Ask HN: Good Podcasts? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by jordanlev » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:47 AM UTC

TechZing is my favorite tech podcast -- two developers chatting about development and startups (mostly on the bootstrapping scale). Sometimes guest interviews with other programmers. If you're a developer you should absolutely check it out, you will most likely love it (especially web developers, especially especially freelancers / people running their own businesses).

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by grah4 » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:55 AM UTC

Seminars about long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/seminars/

An incredible series of talks & discussions. The scope of topics covered is akin to TEDtalks. I recommend downloading the entire catalog.

edit: itunes audio http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-ter...

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by dsmithn » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 4:03 AM UTC

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php?page=hharchive

If you have a lot of time, Ghosts of the Ostfront series is fantastic.

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by muffs » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 5:06 AM UTC

You should check out Chicago Public Radio's "This American Life". It's addicting and thought provoking. ;)

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by WilliamChanner » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 5:52 AM UTC

http://dormroomtycoon.com is pretty good. Although I am bias to say such thing as I started it. Areas covered include design, marketing and tech. Previous guests include Steve Blank, Guy Kawasaki, DHH, Eric Ries, Tim Van Damme, Elliot Jay Stocks. Just check it out!

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by Terry_B » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 6:21 AM UTC

The Nerdist, Hype Machine Radio, StackExchange podcast, Build and Analyze, RadioLab, The Adam Carolla Show, The Moth, TWiT, This Week in Startups, EconTalk and Mixergy have been my go to ones for a long while now.

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by tehdavid » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 9:26 AM UTC

Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin is pretty good: http://5by5.tv/b2w

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by polyfractal » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 2:06 PM UTC

Economic podcasts: Planet Money, Financial Sense Newshour, Econ Talk, Motley Fool and Market Foolery, APM Marketplace

News: BBC World Update, BBC Global News

Startup related: Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar, Founders Talk, iInnovate

General interest: KERA Think (really interesting), Astronomy Cast

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by A-K » Fri, Aug 05, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

5by5.tv podcasts--Back To Work and The Talk Show are among my favorites

This Is My Next Podcast

Jordan, Jesse GO!

Stuff You Should Know

If you're into games, I'd also check out the Giant Bombcast

Re: Ask HN: Good Podcasts?

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Post by salemh » Sun, Aug 07, 2011, 4:17 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #4

"The History of Rome" is by far my favorite non-tech podcast. http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Dan Carlin's series Death Throes of the Republic is also fantastic re: Rome's history and eventual downfall.

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

Edit: this was also posted below along with Ghosts of the Ostfront, brilliant as well.

For a fantastic dissertation on History, humanity and the overall pessimism of a historian (and, the discussion on systemic structures needed to prevent war (the EU as an example): http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-25---The-Dy...