I'm delighted that Mike's carrying this forward - it's a lot more effort than it seems.

I'm without a stable internet connection at the moment - travelling a lot and about to start renovating a house in rural France. Trying to juggle three guests and a shaky connection is just too much.

Random comment about the laughter at the ~2:30 mark: I am a developer, but I am not a gamer. We are few, but we exist.

Oh, I think I said that. I think its probably 99% accurate, and I find it's easier to speak in absolutes, rather than ruin something with disclaimers, esp. on something like a podcast.

I agree. I didn't really think you literally meant everyone.

As it happens I almost never play games. It's hard to find time when you have a startup.

Yeeesh, yeah definitely put on an "unofficial" tag. Just because the stackoverflow community wants a podcast, I'm thinking this would be akin to stealing their name and starting "The stackoverflow podcast".

Sure, I'll ask Alex (the original HNpodder) to make it clear.

Also, the title of the podcast is HNpod and certainly no "the" in it. So it would be more like "SOPod" than "The StackOveflow Podcst".

As someone just coming across this now, the HNpod sounds fine. If I heard that I don't think I would assume it's official in any way.

Is this run/authorized/curated by YC/pg et al or are you just hijacking the brand name to promote a third-party podcast?

It's unauthorized/unofficial. We could possibly make that clear in the /about page, though I think people are probably used to it from the many HN* projects around.

The show is certainly aiming to be based around HN though, not just a general tech show riding on HN's name. Guests are HN regulars and stories are those popular on HN.

I automatically assume "Hacker News"-related is not sanctioned / 3rd party. If it had Y-Combinator somewhere in its name I think that would be a bigger problem.

While not run/authorized/curated by YC, there was a community-wide discussion about the want/need for a podcast of this sort, and the community seemed to answer with a resounding "yes." Hijacking is the wrong word, it's a podcast about HN, so the name is simply relevant.

Although I guess they could be more clear about the "no affiliation" thing.

Judging by the about section, I'd go with they aren't authorised.

Great to see (hear) the show is back! Even though there were only 3 shows in April, it had already become among my favorites.

Good show; please expand the show notes. Would love to see links to everything mentioned.

Shownotes are a good thing, will do my best. Knowing the time commitment to podcasts, I'm gradually working with a virtual assistant to outsource as much as possible, in order to make the show sustainable. There's a training overhead there which means it will be a few weeks before we can realistically do something like this.

Great to hear it's back, I've been missing it on my drives into work.

Had just unsubscribed to this, guess I'm adding it back in.