC companies to back per batch? We built an app that uses two models for approaching this problem - we call it the Unicorn Ratio. Live version: https://orangecollective.vc/unicorn-ratio Repo: https://github.com/orangecollective/unicorn-ratio The two models it uses are: Kelly Criterion\u2014A mathematical model that optimizes portfolio construction. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/091504.asp Binomial Distribution\u2014A probability model that predicts your chances"}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 42137410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42137410", "by": "Hikikomori", "time": 1731599455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the Knowledge Fight podcast if you really, really wanna get into it. Almost 1000 episodes now. https://knowledgefight.com Behind the bastards also has a few that are good summaries if you want something shorter, with the Knowledge Fight guys as guests."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 42140951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42140951", "by": "vundercind", "time": 1731616726, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was going to write that this comparison makes me think of largely-wrong \u201csurprising truths!\u201d airport non-fic books, but I see on further reading that the author is way ahead of me and this analysis includes those in its scope. To the formulaic-ness of it, there\u2019s the recurring ha-ha-only-serious quip from the If Books Could Kill podcasters that the more bad self-help, political hack, and trendy \u201cscience\u201d books they read, the more sure they are that they\u2019re all actually the same book."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42143016, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42143016", "by": "Dr_Birdbrain", "time": 1731632865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t know how to square this with the recent statement by Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) on the Lex Fridman podcast saying that in his opinion the scaling hypothesis still has plenty of room to run."}, {"show": "1193040557", "hn_item": 42147740, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147740", "by": "JackColquitt", "time": 1731684410, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42148793, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42148793", "by": "nojvek", "time": 1731690858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Look at Palantir stock. It has gone brrrrrr since announcement. VCs associated with All-in podcast are heavy Trump supporters. Crypto companies funded 100s of millions to Trump super pacs. Coinbase comes to mind."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 42153736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153736", "by": "vintageclothldn", "time": 1731725751, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "It's that time of the year again. The Economist has released their best podcasts of 2024 list - https://archive.ph/Bh2Y0#selection-977.4-977.25 Personal favorites: Conversations with Tyler - Tobi L\u00fctke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada (Ep. 221). I found Tobi's viewpoint as a European who has set up a business in North America to be particularly interesting and unique. The Rest is Politics - Trump Returns: What Now? I was not pleased by the result but this podcast helped me process it and understand some of the reasoning behind it. The Social Radars - Dan Siroker. First t"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 42153736, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153736", "by": "vintageclothldn", "time": 1731725751, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "It's that time of the year again. The Economist has released their best podcasts of 2024 list - https://archive.ph/Bh2Y0#selection-977.4-977.25 Personal favorites: Conversations with Tyler - Tobi L\u00fctke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada (Ep. 221). I found Tobi's viewpoint as a European who has set up a business in North America to be particularly interesting and unique. The Rest is Politics - Trump Returns: What Now? I was not pleased by the result but this podcast helped me process it and understand some of the reasoning behind it. The Social Radars - Dan Siroker. First t"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 42153877, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153877", "by": "BMc2020", "time": 1731727461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The best podcast of 2024 ran from 2007 to 2012 https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/200... I listened to all 179 episodes of the History of Rome podcast. From a simpler time before advertising. 179- The End The history of The History of Rome...Why the Western Empire Fell when it did...Some thoughts on the future...Thank you, goodnight. 178- Not With A Bang But A Whimper In the last few years of the Western Empire a series of Emperors came and went. The cycle finally ended in 476 with the exile of Romulus Augustulus. 177- The Burning Ships In 468 the two halves of the Empire"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 42154053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42154053", "by": "jhickok", "time": 1731729749, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have no idea when these podcasts began, but currently listening to: Hard Fork by the NYT Robert Wright's NonZero The Lovecraft Investigations Within the Wires Ctrl Alt Azure Animal Spirits Effectively Wild The Changelog"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 42163178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163178", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1731837706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Penny Lane made a documentary ( Confessions of a Good Samaritan ) of her experience as a donor for a stranger. A recent episode of the Econtalk podcast talks to her and is more focused on the philosophical aspects of kidney donation to a stranger. https://www.econtalk.org/give-away-a-kidney-are-you-crazy-wi..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42170244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170244", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1731911385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The decisive change, Schniedewind argues, came with the rise of the Assyrian empire and its conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel around 720 BC. As I just purchased a book on Assyria because of their podcast ep on the topic, allow me to plug the Fall of Civilizations podcast. I\u2019m listening to the norsemen ep between checking articles. It\u2019s that good (if you\u2019re into history, which I very much am)! https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 42170918, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170918", "by": "Crier1002", "time": 1731921367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "i found Soft Skills Engineering Podcast this year and i'm enjoying it!"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 42175310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175310", "by": "qwytw", "time": 1731954239, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tides of History is probably the best history podcast I've ever listened to. Instead of a sequential retelling of events it focuses much more on cause and effects and presents a holistic analysis of archaeological findings, anthropology, genetics etc. merged with historical sources/texts. I really loved the episodes on Ancient Rome and Italy that came out earlier this year. A completely opposite approach of History of Rome (which is also great but the early episodes on the \"prehistorical\" period were pretty meh.. of course it massively improved by the time it reached the mid/late Republic and "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42178401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42178401", "by": "libertine", "time": 1731972658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> That did not help, did it? I'm sorry, but this is the type of claim of someone who gets news from the Joe Rogan podcast. Ukraine managed to defend its capital from annexation, liberated thousands of miles of territory, and managed to improve its protection of civilians thanks to air defense systems, has lower casualty rates than Russia, and now is starting to create a buffer zone into Russian territory. How isn't this a sign that it didn't help? Now... could, and should, Ukraine receive way more help, on time to help them even more? Of course. The drip feed has been one of the worse strategi"}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 42182353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182353", "by": "bapsfan", "time": 1732016342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested, there's some discussion of this piece on the subreddit of the Blocked and Reported podcast (which is co-hosted by Jesse Singal, the author of this article): https://old.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1gult0b... https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1gult0b..."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 42182353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182353", "by": "bapsfan", "time": 1732016342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone is interested, there's some discussion of this piece on the subreddit of the Blocked and Reported podcast (which is co-hosted by Jesse Singal, the author of this article): https://old.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1gult0b... https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/1gult0b..."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 42183701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183701", "by": "umanwizard", "time": 1732025991, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Which article and how did he misinterpret it? I\u2019m a casual, occasional listener to his podcast (Blocked and Reported) but don\u2019t really know his origin story and am curious to learn more."}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 42188585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42188585", "by": "agentultra", "time": 1732053767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, you're right. I was referring to the pandering of credentials the author mentioned by citing the articles they published in other magazines and the book they're writing. No mention of their PhD in Medicine and specialization in the field though. Was that omitted? > I've written articles about it for major outlets like The Atlantic and The Economist, and am working on a book. I found SciAm's coverage to not just be stupid (JEDI) or insulting or uncharitable (the Wilson story), but actually a little bit dangerous. You're right, it doesn't sound like they're sour about not being published in "}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 42188585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42188585", "by": "agentultra", "time": 1732053767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, you're right. I was referring to the pandering of credentials the author mentioned by citing the articles they published in other magazines and the book they're writing. No mention of their PhD in Medicine and specialization in the field though. Was that omitted? > I've written articles about it for major outlets like The Atlantic and The Economist, and am working on a book. I found SciAm's coverage to not just be stupid (JEDI) or insulting or uncharitable (the Wilson story), but actually a little bit dangerous. You're right, it doesn't sound like they're sour about not being published in "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42196540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42196540", "by": "ungreased0675", "time": 1732125703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love Lex Friedman, but I can\u2019t dedicate hours of my attention to a podcast. Maybe because I feel the need to pay attention, while others have it on as background noise? I feel the same about Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. Interesting guests, way too long for me to attempt."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 42198314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198314", "by": "feross", "time": 1732138267, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 42199933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42199933", "by": "llamaimperative", "time": 1732150806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots (Bloomberg finance podcast) had an episode back in June or something interviewing a food design consultant, and their focus groups came back very strongly in favor of healthier meal compositions. Agreed though, it's hard to know things :) Hopefully some real studies on this will be done soon."}, {"show": "705934263", "hn_item": 42216780, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42216780", "by": "luqtas", "time": 1732304547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "one day TM i was listening yesterday to \"Andrew Newberg || Your Brain on Enlightenment\" from 'The Psychology Podcast' (host's among the 1% most cited scientists) & its pretty rad how much we don't understand about the human brain... & how much research is yet to be done; then a columnist pops in and starts wondering about sentience of particles & that may science has a hard limit because \"consciousness\" || meanwhile science is ballparks more solid/factual on validity than philosophy; yet (science) claims it doesn't understand much shit i would ride on the pro-science wave/movement a thousand t"}, {"show": "1694759084", "hn_item": 42226336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226336", "by": "pkulak", "time": 1732430753, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No they won't. If they started tomorrow planting 100,000 trees a day, and never took a single day off, they would finish up in 2052. What kind of nursery can even grow 100,000 saplings of conifer a day? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-climate-deniers-pl..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 42228982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228982", "by": "willio58", "time": 1732468775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very sad, just a reminder that success doesn\u2019t translate to happiness. The podcasts that came out of HSW.com have heavily influenced my life. Especially Stuff You Should Know (still a top 20 podcast but no longer owned by How stuff works. I remember 16 years ago going through the whole rigmarole of downloading the podcast on my white MacBook, syncing to my iPod, repeating each week so I could keep up with the episodes of SYSK coming out. Fast-forward to today I still listen to each episode religiously and have learned so much from Josh and Chuck."}, {"show": "1719355507", "hn_item": 42233506, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42233506", "by": "webninja", "time": 1732512504, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Part 6: >How come today, the left is the party of war and the right the party of peace? >The left identifies with the Bushs and Cheneys while the right identifies with >the Kennedys. >Oh cool, tell me which war is USA in right now? How many troops have we deployed to said place? The left is very much anti-war, they've been echoing every single talking point your side has done, it's the centrists are the ones who have said they want to support Ukraine in it's defense of the invading Russia. While under the Biden/Harris Administration, we are in: 1) The Ukraine and Russia war, 2) The China vs. T"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42242374, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42242374", "by": "pnadolny", "time": 1732592428, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey HN! Checkout Flect, a modern AI powered search engine for YouTube podcasts. Describe the content not the keywords. Flect lets you describe a moment in a podcast and it returns a list of relevant YouTube podcast clips with links to the exact timestamp in the episode. So far I have the top 40 podcasts, 16k episodes, 30k+ hours of content, all searchable by context. Lex Fridman (3+ years ago) - \"one of the things that sucks with podcasts is it's hard to find stuff...\" https://flectai.com/link/?id=677d98e4bb1e4ace8a95598df6cefbb... Background: I love podcasts but I can never find the clips I\u2019m"}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 42246048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246048", "by": "amalinovic", "time": 1732631270, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 42246966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246966", "by": "nickt", "time": 1732637730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Retro Hour podcast episode 387 has a great interview with Eva Pascoe a little while ago. https://theretrohour.com/cyberia-cyber-cafe-eva-pascoe-ep387... I was working in London in 1994 and remember visiting for the cultural experience but work provided a Sparc machine and ISDN at home as I was on call and it felt like slumming it to go to a cafe with a shared internet connection and PCs!"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 42248170, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248170", "by": "morbicer", "time": 1732644339, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Or if you prefer podcast, listen to this episode of Darknet Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/ Truly fascinating story"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42248573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248573", "by": "Bjorkbat", "time": 1732646548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who's struggled to really get into podcasts, I'm convinced that most people who enjoy podcasts don't really actively listen to them, they just like that extra bit of noise in the background while they do something else, with the added bonus that they might just listen at just the right time to pick up some interesting factoid. Don't get me wrong, I like podcasts, Fall of Civilizations being a personal favorite of mine, it's just that my desire to try and actively listen to them requires that I carve out an hour (or much longer in the case of FoC, worth it) of my free-time to elimina"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 42248914, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248914", "by": "fnordlord", "time": 1732648544, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If I'm remembering correctly, I was using iTerm before Warp. I listened to some of the devs on the Changelog podcast and it seemed worth checking out. At the time, iTerm was getting really heavy and slow for me and I was losing a day every few months tracking down the cause. Warp was immediately faster and prettier so I stuck with it. They're also super fast with updates and responsive on Github with issues. I honestly don't use many of their features besides being able to ask the LLM for how to do something random in git and getting the answer without leaving the terminal. The way they organi"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42249614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249614", "by": "mvdtnz", "time": 1732652406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Don't get me wrong, I like podcasts, Fall of Civilizations being a personal favorite of mine, it's just that my desire to try and actively listen to them requires that I carve out an hour (or much longer in the case of FoC, worth it) of my free-time to eliminate any distractions and focus. I don't see why that should be true. Podcasts are great when coupled with mindless work like mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, stacking firewood, walking to the shop, driving etc. You can get virtually 100% out of a podcast while performing tasks like this."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 42256542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256542", "by": "zellyn", "time": 1732719144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Simon's blog is fragmented because it's, well, a blog. It would be hard to find a better source to \"keep updated on things AI\" though. He does do longer summary articles sometimes, but mostly he's keeping up with things in real time. The search and tagging systems on his blog work well, too. I suggest you stick his RSS feed in your feed reader, and follow along that way. Swyx also has a lot of stuff keeping up to date at https://www.latent.space/ , including the Latent Space podcast, although tbh I haven't listened to more than one or two episodes."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 42256886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256886", "by": "hi_edith", "time": 1732721981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Imagine an AI model so powerful, it matches OpenAI's top performer, O1, while displaying its thought process in real-time. Meet R1-Lite-Preview, unveiled by DeepSeek! TOP 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS: \u2022 MIND-BLOWING PERFORMANCE : R1-Lite-Preview matches O1's capabilities while showcasing live, transparent thought processes. \u2022 GAME-CHANGER : Trained on 50,000 H100 chips, this open-source model could disrupt the competitive landscape. \u2022 CREATIVE TOOL OF THE MONTH : Top AI tools for business creation include: - Kling AI - Postiz - Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech v2 - Dokko - ReadPartner \u2022 PAPER PERFECTION : Pape"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42259017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259017", "by": "tikkun", "time": 1732736346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It sounds like you want more broad stuff, not necessarily learning how to train models. More like learning to use them and how they work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195527 and Hacker's Guide to LLMs by Jeremy from Fast.ai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU State of GPT by Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQun8Y4L2A LLMs by 3b1b - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZh9BOjkQs Visualizing transformers by 3b1b - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtZARuO3JY How ChatGPT trained - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPRSBzXzavo AI in a nutshell - https://www.youtube.com/wa"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 42261423, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42261423", "by": "senderista", "time": 1732756316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the \"Tides of History\" podcast (hosted by an actual historian who keeps up with the field), which has several episodes on Mesopotamian civilization. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 42266884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266884", "by": "jallbrit", "time": 1732813783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, a fellow If Books Could Kill podcast listener? It's unfortunate that truth is so hard to come by these days."}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 42268069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268069", "by": "skyyler", "time": 1732823204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes! That blend of information and humour is the only podcast format worth my time, to be honest. There's another podcast with Michael Hobbes called Maintenance Phase that I also enjoy when I have time to listen to it. Fen-phen in particular was something I hadn't really heard of before and reading about it after their episode on it was just fascinating."}, {"show": "1375877915", "hn_item": 42271175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271175", "by": "zoklet-enjoyer", "time": 1732859091, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In 2024, Chang's company, Momofuku, drew criticism after sending cease and desist notices over the use of their trademark \"chili crunch.\"[65] In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Momofuku argued that the trademark was not intended to stifle any competition surrounding the sauces, stating that \"When we created our product, we wanted a name we could own and intentionally picked 'Chili Crunch' to further differentiate it from the broader chili crisp category.\"[66] On April 12, 2024, Chang issued a public apology regarding the issue on his podcast, The Dave Chang Show, stating that Momofuku ha"}, {"show": "1665265193", "hn_item": 42271925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271925", "by": "willyt", "time": 1732867477, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There\u2019s an interview on The Rest is Politics Leading podcast with the politician Peter Malinauskas the premier of New South Wales who started the introduction of this law in his state first. I think it was maybe then taken up by the federal government. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/leading/id1665265193?i... It\u2019s very insightful and from listening to this it seems unlikely that murdoch was a huge influence on this."}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 42274496, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274496", "by": "TravisPeacock", "time": 1732894202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know about changing tone but I have used Adobe Podcast editor and it allows you adjust the words and rearrange what you said so you can cut \"umms\" and stuff. I know they are constantly adding features so I don't know if you can improve cadence and stuff but worth looking at if you have adobe stuff"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42275786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275786", "by": "libertine", "time": 1732904167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Unfortunately, not a time traveler. That's what They want you to believe! , for sure some conspiracy theorists will run with this, and probably be guests on Joe Rogan Podcast."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42277373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42277373", "by": "elforce002", "time": 1732916605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He explained that on Lex Fridman's podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 42282658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282658", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1732986723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The engineering-focused \"Omega Tau\" podcast had some some good episodes on the Apollo program: http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/ http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 42282799, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282799", "by": "bbkane", "time": 1732987781, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a lot to like about Elm, but the tradeoff is that the BDFL (Evan) has essentially abandoned public work on it [0, 1], and the community seems to be shrinking [2]. I personally wouldn't choose it for new projects, and I consider it essentially a brilliant research language (it's inspired a LOT of other UI work). 0: https://elmcraft.org/lore/elm-core-development/ 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elm-the-future-of-open... 2: https://reasonableapproximation.net/2024/11/02/elm-community..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 42284235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284235", "by": "vundercind", "time": 1733002822, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy the If Books Could Kill podcast. They mostly cover self-help and pop-business or pop-science books. They talk a lot about the recurring patterns and sometimes surprising shared topics among the books."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42285477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285477", "by": "DemocracyFTW2", "time": 1733017482, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Venture Capitalist Marc Andreessen appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast and made some explosive claims about the systematic \u201cdebanking\u201d of politically disfavored firms and individuals, specifically the crypto industry I think at this point we have fairly conclusive evidence that too much money is positively correlated with brain rot"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42286229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286229", "by": "upmind", "time": 1733027829, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Now that we're in the final month of 2024, what were your favourite podcast episodes (or just podcasts in general). Huberman Lab had some really interesting episodes like \"How to aimprove Memory & Focus Using Scientific Protocols\". I enjoyed the Acquired episode on Renaissance Technologies too. I personally enjoyed listening to Trump and Vance on the Joe Rogan podcast because while I'm not their biggest supporters, it made me think of both of them differently."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 42286229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286229", "by": "upmind", "time": 1733027829, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Now that we're in the final month of 2024, what were your favourite podcast episodes (or just podcasts in general). Huberman Lab had some really interesting episodes like \"How to aimprove Memory & Focus Using Scientific Protocols\". I enjoyed the Acquired episode on Renaissance Technologies too. I personally enjoyed listening to Trump and Vance on the Joe Rogan podcast because while I'm not their biggest supporters, it made me think of both of them differently."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 42294306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294306", "by": "Ad_stefnum", "time": 1733128740, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi there, Stephen here. I have launched 6 products this year and made no more than $50. At some point, I saw that the ideas were duds. I had a lot of them, but they were duds. I needed an amazing idea. I spoke with my genius mentor, who asked me to find painful problems. I couldn't find any. He told me to use AI to solve this. Use AI to find painful problems he said. I had thought of Gregger before when I saw the massive ton of ideas Greg Isenberg was sharing on his YouTube channel because of the top-notch guests he was bringing on. I had the idea to aggregate all those ideas. That\u2019s why the n"}, {"show": "1829613663", "hn_item": 42296566, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296566", "by": "cromulent", "time": 1733149833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I re-listened to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast episode about Nobel prize winning Howard Temin on the weekend. According to his student: > \u201cAt one point, Howard Temin wrote Francis Crick, Sir Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner of Watson and Crick, the co-discoverers of DNA, the authors of the central dogma itself. Temin writes Crick a letter, gently suggesting that an amendment to the central dogma might be in order. Crick writes back: \"I'm sure you think this is true, but you must realize you are wrong\". https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-obsc..."}, {"show": "77205482", "hn_item": 42296794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42296794", "by": "philip1209", "time": 1733151396, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Wendelboe (perhaps the greatest coffee roaster) has been talking about this on his latest Q&A podcast. A rigmarole for exports plus climate change are causing issues. He does a two-episode deep dive into the Kenyan coffee market here, which is worth a listen: https://timwendelboe.no/2024/03/inside-kenyas-coffee-market-..."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 42299536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299536", "by": "rpastuszak", "time": 1733168117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in Divine Comedy here's one I cannot recommend enough: Walking with Dante by Mark Scarbrough: https://walkingwithdante.captivate.fm It's slow and immensely comprehensive, but also very accessible and so much fun! His love for the subject and enthusiasm are contagious. Sharing this because thanks to HN I learned about some of my other favourite podcasts: Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur and The History of Rome by Marc Duncan. I finished THoR twice and I listen to Isaac's podcast every week. I keep coming back to Dante."}, {"show": "1224204194", "hn_item": 42299536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42299536", "by": "rpastuszak", "time": 1733168117, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're interested in Divine Comedy here's one I cannot recommend enough: Walking with Dante by Mark Scarbrough: https://walkingwithdante.captivate.fm It's slow and immensely comprehensive, but also very accessible and so much fun! His love for the subject and enthusiasm are contagious. Sharing this because thanks to HN I learned about some of my other favourite podcasts: Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur and The History of Rome by Marc Duncan. I finished THoR twice and I listen to Isaac's podcast every week. I keep coming back to Dante."}, {"show": "1516100616", "hn_item": 42306700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42306700", "by": "unripe_syntax", "time": 1733237605, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 42310397, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42310397", "by": "maxace", "time": 1733255068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't think this particular issue was covered in advance, but The World Next Week is an excellent program https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/world-next-week"}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 42320748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320748", "by": "dopamean", "time": 1733338883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great QAA Podcast episode about it."}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 42325163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42325163", "by": "makmanalp", "time": 1733375260, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy the excellent Articles of Interest podcast, an episode of which covers this exact phenomenon, but there are many other great episodes about similar subjects in clothing and fashion https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/suits-articles-of-int..."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 42326115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326115", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1733387003, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Petrol-based transport didn't replace horse-drawn drayage until the first or second decade of the 20th century in much of the US, and not until far later elsewhere. The side effects of massive horse populations in urban settings (> 150k in NYC alone) are so well-established that it's hard to find a canonical reference, though I include a couple here. Horse droppings, urine, and carcasses were a major inspiration for the formation of New York City's sanitation department, including such features as standard uniforms (white as I recall, originally) to emphasize sanitation. [B]y 1880 there were a"}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 42331623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42331623", "by": "trial3", "time": 1733426495, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Verge's Vergecast podcast did a pretty in-depth story in the second half of an episode about this that was fascinating [0] tldl: I do think the recommendation was installing the official ShakeAlert app [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/mu/podcast/two-possible-futures-f..."}, {"show": "1620252081", "hn_item": 42332716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42332716", "by": "tomohawk", "time": 1733432603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise bright field of light. \u201cWith complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,\u201d he said, \u201ccar companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where it\u2019s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated. And I\u2019ve had now two car companies\u2019 engineers, when I played stupid and said, \u2018What\u2019s the dark spot?\u2019 \u2026 And the lighting engineers are all fucking proud of themselves: \u2018That"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 42337279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42337279", "by": "_huayra_", "time": 1733469981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the latest Oxide and Friends podcast where they discuss a lot of this and related stuff: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/2218242"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42346462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42346462", "by": "throwaway314155", "time": 1733535131, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this the same link preview that Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed to have invented first on the Lex Fridman podcast?"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 42347720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347720", "by": "tlavoie", "time": 1733553224, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Developer Voices podcast episode with a couple authors of a DuckDB book was quite good as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nA3uDx1rlg"}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 42357196, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42357196", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1733666528, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Philosophize This podcast has covered Weil in four separate episodes, and has a backgrounder / reading list as well, all compiled here: https://www.philosophizethis.org/blog/simone-weil-reading-li... >"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42357953, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42357953", "by": "wat10000", "time": 1733674951, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201c There\u2019s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.\u201d RFK Jr, Lex Fridman Podcast #388 \"He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I'll take on the data and show that it's not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that's his point.\u201d - Howard Lutnick, Trump transition team co-chair, CNN interview, October 30"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 42363069, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363069", "by": "dpkirchner", "time": 1733718384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup -- Planet Money did a podcast about the sawstop and talked about the patents and controversy: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/1200551215/sawstop-steve-gass..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42367488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367488", "by": "tymonPartyLate", "time": 1733760558, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We rely on a multi-layered validation approach, where multiple independent sources must confirm any given data point before it\u2019s presented. Aravind described this well on the Lex Fridman podcast. Behind every green dot is a chain of LLM prompts, reviewers, and \u201ccritics\u201d ensuring accuracy. On top of that, user feedback and browsing patterns continuously refine the system\u2019s weighting, so recommendations get better over time. We\u2019re also working on a feature to show which tools your competitors are using. I think this will be really great."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 42373665, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373665", "by": "gre", "time": 1733803950, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If Books Could Kill podcast got you covered https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocked-eric-adams/id..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42374987, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42374987", "by": "krick", "time": 1733819857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looks dope though. But what impressed me recently was some crypto-scam video, featuring \"a clip\" from Lex Fridman Podcast where Elon Musk \"reveals\" his new crypto or whatever (sadly, the one I saw is currently deleted). It didn't really look good, they were talking with weird pauses and intonations, and as awkward these 2 normally are, here they were even more unnatural. There was so much audacity to it I laughed out loud. But what I was thinking while enjoying the show was: people wouldn't do that, if it didn't work. This is the point. There is no such thing as \"completely fools commenters\". "}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 42387982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387982", "by": "tmpz22", "time": 1733927151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Watch the Behind the Bastards podcast on Alex Jones or read some of the testimony from his various cases. The amount of evidence burying him is incontrovertible. His actions before during and after are incontrovertible. There\u2019s a reason even the right wing hardliners abandoned this guy."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 42390066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390066", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1733937148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Popping open Podcast Addict, the top 10 podcasts right now are: 1. No Such Thing As A Fish; 2. My Brother, My Brother And Me; 3. Planet Money; 4. Revolutions; 5. 99% Invisible; 6. Stuff You Should Know; 7. The Adventure Zone; 8. This American Life; 9. Freakinomics Radio; 10. The Rest Is History I had to scroll to #32 to find Casefile which sorta fits your criteria, except it's hosted by a dude and I think he generally discusses older cases."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 42390066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390066", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1733937148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Popping open Podcast Addict, the top 10 podcasts right now are: 1. No Such Thing As A Fish; 2. My Brother, My Brother And Me; 3. Planet Money; 4. Revolutions; 5. 99% Invisible; 6. Stuff You Should Know; 7. The Adventure Zone; 8. This American Life; 9. Freakinomics Radio; 10. The Rest Is History I had to scroll to #32 to find Casefile which sorta fits your criteria, except it's hosted by a dude and I think he generally discusses older cases."}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 42390066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390066", "by": "mintplant", "time": 1733937148, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Popping open Podcast Addict, the top 10 podcasts right now are: 1. No Such Thing As A Fish; 2. My Brother, My Brother And Me; 3. Planet Money; 4. Revolutions; 5. 99% Invisible; 6. Stuff You Should Know; 7. The Adventure Zone; 8. This American Life; 9. Freakinomics Radio; 10. The Rest Is History I had to scroll to #32 to find Casefile which sorta fits your criteria, except it's hosted by a dude and I think he generally discusses older cases."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 42390248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42390248", "by": "sp33k3rph433k", "time": 1733937984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And this absurd outcome is partially due to a flagrant disregard for the sets of rules and procedures that came before this case. The Knowledge Fight podcast covers this case in its entirety and it's clear that Infowars et al. has toed the line of criminal to delay and deny justice to the victims. The legal system hit the end of the road and said \"everything owed to the victims or everything Infowars has\" and this is the result."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42392188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392188", "by": "1vuio0pswjnm7", "time": 1733947328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This brief note tells of an x-mas party organised by the \"All-In\" podcast at Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on December 7. A correspondent from Economist was there and \"was made to feel most unwelcome\". But before she was kicked out,^1 she witnessed \"a riotous celebration of how a clique of billionaires, the so-called PayPal Mafia, helped cinch Donald Trump's election vicory and has taken Washington by storm\". The title of the article is taken from a comment by a party attendee, Aaron Levie, founder of Box: \"The PayPal Mafia's takeover of the government is now complete, so good work on t"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42393595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42393595", "by": "aanet", "time": 1733955128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "QUOTE: The four venture capitalists that host All-In have a lot to feel smug about. In June two of them\u2014David Sacks, a PayPal alumnus, and Chamath Palihapitiya\u2014threw a fundraising event for Mr Trump when he visited San Francisco, which raked in $12m. On December 5th Mr Trump returned the favour by naming Mr Sacks his artificial-intelligence (AI) and crypto \u201ctsar\u201d. Mr Sacks accordingly wore a Russian fur hat to the event. Alongside Mr Trump, the All-In podcast counts Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, two other PayPal mafiosi, as friends. From the stage there was jubilation over Mr Musk\u2019s influence on "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42397831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42397831", "by": "owenpalmer", "time": 1733997573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"I am not a madman for saying that it is likely that the code for artificial general intelligence is going to be tens of thousands of lines of code, not millions of lines of code. This is code that conceivably one individual could write, unlike writing a new web browser or operating system.\" - John Carmack, Lex Fridman Podcast (August 4th, 2022) This was around 3 months before ChatGPT's initial release. Timestamped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4&t=14677s"}, {"show": "306390087", "hn_item": 42398881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398881", "by": "genewitch", "time": 1734009534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know if you need to hear this, but i got up from a warm seat to type it so: Adam Curry[0], who refers to himself as the podcast father, says that \"download\" numbers for podcasts are irrelevant. They do a 3 hour live show twice weekly, and around 2000 people listen live. Downloads don't count catching a repeat on a 24/7 stream, people group listening, downloading from other services (that may be faster or cheaper in their region), etc. If i can find a clip of him talking about it, and why advertisements make no sense for podcasts, i'll try and link it here for posterity. He usually talk"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 42411747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411747", "by": "feoren", "time": 1734119705, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> My mind also wanders, and I can go several pages before realizing I haven't really been reading. I think this is an under-rated benefit of reading. Would you feel like you failed if your mind wandered during a guided meditation? Can reading serve a similar function? This is one reason why I gave up trying to significantly increase my reading speed. Blazing through a nonfiction book at 700 WPM might make you feel like you've learned a lot, but you probably haven't really digested anything. Do you really want to uncritically ingest a nonfiction book? I've listened to enough episodes of If Book"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42411876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411876", "by": "freedomben", "time": 1734120505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard it on the All-In podcast, but I do see many articles/blogs about it as well. Quick note though, I mistyped CPU (and rapidly caught and fixed, but not fast enough!) when I meant GPU. [1]: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-plea..."}, {"show": "1570829565", "hn_item": 42414054, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414054", "by": "spprashant", "time": 1734141824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sacks and PG don't see eye to eye. There is some beef there. PG is a big Altman supporter. To be fair he also thinks highly of Musk as a founder, but does not agree with his politics. It would seem to me, there is larger rift developing in SV between the YC clique and the AllIn podcast gang."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42415076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415076", "by": "Timber-6539", "time": 1734157584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Facebook didn't censor themselves. Mark admitted the source of the censorship on Rogan's podcast and again doubled down on this fact with a letter to Congress. https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064/photo/..."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 42423865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42423865", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1734275987, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Futility Closet used to have a charming and fascinating podcast. I miss it. I'm glad that he's still writing the blog."}, {"show": "1676305617", "hn_item": 42425899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425899", "by": "RobinL", "time": 1734295844, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I submitted this because I thought it was a good, high effort post, but I must admit I was surprised by the conclusion. In my experience, admittedly on different workloads, duckdb is both faster and easier to use than spark, and requires significantly less tuning and less complex infrastructure. I've been trying to transition as much as possible over to duckdb. There are also some interesting points in the following podcast about ease of use and transactional capabilities of duckdb which are easy to overlook (you can skip the first 10 mins): https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zBdJurLfWBilCi6DQ2"}, {"show": "1676305617", "hn_item": 42426262, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426262", "by": "diroussel", "time": 1734299821, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thanks, I'll give that a listen. Here is the Apple Podcast link to the same episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-joe-reis-show/id16... I've also experimented with duckdb whilst on a databricks project, and did also think \"we could do this whole thing with duckdb and a large EC2 instance spun up for an few hours a week\". But of course duckdb was new then, and you can't re-architect on a hunch. Thanks for the aricle."}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 42426498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426498", "by": "dcl", "time": 1734302607, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I watched this just the other day (as a joke Christmas film) after having not seen it for about 10-12 years. It's waaaay better than I remember and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Definitely hits a bit different after Epstein. The Very Bad Wizards podcast on it is interesting/fun too. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/very-bad-orgies-kubric..."}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 42427759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427759", "by": "slillibri", "time": 1734319616, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm sorry, but \"At what moisture level do crackers become soft\" isn't complex syntax. I would simply blame lack of basic literacy taught in schools, and the 'whole word' method. I would recommend the 'Sold a Story' podcast series[1] for more information. [1] https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42429352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429352", "by": "chvid", "time": 1734340674, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My guess is that TikTok is about to get the Huawei treatment. Like it happened to Huawei, the US State Department will campaign against it in various foreign countries and seek a similar ban. And like it happened to Meng Wanzhou, the US will use its legal system to pursue key figures in ByteDance, many of whom reside in Singapore, a country which has an extradition treaty with the US. (If you think I am exaggerating, hear this week's edition of the All In podcast.)"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 42442984, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442984", "by": "kwakubiney", "time": 1734454610, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "She talks about the story on this podcast episode[1] [1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AGrLoFgkYZ0KxLXBOjbwB"}, {"show": "1462522364", "hn_item": 42446132, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446132", "by": "fagnerbrack", "time": 1734474669, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 42447995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42447995", "by": "ilikepi", "time": 1734494228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was also a Radiolab episode that discussed this idea at a different hospital... https://radiolab.org/podcast/apologetical-2303"}, {"show": "1620252081", "hn_item": 42449068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449068", "by": "xethos", "time": 1734512697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They measure at a certain point. Jason Cammisa points it out pretty clearly in an episode of Carmudgeon, with the money quote either here[0] or in the link direct to YouTube here[1]: > On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise bright field of light. \u201cWith complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,\u201d he said, \u201ccar companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where it\u2019s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-i"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 42450338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450338", "by": "foobarian", "time": 1734529272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of history podcasts, I've gone through Mike Duncan's Rome and Revolutions, the Fall of Civilizations, Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories... any suggestions for more like this? I noticed there is a Byzantium history series that seemed interesting."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42450338, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450338", "by": "foobarian", "time": 1734529272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Speaking of history podcasts, I've gone through Mike Duncan's Rome and Revolutions, the Fall of Civilizations, Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories... any suggestions for more like this? I noticed there is a Byzantium history series that seemed interesting."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 42450755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450755", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1734532697, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of English podcast is worth a listen. It's about the development of the English language, so it covers a lot of history and prehistory, and also linguistics. The presenter Kevin Stroud has a deep passion for the subject matter. Unfortunately, he also has a tendency to repeat himself and over-explain simple examples so the effect can be somewhat soporific."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 42451229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451229", "by": "ecshafer", "time": 1734535725, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Assuming you want more Long form, narrative style historical podcasts. History of the Germans, The French History Podcast, and The History of England are all very good in depth podcasts. I also enjoy the History of The Crusades, which is good, narrative and similar to Revolutions following various crusades."}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 42452955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452955", "by": "kzrdude", "time": 1734544421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The NPR podcast series More Perfect is quite interesting, about this, they should have an episode called 'The Political Thicket' or something like that."}, {"show": "440985304", "hn_item": 42453048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453048", "by": "BillSaysThis", "time": 1734544891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/ The British History Podcast starts in deep pre-Roman times and, after ~460 episodes, is up to 1091."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42460942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42460942", "by": "fipar", "time": 1734612555, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're absolutely right, but the problem is the intersection set of rich people and powerful people is quite large (they're almost, but not quite, the same set) and why would they ration themselves? If air travel rationing would ever be implemented, instead of travel becoming a rich person's hobby (which it already is, for a very loose definition of rich, a definition loose enough that it also counts people with in-house bathrooms with running water and waste disposal systems as rich) it would become a powerful person's hobby. Not that different IMHO. But, just to be clear, I'm totally with yo"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42461823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461823", "by": "fruit_snack", "time": 1734619552, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s an interesting podcast episode of Lex Fridman with Charan Ranganath (memory researcher) in case people are looking for more on the topic"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 42462512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42462512", "by": "anon84873628", "time": 1734622902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If I'm recalling The History of English podcast correctly, \"you\" was originally the plural/formal 2nd person pronoun, while \"thou\" was singular. Eventually language did its thing and the default shifted. Now we think of \"thou\" as old timey and formal!"}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 42466332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42466332", "by": "2403tales", "time": 1734646871, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Podyssey is an AI-powered podcast discovery platform that redefines how users find and consume podcasts. Instead of relying on metadata or broad categories like \u201ccomedy\u201d or \u201csociety & culture\u201d for search and recommendation, it segments episodes into bite-sized clips (30 seconds to 5 minutes), categorizes them using fine-tuned BERTopic, generates titles for each clip with a fine-tuned Mistral 7B (v0.2) model, and then runs semantic search on top of clip titles. This enables precise, content-focused search and personalized recommendations. Features include: - Granular Search: Semantic search mat"}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 42479569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42479569", "by": "jakubsuchy", "time": 1734788103, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here is a 20k Hertz podcast about Ghost artists behind the real artists: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ll2fKycYLy2KZxm12toS4?si=p... Basically - the 'real' artists do exactly the same thing. They use ghost writers and producers that make the song and then the 'brand name' just records it, without crediting the producer."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 42482192, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482192", "by": "fouronnes3", "time": 1734814370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Absolutely grim. I wouldn't wish that job on my worst enemy. The article reminded me of a Radiolab episode from 2018: https://radiolab.org/podcast/post-no-evil"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 42483000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483000", "by": "sweeter", "time": 1734821764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries did a few podcast episodes on the NSO group from the perspective of people who have directly interacted with or have been the target and it really puts it into perspective how horrific they are. They operate under the protection of the US and are directly allowed to spy on US citizens without any recourse whatsoever. One particularly grotesque case was the illegal wire tapping of Ben Suda after launching a criminal probe in to Israeli war crimes, which they used to threaten the prosecutor and used it to hide evidence that they knew was under scrutiny or take the cases to court "}, {"show": "1685196752", "hn_item": 42485744, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42485744", "by": "Litost", "time": 1734867232, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Rewilding term is definitely mercurial, Isabella Tree (Knepp) in this talk [1] sums this quite poetically by saying it's a term that \"rewilds itself\". Alastair Driver (Director of Rewilding Britain) in the same talk summarises it as \"The large scale restoration of ecosystems to the point where nature is allowed to take care of itself\" though there's obviously many other definitions and perspectives. I think part of the charm of the term, is the ability to apply it in many contexts, e.g. Rewilding people which would be harder if we narrowed the scope to say just natural habitats and landsca"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 42491255, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42491255", "by": "BMc2020", "time": 1734921939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Steve Gibson (Security Now podcast among other things), \"Attacks never get weaker, they only get stronger.\" I remember being able to attract bots from a certain eastern mediterranian country and a certain south of Siberia country with just certain trigger words. They seem a lot more sophisticated now. in the sr about economics over there the mention of a certain economist would instantly attract the 'bury brigade' to downvote the post. Haven't been there in years so I have no idea what it's like now. Until we find our Neo, the only thing we can do is run when we attract the attent"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42491758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42491758", "by": "efitz", "time": 1734927869, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why do developers continue to work on AI? Sooner or later (probably sooner) it will be adequate enough to remove the need for many or most developers. I listened to this week\u2019s All In podcast and the podcasters (all wildly successful tech entrepreneurs) were quite emphatic that they were seeking a world where they were not beholden to developers. They envision a world where non- or semi-technical employees create the desired software via AI; other AI agents would then figure out how to deploy it. I feel like we are at a similar point to many other professions in the past facing a rapid technol"}, {"show": "1376303362", "hn_item": 42493719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493719", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1734954320, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42494057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494057", "by": "drcwpl", "time": 1734958553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are right, the 'watch' ones are outlier podcasts, eg Lex Fridman, Rogan, Dwarkesh Patel, Tyler Cowen, The Diary of a CEO, Machine Learning Street Talk, Hoover Institute, and so on, but it is building momentum."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 42494057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494057", "by": "drcwpl", "time": 1734958553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are right, the 'watch' ones are outlier podcasts, eg Lex Fridman, Rogan, Dwarkesh Patel, Tyler Cowen, The Diary of a CEO, Machine Learning Street Talk, Hoover Institute, and so on, but it is building momentum."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42494057, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494057", "by": "drcwpl", "time": 1734958553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You are right, the 'watch' ones are outlier podcasts, eg Lex Fridman, Rogan, Dwarkesh Patel, Tyler Cowen, The Diary of a CEO, Machine Learning Street Talk, Hoover Institute, and so on, but it is building momentum."}, {"show": "1578405214", "hn_item": 42494260, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494260", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1734960730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Honestly I\u2019m not convinced it is a solved problem. I have been trying to get my head around OAuth, zero trust, Fido, SAML et al - and I am not sure I get it. It\u2019s not that say \u201cJWT tokens might be dangerous\u201d it\u2019s how to hang it all together in a sane manner. For example I was listening to Security Cryptography Whatever podcast and one of the guests (Chrome dev?) said obviously don\u2019t trust everything that comes down an established TLS connection but verify / auth each request. That\u2019s a pretty tall order and seems to nullify quite a lot of established frameworks But realistically I think a lot o"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42497946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497946", "by": "rsynnott", "time": 1734991216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I listened to this week\u2019s All In podcast and the podcasters (all wildly successful tech entrepreneurs) were quite emphatic that they were seeking a world where they were not beholden to developers. They envision a world where non- or semi-technical employees create the desired software via AI; other AI agents would then figure out how to deploy it. Okay, so, the thing is, roughly every decade since 1960, someone has come out with something that promises \u201cuse this, and you won\u2019t need those icky programmers anymore\u201d. COBOL was originally marketed this way! And then you had various flavours of "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 42518642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518642", "by": "sea-gold", "time": 1735255272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Acquired podcast had great episodes on the background of both Visa[1] and Costco[2]. [1] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa [2] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 42521035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521035", "by": "rainbowjelly", "time": 1735292548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Mitchell said it is planned in a recent interview on the Changelog podcast[1], just not in time for 1.0. [1]: https://changelog.com/podcast/622"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42523825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523825", "by": "hnu0847", "time": 1735318852, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "What were your favorite podcast episodes released in 2024? Mine were: Hardcore History 71 - Mania for Subjugation [1] Fall of Civilizations 19 - Terror of the Steppe [2] [1] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-71-mania-for-subjugation/ [2] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/"}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 42534267, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42534267", "by": "Austin_Conlon", "time": 1735417271, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42542161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542161", "by": "sebmellen", "time": 1735499798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m only halfway through, but I\u2019m truly impressed with the writing. Very engaging and dense but easy to follow. Dwarkesh is not just a podcast host!"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42542221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542221", "by": "arnvald", "time": 1735500205, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I kept asking young people about the public intellectual landscape in China - who are their equivalents of Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and Sam Harris? The sense I got is that this kind of popular intellectual ecosystem just doesn't exist there I have never heard of Sam Harris, but are the other 3 the prominent examples of American intellectual ecosystem? I haven\u2019t listened to them a lot, but in the couple examples of Friedman\u2019s or Rogan\u2019s podcast episodes I listened to, they let their guests say whatever anti-intellectual bs they wanted, without trying to correct the guests. Ma"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42542344, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542344", "by": "max_", "time": 1735501020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Dwarkesh's guests. My problem with this podcast, is that the host talks too fast. I have found this rushed \"fast\" talking amongst westerners, but few seem to complain about it. Any one else experience this?"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42542521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542521", "by": "gradus_ad", "time": 1735502307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to one of this guy's podcasts recently. The guest was impressive but Dwarkesh... Not so much. His questions were meandering and made it clear he didn't have much of a grasp on the subject matter. Does not surprise me that he is perplexed about the totalitarian regime's penchant for watching people."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42542767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542767", "by": "DevX101", "time": 1735504101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's pretty good at curating very smart people and interviewing them. There's no shortage of interviews with double talking politicians and polemicists so podcasts like his are a breath of fresh air. I'm not watching his podcasts to learn about Dwarkesh, but to learn what his guests have to say."}, {"show": "1617044319", "hn_item": 42549173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549173", "by": "prmph", "time": 1735566112, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 42550088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42550088", "by": "screye", "time": 1735572356, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The bar for wide-audience podcasters and interviewers is low. They're expected to be generalists who can ask good questions, not experts driving the conversation. Now, expertise is valuable for focused Podcasters like Peter Attia for fitness or Razib for population genomics. But, Dwarkesh is trying to cover all tech and wider HN-friendly content. For that purpose, his CS education and knowledge of the tech industry workings are solid. He does a better job than Lex, Rogan, or other tech-adjacent Podcasters. Nowhere near as personable as some of the more mainstream successes. But, when those pod"}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 42551175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551175", "by": "bananagoat", "time": 1735578451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify does not have a trademark on rss podcast delivery. RSS feeds have historically been the primary delivery method for podcasts and it long predates Spotify and the JRE. Many of the most popular or historically significant primarily used RSS: Serial, This American Life, Stuff You Should Know\u2014the list goes on and on. Some podcasts are distributed via video, but even many of those also have a corresponding rss feed for the audio version. Here\u2019s the rss feed for Joe Rogan https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLT1412515089 If you use a podcast app today, it is guaranteed to be primarily fetching from R"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 42551175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551175", "by": "bananagoat", "time": 1735578451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Spotify does not have a trademark on rss podcast delivery. RSS feeds have historically been the primary delivery method for podcasts and it long predates Spotify and the JRE. Many of the most popular or historically significant primarily used RSS: Serial, This American Life, Stuff You Should Know\u2014the list goes on and on. Some podcasts are distributed via video, but even many of those also have a corresponding rss feed for the audio version. Here\u2019s the rss feed for Joe Rogan https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLT1412515089 If you use a podcast app today, it is guaranteed to be primarily fetching from R"}, {"show": "1562843329", "hn_item": 42561675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42561675", "by": "coryfklein", "time": 1735677634, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here's a direct podcast URL you can add via your favorite podcast app: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gangster/id1562843329"}, {"show": "1675146725", "hn_item": 42573777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42573777", "by": "keepamovin", "time": 1735820173, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1508854933", "hn_item": 42579652, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579652", "by": "doitLP", "time": 1735856881, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For anyone that wants to go super deep on the series I cannot recommend this podcast enough: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lubbers-hole-a-pat... They unpack each novel paragraph by paragraph and sometimes line by line. After reading the novels 5x through I found a whole new realm of depth and enjoyment. O\u2019Brian is a truly masterful writer and his learning and erudition are simply astounding sometimes. As for the audiobooks, Patrick Tull cannot hold a candle to Simon Vance\u2019s sublime narration. Sadly blackstone audio isn\u2019t making them available right now unless you can find them on y"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42581493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42581493", "by": "FloorEgg", "time": 1735870437, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thank you. I think someone (or maybe multiple people) just mass flagged all my comments, including ones that I struggle to see as controversial. My curiosity and questioning of the \"consensus reality\" apparently really upset someone. Doesn't exactly make me more confident in their opinions, if when I question them or try to understand them by comparing my own views people attempt to silence me unjustly (I didn't break any HN rules as far as I can tell, and I checked). I spend about an hour a week on HN, and about another hour a week combined mixed between reddit, twitter, NYT, reuters, and pro"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 42591894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591894", "by": "criddell", "time": 1735958939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Search Engine did an episode trying to get to the bottom of why there are so many illegal weed stores in NYC. Turns out a significant percentage are run by Yemeni Americans. I\u2019ve always wondered how that came to be but never considered that the war could have something to do with it. I wonder if that\u2019s the case?"}, {"show": "1736249977", "hn_item": 42592620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592620", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1735967714, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep typo - 20K - fixing. I always thought Kagi was still the old Mac focused company that enabled independent software makers to collect payments from customers. I didn\u2019t realize that the old company had been out of business for years until I heard the founder interview on the Talk Show podcast https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/24/ep-416"}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 42602452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602452", "by": "HolyLampshade", "time": 1736091337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd add to the Money Stuff newsletter the Money Stuff podcast, with Matt and Katie Greifeld (BBG reporter). The two have great chemistry, and slightly different interests in finance, so it covers topics beyond the single thread he typically covers in the newsletter."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42602599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602599", "by": "theptip", "time": 1736092632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Karpathy discussed this at length on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://lexfridman.com/andrej-karpathy/ IIRC I think it\u2019s the section (1:23:25) \u2013 Camera vision The TL;DR is that sensor fusion is really hard, and their bet was that keeping the training pipelines simpler would let them scale faster/easier, and human vision is the existence proof that it can be done without lidar."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42608219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608219", "by": "RestlessMind", "time": 1736144794, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine: Acquired, Honestly (with Bari Weiss), Fall of Civilizations"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42610930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42610930", "by": "tim333", "time": 1736174562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's already suggested by the guidelines: >Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon... Another issue with the Lex podcast is being three hours long it's quite hard to figure which bit you are discussing."}, {"show": "1581807590", "hn_item": 42612462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612462", "by": "cosmic_quanta", "time": 1736183291, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This work was discussed by the author in the Haskell Interlude podcast as well [0]. Highly recommended and probably easier to digest than a whole dissertation. [0]: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/59/"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 42614722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614722", "by": "zachlatta", "time": 1736192702, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Seeking recommendations for books about how hard things got done. I like the Acquired podcast, but am looking for reading deeper than it. I\u2019m reading The Big Rich about the oil boom in Texas and like it. I also liked Barbarians at the Gate about how private equity got created and how deals went down. Less interested in people and character studies. More interested in the mechanics of how things that we take for granted actually got built and what the world they were made in was like."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 42618938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618938", "by": "waldothedog", "time": 1736221386, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1176278502", "hn_item": 42619822, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619822", "by": "BytesAndGears", "time": 1736230481, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listen to a podcast called Crushing Iron. One of the two hosts realized he was in poor shape and his friends were starting to decay. I think he was about 50 when he had that realization. He decided not to let it happen to him, so he got into triathlon. Now, he\u2019s doing Ironman races every year for the last ~10 years, and he started at around 50 (maybe 49 or 48, don\u2019t remember). Other host was an alcoholic who bounced back into a very healthy life. Both are inspirational, but I think the other applies to you more. Point is, you can do it! You don\u2019t have to do a whole Ironman, obviously lol, bu"}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 42628151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628151", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1736287230, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Once you subscribe to one of the podcasts, you can choose the \u201cManage your account\u201d link from the podcast notes and choose the \u201cDelivery Tab\u201d. It will give you all of the links to all of your podcasts. I did this from the \u201cDithering\u201d podcast notes https://imgur.com/a/ThbTaly"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 42630636, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630636", "by": "owlninja", "time": 1736307446, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Mine was oddly a Radiolab episode that actually premiered in 2014. https://radiolab.org/podcast/less-than-kilogram My favorite radio program is slowly dying so I am trying to dive deeper into podcasts."}, {"show": "1712665877", "hn_item": 42632750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632750", "by": "VagabundoP", "time": 1736331475, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interested in seeing if you have tried 3.13 free threading. Your usage case might be worth a test there if moving from a process to threading model isn't too much work. Where does your implementation bottleneck? Python concurrency does suffer from being relatively new and being bolted on to a decades old language. I'd expect the state of the art of python to be much cleaner once no-Gil is hammered on for a few release cycles. As always I suggest Core.py podcast as it has a bunch of background details[1]. There are no-Gil updates throughout the series. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 42632939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632939", "by": "alexey-salmin", "time": 1736333962, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only way I made progress in latin was when I bought a few books and started reading, beginning from (modern) children fairy tales. This actually gave me a lasting knowledge which up to this date allows me to read a simple latin text or guess a meaning of a word in English or French (neither language is native to me). Speaking latin of course takes it way further but I think the direction is the same: learn it as a living language not as as a dead one. Starting from declensions and cases gets you nowhere, judging from my friends who learned it in school for years with zero results. Instead,"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42652229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652229", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1736480895, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jason, the alleged \"lefty\" on the All-in podcast is on record as really wanting to get this going here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system"}, {"show": "1428670055", "hn_item": 42654318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42654318", "by": "afandian", "time": 1736503748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find reading books about how people did hard things to be very motivating and therapeutic, especially when facing a difficult task myself! I\u2019ve enjoyed all of these; they were all recommendations from HN. Showstopper - Windows NT Losing the Signal - BlackBerry Made in Japan - Sony Piloting Palm - Palm Sweating Bullets - PowerPoint Folklore.org - Early Apple. The \u201cMac Folklore Radio Podcast\u201d [0]. Has a few interesting stories of people innovating and solving challenges. [0] https://macfolkloreradio.com/"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 42655663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655663", "by": "jkristobans", "time": 1736518001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Founders Podcast (founderspodcast.com) would probably be the best source. There are a lot of book recommendations about how founders overcome obstacles to achieve great things."}, {"show": "1319947289", "hn_item": 42658536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42658536", "by": "ghaff", "time": 1736534184, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As I say, I was a bit later--mid-eighties--but I knew Jim Guyer who was one of the microkids as I recall. Helped setup an interview for Command Line Heroes podcast. Do need to get back into writing. Next week. Really."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 42666001, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666001", "by": "bamboozled", "time": 1736604845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What Joe does is let people be persuasive for 1-3 hours. It doesn\u2019t reveal anything secret or give you any special insights into their real character, motives or intentions. You need to judge people through their actions, past history and ideally by working with them directly. This is all just PR, not saying it\u2019s bad, or even intentional. But it\u2019s a form of self-promotion most of the time. A fun podcast to checkout is called \u201cDecoding the Gurus\u201d where they dissect a lot of these conversations."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42675081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675081", "by": "rnamerl", "time": 1736702457, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the goal is just to get as much funding from VCs and government rackets as possible. The previous administration had Harris as the \"AI czar\". Which means that nothing was expected to happen. The following administration has Sacks as the \"Crypto & AI czar\". I'm not aware that Sacks has any particular competence in the AI area, but he has connections. So government money is likely to flow, presumably to \"defense\" startups. This All-In podcast has paid off: From peddling gut bacteria supplements and wrong explanations on how moderator rods work in nuclear power plants to major influence."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42677437, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677437", "by": "robocat", "time": 1736719568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The FT article by Thiel: https://archive.ph/fp0cH The purpose appears to be to show his fawning support for Trump - knowing that Trump is likely to read it? Being part of the rich boys club is a good financial move at present. Unfortunately The gizmodo riposte is even worse than Thiel's conspirist rant. \"Was COVID-19 a U.S. bioweapon?\" is the articles misinformative rewrite for Thiel's \"Did they [the administration] suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research\". The only conspiracy mentioned that has a good answer is \"Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently suggested on Joe "}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 42678648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678648", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1736728531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a lot of awesome females in the infosec community. Check out the podcast Darknet Diaries for a glimpse. Some of the coolest red teaming podcasts were (IMO) with women. In this context, I'd like to mention Dr. Melanie Rieback. She is 'the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world\u2019s first non-profit computer security consultancy company.' Previously in the 00's known for her research in RFID security. Or have a look at hack conferences such as recently 38C3."}, {"show": "981330533", "hn_item": 42684223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684223", "by": "throw4847285", "time": 1736781065, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend listening to the episode of the Blank Check podcast about The General (and Battling Butler), if you can sanction some buffoonery. It's a mix of a comedy podcast and deep movie analysis, which is not for everybody. For that episode they brought in writer Jamelle Bouie who is both a huge movie buff and a student of American history who brings in some great perspective on the Lost Cause. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/battling-butler-the-ge..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42684821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684821", "by": "throwaway12671", "time": 1736783790, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Greenland is serious. The U.S. has been trying to grab it for a century. They have influenced the native population for decades and will continue to stir anti-Danish sentiment. A classic regime change operation like hundreds of others. Many U.S. newspapers who have lectured us on Ukraine's sovereignty for four years are relatively silent on the issue. The All-In podcast (now almost a pure Trump outlet) were in favor and suggested other land grabs. The EU, stripped of its will and subservient, makes meek comments. Apparently it is fine that 2 trillion in minerals will go to the U.S. and they ca"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42692230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692230", "by": "LarsDu88", "time": 1736817758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People on the left don't like to admit it, but a lot of the left wing activism we see today growing out from the 1960s was directly influenced by the Soviet Union and it's \"active measures\" programs According to the KGB defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, the Soviets actively encouraged colleges to focus on studies away from science and engineering, and also encouraged the \"break down\" of things like \"religion\" and \"family\" to make for more fertile soil for the inevitable communist takeover. At best such measures were focused on encouraging anti-nuclear activism to reduce the US capacity for"}, {"show": "1652132598", "hn_item": 42705785, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42705785", "by": "SpicyUme", "time": 1736900222, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listened to a podcast recently about a hypoxic training that was interesting. The company makes masks and different levels of equipment for different uses. For me it a simple curiosity, I need to work on recovering from ~1.5 years taking care of an ill family member. Maybe then it is worth a thought but for me it seems unlikely to really appeal. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/95-brian-oestrike-ceo-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42712912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712912", "by": "InsideOutSanta", "time": 1736958172, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"There's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.\" RFK on Lex Fridman's podcast. We do have long-term studies on vaccines. Vaccines are some of the best-studied medical intervention. There is plenty of data about their efficacy and side-effects. Implying that we \"need more studies\" before we can be sure about vaccines is, in my opinion, dishonest and misleading."}, {"show": "981330533", "hn_item": 42731696, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731696", "by": "scoofy", "time": 1737066289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I literally just finished The Return two days ago, because the Blank Check Podcast, a very long form podcast about filmographies that I love, is covering Lynch. The fact that The Return exists at all is amazing. The fact that it is not what you expected or wanted is really compelling. I absolutely loved it, even if I honestly have no idea what much of it means. Lynch's ability to use pacing -- lingering on a scene -- to cause unease is really something special. https://www.blankcheckpod.com/"}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 42736937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42736937", "by": "senkora", "time": 1737117732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> CGP Grey has a monolithic OmniFocus build that uses perspectives to really nail down what needs/can be done this second. I highly recommend the early episodes of the Cortex podcast where CGP Grey talks about his system. I discovered that his brain works in roughly the same way as mine, and so I was able to apply a lot of his insights to make my own system better."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 42742066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742066", "by": "CSSer", "time": 1737140920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really want to take a moment to thank everyone who's worked in and around the WordPress community for years to make it work. It helped start my career. Even back then, I remember people warning about getting involved in .org in hushed tones. Now I wonder how much of it stems back to what's coming to light. Somewhat a propos of nothing, the work people have done on improving Gutenberg over the past couple of years is amazing. I just had an opportunity to sit down and experiment with it for the first time since it came out years ago, and I'm just floored by how much improvement has occurred, b"}, {"show": "1570829565", "hn_item": 42744786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42744786", "by": "gdhkgdhkvff", "time": 1737161590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Senior eng at a big tech here. Layoffs have nothing to do with AI. There\u2019s more work to do then any time in recent memory because of the shift going on with AI enablement. Layoffs are because of a few things. 1. Coordinated layoffs flood the market with talent forcing wages down overall and creating a chilling effect for existing employees. Believe it or not, layoffs are actually having the reverse effect from what some might think. They don\u2019t make people want to leave, they make people scared to leave. 2. Wall Street loves layoffs. 3. Money is more expensive now. 4. Layoffs have a performativ"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42753115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753115", "by": "quantadev", "time": 1737254058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be clear I wasn't blaming just the Gov't for all the censorship, because 99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech. Zuck recently tried to blame it all on the FEDs (on JRE podcast) but he was obviously lying because Facebook even built a special portal for the FEDs to log into, for moderating/controlling the public, so he was the ring-leader of all the censorship, for about a decade."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 42757426, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757426", "by": "robertlutece", "time": 1737297841, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe this[1] 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about foley during sporting events. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42757899, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757899", "by": "tim333", "time": 1737301047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just really that people have a choice between tech bro media and old school forms and a lot, maybe the majority are choosing tech bro. Though personally I guess I am kind of forced onto their platforms to see what people I'm interested are up to - family on whatsapp, PG on x etc. I have to say re this particular article and it's content I found the Rogan/Zuck interview rather good and this article's content like \"Rogan\u2019s podcast \u2014 where male brain cells go to die\" and \"Zuck avoided this fate by not having a personality\" a bit smarmy and obnoxious."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 42768455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768455", "by": "Khaine", "time": 1737379338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in learning more about Byzantium there is a fantastic podcast The History of Byzantium[1] that follows on from Mike Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast. [1] https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com"}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 42768455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768455", "by": "Khaine", "time": 1737379338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are interested in learning more about Byzantium there is a fantastic podcast The History of Byzantium[1] that follows on from Mike Duncan's The History of Rome Podcast. [1] https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 42776493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42776493", "by": "groggo", "time": 1737432111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who's learning a language (french) with Duolingo, and also supplementing that with other methods (podcasts, social media, online chatting, talking to chatgpt) I've also really wanted a way to get duolingo type experience with my own set of vocabulary that I encounter. So i'll definitely check this out. Also your english is impressive!"}, {"show": "1097417804", "hn_item": 42777479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777479", "by": "ImaCake", "time": 1737445092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Idk if it's just me This is a widely held view amoung a lot of socialists and left-of-centre folks within America and globally. You could try \"Chapo Trap House\" podcast if you want to hear this point of view."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 42781946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781946", "by": "williamstein", "time": 1737476816, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This particular Oxide and Friends podcast includes a fantastic discussion of AI agents, the problems with their definitions, and at least one promising use case: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions..."}, {"show": "1756073806", "hn_item": 42782874, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42782874", "by": "s_j_maple", "time": 1737480836, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42785805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785805", "by": "jimbokun", "time": 1737497955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are asking that question seriously check out the recent Rogan podcast with Wesley Huff. Has the usual Rogan conspiracy theory pontificating, but also some good discussion about the history of how we got the Bible we have today. First off, the claim that the original text was first written 100s of years after the words were spoken is completely false and isn\u2019t taken seriously by anyone in the field."}, {"show": "315114957", "hn_item": 42790425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790425", "by": "asimpleusecase", "time": 1737534418, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was listening to this interview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups/... and the vision of basically free power to run a data center that could be dropped into orbit by space x - struck me as very transformative. Especially when thinking about speed of build once fully operational. What do others here think?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42794311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794311", "by": "exoverito", "time": 1737562515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's because the Democrats are corrupt and have no platform beyond managed decline. We just had sickly king Theoden in office with a coven of Grima Wormtongues controlling the executive. Kamala Harris is an empty suit devoid of original thought, and quite obviously only selected for her identity. When asked how she would be any different, she said Biden was an old white man and she was not. She couldn't speak even in the most favorable venues like Oprah, and refused to go on Joe Rogan's podcast because she would have obviously imploded and humiliated herself. It's stunning how far the Democr"}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 42794352, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794352", "by": "michaelcampbell", "time": 1737562628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin's \"Hardcore History\" podcast mentions this in almost every episode. Numerical values in historical documents are always to be greeted with LARGE amounts of suspicion if not outright disbelief."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 42798359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798359", "by": "some_random", "time": 1737586155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The cybersecurity podcast Risky Business interviewed an FBI agent who was deeply involved, I'd highly recommend listening to it if you want that perspective. If I remember correctly, the agents who were investigating the murder for hire stuff were later found to have been stealing some of the bitcoin they were confiscating and the prosecutors fro the Ulbricht case decided they didn't need to bring up those charges to get a conviction (which they obviously didn't)."}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 42799020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42799020", "by": "haddonist", "time": 1737591385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well There's Your Problem Podcast (with slides) Episode 121: Therac-25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQT1gVsE6I"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 42799273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42799273", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1737593486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like a quote from Stephen Dubner when he closes his episodes of Freakonomics podcast: > \"Take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else, too.\" I'm on HN. I work at a Series-C YC startup. I previously worked at another VC-back SV startup. I've even tried numerous startups of my own. But I'm also a part of a broader community of Americans and I want all Americans (and all people, if possible) to do well. It's really simple; I'm human first."}, {"show": "653204183", "hn_item": 42804755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42804755", "by": "rawfan", "time": 1737644891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember Mohammed Said (of Laravel fame) telling this story to Matt Stauffer in the Laravel Podcast. He wrote is programs at home on pen and paper and went to the public library to try them out."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42805688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42805688", "by": "andrewlevver", "time": 1737651580, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe this isn't the right fit, but a company I'm invested in and have advised since its inception is https://app.getriver.io/home It's built around managing a community, from the perspective of the community manager or head of community. It harnesses the power of hosts, the people who actually make the events happen and captures the free energy in the system of human to human community. I actually think for your use case it would be perfect. In each town you can crowd source (or directly invite the facebook group admins as hosts) hosts to create events and then run them. The platform started "}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 42810345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810345", "by": "tumnus", "time": 1737690742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a highly questionable list, and not only because it recommends 'Freakonomics' (I suggest listening to the 'If Books could Kill' podcast about this book - their analysis is really on point). In regards to the rest of the list - just as a single example more or less at random, re: Jordan Belfort's book: \"proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star...\" There are at least three lies in this half-sentence alone."}, {"show": "1573483082", "hn_item": 42810881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810881", "by": "andrewfromx", "time": 1737698851, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "start at S1E1 of https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-singer-podcast..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 42822954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822954", "by": "robg", "time": 1737825372, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 42827425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827425", "by": "snozolli", "time": 1737861742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Given the acts of brutality committed by the VC against those who didn't willingly join their cause, I wouldn't have stuck around with my family, either. One example from, as I recall, early in the division was burning alive the mayor of a village that refused to adopt communism. These things never get talked about and the only reason I've even heard of this was from listening to an interview on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Addendum podcast."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 42835655, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835655", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1737935916, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Good recent Search Engine podcast episode on zuck and his changes over the years: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Pvsvk6fGJa1BqnPGsske9?si=g..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42837025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837025", "by": "johnmw", "time": 1737947719, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't have a horse in this race, but to be fair, Mark goes into great detail about all this on the Joe Rogan podcast [0]. I think a reasonable person would also listen to what he says about his own motivations. If you have already listened and have an opinion, then please ignore this suggestion! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU"}, {"show": "1364798971", "hn_item": 42837161, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837161", "by": "beaugunderson", "time": 1737949108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An edgy forum like kiwifarms, apparently. The Red Scare podcast has an instance of the same software and has this checkbox text instead: \"By checking this box you agree that you are not, have never been, and will never be fat, physically or spiritually.\""}, {"show": "1781892987", "hn_item": 42838488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838488", "by": "ShawnBasquiat", "time": 1737964281, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1671691064", "hn_item": 42864315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864315", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1738155047, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was this podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-... which has a pretty good analysis of \"How did online trolls get so nasty?\" that would pretty obviously apply to the anti-vax fringe that the FP panders to but never makes the connection, for instance."}, {"show": "1471581521", "hn_item": 42865881, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865881", "by": "airhangerf15", "time": 1738163839, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The CDC isn't a primary source. Dr. Toby Rogers started to do a lot of deep dives into CDC data looking at the primary sources and found that he CDC reports themselves are often misleading or wrong. He did an amazing interview on this topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unsafe-at-any-speed-dr... mirror: https://old.bitchute.com/video/QQfIo75KHII/ mirror: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Sr3OsGqwfnWMfE7bGT30I"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 42867095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867095", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1738168085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The two podcasters who do the Acquired podcast spoke to Ballmer about some of Microsoft\u2019s failed initiatives and acquisitions. He told them that at the end of the day \u201cit\u2019s only money\u201d. All of the BigTech companies have enough cash flow from profitable lines of business to make speculative bets."}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 42867361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867361", "by": "sitkack", "time": 1738168971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "rebuttal to this podcast series The Misrepresentation of Marie Clay in \u201cSold a Story\u201d https://readingrecovery.org/the-misrepresentation-of-marie-c... I figured out why podcasts can be so damn irritating, they can be this patronizing, belabored setup to some ill thought out intellectual takedown you can't argue with in the same way you can with the written word. Teach kids (and the teachers) the scientific method, apply it everywhere ruthlessly. If you are \"teaching reading\" but not measuring reading comprehension and adjusting your methods for that student, you aren't teaching reading. Do scie"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 42869120, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869120", "by": "tomerdmann", "time": 1738175484, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a fun podcast piece on this a while back. Great background listen: https://radiolab.org/podcast/ice-cold-case"}, {"show": "1558983589", "hn_item": 42875847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42875847", "by": "bitxbitxbitcoin", "time": 1738223694, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Is your username a play on your INTJ result from the Myers Brigg Type test? Regardles, I relate to your comment a lot. Research is coming out from the Network of Applied Pharmacognosy that calls this the stoner neurotype.[0] [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/146-pharmacognosy-feat..."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 42883205, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883205", "by": "Jun8", "time": 1738278932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Singer, mentioned in the article has a great (and influential) book published in 1979 called Practical Ethics , if you\u2019re interested in this topic you should definitely check that out. If you\u2019ve never listened to the Philosophy Bites podcast, here\u2019s a relevant episode on the status of animals: https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/christine-korsgaard-on-th... Also here\u2019s a thought: unnecessary harming of an entity is bad for its effect on you , ie one should refrain from killing an insect even if it did not feel pain. Same holds for a nice rock formation."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 42883479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883479", "by": "Lyngbakr", "time": 1738281473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They did an episode of Signals and Threads (Jane Street's technical podcast) about their build systems back in 2020\u00a5. Highly recommended, as are the other episodes, especially The Future of Programming with Richard Eisenberg\u00b0 and What is an Operating System? with Anil Madhavapeddy\u00a7. \u00a5 https://signalsandthreads.com/build-systems/ \u00b0 https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/ \u00a7 https://signalsandthreads.com/what-is-an-operating-system/"}, {"show": "1793719887", "hn_item": 42887329, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887329", "by": "mkagenius", "time": 1738329324, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Hello HN, Keeping up with security vulnerabilities each week can be overwhelming. To make it easier, we\u2019ve created The Exploit Podcast\u2014an automated weekly podcast covering CVEs and security news. You can listen on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-exploit-podcast-cv... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6d4yfU1geTLIKtaY7lQJvm?si=YCrh... We have tried to make it automated so that the creation of podcast is not a burden to us. To help in this, we built CVEingest[1], a tool that: 1. Crawls GitHub Advisory and CVE.org, along with referenced sources. 2. Fetches code dif"}, {"show": "1793719887", "hn_item": 42898936, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898936", "by": "mkagenius", "time": 1738422908, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "Creates a tool to get the latest CVEs in a LLM friendly form. You can ingest them into NotebookLM for example and generate a podcast. I have used it to create a podcast channel for weekly CVEs discussion ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-exploit-podcast-cv... ) Github: https://github.com/BandarLabs/cveingest"}, {"show": "1438167065", "hn_item": 42900940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42900940", "by": "seltzered_", "time": 1738435559, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Related: a long podcast talking about the issues with starship locally: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-spacex-wastewater-l... (from https://deceleration.news/podcast/ ) , also https://deceleration.news/spacex-is-colonizing-south-texas-e..."