30
Speaking of SQLite, this CoRecursive podcast a few days ago was enjoyable.
@elwell +29 more
Tech Talk: Modern Systems Programming And Scala Native With Richard Whaling
with Richard Hipp , Richard Feldman , D. Richard Hipp
Technology episodes
Episodes from Technology podcasts recommended on Hacker News.
583 episodes
15
Listen to Acquired's TSMC episode for context on how hard chip innovation is.
@kulor +14 more
TSMC
13
Carmack talks a lot about fission in a recent Lex Fridman episode, a good listen for anyone into this.
@mslupski1 +12 more
#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets
with John Carmack
12
Recent Darknet Diaries episodes cover CitizenLab interviews, how NSO works, Black Cube, and the Argentine exploit market.
@jcstauffer +11 more
100: NSO
with John Scott-Railton
8
A great Reply All episode about this; Facebook-focused, but many points would apply to Google.
@tekromancr +7 more
#109 Is Facebook Spying on You?
with PJ Vogt
8
Jeff Shrager, the Eliza site's author, discusses the Eliza program on this CoRecursive episode.
@MarkSweep +7 more
Story: The History and Mystery Of Eliza
with Jeff Shrager
8
Listened to an episode where they interview one of the contractors that worked on this project.
@gnatman +7 more
47: Project Raven
8
Do yourself a favor and listen to this week's episode ("The Wrong Guy") for clear examples of the book's issues.
@MrFoof +7 more
Episode 42: 42: The Wrong Guy
7
Great listen overall; Karpathy expands quite a bit on the same perspective.
@jcims +6 more
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
with Andrej Karpathy , Yan Le Cun; Andrej Karpathy , Karpathy , Andrej
7
Lex Fridman just did a great podcast episode with Brendan Eich. Lots of great little tidbits of history in the conversation.
@jcims +6 more
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
with Brendan Eich
7
Lex Fridman interviewed him as well and that was pretty detailed.
@subsubzero +6 more
#122 – David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
with David Fravor , Commander David Fravor , Commander Fravor
7
Ron used Lisp to compile Lisp code to machine code for embedded spacecraft systems; the linked episode tells the full story.
@michaelanckaert +6 more
Story: LISP in Space
with Ron Garret
7
Highly recommends episode 97, a harassment campaign to take a valuable Instagram handle.
@flipstone +6 more
97: The Pizza Problem
6
Recommends the latest Reply All episode, about the Wisconsin town that "won" the Foxconn factory, as a sad, frustrating story.
@Jgrubb +5 more
#132 Negative Mount Pleasant
6
Jump to 30 minutes for Jim Keller discussing Moore's law and his interpretation of it.
@NortySpock +5 more
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles
with Jim Keller , Keller
6
Episode on Zstandard's history and how Facebook let Yann Collet fully open source it.
@wirthjason +5 more
Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
with Yann Collet
6
Darknet Diaries has a cool episode about the dark cellphone industry.
@nefitty +5 more
105: Secret Cells
6
I quite liked The Changelog's interview with him too, linked as episode 201.
@mercer +5 more
Richard Hipp returns (Changelog Interviews #454)
6
Excellent On The Metal podcast; Jonathan Blow makes the point that Unix/shell has no type safety.
@angry_octet +5 more
Jonathan Blow
with Jonathan Blow , Johnathon Blow
6
I highly recommend On the Metal, with great interviews. This episode in particular was amazing.
@rhinoceraptor +5 more
Kenneth Finnegan
with Kenneth Finnegan
6
Episode 7/8 on hacking online video games explains why application security and input validation matter.
@34c13 +5 more
9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox
with Jayson E. Street
6
A great episode worth the listen for those interested in Chris Lattner's views on Swift adoption at Apple.
@jamesk_au +5 more
205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts
with Chris Lattner , Chris
5
Listened to a great Reply All episode on SIM hijacking; it showed how easy and widespread the attack is.
@nicolaslem +4 more
#130 The Snapchat Thief
5
Suggests the Zuckerberg interview with Lex Fridman as the place to hear his VR argument.
@SideQuark +4 more
#398 – Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse
with Zuckerberg , Mark Zuckerberg
5
The Original Remote Developer episode was an absolute gem too.
@dkobia +4 more
Story: The Original Remote Developer
with Paul Lutus , Paul
5
Good podcast about Pony: how Wallaroo Labs used it for hard engineering problems, and how its actor runtime compared to Rust's at the time.
@mcintyre1994 +4 more
Story: Unproven Tech Case Study with Sean Allen
with Sean Allen
5
Just listened to the Darknet Diaries Courthouse podcast about the pentest gone wrong. Highly recommended.
@zenpaul +4 more
59: The Courthouse
4
If you enjoyed this, you might also like Reply All's recent episode: Reply All #158: The Case of the Missing Hit
@Cenk +3 more
#158 The Case of the Missing Hit
4
Lee Cronin talked about some of this on the Lex Fridman podcast recently.
@ssl232 +3 more
#404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
with Lee Cronin
4
Lex Fridman gets to invite very interesting people, not just from AI research; favorites are Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Jim Keller.
@mmxmb +3 more
#381 – Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI
with Chris Lattner, Bjarne Stroustrup, Jim Keller , Chris Lattner
4
Lex's cellular automata musings in the Michael Levin episode show the same fascination the commenter has, sparking a wish to put xenobots on the podcast.
@DonHopkins +3 more
#325 – Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots
with Michael Levin
4
The Lex Fridman podcast interview with Jeff Hawkins is solid.
@adolph +3 more
#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
with Jeff Hawkins
4
For those interested in the history of Costco, there is a great Acquired podcast episode.
@sea-gold +3 more
Costco
4
You should listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast about Google.
@scarface_74 +3 more
Google Part III: The AI Company
4
The Acquired episode on Visa's history covers how the credit card industry works, including specific numbers on who benefits from rewards cards.
@thundergolfer +3 more
Visa
4
Makes a nice presentation about the landscape at the time and why it was called JavaScript.
@adm_ +3 more
Story: JSON vs XML
with Douglas Crockford
4
Just heard this one the other day. Here's the episode from anyone interested.
@jjice +3 more
The episode formerly known as ℔
4
Shares the CoRecursive episode "The Untold Story of SQLite" with Richard Hipp, along with a transcription.
@cpeterso +3 more
Story: The Untold Story of SQLite
4
Guest Conor Hoekstra has a fascinating take on APL, even though the episode itself is about something else.
@papito +3 more
Story: From Competitive Programming to APL
with Conor Hoekstra
4
If you are interested in a more detailed story, listen to this Darknet Diaries interview with one of the co-founders of PirateBay.
@radmuzom +3 more
92: The Pirate Bay
4
Listen to the CoRecursive episode on The Little Typer and Pie for a good explanation of recursion, plus a good recursion joke at the start.
@mbrudd +3 more
Tech Talk: The Little Typer With Daniel Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen
with David and Felipe
4
Useful insight from those very deep in the weeds, to center our understanding of the Jobs biography.
@ghshephard +3 more
Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich
2
I used to think the same thing, until I listened to this episode of Darknet Diaries.
@jdorfman +1 more
93: Kik
3
Go listen to the latest season of the Series podcast, or the Reply All episodes about the police in NYC.
@kenjackson +2 more
A Message from the Staff of Reply All
3
Recommends Reply All's episode on dark patterns to learn how TurboTax funnels filers into paid products.
@gringoDan +2 more
#144 Dark Pattern
3
Points readers to a recent Reply All episode on robocalls, the "Robocall Conundrum," as a follow-up to the thread's complaint about constant spam calls.
@jonny_eh +2 more
#135 Robocall: Bang Bang
3
This episode shows how hard it is to identify fake reviews and what sellers do to fake them. Really interesting.
@leoalves +2 more
#124 The Magic Store
3
I'd recommend listening to this Reply All podcast episode specifically about the child protection act that passed shortly after Backpage was taken down.
@djsumdog +2 more
#119 No More Safe Harbor
3
You should listen to the latest episodes of Reply All; they investigate one of those tech support call centers, with a part two too.
@QuotedForTruth +2 more
#103 Long Distance, Part II
3
The Reply All podcast had a pretty interesting episode on this recently.
@blairbeckwith +2 more
#44 Shine On You Crazy Goldman
3
One interesting point made here is that the cost of turbines puts a floor price on any form of generation which uses them
@RobinL +2 more
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
with Casey Handmer
3
Worth hearing for Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer on whether publishing transformer research was a mistake, and how Google decides what to keep private.
@sosodev +2 more
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer , Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat , Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean
3
Aside from Huberman Lab, I would say the Lex Fridman Climate Change Debate episode is worth hearing.
@sanman811 +2 more
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
with Fiona Hill, Bjorn Lomborg, Andrew Revkin, Ray Kurzweil , Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
3
The Tony Fadell interview was also interesting, a great review of the history of iPod and iPhone and his work at Nest.
@yardie +2 more
#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest
with Tony Fadell
3
I'd recommend listening to his interview with Lex Fridman.
@ephbit +2 more
#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics
with Saifedean Ammous , Safedean Ammous
3
Watch Lex Fridman's interview with Musk, where they discuss exactly this topic.
@shafyy +2 more
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
with Elon Musk
3
Douglas Lenat's remarks on this at Lex Fridman's podcast were really insightful.
@roeles +2 more
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
with Douglas Lenat , Doug Lenat
3
You can have a sense of how it would be to work with him in this interview with Lex Fridman.
@eric_khun +2 more
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
with Jim Keller
3
Worth hearing: Lex's dad, a plasma physicist, on why hot fusion is possible but too complex to scale, and muon-doping ideas.
@jcims +2 more
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
with Lex Fridman's father (plasma physicist, not named in the comment) , Doug , BK
3
Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things. Highly recommend!
@cronix +2 more
#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
with Avi Loeb
3
Lex Fridman has a great interview with Jurgen here, where he presents his idea of consciousness.
@jcims +2 more
Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs
with Jürgen Schmidhuber , Schmidhuber
3
An interesting Software Engineering Daily episode on ad fraud and the different schemes behind it.
@einrealist +2 more
Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai
3
Argues agentic coding can eat your brain in a feature factory, but tools used to get more ambitious should be fine.
@adamgordonbell +2 more
Coding in the Red-Queen Era
3
Oxide and Friends did a great episode on it at the time, covering CockroachDB's move to a non-free license that mandates telemetry.
@_huayra_ +2 more
Whither CockroachDB?
3
A great episode where Kelsey Hightower discusses the Terraform license change and why maintainers should be upfront about project governance.
@msteffen +2 more
Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower
with Kelsey Hightower
3
An interesting account of the years Google was building Android alongside Apple's iPhone, from Chet Haase.
@nequo +2 more
Story: Android's Unlikely Success
with Chet Haase
3
A good, deep answer to why Nvidia is the way it is, across its two-part series.
@gen220 +2 more
Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)
3
That episode was so good.
@Gentil +2 more
Wisdom from 50+ years in software (Changelog Interviews #484)
with Brian Kernighan
3
Better than average discussion of Nvidia's history, including the chip emulation software that helped them get back in the game.
@djmips +2 more
Nvidia Part I: The GPU Company (1993-2006)
3
Highly recommend ep112: a long interview with a former account hacker, covering sim-swapping tactics.
@brynx97 +2 more
112: Dirty Coms
3
Calls the CoRecursive episode on quines and polyglot code a "cracking" listen on the topic under discussion.
@2wrist +2 more
Chat: Quines, Polygot Code, and Other Fun Computations
3
Darknet Diaries has an episode on the gray market of exploit brokers; highly recommended for infosec fans.
