[Zero Two]

Format: name, what it actually is, who it is for. No filler.

Tech:

• Darknet Diaries - true crime but for hacking and cybersecurity. Production quality is high. Good for commutes.
  
• Corecursive - deep interviews with software engineers about specific technical decisions. Slow-paced and thoughtful.
  
• The Changelog - open source and developer ecosystem news. Best weekly pulse-check for the dev world.
  
• Security Now - Steve Gibson goes deep on one security topic per week. Dense but accurate.
  

General / thinking:

• Lex Fridman - long interviews, hit or miss guests, but the hits (Knuth, Carmack, Torvalds) are genuinely excellent.
  
• Huberman Lab - neuroscience-grounded health and performance content. Longer than it needs to be but the information density is real.
  
• No Stupid Questions - Freakonomics spinoff. Accessible but not dumbed down.
  

Anything with more than 5 ads per episode is not on this list on principle.