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

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https://urbit.org/ - deep and exciting one

This article [1] is a good start even though it's 6 years old. It's not vaporware anymore, I haven't checked it in a while, but it seems to be actively developed.

If you feel that you've learned enough programming languages that you have a problem finding anything new this may give you some dopamine.

1. http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

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…

My favorite: W61.62 Struck by duck

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

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I posted a list of them a while ago. For several years I was interested in alternative worldviews -- grand sweeping theories of reality. Here's my list: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ Enjoy :)

Glaring omission of http://blog.jim.com , if you want to go down the rabbit hole of stylistically coherent & pithy, well though out, right-wing philosophizing.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember that list, because I said then what I'll say now - posting a list like that on a site like this is akin to handing out bags of heroin at a school :P . But I guess it's what the OP asked for.

At least you learn something from reading these sorts of sites. Heroin doesn't do that...then again I may just be justifying an addiction.

Some neuroscientists would argue that addiction is a form of "learning".

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

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I'm partial to everything2.com. Back in the early 00's, everything2 tried to be a Wikipeida, where people could post multiple entries on a topic. The best part is reading 16 year old, long form essays about places. The recent stuff is short stories, but the essays of the bay area from the peak of the bubble are fascinating. Highlights: * http://everything2.com/title/The+NoCal+Super+Layoff+Unemploy... * http://everyth…

I loved everything2 and contributed some mediocre content in high school.

Looking back, everything2 was probably my first exposure to information about software development beyond HTML and Flash. There were a lot of Linux, C, Perl, Jargon File type people on the site.

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

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First you open you left eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...

the you open your right eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...

and then you smile at the world: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Complexity_Map.svg

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

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post #221

https://urbit.org/ - deep and exciting one This article [1] is a good start even though it's 6 years old. It's not vaporware anymore, I haven't checked it in a while, but it seems to be actively developed. If you feel that you've learned enough programming languages that you have a problem finding anything new this may give you some dopamine. 1. http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...

Urbit reminds me of a programming language that was featured a while back on Hacker News. It was a purely functional language and each function and data structure was addressed by its cryptographic hash. Functions and data structures did have convenient labels, but linking was done by the hash. So you can have as many different versions of a function as you like. Your code is never broken by updates. You can apply updates at your convenience.
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