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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
Podcast
CoRecursive
The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting people.
184 Hacker News mentions · 48 episodes
Episodes recommended on Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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The Original Remote Developer episode was an absolute gem too.
@dkobia +4 more
Story: The Original Remote Developer
with Paul Lutus , Paul
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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Great CoRecursive interview with Matt Godbolt covering good reasons to still understand assembly today.
@mumblemumble +2 more
Story: To The Assembly
with Matt Godbolt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's a fascinating story that reads like a tale of industrial espionage.
@samtho +1 more
Story: Sloot Digital Coding System
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
An interview with Andreas Kling about SerenityOS on CoRecursive, linked as the episode to hear.
@nasalter +1 more
Story: Serenity OS
with Andreas Kling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Corecursive's interview of DHH delighted me; I loved him and regret not paying attention sooner.
@specialist
Story: David Heinemeier Hansson, Software Contrarian
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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
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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
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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
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Corecursive had an interesting episode with a good story about mobile UI.
@baumschubser
Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
with Shai Almog
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A wonderful CoRecursive episode that touches on unexpected ways to work with Apple.
@CoastalCoder
Story: Shipping Graphing Calculator
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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
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My favorite has got to be the Software World Tour one.
@zxt_tzx
Story: Software World Tour
with Son Luong Ngoc
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The CPAN episode is a good listen even if you're not that interested in Perl anymore.
@guilherme-puida
CPAN - This Day In History
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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
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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
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The "Apple 2001" episode is a great one to get started with.
@JonathanBuchh
Story: Apple 2001
with David Shayer
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Incredibly thoughtful and insightful, with a lot to offer anyone whose interests involve software and engineering.
@kdtsh
Story: Memento Mori
with Kate Gregory
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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
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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
Why Hacker News recommends it
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Great in-depth interviews about functional programming, computer science and software development in general.
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Long form interviews around a particular topic per episode, with a focus on programming languages and functional programming.
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Adam Gordon Bell's Corecursive is fantastic, and he's very good at adopting guests' worldviews on their terms.
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Listed in the commenter's library alongside shows they enjoy; the commenter says they don't listen to it regularly.
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Big fan of CoRecursive; it started more Scala and FP oriented but is overall more generalist.
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Strongly recommends CoRecursive: a wide range of topics, an engaging host, fascinating guests, and a vibrant community.
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Also want to double vouch for Software engineering daily
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Corecursive is my podcast about the stories behind software development. I think hn readers would like it.
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CoRecursive finds people with interesting experiences building software and turns them into episodes.
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CoRecursive is brilliant and typically has better audio quality than SE-Radio.
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Recommends the latest CoRecursive episode with Zig creator Andrew Kelley, covering Zig's history, as really interesting.
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Commenter says they heard the author on CoRecursive, where they learned Zig's stated goal, and is excited about its future.
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Co Recursive is excellent. The host is very thoughtful and the conversations are lovely.
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There's a good interview with him on the CoRecursive podcast where he mentions it. It's a great interview.
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Recommends Adam Gordon Bell's CoRecursive podcast as a good source for in-depth technical software engineering interviews.
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A really great resource for learning all about fascinating ideas and personalities in computing.
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Frequently recommends CoRecursive to new and old tech folks for an insider view of how the industry and company culture work.
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Highest recommendation for the podcasts Know Your Enemy, Volts, 5-4, You're Wrong About, Capitalisn't, Corecursive; they changed how the commenter thinks.
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It's a podcast I've really been enjoying for a few years now.
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As a software developer, I've really enjoyed Corecursive.
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Corecursive: https://corecursive.com/
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Each episode a guest shares "The story of a piece of software being built." Hacker News readers are who it's for.
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Love hearing the stories of all these programmers and tech innovators in their own words.
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I've been getting into Corecursive, with a link to the show's site.
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I would also recommend the SerenityOS episode for first-time listeners. The quality of the podcast is spectacular.
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Calls CoRecursive probably their favourite tech podcast, praising its coverage of lesser-known projects like SerenityOS and stories of people overcoming work difficulties.
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everyone check out Corecursive
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The latest episode with Douglas Crockford is also great
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Andreas Kling's interview on CoRecursive covers his background working on web browser code.
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On the technical side, I love CoRecursive, enjoy Soft Skills Engineering, and recently started listening to Latent Space, which I also like so far.
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corecursive is generally a good podcast covering interesting problems/projects/people. I listen to it a lot
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These are always interesting
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CoRecursive is one of my favorite podcasts because it explores the complex context behind the code.
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Really enjoy CoRecursive, Darknet Diaries, and Advent of Computing
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Chet Haase explains on CoRecursive how his team rebuilt after the iPhone OS news, and says Android wouldn't have had touch without the iPhone.
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One of the best CoRecursive episodes the commenter has heard so far.
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Bare link to the CoRecursive episode "Hedy with Felienne Hermans", offered without commentary.
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Corecursive is an amazing podcast as well. Interesting coding stories.
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