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

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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/

I'm a cofounder of All The Tropes, a noncommercial advertising-free fork of TV Tropes: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page Because we don't have advertising, we can take a low censorship approach while protecting your privacy. We'd love to have you come on board if you have many hours that you're not using.

I've been interested in ATT, but the community is significantly smaller, and the community is a big part of the draw of TVT.

What disgusted me was what TVT said in response to ATT. There was a thread essentially claimed it was a weird XXX trope site that was ripping them off: nobody corrected this perception, and nobody even disagreed, despite the fact that looking at the FAQ for five minutes would have made it abundantly clear that this wasn't the case. The mods then said that ATT "didn't deserve any more attention or discussion" and pretty much outright said that mentioning it further was asking for a ban.

It says something about a community when they aren't mature enough to discuss their competitors and legitimately assess them, instead constructing strawmen and saying that anybody who talks about it will be banned: TVT, of all places, ought to know better.

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

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post #19

Currently my favourite time wasters are learning channels on youtube. Especially not the "weird" ones like VSauce because I think those are pretty unwatchable. I like SciShow / SciShow space even though that's borderline weird :) My current fav is Sixty Symbols, endless very interesting videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Axb-jZew Also PBS Space Time, MinutePhysics, MinuteEarth.

I've been through so many of these - but not Sixty Symbols. Thanks!

Also interesting is Crash Course, made by some of the same folks as SciShow. Really more for high school students, but interesting enough that I don't mind them repeating information I do know and I pick up on new stuff.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have mild OCD, so I ended up reading all of them in order over a few months.

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

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post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

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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/

Slate Star Codex: if you're a man who is involved in tech and not interested in any legitimate philosophical or sociological inquiry, we've got you covered

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

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I think I can safely pack myself away at home for a good, long while after reading this list.. and I'm gonna add to it.

First off: No Such Thing as a Fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6_PRaY3aY Or the podcast: http://qi.com/podcast

I have an interest in historical cooking. This one I've spent hours watching, despite the occasional advertising: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/featured

World of Batshit - and other stuff by the same author - got me through a bit and I occasionally pass it onto others. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWeueTF8l819bt3sC72s...

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

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TV Tropes is always good: http://tvtropes.org/

There is nothing in the universe quite like a troll on TV Tropes. Maybe a troll on Wikipedia but they're probably all the same person. Warning: if you say lampshading IRL, no one will understand you. If by strange coincidence you ran into a fellow Troper, you'd have to type it out.

Troperese is a legitimate language, understood by Tropers worldwide. Referencing lampshading is a sort of shibboleth, and it can be used to determine of a potential troper is One Of Us, as can a Fake Thomas Jefferson. An obscure reference could do the trick, and Wicks are another fun one to try.

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

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post #71

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 :)

You might like this one then:

http://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/

Good example:

http://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.htm...

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

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post #136

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes Discover new command line utilities or combinations of them to solve various things. Learned all kinds of useful stuff. Things like I know but always forget about: python -m SimpleHTTPServer To server the current directory on port :8000 Then there is silly stuff like: dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp To output your microphone to…

python -m http.server, now.

And /dev/dsp doesn't work: you have you sox or arecord/aplay to make that work now.

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

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post #19

Currently my favourite time wasters are learning channels on youtube. Especially not the "weird" ones like VSauce because I think those are pretty unwatchable. I like SciShow / SciShow space even though that's borderline weird :) My current fav is Sixty Symbols, endless very interesting videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Axb-jZew Also PBS Space Time, MinutePhysics, MinuteEarth.

How could you forget CGPGrey and ViHart?

Oh, and also Tom Scott, if you haven't seen him yet.

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