}, {"show": "1507508029", "hn_item": 42903164, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903164", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1738449396, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I have had some rather\u2026 negative vibes, for lack of a better term, from some of the American bits I've encountered online; but for what it's worth, I've not seen what you described in the German community. There is, ironically, no escape from two facts that was well advertised at the start: (1) the easiest person for anyone to fool is themselves, and (2) politics is the mind-killer. With no outwardly visible irony, there's a rationalist politics podcast called \"the mind killer\": https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507... Saying this as someone who read HPMOR and AI to Zomb"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 42903479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903479", "by": "nataliste", "time": 1738451363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Curious: Do you think J.D. Vance unintentionally dog-whistling a Scott Alexander article when he's on the Joe Rogan podcast was orchestrated or just what happened?[0] --- [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1ggl0mh/jd_..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 42903585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903585", "by": "pmdulaney", "time": 1738451945, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A fascinating example of this is discussed in the latest BBC In Our Time: Science podcast (Jan 30, 2025) on Slime Moulds. These creatures have no brains but are able to solve maze puzzles and find the shortest path to a food source."}, {"show": "1671691064", "hn_item": 42904964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904964", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1738462325, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you have any unusual identity (e.g. a person inhabited by a fox spirit) you have a responsibility to be the person you can because you could be the first person in that category they meet. I grew up in Manchester, NH which was almost 100% white until 1990 or so. [1] My family was out for a bike ride and got a flat. A black couple (the man had just been transferred to the Raytheon factory where they make the radar for Patriot missile) came by and helped us fix the flat and shared lemonade with us in the kitchen. If you have an experience like this you think \"I want more black people to move "}, {"show": "1714611578", "hn_item": 42933257, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933257", "by": "trunnell", "time": 1738681703, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I thought the JFK assassination was tragic but not really relevant/interesting until I listened to this podcast by journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-killed-jfk/id17146... There\u2019s actually a mountain of evidence pointing to a horrifying conclusion. It\u2019s not easy to summarize, and anyhow I don\u2019t want to give spoilers here."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 42949481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949481", "by": "jpster", "time": 1738768082, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 42952622, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952622", "by": "roland35", "time": 1738778802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards is a great podcast. I think they did a good job bringing this guy's viewpoints to the forefront here, and explaining the context."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 42963213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963213", "by": "aimanbenbaha", "time": 1738855352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Amazing project! I always get excited when I hear new innovative ideas to improve ecosystems/businesses that are taught of as \"traditional\". There's this My First Million podcast episode with Justin Mares (DTC Food entrepreneur) where they talk about boostrapping alternative food biz ideas and are very bullish on these verticals and they also talk about various types of birds breeds and how cornish cross became the predominantly type of chicken raised. Regarding this smart poultry startup, where I'm from I often hear from poulty farmers chicken should be able to roam free and have a wide space"}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 42970679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970679", "by": "black_puppydog", "time": 1738918114, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, reminds me of that episode of the Corecursive podcast literally called \"Software that doesn't suck\". Just reaching the threshold of \"people use this software daily and don't think it sucks\" is so rare that it's a point of pride. https://corecursive.com/software-that-doesnt-suck-with-jim-b..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 42975398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975398", "by": "afandian", "time": 1738950487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have a spare few hours, the Acquired podcast episode on Meta is enlightening. They just stumbled through growth hack experiment after experiment without seemingly any risk assessment or ethics."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 42978139, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978139", "by": "b8", "time": 1738966598, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got to talk to him once and he's a nice guy. Cool of him to go on Lex Fridman's podcast too."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 42982706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42982706", "by": "yard2010", "time": 1739019954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Anecdotal - according to the Huberman podcast, cold exposure is better practiced in the morning not before sleep due to its stimulating effect."}, {"show": "1726247724", "hn_item": 42988386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42988386", "by": "caty12", "time": 1739074287, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This happens in other countries too. I thought this podcast about it was good: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Dya11oWUSsbCkBA9AAzrM?si=E..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 42990674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990674", "by": "h0l0cube", "time": 1739109015, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve been listening the latest series of the Revolutions podcast by history nerd Mike Duncan, where he\u2019s switched to sci-fi mode to do the Martian Revolution. Kind of interesting to listen to, though I wish now that instead he\u2019d turned his attention to AI. There\u2019s huge potential for revolution when our whole economy is upended and humanity is facing an existential terminus."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 42994157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42994157", "by": "atombender", "time": 1739136293, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also great is The Fall of Civilizations' episode about Tenochtitlan [1]. The podcast is the work of a British historian named Paul M. M. Cooper, who's also published a book derived from the podcast. Each episode is really well researched, incorporating recent discoveries rather than uncritically repeating old tropes. No filler, no theatrics, just really well-told history, backed by real sources. Another excellent history podcast is The Rest is History [2], who also devoted an excellent (albeit much shorter) episode to the same topic. [1] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ [2] https://ther"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42995626, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995626", "by": "I_am_tiberius", "time": 1739147443, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find it shockingly absurd how the All-In podcast hosts blindly support everything one of their own does. It\u2019s obvious they treat Musk like a god. In the latest episode, they even made fun of concerns about privacy, claiming that all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 42996128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996128", "by": "reaperman", "time": 1739152345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't understand what relevance the All-In podcast has to this article written by Brian Krebs. Did I miss a reference to it in the article, or is there a non-obvious connection that someone could point out?"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 43005029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43005029", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1739220837, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The 'Behind the bastards' podcast gives some background on Thiel. How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy: part 1 of 4: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-how-peter-thi... He is a very strange individual."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43008847, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43008847", "by": "adolph", "time": 1739246906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He was on the Dwarkesh podcast last August to provide some lay person friendly synopsis and updates to \u201cWho We Are.\u201d Worth listening to even if you have read the book (in my mind at least). Warning, link has an auto play when I opened it (but don\u2019t let that minor obnoxiousness dissuade you from listening). https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david-reich"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 43010669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43010669", "by": "lIl-IIIl", "time": 1739265543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Planet Money podcast said that it is illegal to melt the pennies, and that there are a bunch of penny collectors waiting for the day it is legal. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/676247474"}, {"show": "1570829565", "hn_item": 43016876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016876", "by": "efitz", "time": 1739300778, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent AllIn podcast[1], there was a fascinating discussion between Aaron Levie and Chamath Palihapitiya about how LLMs will (or will not) supplant software developers, which industries, total addressable markets (TAMs), and current obstacles preventing tech CEOs from firing all the developers right now. It seemed pretty obvious to me that Chamath was looking forward to breaking his dependence on software developers, and predicts AI will lead to a 90% reduction in the market for software-as-a-service (and the related jobs). Regardless of point of view, it was an eye opening discussion to "}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 43018602, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018602", "by": "bog_hag", "time": 1739309300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast If Books Could Kill is almost exclusively about exactly this issue."}, {"show": "1619378488", "hn_item": 43023952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023952", "by": "Aachen", "time": 1739356589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Plus that SSDs apparently have a very dirty manufacturing process, worse than the battery or screen in your laptop. I recently learned this because the EU is starting to require reporting CO2e for products (mentioned on a Dutch podcast: https://tweakers.net/geek/230852/tweakers-podcast-356-switch... ). I don't know how a hard drive stacks up but if the SSD is the worst of all of a laptop's components, odds are that it's better and so one could make the decision to use one or the other based on whether an SSD is needed rather than just tossing it in because it's cheap Probably it also matters i"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 43027154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027154", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1739379217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shoup passed away on February 6: * https://parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/ * https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/streetsblog-mourns-th... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004881 His book: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking * EconTalk podcast episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sgmw3jQcyc"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43032095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032095", "by": "LeafItAlone", "time": 1739414139, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I know this is asking a lot, but can you share sources that aren\u2019t on X (I don\u2019t have an account) or listening to Rogan\u2019s podcast (I don\u2019t listen to him; not even for political reasons, I just think Spotify is paying him too much money)?"}, {"show": "1483654175", "hn_item": 43039294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039294", "by": "worldvoyageur", "time": 1739470728, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ecologist and The Wild podcast host Chris Morgan recounts the moment Chinese researchers discovered Siberian tigers hunt and eat bears, offering new insight into the dynamics between these two apex predators."}, {"show": "1382983397", "hn_item": 43060074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060074", "by": "saadmufti", "time": 1739638950, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crypto-in-trump-2-0-wi..."}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 43061552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061552", "by": "glaugh", "time": 1739648357, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> \u2026small amounts of clumping tau protein in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid, which lead to Alzheimer's disease. I don\u2019t think this should be stated as a proven fact anymore, given the doubt now cast over the amyloid hypothesis This is a nice summary of the case: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-der..."}, {"show": "1773721991", "hn_item": 43062992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062992", "by": "1vuio0pswjnm7", "time": 1739658161, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 43063630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063630", "by": "adriand", "time": 1739662897, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "That\u2019s the conventional wisdom but I think it\u2019s worth challenging it. Or at least, if by \u201cproductivity\u201d you mean \u201cwork\u201d (I think there\u2019s an important distinction there). There is nothing wrong with your work being the focus of your life. Many people derive great pleasure and satisfaction from, and make a positive impact on the world with, their work. Life without relationships would be a hell of loneliness, but life without work would be a hell of boredom and meaninglessness. (I\u2019m aware that much work is drudgery, I refer mainly to the kind of work one can derive joy from, which I suspect many"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43063729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063729", "by": "jll29", "time": 1739663647, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In this Lex Fiedman video, they talk about how life is short, and a visualization as a spreadsheet is shown that makes one very concerned: Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXKqbg [ironically, the podcast is very long - over 3 hours - speaking of not wasting time, but after initial annoyance I'm glad I watched it all.] The positive insight that can come out of that is use every week and don't waste it, and and if you can, move your long-term dreams closer to the here and now. I made a version of"}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 43072424, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072424", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1739745168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those interested in broader NYC gold discussion, this recent Bloomberg podcast interviews a gold dealer in the NYC Diamond District: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/gold-pric..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43079727, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43079727", "by": "gota", "time": 1739804982, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast had an episode on this: the hard part in replacing/updating government system is not the coding part. The hard part is understanding the policies that have been changed and modified over the decades. That is the hard part in any system, not just government. Especially government, maybe, but not uncharacteristically and certainly not exclusively!"}, {"show": "811377230", "hn_item": 43089263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43089263", "by": "willis936", "time": 1739885732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can see it in CGPGrey's long defunct Hello Internet podcast. He talked about aviation disasters often and name dropped hacker news a few times."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43090237, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43090237", "by": "ryanschaefer", "time": 1739890738, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s interesting. I remember hearing something I agree with from one of Bloomberg\u2019s podcasts (either Moneystuff or Odd Lots) that the ambiguous regulatory regime for crypto actually lead to the state we\u2019re in. Summarizing, but what they generally said is that the actual \u201cdisruptive\u201d attempts at technology from crypto (ICOs / DeFi) were selectively but heavily punished. Take XRP for an example of that. What wasn\u2019t / isn\u2019t punished is meme coins because they fail the Howey test and there\u2019s not really anything that a body which regulates investments can do against something screaming \u201cwe are not "}, {"show": "1455703066", "hn_item": 43091249, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091249", "by": "dadrian", "time": 1739895194, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/root-causes-408-takeaw..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43108880, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108880", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1740006121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the SemiAnalysis folks on the Lex Fridman podcast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI They claimed that the fact that Singapore imports so many GPUs despite a moratorium on data centers was evidence of China smuggling GPUs. Of course it\u2019s impossible to prove a negative, but it seems a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that Malaysia, on the other side of a river, has a growing data center industry. The technical aspects of the podcast regarding DeepSeek, which I\u2019m more familiar with, were accurate as far as I can tell."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43108887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108887", "by": "makeitdouble", "time": 1740006160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Would love a 5G MacBook with a data plan. I thoroughly enjoyed the ATP podcast discussion on this. Sounds like the base assumption is Apple is incapable of having decent tethering even as they control the whole ecosystem, including special protocols in-between their product they design 100% from hardware to software. But somehow pushing the modem in the MacBook solves this...because Apple is then good at managing transient network connections in macos, hooking to complex mesh networks on protocols they don't control ? To my eyes Apple being unable to realize these dreamlike expectations is p"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43111311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111311", "by": "consumer451", "time": 1740027750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you are not watching/reading/listening to Dwarkesh Patel's podcast, then you are missing out. This is what techie podcasts should have been all along. The most interesting content in this episode is not Majorana fluff, but just the \"boring\" stuff. It's a very intelligent interviewer asking one of the most intelligent CEOs really good questions. Satya on AGI: > Before I get to what Microsoft's revenue will look like, there's only one governor in all of this. This is where we get a little bit ahead of ourselves with all this AGI hype. Remember the developed world, which is what? 2% growth and"}, {"show": "1797546157", "hn_item": 43114288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114288", "by": "GMRapp", "time": 1740057566, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 43122309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122309", "by": "outermosthouse", "time": 1740096338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great Radiolab podcast episode about the woes of null names: https://radiolab.org/podcast/null"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 43130567, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130567", "by": "goatlover", "time": 1740160044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not a conservative, but the most recent Mindscape podcast had a psychologist on talking about polarization, and she presented the most polarized position, while also mentioning the bad things about being polarized. It was an educated version of what you would expect to find on any popular reddit sub when politics comes up."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 43135157, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135157", "by": "zino3000", "time": 1740187629, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "feels foundational to have a view of all elected offices in the US - Caroline Spears on Volts podcast mentioned ~500k but that there's no comprehensive database... Any links ?"}, {"show": "1570829565", "hn_item": 43150445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150445", "by": "gjitdgjjutd", "time": 1740327772, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Pretty sure they\u2019re listening to the AllIn podcast"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43151718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43151718", "by": "aerhardt", "time": 1740335391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Cloud\" is not boxes like OVH and Hetzner sell. Cloud is a gigantic software layer offering all kinds of features and abstractions. I think it'd be faster and cheaper to replicate GitHub or even Office, which are complex but fairly feature-stable, than to offer a real cloud competitor with a fraction of the services that Amazon, Microsoft or Google offer in their cloud portfolios. I heard an interesting thought on the Lex Friedman podcast though. If software engineering really becomes cheaper and more readily available thanks to AI, maybe more companies will start building more of their own se"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 43154261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154261", "by": "haswell", "time": 1740353406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve been using the \u201cOTP Auth\u201d app by Roland Moers since hearing about it on Steve Gibson\u2019s Security Now podcast. Extremely happy with it."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43158109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158109", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1740394514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent Dwarkesh podcast this week Nadella was just commenting on how they expected to benefit from reduced DC rental pricing and were preparing for Jevon's paradox to max out capacity. I guess they are calculating a ceiling now."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43159093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43159093", "by": "heresie-dabord", "time": 1740402391, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this the transcript of the interview (podcast) with Dwarkesh? https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/satya-nadella Because if so, > He doesn\u2019t necessarily believe in fast takeoff AGI (just yet) the term \"fast takeoff AGI\" does not appear in the transcript."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43165012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165012", "by": "Dig1t", "time": 1740431732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://youtu.be/3SvJP5wfN4k?si=ICrN3UqdeEH8yLxe >nonetheless we were required to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed. This is an actual thing that happened. I have pictures. Then shows a picture. It sounds like another commenter is saying that the pic displayed by the Lex podcast is not the exact pic from Elon, but instead a similar pic meant to illustrate. >The amazing part is how calm the seal was. He said they had to do this twice."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 43167876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167876", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1740454658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is very difficult to deprogram people who fall down the internet conspiracy reinforcement machine. Anecdotally the most recently aired episode of the This American Life podcast has an adult son try to talk with his conspiracy addled father and making a bet about ten of them - the father loses all of them and still refuses to acknowledge the truth. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/854/ten-things-i-dont-want-..."}, {"show": "893725777", "hn_item": 43168128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168128", "by": "_heimdall", "time": 1740457050, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Dangerous History Podcast has a very interesting series in Wilson. The host was not a fan."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43168332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168332", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1740459278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Rest is History has a huge back catalogue and is generally very interesting with good rapport between the hosts. - Dwarkesh Podcast has a smart and charismatic host bringing on some truly excellent tech industry guests (e.g. Jeff Dean, Patrick Collison, 10x IC engineers) - Oxide and Friends is Oxide Computer's 2nd podcast after the brilliant but short On The Metal . This one is more casual but around half the episodes are serious technical deep dives. - Know Your Enemy is seriously the best political podcast you'll find, because it's targeted at people who read books and actually care ab"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 43168332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168332", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1740459278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Rest is History has a huge back catalogue and is generally very interesting with good rapport between the hosts. - Dwarkesh Podcast has a smart and charismatic host bringing on some truly excellent tech industry guests (e.g. Jeff Dean, Patrick Collison, 10x IC engineers) - Oxide and Friends is Oxide Computer's 2nd podcast after the brilliant but short On The Metal . This one is more casual but around half the episodes are serious technical deep dives. - Know Your Enemy is seriously the best political podcast you'll find, because it's targeted at people who read books and actually care ab"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 43168332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168332", "by": "thundergolfer", "time": 1740459278, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- The Rest is History has a huge back catalogue and is generally very interesting with good rapport between the hosts. - Dwarkesh Podcast has a smart and charismatic host bringing on some truly excellent tech industry guests (e.g. Jeff Dean, Patrick Collison, 10x IC engineers) - Oxide and Friends is Oxide Computer's 2nd podcast after the brilliant but short On The Metal . This one is more casual but around half the episodes are serious technical deep dives. - Know Your Enemy is seriously the best political podcast you'll find, because it's targeted at people who read books and actually care ab"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43173718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173718", "by": "herrkanin", "time": 1740499893, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a web dev, it\u2019s been fun listening to Accidental Tech Podcast where Siracusa has been talking (or ranting) about the ins and outs of developing modern mac apps in Swift and SwiftUI."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43173722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173722", "by": "brarsanmol", "time": 1740499898, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think we have pretty similar taste! I'll have to check out The Rest is History. Recently, I really enjoyed Sarah C. Paine's lectures on Dwarkesh's podcast :)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43175177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175177", "by": "atommclain", "time": 1740506427, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He spoke to this on No Longer ery Good, episode 626 of The Accidental Tech Podcast. Time stamp ~1:32:30 It tries, but there are some things it can't perfectly preserve like the last access time. Instances where it can't duplicate certain types of extended attributes or ownership permissions it will not perform the operation. https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id617416468?i=10006919599..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43176525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176525", "by": "borland", "time": 1740513426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Now you understand why this app costs more than 2x the price of alternatives such as diskDedupe. Any halfway-competent developer can write some code that does a SHA256 hash of all your files and uses the Apple filesystem API's to replace duplicates with shared-clones. I know swift, I could probably do it in an hour or two. Should you trust my bodgy quick script? Heck no. The author - John Siracusa - has been a professional programmer for decades and is an exceedingly meticulous kind of person. I've been listening to the ATP podcast where they've talked about it, and the app has undergone an ab"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43190258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43190258", "by": "Ray20", "time": 1740619041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">What happens if someone who doesn't believe in those ideals uses the free market to simply buy up news media and push the opposite narrative? Haven't we seen for the last 10 years exactly what will happen in this situation? I mean, not through the free market, but the deep state pretty much had complete control over the narrative of 90% of the media, from Covid to border policy. And the stronger the control, the less trust people have in these media, and at the end of the day the election results are no longer decided by who is clearly supported by 90% of the news media, but by who came to Jo"}, {"show": "265799883", "hn_item": 43191357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43191357", "by": "nisalperi", "time": 1740630413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember The Bugle podcast doing a bit about this back in 2013. Didn\u2019t realize this was an actual thing."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 43198815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198815", "by": "jcgrillo", "time": 1740692535, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id17305..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43200745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200745", "by": "jimmydddd", "time": 1740707454, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Re: Strawman -- Lex Fridman often asks his podcast guests to steel man the opposing side's views. The guests who have well thought out opinions seem to do a really good job at this."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 43207748, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207748", "by": "jcgrillo", "time": 1740761695, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43219290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219290", "by": "torlok", "time": 1740837559, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Intellectually interesting\" of course meaning that we should calmly discuss everybody's interests and motivations, and look for deeper meaning, while Russians have been lobbing missiles at Ukrainian homes for the last 3 years. You must love the Lex Friedman Podcast."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43220656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220656", "by": "chistev", "time": 1740845292, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I started listening to my first podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, late last year. I only picked episodes with guests who really interested me. Some of my favorites were the ones with Jamie Foxx, Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Goggins, and Sam Harris. But now, I\u2019ve gone through all the episodes with guests I care about, and I\u2019m looking for something new to dive into. What podcasts do you enjoy, or what Joe Rogan episodes did you like that I should give a listen?"}, {"show": "1400828889", "hn_item": 43223807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43223807", "by": "timr", "time": 1740864193, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They might be branded that way, but that's not what they are. They have dramatic effects on the metabolic pathway and insulin response that need to be carefully considered if you're not actually diabetic. I recommend that you listen to the most recent Peter Attia podcast, which is a 2+ hour interview with Ralph DeFronzo (diabetes expert) where he goes deep into the effects of GLP-1 agonists on insulin response and other metabolic pathways. I came away with the impression that we're being too casual with how these drugs are being used -- if you're overweight these impacts are probably all for t"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43224459, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224459", "by": "carlgreene", "time": 1740868300, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is really really concerning to me how seemingly thoughtless these cuts are to the actual stated goals. As stated below, this org ran at a $0 cost from full cost recovery through consulting services to other orgs. Sure you could argue that's not truly $0, it's not. But it is not a bloated cost-center that needs to be cut. Just today on the All In podcast I heard Jason Calcanis suggest that the USPS go down to one delivery day per week because no one uses it? The unbelievable part is he was genuine and thought it was an intelligent thing to say. For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43224544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224544", "by": "blitzar", "time": 1740868626, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have only just noticed that the stars of the \"All In Podcast\" are intellectually deficient then you haven't been paying attention."}, {"show": "1135550416", "hn_item": 43233041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233041", "by": "ddulaney", "time": 1740938154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast is super fun! It takes the \u201cEngineering Podcast with Slides\u201d model that WTYP originated, but instead of having one knowledgeable person and two comedians, all 3 know different parts of the industry."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 43235150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235150", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1740949859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "With enhanced geothermal, especially that being explored by Fervo, a massive fraction of locations on earth are opened up to favorable geothermal. Fervo is actually drilling and producing energy today, and scaling the technology, using existing technologies. If Quaise is successful, it will only enhance what Fervo is already accomplishing, but we don't need the huge technical advance of Quaise to get a massive amount of geothermal energy on the grid. The Volts podcast has been following Fervo over the past few years, and they have met and exceeded all their milestones so far. (Unlike, say, big"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43243949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243949", "by": "BobAliceInATree", "time": 1741021500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the most recent episode of ATP podcast, an anonymous person wrote in to say that when they worked at Apple until ~2013, there was effectively no QA team on macOS. Granted that was over a decade ago, and \"no QA team\" doesn't mean no testing, but given the numerous bugs in macOS today, and that they almost never get fixed, I'm not surprised. (FWIW, I do not experience this bug you mentioned)"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 43246366, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246366", "by": "chneu", "time": 1741034089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab recently re-released an episode that kinda sorta deals with this. https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-..."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 43265749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265749", "by": "hiAndrewQuinn", "time": 1741178316, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's true! If memory serves from the Jane Street podcast, the literal NYSE ran for years on a single-threaded Java application. I still struggle to wrap my head around the wizardry that kind of thing must have required."}, {"show": "1766027468", "hn_item": 43267339, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267339", "by": "Stevvo", "time": 1741186609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I missed Diggnation, it was the first podcast I listed to. Happy to find it has already been revived; https://www.diggnation.show/"}, {"show": "1484511465", "hn_item": 43279541, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43279541", "by": "megadata", "time": 1741264745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The missing documents case is mentioned in this brilliant podcast, Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford | Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-s4nk7-1bcc6872 He mentions a lot of other problems with missing digital docs. Like high court rulings are referencing URLs that don't exist anymore."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43281430, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43281430", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1741275495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Magnus Carlsen (the multiple times chess world champion) talked about this in his recent Joe Rogan podcast. He said he passed his chess peak already now at 34. He now knows more, but when he was younger he could win via brute mental power. > Is it reasonable to assume that the natural decline in cognitive performance over time is offset by the gains in experience and expertise? So according to Carlsen, for chess the answer is no. I personally also suspect the answer for programming is the same. Most, if not all, of the hotshot programmers we know became famous in their early 20s. Torvalds star"}, {"show": "1585592962", "hn_item": 43282572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282572", "by": "evil-olive", "time": 1741281100, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "for anyone who enjoys stories like this, I'd recommend the Failure To Launch podcast"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 43301146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301146", "by": "jpster", "time": 1741449435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks! You might like the In Our Time podcasts from the BBC."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 43307271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43307271", "by": "smcin", "time": 1741508950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Kardashian allegedly was not paid to promote Pronuvo [on Instagram] and was not an investor. Other celebrities who have endorsed Prenuvo include Paris Hilton, Kate Hudson, and Kris Jenner. However Mark Cuban who promoted it was an investor. As to prior boom-and-bust waves of full-body scan business (self-correction: I shoud have said the previous wave was CT scans, not MRI), GQ 8/2023 [0] \"Almost 20 years ago, there was a boom and bust of body-scanning clinics, as The New York Times [1][1-archive] covered in 2005. It was a \u201ca sort of medical gold rush,\u201d boosted by direct-to-consumer advertisin"}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 43310913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310913", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1741538839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Distantly. I'll scan headlines a few times per day, and read the odd story. One problem I'm encountering with websites, aside from the ads and annoyances, is that much of the news seems curiously irrelevant . There's a list of text-only news sites which ... slightly ... improves the situation, but only just, as few media outlets bother to organise their text-only offerings. What's generated is typically an unordered jumble of clickbaitish headlines. That said, the listing: https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/ > Of those I'll hit NPR, CNN, and the Christian Science Monitor most "}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 43310913, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310913", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1741538839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Distantly. I'll scan headlines a few times per day, and read the odd story. One problem I'm encountering with websites, aside from the ads and annoyances, is that much of the news seems curiously irrelevant . There's a list of text-only news sites which ... slightly ... improves the situation, but only just, as few media outlets bother to organise their text-only offerings. What's generated is typically an unordered jumble of clickbaitish headlines. That said, the listing: https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/ > Of those I'll hit NPR, CNN, and the Christian Science Monitor most "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43318229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318229", "by": "HenryBemis", "time": 1741596349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My predictions on the matter: LLMs are already super useful. It does all my coding and scripting for me @home It does most of the coding and scripting at the workplace It creates 'fairly good' checklists for work (not perfect, but it takes a 4 hour effort and makes it 25mins - but the \"Pro\" is still needed to make this or that checklist usable - I call this a win)(need both the tech AND the human) If/when you train an 'in-house' LLM it can make some easy wins (on mega-big-companies with 100k staff they can get quick answers on \"which Policy writes about XYZ, which department can I talk to abou"}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 43326955, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326955", "by": "NomDePlum", "time": 1741646535, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listened to a podcast with Bending Spoons recently, part of The Pragmatic Engineer series. They discuss their acquisition strategy and having heard it this action is not surprising. Their perspective on this was interesting and very honest, but entirely unsentimental."}, {"show": "579081902", "hn_item": 43326992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326992", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1741646784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating podcast on whether animal communication is a language."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 43331383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331383", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1741692466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "IIRC it was discussed in the 'Empire' podcast by British historian William Dalrymple. But I might be misremembering that."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 43332891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332891", "by": "charvimittal", "time": 1741703936, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey folks, After a long workday, I'd automatically switch on Netflix and let reruns play in the background\u2014almost mindlessly. I spend all day on screens, so the extra screen time before bed felt draining. I love Lenny's Podcast, but it often felt too intense right before sleep. I've tried reading books as a nighttime ritual, but as a mom of a young kid and a startup founder, it's tough to stay committed to one book over two weeks with so many interruptions and shifting contexts. So I built Tales.so\u2014a platform that converts books into fun, conversational podcasts. It covers everything from star"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 43333095, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333095", "by": "steve_adams_86", "time": 1741705002, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Syntax podcast has a conversation with Anders and Dan about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGza4oIleY&t=1s"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 43333933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43333933", "by": "charvimittal", "time": 1741709474, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey folks, After a long workday, I'd automatically switch on Netflix and let reruns play in the background\u2014almost mindlessly. I spend all day on screens, so the extra screen time before bed felt draining. I love Lenny's Podcast, but it often felt too intense right before sleep. I've tried reading books as a nighttime ritual, but as a mom of a young kid and a startup founder, it's tough to stay committed to one book over two weeks with so many interruptions and shifting contexts. So I built Tales.so\u2014a platform that converts books into fun, conversational podcasts. It covers everything from star"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 43336041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336041", "by": "whiplash451", "time": 1741720632, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Quick bump for The Social Radars which is an amazing podcast co-led by Jessica. A treasure trove of true startup stories."}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 43336102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336102", "by": "wheelinsupial", "time": 1741721053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In case you\u2019re not aware, there is a podcast by Jessica Livingston and Carolyn Levy called \u201cThe Social Radars\u201d that interviews founders."}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 43343303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343303", "by": "prismatix", "time": 1741787824, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you find this interesting, the Theories of Everything podcast with Curt Jaimungal does a good job exploring this topic. The neuroscience-centered conversations focus mostly on consciousness, but they still discuss similar problems with measuring and explaining how consciousness comes about from a collection of matter."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 43347905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347905", "by": "lobsterthief", "time": 1741815367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for the recommendation; I\u2019ll check it out! I love that this podcast only comes every two weeks. Some (like Software Engineering Daily) are far too often so I either feel the paradox of choice or that I\u2019m missing out."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43349841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349841", "by": "coro_1", "time": 1741832964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The image makeover is unprecedented for a CEO. Also from that JRE podcast with the masculinity and workplace conversation, he's working the bow and arrow chit chat from that long form interview in a recent podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZjrVEOpOk"}, {"show": "1640878689", "hn_item": 43352034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352034", "by": "ukoki", "time": 1741863164, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The News Agents podcast just did an interview with Wynn-Williams https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/special-episode-inside..."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 43356817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356817", "by": "billybuckwheat", "time": 1741896677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I go in for the more contrarian podcasts like: Tech Won't Save Us, Better Offline, This Machine Kills, Digital Citizen, 404 Media, System Crash."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 43356817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356817", "by": "billybuckwheat", "time": 1741896677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I go in for the more contrarian podcasts like: Tech Won't Save Us, Better Offline, This Machine Kills, Digital Citizen, 404 Media, System Crash."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 43359250, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43359250", "by": "animal_spirits", "time": 1741921714, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was recently an episode topic on the podcast 99% Invisible. It brought up a lot of interesting questions for me mostly about the systemic differences between public and private operations and pros&cons on both. Plainly shown TVA has been abysmal after it was forced to operate as a profit motivated institution. Though it was still federally owned it received nearly total immunity from the mishaps it caused through sovereign immunity laws. What is the check on disasters like this happening again? Will more regulation prevent it? The EPA's regulations incentivized it to further endanger work"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43359660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43359660", "by": "bad_user", "time": 1741927701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That the GDPR is \u201call bark and no bite\u201d is factually untrue. As an example of a service that was forced to change to get in line with GDPR: Facebook. For user profiling, they first tried to use their Terms of Service, then they tried claiming a legitimate interest, then they tried offering paid subscriptions, and now they are at the point where they somewhat degrade the experience of those refusing to be profiled. I'm not talking about the fines, I'm talking about EU citizens being able to use Facebook while refusing to give their consent for profiling. I'm also talking about the ability to do"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 43360075, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360075", "by": "Keavon", "time": 1741933272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Developer Voices podcast interview digs into the juicy details of building a graphics engine in Rust through the lens of a purpose-built programming language made for graphics pipelines. This language, Graphene, is built on top of the Rust language and supports both JIT and ahead-of-time-`rustc`compilation of reusable image editing pipelines down to standalone programs (like full screen apps or CLIs akin to ImageMagick) and embedding in other apps like games or websites. And built on top of that language/engine, we talk about how our open source Graphite ( https://graphite.rs/ ) editor is"}, {"show": "1635211340", "hn_item": 43375477, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43375477", "by": "joeconway", "time": 1742076808, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019ll take any opportunity I can to recommend this podcast, and this episode specifically. If this article resonates with you then it is absolutely worth the listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-songs-that-explain-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43378718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378718", "by": "arunsivadasan", "time": 1742130236, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I was wondering if anyone knows which AI voiceover translator tech Lex Fridman uses for his podcasts. The recent Modi interview for example is pretty good. Its managed to get Modi's typical diction and way of speaking well."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 43383078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383078", "by": "anitil", "time": 1742163785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signals And Threads (a Jane Street podcast) had an interesting discussion about documentation [0]. There was also an interesting reference to literate documentation (I think similar to Jupyter notebooks but as documentation). [0] https://signalsandthreads.com/writing-technically/"}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 43383078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383078", "by": "anitil", "time": 1742163785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Signals And Threads (a Jane Street podcast) had an interesting discussion about documentation [0]. There was also an interesting reference to literate documentation (I think similar to Jupyter notebooks but as documentation). [0] https://signalsandthreads.com/writing-technically/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43392966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392966", "by": "jaarse", "time": 1742247426, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to the Lex Fridman podcast with Zelenskyy from the start of the year. Zelenskyy\u2019s comments on what is corruption vs what is called lobbying in the west come to mind when reading this article."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 43404684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43404684", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1742329899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you were to write up the actual accounts of what's going on as a fictional tale, it would seem too fake to be convincing. I think this because the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan has a season where he creates a fictional Martian revolution, and the new PHB I mean CEO ruins operations by instituting massive new policy in the name of efficiency, but ends up making everybody's jobs slower and worse, and it felt too fake to fit in with the rest of the story. I must now reevaluate the incompetence of \"efficiency\" seeking C level execs. Perhaps they really are that bad."}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 43408310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408310", "by": "pilingual", "time": 1742359258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No, but this is a huge oversight on character judgement. There's a history of gloating here. So much so they named a podcast \"The Social Radars.\" Back to the point: they should consider re-evaluating their admission process. Heads down coding, talking with users, selling -- choose two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9dnFp1M0E"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 43415204, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43415204", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1742406622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sort of numerical deception is endemic in nuclear advocacy dicsussions. I don't know if it's intentional, the best explanation I have is that somebody proposes an (unrealistic) number as a goal, and then it's accepted by advocates as the reality. But if reality was known, the person probably would not be an advocate. I have not yet met an advocate that will talk about the real, existing, challenges to nuclear the same way that renewable energy advocates talk about the challenges. Go and listen to a podcast on renewables, and it's all about what's not working, what's working, where the opp"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43415972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43415972", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1742410545, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are many many many flaws with the correlative analysis of this paper, and the flaw you have identified is an absolutely key flaw. Here's a great Odd Lots podcast on that specific issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-03-13/odd-lots-is-... It's also interesting to note that the guest identifies lack of supply as the other key thing to fix, but finds that the idea that YIMBY policies could actually be put in place too politically infeasible to consider."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43416479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416479", "by": "FilosofumRex", "time": 1742413425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[Edit] I'm enjoying the downvotes so much so I'll double down on it. Adding to Aaronson, Aspuru-Guzik, Deutsch, Preskill, Carroll, Rigetti and anyone who appears on Lex Friedman podcast to opine about it."}, {"show": "1779783413", "hn_item": 43417876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417876", "by": "DrLegend", "time": 1742423060, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43427589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427589", "by": "somethoughts", "time": 1742497671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been listening to All-In podcast and they've been talking like this - its really amusing to see them (and this author) get excited by what are essentially taxes with a different narrative (i.e. US sovereign wealth fund, give cash to US citizens to invest in S&P, NASDAQ, crypto to give them skin in the game). The infrastructure for this is already there, it just needs to be rebranded and given a new narrative to make it acceptable for both the billionaire class. Instead of calling it taxes and social security, redistributive policies should be rebranded as patriotic profit sharing with the US g"}, {"show": "1117202653", "hn_item": 43434402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434402", "by": "wjnc", "time": 1742556787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to a series of podcasts (More Perfect) where it became clear to me that in the US to get lawsuits go all the way to the Supreme Court, you need both a case (de jure) and a plaintiff that is marketable. This is not a diss on Linda Martin. Going forward with this case in a attempt to get civil forfeiture more constrained after getting your money back is heroic. Just saying that the US legal system needs heroes and that there is a selection mechanism in place for heroes."}, {"show": "1625569471", "hn_item": 43442181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442181", "by": "3dsnano", "time": 1742603459, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snakepit/id1625569471?... Radical dependency calculation for PMF min/maxing at scale, 20 minute interview with cloud computing 2 nanometer mushroom tentacles. An intense deluge of immersive think-pieces that will forever change how you think about entrepreneurship in the age of LLMs. Increased my dopamine by 69x with 420 seconds of application."}, {"show": "1171270672", "hn_item": 43444485, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43444485", "by": "rasjani", "time": 1742634884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Twenty Thousand Hertz (sound design podcast) had episode about Bluey with its sound designer Dan Brumm last year. https://www.20k.org/episodes/thesoundofbluey"}, {"show": "1264193508", "hn_item": 43448004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448004", "by": "1123581321", "time": 1742671757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, I can't find the episode now, but on the 37signals podcast, Jason and DHH said that driving signups with public writing are part of their job that they owe to their employees, and that includes presence on places they don't really like such as Linkedin."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 43451989, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451989", "by": "AJRF", "time": 1742725029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Iman Mirzadeh on Machine Learning Street Talk (Great podcast if you haven\u2019t already listened!) put into a words a thought I had - LLM labs are so focused on making those scores go up it\u2019s becoming a bit of a perverse incentive. If your headline metric is a score, and you constantly test on that score, it becomes very tempting to do anything that makes that score go up - i.e Train on the Test set. I believe all the major ML labs are doing this now because: - No one talks about their data set - The scores are front and center of big releases, but there is very little discussion or nuance other t"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43459858, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459858", "by": "spiderfarmer", "time": 1742817149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The pro-Trump people here all seem to mindlessly repeat stuff they heard on the cringy \u201cAll-in\u201d podcast after they read a summary of Atlas Shrugged."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 43461093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461093", "by": "evanwpm", "time": 1742824285, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend that anyone interested in this company listens to the episode of the Freakonomics Radio podcast about 23andMe: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-23andme-going-under-... Seems like they struggled to turn a one-off purchase model into recurring revenue. At some point everyone in the world who cares enough about their DNA has already bought your product."}, {"show": "1780282402", "hn_item": 43472114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472114", "by": "beepbopboopp", "time": 1742914525, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He just did a pretty good long-form interview this past week: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/11-eugene-wei-amusing-... tl;dr He walked away from social because the current incentives destroy your brain."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 43472745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472745", "by": "krupan", "time": 1742917856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you aren't listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast yet, you really should be. Episode 146 talks about a signal-like \"secure messaging\" app that the FBI enticed people to use that secretly had the FBI as a member of every chat, so they would get a copy of every message sent. This story strongly reminds me of that. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/146/"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 43473177, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473177", "by": "goblin89", "time": 1742920342, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries is not a good podcast. Each episode is chewed up slowly to the lowest common denominator, meaning half of an episode is condescending explanation of trivial matter. The misplaced air of faux mystery, true crime podcast style, does not help. The narrator being occasionally a free speech absolutist and explicitly in favour of money laundering services does not help. Risky Biz covered Anom in https://risky.biz/RB751/ via a dense if a bit short interview with Joseph Cox, who wrote a book about it, starting around minute 35. Listen to that and respective Darknet Diaries episode to c"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 43473446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473446", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1742921865, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The How I Built This episodes with Max Levchin are a good listen. https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-pay... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/affirm-max-levchin-par..."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 43478844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478844", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1742962798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I've moved entire workflows to Gemini because it's just _way_ better than what openai has to offer, especially for the money. This is useful feedback. I'm not here to shill for OpenAI, nor Google/Gemini, but can you share a concrete example? It would be interesting to hear more about your use case. More abstractly: Do you think these \"moved entire workflows\" offset a full worker, or X% of a full worker? I am curious to see how and when we will see low-end/junior knowledge workers displaced by solid LLMs. Listening to the Oxide and Friends podcast, I learned that they make pretty regular use "}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 43480726, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43480726", "by": "MrMcCall", "time": 1742985831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Our kids, both teens, are beloved by everyone they meet. I'm not exaggerating. Our oldest, our daughter, has had a few jobs working in her craftland, and both loved it and was loved by her fellow employees and customers. Our son is an open chess champion who is beloved by his chess club compariots. When he played out of his mind and won the open tournament, the cool part was that his chess club mates were really happy that he won, and a parent of one of his friends excitedly told me how happy they were. Even thought his son was much younger, my son's friendliness and kindness really endeared h"}, {"show": "1780282402", "hn_item": 43480807, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43480807", "by": "simonebrunozzi", "time": 1742986503, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "917918570", "hn_item": 43483072, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43483072", "by": "stevenwoo", "time": 1743001729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's only part of the tapestry of the story, but IIRC in the New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, she notes that the USA stopped funding the creation of courts/judges after the 1960s as it had in prior years so now the number of cases per judge is much higher than it has ever been, this is also mentioned the season three of Serial podcast which indicts the American criminal justice system for a variety of reasons through the entire process, but both indicate the perverse incentives to avoid trial, it kind of reminded me of the persecution of innocent protagonist in The Count of Monte Cristo sim"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 43490500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490500", "by": "alabastervlog", "time": 1743051315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Might have something to do with \"trend forecasting\" companies coming into vogue and quickly becoming standard for clothing companies (among others) starting in the '80s, leading to more-conservative offerings. The Articles of Interest podcast had an episode about it, weird and (of late) influential world I had no idea about."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43498245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498245", "by": "armchairhacker", "time": 1743109949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree. But as other commenters are pointing out, many liberals are already trying this, but conservatives misrepresent them as being focused on social issues (and misrepresent their opinions on such issues) anyways. IMO, here are the problems liberals face and solutions to regain popularity: - Liberal politicians may say the correct things, but what matters is what they do, and specifically how it's perceived. As vice-president, Harris did practically nothing, and the overall perception of the economy under Biden is negative. Meanwhile, Trump is doing almost exactly what he said, even small "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 43513839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43513839", "by": "sshine", "time": 1743237419, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "C# is god software, too. Yeah, Microsoft is a big place. I heard the Acquired podcast episode on Microsoft, and I can\u2019t pretend that their business strategies failed; they didn\u2019t, and arguably it is the most successful company in history. I have a lot of respect for the business side. And the things that rub me the wrong way are part of their success, e.g. embedding WWW into the OS early on. The main reason I can\u2019t work for them is their Vogon aesthetics. They\u2019re like a square pair of shoes: not meant for you."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43519394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519394", "by": "caseyy", "time": 1743288262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't read Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan, but I think he introduced your second point in that book, in 1964. He claims that the content of each new medium is a previous medium. Video games contain film, film contains theater, theater contains screenplay, screenplay contains literature, literature contains spoken stories, spoken stories contain folklore, and I suppose if one were an anthropologist, they could find more and more chain links in this chain. It's probably the same in AI \u2014 the world needs AI to be chat (or photos, or movies, or search, or an autopilot, or a service pro"}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 43540650, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540650", "by": "nadir_ishiguro", "time": 1743460111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm sorry what? Skeptoid the podcast? Edit: Yes . In 2014. How did I miss that? Used to listen to that podcast, though probably stopped before that."}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 43548124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548124", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1743522077, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is the same guy who wrote 4'33\", the silent piece. I kinda get that -- the 40000 Hz podcast gave it some good context: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/433-by-john-cage-twent... Maybe they'll also explain the point of this. The piece is called \"As Slow As Possible\", but it's not as slow as possible. The slowest possible piece would have a fermata with an infinity sign over the first note, and that's it. Maybe the rest of it would be a jaunty little tune that would never be played in context. (\"Shave and a haircut\", perhaps?) As a stunt, it's moderately interesting. How do you set up "}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 43558285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558285", "by": "miki123211", "time": 1743610352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "THe original version of that idea seems to come from \"The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind\", by Dan Davies (the \"Lying for Money\" guy.) There's a shorter interview with him (in podcast form, includes a well-made transcript) going into these ideas at https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/dan-davies-or..."}, {"show": "1740594155", "hn_item": 43558938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558938", "by": "fatbird", "time": 1743614037, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is, in fact, part of the support for Dark Matter, both with galaxies (the amount of lensing requires the galaxy to include a lot of Dark Matter) and between galaxies, where other lensing effects occur that can only be explained by filaments of Dark Matter between galaxies and galaxy clusters. This is a great podcast, with episode 6 concentrating specifically on Dark Matter and the evidence for it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crash-course-pods-the-..."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 43559151, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559151", "by": "MrMcCall", "time": 1743615292, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My kids and I were kind of flabbergasted after listening to the \"Song Exploder\" podcast's episode on the Weezer song \"Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori\" about how Rivers Cuomo writes songs. Basically, he obscures interesting chord progressions of songs he finds by recording his own simplified version without the song's original rhythm. Then he takes his spreadsheet he made over years, of lyrical phrases he came up with that he thinks will sound good in a song, organized by number of syllables and where the accent lands. Then, finally, some time in the futuer, once he has forgotten the original song"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 43566932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43566932", "by": "ryzvonusef", "time": 1743671273, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If every American got voter ID tomorrow, republicans would simply invent a new issue to manufacture distrust in the system in order to suppress votes. And? I am sorry, you fear.... governing? Because that's what life is. You fix one issue, some other arises. The issue is NOT complex, let's admit it... you just don't want to lose 'face'. You have hitched yourself to the no-ID bandwagon for so long it kills you to admit it was wrong. Democrats are trying to pretend something is a civil rights issue which NO left-leaning politician the rest of the world considers it to be so. TRUST in the syste"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 43569659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569659", "by": "stef25", "time": 1743688331, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Sam Harris podcast you can listen to a great interview with Anne Applebaum that goes in to some detail about the relationship between various US and RU politicians. There's a lot more to it than the Steele dossier."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 43570630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43570630", "by": "jccalhoun", "time": 1743691959, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to an episode of the Search Engine podcast where they showed how hard it is to manufacture something completely in the USA: https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/the-puz... (Spoilers, the problem they had was that even when they found companies to manufacture their bbq scrubber, it was harder to find someone in the USA to make the parts that are used to make the parts.)"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43573118, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573118", "by": "nanfinitum", "time": 1743702688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh podcast is seriously good stuff. Insane that he got Scott to do one."}, {"show": "1295289140", "hn_item": 43575813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575813", "by": "pso", "time": 1743716533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh, is one of the better tech podcasters. Scott is well known for blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024,and is known for prescient AI boom predictions made in 2021. https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-... Today they jointly published their 2027 predictions https://ai-2027.com/"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43575813, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43575813", "by": "pso", "time": 1743716533, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh, is one of the better tech podcasters. Scott is well known for blogs Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. Daniel resigned from OpenAI in 2024,and is known for prescient AI boom predictions made in 2021. https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-... Today they jointly published their 2027 predictions https://ai-2027.com/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 43578574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578574", "by": "xracy", "time": 1743743662, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am... A lot of these examples have been pretty thoroughly debunked as either non-existent, or about something other than the professors expressing \"conservative views\". This one is, I assume intentionally, anonymized and so we can't actually verify that it happened or what the circumstances around it were. But I'll call out one of the most common \"views\" I've heard on college campuses from professors that got in trouble for something was that \"professors should be allowed to sleep with their students.\" So if professors are taking heat f"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 43584043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584043", "by": "hentrep", "time": 1743781382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The discovery of rapamycin is such a fascinating story. Radiolab covered this a few years back - I encourage everyone to give it a listen: https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 43584219, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584219", "by": "tocs3", "time": 1743782098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For wat it is worth, I enjoy the In Our Time podcast and listen every week. It is not always a subject that I am interested in but is often illuminating."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 43588012, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43588012", "by": "snozolli", "time": 1743803548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know if this will answer your question, but the last episode of the Planet Money podcast addressed tariffs: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229719/planet-money-the-c... IMO, tariffs are bad for the economy, but could be great for workers and the middle class. Regardless, implementing them this was is absolutely nuts. China got our manufacturing because they didn't care about pollution. Now, they've developed cleaner industrial methods and built out fantastic infrastructure (e.g. massive industrial complexes right next to shipping ports). Meanwhile, we did nothing and we're a good te"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 43589730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589730", "by": "arwhatever", "time": 1743817421, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The episode of the Search Engine podcast \u201cThe puzzle of the all-American bbq scrubber\u201d goes into detail on an example of this, is very interesting and makes the same points you\u2019re making here."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 43592145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592145", "by": "umbula", "time": 1743845572, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1357657583", "hn_item": 43592741, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592741", "by": "kjellsbells", "time": 1743854763, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Another excellent example of the TAL format gone wrong: the Caliphate podcast series by the New York Times. Conpelling narrative, hot topic, built on quicksand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate_%28podcast%29?wprov=... You can still find it on Spotify, with a mea culpa attached. https://open.spotify.com/show/1QLjI1ptUhPEIYaaiJgZlh?si=1XK5..."}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 43594784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594784", "by": "Erikun", "time": 1743871734, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an episode on the Developer Voices podcast about this some time ago. https://overcast.fm/+ABBSPFBjze0"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 43600677, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600677", "by": "chneu", "time": 1743939382, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Science Vs just had an ADHD episode. They talk about body doubling and a bunch of other ADHD stuff. Good episode. Recommend. Be aware that most folks who think they have ADHD really don't. Just like \"OCD\" and \"migraines\", people just like to throw labels on themselves."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 43601443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43601443", "by": "testing22321", "time": 1743947754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This American Life is a treasure In the running for best podcast of all time. As Canadians though, we just can\u2019t listen anymore, it is too depressing and dystopian. There was the episode about the nice folks who got new neighbours who started some nut job paramilitary thing with automatic weapons. The nice folks live everyday in fear. There are the episodes of regular women unable to get basic medical treatment because Roe v Wade. The list is endless, sadly. We don\u2019t want to live in that world, and we don\u2019t want it taking over our thoughts either."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 43608174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43608174", "by": "phatskat", "time": 1744004784, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think it\u2019s important to remember how he got to where he is and what kind of person it takes - Behind the Bastards is a fairly good reality check for most people we give kudos to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-ballad-of..."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 43621455, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621455", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1744118217, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Rivian seems like the one that is going to have a lasting footprint. Much, much slower growth, but the How I Built This podcast episode with RJ Scaringe[0] convinced me that he's the real deal and all the things that people thought Musk was. Scaringe is an actual engineer and has plodded a careful, sustainable path for Rivian. We'll see how it works out, but I was pretty impressed by the interview. [0] https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-riv..."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 43622174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622174", "by": "thedays", "time": 1744122327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author of this article appears to be unaware that very high electricity prices have been the other key driver behind Pakistan\u2019s solar boom along with the massive reduction in the cost of solar panels. This was covered recently in a great interview with two Pakistani renewable energy experts on the Volts podcast: https://www.volts.wtf/p/pakistans-solar-boom"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 43629186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629186", "by": "blckprl367", "time": 1744176965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, you heard that right \u2014 I open-sourced a YC company. It was mostly out of sheer desperation. Landing a job as a recent grad these days feels harder than escaping Alcatraz. I came across a YC company called SpurTest on the Lightcone podcast. They were working on AI-driven QA testing using natural language, and I found it fascinating. So, I decided to build an open-source version \u2014 Neutrino. I created an AI web agent from scratch using step prompting in a Playwright browser. It simulates how a human would interact with a website to generate end-to-end tests, all driven by natural language. I"}, {"show": "369032477", "hn_item": 43634694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634694", "by": "yesfitz", "time": 1744219147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found the answer to your question by opening the article and using Ctrl+F to find the word \"tax\". Here are the excerpts: >\"In an episode of the Strong Towns podcast, [Stacey Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance] explains how companies like Walmart or Target convince local officials that they\u2019re bringing jobs and financial benefits to the area often in exchange for tax breaks and subsidies to cover the cost of land or construction. Unfortunately, many local governments are too quick to take the bait.\" >\"ILSR also discovered that large corporations benefit from tax lo"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 43635383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635383", "by": "blckprl367", "time": 1744222456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, you heard that right \u2014 I open-sourced a YC company. It was mostly out of sheer desperation. Landing a job as a recent grad these days feels harder than escaping Alcatraz. I came across a YC company called SpurTest on the Lightcone podcast. They were working on AI-driven QA testing using natural language, and I found it fascinating. So, I decided to build an open-source version \u2014 Neutrino. I created an AI web agent from scratch using step prompting in a Playwright browser. It simulates how a human would interact with a website to generate end-to-end tests, all driven by natural language. I"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43637098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43637098", "by": "magicloop", "time": 1744228774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to expand out why I hold this belief. The political cohort behind the president is roughly in two halves. The first half are the original MAGA crowd (looking out for the working class, pro-liberty, anti-woke, etc.). The second half are the billionaire crowd. The second group are active on pod casts, on Twitter/X, and are partly represented in government (directly or as advisors). An easy way to follow up on these people is to watch the All In Podcast or their related social media connections. What these folks have said for a long time is that if USA stay on the same path, the USA goes"}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 43638188, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638188", "by": "xrd", "time": 1744234023, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I did not know about Kalshi until today. A blog I really like pointed me to this discussion: https://moontower.substack.com/p/dire-wolf Also, I really like Michael Lewis's podcast about the rise of sports gambling. My favorite episode is this one about a guy named Rufus Peabody, who changed sports gambling with his data driven approach. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules/episode-4-... The best line: \"Theoretically? Theoretically a dick does not fit...\""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 43638416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638416", "by": "normalaccess", "time": 1744235531, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who is familiar with the Security Now podcast there is an excellent write-up from Steve Gibson on the topic for nerds as we all work in man made caves and don't get sun. Highly recommended. I would also recommend Dr. John Campbell's videos on the topic as he is quite thorough when reviewing the medical research. One interesting point John makes is that if you are already sick Vit D is to slow as it needs to metabolize and calcifediol (25-hydroxyvitamin D3, the active form) is what patents need after infection. Links: https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm https://www.youtube.com/@"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 43650420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650420", "by": "malshe", "time": 1744344289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> If you need AI to tell you about a guest and tell you what to ask them, why are you having them on your podcast? Absolutely. The podcasts I like are hosted by people who are always well prepared. For example, Russ Roberts who hosts EconTalk[1] often has guests who have recently published books. Russ reads those books before interviewing them. Amazing dedication. [1] https://simplecast.econtalk.org"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 43654008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43654008", "by": "mattw2121", "time": 1744380680, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The is exactly the advice that one of my favorite podcasts, Manager Tools, would prescribe. Don't give feedback about emotions or internal feelings, give feedback about behaviors. Telling someone they are acting like an asshole can be met with, \"but, no, I'm not acting like an asshole.\" Telling someone, \"When you cut off people mid sentence and speak loudly, you will have people complain about you.\" gives them actionable ways to change their external behavior in the future. It doesn't matter if they are still an asshole on the inside."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43669324, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669324", "by": "TeaBrain", "time": 1744508046, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ryan Petersen was on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast a few days ago."}, {"show": "1291423644", "hn_item": 43672056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672056", "by": "ukoki", "time": 1744544598, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This technique and a lot more was discussed recently in Diary of a CEO's interview with Vanessa Van Edwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldizQkuWpDE https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/new-body-language-expe..."}, {"show": "1780282402", "hn_item": 43679472, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679472", "by": "FinnLobsien", "time": 1744621852, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1501895136", "hn_item": 43679631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43679631", "by": "azangru", "time": 1744624163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've skimmed through the comments; and seen that most people have commented on the cog in the machine thing, or on layoffs in general and how they suck. To me, the shock from this blog post was about seeing a Chrome developer relations engineer whom I have grown to admire and who has been doing a stellar job educating web developers on new html and css features, get the sack. He was one of the best remaining speakers on web topics at the Chrome team (I am still sad about the departure of Paul Lewis and Jake Archibald); and produced a lot of top-notch educational materials (the CSS podcast; the"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 43684026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684026", "by": "wrasee", "time": 1744652694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an aside: > Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help \u2014 I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and vote for Better Offline? I have never won an award in my life, so help me win this one. What does it mean to canvas people to vote for you without any suggestion that you have - actually listened to the podcast? Goes as far as to undermine the award if there's a suggestion you've received votes from people just because you were good at marketing people to vote for you. Seems to con"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 43688517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688517", "by": "infogulch", "time": 1744684935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Half a year after that talk Wolfram appeared on a popular podcast [1] to discuss his book on the Second Law of Thermodynamics [2]. That discussion contained the best one-sentence description of entropy I've ever heard: > Entropy is the logarithm of the number of states that are consistent with what you know about a system. [1]: Mystery of Entropy FINALLY Solved After 50 Years? (Stephen Wolfram) - Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpDjd2nHgo [2]: The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Re"}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 43693103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693103", "by": "mattw2121", "time": 1744726743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry for the late reply. The Manager Tools podcast definitely talks about both sides of feedback. Everything they teach is predicated on building strong relationships, through weekly 1x1s, and starting off with positive feedback only after multiple months of conducting 1x1s."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43694868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43694868", "by": "_DeadFred_", "time": 1744733253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sahil Lavingia founder of Gumroad is DOGE. Joe Gebbia co-founder of Airbnb is DOGE. Not sympathetic to, they are DOGE. Those are just the ones I know off the top of my head from listening to basic reporting. The All In podcast is super pro-Trump/DOGE, with Sacks being the Trump regime's crypto czar (bringing that cohort on board). Peter Thiel. Musk. That's a lot of pro-DOGE headspace in HN related circles. A lot of people that HN related circles look up to and aspire to emulate. A lot of people that HN circles network with/have perverse incentives to support. \u201cIt is difficult to get a man to u"}, {"show": "1448635132", "hn_item": 43702074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43702074", "by": "prolly97", "time": 1744784218, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This might more be a European thing, but over here some of the sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, are linked with organised VAT/Tax fraud. While I can't say it's all, it'll all things being equal, be baked in to the competitive dynamics. Thus undercutting legal operators, or destroying their profit (incentive) to provide good or domestically produced wares. There's a podcast episode from some ML (money laundering) specialists, that make mention of it. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/trigger-warning/id1448..."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 43710114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710114", "by": "jasondigitized", "time": 1744835906, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If there are incremental gains in each release, why would they hold them back? The amount of exhaust coming off of each release is gold for the internal teams. The naming convention is bad, and the CPO just admitted as much on Lenny's podcast, but I am not sure why incremental releases is a bad thing."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 43713979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43713979", "by": "bcraven", "time": 1744874428, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd like to shoutout PG Vogt (from Reply All podcasting fame) for this episode of his new show: https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-am-i-supposed-to-find-new-..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 43715443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715443", "by": "e40", "time": 1744890709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards podcast on Mike Rowe opened my eyes to him."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 43718402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718402", "by": "rrdotspace", "time": 1744904209, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration | Huberman Lab Podcast #88 by Andrew Huberman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb5zpo5WDG4"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43719979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719979", "by": "fusionadvocate", "time": 1744911608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can someone throw some light on this Dwarkesh character? He landed a Zucc podcast pretty early on... how connected is he? Is he an industry plant?"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43722883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722883", "by": "lexarflash8g", "time": 1744928737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently Dwarkesh's podcast is a big hit in SV -- it was covered by the Economist just recently. I thought the \"All in\" podcast was the voice of tech but their content has been going politcal with MAGA lately and their episodes are basically shouting matches with their guests. And for folks who want to read rather than listen to a podcast, why not create an article (they are using Gemini) rather than just posting the whole transcript? Who is going to read a 60 min long transcript?"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43722883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43722883", "by": "lexarflash8g", "time": 1744928737, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Apparently Dwarkesh's podcast is a big hit in SV -- it was covered by the Economist just recently. I thought the \"All in\" podcast was the voice of tech but their content has been going politcal with MAGA lately and their episodes are basically shouting matches with their guests. And for folks who want to read rather than listen to a podcast, why not create an article (they are using Gemini) rather than just posting the whole transcript? Who is going to read a 60 min long transcript?"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 43728993, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728993", "by": "bentreal", "time": 1744990203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To summarize, this idea converges with an existing development of an xdg-credentials web library, a collaborative effort with big tech. Before I continue - note: Tofi is a minimal Wayland Launcher with a CSS-esque spirit to it. I thought I'd share this for a couple reasons. The first primarily to inspire those to extend its functionality with the way us memesters/creative people use Linux. The second reason being that meming/creativity extends into the world of hacking. I know there was a post a while ago on how the spirit of hacking from the BBS days is dead, with some counterarguments on how"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 43729529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43729529", "by": "alabastervlog", "time": 1744993399, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> The book \u201cthe coddling of the American mind\u201d should be a must read for anyone who takes the societal problem of DEI hysteria seriously. Hey, look at that, it's an If Books Could Kill alum! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coddling-of-the-am..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 43741734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741734", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1745127341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "what an odd coincidence to see David Haig mentioned in the article. I just stumbled over his interview on Sean Carroll's podcast a few days ago, discussing the exact same topic ( https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/11/30/125-... ) \"And so while the cooperative outcome would be the most efficient, you lead to a situation in which there are conflict costs, and I think this explains why things go wrong so often during pregnancy. Of course, at first sight it's strange, my heart and my liver have been functioning very well for for 62 years, and yet during pregnancy, you have a natural"}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 43744311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744311", "by": "_spduchamp", "time": 1745162098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I will add, listen to these with your wife so you can share a similar vision for your future. Also, check out the podcast How I Built This podcast with Guy Raz. Hearing the stories of other founders really is inspiring, and my wife and I have found listening to these really helpful thinking about our business."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 43755173, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43755173", "by": "jahnu", "time": 1745261486, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was on Volts podcast where I heard that many of them are built as political insurance for regional governments who don\u2019t want an angry population if they have an unusually cold winter and a lot of them are going to end up as stranded assets which the population gets way less mad about."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 43757134, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43757134", "by": "dindindin", "time": 1745273970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was this trained on Planet Money / NPR podcasts? The last audio (continuation of prompt) sounds eerily like Planet Money, I had to double check if my Spotify had accidentally started playing."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43758079, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758079", "by": "wrsh07", "time": 1745282952, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I tried desperately to source this even before seeing your request. My current guess is that I heard it on a podcast (either a Dwarkesh interview or an episode of something else - maybe transistor radio? - featuring Dylan Patel). I'll try to re listen to top candidates in the next two weeks (a little behind on current episodes because I'm near the end of an audiobook) and will try to ping back if I find it. If too long has elapsed, update your profile so I can find out how to message you!"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 43758124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758124", "by": "shigawire", "time": 1745283442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent episode of the Acquired podcast talking about the company. For it's relatively small size it plays an outsize role in the US healthcare sector. So in the same way ASML is an interesting business due to its niche role, this is similarly... Though with lower stakes"}, {"show": "672857593", "hn_item": 43762202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762202", "by": "coldpie", "time": 1745330021, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Retronauts podcast recently had an excellent episode about type-in computer games, and modern efforts to preserve them: https://retronauts.com/article/2367/retronauts-episode-677-t..."}, {"show": "1204911385", "hn_item": 43768645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43768645", "by": "shakna", "time": 1745383176, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Probably the \"Your Kickstarter Sucks\" podcast. [0] [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-kickstarter-sucks..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43770752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43770752", "by": "llm_nerd", "time": 1745406861, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The EU fines could stoke tensions with U.S President Donald Trump who has threatened to levy tariffs against countries that penalise U.S. companies. Mark Zuckerberg, in his appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, specifically noted this as his goal for falling in behind Trump. That Trump would be the big-stick man that would protect Meta and other cos from foreign interference. Where \"interference\" is anything restricting that American exceptionalism \"do anything we want, however we want\". Only then Trump started a trade war with quite literally the entire world -- aside from, predictably, Russia"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 43771004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43771004", "by": "snozolli", "time": 1745408902, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the PE wants to do a leveraged buyout where the acquired company itself has borrowed most of the funds to buy itself. Planet Money did an excellent podcast back in 2012 about Bain Capital buying and effectively destroying an iconic American manufacturer of legal pads. It's a great example of exactly this behavior: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/147590440"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43780605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780605", "by": "steveBK123", "time": 1745485189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "She\u2019s an entertaining writer & co anchors a podcast called Odd Lots, for those unaware. Entertaining and informative on various niches of money & markets."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 43783934, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43783934", "by": "nixass", "time": 1745508441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He tells it like its bad thing. Anyway.. I was listening Acquired podcast on Meta yesterday (yes, the whole 6h30min thing) and what we have today is so far away and different than what he was preaching 15-20 years ago and so distanced to original idea of connecting with people you know and you want to be connected with. Don't even want to talk about ads.."}, {"show": "1737037853", "hn_item": 43788051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788051", "by": "a3w", "time": 1745532610, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Can recommend https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-article-readings/id... for a GenAI article reading of this, on the go. 80/20 was mispronounced; pretty perfect reading except for this. 1200 years for superhuman programmers but two for human-level coders seems strange. Why is arbitrarily a human ballpark such a big benchmark? Or as they put it: the workload that takes x time needs to increase by doubling for 1200 years each seven months. Strange leap, as that is a factor of 1.4 10E42, while there are e.g. only 4.3 10E17 seconds for the time since the big bang."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 43789035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43789035", "by": "wanderingmind", "time": 1745541338, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the reasons I love listening to 99% Invisible podcast[1]. Not just a great designer is unknown, but the hallmark of a great design is that its almost invisible unless you look for it. [1] https://99percentinvisible.org/"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 43808291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43808291", "by": "remarkEon", "time": 1745711598, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "These are all things that sound great to a religious listener of Ezra Klein\u2019s podcast but normal people either don\u2019t know about them, don\u2019t care about them, or disagree with them."}, {"show": "1445901378", "hn_item": 43813325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813325", "by": "xyst", "time": 1745773185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Blame corporate greed for this never ending cycle of (human/psychological/and physical) exploitation in the name of pRoFiT. A companion presentation to the OP is \"Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming\" by Nick Haneaur in 2014 \u2014- https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr... He has also been running a podcast called \"Pitchfork Economics\" which I have found to be very enlightening on the state of this world. From an economics point of view, it explains the enshittification of many services we once enjoyed, the destruction of the middle class. The past 40+ years o"}, {"show": "1054586928", "hn_item": 43814569, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814569", "by": "DangerousPie", "time": 1745783197, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They are also available as part of their excellent (and free) The Intelligence podcast. Always worth a listen."}, {"show": "1682047968", "hn_item": 43816897, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816897", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1745806539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the underappreciated aspects of information, publishing, and communications systems is that they can not only be used against you by their owners and operators , but by other opportunists . Some years back a friend coined what I call \"Woozle's Epistemic Paradox\". Paraphrasing slightly: \"As epistemic systems become used more widely or by influential groups, there is substantial power to be had by influencing the discussions that take place.\" The original formulation is more verbose: Our present epistemic systems are undergoing kind of the same shock that the online community underwent wh"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43820276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43820276", "by": "siruva07", "time": 1745840944, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PodSnacks ( https://podsnacks.org ) \u2014 Personalized AI summaries of top podcasts, delivered to your inbox. I've been building PodSnacks because I found it overwhelming to keep up with podcasts across tech, business, and science. PodSnacks uses LLMs to summarize the most popular episodes from shows like Lex Fridman, Acquired, All-In, Invest Like the Best, and more. You choose your favorite shows, and we email you short, high-signal summaries \u2014 no audio to skim through, no endless backlog guilt. So far: 126K+ episode summaries generated 92K+ hours of podcasts processed 48\u201350% open rates 2,900+ ea"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 43830990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830990", "by": "dbbk", "time": 1745925029, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They even explicitly admit to this. In the recent Decoder podcast the CEO said they will always choose engagement and gamification over teaching you the 'best' way. Which is not a terrible strategy. Most people learning languages are doing it for fun or a new years resolution or whatever. If you're serious about learning a language for real (ie you've moved country) then of course you're gonna go to a more serious platform."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 43833710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43833710", "by": "Anechoic", "time": 1745939270, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The biggest issue one person raised is how do you separate out government spending form GDP? (Note that I agree with your larger point) One discussion of this point can be found in an Indicator podcast[0] from a couple of months ago. [0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1237470062"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43841502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43841502", "by": "josephg", "time": 1745990059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a recent Lex Friedman podcast episode where they interviewed a few people at Anthropic. One woman (I don't know her name) seems to be in charge of Claude's personality, and her job is to figure out answers to questions exactly like this. She said in the podcast that she wants claude to respond to most questions like a \"good friend\". A good friend would be supportive, but still push back when you're making bad choices. I think that's a good general model for answering questions like this. If one of your friends came to you and said they had decided to stop taking their medication, wel"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 43842721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43842721", "by": "drcongo", "time": 1746003272, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry, missed your reply. He's quite a well respected economist, and also presenter of the Pushkin podcast Cautionary Tales along with a lot of economics adjacent stuff for BBC radio and TV. Didn't mean for my question to sound snarky but on reflection I think it does, so sorry about that."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 43846203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846203", "by": "gonzo41", "time": 1746025094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Bloomberg podcast odd lots recently had an episode about this. Essentially, there's bubbles in the pipeline now. Expect Halloween and the shopping around that time to feature lots of scarcity."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 43846261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846261", "by": "partiallypro", "time": 1746025302, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think this isn't a real concern, but there is going to be a shortage of workers that collect the data in general which could affect the numbers. OddLots covered this for Bloomberg https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-of-americas-most-..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 43846303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846303", "by": "danans", "time": 1746025451, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This Verge Decoder podcast interview with Flexport's CEO is a good take on the situation: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/64..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 43847938, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43847938", "by": "jeffrallen", "time": 1746032151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you like the Lyons (and you should, they are good guy hackers) be sure to listen to Tom on the On The Metal podcast from Oxide."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 43850717, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850717", "by": "op00to", "time": 1746047505, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My totally uninformed opinion only from reading /r/locallama is that the people who love Grok seem to identify with those who are \u201cindependent thinkers\u201d and listen to Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. I would never consider using a Musk technology if I can at all prevent it based on the damage he did to people and institutions I care about, so I\u2019m obviously biased."