Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? • Hacker News Board

peller wrote: post #17

analogwzrd wrote: post #11

For me, it's definitely Ribbonfarm: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ I stumbled into Venkat's blog about two and half years ago and I'm still trying to find my way out. The rabbit hole gets even deeper when you look at his list of recommended reading. The material on John Boyd and OODA loops in particular has been bouncing around my head for about a year. Ribbonfarm quickly turns into a choose-your-own-adventure type of ex…

That recommended reading list is so good I'm going to save some people the trouble of finding the link: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/

I never would have imagined myself reading a book about teaching improvisational theater and enjoying it, much less finding it applicable to my career in engineering.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by ohthehugemanate » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

Reptilians.

You're welcome.

http://www.alternet.org/story/147967/inside_the_great_reptil...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by mathw » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

octo_t wrote: post #12

My current rabbit hole has been the world building stack exchange ( http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ) which is (ostensibly) for writers working out scientific or historical justifications for the worlds they invent. Some of the thought that goes into answers is really cool. Good ones from recently are: - http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59175/what-... - http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q…

I used to love it, but I do feel that the quality of the questions has dropped significantly since it started. There are now many people trying to find a justification for their pet plot idea, or trying to have the community fix the gaping hole in their universe.

That said, there are some amazing answers, well thought out and well researched, and I love some of the questions about cultural impacts of technological or biological speculation.