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Ask HN: Which programming podcasts do you listen to?

• cranberryturkey 2y ago
  syntax or something like that.
  • CSSer 2y ago
    Syntax is occasionally nice for that “Everyman programmer” quality it has. There’s a lot of humility in the way they approach topics.
• sph 2y ago
  The Future of Coding (https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/ https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/) It's become far too long and not focused enough for me to enjoy lately, but it's a nice change of pace to hear about new or lost ideas, rather than hearing about mundane tech I see and hear about every day anyway. Less Rust, Javascript and k8s, and more revisiting papers and moonshot ideas from the 80s for me, please! A great introduction to this podcast is the Devine Lu Linvega (of 100 Rabbits fame) double episode about writing his own tools, and orca, his music live coding platform. https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044 https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044 https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045 https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045
• jamesthurley 2y ago
  I enjoy dipping into the Changelog family of podcasts, particularly their more casual ones. Recently I started listening to Acquired, starting with their episodes on Nintendo and Sega, then Microsoft. Not all of their episodes are tech companies, but plenty are if that’s what you want. Software Unscripted sometimes, and Rustacian Station occasionally. CoRecursive as you already mentioned.
• hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
  Radio Free XP is pretty Pivotal Labs focused, but I think it's really cool.
• mentos 2y ago
  Shout out to Stefan Mischook on YouTube https://youtube.com/@stefanmischook?si=Mo9ccAHmU2diCwZ9 https://youtube.com/@stefanmischook?si=Mo9ccAHmU2diCwZ9 He has great advice to new learners starting their career.
• AugurCognito 2y ago
  Thinking Elixir podcast is great if you work in the Elixir ecosystem.
• jddj 2y ago
  Software Unscripted is worth a shout-out
• Schiphol 2y ago
  The Array Cast https://www.arraycast.com/ https://www.arraycast.com/. This is a podcast on array languages (which more or less means APL-like, for the purposes of the podcast). Even if you don't particularly care about these languages they discuss algorithms and things from an abstract enough perspective that is helpful and illuminating.
  • breck 2y ago
    i became aware of this recently and your comment reminded me to listen. this is great! thanks!
• athoscouto 2y ago
  I've stopped listening for probably a year now. But other than some already mentioned here I'd go with: - Soft Skills Engineering: very humorous and light take on the people side of SWE - StaffEng: interviews with engineers with staff+ roles - Lenny's: if you are into product, growth and startups in general It was already mentioned by a sibling comment, but podcasts from the Changelog are also very good.
• eapriv 2y ago
  Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-a-frog-have-scorpion-nature/id1737204926 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-a-frog-have-scorp...
• inatreecrown2 2y ago
  i read that title as „which podcasts are you procrastinating to?“
• Bnjoroge 2y ago
  go time but really anything from changelog
• guilherme-puida 2y ago
  I really like Software Unscripted by Richard Feldman.
  • christophilus 2y ago
    Aside: Richard seems impossibly nice— like, if Mr Rogers was a programmer, he’d be the creator of Roc.
• foweltschmerz 2y ago
  Programming: - The Data Engineering Show - Signals & Threads by Jane Street occasionally releases programming-focused episodes, although they haven't updated for a while. Tech: - Hard fork by NYT
• assimpleaspossi 2y ago
  None. Most are filled with too many pointless comments, side commentary, tangents, and can't show detail over audio. I can't listen to them anywhere I want. I have to pause and rewind constantly to catch detail. I can't underline something significant or save it for later.
  • azemetre 2y ago
    I’m slowly reaching the same conclusion only with a more cynical bent. Most programming podcasts are just paid interviews it seems. It’s always the same guest on the same podcasts making the same comments. Very few hosts ask relevant questions or try to have a dialogue. It always comes across as extremely disingenuous when you can tell they are just sucking up to the person they are interviewing. The only podcast I consistently listen to is Oxide and Friends, it comes across is genuine even if it’s basically an advertisement for Oxide Computers. Probably more to do with who the hosts are as people.
    • bcantrill 2y ago
      Thank you for listening -- and for the kind words! (And on ads: hey, at least we don't carry even more ads on top of the podcast!) For whatever it's worth, we did an episode on (other!) podcasts that had some good recommendations in it -- plenty of which are technical.[0] [0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-fo...