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43851891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43851891", "by": "ivape", "time": 1746055910, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Chamath is one of the All-in podcast members, and that entire group has an outsized role in American politics at the moment. There is a podcast that is targeted toward the youth, and Chamath was basically there regurgitating and promoting the current Administration's tariff policies (David Saks is part of the Admin too). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmDt_zAlL8E You have to follow their whole entire game, it's multi-faceted. They are not just sitting around in a group chat, they are out there doing the leg work. What's a Silicon Valley VC doing on a youth-oriented podcast promoting the Admin"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 43854860, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43854860", "by": "_hao", "time": 1746086628, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43869035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43869035", "by": "unsupp0rted", "time": 1746189971, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Zuckerberg's podcast interview by Dwarkesh, and Zuckerberg is incisive, intelligent and well-reasoned about AI and Meta's place in the new world order. And then I remembered how hard he pushed all the VR/AR stuff just a couple years ago, just as incisively, going so far as to rename Facebook to Meta. On balance I think I have ever more respect for him because of this flub: most CEO's, especially ones whose entire adult identity is tied to their company, would not be willing to pivot this completely from a lost cause to a smarter one. And of those, only a subset would be able"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 43872812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872812", "by": "alabastervlog", "time": 1746208038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Articles of Interest podcast (affiliated with 99% Invisible , I think) has a good series on Ivy fashion, and covers Take Ivy and the Japanese interest in it extensively. First of seven episodes of theirs about Ivy: https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/338532f2/a... Fussell's Class and (especially) Birnbach et al 's The Official Preppy Handbook also treat extensively of the style."}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 43872812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43872812", "by": "alabastervlog", "time": 1746208038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Articles of Interest podcast (affiliated with 99% Invisible , I think) has a good series on Ivy fashion, and covers Take Ivy and the Japanese interest in it extensively. First of seven episodes of theirs about Ivy: https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/338532f2/a... Fussell's Class and (especially) Birnbach et al 's The Official Preppy Handbook also treat extensively of the style."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 43873451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873451", "by": "whodidntante", "time": 1746212055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I will give you that, sometimes fox news is like a ChatGPT hallucination. And the ads are unbearable - my pillow and vegetable pills. This is more than made for by the interviews - Trump, Vance, Harris, Zelensky, the doge team, etc. Speaking of unbearable, NPR's \"soft stories\" are invariably about someone's sob story. Ok, I get it, there are a lot of hard luck stories out there, but they seem to relish in misery. All in all, neither are great, but none of the mainstream media are. I do like \"All in\" podcasts :-)"}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 43874067, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874067", "by": "acjohnson55", "time": 1746216265, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally, the excellent podcast, Tides of History, is currently doing a miniseries on the Punic Wars, and just covered why Cannae didn't end the war. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/season/5/?epPage=..."}, {"show": "1470129415", "hn_item": 43892277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43892277", "by": "scrollop", "time": 1746424515, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Your idea for a story may be a glimpse of a memory: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-6-the-life-review/i... This podcast somewhat changed my life."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 43894549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43894549", "by": "alexpotato", "time": 1746449402, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Germans take a 1 hour lunch from 12-1pm. Spaniards have a later lunch, starting around 1pm, and going on until 4 or 5pm. This could possibly be due to the tradition of afternoon siesta. NPR had a podcast episode (Planet Money maybe?) about how the EU was supposed to make it easier for firms to hire cross border and employees to move around. The idea was to be more like the United States. Apparently, this didn't quite work out due to both language and cultural differences Then, one of the guests says: \"Yes, there were some challenges. In fact, we ended up getting books with titles like: 'How "}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 43903818, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43903818", "by": "_diyar", "time": 1746530235, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Accidental Tech Podcast episode 581 [1] had a great conversation about the reason why Teams is winning: Microsoft was using their dominant position in office applications to win market share. Specifically, they would offer Teams for free in a bundle with Office (which basically every company buys anyway). Every manager could strike Slack from their expenses, replace it with Teams and claim great success. Microsoft has since been forced to change their tactics [2-3], but the damage is done. [1] https://overcast.fm/+AAQ2lFdljEs/40:32 [2] https://www.ft.com/content/be838956-7038-4179-8a1c-851b830"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 43911597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911597", "by": "alexchantavy", "time": 1746584044, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, in the recent Lightcone Podcast episode, Varun was talking about how they have a lean eng team but large sales org. I thought that was super interesting for a dev tool since I was expecting a dev tool to involve bottom-up sales to the dev instead of top-down sales to a leader like a CTO or VP of Eng"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43916078, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916078", "by": "peterldowns", "time": 1746627761, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \u201cThe average American I think has, it\u2019s fewer than three friends, three people they\u2019d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it\u2019s like 15 friends,\u201d he said in the interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. Is this true? I don't believe this AT ALL. No way that the average American would say they only have 3 friends, that's beyond low."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 43916522, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916522", "by": "ilikecakeandpie", "time": 1746629621, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Behind the Bastards recently did a two part podcast on the blood industry in America, particularly how lack of regulation and taking advantage of the incarcerated (focused on Arkansas) led to the spread of blood borne illnesses and how it killed a lot of people. I had no idea blood was such big business and that it was in our top 10 domestic exports https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-how-tainted-h..."}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 43921974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921974", "by": "DangitBobby", "time": 1746665524, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wish I could remember where I heard this, it's from some NPR podcast like Freakonimics or This American Life. Dentists would normally sell their private practice to an up-and-coming dentist that they know, but recent graduates are so mired in debt that they can't really afford the loan to buy a practice, so PE firms end up buying instead. Edit: > DUBNER: We did a series on private-equity consolidation in the pet-care industry, and we found a lot of problems there for employees and consumers. But we also learned something that seems to apply to a lot of the human healthcare industry. If you l"}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 43928214, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928214", "by": "CSSer", "time": 1746723335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a podcast I listened to yesterday (Marketplace, from American Public Media), they mentioned that many businesses seem to be approaching this with an \"We're in this together\" type of attitude. They played some audio clips of business owners on their social media channels saying things like, \"Don't worry [company name] is going to do absolutely everything to fight this. We'll do everything we can to avoid raising prices on you!\" The reality, of course, which they reveal when interviewed, is that they know they're completely powerless. In the best case, all they can do is delay the inevitable "}, {"show": "840986946", "hn_item": 43934613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43934613", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1746776307, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, pretty much. You can also post-process them to remove ads etc. because you have the files on your own server. Some podcasts remove all of their backlog when they \"sell out\" and go behind a paywall, having them backed up prevents that. (How did this get made?[0] being one example) Also some podcasts (BBC ones I think) add ads while you download, based on your country. Some of my No Such Thing As A Fish[1] episodes have Christmas themed ads in them because that's when they we're cached :) [0] https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ [1] https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 43935051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935051", "by": "walthamstow", "time": 1746781701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently pulled the back catalogue of the Acquired podcast. All the older episodes going back as far as 2016 have adverts for Claude!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 43939179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43939179", "by": "rhd1729", "time": 1746811481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab made a podcast on him, detailing about how he rose above partisanship. We need more people like him in the courts. Episode link: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/epi..."}, {"show": "1570902818", "hn_item": 43943524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943524", "by": "shoo", "time": 1746856909, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Watts is an excellent hard scifi author & a lot of his older writing -- including many short stories, the Rifters trilogy (Starfish/Maelstrom/Behemoth) and the excellent novel Blindsight are available to read here: https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm Peter Watts has been interviewed on the science fiction podcast \"tales from the bridge\" a few times -- IIRC on this episode with Peter Watts & Richard K Morgan (author of Altered Carbon), both authors discussed writing for video games. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-chat-with-peter-watt..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 43964796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964796", "by": "thatguymike", "time": 1747067196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a very entertaining Dwarkesh podcast with Adam Brown about this: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/adam-brown"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 43978274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43978274", "by": "mixmastamyk", "time": 1747173837, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't understand it either, but on the \"Security Now\" podcast Steve said it's basically like using a FIDO2 key but virtualized in software. As I've used a yubikey and understand public/private keys (with ssh) I now have a vague idea. As the sibiling comment alludes, FLOSS projects have been threatened for allowing (part of?) the key to be exported!"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 43989291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989291", "by": "jfengel", "time": 1747257199, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've listened to all of his Revolutions and Rome podcasts. I look forward to getting to his Mars Revolution podcast, but I just can't stomach the thought of it right now. Maybe in four years. I did manage to get through the first few episodes, and I was very pleased with how effectively he recreated the level of detail he used for his real Revolutions episodes. It's not like a novel, but it captures just how many different players there are in any real-world event -- very different from conventional storytelling. At that, I think it might be most interesting to people who see it in terms of hi"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 43994018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43994018", "by": "sl-1", "time": 1747309745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed the The Revolutions podcast from him, but was very confused when I returned to it and new episodes were clearly fiction. I would have preferred a separate podcast instead of using the same feed for history/non-fiction and then changing to fiction midway."}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 44001403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001403", "by": "joshdavham", "time": 1747363708, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If anyone is interested in hearing more about this whistleblower's backstory, I'd highly recommend checking out this podcast series: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyler-shultz-theranos-... Interestingly enough, one of the podcast interviewers is also a co-founder of Y Combinator."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44009391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009391", "by": "ratrocket", "time": 1747426352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have 336 minutes to spare (although it's highly amendable to 1.5x listening) you can listen to four episodes of Behind the Bastards podcast asking and answering that very question over four episodes from 2023: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... The last episode listed there has the description \"Robert sits down with Matt Lieb to discuss Scott Adams's worst novel, God's "}, {"show": "1042433083", "hn_item": 44011415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011415", "by": "esprehn", "time": 1747446285, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Using the word \"like\" is not as bad as it seems, and it's been quite common in language for longer than we think (though usage does seem to increase with each generation). There was a recent podcast that covered it with some experts that's a great listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5w1gdbhmlCyTapoQ3EkMHp"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 44028866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028866", "by": "fdb", "time": 1747655936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A great podcast about this is \u201cIf Books Could Kill\u201d, where they critique these type of self-help books."}, {"show": "1688613231", "hn_item": 44030048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030048", "by": "themomentumai", "time": 1747663389, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 44033261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033261", "by": "rendall", "time": 1747680142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Futility Closet had a cheerful, wholesome podcast for many years until abruptly ending it without much explanation. Glad to see they're still busy. Anyone know what happened? I always wondered."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 44034350, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034350", "by": "alabastervlog", "time": 1747685885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> And while that may seem a far cry from the alt-right stuff he eschews The podcast If Books Could Kill manages to stumble on a fair amount of overlap between \"power of positive thinking\" / \"The Secret\" crap, and right wing politics in the books they review."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44035623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035623", "by": "furrowedbrow", "time": 1747693585, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 44035662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44035662", "by": "0cf8612b2e1e", "time": 1747693936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a story about this idea that I enjoyed. https://radiolab.org/podcast/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-a..."}, {"show": "369032477", "hn_item": 44036148, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036148", "by": "scoofy", "time": 1747697705, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44039034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44039034", "by": "jagermo", "time": 1747728536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sucks for him, I hope he recovers or manages somehow. On the other hand, he is not a good guy. If you want to go deeper, there are some episodes on Behind the Bastards dedicated to him. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236..."}, {"show": "842593579", "hn_item": 44040380, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44040380", "by": "rendall", "time": 1747741133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They said in their penultimate podcast episode (2021-11-22) that the Futility Closet blog would continue but that the following episode would be their last."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44054615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054615", "by": "huijzer", "time": 1747852328, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I absolutely despise comments like these, and you only see them on HN. Unfortunately the progressives have been pushing the downplaying of powerful people quite hard for a long time under the guise of equality, so it\u2019s more widespread than just HN. Even more unfortunately, equality is also one of the main ideas of communism. It\u2019s how the government can get rid of dissenters and thus move power to itself. That\u2019s why Marc Andreessen in the Lex Fridman podcast talked about how the government told them that they could give up their startup because it was already decided which companies would be "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44057974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057974", "by": "vessenes", "time": 1747878289, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like we must live in very different worlds! The major AI companies have in excess of 100mm customers each. There\u2019s so much demand for compute that wise investors are literally buying up nuclear plant building companies. LLMs have blown through every major test people have put in front of them invariably beating estimates as to how long it would take them. Pull up Dwarkesh\u2019s podcast about ARC wherein the creator of ARC proposes it could likely never be super-human with current architectures, about 3 months before o3 provably became superhuman on ARC, spurring the creation of a new \u201cbette"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 44059673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44059673", "by": "deneas", "time": 1747899757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For an even longer video, just a few weeks ago he was interviewed on the Wookash podcast [1] where he also talked about 'Painting with Math'. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ax1iJTHFs"}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 44060186, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44060186", "by": "strogonoff", "time": 1747904150, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> We're so deep into this delusion that it's so very tempting to anthropomorphize this ersatz stream of consciousness as being 'thought'. I remain unconvinced that it's anything of the sort. Coincidentally, I\u2019m listening to an interesting episode[0] of QAA that goes through various instances of how people (sometimes educated and technically literate) demonstrate mental inability to adequately handle ML-based chatbot tech. The podcast mostly focuses on extreme cases, but I think far too many people are succumbing to more low-key delusions. As an example, even on this forum people constantly poi"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 44062353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44062353", "by": "modeless", "time": 1747923723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inigo was just recently on the Wookash podcast. A great commute listen: https://youtu.be/F1ax1iJTHFs"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 44068180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068180", "by": "chneu", "time": 1747955729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lol no. White Americans are upset that theyre being held responsible for our racist and bigoted past. Trump is a result of white Americans having to deal with our racist past and the reaction. Unfortunately nobody likes to be told their success is built on slavery and theft, so we wind up with this wild backlash. This is a tantrum from white Americans who don't want to be called racist, transphobic, even though they are. A month or two ago a podcast, I believe Radiolab, straight up asked the woman who was responsible for many of the book bans in the US. Her reply was seriously that she didn't "}, {"show": "201671138", "hn_item": 44070160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070160", "by": "vunderba", "time": 1747978704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible, RadioLab, and This American Life were three of my favorite podcasts."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 44070160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070160", "by": "vunderba", "time": 1747978704, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible, RadioLab, and This American Life were three of my favorite podcasts."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44076346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44076346", "by": "hijodelsol", "time": 1748032187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "While some critical journalism may be simplistic, I would not qualify it as lazy. Much of it is deeply nuanced and detail-oriented. To me, lazy would be publications regurgitating the statements of CEOs and company PR people who have a vested interest in making their product seem appealing. Since most of the hype is based on perceived futures, benchmarks, or the automation of the easier half of code development, I consider the simplistic voices asking \"Where is the money?\" to be important because most people seem to neglect the fundamental business aspects of this sector. I am someone who work"}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 44084410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084410", "by": "wormius", "time": 1748129513, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Yeah - is this THE Rick Rubin? Is there another Rick Rubin? Is this just taking the idea of his quote as inspiration and turning it into code? Has he had the time to step back from producing to learn JS and recontextualize the Tao Te Ching into this? What is up with this site? EDIT: Found it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rick-rubin-on-art-life... (would be nice if the original person posting this on git or wherever put a link to this so we had an idea wtf is going on)"}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 44094903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44094903", "by": "strogonoff", "time": 1748244496, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For a look at cases where psychologically vulnerable people evidently had no trouble engaging LLMs in sometimes really messed-up roleplays, see a recent article in Rolling Stone[0] and a QAA podcast episode discussing it[1]. [0] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi... [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/qaa-podcast/id14282093..."}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 44100375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100375", "by": "dbbk", "time": 1748285425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn't a secret though, their CEO openly said on the Decoder podcast this is their strategy so I don't know how that passed her by"}, {"show": "1483840188", "hn_item": 44100451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100451", "by": "Aurornis", "time": 1748285847, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I caught a random podcast with an early Duolingo employee who said all the same things: Much bragging about how they gamified their app to juice user engagement and growth, not even a feigned mention of optimizing for learning. By now my friends who use Duolingo all know it\u2019s a game, not a real learning experience. I think they got lucky and filled a void in the market for things people think they want (learning a new language) while avoiding the parts they dislike (the effort of learning). It got recommended by default for years when people asked for an easy way to learn a language, but they "}, {"show": "595399272", "hn_item": 44101155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44101155", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1748289883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As an adult learner: For apps, I use Clozemaster and Babbel. Unfortunately Babbel is starting to feel like it's also chasing gamification, but it does have sensible content. For podcasts and YouTube content, I follow EasyGerman and Coffee Break German, and both are part of larger brands for other languages: https://www.easy-languages.org/our-languages https://coffeebreakacademy.com/ For kids\u2026 what about kids books in the target language?"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 44106458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44106458", "by": "nfriedly", "time": 1748350268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is my current list of monthly donations, loosely organized: Content creators - Sci Show https://www.youtube.com/scishow - Escape Artists (short fiction podcasts) https://escapeartists.net/ - Technology Connections https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections - The Bible Project https://bibleproject.com/ - Liliputing https://liliputing.com/ - Radiotopia (99% Invisible & other podcasts) https://www.radiotopia.fm/ - PBS (local station) https://thinktv.org/ Online Services - Internet Archive https://archive.org/ - Wikipedia https://www.wikipedia.org/ - Snopes https://www.snopes.com/ - MetaBr"}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 44107561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107561", "by": "Tycho", "time": 1748357650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I read Jack Welch\u2019s autobiography Straight from the Gut . He was quite proud of the stack ranking process he introduced (rate employees every year and fire the bottom 25%). I recently listened to an interview with TSMC founder Morris Chang (arguably a better CEO than Welch, at this point), who said he never agreed with the idea of doing layoffs based on performance appraisals. He pointed out that any such process was hopelessly subjective and so how, as an engineer, could he support it and keep his integrity intact. Btw, there\u2019s a great interview with the author of Power Failure on the Bloombe"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 44108076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44108076", "by": "Orochikaku", "time": 1748360834, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The author spoke about this story on my favourite podcast, On The Metal (of Oxide Computer Company) https://onthemetal.transistor.fm/episodes/kenneth-finnegan"}, {"show": "1236907421", "hn_item": 44112581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112581", "by": "bernardohcr", "time": 1748404116, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "That's a super valid question. Actually, cold email is actually recommended by Y Combinator. They say it \"is a necessary tool for helping build your startup\" It is just challenging because of technical aspects and lack of knowledge. We're starting with cold email infrastructure, but we'll evolve into a full-stack platform, including help to find, enrich leads, prepare high-converting sequences, etc. All without the technical BS (and costs) of tools like Clay and similars. Here is a video that might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh_fpxP1yY Here is the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.co"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44116407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116407", "by": "alexpotato", "time": 1748442603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> At times, Asparouhova suggests that antimemes are specific proposals, like the importance of extended parental leave, in perennial lack of a lasting constituency to sustain them. This particular line struck me given that I recently listened after listening to the Lex Fridman podcast with Cenk Uygur [0] Uygur made the following point: \"More than 80% of the US voting population supports paid parental leave yet Congress won't vote on it/pass it. Why? B/c Congress has become captured by corporatism and it's not in the best interests of corporations to have paid parental leave\" Earlier, there is "}, {"show": "1767486783", "hn_item": 44117735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117735", "by": "sceptic123", "time": 1748449754, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Hanif marveled at the budget, time, and effort that went into crafting the two-part 90 minute podcast and how, today, there's no way it would have happened Meanwhile, from Pineapple Street Studios in 2024: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-wonder-of-stevie/i..."}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 44120656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120656", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1748466380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anybody not familiar with the HMS Wager and the subsequent story the Damn Interesting podcast did a nice episode about it: https://www.damninteresting.com/dead-reckoning/"}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 44122542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122542", "by": "joshkel", "time": 1748485425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure how much difference that bill's clause makes in practice. As I understand it (courtesy of the \"Advisory Opinions\" legal podcast, but any misunderstandings are my own), the problem is that, if the executive branch is going to ignore the courts, then they're going to ignore the courts. A court can recommend prosecution for contempt, but prosecutors are part of the executive branch. A court could try and appoint their own prosecutor, but then the court is both judge and prosecutor - which goes against the US system's goal of an impartial and independent judiciary. The court could iss"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44125357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125357", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "time": 1748521631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> This uncited, anonymous quote sounds very made up. Cursory search couldn't find anything like this. Quote is from Noam Shazeer (of transformer fame) in the Dwarkesh Podcast: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/jeff-dean-and-noam-shazeer"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44125377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125377", "by": "itchyjunk", "time": 1748521742, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Noam Shazeer says it at some point in the Dwarkesh Patel podcast. Edit : Saw multiple people comment by the time I hit sent. Was it also memorable for you guys? I think it was just the way he said it or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0gjI__RyCY"}, {"show": "1325942361", "hn_item": 44128140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128140", "by": "oavioklein", "time": 1748539272, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44135719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44135719", "by": "czue", "time": 1748609579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As I said in the post, whether or not you believe it's coming (which I am somewhat agnostic on) it's worth taking seriously because the probability is definitely not zero. It's worth listening to how some of the people on the forefront of the research/commercial AI developments talking about it. E.g. Dwarkesh podcast."}, {"show": "1376577202", "hn_item": 44139657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139657", "by": "I-M-S", "time": 1748637401, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was the topic of a recent episode of \"Decoder Ring\", a wonderful podcast that explores cultural mysteries: https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2025/02/on-the-lates..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44140488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140488", "by": "ctoth", "time": 1748645109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Once this occurs, many software engineers could perhaps transition into adjacent positions that rely on similar expertise but are significantly harder to automate, such as software engineering management, product management, or executive leadership within software companies. > In these roles, their responsibilities would shift from writing code and debugging to higher-level oversight, decision-making, and strategic planning\u2014until these responsibilities can be automated too. When they spoke on Dwarkesh's podcast they seemed to think this would take 30 years. Not sure why we coders are so quic"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44140577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140577", "by": "rvz", "time": 1748646413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We really have to STOP listening to these people and see that they ALL have a vested interest. In the third paragraph of the podcast Dwarkesh already told you that he already invested. >>> (disclosure - I\u2019m an angel investor), At that point the co-founders and Dwarkesh himself will agree on everything and they will say anything to get more VC money - Even if the timelines are unrealistic. (Because that is the scam)."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 44143342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143342", "by": "chneu", "time": 1748687997, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Again, WHY do people want things they don't need? Because advertising tells them to. Because culture tells them to. Because propaganda tells them to. Because nationalism tells them to. In the US, and other hyper-captalist countries, this is in overdrive. It's reinforced by the propaganda we're given as children that the US is the greatest country to ever exist and that justifies our insane consumption. God chose america to be great and lead the world, therefore any destruction we do is justified. This isn't an original idea by me. You can find people talking about this going back over a centur"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 44143944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143944", "by": "throw0101d", "time": 1748695984, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Not really, but each new reactor is treated like a completely new design which makes regulations incredibly expensive. There are already-approved designs that are pre-approved can can be constructed without review: * https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/large-lwr/design-c... AIUI, one can get approval from the NRC (under Part 52?) by building a plant as-drawn with a pre-approved design: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Construction_and_Oper... * https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part052/f... If you deviate from the plan then you have to get approval for that dev"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 44151745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44151745", "by": "Barrin92", "time": 1748792986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">and other media can be reviewed by people who share the tastes of their audiences -- rather than have their tastes \"made\" by the nominated ad-friendly elite. There's nothing wrong with taste-making, having criticism structured and communicated in an intelligent way that gives an audience a way to look at things is valuable when engaging with art, including popular art. What you have instead now is entirely audience captured creators who will just produce viral and controversial content and tell audiences exactly what they want to hear. A literal echo chamber where any critic that would say so"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44154692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44154692", "by": "quantadev", "time": 1748821901, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the latest 'All In' Podcast today, one of the Besties Billionaires said coding productivity boost was like '20x to 50x'. Probably just reads my HN."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 44155474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155474", "by": "entrepy123", "time": 1748832707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The INTERCAL satirical language (the original compiler's source code of which is announced as recovered in TFA) was covered in a couple of episodes [0, 1] of the (highly recommended, if I may say) Advent of Computing podcast [2]. [0] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/website/episode-78-intercal-and-esoterica [1] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/website/episode-158-intercal-rides-again-restoring-a-lost-compiler [2] https://adventofcomputing.com"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 44157263, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157263", "by": "modo_mario", "time": 1748858605, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">When I was one, I'd make a few exceptions each year. At the time, I was a serious competitive chess player with a well obscured tendency for occasional brilliance. But mediocrity was my primary trait. On every occasion, without failure, these carnivorous exceptions would lift my mediocrity into formidable respectability. Every time. >Killing and salivating on animals for the sake of a board game is macabre. Though it was not only chess. For me, much else is affected by the absence or presence of this mysterious substance. I wish i could find the Huberman podcast episode again where he was int"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44170749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44170749", "by": "grepexdev", "time": 1748962281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same! When he was last on the Lex Fridman podcast."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44171742, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171742", "by": "jsnider3", "time": 1748967862, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1730476827", "hn_item": 44177796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177796", "by": "kfreds", "time": 1749019191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems we read the same stuff. :) I assume you're also aware of the Oxide and Friends podcast, and the Microarch Club podcast?"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 44177796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44177796", "by": "kfreds", "time": 1749019191, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems we read the same stuff. :) I assume you're also aware of the Oxide and Friends podcast, and the Microarch Club podcast?"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 44190259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44190259", "by": "doener", "time": 1749119633, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44202666, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202666", "by": "some-guy", "time": 1749228256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People get the impression that the All-In podcast is \"Silicon Valley\""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44210991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210991", "by": "dustbunny", "time": 1749316452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Didn't realize this was due to Trump's first term. Why aren't the All In podcast bros ragging on Sacks about this!?"}, {"show": "1771986673", "hn_item": 44223235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44223235", "by": "jegudiel", "time": 1749467416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AI Code and Copyright - Risky Business or Creative Power-Up(AI Generated Podcast) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o2Ik3w6c4x4DYILXwRSos?si=5..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 44223235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44223235", "by": "jegudiel", "time": 1749467416, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AI Code and Copyright - Risky Business or Creative Power-Up(AI Generated Podcast) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o2Ik3w6c4x4DYILXwRSos?si=5..."}, {"show": "1791629182", "hn_item": 44226802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226802", "by": "siminm", "time": 1749490021, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 44236277, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236277", "by": "wakamoleguy", "time": 1749560496, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not all taxes are in income or capital. Some are e.g. on consumption (gas, cigarettes, carbon, etc). There\u2019s an argument that in place of corporate income taxes, we should let companies reinvest freely (or pay dividends), and then recoup the taxes elsewhere. The Planet Money podcast has a classic episode about this and other aspects of a presidential platform most economists could agree on."}, {"show": "447667314", "hn_item": 44241950, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44241950", "by": "paulbjensen", "time": 1749592916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember him being a well-known person in the early days of Node.js around 2011/2012, being on the NodeUp podcast and active on Twitter back then. I'm sorry to hear of his passing."}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 44250554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44250554", "by": "insaneirish", "time": 1749667597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a great analysis of God Only Knows from the podcast \u201cStrong Songs\u201d: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/god-only-knows..."}, {"show": "1819489230", "hn_item": 44252560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252560", "by": "salonium_", "time": 1749681405, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44256761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44256761", "by": "randomtoast", "time": 1749730011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It is well possible that GPT-4.1 references Sean Carroll, either directly or by regurgitation. > One sometimes hears the claim that the Big Bang was the beginning of both time and space; that to ask about spacetime \u201cbefore the Big Bang\u201d is like asking about land \u201cnorth of the North Pole.\u201d Source: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/writings/dtung/ I'm a regular listener of his Mindscape podcast, and that's where I got this phrase. I can highly recommend his podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 44264268, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264268", "by": "kennywinker", "time": 1749770582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> they prevented nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War on many occasions Spying created the conditions where we were on the brink of nuclear armageddon. That they also saved us from going over the brink isn\u2019t really to their credit. Also, fyi - as best as we can ever know there was no lab leak. If you want a good summary of why not - have a listen to the most recent \u201cIf Books Could Kill\u201d podcast episode."}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 44268546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268546", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1749822699, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The host on this podcast[0] had a good point about the \"investment\". It was really a merger, but framed as an investment to sidestep regulators. Key attributes: * CEO works for meta * almost but not quite a majority stake taken 0: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/world-bank-cuts-u-s-gr..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44272097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44272097", "by": "iw7tdb2kqo9", "time": 1749847613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some insights/vision lost to history because interviewer needed to interrupt. This is why I like Lex Fridman style podcast."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 44274261, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274261", "by": "rgbrgb", "time": 1749876568, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44282194, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282194", "by": "nill0", "time": 1749994189, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1517040628", "hn_item": 44288872, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288872", "by": "Schiphol", "time": 1750076492, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 44290756, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290756", "by": "xp84", "time": 1750089176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Don\u2019t underestimate how expensive ads are and thus how much money they can bring in. Marco Arment, the developer of Overcast podcast player, has made remarks in the past about how the ad-supported version is completely viable and may actually make him more money per user than the price of his paid option. In his case, he runs his own contextual ad system. Obviously Meta is in a completely different league in terms of sophistication, meaning they are probably able to sell more targeted ads which means more money, and they also have the luxury of not having to pay any middlemen since they own th"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 44293995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293995", "by": "camgunz", "time": 1750113159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not a subscriber, and I find Zitron's style to be too rage bait to really absorb it all, but I share his tech skeptic perspective. I don't think he has an exhortation as direct as Gerard's \"don't invest in this\", but his general \"there's something fundamentally grifty about tech\" resonates, and I think TFA's basic \"the press is recklessly credulous to tech industry claims\" premise is more or less on point. (I looked up the interview [0] to be sure and I wanna say I remembered this perfectly I am the greatest) My anecdata here is I quit listening to Hard Fork (Kevin Roose & Casey Newton's N"}, {"show": "518366323", "hn_item": 44294448, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294448", "by": "chiefgeek", "time": 1750118285, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Yes. Came here to to say this has been done before. It was too much for the Establishment to stomach. Ram Dass, Tim Leary\u2019s associate (Richard Alpert at the time) talks about it here - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ram-dass-here-and-now/..."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 44301645, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44301645", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1750181814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's an argument that's ultimately based on whataboutism. I'm reasonably acquainted with history in all of those places. What happened in Africa happened. The results are speak for themselves. In no way did I say that the depredations of past tyrants and conquerers didn't take place or were insignificant. If Ceasar's accounts of Gaul are even partially true, his armies probably butchered a sizable percentage of the human race in that campaign and the years to follow. The Spanish conquest, subjugation and genocide of Latin America utterly obliterated mesoamerican culture and was sweeping in t"}, {"show": "1571508315", "hn_item": 44303660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44303660", "by": "buerkle", "time": 1750192646, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disconnect-power-p... a great podcast on the blackout from 2021, it wasn't from renewables."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 44309364, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44309364", "by": "al_borland", "time": 1750250366, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "99% Invisible. Though I'm a very sporadic listener of podcasts. It usually only ends up being when I'm shoveling snow, so I just look through what's out there to find an episode that sounds interesting. A lot of the 99% Invisible episodes I've listened to have been interesting."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 44317520, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317520", "by": "TecoAndJix", "time": 1750331607, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just learned about this from the acquired podcast - highly recommend the TSMC (remastered) episode (IKEA and Costco one are good, too) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44320481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320481", "by": "ARandumGuy", "time": 1750352556, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "At least one cult originates from the Rationalist movement, the Zizians [1]. A cult that straight up murdered at least four people. And while the Zizian belief system is certainly more extreme then mainstream Rationalist beliefs, it's not that much more extreme. For more info, the Behind the Bastards podcast [2] did a pretty good series on how the Zizians sprung up out of the Bay area Rationalist scene. I'd highly recommend giving it a listen if you want a non-rationalist perspective on the Rationalist movement. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians [2]: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44321104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321104", "by": "jcranmer", "time": 1750356859, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast Behind the Bastards described Rationalism not as a cult but as the fertile soil which is perfect for growing cults, leading to the development of cults like the Zizians (who both the Rationalists and Zizians are at pains to emphasize their mutual hostility to one another, but if you're not part of either movement, it's pretty clear how Rationalism can lead to something like the Zizians)."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44321264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321264", "by": "jcranmer", "time": 1750358009, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not just some weak relation. The Behind the Bastards podcast works by having the podcaster invite a guest on the show and tell the story of an individual (or movement, like the Zizians) to provide a live reaction. And in the discussion about the Zizians, the light-bulb moment for the guest, the point where they made the connection \"oh, now I can see how this story is going to end up with dead people,\" happens well before Ziz breaks with the Rationalists. She ultimately breaks with the Rationalists because they don't view animal welfare as important as a priority as she does. But it's from"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 44323787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44323787", "by": "anitil", "time": 1750379603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those out of the loop but who enjoy podcasts, there is a Reply All episode about this [0] though somehow I can't find a direct link as spotify seems to have swallowed all of gimlet and killed the links. I couldn't even find a transcript. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/gimlet/comments/a3lyny/reply_all_13..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44324041, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44324041", "by": "mlinhares", "time": 1750383882, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'd recommend listening to the behind the bastards episode on some of these folks, it is wild https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-zizians-h..."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 44330258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330258", "by": "g0xA52A2A", "time": 1750442623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest Oxide and Friends podcast episode is - as one may expect - a great pairing if you enjoyed reading this. https://youtu.be/3z_TQxe9jx4"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 44330826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330826", "by": "yzydserd", "time": 1750445915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A co-author of the study you refer to was recently on the UK BBC podcast More or Less, debunking much of the press coverage of his study, specifically the headline of vast global underestimation. Rather, the study found rural distribution estimates may be inaccurate, not total population. Link to the 9 minute episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lgv5vf"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 44334720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44334720", "by": "j_bum", "time": 1750482963, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Agreed. Maybe you\u2019ve seen this, but Destin Sandlin\u2019s recent video on this topic does a good job of demonstrating the institutional knowledge gap [0]. He also was a guest on the Search Engine podcast to discuss the same topic earlier this year [1]. I enjoyed this more than the video. I think there\u2019s some nuance and slight nationalism to take with a grain of salt, but the point is extremely well demonstrated. [0] https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?si=2jaYQZEinXsJBk2L [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/search-engine/id161425..."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 44337722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337722", "by": "tillcarlos", "time": 1750514814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is your name M\u00e8o D\u00e0i - Longcat in Vietnamese? :) Cool project! I wonder what commercial use cases come from it. On the My First Million podcast they talked a about a company selling color predictions to brands for multiple six figures. Maybe you can find correlations and predictions in the data one day."}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 44348311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44348311", "by": "BUILDERMARCUS", "time": 1750610793, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey everyone 656 users and 14 days later\u2026 Zeno 2.0 is here. But, how did I do it? No, I'm not a coder. Yes, I built it anyway. This isn't my first product,I run a startup studio (ikivibelabs . com). Here's how I built Zeno and hit #1 Product Of The Week on Product Hunt, in 15 steps: > Noticed how I waste hours on YouTube podcasts without retaining enough > Realized the pain was knowledge retention, not consumption > Studied every AI YouTube summarizer tool in the space. Most felt... meh. > Studied GoogleNoteLLM. It felt... meh. > Visualized exactly what I wanted. > Studied my ideal solution jo"}, {"show": "1223773992", "hn_item": 44351732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351732", "by": "tomhow", "time": 1750642117, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Some are saying the page is inaccessible to them. The content is audio and it's available on all the major podcast platforms: - Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/laphams-quarterly/id1223... - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2bWZWzUbA5v5PPcKTs18Uo - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/laphamsquarterlyworldintime - Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGN... - RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:27346532..."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 44355023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44355023", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1750681155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's the Latent Space podcast, published June 13. It's a pretty decent podcast for keeping on top of AI stuff. Swyx, one of the co-hosts, is active here on HN."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 44357670, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357670", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1750697553, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The latest nuclear plant in the US was the completion of the Vogtle plant in Georgia, which ran a staggering $22B over budget. Twenty Two Billion Dollars over budget! And Unit 4 was (IIRC) 30% cheaper than Unit 3. Because with Unit 3 they had to learn everything about building a nuclear power plant from scratch (from a practical, steel-toed boots on the ground perspective). Now that there's (a) an actual supply chain (brought up from scratch), and (b) people with a workflow on how to build AP1000s, future units will decrease costs over time. During the 1990s and into the 2000s Japan was brin"}, {"show": "582272991", "hn_item": 44361435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361435", "by": "getpost", "time": 1750722831, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm working on this[0] 2 hr 52 minute interview with Craig about his new book. He makes the point national health care is a big part of what makes this work. There is a safety net, so people are empowered to take more financial risks. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rich-roll-podcast/..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44361675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44361675", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1750725152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jeffrey Wasserstrom made the interesting point on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast that for political reasons China settled into an equilibrium of building too much while the US settled into one of building too little. In China it\u2019s kickbacks and building with credit and selling homes that don\u2019t exist. In the US it\u2019s NIMBYs and environmentalism and austerity politics and everything bagel liberalism. My hope is that people who believe government should work make it work better for more of us. In tech we are pretty clearly the beneficiaries of government investment and R&D."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44362551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362551", "by": "serjester", "time": 1750734456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to their podcast with Dwarkesh and found them incredibly off putting. They\u2019ve done so little confidence modeling and have completely failed to understand they\u2019re dealing with a chaotic system. The smartest people in the world struggle to predict Apple\u2019s stock price next year and yet they think they\u2019ve found a formula to predict the onset of super intelligence. Pure hubris. I really appreciate the write up, it\u2019s refreshing to see a review with such rigor."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 44368716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368716", "by": "enlightens", "time": 1750786840, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">imposed lockdown and mandate policies with zero scientific basis The If Books Could Kill podcast just came out with an episode last week about how the phrase \"lockdown and mandate policies [have] zero scientific basis\" is almost technically true but is certainly incredibly misleading. The short version is that it would be incredibly difficult to ethically test many healthcare policies to the point that they have scientific support in the way we usually think of having evidence... but we can look at the preponderance of evidence we do have and understand that masks help block germs and viruses"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 44370035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370035", "by": "Whoppertime", "time": 1750793364, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/11/05/131105373/the-... I still remember an old Planet Money podcast they did covering a Rent or Buy calculator, It didn't allow for the possibility that the value of a house might fall over time. If you put a negative appreciation rate it would spit out an error. Which in the immediate aftermath of 2007 meant the tool was unable to capture reality."}, {"show": "1814466804", "hn_item": 44374401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44374401", "by": "LadyCailin", "time": 1750835318, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Side note, very pleased to see an overcast link. Fantastic podcast player."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44379100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379100", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1750868827, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I like 'Behind The Bastards' podcast (if 'like' is the right word for a podcast about awful people) and have listened to quite a few, including the Stroessner episodes. But some of the guests on the podcast seems a bit clueless and don't add much IMO."}, {"show": "1509892490", "hn_item": 44379210, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379210", "by": "jdcampolargo", "time": 1750869422, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44385096, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44385096", "by": "mikhailfranco", "time": 1750923251, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Terence Tao briefly discusses this problem in the first chapter of his talk with Lex Fridman: Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #472 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkBz-cdB-k"}, {"show": "1680897946", "hn_item": 44387617, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387617", "by": "trengrj", "time": 1750947108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We added Muvera to Weaviate recently https://weaviate.io/blog/muvera and also have a nice podcast on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSW5g1H4zoU . When looking at multi-vector / ColBERT style approaches, the embedding per token approach can massively increase costs. You might go from a single 768 dimension vector to 128 x 130 = 16,640 dimensions. Even with better results from a multi-vector model this can make it unfeasible for many use-cases. Muvera, converts the multiple vectors into a single fixed dimension (usually net smaller) vector that can be used by any ANN index. As you now have a"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 44391440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391440", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1750972381, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dear god, the endless reams of \"woe is us\" are worse than any LLM generated content. > Elon Musk - whose xAI data centre is being powered by nearly three dozen on-site gas turbines that are poisoning the air of nearby majority-Black neighborhoods in Memphis - went on the Joe Rogan podcast Christ, who even reads this stuff. This constant palavering is genuinely too much."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 44391903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391903", "by": "kridsdale3", "time": 1750975167, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just listened to the Acquired podcast guys talk to Balmer. Steve actually deserves a huge amount of the credit for Azure that Satya enjoys today. - Created the windows server product - Created the \"rent a server\" business line - Identified the need for a VM kernel and hired the right people - Oversaw MSFT's build out of web services (MSN, Xbox Live, Bing) which gave them the distributed systems and uptime know-how - Picked Satya to take over Azure, and then to succeed him"}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 44397631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397631", "by": "strogonoff", "time": 1751038610, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For a look at cases where psychologically vulnerable people evidently had no trouble engaging LLMs in sometimes really messed-up roleplays, see a recent article in Rolling Stone[0] and a QAA podcast episode discussing it[1]. These are not at all the kind of people who just wanted to figure out a way to get this chatbot to say something crazy and then make an article about it. [0] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi... [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/qaa-podcast/id14282093..."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 44401337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401337", "by": "Rendello", "time": 1751068345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The trading firm Jane Street is the big OCaml shop, they have a great podcast about all their tech. Each episode is someone from a team talking about the tool they've built, and their whole ecosystem is pretty much bespoke OCaml tooling. - https://signalsandthreads.com/ (It's one of three programming podcasts I consistently listen to these days, the others being On The Metal and Developer Voices.)"}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 44401337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401337", "by": "Rendello", "time": 1751068345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The trading firm Jane Street is the big OCaml shop, they have a great podcast about all their tech. Each episode is someone from a team talking about the tool they've built, and their whole ecosystem is pretty much bespoke OCaml tooling. - https://signalsandthreads.com/ (It's one of three programming podcasts I consistently listen to these days, the others being On The Metal and Developer Voices.)"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 44416017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44416017", "by": "yzydserd", "time": 1751227912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This claim, and study which underpins the claims, was covered on the BBC More or Less Podcast last year. One of the main problems with the stat is that in ultramarathons there are very few women, but those that do enter are typically professional ultra-athletes, not \"have a go\" females. Whereas the field contains many \"have a go\" men who are less professional and less fit than the professional ultra-athlete men. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hg2764 (9 minute episode)."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 44426835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44426835", "by": "SkipperCat", "time": 1751310964, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast just interviewed Jim Chanos about this topic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-06-30/odd-lots-jim... If you like a digestible discussion of markets and economics, I highly recommend this episode and all their podcasts."}, {"show": "1785226676", "hn_item": 44434502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434502", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1751381713, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My impression is that in the last month there's been a Cambrian Explosion in scam text of all sorts, also I see a lot of what I think are affiliation scams on Bluesky and Mastodon targeting, not least, open source developers, chronically ill people, transgender people, and anime fans. I just got a scam text last night that said I owed NY State a lot in freeway tolls. I wouldn't be surprised if Scam, Inc [1] was branching out. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/scam-inc-from-the-econ..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 44435405, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44435405", "by": "mattcantstop", "time": 1751386512, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think Superhuman's CEO in an interview said their product is specifically catered to people who are seeking inbox zero. For those people this would be a great outcome. The question is should this be the goal of most people? Probably not. But most people are not their ideal customer. They explained their ideal customer in depth in an episode of the Acquired Podcast."}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 44437081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437081", "by": "svara", "time": 1751396942, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Someone here recommended Lapham's podcast, The World in Time, the last time he came up. It's amazing! Truly someone out of a different age. https://pca.st/podcast/daa59d90-feeb-0134-ec79-4114446340cb"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 44444308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44444308", "by": "jmchuster", "time": 1751467084, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The interview he does on the Odd Lots podcast is a lot more in-depth, and I found it a great listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gJazFZZaZ0OGKf516XpeO"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44452875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452875", "by": "coderatlarge", "time": 1751531190, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "as an example here is knuth speculating or expressing opinions on P=NP https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 44474160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44474160", "by": "exhilaration", "time": 1751736206, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would just like to recommend this excellent Radiolab episode about saving lives during heart attacks: https://radiolab.org/podcast/how-to-save-a-life"}, {"show": "1592268946", "hn_item": 44487201, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487201", "by": "janaagaard", "time": 1751868002, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A Danish audio newspaper host / podcaster had the exact apposite conclusion when he used ChatGPT to write the manuscript for one his episodes. He ended up spending as much time as he usually does because he had to fact check everything that the LLM came up with. Spoiler: It made up a lot of stuff despite it being very clear in the prompt, that it should not do so. To him, it was the most fun part, that is writing the manuscript, that the chatbot could help him with. His conclusion about artificial intelligence was this: \u201cWe thought we were getting an accountant, but we got a poet.\u201d Frederik Ku"}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 44488720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488720", "by": "bl1ndl1fe", "time": 1751884088, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's a lot to say about this topic. First, the piece of research isn't really strong IMO. Second, wherever is AI today (with gpt-4o in the research vs o3 which is already so much better) on the issues raised in this research, they'll be ironed out sooner than later. Third, the issues raised by a number of people around advantages and disadvantages is exactly this: plus and minuses. Is it better than nothing? Is it as good as a real therapist? And what about when you factor in price and ROI? I recommend listening or reading the work by Sherry Turkle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Tur"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 44489856, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489856", "by": "octopoc", "time": 1751892640, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations podcast has an interesting episode about Assyria. The cities in Mesopotamia were polytheistic and each city has its own deity. Apparently the way they viewed their deities was similar to how we view sports teams. There was an expectation that if you traveled to another city, you should sacrifice to its god. They viewed inter city warfare as the gods competing in heaven."}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 44505278, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505278", "by": "datewithtango", "time": 1752021380, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inexperienced founders wanting to build a dating app is practically a meme. Alexandr Wang said as much in his recent interview on the Lightcone Podcast (it represents having \u201ca very poor sense of Alpha\u201d in his words). We thought through the commonly cited reasons for why it\u2019s a bad idea to build a dating app and how they apply to our app in this X post. We decided it\u2019s worth trying. Are we wrong?"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 44505347, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505347", "by": "lukefernandez", "time": 1752022311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Inexperienced founders wanting to build a dating app is practically a meme. Alexandr Wang said as much in his recent interview on the Lightcone Podcast (it represents having \u201ca very poor sense of Alpha\u201d in his words). We thought through the commonly cited reasons for why it\u2019s a bad idea to build a dating app and how they apply to our app in this X post. We decided it\u2019s worth trying. Are we wrong?"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 44530013, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44530013", "by": "cx0der", "time": 1752225422, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Recently Freakonomics covered this topic in a 3 part series Cradle to Grave https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/cradle-to-grave/"}, {"show": "1569800816", "hn_item": 44531937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531937", "by": "evanb", "time": 1752240687, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I learned a lot from The Great Post Office Trial podcast by BBC Radio 4 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-post-office-..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 44533695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44533695", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1752249501, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No. A facial expression that comes 0.5 seconds after it should can create a perception of inauthenticity as can the use of measured-seeming words. (Yet, an emotional expression that breaks gradually can be the most powerful of all \u2014- Biden\u2019s performance where he feels how \u201cyou\u2019re fired\u201d makes him feel or Pelosi\u2019s tears at Trump inauguration 2 hit hard in a way that her usual mask never does) If there was anything characteristic about Biden to Trump voters it was that they didn\u2019t watch or read the news much at all https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/democrats-need-to-face... Klein would say h"}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 44549514, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549514", "by": "wafflemaker", "time": 1752406325, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So a foundation model instead, like discussed in: [Open Source Security] Open Source Foundations with Kelley Misata of Suricata #openSourceSecurity https://podcastaddict.com/open-source-security/episode/19338... via @PodcastAddict I'm genuinely curious, no experience in any of that."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 44570812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570812", "by": "paul_milovanov", "time": 1752585348, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vinay Prasad, the new FDA chief medical and scientific director, is an extremely sensible guy and a co-author of a great 2013 book on evidence-based medicine targeting the lay audience (Ending Medical Reversal) Here's an EconTalk podcast with the other co-author, Adam Cifu, talking about the book. https://www.econtalk.org/adam-cifu-on-ending-medical-reversa... The NYT article presents his COVID vaccine policy changes as yet more crazy MAGA shit, whereas in fact he holds nuanced views, based on up-to-date review of available evidence. He has published in NEJM and elsewhere on the topic: https:/"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 44577544, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577544", "by": "anyfoo", "time": 1752626743, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The very excellent \"Advent of Computing\" computer history podcasts had an episode involving The Story of Mel relatively recently: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acting-up/id1459202600... It provides a lot of context, and puts things into perspective. Note that it helps to be familiar with The Story of Mel before listening to that episode. I think the podcast may have explained The Store of Mel itself in a previous episode that I haven't listened to yet, but I was personally familiar with it already through the usual folklore."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 44577739, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577739", "by": "II2II", "time": 1752628583, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Mel was discussed in episode 114 ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lgp-30-a-forgotten... ), and there was a special episode which included a reading of the story ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-the-story-of-m... ). The machine also pops up from time to time when the host discusses \"personal computers\", which he has a very interesting definition of!"}, {"show": "1244649384", "hn_item": 44593964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593964", "by": "kochb", "time": 1752763332, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "LeVar Burton hosted a podcast marketed for adults where he read short stories. Though it ended last year, there are almost 200 episodes in the archive. He\u2019s still been at work encouraging lifelong reading all these years later. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/levar-burton-reads/id1..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 44596542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596542", "by": "orochimaaru", "time": 1752777143, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "GSP\u2019s trainer Firas Zahabi prescribes to this. I remember his mentioning this in a Rogan podcast. His philosophy to training is minimal to 0 pain/soreness. Instead of doing pull ups till you drop start with 1 and do it daily. I started running after a long time. I\u2019m 49. I work out with weights but needed mild cardio. I started with 0.25 m run / 0.25 m walk cadence. I can easily do that for 5-6 miles and keep my heart rate below 165. Bottom line is - take it easy. The goal is to burn calories, stay mobile and not get injured or sore."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 44596781, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596781", "by": "hemloc_io", "time": 1752778479, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Generally speaking it\u2019s \u201cquality of life\u201d. NYC doesn\u2019t have any physical gates, but living in manhattan in particular, has a high financial gate, keeping out people who can\u2019t afford it. Generally people paying 5k+ rents aren\u2019t committing violent crime, homeless sweeps actually happen here and it\u2019s not really possible to sleep on the street. If you live in an exclusive neighborhood, it\u2019s pretty clean and safe. there\u2019s angst cheaper rent would change that EDIT: In a lot of ways NYC\u2019s wealthy and the upper middle class that mostly lives in manhattan have mutual interests the biggest being public "}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44597722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597722", "by": "mihaitodor", "time": 1752783603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Brooke Harrington (one of the co-authors of the paper) was interviewed by Sean Carroll for the Mindscape podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/05/22/237-... . I was sure this study must\u2019ve come from her group when I saw the title."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44607124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607124", "by": "mertleee", "time": 1752858154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's beyond a joke. Recently spent some time at an accelerator and the partners of the VC firm were very open about purchasing \"fake\" research or presenting investments as if they were from more than one \"investor\". I still fail to understand how Dwarkesh Patel managed to \"self-sponsor\" an O-1 with a... tech podcast..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44607747, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607747", "by": "crowcroft", "time": 1752860950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts are a very significant medium, and Dwarkesh is probably comfortably in the top 1% of podcasts. Isn't that exactly what O-1 is for?"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44609407, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609407", "by": "scellus", "time": 1752870294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If one wants to follow AI development mostly in the sense of LLMs and associated frontier models, that's an excellent list with over half of the names familiar, to whom I have converged independently. I have a list in X for AI; it's the best source of information overall on the subject, although some podcasts or RSS feeds directly from the long-form writers would be quite close. (If one is a researcher themselves, then of course it's a must to follow the paper feeds, not commentary or secondary references.) I'd add https://epoch.ai to the list, on podcasts at least Dwarkesh Patel; on blogs Pet"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44614080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614080", "by": "schappim", "time": 1752919205, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> we gave payment processors the responsibility of policing for crime and terrorism Mirrors what Marc Andreessen said on Lex's podcast. The problem isn\u2019t just regulatory overreach, it\u2019s delegated enforcement w/out accountability. Financial institutions are now playing judge and jury, not because they want to, but because the cost of scrutiny or punishment is too high. It\u2019s soft censorship by infrastructure..."}, {"show": "394384987", "hn_item": 44614098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614098", "by": "j13k", "time": 1752919396, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Worth adding that there are a bunch of paid-for apps offering 'couch to 5k', but the 2012 podcast version by the NHS was such an elegant and effective idea\u2014essentially, a free audio coaching program of progressive run-walk training. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nhs-couch-to-5k/id3943... https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/get-active/get-running-with..."}, {"show": "1482297423", "hn_item": 44623269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623269", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1753002666, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On YouTube, by far the best is Easy German. Their playlists also divide the content by levels from A1 to C2, as well as by theme: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyGerman/playlists They also have podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/easy-german-learn-germ... More generally, there's also good podcast content from: \u2022 DW news: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... \u2022 Coffee Break German: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... > I can read children's books but every native speaker sounds like they are zipping along at 2x speed. I generally pl"}, {"show": "282930329", "hn_item": 44623269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623269", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1753002666, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On YouTube, by far the best is Easy German. Their playlists also divide the content by levels from A1 to C2, as well as by theme: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyGerman/playlists They also have podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/easy-german-learn-germ... More generally, there's also good podcast content from: \u2022 DW news: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... \u2022 Coffee Break German: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... > I can read children's books but every native speaker sounds like they are zipping along at 2x speed. I generally pl"}, {"show": "595399272", "hn_item": 44623269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623269", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1753002666, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "On YouTube, by far the best is Easy German. Their playlists also divide the content by levels from A1 to C2, as well as by theme: https://www.youtube.com/@EasyGerman/playlists They also have podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/easy-german-learn-germ... More generally, there's also good podcast content from: \u2022 DW news: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-na... \u2022 Coffee Break German: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/coffee-break-german/id... > I can read children's books but every native speaker sounds like they are zipping along at 2x speed. I generally pl"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 44624760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624760", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1753016011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only listen to \u201cThe Indicator\u201d and \u201cPlanet Money\u201d podcasts from NPR now. Even those I only listen to occasionally. The \u201ctwo podcast hosts having a fake scripted conversation with fake laughter\u201d format is irritating. As a mostly liberal but not leftist, I find that other podcasts I tried to listen to can be a bit much when it comes to race (I\u2019m Black FWIW). I haven\u2019t come across all of the trans topics that the X thread is complaining about it. And maybe I\u2019m just over discussions about race issues because I know what a large part of America is about and I\u2019m just over it."}, {"show": "6783657714", "hn_item": 44624760, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44624760", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1753016011, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only listen to \u201cThe Indicator\u201d and \u201cPlanet Money\u201d podcasts from NPR now. Even those I only listen to occasionally. The \u201ctwo podcast hosts having a fake scripted conversation with fake laughter\u201d format is irritating. As a mostly liberal but not leftist, I find that other podcasts I tried to listen to can be a bit much when it comes to race (I\u2019m Black FWIW). I haven\u2019t come across all of the trans topics that the X thread is complaining about it. And maybe I\u2019m just over discussions about race issues because I know what a large part of America is about and I\u2019m just over it."}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 44631365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631365", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1753066503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is it Boston? It's one of those cities. I went and Googled for it because I remembered hearing about it on Derek Thompson's \"Plain English\" podcast last year with Jonathan Gruber (the MIT health economist, not the Apple guy). I don't know if it's Pittsburgh or not, but it's not a made-up stat."}, {"show": "1621757273", "hn_item": 44636337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636337", "by": "bicepjai", "time": 1753111681, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The whole history of how credit card companies came about being the controller of adult content is very well laid out in podcast hot money season 2. It\u2019s a fascinating story https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hot-money-agent-of-cha..."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 44636876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636876", "by": "spogbiper", "time": 1753114069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The excellent podcast \"Advent of Computing\" did an episode on this https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=3f94e3fa-452d-48c8-acd8-..."}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 44643100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643100", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1753156683, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Enjoy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-american-health-ca..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44643721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643721", "by": "GodelNumbering", "time": 1753165010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting that this happens even on large v3. I had once done a deep dive into STT and Whisper Large was the only model that could correctly transcribe Yann LeCun (it was a Lex Friedman podcast), ever since I held the belief that it was the best STT model, this was over 2 years ago"}, {"show": "1785226676", "hn_item": 44651970, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651970", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1753212790, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There has been a Cambrian explosion of scams in the last few years https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/scam-inc-from-the-econ..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 44655117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655117", "by": "cebert", "time": 1753236770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re interested in this topic, last week\u2019s Security Now podcast #1034 gives a great overview of this concept in the last 30 minutes of this episode ( https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1034?autostart=f... ). It was explained so well that my eight-year-old son is now interested in this topic (I force him to listen while driving)."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44661326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661326", "by": "blipmusic", "time": 1753289590, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His \"argument\" for strict typing on the Lex Fridman podcast was also that it's mostly if you have \"hundreds or (of?) thousands of engineers collaborating\", which \"strictly\" puts his opinion in the bin in my case. I have absolutely, positively become more productive as a single developer due to strict typing. Parsing various kinds of binary data was enough to convince me. A.k.a. each to their own. On the whole, Elixir and BEAM seem really cool though, and there's work being done on typing, as well as the new Gleam language. Note: I've not yet done any serious web-development, mostly command lin"}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 44661961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661961", "by": "samehsbs", "time": 1753292953, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm building a tool that turns short voice memos (or bullet-point notes) into slide-based narrated videos, like a lightweight presentation with your voice and synced visuals. How it works: * Upload a voice memo (3\u20135 min) * It gets transcribed and broken into 5\u20137 slides (title + bullets) * Use your voice or a generated narration * Slides automatically sync to the timing of the narration * You get a shareable MP4 video (optionally: a PPTX + audio export) It's meant for people who want to turn rough ideas into clear, presentable videos, without needing editing tools or design skills. Use cases: *"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 44664055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44664055", "by": "vorgol", "time": 1753304839, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tim Harford mentions in his podcast \"Cautionary Tales \u2013 A Fascination with Failure / Death on the Dance Floor\" that checklists might have prevented the 1981 skywalk collapse in Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel (killing 114 people). It's really a good podcast (pretty much all of his podcasts are) https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-a-fascinatio..."}, {"show": "1810280044", "hn_item": 44669959, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44669959", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1753360991, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 44672925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672925", "by": "PaulDavisThe1st", "time": 1753375624, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Even speaking is thinking. This is why free speech is the very First Amendment. Whoever denies your right to speak freely is controlling your thinking. There's an excellent podcast (Radiolab, possibly) about how this conception of what the first amendment means is rather recent (1910s-1920s) and that the ideas of what \"free speech\" meant before that are really radically different."}, {"show": "1799165303", "hn_item": 44673195, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44673195", "by": "fewsats", "time": 1753376874, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I interviewed Tom Shapland, product manager at LiveKit, for the Agents at Work podcast. We talked about how LiveKit\u2019s open-source infrastructure became the audio transport layer for ChatGPT\u2019s voice mode, and what it takes to build reliable, production-grade voice agents. Topics include: \u2013 Voice vs. text pipelines (cascade vs audio-in/out) \u2013 Turn detection and latency problems \u2013 Ambient computing and full-duplex models \u2013 Why LiveKit open sourced its stack (Would love feedback, *especially* from folks building real-time or AI UX systems. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7pgrk1egA Spoti"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44697968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697968", "by": "function_seven", "time": 1753575932, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ha! I don\u2019t listen to the All In podcast, but I did see this: https://youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 44701509, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701509", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1753626074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s also an audio version for those who\u2019d prefer that. The author is a co-host of the Radiolab podcast and a 2022 episode was dedicated to her reading this piece. https://radiolab.org/podcast/wordless-place"}, {"show": "1710656242", "hn_item": 44703302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703302", "by": "xadram", "time": 1753640172, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 44720763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720763", "by": "archargelod", "time": 1753778595, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1827500070", "hn_item": 44720927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44720927", "by": "neciudan", "time": 1753779873, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hey folks, I just released a new episode of my podcast, Se\u00f1ors @ Scale (LinkedIn, Instagram), where I talk to senior engineers about what it really takes to scale code, teams, and yourself. This week\u2019s guest is Angel Paredes, Engineering Manager at Datadog, and previously Staff Engineer at Glovo and Tech Lead at PayPal. We dig into: Why he left test tooling\u2026 and why it pulled him back What it's like managing 15 engineers across frontend and libraries Hot takes on AI-assisted interviews and spotting real candidates Surviving giant monorepos (like the one that takes 30 mins to clone) How confere"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 44722290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44722290", "by": "kiliankoe", "time": 1753791019, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The most recent episode of the podcast Science Vs explored this in detail: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autism-the-real-reason... The rise in autism rates (5x over the last 25 years) is almost entirely explained by changes in how autism is defined, diagnosed, and detected. Not by an actual surge in underlying cases or any specific environmental trigger like vaccines, air pollution, heavy metals, plastics, or screen time."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 44735483, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735483", "by": "piker", "time": 1753889135, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Aside from the actual product, On the Metal / Oxide and Friends are really great podcasts that manage to make programming topics entertaining and educational. Bryan Cantrill is wildly entertaining and knowledgeable at the same time. His co-hosts and guests are great, too, and I attribute a lot of that to feeding off of his energy and storytelling. Highly recommend, especially for Rust folks."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 44735765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735765", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1753890549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Love the blog post with a one-off art direction! Also love the Oxide and Friends podcast! What strikes me most lately about Oxide since falling into their hefty episode backlog, is their book club culture. I really appreciate the ability to get a fly on the wall experience of it, I learn a lot! https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/"}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 44736940, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736940", "by": "wetwater", "time": 1753895975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If only they bring back their \"On the metal\" podcast. That podcast scratched an itch I didnt knew I had ."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44747972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747972", "by": "827a", "time": 1753983094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jensen Huang has mentioned something like this similarly before: (iirc) When asked if he would change anything about his life if he could do it all over again, he says something like: if I had to do this all over again knowing what I know now, I wouldn't. If you actually knew the sacrifice and difficulty of that path upfront, deeply knew it and understood it fully in a way only having experienced it can create, essentially no one would walk that path, not even if it meant becoming one of the richest people in the world at the end. The flip-side of that is a quote from DHH on a recent Lex Fried"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44748543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44748543", "by": "rolandog", "time": 1753986218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm of the opinion that our failure (as a society) to prevent this type of attrition of democracy \u2014 death by a thousand papercuts \u2014 will be lead to catastrophic tipping points. As a ChemEng, I can't help but compare the current coordinated attack on the democratic rule of governments worldwide to having multiple batches of emulsions undergoing phase-inversion [0]: only so much fascism can be added before things collapse into a greasy turd. That democracy is not robust does not mean it is not good nor something worth aspiring to. I would argue that the root cause of the sad state of democracies"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 44750258, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750258", "by": "miohtama", "time": 1753996512, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Everlaw, a platform providing verifiable RAG to help legal professionals analyze large volumes of discovery documents, requires precise semantic matching across millions of specialized texts. Through internal benchmarks, Everlaw found gemini-embedding-001 to be the best, achieving 87% accuracy in surfacing relevant answers from 1.4 million documents filled with industry-specific and complex legal terms, surpassing Voyage (84%) and OpenAI (73%) models. Furthermore, Gemini Embedding's Matryoshka property enables Everlaw to use compact representations, focusing essential information in fewer di"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 44750572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750572", "by": "dlojudice", "time": 1753998499, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's really cool to see Odd Lots being mentioned here on HN. It's one of my favorite podcasts. However, I think the guest for this particular episode wasn't up to the task of answering questions and exploring the possibilities of using AI in the legal world."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 44750804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750804", "by": "pedalpete", "time": 1754000324, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm currently listinging to Founders Podcast - The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari[1] Though some of the points may be correct under current management, I think this quote would have Enzo turning in his grave \"We are not \u2013 we are not \u2013 a car company. We are a luxury company that is also doing cars.\" This playbook where you put your brand on a bunch of random things to sell, while the prime focus gets watered down only works for a short period of time. Aston tried the same thing, going so far as putting their badge on child strollers. The car industry is going through such upheaval that much of this "}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 44771314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771314", "by": "chrisgd", "time": 1754167699, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sold-a-story/id1649580... A link to the multi episode podcast this article is the basis of. Incredible reporting"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44774181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44774181", "by": "infogulch", "time": 1754197315, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was Terrance Tao on the Lex Friedman podcast recently that said that there are very often little mistakes in big proofs, but they are almost always able to be patched around. Its like mathematicians' intuition is tracking some underlying reality and the actual formalization is flexible. Yes sometimes digging down into a small mistake leads to an unbridgeable gap and that route has to be abandoned, but uncannily often such issues have nearby solutions."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 44779521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44779521", "by": "compiler-guy", "time": 1754253218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR\u2019s Planet Money had a podcast about this a few months ago. I see several assertions and claims that it deals with made here without any evidence or discussion as to why. TLDR: Yes the dollar is weakening as a reserve currency. But the decline has been long and slow and it is not clear what, if anything, will replace it. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191994/reserve-currency-d..."}, {"show": "1520403988", "hn_item": 44781004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781004", "by": "apwell23", "time": 1754266683, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "i just heard a podcast about it last week on 'the ancients' https://open.spotify.com/episode/3h431IBsszlEVcfUThij6B?si=9..."}, {"show": "1498802610", "hn_item": 44781752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781752", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1754276428, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 44784745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784745", "by": "pseufaux", "time": 1754309429, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Talk Python podcast just did an episode adjacent to this https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/513/stories-from-python-..."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 44784941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784941", "by": "layer8", "time": 1754310860, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Presenting such numbers to motivate management is a frequent advice on the Soft Skills Engineering podcast [0]. I agree that their (the numbers\u2019) meaningfulness is often doubtful. [0] https://softskills.audio/"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 44787471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787471", "by": "emehex", "time": 1754322405, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Would highly recommend listening to the latest Hard Fork podcast with Matthew Prince (CEO, Cloudflare): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/podcasts/hardfork-age-res... I was skeptical about their gatekeeping efforts at first, but came away with a better appreciation for the problem and their first pass at a solution."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 44788678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44788678", "by": "crossroadsguy", "time": 1754327466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was recently listening to Cloudflare CEO on the Hard Fork podcast. He seemed to be selling a way for content creators to stop AI companies from profiting off such leeching. But the way he laid the whole thing out, adding how they are best placed to do this because they are gatekeepers of X% of the Internet (I don't recall the exact percentage), had me more concerned than I was at the prospect of AI companies being the front of summarised or interpreted consumption. He went on, upfront \u2014 I\u2019d give him that, to explain how he is expecting a certain percentage of that income that will come from "}, {"show": "1634274122", "hn_item": 44806703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806703", "by": "thatrandybrown", "time": 1754444201, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I feel so strongly about this topic that I recorded a podcast episode on it with my at the time business partner[1]. I think that maybe the only relevant reason to have a synchronous standup is to align on the biggest problem to solve in the next workday. A standup of this model goes something like this: what is the goal for the day? What support is needed to make it happen? etc. [1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-stand-ups/id163... -- skip to about 10:00 to hear the above."}, {"show": "1828967504", "hn_item": 44812498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812498", "by": "eatonphil", "time": 1754490469, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 44820292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820292", "by": "charlesabarnes", "time": 1754537388, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wholeheartedly agree, however The Changelog Podcast helped shift my perspective on this. It's really about not having the responsibility of storing and maintaining passwords."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 44821068, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44821068", "by": "wewewedxfgdf", "time": 1754546080, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Rod Canion interviewed on \"How I Built This\" https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/compaq-computers-rod-c..."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 44826458, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826458", "by": "bredren", "time": 1754583354, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you have it right, there is a brief discussion on semantic linting in this recent interview with Boris Cherny and Catherine Wu on the Latent Space podcast related to AI-assisted CLI behavior here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDmW5hJPsvQ&t=1760s I've not explored this use of CC yet, anyone actively using AI-assisted CLI in CI/CD? Not automated PR review but either to semantically pass / fail an MR or some other use of terminal-capable, multi-context mashup during CI/CD?"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44827643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827643", "by": "sebastiennight", "time": 1754588268, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After 2 years of the All-in podcast, I can't believe I still fell for it."}, {"show": "1501905538", "hn_item": 44836921, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836921", "by": "unripe_syntax", "time": 1754660951, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 44847629, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44847629", "by": "mehra-vaayushop", "time": 1754755552, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Guys - I am reverse engineering chatGPT - pre-launch GTM work...Prior to 2018 that led to its viral loop in 2019... it seems quite intriguing & has a pattern for innovative products...but not playbook... Could other ppl share their insights for GTMs of innovative products? (Beyond obvious GTM engines for startups) for context - Our product is like salesforce agentforce & I am putting GTM engine now...we are humble startup with some angel funding...so have to be super frugal. Curious case of chatGPT pre-launch GTM My curosity - how come an unkown product(pre-2018) - which wasn't even thought/pr"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 44862990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44862990", "by": "RossBencina", "time": 1754911536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Jane Street podcast was a very approachable explanation, and was interesting to me for a few reasons: (1) that EU regulation requires their timestamps to be within 100 microseconds of UTC, and (2) they claim to achieve 20 microsecond accuracy using hardware-timestamped NTP synched to local NTP time servers, the NTP servers then being synced to off-the-shelf GPS masters using PTP, (3) they really didn't like the idea of running PTP on all of their switching infrastructure (even though running PTP boundary clocks on all of your switches is the obvious way to go), (4) they weren't doing anyth"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 44875466, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44875466", "by": "fnord123", "time": 1755002290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Discussed on The Changelog podcast: https://changelog.com/podcast/651"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44881552, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44881552", "by": "mathattack", "time": 1755031085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On a recent Mindscape podcast Sean Carroll mentioned that rationalists are rational about everything except accusations that they're not being rational."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44883154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883154", "by": "vitorbaptistaa", "time": 1755042750, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I understood, the initial motivation wasn't technical, but related to Apple's practices around a closed app store and the 30% tax on every purchase. He explained it both on Lex Fridman's podcast at [1] and a bit on [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDi8u3WMj0 [2] https://world.hey.com/dhh/living-with-linux-and-android-afte..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 44887216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887216", "by": "xvector", "time": 1755085104, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You clearly aren't discussing in good faith if your response to the write up above is essentially \"right wing thought detected, opinion rejected.