Episodes HN recommended
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
Aug 8, 2023 • 1 h 59 minAndy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
Jul 12, 2023 • 2 h 23 minCarl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment
Jun 14, 2023 • 2 h 44 minBrett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out
Mar 13, 2023 • 2 h 38 minMarc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution
Feb 1, 2023 • 1 h 20 minCharles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
Sep 14, 2022 • 1 h 31 min
Recent episodes
What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years
Oct 30, 2026 • 1 h 01 minWhat I learned about power from LBJ and Robert Moses
Oct 29, 2026 • 25 minWhat will computer chips look like in 2045?
Oct 22, 2026 • 1 h 09 minSi Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
Oct 1, 2026 • 1 h 37 minNoam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
Sep 17, 2026 • 1 h 20 minAI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
Sep 11, 2026 • 1 h 37 minAjeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Sep 1, 2026 • 2 h 21 minThe rise and fall of agent civilizations
Aug 31, 2026 • 25 minDylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
Aug 25, 2026 • 1 h 17 minRyan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
Aug 11, 2026 • 2 h 13 min8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Aug 7, 2026 • 9 minWhy smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
Aug 3, 2026 • 11 minAdam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
Jul 10, 2026 • 1 h 38 minGrant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
Jun 30, 2026 • 1 h 34 minThe next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Jun 26, 2026 • 20 minThe data black hole at the center of AI
Jun 19, 2026 • 12 minAda Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Jun 16, 2026 • 2 h 08 minAlex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Jun 4, 2026 • 1 h 16 minReiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
May 22, 2026 • 1 h 21 minEric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
May 15, 2026 • 2 h 37 minDavid Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
May 8, 2026 • 2 h 13 minReiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Apr 29, 2026 • 2 h 14 minJensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Apr 15, 2026 • 1 h 43 minMichael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Apr 7, 2026 • 2 h 03 minTerence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Mar 20, 2026 • 1 h 24 minDylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Mar 13, 2026 • 2 h 31 minThe most important question nobody's asking about AI
Mar 11, 2026 • 25 minWhy Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Mar 6, 2026 • 2 h 02 minDario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Feb 13, 2026 • 2 h 22 minElon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Feb 5, 2026 • 2 h 50 min
What HN said
- transputeFeb 2023Marc Andreessen – AI, Crypto, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
- ca98am79Mar 2023Brett Harrison – FTX US Former President and HFT Finance Veteran Speaks Out
- jger15Jul 2023Andy Matuschak – Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
- FootkerchiefJun 2023Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
- jger15Sep 2022Charles C. Mann – Americas Before Columbus and Scientific Wizardry
- zuhayeerJul 2022The effective altruist work ethic and the spirit of utilitarianism