@sophacles +2 more
98: Zero Day Brokers
3
The NeXT and Objective-C episode (S1E8) was excellent; the commenter is still working through the old catalog.
@guiambros +2 more
NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories
3
Corecursive episode with Daniel Lemire was just terrific; some people are really good at performance-sensitive work.
@specialist +2 more
Story: Frontiers of Performance with Daniel Lemire
with Daniel Lemire
3
Great CoRecursive interview with Matt Godbolt covering good reasons to still understand assembly today.
@mumblemumble +2 more
Story: To The Assembly
with Matt Godbolt
3
Darknet Diaries also has an excellent podcast episode on it.
@frogcoder +2 more
72: Bangladesh Bank Heist
3
There was a great acquired episode on Tencent, which owns QQ, the ICQ-inspired messenger.
@chrisjc +2 more
Adapting Episode 3: Intel
3
Darknet Diaries covered the whole affair, with extra details that surfaced after the IEEE article; it makes for great listening.
@throwaway4web +2 more
64: The Athens Shadow Games
3
Abstract algebra's structures still apply to everyday software construction, as this episode on portal abstractions shows.
@nobody0 +2 more
Story: Portal Abstractions with Sam Ritchie
with Sam Ritchie
3
Darknet Diaries ep54 is a great podcast on NotPetya, with an interview with the author of Sandworm.
@xt00 +2 more
54: NotPetya
3
Enjoyed the relatively recent Darknet Diaries episode "Hacker Giraffe" as background for anyone who missed it.
@jessaustin +2 more
31: Hacker Giraffe
3
It's all very interesting, where the host interviews an ex-member of the Israeli SIGINT program.
@bogwog +2 more
28: Unit 8200
3
A regex library built with dependent-type features parses patterns at compile time and returns better-typed capture group information. Really great.
@agbell +2 more
Tech Talk: Dependent Types in Haskell with Stephanie Weirich
with Stephanie Weirich
3
There's a recent software engineering radio podcast on technical debt.
@drhodes +2 more
SE Radio 224: Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff on Technical Debt
3
Explains why he tiles and overlaps windows instead of using snapping, with Arment and Liss reacting in disbelief. Worth hearing from 1:33:00.
@ralfd +2 more
96: The Windows of Siracusa County
with John Siracusa
3
Recently re-listened to an old-but-good episode with John Siracusa's informative rant on this very topic.
@aasasd +2 more
Episode 56: 56: Belt and Suspenders
2
Reply All's recent episode on the origins of QAnon, "Country of Liars," is worth hearing.
@st1x7 +1 more
#166 Country of Liars
2
A Reply All episode on the US feral hog problem shows how hunting can make things worse by creating an incentive to keep hogs around.
@dustincoates +1 more
#149 30-50 Feral Hogs
2
It's a great overview of what went down with Evan Ratliff himself.
@jbrooksuk +1 more
#136 The Founder
2
Previous reporting by the author of this piece inspired a great Reply All episode, "Pain Funnel."
@docdeek +1 more
#121 Pain Funnel
2
Really excellent listening for anyone new to entrepreneurship, following Alex Blumberg's journey launching his own startup.
@zckly +1 more
#57 - Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media
with Alex Blumberg
2
Excellent Reply All piece on Mexico's dominant party using armies of people on Twitter to drown out news and harass people.
@scott_s +1 more
#112 The Prophet
2
Reply All did a great podcast about a similar issue, it's worth a listen.
@aaronpk +1 more
#104 The Case of the Phantom Caller
2
A pretty good Reply All episode covers this exact problem: tracking down who is behind a spoofed number.
@pavel_lishin +1 more
#102 Long Distance
2
Reply All did a great episode about Google inadvertently assisting scammers, focusing on cheap shady locksmith services sold as sponsored ads.
@bebopfunk +1 more
#78 Very Quickly to the Drill
2
Listen to Reply All episode #52 for more info on whether diverse teams perform better.
@obeid +1 more
#52 Raising The Bar
2
Reply All did a great episode all about Minitel, for those interested.
@gavman +1 more
#10 The French Connection
2
Professors just aren't screaming it from the rooftops. See the most recent Dwarkesh podcast.
@ldjkfkdsjnv +1 more
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
2
Recommended the video (Dwarkesh's episode with Reiner Pope) for its blackboard explanation of LLM inference, though the commenter only skimmed it.
@gghh +1 more
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
2
Terence Tao gave a good interview to Dwarkesh Patel talking about Kepler.
@ainch +1 more
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
with Terence Tao
2
Dario's most recent Dwarkesh interview is worth a listen in any event.
@vessenes +1 more
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
with Dario Amodei
2
Have a lot more respect for Peter after listening to his recent 3hr interview with Lex Fridman. Came away liking and respecting.
@re5i5tor +1 more
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
with Peter , Peter Steinberger
2
If you prefer video format, the author, former OpenAI superalignment team, also just had an interview with Dwarkesh.
@reducesuffering +1 more
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
2
Lex Fridman just dropped a 4 hour podcast with Durov
@NiekvdMaas +1 more
#482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
with Pavel Durov
2
Tao's recent Lex Fridman interview has an interesting bit on the Poincaré conjecture, where he goes out of his way not to use those words.
@coderatlarge +1 more
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
with Terence Tao
2
These interviews are very good: hearing people talk casually about their work is the most efficient way to learn how things work inside the big labs.
@dcre +1 more
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
2
Thompson and Klein sat for 3 hours, which shows they have something to say which stands up to scrutiny.
@chubot +1 more
#462 – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson: Politics, Trump, AOC, Elon & DOGE
2
Lex Fridman's series of interviews with various key people from Anthropic is worth a listen alongside the other AI interviews this week.
@robinhouston +1 more
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
2
Dwarkesh Patel has an excellent talk with David Reich about the broader history of genetics.
@consumer451 +1 more
David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago
with David Reich
2
Elon's recent Lex Fridman episode explains that the hard part of self-driving is world modeling, not brute-force model fitting.
@pas +1 more
#438 – Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
2
Dwarkesh just released an interview with Francois Chollet; I'm very interested in hearing more about his conceptions of the limitations of LLMs.
@bigyikes +1 more
Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles
with Francois Chollet
2
The most recent episode with Paul Christiano has a lot of good discussion on these topics.
@danenania +1 more
Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
with Paul Christiano
2
Dwarkesh always asks great questions, and Matuschak has an amazing knack for interpreting those questions in interesting ways.
@Smaug123 +1 more
Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
with Matuschak , Andy Matuschak
2
Commenter just listened to the three-hour Lex Fridman interview with George Hotz and found it worth the time.
@rmason +1 more
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
with George Hotz
2
Max Tegmark had some pretty awesome words, quite inspiring albeit kind of scary. Worth checking it out.
@ChatGTP +1 more
#371 – Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development
with Max Tegmark
2
I enjoy the interview with him on Lex Fridman's podcast, too. Some repeat of the book, and some new material.
@LVB +1 more
#364 – Chris Voss: FBI Hostage Negotiator
with Chris Voss
2
you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast
@joegahona +1 more
#351 – MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram
with MrBeast
2
Watched a Lex Fridman podcast with Richard Wolff, who made many of the same compelling points.
@ellopoppit +1 more
#295 – Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism
with Richard Wolff
2
Pretty interesting discussion on the negative effects of social media, with Haidt arguing kids shouldn't use Twitter or Facebook before 16 or 18.
@endorphine +1 more
#291 – Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media
with Jonathan Haidt
2
Highly recommend the Lex Fridman podcast interview linked in the other comment!
@istorical +1 more
#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures
with Ariel Ekblaw
2
Jamie Metzl's 5-hour Lex Fridman episode on the lab leak case is compelling, though not proof it happened.
@wand3r +1 more
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
with Jamie Metzl
2
Lex Fridman interviews Neal and it's a wonderful listen.
@samstave +1 more
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
with Neal , Neal Stephenson
2
If you find planet and moon formation interesting, the recent astronomer episodes on Lex Fridman are worth checking out.
@superbaconman +1 more
#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System
with Konstantin Batygin
2
This episode feels like it's from the future. Sara introduces a completely different approach to defining life, one that feels revolutionary.
@bitcurious +1 more
#198 – Sara Walker: The Origin of Life on Earth and Alien Worlds
with Sara Walker
2
Lex Fridman's interview with Sergey, Chainlink founder, is exceptional, if lengthy.
@58x14 +1 more
#181 – Sergey Nazarov: Chainlink, Smart Contracts, and Oracle Networks
2
If anyone's interested, Eric Weinstein was the guest on the latest Lex Fridman episode, where he mentions this article.
@woadwarrior01 +1 more
#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
with Eric Weinstein
2
Highly recommends the episode for learning the history of RISC, computer architecture, and predictions about Moore's Law.
@lukeplato +1 more
#104 – David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage
with David Patterson
2
This excerpt from Lex Fridman's podcast with Stephen Schwarzman provides a fairly good assessment of the situation...it's a rough ride.
@jcims +1 more
#96 – Stephen Schwarzman: Going Big in Business, Investing, and AI
with Stephen Schwarzman
2
I recommend his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast
@codebolt +1 more
#85 – Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe
with Roger Penrose , Penrose
2
See what Goodfellow says in the linked interview, about how linking a knowledge base with a neural network could possibly yield interesting results.
@mindcrime +1 more
Ian Goodfellow: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
with Ian Goodfellow
2
They really rip on Alan Dye and Liquid Glass, faulting its shoddy, inconsistent execution and weak holistic UI design thinking.
@jdelman +1 more
453: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie Mantia
with Louie Mantia
2
Bryan Cantrill's story about the motivation for DTrace, debugging a suspected Solaris networking bug on E10k machines. The ending is great.
@rhinoceraptor +1 more
Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
with Bryan Cantrill
2
Commenter calls the Oxide and Friends episode possibly the most powerful vote of confidence in Rust, on how Rust enabled sweeping storage refactors.
@zellyn +1 more
Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]
2
Relevant Darknet Diaries episode 172; the interviewee seems inept yet still uncovered something interesting and nefarious.
@advisedwang +1 more
172: SuperBox
2
We went on Software Engineering Daily to talk about our tech and architecture, if you'd like to hear our thinking behind those decisions.
@fouadmatin +1 more
SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race
2
Listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast; they have a 4 hour episode about Coca Cola.
@raw_anon_1111 +1 more
Coca-Cola
2
Great conversation with Matt Godbolt on CoRecursive about how abstractions are a lie and exploiting real hardware. Highly recommend a listen.
@_kb +1 more
Story: Godbolt's Rule - When Abstractions Fail
with Matt Godbolt
2
Recently listened to Darknet Diaries episode 153, which has a nice story about stolen bikes and what to do about it.
@vladak +1 more
153: Bike Index
2
+1 for Acquired; their IKEA episode was a particular favorite, even though the show began covering tech acquisitions.
@senkora +1 more
IKEA
2
Every episode of Acquired raises the bar higher. Their most recent episode on Meta is phenomenal.
@azhenley +1 more
Meta
2
Recommended as a podcast alternative to the Dark Wire book: "Truly fascinating story."
@morbicer +1 more
146: ANOM
2
Andres Freund will be on Oxide and Friends with bcantrill and ahl on April 9th at 5pm PT.
@kaliszad +1 more
Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
with Andres Freund
2
Acquired did a 3 hour episode on the history of Renaissance Technologies last month.
@mfiguiere +1 more
Renaissance Technologies
2
Links the Novo Nordisk Ozempic episode as interesting color on the pharma industry, for those who think drug company profits are simply obscene.
@rabf +1 more
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
2
Good podcast here: very, very much worth a listen.
@CharlieDigital +1 more
Story: From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source
with Evan You
2
It's a fascinating story that reads like a tale of industrial espionage.
