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Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?
My online activity seems to be in a loop comprise of hackernews, email check, and google news recently. It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently?
What interesting stuff are you browsing recently?
- karanke 6y agoHey, I'm currently writing a newsletter on reframing ideas from pop culture using first principles, would appreciate if you could take a look: https://reframing.substack.com/ https://reframing.substack.com/.
- papeda 6y agoI always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of leaves in trees, sunlight filtering through passing clouds, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- austinl 6y agoReminds me of the Wikipedia vital articles. I've been trying to learn German, so I've been picking one mostly at random and reading the German translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles
- sawmurai 6y agoBrilliant idea. I will use it to improve my polish!
- PenisBanana 6y agoHad (a Turkish language, my then target language) random wikipedia page as my home page for a while, a year maybe.
- chirag64 6y agoI loved the idea of Wikipedia's random page but I realized I needed something like this for the topics that I was interested in (instead of everything in the world because it ended up being too random for my interest). I ended up creating a Twitter bot that tweets random articles from a custom list of topics I was interested in at regular intervals Twitter bot: http://twitter.com/randomwikibotch/ http://twitter.com/randomwikibotch/ Source code if anyone is interested at creating their own: https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot
- organicfigs 6y agoProbably the least interesting, esoteric, and useless topic but it's a rabbit hole none the less: the taxonomy of ancestors of modern-day elephants such as the Deinotherium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotherium). A lot of them look wild and they're interesting to read up on.
- anarchyrucks 6y agoNot browsing per se but I've been reading https://datadass.dev/ https://datadass.dev/ and reading source code of various storage engines and their documentation. SQLite and Postgres have a very good documentation with implementation details. The plan is to write my own storage engine. I'm creating a spec for my own implementation for now. This has been keeping me busy while I'm not doing my regular work.
- djhworld 6y agotypo in the link: https://www.databass.dev/ https://www.databass.dev/
- wenc 6y agoI've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make quite a bit driving for GH/UE (well in some geographies), so much so that a $15/hr job with benefits is unattractive. https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/comments/gkmuc4/would_you_take_amazon_driver_for_15hour_plus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/comments/gkmuc4/wo... I want to work towards a just world, but I believe the first step is to really understand the system of incentives and what is actually happening on the ground, as opposed to simply taking in oversimplified media narratives. Subreddits are watering holes for folks in the field. I think their unvarnished perspectives are interesting data points (albeit skewed towards a Reddit-centric demographic).
- temporama1 6y agoThis is the most hacker-news comment ever.
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- throwaway-alpha 6y agoNo, this one is: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3901318&perpage=40&pagenumber=27#post504912105 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&th...
- jfk13 6y agoI wonder about people who say things like "I average between $35-40 an hour" doing food-delivery gigs. How many hours per day is that level of work available?
- seddin 6y agoI discovered wiby.me the other day and found this site called neocities and there I was able to find a large amount of blogs/personal sites with cool designs that reminded me of the old days on the internet.
- sendbitcoins 6y ago"Two Minute Papers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M GTC 2020 Part 2 was pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeScfkCm3b4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeScfkCm3b4 Mostly I'm in a rut as well
- JacobDotVI 6y agoHttp://marginalrevolution.com - lots of interesting links and commentary.
- tudorw 6y agoand now I know I can buy tear gas flavoured ice cream, thanks for that ;)
- thatoneguytoo 6y agohttps://usedone.today https://usedone.today - Thinking of how to make it better
- cdiamand 6y agoA friend and I are curating a list of finance articles - http://topstonks.com http://topstonks.com Trying to keep it funny, edgy, and informative. If anyone knows of a place to find interesting articles on High frequency and algorithmic trading, let me know!
- jmspring 6y agoIn support of my offline diversion from working too much. Been researching Hugel Kultur. Another approach to raised beds. Most of the research is around what organics in the area I live make sense. https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelk...
- thomas 6y agoGreat link, thank you!
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoAs a German that name sounds suspiciously German, in which case it should be “Hügelkultur” (hill culture). I don’t know why the article gives a completely fantastical pronunciation. If it’s a loan word you can pronounce it however you want, if the article wants to make it look like a foreign word whose pronunciation needs to be explained, I feel like it should do it right. The English wikipedia article has some PIE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur Unlike ö (pretty much the i in girl) and ä (pretty much any English a), it’s hard to find an example of the ü sound in English. I guess it’s somewhere on the gradient between the “ee” and “oo” in “new”. Usually the most familiar ü-word English speakers are familiar with is “über” (over, about, above, also fig. in the sense of superior). I believe this is the fault of “Übermensch”…
- hcho 6y agoThe first wovel in "deuce" is the closest English comes to that sound.
