Ask HN: Which sites you visit on a regular basis for knowledge and inspiration? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by pera » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 4:25 PM UTC

This is my favorite one:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/

Quanta articles are always extremely enlightening, interesting and well written.

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

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Post by jonathansizz » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 4:33 PM UTC

subtik wrote: post #55

krylon wrote: 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…

a rabbit hole?

serendipity.

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

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Post by Fernicia » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 4:39 PM UTC

Mahn wrote: post #57

krylon wrote: 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.

tvtropes should also be considered in this category.

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

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Post by wdbbdw » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

orb_yt wrote: post #54

krylon wrote: 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…

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.

Test of n = 1: ("Random article") -> Yūyūki -> 1989 in video gaming -> Golden Joystick Awards -> Video game -> Electronic game -> Game -> Play (activity) -> Psychology -> Behavior -> American English -> Variety (linguistics) -> Sociolinguistics -> Society -> Social group -> Social science -> Discipline (academia) -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Verificationism -> Philosophy

That was fun!

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

#95

Post by JW_00000 » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 4:51 PM UTC

kongolongo wrote: post #90

Blogs by cs profs.. mostly theory of compsci guys. Always interesting to see what they think about current events/ what latest cs theory stuff is like...although often times I can only recall a couple words in their posts from the discrete math courses all those years ago. http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ is a pretty good one

Do you have more recommendations except that one?

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

#96

Post by chatman » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 5:12 PM UTC

RT

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

#97

Post by argentenergy » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 5:15 PM UTC

krylon wrote: 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…

It's called link diving

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

#98

Post by mindcrime » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

theklub wrote: post #32

Youtube

Same here. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of crap on Youtube, but man oh man, there is SO much amazing quality content as well. So many great lectures on nearly every topic under the sun, conference talks out the yazoo, documentaries, tutorials, etc. I could pretty much just spend all day on Youtube (or videolectures.net) just soaking up knowledge, if I had nothing else to do.

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

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Post by mindcrime » Sat, Jul 08, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

boramalper wrote: post #44

comboy wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why it's downvoted. That was my first thought too. There are tons of educational videos, lectures and inspiring interviews. If you keep watching this kind of stuff recommendations also get quite reasonable.

Yeah but it's like saying "the Web". You should mention some channels, playlists, etc. at the very least. =)