    • hbogert 2y ago
      Yeah I've got enormous sweetspot for oxide. They sometimes take you back to the 90s at sun. While I was to young to do actual coding in the 90s, somehow it triggers instant nostalgia. Also oxide is doing god's work for servers. I've had the misfortune to automate thousands of servers through their BMCs, and boy did I curse a lot.
• deleted 2y ago
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• whatrocks 2y ago
  It’s more CS education and learning focused, but my friend Oz and I have been doing the CS Primer Show for the last year. Had a brief hiatus for more family time, but we’ll be back in August with more chats and whatnot about Bell Labs and other computer science fun. https://show.csprimer.com https://show.csprimer.com Also YouTube version: https://youtube.com/@cs_primer https://youtube.com/@cs_primer
  • oh_fiddlesticks 2y ago
    Hey, thanks for sharing this, I'm really enjoying it. Especially the one about packet loss, it was really interesting to hear the way a software engineer explains network protocols. I hope you continue.
• helix278 2y ago
  Software Unscripted, by Richard Feldman
• matt_daemon 2y ago
  The Changelog is decent and has a few spinoff shows. Also Oxide and Friends.
• rethab 2y ago
  - Software Architektur im Stream (mostly German, but sometimes English) - 2.5 Admins (sysadmins Talking) - A Bootiful Podcast (Java / Spring) - Risky Biz (IT Security News) - Software Engineering Radio - The Engineering Room with Dave Farley - Ship It (What happens after git push) - ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast - Big Ideas in App Architecture (Cockroach DB Makers) - OpenSource Security Podcast (Two guys talking about OS) - InfoQ Podcast - Engineering Enablement
• gabrielsroka 2y ago
  > Lex Fridman I created a YT Playlist of 50+ Lex Fridman programming, robotics, AI, tech, etc videos. Feel free to reply (with URLs) if I missed any. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4_Rj_Aw2Yl2GR6_JgIq7hnI-PGA0km6 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ4_Rj_Aw2Yl2GR6_JgIq... Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI #333 Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet #434 Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ #48 Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave #160 Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming #109 Charles Hoskinson: Cardano #192 Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators #21 Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI #381 Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages #131 Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming #62 Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life #219 Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot #49 Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI #252 Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot #18 Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity #400 George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles #31 George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets #132 George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God #387 Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming #341 Guido van Rossum: Python #6 Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning #94 Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence #91 James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing #126 Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI #218 Jeff Atwood: Stack Overflow and Coding Horror #7 Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin #405 Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles #70 Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness #162 Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia #385 John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets #309 Kate Darling: Social Robotics #98 Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT #329 Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family #417 Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI #386 Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse #398 Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp #383 Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse #267 Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development #371 Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication #380 Noam Chomsky: Language, Cognition, and Deep Learning #53 Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach #42 Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality #250 Ray Kurzweil: Singularity, Superintelligence, and Immortality #321 Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI #367 Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI #419 Scott Aaronson: Computational Complexity and Consciousness #130 Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics #89 Stephen Wolfram: ChatGPT and the Nature of Truth, Reality & Computation #376 Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality #234 Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe #124 Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming #224 Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning #258 Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, ConvNets, and Self-Supervised Learning #36 Yann LeCun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI #416
• 0x11f 2y ago
  https://changelog.com https://changelog.com
• geophph 2y ago
  Backend Banter
• petercooper 2y ago
  I really enjoy https://www.latent.space/podcast https://www.latent.space/podcast nowadays - it really gets into the technical details and concepts around various modern AI and LLM related topics.
• chiranthans23 2y ago
  Practical AI
• kratom_sandwich 2y ago
  [1] Click Here - https://therecord.media/podcast https://therecord.media/podcast [2] Reply All (which apparently ended in 2022 as I just learned) - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_All_(podcast) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_All_(podcast)
• breck 2y ago
  This is a great question and an awesome list. I started an open source scrollset compiling the list here: https://pldb.io/lists/podcasts.html https://pldb.io/lists/podcasts.html (source: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/main/lists/podcasts.scroll https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/main/lists/podcasts.scro...)
• carterdmorgan 2y ago
  I co-host a podcast called Book Overflow (https://bookoverflow.io https://bookoverflow.io) where each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We keep the conversations fairly dense. We've even interviewed a few of the authors, like Brian Kernighan!
• OptionOfT 2y ago
  I used to listen to the StackOverflow one but now it's just white-washing AI, and justifying them selling out their data to OpenAI.
• rwdf 2y ago
  Just Go Time from time to time.