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Lex Fridman
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Lex Fridman's personal blog at lexfridman.com covers ai and science. Since 2018, 128 different Hacker News readers have linked it 185 times, most often “Artificial Intelligence Podcast”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 10 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lex Fridman's podcast interview pages, mostly as sources for a guest's point. Recommendations go to interviews with Jim Keller, Joscha Bach and Jamie Metzl, among others.
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- Called fascinating, insightful, inspiring and worth a listen; one commenter's top episode of the year.
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Host of the Lex Fridman Podcast and lectures, and researcher in human-AI interaction and robotics.
Most-linked posts?
- Artificial Intelligence Podcast8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-09-07
- Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-08-04
- Lex Fridman Podcast4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-06
- Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01
- Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave [audio]3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-12
- /dhh-david-heinemeier-hansson-transcript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-26
- Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society [video]2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-21
- Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-05
- Ray Kurzweil: Future of Intelligence – MIT – Artificial Intelligence Podcast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-16
- Transcript for Yann LeCun: AGI and the Future of AI – Lex Fridman Podcast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-08
What Hacker News says?
If we consider President Javier Milei’s perspectives on monopolies, as articulated in his address at the World Economic Forum [1], we can apply his reasoning to the case of Starlink’s potential dominance in direct-to-phone satellite connectivity. In his statements, Milei challenges the traditional view that monopolies inherently lead to market inefficiencies. Instead, he assumes that monopolistic positions, when ach…
Comment linking /javier-milei-transcript/
on “Starlink Direct to Cell”Submitted Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack as a story · 398 points
HN discussionYou're assuming causality there which hasn't been proven. "When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right." -Jeff Bezos https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript/#chapter6_amazo...
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on “What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on”Submitted Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI [video] as a story · 254 points
HN discussion> We’re still in disagreement but I wouldn’t bet on either side of the AGI debate with any significant conviction. That is probably a superior position to hold. I am agnostic by nature, and interestingly this is one of the rare topics I've taken a hard position on. It could be a result of the years spent in the field but also some kind of bias. > What are the manipulations you’re referring to? Need to take a step ba…
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on “Human brain compresses working memories into low-res ‘summaries’”Submitted Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio] as a story · 247 points
HN discussionSlightly off topic, but it was a lot of fun to listen to Brendan Eich on Lex Fridman's podcast talk about Brave and the browser wars of the 90s and 00s. I've been using the Browser for several months without any of the rewards enabled and appreciate that it seems to quietly remove 95% of ads and does it effectively. https://lexfridman.com/brendan-eich/
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on “Brave, the false sensation of privacy”Submitted Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video] as a story · 226 points
HN discussionComma.ai kind of follows the "improving lane detection until it drives you completely" line, at least according to what I get from this interview with Hotz: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ He's still a bit too optimistic for my taste.
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on “Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot”Submitted 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics [video] as a story · 187 points
HN discussionSome really insightful discussion of the possibilities and limits of ML can be found on Les Fridman's AI podcast. Especially good were interviews with Yann LeCunn, Jeff Hawkins, Elon Musk and Francois Chollet. One memorable quote from LeCun "There is no intelligence without learning." Here's a link to the LeCun interview, though many aothers are excellent. https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun/
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on “AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)”Submitted Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society [video] as a story · 128 points
HN discussionLots of Nobel Prizes ought to be rescinded. https://lexfridman.com/andrew-scull-transcript#the-ice-pick-...
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on “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”Submitted Artificial Intelligence Podcast as a story · 35 points
HN discussionRecent interview to Cursor developers: https://lexfridman.com/cursor-team
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on “How I write code using Cursor”Submitted Lex Fridman with Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI as a story · 25 points
HN discussion> there will be a proposal at some point to actually have an AI math Olympiad where at the same time as the human contestants get the actual Olympiad problems, AI’s will also be given the same problems, the same time period and the outputs will have to be graded by the same judges, which means that it’ll have be written in natural language rather than formal language.[1] Last month, Tao himself said that we can comp…
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on “OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025”Submitted Lex Fridman Interviews Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI'm guessing you are referring to David Fravor[1] when you say "the one about UFO's". I dunno. I'm a skeptic by nature (not just of UFO's, etc., but of almost everything) and I watched that episode and thought it was good. Fravor seemed like a sharp, knowledgeable, down-to-earth guy who was simply stating what he experienced... and went to great lengths to be clear that he wasn't necessarily positing that what he sa…
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on “Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI”Submitted DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity and Parenting as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>> So it's sad to see anyone falling for Putin's lies so easily. (See also Mearshimer.) Mearsheimer can be a bit too convincing for his own good, surely. What he has argued that is certainly convincing is that Russia was ready to negotiate a peace at the start of the war, when Russians and Ukrainians met in Belarus and then in Istanbul. If Putin wanted to recreate Imperial Russia, or the Soviet Union, then why would…
Comment linking /john-mearsheimer-transcript/
on “Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'”Submitted DHH: Programming, AI, Vibe Coding and Linux (Lex Fridman Podcast) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is a fantastic articulation. Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO - Lex Fridman [0] [0] https://lexfridman.com/kevin-scott/
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on “Operations for Effective CEOs”Submitted Lex Fridman Podcast #482 – Pavel Durov as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLink: https://lexfridman.com/jeremy-howard/ to the podcast episode that I guess you're referring to. Thanks for mentioning it, will check it out.
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on “Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?”Submitted #467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is basically the conclusion the creator (DHH) of Ruby on Rails has come to: https://lexfridman.com/dhh-david-heinemeier-hansson-transcri... It's all going to be who has the best and most tasteful ideas. Interesting times indeed.
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on “Hy4 preview”Submitted Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLink to podcast for the lazy https://lexfridman.com/ai/ . Looks good, thanks for sharing! I've had a hard time finding podcasts that have a conversational style that I enjoy; so far I like only https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ , but this one looks really promising.
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on “Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, Life, and the Art of Programming [video]”Submitted Transcript for Yann LeCun: AGI and the Future of AI – Lex Fridman Podcast as a story · 4 points
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