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Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Post by level87 »

elevation wrote: post #7

Triggernometry A couple of immigrants to Britain discuss politics, culture, and world events. Some topics are pertinent to life in the US, others are just interesting discussions. The hosts' previous work as comedians can make their discussions more entertaining.

Had a listen, these are some pretty right wing populist views, the fact they are immigrants feels like something to take that edge off. The people they interview are mostly awful, David Starkey, Tommy Robinson (Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon), eww...

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Post by drakonka »

paool wrote: post #10

The telepathy tapes. Don't want to give away too much but it has to do with non verbal autistic people with... Special abilities. Non fiction, and they try to conduct tests to be as scientific as possible.

I think this one might be super interesting for its entertainment value, but there has been some strong criticism as to its credibility. For example, here's a pretty comprehensive debunking from The Skeptical Inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-telepathy-tapes-...

And a statement from Association for Science in Autism Treatment: https://asatonline.org/media_watch/asat-responds-to-the-skep...

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Post by davidpapermill »

I've repeatedly bounced on and off 20VC by Harry Stebbings, but this year I'm finally hooked.

The main draw is the episode released towards the end of the week with Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) and Rory O'Driscoll (Scale Venture Partners). With the pace of AI announcements, it's been a good place to recap and analyse the week's events. In particular, Rory's insights are usually spot-on.

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Post by jjice »

Oxide and Friends has a good mix of light banter and interesting technical talk across the stack, leaning lower. They have a lot of great commentary on a range of things. Their LLM discussions are particularly interesting to me because they're very reasonable.

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Post by TheKnack »

paool wrote: post #10

The telepathy tapes. Don't want to give away too much but it has to do with non verbal autistic people with... Special abilities. Non fiction, and they try to conduct tests to be as scientific as possible.

The tests are in no way scientific. Do a little research and you will find some horrifying truths about what is presented.

https://medium.com/@randomuser_11627/the-telepathy-tapes-is-...

https://jonogden.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-the-telepath...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-telepathy-tapes-more-fc...

Re: Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2026 [So Far]

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Post by sirshmooey »

elevation wrote: post #7

Triggernometry A couple of immigrants to Britain discuss politics, culture, and world events. Some topics are pertinent to life in the US, others are just interesting discussions. The hosts' previous work as comedians can make their discussions more entertaining.

If those guys are "comedians" then I'm Elvis Presley.
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