Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

Post by taneq » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 1:31 AM UTC

wl wrote: post #134

r0m4n0 wrote: post #117

Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

There seems to be some misunderstanding what is meant by "subsequent encounter" in this context. These are codes for office visits. "Subsequent encounter" means that a patient is not seeing a physician for the first time about their injury. There are also codes for "initial encounter."

Post by taneq » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 1:37 AM UTC

delecti wrote: post #258

MollyRealized wrote: post #192

TV Tropes is the definitive rabbit hole: http://www.tvtropes.org For me, a close follow-up is the SCP Foundation: http://www.scp-wiki.net/

SCP was a great rabbit hole, until I took some psychedelics after I'd been reading it during my downtime at work the previous few weeks. I spent much of the trip seeing the face from SCP-87 [1] bulging through the inside of my eyelids. I haven't been able to enjoy browsing it since. [1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087 (bottomless staircase below a school)

Post by tinix » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 1:45 AM UTC

easymuffin wrote: post #153

http://deoxy.org

Post by fatdog » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 1:53 AM UTC

davesque wrote: post #232

Reading about any mathematical topic on Wikipedia. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_superior_and_limit_infer... --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_relation --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_sequence ... Even if I think I know what's being discussed in the article, there's always some inte…

Post by sverige » Tue, Oct 25, 2016, 1:56 AM UTC

0xfeba wrote: post #242

r0m4n0 wrote: post #117

Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

Reminds me of some of NJ's (and other's, I imagine) state laws: > 39:4–128.4 Improper passing of frozen dessert truck Your honor, those desserts weren't frozen ! ( Jury gasps )