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Today: #143 in Technology on our combined chart.

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Episode releases
#86#107#128#148#169Chart rankOct 15Oct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#143Episode released Oct 16: The Changing Craft of Programming with John Crepezzi
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DateCombined RankApple PodcastsCastbox
Oct 27#143#138—
Oct 26#159#154—
Oct 25#146#142—
Oct 24#130#125—
Oct 23#123#119#96
Oct 22#114#107#89
Oct 21#96#79#97
Oct 20#112#99—
Oct 19#109#91—
Oct 18#105#90—
Oct 17#131#121—
Oct 16#144#136—
Oct 15#125#115—
Oct 14#127#114—

Latest episodes

  • The Changing Craft of Programming with John Crepezzi

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

    John Crepezzi has spent his career building tools for other programmers—at Tumblr, at Square, and then at GitHub, where he worked on the merge queue and the early versions of Codespaces. He came to Jane Street to build a code search engine…

  • Learning Goals and the Goals of Learning: Teaching in the Age of AI with Aaron Bauer

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

    Aaron Bauer is a software engineer and one of Jane Street's few developer educators—a role that splits his time between writing code and teaching other people how to write it. Before joining the firm, he taught computer science at Carleton…

  • Wrestling the world into rows with Eric Mannes

    September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    "Alternative data" is Wall Street's name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panels, weather forecasts. Eric Mannes has spent over a decade at Jane Street, first as a…

  • Building a data warehouse from scratch with Jacob Baskin

    June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    In university Jacob Baskin studied at the intersection of computer science and economics, thinking about systems that incentivize people to express their true preferences. He put those ideas into practice at Google, where he worked on ad…

  • The Network as a Program with Nate Foster

    June 1, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    Nate Foster is a professor at EPFL in Switzerland in the Networked Systems Abstractions Lab, and a visiting researcher at Jane Street on the Networking team. In this episode, he and Ron consider what happens when you bring a software…

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  • Why Testing is Hard and How to Fix it with Will Wilson

    March 17, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

    Will Wilson is the founder and CEO of Antithesis, which is trying to change how people test software. The idea is that you run your application inside a special hypervisor environment that intelligently (and deterministically) explores the…

  • Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner

    September 3, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

    Chris Lattner is the creator of LLVM and led the development of the Swift language at Apple. With Mojo, he’s taking another big swing: How do you make the process of getting the full power out of modern GPUs productive and fun? In this…

  • The Thermodynamics of Trading with Daniel Pontecorvo

    July 25, 2025 · 59 min

    Daniel Pontecorvo runs the “physical engineering” team at Jane Street. This group blends architecture, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and construction management to build functional physical spaces. In this episode, Ron…

  • Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry

    May 28, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

    Ian Henry started his career at Warby Parker and Trello, building consumer apps for millions of users. Now he writes high-performance tools for a small set of experts on Jane Street’s options desk. In this episode, Ron and Ian explore what…

  • Finding Signal in the Noise with In Young Cho

    March 12, 2025 · 60 min

    In Young Cho thought she was going to be a doctor but fell into a trading internship at Jane Street. Now she helps lead the research group’s efforts in machine learning. In this episode, In Young and Ron touch on the porous boundaries…

  • The Uncertain Art of Accelerating ML Models with Sylvain Gugger

    October 14, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min

    Sylvain Gugger is a former math teacher who fell into machine learning via a MOOC and became an expert in the low-level performance details of neural networks. He’s now on the ML infrastructure team at Jane Street, where he helps traders…

  • Solving Puzzles in Production with Liora Friedberg

    October 7, 2024 · 54 min

    Liora Friedberg is a Production Engineer at Jane Street with a background in economics and computer science. In this episode, Liora and Ron discuss how production engineering blends high-stakes puzzle solving with thoughtful software…

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About the show

Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers who are working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly. You can find transcripts along with related links on our website at signalsandthreads.com.