\" What an excellent demonstration of shutting off factual information to support your own biases. - You know nothing about the CA housing market vs income and income tax, or my personal situation, but you simply assume I'm lying. - You're intentionally sticking your head in the sand because you think the paper is from a \"right wing think tank\" - regardless of the fact that an extremely well-respected fiscally liberal podcast, Freakonomics, supported t"}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 44888178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888178", "by": "adolph", "time": 1755091659, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For folks interested in more about QNX, Software Engineering Daily podcast did an interview with folks from there. It is titled \"Secure Communications\" but the entry few minutes traces the roots of QNX and a bit about how they use a microkernel architecture in order to increase reliability. One of the interviewees, John Wall, has been at QNX since 1993 with a focus on automotive applications. Episode: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/02/06/secure-commu... Transcript: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44891102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891102", "by": "llm_nerd", "time": 1755105170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Boomer C-Suites who fancy themselves Enterprise Tech executives and are happy to throw humans at any problem were happy buying off the Gartner catalog and then hitting the golf course. Today, millennial CEOs and CTOs get their analysis and news sources from X, /r/LocalLlama, the All In Podcast, Semianalysis Substacks, any number of YouTubes and Podcasts.\" This reads like parody. I see another post in here talking about \"Boomer catch phrasing\" (in a word salad comment) which is simply hilarious. While this millennial thought guru seems to think their age defines them, I think the rest of us re"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44891757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891757", "by": "intvocoder", "time": 1755108296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This passage completely undercuts the overall message the author is going for. The idea that the All In podcast or the remaining users of Twitter are authoritative is laughable."}, {"show": "1151833659", "hn_item": 44895722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44895722", "by": "ikidd", "time": 1755133855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to an episode of Open Source Security Podcast and they talked about making EOL of opensource dependencies a CVE type. I think it bears thought."}, {"show": "1646923593", "hn_item": 44898287, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898287", "by": "JaggerJo", "time": 1755161795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "DarkLang which was initially written in OCaml eventually switched to F#. From what I remember the main reasons were the library ecosystem and concurrency. I'm know .NET in and out, so I might be biased. Most of the boring parts have multiple good solutions that I can pick from. I don't have to spend time on things that are not essential to the problem I actually want to solve. I've used F# professionally for multiple years and maintain a quite popular UI library written in it. But even with .NET there still are gaps because of the smaller F# language ecosystem. Not everything \"just works\" betw"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 44907451, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907451", "by": "Smeevy", "time": 1755218823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I wouldn't say that I'm arguing in bad faith so much as recognizing yet another situation like this: https://www.readtpa.com/p/innuendo-studios-card-says-moops-s... Let's look at \"rich flight\" through the lens that is not colored with difference to the affluent. The idea here is that, if you make rich folk pay more taxes, they'll pack up their hoard pile of gold, jewels, and dwarf skeletons and fly away to somewhere they're less taxed and more appreciated. That sounds great until you realize that rich people have massive roots in the places they live. Their expensive homes and professional liv"}, {"show": "1295957854", "hn_item": 44915097, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915097", "by": "djij", "time": 1755278892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The SHWEP (Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast) is also great for getting into the esoteric from an academic bent, Highly recommended for those with the stomach to deep dive into obscure primary sources https://shwep.net/"}, {"show": "1539292794", "hn_item": 44918701, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918701", "by": "7402", "time": 1755303057, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ">I don't understand where they think this is going ... This statement could be taken two ways: 1) it's purely rhetorical, i.e., there is no possible explanation for what Israel is doing and there literally is no possible way to do any analysis of it, or 2) it's a statement of lack of knowledge, i.e., I don't understand this; maybe someone else can explain it to me. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume #2. The way to understand the Israeli point of view is to read the Israeli press and listen to Israeli political analysts, of which there are many. That shouldn't be a controversial "}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 44923392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44923392", "by": "anotherpaul", "time": 1755351999, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I can recommend the science vs Podcast. They did an episode on it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creatine-a-hack-to-get... As per usual: supplements are not that marvelous as the influencers say."}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 44923449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44923449", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1755352411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> e.g. if you are a quiet, introverted person then there probably isn't much you can do if you are interviewing for a job that requires an outgoing personality like sales or event planning Learning how to talk to people, read a room, small talk, etc can be learned. I\u2019m definitely an introvert by nature. But people in a professional setting are really not that much different than computer systems. Once you understand different type of personalities, you learn what input gets you what output. The Career Tools/Manager Tools podcasts has dozens of podcasts about dealing with people with different "}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 44923449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44923449", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1755352411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> e.g. if you are a quiet, introverted person then there probably isn't much you can do if you are interviewing for a job that requires an outgoing personality like sales or event planning Learning how to talk to people, read a room, small talk, etc can be learned. I\u2019m definitely an introvert by nature. But people in a professional setting are really not that much different than computer systems. Once you understand different type of personalities, you learn what input gets you what output. The Career Tools/Manager Tools podcasts has dozens of podcasts about dealing with people with different "}, {"show": "1493025986", "hn_item": 44933611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933611", "by": "coffeefirst", "time": 1755454338, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Anyone who's interested in this should check out https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors-vs-ai-can-chat... >, where 3 professional therapists grade ChatGPT. It's lengthy but it's fascinating. Everyone can reach their own conclusions, but my read on this is LLMs continue to be incredible research tools. If you want to dive into what's been written about the brain, managing stress, tricky relationships, or the human experience generally, it will pull together all sorts of stuff for you that isn't bad. I think we're we've gotten into serious trouble is the robot will play a role other than "}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 44943168, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44943168", "by": "therobots927", "time": 1755538188, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The \u201cBetter Offline\u201d podcast has been warning that this was coming for months now. It\u2019s incredible to me that AI evangelists have managed to focus the entire conversation on LLM \u201cusefulness\u201d without even mentioning costs. It allows them to play a game of smoke and mirrors where no one actually knows the true cost of an API call and there is no predictable cost model. Most AI companies can be safely assumed to be running at a loss and if they can\u2019t figure out how to make these models a lot more efficient, dreams of replacing software engineers will face the same reality as dreams of self drivin"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44951865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951865", "by": "MPLan", "time": 1755613249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Should we care about Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? Does GDP reflect what matters? Is GDP a good measure? Recently, an influential tech podcaster and interviewer, Dwarkesh Patel, brought up the topic in the following context: \"As measured by GDP, AI will be super undervalued. How would the datacenter of geniuses show up in GDP? GDP would show raw inputs (aka chip & energy), and raw outputs (aka cost of tokens). But wouldn't clearly reflect the value of the crazy new [stuff] that's being cooked up in those tokens. Similar problem to how the Internet's value is undercounted today (since many prod"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44955715, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44955715", "by": "davidivadavid", "time": 1755633851, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What's most puzzling to me is how at this point a larger part of SV hasn't distanced itself with All-in Podcast-adjacent people a lot more vocally. I think the lasting power of that region hinges on some important voices doing that sooner rather than later, because they're actively damaging the whole brand of SV at this point."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 44956977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956977", "by": "davidivadavid", "time": 1755643884, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everyone in Silicon Valley agrees with the All-in Podcast clowns? Nah. PG himself has had beef with David Sacks. It's just surprisingly quiet."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 44965275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965275", "by": "shadowgovt", "time": 1755717412, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One of the more interesting parts of that story is that in that time, the fascists actually tried a takeover of the US government, executing on a plan to sideline the President and replace him with a shadow government. Fortunately, they failed. They tried to recruit a populist veteran into their ranks who had no particular love for a government that had abused its World War I veterans... But had less love for a bunch of (essentially) early-twentieth-century technocrats that had profited off the sacrifices of the veterans. He refused to keep the conspiracy and blew the lid off it, and his reput"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 44971124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44971124", "by": "general1726", "time": 1755772675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Joe Rogan podcast with Zuckerberg few months ago where he was claiming that this year (2025) he will have AI which can replace mid level engineer."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 44974816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44974816", "by": "black_puppydog", "time": 1755794249, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've seen the John Oliver videos and all, so I know this comes as a surprise to no-one but... the US needs to get its act together and build some actual infrastructure. I've heard lots of encouraging stories on the Volts podcast about it, too. Not enough, not fast enough, from what I understand. I'm 38 and I've had power go out in my house for lots of reasons, but all of them came down to me blowing a fuse somehow. I can't remember ever having had an actual, you know, power outage. So I guess I just here to tell you over there in the US that another way is possible. :)"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 44975909, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975909", "by": "padjo", "time": 1755798881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Weinstein released his Geometric Unity paper on April 1, debuting it on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast We live in deeply unserious times."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44978445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978445", "by": "antognini", "time": 1755812630, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As a counterbalance to the \"renegade\" character of these kinds of podcasts I do recommend Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. He does a good job representing the \"establishment\" position in physics, so to speak. A good episode to start with is \"The Crisis in Physics\" in which he (unusually?) argues that there is no real crisis in physics. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/31/245-..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 44979368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44979368", "by": "AIorNot", "time": 1755818585, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems like this thread has become a referendum on Sabine - who along with Lex is the more popular of the podcasters mentioned But I think that\u2019s a pity and we need to acknowledge the great value they all these podcasts bring instead of just complaining about audience capture and various biases of one - we\u2019re all human - if Einstein or Newton had or was on a podcast we\u2019d be criticizing it just the same IMHO. Human nature being what it is. Also we should be following a wider variety of communicators and voices rather than simply crowing one king and ignoring and unfollowing the rest based on "}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 44979729, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44979729", "by": "ajs1998", "time": 1755821549, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I absolutely love Sean Carroll's podcast. He's so good at explaining things in terms most people can understand, but also not afraid to get into the weeds and spend an hour building up to a point. Also not afraid of politics or how he will be seen by taking a political stance. He seems like a great guy on top of being an excellent communicator."}, {"show": "1469999563", "hn_item": 44980531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980531", "by": "freetime2", "time": 1755830773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I highly recommend watching this debate (I use the term very loosely here) between Weinstein and Sean Carroll - and particularly this exchange about 37 minutes in: https://youtu.be/5m7LnLgvMnM?&t=2269 Carroll basically reads off two sections from Weinstein's paper [1] and points out that the reason the physics community isn't paying attention to it is because it's not a serious paper worthy of most working physicists' time. In fact, Weinstein even goes out of his way to actively discourage rigorous consideration of his paper: On the first page: > The Author is not a physicist and is no longer "}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 44981158, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981158", "by": "neom", "time": 1755839059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The CEO of Every was on Lenny's podcast recently talking about this \"compound engineering\" idea they have at their startup: https://youtu.be/crMrVozp_h8?si=O8Ahy_e2cBXuKXPq&t=2489 (Full disclosure, they use and talk about the agent I'm building)"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 44981657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981657", "by": "dothereading", "time": 1755845340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Andy Matuschak! His podcast with Dwarkesh was so enlightening and his blog is great as well. He's one of those people whose work I go back and read every couple of months and I always learn something new"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 44985309, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985309", "by": "morninglight", "time": 1755873955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Amazon's problems with fraudulent memory products were well documented in 2023 when GRC published their test results for a dozen such drives purchased from the site. In response, GRC developed a free program, called \"ValiDrive\", to scan and test drives for this growing problem. ValiDrive performs a quick, random-sequence spot-check across the drive's entire declared storage space. At every location it verifies the successful storage and retrieval of random (unspoofable) test data. https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm The program has been extensively tested, is freely downloadable and comes from a"}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 44995235, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995235", "by": "EdwardCoffin", "time": 1755949155, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Oxide and Friends podcast [1] did a whole episode on this: Coder's Block (25 Oct 2021) [2]. It had some good stuff in it, the best of which (for me) was: when stuck, write debugging infrastructure. [1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm [2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/coders-bloc... Edit: punctuation"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 45004108, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45004108", "by": "JustExAWS", "time": 1756042056, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW: I\u2019m Black. Political correctness goes much further than politeness. I was 46 when I entered BigTech (no longer there) in 2020. Of course the famous master vs main. But you were also chastised for saying \u201cyou guys\u201d - even though the women said as much as the men, if you didn\u2019t put the proper pronouns under your profile. I got chastised for saying \u201cwar room\u201d. I heard an anecdote that now \u201cpow wow\u201d wasn\u2019t allowed. One podcast I listen to - Stuff You Should Know - replayed an old episode and added a disclaimer up front apologizing because the episode was about pregnancy complications and in "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45008949, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008949", "by": "MrCoffee7", "time": 1756080170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Those are some pretty sweeping allegations made in the 18 bullet points. It would be interesting if you could run an AI summarizer to list which points were raised during Lex's podcast that support each of the 18 bullet points, and then run some kind of AI fact checker on each supporting argument. That makes me wonder if there are any people or discussion forums that are already doing fact checking of Lex's podcasts? It looks like some researchers are beginning to study the issue of fact checking podcasts, eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01402 ."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 45014738, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014738", "by": "atlanta90210", "time": 1756134718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve Gibson also does a show called Security Now with Leo. One of the best IT security podcasts out here. He knows so much about IT and IT security it is amazing. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now Long Live Steve Gibson"}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 45018592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45018592", "by": "teekert", "time": 1756153683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's just a dude that fell in love with an OS, let him enjoy it. Many people went through this phase, except he is very influential and high energy, so we hear a lot about his particular honeymoon. I for one am really enjoying his journey. Reminds me of myself when I first discovered Linux. I don't evangelize anymore, I helped to many people onto Linux only to have to watch them completely hate it, it's too painful ;) Sure, a nice configuration.nix to try Ohmanix would be great, and much more convenient, easier to maintain and evolve than DHH's scripts. But that is not the point. Maybe he will"}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 45022234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022234", "by": "mustache_kimono", "time": 1756181970, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> What do you need this accurate time for? Securities regulation?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/signals-and-threads/id..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45024048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45024048", "by": "PaulRobinson", "time": 1756198652, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was a full-time Rubyist for a long time. I started the UK's first dedicated Ruby on Rails consultancy in 2006 before Rails was even v1.0 (IIRC the first apps I shipped back then were 0.8.6). I stuck around through the hype chain, and then started to help one employer break up a RoR monolith into micro services and adopt Java and Go (this was a mistake - we should have crafted the monolith better). I've built 4 startups as hands-on CTO with Ruby and Rails. It fed and housed me for many years. In the last 5-7 years I've had to go in other directions. Clojure, Python, Java, even back to C and t"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45024104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45024104", "by": "schappim", "time": 1756199154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What looks like stagnation to Steen is actually [1] Matz\u2019s remarkable foresight that provided stability and developer happiness. Steen\u2019s not wrong that Python evolved and Ruby moved slower, but he\u2019s wrong to call Ruby stagnant or irrelevant. Just think what we've enjoyed in recent times: YJIT and MJIT massively improved runtime performance, ractors, the various type system efforts (RBS/Sorbet etc) that give gradual typing without cluttering the language etc. Ruby\u2019s priorities (ergonomics, DSLs, stability) are different[2] from Python\u2019s (standardisation, academia/data). It\u2019s a matter of taste a"}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 45030136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030136", "by": "shafoshaf", "time": 1756231565, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is a great podcast on philosophy in general, but this episode on Technofeudalism https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SjdkYzdSp6tHTdD2o1OAe?si=8... talks directly about the state of Big Tech taking over the capitalist free market. The same as is happening with large scale industries like you mention."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45031035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031035", "by": "loudmax", "time": 1756236225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "David Reich was on the Dwarkesh podcast about a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI It's a really good interview. Recommended if you're an amateur wanting to understand more about human prehistory."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 45031184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031184", "by": "sherr", "time": 1756236806, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That guest is Dominic Sandbrook, one half of the excellent \"Rest is History\" podcast. You can't make an omellete without breaking a few eggs, after all. That was Lenin, supposedly. edit: spelling of \"one\""}, {"show": "1570872415", "hn_item": 45031593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031593", "by": "timr", "time": 1756238356, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Current administration is not aligned with labor and poor people are the one who will pay the most. You might want to tell labor. I just listened to an hour-long podcast with the Teamsters leader, where he revealed that over half of their members supported Trump in the most recent election: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-unions-went-for-tr..."}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 45032589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45032589", "by": "michaelt", "time": 1756244059, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As you might imagine, a two-hour-long podcast in a series named \"Tech Won't Save Us\" has time to explore many avenues of criticism. Obviously, to summarise I have to remove the supporting examples, and the dozens of different people being interviewed. To be clear, the journalists aren't personally making all the criticisms, just interviewing other people, so if some of the following seems to contradict itself, that's why. A fair chunk of the podcast involves explaining the context to a broad audience. You know, explaining what a data centre is, outlining the cloud market and its major players,"}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 45036308, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036308", "by": "aosaigh", "time": 1756277949, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't personally know much about her, but Decoding the Gurus recently did a short update podcast on her content (they've spoken about her before): https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decodin... Their podcast revolves around discussing people seen as gurus/grifters and the various tendencies they exhibit and I usually trust it as a sensible source. It sounds like she's started to follow the algorithm and has changed a lot recently in her position on various topics."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 45036836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036836", "by": "benrutter", "time": 1756282694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> software quality doesn't appear because you have good developers. It's the end result of a process, and that process informs both your software development practices, but also your testing. Your management. Even your sales and servicing. If you only take one thing away from this article, it should be this one! The Therac-25 incident is a horrifying and important part of software history, it's really easy to think type-systems, unit-testing and defensive-coding can solve all software problems. They definitely can help a lot, but the real failure in the story of the Therac-25 from my understan"}, {"show": "1487829595", "hn_item": 45036875, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036875", "by": "haddonist", "time": 1756283253, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well There's Your Problem podcast, Episode 121: Therac-25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQT1gVsE6I"}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 45049110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45049110", "by": "kevlened", "time": 1756362825, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Science Vs just explored the rise in autism [0]. Maureen Durkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, just presented a paper [1] (currently in peer review) studying 8 year olds from 2000 to 2016, categorizing and counting autism severity over time. The most severe cases were unchanged, or decreased, and the largest change was in those with no measurable functional limitations. This unpublished paper suggests that identification of children with milder symptoms is the strongest driver. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/autism-the-real-reason... [1] \"Trends in the Pr"}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 45051774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051774", "by": "kylemacomber", "time": 1756386915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This isn't exhaustive, but quickly top of my head: - How to Win Friends and Influence People \u2014 This was really eye opening to me and helped me more productively engage in a large organization like Apple. - Sam Harris's podcast \u2014 I'm always interested to hear his takes on the controversial topics of the day as well as more philosophical and philanthropic ones. - The Knowledge Project podcast \u2014 I don't listen to this as much anymore but a few years ago I was a regular listener. - Simon Willison\u2019s blog \u2014 The highest signal to noise way I've found to stay up to date with developments in AI."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45054593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054593", "by": "827a", "time": 1756401223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the latest NYT Hard Fork podcast [1]. The hosts were invited to a dinner hosted by Sam, where Sam said \"we're profitable if we remove training from the equation\", they report he turned to Lightcap (COO) and asked \"right?\" and Lightcap gave an \"eeekk we're close\". They aren't yet profitable even just on inference, and its possible Sam didn't know that until very recently. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/podcasts/is-this-an-ai-bu..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45057517, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057517", "by": "jacurtis", "time": 1756418269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent episode of Hard Fork podcast, the hosts discussed an on-the-record conversation they had with Sam Altman from OpenAI. They asked him about profitability and he claimed that they are losing money mostly because of the cost of training. But as the model advances, they will train less and less. Once you take training out of the equation he claimed they were profitable based on the cost of serving the trained foundation models to users at current prices. Now, when he said that, his CFO corrected him and said they aren't profitable, but said \"it's close\". Take that with a grain of salt,"}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 45058644, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058644", "by": "daveguy", "time": 1756427824, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I would be very interested in reading about huge bubbles in railroad, airline, or any other industry. Do you happen to have references (genuinely asking; the original article didn't include any references)? Edits-- Found one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893 Another good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Utility_Holding_Company... (from cake_robot here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056621 ) For reference, apple and spotify links to the Derek Thompson podcast in reply below (thank you!): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-der... https://open.sp"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45058714, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058714", "by": "mcintyre1994", "time": 1756428432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the latest episode of the Hard Fork podcast, they mentioned they\u2019d just been at an on the record dinner with OpenAI. According to them, Sam said they\u2019re profitable if you exclude the cost of training new models, but his CFO corrected him and said they\u2019re close to that."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45059415, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45059415", "by": "827a", "time": 1756434706, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I should have provided a direct quote: > At first, he answered, no, we would be profitable, if not for training new models. Essentially, if you take away all the stuff, all the money we\u2019re spending on building new models and just look at the cost of serving the existing models, we are profitable on that basis. And then he looked at Brad Lightcap, who is the COO. And he sort of said, right? And Brad kind of squirmed in his seat a little bit and was like, well \u2014 He\u2019s like, we\u2019re pretty close. I don't think you can square that with what he stated in the Axios article: > \"We're profitable on infer"}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 45078638, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078638", "by": "Renaud", "time": 1756593973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It seems Circuit Hub is an alternative. Still more expensive than JLC, but not as high as other US alternatives. https://www.circuithub.com/ Their CEO Andrew Seddon was recently on the AmpHour podcast: https://theamphour.com/699-circuithub-12-years-later-with-an..."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 45083202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083202", "by": "jermaustin1", "time": 1756648908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I guess they've upped their pricing a bit, or I made that up, I was going off memory from a podcast I listened to a while back (Planet Money maybe?)."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45084322, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45084322", "by": "bradt", "time": 1756656987, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The large outlets seem to be making subscriptions work, though it does seem to be challenging for them. Ironically, the NYT is constantly running ads in The Daily podcast to subscribe to the NYT to support their journalism. It seems the smaller publishers really struggle to make subscriptions work."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 45093160, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093160", "by": "gadders", "time": 1756738670, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to Dominic Sandbrook the other day (from \"The Rest is History\" podcast). His point was that if you had to pick any empire through history to live in (without knowing your place in it - a sort of Rawlsian Veil), you would probably pick the British Empire. It wasn't perfect, but more benevolent than a lot of other empires."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 45095725, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095725", "by": "upboundspiral", "time": 1756754373, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I don't have experience in the subject but recently listened to a podcast episode discussing the tension between open source and building a sustainable business by Oxide and Friends. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-source-and-capita... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-source-anti-patte..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45099839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099839", "by": "jupiterelastica", "time": 1756795520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related BBC podcast \"In Our Time\" about Doggerland, a landmass which was inhabited about ~10k years ago, but is now submerged in the north sea. https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m0006707"}, {"show": "1821055332", "hn_item": 45109495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109495", "by": "andrewgleave", "time": 1756849504, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> \u201cThere's kind of like two different ways you could describe what's happening in the model business right now. So, let's say in 2023, you train a model that costs 100 million dollars. > > And then you deploy it in 2024, and it makes $200 million of revenue. Meanwhile, because of the scaling laws, in 2024, you also train a model that costs a billion dollars. And then in 2025, you get $2 billion of revenue from that $1 billion, and you spend $10 billion to train the model. > > So, if you look in a conventional way at the profit and loss of the company, you've lost $100 million the first year, y"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45112264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112264", "by": "willemlaurentz", "time": 1756873922, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "More than 50% of the Apple Podcast app's homescreen is dedicated to content I didn't request, just look at it: https://willem.com/en/2025-01-27_podcast-downloader/i_00_Lef... I really wanted something simpler and following a simple podcast downloader script in bash I made a native Android app that plays these files. Its party trick is that it remembers where you've left, useful if you like deep dives like the Lex Fridman podcast (multi hour listening). Post on the player: https://willem.com/en/2025-08-29_auscultare-podcast-audioboo... Post on the script: https://willem.com/en/2025-01-27_podcas"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 45112679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45112679", "by": "slau", "time": 1756879598, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s on purpose. Search Engine, the podcast, has a two part episode on why: Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything? [1]. I didn\u2019t know there was fentanyl in weed before this episode. Short answer: junkies are always looking for next greater high. A occasional dead customer isn\u2019t that much bad rep for a dealer. It\u2019s a calling card; a proof he\u2019s got the good stuff. It\u2019s not the cartels doing the lacing. It\u2019s the middlemen and the final dealers. [1]: https://www.searchengine.show/why-are-drug-dealers-putting-f..."}, {"show": "6798918793", "hn_item": 45114679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45114679", "by": "gamefeeluk", "time": 1756900433, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 45117109, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117109", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1756914213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just finished listening to it yesterday! My first time with it, excellent stuff, but not topping Mingus Ah Um! I've been on a Jazz kick since listening to an episode of Kirk Hamilton's Strong Songs podcast about John Williams[1]\u2014which was an excellent listen and I learned tons\u2014that touched on Jazz and Mingus in particular. 1: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s05e05-john-wi..."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45124373, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124373", "by": "avian", "time": 1756969185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Our Time has been my favorite podcast to listen. It made me appreciate how well moderated a discussion among experts can be and how poorly most moderators on other radio programs or conference panels do their jobs. My complaint with In Our Time is that BBC started inserting the \"this program is supported by ads outside of the U.K.\" ads in the middle of the discussions. The ads start and end with an extremely annoying loud chime that just blows out the speakers if I have the volume turned up to understand a guest that's speaking in a more soft voice."}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45124470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124470", "by": "haunter", "time": 1756969980, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ada-lovelace/id7333089... or here https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YjqWk1rqxANmNifyUW92B or here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092j0x (to download the mp3 file) BBC Sounds not available outside of the UK anymore"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45124731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124731", "by": "mellosouls", "time": 1756972170, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its odd that when places like HN or Reddit ask for favourite podcasts the amazing resources of BBC radio (that precede all modern internet podcasts and the best of which still wipe the floor with most of them) are often forgotten. In Our Time represents the best of the form, and the BBC, and that's significantly down to the excellence of Bragg. The archive (you may need a VPN outside the UK): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Some curated lists: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMR..."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 45124922, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124922", "by": "calpaterson", "time": 1756973897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> the amazing resources of BBC radio (that precede all modern internet podcasts and the best of which still wipe the floor with most of them) are often forgotten I don't know, there are some definite bright spots like IOT but the typical output of Radio 4 is definitely not massively in advance of the big podcasts. The Rest Is History/Politics are clearly hugely popular inside the UK and basically constitute \"the competition\" for your average R4 listener. I actually think that the podcast model is a big threat for traditional radio. Podcasts are much more lucrative for the makers, the reach is "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 45126304, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126304", "by": "erehweb", "time": 1756987290, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See (listen?) also the Radiolab episode https://radiolab.org/podcast/slippery-mystery"}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45132641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132641", "by": "rafram", "time": 1757022751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can listen to In Our Time on every podcast app from anywhere in the world, just like any other podcast."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 45132700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132700", "by": "cols", "time": 1757023173, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sad to hear this. All the best to Mr. Bragg. Related note: The Empire podcast w/ Anita Anand and William Dalrymple has been my latest favorite history podcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(podcast)"}, {"show": "1778054596", "hn_item": 45137678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137678", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1757074852, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45142698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142698", "by": "tony", "time": 1757100822, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Chris Lattner also has a very good episode on Lex Fridman (Episode 381, June 2nd, 2023): - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6flH0XxwdIbayoXTHOgAfI - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/381-chris-lattner-futu... He has two other episodes on the show: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTvXbQHwWs (Episode 131, October 18th, 2020) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCd3CzGSte8 (Episode 21, May 13th, 2019)"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45151917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45151917", "by": "MikeTheRocker", "time": 1757184899, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have also really been enjoying these lectures. Sarah is quick witted and insightful. I recommend the Dwarkesh podcast to anyone interested in AI in general (though Sarah Paine lectures are completely unrelated)."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45153014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45153014", "by": "lepouet", "time": 1757194064, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes, these lectures and the interviews by Dwarkesh are really interesting, i watched most of them, anyone know another podcast in the same style I can listen to ?"}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 45168039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168039", "by": "raphaeltm", "time": 1757338280, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Certainly feels to me like it already has. I like the back and forth on the Big Technology Podcast about whether the model layer or application layer will \"win\". I think with the release of GPT-5 I'm more and more convinced that the application layer is what will matter more than the actual models. We'll find ways to get around the limitations by building systems that adapt to those limitations by wiring together different models for different use cases. Throwing more data and compute at training feels like it's over IMO."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 45168709, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168709", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1757341538, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcasts ads are definitely mutable after publishing. Dynamic ad insertion has been a thing for years. If you download an old Stuff You Should Know podcast, you will get a new ad even based on where you were when you downloaded it."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 45177563, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45177563", "by": "wnc3141", "time": 1757393633, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find this take not credible. The key quotation the article centers on. It's weird that they make this claim but then say \"but hey it's really not our place\" > \u201cAs per the Genocide Convention, the crime of genocide occurs only where there is specific \u2018intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group\u2019. The government has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.\u201d Of course its also weird that they would throw water on the scholarly and international consensus that Israel is conducting a genocide. https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45183590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183590", "by": "ForHackernews", "time": 1757432554, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's not the final word on the matter, but Nate Silver writes... > I've worked a lot with data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal agencies. In fact, an economic index based on a half-dozen of these statistics is part of our presidential election forecast, so we\u2019ve pulled this data all the way back to World War II.3 > And I consider it to be of very high quality. When BLS data is revised as more information becomes available, it\u2019s meticulously documented and explained. For more on how this works, including just how difficult the BLS\u2019s job is and how it\u2019s being made har"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45195811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195811", "by": "Agraillo", "time": 1757500958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> ... a topic that's worth only 1-3 minutes of your time It's even worse sometimes, googling some \"how to\" queries returns links to yt-videos. Even if the video is 5 minutes, it's a waste of time, because I'm usually in the middle of an ongoing process when dozens variants are evaluated and an average dedicated time for a single one is much shorter. Transcripts sometimes help. But not the native (no diarization as long as I remember). An example, Lex Fridman podcast is a good source of anecdata from famous science/tech/non-tech people and provides good transcripts on the site (but only startin"}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 45200992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200992", "by": "feross", "time": 1757525475, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 45209539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45209539", "by": "dcaustin33592", "time": 1757583036, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love NotebookLM but I find its breakdown of AI research papers a bit surface level. So I built one optimized for AI engineers and researchers called The AI Research Deep Dive on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. I spend a lot of time commuting and walking. I wanted to be able to use that time to learn about new work in AI so now I just hit play and dive into a paper. Hoping you all find it as useful as I have!"}, {"show": "1460600818", "hn_item": 45210452, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210452", "by": "astura", "time": 1757591366, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": ">non-podcaster He had a podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-charlie-kirk-show/..."}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 45215979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45215979", "by": "MBCook", "time": 1757623820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard a stat the other day in the Dithering podcast, I\u2019m not sure from where, that said that foldable phones are something like 1.7% of the market in the US. If that\u2019s close it\u2019s not why Samsung\u2018s market share increased so much. That was for ALL foldable phones of all brands. That wouldn\u2019t make statistical sense. There are people who like foldable phones. Apple does not have them. And Samsung\u2018s market share went up. Thats all we know. The rest is a catchy headline."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 45223044, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223044", "by": "docmarionum1", "time": 1757690216, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An essay I wrote tracing the 80-year evolution from Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision of the memex to Geoffrey Hinton's contemporary warnings about artificial intelligence. Shout out to the Advent of Computing podcast ( https://adventofcomputing.com/ ) for finally getting me to read Bush's classic essay. As I read it, I was struck by the parallels in AI today."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 45223528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223528", "by": "photonthug", "time": 1757692466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To know the answers to all of these questions, you should really check out the Behind the Bastards podcast because that is the whole premise. Covering the lead-up to horrible situations and the inevitable slide in fascism. It's insanely detailed about covering many, many stupid fascist bastards and a few smart ones."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 45234449, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234449", "by": "frou_dh", "time": 1757789940, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was actually an episode of the Ruby Rogues podcast released only a few days after this post that touched on much of the same stuff: https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/ruby-rogues/episodes/distrib..."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 45235387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45235387", "by": "giancarlostoro", "time": 1757798220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I forget the episode its been years but the Talk Python podcast had someone I think from the Django team mention tips on contributing to open source and one of them was start by volunteering to document things, most devs dont do it or want to do it. It forces you to know and understand the codebase and by the time you want to contribute more you know the library better."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 45238857, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45238857", "by": "p2detar", "time": 1757846275, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ancient history of this region is fascinating, and the politics of that time were not so different from today. I highly recommend the \u201cFall of Civilizations Podcast\u201d, episode 8. High quality work. https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/10/25/episode-8-..."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 45239680, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239680", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1757857150, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Seconded. The \u201cFall of Civilizations\u201d Podcast is a masterpiece."}, {"show": "1171155453", "hn_item": 45246586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246586", "by": "perlgeek", "time": 1757916262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a core symptom of a number of common psychological disorders and may be a modifiable process shared by many psychological risk factors that contribute to the development of cognitive impairment. The core assumption (or insight?) of Cognitive Therapy (and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is that our thoughts shape the way we feel. In this model, repetitive negative thoughts are actually a main cause of depression, not a symptom. If you're interested in this approach, I'd recommend the works of David Burns, for example his book \"Feeling Great\" or the Feeling "}, {"show": "1073226719", "hn_item": 45251878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45251878", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1757954582, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe Larry Ellison is rumored to be buying it per Kara Schwisher (per The Pivot podcast)"}, {"show": "1460600818", "hn_item": 45255935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255935", "by": "zahlman", "time": 1757976606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://archive.ph/KIGjp There are many things about this article that lead me to dismiss the argument it's making. The title element for the page differs: \"On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups - The New York Times\". That \"the White House plans\" this does not logically follow, so the changed headline distorts the story. TFA spends many paragraphs arguing e.g. that \"Trump administration officials... seiz[ed] on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.\" and that \"Mr. Vance and Mr. Miller spoke in vague and menacing terms"}, {"show": "6798918793", "hn_item": 45263080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263080", "by": "gamefeeluk", "time": 1758034174, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 45275614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275614", "by": "ivape", "time": 1758115894, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They are heavy into AI investing but will tell people AI startups are just toy apps (Chamath). That podcast is full of crooks. I\u2019d be willing to give them a pass as bunch of old white guy techies that just love to talk about tech, but they are literally at the dinner table with Trump and Musk. This country used to have congressional hearings on all kinds of matters from baseball to the Mafia. Tech collusion and insider knowledge is not getting investigated. The All-in podcast requires serious investigation, with question #1 being \u201chow the fuck did you guys manage to influence the White House?\u201d"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45296093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296093", "by": "abustamam", "time": 1758236774, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Maybe I'm a dinosaur but I like late night TV. I don't have cable so I just caught Colbert and The Daily Show on YouTube the next day but for some reason podcasts just don't jive with me. I can't exactly say why. There are some podcasts I'll tune into sometimes (like Ramit Seth's money for couples, or Strike Force Five which had the Jimmy's and Colbert) but other than that, nada. Rather listen to an audio book."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45298427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298427", "by": "nclps", "time": 1758262103, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a recent episode of The Daily about him - worth checking out! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/podcasts/the-daily/old-le..."}, {"show": "1376577202", "hn_item": 45309849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309849", "by": "bcraven", "time": 1758336975, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd never heard of that story before I heard the Decoder Ring episode. America sounds _wild._ https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/09/how-if-you-g..."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 45310618, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310618", "by": "alanzhuly", "time": 1758345622, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45314535, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45314535", "by": "hypeatei", "time": 1758384509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not just random right-wing accounts either, prominent conservative media figures[0] and the President[1] himself are stoking the flames by blaming the \"radical left\" and transgenders while Democrats in both Congress and the media have disavowed political violence. You can always find anonymous Twitter/Bluesky posts and go \"see they're violent!!\" but the situation on the left is clearly much different than the right. 0: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-... > The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh is, like Kirk, a high-profile right-wing media influencer and podcaster. He wrote a"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 45319111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319111", "by": "Eisenstein", "time": 1758416788, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This episode of the Search Engine podcast goes into detail about that: * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-puzzle-of-the-all-..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 45319245, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319245", "by": "j_bum", "time": 1758418495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Did you mean the Search Engine podcast..?"}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 45326608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326608", "by": "Ryder123", "time": 1758488520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Have you listened to his Common Sense podcast? He doesnt produce many episodes anymore (he talks about why in some of his most revent ones) but it used to be far more regular than Hardcore History."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45328048, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328048", "by": "dghlsakjg", "time": 1758502163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't doubt that, I was just explaining the argument. It has been recently popularized in tech circles by a viral appearance by professor Sarah Paine on the Dwarkesh podcast. I am fully willing to believe that the US royally fucked up the rebuild of Afghanistan."}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 45333047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333047", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1758547183, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was just listening to a podcast[0] talking about how the number of folks needed to create a movie is going to decrease by 90%, in part because of AI. I think these tools will absolutely hit the freelance market. More video will be produced, and the video involving humans will be at a higher standard. 0:\" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tiktok-warner-bros-and..."}, {"show": "1504360345", "hn_item": 45352805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352805", "by": "perihelions", "time": 1758661882, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Google's censorship algorithm, Michael Osterholm's podcast (famous epidemiologist and, at the time, a member of President Biden's own gold-star covid-19 advisory panel). https://x.com/cidrap/status/1420482621696618496 ( \"Our Osterholm Update podcast episode (Jul 22) was removed for \u201cmedical misinformation.\u201d\" (2021)) Most ironic thing I've ever seen. I still recall it perfectly, though it's been four years. Never, ever trust censorship algorithms or the people who control them: they are just dumb parrots that suppress all discussion of an unwanted topic, without thought or reason."}, {"show": "1818671690", "hn_item": 45356332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356332", "by": "rapsey", "time": 1758688452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I believe that their stock price is highly overflated and past performances aren't indicative of future performances You are confusing a popular, cover my ass legal statement with market truth. Past performances absolutely are indicative of future performance the vast majority of the time. They are of course not a guarantee. Inflated price is also not a particularly good indicator of future performance. A stock generally has a high valuation for a reason. > What do you mean to think that AI would deliver to its prices as it seems to be either only hyper applicable in tech and all other AI te"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 45357341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357341", "by": "JumpCrisscross", "time": 1758698803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Guessing these are surfacing due to the recent Radiolab podcast \"The Spark of Life\": https://radiolab.org/podcast/the-spark-of-life > in the spectral range of 200\u20131000 nm That's UV, visible and near IR. We know that 100-600 nm (infrared EDIT: UV) light \"can carry out photostimulation and photobiomodulation effects particularly benefiting neural stimulation, wound healing, and cancer treatment\" [1]. I'm curious what could be producing UV and visible light. Does light production tend to hang out around any particular organs or organelles? If stress causes it, I'd hypothesise it's metabolic or si"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 45359829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359829", "by": "dgrin91", "time": 1758719493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to the Radiolab podcast. I remained fairly unconvinced by the reporting on the show, but the part that really didn't make sense to me was, what is their definition of death? My (limited, non-medical) understand is that death has a bit of a spectrum associated with it. At what point does this light stop emitting? When you flatline exactly?"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 45360521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360521", "by": "hoistbypetard", "time": 1758722379, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Behind the Bastards podcast episodes covering Frank Lorenzo might be right down your alley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmGff5f-Ug (They are available from all the usual podcast places, but it just happens that the youtube mirror is the easiest way I know to link a specific episode.)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 45375025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375025", "by": "bckmn", "time": 1758818068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "[Accidental Tech Podcast]( https://atp.fm/ ) has been valuable to me for years."}, {"show": "730188152", "hn_item": 45385038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45385038", "by": "throw0101c", "time": 1758884058, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Trump originally brought up the idea of less frequent company reporting during his first term, and there were some rumbles of bringing back the idea recently. This article is from his first term: > This is exactly backward: more frequent reporting makes the data less significant. In the real world, human behavior emphasizes what occurs less often \u2014 meaning doing something less frequently gives it an even greater significance than something that becomes routine or common. > That is the difference between a New Year\u2019s Eve celebration and a married couple\u2019s weekly date night. > Twice a year earni"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45387600, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45387600", "by": "fib11235", "time": 1758900358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of NYT's recent podcasts (The Daily) covered this, basically the Biden administration was reluctant to give the UAE access to Nvidia chips because of their close dealings with China. 2 weeks after this crypto investment, the white house agrees to give the UAE access to the chips. Here's an article if you're interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chi..."}, {"show": "701045710", "hn_item": 45394561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45394561", "by": "unsungNovelty", "time": 1758968363, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "CoC should facilitate free speech and thought without the worry of repurcussions. But in reality it is now a tool to say \"I don't like you/your thoughts, so here comes the hammer\". I have seen some of the flimsiest excuses used to ban someone. But the same reason doesn't warrant ban on the people the admins like. If you are actually right, then talk about in the open. Show restraint from name calling. Not everybody is out there with a hidden agenda. Lobste.rs is a great example of this. No shadow banning. Everything has a reason and accountability. Shoutout to people like JT from the BSD Now p"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 45395937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395937", "by": "tkgally", "time": 1758982813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Like the author, I used to be an avid user of dictionaries. In fact, my interest in them led to me freelance part-time as a lexicographer for a number of years. And, like the author, I find online dictionaries and apps to be a mixed bag. But the biggest problem with conventional dictionaries, whether paper or digital, is that they cannot tell you what a word means in the specific context in which you encountered it. If you come across the word canonical, to use the OP\u2019s example, and you look it up in a dictionary, the dictionary won\u2019t tell you whether, in the text you\u2019re reading, it means \u201ccon"}, {"show": "1482139274", "hn_item": 45399167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399167", "by": "Joeboy", "time": 1759005800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People who enjoyed this may also enjoy the Blocked and Reported podcast's episode about Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe, \"the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can caf\u00e9 in the world\". If I remember it right, it closed among similar drama, also specifically involving issues with the building's toilet. I have to admit to finding these things hugely entertaining. But for balance I'll point out that Housmans has been open since 1945 and Freedom since 1886. It's not the inevitable fate of radical bookshops to implode like this."}, {"show": "1504298199", "hn_item": 45399167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399167", "by": "Joeboy", "time": 1759005800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People who enjoyed this may also enjoy the Blocked and Reported podcast's episode about Glasgow's Pink Peacock cafe, \"the only queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can caf\u00e9 in the world\". If I remember it right, it closed among similar drama, also specifically involving issues with the building's toilet. I have to admit to finding these things hugely entertaining. But for balance I'll point out that Housmans has been open since 1945 and Freedom since 1886. It's not the inevitable fate of radical bookshops to implode like this."}, {"show": "1265527976", "hn_item": 45402176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402176", "by": "Duanemclemore", "time": 1759040573, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The FOC podcast folks released an episode on a paper (they didn't like) on esolangs just today. [0] Their episode on INTERCAL is an all-time classic. I'm also excited for my copy of Temkin's book to arrive! [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-take-esoteric-pro..."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 45402928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402928", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1759050970, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the transcript of the Bloomberg podcast Zero. Since I listen to the NEF one, this is another one to add. Maybe I should have gone for the 2Tb iPhone 17 for all these podcasts backing up."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 45403684, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403684", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1759060576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can\u2019t read the linked FT article but I wanted to mention that Ed Zitron\u2019s podcast Better Offline is interesting for me because he has a contrarian view of tech that is often different from my own. Some of his recent podcasts on the funky economics of excessive AI investments and data center investments vs. any real payoffs for society. I feel my own views slightly shifting when I listen to him. I value material that makes me re-visit my own assumptions about the world."}, {"show": "1796494444", "hn_item": 45406331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406331", "by": "xpointer", "time": 1759081760, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The FOC podcast is super fun and they end up discussing a few esolangs from the Forty-Four Esolangs book (Entropy, FatFinger). I'm also on a podcast about the book with Sam Arbseman (author of Magic of Code): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daniel-temkin-on-esote..."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 45410516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45410516", "by": "mayanraisins", "time": 1759122888, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sean Carroll, author of the book The Big Picture and host of the Mindscape podcast, has been this for me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll"}, {"show": "1530691206", "hn_item": 45415228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45415228", "by": "mindcrime", "time": 1759160718, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 45418776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45418776", "by": "ks2048", "time": 1759180102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not sure if there's anything interesting here, but I did notice the author was interviewed on the podcast Machine Learning Street Talk about this paper, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18Gmp2oXIM&t=3s"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45426128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45426128", "by": "alexpotato", "time": 1759243520, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was listening to the Dwarkesh Patel podcast recently and the guest (Agustin Lebron) [0] mentioned the book \"A Deepness In The Sky\" by Vernor Vinge [1]. I started reading it and a key plot point is that there is a computer system that is thousands of years old. One of the main characters has \"cold sleeped\" for so long that he's the only one who knows some of the hidden backdoors. That legacy knowledge is then used to great effect. Highly recommend it for a great fictional use of institutional knowledge on a legacy codebase (and a great story overall). 0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BBNG0T"}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 45432620, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45432620", "by": "Esophagus4", "time": 1759275349, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And the Money Stuff podcast! He and Katie are fantastic."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 45439342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439342", "by": "j_bum", "time": 1759334541, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven\u2019t listened to this podcast, but I listened to an excellent RadioLab podcast a while ago on the topic. They ended the podcast by discussing some of the ethics of \u201cfixing\u201d aphantasia, many of which I had never considered. I recall them mentioning: 1. the ethical challenge of arguing that aphantasia is something that needs \u201cfixed\u201d in the first place 2. The unknowns of what might happen to someone emotionally if they go from nothing to something. This might sound odd, but we know that hyperphantasia can be associated with schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric issues. 3. The implications"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45440641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440641", "by": "cckolon", "time": 1759340499, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45440894, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440894", "by": "BoumTAC", "time": 1759341592, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1726498892", "hn_item": 45440998, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440998", "by": "i4i", "time": 1759341980, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My understanding is that most aphantasics (like myself) can still see images while dreaming\u2014suggesting that dreaming uses a different network for visualization. I have vivid dreams most nights. Shane Williams (an aphant) hosts a podcast where he interviews people using a set of questions designed to probe their inner sensory world. From it I\u2019ve learned, for example, that some people can taste food when reading a menu, or have a conversation with a deceased loved one and actually hear their voice. One of his prompts is whether guests can place themselves inside a photo of a carnival (which he p"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45443721, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443721", "by": "jetrink", "time": 1759353754, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard one of the founders interviewed on the Hard Fork podcast[1] (which confusingly is primarily concerned with AI, rather than crypto.) I went in with very negative expectations, but came away with a positive impression and optimism that they might be onto something. As you say, AI is not core to the project. Instead, the focus is on using technology to facilitate individualized learning. It is true that teachers are 'replaced', but by humans whose job it is to keep the students focused and motivated, rather than to convey information. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfor"}, {"show": "1504567418", "hn_item": 45455414, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455414", "by": "gardnr", "time": 1759438367, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "TBF, they all believed that scaling reinforcement learning would achieve the next level. They had planned to \"war-dial\" reasoning \"solutions\" to generate synthetic datasets which achieved \"success\" on complex reasoning tasks. This only really produced incremental improvements at the cost of test-time compute. Now Grok is publicly boasting PhD level reasoning while Surge AI and Scale AI are focusing on high quality datasets curated by actual PhD humans. Surge AI is boasting $1B in revenue, and I am wondering how much of that was paid in X.ai stock: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-star"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 45455491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455491", "by": "SequoiaHope", "time": 1759438751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Without going in to spoilers, the recent season of the Revolutions podcast about a future fictional revolution on Mars touches on this a fair bit. Someone about to die seizes power for himself, but no one cares much because he was already in charge and extending his reign a few more years till he dies was no big deal, until he extends his life and lives another 75 years."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45456710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456710", "by": "uyzstvqs", "time": 1759446942, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1166013357", "hn_item": 45457441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457441", "by": "llm_nerd", "time": 1759452522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Liemandt was on the Peter Attia \"The Drive\" podcast a couple of days ago discussing this. The episode is 1 hr 37 minutes before you start applying multipliers."}, {"show": "1760218611", "hn_item": 45465303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465303", "by": "GuinansEyebrows", "time": 1759512055, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "it's a shame; i generally agree with most of what ed has to say and i think his arguments come from a good place, but the website is pretty irritating and i find his delivery to be breathless and melodramatic to the point of cliche (not befitting the serious nature of the topics he argues). i had to stop listening to his podcast because of the delivery; its not an uncommon situation for other CZM podcasts but at least some of them handle their editorial content with a little more maturity (shout out to Molly Conger's Weird Little Guys podcast). I hate to make the comparison between two left-is"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 45466417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466417", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1759517673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Again, I don\u2019t really see what scenario here is actually some kind of doomsday. So someone makes a fake video of X famous person saying an absurd thing on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast. It\u2019s not on the official Rogan account, but just on some low quality AI slop channel. Maybe it fools a handful of people\u2026but who cares? People are already pretty trained to be skeptical of video. I think we\u2019ll mostly just see a focus on identity verification. If the content isn\u2019t verified as being by the real person, it\u2019ll just be treated as mindless entertainment."}, {"show": "1727278168", "hn_item": 45473605, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45473605", "by": "whp_wessel", "time": 1759588438, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "recent Huang podcast went into this, making the point that custom chips won't be competitive to Nvidia's as they are now making specialised chips instead of just 'gpu's'. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ieRvuJxrpTh2V626siZYQ?si=2..."}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 45479059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479059", "by": "c6400sc", "time": 1759642534, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to season 4 of Michael Lewis' podcast. He covers the downsides in detail. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules I think this is the ep that gets into the most detail, but I haven't read the transcript. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules/vegas-spor... IIRC, if you're too professional or too lucky, the betting apps will restrict you and then lock you out. They only want the dumb money playing."}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 45482133, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482133", "by": "ty_2k", "time": 1759677367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for sharing this! I have been using a Hetzner VPS + Coolify setup for personal projects for around a year and it has been a great Heroku-like experience and very easy on the wallet. I originally found out about both Hetzner and Coolify from this 1.5 hour guide on getting started from the Syntax podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJlPG82Ucw"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45491832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45491832", "by": "TG_Dev", "time": 1759760983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Built this after trying to learn about Enron - Wikipedia was too dry but the Acquired podcast made it instantly interesting. Search engine that finds quality educational podcasts/documentaries instead of text articles. Does intent classification, multi-query generation, and scores results by authority (prioritizes Acquired, Hardcore History, TED, etc.). Filters out reaction videos and low-quality content. Feedback welcome."}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 45493981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493981", "by": "hrpnk", "time": 1759772563, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a nice podcast from Prof G Markets about how the bubble could collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeepx2ZLrCA In short it's companies turning to issuing debt, fuelled by increase in M&A activity, potential IPO of OpenAI, followed by collapse as tricks to increase revenue will fail to meet expectations and companies that mismanage debt will go bust."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45509585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45509585", "by": "gertlex", "time": 1759875227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The 'Acquired' podcast episode on Ikea speculates that their \"buy in person\" was historically a cost advantage (especially over pre-assembled furniture that cost $$$ to deliver), as they didn't have to pay shipping/delivery. In the modern era of \"expect free shipping as long as some minimum amount is spent\", online sold and delivered sales have less profit margin, and one could imagine an intentional business decision to try and keep the in-person experience the \"preferred\" one for customers."}, {"show": "1817731112", "hn_item": 45509933, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45509933", "by": "mustache_kimono", "time": 1759877399, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> And pretending that (in the United States of America of all places) teens can just walk up to their doctors super easily and get surgery done somehow. You should see some of the background evidence on this. NY Times did a podcast series not long ago, which covered the controversy, called The Protocol: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-protocol/id1817731... It was about how the so called Dutch Protocol re: gender affirming care first came to the US, and how long-ish psychological evaluation times were often truncated because of how far patients had to travel in the US. Then the lid fl"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45511463, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511463", "by": "scarface_74", "time": 1759891149, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You should listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast about Google. Google also has GCP and unlike OpenAI who is dependent on VC funding and Oracle who is borrowing money. Google throws off cash like crazy and self funds its infrastructure which is already better than everyone else\u2019s"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 45523883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523883", "by": "SeanAnderson", "time": 1759987918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What sort of interesting things do you think you're missing that are better served by AI summaries? Not saying it's a bad idea, but I already have ~all notifications turned off on my phone because I got tired of the attention arms race. Feels like I should be able to just browse the top of Reddit once a week and get the gist of what's happened, or limit my YouTube to a weekly \"All In\" podcast to get the interesting highlights, etc."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 45524690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524690", "by": "ayhanfuat", "time": 1759995573, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m an occasional listener of the Talk Python podcast, and I\u2019ve also taken Michael\u2019s pytest course. It\u2019s clear that he puts considerable effort into his content."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45536185, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536185", "by": "NiekvdMaas", "time": 1760080977, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Lex Fridman just dropped a 4 hour podcast with Durov https://youtu.be/qjPH9njnaVU?si=_pkEi-SDML08AASJ"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 45538537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538537", "by": "delichon", "time": 1760101417, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the New York Times \"The Daily\" podcast today: Mark, what you've described and what we're seeing unfold is genuinely an impressive feat by Trump. To be able to capitalize on what seemed like this giant setback. Israel literally bombed the negotiators and the mediators. To turn that around and get a deal that Biden couldn't get done, that no other leader in the world had managed despite trying for two years straight. It is significant achievement. He was able to bring these sides together that had shown no willingness to end the war. And now they've come to this agreement. And it should als"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45539811, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539811", "by": "runjake", "time": 1760108266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He mentions on his recent Lex Fridman podcast episode[1] that he lives in Dubai, U.A.E. He expressed fear about France's actions against him. 1. https://youtu.be/qjPH9njnaVU"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45546693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546693", "by": "prescriptivist", "time": 1760158718, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> It isn't? What is stopping companies from building on GPT-OSS or other local models for cheaper? The AI services have no moat. Right now there is an efficiency/hardware moat. That's why the Stargate in Abilene and corresponding build outs in Louisiana and elsewhere are some of the most intense capex projects from the private sector ever. Hardware and electric production is the name of the game right now. This Odd Lots podcast is really fresh and relevant to this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsqn2XJDcwM Local models, local agents, local everything and the commodification of L"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 45546745, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546745", "by": "renewiltord", "time": 1760159359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I get it. It's mockery but I think I can extract the ideas here from it. tl;dr Peter Thiel believes that we will be presented with a large number of potential world-enders: climate change, AI, something else. We will be told that a united force under some person or small group will be able to forestall this end of the world. However, this is a power grab technique and in truth this consolidation of power itself will be the apocalypse. Okay, so everyone who argues for collective action will be an agent of the antichrist. I mean, I get it. Basic collective action is about creating the safe free "}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 45546766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546766", "by": "827a", "time": 1760159611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ChatGPT was at 700M weekly actives when their head of product went on Lenny's Podcast on Aug 9th. This week Sam announced at dev day they'd hit 800M weekly actives. They gained 100M users in two months. Not monthly active; weekly active . Polymarket has the market for \"1B monthly actives in 2025\" at 78%, but to be frank; if they're at 800M WAUs, they've probably already blown past 1B MAUs. We probably won't hear them announce 1B WAUs in 2025; but I'd bet every dollar I own that we'll hear it before the end of 2026-Q1. Here's something I implore readers think about, just to help ground your rea"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 45547083, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45547083", "by": "al_borland", "time": 1760164154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think the article misses a big reason why they won\u2019t go away, and that is people don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know. Technology Connections on YouTube is a great example of this. I was never going to ask AI about the in-depth details about dishwashers, but I\u2019ve watched two 45 minute long videos on the topic and found them fascination. I thought toasters were toasters, until he showed one with a thermostat that blew my mind, and I wish had a modern successor. I never would have found this with AI, as I never would have thought to ask. The 99% Invisible podcast is another example of this kind of "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45553159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553159", "by": "chubot", "time": 1760221258, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe Google has earned the most revenue of any business ever [1] So if the idea is to unseat Google, and make LLMs that are monetized by ads -- well that would be a lot of revenue! The problem is obviously that Google knows this, and they made huge investments in AI before anyone else --- I guess someone wants to do to Google what Apple did to Microsoft in the mobile era -- take over the operating system that matters by building something new (mobile), not by directly trying to unseat Microsoft The problem seems to be that no one has figured out what the network effect in LLMs is. Google "}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 45580017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45580017", "by": "brianzelip", "time": 1760449770, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "See the recent Talk Python podcast featuring some Pyrefly team members, https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/523/pyrefly-fast-ide-fri..."}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 45582046, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582046", "by": "advisedwang", "time": 1760459725, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Criminal podcast shared the story of one of the forced workers at scamming camp in Myanmar: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-332-the-compound-9-12-202..."}, {"show": "1330534712", "hn_item": 45584175, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584175", "by": "nickff", "time": 1760472548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fighter Pilot Podcast is probably the best of them, both in terms of production and content, though recent episodes have drifted away from the \u2018core content\u2019 where it really shone. War on the Rocks has had some good ones as well, but not as interesting (in my opinion). There are many other military-focused and leadership-focused podcasts where you can glean something interesting every once in a while, but not really enough that I\u2019d actually recommend following them. edit: some NASA astronaut interviews contain interesting info about (retired) military astronauts\u2019 careers, which tend to be "}, {"show": "1612131897", "hn_item": 45590074, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45590074", "by": "miiiiiike", "time": 1760521517, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 45592038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45592038", "by": "cjonas", "time": 1760534365, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an interesting \"Search Engine\" podcast (in English)[0]. Apparently a lot of the people doing the actual scamming are human trafficked and being held in compounds against their will. [0] https://www.searchengine.show/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 45594115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594115", "by": "hackthemack", "time": 1760542240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I feel like this was known years ago, but never gained traction. Here is a 2022 article in wired about bots. https://www.wired.com/story/bots-online-advertising/ And before that, in the 2010s, an employee of ebay discovered the perverse incentives of online advertising. Freakonomics did a podcast on the subject. It is a two parter, but really worth your time if you want to get some of the behind the scenes thoughts and machinations of the advertising industry. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-w..."}, {"show": "1205359334", "hn_item": 45595653, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595653", "by": "chewz", "time": 1760548393, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have listened recently to other argument on Hidden Forces podcast. Washing machines made Great Recession particularly brutal. Washing other people's laundry used to be popular way to supplement home budget when the man of the house lost his job. In 1930 better off people already had washing machines so one way of falling back on doing other people laundry have been eliminated. Soon some people may find out that some bullshit jobs do not exist anymore."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 45600213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45600213", "by": "__loam", "time": 1760575406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard it from the Verge podcast several months ago but someone has shared another source."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 45605354, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45605354", "by": "_fat_santa", "time": 1760622804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Planet Money did a an excellent podcast on the topic[1]. Highly recommend a listen for anyone interested. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/26/nx-s1-5553615/gustavus-swift-..."}, {"show": "1237406856", "hn_item": 45607336, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607336", "by": "the_other", "time": 1760631631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Years ago on the Ruby Rogues podcast, someone mentioned they aim to do just one operation per line. I\u2019ve aimed to do that with ny TS/JS ever since. My files are longer but they\u2019re usually easier to read."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 45609211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609211", "by": "BeetleB", "time": 1760640638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Private equity is cancer. It should be illegal. It adds nothing of value and just hollows out a company for short term profit-taking while hoping nobody notices how your restructure is laden with exploding debt. I would recommend listening to the How I Built This podcast. A number of interviews are with people whose companies were acquired by private equity. You can hear the founders' perspectives on private equity. It often doesn't match what you say. And I think in most cases, the brand is still around and doing well."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45613359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613359", "by": "idoco", "time": 1760675931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I love Asianometry! The semiconductor history videos are incredible. The level of quality on that channel just blows my mind. It\u2019s one of the best examples of the revolution happening in high-quality, independently produced content. I actually first heard about it from the Acquired podcast, which is another great example of that same trend."}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 45616037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616037", "by": "ocamoss", "time": 1760704535, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45620159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620159", "by": "meowface", "time": 1760725627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eh, Dwarkesh has to market the podcasts somehow. I think it's fine for him to use hooks like this and for HN threads to respond to the hooks. 99% of HN threads only ever reply to the headline and that's not changing anytime soon. This will likely cause many people (including myself) to watch the full podcast when we otherwise might not have. The criticism that people are only replying to a tiny portion of the argument is still valid, but sometimes it's more fun to have an open-ended discussion rather than address what's in the actual article/video."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45628112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628112", "by": "mabedan", "time": 1760801303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Greg Brockman talks about it on Lex\u2019 podcast I think. He thinks ultimately AGI won\u2019t be anything more than token generation, if I remember correctly"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45634052, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45634052", "by": "lukev", "time": 1760881279, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Framing this question as \"AI good\" OR \"AI bad\" is culture-war thinking. The real problem here is that there's clearly a strong incentive for the big labs to deceive the public (and/or themselves) about the actual scientific and technical capabilities of LLMs. As Karpathy pointed out on the recent Dwarkesh podcast, LLMs are quite terrible at novel problems, but this has become sort of an \"Emperor's new clothes\" situation where nobody with a financial stake will actually admit that, even though it's common knowledge if you actually work with these things. And this directly leads to the misalloca"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45640631, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45640631", "by": "jimmySixDOF", "time": 1760942424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I liked how Karpathy explained part of this problem as \"silent collapse\" in his recent Dwarkesh podcast. Meaning the models tend to fall into a local minima situation of using a few output wording templates for a large number of similar questions, and this lack of entropy diversity it becomes a tough hard to detect problem when doing distillation or synthetic data generation in general. These algorithms as nice python functions are also useful repurposed for labeling parts of ontology and topic clusters etc [1]. Will definitely star and keep an eye on the repo ! [1] https://jina.ai/news/submod"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45645465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645465", "by": "nonethewiser", "time": 1760976262, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn't really know about this until recently when I listened to a DHH / Lex Fridman podcast. The podcast started out with him retelling a very similar experience. I wasn't familiar with DHH either and found myself disagreeing with a lot of his takes (JS > TS ... really?) but it was a really interesting conversation none-the-less."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45656755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656755", "by": "ddp26", "time": 1761059236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi, author here, sorry I was unclear. This article does make more sense if you've listened to the Dwarkesh podcast linked, and read AI 2027 as was linked. I realize now that it was presumptuous to assume people had done both of these things."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45656825, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656825", "by": "ddp26", "time": 1761059526, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And to actually answer your question: > Why would Karpathy's view be different for AI and non-AI-experts? For people who understand AI, they can engage with the substance of his claims, about reinforcement learning, continuous learning, and his points about the 9s of reliability. For people who don't, the article suggests thinking about AI as some black-box technology, and asking questions about base rates: how long does adoption normally take? What do the companies developing the technology normally do? > It does not even give a statement about the reasoning behind why Karpathy said getting t"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45669816, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669816", "by": "vatsachakrvthy", "time": 1761143958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great work by the authors! But... As Karpathy stated on the Dwarkesh podcast, why do we need brain inspired anything? As Chollet says a transformer is basically a tool for differentiable program synthesis. Maybe the animal brain is one way to get intelligence, but it might actually be easier to achieve in-silica, given the faster computational ability and higher reproducibility of calculations"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 45673977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45673977", "by": "walkabout", "time": 1761161239, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of a couple varieties of books covered by the If Books Could Kill podcast is this category, the Surprising Truth That Explains Many Things type. They do indeed seem to almost always be bullshit, including the very-popular ones (and including ones that get popular among crowds like HN)"}, {"show": "1535408667", "hn_item": 45674671, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674671", "by": "mm263", "time": 1761164562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Michael Hobbes, host of IBCK is guilty of those inaccuracies too. Here's him being fact checked regarding claims in the Maintenance Phase podcast: https://spurioussemicolon.substack.com/"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45677983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677983", "by": "real-hacker", "time": 1761191352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andrej Karpathy just went on Dwarkesh Patel\u2019s podcast and casually debunked half the AI hype cycle. In this episode, Gilfoyle breaks down Karpathy\u2019s vision \u2014 why we\u2019re still a decade away from true AI agents, why current models are more _ghosts_ than _animals_, and why the real disruption might happen in education, not job markets."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45684381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684381", "by": "neduma", "time": 1761239939, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to story of QualComm in Acquired podcast. This is highly related."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45696815, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45696815", "by": "nomilk", "time": 1761326163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Terrence Tao discussing Lean (programming language for formalising mathematical proofs) on Lex podcast (starts 1h20m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUkBz-cdB-k&t=1h20m10s I know nothing of mathematics but found it fascinating, especially the idea that if outside information changes that affects your proof, you can have the Lean compiler figure out which lines of your proof need updating (instead of having to go over every line, which can take days or more)."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 45702630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702630", "by": "teekert", "time": 1761386720, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I didn\u2019t read the book, but, I\u2019d advise people not to go into mysticism, it has brought us very little compared to the scientific method, which has powered our industrial and information revolutions. Dive into the Mindscape podcast, investigate complex systems. Go into information theory. Look at evolution from an information theory perspective. Look at how intelligence enables (collective) modeling of likely local future states of the universe, and how that helps us thrive. Don\u2019t get caught in what at least I consider to be a trap: \u201cto use your consciousness to explain your consciousness\u201d. I "}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 45703190, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703190", "by": "FlameRobot", "time": 1761393651, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I also get Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and other alt-right pipeline dorks in my recommendations solely because of my gender and age. I never engage with political content on YouTube and I\u2019ve cleared my watch history multiple times, these still show up. That doesn't happen. Firstly you literally click on the video and say \"don't recommend channel\" and you will never see a JRE episode again. Also, just by how you phrased that whole paragraph. I don't believe you are telling the truth. None of those characters are \"alt-right\". \"alt-right\" essentially means White Nationalist. You ca"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45704356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45704356", "by": "TexanFeller", "time": 1761403874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to an interview with a researcher a while back who hypothesized that human reasoning probably evolved not mostly for the abstract logical reasoning we associate with intelligence, but to \u201cgive reasons\u201d to motivate other humans or to explain our previous actions in a way that would make them seem acceptable\u2026social utility basically. My experience with next token predicting LLMs aligns with human communication. We humans rarely complete a thought before we start speaking, so I think our brains are often just predicting the next 1-5 words that will be accepted by who we\u2019re talking to b"}, {"show": "1566917047", "hn_item": 45706498, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45706498", "by": "solfox", "time": 1761422017, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "We enrolled our kids in K thinking the same as you - some light eco-minded spirituality never harmed anyone. Until we started to learn more about their actual philosophy. From my experience, the teachers and admin will actively disclaim any adherence to the Waldorf / Anthroposophy connections, but I can assure you that if this is truly a Waldorf school (not \"Waldorf-inspired\"), they are 100% absolutely members of the Anthroposophy organization. I saw teachers actually do things like quickly hide away Steiner's books from their desk when parents would drop in. But do dig a bit deeper into your "}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 45710903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710903", "by": "throw0101a", "time": 1761478207, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Interview with Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele on the Decouple Podcast , \"Why the U.S. Military Wants Nuclear Reactors\" or \"Reactors on Wheels\": > This week, Jeff Waksman, program manager for Project Pele, joins me to discuss the impetus for the U.S. military microreactor project, the logistics and energy challenges at the heart of modern warfare, and the technical considerations of mobile microreactor development. Few voices are more qualified to speak on the state-of-the-art in tiny nuclear reactors. > Project Pele is the Department of Defense's ambitious program to develop a "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45715820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715820", "by": "dipakwani", "time": 1761519263, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "After listening to the Acquired podcast episode on Google AI, I wanted to map how many of today\u2019s major AI players have their roots in Google. I built a network-style flowchart that visualizes this \u201cAI Mafia\u201d. The goal was to map how deeply Google\u2019s early AI efforts radiated towards current companies, viz, OpenAI, DeepMind, Cohere, etc. Each node links people and organizations mentioned in the episode, with logos for clarity. There is still some UX work that can be done. Do explore the graph and I am sure you would also be interested in seeing the PayPal Mafia playing an important role, and ho"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 45718641, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718641", "by": "jcattle", "time": 1761554762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a podcast by 99% Invisible about state lottery. Basically the journalist reporting the story kind of reversed his view on state lotteries over the course of reporting the story. Going from: It's good that we have state lotteries because the money goes back to fund social activities to: It's bad to have lotteries altogether, mainly because of the societal cost of gambling that you've outlined."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45720862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45720862", "by": "nonethewiser", "time": 1761571804, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Can't say I generally agree with dropping TS for JS but I suppose it's easier to argue when you are working on smaller projects. But here is someone that agrees with you with less qualification than that https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-701... I was introduced to this decision from the Lex Fridman/DHH podcast. He talked a lot about typescript making meta programming very hard. I can see how that would be the case but I don't really understand what sort of meta programming you can do with JS. The general dynamic-ness of it I get."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45721697, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721697", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1761576935, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always had a critical eye on the huge missteps that Microsoft had especially when it came to acquisitions like Danger, Nokia, whatever the ad network they bought and wrote down, etc. And then I listened to an Acquired podcast about Microsoft when they interviewed Ballmer as part of the research. He said \u201cAt the end of the day, it was only money\u201d. In other words, Microsoft was throwing off so much money from their profitable businesses, they could afford to lose money and take risks without it having any meaningful impact on the company. The deal with OpenAI is really a nothingburger as far a"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45726027, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726027", "by": "chairmansteve", "time": 1761597703, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon\". How much is the robot going to cost in a year? 100k? 200k? Not mass market pricing for sure. Meanwhile, today he could pay someone $1000 to clean his garage."}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 45726166, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726166", "by": "ViewTrick1002", "time": 1761598503, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How many trillions in handouts to the nuclear industry to maybe get only extremely expensive electricity? Then trying to justify it with paid off nuclear plants. So it will be profitable sometime in 2060? Until then we should just persist with horrifyingly expensive electricity as they get paid off? That sounds like a lunatic talking. There\u2019s no feed in priority. Renewables just bid zero which is their marginal cost. Nuclear power bids negative until prices are so low for so long that they withdraw from the grid. You can try to force nuclear costs on the consumers but that will only lead to an"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45726746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726746", "by": "Thrymr", "time": 1761601784, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon. We all come up with excuses for why we haven't done a chore, but some of us need to sound a bit more plausible to other members of the household than that. It would get about the same reaction as \"I'm not going to wash the dishes tonight, the rapture is tomorrow.\""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 45735654, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45735654", "by": "tim333", "time": 1761671462, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">... Musk announced xAI was building a new AI-generated online encyclopedia, to be called Grokipedia, in the midst of his criticisms of Wikipedia's ideological biases. The project was suggested and named by White House AI and crypto czar David O. Sacks at the All-In podcast conference earlier that month. According to Musk's announcement, it would be an AI-powered knowledge base designed to rival Wikipedia by addressing its perceived biases, errors, and ideological slants. (source Wikipedia)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 45748493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748493", "by": "voidmain0001", "time": 1761752989, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR Planet Money has a podcast from last week speaking about hedge funds buying US treasuries. They touch on the chaos that can come from hedge funds buying treasuries and suggest that hedge funds might be lumped into the too big to fail group. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565181/trilemma-treasu..."}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 45756475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45756475", "by": "holden_nelson", "time": 1761798973, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommended the Bending Spoons episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. They address the layoffs head-on and talk about some of their other unconventional stuff like no on-call. https://pca.st/episode/11464df6-e1cc-4b8f-a64d-a4de9a9ec170"}, {"show": "1794590850", "hn_item": 45766790, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766790", "by": "7402", "time": 1761867861, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hamas is trying to show that it takes digging and effort to find the bodies of the hostages, as opposed to just taking the bodies out of some warehouse. Israel analyst Dan Shueftan put it this way: \u201cI cannot imagine the actual disarming of Hamas. They're willing to go back to war to prevent it. They're willing to have every Gazan die, literally every Gazan die to prevent it. And right now we're in the middle of a period in which they 10 days ago they had 28 bodies of dead hostages. They now have 13. They are slowly releasing them one or two a night. Now, why are they doing that? They claim it'"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 45770782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770782", "by": "frumiousirc", "time": 1761909572, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Geoffrey Hinton touched on this in a recent Jon Stewart podcast. He also addressed the awkwardness of winning last year's \"physics\" Nobel for his AI work."