@samtho +1 more
Story: Sloot Digital Coding System
2
Highly recommends acquired.fm; their Tencent episode on the freemium business model was mind-blowing.
@specialist +1 more
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming
2
Here's a good interview with a guy who taught himself to program while in prison.
@hoosieree +1 more
Story: From Prison To Programming
with Rick Wolter
2
Interview with Stack Overflow's Director of Engineering covering high-level details of their engineering stack.
@artimaeis +1 more
Engineering Stack Overflow with Roberta Arcoverde
with Roberta Arcoverde
2
The "Paths into Systems Programming" episode is relevant and was a good discussion.
@faitswulff +1 more
Paths into Systems Programming
2
Recommends the episode, noting it includes interviews with the people actually selling game hacks and is fascinating; a transcript is available.
@zonkerdonker +1 more
115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
2
Episode with Cheryl Yeoh covers MaGIC's push to scale Malaysian startups regionally, her ReClip.it exit to Walmart, and the most interesting Malaysian startups.
@bleongcw +1 more
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
with Cheryl Yeoh , Brendan Eich
2
An interview with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS on CoRecursive, linked as the episode to hear.
@nasalter +1 more
Story: Serenity OS
with Andreas Kling
2
There's a great discussion about how the robustness principle can lead to massive burden in developing complex software like browser engines.
@adamddev1 +1 more
Chat: The Internet Is Made of Duct Tape
2
Recommends the Darknet Diaries episode about an IT guy who discovered the Puerto Rico State lottery was being rigged.
@0898 +1 more
101: Lotería
2
A great talk by Bryan Cantrill on the history of OS-level virtualization, with the note that the first version of Jails was only a few hundred lines of code.
@kohtatsu +1 more
A brief history of talking computers
with Bryan Cantrill
2
If you're curious about Felienne's content, this interview covers a teaser of it.
@agbell +1 more
SE Radio 462: Felienne on the Programmers Brain
with Felienne
2
I have found this podcast is excellent for getting an overview of subjects like this.
@drice +1 more
SE Radio 447: Michael Perry on Immutable Architecture
with Michael Perry
2
There's also an interesting episode of the darknet diaries podcast about card cloning which I found interesting.
@defer +1 more
85: Cam the Carder
2
You can learn a little about how YouTube recommendations and Facebook's feed work in this interview.
@adamgordonbell +1 more
Story: Reinforcement Learning At Facebook with Jason Gauci
with Jason Gauci
2
Recently came across the Talk Python episode about Dogsheep and Datasette; Dogsheep looks amazing and the SQLite-for-everything philosophy is one to get behind.
@rednafi +1 more
#299: Personal search engine with datasette and dogsheep
with Simon Willison
2
John was great when he went on the On The Metal podcast, though the commenter hasn't listened to this episode themselves.
@thundergolfer +1 more
John Graham-Cumming
2
Commenter likes this CoRecursive interview with Brian Kernighan about what it was like working at Bell Labs.
@molly0 +1 more
Story: The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
with Brian Kernighan
2
If you then also listen to the episode on Acquired, it's eye-opening on how he and Sequoia decide on making investments.
@scapecast +1 more
Adapting Episode 2: Sequoia’s Black Swan Memo (with Roelof Botha)
2
The Jeff Rothschild interview has an interesting career and some hilarious problems; the Kenneth Finnegan episode is an amazing listen.
@spikepuppet +1 more
Jeff Rothschild
with Jeff Rothschild
2
For the audio version of this story from a different source, highly recommends Darknet Diaries episode 50.
@alexpotato +1 more
50: Operation Glowing Symphony
2
CoRecursive is fantastic; the Hal Abelson (SICP) episodes stand out, and the Bryan Cantrill episode was good too.
@amykyta +1 more
Tech Talk: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs with Hal Abelson
with Hal Abelson, Phillip Waddler, Bryan Cantrill , Hal Abelson
2
A very good episode with Bartosz Milewski on category theory; his point that mathematics is inherent to the human brain, not the world, is worth hearing.
@henrik_w +1 more
Tech Talk: Bartosz Milewski on Category Theory
with Bartosz Milewski
2
Listen to the Acquired podcast for a more thorough history of Huawei.
@chrisjc +1 more
Huawei
2
An audio intro to building interpreters from the author of Crafting Interpreters, useful for someone learning handwritten parsers.
@adamgordonbell +1 more
Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom
with Bob Nystrom
2
Darknet Diaries has a great episode on this, called "alarm lamp scooter."
@bluepirate +1 more
39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter
2
Check out the Noria project/database from MIT, I think you'd like it
@Serow225 +1 more
Tech Talk: Rethinking databases and Noria with Jon Gjengset
with Jon Gjengset
2
Interviewed Jamis Buck about burnout and learned a lot; recreational coding helps rekindle fun after burnout.
@agbell +1 more
Burn out and recreational coding with Jamis Buck
with Jamis Buck
2
Bryan Cantrill has a fantastic talk on this, linked as the CoRecursive episode on software as a reflection of values.
@jamincan +1 more
Tech Talk: Software as a Reflection of Values With Bryan Cantrill
with Bryan Cantrill
2
Philip Wadler also recently discussed this on the excellent programming podcast CoRecursive.
@DistantThunder +1 more
Tech Talk: God's Programming Language - Philip Wadler on Haskell
2
Recommends a lengthy Acquired episode for a good understanding of SoftBank's history and the Vision Fund.
@ajmurmann +1 more
SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund
2
The Darknet Diaries episode "The Crypto Wars" covers the history of the PGP encryption fight.
@tapland +1 more
12: Crypto Wars
2
A kid in Africa used a Nokia feature phone's T9 typing before getting a job doing Android development.
@pjmlp +1 more
Developing ON (not for) a Nokia Feature Phone with Elvis Chidera
with Elvis Chidera
2
Fun interview with an Age of Empires II modder; anecdotes on performance costs of moving from assembly 2D sprites to 3D.
@richdougherty +1 more
Forgotten Empires, amazing games - Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman
with Bert Beeckman
2
The latest Software Engineering Radio has an excellent discussion of large-scale IT failure, aka black swans.
@coleca +1 more
SE Radio 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects Fail
2
Recent episode on the OpenAPS project, an open-source DIY artificial pancreas system, relevant to building your own glucose devices.
@ruraljuror +1 more
The Open Artificial Pancreas System (OpenAPS) project with Dana M. Lewis
with Dana M. Lewis
2
Scott Hanselman did a good interview with Rachel Reese from Jet about it, a couple of shows ago.
@ljoshua +1 more
Jet.com scales with Azure, F#, and more with Rachel Reese
with Rachel Reese
2
His interview on Hanselminutes is a great place to start.
@brudgers +1 more
Learning Code The Hard Way with Zed Shaw
with Zed Shaw
2
Stonebraker's SE Radio interview is opinionated, excellent, and should answer why to use VoltDB.
@ruraljuror +1 more
SE Radio 199: Michael Stonebraker on Current Developments in Databases
with Michael Stonebraker
2
Episode 148 of Software Engineering Radio may be helpful, on making sense of large existing codebases.
@limmeau +1 more
Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas
with Dave Thomas
1
Mine was Lex Fridman #227 with Sean Kelly on existentialism, nihilism and the search for meaning.
@h_alpha
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
with Sean Kelly
1
On this episode Myke is joined by Marco Arment, discussing his time at Tumblr, Instapaper, his blog, and the Twitter API.
@imyke
102: Marco Is Not a Platform
with Marco Arment
1
Listened to the On the Metal podcast with Jon Masters; it had good information on current trends in this field.
@rajesh-s
Jon Masters
with Jon Masters
1
PJ Vogt's recent episode on this exact topic is worth a listen; it clarifies how media consumption and Twitter shape how we talk and think.
@jpalawaga
Big Lives: Emmanuel's New Show
1
Corecursive, because I'm making it. Working on new episode about social media algorithms.
@adamgordonbell
From Hacker News to TikTok - How Algorithms Learned to Hook Us
1
Commenter says the episode where the hosts flew to India to track down a phone scammer was their favorite and "incredible."
@dopamean
Casey Wants to Believe
1
This podcast series is definitely on my world treasures list, as a how-it-really-is "histories of today" account.
@jauntywundrkind
How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry
1
The commenter says this Reply All episode taught them about SIM swapping and strongly recommends it to interested listeners.
@heydenberk
A Message About the Future of the Show
1
Reply All did a great episode which went into these OG markets. One of their best.
@smillbag
#177 Gleeks and Gurgles
1
Nice Reply All episode about tracking down and resurrecting an old Flash game.
@adwi
#157 Pierre Delecto and the Spooky Adventure
1
Made the commenter immediately think of this Reply All episode, "The Woman in the Air Conditioner."
@dr-smooth
#147 The Woman in the Air Conditioner
1
A joint episode that is engaging and hilarious, a tale of debugging an overly 'smart' car stereo.
@wdella
#140 The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
1
A crazy story about Foxconn's Wisconsin plant, where NDAs kept residents from pushing back.
@elliekelly
#133 Reply All's 2018 Year End Extravaganza
1
Reply All episode with the Hedonometer's creator, who turns his analysis tools on the host's texting history.
@enragedcacti
#118 A Pirate In Search of a Judge
1
Reply All has a good episode this week that discusses drop shipping.
@HappyRobot
#117 The World's Most Expensive Free Watch
1
Relevant Reply All episode: "Apocalypse Soon" (episode 114), linked as a relevant listen.
@damontal
#114 Apocalypse Soon
1
Reply All did an episode on Facebook spying, really good, and their year-end episode has an update. Both worth a listen.
@hmhrex
#113 Reply All's Year End Extravaganza
1
Reply All did an episode or two on this too, search for "reply all skip tracer".
@notRobot
#107 The Skip Tracer, Part I
1
The latest Reply All episode covers W3C and EME, the web's DRM standard fight.
@raleighm
#90 Matt Lieber Goes to Dinner
with Matt Lieber
1
The excellent Reply All episode on the same subject is great, though it leaves out many details the book brings to life.
@framebit
#86 Man of the People
1
Reply All covered mislocated stolen phones in episode 53, and episode 84 includes a short update on the same Geo IP issue.
@trinkit
#84 Past, Present, Future 2
1
Reply All's episode on a photo storage service's major failures is an interesting case study with similar themes.
@kbenson
#77 The Grand Tapestry Of Pepe
1
There's a great Reply All episode on this: #74 Making Friends.
@rocketmaster1
#74 Making Friends
1
A fascinating episode partly devoted to the etymology of "yass," "throwing shade," and other phrases.
@SeanBoocock
#69 Disappeared
1
Reminds me of this Reply All episode about Paul Modrowski, who has written a blog from inside a maximum security prison without ever seeing the internet.
@personlurking
#64 On the Inside
with Paul Modrowski
1
The podcast Reply All (which you should be listening to) asked a professor who studies predictions whether the Diggler guys are onto something.
@apozem
#58 Earth Pony
1
Reply All had a good podcast about figuring out the real issue in this case.
@jaynos
#53 In The Desert
1
1
An interesting episode about dealing with hate speech on Yik Yak, and how Colgate University handled it.
@bentcorner
#46 Yik Yak Returns
1
Reply All episode #43 "The Law That Sticks" explores how the CFAA is overreaching and was used against Aaron Swartz.
@markandrewj
#43 The Law That Sticks
1
I really appreciated the discussion in this podcast and it helped me gain better respect for the challenges that blind people may face.
@kylehotchkiss
#41 What It Looks Like
with Andrew Leland
1
Reply All recently made an episode about RipoffReport that is interesting.
@motdiem
#40 The Flower Child
1
There's a good Reply All podcast episode about this. They do work.
