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

Pagat.com: someone attempting an exhaustive list of card game rules and variants (typically played with traditional decks, so no Magic the Gathering).

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

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Post by danharaj » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:28 PM UTC

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/HomePage

The nlab is a remarkable mathematical resource open to everyone. I've been using it to contextualize my mathematical learning since I was an undergraduate.

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

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Post by bsandert » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:28 PM UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws

Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs guaranteed!

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Post by larvaetron » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:29 PM UTC

The Cutting Room Floor: http://tcrf.net

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Post by crdb » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:30 PM UTC

runj__ wrote: post #10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize It has links to architects and those pages in turn have links to beautiful buildings. Also the wikipedia pages of art museums tend to be awesome timesinks as well, you can click through every artist and all of their famous artworks.

Obligatory follow-up: http://kunstler.com/writings/eyesore-of-the-month/

If you are a bit familiar with architecture, laughs guaranteed.

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Post by pault » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 3:31 PM UTC

Atomic Rockets by a wide margin: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/