Lex Fridman — Best Videos According to Hacker News

interview

Jim Keller: Moore's Law, Microprocessors, and First Principles | Lex Fridman Podcast #70

Lex Fridman

“I was stunned by Jim's total command of Computer Architecture, and his deep insights about the subject.”

8 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

podcast

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman

“If watching this isn't worth anyone's time, I'm not sure what would be.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

podcast

David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122

Lex Fridman

“this is a great interview interesting in its own right, even without the UFO part”

8 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

podcast

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

Lex Fridman

“I strongly recommend Lex Firdman’s recent interview with George Hotz”

7 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

podcast

George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132

Lex Fridman

“Lots of topics covered: self-driving, immortality, UFOs, cryptocurrencies, Tesla/Waymo/OpenAI, GTP-3, AI, book recommendations.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

podcast

Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89

Lex Fridman

“accessible intro”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

podcast

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

Lex Fridman

“a real gem of an interview, in my opinion”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

interview

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money | Lex Fridman Podcast #80

Lex Fridman

“listening to the founder of Ethereum on the Lex Fridman podcast was fascinating.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

interview

Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234

Lex Fridman

“A good discussion that touches on these ideas in a fairly accessible way”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

podcast

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Lex Fridman

“It really changed my naive perspective of life, and the universe.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

podcast

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Lex Fridman

“Anyone seriously interested in this question should listen to the Lex Friedman interview of Andrej Karpathy”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

podcast

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend this bit of history from NumPy creator Travis Oliphant”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

interview

Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162

Lex Fridman

“Investing time to listen to the guy seems to be not worse.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

interview

John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309

Lex Fridman

“The entire video is worth viewing, an impressive 5:15h!”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

podcast

Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman

“I don't take Roger's view about consciousness for granted but it is very interesting nevertheless.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

podcast

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman

“Penrose delivered a very accessible walkthrough of his historical and current thoughts on the topic.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

podcast

Chris Lattner: Future of Programming and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #381

Lex Fridman

“further emboldened my stance that if Mojo can succeed, Lattner is one of the best-positioned engineers to see it through”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

interview

Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25

Lex Fridman

“Highly recommend the Lex Fridman interview to listen to Jeff explain live”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

podcast

Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend listening to this Lex Friedman podcast episode”

2 HN recommenders · 2024

lecture

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman

“Check the lecture, its fantastic imo.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

podcast

Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398

Lex Fridman

“The Fridman - Zuckerberg VR interview really convinced me of this, if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's incredible”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

podcast

Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics | Lex Fridman Podcast #284

Lex Fridman

“this episode turned me from a "fuck any form of crypto" stance to an appreciation of BTC the technology”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

podcast

Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440

Lex Fridman

“I highly recommend checking out this podcast”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

interview

Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154

Lex Fridman

“There's a good interview with Avi Loeb on the Lex Fridman podcast about this very topic.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

interview

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman

“I recommend this interview to get a slightly better glimpse of the guy”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

podcast

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #124

Lex Fridman

“He has three long interviews on Lex Fridmans youtube channel! I greatly enjoyed watching those those.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

podcast

Bryan Johnson: Kernel Brain-Computer Interfaces | Lex Fridman Podcast #186

Lex Fridman

“this recent podcast episode with the CEO is a good start”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

podcast

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62

Lex Fridman

“It's fascinating to learn how much energy he still spends at verifying and investigating each aspect of newly published algorithms.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

podcast

Eric Weinstein: Revolutionary Ideas in Science, Math, and Society | Lex Fridman Podcast #16

Lex Fridman

“Eric Weinstein (a bit kooky) explains his view on the trenches of advanced mathematics/physics”

2 HN recommenders · 2019

podcast

Kevin Systrom: Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #243

Lex Fridman

“you can hear about it from the founder in this really good Lex Fridman podcast”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

podcast

Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221

Lex Fridman

“If anybody wants to hear more about Doug's work and ideas, here is a (fairly long) interview with Doug by Lex Fridman”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

podcast

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Lex Fridman

“The founders did an episode on Lex Fridman's podcast that covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than I ever could”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

podcast

Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325

Lex Fridman

“here he goes over much of the same amazing material, but along with a visual presentation.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

interview

Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators | Lex Fridman Podcast #21

Lex Fridman

“I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

podcast

Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371

Lex Fridman

“it's worth a watch just to be more prepared for where things are likely headed”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

podcast

Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416

Lex Fridman

“I think you might find Lex Fridmans interview with Yann LeCun interesting[1].”

1 HN recommenders · 2024

podcast

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368

Lex Fridman

“I would recommend listening to Eliezer Yudkowsky on the subject”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

interview

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Lex Fridman

“it made sense to me”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

podcast

Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109

Lex Fridman

“Loved the episodes with Jim Keller [0] and Brian Kernighan [1] as well.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

interview

Moore's Law is Not Dead (Jim Keller) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman

“According to Jim Keller, yes, there is.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

interview

Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18

Lex Fridman

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

interview

Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131

Lex Fridman

“I watched a couple of Lex Fridman podcasts this week with Chris Lattner (creator of Swift) that I thought were interesting”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

interview

Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295

Lex Fridman

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023