@NelsonMinar
#18 Silence And Respect
1
The reply all podcast did a decent discussion of the topic.
@Spooky23
#1 - An App Sends A Stranger To Say I Love You (Updated)
1
There's a great Reply All podcast episode that dives much deeper into domain selling.
@bhaumik
#7 This Website Is For Sale
1
Reply All, an excellent internet podcast did an episode about jennicam. Pretty interesting stuff.
@brohoolio
#5 Jennicam
1
The recent Machiavelli podcast has an interesting part on how the Inquisition, printmakers, and authors collaborated on censorship, establishing an early copyright.
@adolph
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
1
Lex Fridman had an interesting podcast on IQ a few months ago, with a link to the episode.
@jwatt
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
1
Good Dwarkesh Podcast episode, a deep dive into the semiconductor industry and its bottlenecks.
@senordevnyc
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
1
Read/watch this interview with Ada Palmer on her new book about the Renaissance. Florence did this for a time.
@npunt
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
with Ada Palmer
1
See the recent Dwarkesh interview with Elon: a direct pointer to an episode answering the orbital data center question.
@Geee
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
with Elon Musk
1
Lex Fridman has an excellent interview with a state of the art intelligence researcher; the researcher covers what is known, how it is known, and what has been proven wrong.
@SideQuark
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
1
This interview sent me down a Finkel interview rabbit hole, as he makes a delightful guest.
@GeekyBear
#487 – Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths
with Irving Finkel
1
Strongly recommends the Karpathy episode: AI will spread slowly, automating more manual work each year until it's indispensable.
@spaceywilly
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
with Andrej Karpathy
1
Check out Nick Land on Dwarkesh. Self organization might just be the second law of thermodynamics in action
@vatsachak
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
with Nick Land
1
Sergey Levine sat for an excellent Dwarkesh podcast episode this year, which the commenter thoroughly recommends.
@chrishare
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
with Sergey Levine
1
Recommends every Dwarkesh Patel episode with Sarah C. M. Paine, saying history is the best teacher and that they learned a lot from each.
@consumer451
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
with Sarah C. M. Paine
1
Discusses how AI can either help you learn or rob you of learning, depending on whether you go fast or slower and more educational.
@MilnerRoute
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
1
Dwarkesh Patel interviewed two of the post's authors, Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo, released the same day.
@yonran
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
1
Lex Fridman interviewed Modi recently, worth a listen or read.
@hagbard_c
#460 – Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India – Power, Democracy, War & Peace
with Modi
1
If you're not listening to Dwarkesh Patel's podcast, you're missing out; the boring parts with Satya Nadella on AGI and growth are the most interesting.
@consumer451
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
with Satya Nadella
1
One of my favorite interviews; the Naval War College professor used Dwarkesh's questions as a launching platform for informed insight.
@DevX101
Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)
1
There's a very entertaining Dwarkesh podcast with Adam Brown about this
@thatguymike
Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
with Adam Brown
1
The Cursor founders' Lex Fridman episode covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than the commenter could.
@rco8786
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
with Cursor founders
1
For an opposing view, he points to a very long interview with Leopold Aschenbrenner on Dwarkesh Patel's show.
@tkgally
Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history
1
There's an interesting podcast episode of Lex Fridman with Charan Ranganath in case people are looking for more on the topic
@fruit_snack
#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
with Charan Ranganath
1
Just started watching the new Dwarkesh interview with Zuck; you can tell from the first few minutes he has far more enthusiasm and engagement than 99% of big tech CEOs.
@eigenvalue
Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters
with Mark Zuckerberg
1
Search the transcript for "circuit" for the quick bits on circuit tracing insights.
@rob-olmos
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
1
Watch his recent Lex Fridman interview. Personally I thought it was great, but many low-knowledge people will judge such demeanor harshly.
@schiffern
#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
with Sam
1
Was pretty interesting. Definitely raised some strong points.
@boristsr
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
with Yann LeCun
1
Serhii Plokhy's Lex Fridman interview covers why people in Russia prefer a strongman over weak leadership.
@Gravityloss
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
with Serhii Plokhy
1
Lex Fridman has a long interview with Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics, which is really excellent.
@adriancooney
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
with Marc Raibert
1
Recommends this interview with Guillaume Verdon, a physicist and quantum computing researcher who founded the e/acc movement.
@samstave
#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI
with Guillaume Verdon
1
Jeff Bezos has it right; his interview on the Lex Fridman podcast explains the nuance in his data analysis approach.
@nradov
#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
with Jeff Bezos
1
This Lex Fridman interview with Greg Lukianoff provides more useful information on the subject than the article.
@kieranmaine
#397 – Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
with Greg Lukianoff
1
Go listen to RFK on Lex Fridman; he's pretty reasonable on every topic and willing to change his position.
@evo_9
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning
1
The entire episode is very much worth listening to if you want a nuanced perspective on race problems in the US.
@ajmurmann
#379 – Randall Kennedy: The N-Word – History of Race, Law, Politics, and Power
with Randall Kennedy
1
I found this podcast episode helpful for me to process what I've felt.
@chang1
#376 – Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation
with Stephen Wolfram
1
Frenkel was also recently a guest on Lex Fridman's podcast, very interesting.
@nairboon
#370 – Edward Frenkel: Reality is a Paradox – Mathematics, Physics, Truth & Love
with Edward Frenkel
1
First half, up to the 1 hour mark, is interesting enough to warrant a listen.
@capableweb
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
1
The Lex Fridman episode with Aaron Smith-Levin, a former Scientology insider, made the commenter think Scientology has been overly vilified.
@DuckFeathers
#361 – Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology
with Aaron Smith-Levin
1
A relevant interview between Dwarkesh Patel and Marc Andreessen on James Burnham's ideas about the managerial class arising at scale.
@deevolution
Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution
with Marc Andreessen
1
I love this Lex Fridman interview of a nuclear-fusion physicist at MIT.
@mcbishop
#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
1
I particularly like his interview with Dwarkesh Patel
@adverbly
Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high
with Lars Doucet
1
Coffee's recent interview on the Lex Fridman podcast gives more background to these investigations
@raphlinus
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
with Coffeezilla
1
Recommends Lex Fridman Podcast #344 featuring Noam Brown.
@xdavidliu
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
with Noam Brown
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Todd Howard goes into this in depth.
@marsten
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
with Todd Howard
1
The Kurzweil podcast appearance on Lex Fridman is nuts; listening to even half of it makes the dystopian outlook worse.
@samstave
#321 – Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality
with Kurzweil
1
Training in certain methods helps you tell which insights from a psychedelic state are actually "real" versus just noise.
@s0berpotato
#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom
with John Vervaeke
1
Ryan Graves's Lex Fridman interview explains the stigma of reporting UAP sightings as a military pilot.
@stevenhuang
#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens
with Ryan Graves
1
Lex Fridman's Brian Armstrong episode is worth hearing, including the funny bit about older banking systems running on "cobalt".
@trollied
#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation
with Brian Armstrong
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Oriol Vinyals on Lex's AI podcast covers this in more depth.
@nicwilson
#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence
with Oriol Vinyals
1
Steve Keen's Lex Fridman episode lays out the flaws of neoclassical economics and how banks create money; it made the whole subject click.
@kranke155
#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
with Steve Keen
1
A recent Grimes interview on Lex Fridman had interesting, good things to say about music and your brain aging.
@chubot
#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
with Grimes
1
There was an interesting Lex Fridman podcast recently featuring Michael Saylor, on the advantages of bitcoin as a 'property' as opposed to a 'security'.
@benrow
#276 – Michael Saylor: Bitcoin, Inflation, and the Future of Money
with Michael Saylor
1
Highly recommends the Lex Fridman episode with Lee Cronin on the origins of life and complexity theory; it changed the commenter's view of life and the universe.
@nomel
#269 – Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness
with Lee Cronin
1
Calls the Lex Fridman interview with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya "excellent," arguing protecting the vulnerable would have been more effective than trying to contain the virus.
@herdcall
#254 – Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns
with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
1
If you want interview style he was on the Lex Fridman Podcast #251 too.
@WestCoastJustin
#251 – Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
with Ray Dalio
1
Peter Wang in the recent Lex Fridman interview gave names for concepts about the pitfalls of "homogeneous demand" created by ads and algorithms.
@loceng
#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
with Peter Wang
1
Amazing interview. Makes me hopeful for the future.
@cheeko1234
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
1
Lex Fridman's interview with the NIH director was eye-opening.
@systemvoltage
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
1
Watch Lex Fridman interview Michael Mina about cheap rapid testing that's not available because of regulatory roadblocks. It's an infuriating listen.
@gnusty_gnurc
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
with Michael Mina
1
Recently heard this podcast with Lex Fridman and Carl Hart, author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups, and talks about this.
@rogereur
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
with Carl Hart
1
Highly recommend episode #231 of Lex Fridman talking to Alex Gladstein; a long but interesting discussion on human rights, democracy, and money.
@jazzyjackson
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
with Alex Gladstein
1
Lex Fridman's interview with Richard Wrangham on violence in human history and how we differ from other great apes was thought provoking and introduced new concepts.
@egman_ekki
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
with Richard Wrangham
1
If in doubt, check out the Lex Fridman podcast with NumPy creator Travis Oliphant; he pronounces "Py" as "pie".
@windsignaling
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
with Travis Oliphant
1
I don't really like Lex Fridman, but this interview is excellent.
@lanstin
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
with Donald Knuth
1
Rick Doblin just on Lex Fridman's podcast, with a link to the episode.
@jcims
#202 – Rick Doblin: Psychedelics
with Rick Doblin
1
Full podcast which is more about Johnson's brain monitoring device
@indigodaddy
#186 – Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces
with Johnson
1
Katherine de Kleer's Io segment, starting about 14 minutes in, explains Io as the Jupiter system's massive polluter.
@pengaru
#184 – Katherine de Kleer: Planets, Moons, and Asteroids in Our Solar System
with Katherine de Kleer
1
Risto Miikkulainen discusses evolutionary computation tuning plant growing recipes, including finding basil grows best under 24 hours of light.
@mkolodny
#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
with Risto Miikkulainen
1
I really enjoyed listening to Cal on the Lex Fridman podcast a few weeks ago.
@gabrielsroka
#166 – Cal Newport: Deep Work, Focus, Productivity, Email, and Social Media
with Cal Newport
1
Listen to Mina's Lex Fridman interview; he details what rapid tests do and how the US government mismanaged self-testing.
@AtomicOrbital
#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
with Michael Mina
1
Shared as "of interest to this thread": a Lex Fridman episode with psychedelics researcher Matthew Johnson.
@cheezeburger
#145 – Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics
with Matthew W. Johnson
1
go watch Lex Fridman's first interview with Andrew Huberman if you want to see him explain it properly.
@ZephyrBlu
#139 – Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance
with Andrew Huberman
1
Carlin's interview on the Lex Fridman podcast was great.
@piyh
#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
with Dan Carlin
1
Two-hour Lex Fridman interview with George Hotz on why cameras will beat lidar for self-driving, and whether level 5 can pay off.
@rmason
#132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets
with George Hotz
1
Worth listening: she explains how constant prediction is the most efficient way for a brain to run, rather than reaction.
@nsbk
#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
with Lisa Feldman Barrett
1
I watched this the other day; he's not some total lunatic, he's actually very intelligent, and much of what he says deserves a seat at the adults table.
@mistermann
#128 – Michael Malice: Anarchy, Democracy, Libertarianism, Love, and Trolling
with Michael Malice
1
Really interesting episode with him talking about it on Lex Fridman's podcast. Feels like there's something there.
