Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?

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Post by adminu » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 3:26 PM UTC

I am collecting my favorite internet rabbit holes on my website (https://ph-uhl.com/links/internet-rabbit-holes/) and went through my old lists but I think I lost a few of the good ones.

So I was wandering, what are your favorites? The stuff that you loose a night to, when finding it?

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Post by orbz » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 3:52 PM UTC

The SCP Foundation[1] always gives me fond memories of growing up watching the X-Files and similar shows.

Also TV Tropes[2] is fun to learn how derivative or novel aspects of your favorite shows are.

1: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

2: https://tvtropes.org/

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Post by japhyr » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 4:19 PM UTC

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans always comes up in these threads. I've read through it a couple times over the years, and probably will again at some point.

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

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Post by cpach » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:20 PM UTC

https://www.folklore.org/

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Post by runjake » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

If you like the outdoors, this 16-years running thread is a good, very long rabbit hole.

The premise is "What's the weirdest thing you found in the woods when you were out in the middle of nowhere?". It has everything from Bigfoot, to Old West stuff, to UFOs, to cultists, to dead bodies.

https://www.ifish.net/threads/weird-findings-in-the-woods.14...

I first read it over several days and check back every year or so for new posts.

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Post by hnthrowaway0328 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

Actually archive.org has a tons of interesting stuffs. I downloaded all Dragon magazines and many ADND 2e modules so that once I semi-retired I can convert some modules into computer games, given that we have an appropriate engine then (Neverwinter nights is a good one but it's going to be too old 15 years from now).