Ask HN: What are the podcasts you guys listen to?

27 points by kyloren ↗ HN
Hi guys, just wanna know what are the podcast channels you guys listen to on a regular basis and how you guys are listening to it? iPhone or Anchor or some other app like that.

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I'm subscribed to a lot of podcasts, and I'm too lazy to copy the list, so here are some:

Development related:

   - JavaScript Jabber
   - Turing Incomplete
   - The Stack Exchange Podcast
   - Software Engineering Daily
   - Developer Tea
   - The Google cloud Platform Podcast
   - Codepen Radio
   - The Changelog
Other podcasts:

  - Accidental Tech Podcast
  - The Allusionist
  - Answer Me This
  - Back to Work
  - Analog(ue)
  - Security Now
  - This Week in Google
  - Everything Sounds
  - Limetown
  - 99% Invisible
  - Cortex
  - Hello Internet
  - Reconcilable differences
  - Under the Radar
Do you listen to all this while you sleep? How do you find time
Android / Podkicker Pro

- Techzing (basically HN-like talk)

- Kalzumeus software (although it seems to be dead now)

- Paul's security weekly (because of work in security)

- Escape pod (great scifi stories)

    * Inquiring minds
    * Waking up
    * Hardcore History
    * Rationally Speaking
    * The Tim Ferriss Show
    * Very Bad Wizards
    * You are not so smart
Business-related:

- 99% Invisible

- Britstrapped

- Chasing Product

- Freakonomics Radio

Other:

- The Allusionist

- Imaginary Worlds

- Heavy Metal Historian

Plus some Dutch language podcasts to brush up on my Dutch:

- Echt gebeurd

- deBuren

- Radioboeken

The best podcast I've found in years is Scott Carrier's Home of the brave (homebrave.com)

Some of his episodes are the best audio pieces Ive ever heard.

I listen to my podcasts using Overcast for iPhone. I used to use Beyondpod for Android. They are both great.

Check out Risky Business. Very well produced podcast on security / infosec, both amusing and informative. They know what they're talking about and are active in the industry. Makes me regret ever listening to Security Now:

http://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business

I'll also give a plug for Bootstrapped.FM:

http://bootstrapped.fm

Related question: When do people listen to podcasts? I can't listen while I work, and my commute isn't long enough to get through many podcasts.
Bathroom/shower time, driving, laundry, smoke breaks, cooking dinner, cleaning.
Hm. Those are all my thinking time. When else do we get a chance to just cogitate on things? The modern urge to anesthetize ourselves with sound at every opportunity to think, makes me wonder if we've become afraid to be alone with our thoughts.
Or you could only listen during half of those things.
Among other times, while walking...either the dogs or for exercise.
Cooking dinner, brewing morning coffee.
I sometimes listen to a personal finance podcast when I put my son to bed. He usually falls asleep within 30 seconds :D

   - The Raywenderlich.com Podcast
   - Startup School Radio
These are the podcasts I'm subscribed to:

Tech related

    - hanselminutes (Interviews with developers)
    - software engineering radio (Interesting software dev topics, but man the audio quality is bad)
    - a16z (Interviews with founders/devs topics range from mobile, VR, bitcoin etc.)
    - programming throwdown (About development)

Startup related

    - startups for the rest of us (Talks about bootstrapping your own startup )
    - the startup chat(Hiten Shah & Steli Efti talk about sales/marketing)
    - founders journey (Baremetrics blog articles in audio form)
    - rogue startups (Currently a really interesting series about finding a market and launching a WP Plugin)
    - Startup (Podcast about startups, every season 1 startup, great storytelling)

Other

    - the great debates (Comedy podcast, really funny)
    - surprisingly awesome (Explains why some seemingly boring things are actually cool)
    - 99% invisible (Talks about the "design" of all kind of things, really interesting)
    - reply all (Stories about the internet)
    - hardcore history (3+ h long episodes about world history e.g WWI)
    - serial (great storytelling)
-Econtalk

-Nakedscientist

-Londonreal

Econtalk is really high quality. Very interesting!
Subscribed to : - Snap Judgement (Story telling, with a beat. It's awesome!) - Criminal - Tim Ferris Show - Planet Money
Subscribed to :

- Snap Judgement (Story telling, with a beat. It's awesome!)

- Criminal

- Tim Ferris Show

- Planet Money

- hidden brain

- 99% invisible

- radiolab

- only human

- planet moeny

- criminal

- from scratch

- ted radio hour

- talking machines

- data skeptics

- In our time (BBC)

Listen through Iphone podcast app during commute to work.

right now my favorite is Side Hustle Nation. It gives me some ideas for great side businesses that I could start in my spare time.
I use Stitcher to listen to most things:

- This American Life

- Serial

- The Moth

- Startups for the Rest of Us

- The Business of Freelancing

- Freakonomics Radio

- The Fat Burning Man

- The Dave Ramsey Show