@jcims
#124 – Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe
1
Manolis Kellis discusses similar ideas on Lex Fridman, arguing the Greeks embraced all emotions, not just happy endings.
@nomilk
#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
with Manolis Kellis
1
Lex Fridman discussed this topic with François Chollet in "Measures of Intelligence". Highly recommended, lengthy but really worth it.
@yamrzou
#120 – François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence
with François Chollet
1
Great interview with Brian on Lex Fridman's podcast, linked from the comment.
@jcims
#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming
with Brian Kernighan
1
Joscha Bach's first Lex Fridman interview is a good start; he has the best model of consciousness I've come across.
@LichenStone
#101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
with Joscha Bach
1
The idea that visual and language generation could be generalized with the same underlying model was the most interesting part of the episode.
@saeranv
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
with Ilya Sutskever
1
The best take down of Twitter comes from Jack Dorsey in this interview, especially his history of machine learning at Square.
@specialist
#91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence
with Jack Dorsey
1
The recent interview with David Silver on Lex Fridman's podcast touches on this towards the end
@dharma1
#86 – David Silver: AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
with David Silver
1
Listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating, and the way he thinks is impressive.
@neillyons
#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money
with Founder of Ethereum
1
Corecursive's interview of DHH delighted me; I loved him and regret not paying attention sooner.
@specialist
Story: David Heinemeier Hansson, Software Contrarian
1
If you find the youtube algorithm interesting, you may like this interview with the guy in charge of the team who works on it.
@rland
Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm
with Head of the YouTube recommendation algorithm team (unnamed in comment)
1
Fascinating to learn how much energy Don Knuth still spends verifying newly published algorithms.
@jhncls
Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming
with Don Knuth
1
Judea Pearl's answer on how mathematics should be taught is worth hearing, as the commenter says it's in the Lex Fridman interview.
@calebjosue
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
with Judea Pearl
1
I watched Lex Fridman's interview with him and he seemed very nice and thoughtful.
@ZephyrBlu
Jeremy Howard: fast.ai Deep Learning Courses and Research
with fast.ai author (named in the parent thread's fast.ai post; name not given in this comment)
1
Interview on brain organoids with Harvard neuroscientist Paola Arlotta, covering whether they may one day have consciousness properties.
@rsiqueira
Paola Arlotta: Brain Development from Stem Cell to Organoid
with Paola Arlotta
1
He's definitely an interesting guy. He was on the Lex Fridman podcast twice, in August 2019 and October 2020.
@merryje
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles
with George Hotz
1
I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner that I thought were interesting
@mwattsun
Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators
with Chris Lattner
1
Highly recommended: Lex Fridman's podcast with Greg Brockman explains OpenAI's rationale for its recent org changes.
@jcims
Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI
with Greg Brockman
1
Eric Weinstein discusses with Lex Fridman how communication became decentralized, global, and instantaneous, changing how ideas spread.
@loceng
Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society
with Eric Weinstein
1
Episode covers the company's tech and architecture, including the reasoning behind their access-control decisions.
@fouadmatin
AI Regulation and What Every Tech Company Should Know
1
The Software Engineering Daily podcast has a good ongoing series on ad fraud that explores why that isn't happening.
@thearn4
Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres
1
Older Software Engineering Daily episodes on distributed systems are still incredibly relevant for today's edge-computing challenges.
@CodeBit26
A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems
1
A great Software Engineering Daily episode with Elio Rivero goes into depth on Deno, TypeScript, and JavaScript support.
@gnabgib
TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next
with Elio Rivero
1
Yann Collet's interview tells how a hobby game for an HP 48 calculator led to LZ4 and zstd.
@adamgordonbell
The Hutter Prize: Compression, prediction, and the limits of intelligence
with Yann Collet
1
Anurag Goel gives a reasonable explanation of why Render is superior to Heroku, at 29:15 in the transcript.
@voidmain0001
SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost Reckoning
with Anurag Goel
1
Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky's podcast episode had the smartest take on the new MacBook: no point building more powerful PCs.
@nl
Steven Sinofsky on AI PCs, NVIDIA, and the Future of Computing
1
I also was on SEDaily a while back on the same topic, linking the serverless code episode with Ryan Scott Brown.
@ryan_sb
Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd
with Ryan Scott Brown
1
Recommends this episode with IPFS creator Juan Benet for more details on IPFS and its other potential uses.
@spuz
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev
with Juan Benet
1
There was a great Software Engineering Daily podcast about it
@gnabgib
Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek
with Daniel Green
1
The a16z podcast is information-dense and asks the right questions; the Novartis CEO episode gives detailed insight on the future of medicine.
@alehul
Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company
with Novartis CEO
1
If you are interested, Software Engineering Daily recently did an interview with him about the topic
@jdormit
WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg
with Brendan Eich
1
Episode on engineering rigor in the LLM age directly addresses using AI to build software better, not just faster.
@Philpax
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
1
Explains "Intelligent Override," the ability to go beyond processes to get customers and solve problems the right way.
@Brajeshwar
Wartime vs Peacetime: Ben Horowitz on Leadership
with Ben Horowitz
1
The commenter says a Darknet Diaries episode shows Maxie Reynolds making underwater data centers work as a business, though they doubt it scales.
@De_Delph
166: Maxie
with Maxie Reynolds
1
See the recent Talk Python podcast featuring some Pyrefly team members on fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python.
@brianzelip
#523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python
1
The commenter calls the talk extraordinary, one of the best on challenges of large systems software, and says Dave discussed it on Oxide and Friends.
@bcantrill
Systems Software in the Large
with Dave
1
I can recommend the recent discussion around bots on the a16z podcast.
@usethis
Enabling Agents and Battling Bots on an AI-Centric Web
1
The Acquired episode with Steve Ballmer makes the case that he deserves much of the credit for Azure's success.
@kridsdale3
The Steve Ballmer Interview
with Steve Ballmer
1
I feel like we had a good Oxide and Friends on this too... has some info about our power setup.
@steveklabnik
Bringing up Cosmo
1
the Acquired podcast recently did an episode on Epic and it is great.
@tylervigen
Epic Systems (MyChart)
1
Chris Wanstrath of GitHub cited a specific video as what got him into Git, on his Changelog Show episode.
@petercooper
Turn him into a walrus (Changelog & Friends #87)
with Chris Wanstrath
1
It's also a great example of a tech/dev investigation into root-cause analysis, of someone else's code.
@thisdougb
Story: briffa_sep98_e.pro - The File That Sparked a Storm
1
Steve Klabnik discusses how the early Rust team recognised the importance of tools like this; it's well worth a listen.
@K0nserv
A Happy Day For Rust
with Steve Klabnik
1
John's explanation of case sensitivity and file systems is a real gem
@tresp
629: An Upsetting and Confusing Time to Be Me
1
Chris Dixon on how crypto aligns user and investor interests, and why Google and Facebook don't.
@Dwolb
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
with Chris Dixon
1
We did a deep-dive on CS Unplugged with the program's creator, Tim Bell, on The Changelog last year.
@jerodsanto
Deep-dive into DeepSeek (Practical AI #302)
with Tim Bell
1
A fantastic discussion of AI agents, the problems with their definitions, and at least one promising use case.
@williamstein
Predictions 2025
1
The Acquired podcast covers the full family history behind Mars, Inc., in its "Mars Inc: The Chocolate Story" episode.
@randogp
Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
1
Darknet Diaries just released an episode on a similar attack via an MSP, covering what remediation looks like.
@Cycl0ps
152: Stacc Attack
1
Yehuda and Tom talked about "stability without stagnation" and the philosophy behind Ember 2.0 on episode 131.
@sant0sk1
Abstractions and implementations (Ship It! #131)
1
Recommends the Oxide and Friends episode on technical blogging, arguing static site generators make writing more worthwhile than ever.
@bcantrill
Technical Blogging
1
Episode 160 darknet diaries, linking the Mobman legitimate episode on the Darknet Diaries subreddit.
@sam345
150: mobman 2
1
A very recent episode on building agents with SOTA models: many use cases need less abstraction than assumed, so focus on tools.
@marcklingen
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)
1
Oxide offers an episode on RFDs with colleagues Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo, for readers interested in the process.
@bcantrill
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
with Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, Augustus Mayo
1
If you want to learn more about MSFT during Ballmer era, I highly recommend the Acquired podcast's Microsoft Volume II episode.
@bjoveski
Microsoft Volume II
1
Snover talked about the creation of PowerShell on the Corecursive podcast a couple years ago, well worth a listen.
@thewebguyd
Story: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
with Jeffrey Snover
1
One of my favorite interviews in recent years; all of the hosts are very technical.
@scarface_74
ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
with Chris Lattner
1
The Starbucks episode has a long conversation on how mobile ordering affects third places, with Howard Schultz on the record.
@satvikpendem
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz)
with Howard Schultz
1
Oxide and Friends has good coverage on the book, so it's worth a listen alongside the book itself.
@kierangill
Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
1
A recorded debate between Bryan Cantrill and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on whether we would have had to invent Linux.
@ghaff
All we have to fear is FUD itself
1
ATP episode 581 had a great conversation about why Teams is winning: Microsoft bundled it free with Office.
@_diyar
581: A Different Way to Be Evil
1
Although it's rambling at times, the commenter loves the show, and the Crucible storage episode was awesome for someone interested in storage.
@louwrentius
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
1
Nadia is amazing; her Changelog episode taught the commenter a lot, recommended as a deeper dive after her talk.
@jerodsanto
Taking on Goliath (Changelog Interviews #577)
with Nadia
1
I personally liked the podcast episode from Darknet Diaries on this issue
@xyst
141: The Pig Butcher
1
Michael Kennedy's Python Web Conference talk covers this HTMX partials question, and his jinja_partials library may be what you're looking for.
@pythonbynight
#437: HTMX for Django Developers (And All of Us)
with Michael Kennedy
1
This four part podcast does a great job looking behind the curtain at Musk's carefully sculpted image.
@sandofsky
Elon Musk Unmasked: Origins of an Oligarch (Part 1)
1
Covers the story of the software and why it's cool: lightweight, copyable text, and scalable fonts unlike video.
@tlavoie
Coming to asciinema near you (Changelog Interviews #561)
1
Oxide and Friends episode on it! It's quite good
@vsgherzi
Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride
1
There's an excellent podcast called Acquired with a 3-part episode covering the birth and evolution of NVIDIA, highly recommended.
@cseleborg
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)
1
A16Z just released a podcast about this. They explore the nuances of what the rules require, and how various types of companies are responding to them.
@gnicholas
Salary Transparency: Clarity or Chaos?
1
A recent Darknet Diaries episode about Predator is worth a listen for anyone interested.
@ruthie_cohen
137: Predator
1
Some of the OpenTF team joined us on Oxide and Friends to talk about the project. It was a great conversation.
@ahl
Fork in the road for Terraform?
with OpenTF team
1
Darknet Diaries did a great episode about that case.
@pouulet
136: Team Xecuter
1
Friendly, wholesome interview where Metcalfe covers Ethernet's rebranded signalling schemes and his geothermal work.
@NortySpock
From Ethernet to Geothermal Energy with Bob Metcalfe
with Bob Metcalfe
1
Porsche's family owners faced a 90% German ownership tax, so they reinvested in R&D instead, which led to Porsche's racing team.
@mushufasa
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro)
with Doug DeMuro
1
Oxide and Friends episode on virtualizing time explains live-migrating containers between racks without the VM noticing.
@NortySpock
Virtualizing Time
1
Hanselminutes episode on Blazor is really interesting; explains Blazor runs a WASM build of the CLR interpreting .NET DLLs.
