Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025? The Rest is Politics, Leading, Philosophize This and Stratechery (paid) are the podcasts that stood out the most in 2025. Curious what other HNers listen to. |
Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025? The Rest is Politics, Leading, Philosophize This and Stratechery (paid) are the podcasts that stood out the most in 2025. Curious what other HNers listen to. |
Diary of a CEO has some really interesting business guests.
The Koe Cast has some deep insights into doing your own thing.
The AI Daily Brief is great if you want a quick update on the latest AI news.
The Knowledge Project is just a great overall discussion on decision making.
Latent Space for deep dives with different AI industry guests.
And sadly, there are no more Jupiter Broadcasting shows left without crypto or mostly inside baseball.
Anyone know of shows in the category of two or three lads discussing computing, coding, devops, but in the style of two older guys crumudging that everything used to be better in the old days?
The rest of Late Night Linux is okay too.
Starting Strength Radio, though no longer produced, is usually a good listen as well for humor and gym-related topics.
I went into panic world with low expectations and they’ve blown me away. It’s really, really good if you’re interested in internet cultures.
Scamfluencers
Business Wars
The Social Radars
Big Technology Podcast
Lex = AI + some history
Dishcast - politics + books
Sam Harris - everything
All In - tech news
Tyler Cowen - random good shows
Pirate Wires - news (coming back I heard)
Joe Rogan - famous interesting guests at least once a month
Ben Shapiro - if you want to hear the opposite of what you're reading in the NYT (Surgey Brin approved)
As to the downvoted list I agree with some - Friedman, Rogan, Shapiro - but I just can't listen to Sam Harris any more due to his extreme TDS and his inability to recognise when he has been wrong on something - the SARS2 unpleasantness being an example of such. He was an interesting part of the 'intellectual dark web' which was a much-needed counter to the mentioned 'progressive' narrative pushed by the media but he went off the rails first when Trump became president for the first time and later when SARS2 hit. For news I'd add the Spiked podcast and the Brendan O'Neill show for some UK perspective, Aron Flam's 'Dekonstruktiv Kritik' (in Swedish) as a counter to the 'progressive' Swedish state broadcasters Sveriges TV and Sveriges Radio (they call themselves 'independent' but that is a flagrant lie) and the 'progressive' print/web media. Listen to and read both those 'progressive' outlets as well as some of the mentioned counterparts to gain a wider perspective on what actually happens in the world.
Ill check out the other names. Thanks
If Books Could Kill: https://www.ifbookspod.com
Maintenance Phase: https://www.maintenancephase.com
You're Wrong About: https://yourewrongabout.com (Hobbes retired from this one around Oct 2021)
There's a similar podcast where he's also made an appearance:
In Bed With The Right: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JirL3UVKjyy5MTy8PouHh
The information density and clarity are outstanding.
¹ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1308-money-stuff-the-podcast-...
² https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
³ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-this-happening-...
The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's classic The History of Rome, and in my opinion surpassed it. Where THoR eventually falls into the narrative trap of turning into "The Lives of Roman Emperors", THoB spends a lot of time talking about economic, demographic, societal, and technological changes within the Empire and the world.
Extremely recommended if you want a proper history podcast.
The specifics of the journey are going to date quickly given the speed of AI development. But the shape of the journey and the dilemmas posed are going to be relevant for a lot longer.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shell-game/id175311776...
Fall of Civilizations 20 - Persia - An Empire in Ashes [2]
[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-73-mania-...
Fall of Civilizations is excellent too.
Andrew Sullivan (Dish Cast) is doing a much better job and isnt associated with a main stream media org.
Each episode is of exceptional quality and retells history in an engaging manor. Since it's history, the entire backlog is still relevant.
https://adventofcomputing.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/advent-of-computing/id1459202600
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/rss
https://www.youtube.com/@adventofcomputing4504/videosSome other episodes I've bookmarked are in this feed: https://feeds.listennotes.com/listen/rahim-nathwanis-listen-...
Felipe, the founder of Quest Learning (joinquest.com) started a podcast series about the future of learning. I was his first guest:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CjsPEKYwx8eirYlBYjxwp
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-of-learning...
After Skool: https://www.youtube.com/afterskool | https://open.spotify.com/show/36mIOrFwTKIDER8KF0aGrx | https://www.afterskool.net/
Academy of Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/academyofideas | https://open.spotify.com/show/2dio7KUNuDHErlMumZtNt6 | https://academyofideas.com/
Corecursive is an amazing podcast as well. Interesting coding stories. It's catching up up on my majority of podcast hours.
Then "How I write" by David Perell. I love his old show and this. As a blogger who don't use LLM for articles, I love listening to it. David Perell's contents are of unbelievable quality and is the only podcast that I never ever miss.
The David Frum Show - https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/ Overthink - https://overthinkpodcast.com/ Singletrack - https://www.youtube.com/c/SingletrackPodcast The Glenn Show - https://glennloury.substack.com/podcast
• The Rest is History
• Pivot (Kara Swisher, techlash)
• Marketplace (stock market, with surprising bumper music)
• Inside Europe (Deutsche Welle English-language news)
A new one I started listening to is fun so far...
• Business History (more lighthearted than it sounds)
The Wookash Podcast[2]. Some of the best technical programming conversations I've heard in recent years.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thekoerneroffice
- Stuff You Should Know https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/
- How to do Everything https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510384/how-to-do-everything- My First Million (www.mfmpod.com). I just don't know why, but for some reason I stopped listening to them in the past 2 months, but rest of the year I was really enjoying their content. Even older ones.
- Pivot and Prof G, mostly because of Scott Galloway. I really like him.
- Under The Influence with Terry O'Reilly. Amazingly good. Very fun to listen to and almost always brings joy and help me learn something new.
- All In, can't say I'm still enjoying this. It's way too political these days. But it's still something I listen to occasionally. When I listen I usually end up skipping half of the content to find something I like.
This episode about eating disorders was harrowing and sad but really informative to how toxic communities form https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-eating-disorder-co...
Acquired (Long episodes about companies, recents include:
coca-cola, trader joe's & alphabet)
Dwarkesh Podcast (Inquisitive curious host, mostly "AGI"
related)
Conversations with Tyler (Wide ranging, polymath host,
distinctive, hard to describe style)
The Marginal Revolution Podcast (Tyler cowen & Alex Tabbarok
discussing economics)
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson (you sort of mentioned)
The Morning Meeting (US Politics mostly. Neutral tone,
informative, forward looking i.e. what will happen next not
who is bad etc)The three all have science degrees, and do proper research for their deep dives. This is a podcast which comes with supporting citations.
Incidentally, TWiV changed my life. I was working as a cabinet maker with no college degree when I gave it a shot, on a whim. The host’s refusal to shy away from technical depth convinced me that I could learn hard things. 10 years I have a biochemistry degree and work as a machine learning engineer.
Blank Check The Flophouse 99% Invisible Cautionary Tales The Rewatchables
I maintain The Flophouse is the funniest podcast around.
I tuned out when he spent 30 minutes describing a famous photo-op of General MacArthur going ashore to the Philippines. That is the complete opposite of the original promise of the podcast.