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

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 your patience and your computer's RAM.

Eventually you'll end up reading articles that are not even remotely related to your initial inquiry, but highly interesting nonetheless.

My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.

I'm sure I'll be downvoted which will be further proof of what I'm saying. Not that I care really. I make an account a week.

Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep. Example - check out these podcasts and their discussion on Ethics, AI, Health, Finance and Trump :)

Random Facebook - mostly from friends and of personal nature, but I do visit resources they point out

similar to HN but much much more humble in every way. I quite like it. Although I don't have account so I am mostly reading.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ - Articles about some of the most interesting bleeding-edge high-tech research.

https://arstechnica.com/ - Tech and tech-related news.

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/

http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/ is a pretty good one

Also, Reddit. Not the default front-page stuff, of course, but more in-depth and smaller subreddits, such as /r/netsec, /r/financialindependence, or /r/rust - there's a multitude of nice focused communities. Occassionally even /r/programming is more interesting than Hacker News though :)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/

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

For inspiration on UI, I browse https://dribbble.com https://codepen.io and https://uplabs.com

news.ycombinator.com

or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality).

I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).

Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.

http://nautil.us/

https://lwn.net/

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

https://meaningness.com/

http://slatestarcodex.com/

http://www.britishpathe.com/

http://www.atlasobscura.com/

https://scholars-stage.blogspot.my

http://www.counterpunch.org/

http://harpers.org/history/

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/

https://zcomm.org/zmag/

https://the-artifice.com

https://liliputing.com/

https://dev.to/

http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/

https://blog.codinghorror.com/

https://stratechery.com/

http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/

Reading academic reviews and looking up the vocabulary on the fly is a great way to stay humble.

Mostly because we created it. :)

The Economist - https://www.economist.com/ - I like that they do articles about places all over the world

Find Lectures - https://www.findlectures.com/ - Search engine focused on collecting talks

I also collect book recommendations from HN, people I follow on Twitter in an Amazon wishlist.

    Hacker News (of course)
    LWN
    Ars Technica
    Angry Asian Man
    Climate Denial Crock of the Week
    Cool Tools
    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
    ESA Top News (Euro. Space Agency)
    Jewish Daily Forward
    Jonesblog (retinal neuroscientist and photographer:http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/about/)
    NASA Image of the Day
    Physical Review Letters
    Not Even Wrong
    Planet Clojure
    RealClimate
    Retraction Watch
    New York Times
    WTOP (local news)
    Schneier on Security
    Slate Star Codex
    Space Safety Magazine
    CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (highly recommended)
    Stories from the trauma bay

American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology.

Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics.

although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better.

EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas.

These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.

US Gamer: https://www.usgamer.net

Giant Bomb: https://www.giantbomb.com (I'm premium subscriber)

Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com

NeoGAF: https://www.neogaf.com (I try not to sometimes as it's a time sink, but it's fun, mindless and stressless.)

and

Hacker News of course.

I try to stay away from Reddit and as it's a time sink for me and I find can stress me mentally.

http://lesswrong.com/

http://www.econlib.org/, https://www.cato.org/, https://mises.org/ (disclaimer: austrian econ slant)

I also read the daily email from http://oppsdaily.com/ to see if there is a problem that I can solve that someone is willing to pay for.

Infinite Series - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g (I never thought I would find a math series one of my favorite channels)

SpaceTime - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g

Crash Course - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

When done properly, web video/animated content can greatly enhance learning abstract, obtuse material and can be worth 1000 words per second. From Infinite Series, I finally got the gist of quantum computing.

Definitively non-tech, but full of knowledge and inspiration.

I also try to visit engineering blog of company that I like such as Github, Etsy, Segment, Stripe and learn from their blog. They usually have very good article about what really happening at a real company and what they do to solve.

Then I also use Youtube, subscirbe to Confreaks, and again, whenever I like some video, they suggest something very close to what I like.

Then sometimes ago, I started to collect links and realize I should share with the world and start this site: https://betterdev.link/

Stunning art, beautiful and thoughtful essays, ideas and videos.

He posts content on Windows internals, Win32 APIs, and explanations for Windows behavior.

If you program for Win32 then reading his blog will identify bugs in your code[1].

[0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

[1] http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=57

Edited for formatting and to omit needless words

http://popehat.com

It's brief, unapologetic, patient explanations about specific cases in law that touch on popular topics. It really shows how non-black-and-white the world is and especially how bringing knowledge to it gives you clarity, even when you're not in total agreement.

Curated collections of long-form journalism.

Edit: Forgot to add Codex 99, '...an occasionally updated website about art, design and history, except when it’s about something else altogether." http://www.codex99.com

Archive and RSS feed link here: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff

- HN

- A whole bunch of other site/blog/channels as feed that I look at when I have time.

For design

https://mestredocodigo.com.br/visualg-3-curso-introdutorio-p...

Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/vid...

and lately I've been binge watching the Jordan Peterson lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Xc2_FtpHI&list=PL22J3VaeAB...

ribbonfarm: though I usually only read the articles by Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/author/admin/

also bingewatching lessons on 2x from http://edx.org. It used to be http://coursera.org but their servers are sluggish most of the time.

"Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision making, learning, reading, and the art of living."

Create Digital Music

Great tumblr, suggested by a close friend.

- Lobste.rs

- Reddit (occasionally)

- Google News (rarely)

I find myself reading a lot more books in person though, namely educational books about topics I'm unfamiliar with or want to review. I think it's important to read about something that you don't know about but want to learn more about, e.g. for me: economics.

https://dzone.com/

I guess I like sports? :)

GitHub

Twitter

Quora.com

Zhihu.com(Chinese)

And various RSS feeds and emails from MIT, IDC, personal blog, DoD and etc..

Also, mu.