@binarynate
Blazor Web Assembly by Example with Toi B. Wright
1
The post-show of Episode 535 captures the gist of Marco Arment's take on how to balance app pricing models.
@sco1
535: My Computer Supports Math
1
By far my favorite discussion about it was Oxide's last podcast, with Erin Kissane as guest.
@grimgrin
Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)
with Erin Kissane
1
I'd suggest listening to the 2-part Acquired podcast episodes about Nintendo if you haven't already.
@gabrielizaias
Nintendo: The Console Wars
1
Two favorites this year; the SVB episode with Eric Vishria was super interesting from their perspective.
@tuckerman
On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
with Eric Vishria
1
Corecursive had an interesting episode with a good story about mobile UI.
@baumschubser
Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
with Shai Almog
1
Listed as a favorite from their podcast app: "What it takes to scale engineering" with Rachel Potvin.
@hortonew
What it takes to scale engineering (Changelog Interviews #527)
with Rachel Potvin
1
A wonderful CoRecursive episode that touches on unexpected ways to work with Apple.
@CoastalCoder
Story: Shipping Graphing Calculator
1
Good talk with a mainframe teacher; a great guide if you're curious about mainframes.
@ralphc
Mainframes are still a big thing (Changelog Interviews #524)
with Cameron Seay
1
Go Time's two-part 'Who Owns Our Code' episodes, plus Changelog's Cory Doctorow episode and JS Party's ESM packaging episode, are worth a listen.
@pcthrowaway
Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263)
1
Points readers to the Oxide and Friends episode "The Power of Proto Boards" for more detail on the company's approach.
@bcantrill
The Power of Proto Boards!
1
Latest Talk Python To Me episode features someone who helped produce the M87 black hole images.
@smcl
#398: Imaging Black Holes with Python
1
Darknet Diaries has a good story about streaming devices, worth a listen.
@skinfaxi
131: Welcome to Video
1
Commenter enjoyed the CoRecursive interview with Burger Becky about porting DOOM to the 3DO and highly recommends a listen.
@netule
Story: DOOMed to Fail
with Burger Becky
1
Interesting discussion of PyScript running in the browser on MicroPython; the WebAssembly build is about 300k and loads in under 100ms.
@vanous
#391: Pyscript powered by MicroPython
1
Great interview of Devon Zuegel, former PM for GitHub Sponsors, on The Changelog.
@np32
Kindle as a smart device, Changelog on Mastodon, GPT-3 up in your CLI, no arch better than bad arch & Mish Manners (Changelog News #21)
with Devon Zuegel
1
Listened to the Acquired episode on the story of Qualcomm; the commenter says it is highly related to the topic.
@neduma
Qualcomm
1
My favorite has got to be the Software World Tour one.
@zxt_tzx
Story: Software World Tour
with Son Luong Ngoc
1
The Changelog covered Sean, who learned in public and bootstrapped his way into a software career, a useful story for someone switching into IT.
@gigatexal
Harmonai revisited, lessons learned from public salary, Open Core Ventures, Stripe is Paypal in 2010 & Helix (Changelog News #17)
with Sean
1
Neon's CEO Nikita was a Changelog guest, and the episode is well worth a listen.
@boomskats
Taking Postgres serverless (Changelog Interviews #510)
with Nikita
1
The Oxide and Friends episode on holistic boot explains how the host CPU is booted on Oxide compute sleds.
@bcantrill
Holistic Boot
1
They did another one on the book Losing the Signal about the rise and fall of Blackberry, which is worth checking out.
@matt_daemon
Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff
with Sean Silcoff
1
Heard about RethinkDB on SE Radio and The Changelog; it sounds very promising for real-time web apps, and the new Java support helps JVM users.
@sharms
Modern Software Engineering (Ship It! #71)
1
1
If you're curious in the details, we have discussed them quite a bit in our Oxide and Friends podcast.
@bcantrill
Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making
1
The author of Flet was interviewed on Talk Python To Me, covering building Flutter apps in Python.
@bitinerant
#378: Flet: Flutter apps in Python
with The author of Flet
1
The Optane episode's discussion was amazing; the show is a shining beacon of actual engineering.
@rcarmo
RIP Optane
1
The CPAN episode is a good listen even if you're not that interested in Perl anymore.
@guilherme-puida
CPAN - This Day In History
1
Explains how TikTok labels videos so its algorithm can see content, then optimises for joy and happiness responses.
@asimpleusecase
Tiktok's Algorithm and Creativity Network Effects
1
The a16z podcast had an interesting episode with the author of this article, discussing GDP and energy usage divergence and other ideas from his book.
@sime
More from Less: The Environment, Capitalism, and Technology
with The author of the linked a16z article (name not given in comment)
1
Episode 119 of Darknet Diaries discusses North Korea's crypto heists, a partial answer to how stolen Bitcoin is funneled into weapons programs.
@frobolo
119: Hot Wallets
1
Went through the entire backlog; standout episodes include Engineering Culture and The Rise and Fall of DEC.
@sfaxon
The Rise and Fall of DEC
1
Insights into the SIM swapping scene and the bigger heists explained in this episode.
@somedude895
118: Hot Swaps
1
Shares an interesting Bankless episode with Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon of a16z on reinventing the internet.
@houseatrielah
120 - Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon of a16z | Reinventing the Internet
1
The SE radio podcast has an episode with them and I enjoyed it, FYI.
@flakiness
SE Radio 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)
with Ant Wilson
1
They did an interview two weeks ago about this on the Changelog podcast with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess, now at Supabase.
@kyrra
The story of Vitess (Changelog Interviews #485)
with Sugu Sougoumarane
1
Alternate link to the episode, which the commenter presents as the place to hear the story discussed.
@adamgordonbell
Story: The Story Graph with Nadia Odunayo
with Nadia Odunayo
1
Listen to the Changelog episode featuring OP, focused on Socket.
@brianzelip
Securing the open source supply chain (Changelog Interviews #482)
1
The Taylor Swift episode does a fantastic job of explaining why artists barely make money on streaming services, unlike radio.
@dilippkumar
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)
1
There's a great ATP episode about using Apple's models for podcast transcribing at scale for Overcast.app.
@dewey
466: There’s Probably a Wizard for It
1
I would also recommend the conversation that we had with Robison on Oxide and Friends shortly after the book was published.
@bcantrill
Flying Blind with Peter Robison
with Peter Robison
1
Fantastic physical pentest stories on Darknet Diaries; episode 107 is the one referring to Alethe.
@richardw
107: Alethe
1
There's an episode on Acquired with him where he talks about FTX. Would definitely recommend!
@dannyeei
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
with Sam Bankman-Fried
1
Recent Talk Python episode with M. Kennedy helped explain SQLAlchemy's expectations for SQL and the async "dark secrets"; highly recommended for anyone learning async or SQLAlchemy.
@bredren
#344: SQLAlchemy 2.0
with Mike Bayer
1
Talks through the challenges of high-speed circuit design and debugging hardware bring-up, e.g. 'Tales from the Bring Up Lab'.
@benrow
Tales from the Bringup Lab
1
There was a really interesting podcast about them from a16z a few days ago too.
@atlasunshrugged
Play-to-Earn Gaming and How Work is Evolving in Web3
1
Coder's Block episode had good stuff; best part: when stuck, write debugging infrastructure.
@EdwardCoffin
Coder's Block
1
Darknet Diaries is one of my favorite podcasts; the Money Maker episode about a counterfeiter is a fantastic story.
@guiambros
102: Money Maker
1
Rich is a game changer for output in Python, and the episode covers many of its design aspects.
@windexh8er
#336: Terminal magic with Rich and Textual
with Will McGugan
1
A recent a16z podcast with Dell, Martin Casado and Andreessen that I enjoyed.
@ridruejo
Cloud Wars and Company Wars: Play Nice But Win
1
The episode on Standard Oil is extremely good.
@dannyeei
Standard Oil Part I
1
Oxide and Friends is compelling; episodes like "Tales from the Bringup Lab" show why, and fans of On the Metal won't be disappointed.
@bcantrill
Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
1
Darknet Diaries is so good; highly recommends it, calling the story about JSR and NSO "buck wild."
@goblinux
99: The Spy
1
Very inspiring interview with the Auth0 co-founder; highly recommended.
@vivab0rg
Leading Auth0 to a $6.5 billion acquisition (Founders Talk #78)
1
If you don't understand the details of how this works, this podcast episode sums it up and discusses the implications.
@henrikeh
443: A Storm of Asterisks
1
Daniel Townsend was interviewed in the Jul 22 episode of the Talk Python podcast, about Piccolo, a fast async ORM for Python.
@celias
#328: Piccolo: A fast, async ORM for Python (updated)
with Daniel Townsend
1
Featured on Talk Python's episode 327 on little automation tools in Python. A great episode!
@brianzelip
#327: Little Automation Tools in Python
1
Interview where Deutsch retells the history of the fallacies of distributed computing and corrects common misattributions about their origin.
@jeffdoolittle
SE Radio 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
with L. Peter Deutsch
1
Worth a listen: The Changelog's episode with Rasmus Andersson covers his path as a software creator, Playbit, and the Inter typeface.
@simonz05
The story behind Inter (Changelog Interviews #449)
with Rasmus Andersson
1
Episode 96 of Darknet Diaries, a ransomware story about a police station's exposed admin RDP, is very worth a listen.
@username190
96: The Police Station Incident
1
Episodes 90 and 95 are my faves; GREAT stuff, and it's a tie for favorite Darknet Diaries episode.
@geocrasher
95: Jon & Brian's Big Adventure
with Jenny Radcliffe (ep. 90); Jon and Brian, RedTeam Security pentesters (ep. 95)
1
Check out this episode of a16z; they go into details on use cases for HD maps.
@starlord97
NFT Use Cases, Today and Tomorrow
1
If you enjoyed this, you might enjoy 'Smart Contract Rescue' where Dan Robinson describes the original 'Ethereum is a Dark Forest' problem.
@adamgordonbell
Story: Ethereum Rescue
with Dan Robinson
1
Darknet Diaries has a great episode on this if you want an audio version of this story.
@xt00
89: Cybereason - Molerats in the Cloud
1
The "Apple 2001" episode is a great one to get started with.
@JonathanBuchh
Story: Apple 2001
with David Shayer
1
Check out Darknet Diaries: some episodes reveal how top hackers were taken down by the FBI, often in surprising ways.
@softwarebeware
87: Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers
1
I follow the clubhouse boss talk podcasts from a16z despite not being on clubhouse which I find very informative.
@sjg007
Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz
1
Swift UI still pales in capabilities to AppKit. Listen to this week rant on Apple's UI Frameworks at ATP podcast.
@pjmlp
419: This Week’s Gasp
1
The researcher also told this story on DarkNet Diaries Ep 84, "Jet-Setters." It's worth a listen.
@chatmasta
84: Jet-setters
1
Commenter says the most recent On The Metal episode with Ken Shirriff is very good.
@dint
Ken Shirriff
with Ken Shirriff
1
Interesting episode where a former NSA analyst describes automating one-time pad encryption for field agents.
@afrodc_
83: NSA Cryptologists
1
Darknet Diaries' episode on the Pwn2Own CTF at CanSecWest, with a VM escape competition, is a great listen for beginners.
@ThisIsTheWay
82: Master of Pwn
1
A good Darknet Diaries episode about a social engineer who makes money from SEC bounties.
@0898
80: The Whistleblower
1
Scott Hanselman interviewed one of the paper's authors, who explains the research in a very accessible way.
@petercooper
TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola
with Isabel Cachola
1
There's a Darknet Diaries episode about it, plus a Wired piece by Andy Greenberg on the 2018 Olympics destroyer cyberattack.
@bollos
77: Olympic Destroyer
1
A recent episode about engineering at Shopify that I enjoyed.