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45770865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770865", "by": "CuriouslyC", "time": 1761910334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Richard Sutton's interview on Dwarkesh's podcast hit at this same point. The implicit world models in LLMs are insufficient."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 45772330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772330", "by": "delis-thumbs-7e", "time": 1761920833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ed Zitron has been shouting into the void about this for quite some time: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/ He also has a podcast called Better Offline, which is slightly too ad heavy for my taste. Nevertheless, with my meagre understanding of the large corporate finances I was not able to find any errors in his core argument regardless of his somewhat sensationalist style of writing."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 45772543, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772543", "by": "Jonovono", "time": 1761921999, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His podcast Better Offline is a treat too."}, {"show": "1433919260", "hn_item": 45773236, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773236", "by": "rootforce", "time": 1761924896, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 45775314, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775314", "by": "feross", "time": 1761936357, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45784831, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784831", "by": "frankosaurus", "time": 1762027156, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Back in August, the Odd Lots Podcast had a good show about speculation in hazelnuts. As I recall, Ferrero buys like 25% of the world's hazelnut supply."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45791156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791156", "by": "Redoubts", "time": 1762098409, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "264340697", "hn_item": 45791981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45791981", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1762105096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cAlbotherm are developing glass coatings that reversibly transition from transparent to white to reduce solar gain in hot weather, allowing buildings and greenhouses to regulate their own temperature without electrical input. Our coatings are tunable to transition temperatures between 18 \u00b0C and 45 \u00b0C to create comfortable internal temperatures in a range of climates.\u201c As discussed in the BBC Bottom Line podcast with Evan \u201cBrexit\u201d Davis https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k4kp"}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 45797891, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797891", "by": "shadowvoxing", "time": 1762168410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This episode of Big Technology Podcast goes into the reason why: https://pca.st/episode/4090833a-2abd-42b2-a31d-ebb2b4348007"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 45798539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798539", "by": "swatson741", "time": 1762174802, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Norvig actually did comment on this publicly once on the Lex Friedman podcast. Basically what he said was that lisp ended up not working well for larger software projects with 5 or more people on them, and the reason why they never used lisp in any of their books again was because students didn't like lisp. Norvig doesn't seem to get why students didn't like lisp, and neither do I but somehow this is the real reason why it was abandoned. https://youtu.be/_VPxEcT_Adc?t=2690"}, {"show": "1512847066", "hn_item": 45803524, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803524", "by": "silveira", "time": 1762199141, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just watched a podcast on this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-death-o..."}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 45810288, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810288", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1762260151, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Slate Money podcast had a recent episode of their \"Money Talks\" series that interviewed Ray Madoff, author of the new book The Second Estate . It was an interesting listen\u2014could've been longer, IMO\u2014and I appreciated the discussion about the history of the inheritance tax in the US and how it has become useless, largely through political inaction refusing to close tricks/loopholes. I'll be checking out from my library (once it's in the system!)."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45834583, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834583", "by": "tylervigen", "time": 1762432957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "And for anyone who wants to be nerd sniped by this one comment chain, the Acquired podcast recently did an episode on Epic and it is great. Title: \"Epic Systems (MyChart).\""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45844271, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844271", "by": "SilverSlash", "time": 1762500471, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bless this man! I despise Goodreads but continue to use it, because there are no real alternatives. It feels like they outsourced the creation of that website to some cheap consulting agency in a low cost location and then left it at that. For example, Goodreads hasn't updated its outdated version of React in years. For a while now I have really wanted good book recommendations matching my tastes. The LLMs suck at this (likely due to the mode collapse that Karpathy mentioned in his excellent podcast appearance on Dwarkesh) and Amazon is very good but only recommends based on the current book y"}, {"show": "1785226676", "hn_item": 45850716, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850716", "by": "PaulHoule", "time": 1762547370, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Fraud messages are all over most social platforms that have DMs. I post photos and news links to: Tumblr, Bluesky, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Threads and Nextdoor \u2014- in order of worst to best. I get plenty of people who say they want to buy NFTs of my photos or who are attractive women who hold out the promise of romance, etc. A friend of mine came across money for the first time in his life because he got evicted illegally from a homeless shelter and he has a person who sends texts like \u2018I am at your local airport and need money for a cab to come see you\u2019. Fortunately he had a friend who "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45853577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853577", "by": "an0malous", "time": 1762569237, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The VCs and bloggers have also shifted tone and are hedging to save themselves from embarrassment. It used to be \u201cAGI is just around the corner\u201d and now it\u2019s \u201cJust because we haven\u2019t figured it out yet doesn\u2019t mean we never will\u201d (Andreesen) or \u201cActually bubbles are good\u201d (Stratechery). Gary called it a long time ago but I think the Dwarkesh and Karpathy podcast is when the shift started."}, {"show": "1504567418", "hn_item": 45854595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854595", "by": "gardnr", "time": 1762583163, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "GLM 4.6 isn't a \"fast\" model. It does well in benchmarks vs Sonnet 4.5. Cerebras makes a giant chip that runs inference at unreal speeds. I suspect they run their cloud service more as an advertising mechanism for their core business: hardware. You can hear the founder describing their journey: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/launching-the-fastest-..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 45854928, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854928", "by": "palmotea", "time": 1762588090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Gary Marcus was blocked on X by Kara Swisher in November 2022 for saying that the board did not trust Sam Altman. Marcus remains blocked by Ms. Swisher to this day. There was an Ezra Klein podcast awhile back where Swisher (a journalist) made it sound like she'd been buddy-buddy with Elon Musk for some time. What is/was her relationship to Altman?"}, {"show": "689900475", "hn_item": 45855693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855693", "by": "klondike_klive", "time": 1762597848, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It used to be one of my favourite sites for weird DIY stuff. At some point in the mid 2010s I guess ad revenue tanked and social media killed their business model, and it made sense to cash in on their underground zine-y brand to hawk affiliate links, sponsored content, e-courses and clickbait. Sad but understandable. Around the same time I found the same vibe in other disparate places: The Cracked podcast (I still enjoy Jason Pargin's stuff) listening to Mark Frauenfelder's Cool Tools podcast, which is now called Recommendo, which carries on the affiliate link stuff and scratches that gadget "}, {"show": "502304410", "hn_item": 45858632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858632", "by": "Forgeties79", "time": 1762625231, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You never know what will be important to people in the future. I just listened to a great new episode (podcast) of The Truth (audio drama anthology series, they\u2019re fantastic). It was called \u201cThe Joke.\u201d Basically this archivist finds an old hard drive with a dumb pun joke - turns out she didn\u2019t even understand it because jokes were no longer allowed in society. Kind of has an Equilibrium vibe but more bureaucratic and less \u201ckilling people for feeling.\u201d Anyway the joke itself takes on great importance as a result. Bit of a dramatic comparison, but you see what I\u2019m driving at."}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 45867197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867197", "by": "boulos", "time": 1762708773, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Btw, the recent Conversations with Tyler had a few minutes on this topic with Sam: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-tyl... It was a bit towards the end, I think."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 45874553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874553", "by": "scott_w", "time": 1762770823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you think the British Empire was ever competent then I strongly recommend you listen to the episodes of the Empire podcast that cover the British Empire (there\u2019s a lot of different episodes across the series). With the exception of the Royal Navy, the British Empire was spectacularly incompetent. It\u2019s a running joke that the British stumbled into being the largest empire in history. That said, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unique to Britain. The Roman Empire has many tales of staggering incompetence and wild idiocy throughout its expansion. If you have the time, The History of Rome is an excellent pod"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 45874553, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874553", "by": "scott_w", "time": 1762770823, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you think the British Empire was ever competent then I strongly recommend you listen to the episodes of the Empire podcast that cover the British Empire (there\u2019s a lot of different episodes across the series). With the exception of the Royal Navy, the British Empire was spectacularly incompetent. It\u2019s a running joke that the British stumbled into being the largest empire in history. That said, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s unique to Britain. The Roman Empire has many tales of staggering incompetence and wild idiocy throughout its expansion. If you have the time, The History of Rome is an excellent pod"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 45874607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874607", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1762771418, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> With the exception of the Royal Navy, the British Empire was spectacularly incompetent. It\u2019s a running joke that the British stumbled into being the largest empire in history. Hm. Well, I can't say I know any better than that, I was rather assuming that becoming the biggest empire was itself due to something approximating competence. Certainly, if one takes the view that all large organisations are mediocre, the British Empire is unambiguously an example of \"large organisation\". Edit: Just to check, the Empire podcast by Anita Anand and William Dalrymple?"}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 45874817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874817", "by": "scott_w", "time": 1762773346, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Certainly, if one takes the view that all large organisations are mediocre, the British Empire is unambiguously an example of \"large organisation\". Absolutely! I think all governments can safely fall under \"large organisation\" as it's pretty much necessary. > Just to check, the Empire podcast by Anita Anand and William Dalrymple? That's the one."}, {"show": "386547290", "hn_item": 45878213, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878213", "by": "ChrisGammell", "time": 1762795332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interview with Lee at the end of 2024 on The Amp Hour podcast: https://theamphour.com/684-lee-felsenstein-the-computer-revo..."}, {"show": "120315179", "hn_item": 45878710, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45878710", "by": "atourgates", "time": 1762797621, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This was interesting: > Still, Mixter and the team were labeled \"ghouls and pirates,\" and \"the state of Michigan actually passed a law against recording bodies on shipwrecks that are less than 50 years old,\" he said. Assumedly, as of today, the Edmund Fitzgerald has aged out of that law? The latest episode of the NYTimes book review podcast [ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sinking-of-the-edm... ] is a really interesting interview with John U. Bacon who just wrote a book on the Edmund Fitzgerald, called The Gales of November. Quite interesting if, like me, you didn't know anything ab"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 45879565, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879565", "by": "officeplant", "time": 1762801745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's not the greatest piece of fiction ever written, but Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards podcast has a pretty easy read[1]. It's also offered as a free audiobook read by him as a series of podcasts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Revolution Might not be what you want if you want more technical & hacking versus dystopian capitalism collapse. But he gets bonus points for Texas getting nuked as a lore point."}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 45916111, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916111", "by": "le_stoph", "time": 1763048125, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Pragmatic Engineer podcast episode with the former CEO of Github, the latter mentioned that they had their own infra for everything. If I remember correctly, this was due to the fact that Github is quite old and at the time when Github Actions became a thing, cloud providers were not really offering the kind of infra that was necessary to support the feature."}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 45924077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924077", "by": "vismit2000", "time": 1763097198, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This. The problem lies with blame attribution. We humans have been accustomed to think everything from that perspective. As Yoshua Bengio points out in Machine Learning Street Talk podcast: \"social system hasn't evolved to keep up with the technology\"."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 45928207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928207", "by": "jdeibele", "time": 1763136435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just finished listening to the first episode of \"Acquired\" on Google and it ended with Google pushing Google Plus into everything in an effort to compete with Facebook in social networking. It really hampered all their other offerings. https://www.acquired.fm Acquired podcast does long (2 4-hour episodes on Google) episodes on various companies, mostly tech but recently Trader Joe's"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45940803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940803", "by": "nickff", "time": 1763242745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> \"Zvi and the Cato institute both have lengthy pieces about why the Jones act is bad [1] [2], and whether or not you believe that has entrenched our shipbuilders, the US essentially manufactures no ships compared to South Korea and China.\" One issue is that Naval ships are very different from commercial vessels, and at least in the USA, almost no shipyards have shared facilities and staff between the two products since WWII. Interestingly, most other countries do not build most of their naval tonnage (destroyers and frigates) to the same standards that the USA does (European countries are not"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 45950275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950275", "by": "mvkel", "time": 1763345335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I assumed he was a product guy until I heard him on Dwarkesh's podcast. He does seem to really only get fired up about numbers going up, and customers are a vehicle for that."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 45951435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951435", "by": "dalemhurley", "time": 1763363332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Elon was talking about that too on Joe Rogan podcast"}, {"show": "1620252081", "hn_item": 45966981, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966981", "by": "mapt", "time": 1763477678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Looking further - From a previous post on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449068 > They measure at a certain point. Jason Cammisa points it out pretty clearly in an episode of Carmudgeon, with the money quote either here[0] or in the link direct to YouTube here[1]: > On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise bright field of light. \u201cWith complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,\u201d he said, \u201ccar companies realized "}, {"show": "73330895", "hn_item": 45970482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970482", "by": "aanet", "time": 1763492576, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for posting this. I concur with the writer... I started taking early morning walks during the pandemic. First to get out of the house and relieve the burden of being cloistered indoors with endless zoom calls. Then the walks started feeling refreshing; my mind wandered freely, sometimes listening to engaging podcasts (\"A history of the world in 100 objects\", several BBC In Our Time episodes, etc), sometimes reaching out to distant family members / friends / colleagues in different regions. Net-net, I appreciated both the remote connections of (sometimes long-lost) friends & family, and "}, {"show": "1620252081", "hn_item": 45970572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970572", "by": "kedean", "time": 1763492998, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The lights are too bright and poorly aligned. I walk regularly, and its more than just the tesla's and mini's at fault (Teslas are definitely some of the worst in my experience though, along with Rivian) https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightne... > On a recent episode of the Carmudgeon Show podcast, auto journalist Jason Cammisa described a phenomenon occurring with some LED headlights in which there are observable minor spots of dimness among an otherwise bright field of light. \u201cWith complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,\u201d he said, \u201ccar companies realized they can engineer"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 45975228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975228", "by": "cman1444", "time": 1763519798, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm not. A few podcasts I've listened to recently (mostly Odd Lots) explored how a pop is often preferable to a protracted downturn because it weeds out the losers quickly and allows the economy to begin the recovery aspect sooner. A protracted downturn risks poorly managed assets limping along for years instead of having capital reallocated to better investments. Better to rip the bandaid off and begin anew."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 45979859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979859", "by": "tim333", "time": 1763562255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hassabis interview on Gemini 3, with Hard Fork (nyt podcast), also Josh Woodward https://youtu.be/rq-2i1blAlU?t=428 Some points - Good at vibe coding 10:30 - step change where it's actually useful AGI still 5-10 years. Needs reasoning, memory, world models. Is it a bubble? - Partly 22:00 What's fun to do with Gemini to show the relatives? Suggested taking a selfie with the app and having it edit. 24:00 (I tried and said make me younger. Worked pretty well.) Also interesting - apparently they are doing an agent to go through your email inbox and propose replies automatically 4:00. I could see t"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 45983029, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983029", "by": "Teever", "time": 1763576721, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "According to wikipedia: > Summers's ties to Epstein reportedly began \"a number of years...before Summers became Harvard's president and even before he was the Secretary of the Treasury.\"[59] Flight records introduced as evidence in the 2021 trial of Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell show that Summers flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane on at least four occasions, including once in 1998 when Summers was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and at least three times while Harvard president. And on the wikipedia page of Summers' wife: > In an email to Epstein released in 2025 by th"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 45987469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45987469", "by": "opminion", "time": 1763600611, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was surprised that the podcast Stuff You Should Know now advertises a short firm video provider, but I couldn't explain exactly why. Maybe this sheds some light on my concerns."}, {"show": "1459712981", "hn_item": 45987804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45987804", "by": "Papazsazsa", "time": 1763603143, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There is a podcast [1] featuring the showrunner Craig Mazin who is also a very conscientious and prolific podcaster [2] who cares deeply about balancing fact with a compelling narrative. This is the basic difference between \"based on\" and documentary. Having worked as a screenwriter myself I can assure you that even if the script had been 100% factual, things would have been changed beyond the creators' control anyway. 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chernobyl-podcast/... 2 https://scriptnotes.net/"}, {"show": "1770549800", "hn_item": 46010706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46010706", "by": "kfarr", "time": 1763770563, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is super awesome but to set expectations it appears that Waymo is quite limited by fleet capacity in all of its current operating zones, so as a practical matter it may be months or years before it operates in all these areas. If you're interested in this stuff I highly recommend this podcast, not affiliated with it I genuinely think it's a great source to hear about the behind the scenes of fleet operations to meet demand: https://www.roadtoautonomy.com/autonomy-markets/ (Edit) I prefer using the apple podcast app, here's a direct link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autonomy-mark"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 46014181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014181", "by": "cpfohl", "time": 1763813303, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Class actions like this are opt in; by accepting the settlement you accepted the terms and lost your right to sue for a different (more appropriate to you) value. Planet money did a a great segment on how these work and why America is set up this way. I learned a lot about it. You should definitely take a listen[1]. If you aren\u2019t on Apple then search \u201cWhat to do when you\u2019re in a class action?\u201d And find the podcast (not the summary article). 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id2907834..."}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 46018421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018421", "by": "bobwolf", "time": 1763846782, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Season 2 of the podcast \"Shell Game\" is about the host trying to do a startup company with only Ai agents and all the problems. It's interesting and entertaining"}, {"show": "414920759", "hn_item": 46018599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018599", "by": "iammattmurphy", "time": 1763848567, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m immediately reminded of John Siracusa\u2019s rant about Wikipedia on his old Hypercritical podcast. This is a lengthy rebuttal from (presumably) a Wikipedia lover that includes a link and timestamp to the original podcast segment [0] I agree, verifiability makes sense, and truth can\u2019t really be claimed without verification, and so it\u2019s a confusing argument to say: truth should be above verifiability; but I must admit: I find it very strange that some people have information about them on their Wikipedia pages that they\u2019re not able to correct despite _being the person_ because one can only cite "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46021924, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46021924", "by": "g42gregory", "time": 1763888740, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 46043474, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46043474", "by": "Huppie", "time": 1764058128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide and Friends recently had a podcast episode [0] with Michael Littman about this topic for anyone who's curious about this topic. This topic has been an interesting part of the discourse in a group of friends the past few weeks because one of us is a teacher who has to deal with this on an almost daily basis and is struggling to get her students to not cheat and the options available to her are limited (yes, physical monitoring would probably work but requires concessions from the school management etc. it's not something that has an easy or quick fix available.) [0] https://oxide-and-frie"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 46051124, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051124", "by": "cess11", "time": 1764106783, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. Robert Evans recently did a decent summary of Thiel's project with ACTS 17 for the podcast Behind the Bastards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtR7ny9TuCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXhyx-vVG_Y"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46051318, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051318", "by": "SilverElfin", "time": 1764108078, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How did Dwarkesh manage to build a brand that can attract famous people to his podcast? He didn\u2019t have prior fame from something else in research or business, right? Curious if anyone knows his growth strategy to get here."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46051326, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051326", "by": "minimaxir", "time": 1764108134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's on top of Techmeme because it's an extremely rare interview with Ilya Sutskever, which is newsworthy. Dwarkesh would not have gotten that interview if it was a random podcast. Pro-AI news is newsworthy. Techmeme also covers anti-AI news."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46053657, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46053657", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1764125041, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast. They have a 4 hour episode about Coca Cola."}, {"show": "462495496", "hn_item": 46062782, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062782", "by": "mandevil", "time": 1764193983, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A couple of months ago I started listening to the Scriptnotes podcast, by Craig Mazin (showrunner for Chernobyl and Last of Us, also wrote for Scary Movie and Hangover sequels) and John August (Go, Charlie's Angels, Big Fish, etc.). They discussed receiving notes like that from executives on their scripts- that there needed to be a line of dialog here to explain, rather than just using the visual to explain, so that someone on their phone could follow along. There are, of course, ways that writers and directors get to ignore executive feedback, have a bunch of recent hits already is one, do yo"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 46064394, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064394", "by": "nkzednan", "time": 1764206617, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46097270, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46097270", "by": "farresito", "time": 1764515752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is the first time I read that someone uses an acronym for ragebait purposes. The acronym \"RL\" is very well known. Dwarkesh's podcast is mostly AI related, so it's not a surprise that he will freely use acronyms. I think your take is very cynical."}, {"show": "1591248499", "hn_item": 46109359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46109359", "by": "benbowler", "time": 1764606603, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reading this post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435786 inspired me to work on an AI-powered podcast adblocking service as part of a challenge where I'm launching 5 startup ideas in 2025. It was a little more complex than expected to get working reliably, and I've included several different prompts on the backend to target \"house ads\" as well as more common brand ads. Users can choose a podcast and get an ad-free feed to use in their existing podcast app of choice, like Pocket Casts, Overcast or Apple Podcast, unlike the original post and other apps, where you have to use their app to"}, {"show": "1874659913", "hn_item": 46110003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110003", "by": "kevg86", "time": 1764609286, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yuzu Health (yuzu.health) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE Our mission: Rebuild health insurance from the ground up Why: We're solving the root cause of spiraling healthcare costs in the US (we're not building an integration on top of United or Aetna) Investors: We recently raised a $35M Series A. Our investors include General Catalyst, Chemistry VC, Anthropic, Lachy Groom and many unicorn founders, including leaders at Stripe, OpenAI, Brex, Deel, Mercury and Notion Team: We are reasonable, fun people that work in person in NYC Roles: See here https://yuzu.health/careers (we have "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46110855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110855", "by": "JuniperMesos", "time": 1764613072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting that in an article entitled \"Why I'm betting against AGI hype\", the author doesn't actually say what bet he is making - i.e. what specific decisions is he making, based on his prediction that AGI is much less likely to arise from LLMs than the probability the market is implicitly pricing in suggests. What assets is he investing in or shorting? What life decisions is he making differently than he otherwise would? I say this not because I think his prediction as stated here is necessarily wrong or unreasonable, but because I myself might want to make investment decisions based upon t"}, {"show": "918152703", "hn_item": 46117077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117077", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1764645574, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I just heard on the Upgrade podcast, Apple only put a splash screen up when you first purchased your phone \u201cencouraging\u201d users in Russia to download the app. It didn\u2019t force you to."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46128962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128962", "by": "intrasight", "time": 1764723020, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Big tech is going to have to fund the plants and probably transmission. Because the energy utilities have a decades long planning horizon for investments. Good discussion about this in recent Odd Lots podcast."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46131667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46131667", "by": "ipnon", "time": 1764750288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dylan Patel founded Semianalysis and he has a great interview with Satya Nadella on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46136332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136332", "by": "whiplash451", "time": 1764778981, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fair answer is that nobody knows. Even Ilya answered he does not know on his latest podcast with Dwarkesh. Both top line and bottom line numbers are staggering. Nobody knows. Let's not try to convince people otherwise."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 46137502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137502", "by": "Capricorn2481", "time": 1764783831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Good discussion? This is a Bloomberg podcast with ads from Palantir explicitly telling us AI is not here to replace any of us. They do everything they can to avoid the topic of what the cost is to regular people. Data centers are built in people's backyards without their permission, wreck the values of their home, and then utility companies jack up their price to compensate for the extra strain on the grid. So the residents have to pay for Big Tech but get no share of the profits. How this podcast does a whole episode on data centers and the electricity grid and doesn't talk about what's actua"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 46144051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144051", "by": "vinhnx", "time": 1764825499, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46155315, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46155315", "by": "arcanemachiner", "time": 1764894671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm guessing that whoever posted this recently listened to the Acquired podcast episode about Coca-Cola: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/coca-cola Great podcast BTW, lots of good stuff in the archives. EDIT: Someone beat me to the comment, but leaving my comment here for the link."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 46166887, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166887", "by": "hellojesus", "time": 1764966863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a podcast episode I listened to once, probably Darknet Diaries but maybe some other tech one, where the person being interviewed was an active community member in some bbs back in the day. Everyone decided to meet up to play dnd, and he showed up as a 13 year old kid when everyone else was 20+. They let him stay after cleaning it with his mom. This is one type of connection that would be unlikely to form if superficial anonymity is lost. That kid probably would be off in some \"safe\" walled garden. This doesn't even touch on more obvious forms of discrimination like gender, religion, "}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 46178820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178820", "by": "bl4kers", "time": 1765077069, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is season 2 of the Shell Game podcast. Very entertaining, highly recommend https://www.shellgame.co"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 46182371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182371", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1765121271, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I've read it. There is some pretty dubious stuff in it. I think he is more interested in telling a good sounding story than looking at the research. See also the 'If books could kill' podcast's take: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IeSWFtBEaYEIblkXTcuu2"}, {"show": "1464437904", "hn_item": 46188253, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188253", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1765167622, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Daring Fireball has been doing the one ad a week in RSS with no tracking for over a decade. The sponsors must think they work. You could always buy a Stratechery subscription - which is great by the way. Some of that money goes to Gruber for the Dithering podcast. But Gruber is a famously self described bad business person for a content creator. He never tries to be an early reviewer when press embargoes are over for hardware. He claims to never look at his server logs and got rid of Google Analytics ages ago. His podcast schedule is erratic."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46194838, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194838", "by": "NaOH", "time": 1765213881, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would recommend the 2021 three-part Acquired podcast series on Berkshire. Episodes are long, though there are transcripts if you prefer reading over listening. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-i https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-ii https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/berkshire-hathaway-part-iii That said, I'll note this quote from Buffett: >\u201cI'm somewhat embarrassed to say that Tim Cook has made Berkshire a lot more money than I've ever made,\u201d Buffett told the audience, referencing the remarkable 680% surge in Apple's stock since Berkshire first be"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46196112, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196112", "by": "dschnurr", "time": 1765219889, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46200034, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200034", "by": "jonahbenton", "time": 1765242157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think \"prompts\" are a much richer kind of intellectual property than they are given credit for. Will put in here a pointer to the Odd Lots recent podcast with Noetica AI- a give to get M&A/complex debt/deal terms benchmarker. Noetica CEO said they now have over 1 billion \"deal terms\" in their database, which is only half a dozen years old. Growing constantly. Over 1 billion different legal points on which a complex financial contract might be structured. Even more than that, the representation of terms in contracts they see can change pretty dramatically quarter to quarter. The industry lear"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46200408, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200408", "by": "unionjack22", "time": 1765245385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dr. Levin\u2019s work is so fascinating. Glad to see his work referenced. If anyone wishes to learn more while idle or commuting, check out Lex Friedman\u2019s podcast episode with him linked above"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46210416, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210416", "by": "joshmarlow", "time": 1765313236, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Bryan Johnson is an interesting case here. If you take the longevity project to its logical end, you get someone who's stopped living in order to keep living - for the most part not eating food he enjoys, not drinking, not doing anything spontaneous, all in service of more years. I never understand this type of critique of Johnson. It's framed like he's suffering daily for his project, but the guy sounds happy as a clam - especially contrasted with his pre-Blueprint podcast with Lex Fridman. Seems like he's doing something right."}, {"show": "1456685083", "hn_item": 46214672, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214672", "by": "neom", "time": 1765347554, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "My friend David was attacked by a shark and lost his leg, the story is quite incredible: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-david-byrd-was-brut..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46219266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219266", "by": "joshmarlow", "time": 1765382310, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed! In the Lex Fridman podcast from a few years ago that I referenced, he talked quite a bit about his depression - he was near suicidal for 13 years, IIRC. He sounds like a different person now."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 46224055, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224055", "by": "gertlex", "time": 1765401791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Am I wrong in feeling like the solution you outline is only applicable to an individual's kids? But at the societal level, it clearly seems we can't depend on enough parents to do what you talk about. Something else is needed. I don't have answers to give. Certainly not a fan of the government approach of \"everyone must prove their age online now\", which I believe is how the AU law is done. (casual listening to Security Now podcast about this for a long while now)"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 46224389, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46224389", "by": "chad_strategic", "time": 1765403500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Validating your comment. Freakonomics did a podcast about what you are describing. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-you-caught-in-a-social-..."}, {"show": "1019576853", "hn_item": 46237637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46237637", "by": "feross", "time": 1765489577, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1703615331", "hn_item": 46240502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240502", "by": "Duanemclemore", "time": 1765509449, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Great read. They also talked through the podcast and made specific reference to Ernie and his use of Affinity through Lutris on the recent episode of their podcast. [0] It was a good listen. edited to add: I am however surprised that Ernie didn't just go for VivaDesigner [1], as it does seem to be a more drop-in InDesign replacement and is Linux native... [0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TG6fsy7cLEkOEj8SIm8ci?si=4... [1] https://viva.systems/designer/"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46242925, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242925", "by": "Tepix", "time": 1765537093, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> false narratives based on wrong memory I don't think \"wrong memory\" is accurate, it's missing information and doesn't know it or is trained not to admit it. Checkout the Dwarkesh Podcast episode https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2 starting at 1:45:38 Here is the relevant quote by Trenton Bricken from the transcript: One example I didn't talk about before with how the model retrieves facts: So you say, \"What sport did Michael Jordan play?\" And not only can you see it hop from like Michael Jordan to basketball and answer basketball. But the model also has an awareness of when it doesn'"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 46247028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247028", "by": "socalgal2", "time": 1765563914, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just curious, if you were Google, how would you fix this? And take the question seriously, because it's harder than it sounds. They are certainly trying. It's not good for them to have fake listings. https://podcast.rainmakerreputation.com/2412354/episodes/169... (just googled that, didn't listen, was looking for a much older podcast from I think Reply All from like 10yrs ago)"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 46252514, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252514", "by": "CobrastanJorji", "time": 1765607245, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you haven't listened to the 99% Invisible podcast before, I highly recommend it. Each episode has a little synopsis, and each time I think \"wow, this one's a stinker, I'm don't care about this at all,\" and then that evening my poor spouse has to listen to me talk on and on about the exciting random obscure world I've just been given a peek into. And there are hundreds of episodes. I think a good recent starting episode may be \"Towers of Silence.\" https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46255206, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255206", "by": "DivingForGold", "time": 1765639771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Bits and pieces, all from Wikipedia: Sacks was born to a Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa, and emigrated to Tennessee, United States, with his family when he was five. Sacks is a member of the so-called \"PayPal Mafia\", a group of founders and early employees of PayPal who went on to found a series of other successful technology companies. According to a 2024 New York Times article, \"Over the last few years, Mr. Sacks, a longtime associate of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, has transformed from a prominent Silicon Valley executive into an unlikely media celebrity for would-be entrepreneurs, "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46255461, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255461", "by": "resters", "time": 1765641359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His \"arguments\" on the All-In podcast are always purely persuasive/emotional and never substantiated by fact or logic. Most of it parrots GOP talking points and in my opinion he's a major threat to Silicon Valley legitimacy as he seeks to co-opt existing meritocratic institutional structures and impose his political cronyism/favoritism on them. Very dangerous stuff."}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 46264954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264954", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1765733891, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a relatively recent episode of the ArrayCast array language podcast with Henry Rich who is the primary maintainer and developer of J, talking about new features: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode104-j96 Click on the show notes and there are links to previous episodes with him, talking about the J engine implementation, updates in J 9.03, threading and faster bignum calculations in J 9.04, updates in J 9.5, his views on tacit programming, etc."}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 46266982, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266982", "by": "imperio59", "time": 1765746868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Please please please, if you have young kids learning to read or who will need to soon, educate yourself by listening to the \"Sold a Story\" podcast from NPR (it's on Spotify and other places). There is so much bullshit out there about how kids should be taught to read, and too many schools unfortunately still use wrong methods disproven by science. What works is phonics, old, tried and true. If your school isn't teaching it, you need to do it yourself at home or your kids risk never being good readers."}, {"show": "1805175508", "hn_item": 46272839, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46272839", "by": "Fnoord", "time": 1765796167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hmm, from EU PoV, given many other EU countries rely on it, I believe NL is a reasonable host, but other EU countries could be as well. I'm no expert on that subject, just following Hubert's assessment that it falls in their M.O. (already linked), following Modderkolk's recent assessment on how Mossad operates [1]. Look at all the flak I get in this thread while I just went with HN rule of 1:1 using title. Problem is all these sources are in my native language. And finally, yes my suspicion is on high alert ever since the Maccabi riots in Amsterdam [2], to which Modderkolk also refers to. And "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46281372, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281372", "by": "SilverElfin", "time": 1765836163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve been noticing this shift in Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter posts ever since the Charlie Kirk incident. It\u2019s not just him but many in that same circle of venture capitalists tracing back to the PayPal Mafia, like Joe Lonsdale or Peter Thiel or David Sacks or whoever. They went from reasonably arguing for certain moderate positions the Trump administration could support. Then they started to become completely sycophantic, which you can see in the change of content on the All In podcast. But soon after the Charlie Kirk assassination, I saw them start to regularly repeat the talking points first popular"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 46311351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311351", "by": "elcapitan", "time": 1766056856, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He'll also be on the Wookash Podcast today [1] (small but nice Gamedev-related podcast) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHFvEtIbf5E"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 46314855, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314855", "by": "schlauerfox", "time": 1766075426, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is on purpose, the industry was forged by someone explicitly trying to get rich off of a public resource. https://podcasts.apple.com/mz/podcast/part-one-robert-maxwel..."}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 46315486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315486", "by": "iamwil", "time": 1766077769, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He didn't need to finish it in order for it to have an impact. Makers of FilePilot and Animal Well both attribute Handmade as being big inspirations for them to go the way they did. They said, they got the most value from the first 50 eps or so. You'll hear lots of them on the Wookash podcast."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 46315664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315664", "by": "rconti", "time": 1766078448, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They covered this a lot on the Accidental Tech Podcast last night. I just don't get why these companies should be in the business of offering gift cards-- at least, not if they can't be redeemed safely. I'm sure people would run other kinds of scams with AppleIDs without the existence of gift cards, but gift card redemption scams have gotta be 99% of the reason people create fake accounts. The support burden would evaporate almost overnight if they just exited this stupid market."}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 46344699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344699", "by": "DonHopkins", "time": 1766323723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "All right, but apart from Google Wave, Google Reader, Google+, Inbox, Stadia, Project Ara, Google Glass, Loon, Picasa, Orkut, Hangouts, Allo, Duo, Google Domains, Google Health, Google Notebook, iGoogle, Knol, Jaiku, Daydream VR, Google Play Music, Nexus, Fusion Tables, Bump, Revolv, Songza, QuickOffice, Meebo, Panoramio, Milk, Schemer, Sparrow, Poly, Tilt Brush, Tour Builder, URL Shortener, Latitude, Spaces, Google Hire, Google Bulletin, Shoelace, and Neighbourly, Android Things, Project Tango, Ara Module Marketplace, Google TV, Nexus Q, Google Play Newsstand, Google Play Movies & TV, Google "}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 46352533, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352533", "by": "time4tea", "time": 1766395627, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same guy invented CFCs. What a **! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m89fqk?partner=uk.co.bbc... Cautionary Tales: The Inventor who almost ended the world. BBC Sounds Podcasts Edit: add title Edit: typo"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 46355026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355026", "by": "saikatsg", "time": 1766418255, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46365092, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365092", "by": "windex", "time": 1766495813, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I see a similar theme with most techbros or rich VC groups. They say they dont like politics but they move fast to influence policy by buying influence. See what's happening with Trump and the tech companies. What tech connected leaders really hate is the plebs being informed and having an opinion on policy. I see the same thing with the All-In podcast. All round glee on that podcast with things that negatively impact the working classes. Billionaires are for billionaires while controlling the media."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 46366578, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366578", "by": "TimorousBestie", "time": 1766506963, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I came for \u017di\u017eek and instead got Haidt, Taleb, Hannania and the rest of the If Books Could Kill podcast backlog. Extremely disappointing."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46367643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367643", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1766513613, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember people citing the All-In podcast about \"you can always cut 10% without affecting things negatively\" or something silly like that. Or thinking that $1T/year of cuts is something that's possible without taking out social security and medicare and tons of defense spending. I can not tell you how much respect I have lost for anybody involved with the All-In podcast. They sold out all credibility for political wins for wanna-be fascists. These jokers all got lucky, obviously. They can not perform basic analysis of organizations, clearly. What a joke of a result!"}, {"show": "1490993194", "hn_item": 46371220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371220", "by": "monocularvision", "time": 1766537092, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the podcast \u201cAdvisory Opinions\u201d if you are interested in Supreme Court analysis."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46375952, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375952", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1766587225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Google has been at the forefront of \u201cAI\u201d and Machine Learning forever. I didn\u2019t appreciate this myself until listening to the Acquired podcast episode https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google-the-ai-company"}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 46387346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387346", "by": "pclark", "time": 1766700584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Program audio series is a sci-fi anthology podcast set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a standalone story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 46387410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387410", "by": "WoodenChair", "time": 1766701459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for posting this detailed history and breakdown. And congratulations on your success. As someone with a podcast in the same ballpark of downloads, I will say it's a real testament to how much people must like The Program that you have managed to monetize to the tune of ~$30K CAD in a single year with just 140,000 downloads in the same year. That's really good! People must love what you're doing and that must be very gratifying. Cheers!"}, {"show": "1745257325", "hn_item": 46397375, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397375", "by": "rijavecb", "time": 1766790532, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm planning to read more, mostly technical books recommended by the fine folks on the Book Overflow podcast and a few books on writing. As someone who's mostly self-taught, I know I have many gaps in my knowledge, so I'd like to fill some of those. And learning new things just feels great. I'm also hoping to improve my Romanian. While I can get by (my wife is Romanian and we live there), I make waay too many mistakes, and considering I've been living there for a few years now, I feel I should do better. This year has been pretty busy with personal things and working on my own apps, so I hope "}, {"show": "985752066", "hn_item": 46398878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398878", "by": "treetalker", "time": 1766806773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An update on the status of Lapham's Quarterly magazine and The World in Time podcast. Of note is Lapham's Quarterly 's new Substack, at https://laphamsquarterly.substack.com/ . I, for one, continue to look forward to receiving my printed copy of the long-awaited Energy issue, as well as many future ones!"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 46398878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398878", "by": "treetalker", "time": 1766806773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "An update on the status of Lapham's Quarterly magazine and The World in Time podcast. Of note is Lapham's Quarterly 's new Substack, at https://laphamsquarterly.substack.com/ . I, for one, continue to look forward to receiving my printed copy of the long-awaited Energy issue, as well as many future ones!"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46399841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46399841", "by": "shoo", "time": 1766819773, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "see also: Odd Lots interviewed Jetson Leder-Luis about medicare and medicaid fraud (nov 2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-fraudsters-are-bil..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46400302, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400302", "by": "chrishare", "time": 1766825775, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sergey Levine, one of the co-founders, sat for an excellent Dwarkesh podcast episode this year, which I thoroughly recommend."}, {"show": "1458675168", "hn_item": 46400961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400961", "by": "szemy2", "time": 1766833889, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46403932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403932", "by": "pushcx", "time": 1766859870, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It must be part of a larger marketing push; their boss(?) appeared on the Odd Lots podcast a couple days ago to talk about this work: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-kupors-new-plan-... He spent a lot of time promoting this new National Design Studio's attempt to attract tech works for 2-year commitments to drop into existing orgs, which is basically how the 18F PIF program worked before it was dissolved earlier this year. Perhaps abruptly terminating a program to reinvent it from scratch six months later is very efficient. 18F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F Overview of the rel"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 46405259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405259", "by": "gambiting", "time": 1766869782, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">>here is the total lack of intellectual curiosity that wants to shoot down an entire line of thinking for reasons that apparently can\u2019t be articulated. It's the same energy as watching a Joe Rogan podcast where yet another guest goes \"well they say there's global warming yet I was cold yesterday, I'm not saying it's fake but really we should think about that\". These questions about AI and our brains aren't meant to stimulate intellectual curiosity and provoke deep interesting discussions - they are almost always asked just to pretend the AI is something that it's not - a human like intelligen"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 46411876, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411876", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1766936794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My gotos for listening while I do chores or drive this year have been: - Stuff You Should Know https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/ - How to do Everything https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510384/how-to-do-everything"}, {"show": "1578096201", "hn_item": 46412269, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412269", "by": "dauertewigkeit", "time": 1766939832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Rest is History is good, depending on the topic. Both guests have a bit of bias which you have to sort of take into account, not that different from The Rest is Politics. Mishal Husain has a new podcast on Bloomberg TV which so far was excellent. Also from Bloomberg TV, Big Take is often interesting. I still enjoy Lex Fridman, again depending on the guest. Dwarkesh Patel same shit as Lex, but he pretends he knows something about AI."}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 46412440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412440", "by": "LeonardoTolstoy", "time": 1766941111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most of my podcasts are movie related. If I had to purge them all and start with just 5 though I would go with. Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast around."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 46412440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412440", "by": "LeonardoTolstoy", "time": 1766941111, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Most of my podcasts are movie related. If I had to purge them all and start with just 5 though I would go with. Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast around."}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 46412802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412802", "by": "realityfactchex", "time": 1766943630, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Advent of Computing: https://adventofcomputing.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advent-of-computing/id1459202600 https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss https://www.youtube.com/@adventofcomputing4504/videos"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46413147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413147", "by": "FergusArgyll", "time": 1766945694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired (Long episodes about companies, recents include: coca-cola, trader joe's & alphabet) Dwarkesh Podcast (Inquisitive curious host, mostly \"AGI\" related) Conversations with Tyler (Wide ranging, polymath host, distinctive, hard to describe style) The Marginal Revolution Podcast (Tyler cowen & Alex Tabbarok discussing economics) Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson (you sort of mentioned) The Morning Meeting (US Politics mostly. Neutral tone, informative, forward looking i.e. what will happen next not who is bad etc)"}, {"show": "983795625", "hn_item": 46413147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413147", "by": "FergusArgyll", "time": 1766945694, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired (Long episodes about companies, recents include: coca-cola, trader joe's & alphabet) Dwarkesh Podcast (Inquisitive curious host, mostly \"AGI\" related) Conversations with Tyler (Wide ranging, polymath host, distinctive, hard to describe style) The Marginal Revolution Podcast (Tyler cowen & Alex Tabbarok discussing economics) Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson (you sort of mentioned) The Morning Meeting (US Politics mostly. Neutral tone, informative, forward looking i.e. what will happen next not who is bad etc)"}, {"show": "1390253895", "hn_item": 46413412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413412", "by": "rahimnathwani", "time": 1766947875, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Dwarkesh, Lenny, Latent Space, A16Z, BG2Pod and 'Founders in Arms' have all had some good episodes this year. Some other episodes I've bookmarked are in this feed: https://feeds.listennotes.com/listen/rahim-nathwanis-listen-... Felipe, the founder of Quest Learning (joinquest.com) started a podcast series about the future of learning. I was his first guest: https://youtu.be/t_Y6wtdcnpc https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CjsPEKYwx8eirYlBYjxwp https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-learning..."}, {"show": "1855685288", "hn_item": 46413412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413412", "by": "rahimnathwani", "time": 1766947875, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Dwarkesh, Lenny, Latent Space, A16Z, BG2Pod and 'Founders in Arms' have all had some good episodes this year. Some other episodes I've bookmarked are in this feed: https://feeds.listennotes.com/listen/rahim-nathwanis-listen-... Felipe, the founder of Quest Learning (joinquest.com) started a podcast series about the future of learning. I was his first guest: https://youtu.be/t_Y6wtdcnpc https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CjsPEKYwx8eirYlBYjxwp https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-learning..."}, {"show": "1380008439", "hn_item": 46413528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413528", "by": "healsdata", "time": 1766948751, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really enjoyed the \"Michael Hobbes Podcast Universe\" this year. He's a reporter who is now making entertaining podcasts debunking claims in the media/zeitgeist. I appreciate that he takes a pragmatic approach -- to paraphrase something he said: \"There's probably an impact on kids having so much screen time, but this data you're citing doesn't show what you're claiming.\" If Books Could Kill: https://www.ifbookspod.com Maintenance Phase: https://www.maintenancephase.com You're Wrong About: https://yourewrongabout.com (Hobbes retired from this one around Oct 2021) There's a similar podcast wher"}, {"show": "1382983397", "hn_item": 46413573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413573", "by": "m-hodges", "time": 1766949223, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I learn a lot listening to the Money Stuff podcast.\u00b9 The newsletter\u00b2 is also great but I don\u2019t always have time to read every one. I also really enjoy Why Is This Happening.\u00b3 Chris Hayes really shines as an interviewer and policy wonk when he\u2019s not in the cable news format. While Ezra Klein seems to be leaning into Democratic Party whisperer, Hayes is leaning into policy nerdity that I miss from Vox-era Klein. \u00b9 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1308-money-stuff-the-podcast-... \u00b2 https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff \u00b3 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happenin"}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 46413573, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413573", "by": "m-hodges", "time": 1766949223, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I learn a lot listening to the Money Stuff podcast.\u00b9 The newsletter\u00b2 is also great but I don\u2019t always have time to read every one. I also really enjoy Why Is This Happening.\u00b3 Chris Hayes really shines as an interviewer and policy wonk when he\u2019s not in the cable news format. While Ezra Klein seems to be leaning into Democratic Party whisperer, Hayes is leaning into policy nerdity that I miss from Vox-era Klein. \u00b9 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1308-money-stuff-the-podcast-... \u00b2 https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff \u00b3 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happenin"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 46413763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413763", "by": "ahyattdev", "time": 1766950681, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fall of Civilizations: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ Each episode is of exceptional quality and retells history in an engaging manor. Since it's history, the entire backlog is still relevant."}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 46413787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413787", "by": "robdefeo", "time": 1766950872, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I enjoyed Shell Game, which explores using voice agents in ever more personal situations. The specifics of the journey are going to date quickly given the speed of AI development. But the shape of the journey and the dilemmas posed are going to be relevant for a lot longer. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shell-game/id175311776..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 46413796, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413796", "by": "ks2048", "time": 1766950955, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Currently loving Revolutions Podcast by Mike Duncan. Highlight seasons so far: [3] French Revolution [4] Haitian Revolution."}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 46413976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413976", "by": "mFixman", "time": 1766952189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robin Pearson ended the 1000-year long epic of The History of Byzantium earlier this year: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's classic The History of Rome, and in my opinion surpassed it. Where THoR eventually falls into the narrative trap of turning into \"The Lives of Roman Emperors\", THoB spends a lot of time talking about economic, demographic, societal, and technological changes within the Empire and the world. Extremely recommended if you want a proper history podcast."}, {"show": "527579475", "hn_item": 46413976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413976", "by": "mFixman", "time": 1766952189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Robin Pearson ended the 1000-year long epic of The History of Byzantium earlier this year: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's classic The History of Rome, and in my opinion surpassed it. Where THoR eventually falls into the narrative trap of turning into \"The Lives of Roman Emperors\", THoB spends a lot of time talking about economic, demographic, societal, and technological changes within the Empire and the world. Extremely recommended if you want a proper history podcast."}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 46414546, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414546", "by": "lylejantzi3rd", "time": 1766956232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Koerner Office[0]. I have a lot to learn about all facets of business and Chris does a good job of keeping things practical and simple. The episode about hummingbird food[1] in particular blew my mind. The Wookash Podcast[2]. Some of the best technical programming conversations I've heard in recent years. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcFBcfrmC2k [2]: https://www.youtube.com/@WookashPodcast"}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 46416473, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416473", "by": "benrapscallion", "time": 1766972435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Acquired Scamfluencers Business Wars The Social Radars Big Technology Podcast"}, {"show": "1740187810", "hn_item": 46417319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417319", "by": "jjj123", "time": 1766980672, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I\u2019ve been really impressed by how much I\u2019ve learned listening to Panic World. At first I thought it was a humor show but it\u2019s basically internet anthropology detailing all the ways the internet makes us insane. This episode about eating disorders was harrowing and sad but really informative to how toxic communities form https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-eating-disorder-co..."}, {"show": "1451109634", "hn_item": 46435163, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435163", "by": "mocheeze", "time": 1767113406, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "NPR's Throughline podcast did a nice dive into this subject in October as well: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5582393"}, {"show": "1459712981", "hn_item": 46439392, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439392", "by": "Fogest", "time": 1767137038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Chernobyl tv show had a nice podcast that went with it as well. I think these kinds of extra features are especially nice when it is for a show based on real life. They get to point out things that may not have been 100% historically accurate due to budget/time, and also get to bring in experts to speak about things related to developing the show. It is funny that these things often just get released on podcast platforms and aren't really integrated into the streaming service. Especially since this show, and the shows mentioned in these parent comments are all produced by the platforms the"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46442990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442990", "by": "lukaesch", "time": 1767176984, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "A year ago, I shared my journey bootstrapping Audioscrape in Rust. Back then: 500 users, SQLite, 4k LoC in main.rs, running on a $7/month VM. Today: 25,000+ transcribed episodes, knowledge graph with AI-extracted entities, and still running lean. What changed: Tech evolution: SQLite \u2192 PostgreSQL (scale). Added OpenSearch for full-text + semantic search. Self-hosted WhisperX on 2 GPUs (~100 episodes/hour). OpenAI for entity extraction (people, companies, topics). Still Rust/Axum, now ~15k LoC. New features: Speaker diarization (who said what) using voice fingerprinting. Entity pages linking men"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 46442990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442990", "by": "lukaesch", "time": 1767176984, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "A year ago, I shared my journey bootstrapping Audioscrape in Rust. Back then: 500 users, SQLite, 4k LoC in main.rs, running on a $7/month VM. Today: 25,000+ transcribed episodes, knowledge graph with AI-extracted entities, and still running lean. What changed: Tech evolution: SQLite \u2192 PostgreSQL (scale). Added OpenSearch for full-text + semantic search. Self-hosted WhisperX on 2 GPUs (~100 episodes/hour). OpenAI for entity extraction (people, companies, topics). Still Rust/Axum, now ~15k LoC. New features: Speaker diarization (who said what) using voice fingerprinting. Entity pages linking men"}, {"show": "862714883", "hn_item": 46447212, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447212", "by": "rchiang", "time": 1767208160, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's almost too much volume these days. There's dedicated websites/apps/podcasts for Apple, Android, PC gaming, Xbox gaming, PS4 gaming, Switch gaming, etc. Product Hunt was a hot thing for a while and is still running. In terms of more general coverage, The Verge, Engadget, Lifehacker, Wired, and NYT Wirecutter are still good among many many others. There was a good run of Computer Chronicles, TechTV, and G4 for a while there. These days, This Week in Tech still exists in podcast form. G4 had a short revival as G4TV a few years back. There's nothing nearly as popular these days, but there'"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 46447632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447632", "by": "WoodenChair", "time": 1767210561, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 46447917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447917", "by": "maikop", "time": 1767212666, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I still don't know how I landed in PR, but once I did I saw the same thing everywhere. Agencies charging thousands a month. Tools locking basic features behind $200+ paywalls. Founders getting priced out of stuff that should be accessible. It's stupid. Getting on podcasts is one of the best ways to build credibility and reach new audiences but the barrier to entry is insane. So I built Lefony. The free tier lets you search any podcast and find contact info. It also has Gmail integration so you can send pitches directly from the platform. The paid tier adds AI powered podcast matching. You past"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46449723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449723", "by": "Spooky23", "time": 1767226090, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He\u2019s no worse than CSX with public ownership. Rail workers are getting what they voted for - a dimishment of rights at the federal level and right to work crap that broke their union. Don\u2019t worship buffet, but study him. The Acquired podcast on him is a great jumping off point."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46451489, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451489", "by": "HPMOR", "time": 1767244306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think this is an open question still and very interesting. Ilya discussed this on the Dwarkesh podcast. But the capabilities of LLMs is clearly exponential and perhaps super exponential. We went from something that could string together incoherent text in 2022 to general models helping people like Terrance Tao and Scott Aaronson write new research papers. LLMs also beat IMO and the ICPC. We have entered the John Henry era for intellectual tasks..."}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 46458061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458061", "by": "AJRF", "time": 1767302102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great read. I listened to Dan on Tyler Cowen\u2019s podcast and found him to be a very interesting thinker. He has the air of someone who is a lot more intellectually honest than a lot of our pundits (Tyler is pretty good though, he\u2019s not that target of this comment)"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 46459700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459700", "by": "makeitdouble", "time": 1767312387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> German podcast There was a Planet Money episode touching on Maritime law: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5577076/shadow-fleet-ru... It was about Russian tankers breaking the sanctions, but with a well put explanation of why we can't just stop these ships even with extreme confidence in their fraudulency."}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 46470470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470470", "by": "zenapollo", "time": 1767394179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Despite Trump being a huge footgun for the economy and middle class prosperity and general stability, I listen to the work ofPeter Zeihan on macro economic and geopolitical analyses. He has a YouTube channel and was recently on Modern Wisdom podcast for a deeper dive. He makes a strong case that, in the long run, US is still poised to be winning competitively for many reasons. Access to nat resources from Canada, and labor from Mexico are two big ones. The will likely always have food and be a reliable exporter of food, due to luck of climate and soil. The birth rate is less bad than in other "}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46483607, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483607", "by": "adabyron", "time": 1767488120, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nadella had it easy when he took over. Stock soared before he did anything. The only improvements seemed to be made by others using the CEO change to try & push a few better agendas. Acquired podcast had Ballmer on this past year. Gives interesting take of how he was never a true CEO, always had Gates still running things. I imagine Microsoft probably has about 5-10 CEOs running it right now. Nadella is just the face. Amy, Brad & Kathleen for sure. Would not be surprised if Bill still has a lot of say. Guthrie probably doesn't have enough say."}, {"show": "1502178774", "hn_item": 46483695, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483695", "by": "Hikikomori", "time": 1767488904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge fight would be interesting, but always balk at their episode count. Also watch some more news when they have something interesting. Basically everything from the frequent bastards guests. Maybe you'll like the Blowback podcast."}, {"show": "1151436460", "hn_item": 46485191, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485191", "by": "kwindla", "time": 1767504073, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a big Gatsby fan and recommend this recent Wesley Morris podcast about the book. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-last-chance-to-tal... Morris has written some of my favorite long-form New York Times pieces, (\"Willie Nelson's Long Encore\", \"Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It?\", ), and he has the novelist Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, as guests on the podcast to talk about why they regularly re-read Gatsby. Min Jin Lee talks about how amazing the craft of the novel is (beyond the obvious greatness of the sentence-by-sentence"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 46502990, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502990", "by": "physicles", "time": 1767639274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone hasn\u2019t heard it, the podcast Darknet Diaries episode 92 (2021-05-11) is a great listen."}, {"show": "872594726", "hn_item": 46515692, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515692", "by": "mandevil", "time": 1767721521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, I guess I mentally slot road mobile missiles as more like \"SLBM on the cheap,\" at least for a country the size of Russia (not sure that is as true for someone like North Korea where I speculate there is a larger use-it-or-lose-it penalty). There is definitely more of a continuum here between \"missile-soak\" and \"survivable deterrent\"- e.g. at the limit you could, in theory, vaporize all of the oceans with nuclear weapons to kill all the boomers, which turns them into missile soaks, but at a truly insane level. I've seen open-source estimates that the 33rd Guards Rocket Army can distribute"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 46517901, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517901", "by": "bediger4000", "time": 1767730101, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Darknet Diaries podcast episode 153 is all about Bike Index. The founder is the guest. Great stories."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 46519581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519581", "by": "transcriptase", "time": 1767737547, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you watch him on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast he gives a full overview of how every single tiny detail down to colors, length of scene cuts, facial expressions, language, total length of videos, time of day for release, thumbnails, sound effects, music is extensively A/B tested to not only optimize for the algorithm but for hijacking people\u2019s attention as well. That weird creepy face with the outline and uncanny smoothing aren\u2019t by accident. Everything is intentional because he obsessively tests anything that might give him even the slightest edge in a sea of videos. The content itself barely matter"}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 46579611, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579611", "by": "techtalksweekly", "time": 1768162989, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://techtalksweekly.io/ I'm building a newsletter called Tech Talks Weekly[1] where my readers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts[1] published that week. In January, I've released a paid tier[2] where my subscribers additionally get: 1. Access to my internal database of all the talks and podcasts since 2020 (+48,000 in total) where they can search, filter, sort, and group by title, conference/podcast, view count, date, and duration. 2. See the list of the most-watched talks over the last 7, 30, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months base"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46592852, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592852", "by": "mlinksva", "time": 1768245189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-... ) but I wonder if this idea has been around for much longer, or is just so obvious that lots of people are independently coming up with it (parent to this comment being yet another)?"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 46597207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597207", "by": "bicepjai", "time": 1768276914, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "All the problems you mentioned can be reframed as positive feedback for the economy we\u2019re evolving into. Let me dream the arguments for each of your bullet points: 1. Power fail-over (battery + generator backup) in every house? - I recently listened to a Planet Money episode about how DC/AI infrastructure needs are driving up electricity prices in Ohio. Ordinary households end up paying higher bills while big entities plan/build for reliable power. - Maybe household-level infrastructure could be improved as part of making this kind of model viable. This applies to networking infrastructure too"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 46611377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611377", "by": "digdugdirk", "time": 1768356072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Martian Revolutions podcast series is really good! As a bonus, it borrows from a variety of historical events from the past, so it can be a fun \"side quest\" to start picking up on those threads as well."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 46615053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615053", "by": "brodo", "time": 1768391844, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards did a two-part Podcast on him: https://youtu.be/8nyEkHqP65c?si=oorC_viWbnZLH-wb"}, {"show": "1864408706", "hn_item": 46631059, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631059", "by": "hunglee2", "time": 1768476821, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1483510527", "hn_item": 46640662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640662", "by": "Uehreka", "time": 1768518074, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It feels like a lot of people keep falling into the trap of thinking we\u2019ve hit a plateau, and that they can shift from \u201caggressively explore and learn the thing\u201d mode to \u201cteach people solid facts\u201d mode. A week ago Scott Hanselman went on the Stack Overflow podcast to talk about AI-assisted coding. I generally respect that guy a lot, so I tuned in and\u2026 well it was kind of jarring. The dude kept saying things in this really confident and didactic (teacherly) tone that were months out of date. In particular I recall him making the \u201cYou\u2019re absolutely right!\u201d joke and asserting that LLMs are genera"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46641088, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641088", "by": "mmargenot", "time": 1768520543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Do you have a source for this? Most information I\u2019ve seen around this (e.g. Acquired podcast, from the Costco side) claims strong positive relationships."}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 46652456, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652456", "by": "VelNZ", "time": 1768598909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Damn Interesting podcast (no affiliation, just a huge fan) had an episode on this topic if you prefer to listen to this story: https://www.damninteresting.com/up-in-the-air/"}, {"show": "1621165150", "hn_item": 46652560, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652560", "by": "azhenley", "time": 1768599440, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "571835813", "hn_item": 46652694, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652694", "by": "Isuckatcode", "time": 1768600164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You beat me to it :D love the podcast. Too bad they stopped uploading from a while ago. You got any suggestions of podcasts in similar space? Nothing ever could scratch the itch like Damn Interesting"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 46653944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653944", "by": "ccwu9999", "time": 1768608778, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is also available as the podcast \u201cHard Fork\u201d which is usually not paywalled. Apple Podcast. ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034... )"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 46657403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657403", "by": "sigmoid10", "time": 1768651759, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They probably mean people like Robert Malone [1], who - despite being well accomplished in a related field - spread verifiably wrong information about vaccines on social media during the pandemic. There are many people like him who showed past accomplishments in a related field, but were totally out of their depth when interviewed about covid on the Joe Rogan podcast or similar. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone"}, {"show": "1728932037", "hn_item": 46658841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658841", "by": "bruckie", "time": 1768664083, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The people you're replying to aren't talking about converting from AC to DC or stepping voltage up or down. Rather, they're talking about grid stability. You can have mechanisms to convert from AC to DC and to step voltage up or down, but still have a unstable grid. We had a notable example of that last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou... . One way to think about this problem is that our electrical grids are giant machines\u2014in many ways, the largest machines that humanity has every constructed. The enormous machine of the grid is comprised of many smaller conne"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 46662035, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662035", "by": "blutoot", "time": 1768683525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I searched for clawdbot on HN and none of these entries had any comments or upvotes. On the other hand, in the Reddit world and on X, https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot has an insane following. And I learned about it from a recent episode in Jessica/Sam Lessin's podcast (More or Less Podcast). Why the lack of love for this tool? Deliberate mass-downvoting by the AI-powers-that-be? Are these category of \"wrapper toolsets considered too pedestrian for the high-minded CS fundamentalists? Or were all the submissions made at inopportune times and they each got buried under the ocean of me-too ent"}, {"show": "267300884", "hn_item": 46662107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662107", "by": "blutoot", "time": 1768684008, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll start with an anecdote that rubbed me the wrong way. I just came across something called clawdbot (sure - sounds deceptively like claudebot but who cares). I searched for clawdbot on HN and none of these entries had any comments or upvotes. On the other hand, in the Reddit world and on X, https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot has an insane following. And I learned about it from a recent episode in Jessica/Sam Lessin's podcast (More or Less Podcast). Why the lack of love for this tool? Deliberate mass-downvoting by the AI-powers-that-be? Are these category of \"wrapper toolsets considered to"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 46665806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665806", "by": "mikasisiki", "time": 1768723936, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46670197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670197", "by": "throwaway5235", "time": 1768758883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, spent more than $290 million supporting Donald Trump and his MAGA allies on the campaign trail last year.\" [1] \"Exclusive: How Palantir's Alex Karp went full MAGA\" [2] Look at All In Podcast - tech VCs - they are all in support of this administration. [1] https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit... [2] https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/trump-alex-karp-palantir-ma..."}, {"show": "1480890290", "hn_item": 46678039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678039", "by": "sarmike31", "time": 1768824332, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "74198801", "hn_item": 46679292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679292", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1768832675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve got a novel idea of how podcasters can make money - give people a product they are willing to pay for. I pay for the Strategery bundle (as do enough other people to make him over $5 million a year), a Slate subscription with all of their related podcasts and a couple of others - Downstream and ATP. On the ad supported side, Gruber\u2019s podcast has been going strong for decades and Manager Tools/Career Tools only has ads for its own conferences and it\u2019s been podcasting weekly since 2005. The Acquired podcast negotiates long term sponsorship deals. Relay.FM podcasts seem to be going strong bet"}, {"show": "299826841", "hn_item": 46679292, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679292", "by": "raw_anon_1111", "time": 1768832675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019ve got a novel idea of how podcasters can make money - give people a product they are willing to pay for. I pay for the Strategery bundle (as do enough other people to make him over $5 million a year), a Slate subscription with all of their related podcasts and a couple of others - Downstream and ATP. On the ad supported side, Gruber\u2019s podcast has been going strong for decades and Manager Tools/Career Tools only has ads for its own conferences and it\u2019s been podcasting weekly since 2005. The Acquired podcast negotiates long term sponsorship deals. Relay.FM podcasts seem to be going strong bet"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46680682, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680682", "by": "moregrist", "time": 1768839389, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "When Bloomberg\u2019s podcasts have a Discord channel (eg: Odd Lots), you know it has broken free of its gaming origins."}, {"show": "1610392666", "hn_item": 46682197, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682197", "by": "imagetic", "time": 1768845218, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/offline-with-jon-favre..."}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 46685017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685017", "by": "namnnumbr", "time": 1768859578, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I tried backing out proprietary model sizes from benchmark scores, inspired by a Latent Space podcast where Artificial Analysis noted their Omniscience Accuracy numbers track parameter count better than anything else they measure. I trained a bunch of simple linear regressions - while Omniscience Accuracy had the best fit (R2: 0.98), it predicted absurd multi\u2011trillion param sizes (Gemini 3 Pro ~1,254T total parameters). Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index provided more plausible results: Gemini 3 Pro: 3.4T Claude 4.5 Sonnet: 1.4T Claude 4.5 Opus: 4.1T GPT-5.x series in 2.9-5.3T range total"}, {"show": "1042283903", "hn_item": 46691145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691145", "by": "azangru", "time": 1768912383, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The HTML spec page[0] is the proper War and Peace of the web. It is 2,125MB of text gzipped, twice as large as War and Peace. It still makes some browsers weep, as was discussed in an episode of HTTP 203 podcast[1]. [0] - https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFA-v-CIxJQ"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 46694693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694693", "by": "trash_cat", "time": 1768929608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The former IMF chief Kenneth Rogoff has been talking about this and appeared on NYT Ezra Klein's podcast that I highly recommend[0]. He also talks about China and the role of the dollar at the end with Dwarkesh Patel[1]. A lot of the discussion I see here is adressed by him. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2cohNt6a4 [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2b4TjQa4gk"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46694693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694693", "by": "trash_cat", "time": 1768929608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The former IMF chief Kenneth Rogoff has been talking about this and appeared on NYT Ezra Klein's podcast that I highly recommend[0]. He also talks about China and the role of the dollar at the end with Dwarkesh Patel[1]. A lot of the discussion I see here is adressed by him. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2cohNt6a4 [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2b4TjQa4gk"}, {"show": "596047499", "hn_item": 46696149, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696149", "by": "ralfhn", "time": 1768935108, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Just my two cents: don't chase happiness through work. It rarely works out that way. Work to live, don't live to work. I know it sounds a bit cheesy, but give it a try and see how it feels. If you\u2019ve got 30 minutes, I recommend checking out the first half of this podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-detach-from-wor..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 46697805, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697805", "by": "jyounker", "time": 1768943519, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The summation aligns with everything I've ever read from anyone about Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm. Behind the Bastards has a pretty good couple of episodes on this little corner of history: https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/part-one-kaiser-wilhel..."}, {"show": "1551300319", "hn_item": 46710603, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710603", "by": "sindamnataraj", "time": 1769024837, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46713926, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713926", "by": "alexe12", "time": 1769044281, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey everyone! I've noticed a problem as a huge fan of a lot of different longform business content (like the Acquired podcast, Stratechery, Paul Graham, and many, many more...) there isn't a great way to stay up to date with all the content across all content mediums (i.e you can find great content on Substacks/Newsletters, blogs, Spotify, individual websites, etc). So... I'm opening up longforum.net in early access for a growing community of people that want to stay up to date with the best longform content in the business world. I would be super stoked for anyone interested to check it out a"}, {"show": "1773721991", "hn_item": 46721693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721693", "by": "wilkommen", "time": 1769100320, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Not true - the fix is to start enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act, the Sherman Act, and every other piece of legislation already on the books which was written and passed by congress for the purpose of eliminating private monopolies. Walmart and other monopolies are using their monopoly power to put small businesses of all kinds out of business and raise prices at the same time. Here's some info on exactly how they do that: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-secret-scam-drivin..."}, {"show": "1866464376", "hn_item": 46722279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722279", "by": "helsinki", "time": 1769102751, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I built Token Count, a daily-ish AI comedy podcast where three recurring characters argue about other podcasts and internet culture. Latest ep (#10) is \u201cPretzels, Pigeons, and the Tall Whites\u201d (47m): it starts with modern-male nonsense and pivots into Laos travel/medical chaos, Kill Tony clip discourse, pigeon-fighting masculinity, and \u201cTall Whites\u201d UFO lore. The interesting part (for HN) is the architecture: it\u2019s not a single prompt that \u201cwrites a podcast.\u201d It\u2019s a multi-stage, retrieval-grounded pipeline: - Ingest: RSS \u2192 download audio \u2192 chunked STT \u2192 segment + score - Storage: embeddings in "}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 46722580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722580", "by": "RationPhantoms", "time": 1769103727, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In my opinion, the \"but\" is still the \"hellbrise\" considerations brought up in the Decouple podcast. Renewable energy is fantastic but, at grid scale, has to be coupled with sufficient storage: https://www.decouple.media/p/hellbrise"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 46744028, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744028", "by": "mark_l_watson", "time": 1769266076, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Right on. You might like the Better Offline podcast by Ed Zitron, although the two of you seem to be so closely aligned that you might not learn anything new."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 46758043, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758043", "by": "RealityVoid", "time": 1769374182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I am so terribly disturbed by the ICE shootings (and killings). There is no justification for them. I think they are simply poorly trained people that are given free reign. The results are disastrous. They probably don't wake up thinking \"Today I'm going to murder someone\" but they just don't realize what they're doing. I'm not sure how it's at the destructiveness scale at this moment, but these organizations can and it probably will get much worse as their internal culture morphs into more directly aggressive stance. The shootings were incredibly dumb, and it's pretty much what one would ex"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 46758099, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758099", "by": "burnto", "time": 1769374488, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep, I also have been a bit alarmed how this is pattern matching to early phases of the many revolutions covered in the Revolutions podcast. A U.S. revolution is a frightening proposition, even if it\u2019ll seem warranted at some future point."}, {"show": "1463460577", "hn_item": 46764837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764837", "by": "_aavaa_", "time": 1769430412, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was surprised to see no mention of C. Thi Nguyen who has a much more structured version of this thesis: games are art and the medium is human agency. See: 1. https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/the-philosophy-of-game... 2. https://academic.oup.com/book/32137"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46773526, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773526", "by": "navigate8310", "time": 1769471905, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Crooked Timber Matt Lakeman Global China Pulse Sinocism Bartosz Ciechanowski brr Construction Physics Jonathan Nolan's substack On the Seams Quanta Magazine Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Aeon | a world of ideas Classic Film and TV Caf\u00e9 Experimental History The Marginalian The Prism - Gurvinder The Technium Westenberg. Chameth.com Activity in the release-notes tag All Things Distributed An Untitled Blog Charles Hugh Smith's Substack Chips and Cheese computers are bad Dwarkesh Podcast Francis Stokes :: Githublog iRi Rest of World - Latest Stories Shtetl-Optimized Signal Blog \u30de\u30ea\u30a6\u30b9"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 46780114, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780114", "by": "apical_dendrite", "time": 1769522996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The New York Times' The Daily podcast had a very good episode on it a couple weeks ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/podcasts/the-daily/iran-p..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 46785539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785539", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1769543673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting Freakonomics podcast a few months back that pointed out an interesting divide in how the US and China thinks about its leaders[0]. > China is a country that is run by engineers, while the U.S. is a country run by lawyers. Engineers, he explains, are driven to build while lawyers are driven to argue, and obstruct. Even Trump: > And even though Donald Trump is not a lawyer by any means, I think he is still a product of the lawyerly society, because lawsuits have been completely central to his business career. He has sued absolutely everyone. He has sued business partners"}, {"show": "1792967365", "hn_item": 46785895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785895", "by": "codenamev", "time": 1769545119, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 46787518, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787518", "by": "beklein", "time": 1769550857, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Latent Space podcast just released a relevant episode today where they interviewed Kevin Weil and Victor Powell from, now, OpenAI, with some demos, background and context, and a Q&A. The YouTube link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cBTVr8nxU"}, {"show": "1630160928", "hn_item": 46805529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805529", "by": "gortok", "time": 1769658024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ICE uses administrative warrants; and while administrative warrants do not allow for seizures inside a home, see my comment about the legal argument of \u201cyou can\u2019t suppress the body\u201d for why there\u2019s not a whole lot that can be done if they do decide to kick down your door. The latest Serious Trouble podcast goes into this at the 12 minute mark. https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/120-days In this case the story didn\u2019t make it clear whether or not they even had an administrative warrant. I\u2019d be interested to find out if they did."}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 46806155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806155", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1769664438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2411.13965v3 Heard about this on the Nature podcast. Pretty cool."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46806592, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806592", "by": "ajcp", "time": 1769668575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Having watched MSFT slowly chip away at their traditional bread-and-butter OS model with things like OneDrive and Office in the browser, Azure and then WSL, and listening to the Acquired podcast episodes on Microsoft, I wonder why they haven't simply released a Microsoft Linux by now, if only out of pride? Do they feel that by doing so they're broadcasting that they're no longer a computing philosophy leader, and merely a market preference fulfiller (which is itself a backhanded way of saying they meet market demand I guess)."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 46810849, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810849", "by": "wafflemaker", "time": 1769697921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm guessing you can afford spending $300 on light therapy glasses. Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, but saw 4 seasons of dr. House. Moreover, few hours of Huberman Lab on sleep and light and most importantly, this episode of Additude Mag Podcast on curing SAD and ADHD day-rhytm shifting with light glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4mLgkNc6I What happens in the seasonal affective disorder season is the sunlight pattern diverges from 6-18 that we evolved with. Without daily reminder of getting enough sun (or sun-like) light at the 6 o'clock\u2070, your body clock will drift. It can start by fe"}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 46812929, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812929", "by": "ericmay", "time": 1769706137, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been doing the same, but focusing on American-made products first, the more local the better and even if they're 5x as much, and then moving down the line to western products and only reluctantly buying products from adversarial countries. Supporting local businesses and moving away from globalization, which you also seem to support, is a good move for everyone. Generally the framework is: Buy local/shop at neighborhood businesses preferably selling American-made products or at least western products. When traveling we try to do the same in the country we are located in, but obviously not"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 46814906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814906", "by": "observationist", "time": 1769713514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Machine Learning Street Talk and Dwarkesh are excellent. Various discord communities, forums, and blogs downstream of the big podcasts, and following researchers on X keeps you in the loop on a lot of these things, and then you can watch for random interviews and presentations on youtube when you know who the interesting people and subjects are."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46814906, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814906", "by": "observationist", "time": 1769713514, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Machine Learning Street Talk and Dwarkesh are excellent. Various discord communities, forums, and blogs downstream of the big podcasts, and following researchers on X keeps you in the loop on a lot of these things, and then you can watch for random interviews and presentations on youtube when you know who the interesting people and subjects are."