Ask HN: Favorite subreddit?
I read /r/programming and /r/golang and have found some really nice gems over the years.
What are your favorite subreddits that you have gained some really valuable insights from?
What are your favorite subreddits that you have gained some really valuable insights from?
Takes a lot of lurking to really be able to _really_ read what's happening, but I honestly think that this sub is quite possibly the best war reporting of all time.
The sub has even been publishing its own high-quality journal/magazine, "The Week In Review", ex: http://imgur.com/gallery/SdsG2
1. Al Nusra a branch of Al Qaeda is embedded amongst the moderate rebels and were the main fighting force in Aleppo.
2. Allies Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been flooding Syria with weapons to anyone who will take them including radical groups. SA sees situation as opportunity to spread Wahhabism to the region.
3. Early on the coalition had been using a funneling strategy that involved bombing locations peripheral to ISIS with the goal of forcing them to move into civilian regime territory.
One side effect though: I now find myself involuntarily gritting my teeth whenever I read more "respected" publications like the New York Times. The disconnect from reality is extraordinary.
People giving and asking for "investment advice" for memes. It's the kind of subculture where I was truly amazed how far the Internet has taken us in terms of social interaction and humour.
Funny thing is, the verge even reported on it [1].
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223264/meme-economy-redd...
I must admit, a lot of the commenters there have extreme views and some of them come across as misogynists.
However, for some reason I persevered and started reading some of the theory. What I read aligned so accurately with my previous experiences and the way I've been treated by women that I couldn't ignore it, and I've been hooked since then.
Thank you for at least attempting not to pass judgement!
any you agree with?
All I know is the theory discussed there, and links to "manosphere" blogs have been useful to me. I mentioned it here in case it's useful to other people too.
This is called confirmation bias.
A hallmark of rationalist fiction is that it invites the reader engage with the story by thinking rationally. A tactic employed by Yudkowsky is to pause just before the climax of the story and prompt online readers to use what they know to get the protagonist out of their current bind, or else, Yudkowsky promises, the protagonist will meet a less-than-ideal end.
Yudkowsky's stories [1] are a great introduction to the genre. I'm particularly fond of "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", which makes a habit of preying on the reader's sentimentality.
[0] http://lesswrong.com/lw/3m/rationalist_fiction/ [1] http://yudkowsky.net/other/fiction/
/r/roguelikedev is a fun community, as well- I love the opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas, since everyone's doing a rather similar thing, but with different languages, libraries, and so forth.
It's a curated list of in depth submissions(posts and replies) from many subreddits.
Maybe I picked the wrong ones to take a look at or something, but I found it disturbing more than anything else, sort of like "the best that reddit has to offer, by those who think they are offering it."
I have sort of a love-hate relationship with Reddit, though, so I think it's touching some deep buttons for me.
To enjoy this subreddit, it's best to think of it more as a collection of in "depth" posts, than it is of "quality" posts. That means it often offers some really bad, but very long and detailed content. It's something I subscribe to and occasionally find gems in.
Most importantly, I enjoy that the content is all original discussion as opposed to articles I will probably find elsewhere.
You could easily make a magazine out of the dozens of incredibly posts each week.
/r/netsec - to feel a bit paranoid
/r/homelab - for the homelab needs
/r/golang - overall friendly community and lots to learn
/r/programming - good sub for all needs
/r/polandball - I cannot come up with a good justification why this subreddit is one of my favorites.
https://reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews
The media is too focused on sensationalized news nowadays, which often translates to negative news. It's hard not to be jaded and cynical. This sub helps give me perspective.
Also, as someone else already mentioned, /r/askhistorians is a truly delightful and interesting read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Welding/
And a user from HN introduced me to https://www.reddit.com/r/conduitporn/
/r/machinelearning
/r/artificial
/r/semanticweb
/r/electronics
The BBC's Programmes web site was a good example of this for some time, but I think this seems to have fallen by the wayside somewhat. Here's an instance though, where the broadcast times are marked up with XSD datetime information in addition to the human readable times: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ljx7/broadcasts
For example, imagine Wikipedia using Semantic Web technologies (which they do to some extent, and also considering dbPedia which is kind of a side project). Now imagine you want to find, say, all the capital cities of countries in Africa. Now you might get lucky and find that somebody has already compiled that list. But if not, you'd have to manually trawl through the list of countries in Africa, and find the capital city for each, and note it down. But if each country is semantically related to its continent, and countries have properties for things like capitalCity, then you could compose one relatively simple SPARQL query and find that exact list in a few seconds.
There's actually more to it than that, but that's one example of what the SemWeb is about.
/r/minimalism
/r/ultralight
/r/frugal
/r/keto
/r/zerocarb
/r/personalfinancecanada
/r/programming
/r/woodworking
> Users are strongly encouraged to submit posts for technical assistance. /u/datums personally guarantees that all possible resources will be mobilized to provide assistance if necessary.
/r/ArtisanVideos
/r/NYC
/r/SpaceX
/r/wikipedia
/r/DestructiveReaders
permaculture
sustainability
ethereum
nim
futurology (quite a bit of spam though)
Not all of them are really insightful but still cool
foodporn
startups
conspiracy
shittykickstarters
proceduralgeneration
agi
mountaingoats
marshallbrain
DIY
simulate