@timvdalen
Shopify’s massive storefront rewrite (Changelog Interviews #416)
1
The Changelog did a big podcast covering off all the details on both the GitLab/Gitter and Element/Matrix side.
@Arathorn
Gitter’s big adventure (Changelog Interviews #414)
1
Helped position Epic Games and Sweeney in gaming history context; worth listening to.
@qwertox
Epic Games
1
Incredibly thoughtful and insightful, with a lot to offer anyone whose interests involve software and engineering.
@kdtsh
Story: Memento Mori
with Kate Gregory
1
A very interesting interview with the author on the a16z podcast; the commenter learned a few things from it.
@biztos
Working, Making, Creating in Public... and Private
with the author of the linked essay (name not given in the comment)
1
The core Elixir folks are running a new venture, and the commenter links the Changelog episode about it.
@Plugawy
What's next for José Valim and Elixir? (Changelog Interviews #402)
1
Reminds me of the Darknet Diaries podcast episode 69, linked for readers to listen to.
@katsura
69: Human Hacker
1
Software That Doesn't Suck with Jim Blandy is a personal favorite.
@agbell
Story: Software That Doesn't Suck With Jim Blandy
with Jim Blandy
1
Full transcript of the TRITON episode on an OT malware attack that threatened a Saudi chemical plant and human life.
@nataz
68: Triton
with Julian Gutmanis, Naser Aldossary, Marina Krotofil, Robert M. Lee
1
Darknet Diaries episode 67, The Big House, where he gets his mum to break into a prison for him: so well done.
@beatthatflight
67: The Big House
1
For those that want a great history of the company, I recommend the most recent acquired episode.
@nknealk
SpaceX
1
The Changelog episode 395 with GitHub's CTO, plus a Software Engineering Daily episode on Slack's data platform, are favorites.
@sid6376
Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Changelog Interviews #395)
1
Expert interviews and stories explain psychological operations; it left them uncomfortable yet taught them something.
@oAlbe
65: PSYOP
1
The recent Changelog episode on Let's Encrypt covers how it got started. Amazing job; listen to it or read the transcript.
@frogcoder
Securing the web with Let's Encrypt (Changelog Interviews #389)
1
Episode 371 is two and a half hours of Chris Lattner, unlike most ATP episodes that focus on Apple news.
@mjlee
371: Four-Letter Technologies
with Chris Lattner
1
There is a good darknet diaries episode with some more details about him.
@herrvogel-
61: Samy
1
Episode 60 covers someone with a similar past who found his stride after incarceration on HackerOne, a path to using his skills for good.
@core-utility
60: dawgyg
with DAWGYG
1
Eric Ries gives some pretty good examples, such as decoupling HFT trading from long-term value investing.
@specialist
The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
with Eric Ries
1
Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand on The Changelog, which I recommend listening to, covering Go's unanimous design policy.
@djhworld
Concurrency, parallelism, and async design (Go Time #109)
1
Ryan Singer's Software Engineering Radio interview condenses Shape Up's high-level concepts; the commenter particularly likes it.
@code_biologist
Episode 389: Ryan Singer on Basecamp's Software Development Process
with Ryan Singer
1
An interesting podcast about Roblox on Hanselminutes a few weeks ago, covering community building and digital civility.
@asdasdasdasdwd
Roblox's Kelly Mayes on Community Building and Digital Civility
with Kelly Mayes
1
This was a good podcast with Bushnell where he talked about his personal backstory and founding of Atari.
@devmunchies
Atari (with Nolan Bushnell)
with Nolan Bushnell
1
Recent episode on nation-state threats; the commenter also calls out an interesting Microsoft quote on defense.
@winkelwagen
48: Operation Socialist
1
If you want to learn more about Don and how influential his work has been, listen to the recent Acquired episode about Don and Sequoia.
@LeonM
Sequoia Capital (Part 1)
1
This story is told really well in one of my favorite podcasts; highly recommended, as are all of the other episodes.
@localhost
Google Maps
1
Really enjoyed the OAuth2 episode on API security with Justin Richer.
@superdeeda
Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2
with Justin Richer
1
A great Darknet Diaries podcast about PPP a few weeks ago; their relentlessness and persistence is so inspiring.
@alexcnwy
43: PPP
1
The episode covers most of the questions about the process of recording courses, though not sales figures or revenue.
@nickjj
Developers want to develop things (Backstage #4)
1
An entertaining SE Radio episode with Thorsten Ball on compilers vs. interpreters and his book.
@jotaen
365: Thorsten Ball on Building an Interpreter
with Thorsten Ball
1
The podcast Darknet Diaries Ep 35 does a good job explaining it. Very fascinating.
@xs
35: Carbanak
1
Marco Arment bought one anyway, and you can hear his review on the latest Accidental Tech Podcast.
@scarface74
316: MacBook Hierarchy of Needs
1
Recommends a recent episode on coding for the ZX Spectrum, commissioned by the authors of Black Mirror.
@drej
Coding for the ZX Spectrum and Netflix/Black Mirror's Bandersnach with Matt Westcott
with Matt Westcott
1
There's a great Acquired podcast episode about ARM, which is worth a listen for the company's history and SoftBank deal.
@chrisjc
ARM & SoftBank
1
Darknet Diaries had an episode on Stuxnet, plus a few more on attacks linked to it.
@stunt
29: Stuxnet
1
Says they'd listen to this Darknet Diaries episode on podcast promoters gaming the charts, and calls the show great overall.
@heynk
27: Chartbreakers
1
There is a very good podcast episode on IRS Tax Refund fraud using identity theft. Darknet Diaries is very informative and entertaining. Highly recommended!
@pritambarhate
26: IRS
1
Software Engineering Radio released an hour-long interview with Stephan Ewen, CTO of data Artisans, on streaming architecture.
@knbknb
SE Radio 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming Architecture
with Stephan Ewen
1
Acquired has a phenomenal episode covering the Blockbuster and Netflix saga in depth.
@tyleo
Netflix (Part 1)
1
My favorite Chinese cyber espionage story is the one found during a routine pen-test.
@koheripbal
21: Black Duck Eggs
1
Scott Hanselman interviewed the two on his podcast back in January; it was a good program.
@watchdogtimer
Teaching Programming to kids (and everyone else) with Ben Wheeler
1
Also of interest perhaps is a podcast episode from Software Engineering Radio with Bruce Momjian on the Postgres query planner.
@timClicks
SE Radio 328: Bruce Momjian on the Postgres Query Planner
with Bruce Momjian
1
Hanselminutes episode 628 with Windows 95 design team members on the Start button and Microsoft user research.
@runjake
A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem
1
Listened to this episode recently: quantum computing as an Azure cloud service is the endgame, with the same simulator code later running on real quantum hardware.
@neilsimp1
Quantum Computing detangled with Dr. Krysta Svore
with Dr. Krysta Svore
1
There was a good interview on Corecursive about Idris, so IMHO that's some evidence that some people are serious about the language.
@CoastalCoder
Tech Talk: Idris, Proofs and Haskell with Edwin Brady
with Edwin Brady
1
The Changelog did a really good interview with the developer. Pretty long but worth the listen.
@davisdude
Building a secure Operating System (Redox OS) with Rust (Changelog Interviews #280)
1
Interview with a nation state hacker for TAO at NSA; other episodes also interview former and current government hackers.
@zahma
10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor
1
I highly recommend the Darknet Diaries podcast if you haven't heard of it. I find it absolutely gripping.
@MegaDeKay
6: The Beirut Bank Job
1
I believe HTST got introduced in the wake of the DigiNotar debacle (listen Darknet Diaries #3).
@Fnoord
3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
1
The acquired podcast did a nice episode on the history of AI in Google recently
@jillesvangurp
HTC, Google and the Future of Mobile
1
John Gruber got five minutes with a prototype Windows Phone 7; he found its UI/UX as good as the iPhone's and substantially better than Android.
@MaysonL
200: ‘Episode CC’ With Craig Federighi
1
Darknet Diaries did an excellent podcast on it, covering the VTech hacker story.
@LeonM
2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker
1
A mandatory listen for anyone touching computers; a crash course on building secure systems by learning from others' failures.
@nicolaslem
1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking
1
Talk Python To Me episode 127 is an interview with Glyph (Twisted author) about shipping software to users with Python.
@edraferi
#127: Shipping software to users
with Glyph
1
They discuss some alternatives to CrashPlan on the latest ATP episode, roughly halfway through.
@8ig8
236: Irresponsible Use of Infinite Terabytes
1
I'm not sure why I found this so fascinating, but I did.
@Jaepa
Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Changelog Interviews #261)
1
Michael Feathers, author of the recommended book, was on SE Radio's episode about legacy code.
@malingo
SE Radio 295: Michael Feathers on Legacy Code
with Michael Feathers
1
Great podcast and great poem. I never read poetry, but this one sounded so right.
@vermasque
The Starbucks IPO with Dan Levitan
with Dan Levitan
1
There's an episode of software engineering radio that has a lot of details from the horse's mouth.
@candiodari
SE Radio 285: James Cowling on Dropbox's Distributed Storage System
with James Cowling
1
I recently listened to the Acquired podcast about the history of Didi/Uber in China and found it incredibly interesting.
@yeldarb
The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store
1
There's an incredible episode called "Cars and Cities, The Autonomy Edition" that reshaped my understanding of autonomous vehicles and their societal impact.
@B4CKlash
a16z Podcast: Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition
with Taggart Matthiesen
1
IEEE Software Engineering Radio did a good episode on Site Reliability Engineering.
@NickNameNick
SE Radio 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering
with Björn Rabenstein
1
An absolutely terrific podcast; also recommends Changelog episodes with Andrew Godwin on Django and Eli Bixby on TensorFlow.
@pcprincipal
Python, Django, and Channels (Changelog Interviews #229)
1
Enjoying Talk Python To Me, which has a great mix of topics, and recommends its episode on Grokking Algorithms in Python.
@tjt
#82: Grokking Algorithms in Python
1
Scott Hanselman interviewed Linda Liukas recently on his podcast, well worth a listen.
@teh_klev
Hello Ruby with Linda Liukas
with Linda Liukas
1
Cory Doctorow can explain and outline the utter catastrophe of modern DRM and draconian copyright laws better than I ever could.
@izacus
How we got here (Changelog Interviews #221)
with Cory Doctorow
1
The mobile one is particularly good: a16z podcast episode on Apple and Google.
@byoogle
a16z Podcast: Apple and the Case of Invisible But Audible Innovation
1
Commenter points readers to the Changelog's GoTime episode with Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph on Go and code insight tools.
@sqs
Beyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better Code (Go Time #12)
with Beyang Liu
1
The post-show of this podcast talks about these and other issues in detail.
@zdw
182: I Had to Reboot My Car Today
1
Commenter says the podcast gets into more technical detail than the article, which was written for a CEO audience.
@andreagoulet
Learning to love Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet from CorgiBytes
with Andrea Goulet
1
Interesting discussion on The Changelog episode 0.4.9 about the current state of hg-git, with Scott Chacon from GitHub.
@abredow
Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix (Go Time #9)
with Scott Chacon
1
He was also a guest on the Changelog podcast talking about his process, well worth the listen.
@azemetre
Raphaël Simon on goa, the Framework for Building Microservices (Go Time #7)
with Simon (sirupsen)
1
Commenter invites readers to the Changelog episode with GitHub and Google staff on analyzing GitHub code in BigQuery.
@fhoffa
GitHub and Google on Public Datasets & Google BigQuery (Changelog Interviews #209)
1
I just started listening to The Changelog and your interview was very insightful.
