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

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Post by cthulhujr »

mpeg wrote: post #31

http://everything2.com is (kinda) still going strong.

About a month ago I started visiting again after years of it being long-forgotten. I was pleasantly surprised to see it's still (kinda) going strong. Reminds me a bit of Medium today, but a lot less preachy.

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

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

TVTropes is the big one, the vortex from which all other rabbit holes stem.

The SCP foundation is also excellent, and The Digital Antiquarian is my new favorite.

Fallen London is a browser MMOCYOA on steroids, and it's glorious.

The Jargon File (before ESR ruined it with the latest round of updates) was amazing, and still is great fun.

Bash.org is another classic rabbit hole, although far from the best for that purpose.

And Youtube contains many rabbit holes, but my favorite by far is Tom Scott's youtube channel. Also of note is Tom & Matt's Park Bench, where he vlogs with Matt Grey on a semi-regular basis, Yahtzee Crowshaw's channel, where he used to play games with Gabriel Morton in his "Let's Drown Out" series, and Channel Awesome. Just, all of Channel Awesome.

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

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Post by szatkus »

idlewords wrote: post #53
adrianN wrote: post #20

Secure Contain Protect http://www.scp-wiki.net/

This is a wonderful rabbit hole. It can be hard to find a good entry point but worth perservering, particularly if you're alone somewhere late at night.

In my opinion it's fine to start from top rated entries.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/top-rated-pages

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

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Post by Joeboy »

msluyter wrote: post #23

Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/ , for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics. Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Also the link threads are amazing time wasters. I urge you not to click on the link below if you value your life:

http://slatestarcodex.com/tag/links-2/

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

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Post by mindcrime »

Very recently I've spent a lot of time on ai.stackexchange.com and electronics.stackexchange.com, so I guess both of those are in contention.

Even more recently, I've been indulging some nostalgia related to my time as a firefighter by spending a lot of time on Youtube looking at videos of structure fires from around the world. It's kind of addictive to play "arm chair incident commander" and sit there going "why'd they stretch a 1-3/4" line instead of a 2-1/2?" or "why didn't the first in engine lay their own supply line" or "why aren't they using elevated master streams here", etc., etc., etc.

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