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

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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…

Some more: W2202XA Walked into lamppost, initial encounter W34111A Accidental malfunction of paintball gun, initial encounter W5629XA Other contact with orca, initial encounter Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter V657XXA Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, initial…

"Other" contact with orca? does it means that there are three or four specific types for orca contacts previously defined?

W5564WTF contact with orca, left fin, just a scratch, subsequent encounter

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

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Orion's Arm is a collaborative world building project for the far future. The articles on monopole physics and wormholes are quite detailed, and the implications of higher levels of sentience are very interesting. http://www.orionsarm.com The SCP foundation has been mentioned, but a lot of people don't know they have a sister site. http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com The wikipedia articles about unsolved problems in…

Great answer, thanks. Following the comments in your profile page is a rabbit hole by itself - another rabbit hole: looking at other comments by people with great HN contributions...

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

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John Baez, this weeks finds in mathematical physics [1]. He started blogging this in 1993! there's so much stuff there now. I keep finding amazing things in the TWF's, and not wanting to close my browser tabs because it's so precious. And you wouldn't believe what he can do with a bit of ascii art. Truly he is one of the heroes of the internet. (He doesn't do TWF's anymore, but there's a bunch of other places where he posts stuff.)

Try this one for starters [2]. The earlier ones are much more hardcore.

[1] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/twfcontents.html [2] http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week236.html

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

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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…

Some more:

Z621 – Parental overprotection

Z631 – Problems in relationship with in-laws

R460 – Very low level of personal hygiene

Z731 – Type A behavior pattern

R461 – Bizarre personal appearance

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

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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…

And still no code for "close encounter", tsk tsk

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

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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…

My wife studies domestic violence and notes that there is no code for strangulation. Talk about bike-shedding.

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

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One of the earliest www rabbit holes I remember visiting: https://www.chroniclesofgeorge.com/ Surprised MF has not been mentioned, yet. http://www.metafilter.com/

I'm sorting through suggestions and was glad to see MF mentioned. Exceptionally high-quality discussion.
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