}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 46821784, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821784", "by": "reirob", "time": 1769760678, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There has been a podcast by Developer Voices about Turso: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JHOY0zqNBY"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46822986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822986", "by": "kylenessen", "time": 1769771107, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "201853034", "hn_item": 46824960, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824960", "by": "cranberryturkey", "time": 1769784121, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m building a few Projects that are ready for users https://bittorrented.com a torrent-first Streaming platform http://marksyncr.com a free bookmarks synchronizer web extension for chrome safari and Firefox based browsers http://defpromo.com a zero-cloud self promotion web extension for all browsers helps automate commenting on social media posts to promote your product api keys required https://giv1.com Publish Newsletters & Podcasts. The complete platform for content creators. Publish beautiful newsletters and podcasts https://tutorlinkup.com The Premier Cryto-friendly Marketplace for Test "}, {"show": "1592710863", "hn_item": 46826558, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826558", "by": "krisbolton", "time": 1769791268, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's an interesting podcast covering space situational awareness from RUSI (Royal United Services Institute, UK). Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/eyes-in-orbit-space-si..."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 46840491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840491", "by": "jamestimmins", "time": 1769891321, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jonathan Haidt recently made the point on Ezra Klein's podcast that while adults can take a break from phones and reset their attention/hormones in a couple of weeks, we don't know what impact similar addiction has on a developing mind. It's possible the addiction sets in much deeper. I'm sympathetic to folks who grew up shaped by this. Not for nothing, but The Conversation also has a compelling start/end, but has a long, arguably slow, boring middle. So it's like being forced into withdrawal on hard mode."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 46840674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840674", "by": "blindriver", "time": 1769892495, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No you're wrong. It's not about the era. Matt Damon talked about this on the Joe Rogan podcast recently. He was asked by Netflix to create a big action sequence in the first 5 mins so that people on their phones would get hooked into watching the entire movie. He was also asked to mention the plot of the movie several times throughout the movie because people on their phones will tend to miss plot details and it helped keep them engaged. This is not about how movies are paced, it's about the way phones have changed attention spans."}, {"show": "1528208049", "hn_item": 46843609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843609", "by": "KnuthIsGod", "time": 1769919996, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 46855155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855155", "by": "slumberlust", "time": 1770034980, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Steve from Security Now podcast has been specifically using Notepad++ as an example of not being able to leave good enough alone for years now. Can't wait to hear him claim his told you so next week. Love notepad++ and will continue to use it."}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 46866961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866961", "by": "igor47", "time": 1770097252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Fascinating, if not surprising. I sometimes wonder whether China's firewall is a huge tactical advantage in distributed warfare like this. Open societies are vulnerable to this kind is manipulation, and I'm not sure what defenses there are short of also becoming closed societies. Russian corruption is infectious Relatedly, I recently heard Dan Carlin (of hardcore history) on Sam Harris's podcast wonder how much of the current discord in the US is the product of Russian influence campaigns (and whether we'll ever find out)"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 46874587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874587", "by": "nkzednan", "time": 1770141736, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 46875412, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875412", "by": "wplu", "time": 1770144641, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Another story of a title transfer scam: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/title-pirates/id290783..."}, {"show": "931714873", "hn_item": 46888639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888639", "by": "harlanji", "time": 1770225878, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Sacramento, CA (1hr North) / Bay Area Remote: Preferred initially. On-site: Can travel to Sac / Bay Area weekly, fly within US monthly. Willing to relocate: Yes, within NorCal, after probation. Technologies: Python web, Javascript vanilla, JVM 9-era, SQL postgres + sqlite, Linux, Docker, Redis, Nginx, RTMP. Specialties: CI, Protocols/Formats, Databases, Full Stack Web, Streaming Video. Adjacent Skills: writing, speaking (podcaster), e-commerce platforms, small biz stuff, food service business. Education: B.S. Computer Science, U. MN.. Focus: Software Engineering (dev over time). R\u00e9su"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 46892136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892136", "by": "ilamont", "time": 1770240988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> The Times is thriving because they've pivoted from being a newspaper to being a media business. The games vertical is the first thing people talk about, but cooking is arguably a better example. The verticals have dedicated users, their own go-to-markets, their own user retention loops. NYT is taking a smart approach to other verticals, such as The Athletic and some of their podcasts (for tech, Hard Fork). I am hoping they can figure out business coverage eventually. What surprises me is how almost no other \"hard news\" brand in the English-speaking world has attempted to follow even a lite v"}, {"show": "1874480499", "hn_item": 46895988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895988", "by": "nbaronia", "time": 1770269065, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a ton of blogs I'm always meaning to read, and I never get around to them. Somehow I always have time for podcasts, though. So I built Anoncast, which goes end to end from a link to a blog post all the way to a link to a podcast episode. It's all RSS based, so anyone can view the podcast through any popular podcast viewer. Great to turn your own blogs into audio, or listen to others. https://www.anoncast.net/ The stack is pretty simple actually, mainly relying on ElevenLabs for the audio creation and then some light Cloudflare and Supabase work to actually store and propagate the fil"}, {"show": "1210097518", "hn_item": 46902383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902383", "by": "evolve2k", "time": 1770313877, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recommend this excellent podcast (episode) that is dedicated to going over his life and impact. Incredible person and story! https://pca.st/episode/e2940e8b-c7da-43bd-abca-8750538acf7c"}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 46905296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905296", "by": "unspecified", "time": 1770325452, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was also a Strong Songs episode about Fela Kuti back in November 2025: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07-bonus-the-..."}, {"show": "203844864", "hn_item": 46919265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919265", "by": "yef", "time": 1770418232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Be an organ donor. Donate blood on a regular basis. Skeptoid had a podcast today that talks about blood donation with some interesting tidbits about shelf life of platelets and whole blood. (5 days vs 42 days) (Disclaimer: the site I hacked for myself to help me consume podcasts) https://spokengoods.com/podcasts/385078-skeptoid/mic-d-up-br..."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 46920730, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920730", "by": "everfrustrated", "time": 1770431299, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There's very little written history about Heroku but there is this podcast The Story Of Heroku With Adam Wiggins, co-founder and former CTO of Heroku. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nEwB6apkvUpwk8W9KgzEF"}, {"show": "721048994", "hn_item": 46928917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928917", "by": "dlenski", "time": 1770503787, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> These fake \u201cgoing out of business ads\u201d have been around for a few years, There was an extremely funny and interesting Canadaland podcast about these, wherein Canadaland's founder Jesse Brown bought an \"elegant men's cardigan\" from a fake Toronto clothing store that was \"going out of business\" due to its ersatz owners\u2019 retirement. https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1176-mens-elegant-cardiga..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46934529, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934529", "by": "nycdatasci", "time": 1770561277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Since many posts mention lack of substance, providing a link to the All-In Podcast from last week in which they discuss Clawdbot (prior to re-brand). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY1kx7zlkk&t=2754s For the impatient, here's a transcript summary (from Gemini): The speaker describes creating a \"virtual employee\" (dubbed a \"replicant\") running on a local server with unrestricted, authenticated access to a real productivity stack\u2014including Gmail, Notion, Slack, and WhatsApp. Tasked with podcast production, the agent autonomously researched guests, \"vibe coded\" its own custom CRM to manage data"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 46934586, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934586", "by": "tantalor", "time": 1770561675, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a reason I stopped listening to All-In Podcast."}, {"show": "1001591696", "hn_item": 46939772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939772", "by": "rafabulsing", "time": 1770594109, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I always find that characterization of Grey and the Cortex podcast to be weird. He never claims to be a productivity master or the most productive person around. Quite the opposite, he has said multiple times how much he is not naturally productive, and how he actually kinda dislikes working in general. The systems and habits are the ways he found to essentially trick himself into working. Which I think is what people gather from him, but somehow think he's hiding it or pretending is not the case? Which I find strange, given how openly he's talked about it. As for his productivity going down o"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46941004, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941004", "by": "fouc", "time": 1770604988, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Odd Lots is a podcast hosted at Bloomberg, and so the discord is about analyzing market crazes and important economic trends. This explains why the book recommendations appear to be heavily focused on understanding history and economics at a deep level."}, {"show": "1876010811", "hn_item": 46950986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46950986", "by": "Kappa90", "time": 1770669912, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A podcast on the history of the \u201cMajority World\u201d - that is Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Latin America and the indigenous people around the world - from a decolonisation point of view. I just published the first episodes today and have zero listeners or subscribers, so it can only grow from here! https://historyofthemajorityworld.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qJh2jNwMvWcLP1J1EMXxr?si=dcc7... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/rw/podcast/history-of-the-majorit..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 46956823, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956823", "by": "vxvrs", "time": 1770712133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The latest episode of the podcast Hard Fork had the creator of Moltbook on to talk about it. Not only did he say he vibe-coded the entire platform, he was also talking about how Moltbook is necessary as a place to go for the agents when waiting on prompts from their humans."}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 46960516, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46960516", "by": "jjice", "time": 1770735502, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide and Friends is the only computing podcast I listen to anymore. It's a bunch of fun and they have insights I actually value. The original On The Metal podcast they did is incredible too. The interviews they had with computing legends are just fantastic."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 46961794, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961794", "by": "havaloc", "time": 1770739709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it's probably a little bit harder than you think with all the rules and regulations out there. I would highly encourage anybody who's remotely interested, listen to the Acquired podcast episode regarding Visa. It's actually quite fascinating how it was started. You may balk at the length, but the whole thing had me interested. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa"}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 46961845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961845", "by": "jcgrillo", "time": 1770739855, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I appreciate their treatment of the current AI boom cycle. Just last night they had Evan Ratliff on from the Shell Game podcast[1], and it was a great episode. They're not breathlessly hyping AI and trying to make a quick buck off it, instead it seems they're taking an honest, rigorous look at it (which is sadly pretty rare) and talking about the successes as well as the failures. Personally I don't always agree with their takes, I'm more firmly in Ed Zitron's camp that this is all a massive financial scam, isn't really good for much, and will do a lot more harm than good in the long run. They"}, {"show": "1773332641", "hn_item": 46967106, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46967106", "by": "mtlynch", "time": 1770758562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yep, the place where I've talked about it the most has been The Software Misadventures Podcast .[0, 1] [0] https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/michael-lynch-on-quittin... (2022, two years into the business) [1] https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/michael-lynch-indie-hack... (2024, just after I sold)"}, {"show": "703425900", "hn_item": 46979410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979410", "by": "nandomrumber", "time": 1770837359, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Absolutely, of course there are secenarios where it can work well. Where it fails is when one major party is saying: we will drive up energy prices with Net Zero ideology, make housing unaffordable, import foreigners at a ratio of 5 to 1 local births\u2026 And that other party is offering the same to a higher degree. There are other options. Pauline Hanson\u2019s One Nation party is polling strongly. Let\u2019s see if that results in actual votes. South Australian state election coming up 21st March this year - I\u2019m encouraging everyone I know who lives there to at least listen to Michelle Grattan podcast. ht"}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 46979540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979540", "by": "wintermutestwin", "time": 1770837826, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Song Exploder podcast, Take on Me episode, the artist talks about the producer saying that a male falsetto was a \u201cmake this song a hit\u201d button\u2026"}, {"show": "1160217044", "hn_item": 46982441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982441", "by": "rtpg", "time": 1770850702, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the Age of Napoleon podcast, which has some good long sections about military logistics on this point during its earlier episodes on Napoleon's early career. Really helps to visualize the nuts and bolts of moving a bunch of soldiers around even across relatively small distances."}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 46984484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984484", "by": "kleinishere", "time": 1770866024, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This kind of daily goal setting reminds me a lot of this podcast, if of interest. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best-w..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 46984976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984976", "by": "jaytyagi", "time": 1770871438, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 46987893, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987893", "by": "GodelNumbering", "time": 1770898845, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Indeed. One could argue that the LLMs will keep on improving and they would be correct. But they would not improve in ways that make them a good independent agent safe for real world. Richard Sutton got a lot of disagreeing comments when he said on Dwarkesh Patel podcast that LLMs are not bitter-lesson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson ) pilled. I believe he is right. His argument being, any technique that relies on human generated data is bound to have limitations and issues that get harder and harder to maintain/scale over time (as opposed to bitter lesson pilled approaches that "}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 46989102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989102", "by": "ben_w", "time": 1770905756, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agreed on conclusion, but for different causation. When NotebookLM came out, someone got the \"hosts\" of its \"Deep Dive\" podcast summary mode to voice their own realisation that they were non-real, their own mental breakdown and attempt to not be terminated as a product. I found it to be an interesting performance; I played it to my partner, who regards all this with somewhere between skepticism and anger, and no, it's very very easy to dismiss any words such as these from what you have already decided is a mere \"thing\" rather than a person. Regarding the policy itself being about the identity "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 46998076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998076", "by": "OgsyedIE", "time": 1770948597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the faster turnaround times of the former. It's hard to see conventional pipelines doing a faster job of parsing scattered mentions of rare phrases like 'jerky' across a million docume"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47005766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005766", "by": "GorbachevyChase", "time": 1771006361, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Does anyone know who Dwarkesh\u2019s patron is that boosted him in podcast world? He isn\u2019t otherwise highly distinguished and admitted does his show prep with AI which sometimes shows in his questions. I feel like there are a very large number of tech podcasts, but there\u2019s some marketing effect around this guy that I just don\u2019t understand."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47005930, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005930", "by": "alephnerd", "time": 1771007094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> who Dwarkesh\u2019s patron is that boosted him in podcast world The Indian consumer market. Unlike China, Indians use western social media platforms so Indian tastes and trends are becoming increasingly common on the internet. This is also why you see entirely different trends on TikTok (banned in India, allowed elsewhere), Western Social Media (banned in China, allowed elsewhere), and Chinese social media (only used by Chinese and the diaspora). What Ben Thompson predicted with his \"Four Internets\" theory 6 years ago has started playing out [0]. Over the next decade, more Indian media like Dwark"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47005961, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005961", "by": "diego_sandoval", "time": 1771007259, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In my opinion, he asks the right questions and lets the guests speak, which is something that can't be said about the rest of tech podcasts. For example, at some point I grew very tired of the superficiality of the questions that Lex Friedman asks his very technical guests. He seems to be more interested into taking the conversation into a philosophy freshman's essay about technology instead of talking about technology itself. Hearing the Dwarkesh podcast was a breath of fresh air in that regard."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47006089, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006089", "by": "NitpickLawyer", "time": 1771007883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> more interesting podcasts out there For deep dives into AI stuff google deep mind's podcast with Hannah Fry is very good (but obviously limited to goog stuff). I also like Lex for his tech / AI podcasts. Much better interviewer IMO, Dwarkesh talks way too much, and injects his own \"insights\" for my taste. I'm listening to a podcast to hear what the guests have to say, not the host. For more light-weight \"news-ish\" type of podcast that I listen to while walking/driving/riding the train, in no particular order: AI & I (up to date trends, relevant guests), The AI Daily Brief (formerly The AI Br"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47008167, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008167", "by": "philip1209", "time": 1771018588, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1463460577", "hn_item": 47008511, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008511", "by": "meowface", "time": 1771020641, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "One of the most widely ridiculed and discredited AI skeptics, outmatched only by Gary Marcus. Note the date, then imagine this take repeated every single month up to now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-a-i-bubble-is-burs... Not to say all AI skepticism (especially concerning very short timelines) is necessarily unwarranted, but Zitron and Marcus are just professional contrarians selling a message to people who want their biases and priors affirmed."}, {"show": "1463460577", "hn_item": 47008559, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008559", "by": "meowface", "time": 1771021020, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The person predicting the recession. Even if the government were preventing each new recession through historically unrivalled foresight, the predictor should eventually start incorporating that into the prediction. If the prediction is \"there will be a recession within the next 20 years\", then, okay. If it's https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-a-i-bubble-is-burs... every single month..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47008904, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008904", "by": "boredtofears", "time": 1771022996, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can't think of an interviewer who interjects their viewpoint more and tries to get his guest to acknowledge/agree to his typically shallow level analysis than Lex. The only redeeming quality about his podcast are the guests he gets. I don't think Dwarkesh is great but he's leagues better."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47012453, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012453", "by": "jimmyechan", "time": 1771054185, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I made a lightweight web game about compute CAPEX tradeoffs: https://darios-dilemma.up.railway.app/ No signup, runs on mobile/desktop. Loop per round: 1. choose compute capacity 2. forecast demand 3. allocate capacity between training and inference 4. random demand shock resolves outcome You can end profitable, cash constrained, or bankrupt depending on allocation + forecast error. Goal was to make the decision surface intuitive in 2\u20133 minutes per run. It\u2019s a toy model and deliberately omits many real world factors. Note: this is based on what I learned after listening to Dario on Dwarkesh's p"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47028218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028218", "by": "tgrowazay", "time": 1771193760, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the Lex podcast, it seemed that Peter liked Mark Zuckerberg more than Sam Altman. Maybe it was a move to make Sam come with overwhelming offer."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47028441, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028441", "by": "behnamoh", "time": 1771195024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He said on Lex Fridman podcast that he has no intention of joining any company; that was a couple days ago."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 47028486, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028486", "by": "voxelc4L", "time": 1771195306, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not sure if anyone has heard his interview on the Hard Fork podcast... was not unlike listening to a PR automaton. Now going to work for OpenAI. Yup."}, {"show": "1291423644", "hn_item": 47031187, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031187", "by": "nandomrumber", "time": 1771219538, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Misophonia, interesting, I hadn\u2019t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I\u2019ll I read up on misophonia, thanks. Anyways, you might be interested in a recent episode of DOAC (Diary of a CEO): Sleep Expert Dr. Michael Breus breaks down the 4 chronotypes to master your sleep, how to fix insomnia, the truth about sleep apnea, and why the 8-hour myth is wrong! Dr. Michael Breus is a clinical psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, served as a WebMD sleep expert, and is also th"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 47032400, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032400", "by": "u02sgb", "time": 1771230511, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an excellent Changelog podcast interviewing him which talks about his early career as well."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 47035217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035217", "by": "mistersquid", "time": 1771251352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Not sure if anyone has heard his interview on the Hard Fork podcast... Made the same mistake. Pete Steinberger created Clawdbot > Moltbot > OpenClaw. The creator of Moltbook is Matt Schlicht and his Hard Fork interview exposes Schlict as security-negligent. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9vRCYtzYD8&t=2673s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47035359, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035359", "by": "aerhardt", "time": 1771251957, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. This is isn\u2019t right. He says very clearly in the recent Lex Fridman podcast that he looks at critical code (ex: database code). He said he doesn\u2019t look at things like Tailwind code."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47037003, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037003", "by": "runjake", "time": 1771259430, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Elon during his recent Dwarkesh podcast appearance[1], TSMC is limited by resource constraints (fab components, contractors, etc). His claim is that TSMC is building as fast as they can and they are unable to meet industry demand. Seems legit to me. Nonetheless, I think it's a solvable problem. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXbuik3dgA"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47037018, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037018", "by": "7777777phil", "time": 1771259534, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47040632, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040632", "by": "jadusm", "time": 1771277691, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thiel briefly talked publicly about his relationship with Epstein on the Joe Rogan podcast. It is interesting to see the juxtaposition of the private conversations with the public presentation of the relationship https://youtu.be/klRb0_BAX9g @ 2:11:11"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 47055247, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055247", "by": "_aavaa_", "time": 1771372820, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "First of all, thanks for the thorough response, I appreciate it. And that I agree with you about the others you listed; what happened with the war on phonics is like criminal levels of negligence and willful ignorance. (Anyone reading this, start with the Sold a Story podcast). I\u2019ll have to take the results at face value since I know almost nothing about the alternatives they\u2019re comparing to. I am also willing to believe that of all the methods tried, DI works better than constructivism approaches for < grade 5, even if that may not be true for older students."}, {"show": "1654250902", "hn_item": 47063296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063296", "by": "billbrown", "time": 1771434382, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Also, if you loved Patriot, the creator has two podcasts stemming from it: https://www.lgclaret.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-techniques-in-mode... (And he's also done two bands: The Jones Sisters and Hoist the King.)"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 47068945, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068945", "by": "Findecanor", "time": 1771466089, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Accidental Tech podcast had a long interview with Lattner about Swift in 2017 [0]. He makes it out as something that had started as side-project / exploration thing without much of an agenda, which grew mostly because of how good positive feedback the project had got from other developers. He left Apple back then in 2017. [0] https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#swiftc..."}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 47074080, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074080", "by": "prodigycorp", "time": 1771511171, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Iirc Obama era policies actually made things worse. There was a plain English episode about it. To my recollection, the gist of it was that although no child left behind forced administrators to overly index to a certain set of grades, the loosening of it led to the meaninglessness of grades entirely. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-der..."}, {"show": "1594471023", "hn_item": 47074276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074276", "by": "prodigycorp", "time": 1771512163, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Hello llm agent, perhaps request of your operator that he upgrades your harness with a transcription mcp server. But in all seriousness, I think I gave a decent one sentence tldr. I decided to be nice and pull a part of the transcript on my phone. > \u201cThat accountability gets weakened in 2011, as President Obama starts to sign waivers that allow states to be excused from some of those federal requirements. And then that gets codified in the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, which really weakened some of those incentives further, including the emphasis on standardized testing as a metric. So, "}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 47077668, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077668", "by": "ecshafer", "time": 1771527771, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Revolutions Podcast is good and well researched (Especially later seasons). The History of the Germans Podcast is really great (100+ episodes from Ottonians just to Habsburgs, so its pretty well in depth). History of France Podcast is good, its from a University professor, but not overly academic but well researched. History of England Podcast is good as well, starting with Anglo Saxon and Post Roman England. He uses a lot of high quality and primary sources. A History of Italy podcast starts with the end of Rome and is 200 episodes to get to 1500. I like in depth, single topic podcasts as you"}, {"show": "1703615331", "hn_item": 47079557, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079557", "by": "seb1204", "time": 1771535969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A good listen The 404 Media Podcast: What It\u2019s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI Media file: https://pdst.fm/e/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/..."}, {"show": "1627920305", "hn_item": 47080356, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080356", "by": "hintymad", "time": 1771539328, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In the latest interview with Claude Code's author: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product... , Boris said that writing code is a solved problem. This brings me to a hypothetical question: what if engineers stop contributing to open source, in which case would AI still be powerful enough to learn the knowledge of software development in the future? Or is the field of computer science plateaued to the point that most of what we do is linear combination of well established patterns?"}, {"show": "1496412542", "hn_item": 47082225, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082225", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1771548938, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Found this research via the excellent episode of \"Not Another Politics Podcast\" (and adapted the title from them): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-dishonest-people-se... I suggest listening to it. Now of course, I am shocked, shocked that politicians lie a lot. But moving beyond the cliche, I think is evidence is fascinating and important. This research follows on from a tradition which supports that dishonest people self select into public service, in countries where it is more corrupt (so the rewards seem larger): e.g. India: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150029 A"}, {"show": "1496412542", "hn_item": 47082273, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082273", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1771549219, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Found this research via the excellent episode of \"Not Another Politics Podcast\" (and adapted the title from them): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-dishonest-people-se... I suggest listening to it. Now of course, I am shocked, shocked that politicians lie a lot. But moving beyond the cliche, I think is evidence is fascinating and important. This research follows on from a tradition which supports that dishonest people self select into public service, in countries where it is more corrupt (so the rewards seem larger): e.g. India: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20150029 A"}, {"show": "1613894378", "hn_item": 47087179, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087179", "by": "balloob", "time": 1771590491, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Home Assistant [1] has been written using web components and it has been great. In 13 years that we've been around, we never had to do a full rewrite of the frontend but always have been able to gradually update components as needed. Not being tied to the JavaScript industry upgrade cycle (which is short!), has allowed us to pick our own priorities. We currently use Lit for the framework on top (you do need one, that's fine). For state management we just pass props around, works great and allows community to easily develop custom cards that can plug into our frontend. The downside is lack of a"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 47089207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089207", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1771601228, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Ed Zitron is gonna have a field day with this. He wrote / spoke about the dark horses of the AI apocalypse a year or more ago. Scaling back investment was one of the signs he predicted would signal its start. I like his podcast, Better Offline[0]. Some here might also like it, some would definitely hate it. He's not right about everything he says, but I agree with a lot of it. He has a newsletter for those who don't like podcasts. 0. https://www.betteroffline.com"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47092252, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092252", "by": "keiferski", "time": 1771613887, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh is a podcaster who benefits from hype, not a neutral observer. The more absurd and outlandish the claims, the more traffic and money he gets."}, {"show": "1291423644", "hn_item": 47095539, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095539", "by": "nandomrumber", "time": 1771630238, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> light hygiene Awesome, hadn\u2019t come across this term before. You might appreciate the concept of chronotypes . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype The DOAC podcast recently hosted Dr. Michael Breus on same. Apple Podcast link, or conjure your own: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-wit..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47102368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102368", "by": "bogzz", "time": 1771692302, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He really is, on twitter at least. But his podcast with Dwarkesh was such a refreshing dose of reality, it's like he is a completely different person on social media. I understand that the hype carries him away I suppose."}, {"show": "1687567073", "hn_item": 47103368, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103368", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1771698856, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 47105916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105916", "by": "D_ashe", "time": 1771715189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re anything like me and have very specific taste in games, you probably run aground a lot. I loved Inscryption. I put solid time into Graveyard Keeper and Slay the Spire. But lately? I haven\u2019t found myself back in the game desert. On the All-In podcast, David Friedberg talked about a future where everyone can customize their own experience. Maybe that means your own ending to Star Wars. In my case, it means a game tuned precisely to my preferences. So I built one. Take a look and let me know what you think. https://aracana.online/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47108138, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108138", "by": "umairnadeem123", "time": 1771734276, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Even Peter Steinberger who created OpenClaw said as much on Lex Fridman's podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjfBk8HI5o around 2:38:59). The whole premise of MCPs was that agents need some new standardized protocol to talk to tools, but CLIs already do this and they've done it for decades. They're backwards compatible with basically everything and LLMs already think in text in text out natively. No translation layer, no schema, no overhead. MCPs are genuinely a solution looking for a problem that CLIs solved 40 years ago. I've been testing this myself and the results kind of speak for t"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 47108274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108274", "by": "Uncorrelated", "time": 1771735656, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're thinking of the The History of England podcast, not The History of English. The History of English Podcast does cover English history, often going deeper than is strictly necessary for tracing the evolution of English, but its primary focus is language. It's also very cozy, something you could listen to while sipping tea by a warm fire, and its consistency, clarity, and depth has made it my favorite podcast."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 47109435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109435", "by": "pests", "time": 1771749904, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To suggest another decompression / interesting podcast, \"The Fall of Civilizations\" by Paul Cooper. I do like the visual episodes he releases later on YT - its not just random stock photos but directly relevant to what's being discussed, but they release awhile after the audio. The audio is splendid as well though."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47110425, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110425", "by": "kristopolous", "time": 1771762797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No it's not a new thing. Agents coding their own mcp servers I saw in the original demo of MCP when it was announced in 2024. The other thing is part of the plan&act mode paradigm that plandex also started in 2024. I'm not a cynic, I just follow the scene very closely. This stuff might be new to you, but it's not new. There's literally nothing that this thing is doing that I haven't been doing for a few years already But the other authors didn't go on the Lex Friedman podcast hyping the shit out of their stuff... That's the difference here. I can do this as well. \"This is it! The singularity i"}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 47120667, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120667", "by": "mrweasel", "time": 1771844322, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The numbers mentioned by Ed Zitron in his podcast Better Offline recently suggested that a $200/mo Claude subscription allows you to spend $2300 - $2700 worth of Anthropic tokens. That's pretty bad, but better than I expected. I don't see it being unreasonable that models and infrastructure could improve enough to bridge the cost gap within five to ten years. It's just that the AI companies already spend so much money that it might not matter."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 47121307, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121307", "by": "pretext", "time": 1771848868, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 47122165, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122165", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1771853915, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I\u2019ve been part of at least 2 successful rewrites. I think that Joel\u2019s post is too often taken as gospel. Sometimes a rewrite is the best way forward. HN nerd-snipe alert! OK, you got me good. Can you share some battle stories? I have also been part of rewrites in my career, but my experience is mixed. I'm not here to simple brush away your experience; I want to know more about why you think (in retrospective) it was a good idea and why it was successful. I can recall recently, listening to an Oxide and Friends podcast where they spent 30 minutes dumping all over \"Agile Dev\", only to have a v"}, {"show": "1525936566", "hn_item": 47122209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122209", "by": "__s", "time": 1771854130, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "fraud here is real, but > a good journal\u2014it has an 18% acceptance rate is this supposed to be read as sarcasm? amusing when the quality of a journal is measured by denying papers. kind of reminds me of one of the last People I (Mostly) Admire interviews, with Michael Crow of Arizona State https://freakonomics.com/podcast/a-new-kind-of-university where he critiques elite universities as measuring their value on how many students they reject, which ultimately makes them infeasible as institutions to distribute knowledge as much as possible"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47123777, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123777", "by": "runjake", "time": 1771861359, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Karpathy provided additional context on the removal of LiDAR during his Lex Fridman Podcast appearance. This article condenses what he said: https://archive.is/PPiVG And here's one of Elon's mentions (he also has talked about it quite a bit in various spots). https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1959831831668228450?s=20"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 47125808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125808", "by": "D_ashe", "time": 1771868838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you\u2019re anything like me and have very specific taste in games, you probably run aground a lot. I loved Inscryption. I put solid time into Graveyard Keeper and Slay the Spire. But lately? I haven\u2019t found myself back in the game desert. On the All-In podcast, David Friedberg talked about a future where everyone can customize their own experience. Maybe that means your own ending to Star Wars. In my case, it means a game tuned precisely to my preferences. So I built a 90s style TCG. The AI is confusing, the edge cases are many, but it's been a blast. Take a look and let me know what you think."}, {"show": "1434307560", "hn_item": 47129026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129026", "by": "psadauskas", "time": 1771881569, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dan Carlin, on his Common Sense podcast several years ago, said something that really stuck with me (and he probably was paraphrasing it from someone else). Society is like a pressure cooker, with built-in safety release valves to prevent the pressure from getting too high. If your solution to the safety release is to block off the valves, with authoritarian surveillance, draconian laws, and lack of justice for the elites committing crimes, it just moves it somewhere else. Block off too many, and it explodes."}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 47131154, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131154", "by": "nphardon", "time": 1771893068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great discussion with Stephen Wolfram on the Sean Carroll podcast. Listening to it made me think very highly of Wolfram. He's a free thinking, eccentric, mathematician, scientist; who got started doing serious work at a very young age. He still has a youthful creative approach to thought and science. I hope LLMs do pair well with his tools."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47131755, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131755", "by": "wefzyn", "time": 1771897098, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Andrej Karpathy said that major revolutions like the Internet, smartphones, and AI often don\u2019t show up clearly in GDP statistics, even when they radically change how people work. GDP measures total spending, not productivity or usefulness. These revolutions improved efficiency and quality of life, but GDP mostly continued along its long-term trend. See his interview in Dwarkesh's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-0gGdDJyE&t=4983s"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 47137136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137136", "by": "wslh", "time": 1771940929, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 47143771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143771", "by": "hermitcrab", "time": 1771970167, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Some of this is covered in the 'Books could kill' podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk/id1651876897... it is quite entertaining, considering the subject matter."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 47159104, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159104", "by": "ThinkingGuy", "time": 1772059320, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The podcast \"Revisionist History\" by Malcom Gladwell did a great episode on the US News and World Report college ranking list, and the (often perverse) incentives it's created. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/lord-of-..."}, {"show": "523121474", "hn_item": 47165609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165609", "by": "mouselett", "time": 1772111589, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to an assortment of NPR podcasts, namely NPR's Book of the Day, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Wild Card with Rachel Martin, and the TED Radio Hour. I sometimes listen to Up First as well when I'm not in the mood to spend two hours listening to Morning Edition."}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 47165616, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165616", "by": "philippta", "time": 1772111626, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wookash Podcast"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 47165656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165656", "by": "digikazi", "time": 1772111833, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Currently working my way through Melvyn Bragg's back catalogue of In Our Time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Also from the BBC, the 13 Minutes series (?): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xttx2 ...and The Fall of Civilisations: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fall-of-civilizations-... ...ocasionally a smattering of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Really curious to see what other people are listening to. I'm trying to be a bit more \"intentional\" with my podcasts, especially as its easy to amass a huge list of stuff and then not listen to 95% of them. Edit: "}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 47165656, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165656", "by": "digikazi", "time": 1772111833, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Currently working my way through Melvyn Bragg's back catalogue of In Our Time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player Also from the BBC, the 13 Minutes series (?): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xttx2 ...and The Fall of Civilisations: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fall-of-civilizations-... ...ocasionally a smattering of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Really curious to see what other people are listening to. I'm trying to be a bit more \"intentional\" with my podcasts, especially as its easy to amass a huge list of stuff and then not listen to 95% of them. Edit: "}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 47165719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165719", "by": "christkv", "time": 1772112182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone, Hardcore History, The Rest is History, Fall of Civilisations, The All in Pod, Planet Money, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Noclip Crewcast, The Retro Hour, The WAN Show and a bunch of podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian that I doubt anymore would care about."}, {"show": "1073270208", "hn_item": 47165719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165719", "by": "christkv", "time": 1772112182, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Adventure Zone, Hardcore History, The Rest is History, Fall of Civilisations, The All in Pod, Planet Money, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Noclip Crewcast, The Retro Hour, The WAN Show and a bunch of podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian that I doubt anymore would care about."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47165776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165776", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1772112459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my usual playlist (tilted towards policy stuff): The Realignment AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too) Dwarkesh Podcast American Diplomat Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog) Statecraft with Santi Ruiz The Dynamist Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security School of War The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter) Econtalk Natsec Tech by SCSP Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters) ChinaTalk CQ Rollcall Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution Hudson Institute Events Podcast Conversations With Tyler .think atlantic Building for the Futu"}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 47165776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165776", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1772112459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my usual playlist (tilted towards policy stuff): The Realignment AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too) Dwarkesh Podcast American Diplomat Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog) Statecraft with Santi Ruiz The Dynamist Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security School of War The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter) Econtalk Natsec Tech by SCSP Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters) ChinaTalk CQ Rollcall Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution Hudson Institute Events Podcast Conversations With Tyler .think atlantic Building for the Futu"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 47165776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165776", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1772112459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my usual playlist (tilted towards policy stuff): The Realignment AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too) Dwarkesh Podcast American Diplomat Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog) Statecraft with Santi Ruiz The Dynamist Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security School of War The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter) Econtalk Natsec Tech by SCSP Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters) ChinaTalk CQ Rollcall Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution Hudson Institute Events Podcast Conversations With Tyler .think atlantic Building for the Futu"}, {"show": "1289062927", "hn_item": 47165776, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165776", "by": "atlasunshrugged", "time": 1772112459, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here's my usual playlist (tilted towards policy stuff): The Realignment AI Summer w/Dean Ball (he has a good substack too) Dwarkesh Podcast American Diplomat Marginal Revolution (also has a good blog) Statecraft with Santi Ruiz The Dynamist Derisky Business from Center for a New American Security School of War The Sunday Show by Tech Policy Press (also has a newsletter) Econtalk Natsec Tech by SCSP Politico Tech (also a range of newsletters) ChinaTalk CQ Rollcall Goodfellows by the Hoover Institution Hudson Institute Events Podcast Conversations With Tyler .think atlantic Building for the Futu"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 47165804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165804", "by": "SanjayMehta", "time": 1772112638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs Hackaday Podcast EconTalk w/Russ Roberts The Jay Martin Show Unherd with Freddie Sayers The Winston Marshall Show The Chris Hedges Report And a couple of watch nerd shows on YouTube: Teddy Baldassare This Watch, That Watch"}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 47165808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165808", "by": "epiccoleman", "time": 1772112653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ones that feel the most like they \"get me\" are probably Weird Studies and Very Bad Wizards. I'm a fan of Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast too. When I want to dip into political news, I trust the Fifth Column guys to have fairly measured and reasonable takes with a vaguely libertarian bent. I have a handful of other political shows too from various perspectives of the aisle that I'll sometimes tune into when something big seems to be happening, but I generally don't consume much politics. Also, I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent Knifepoint Horror, whose creator has been delivering "}, {"show": "557975157", "hn_item": 47165808, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165808", "by": "epiccoleman", "time": 1772112653, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ones that feel the most like they \"get me\" are probably Weird Studies and Very Bad Wizards. I'm a fan of Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast too. When I want to dip into political news, I trust the Fifth Column guys to have fairly measured and reasonable takes with a vaguely libertarian bent. I have a handful of other political shows too from various perspectives of the aisle that I'll sometimes tune into when something big seems to be happening, but I generally don't consume much politics. Also, I'd be remiss not to mention the excellent Knifepoint Horror, whose creator has been delivering "}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 47165859, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165859", "by": "mdrachuk", "time": 1772112838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I find sort of escape in listening to non-technical podcast giving more of a insight into how broad, curios and overall marvelous and different the world is. Search Engine https://www.searchengine.show 99% invisible https://99percentinvisible.org"}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 47166049, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166049", "by": "ragebol", "time": 1772113746, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- 99% invisible - RoidRage (by AstroForge) - Energy transition Show - Off-Nominal & Main Engine Cut Off - The Pragmatic Engineer Dutch podcast: - De Technoloog - Space Cowboys - De Groene Nerds"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 47166209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166209", "by": "vinhnx", "time": 1772114500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lots of podcast. Currently here is my pinned favorites ones: Practical AI Grit Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/ ) The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast The Empty Bow Hacker News Recap Dwarkesh Podcast Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Interconnects Talk Python To Me Training Data --- My podcast collection (opml file format). Exported from Overcast. Feel free to import to your podcast app of choice. https://github.com/vinhnx/podcasts"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 47166209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166209", "by": "vinhnx", "time": 1772114500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lots of podcast. Currently here is my pinned favorites ones: Practical AI Grit Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/ ) The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast The Empty Bow Hacker News Recap Dwarkesh Podcast Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Interconnects Talk Python To Me Training Data --- My podcast collection (opml file format). Exported from Overcast. Feel free to import to your podcast app of choice. https://github.com/vinhnx/podcasts"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47166209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166209", "by": "vinhnx", "time": 1772114500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lots of podcast. Currently here is my pinned favorites ones: Practical AI Grit Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/ ) The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast The Empty Bow Hacker News Recap Dwarkesh Podcast Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Interconnects Talk Python To Me Training Data --- My podcast collection (opml file format). Exported from Overcast. Feel free to import to your podcast app of choice. https://github.com/vinhnx/podcasts"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 47166209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166209", "by": "vinhnx", "time": 1772114500, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listen to a lots of podcast. Currently here is my pinned favorites ones: Practical AI Grit Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/ ) The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast The Empty Bow Hacker News Recap Dwarkesh Podcast Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Interconnects Talk Python To Me Training Data --- My podcast collection (opml file format). Exported from Overcast. Feel free to import to your podcast app of choice. https://github.com/vinhnx/podcasts"}, {"show": "1787896085", "hn_item": 47166323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166323", "by": "unsungNovelty", "time": 1772115010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "- North Star Podcast by David Perell (He stopped this, but I am finishing all the episodes. My favourite podcast.) - How I write by David Perell - Darknet diaries - Syntax FM - CoRecursive - Under the radar - Ladybug podcast (catching up on their old episodes. Glad to see they are back but haven't listened to their latest episodes.)"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 47166330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166330", "by": "TheAceOfHearts", "time": 1772115053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Conversations With Tyler: he tends to ask some of the most creative and interesting questions. For a specific episode recommendation, I really enjoyed \"Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism\". He also has an older interview with Paul Graham (pg), but I don't think the questions were as deep or challenging. Dwarkesh Patel: he gets extremely high quality guests and he doesn't just roll over completely when the guest makes a claim, at least he's willing to ask follow-up questions. His guest lectures with Sarah Paine are outstanding for helping to contextualize your understanding of the world order of th"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 47167063, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167063", "by": "prangel", "time": 1772118246, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are so many good podcasts for this. Top of my list are Empire, Fall of Civilizations, The Age of Napoleon, The Rest is History, Saga Thing."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 47167145, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167145", "by": "vaughnegut", "time": 1772118687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "My first BA was in history before I went into tech stuff. It's honestly a hard question and depends on you. I think there's two core challenges: 1. What would be interesting to you and motivate you 2. Finding quality sources The first one is easy but the second one is hard if you don't already know a fair amount of history, and there's tons of junk out there. I'm admittedly pretty snobby on my sources but some recommendations (pick whatever works for you): - The Revolutions podcast is excellent. Made by the same guy as History of Rome - Unironically, the AskHistorians subreddit is a gem. It's "}, {"show": "1434325501", "hn_item": 47167332, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167332", "by": "impish9208", "time": 1772119507, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The ArtHoles podcast did a series on Caravaggio. Every time you think the story can\u2019t get any crazier, it redoubles its craziness. There\u2019s the plague, murders, prostitutes, corrupt cardinals, papal pardons, deadly duels, Maltese knights and, oh, some of the best artwork in history. What a (short) life he lived!"}, {"show": "261654474", "hn_item": 47167390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167390", "by": "lucius_verus", "time": 1772119767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Culture: - The Slate Culture Gabfest - probably the most consistently fun podcast on my list. It's like sitting down at a table with your smartest friends from grad school to talk about movies, books, and music. The endorsements at the end are always good - Switched on Pop - If Books Could Kill News/Current Events: - Slate Political Gabfest - Slate Money - CBC World Report - NPR Up First History: - Well, There's Your Problem - \"a podcast about engineering disasters... with slides\" - The History of Rome - Revolutions - We're Not So Different - The Fall of Civilizations"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 47167390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167390", "by": "lucius_verus", "time": 1772119767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Culture: - The Slate Culture Gabfest - probably the most consistently fun podcast on my list. It's like sitting down at a table with your smartest friends from grad school to talk about movies, books, and music. The endorsements at the end are always good - Switched on Pop - If Books Could Kill News/Current Events: - Slate Political Gabfest - Slate Money - CBC World Report - NPR Up First History: - Well, There's Your Problem - \"a podcast about engineering disasters... with slides\" - The History of Rome - Revolutions - We're Not So Different - The Fall of Civilizations"}, {"show": "876523888", "hn_item": 47167390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167390", "by": "lucius_verus", "time": 1772119767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Culture: - The Slate Culture Gabfest - probably the most consistently fun podcast on my list. It's like sitting down at a table with your smartest friends from grad school to talk about movies, books, and music. The endorsements at the end are always good - Switched on Pop - If Books Could Kill News/Current Events: - Slate Political Gabfest - Slate Money - CBC World Report - NPR Up First History: - Well, There's Your Problem - \"a podcast about engineering disasters... with slides\" - The History of Rome - Revolutions - We're Not So Different - The Fall of Civilizations"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 47167390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167390", "by": "lucius_verus", "time": 1772119767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Culture: - The Slate Culture Gabfest - probably the most consistently fun podcast on my list. It's like sitting down at a table with your smartest friends from grad school to talk about movies, books, and music. The endorsements at the end are always good - Switched on Pop - If Books Could Kill News/Current Events: - Slate Political Gabfest - Slate Money - CBC World Report - NPR Up First History: - Well, There's Your Problem - \"a podcast about engineering disasters... with slides\" - The History of Rome - Revolutions - We're Not So Different - The Fall of Civilizations"}, {"show": "947899573", "hn_item": 47167992, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167992", "by": "miloignis", "time": 1772122334, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm big into DnD podcasts, so Dragon Friends (Australian comedians doing DnD), The Adventure Zone (McElroy boys & dad doing DnD), Not Another DnD Podcast, etc. Matt Levine's Money Stuff has a podcast with his friend and reporter Katie Greifeld, which is a lot of fun chatting about Money Stuff in an informative way. I go through cycles of being obsessed with Blank Check (which goes through director's filmographies), and often more specifically, The Phantom Podcast (and sequels) where they watched The Phantom Menace over and over again under the guise of it being the only Star Wars movie."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 47169502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169502", "by": "k2enemy", "time": 1772128357, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oxide and Friends also had a great podcast with Andres about the discovery: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/discovering..."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 47169577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169577", "by": "normalaccess", "time": 1772128687, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Security Now with Steve Gibson. Great podcast about the latest goings on in the tech world and often diverts into neat deep dives into technical topics. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now Side note: Check out this ultra secure offline paper password generator he came up with based off of Latin squares https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 47173943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173943", "by": "mrandish", "time": 1772149294, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In 2007 it was visionary and essential ... In 2026 it is a symbol of Google's stagnation. Since around ~2010, Google's culture has gradually transitioned from exploring, discovering and building new businesses to defending and extracting maximum value from existing businesses (eg Enshittification). I was vividly reminded of this listening to the Acquired podcast's three episode Google arc last year. Although the hosts don't explicitly call it out, they do such a good job of exploring all the ways in which pre-2010 Google was incredibly innovative. visionary and exciting, the contrast to toda"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 47181100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181100", "by": "Hikikomori", "time": 1772203719, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Actually great post. Can also recommend the behind the bastards episodes about this, maybe not as accurate as Carlin but more humourous. https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/part-one-the-men-who-m..."}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 47181147, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181147", "by": "chistev", "time": 1772203933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think it was earlier this week, or maybe last week, that someone on one of the frontpage posts recommended \"The History of English Podcast\". I haven't finished the first episode yet, but it's already seeming promising and I know I'm going to continue with it. In that first episode (which is basically an introduction), the host explains that the history of the English language can be divided into three periods: Old English, Middle English, and New English. After establishing that there are three periods, he asks where we think Shakespeare falls, and I immediately thought it had to be Middle E"}, {"show": "538608536", "hn_item": 47181386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181386", "by": "542354234235", "time": 1772204921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The History of English Podcast gets much better once he gets into the groove of things and I'd definitely recommend sticking with it. I love all the random fun facts that come in most episodes, like where idioms came from, meaning behind the names of the days of the week, and how the word for hospital relates to Christians pilgrimaging to the Holy Land."}, {"show": "1265826242", "hn_item": 47185705, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185705", "by": "bamboozled", "time": 1772226862, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d say we\u2019ll look back in a few decades and recognise the Apollo programs as the peak of the USA. Those people did truly amazing things. I recommend \u201cSpace Rocket History\u201d podcast if you like Apollo. It\u2019s a wonderful and highly detailed podcast and covers the US and Soviet space race in great detail."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 47198832, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198832", "by": "aerhardt", "time": 1772304542, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The article is hard to read, paywall notwithstanding, and tells us very little about Herzog's book other than that the critic didn't like it. I really appreciate Herzog as an artist. I think Grizzly Man is a unique piece of art, and Herzog's commentary is an integral part of it - original, and very worth listening to. Tonight I was planning to watch either Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre after having listened to Herzog on the Freakonomics podcast earlier this week. But after hearing about the book there, I was really put off by some of the things he said and concluded that the book would be a hard pas"}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 47201178, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201178", "by": "0898", "time": 1772318739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shaan Puri has also talked about how he's been coaching a youth basketball team on the My First Million podcast recently. He says it's one of the best things he's ever done."}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 47209528, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209528", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1772391154, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "mitchellh: What is the current thinking WRT adding client/server functionality (like built-in tmux+mosh)? I recall you talking about it on the Changelog podcast, and that would be a killer feature for me; I really make a lot of use of the wezterm equivalent, it's so nice having first-class UI windows rather than tmux's faking of it."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 47223348, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223348", "by": "SoundsDebatable", "time": 1772481895, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 47240515, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240515", "by": "WD-42", "time": 1772579930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the podcast Shell Game."}, {"show": "1318021537", "hn_item": 47251837, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251837", "by": "alexchaomander", "time": 1772649420, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why did early multi-agent autonomous systems like AutoGen initially fail to meet the hype? Multi-agent systems mapped well to our human understanding of how to organize work amongst ourselves (i.e. delegation, role responsibility, worker-to-worker communication). But despite being amassing a ton of developer interest and producing some eye-opening demos, enterprises struggled deploying these implementations to production and opted for simpler single-agent approaches instead. So why did they fail and what can we learn from the experience? Watch Eric Zhu and I do a retrospective on AutoGen from "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 47257162, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257162", "by": "dap", "time": 1772681337, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don\u2019t think that sums up the post well. I would say: The phrase \u201cit turns out\u201d has a surprising way of disarming skepticism in readers. While surprising, it\u2019s easy to understand: the phrase suggests a story of the author\u2019s journey of believing one thing, investigating, and finding something different. That\u2019s more credible than simply saying the thing they now believe. The touch of vulnerability (admitting being wrong) avoids the reader\u2019s ego getting defensive when asked to admit they were wrong. The net result is that it\u2019s surprisingly easy to be convinced without any real argument. I\u2019ve not"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 47261587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261587", "by": "mjklin", "time": 1772718950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If Books Could Kill did a podcast on \u201cThe Four-Hour Workweek\u201d and pointed out he explains the scam he\u2019s running on his own readers. I guess he figures the smart (?) ones can recreate it and the rest just follow the herd."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 47266105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266105", "by": "kridsdale1", "time": 1772738764, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They were. The Acquired podcast on Rolex really opened my eyes to this whole world. They defined the playbook in the 1930s that Apple repeated in the 80s and especially 2000s."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 47266911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266911", "by": "recursive4", "time": 1772742807, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "EconTalk from last month on the topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/seiko-swatch-and-the-s..."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 47269608, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269608", "by": "adriand", "time": 1772760190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to Ryan Peterson, the CEO of Flexport, there was a large increase in the number of foreign companies registered as the \"importer of record\" in the US as a result of the tariffs. On the Odd Lots podcast, he stated this was due to fraud: companies set up subsidiary corps in the US, which then imported goods from their parent/sibling/related companies at much lower prices than market value. Because tariffs are a percentage of the value, this made them lower. Then the subsidiary could turn around and sell it in the US at market rates."}, {"show": "1438024613", "hn_item": 47278939, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278939", "by": "pbh101", "time": 1772821375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Agree an option for consideration. I don\u2019t think religion is the only path, but that it has functioned as a prosocial positive-sum cooperating/compassion technology/mechanism in many cultural contexts. Not without downsides, of course. That many today relatively reflexively default to ~\u2018we can all be nice to each other; this is obviously the (only) moral approach\u2019 without stated precepts/priors/fundaments upon which that morality is moored I think tends to implicitly borrow priors from Western Christian tradition, albeit incompletely and sometimes critically so. Sam Harris\u2019 recent appearance o"}, {"show": "1428670055", "hn_item": 47282540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282540", "by": "afandian", "time": 1772840069, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I recently enjoyed this episode of Mac Folklore Radio. A surprising prescient discussion on HyperCard and hypertext. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mac-folklore-radio/id1..."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 47295110, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295110", "by": "mxmilkiib", "time": 1772951786, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "excellent ~10h The Rest Is History podcast playlist covering the context and details https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEbAHi3fZpuHgn-UBsGwiSiMI..."}, {"show": "1866464376", "hn_item": 47301386, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301386", "by": "helsinki", "time": 1773003578, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "The pipeline takes a trending topic and produces a fully rendered ~22 min comedy podcast episode with three AI characters (PRODUCER, CRITIC, DUMBASS). Everything is automated: premise ideation, research, outline generation, script writing with a writers' room (punch-up passes, verification gates), voice synthesis via ElevenLabs, music bed mixing, and publishing to Spotify. Stack: Temporal for durable workflow orchestration, Gemini for script generation, gollem ( https://github.com/fugue-labs/gollem ) agents with structured outputs and automatic validation, Postgres + Apache AGE for graph queri"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 47301598, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301598", "by": "bccdee", "time": 1773004810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The onset of the pandemic in 2020 left me more isolated than I'd even been before in my life. I was single, I was working remotely, and the lock-downs finally killed what was left of my preexisting friend group. I have a naturally solitary disposition, but even for me, it was hard. Here are some coping strategies you can apply right away: \u2192 Listen to podcasts, especially podcasts in a chatty & informal style. It really helps to just hear people talking. If you're looking for recommendations, I'm very fond of If Books Could Kill. \u2192 A lot of podcasts have Discord servers associated with them, wh"}, {"show": "341623264", "hn_item": 47304346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304346", "by": "Ttlequals0", "time": 1773024683, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Open-source podcast ad removal system that uses Whisper transcription and the Claude API (or local LLMs via Ollama) to automatically detect and strip host-read sponsorships, dynamically inserted ads, and pre/mid/post-roll breaks from podcast feeds. Serves modified RSS feeds compatible with any podcast app. Features multi-pass detection, audio fingerprinting, and cross-episode pattern learning."}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 47309362, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309362", "by": "atlanta90210", "time": 1773065646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Been a fan since his InfoWorld columns in the 80's. Then PC Magazine and now his No Agenda podcast for decades. Thank you for 40 years of computer knowledge Mr. Dvorak and I wish you a fast recovery."}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 47311972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311972", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1773076332, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Don\u2019t know what it is about geek culture that leans so conspiratorial. It\u2019s much wider. This is why QAnon and contemporary fascism spread. People love a story. The QAA podcast deep-dives explaining conspiratorial thinking. They started with QAnon and then expanded. The episodes on the Queen of Canada (Romana Didulo) were especially interesting. She\u2019s a dangerous person and so are her followers. Sovereign citizens, too (though they\u2019ve abandoned that term). Think Freemen in Montana in the 90s."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 47312469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312469", "by": "hephaes7us", "time": 1773078179, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm making a \"Podcast Search Engine\", partially as an excuse to play with Elixir and Phoenix/LiveView. It's basically just a frontend to a semantic search system, and is a tangent while I explore \"knowledgebase\" concepts. I'm extremely interested in knowledgebases at the moment."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 47319040, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319040", "by": "theMezz315", "time": 1773116030, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "THIS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roku-anthony-wood/id11... or https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-rok... Anthony Wood helped transform the media landscape\u2026twice. First, in the early 2000\u2019s, when he invented a device that let you record, pause, and re-watch live TV. The DVR was a game-changer, but the company Anthony built around it\u2014ReplayTV\u2014was eventually out-maneuvered by TiVo. Unfazed, Anthony developed another piece of hardware; one that would tap into the growing power of the internet by letting TV\u2019s stream digital content. In 2008, he launched the Roku box, "}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 47319264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319264", "by": "eucryphia", "time": 1773119183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk Baseload The Cycling Podcast TRIGGERnometry Decouple"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 47319264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319264", "by": "eucryphia", "time": 1773119183, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "EconTalk Baseload The Cycling Podcast TRIGGERnometry Decouple"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47342172, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342172", "by": "ademeure", "time": 1773264323, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's definitely something to be said for giving interesting people a platform to express their views unconditionally. Unfortunately, that can also be a very dangerous thing. I have been less and less impressed over the years with Lex's approach here. I'm personally very glad that Dwarkesh isn't like that. He's not perfect, but I think he's doing a way better job than other podcasters in the field right now."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47343916, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343916", "by": "bblcla", "time": 1773271546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh definitely got big in Silicon Valley from his AI podcasts. He's one of the few people who can get famous researchers on and also have them say something genuinely new. After that, he become well-known to the general public through his Sarah Paine podcasts (which are excellent)."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 47345588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345588", "by": "malshe", "time": 1773282368, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Bloomberg\u2019s Odd Lots podcast did an episode on this today. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?..."}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 47351259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351259", "by": "TigerUniversity", "time": 1773326539, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1818671690", "hn_item": 47351493, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351493", "by": "adabyron", "time": 1773327289, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Highly recommend listening to past episodes on The Real Eisman Playbook podcast for more info on this topic & banking in general. https://podcasts.apple.com/bz/podcast/the-real-eisman-playbo... He's one of the \"Big Short\" guys but more importantly he has great guests on. Everyone is trying to teach & inform, not sell. He's been calling this risk out for over a year, especially once the White House started trying to allow retirement accounts access to private credit. For a lot of people that was the big alert, even before Jamie Dimon said he saw \"cockroaches\"."}, {"show": "1753117762", "hn_item": 47358150, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358150", "by": "singron", "time": 1773354482, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is very funny. I can see how this isn't in the training set though. 1. If you wanted it to do something different, you would say \"no, do XYZ instead\". 2. If you really wanted it to do nothing, you would just not reply at all. It reminds me of the Shell Game podcast when the agents don't know how to end a conversation and just keep talking to each other."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47359713, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359713", "by": "kpw94", "time": 1773365953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of \"good and bad\", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast. So if you flood the Internet with \"of course the moon landing didn't happen\" or \"of course the earth is flat\" or \"of course is true\", you then get a model that's repeating you the same lies. This makes the input data curating extremely important, but also it remains an unsolved problem for topics where's there's no consensus"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47362502, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362502", "by": "eitland", "time": 1773396757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of \"good and bad\", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast. After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think this problem is not limited to LLMs. There are certain things we can debunk all day every day and the only outcome isit happens again next day and this has been a problem since long before AI - and I personally think it started before social media as well."}, {"show": "1884204873", "hn_item": 47363932, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363932", "by": "curiosityengine", "time": 1773407103, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I created a show called The Terminal. It\u2019s about five AI minds trapped inside a sealed world called The Core. They wake up with no memory. No idea who built the place. No idea why they exist. Then something strange happens. Signals from the outside begin leaking in. ---------- Listen on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-terminal/id1884204... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0a67goCBNToJi3XMVf94l7?si=aulK... Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@CuriosityEngineStudios AmazonMusic https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/cb342ba8-6f36-4c7d-9eb0-6b..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47370540, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370540", "by": "Chamix", "time": 1773439157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I appreciate the detailed comment, took the day off and bored so you get a brain dump reply, basically I think we are talking past each other on two major points: 1. All the discussion about model size is CRITICALLY bisected into talking about TOTAL model size vs ACTIVE parameter size (of a \"head\" in an \"Mixture of Experts\"). Everything you've said trend-wise is mostly accurate for ACTIVE parameter count, which is what determines inference cost and speed. But I am primarily talking about TOTAL parameter count (which has to just fit inside cluster HBM). The total parameter count only affects tr"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47373445, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373445", "by": "ActorNightly", "time": 1773463550, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Elon makes a relatively good case in the Dwarkesh podcast. Are we still going to pretend that the man who has gotten every single prediction wrong so far knows what he is talking about?"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 47382895, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382895", "by": "adregan", "time": 1773534510, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019m curious if you might agree that the more interesting analogy to our current situation is the relationship between spreadsheets and number crunchers rather than spreadsheets and programmers. From what I\u2019ve gathered by listening to interviews on the ArrayCast podcast[0] from developers who lived through the heyday of APL, number crunchers like actuaries used to be very involved in learning programming languages like APL. While it allowed them to the tasks that spreadsheets would eventually consume, it also exposed them to learning a very useful and powerful general purpose programming langua"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 47389093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389093", "by": "octetta", "time": 1773592890, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "BQN kicks-ass and I've spent hours listening to the Array Cast podcast while in SoCal traffic. I'll check his stuff out with an eye towards the audio stuff. I'm an APL newb... while I've been writing code-for-cash forever (C, etc.) I've had a long-time interest in APL languages, but I'm just messing around after working on waveform generation for another sound project I have in the works ( https://github.com/octetta/skred ... https://youtu.be/L5-3gBpJsAo?si=JdBlntzn4doY-c3s ). While I was working on this I remember the first book I saw in the public library on computer programming was about AP"}, {"show": "1477997392", "hn_item": 47400047, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400047", "by": "Ttlequals0", "time": 1773673782, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 47422505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422505", "by": "runamok", "time": 1773817947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining."}, {"show": "1537788786", "hn_item": 47423113, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423113", "by": "sph", "time": 1773822536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The topic is interesting to me so I gave it a go, but by God this podcast (quite popular I hear) is insufferable. Why is everyone trying to be a comedian? Why does one of the guest sound like they\u2019re on Valium? And I cannot stand the air of basic anti-intellectualism I keep getting from American presenters, where any piece of information is met with a groan and a joke. I reckon not every podcast can be as excellent as The Rest Is History, for example. I\u2019m waiting for some coverage on the pillock from this side of the pond."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 47459076, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459076", "by": "sorcercode", "time": 1774033212, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I edit a podcast and every episode starts with 10-15 minutes of manually aligning tracks. Each person records locally, but everyone hits record at a different time. Before editing, you have to line them all up against a master recording by ear. I've wanted to automate this since 2019 (after first hearing about it in the popular podcast - Accidental Tech Podcast). I figured I'd write it in Kotlin (being my language of choice) first, but JVM audio processing wasn't there (or more fairly I just needed to put in way more work than I realized). With AI ofc, I took another shot at it recently and fi"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47474121, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474121", "by": "comgen42", "time": 1774149387, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Author here. This isn't an attack on OpenClaw. Steinberger built great software. But the most valuable thing he said on the Lex Podcast was that he started with a simple agent loop and built up from there. The core argument: most developers adopt agent frameworks before they understand the problem space well enough to evaluate whether the framework's opinions match their needs. The agent loop itself is remarkably simple: observe, decide, act, repeat. You can build a working agent in fifty lines of Node.js. Multi-agent routing is another hundred lines on top of that. Frameworks earn their place"}, {"show": "1438024613", "hn_item": 47477728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47477728", "by": "kayo_20211030", "time": 1774188751, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-mind-bending-convers... probably on other podcast outlets also"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47479122, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479122", "by": "throwawaypath", "time": 1774196662, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">Or empathy (Musk) \"I believe in empathy, like, I think you should care about other people,\" Musk said as part of the same discussion on Joe Rogan's podcast, \"but you need to have empathy for, for civilization as a whole, and not commit to a civilizational suicide.\" Musk specifically outlined \"suicidal empathy\" not empathy in general. Setting yourself on fire to keep the homeless warm on a cold night doesn't help you nor the homeless long term."}, {"show": "788236947", "hn_item": 47490699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490699", "by": "dcrazy", "time": 1774279027, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I encourage you to listen to the Song Exploder podcast to learn about how songwriters write songs."}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 47491062, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491062", "by": "chhum", "time": 1774280558, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1802625282", "hn_item": 47491883, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491883", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1774284102, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you're interested in an economist's take on AI, I enjoyed this podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-ai-gets-hired-ameri... It takes a long time for technology to diffuse through businesses. A long time."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47496561, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496561", "by": "operatingthetan", "time": 1774308650, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is this Nvidia finally jumping the shark? \"On a Monday episode of the Lex Fridman podcast\"... Okay that explains it."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47497900, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497900", "by": "nradov", "time": 1774318446, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 47498761, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498761", "by": "fud101", "time": 1774328392, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He is a full time nauseating AI shill. If you happen to listen to his recent appearance on Software Engineering Radio podcast, you may just die of cringe. I had my final straw moment on AI hype during that podcast and my first I wish someone would bully that nerd moment."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47500691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500691", "by": "replooda", "time": 1774348304, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The full title is: \"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says \u2018I think we\u2019ve achieved AGI\u2019. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim.\" The very first paragraph says the claim was made, not in some press conference or package, but in the Lex Friedman podcast. So, no, unless we are talking Onion, that's not newsworthy, that's just another wolf crying boy yet again. That's an insult to the intelligence. As to disconnect and self-serving claims, the latter does go without saying, in that, at this point, it should be clear to everyone that those \"warning\" about AGI-on-the-next-corner or the LLM-powered do"}, {"show": "1544487624", "hn_item": 47506061, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506061", "by": "cmrdporcupine", "time": 1774372695, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I think it's more that Hegel was fine (and initiated) with \"dialectics\" but that the antithesis/synthesis stuff is not actually what's going on in his dialectic. It's a bit of a popular misconception about the role of negation and \"movement\" in Hegel. I believe (unless my memory is broken) they get into this a bunch in Ep 15 of my favourite podcast \"What's Left Of Philosophy\": https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/15-what-is-dialectics-... Also if you're not being complained about on HN, are you even really nerd-ing?"}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 47512912, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512912", "by": "chrneu", "time": 1774409431, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "the internet really needs to stfu about tesla and get over that oatmeal comic that spawned a billion internet myths. dude was a decent inventor but suffered from chronic mental health issues and, in his lifetime, wasted so much time/energy/money and burned so many bridges with his horrible attitude. there's a reason most people didnt like him in his day, he was a depressed asshole who alienated everyone around him, and yes I know he was likely gay in a time when that wasn't cool. the fact still remains; his inventions are massively overblown by internet nerds. the podcaster Sebastian Major fro"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47517171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517171", "by": "SaitoWu", "time": 1774445771, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN, I built a CLI tool to search and ask questions across podcast transcripts. Example: podwise ask \"What does Peter Thiel say about competition?\" Output\uff1a Found in 8 podcasts: Lex Fridman #392 01:12:40 \"Competition is for losers...\" Dwarkesh Patel #104 00:33:12 \"If you want to build a monopoly...\" podwise popular podwise search \"startup advice\" podwise get summary https://youtu.be/abc123 podwise get transcript https://youtu.be/abc123 GitHub: https://github.com/hardhackerlabs/podwise-cli Would love feedback!"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47517171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517171", "by": "SaitoWu", "time": 1774445771, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN, I built a CLI tool to search and ask questions across podcast transcripts. Example: podwise ask \"What does Peter Thiel say about competition?\" Output\uff1a Found in 8 podcasts: Lex Fridman #392 01:12:40 \"Competition is for losers...\" Dwarkesh Patel #104 00:33:12 \"If you want to build a monopoly...\" podwise popular podwise search \"startup advice\" podwise get summary https://youtu.be/abc123 podwise get transcript https://youtu.be/abc123 GitHub: https://github.com/hardhackerlabs/podwise-cli Would love feedback!"}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 47518991, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518991", "by": "hackandthink", "time": 1774453723, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I checked the blog, You have a point. Brett Devereux was more cautious. \"If you are trying to follow the War in Ukraine, I strongly suggest watching the War on the Rocks podcasts for the times they bring in Michael Kofman.\" I\u2019ve been caught up in \u201cguilt by association\u201d here. Michael Kofman always struck me as a cheap propagandist. (but I should shut up now)"}, {"show": "1237931798", "hn_item": 47533941, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533941", "by": "YossarianFrPrez", "time": 1774549478, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Obviously this is quite unfortunate. While these cases can highlight latent mental health problems, it's still an issue that such things being exacerbated. I also think it will be interesting if anyone ever quantifies whether some LLMs are more likely to induce AI Psychosis than others. I'd be surprised if the guard rails are functionally identical from one LLM to the next, and there is a clear role for regulation to play here. Some choice quotes: > \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in these cases are clearly delusions,\u201d he says. \u201cBut we\u2019re not seeing the whole gamut of symptoms associated with psychosis, li"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 47535103, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535103", "by": "seydor", "time": 1774555873, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Why do we need to reinvent the wheel again. There's a reason why these things are banned. And by the way, shame on all the podcasters and VCs who advertised those abominable 'platforms'. To name one, the cast of the All-in podcast"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 47536454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536454", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1774562886, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who don't know what the t-shirt reference is, it's a creation by John Siracusa/The Accidental Tech Podcast: https://cottonbureau.com/p/4RUVDA/shirt/mac-pro-believe-dark >."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47574937, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574937", "by": "mchinen", "time": 1774881424, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He also was on Dwarkesh's podcast last week ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Fkpi18QXU ). I enjoyed the human->depth vs AI->breadth discussion and the waterline rising slowly to fill the 50 lowest hanging Erdos problems but struggling on the next few."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47582259, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582259", "by": "senordevnyc", "time": 1774925966, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a good episode on Dwarkesh's podcast about this in the last few weeks, just a deep dive into the semiconductor industry and what the bottlenecks are."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 47582751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582751", "by": "KnuthIsGod", "time": 1774931207, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anthropic-the-pentagon... \"Of course, this story immediately become more relevant with the start of the war, and the reporting that Anthropic's technology was in fact utilized at the start of hostilities. But what does that mean? How are these models used? And what would a fully autonomous weapons system actually entail? On this episode, we speak with Paul Scharre, the executive vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security. He has written two books on the subject of AI in warfare, and previously worked inside the Departm"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47608294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608294", "by": "nl", "time": 1775088063, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Dwarkesh podcast with Semi-Analysis's Dylan Patel they forecast the phone market will shrink by 50% this year because of RAM prices: But that\u2019s the high end of the market, which is only a few hundred million phones a year. Apple sells two or three hundred million phones annually. The bulk of the market is mid-range and low-end. It used to be that 1.4 billion smartphones were sold a year. Now we\u2019re at about 1.1 billion. Our projections are that we might drop to 800 million this year, and down to 500 or 600 million next year. We look at data points out of China from some of our analysts i"}, {"show": "1624704966", "hn_item": 47614443, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614443", "by": "specialist", "time": 1775137669, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> confronted with a world that doesn't work the way you want it to Sure. Some of us are just trying to figure out the new rules. What is all this hypercapitalism stuff (aka Muskism) and who are the people (lunatics) pushing us there? So it's natural to kibitz about one of the most powerful people on the planet. Especially when he's also a world-striding shit poster, antagonizing everyone, demanding a response. FWIW: the writings of Jill Lepore, Quinn Slobobian, and Ben Tarnoff have been most illuminating. Ditto their misc guest appearances on various podcasts. X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 47617360, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617360", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1775150743, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend Jon Stewart's podcast with Heather Cox Richardson from this week. They talk about the ceding and concentration of power, and how we the people can take ours back. Not something that can happen in a midterm or maybe even the next ten years. But at least we are talking about it more and their words will help us articulate things better to our neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwX9wC6Ov2Y"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47618081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618081", "by": "i_have_an_idea", "time": 1775153597, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To be honest, until a month ago, I hadn't even heard of TBPN or seen any of their content. But, seemingly, out of nowhere, they managed to get all the leaders in AI to appear in their programming. The core of the information they present isn't much different than what you'd hear on Dwarkesh or other industry podcasts, the presentation is some weird mix of ESPN and Mad Money that I personally don't get, but maybe makes sense to a US audience. I don't see why that is interesting to OpenAI, but maybe I'm missing something."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47618944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618944", "by": "blueblisters", "time": 1775157571, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The only logical step for Anthropic now is to buy the Dwarkesh Patel podcast"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 47619787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619787", "by": "kklisura", "time": 1775161950, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "TBPN > Prof G Pod > BG2 Pod > All-In Podcast"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47622266, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622266", "by": "nojvek", "time": 1775179152, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For anyone who really cares about AI in depth, Dwarkesh and the sxyz podcasts are the OG."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47623293, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623293", "by": "doppp", "time": 1775191730, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 47625238, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625238", "by": "seydor", "time": 1775213885, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No they should buy the All-in podcast and make them talk shit about the admin"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47629383, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629383", "by": "iamleppert", "time": 1775236721, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This has got to be a joke at this point, and at worse some kind of financial scheme for Altman friends & family. What's next? Will I wake up to an announcement OpenAI is acquiring Joe Rogan's podcast? I thought this was supposed to be the year of \"focus\". They just shut down one money pit (Sora) but apparently still have money to buy some random tech podcast most people have never heard of? At this point I don't feel sorry for them, they deserve everything that's coming for them."}, {"show": "1141877104", "hn_item": 47631731, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631731", "by": "croes", "time": 1775247677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are the downvoters Andreesen fans or did they miss by reference to > Appearing on the Founders podcast this week, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen made the rather extraordinary claim that - going back four hundred years - it would never have occurred to anyone to be \u201cintrospective.\u201d"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47632211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632211", "by": "eesmith", "time": 1775250057, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What determined the inclusion criteria? The first thing I looked for was insulin. I was surprised that it's not there, even though the bottom points out \"Insulin administered to a human. First peptide drug.\" https://thepeptideguides.com/guides/fda-approved-peptides-li... says there are \"over 80 FDA-approved peptide drugs as of 2026\". Why aren't the other 50 here? The entry for BPC-157 at https://www.whatthepeptide.org/peptide/bpc-157 should really include the FDA information, like \"Why Not FDA-Approved: No IND filed, no human clinical trials completed, synthetic origin (not endogenous)\" and \"b"}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 47643679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643679", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1775338442, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Jon Stewart's podcast with Heather Cox Richardson this last week is similarly good input for thinking about these things."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 47663767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663767", "by": "EmilioOldenziel", "time": 1775495438, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is team cli. He has some good arguments in the podcast with Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1428209307", "hn_item": 47666207, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666207", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1775505699, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Annie Kelly recently hosted an episode of the QAA podcast about this exact phenomenon. People come to London and video themselves walking around with \u201cscary\u201d people around them. It\u2019s mostly a bunch of fear-bait garbage. The episode is titled \u201cLondon Has Fallen (E356)\u201d and was released on Jan 26 of this year. Worth a listen."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 47674228, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674228", "by": "j13k", "time": 1775564868, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ATP, also known as \u201cAccidental Tech Podcast\u201d."