- gen220 6y agoI was taught to make the sound as (1) make a long “e” (as in leek) shape with your mouth, (2) pronounce the “e”, (3) leaving the tongue and rear part of the mouth in place, change the position of the lips to make the shape of “o” as in “oh”. This configuration doesn’t exist in normal English, but it’s not too far away! Once you know what it’s supposed to sound like, the next trick is combining it with consonants.
- kgwxd 6y agoI suggest using an RSS reader so you never have to consider a feed item more than once in your life.
- beagle3 6y agoIndeed. As a long time paying user of NewsBlur (not otherwise affiliated) I highly recommend it. Can be self hosted, but I’m too lazy; price is acceptable and Sam Clay just makes this laziness feel justified :)
- narengowda16 6y agoLearning System Design https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1XnDWhsLS5URXTi5wtFTA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1XnDWhsLS5URXTi5wtFTA
- pwdisswordfish2 6y agoIf everyone's online activity and browsing patterns were made public it would destroy the profitability of Facebook, Google, and other companies conducting web surveillance as a means to generate revenue. It would also obviate the need to ask a question like this. We could just search through user histories and discover new things that way.
- PenisBanana 6y agoHear, hear!
- qznc 6y agoHacker News, Reddit, and lobste.rs are my regular loop. Comments often send me to a deep dive somewhere. Yesterday it was rereading stuff from Yudkowsky: https://www.readthesequences.com/ https://www.readthesequences.com/
- yowlingcat 6y ago> It seems all these sites are updating very slowly; or am I checking too frequently? Congratulations, friend. You have arrived at a kind of limbo that in all likelihood you will end up at again in the future. I congratulate you, because you have arrived at the point where you have "synced" -- that is to say, you have processed material from your desired channels from the post to the present moment such that this feeling you are experiencing, an almost emptiness or that of negative space, encapsulates and closes in upon the definition of "present moment". Give it a day, and new content will arrive in your familiar channels. You'll consume it, and return to this familiar, interstitial area. Perhaps now is as good a time as any to consider directionality. Is it a good time to go back on material you've previously processed and re-process it for refinement? It will only deepen your intuition and the firmness of your intellectual grip. Is it time for you to seek out a new channel, as you're doing here? That too, is a new adventure. Is it maybe time to begin forming your own channel? So too could that be a new adventure. And if none of those sound appealing? Well, perhaps that is even more appealing. Perhaps you, like many other folks, have finally come to that point where you ask "what's next?" to a deafeningly loud internal silence. This is good. This is where the interesting stuff happens. If I can give you a word of advice -- don't feel so inclined to have to come up with an answer immediately. It's possible that you may need to keep your internal eyes and ears open for when the answer finds /you/. And to answer your question in a more literal manner -- take a look at what you've liked, commented on, and favorited on Hacker News. You can probably identify some areas that you tend to enjoy exploring. Try and find folks/communal spaces on Twitter and Reddit (maybe YouTube too, if possible) that also explore those areas. From there, you can branch out, whether it's talking directly with those folks to get a sense of what they think is interesting that you might not know about (this is the best way, IMO) or following new paths out further. But, I will stress: try and soak in the feeling and fully absorb it. To run away from it could be to waste it, and it's something that you may one day look back upon as more rare and valuable than it originally felt.
- thomas 6y agoMost professional sites I see are cranking at maximum pace while smaller sites and blogs are very slow. Need to keep up with lowered at spend.
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- exolymph 6y agoObligatory plug for my subreddit, where I collect interesting links: https://www.reddit.com/r/sonyasupposedly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sonyasupposedly/ There's some crossover with HN, but plenty that you won't have seen. Less obligatory plug for gwern's subreddit, which is great: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/
- zakokor 6y agoMy recent links are shared here https://pegao.co/@zakokor https://pegao.co/@zakokor
- mhb 6y agoApplied Science videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333/videos
- marmot777 6y agoI’d say that the most satisfying reading are articles and documentation regarding things that I’m trying to get better at. It’s good to be as well informed as possible on what’s going on in the world but there’s diminishing returns after a hour or so of news in a day.
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- geocrasher 6y agoThese aren't signs that you're not finding the right feeds. They are signs that you need to unplug a bit and go do something in meat space. The Internet will still be there when you get back ;-)
- oblib 6y agoI'm kind of feeling like I reached the end of the internet the past few days. I'm sure I'll find another rabbit hole soon enough, and I really need to get outside more right now anyway so it's not a bad thing. Might have to do more with having a pretty long spell of rainy days.
