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Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Post by wenbin »

I listen to a lot of podcast episodes (over 5,000 in the past 5 years [1]), but I don’t subscribe to podcasts.

The way I listen to podcasts is similar to how I consume web contents:

Search by topics/people, and Find podcast episodes to listen, then move on, not subscribing to podcasts. Search by topics/people, and Find web pages to read, then move on, not bookmarking websites.

For podcast recommendations, I’d suggest focusing on topics/people that you’d like to learn more. You can search and find individual episodes [2]. At this moment, there are at least 140,000,000 podcast episodes [3] - vs there were 25,000,000 web pages indexed by google in 1998 [4]

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/playlists/wenbin-fangs-podcast-p...

[2] https://www.listennotes.com/

[3] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

[4] https://www.thinglink.com/scene/452856351543001090

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Post by 1over137 »

hestefisk wrote: post #31

2.5 Admins - with Jim Salter from Ars. It’s a great sys admin podcast BSD Now - everything *BSD. Quality has declined quite a bit since Benedict joined, though. Corecursive - some really great stories on software development. The recent one on debugging LISP in deep space is great. Changelog - Sometimes decent interviews with founders and in-depth tech interview. Avoid JS Party though, it’s really daunting. Cyber - s…

Wow, Off The Hook is still on? I listened like 25 years ago. Is it still good?

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Post by borroka »

I have not seen it listed, but I am very much enjoying the Manifold podcast. Hsu is competent, not afraid to speak his mind, and invites on talented scientists, academics, and bureaucrats.

I don't agree with him all the time, and I find his views on China way too cynical. For instance, I found the episode with the Singaporean diplomat quite troubling, but it was nonetheless interesting to listen to how these diplomats talk. But he has access to high-level "state people" and it is fascinating to and a bit depressing to realize how little the common folks, of which I am part, count.

The podcast was discontinued for about a year after Hsu was removed from his administrative position at Michigan State following a witch hunt of sorts for his views on IQ. I think he kept his faculty position as a physicist anyway (holding for dear life on that tenure) and he started recently a couple of start ups, one that deals with embryo genotyping and one with the resolution of cold cases using genetic material.

Re: Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Post by intrasight »

KevinEldon wrote: post #42

Martyr Made, History on Fire, Jocko Podcast, and Hardcore History I hear History of Rome and Revolutions are good.

Yes. Mike Duncan is an awesome storyteller. He has now written a couple good books too. "Revolutions" is so good that I listened to the whole thing a second time during the pandemic. "The History of Byzantium" by Robert Pierson is also excellent and is still ongoing.

"The show was created to continue the narrative established by Mike Duncan’s wonderful podcast “The History of Rome.” I have tried to remain faithful to Mike’s structure of half hour installments told from a state-centric perspective." [https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/]

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