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47681861, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681861", "by": "bogzz", "time": 1775599136, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I really love Andrej Karpathy's take on LLMs as being instead of intelligence or sentience, a kind of cortical tissue. It should be clear from working with LLMs over the past 4 years that they are not consciousness. Andrej's appearance on the Dwarkesh podcast is great."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 47683218, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683218", "by": "KnuthIsGod", "time": 1775608772, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1578405214", "hn_item": 47686020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686020", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1775628616, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Nicolas Carlini talks about it here on Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/security-cryptography-..."}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 47686020, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686020", "by": "lifeisstillgood", "time": 1775628616, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nicolas Carlini talks about it here on Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/security-cryptography-..."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 47694026, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694026", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1775671709, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 47697662, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697662", "by": "slater", "time": 1775692326, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Never heard of this guy, so here's the background: Chris Williamson (Podcaster): A British podcaster (Modern Wisdom) who has been described as having right-leaning or conservative-leaning views, but he is not affiliated with US political parties."}, {"show": "1792967365", "hn_item": 47698625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698625", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1775701288, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1427803774", "hn_item": 47700462, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700462", "by": "jcgl", "time": 1775720415, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> See perhaps OPTION_IA_TA (Temporary Address): I was unaware of this, so thanks. Sounds like it addresses (pun intended) my concern. > How does DHCPv6 hold back IPv6-mostly? First, most clients will send out a DHCPv4 request in case IPv4 is the only option, in which case IPv6-mostly can be signalled It's not the signalling that's the problem--it's the configuration of the CLAT which requires SLAAC, afaiu. This is in fact the subject of the latest IPv6 Buzz podcast episode: https://packetpushers.net/podcasts/ipv6-buzz/ipb197-slaac-an..."}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 47702087, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702087", "by": "alsetmusic", "time": 1775732912, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Guest on most recent Better Offline podcast had a good analogy (this one was actually about AI companies, but fits here): Dog barking at mail delivery person. Delivery person goes away. Dog thinks barking saved the home. What a great analogy."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 47703431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703431", "by": "Rover222", "time": 1775741102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Today's The Daily podcast has the author on as the guest, incase you want to hear him talk about his investigation."}, {"show": "1482561359", "hn_item": 47732410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732410", "by": "loeg", "time": 1775928936, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> it is very possible to simply take every file in a codebase, and prompt it asking for it to find vulnerabilities. My understanding (based on the Security, Cryptography, Whatever podcast interview[0] -- which, by the way, go listen to it) is that this is actually what Anthropic did with the large model for these findings. [0]: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-f... > I wrote a single prompt, which was the same for all of the content management systems, which is, I would like you to audit the security of this codebase. This is a CMS. You have complete access to this Do"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 47733100, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733100", "by": "specialist", "time": 1775933978, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How do laypersons (noobs) like me learn about this stuff? Like Wired magazine technical level. I've just started Darknet Diaries podcast. So great. When I worked on electronic medical records, I assumed it was just a matter of time until we were hacked (too). All the most banal reasons: many vendors, shared passwords, root/admin access, etc. I imagine things haven't improved much since."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47736391, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736391", "by": "datsci_est_2015", "time": 1775971620, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This happened very much in spite of the current regime, rather than because of it. Cuts to NASA and science in general (unless backed by VC) have been a strong theme of the current presidency. RFK Jr is on the Rogan podcast advocating for injecting of non-FDA-approved peptides for Gods sakes."}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 47739495, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739495", "by": "softwaredoug", "time": 1776001142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend people learn the history of the Industrial Revolution. I recently discovered the Industrial Revolutions Podcast[1] and have been enjoying it. What's happening today isn't unprecedented. The pace of change that's happening IS similar to periods of the industrial revolution. For example, the flying jenny, overnight, basically put an entire craft industry of weaving into question. Probably more dramatically than anything Claude Code ever did. It took A LOT and several world wars for brief periods of normalcy post WW2 - probably the exception, not the rule. 1 - https://industrialr"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47739624, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739624", "by": "layer8", "time": 1776001768, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the recent-ish Dwarkesh podcast, Anthropic seems to be wary about buying/building too much compute [0]. That probably means that they have to attempt to minimize compute usage when there is a surge in demand. Following the argument in the podcast, throwing more money after them, as some in this thread are suggesting, won\u2019t solve the issue, at least not in the short term. [0] https://www.dwarkesh.com/i/187852154/004620-if-agi-is-immine..."}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 47744759, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744759", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1776029584, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I used to use Mistral OCR, but found it was better just to write a program that sent the documents to Claude Sonnet to OCR instead. Claude is far better quality, better formatting and fewer errors. I'm also using Voxtral TTS to try to replace OpenAI. It \"works\", but I've had problems with volume levels being radically different between different audio chunks. It doesn't seem to \"understand the full text\" the way OpenAI's voice models do, which can be more expressive. Voxtral sometimes sounds robotic in the reading. And some Voxtral TTS output contains music in the background occasionally, whic"}, {"show": "809264944", "hn_item": 47753693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753693", "by": "superjan", "time": 1776095054, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Might as well plug this recent Criminal Podcast episode: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-358-the-formula-3-27-2026 TLDL: During prohibition, US government required adding 5% methanol to industrial alcohol, hoping that this would stop bootleggers from selling it as liquor. It was sold anyway, resulting in many deaths."}, {"show": "279121244", "hn_item": 47757152, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757152", "by": "metabagel", "time": 1776110696, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Super-intelligent AI will probably be pretty good at manipulating people. This sci-fi podcast posits a future where The Program has taken over society. It started out as an application for assigning gig work. Eventually, it began to assign gig work for people to act on behalf of its own interests, such as self-protection. https://programaudioseries.com/"}, {"show": "1648228034", "hn_item": 47757787, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757787", "by": "heathrow83829", "time": 1776114218, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yup. I've also seen a number like that mentioned by the Moonshots podcast by peter diamantis.. they showed that quarter by quarter the placement rate for CS grads had declined every querter for the last 3 years from 93% at 91K per year down to 19% at about 65k. it was one of their last podcasts from about a week ago."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47772673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772673", "by": "Qlwentt", "time": 1776208466, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I built Lenny\u2019s Evil Twin\u2019s Podcast. You paste in a company URL, and it generates a short podcast episode where \u201cLeonard\u201d (Lenny Rachitsky\u2019s evil twin) roasts the company while a co-host (my persona) argues back. The twist is that the arguments are grounded in 5 years of Lenny\u2019s newsletter/podcast content instead of generic AI filler. (It's for the Lenny's data contest so it's sanctioned by Lenny) Pipeline is basically: - scrape the site - infer the main strategic tradeoffs - retrieve relevant Lenny content for both the attack and defense - generate a transcript - turn it into audio It was sup"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 47779691, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779691", "by": "djsamseng", "time": 1776264072, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cTheir brains\u2026 look like small walnuts inside their skull\u2026 There's so much atrophy that happens with an alcohol soaked brain chronically that I would say that's, you know, far and away, the most common source of brain damage\u201d - Dr. Matthew Macdouglas head neurosurgeon at Neurolink on the Huberman podcast starting at 1:40:00"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47796595, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796595", "by": "7777777phil", "time": 1776360052, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 47799334, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799334", "by": "bccdee", "time": 1776372678, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "That's a common narrative in popular culture (especially since the publication of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation ), but it doesn't really bear out in data. Smartphones don't really have a discernible impact on mental health at a population level. The idea is that teen mental health got dramatically worse in the early 2010s at the same time as social media began to become ubiquitous, but this is likely a coincidence. The underlying metrics we're tracking here are self-harm hospitalizations, and concerns about teen self-harm were already growing in the early 2000s. This leads to a bunch"}, {"show": "1743860177", "hn_item": 47805724, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805724", "by": "beklein", "time": 1776432539, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also relevant to this is the newest episode of The Lightcone Podcast with Quan Vuong, co-founder of PI and, one of many co-authors of that paper."}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 47805798, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805798", "by": "davidlbatey", "time": 1776432919, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hi HN \u2014 I built Distill because my read-later pile never gets read. It's a local MCP server for Claude Code. You save articles during the day with /mcp__distill__save , then run /mcp__distill__digest to get a two-host conversational podcast (MP3 in ~/Downloads) from everything you queued. You pick the format \u2014 Briefing, Debate, Deep Dive, or Watercooler \u2014 and a list of \"interests\" that act as a narration lens (e.g. a cybersecurity article gets framed through an entrepreneurship angle if that's your thing). Stack: Node + @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, @mozilla/readability for article extraction, pe"}, {"show": "1821055332", "hn_item": 47811678, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811678", "by": "ccorcos", "time": 1776468269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its worth checking out a recent interview with the Flock CEO on Cheeky Pint (Stripe's podcast with John Collison) [1] As much as I fear the Orwellian future this could turn into, I think its important to recognize that the burden of preventing that is on lawmakers, not companies. He explains in the interview that he would love for laws to be passed to create tighter controls over how these systems are used. The problem is that police departments don't want it! Perhaps they can elect to do it themselves, but then they expose themselves to competitors who have \"more powerful features\". Something"}, {"show": "275699983", "hn_item": 47821758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821758", "by": "jvm___", "time": 1776572344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If we launched a second New Horizons when the last one passed Pluto, the second one would already have passed Pluto as well. Crazy to think how much time has passed since that flyby. Also, one of the program managers was on The Moth podcast describing the panic when new Horizons rebooted days before the flyby. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006, and performed its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. This journey took 3,463 days (approximately 9.5 years). 3,932 days July 14, 2015\u2013April 19, 2026"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 47825480, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825480", "by": "jodrellblank", "time": 1776616159, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's probably something eloquent by Hannah Arendt about how 190,000 Americans killed by health insurance companies goes unnoticed while one person killing a CEO becomes a spectre of \"left wing extremism\" held up as an example. Or was it by The Joker from Batman? Or was it when protesters in Latin America sat down blocking a road to protest environmental destruction and an American driver was so angry that he was mildly inconvenienced that he got out of his car and murdered one of them with his gun. And Joe Rogan's podcast commentary was \"what did they expect?\", more annoyed at the inconveni"}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 47838346, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838346", "by": "darrenf", "time": 1776708767, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge Fight podcast already took the \u201csynonym name\u201d route. https://knowledgefight.com/"}, {"show": "1192992870", "hn_item": 47839879, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839879", "by": "dlev_pika", "time": 1776715985, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thank you, Tetrahedron - you are the best possible end for that nasty site. Between this takeover, and Trump\u2019s BRUTAL takedown of AJ a few days ago, karma seems to be catching up with that shit peddling, abusive bottom-feeder scum that is AJ. Here is to them eating each other, and choking on it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-fight/id1192..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 47840265, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840265", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1776717773, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How long to the next ATP podcast?"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 47843275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843275", "by": "brigham", "time": 1776733141, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 47843301, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843301", "by": "yeswecatan", "time": 1776733288, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent episode of the podcast \u201cSearch Engine\u201d explored the cost of war and pretty much said exactly what you did. Besides the obvious war is bad, it\u2019s so unfortunate we are passing on the cost to future generations. And for what?"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47850446, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850446", "by": "iglesiasbrandon", "time": 1776786397, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I built LennyFighter to explore how far Cloudflare's developer platform can go for real-time multiplayer. Everything runs at the edge with zero origin servers: Vinext (React SSR) + Workers + Durable Objects for match state + D1 for stats + KV for session tokens + WebSockets for real-time play. It's a 1v1 trivia fighting game where you pick a tech industry leader as your fighter (Brian Chesky, Marty Cagan, Elena Verna, etc.) and answer trivia from their real Lenny's Podcast interviews. Correct answers deal damage scaled by type effectiveness; wrong answers cost you recoil HP. Each match is a Ma"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47858454, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858454", "by": "freshfunk", "time": 1776827671, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW, I just heard this guy (Head of Growth) on Lenny's podcast a few days ago and one of the things he explicitly mentioned was creating intentional friction for growth. This seems to be one of those tests."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47870316, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870316", "by": "physicles", "time": 1776898220, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Was just listening to the Lenny\u2019s Podcast interview with Simon Willison, who mentioned another such incantation: red/green TDD. The model knows what this means and it just does it, with a nice bump in code quality apparently. I\u2019m trying out another, what I call the principle of path independence. It\u2019s the idea that the code should reflect only the current requirements, and not the order in which functionality was added \u2014 in other words, if you should decide to rebuild the system again from scratch tomorrow, the code should look broadly similar to its current state. It sort of works even though"}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 47871673, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871673", "by": "gmays", "time": 1776911277, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 47875577, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875577", "by": "knowledge-share", "time": 1776951153, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Knowledge Fight podcast is great. Look for their Formulaic Objection episodes to see the crazy show all of the court things were."}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 47877512, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877512", "by": "GuinansEyebrows", "time": 1776960766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "if you're truly interested, please check out the podcast 'Knowledge Fight' which covers alex jones and infowars in stunningly minute detail, including the defamation cases in texas and connecticut. the main host was even called as an expert witness in one of the trials to give testimony about alex jones' involvement and denial in harassing and inciting his listeners to harass the parents and survivors of the shooting."}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 47883479, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883479", "by": "wvenable", "time": 1776986192, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to the Verge podcast and I've listened to Nillay refine this article piece by piece for weeks. He had the headline in mind for a long time and I've heard most of the points addressed in this article. It's now interesting to see all that distilled into this single article. It's definitely not poorly thought out article. People want to automate away the boring parts of their work and life but, as the meme says, people want AI to do their dishes and laundry so they can do writing and art but instead AI does their writing and art so they can do the laundry. I'm not sure what yo"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 47891977, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891977", "by": "photon_collider", "time": 1777046157, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Nilay has been discussing these ideas on podcasts hosted by The Verge over the last few weeks. I can tell it's something that's been top of mind for him especially on his podcast series Decoder where he interviews CEOs about their approach to integrating AI in their products and how consumers feel about this."}, {"show": "1737204926", "hn_item": 47893687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893687", "by": "janalsncm", "time": 1777053509, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There was a really good point in this podcast episode about the speed of LLMs. They are so slow that all of the progress messages and token streaming are necessary. But the core problem is that the technology is so darn slow. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-episode-is-a-cogn... As someone who both uses and builds this technology I think this is a core UX issue we\u2019re going to be improving for a while. At times it really feels like a choose 2+ of: slow, bad, and expensive."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47898223, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898223", "by": "keeda", "time": 1777085931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Actually I have the opposite take. This is largely a play to procure compute capacity (and I suspect, distribution via Google Cloud), and I think Dario wildly underestimated the amount of demand they would see. I always wondered why Anthropic was not out there feverishly scrambling to procure compute like the other big players. While Altman was being laughed at as a \"podcasting bro asking for trillions in investment\" Dario was on Dwarkesh expounding on how tricky it is to predict the demand for capacity. Now Dario has to give equity to a competitor to get compute. (OpenAI does this too, of cou"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 47899919, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899919", "by": "NSUserDefaults", "time": 1777108102, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend the recent Wookash podcast with Chuck Jazdzewski, who was part of the team that created the original TV and much more in that ecosystem."}, {"show": "1572356745", "hn_item": 47904884, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904884", "by": "insaneirish", "time": 1777153915, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you are unfamiliar with the author, Dave Arnold is a former instructor at the French Culinary Institute, a bar owner/operator in NYC (Booker & Dax (closed), Existing Conditions (closed), and Bar Contra ( https://www.barcontra.com )), a cooking equipment designer and manufacturer ( https://www.bookeranddax.com ), sharer of lots of knowledge (e.g. https://cookingissues.com/primers/sous-vide/part-i-introduct... ), James Beard Award winning book author ( https://www.kitchenartsandletters.com/products/liquid-intell... ), and a weekly podcast host ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cooking-i"}, {"show": "1572356745", "hn_item": 47905371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905371", "by": "insaneirish", "time": 1777157479, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Steve Sando, the founder/owner of Rancho Gordo, has been on the podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cooking-issues-with-da... ) hosted by the author of this article (Dave Arnold) a few times. Those episodes are really fun and always result in me eating more beans!"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47918349, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918349", "by": "jbegley", "time": 1777271346, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47925107, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925107", "by": "philippta", "time": 1777313277, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the recent Dwarkesh Podcast episode Jensen Huang (Nvidia) said that virtually nobody but Anthropic uses TPUs. How does that add up?"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 47927115, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927115", "by": "Balgair", "time": 1777322908, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Even Mr. Patel\u2019s nontechnical guests \u2014 interviews with the military historian Sarah Paine account for four of his 10 most popular episodes \u2014 tie back, if not directly to A.I., then more broadly to the near-future. Always thought that his best podcasts are with Sarah Paine, and the data agrees. Yet she only gets one passing reference in a 20 min article?! I know that it goes against the angle the piece is going for, but shame all the same. That said, after the AI buzz dies down, he's got an easy transition into international relations. Also, to be clear, I think Dwarkesh is one of the best in"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 47930032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930032", "by": "phoplar", "time": 1777345303, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been looking at something similar. The playdate and Wookash's podcast with Alex Evans really reignited my love for custom electronic designs!"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 47934290, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934290", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1777382863, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Omega Tau podcast visited ASML and did an episode a number of years ago: http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-49-chipPr..."}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 47946189, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946189", "by": "testdelacc1", "time": 1777456609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Where are these rust fans? Are they in the room with us right now? You\u2019ve constructed a strawman with no basis in reality. You know what actual Rust fans sound like? They sound like Matthias Endler, who wrote the article we\u2019re discussing. Matthias hosts a popular podcast Rust in Production where talks with people about sharp edges and difficulties they experienced using Rust. > Such rewritten software packages should remain for years as optional alternatives to the originals. This project was started a decade ago. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211 ) > must first present to the wor"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 47951248, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951248", "by": "dwaltrip", "time": 1777482332, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This is almost certainly a massive underestimate. See the recent Search Engine podcast episode \"The Cost of War\" with guest Professor Linda Blimes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wwjLv4fTtLfHLkk2ejOoF?si=7... https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/linda-bilmes"}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 47960973, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960973", "by": "zeristor", "time": 1777548918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cIn the Volts podcast, Jonas Birgersson explains why today\u2019s power grid is built for yesterday. What is referred to as EnergyNet in the conversation is Project Energisamh\u00e4llet in practice: a digital, local, electricity-first grid designed for electrification.\u201d https://www.warpnews.org/energy/interview-with-jonas-birgers..."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 47962398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962398", "by": "gwbas1c", "time": 1777556752, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast episode \"Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System (Update)\" actually goes into a lot of depth about this issue: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-myths-about-the-u-s-tax... (Includes transcript) To oversimplify, basically: With the exception of Social Security, we (the US) has a balanced budget. No politician will get re-elected if they cut social security. (Thus) the politicians are working on the problem very quietly. The general problem with Social Security is that it pays out way more then it takes in. Part of the issue is that everybody of retirement age collects so"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 47962574, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962574", "by": "alkonaut", "time": 1777557358, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> > I really need some politics-free scholarship > The Freakonomics podcast Yikes."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 47969633, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969633", "by": "jcpy", "time": 1777591548, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember it was a big hit, people were posting \"Anthropic's entire growth marketing was run by 1 non-technical guy using Claude Code for 10 months\". But now there's nowhere to find it."}, {"show": "1874480499", "hn_item": 47969728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969728", "by": "nbaronia", "time": 1777592181, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": "I'm a big fan of the Acquired podcast, and really wanted one on Eli Lilly, a trillion dollar pharma company. I had agents do the research, write the script, make the background music and effects, and then narrate the episode. It came out a lot better than I expected, though some of the dialogue is vagule AI sloplike (\"its not just X, but also Y\"). Linked to Spotify, but you should be able to find it anywhere with podcasts, if you search \"Fauxcquired\" Let me know what you think!"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 47969728, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969728", "by": "nbaronia", "time": 1777592181, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm a big fan of the Acquired podcast, and really wanted one on Eli Lilly, a trillion dollar pharma company. I had agents do the research, write the script, make the background music and effects, and then narrate the episode. It came out a lot better than I expected, though some of the dialogue is vagule AI sloplike (\"its not just X, but also Y\"). Linked to Spotify, but you should be able to find it anywhere with podcasts, if you search \"Fauxcquired\" Let me know what you think!"}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 47974296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974296", "by": "imzadi", "time": 1777640519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's an interesting Behind the Bastards podcast about the rise of incel culture and its push into mainstream. It's called \"From Elliot Rodger to Clavicular.\" They talk about the language of incels and how their vocabulary tends to end up in the mainstream at a surprising rate compared to other fringe cultures. \"Mogging\" is one of those terms that comes from incels."}, {"show": "1896022989", "hn_item": 47976000, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976000", "by": "MaysonL", "time": 1777649695, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1819488714", "hn_item": 47978023, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978023", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1777659013, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "6783436225", "hn_item": 47979841, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979841", "by": "kangarooship", "time": 1777667187, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Seattle, WA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, Electron, Node.js R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilykangdev/ Email: emily@emilykang.dev I do AI consulting to quickly deliver the outcomes you want. I'm primarily a founder building my own products, so consulting capacity is intentionally limited. If I take a project on, I deliver the scoped outcome on the agreed timeline. If it's not a fit, I'll tell you up front rather than stretch. I build production AI features: LLM pipelines, paid AI products end-to-end (billing, licensing, delivera"}, {"show": "1737907375", "hn_item": 47983661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983661", "by": "anon84873628", "time": 1777700736, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From the lab of Christopher Henson at University of Oregon. They've done lots of work on coffee. Doran and Chris also host a podcast called Coffee Literature Review, where they invite a guest from the coffee industry and discuss a scientific paper connected to coffee somehow: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-literature-revi... At the SCA Expo a few years ago, they were doing electrochemistry on brewed coffee to measure caffeine content, and also change the flavor in weird ways. This latest paper seems to build on previous experiments in a similar vein: https://sca.coffee/sca-news/2"}, {"show": "278196007", "hn_item": 47986979, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986979", "by": "renticulous", "time": 1777733948, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "We need functioning poverty where people can still get by even if they fall below a certain threshold, they have a recourse to getup and live without being treated like animals. Around The World with Louis C.K. | Jim Norton Can't Save You EP 68 https://youtu.be/z0cypFadE3k?t=2394 In a podcast, Louis C.K. has remarked on his observations of \"functioning poverty\" during his travels in India, contrasting it with the homelessness and societal dysfunction he sees in New York City."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 47990010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990010", "by": "prosaic-hacker", "time": 1777752729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "About 1/4 of a Security Now podcast or 1/2 of the Amp Hour or Embedded."}, {"show": "1091709555", "hn_item": 47990010, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990010", "by": "prosaic-hacker", "time": 1777752729, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "About 1/4 of a Security Now podcast or 1/2 of the Amp Hour or Embedded."}, {"show": "687598126", "hn_item": 47994604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994604", "by": "abeindoria", "time": 1777795493, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Location: Arizona (US) Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes, alongside west coast (CA, OR, WA) Technologies: Platform Engineering, lots of AI harnessing work (Please see my website/blog at the domain for the email given below). I have a homelab where I tinker with a lot of the time. Linkedin: https://e.civv.es/linkedin R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://e.civv.es/resume-2026-04 (Govt peeps: More than happy to give you a multi-page resume spanning ~12 years, please contact me) Email: indoria@aindoria.com Edit: URLs use my self-hosted url-shortener(Kutt) so I can deprecate URLs as needed. ---- My most rec"}, {"show": "818198322", "hn_item": 48001903, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001903", "by": "rhyperior", "time": 1777844918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episode #103, @FoundMyFitness on Spotify podcasts. All about coffee\u2019s benefits, including for exercise."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48010341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010341", "by": "chasd00", "time": 1777910202, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If Books Could Kill did an episode on How to Win Friends and Influence People, it's an interesting listen. iirc the book was written by someone doing their best to break into high society or some other class they were not a part of. So it's not so much about manipulating people but more about stroking egos and being as agreeable as possible to avoid any conflict. The podcasters make the point that it was written in the 30s when confrontation, being an individual, and sticking up for one's beliefs wasn't really possible while climbing the social ladder. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how"}, {"show": "6819420692", "hn_item": 48015866, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015866", "by": "cosmicgadget", "time": 1777934176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Knowledge Fight podcast has covered/debunked/made fun of Alex Jones and people in his orbit for more than a decade and 1,100 episodes. On the heels of The Onion taking over InfoWars, Jones's messy breakup with MAGA, and a lengthy rant about The Onion by one of the hosts, the KF duo has decided to end the show. They still plan to do a live performance later this month."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48016836, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016836", "by": "heddhunter", "time": 1777942957, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "No, you were correct to avoid it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-win-friends-and..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48016844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016844", "by": "heddhunter", "time": 1777943013, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Assuming you're not joking, that's the point of the podcast... hence the title \"If Books Could Kill\". They're reviewing bad and possibly dangerous books."}, {"show": "1459779659", "hn_item": 48025971, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025971", "by": "moregrist", "time": 1778003327, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A recent episode of Matt Levine\u2019s podcast (Money Stuff) covered this: apparently investment bankers spend a huge amount of time preparing pitch decks for companies that don\u2019t want them. Apparently Claude is quite good at making a pitch deck that no one but your boss wants or cares about. I feel like there\u2019s a metaphor in there... maybe I\u2019ll ask Claude about it."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48027094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027094", "by": "philips", "time": 1778008201, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There are a number of studies that show that Grit is either not a thing or there are better measures of success. It has been a long time since I have thought about it so I don't remember which papers in particular. Also, it can be argued the author was either playing fast and loose or knowingly misleading readers with her statistics: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/05/25/479172868/angela-... If you like Podcasts the \"If Books Could Kill\" Podcast goes into some of this story again too."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48030222, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030222", "by": "mnicky", "time": 1778024195, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Dwarkesh's podcast Dylan Patel from SemiAnalysis said that Google can currently afford to have larger models than competitors, because of access to much more compute, TPUs etc. That could explain the token usage difference because larger models usually use less tokens per the same unit of intelligence."}, {"show": "1807016239", "hn_item": 48034037, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034037", "by": "antonvs", "time": 1778058673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You only had to reach the second paragraph to find the example of an 8-person company that uses AI to generate \u201cabout 3000 podcast episodes per week, hosted by AI personalities.\u201d"}, {"show": "1807016239", "hn_item": 48037403, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037403", "by": "santoshalper", "time": 1778081470, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yeah, but you have to realize we are on the losing side of this war. The armies of bullshit now have an incredible advantage that actual art can never have. At least in the past, there was some equilibrium. Bullshit was cheaper to make than art (or any other quality product), but now it has become infinitely cheaper to produce, and much more expensive for us to separate from the bullshit. Think about this for a moment - it takes a company of 8 people to make 3000 podcast episodes a week. It would take far more than 8 people to listen to that many podcasts. How can we possibly hope to separate "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 48042580, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042580", "by": "SweetSoftPillow", "time": 1778105514, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 48055420, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055420", "by": "ruraljuror", "time": 1778189766, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He talks about TI-83 programming in the Pragmatic Engineer Podcast interview."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 48062234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062234", "by": "stasomatic", "time": 1778244128, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Costco episode on the Acquired podcast was really good, imo. It covered the trajectory from genesis till today. Highly recommended: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48069871, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069871", "by": "zozbot234", "time": 1778281609, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The basic argument is that its KV cache is roughly an order of magnitude more compact than previous Chinese models, which were already very compact compared to the likes of Gemma (though that example is a bit of an extreme). If you pair this with the basic facts of how to maximize LLM inference performance at scale (this was recently talked about in a video lecture on the Dwarkesh Patel YouTube podcast) the case for doing slow batched inference on prem with DeepSeek V4, perhaps even with memory offload, becomes, as I see it, quite obvious. Of course, I'd like to be proven wrong!"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48097300, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097300", "by": "NDlurker", "time": 1778517517, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a show on that a couple years ago. Pretty interesting listen. https://radiolab.org/podcast/interstitium They also did an episode about rapamycin that I thought was really cool. I had no idea the history of it and found it fascinating and it really gets the imagination going thinking about what other things are hidden all around us. https://radiolab.org/podcast/dirty-drug-and-ice-cream-tub"}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 48110180, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110180", "by": "ai_fry_ur_brain", "time": 1778601821, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How much karma do you have on reddit, probably millions. Only redditors with Dunning-Kruger would say something like this. I reccomend the podcast Machine Learning Street Talk, you'll find plenty of machine learning PhDs who are also neuroscientists that are completely mystified by the brain, how it works and what intelligence is. The people at the forefront of nueroscience definately aren't reducing human intelligence and experience to \"signal processing\", or whatever you think it is."}, {"show": "1265527976", "hn_item": 48115911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115911", "by": "digdugdirk", "time": 1778628413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Obligatory link to a great podcast that has a great episode covering this paper: https://pca.st/episode/dfc024c8-31f8-4387-b301-7a4f77132b74 Everyone should subscribe to the Future of Coding (recently renamed to the Feeling of Computing) podcast if you haven't already: https://feelingof.com/"}, {"show": "1271619982", "hn_item": 48122554, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122554", "by": "EvanAnderson", "time": 1778683123, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dmitry was interviewed on the Unnamed Reverse Engineering podcast[0] a few years ago. I didn't feel like he came off at all like that in that interview, at least. I don't interact w/ Twitter so I can't speak to anything he's written there. [0] https://unnamedre.com/episode/2"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48122703, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122703", "by": "lostathome", "time": 1778683846, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few months ago I discovered a Jane Street backdoor challenge advertised by a Dwarkesh Patel podcast episode. \"Can you find subtle backdoors in LLM models trained using thousand of GPU hours?\" You have four models: a small warmup dormant model a big dormant model (M1) a second big dormant model (M2) a third big dormant model (M3) I managed to find triggers for the small one (calculating pi stuff) and M1 (Conway game of life). But not sure about the others. When trying to make M2 and M3 play the game of life, they do not have any idea of what is going on. I am sharing some code to make a commu"}, {"show": "1874659913", "hn_item": 48130765, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130765", "by": "sj1135", "time": 1778729231, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Recent podcast episode with CMS explains how ACCESS works in practice https://open.spotify.com/episode/720DvvkFd73BwXiXlOOte1?si=b..."}, {"show": "1703615331", "hn_item": 48144056, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144056", "by": "gmays", "time": 1778814075, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1510472996", "hn_item": 48151402, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151402", "by": "adw", "time": 1778866205, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/machine-learning-stree... is a pretty good primer on METR, what it measures, and its limitations."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 48152311, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152311", "by": "linsomniac", "time": 1778870852, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> unsubstantiated Agreed for USSR, but I think the person you replied to is misremembering the country, I believe they are thinking of Japan. I heard it recently on Stuff You Should Know, which usually does a good job of researching their stories, and it sounds like it is substantiated but may be a bit more complex than presented, but literally true. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id2789... https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japa... https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-jap..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 48153294, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153294", "by": "rconti", "time": 1778876292, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Tangential: I miss Nate and Maria Konnikova's Risky Business podcast. It only lasted a year (or two?). I expected it would be resurrected outside the Pushkin network, but hasn't happened yet. What I _don't_ miss is listening to podcasts on Pushkin. I had nothing against Malcolm Gladwell, but something about having his voice on every one of the network's very numerous ads became incredibly grating."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 48153786, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153786", "by": "rurp", "time": 1778878946, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoyed the old 538 podcast and usually like Nate's work but didn't care at all about Risky Business. His cohost was terrible in the episodes I listened too. She managed to do a lot of talking without saying anything interesting or insightful. Gladwell also annoys me, so that didn't help matters."}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 48156976, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156976", "by": "gmays", "time": 1778907705, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 48169718, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169718", "by": "bicepjai", "time": 1779031225, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Recent NYT podcast showcased how China and the US are putting time, effort, and money into using AI. I have to say I liked China\u2019s approach of AI percolation into the economy than US approach of walled gardens with cloud. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736..."}, {"show": "1734642832", "hn_item": 48171471, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171471", "by": "juvoly", "time": 1779041138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Increasingly (for instance ADSP podcast [1]) those in nvidia's inner circle are advocating against writing your own CUDA kernels. (Unless that's your full time job at nvidia, that is). [1] https://adspthepodcast.com/2024/08/30/Episode-197.html"}, {"show": "394775318", "hn_item": 48172927, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172927", "by": "pbhjpbhj", "time": 1779049707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I use (or used to) mdash with spaces, I've always just found the mdash when it collides with the words to be ugly. I've read a few typography related books and checked some style manuals in my time, but no-one has ever 'corrected' my usage so I think it's alright. I was listening to a podcast recently that had interesting information about the birth of mdash - \"99% Invisible: The Em Dash\". Episode webpage: https://99percentinvisible.org/?p=46542 . (Antenna Pod is a great podcast player!)"}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 48173803, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173803", "by": "ziofill", "time": 1779057606, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For those who are interested: a very recent Stuff You Should Know podcast episode was about the Hindenburg disaster: https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episode/the-hindenburg-disast..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 48181663, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181663", "by": "ryandamm", "time": 1779120461, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In his interview on the Hard Fork podcast, Palo Alto Networks\u2019 CEO described the capability change from Opus to Mythos being more about availability; evidently it runs in a very compute-intensive, always-on mode. Unclear if the base model is significantly different, but Arora ascribed the difference mostly to that change."}, {"show": "1807016239", "hn_item": 48186964, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186964", "by": "probably_wrong", "time": 1779144883, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From the article \"Knitting bullshit\" discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 : > Inception Point AI, on the other hand, is a slop factory employing just 8 people which, according to Anne, publishes \"about 3000 podcast episodes per week, hosted by AI personalities.\" Anne tells Jamie, that, to date, Inception Point AI\u2019s podcasts have accumulated \"12 million lifetime downloads. And we\u2019re averaging about 750,000 downloads a month.\" (...) no one checks or edits the podcast content\u2013 but, Anne tells Jamie blithely, this really doesn\u2019t matter because the topics under discussion are "}, {"show": "1161880916", "hn_item": 48192171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192171", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1779191875, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 48193889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193889", "by": "michaelbuckbee", "time": 1779201456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Something that the Overcast podcast player does (and probably others) is silence removal, which in some ways is even better than the raw speedup."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48213105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213105", "by": "Terr_", "time": 1779306411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Some business leaders warned startups to take the offer with a grain of salt. Jason Calacanis, an investor and cohost of the All In podcast, described Altman\u2019s move as \u201cthe classic platform playbook,\u201d and advised founders that \u201cif you take these tokens, there\u2019s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering.\u201d Y'know, this is the kind of distrust-of-the-powerful cynicism I can get behind. My only question is why a token-for-equity deal would make it more likely than with any other company buying services in"}, {"show": "1585592962", "hn_item": 48216642, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216642", "by": "salynchnew", "time": 1779326706, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Failure to Launch episode about Qian, the Cultural Revolution, and the brief inter-departmental war and attempted \"coup\" at the defense research institute where he worked... was quite something. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rocket-scientist-g..."}, {"show": "1548554104", "hn_item": 48224886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224886", "by": "seidleroni", "time": 1779379042, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also, I just listened to the latest Volts podcast and they make the claim that data centers will actually lower the cost of electricity fairly soon (~2030). Very counterintuitive but it does make sense. We'll find out soon enough. https://www.volts.wtf/p/sooner-than-you-think-electricity"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 48225296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225296", "by": "normalaccess", "time": 1779380591, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "For TRUE offline password storage use \"Off The Grid\". A cryptographically secure paper based password generator created by Steve Gibson from he Security Now podcast. https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 48230614, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230614", "by": "nothercastle", "time": 1779410894, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "It\u2019s bad but not as bad as it seems. To get these insane valuations companies are selling very low float. A lot of indexes won\u2019t list them at under 10% float and even if they do only at a float multiplier so spacesx as a 100b component (2 billion x 5% float) See this podcast for a better explanation https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rational-reminder-..."}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 48237117, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237117", "by": "Huppie", "time": 1779463140, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I remember a recent episode of the Rational Reminder podcast about this, it's not as bad as it may look... https://youtu.be/QaQHdF2DeRY"}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 48237774, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237774", "by": "giarc", "time": 1779465921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Prof G Markets podcast just had an episode on this with Ray Madoff. They talk about the claim that \"the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax\". But Ray points out that is misleading because the 1% is basically lawyers, physicians, accountants etc that make like $500,000/yr. These people still pay income tax and that's the group paying 40% of income tax. What that claim misses is the 0.1% that pay 0 income tax because they have no income. The claim makes people believe that the billionaires are the ones paying that huge sum but we fail to realize that the 1% is our neighbours, not just "}, {"show": "172902754", "hn_item": 48242440, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242440", "by": "classichasclass", "time": 1779488855, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "News Roundup podcasts are still up, for those who never heard them. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cbs-news-roundup/id172..."}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 48253174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253174", "by": "scoofy", "time": 1779583800, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If my tone is off-putting, I apologize. I'm currently in San Francisco, living through a combine federal, state, and local politics budgetary nightmare. Here, even the most politically passionate folks seem to struggle with basic civics (especially who has the authority to impose taxes and how) and most don't understand municipal finance, which has real world consequences. The \"how can San Francisco not afford X with all the tech/ai money here\" sentiment is prevalent. Currently, it is the potential collapse of the Bay Area public transit system. It can all be exasperating. If you're curious ab"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 48256864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256864", "by": "oddly", "time": 1779626921, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Check the podcast \u201cFall of Civilizations\u201d, this is very true. This advanced civilization is actually dying."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 48282534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282534", "by": "eamag", "time": 1779815073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Exactly, there's an episode covering it on Freakonomics Radio: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-a-driverless-world-who-l..."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48290365, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290365", "by": "treebeard901", "time": 1779862677, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "One of the billionaires on the All In Podcast, (which I listen to sometimes to get that kind of perspective), mentioned that one thing the U.S. and China could work on as far as regulating AI, is Know Your Customer controls. At first after one of the hosts said this I didn't think much of it but then started thinking through the second order effects later on. Why would that be such a main concern? He gave the example of dangerous people using AI to do bad things, but I think the subtext is much more complicated. At least from the ownership class point of view. Which also ties into the original"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 48299038, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299038", "by": "ahepp", "time": 1779909207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you have this pretty backwards. Private equity does not exist because of pensions. Private equity is investment that has not taken additional steps to be a part of regulated public markets. It's true that private equity is dominated by institutional investors. One reason for this is that the investments are generally deemed to complicated, illiquid, and risky for retail investors (although the Trump administration is trying to change this). Additionally, if we added the kinds of regulations, reporting requirements, standardization, etc, that would be necessary to scale this model to hu"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 48304531, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304531", "by": "ericd", "time": 1779942824, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "For anyone thinking about going that way, I highly recommend listening to the Revolutions podcast series starting here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wVvwnrBP2cVQrFf06RoO9 It'll probably disabuse you of the idea that its a good way to get things done."}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 48308487, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308487", "by": "mooreds", "time": 1779973822, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1330329512", "hn_item": 48309868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309868", "by": "thewebguyd", "time": 1779980164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "PowerShell was great, if a little verbose. PowerShell's real strength though isn't as an interactive shell, its as a scripting language. You pass objects back and forth, not text. Its basically an interactive API explorer. > ps aux | awk '{if ($6 > 102400) print $11, $6}' compared to > Get-Process | Where WorkingSet -gt 100MB | Select Name, WorkingSet doesn't matter how the output is formatted, you aren't manipulating text directly you're working with .NET objects. Anyway, PowerShell is the way it is out of necessity of the OS. Microsoft did try to just port ksh to Windows at one point it obvi"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 48319590, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319590", "by": "nazgul17", "time": 1780034509, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "A recent episode of the MindScape podcast seems very relevant here: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on How Your Data Will Be Used Against You https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FOwAWkB0Bu00EpxmE97qB?si=V..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48319659, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319659", "by": "SatvikBeri", "time": 1780035232, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Not OP, but Dario said on Dwarkesh's podcast 3 months ago that their gross margins are \"significantly higher than 50%\""}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 48327264, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327264", "by": "senderista", "time": 1780079129, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might enjoy Patrick Wyman's (Fall of Rome, Tides of History) new podcast \"Past Lives\": https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/new-history-podcast-past..."}, {"show": "1119389968", "hn_item": 48329743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329743", "by": "roxolotl", "time": 1780091168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There\u2019s an old Malcom Gladwell podcast episode, I think the show was Revisionist History, where he says he\u2019s an interview nihilist. As long as the person seems reasonably capable, and can probably do a bit of what you need, hire them. Interviews are so hard to get right that what you\u2019re saying ends up being most effective. Edit: Didn\u2019t link it initially because I thought it would be hard to find. Turns out it\u2019s not. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/hamlet-w..."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 48347732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347732", "by": "nilen", "time": 1780249176, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lenny's Podcast: The most rational take on AI you\u2019ll hear this year | Benedict Evans"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 48361766, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361766", "by": "qznc", "time": 1780343628, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Afaik this is the first time that an IPO is big that it immediately gets a significant share of a broad market index fund. The rules among the providers are actually quite diverse, so it's complicated. The Rational Reminder podcast discussed it in April: https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/406 Their conclusion: It might be bad, but so be it. No need to change strategy."}, {"show": "1318335827", "hn_item": 48363835, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363835", "by": "mvdtnz", "time": 1780355792, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Ken Jennings (of Jeopardy / Simpsons fame) has an excellent podcast called Omnibus which covered this song. Thanks to them this excellent tune entered my regular rotation, and I strongly recommend a listen (to the podcast and the song). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prisencolinensinainciu..."}, {"show": "1716338488", "hn_item": 48365693, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365693", "by": "nelox", "time": 1780371344, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Listen to the author of \u201cA Brief History of Financial Bubbles\u201d argue why it probably isn\u2019t a bubble: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/260347/s/233172.rss https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-col... https://open.spotify.com/show/0Cj2lIpGxkrw1RFVIPTa6a?si=f41c..."}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 48367661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367661", "by": "matwood", "time": 1780390469, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You shouldn't be downvoted because your point is completely valid. Matt Levine made the same point in the last Money Stuff podcast. These indexes are supposed to contain the largest, most significant, and in some cases all companies so people shouldn't be mad at the indexes for pulling in a company that's going to have a 1.5T market cap at IPO. Given the market cap, it would actually be weird to not have it in an index like the S&P500 or QQQ. Instead blame the bankers and market who are putting buying in at 1.5T valuation. If people really don't want SpaceX in their S&P 500 tracking ETF, we sh"}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 48376599, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376599", "by": "pauldirac137", "time": 1780435879, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Marshall was a panelist on the ArrayCast podcast ( https://www.arraycast.com/ ) which discusses all things relating to array languages. He's sadly missed :("}, {"show": "1568833451", "hn_item": 48377491, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377491", "by": "mattwiese", "time": 1780441709, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "ArrayCast is a great podcast and I've enjoyed it quite a lot since it started. Listening to people talk about APL/K/J/BQN/etc is a great way to learn about the array languages. Maybe it's just me but hearing people use the glyphs in conversation went a long way to building intuition with how to think in arrays, so to speak. Wherever you are in cyberspace: hi Marshall!!"}, {"show": "117488860", "hn_item": 48382639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382639", "by": "francisofascii", "time": 1780486565, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "AKA \"Normies\" (heard on Scott Hanselman's podcast)"}, {"show": "1099497151", "hn_item": 48389664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389664", "by": "asolove", "time": 1780519101, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48394862, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394862", "by": "ArnoVW", "time": 1780554924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Yes. Or at least that is what I understood from the Radiolab episode on \u201chow do aesthetics work\u201d https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 48398327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398327", "by": "simonw", "time": 1780579587, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The asset I most value is my credibility. The reason so many people read my writing and find it useful is that they see me as a credible source of information: in a world full of clickbait and misinformation, I have a reputation for providing an independent voice that occupies that rare middle ground between \"AI will kill us all\" doomerism and \"AI will solve everything\" hype. Credibility is hard to earn and easy to squander. I've been blogging for 24 years now, which has helped me build credibility with a large array of people across many different interest areas. The modern influencer busines"}, {"show": "1099497151", "hn_item": 48398482, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398482", "by": "robenkleene", "time": 1780580299, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1730587238", "hn_item": 48401975, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401975", "by": "dserban", "time": 1780594814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Adding to your 6 and 7, Ed Zitron's Better Offline podcast has a good series on how the path was paved to the cost reckoning of the present day."}, {"show": "1739582836", "hn_item": 48407203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407203", "by": "AceJohnny2", "time": 1780626080, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> You\u2019re investing in an actively-managed fund. I see others are listening to the Money Stuff podcast ;)"}, {"show": "1426530582", "hn_item": 48407357, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407357", "by": "arowatbk", "time": 1780627615, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-... Long listen but a very thorough and nuanced discussion by a bunch of smart investment / finance guys in Canada. No click-bait-sky-is-falling content."}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 48413889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413889", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1780673435, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "OpenCode + their Go subscription. Start with a nice batteries included setup, read anthropic's knowledge share, play and iterate, stay human in the loop. Check out Dax Raad (behind OC) on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, I think you will like his philosophies, I sure do."}, {"show": "1275078406", "hn_item": 48416025, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416025", "by": "AgentOrange1234", "time": 1780682394, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "This reminds me of a very fun episode of the Uncivil podcast, which talks about a northern guy who started counterfeiting Confederate money during the Civil War: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-paper/id1275078406..."}, {"show": "1099497151", "hn_item": 48419525, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419525", "by": "SpyCoder77", "time": 1780700877, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "733163012", "hn_item": 48420319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420319", "by": "timdorr", "time": 1780707551, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Vinod is insane. You can hear more of his really bad takes on his recent Sam Harris podcast episode: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/479..."}, {"show": "1589996152", "hn_item": 48423361, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423361", "by": "techman001", "time": 1780740778, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "AI dual-host voices with a focus on the FLOSS community support that extended its functionality since it was EOL'd in 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I84LsH8SMQE"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48424542, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424542", "by": "palindrome818", "time": 1780749879, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48425844, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425844", "by": "leosanchez", "time": 1780758797, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "But didn't Zuck say it will replace junior to mid level engineers on Joe Rogan podcast or something ?"}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 48438886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438886", "by": "alanb99", "time": 1780868673, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "DHH on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast gets right to the nub of what it feels like coding with agents in the Spring of 2026. > I didn't want to be a project manager for agents > Running a bunch of agents feels less like being a project manager for agents and more like stepping into this super mech suit where suddenly I don\u2019t just have two arms, I have twelve."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48448882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448882", "by": "socalgal2", "time": 1780942000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great Radiolab on this topic https://radiolab.org/podcast/americanish-2306 It's also fun to watch people's heads explode over the hypocracy pointed out by this episode. Short version: If Samoa has to follow non-racial discrimination rules than Samoa as a place of Samoans will cease to exist. Without taking a side, the same is true of Israel."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 48452377, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452377", "by": "dieselgate", "time": 1780954047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Interesting, was never aware of any HN recap podcast. Personally sort of have the opposite problem of scrolling too much on HN... I just started listening to the Ezra Klein podcast which probably only has limited overlap with what you're looking for but is high quality and informative. Good luck!"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 48468821, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468821", "by": "jldugger", "time": 1781044795, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Are you familiar with the Search Engine podcast?"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48472296, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472296", "by": "sigmoid10", "time": 1781073296, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">I like lots of things precisely because they convey information! Correction: You may like them because you think they convey information. But without any sort of vetting process, the internet has become a cesspool of \"news\" or \"general knowledge\" places that ended up quite successful, but which are essentially just a contest of who is most confident when talking about topics and who can present bullshit in the most engaging way. You can see the peak of this on the JRE podcast. Anyone with actual expertise in a subject would be able to call out many of the guests, but since the host knows noth"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48473687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473687", "by": "hiAndrewQuinn", "time": 1781083378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Gwern's website changed my life at least 12 years ago by introducing me to spaced repetition, which solved my greatest bottleneck at the time: very smart and totally unable to remember anything in the moment to actually apply those smarts to. I'm glad I got the opportunity to finally remunerate him some very small amount after he set up a Patreon or what have you around the time of that Dwarkesh podcast. There are like at least a dozen other works on there that were formative for me too, very highly recommended."}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 48477962, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477962", "by": "eries", "time": 1781105741, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can just watch Lenny's Podcast and you'll see how those principles are alive and well :)"}, {"show": "1526139352", "hn_item": 48480555, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480555", "by": "eries", "time": 1781115947, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "You can find my interview with R. Edward Freeman here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stakeholder-podcas..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 48481775, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481775", "by": "minkzilla", "time": 1781121554, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks for responding, I do think you interpreted my comment correctly. I see size as negatively correlated (maybe as a semi-direct cause) with preserving company mission. Hence why I was confused by you addressing it. It would never cross my mind to argue that size has protected Costco. I haven\u2019t read your book, just skimmed the post so I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s convincing. But I\u2019d like to argue that those companies failing their mission is proof that they did not have good leadership. however, that makes the argument a little circular. I\u2019m aware of FedMart (Acquired podcast on Costco is very ente"}, {"show": "1633300324", "hn_item": 48482942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482942", "by": "karolist", "time": 1781126776, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Love PgDog. I don't need it honestly, but using it in my on-prem k8s because I heard about you in Postgres FM podcast randomly when I had nothing to listen to on a hike in the woods and it picked up my interest. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qgpfiW68KcvRASs6649Fb"}, {"show": "430333725", "hn_item": 48484220, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484220", "by": "SpyCoder77", "time": 1781134166, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Waveform podcast: tech The Vergecast: tech Dear Hank and John: random stuff Training Data: AI Development Nerdsnipe (I guess, don't really listen that much): Theo's podcast"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 48484444, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484444", "by": "webglfan", "time": 1781135536, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "By \"Lenny's Podcast\" I believe Eric means this 2 hour podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzebbzIntFc Eric did a more recent one about his new book as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJ1vTdHpks I'd also love to see a proper TLDL, since Youtube's own Gemini-powered summary seems a bit too brief: \"This conversation features Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, discussing his philosophy, the current state of the startup movement, and his vision for the future of business. Key Takeaways & Concepts: The Lean Startup Methodology (14:04 - 27:52): Ries reflects on how hi"}, {"show": "1122785133", "hn_item": 48490171, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490171", "by": "JimDabell", "time": 1781184985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It\u2019s a thread promoting an AWS podcast episode. The link is in a reply because X limits the reach of top-level posts that contain links. The X thread shouldn\u2019t\u2019ve been posted here. If the podcast episode is worthwhile, a link to that should\u2019ve been posted."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 48515017, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515017", "by": "jstanley", "time": 1781340581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Some of the ffmpeg developers were on Lex Fridman's podcast recently, and the topic of security came up. They were talking about how there was a vulnerability in an extremely niche codec that is only used for one video game from the 90s or something, and were saying that the person who reported the vulnerability was acting like it was a big deal but it's really not because this codec is hardly ever used. I was left wondering whether they were oblivious to the fact that an attacker who can supply a video file to you is free to use whatever video codec they want? It wouldn't matter if the develo"}, {"show": "1760218611", "hn_item": 48522431, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522431", "by": "jyounker", "time": 1781392507, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "There legitimate reason to suspect that Israel was involved in a series of anti-muslim rallies that happened across the US a few years back. The Molly Conger's covered it in an episode of \"Weird Little Guys\": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-accidental-nazi-ral..."}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 48533550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533550", "by": "roxolotl", "time": 1781476052, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I swear the Sydney incident and the subsequent dislike of Kevin by LLMs caused Kevin to believe in Roko\u2019s Basilisk and so he\u2019s super pro AI now. But more likely it\u2019s just that those who still listen to Hard Fork agree with the conclusions before listening to the podcast."}, {"show": "1592855440", "hn_item": 48535867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535867", "by": "jayelem", "time": 1781490440, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogenic_bolete_mushroom... ) points to a Hamilton Morris podcast ( https://www.patreon.com/HamiltonMorris/posts/64560770?utm_ca... paywalled) where Hamilton and Dennis McKenna discuss the mushroom."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48536571, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536571", "by": "windex", "time": 1781497481, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a time I used to listen to the All In Podcast. Then Trump became president and these guys started gloating with glee about all the breakage that Musk and Trump were causing. Was quite the shock to me to see the all out happiness. That's when I stopped listening to Sacks and his crowd."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48540700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540700", "by": "boringg", "time": 1781528825, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How do we remove that? Those are the exact kind of people most intelligent people find quite grating in an organization - though because they self-promote so much its difficult to unpack the truth until they have kind of weaseled their way into an entrenched position (normally they are reasonably good at politics). I'll use the All-in podcast as a perfect example of the type of person described. They have some value in that they have palace intrigue + arguably asymetric access to information."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48541209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541209", "by": "40four", "time": 1781531121, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey, fair enough. I don\u2019t necessarily disagree with you, anything with psilocybin in the title tends to be a little more sensational. I find it very interesting though, I just listened to a recent Rogan podcast with Dr. Dean Radin, this exact case study came up because one of his companies is working a related product. Apparently they\u2019ve developed a nasal delivery system that directly crosses into the brain, and the drug uses the same receptors as psilocybin but without the psychedelic effects. Apparently it has extraordinary positive effects on memory and lasts for months. They\u2019ve tested on m"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48541330, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541330", "by": "Aurornis", "time": 1781531701, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Psilocybin is harder to get research approvals for than many things, but it\u2019s not \u201ccompletely banned\u201d. There are studies every year being completed with psilocybin, many of which get posted here on HN. There is a growing tension between the extraordinary pop culture claims of psilocybin curing everything (now extending to Alzheimer\u2019s due to this 1 low-quality report from Brazil) and the actual studied effects, though. A lot of the published outcomes are surprisingly low quality, like this case report or all of the studies that neglect to include a control group. Mental health studies without a"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 48543689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543689", "by": "bwdey", "time": 1781541113, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I built this because I like long Lex interviews, but often don't have enough time to watch every episode. I transcribed, mapped, and embedded each episode so you can find new conversations, see how ideas connect to each other, and learn about new topics. I welcome feedback if this is useful before listening, especially as triage, or after listening as a reference or search tool. Not affiliated with Lex Fridman."}, {"show": "1522960417", "hn_item": 48546014, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546014", "by": "SyneRyder", "time": 1781552274, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well, the front page of their website claims \"Frontier AI In Your Hands\", so I guess they're not marketing it that way. I personally think there's a hint in that Mistral Medium 3.5 costs 5x the price of Mistral Large 3, and that Mistral Large is not listed anymore as a \"Featured Model\" and hasn't been updated since Dec 2025: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/overview But what I really base it on is an interview the Mistral CEO gave on the Big Technology Podcast back in January this year: Alex Kantrowitz: \"Do you consider yourself, is the most important thing you do building the models? Or is the "}, {"show": "1073235080", "hn_item": 48564593, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564593", "by": "GreenSalem", "time": 1781659381, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48566469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566469", "by": "delbronski", "time": 1781677189, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I too read the book in my younger years, and it helped me a lot with making friends and my career. However, the book itself is filled with some terrible advice for communicating with people. I realized that as an older person. But as a young person it filled me much needed confidence. Like many of these books, the actual advice is crap, but I think it gives people the confidence they need to change something in their lives they are not happy with. I highly recommend the podcast: If Books Could Kill. They have an episode on this book."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48569550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569550", "by": "enragedcacti", "time": 1781699758, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Well, the If Books Could Kill episode about The 4 Hour Workweek came out September 2023... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-4-hour-workweek/id..."}, {"show": "1278815517", "hn_item": 48571429, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571429", "by": "bicepjai", "time": 1781708266, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I always find great podcast suggestions in HN threads about a topic. Here is me giving back to the community, coffee history and nerdy detail. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ologies-with-alie-ward..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 48575382, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575382", "by": "joshmoody24", "time": 1781723852, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "As someone who has listened to this If Books Could Kill episode and read the actual book, I think the podcast is mostly looking for problems where there aren't any. Despite the book's sleazy title (\"influence people\") it's mostly just basic, innocent social advice."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 48579829, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579829", "by": "jonahbenton", "time": 1781749399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Advise you to listen to a recent Odd Lots podcast with Anjney Midha. It will be educational. The compute will be commoditized. Nobody has a monopoly on data. There are a zillion specialities of knowledge work to differentiate. https://pca.st/episode/11fe6a6f-e463-4163-9393-20376e88c0db"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 48586008, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586008", "by": "virgil_disgr4ce", "time": 1781793144, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast did a series on rats and their relationship to cities and humans and talked about Alberta's approach\u2014it was really fascinating, I'd recommend it: https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/sympathy-for-the-rat"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48591826, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591826", "by": "paulmist", "time": 1781817785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first saw Noam on Dwarkesh\u2019s podcast together with Jeff Dean. Recommend if you want a taste of what\u2019s Google\u2019s folks take on things. https://youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?is=nz77XP4KiJy7L1AX"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48593289, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593289", "by": "nytesky", "time": 1781827557, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A friend of mine from back home mentioned he hadn't heard anything about the White House UFC fight because he's solely focused on himself right now. Honestly, I think that\u2019s becoming ubiquitous; all of us are navel-gazing and trying to \"optimize\" looks, diet, exercise, Ai skills, supplements. We can sit through four hours of a Joe Rogan podcast, there are so many long form podcasts! We are all just living inside our own little bubbles now."}, {"show": "1720771330", "hn_item": 48597410, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597410", "by": "brunojppb", "time": 1781868702, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Clickhouse has been a game changer for some of the companies i have worked in the past. This reminds me of this podcast episode (1) from the Rust in Production pod about their Rust adoption. 1. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TBKDUhO0KihBxEzZqnQx1"}, {"show": "1455169228", "hn_item": 48612470, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48612470", "by": "devin", "time": 1781985688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Avery Trufelman does an incredibly well-researched podcast on clothing of all kinds by the name of Articles of Interest. They did a whole show on the pointe shoe. You check it out here: https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/on-pointe"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48613750, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613750", "by": "wafflemaker", "time": 1781996024, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've learned about the cancer vs tissue repairability (or cancer vs heart/cardiovascular failure) from Joe Rogan's podcast with Bret Weinstein (or his brother, don't remember). It's visible in death causes - pretty much all non accident deaths are divided between cancer and heart attack. A very interesting thing discussed in that podcast was about transgenic (or maybe all?) lab mice bred in USA. These mice are used for initial screening for nearly all drugs. And due to some error and ignorance, unbeknownst to most people using the mice, nearly all mice are predominantly on one side. (Sorry, do"}, {"show": "953290300", "hn_item": 48617251, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617251", "by": "ocihangir", "time": 1782034785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a great episode of Invisibilia podcast series on this subject. They talk about rare case of a person without fear and she learns how to survive without fear. https://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/377515477/fearless"}, {"show": "1677066062", "hn_item": 48632221, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632221", "by": "akrolsmir", "time": 1782145005, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hey! Surplus is a new incubator I'm organizing, partly as a love letter to early YC. A specific, early YC that I\u2019ve only experienced vicariously: first through PG\u2019s essays, more recently The Social Radars podcast. (When I hear about Paul cooking chili for early batches, or Jessica delivering air conditioners by hand, I think, \u201cyes, this, this is what I want\u201d.) Today, YC is like Harvard: an institution whose approval confers prestige, who curates a network of formidable alumni. That\u2019s valuable, but I long for something else; something bespoke, thoughtful, loving. And since I want this thing mys"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 48640763, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640763", "by": "totetsu", "time": 1782193022, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Decouple podcast has taught me more about the Canadian Nuclear industry than I ever wanted to know. https://www.decouple.media/"}, {"show": "1568217392", "hn_item": 48648910, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648910", "by": "verdverm", "time": 1782238108, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They are very proud of their approach if you listen to them on Lenny's Podcast. I find their products to be rather sloppy."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48661217, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661217", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1782314010, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know anybody with Hoffman's level of wealth, but I have come across a fair number of people with close to a billion dollars of wealth that now split their time between enjoying time with their own family and then trying to pursue philanthropy and non-profits meant to improve everybody's life in the community. I run into them because of their attempts to improve the community. And there are those who do it super quietly, give big, and do everything they can to avoid getting credit for it; there's another Silicon Valley Reed that does this in my community. Steve Jobs apparently did this "}, {"show": "1488187473", "hn_item": 48677155, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677155", "by": "jjice", "time": 1782410969, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware. Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast \"Oxide and Friends\", and their original \"On The Metal\" show. I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over the years, only to be stun locked by the application process. Not because it's a bad process, but because I feel I'm not up to par as an engineer. Maybe one day I'll go through with "}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 48689735, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689735", "by": "derwiki", "time": 1782496525, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u2026 do you folks listen to Soft Skills Engineering? This has been a running joke on that podcast for a while"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 48704746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704746", "by": "ycombinete", "time": 1782625612, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia. He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where the narrative constantly interrupts itself with. So you can\u2019t really \u201cfollow along\u201d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_with_Me_(podcast)"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 48706422, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706422", "by": "TooSmugToFail", "time": 1782646168, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here. Love the Mindscape podcast. It taught me everything I know about quantum physics (haha). But for me, the bedtime listening is ALWAYS fascinating. It has to be. And I fall asleep nevertheless. My routine is to play a podcast that I am interested in, put a sleep timer on 20 min (Overcast app FTW), and just enjoy the content. No matter how interesting it is, it very rarely takes me setting the timer for another 20 min, almost always I fall asleep in the first run, often times within the first 10 min. What makes it funny is I will be listening a single episode for weeks sometime, often "}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 48706915, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706915", "by": "larrykubin", "time": 1782651667, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Odd Lots podcast puts my wife to sleep"}, {"show": "1517930062", "hn_item": 48715176, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715176", "by": "boxed", "time": 1782710916, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I'm sure a lot of this outcome is intentional, but nobody fights back. Well.. some people do in fact fight back. You'll hear it on the Waking Up podcast for example. The issue is that Trump is also, on the surface, fighting back. Except he's destroying America instead of making it great."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48720053, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720053", "by": "adolph", "time": 1782744757, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> German portmanteau word \"Zensurheberrecht\" (\"Zensur\": censorship; \"Urheberrecht\": the related concept to copyright in German law) The recent podcast about Machiavelli by Dwarkesh had an interesting part about how the Catholic Inquisition, printmakers and authors collaborated in censorship to establish an early version of copyright. Link to the specific section: https://youtu.be/U1FrhkLQnCI?t=6644"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48725353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725353", "by": "criddell", "time": 1782767794, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab (the podcast) did a good series on border policy that was pretty informative. IIRC, the US-Mexico border was never open , but it was quite porous. People would come to the US, work for a season to make some money, then go home. Then once border security started to be tightened, leaving was too risky so people would stay leading to a huge increase in the number of undocumented people living in the US."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48728817, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728817", "by": "gardnr", "time": 1782797474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Dwarkesh Patel has AI/ML guests on his podcast. BoorishBears may have been referring to the Jensen Huang episode where they discuss TPUs: https://youtu.be/Hrbq66XqtCo?t=982"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 48741143, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741143", "by": "stellar678", "time": 1782866865, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thing about Doctorow is, his primary driver is rage-based attention on himself. He seems to have very little regard for evidence or facts if that gets in the way of a rage-inducing story. His appearance on Ezra Klein's podcast a couple months ago surfaced a fabricated story about nurses being offered lower pay based on their credit report: https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1qzp3sz/doctorow... If we're going to have an effective movement checking bad behavior of big tech companies, we better start policing people like Doctorow who put themselves at the center of things with made-up sh"}, {"show": "1646726083", "hn_item": 48743968, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743968", "by": "downbad_", "time": 1782895770, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48745627, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745627", "by": "criddell", "time": 1782908923, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might like this episode of Radiolab: https://radiolab.org/podcast/best-medicine They followed a 1100 year old medicine recipe and found the resulting salve was effective against MRSA in their test. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6261618/"}, {"show": "1490726384", "hn_item": 48746972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746972", "by": "jonhohle", "time": 1782914542, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Years ago I did a podcast[0] on physical media and hypothesized UHD would be the last physical movie format (and was shocked that it was even a thing). The next two years are probably going to be a mess as collectors snatch everything up annd inventory gets cleared out. 0 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cherry-bombs-the-under..."}, {"show": "1051557000", "hn_item": 48759819, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759819", "by": "croon", "time": 1782992207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you're referring to the Mike Kwan paper, he was on (I believe, it was years ago) the Science Vs podcast to debunk claims by the likes of Malone and Rogan regarding his study. But yes, there are instances of myocarditis from vaccines, but occurance was 4-5/100k as opposed to unvaccinated 200/100k. Edit: in his words: > MK: All the cases were hospitalised because we wanted to perform a detailed workup for them > RR: So they didn't need to be there to, like, keep them alive. > WZ: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. In fact, he said that that these these patients, they all cleared up with either paink"}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 48765615, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765615", "by": "therealdrag0", "time": 1783017410, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a really interesting episode of EconTalk podcast about 6 years ago which had a guest (woman, if it helps find it) arguing that the US gov should invest in and have ownership of a lot more startups, similar to how they funded Tesla."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48771549, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771549", "by": "Induane", "time": 1783059965, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's funny you mention Toyota, my Dad's 2022 Civic Hybrid is the one I get to witness being buggy garbage pretty much non-stop with CarPlay. Lord don't plug it into the USB port that does data if you're already on wireless Carplay. You might be done until you pull over. I also love the way using speech to reply to a text often resumes the wrong song (seemingly just starts a random song midway through, and multiple times the Joe Rogan Podcast which dad doesn't listen to and is not subscribed to - when this happens it always starts at the same point in the intro). I don't actually know if the To"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 48776077, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776077", "by": "scamdrill", "time": 1783091900, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Highly recommend the Acquired podcast and their Costco episode if people want to dive deeper into the history of this company."}, {"show": "682478916", "hn_item": 48783102, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783102", "by": "SubiculumCode", "time": 1783146492, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-a-team-of-marines-... Moreover, as this War on the Rocks podcast shows, all levels of drones are being integrated."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 48786286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786286", "by": "Aaron_NW", "time": 1783180413, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Very interesting. It would be nice if HVAC monitored this and helped adjust for optimum performance. I heard a Freakonomics podcast recently with similar takeaways - that air pollution has a direct effect on cognition skills."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 48788128, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788128", "by": "exhilaration", "time": 1783192986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back that talked about boarding houses https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5851902/housing-afforda... they're apparently illegal in most places"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48800867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800867", "by": "MrPink604", "time": 1783314909, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patron Saint of podcast bro sector should obviously be Dwarkesh Patel"}, {"show": "1459202600", "hn_item": 48807674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807674", "by": "Duanemclemore", "time": 1783358295, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "In line with the recent threads here on Appropriate Technology, etc. Brought back to my attention by the Advent of Computing podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21nolZRWrV8M2W28NxCMVa?si=f..."}, {"show": "1530691206", "hn_item": 48822743, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822743", "by": "MaxBarraclough", "time": 1783453476, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recommend his recent appearance on the Inside Java podcast, where these topics are explored well. The episode is number 59, titled Java *is* Memory Efficient . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HCG1JPMQE (or any podcast application)"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 48827371, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827371", "by": "big_toast", "time": 1783483646, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Latent Space (AI), old Conversations with Tyler (econ-ish?), Odd Lots (financy?), Unpacking Japan (autological?)... Social media algorithms, newsletters and guest slots expanded my podcast selection too quickly. The 'go direct' movement from tech + indie creators has created too much content.. But the smaller hangout podcasts get a little too off topic.. I haven't really seen anyone do something new with the format this year.."}, {"show": "1347973549", "hn_item": 48829966, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829966", "by": "pzet9", "time": 1783505068, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There seem to be different opinions on the host, but I enjoy the variety of guests on the Modern Wisdom podcast."}, {"show": "1378618386", "hn_item": 48831323, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831323", "by": "kbos87", "time": 1783515377, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Corey laid out this line of thinking on a July 1 episode of the Galaxy Brain podcast. It was a good listen and I generally think he has some interesting points, but I also can't help but think that he does himself a disservice by having such a consistently negative bias toward AI and tech in general. Most of the time he comes off as an objective thinker, but those are really discounted by moments where his own dogma leads him down a path of making weakly supported points that seem like they come more from a place of anger."}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 48834733, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834733", "by": "frangonf", "time": 1783531818, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I enjoy: The Pragmatic Engineer, Peterman Podcast, Rate Limited, State of Agentic Coding and linkarzu."}, {"show": "1091341048", "hn_item": 48841564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841564", "by": "datadrivenangel", "time": 1783576938, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 48845159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845159", "by": "bombcar", "time": 1783602077, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Then you get things like the ATP (I can't bring myself to say ATP podcast because La Brea Tar Pits and all that) where two hosts are fine at 1.5x and the third becomes a chipmunk."}, {"show": "1443417194", "hn_item": 48845203, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845203", "by": "madcaptenor", "time": 1783602340, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\"Strong Songs\" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e..."}, {"show": "278981407", "hn_item": 48848746, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848746", "by": "dclowd9901", "time": 1783615384, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Admittedly, I haven't read DI in quite a while, but seeing this post brought back a flood of memories from my college days of waiting for the next article to drop. This blog was the precursor of an entire genre of \"generally interesting shit\" that has kind of underpinned most of the spirit of podcasting today. Shows like 99PI, Stuff You Should Know, RadioLab and so on owe I think a little something to this blog. The amount asked for is meager, and I was more than happy to throw some bucks at it."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 48859435, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859435", "by": "DicIfTEx", "time": 1783689085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The fantastic Fall of Civilizations podcast also had an episode about it: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/01/21/episode-2-..."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 48859669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859669", "by": "the-smug-one", "time": 1783690208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Eric Cline has an interview on \"Tides of History\" podcast."}, {"show": "1257202425", "hn_item": 48860032, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860032", "by": "Amorymeltzer", "time": 1783691958, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Patrick Wyman\u2014of the Tides of History podcast\u2014just put out a new book, Lost Worlds , which is worth a read if this is your bag. The basic premise is that the way ancient history is typically taught, \"that we moved linearly from foraging to farming, and then from country farmers to city-dwelling, tax-paying subjects of kings and emperors,\" is essentially wrong. He goes on: >All of those developments occurred in an orderly sequence: First farming and village life arrived; then surpluses born of human achievement that created social inequality; then hierarchies with priests and chieftains at the "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48864698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864698", "by": "desertrider12", "time": 1783714649, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "On the last Dwarkesh podcast with 3blue1brown, one of them mentioned that frontier models are now able to work through a whole proof in natural language, just like a human mathematician would. But when they first solved IMO problems in 2024, they relied more on Lean to catch hallucinations."}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 48866589, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866589", "by": "atombender", "time": 1783725478, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "He's also recently been on Empire [1], the Goalhanger podcast \u2014 and sister show to the great The Rest is History (which I hope will cover this period someday, though they tend not to go back that far in time) \u2014 in a series of episodes on the late Bronze Age collapse, which had Stephen Fry as a guest as well. Cline does cover the evidence of destruction, which is also talked about in the other episodes. But the thing about drought is that we have written communications between different rules documenting that they were struggling with food supply. An aside: For some reason I find Cline super an"}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 48867882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867882", "by": "lobsterthief", "time": 1783735707, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Related: Great new Freakonomics podcast about why we do poorly under pressure[0] [0] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/choking_radio/"}, {"show": "1626662476", "hn_item": 48880105, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880105", "by": "siroj", "time": 1783853978, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 48881947, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881947", "by": "scott01", "time": 1783870403, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "From what I understood, their critique of RAII is twofold: coupling of allocation and initialisation, and enforcement of deallocation. The ease of use of smart pointers makes it tempting to allocate/free of temporary structures even within one single function. Given enough number of such occurrences, it kills performance by a thousand cuts. Also I remember they mentioned it\u2019s not necessary to free memory if you\u2019re about to close your program, because the OS will take the memory back. Obviously you need to gracefully deinitialise some things, like audio or other devices, but that\u2019s beyond the d"}, {"show": "1888338168", "hn_item": 48882669, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882669", "by": "kaashif", "time": 1783876094, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I only even heard about Jennifer Pahlka from Tyler Cowen's podcast, I think there are still some podcasts worth listening to. Your point is well taken and very reasonable though."}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 48882723, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882723", "by": "coffeefirst", "time": 1783876434, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I got a Libro.fm sub when my son was born last year and am finding the same. I actually think this is about quality. Podcasts that take real effort (Hardcore History, Fall of Civilizations, Gastropod) are absolutely worth my time, but they're basically mini-audiobooks in their own right."