- FailMore 6y agoHey, can you email me? (Email on profile.) I also get to that "saturated" place a lot and am not satisfied. I know there is more interesting content out there. I'm trying to solve the problem, so would love to chat to you/see if you eventually want to beta test.
- oblib 6y agoYeah... that's something that's been on my mind so I'd be interested in that.
- implements 6y agoArts and Letters Daily. No commenting, but kinda like a HNs for the Arts: https://www.aldaily.com/alt/ https://www.aldaily.com/alt/
- cambalache 6y agoIt is a good site with 2 caveats. It is center-right (this is not bad per se, but just be aware of the bias). With a high frequency, the summaries are terrible and misleading.
- reedwolf 6y agoIt's also highly opposed to the concept of artificial intelligence or anything resembling computational theories of mind. I don't think they've ever posted anything that puts computers and modern tech in a good light.
- FailMore 6y agoHey, can you email me? (Email on profile.) I also get to that "saturated" place a lot and am not satisfied. I know there is more interesting content out there. I'm trying to solve the problem, so would love to chat to you/see if you eventually want to beta test.
- FailMore 6y agoIf you are looking to try something new I launched https://taaalk.co https://taaalk.co. It's a platform for longform online discussions between two or more people. You can read other people's or make your own.
- davidivadavid 6y agoRSS and a few hundred quality blogs should give you enough content. And there's always, you know, books.
- Anon84 6y agoMostly CoVID19 related stuff for work and my ongoing blog series: https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101 https://github.com/DataForScience/Epidemiology101
- nanomonkey 6y agoSign up for newsletters from interesting people, they'll send you down more rabbit holes than you'll need. Corey Doctorow, Robert Sloan, Tim Ferriss, Kneeling Bus, Jeremy Singer-Vine, The Convivial Society, Eric Weinhoffer and Peter Attia are a few to check out. After that and Hacker News, I suggest setting up a decentralized media account such as Scuttlebutt, Beaker Browser, or Mastodon.
- gabagoo 6y agoLongform.org is a good resource for longer reads, if you get paywalled just pass them through Instapaper first. Also Arts And Letters Daily Naked Capitalism daily linkdumps (morning + water cooler at 2pm) have plenty of auxiliary reading material in them Slate Star Codex comment section is always popping off, some discussions are more interesting than others depending on what you're into
- RupertWiser 6y agoFor mindless browsing when you’re trying to fill a few minutes, I’m quite a fan of Mix [1]. I believe this used to be stumbleupon. You simply enter your interests and it keeps suggesting related content. [1] https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix-app-for-android https://community.mix.com/blog/2019/2/27/introducing-the-mix...
- gabagoo 6y agoI was just going to ask if anyone knew of a modernized version of Stumbleupon. Thanks, had no idea this existed.
- thomas 6y agoAlways Wikipedia. Click a link. Any link. Click a link inside that article. Repeat 3-5x and you will be at something fascinating and obscure.
- thomas 6y agoI’ve been researching and looking high and low for some kettlebells! It’s crazy how hard it is to find some hunks of cast iron right now. Stuff like: https://helpatmyhome.com/best-kettlebells/ https://helpatmyhome.com/best-kettlebells/
- opportune 6y agoI've been getting back into pro starcraft watching the TSL, which is an ongoing tourney that just finished airing the first round today. Very interesting and challenging game. There is a ton of data out there in the form of past games to watch.
- Kaibeezy 6y agoSynchronizing my walking desk pace with the GBP/USD exchange rate chart on https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/data/currencies/gbp-pairs/GBPUSD-exchange-rate https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/data/currencies/gbp-pairs/... 1 min, 30 min, 1 day, candles, kagi, baseline, heikin ashi, zoom in, zoom out, both axes.
- reedwolf 6y agomy90stv Tv from the 90s. https://my90stv.com/ https://my90stv.com/
- abellerose 6y agoThe most interesting things I view online are from hackernews, reddit, etsy, advance.lexis, researchgate, medscape, sanctionedsuicide, and occasional youtube videos. Usually topics & areas of interested related to programming, law, medical, and homestyle activities like cooking & DIY projects.
