Podcast

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

77 Hacker News mentions · 20 episodes

Episodes recommended on Hacker News

Why Hacker News recommends it

• Highly recommended: John Siracusa's Hypercritical episode "A Dark Age of Objective-C" argues Apple's Objective-C reliance is extremely problematic long term.

  HN thread · jakewalker · 0 points ↗

• Siracusa pulls no punches and each and every one of his criticisms is well thought through.

  HN thread · amartya916 · 0 points ↗

• Siracusa and Horace Dediu taught the most, but the show with Merlin Mann is the most inspirational.

  HN thread · barredo · 0 points ↗

• John Siracusa's "Hypercritical" takes issue with Apple counting GPU cores as processor cores, since GPU core count says little about real performance.

  HN thread · ghshephard · 0 points ↗

• Marco Arment discusses the hoops he went through with DUNS during enrollment; worth a listen for his experience dealing with them.

  HN thread · Shank · 0 points ↗

• I highly recommend listening to his latest ATP podcasts; after hearing him, I can only applaud him.

  HN thread · carlesfe · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment, John Siracusa and one or two other people.

  HN thread · runjake · 0 points ↗

• This episode was fantastic, thanks for reminding me how much I love listening to John Siracusa.

  HN thread · MaxGabriel · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast - atp.fm

  HN thread · minikites · 0 points ↗

• Lists accidental tech podcast among their top 5 favorite podcasts, alongside Linux Outlaws and Techzing.

  HN thread · alanl · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast, which is actually quite good

  HN thread · petersellers · 0 points ↗

• Recommends checking out the Accidental Tech Podcast, plus CodePen Radio, Core Intuition, and Mac Power Users.

  HN thread · coldwaraaron · 0 points ↗

• The latest ATP episode has a good take on this in its segment "Why are we so critical of Apple?"

  HN thread · dangoor · 0 points ↗

• Another favorite. Perhaps I just like hearing Siracusa tell the others they're wrong.

  HN thread · dionidium · 0 points ↗

• Listen to the latest ATP. Marco explains how his Tesla's turn signal indicators stop clicking when the central console has a problem.

  HN thread · m_mueller · 0 points ↗

• Podcast ads with hosts you trust feel legitimate because the sponsorship is disclosed, so the endorsement still reads as honest.

  HN thread · user202020 · 0 points ↗

• Bikeshed, Accidental Tech Podcast and Changelog are the shows listed as coding podcasts people subscribe to.

  HN thread · zodiac · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast (atp.fm) and Cortex (relay.fm/cortex) are recommended as tech podcasts.

  HN thread · tradersam · 0 points ↗

• Marco Arment's podcast about Apple tech, offered as a recommendation to someone looking for new shows.

  HN thread · dejawu · 0 points ↗

• Apple and random tech discussion. Super fun listen.

  HN thread · epmatsw · 0 points ↗

• A tech podcast with a strong focus on Apple. Commentary by Siracusa makes this one worth it.

  HN thread · drakenot · 0 points ↗

• Just listen to the podcasts (Accidental Tech Podcast, etc.) that talk a lot about the Mac.

  HN thread · rhinoceraptor · 0 points ↗

• Siracusa's take on the manifestly bad reporting about the Apple story, linked at 56:00.

  HN thread · IBM · 0 points ↗

• Check out the podcast if you don't know it yet, it's right in the ballpark for people who would comment on this article.

  HN thread · HSO · 0 points ↗

• These two are my favorite for a long time.

  HN thread · pvinis · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast and The Changelog are the picks for commuting tech listening.

  HN thread · guleadrian · 0 points ↗

• Check out the podcasts Marco Arment is on, like ATP (Apple/tech news) and Under the Radar (iOS dev topics).

  HN thread · joshstrange · 0 points ↗

• If you want to see Apple fans who often criticize Mac hardware and software, check out the Accidental Tech Podcast.

  HN thread · scarface74 · 0 points ↗

• Overcast's ads are very useful, and they've led to discovering a lot of great podcasts.

  HN thread · scarface74 · 0 points ↗

• A recent ATP episode with Chris Lattner covers embedding Python code in Swift for TensorFlow, which overlaps with your Python-to-Rust idea.

  HN thread · zerkten · 0 points ↗

• Listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast is learning English without the tedium, for someone who likes tech.

  HN thread · gigatexal · 0 points ↗

• The ATP podcast discussed this a couple of weeks ago, it's a great conversation and he highly recommends it.

  HN thread · MR4D · 0 points ↗

• If you want to hear how a power user uses overlapping windows, I'd recommend this ATP episode.

  HN thread · yoz-y · 0 points ↗

• Episode 412 (and 411) of the Accidental Tech Podcast gets into the pain of the process around the 15 minute mark.

  HN thread · oddity · 0 points ↗

• A weekly news show focused on tech, mainly Apple, with good technical detail and discussion of why companies make product decisions.

  HN thread · Xavdidtheshadow · 0 points ↗

• Marco Arment and others interviewed Chris Lattner in 2017 about the origin of Swift on this episode.

  HN thread · ldayley · 0 points ↗

• Personal recommendation of a good podcast that is 95-100% content, with little ads or waffle; covers Apple-related topics.

  HN thread · jonpurdy · 0 points ↗

• The commenter pays for ATP's subscription and says it is their most-listened podcast, though the comment is about paywalls rather than the show's tech content.

  HN thread · joshstrange · 0 points ↗

• Accidental Tech Podcast is a good mix of informative and entertaining; the hosts are clearly biased, which is part of the appeal.

  HN thread · paulcole · 0 points ↗

• would recommend listening to ATP, which he's a cohost on. Still a joy to listen to.

  HN thread · cocacola1 · 0 points ↗

• Off the top of my head: the after show of this podcast, linked as a reference on the Finder discussion.

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• Merlin's podcasts, particularly Roderick on the Line and Reconcilable Differences with John Siracusa, are among the commenter's favourite things to listen to.

  HN thread · danslaboudoir · 0 points ↗

• Listen to the Accidental Tech Podcast episode on Vision Labs leaks; you have to listen between the lines on spatial video resolution.

  HN thread · bombcar · 0 points ↗

• The Accidental Tech Podcast is my favorite by a mile.

  HN thread · sefk · 0 points ↗

• I listen to the ATP podcast for the personalities and experience of the three members, which AI can't replicate.

  HN thread · greedo · 0 points ↗

• worth a listen btw, toward the end of the episode from memory

  HN thread · simonbarker87 · 0 points ↗

• If anyone does not listen to ATP, I cannot recommend that show enough.

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• Accidental Tech Podcast has been valuable to me for years.

  HN thread · bckmn · 0 points ↗

• Apple's Podcasts app has been bad since 2011; use Overcast, written and maintained by indie dev Marco Arment.

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• The ATP episode where he talked about this was incredibly fascinating.

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