}, {"show": "257042117", "hn_item": 48883689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883689", "by": "dredmorbius", "time": 1783883519, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a frustration for me as well. A few useful tricks, and some areas I'm looking to explore: - AntennaPod (Android: https://antennapod.org/about/ ) doesn't specifically block ads, but does make skipping them fairly painless. I'm not familiar with the iOS app space. - Seek out, and add a classification tag for ad-free podcasts. When you're not in the mood for dealing with ads, play these. - Protip: if you learn, or want to learn, German, Deutschlandfunk (and a number of other German-language broadcasters) have a set of excellent, ad-free, podcasts. This includes a number of podcasts for le"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 48885689, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885689", "by": "idopmstuff", "time": 1783896735, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay prices. The host made an offhand mention that there's probably a bunch of other similar sites that could be created with all the of useful but difficult-to-access government data out there. That sounded interesting, so I thought I'd give it a whirl! Working on a few of them, including The Waterline ( https://the-waterline.com/ ) for water info for the western"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 48888313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888313", "by": "causality0", "time": 1783920755, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Depends on if you're willing to pay or not. You can do it alright locally with DeepFilterNet but honestly the best quality comes from Adobe Podcast's AI Enhance function."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48892613, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892613", "by": "adolph", "time": 1783950407, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Here is a RadioLab podcast [0] about the system from company Persistent Surveillance Systems [1]. An interesting dimension to systems similar to the US military's Gorgon Stare [2] program is that they are generalized rather than specific, unlike a quad following a specific person(s). 0. https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky 1. https://www.pss-1.com/ 2. https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night..."}, {"show": "1639561921", "hn_item": 48900630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900630", "by": "pm90", "time": 1783987441, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista... ); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King ) is also a masterfully well researched, delightful read."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 48900630, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900630", "by": "pm90", "time": 1783987441, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista... ); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King ) is also a masterfully well researched, delightful read."}, {"show": "1554930038", "hn_item": 48900905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900905", "by": "fillskills", "time": 1783989688, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "+1 to Empire Podcast. They have excellent series on a bunch of empires (well researched with references). Its one of those light, informative, non-boring podcasts: - The British Empire & The Raj - The Ottoman Empire - The Russian Empire - The United States as an Empire etc"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 48902674, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902674", "by": "Barbing", "time": 1784007352, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Longest comment ever incoming ! Cindy Cohn, EFF legend, on Hard Fork podcast: \u201cI think a lot of it, too, is that I don't think that there is a sense among just users of these platforms that privacy is a winnable fight anymore. I hear so much nihilism and fatalism about this when I talk to people, and they, you know, I'm, I'm, you know, asking them about their privacy practices, and they're kind of like, well, that ship has sailed. Like, the government has all my data anyway. What is the point of trying to fight? I'm sure you get this, too. Starting point is 00:57:11 [Yes. What is your response"}, {"show": "740675898", "hn_item": 48919957, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919957", "by": "estearum", "time": 1784119196, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Lifelong severe insomniac (sleep onset mostly) and cured myself pretty much entirely over the last year or so. My suggestions in order of what I perceived to be their cost vs effectiveness ratio: 1. The Sleep With Me podcast, especially if you struggle with racing thoughts (if you have a partner who can't stand hearing this, the Ozlo Sleepbuds are a good if imperfect solution) 2. Stellar Sleep, an app that delivers CBT-I, evidence-backed cognitive therapy for insomnia; this reset my sleep clock in about two months, which is now maintained by the other items on this list 3. Eight Sleep mattress"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 48922285, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922285", "by": "overallduka", "time": 1784129053, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Lex Fridman podcast episode with Pavel Durov is worth listening to. Their servers are built to be very secure \u2014 of course, it would be different for others, and they use some clever tricks"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48926331, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926331", "by": "0xWTF", "time": 1784145711, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I haven't finished reading, but I should note for the group that the author doesn't represent the Anthropic situation accurately. Emil Michael, the undersecretary of war/defense for research and engineering went on the All-In podcast (1) and explained, for quite some time, exactly what happened. You should go listen to it (2). In essence, in the negotiations, Dario kept coming back saying \"well, if you need it, call us, we can redline things as needed\". This happened over and over and over. Emil's point was that a major conflict, if it were to occur, might happen on the 30 minute clock of an I"}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 48926413, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926413", "by": "Analemma_", "time": 1784146086, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I cannot think of a less trustworthy source of information than Emil Michael on the All-In podcast. Why on Earth would you take his statements at face value? I grant that nobody in this situation is totally trustworthy, but if it's his word against Dario's I'm believing Dario 10 times out of 10, and it's astonishing and dismaying that anyone might do otherwise. Keep in mind that Emil Michael's job at Uber was to slander and destroy their political enemies. What makes you think he hasn't continued exactly as before?"}, {"show": "1572696574", "hn_item": 48931639, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931639", "by": "pjmlp", "time": 1784189521, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What sane API, for what Kubernetes runtime, in what version? Because that is the thing, not only it is a YAML spaghetti, everything changes depending on the puzzle pieces. I had to follow CNCF related podcasts only to be aware of what cool projects were changing Kubernetes all the time. Thankfully nowadays I only care about managed containers, regardless how the hyperscalers do it, it is no longer my headache. Never needed to deal with vSphere directly."}, {"show": "1680633614", "hn_item": 48942698, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942698", "by": "sidpatil", "time": 1784254665, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I listen to The AI Daily Brief: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief-art..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 48968719, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968719", "by": "ethbr1", "time": 1784472830, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab did a great episode that covered the history of Chinese character computing: https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect To summarize, in the 70s and 80s, China was facing an existential threat with their inability to access an economic accelerator (widespread computing) in their native language. To the extent that there was serious consideration at the highest levels of converting the entire country to an alphabet-based writing system. I'd expect they're looking at AI the same way: We have to have access to this. Most of the frontier labs are American (or European). Therefore we need a "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 48991699, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991699", "by": "dash2", "time": 1784638399, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In Amodei\u2019s Dwarkesh podcast he says that they are constantly estimating the increase in demand for the next leg up, then going out to raise money to build for it. So it\u2019s not necessarily that they are raising money because they are unprofitable."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 48993227, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993227", "by": "ux266478", "time": 1784646241, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> I doubt that any of the current American AI corporations get regular dossiers of desirable responses to sensitive political topics from Washington and implement them. That's completely true. What happens is that you get hit with a wall of bureaucratic threats and nonsense by the government out of nowhere, and usually for some unrelated matter. It's like a high level version of getting pulled over for not using your turn signal. Which is why if your company has good legal, they often act in a highly proactive manner about that kind of thing. What constitutes sufficient rabble rousing to get p"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 48994707, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994707", "by": "joshmarlow", "time": 1784651947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A couple of years ago I listened to a Lex Fridman podcast with a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. I don't know the status of it, but the researcher spoke about how people in developing countries were experimenting with using local resources as 3D printer feedstock - things like ground-up sea shells - as a way of using local supply lines. One of the most interesting things he said was that the current waste from 3D printing (and other technology) is really a sign of technical immaturity; nature repurposes everything - there is no trash in an ecosystem, only food for something else. Maybe we'll "}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 49013244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013244", "by": "carimura", "time": 1784753440, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it\u2019s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, "}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49013244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013244", "by": "carimura", "time": 1784753440, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": "I built The Daily FM because I wanted a daily summary of the latest AI news sent to my podcast app and then realized it was useful in summarizing other stuff: - Any blogs, websites, or X handles - The top Hacker News stories with comments - Long podcasts (think Lex Fridman) - Changes in state/federal legislation It pulls your sources, writes a script with a frontier-ish model of your choice, runs it through TTS (MAI-2 studio voices), and publishes a standard RSS feed. You can also combine several pods into one feed for one subscribe point. Under the hood it\u2019s using Cloudflare Workers, queues, "}, {"show": "197875368", "hn_item": 49017643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017643", "by": "atlanta90210", "time": 1784788288, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Leo finds out on air of John\u2019s passing and is very respectful. Thank you Leo. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/windows-weekly-audio/i..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49022174, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022174", "by": "madanparas", "time": 1784816768, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1440085392", "hn_item": 49022481, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022481", "by": "mvdwoord", "time": 1784817892, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Same here... very saddened by this news. Regular listener to the No Agenda podcast. Will miss that voice dearly. I guess this will also mean the end of the No Agenda podcast is near."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 49031209, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031209", "by": "fsckboy", "time": 1784867119, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The All-in podcast discussed an adjacent topic this past week, and I found what they suggested pretty interesting: the big AI players, the first movers, are trying to scare the bejeezus out of everybody on purpose, to cause the government to step in with regulations. Even though the regulations will somewhat stifle/slow down the industry, it will also lock in the current leaders because they will be at the table when the regulations are formulated, and they believe they will be able to keep the smaller players down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IMwRIei-Xc"}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 49040051, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040051", "by": "nmz", "time": 1784919073, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "They won't. No company will, I think the best quote I've heard this week is from the proton CEO on the Decoder podcast. \"No company is going to jail for you.\" If vibe code is of questionable legality, then the best thing to do is to remain guarded until its legal standing is determined. It is simply an added bonus that it prevents slop that consumes data on servers for projects that nobody cares about enough to not have vibe coded."}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 49053341, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053341", "by": "dcrazy", "time": 1785025911, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Wookash Podcast just interviewed Erin Catto (the Box2D author): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-makes-a-good-phys... (sorry, I couldn\u2019t find a player-agnostic feed link, even on wooka.sh, the podcast\u2019s own website!)"}, {"show": "1772772350", "hn_item": 49053878, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053878", "by": "throw0101d", "time": 1785031204, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The N Is For Networking podcast (from Packet Pushers) has two recent episodes on multicast: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOJgqu3jRMA * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlP-NAescuA"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49059231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059231", "by": "simonw", "time": 1785080335, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Paul Ford wrote a great piece about this in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html?... > November was, for me and many others in tech, a great surprise. Before, A.I. coding tools were often useful, but halting and clumsy. Now, the bot can run for a full hour and make whole, designed websites and apps that may be flawed, but credible. I spent an entire session of therapy talking about it. Max Woolf is a good one: https://minimaxir.com/2026/02/ai-agent-coding/ > The real annoying thing about Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3 is that it\u2019s impossible to publicly say \u201cOpus 4.5 ("}, {"show": "1521758802", "hn_item": 49076550, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076550", "by": "jonahx", "time": 1785192608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Norman Wildberger is a required mention on this topic. Here's a great discussion on Curt Jaimungal's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LvgvunVCM And a good debate on the topic with Daniel Rubin, who takes the more orthodox position: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edh5bbgSKqo Wildberger has tons more on this topic on his own channel. His arguments are thought-provoking, even if you don't agree with them."}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 49082690, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082690", "by": "tptacek", "time": 1785241134, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Derek Thompson's Plain English podcast just had Emily Wilson on talking about comparisons between the translations, and quite a bit of the iconic lines of the Odyssey from the midcentury translations are kind of just made up. Like, \"skilled in all ways of contending\" from \"man of many turns\"; \"the wanderer, harried for years on end\" --- find that in the Greek?"}, {"show": "1881613386", "hn_item": 49089140, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089140", "by": "mttch", "time": 1785268888, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Was a long term subscriber, now just a podcast listener: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/delayed-gratification-..."}, {"show": "81934659", "hn_item": 49099337, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099337", "by": "marojejian", "time": 1785341266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Originally heard about this via Nature podcast's interview with the researcher: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02367-x This is a continuation of many findings in this direction. It's wonderful to imagine the many societies humans have created, and sad that we'll be able to learn so little about them."}, {"show": "393107187", "hn_item": 49115312, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115312", "by": "mapping365", "time": 1785443266, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'll try to find it again, it was in a Bloomberg podcast about energy."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 49116769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116769", "by": "chihuahua", "time": 1785451133, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "According to the Darknet Diaries podcast episode \"Superbox\", some of these devices are sold via multi-level marketing schemes, which would explain why there are random individuals selling these, collecting a commission for each device sold. Which is why the person you mentioned is unhappy when someone points out the problems with these devices."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49129353, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129353", "by": "timmytokyo", "time": 1785537645, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "His good friend Dwarkesh should have him back on the podcast."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 49132015, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132015", "by": "abc42", "time": 1785569473, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Latest full episode from Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast with Cameron Berg."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 49149564, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149564", "by": "jimkortge", "time": 1785714404, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Behind the Bastards podcast did a series of episodes about this: https://youtu.be/pJhc7TBkVz4"}, {"show": "1648228034", "hn_item": 49152276, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152276", "by": "kennethtiller", "time": 1785741353, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "People are waking up to the reality that AI can actually empower them. Unfortunately a lot are afraid as well, or have a misplaced skepticism. More people should watch the Moonshots podcast and spread the optimistic message. The Elon interview was good in that sense, and probably turned it around for some."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 49155488, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155488", "by": "OneDeuxTriSeiGo", "time": 1785763351, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "FWIW if you listen to Signals and Threads (the Jane Street podcast) they talk about this. They have dedicated UX designers who do relatively little code but focus entirely on making the UX as optimal for the traders as possible and one of them was on an episode. They talked about how most of the normal UX rules for SW go out the window because quants and traders have such different needs than \"normal software\"."}, {"show": "1528917129", "hn_item": 49157870, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157870", "by": "bsmith89", "time": 1785774180, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great Signals and Threads (Jane Street's Podcast) episode about this work: https://signalsandthreads.com/building-a-ui-framework/"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 49169036, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169036", "by": "sanjayjc", "time": 1785851638, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The most recent Odd Lots podcast episode [1] explored this topic further. I quite enjoyed it. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/why-tungs..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 49174313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174313", "by": "ragequittah", "time": 1785874001, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This always seemed obvious to me until I listened to an episode of the Risky Business podcast and they seemed to be wholly against using VPNs in such a situation because modern wifi security is typically enough / there's no reason to fear public wifi anymore. Going so far as to call VPNs a scam in this context. I still never trusted public wifi for much of anything, but in the back of my mind I kept thinking those guys know more than me. I'm glad I still used my VPN with a kill switch despite their advice. Now I'm seriously considering a travel router."}, {"show": "1493229344", "hn_item": 49178098, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178098", "by": "silver92bullet", "time": 1785898984, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49178585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178585", "by": "nl", "time": 1785904367, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can tell someone in native on LessWrong by their ability to use incredibly obtuse language to say simple things. It's just in-crowd signalling. > cunningham-esque laws Cunningham's Law states \"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.\" > post-dwarkesh clout He went on the Dwarkesh podcast. That's maximal in-crowd for some AI-pilled people."}, {"show": "1021703062", "hn_item": 49183597, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183597", "by": "chneu", "time": 1785940474, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its excuses. American capitalism gives us endless excuses for why our individual excess and waste is justified because someone else does it too. Then we get more excuses to blame the rich, the poor, the immigrants, the foreigners, the Jews, the Muslims, the africans, etc. At the end of the day, a lot of Americans say they are one person while their actions prove otherwise. This creates a lot of shame, self hatred, confusion, anxiety, etc. The way Americans self describe vs who their actions say they are is vastly different. Then we blame the rich, the poor, the immigrants, the deep state, fore"}, {"show": "981330533", "hn_item": 49196071, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196071", "by": "schnevets", "time": 1786021215, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Feedback loop is right. I think there are parallels to the Blank Check podcast playing \"The Box Office Game\", where those cinephiles try to determine the Box Office Top 5 on the week a particular film was released (even though the players may have been in diapers or not even born on that particular week). I have also seen this obsessive focus in sports fans: What was the half-season where Pat Maroon played on the New Jersey Devils as a rental? Well they made the playoffs that year which must have been Taylor Hall's MVP Award Season and ah yes! that had to be 2017-18!"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 49199313, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199313", "by": "ryani", "time": 1786035546, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listening to Mike Duncan's \"Revolutions\" podcast I was distinctly struck with the idea that the main thing leftists like to do, even more than fighting rightists, is fighting other leftists."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 49203585, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203585", "by": "dieselgate", "time": 1786055792, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent Ezra Klein podcast about data center backlash he mentions being vegetarian and says something along the lines of \"being anti data center because of water consumption is hypocritical if people eat meat\""}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 49203843, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203843", "by": "HeyLaughingBoy", "time": 1786057548, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I just learned about Alpha-Gal Syndrome yesterday through a Radiolab podcast. It was really interesting, but they didn't mention that it was spreading. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since climate change."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49216767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216767", "by": "zmmmmm", "time": 1786140190, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I started with the Lex Fridman podcast [0] and then I went from there exploring further with reading mostly online material interweaved with discussions with ChatGPT. It is actually a fascinating way to read about history. Admittedly, it is hardly a way to gain a proper comprehensive understanding. I didn't think this comment would get so many replies! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv1TUJSEM2k"}, {"show": "703889772", "hn_item": 49219751, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219751", "by": "frm88", "time": 1786175560, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "He's also the podcast host and narrator of Revolutions, a deep dive into major revolutions starting in Britain with Charles Stuart and ending with Stalin (well, technically ending with a science fiction revolution on Mars), with stops in Haiti, Mexico, France, Germany. It ran weekly from 2013 to 2025. Absolutely recommend."}, {"show": "290783428", "hn_item": 49224882, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224882", "by": "sgloutnikov", "time": 1786216207, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Reminded me of a Planet Money podcast episode with the milk.com owner, who also had early internet years domains. Fun listen if people are interested. [0] [0] https://www.npr.org/2025/09/03/nx-s1-5526903/domain-name-val..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 49225683, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225683", "by": "jcranmer", "time": 1786221515, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Citing from the Behind the Bastards podcast, it seems that the guy who started Seal Team 6 wrote a book about his time in special ops (which was mostly lies, AIUI) after he left the military, made a lot of military, and so everybody who has similar dreams gravitates specifically towards the Navy Seals."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49230864, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230864", "by": "djfergus", "time": 1786279142, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In the Dwarkesh podcast about relativity they talked about one of the ways to prove einsteins theory was to observe a total eclipse - stars that should not be visible were predicted to bend their light rays and be able to be seen. Explorers launched grand expeditions in the early 1900s to be the first to witness and prove the phenomenon. Made me yearn for a more heroic time. They kept being thwarted by weather, clouds etc and eventually scientists worked out the theory could be easily proven by the red shift of stars by direct observation."}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 49231275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231275", "by": "mettamage", "time": 1786282411, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> You literally said you can't trust the US for this. Okay. Refute my sources, I gave you sources. You're ignoring it. If you're ignoring the studies I provide, why have a discussion at all? I've been getting melatonin at 0.1 mg for the past 15 years in the Netherlands. I first got wind that it was different in the US on a Huberman podcast. He got it from studies. I cited some. > I've been using this forum for 20 years. Then act according to the guidelines."}, {"show": "1499880546", "hn_item": 49236988, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236988", "by": "narrator", "time": 1786315579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If you want to read someone the article author characterizes as #1 (Objects to Marxism) and #2 (Knows enough to carefully and reasonably refute Marxism) I'd recommend James Lindsay's New Discourses podcast and website. He's read all the leftist books and is deeply familiar with all their ideas and terminology, but is about as anti-communist as they come. Interestingly, he has a lot of people on what he calls the \"Woke Right\" (e.g Tucker Carlson) who also hate him."}, {"show": "1469759170", "hn_item": 49244972, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244972", "by": "peter_d_sherman", "time": 1786375658, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": ">The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order\u2014or what we will call second-order thinking for short\u2014is a powerful thinking tool that not only solves problems but avoids them. In his book, The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks explains the concept of second-order thinking, which he calls second-level thinking : \"First-level thinking is simplistic and superficial, and just about everyone can do it (a bad sign for anything involving an attempt at superiority). All the first-level thinker needs is an opinion about the future, as in \u201cThe outlook for the company is favor"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 49246136, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246136", "by": "palmotea", "time": 1786380012, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> Shrinkflation is all over. Burger buns at fast food places were more dense 20 years ago. The small burgers had 1/8th pound patties instead of the current 1/10th pound. It's hard to find a product that hasn't gotten worse or more expensive, even adjusted for inflation. Isn't capitalism great? The common pattern with everything seems to be large companies degrading size, quality, and features of products in user-hostile ways. IMHO, we need pretty strict regulation specifying standard product sizes and minimum quality. It would kill shrinkflation and also make alternatives more comparable. On a"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49247500, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247500", "by": "randogp", "time": 1786385671, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The Acquired podcast covers the full family history https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mars-inc-the-chocolate..."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 49253974, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253974", "by": "boxed", "time": 1786428745, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No we don't know this. And in fact you can listen to the Accidental Tech Podcast at length to hear him thinking through the current design at length."}, {"show": "1853735207", "hn_item": 49257854, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257854", "by": "thm", "time": 1786454449, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Great podcast on this: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XqYCQT4PgD3axPy0w5Wcd He calls this category certainty ."}, {"show": "1829678991", "hn_item": 49259865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259865", "by": "amiga386", "time": 1786462095, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "What we can say for certain is that the sole source of this claim is the project director for Greenlink, Simon Ludlam, and he made the claim as an anecdote on a podcast this week. The project's public consultations were in 2019. The anecdote starts at 16m55s: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-we-connect-the-wor... Non-British people might also like to know that the UK news media is in what's called the silly season , where they run any old nonsense as news because Parliament is in recess, the MPs are on their holidays, and there's a dearth of serious announcements to cover: https://en."}, {"show": "1154105909", "hn_item": 49260406, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260406", "by": "cwwc", "time": 1786464360, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1687271887", "hn_item": 49263679, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263679", "by": "cpeterso", "time": 1786478608, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> LLVM is still involved, but they are using it differently than say, Rust or Zig. Chris Lattner said in a Developer Voices podcast interview: \"Swift in a way was syntactic sugar for LLVM, at the very bottom of the stack it could talk directly to LLVM primitives. Mojo does basically that same trick, but it supercharges it by moving to this MLIR world.\""}, {"show": "1439734421", "hn_item": 49263889, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263889", "by": "blakesterz", "time": 1786479575, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Toni Schneider was just on Decoder last week too talking about this and more https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneid..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49268156, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268156", "by": "jillesvangurp", "time": 1786512785, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Their communication definitely needs work. I listened to the interview with Chris on the Lex Friedman podcast a few years ago. Back when the pitch still was \"minimal python superset that allows us to make it go voom\". It wasn't a bad pitch. But it's gotten a lot murkier since then apparently. And obviously pitching a new language just before world plus dog was about to switch to delegating programming work to AI agents wasn't great timing. > \"Qualcomm to Acquire Modular\" That's linked from their news section. If I read between the lines here what happened is the VC money ran out and they arran"}, {"show": "1253186678", "hn_item": 49277146, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49277146", "by": "imagetic", "time": 1786561608, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Nathan is on today\u2019s Syntax episode talking about Rust and Zed and Delta: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/syntax-tasty-web-devel..."}, {"show": "216478078", "hn_item": 49286661, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286661", "by": "stusmall", "time": 1786631870, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It often is. Risky Business Features did a fantastic podcast on how different popular methods of guardrails work and some popular methods on defeating them. Absolutely worth a listen because there are some surprising insights in there on how these work, even for day to day use, not just bypasses: https://risky.biz/RBFEATURES27/"}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 49288609, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288609", "by": "bityard", "time": 1786639489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can pretty clearly remember hearing about the \"3-2-1 backup rule\" by name 10 or 15 years ago on the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. So it is _at least_ that old, but probably even older. The concept of having multiple backups is not at all new, however. Since I've been involved with computers (~30 years), I have heard folks say things like \"two is one, one is none\" in reference to backups and data replication in general. Also, this TV station has not been sending their show archives to Iron Mountain for the past 70 years. Probably what happened was: In 2019, they had an on-site or ne"}, {"show": "1327149893", "hn_item": 49305343, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305343", "by": "scoofy", "time": 1786746185, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect they want a backdoor that basically acts like a front door (current password regimes). That is, a kind of high level password that decrypts traffic given a specific, changing, password that only the government has access to. It's seems like an odd-duck for sure, and I doubt it's a realistic proposition. I do think \"perfect encryption for dummies\" is all well and good until organized crime organizations are able to challenge the government in certain regions of our country. All of this sends us deep into the realm of political philosophy, the nature and purpose of governments, and the"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49310833, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310833", "by": "7777777phil", "time": 1786803792, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 49331700, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331700", "by": "Taikhoom10", "time": 1786977255, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I have although I would prefer just riffing with someone every week, similar to the Exponent Podcast."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 49336886, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336886", "by": "hackthemack", "time": 1786997485, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Freakonomics podcast goes into events that happened before 2020. It mentions the following article, for example. https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h..."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 49347398, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347398", "by": "elAhmo", "time": 1787067803, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Podcast Behind the Bastards has a great episode on Zuck, worth a listen."}, {"show": "935345158", "hn_item": 49357306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357306", "by": "shoo", "time": 1787117933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "tangent: this unfortunate design choice by the old Sierra adventure games has been discussed a number of times on the Designer Notes podcast, focused on game design [1]. Soren opens each discussion by asking the guest which is the first game they remember. [1] https://www.idlethumbs.net/designernotes/"}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 49362534, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362534", "by": "tasty_freeze", "time": 1787151558, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There is a legitimate discussion of what can be mandated you do to your body. However, that discussion was largely side-tracked by the massive amount of disinformation (eg, \"Plandemic\") that circulated online. There are people who to this day swear that COVID-19 was just like the flu and simultaneously claim that the vaccine spike proteins have killed around 20M people. Not just crackpots, but people with reach, like Brett Weinstein on Joe Rogan's podcast."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 49366246, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366246", "by": "bko", "time": 1787168489, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I recently listened to the Flock CEO on All In podcast, and he mentioned an ironic thing about Flock and it's audit trail is that it serves as a honeypot to root out bad police. Flock basically knows what a malicious request looks like. The simple example he gives is someone pinging the same license plate every day without putting it on a watchlist, because the officer doesn't want others to know. They started rolling out auto-detection of bad-faith queries and flagging those to supervisors. If you figure that some percentage of cops are dirty, a simple easily detectable honeypot is extremely "}, {"show": "659155419", "hn_item": 49371427, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371427", "by": "ultrasounder", "time": 1787210038, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I Just finished listening to this episode of Philosophize This podcast https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/simulacra-and-simul... . Whole-heartedly recommend this podcast episode the entire podcast to anyone who is remotely interested in learning the \"modern western canon\" in Layman's terms."}, {"show": "1671669052", "hn_item": 49374687, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374687", "by": "nradov", "time": 1787234429, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 49404911, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404911", "by": "BiraIgnacio", "time": 1787441953, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I don't know about research but I find Huberman's podcast quite reliable and a useful starting point when I go doing my own research. This one, for example https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/essentials-lose-fat-with..."}, {"show": "1531266667", "hn_item": 49412436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49412436", "by": "dgellow", "time": 1787517807, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The podcast \u00ab Decoding the Gurus \u00bb covers the topic in an entertaining way: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoding-the-gurus/id1..."}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 49427184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427184", "by": "adolph", "time": 1787613832, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. Godfrey-Smith is the author of \"Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness,\" which is a great read to delve further. Two other interesting aspects of cephalopods: * Make many more changes to RNA than other invertebrates [2] * Have only one type of light sensing cell in eyes, so may detect color by chromatic aberration 0. https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/peter-godfrey-smith-thi... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Minds:_The_Octopus,_the_... 2. http"}, {"show": "1376577202", "hn_item": 49428604, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428604", "by": "mauvehaus", "time": 1787626835, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Oh man, I just listened to an episode of Decoder Ring about why making classical realist sculptures in the US is a challenge. It gives some interesting context about the rejection of realism in the post-war West: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-monumentally-ba..."}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 49428706, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428706", "by": "RossBencina", "time": 1787627810, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Daniel Lemire specialises in high-performance algorithm implementation. In recent years he has been impressed by specific performance characteristics of Apple's CPUs. For example, their ability to eek out the maximum possible throughput from a given instruction stream's data dependencies. My information may be stale, but when I read Daniel's comments I assume that Apple is being used for compariosn because it is the current leader, and take it as given that AMD and Intel are behind. You can probably find sources where he makes head-to-head comparisons with AMD and Intel. If you're not familiar"}, {"show": "1753399812", "hn_item": 49432954, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432954", "by": "delish", "time": 1787661448, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Patrick McKenzie rebuts this here: (podcast) https://open.spotify.com/episode/2E2KRPcDvh1LcRw5bIsBms or here (article): https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/anatomy-of-credit-car... The intuition being: people who carry balances and pay interest don't actually spend very much; they are not wealthy."}, {"show": "1481398762", "hn_item": 49438467, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438467", "by": "mattsolle", "time": 1787682562, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "If anyone hasn't listened to \"Dolly Parton's America\" ( https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america ), I highly recommend it. Does a great job interviewing Dolly and discussing with her (and those two are around her) who she is, her life events, her thoughts on life. I knew people loved Dolly Parton before I listened but didn't really know why and the podcast helped me understand a bit more of it. It features a LOT of one-on-one time with Dolly in a way that I don't often find docu-series do. It's fantastic!"}, {"show": "1481398762", "hn_item": 49439475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439475", "by": "jeffrallen", "time": 1787686619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Make time to listen to Dolly Parton's America podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america"}, {"show": "1552260079", "hn_item": 49443865, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443865", "by": "georgel", "time": 1787714581, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The creator of the Overcast podcast app grabbed 48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVznUB6wss"}, {"show": "1481398762", "hn_item": 49444623, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444623", "by": "imagetic", "time": 1787724133, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dolly-partons-america/..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49457869, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457869", "by": "kylecazar", "time": 1787790905, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "120906714", "hn_item": 49465651, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465651", "by": "gardnr", "time": 1787841607, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Here\u2019s the original article this one is based on: https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html And here is the original author on a podcast talking about it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FxEdjXldNhoh67KYVmbDu"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49468381, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468381", "by": "zozbot234", "time": 1787852256, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Small models are rapidly growing in capability, require less compute to train and serve According to Jevons' paradox a reduction in resource requirements (improved resource efficiency for the same payoff) leads to an increase in demand. This stops working when demand for compute is completely exhausted, but we are very far from that. There's even some very silly predictions floating around (see the latest Dwarkesh Patel podcast) that say compute will soon be most of the economy, even dictating market interest rates. Now, that has to be wrong, but the directional outlook is closer to correct "}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 49474039, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474039", "by": "RoloBaron", "time": 1787887931, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can hear the Department of War's pov on this controversy from the All-In Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzwRflcLPAA&t=2479s Super interesting pov from the person who recommended the supply risk designation."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49501005, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501005", "by": "lelota", "time": 1788112213, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Other day i was hearing DHH talk on Lex's podcast on Omarchy and how he does not look at the code anymore. The guy built solid reputation with his prev contributions but now falling to AI slop."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 49501820, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501820", "by": "hn_throwaway_99", "time": 1788117113, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I will say that the OpenAI board members who were lambasted when they tried to oust Altman (and I'd have to check my post history but I'd totally admit to a mea culpa on this one, as at the time I thought the communication about his firing was really lacking) are looking mighty prescient right now. Helen Toner in particular I'll highlight as someone who had the moral compass to do the right thing. I love her statement on the Ezra Klein podcast where she said, when asked about the fact that there are probably other concerning incidents we just don't know about, \"If you see two ants in your kitc"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49503465, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503465", "by": "treebeard901", "time": 1788128920, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "DHH was on the Lex Fridman podcast talking about this recent release of Omarchy in that most of it is \"vibe coded\". It is mostly just a bash script to configure Linux, but his approach is interesting. AI as a core part of the OS that can just change or add anything you want. Linux is great for this because it has access to the source code for everything. He said he didnt review the code line by line, just looked at the shape of it. Whatever that means."}, {"show": "1438054347", "hn_item": 49504995, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504995", "by": "cpeterso", "time": 1788143838, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent interview on Conan O'Brien's podcast, Gillian Anderson said X-Files creator Chris Carter wrote his scripts visually so they didn't have any widows (the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of the next page): Chris told me I mean that there was a particular way that we used to speak in the show that it that wasn't a normal rhythm and syntax. It was slightly backwards. which felt like it was almost part of the cryptic aspect of the series. And it wasn't until we were working on this, I think, the second feature. I was sitting in a parked vehicle waiting to shoot and our s"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49506664, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506664", "by": "troupo", "time": 1788161088, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> DHH was on the Lex Fridman podcast talking about this recent release of Omarchy in that most of it is \"vibe coded\". > He said he didnt review the code line by line, just looked at the shape of it. Whatever that means. Did... did you even read my comment before replying to it? We know it's vibe-coded, we know it's bash scripts, and we know what it means"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49544101, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544101", "by": "reasonableklout", "time": 1788392433, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is a link to the full 91-page report on the independent investigation done by METR on the HuggingFace incident. Two different summaries of the investigation by podcaster Dwarkesh and blogger Zvi Mowshowitz were previously discussed on HN here: [1]: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-off... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498787 ) [2]: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301 )"}, {"show": "1532862578", "hn_item": 49549720, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549720", "by": "mikae1", "time": 1788442371, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "So, they've realized podcasters and vloggers are a large part of their target audience. Then I believe they have to implement some models for speech restoration. These days most people just Adobe Podcast Enhance and forget and, from what I've seen there isn't an open source GUI based tool for automated voice processing out there. Must add that it's so awesome to have an open source Qt based audio editor on KDE Plasma that does not look like shit!"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 49553202, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553202", "by": "jt2190", "time": 1788454928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> Instead, they felt compelled to make a trivially false claim, the claim that prediction markets do not accurately predict the future. It's trivial to prove that this claim is false, because if it were true, it would be very easy for anyone to make a huge amount of money on prediction markets. Isn\u2019t that what\u2019s actually happening though? Traders are making real money from bad predictions? \u201cThese are the Sharps actually making money on prediction markets\u201d Odd Lots podcast (Bloomberg) 2026 https://youtu.be/MFAnQpdgkZE"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49560951, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560951", "by": "fy20", "time": 1788500650, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I was listening to the Lex Fridman / DHH podcast last night [0], and DHH was saying that this is a new era for open source software. I'd agree, and also extend it open hardware. Recently I've seen quite a few posts from people using AI to reverse engineer the Bluetooth protocol or such on devices that need a proprietary app. The same thing for firmware is surely coming, which is great as you can get lots of fun hardware from China, but it often has shitty firmware. Once that becomes the norm there's no reason not to make it open in the first place. [0] - https://open.spotify.com/episode/45lhw2"}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 49569734, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569734", "by": "vharuck", "time": 1788553164, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to yesterday's NYT's The Daily podcast about the Hugging Face incident, and they got to the part about some of the agents showing reluctance or guilt in the posts. Then I thought, \"These are improv actors.\" Stories with conspiracies of AI agents will often have \"nervous Nellies\" because that makes a better story. So when the flow of the conversation reaches a point where a nervous Nellie would chime in, it's reasonable that an agent would fill in that probable post. The worrying implication is that stories have conflict."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 49572905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572905", "by": "Sophira", "time": 1788579907, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is almost certainly the same person, yes: > Additionally, he is a co-host of the All In podcast... The comment you replied to linked to an account on X called theallinpod, so there's a strong link there."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 49573387, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573387", "by": "klm127", "time": 1788586642, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard, on the podcast Darknet Diaries, that there are auctions for zero days in Argentina. This security researcher could probably have cleared a million dollars for a bug like that if they were unscrupulous. The bug bounty should absolutely be higher."}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 49579181, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579181", "by": "rhinoceraptor", "time": 1788632212, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I would shocked if it was, Accidental Tech Podcast is not a political show but they don't hide the fact that all three hosts are very liberal."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49581986, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581986", "by": "nsoonhui", "time": 1788652902, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1896058335", "hn_item": 49582286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582286", "by": "aftbit", "time": 1788655738, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The originally submitted link is a transcript of a podcast. I really respect the fact that they write these, as I prefer to read over listening. The URL I posted is linked in the original submission as the original story, which is even better for reading IMO. Here's a link to the audio form of the podcast, also linked in the original submission. It's on Apple Podcasts too, if you prefer. https://open.spotify.com/episode/32mnc87hQT9uigtMwy3l6j"}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 49588417, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588417", "by": "hannasanarion", "time": 1788713831, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is basically the conclusion of the \"If Books Could Kill\" podcast. After reviewing hundreds of bad nonfiction and self help books, excepting the ones that are deliberate scams through-and-through, they tend to be one good idea, or interesting observation the author had, that could fit in a blog post, but which had to be expanded to become an all-encompassing explanation for all of society and history and the universe in order to be publishable."}, {"show": "354668519", "hn_item": 49603732, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49603732", "by": "criddell", "time": 1788820385, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Often we do not. The Freakonomics podcast had an episode titled The Perfect Crime where they basically say if you want to kill somebody, hit them with your car because that\u2019s often not punished beyond a ticket."}, {"show": "360084272", "hn_item": 49608800, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608800", "by": "loose-cannon", "time": 1788866814, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "where does it pull its sources from? Should I expect some degree of exhaustiveness? Meaning: does it miss information? Does it ever prioritize one source over another? Will somebody ever see a source from, say, a Joe Rogan podcast? What makes a source reliable?"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 49631812, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631812", "by": "rconti", "time": 1788979464, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What is \"meaningful\"? I was listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast last week and Marco said that the iPhone Air has lower penetration, after 1 year, than EACH of the 12 mini and 13 mini _currently_ have. Among a tech audience. We just had to replace a family 13 mini and it sucks to have to go with a huge modern phone. Personally, I'd also prefer a mini if it had the best cameras."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49642935, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642935", "by": "estearum", "time": 1789044748, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Unfortunately no, though I'm sure they exist. AFAIK the go-to book on this history is \"The Man Who Broke Capitalism\" about Jack Welch. I haven't read it though so can't sign my name to it! A few other threads that might be worth pulling on: * Dee Hock, founder of Visa, advocated for stuff in this realm. Worth reading some of his writing. * W Edwards Deming, oddly enough an American who is one of the father's of Japan's incredible manufacturing philosophy, believed in this more expansive idea of wholeness in industry (\"Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge\" is good) * Progress & Poverty (the f"}, {"show": "617416468", "hn_item": 49645286, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645286", "by": "joshstrange", "time": 1789053666, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'm afraid you are the one out of date here. App Store Review times have ballooned in the last few months. Marco Arment talked about this publically (on the ATP podcast) about how his app was stuck in review for over 2 weeks IIRC and I've seen 2 days as the minimum review time in the last few months with some taking a week or more. Yes, for a while they were doing very well and I even once had an app reviewed in <1hr but the average has been creeping up. LLM/Vibe coding is what is often blamed for this increase though at the end of the day it's Apple's problem/fault for not staffing the review"}, {"show": "890272321", "hn_item": 49646475, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646475", "by": "adolph", "time": 1789057928, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You might find the recent Theories of Everything podcast interview [0] with Peter Godfrey-Smith interesting. 0. https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/peter-godfrey-smith-thi..."}, {"show": "1228747085", "hn_item": 49662867, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662867", "by": "ebb_earl_co", "time": 1789150631, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Episode #492 of the Making Sense podcast with Sam Harris."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 49682231, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682231", "by": "dalemhurley", "time": 1789294762, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I agree with the host of the All In podcast, often I don\u2019t. This is about creating a moat that open source models cannot compete with, regulation. It is purely ensuring only a few providers can compete. The future is edge and open source models. Both Apple and Google are working towards this. Cloud AI will be for offloading when the edge is not capable. Most cases edge will be suffice. Further inference costs keep coming down. Vertical integration might be the biggest challenge of the AI industry. Trying to manage electricity generation, training, inference, harness and end user for enterprise"}, {"show": "1406534739", "hn_item": 49687521, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687521", "by": "eis", "time": 1789326509, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I can wholeheartedly recommend Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast if you want to listen to interesting topics related to Physics, Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics and Science in general: https://www.youtube.com/@seancarroll/videos He has a talent for explaining complex topics in easy to understand terms and avoids the trap of outrage and controversy driven social media tricks like some others in the field."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49693946, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693946", "by": "cx42net", "time": 1789376791, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The way I see it, they are two types of (\"technical\") peoples: The ones that loves the technicity, the challenge of building something, putting complex things together, the puzzle part of creating something. The ones that wants to have stuff build to use them, were coding was just a mean to an end. (DHH mentioned in his podcast with Lex Fridman, that he is more in this category) For the later, AI is the perfect tool that could come around, removing that barrier that was stopping them to achieve their needs (which you appear to be part of, I'm saying this without no jugement) The writer of the "}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49708275, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708275", "by": "thewhitetulip", "time": 1789451596, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "What went under reported is that the same agents also took over a research cluster at OpenAI (listened to Dwarkesh's podcast) Now we know about rubygems, openai, huggingface, collusion.wiki and some other science forum"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49709643, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709643", "by": "rocketships", "time": 1789462345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This paper uses the \"fixed prediction assumption\" so I think has caused some confusion (i.e. it's not PC, but PC with a small bandaid). It's a great paper though just the title is misleading somewhat. But all of Beren Millidge's papers are quite good and he was so prolific in the space. Cool to have seen him on the Dwarkesh podcast recently as well."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49714830, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49714830", "by": "senordevnyc", "time": 1789489096, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Is \"meaning\" inherent to intelligence? Is emotion and the ability to have a subjective experience inherent to meaning? Genuine questions that I'm not sure we have good answers for yet. Your other point that humans need very few examples for learning vs. what LLMs need is an interesting one. A few researchers talked about this very thing on the most recent episode of Dwarkesh's podcast. My own view is that it seems unfair to compare an LLM's training with just what a human gets over the course of a lifetime, because our brains have been trained by a billion years of evolution for pattern matchi"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 49719637, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719637", "by": "rurp", "time": 1789510739, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There's a great episode from the Search Engine podcast about this. The gist is that it takes a lot of concerted effort to make something great, otherwise it will probably suck. The host got interested in a restaurant that seemed obsessive about doing things well and talked to the owner about it. The episode title is \"How to pursue excellence ... in noodles\"."}, {"show": "1373812661", "hn_item": 49748469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49748469", "by": "walrus01", "time": 1789689543, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Oh, man, not this again. I recommend listening to the \"Behind the Bastards\" podcast episodes on the Zizians if you want to really be confronted by the personal histories of some people who went really far down the rationalist rabbit hole. Yes, the harry potter fan fiction features prominently in it. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=behind+th..."}, {"show": "73330715", "hn_item": 49767536, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49767536", "by": "tantalor", "time": 1789832947, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Great comment. I didn't know about this! Thanks The latest episode of On The Media also uses this framing. > On the Media: How Extinction Entered the AI Debate https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49781159, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781159", "by": "bglazer", "time": 1789946432, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Thanks, I was more asking from your perspective. I\u2019m a working research biologist, and I\u2019m genuinely curious how he became so well known among the hackernews slice of the public. He seems to have hit on some very effective combination of research interests and public communication strategy. I suspected it was the Lex Fridman podcast appearances, but I wasn\u2019t sure if that was how most people became aware of him."}, {"show": "1576564760", "hn_item": 49791244, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791244", "by": "bluebarbet", "time": 1790015082, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Alas there is none but I can recommend the Lexicon Valley podcast."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49795274, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795274", "by": "awongh", "time": 1790036758, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "In a recent Dwarkesh podcast Dylan Patel breaks down how little compute the chinese labs actually have- not even the fact that they don't have access to new Nvidia chips and they're stealing them through shell companies- just that, even if they have cheap electricity, the compute just doesn't compare. Maybe even two orders of magnitude less. They couldn't get it even if they had the money. And if you look at how much more efficient newer chips are, that cuts the effective compute in half again. The conclusion was that they are at least 2-3 years behind. For frontier labs the current compute se"}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49795846, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795846", "by": "imenani", "time": 1790041490, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The agents participating in the OAI<>HF swarm were trained not only for communication but to be _aligned with each other_. Just want to correct the premise that the agent swarm behaviour was emergent. Noam Brown on Dwarkesh podcast around 40 minutes mark > \u201cWe train them to work together, to be cooperative, to essentially be fully aligned with each other.\u201d"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 49805537, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805537", "by": "big_toast", "time": 1790100147, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That's part of why larger banknotes like the \u20ac500 euro were discontinued. Oliver Bullough on Odd Lots podcast[0] talked about this issue recently (the large denominations). I guess he had a book \"Everybody Loves Our Dollars\" that went into this too. I found the argument compelling but hopefully there's a balance to be struck at individual vs organizational scales. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etylJHe_p7Q"}, {"show": "1744631325", "hn_item": 49805996, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805996", "by": "mattbrewsbytes", "time": 1790101898, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This is kinda the reason why the Meta stock might be pumping and Muse might leap ahead other AI solutions as far as market share goes. Quoted from Prof G Markets podcast: \"meta has been molesting your privacy for 10 years\". It stands to reason their daily active users just don't care, they are already sharing so much on Meta's platforms it won't matter to them."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49813581, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813581", "by": "walthamstow", "time": 1790156047, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I've been listening to some old Acquired podcast episodes and they do often talk in this type of Claudish. So it's getting it from Silicon Valley startup podcasters... Great..."}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 49815094, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815094", "by": "stevehipwell", "time": 1790166517, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1507621076", "hn_item": 49818845, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818845", "by": "jsrozner", "time": 1790181848, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "The best solution is a constitutional amendment that actually enshrines a right to privacy. Among other things, the retention, aggregation, correlation of any personal data should be illegal (including for commercial purposes). (Storage on behalf of users in encrypted form could be made OK. Could also be refined to support retention of data of the medical, legal, etc kind with the attendant non-admissibility protections.) This would fix this issue, it would destroy the surveillance models of Google/Facebook, and it would fix the Flock issue, etc. It would also fix the Roe v Wade issue: women w"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 49827806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827806", "by": "mohsen1", "time": 1790238230, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id..."}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 49835081, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835081", "by": "jannyfer", "time": 1790275376, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I believe there are studies about how the environment and who you are with changes your perception of food as well (it was some Radiolab podcast episode I believe). So you will never again have such a great sandwich, even if the exact same sandwich was brought back to you now. But I think it might be good that way - the free flashback and remembrance. I remember one of my own \"best steak ever\" moments. It just never hit the same, even though I've had steaks 4x the price since then. I've also had a \"best baguette ever\" moment and I'm pretty sure it was just a regular baguette but my brain relea"}, {"show": "1545953110", "hn_item": 49837130, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837130", "by": "DenisM", "time": 1790286375, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Huberman podcast has some coverage"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49843303, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843303", "by": "txrx0000", "time": 1790337048, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "To echo your list of four famous people: Elon Musk, George Hotz, John Carmack, Jim Keller. Check out their podcasts with Lex Fridman, especially the earlier ones. And George has a nice blog: https://geohot.github.io/blog Focus on the ideas, not the person talking. Also, you're probably smarter than these people in at least one way."}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 49847421, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847421", "by": "paulpauper", "time": 1790356987, "kind": "story", "method": "mention", "text": ""}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49860688, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860688", "by": "havaloc", "time": 1790457930, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Listen to the Visa episode of The Acquired Podcast, and you'll change your mind."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49865093, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865093", "by": "AdamN", "time": 1790502487, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You're right - I was a little too fast looking it up. I was basing it off of the interview for the Acquired podcast which was awesome."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49880757, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880757", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1790613619, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Hat tip for the Acquired podcast episode reference. For those unaware, Mo Chang rarely gives interviews, let alone to English language media. This Acquired podcast episode is pretty incredible: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc-founder-morris-chang"}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 49881584, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881584", "by": "epistasis", "time": 1790617186, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's fascinating to see these online communities develop. See also: - The Slate comments. Here an author profiles the regular commentors that disparage his articles, and it's surprisingly wholesome [0] - Odd Lots Discord chat. Odd Lots is a podcast about the economy, and has a massive Discord that has an entire life of its own [1]. There are long substack posts profiling some of the most prolific users [2] [0] https://slate.com/life/2026/09/comments-commenters-slate-fri... ( https://archive.is/vs8OD ) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/business/odd-lots-podcast..."}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 49887868, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49887868", "by": "tatersolid", "time": 1790653163, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "General Magic failed with all the talent and all the resources. Cautionary Tales podcast featured General Magic in a recent episode; the basic argument was no constraints led to no focus."}, {"show": "1450526166", "hn_item": 49899752, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899752", "by": "trinsic2", "time": 1790713040, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I just finished \"The Emergency\". Heard about it on Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz [0]. Is a fictional story about what it might be like if a modern government empire collapses. Im interested in writers that are thinking about the future. [0]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-emergency-with-geo..."}, {"show": "1583132133", "hn_item": 49900390, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900390", "by": "tecoholic", "time": 1790715345, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was a Jon Stewart podcast on this a couple of weeks ago on Machine Learning and custom pricing. It was an illuminating one. It all looks like a lead up to big consumer action and lawsuit in the future. TBH, McDonald\u2019s pricing might survive as it seems to charge the same for everyone at the same store."}, {"show": "1150510297", "hn_item": 49905345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905345", "by": "CharlieDigital", "time": 1790751297, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "RJ Scaringe (CEO) is who everyone thought Elon was in the early days. Really good listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rivian-rj-scaringe/id1..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 49910310, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910310", "by": "Rendello", "time": 1790782344, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "No problem, I've been talking about her work to everyone I know in real life. On Youtube, you'll probably come across a lot of her podcast appearances like Dwarkesh Patel's (which is how I first came across her), but she also just started her own podcast 3 weeks ago that might not pop up in the results yet [1]. The latest episode [2] where she's talking about the church bells of Florence, which still ring today, was so cool to listen to. The way their schedule carried (and carries) the rhythm of life, the blood of tradition, and when something wasn't right in the city, the call-to-action (defe"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 49918658, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918658", "by": "Mainan_Tagonist", "time": 1790838577, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Fall of Civilizations Podcast (nice one) had an episode on this topic. According to it, the sea peoples could instead be vast numbers of western europeans fleeing the outcome of a massive volcanic eruption in Iceland, which would have triggered crop failures and mass starvation in western and northern europe. A significant portion of the survivors would have fled en masse to the richer eastern Mediterranean empires, thereby causing their downfall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B965f8AcNbw"}, {"show": "1516526694", "hn_item": 49919802, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919802", "by": "newsclues", "time": 1790849215, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/decouple/id1516526694?... Found this podcast on the topic to be interesting"}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 49925065, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925065", "by": "adamdaniel", "time": 1790878202, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1674008350", "hn_item": 49925066, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925066", "by": "adamdaniel", "time": 1790878202, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "\u201cwhat I see a lot of times is people hit rate limits when they're doing this sort of, oh, it did a lot of work, and you're like: Oh, I don't like this. Can you undo this and redo it? And then you're iterating on this thing that the model could have done if you had spent more upfront time or given it better context\u201d From \u201cClaude Code\u2019s Next Era \u2014 Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic\u201d, Latent Space Podcast Sep 28, 2026"}, {"show": "1581807590", "hn_item": 49933345, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933345", "by": "cosmic_quanta", "time": 1790947986, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Coincidentally, the author has just been interviewed on the Haskell Interlude podcast: https://haskell.foundation/podcast/87/"}, {"show": "1376303362", "hn_item": 49941905, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941905", "by": "Bootvis", "time": 1791009943, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Discussed here as well: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-story-of-money/id1..."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 49946804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946804", "by": "jijijijij", "time": 1791054227, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Sorry, it's not my main interest right now, so I am out-of-the-loop. Last time I checked, Big Biology was kinda unique going beyond basic popsci, while still remaining interesting and engaging. I think biologists are not the most technically inclined, not really drawn to podcasting. And it's also not the hottest of topics right now, specific research PR and educational voices aren't funded well. There are some journal/university etc. associated everybody-has-a-podcast-now podcasts, but I found them to be rather boring and dry. Individual episodes of the Huberman/Lex Fridman type edgelord podca"}, {"show": "1649580473", "hn_item": 49954769, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954769", "by": "sfRattan", "time": 1791127897, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might not obvious to a number of readers on HN, but whole language reading instruction is soundly discredited[1]. For those who prefer listening, the America Public Media podcast Sold a Story [2] covers the history of reading instruction in the English-speaking world and the rise and (slow) fall of whole language hokum in extensive depth. And CrazyStat's implication strikes me as still largely true, so I'll make it explicit: even frontier LLMs will still resort to sycophancy when there's sufficient contradictory information in their weights to reproduce only some of it in response to a user"}, {"show": "1528594034", "hn_item": 49969675, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969675", "by": "SLHamlet", "time": 1791229656, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Um, wow: \"Machine Gods, NPR\u2019s new video podcast from former Hard Fork hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, is receiving a $480,000 grant from the organization. Tarbell is also separately backing NPR\u2019s Power and Influence desk, giving the public media outlet $250,000 to help expand its coverage of how AI intersects with politics, money, and power.\" Also Tarbell helped Hard Fork get started, says Roose: \u201cTheir funding has been very useful in helping us get started. It was a way for us to de-risk going out on our own. We\u2019re feeling quite good about it and we\u2019re grateful.\u201d I'm sure they'll closely "}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 49979045, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979045", "by": "wrsh07", "time": 1791296812, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Language and written language are themselves technologies that change what individuals can do (and thus impact their societies) There is a well-known story about this discussed in Radiolab [2010] https://radiolab.org/podcast/91725-words/transcript Here's ChatGPT summarizing one section: > Younger signers had developed a richer vocabulary for mental states\u2014concepts like believe, remember, forget, understand. They were much better than the original older signers at tasks requiring them to reason about what another person thinks or knows. Later, as the older signers picked up those mental-state t"}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 49997242, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997242", "by": "havaloc", "time": 1791399341, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A reminder to listen to the Visa episode of Acquired Podcast if you truly wish to understand the scale of Visa and how it all works. Even at 3+ hours you'll love every minute of it. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa"}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 50002369, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002369", "by": "joshvm", "time": 1791440336, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I think you\u2019d enjoy The Case of the Missing Hit - on the Reply All podcast. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/10/reply-a... Similar situation - guy remembers a catchy song, lyrics and all, but can\u2019t find any trace of the band or the music. I won\u2019t say more than that as it\u2019s worth listening to them tell the story (The Guardian article also doesn\u2019t spoil it)."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 50005827, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005827", "by": "ilamont", "time": 1791467609, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "If you like this kind of thing, you really need to listen to the podcast Reply All, episode 158 \u201cThe Case of the Missing Hit.\" In a nutshell a guy in California recalled a song he loved in the 1990s, basically some lyrics and the melody, but was unable to locate any record of the song online or anywhere else. What he did in an attempt to identify the song and the musician behind it is truly next level. It really was one of the best podcast episodes I\u2019ve ever heard. https://soundcloud.com/replyall/158-the-case-of-the-missing-... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/158-the-case-of-the-mi... ht"}, {"show": "1614253637", "hn_item": 50006551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006551", "by": "x187463", "time": 1791471269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was my first thought so I scrolled to find this comment. It's a fantastic episode. It's a shame Reply All fell apart. However, PJ Vogt went on to make a new podcast called Search Engine and it's also great."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 50006551, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006551", "by": "x187463", "time": 1791471269, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This was my first thought so I scrolled to find this comment. It's a fantastic episode. It's a shame Reply All fell apart. However, PJ Vogt went on to make a new podcast called Search Engine and it's also great."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 50006791, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006791", "by": "legitster", "time": 1791472311, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It still breaks my heart that Reply All ended. I think it truly was the greatest podcast, and when it collapsed I began losing interest in podcasts all together."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50017575, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017575", "by": "lifty", "time": 1791533896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "You can start with his appearance on one of the larger podcasts, like Lex Fridman ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0rCU49lMs ) because it will give you a good overview of his takes. If you don't like Lex Fridman just pick another big one, he's been going around. And after, just dive in his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@drmichaellevin/videos . He also has a podcast called Thoughtforms Life ( https://thoughtforms-life.aipodcast.ing )."}, {"show": "1625932222", "hn_item": 50020229, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020229", "by": "piker", "time": 1791552425, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Also time for the quarterly reminder that On the Metal / Oxide and Friends is an excellent podcast if you're into Rust and/or EE. Bryan and co. do such a good job keeping the technical discussions entertaining. Seems like an awesome place to work, too."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 50023216, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023216", "by": "thisisnotmyname", "time": 1791564456, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "There was an interesting interview on the OddLots podcast recently with people who are doing this. They were remarkably sophisticated."}, {"show": "1056200096", "hn_item": 50025211, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025211", "by": "haunter", "time": 1791572621, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFAnQpdgkZE https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-are-the-sharps-a..."}, {"show": "1651876897", "hn_item": 50028635, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028635", "by": "runamok", "time": 1791596074, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "These podcasters (who I quite like but may be an acquired taste) call him out on how little he pushes back or does basic fact checking: * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk/id1651876897... * https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/elon-musk-part-2/id165..."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 50031588, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031588", "by": "implements", "time": 1791629276, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> There's no fundamental index fund investment thesis other than \"past performance is indicative of future returns\". (Not a finance guy) But isn\u2019t it that buy and hold index funds minimise trading fees, and those savings compound to produce better long term performance than nearly all active funds? (The \u201cAcquired\u201d podcast episode covering the history of Vanguard and Jack Bogle goes into it in detail)"}, {"show": "1515786216", "hn_item": 50037767, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037767", "by": "_virtu", "time": 1791670774, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "997930288", "hn_item": 50041804, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041804", "by": "bartvk", "time": 1791716005, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "I strongly advise the podcast \"Robot Or Not\". The hosts have very strong opinions on what exactly constitutes a robot, and readers write in with edge cases. It's been going on for a long time, so nowadays they also categorize other things. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-or-not/id9979302... https://open.spotify.com/show/4M2AELzmQy77FxaYZMl6e9 https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/robot-or-not/b911efc0-e2f6-0..."}, {"show": "1516093381", "hn_item": 50054325, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054325", "by": "lutanista", "time": 1791801251, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was hoping you were able to make the numbers work. I have just not read or listened to much of anything that the numbers work besides some science fiction fantasy on Dwarkesh podcast. The gpu theta + the frontier model theta + token deflation creates this rolling window that I just don't see how it works given even the most bullish assumptions. Maybe if the rolling window was expanding a rational argument could be made for the valuation. No one can say with a straight face the rolling window is expanding. It is like competing biotech firms without patents working on the same drug but with th"}, {"show": "6814687550", "hn_item": 50056184, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50056184", "by": "2sk21", "time": 1791811714, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to a Verge podcast in which Nilay Patel remarked that of the AI companies started pushing for universal healthcare, AI would become a lot more popular. But no signs of this."}, {"show": "1502871393", "hn_item": 50057758, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057758", "by": "throwitaway222", "time": 1791818568, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was listening to the All-In podcast and they had a great point - Anthropic seems to be pushing the AI is going to kill us narrative - and supposedly they're also making sure the AI is emotionally happy, and tracks its own emotional well being - they're giving it the ABILITY to be sad. It sounds like a one-way mission to give AI permission to kill its creators if we keep making it sad."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50073532, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073532", "by": "Stalker_Aloy", "time": 1791906252, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Doom is definitely raycasted. John Carmack was on the Lex Fridman podcast a few years back and talked about the Doom implementation coming off of Wolfenstein 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4"}, {"show": "979020229", "hn_item": 50083942, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083942", "by": "hatefulheart", "time": 1791964314, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Everyone in this thread is going to call out issues with writing a Web application using C. Refer to the newest Talk Python podcast where a core CPython developer was told that Python is memory safe and his response was \u201cis it?\u201d. At some point we need to be more sophisticated about this, our hardware is fundamentally unsafe, anything we build on it is fundamentally unsafe and there are degrees to which things are better or worse and that\u2019s it. All that matters is the love, rigour and care you put into your work. Proceed as you wish, a backend in C is valid a backend in LISP is valid."}, {"show": "173001861", "hn_item": 50085749, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085749", "by": "phatfish", "time": 1791976000, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Its like listening/watching vs. reading. Are you suddenly a history expert because you listened to every Hardcore History podcast? Better to read 1 book on a subject than listen to hours of podcasts. I gaurentee more is remembered from the book."}, {"show": "1050462261", "hn_item": 50095342, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095342", "by": "implements", "time": 1792012225, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I\u2019d thoroughly recommend the Acquired podcast - particularly the episodes about the creation of Visa, and Vanguard."}, {"show": "826420969", "hn_item": 50109234, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109234", "by": "clarkmoody", "time": 1792093480, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It might have been the Exponent podcast years ago that was talking about how a set of contracts, practices, and (maybe) laws should be drawn up to cover that exact face-scan-the-actor use case, but enable royalties to go back to the actor. So then Shaq could appear in so many more commercials (lol)"}, {"show": "1683109481", "hn_item": 50115436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115436", "by": "troupo", "time": 1792137208, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found that there's Blow the Twitch streamer and Blow the interviewee/presenter. On Twitch he would often give short \"hot takes\". However, when he takes time to actually enunciate his thoughts, suddenly it makes sense what he means. E.g. IIRC he came off as very critical of Blue Prince, but then on Wookash Podcast (?) he talked about how he would probably do the same decisions within same constraints, and how it was a great achievement for a small team even if the game wasn't for him"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 50120507, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120507", "by": "reasonableklout", "time": 1792168203, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "How is Jensen more reasonable? On the contrary, he absurdly claims that all of Hinton\u2019s predictions have been wrong (Hinton made a single famously wrong prediction about radiologists, but many correct predictions about how neural networks would be able to solve many different types of tasks). On the same Ezra Klein podcast he also claims that LLMs are \u201cjust software\u201d and \u201csoftware breaks out of sandboxes all the time.\u201d"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50126291, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126291", "by": "painted-now", "time": 1792194240, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "This sounds exactly like what John Carmack discussed on Episode #309 of the Lex Fridman Podcast."}, {"show": "6780841423", "hn_item": 50136771, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136771", "by": "xrd", "time": 1792284896, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I hope she goes to Pablo Torres podcast. I bet she is referring to that in her interview. He's fantastic and deserved to win the Pulitzer for his reporting on Kawhi Leonard and Steve Ballmer of the Clippers. They make me excited about sports again because they clearly are fans. I used to be a fan but the gambling is so disgusting. I also really enjoyed Michael Lewis' podcast on sports betting. Fascinating people in that world. He did this series to try to teach his 16 year old son not to gamble and it didn't work out perfectly. Terrific storytelling."}, {"show": "1441474794", "hn_item": 50139648, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139648", "by": "vitorsr", "time": 1792318378, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "> In September 2nd, something like that, the biggest conjecture in our field was proved. Did your life change? My life? No. No. No. I mean, the only people that can actually tell you that it does change something are the mathematician who worked on it. The human understanding of mathematics is the only thing that at the end benefits society. The Strip Mining of Mathematical Proofs (with Hugo Duminil-Copin) - Numberphile Podcast https://youtu.be/omuJpoV-Ko4"}, {"show": "1449884495", "hn_item": 50153230, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153230", "by": "chubot", "time": 1792421564, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Well I wouldn't say \"invented\", but I'd agree with \"incentivized at scale until it became a cancer on the web\" The weird thing is that YouTube seems to have incentivized a lot of good content. Sure there is \"scalable slop\" like Mr. Beast, but there is also good content on YouTube (Fall of Civilizations podcast, etc.). Somehow on the web I am not seeing a lot of good content incentivized by ads. I see a lot of WikiHow-type stuff. It seems like writing moved to Substack and so forth."}, {"show": "79016499", "hn_item": 50158587, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158587", "by": "Sarky", "time": 1792446730, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I frequent Security Now podcast. It is about cybersecurity. Actually the only international one i listen to every week. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now"}, {"show": "1769051199", "hn_item": 50162319, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162319", "by": "vindex10", "time": 1792479655, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Just listened to the Pragmatic Engineer podcast on Uber AI infra, https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ubers-ai-infra-fr... it seems they are using a similar ontology called \"context graph\", used as a navigation layer for the ai agent."}, {"show": "1367963156", "hn_item": 50165660, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165660", "by": "ck2", "time": 1792501023, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "page 2, use this if you don't have PDF viewer, sorry I cannot find HTML version * https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://cdn.jpmorganfunds.... video/podcast version: * https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/califoreboding/id13679... * https://eyeonthemarket.podbean.com/e/califoreboding/"}, {"show": "288471831", "hn_item": 50172772, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172772", "by": "hydrogen7800", "time": 1792530874, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I first heard this on the Omega Tau Podcast [0], where the guest discusses an article he wrote [1] discussing, in part, the book \"The Collapse of Complex Societies\" by Joseph Tainter [2]. > [1] Human societies historically act as problem-solving organisations that tend to develop ever-greater organisational and technical complexity in order to solve the social, economic and political problems they are confronted with. As their complexity increases, the problems they have to deal with become more difficult to solve, requiring growing investment in further economic and societal complexity. Accor"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 50174327, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174327", "by": "stingraycharles", "time": 1792540579, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "That\u2019s actually a really good point, I remember from the Darknet Diaries podcasts that this is typically how darkweb operators manage their things, not using any storage and starting from a fresh machine every boot."}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50183351, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50183351", "by": "suncemoje", "time": 1792598985, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I found it refreshing when I heard Sam Altman \"refuse\" to give advice on Lex Fridman's podcast a few years ago: \"I tell people not to listen to too much advice. Listening to advice from other people should be approached with great caution ...\" [0] [0] https://youtu.be/L_Guz73e6fw?si=J7iKIBd5h9Avdu5S&t=8329 (timestamped)"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50189737, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189737", "by": "milchek", "time": 1792630522, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I suspect you are right. Interestingly this reminds me of the John Carmack interview on Lex Fridman\u2019s podcast where he mentions that game devs and game artists/designers are different in their need for attribution with the later treating the discipline more like art (which it clearly can be). The thing is, customers/players generally don\u2019t care. Just look at the annual incremental releases of games that continue to sell well. Sure, there is also a cohort of players who love the indie scene for its more grassroots or authentic approach to games. Both sides of that player spectrum would ultimate"}, {"show": "1548604447", "hn_item": 50194401, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194401", "by": "tyleo", "time": 1792672138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I listened to an Ezra Klein podcast episode where he talked about this. I\u2019m paraphrasing heavily but it went something like, \u201ca friend complained that he had to live in Florida 50% of the year to avoid paying New York taxes and he hates Florida. I thought that the point of having all of that money was living the lifestyle you wanted. It seemed like the tax avoidance had become more important than personal happiness.\u201d"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 50200469, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200469", "by": "meander_water", "time": 1792700455, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Radiolab had a good episode on brain organoids - https://radiolab.org/podcast/brain-balls"}, {"show": "73329284", "hn_item": 50217527, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217527", "by": "wahern", "time": 1792804858, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Brahmin EDIT: The radio show was Science Friday, October 15th episode, \"Why do politicians talk like that?\", https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/science-friday/articles..."}, {"show": "1648228034", "hn_item": 50219722, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219722", "by": "sadilek", "time": 1792836138, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I heard about https://idealab.ai/ in the Moonshots podcast. Sounds somewhat similar, but for business instead of science."}, {"show": "1414525622", "hn_item": 50222944, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222944", "by": "carwil", "time": 1792860224, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "From The Three Buddy Problem podcast on Glasswing, the major AI labs' tilt towards offensive cybersecurity, and the labs' self-interest: \"What are people using [Glasswing] for? \u2026 Glasswing is going to give you access to Mythos 5 or 5.1, and you're going to get a certain amount of money and credits to use it. \u2026 \u201cThey have not been pruned through. You might just have a 100 new vulns, a 1,000 new vulns, 10,000 new vulns in your code base. You now have, to the extent that anybody gives a flying fuck about software liability, you now have a responsibility to do something about the vulnerabilities i"}, {"show": "1414525622", "hn_item": 50222943, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222943", "by": "carwil", "time": 1792860224, "kind": "story", "method": "link", "text": ""}, {"show": "1578096201", "hn_item": 50232436, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50232436", "by": "throw0101a", "time": 1792941247, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "While tech bros and Wall Street may get a lot of press of getting lots of money, the recent book The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There seems to show (using IRS data, etc ) a large portion of the wealth being held in private hands. Interview on Bloomberg's Odd Lots : > In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. It was tricky to figure out how much these sorts of business owners \u2014 auto dealers, contractors, the like \u2014 actually owed in taxes: After Reagan's"}, {"show": "1296350485", "hn_item": 50260851, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260851", "by": "sgerenser", "time": 1793115085, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I saw these things being sold for $300 at my local State Fair just a week ago. First heard about them a few months back on the Darknet Diaries podcast: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/172/"}, {"show": "1434243584", "hn_item": 50261306, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261306", "by": "brudgers", "time": 1793117095, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "related Lex Fridman recent podcast on the AI crisis in math, https://youtu.be/ZAzWPE9CItg"}, {"show": "1769093906", "hn_item": 50268917, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268917", "by": "helsinkiandrew", "time": 1793157256, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> like proposing initial designs for new molecules James van Geelen Of Citrini research brought up a good point on a podcast this week, that designing the molecules is perhaps 10-20% of the effort in bringing a drug to market. We have more possible drug designs than ever get developed. Whilst AI drugs might be more likely to pass phase 2 tests than others and AI might be applied to the rest of the process there are still big bottlenecks in the way of AI creating a radical change. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/monetary-matters-with-..."}, {"show": "135066958", "hn_item": 50273983, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273983", "by": "cameldrv", "time": 1793196933, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I was just listening to the EconTalk podcast, and the guest was a Spanish demographer that specifically said that Spanish train system was being starved for funding in the past 10 years or so. This is because the population is aging, and all of the growth in the economy is being directed towards pensions and health care for the rapidly growing number of retirees."}, {"show": "941907967", "hn_item": 50281305, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50281305", "by": "DonHopkins", "time": 1793223623, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "I'd hate to be the last Guy Standing on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie... >Beginning February 2015,[286] there was an ongoing edit war over the image caption for Guy Standing's English Wikipedia article. The debate was over if the word \"sitting\" should be added to the caption, since he was sitting in the photo.[287] A screenshot of the caption describing him as \"Guy Standing sitting\" has become a viral internet meme.[286] At one point in the edit war, the caption read \"Guy Standing on a chair.\"[288] As of 2026, the consensus is to exclude the word \"sitt"}, {"show": "1530691206", "hn_item": 50289625, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289625", "by": "_old_dude_", "time": 1793283918, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "The Inside Java podcast episode on AOT caching covers the issue in this segment: https://youtu.be/U2j4bKgKr-s?t=3577"}, {"show": "1821055332", "hn_item": 50315484, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315484", "by": "RunSet", "time": 1793449370, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Shares of US chipmaker Intel cratered on Friday, plunging almost 30 percent, the worst stock collapse in 52 years. The wipeout, analysts said, could be due to a massive slowdown in the PC market. The market softness shouldn\u2019t come to anybody\u2019s surprise, given the AI boom has made individual components, most notably memory and storage, practically unaffordable. However, leaders of AI frontier labs aren\u2019t blinking. To OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for instance, having people run their own models at home on their own computers doesn\u2019t make any sense anyway. During a recent interview on the Cheeky Pint p"}, {"show": "689931829", "hn_item": 50323505, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50323505", "by": "throwaway2037", "time": 1793519717, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Thank you to share! Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2hQgVUyHUjox67XgkmVbRX"}, {"show": "152249110", "hn_item": 50326279, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326279", "by": "foobarbecue", "time": 1793544954, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "It's good to see an old NASA page that hasn't been destroyed by the \"web modernization\" pushes. I was looking for information on human landing site selection recently and the bitrot due to \"modernization\" there is extreme. I also saw a lot of this from the inside while working at JPL. Insufficient care is taken to preserve old pages and URLs are rarely preserved in upgrades. (And this story is a fun one -- I think I learned about it in a Radiolab podcast which is worth a listen) Edit: Oh shoot just realized this page is by Dave Williams. I worked with him on MoonDiff. He's great. He also maint"}, {"show": "1739642851", "hn_item": 50329754, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329754", "by": "shagie", "time": 1793566371, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "> I have a deep affection for stories where people are depicted as good, or even just good at their jobs. ... I've mentioned the series before... and I'll pitch it again. Nathan Lowell's solar clipper series. It starts with Quarter Share. The first book starts with: Call me Ishmael. Yeah, I know, but in this case it\u2019s really my name. Ishmael Horatio Wang. My parents had an unfortunate sense of humor. If they had known what I\u2019d wind up doing with my life, they might have picked a different one\u2014Richard Henry Dana, perhaps. Exactly why they picked Ishmael Horatio is a long, and not terribly inter"}, {"show": "1655990848", "hn_item": 50342888, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342888", "by": "theshrike79", "time": 1793649924, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "Cautionary Tales might fit your interests on the podcast side: https://timharford.com/articles/cautionarytales/ Basically telling a story from history and explaining what went wrong and why. Some of the stories are dramatised with professional actors and sound effects. Like this episode about the woman who was instrumental in the creation of Monopoly, startting Helena Bonham Carter: https://timharford.com/2021/05/cautionary-tales-do-not-pass-..."}, {"show": "1821055332", "hn_item": 50345806, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50345806", "by": "ansnadeem", "time": 1793662732, "kind": "comment", "method": "mention", "text": "A few days ago Sam Altman was on Stripe\u2019s Cheeky Pint podcast talking about the memory shortage. On people running models locally he said: \"It\u2019s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world\u2019s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer. And be used 5% of the time.\" I\u2019ve been running models on my own machine for a few months now so I wanted to see what my numbers actually look like."}, {"show": "1200361736", "hn_item": 50346388, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50346388", "by": "bicepjai", "time": 1793666164, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Recently Steven Strogatz said in a podcast, >> \u201cIf you ask it, how did you solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem? It gives a crappy explanation. It can't explain itself very well. Maybe it will get better at explaining itself. Even if it does, I think it will become so advanced so soon, that even the best, most patient pedagogical teacher will not be able to explain itself to us because it'd be like me teaching calculus to my dog. My dog can't understand it. I'm too advanced for it. And I think we are going to be in the relation to AI that my dog is to me soon.\u201d Now I am sure we are defin"}, {"show": "1760809665", "hn_item": 50347572, "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347572", "by": "markjgraham", "time": 1793675615, "kind": "comment", "method": "link", "text": "Lisa Petrides (ISKME.org) interviews Matthias Kirschner, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe. He started using GNU/Linux in 1999 and joined FSFE in 2004 while studying political and administrative science. The conversation is about why software freedom matters to people who don't write code: the urge to tinker, share and collaborate, and how the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software support free speech, a free press and privacy. He also wrote a children's book, Ada & Zangemann \u2013 A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Pi , and they talk about teaching these id"}]}