- EvanWard97 6y agoTook a break and have been thinking and researching idealized/better/pure ways of doing things. E.g. exploring alternative: - number systems. Base 12 would be nice. - systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal. - calendar systems. 12 month years, 5 week months, 6 day weeks (with an extra 5 or 6 day week at the end of the year) seems nice. - time system. A new time system based off 12. Sub-units are 2 hours, 10 minutes, 50 seconds, 4.16 seconds, and .3472 seconds. Time can be a normal number then like A63.B8 - languages. Lojban seems awesome! - coding. Replacing C and C++ with D and Rust, and Python/R/Matlab with Julia. - taxes. Land value taxes really do seem awesome. Probably over half this has been via Wikipedia.
- mkl 6y ago> - systems of measurement. Adjusting the SI base unit to be even powers of Plank Units seems ideal. Do we know Planck Units accurately enough to work with such units in the many-orders-of-magnitude-different world of people-sized things?
- EvanWard97 6y agoI think so. As of 2019, 4 of the 7 SI base units were redefined by setting exact numerical values for several of the units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_base_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...), so scientists must be confident we can reasonably recreate the base units from measuring various fundamental phenomena.
- jacknews 6y agoseximal ftw
- EvanWard97 6y agoI haven't looked into it much, but it looks at least better than base 10.
- gxon 6y ago
- juststeve 6y agoProject Gutenberg top 100: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
- 101404 6y agoYes, very likely you are checking too frequently.
- vga805 6y agoBooks. Right now it's Middlemarch.
- gregn 6y agoditto. Books. Right now it's: Who Killed Homer, and Sophocles plays.
- xueyongg 6y agoI've curated some of the articles that I found interesting and thought-provoking over the month of May - tech and non-tech topics! Some are from hacker news itself, and others out of the blue haha. Share with you! Hope you enjoy it! https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-14-first-half-of-may-articles https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-14-first-half-of-m...
- ibobev 6y agoRecently I browsed http://www.indieretronews.com/ http://www.indieretronews.com/. This is a site with information about new games for old computers like Commodore 64, Amiga and so on, and also for retro styled indie games for modern systems. I even posted it to HN.
- samcgraw 6y agoPlug for a website I built to combat against this very 'loop' I too was experiencing. It's a site for collaborative fiction through writing prompts, if you like reading or writing: https://www.storylocks.com https://www.storylocks.com
- tim333 6y agoI was on a bunch of coronavirus stuff - subreddits, twitter etc. Dunno how healthy that is. Also the news has slowed a little. Also some self development related things eg. Naval on Rogan which I liked.
- Brajeshwar 6y agoIt has been like that for quite some time for me too. I try to avoid tempting to add more to it. No news for me. If it is important/interesting enough, I will hear it on Twitter or from my wife. So, for me, it is; - (Desktop): HackerNews, Twitter, Email mostly - (Mobile): Photography / Videography. Text mostly. Phones calls are rare. If you want to fill in, try starting a reading habit or even better, writing. I've 2 stickies right in front of me on the wall just above the monitor that says "Read anything today?" and "Wrote anything today?" I'm failing on the writing part and struggling to make it happen.
- dorkwood 6y agoI've been browsing the likes of people on Twitter. It works like this: find one person you think is interesting or does interesting work, and go to the 'likes' section of their profile. Scroll through their likes until you find something else that's interesting. Click through to that person's profile, and repeat. You can find some really cool stuff doing this, especially if you happen upon someone with similar taste. It's a great way to surface content without waiting for the algorithm to serve it up to you.
- _xgw 6y agoThis general concept of going back to the source of the information can be applied to many other social networks to find higher-quality/interesting content. I started browsing hackernews because I realized a lot of the content posted on reddit on /r/programming and tech-related subreddits was often posted here first. It all starts by taking the time to examine the content you consume & why you enjoy consuming it.
- sarthakjshetty 6y agoMostly experimental drugs and their histories. Given the pandemic, I'm reading a bit about drugs like Remsdevir. Bloomberg put out this great longform article [1] on how Gilead had the foresight to actually ramp up Remsdevir production when the inital reports broke out of Wuhan. Also, historically how drugs went through clinical trials, experimentation, production etc. The anti-HIV drug AZT is well documented, and there's a great article here [2] by TIME if you're interested. [1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus-treatment/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-gilead-remdesivir-co... [2] - https://time.com/4705809/first-aids-drug-azt/ https://time.com/4705809/first-aids-drug-azt/
- loltyler1 6y agohttps://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/
- mikekchar 6y ago> or am I checking too frequently? Your unit tests are running too slowly, otherwise you wouldn't be checking so frequently. Oh, wait. That's me.
- nataz 6y agoArmslist.com Didn't even know it existed a month ago. It's a fascinating window into a very popular hobby.
- livealife 6y agohttps://tildes.net https://tildes.net Similar to HN but contains non-tech stuff.