@Slackwise
Ubuntu Everywhere (Changelog Interviews #207)
with Dustin Kirkland
1
It's given more power to the average power user than you can imagine. See Scott Hanselman's interview with Oz du Soleil.
@pcblues
Data Literacy and the usefulness of Excel with Oz du Soleil
with Oz du Soleil
1
For folks with less time, I really enjoyed Acquired's step-by-step walkthrough of this acquisition.
@sly010
1
If anyone here hasn't listened to his "protocol for dying" episode of The Changelog, you really should.
@staticshock
A protocol for dying (Changelog Interviews #205)
1
Listen to Gruber shred Roman numerals in Episode 155 of The Talk Show. It's pretty funny.
@lostlogin
155: ‘Medium Rare MacBook’ With MG Siegler
1
Episodes on nlog and Cocoon-2 with people who built Datalog-based network virtualization, may be relevant.
@ben_pfaff
nlog, with Teemu Koponen from Styra and Yusheng Wang from VMware
1
Calls it one of the best ATP episodes in years, praising Lattner's multi-year persistence in building world-changing software and caring about open source.
@Zezima
170: Casey Beats John, 29–29
with Chris Lattner
1
Gruber raises this exact Radar complaint directly with Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi, starting at 48:15 of episode 146.
@drakenot
146: ‘“They Might Be Giants” With a Spanish Accent’ With Special Guests Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi
1
Listening to this podcast atm; interesting stuff. The commenter recommends the Hanselminutes episode with Ben Adams on Age of Ascent.
@terry526
Inside Age of Ascent with Ben Adams
with Ben Adams
1
Great listen about Otto and Vagrant; Otto aims to do for deployment what Vagrant did for dev environments.
@mike1o1
Otto, Vagrant, Automation (Changelog Interviews #180)
1
Another brief overview of the serialization landscape is on Hanselminutes episode with Kenton Varda, Cap'n Proto's author.
@AmrEldib
Your Personal Cloud Platform with Sandstorm.io and Kenton Varda
with Kenton Varda
1
Recently had an interview with Jacob Krall about the history of Wasabi; found it quite interesting.
@sixothree
Killing Off Wasabi - A 20yr old VBScript problem solved with 2015 Roslyn tech
with Jacob Krall
1
A good listen if you're interested in teaching programming; Curran on teaching Python in classrooms and training teachers.
@mbubb
#8: Teaching Python at Grok Learning and Classrooms
with Professor Curran
1
Listen to this Changelog episode with Daniel; the commenter loves his attitude and approach.
@GeertVL
17 Years of curl (Changelog Interviews #153)
with Daniel
1
Hanselminutes did an excellent interview with the engineer who created StaffPad; thoroughly covers how it was conceived and coded in C#/C++.
@restlake
Developing StaffPad, a new class of music notation application with Dr. Matthew Tesch
with Dr. Matthew Tesch
1
There was an interesting interview with him earlier in the year on Software Engineering Radio where he talked about his book
@klshxsh
SE Radio 225: Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance
with Brendan Gregg
1
The most recent ATP episode has Chris Lattner discussing the trade-offs made in Swift and how they were prioritised. Worth a listen.
@lostlogin
107: We Get the Most Boring Tips
with Chris Lattner
1
If you're not familiar with Kafka there is a very good interview with Jun Rao on SE Radio.
@hartror
SE Radio 219: Apache Kafka with Jun Rao
with Jun Rao
1
John Gruber's podcast touches on this single player vs multiplayer product framing in the recent episode with Ben Thompson as guest.
@dlu
108: ‘Malaprops’ With Guest Ben Thompson
with Ben Thompson
1
Cockcroft's 2014 Software Engineering Radio interview explains Netflix's motivation for moving to the cloud.
@scarface74
SE Radio 216: Adrian Cockcroft on the Modern Cloud-based Platform
with Adrian Cockcroft
1
Nice episode about working with and extracting knowledge from larger bodies of text.
@bkin
SE Radio 214: Grant Ingersoll on his book, Taming Text
with Grant Ingersoll
1
Might be of interest as well: the episode on space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL.
@noselasd
Space and the next IT decade with Tom Soderstrom from JPL
with Tom Soderstrom
1
Anil's SE Radio interview on Mirage and OCaml is fantastic, around an hour, extremely informative and technical. Highly recommended.
@krat0sprakhar
SE Radio 204: Anil Madhavapeddy on the Mirage Cloud Operating System and the OCaml Language
with Anil Madhavapeddy
1
Informative episode interviewing a Dart author and outreach advocate; it's more than compiling to JS.
@bzelip
Google's Dart Programming Language (Changelog Interviews #121)
1
Scott Hanselman's interview with Katherine Moss is pretty good and describes her combination-of-tools approach, which is still current for the tech stack.
@brudgers
I'm a Blind Software Technician - Ask Me Anything! with Katherine Moss
with Katherine Moss
1
Software Engineering Radio is relatively technical and informative, with interesting archive episodes like the one with Martin Thompson.
@kristjansson
SE Radio 201: Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy
with Martin Thompson
1
John has some great shows about TVs, their technology, their interfaces, and how they can get in the way of the picture quality.
@billyhoffman
43: Brilliance Enhancer
1
Episode with RethinkDB's Slava explains the product's history and design choices; the commenter found it really interesting.
@heyts
RethinkDB (Changelog Interviews #114)
with Slava Akhmechet
1
An older but interesting interview with the "world's most quantified man" on the quantified self.
@softawre
Chris Dancy, the world's most quantified man, explains the Quantified Self
with Chris Dancy
1
Watch Erich Gamma describe Visual Studio Online to Scott Hanselman on Channel 9.
@3825
Erich Gamma introduces us to Visual Studio Online integrated with the Windows Azure Portal - Part 1
with Erich Gamma
1
Scott Hanselman recently interviewed one of the Python tools team, well worth a listen
@teh_klev
Python Tools for Visual Studio with Dino Viehland
with Dino Viehland
1
Good podcast interview with Scott Hanselman about the future and past of computing with Dan Bricklin.
@brudgers
The Future and Past of Computing with Dan Bricklin
with Dan Bricklin
1
Marco's actual thoughts on this are in the Accidental Tech Podcast episode that dropped today; he's not on board with the claim.
@evan_
19: Designed by App in Cal
1
A really good interview with GitHub's Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers that covers Hubot.
@tomorgan
On Culture and Remoteness at GitHub with Paul Betts and Justin Spahr-Summers
1
Siracusa's Hypercritical episode on Apple replacing Objective-C with a new language and API. "Great podcast episode, I highly recommend it."
@Entlin
14: Pouring Champagne Onto Rap Stars
with John Siracusa
1
John Siracusa has a much better discussion of why an exposed file system is a bad idea in the last episode.
@pkaler
6: Live Like Other People
1
Ruby Rogues had around 15 episodes discussing books with their authors, like the Book Club episodes with Kent Beck and Martin Fowler.
@diimdeep
097 RR Book Club: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture with Martin Fowler
1
Scott Hanselman has an interesting podcast interviewing someone who works on the Azure services that power Halo 4.
@ajanuary
Halo 4 - Services in Azure with Caitie McCaffrey
with Caitie McCaffrey
1
Scott Hanselman hosted Kyla McMullen on how difficult it feels to break into tech when no one looks like you. I enjoyed it a lot.
@Permit
Dr. Kyla McMullen on Diversity in Computer Science and Spatial Audio
with Dr. Kyla McMullen
1
The final Hypercritical episode, in which he dissected his own podcast, is worth hearing.
@username223
Episode 100: 100: Metacritical
1
Listen to the SE Radio episode on database evolution, which covers schema change practices directly relevant to this question.
@pramodliv1
SE Radio 186: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage on Agile Database Development
1
Siracusa elaborates at length on software patents, calling them "Sport of Kings."
@flixic
Episode 69: 69: Sport of Kings
1
Nice dissection of the idea of drug patents as being "special" compared with other kinds of patentable IP.
@kaffeinecoma
Episode 68: 68: Patent Hands
1
Scott Hanselman got Tim Clem and Phil Haack talking about developing GitHub for Windows on a recent podcast.
@noselasd
Developing GitHub for Windows with Phil Haack and Tim Clem
with Phil Haack, Tim Clem
1
This was the podcast that took me from opposing software patents to opposing the very concept of patents altogether.
@lukifer
Episode 67: 67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
1
Really great episode where Scott Hanselman interviews Jon Skeet at CodeMash, with fascinating insight into how he ticks.
@junto
Being a Phony with Jon Skeet
with Jon Skeet
1
Start with Blue Ocean: a classic, entertaining episode on Nintendo hardware, not so technical that eyes glaze over.
@ghshephard
Episode 50: 50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
1
The Zurb guys discuss Foundation versus Bootstrap, a front-end framework comparison episode worth hearing.
@alwillis
Foundation and Other Zurb Goodies (Changelog Interviews #70)
with Zurb team
1
Siracusa's Hypercritical episodes 42 and 43 do a good job explaining the book's flaws.
@gnaffle
Episode 43: 43: The Scorpion and the Frog
1
Search for Scott Hanselman's Penny Pinching blog series, which details running high-volume sites as cheaply as possible on Azure.
@gabrielrdz
Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz
1
If you're not familiar with television technology, listen to episode 16, 'The Soap Opera Effect'. You'll learn many new things.
@pooriaazimi
Episode 16: 16: The Soap Opera Effect
1
Siracusa's Hypercritical episode on Merlin is worth listening to, and Merlin's Back to Work is no bore.
@elithrar
Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
1
Compelling take on the respective strengths and core competencies of Google and Apple.
@joebadmo
Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby
1
John Siracusa explains this same scenario as it appears to be happening at Apple extremely well in this episode of his fantastic podcast.
@guywithabike
Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale
1
There was a good discussion in the Hypercritical podcast about Spaces possibly being dead in 10.7.
@jcurbo
Episode 3: 3: The Mouse is Not a Finger
1
I would strongly recommend listening to the Hanselminutes episode on Women in Technology in the Muslim World.
@metasean
Women in Technology in the Muslim World
1
A plug for Software Engineering Radio's Second Life and Mono episode with Jim Purbrick.
@nick-dap
Episode 141: Second Life and Mono with Jim Purbrick
with Jim Purbrick
1
Gave an excellent interview on Software Engineering Radio; episode 140 on Newspeak and pluggable types.
@shawnjgoff
SE Radio 140: Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Bracha
with Gilad Bracha
1
An excellent, substantial interview on changing culture; Linda Rising approaches it pragmatically.
@angdis
Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising
with Linda Rising
1
Some absolutely awesome episodes on Software Engineering Radio; the good ones more than make up for the awful ones. Episode 109 with Randy Shoup is an awesome example.
@zmmmmm
Episode 109: eBay's Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup
with Randy Shoup
1
Episode 100 has an extensive interview with a DLR guy on freedom to fail, extensive re-use, and productivity metrics.
@henning
Episode 100: Software in Space
1
Episode on REST and HTTP with Stefan Tilkov, from 2008 but probably still evergreen.
@brudgers
Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST
with Stefan Tilkov
1
If you look SE Radio on iTunes or their website, there's an episode where they interview the Guardian website developers.
@Tycho
Episode 95: The New Guardian.co.uk website with Matt Wall and Erik DoernenBurg
1
Software Engineering Radio episode 89 is a great listen for anyone interested in Erlang.
@aaronblohowiak
Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang
1
Worth a listen just for the story of how Hanselman got his first computer, a C64.
@brudgers
Scott Interviews His Dad
1
I recommend both: Guy Steele mentions APL was one of the first programming languages he learned, in Coders at Work or Software Engineering Radio episode 36.
@silentbicycle
Episode 36: Interview Guy Steele
with Guy Steele