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Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Google News - Love how it aggregates news across multiple sources.

Google Trends - To understand what people are searching for

Reddit - Treasure trove of opinions and insights

Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions

For my own use, I built a simple site to browse all of these sites from one place effectively: https://newsfeed.one/

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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That might look a bit cliché, but once in a while I'll Google stuff I'm curious about and for which I have absolutely no background. Reading academic reviews and looking up the vocabulary on the fly is a great way to stay humble.

This. Especially when I realize that there is a thing the explanation for which was given to me by someone way before either of us had access to the internet and before Google existed (I am getting old I guess). Like whether eating onions helps stave off a cold. Or how a distributed in a car works. Or whether Nissans are actually reliable or not. Or if you need higher than minimum recommended octane rating in your car. Or why most of Europe uses 240V in their outlets. Or what actually happened in Chernobyl.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is you…

https://xkcd.com/214/

An interesting side note: if you repeatedly click the first link at the beginning of any wikipedia article (except links in parenthesis) you will always end up at Philosophy.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is you…

a rabbit hole?

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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post #50

Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is you…

Wikipedia is probably the most dangerous procrastination tool on the net. There's not limit there, the rabbit hole just goes deeper and deeper.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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post #50

Might sound dull, but I recommend Wikipedia. There is a word for it, which I forgot, when you look something up on Wikipedia, the article contains a link to another article, and you go, "Oooh, that sounds interesting", open it in another tab, then, when reading the second article, you come across two or three more of such links, and before you know what is going on, you have dozens of tabs open. The only limit is you…

The danger isn't reading it, it's writing in it. It could literally drive you to suicide. It did for me, though of course I survived.
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