Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#1

Post by strooper » Sun, May 17, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?

What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#2

Post by karanke » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:43 PM UTC

Hey, I'm currently writing a newsletter on reframing ideas from pop culture using first principles, would appreciate if you could take a look: https://reframing.substack.com/.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#3

Post by papeda » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#4

Post by organicfigs » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

Probably the least interesting, esoteric, and useless topic but it's a rabbit hole none the less: the taxonomy of ancestors of modern-day elephants such as the Deinotherium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium). A lot of them look wild and they're interesting to read up on.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#5

Post by anarchyrucks » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

Not browsing per se but I've been reading https://datadass.dev/ and reading source code of various storage engines and their documentation. SQLite and Postgres have a very good documentation with implementation details. The plan is to write my own storage engine. I'm creating a spec for my own implementation for now. This has been keeping me busy while I'm not doing my regular work.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Post by wenc » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on.

For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths:

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/

It turns you can make quite a bit driving for GH/UE (well in some geographies), so much so that a $15/hr job with benefits is unattractive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/comments/gkmuc4/wo...

I want to work towards a just world, but I believe the first step is to really understand the system of incentives and what is actually happening on the ground, as opposed to simply taking in oversimplified media narratives.

Subreddits are watering holes for folks in the field. I think their unvarnished perspectives are interesting data points (albeit skewed towards a Reddit-centric demographic).

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#7

Post by seddin » Sun, May 17, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

I discovered wiby.me the other day and found this site called neocities and there I was able to find a large amount of blogs/personal sites with cool designs that reminded me of the old days on the internet.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#8

Post by sendbitcoins » Sun, May 17, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

"Two Minute Papers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M

GTC 2020 Part 2 was pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeScfkCm3b4

Mostly I'm in a rut as well

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#9

Post by JacobDotVI » Sun, May 17, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

Http://marginalrevolution.com - lots of interesting links and commentary.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

#10

Post by austinl » Sun, May 17, 2020, 6:17 PM UTC

papeda wrote: post #3

I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Reminds me of the Wikipedia vital articles. I've been trying to learn German, so I've been picking one mostly at random and reading the German translation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles