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Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

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Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me. The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!

The stuxnet one blew my mind. All these US departments coming together secretly to knee-cap Iran’s nuclear program. And the irony being that the worm was so good, it leaked into the outside world and wreaked havoc. Only when a malware specialist looked at the code, did he see the sophistication and the multiple zero-days exploits used. The journalist who uncovered all of this rightfully won the Pulitzer.

Truly amazing event and it makes me wonder what cyber-warfare occurs these days or was not made public in the past.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

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Shameless plug, if you’re looking to download any of these, try podcastsaver.com (I built it). It does what it sounds like — make it easy to download podcasts

Very cool and useful- how does it work? Does the podcast index allow you to download episodes through their api? Didn't know such a website was possible

Podcasts are powered by RSS feeds. You can parse the feed and download the file quite easily.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on Spotify. And on BBC sounds. And I think it's on iTunes. You might just be able to download it for free too. It used to be available like that years ago.

Nah I meant kranke155's claim that AskHistorians says Hardcore History is inaccurate. That's not true. However, I would agree that Hardcore History leans more towards the entertainment side, so while the overall picture is inline with what historians say (Cyrus the Great as a leader vs Darius or the effects of the Gracchi brothers), the specific stories that Dan Carlin says may have other interpretations or other ver…

A couple of years ago, there was a discussion thread in AskHistorians of "How do you feel about Dan Carlin, accuracy-wise?": https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k6jyx7/how_d...

>...Saying that "AskHistorians thinks Hardcore History is really innacurate" is completely false.

I think the overall opinion is quite a bit more nuanced than that and in general historians appreciate anyone who helps get people more interested in history. Though, in terms of accuracy, as one commenter wrote:

>...Not only doesn't Carlin do sufficient research with the appropriate sources, but he tends to approach his episodes with an endpoint in mind, and then focuses on ensuring his research fits that narrative rather than building a narrative from the research.

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