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Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by aboyne42 »

tapland wrote: post #113
geophertz wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just finished listening to "Episode 49: Elliot" and I must say, I'm quite upset by the host's reaction. He doesn't seem at all to be someone in the security research field. Either he has those reaction because this is a mainstream podcast and purposely tries to have a "dumb" reaction for his audience (like in a children's film) or he doesn't seem to understand hacker culture at all.

He acts surprised as part of making the podcast available to a broader audience. It's silly, but the episodes are usually so good I can get over it.

I think I had a similar reaction to you for this episode. I've listened to all of them, and love them, but episode 49 rubbed me the wrong way too. I actually asked him about it and got a response that made me feel better about it: https://twitter.com/mknox42/status/1184533813185130502?s=19

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by NaOH »

trenning wrote: post #58

This is entirely off-topic, but if you're going through and downvoting people for posting their favorite podcasts in a thread like this, you should take a break from here, or the internet for a while, it's not that serious.

I get your point, that the subject matter here isn't worth downvoting. It's like arguing whether chocolate is better than vanilla.

But I would say that failing to describe a podcast and why you like it (or specific episodes) is poor communication. It would be like a thread about food and someone saying, "Italian cuisine is great. It's delicious." I know nothing from that type of comment about what makes Italian cuisine distinctive and what attributes stand out for the commenter. There are a number of comments like that in this thread.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by guzey »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #24
jjjensen90 wrote: post #3

Matthew Walker, PhD on sleep - part I and II on The Peter Attia Drive podcast. It was really a wake up call for sleep hygeine, and prompted me to get a sleep study, which has changed my life after getting a sleep device.

I really enjoyed his book Why We Sleep, but I think it important to inform people about the criticisms that have been been raised against some of his claims [0]. If you listen to him remember to take claims with a grain of salt. HN discussion from two months ago [1]. The thesis is still solid though: sleep is incredibly important for your health. [0] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.…

>sleep is incredibly important for your health.

do you have a citation on that? Sleep deprivation makes people sleepy and it does seem to have negative cognitive effects, but I'm not aware of evidence of negative health effects of lack of sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by TimSchumann »

wdella wrote: post #159

The Roman Mars Mazda Virus from Reply All and 99% Invisible. This joint episode is an engaging and hilarious tale of debugging an overly ‘smart’ car stereo, as well as going above and beyond the call of duty out of sheer love for podcasting. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm

My friend Jana recommended this one to me, and it was absolutely hilarious. Great episode.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

oxymoran wrote: post #10

Andrew Yang on the Joe Rogan Experience

This was definitely the most impactful podcast that I listened to this year. It changed how I think and for the first time in my life I have a political candidates that I truly respect and support. Glad to answer any questions.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by Rainymood »

arikr wrote: post #68
trenning wrote: post #58

This is entirely off-topic, but if you're going through and downvoting people for posting their favorite podcasts in a thread like this, you should take a break from here, or the internet for a while, it's not that serious.

That's one way to view it, certainly. The other way is that downvotes are a great tool for ensuring high quality discussion, and if the thread is about podcast episodes, then downvoting full podcasts helps keep the thread organized. Downvotes aren't necessarily bad, they may just mean - hey, this doesn't belong as much in this thread, so I'm voting on it to help organize the thread for other readers.

Exactly. "Back in the day" I remember that on HN if your post wasn't a 3 paragraph story with a well-defined point and arguments you would be downvoted into oblivion.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by spookyuser »

nojvek wrote: post #83
spookyuser wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, Lex Fridmin was a standout podcast for me this year. I didn't have any idea who he was before the podcast but he has been getting some insanely famous guests on his show in what seems like the very year it was becoming popular. My favourite episode of the podcast was his interview with Geohot I think because I just like hearing Geohot speak and when he's speaking to someone that's not asking easy questions yo…

Geohot was great. I immediately bought a comma ai eon kit after listening to it. My fav was Gary Marcus though. Really showing what breakthroughs we’d need to make to truly have intelligent AI. Without it self driving cars and conversational AIs are always a decade away. I immediately bought his book “Rebooting AI” afterwards too. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligenc...

Wow, if your Eon is installed and everything, how is it? Would love to buy a full eon and everything but I don't have a compatible car yet, will definitely make sure that my next car is 100% comma compatible though.

Thanks, will check out that episode!

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by rdc12 »

fralewsmi wrote: post #146
K0nserv wrote: post #44

Every episode of Darknet Diaries[0]. Episode 49 and the two Xbox Underground episodes are excellent, but regardless of where you start you cannot go wrong with Darknet Diaries. 0: https://darknetdiaries.com/

xbox underground was batshit insane. I loved it

The really crazy part is it all started with two fairly small things, finding a supply of dev kits from an e-waste facility and a dump of passwords that didn't seem that significant at first, and all the antics depended on those two things really.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by BenGosub »

nikivi wrote: post #13

I quite liked these ones: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/podcasts#favorite-episodes I wish podcast clients had social features builtin. As much as I dislike Spotify moving into the podcast space and challenging the current free landscape of RSS feeds. Not one client has the simple ability to add an episode you liked to a playlist to share. I have to share the link to myself on Telegram and than bookmark it myself..

You should try Breaker for IOS/Android. It's not perfect, but it has the much needed social features.
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