Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? • Hacker News Board

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/

Leave it to STEMlords to reinvent Christianity

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

#95

Post by jttam » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/) is just fascinating enough and just badly organized enough that I never seem to be able to get to the same useful piece of information twice. And thus I constantly find myself looking at other interesting facts about the US labor force.

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

#96

Post by cooper12 » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

runj__ wrote: post #10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize It has links to architects and those pages in turn have links to beautiful buildings. Also the wikipedia pages of art museums tend to be awesome timesinks as well, you can click through every artist and all of their famous artworks.

Related to this, I'm not sure how many people use them, but there are categories at the bottom of every page which group together similar articles, navboxes that list articles that are related, and at the left side of the page "what links here" which lets you find incoming wikilinks. Oh, and on the talk page there are Wikiprojects where you can find categories for projects built around certain areas like Film. Lastly, Wikipedia's Featured Articles are some of its highest quality ones and usually go quite in depth while being well-written and interesting.

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

#97

Post by seizethecheese » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:25 PM UTC

AskReddit's top all time threads. Less intellectual, but very entertaining. Some of these have incredible human stories.

https://m.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/?sort=top&t=all

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

#98

Post by azaydak » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

I spent lots of time reading this and following the linked pages while in graduate school. I learned a lot but it didn't help graduation to come any quicker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes

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

#99

Post by cooper12 » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

personlurking wrote: post #7

carole1 wrote: post #4

What is a rabbit hole? Is it just an interesting site to waste time on?

It comes from a metaphor: > "Down the rabbit hole", a metaphor for an entry into the unknown, the disorienting or the mentally deranging, from its use in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Though in modern parlance it seems to me to be used to refer to an endless hole one falls down and never really finds their way out of.

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

#100

Post by Pigo » Mon, Oct 24, 2016, 5:28 PM UTC

neonhomer wrote: post #61

http://www.27bslash6.com/ - lots of crazy stories from David Thorne Some particular good ones are: http://www.27bslash6.com/f26a.html http://www.27bslash6.com/arguments.html http://www.27bslash6.com/covers.html

I always questioned whether his stuff is embellished, or complete fiction, but it doesn't stop me from laughing every time I read the story where he tries to pay with a picture of a spider.