[HN Gopher] The Book of Secret Knowledge
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The Book of Secret Knowledge
Author : luke2m
Score : 162 points
Date : 2021-06-26 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| zerop wrote:
| Plethora of information and lists there. How to better classify
| it for structured listing? Something like list of lists of lists
| on Wikipedia.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
| Dah00n wrote:
| I expected bomb-making recipes..
| germinalphrase wrote:
| Tangent: when I was young, I had a book that catalogued a whole
| variety of random skills (building a crossbow, making a compass,
| how camouflage works, etc). It was a wonderful tool for juicing
| my imagination and a license to build (crappy) versions of almost
| anything.
|
| I wish there were more books like that.
|
| Edit: it might have been this
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Book_for_Boys
| User23 wrote:
| The American Boy's Handy Book[1] even has a chapter on
| taxidermy.
|
| [1]
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Boy's_Handy_Boo...
| mnahkies wrote:
| Reminds me a little of a certain cookbook that was very
| popular, certainly set the imagination wild. One fond memory
| was bringing a "recipe" to my highschool chemistry teacher and
| he actually allowed us to try it under his supervision.
|
| http://textfiles.com/ is a great one for some nostalgia
| malux85 wrote:
| Wow textfiles.com hit me right in the nostalgia, I was
| wondering, Is there a modern equivalent of textfiles.com?
| arminiusreturns wrote:
| Good ol Jolly Roger! Man for a bored mountain kid that was a
| fun book to have around. I miss that early days of the
| internet, it seems now so much more free thinking and
| assumption busting than it is now.
|
| I swear advertisers ruin every knowledge medium.
| 63 wrote:
| I feel like the list is so long that it's no longer useful. Like,
| it would take me hours if not days to read through all this (and
| from what I've skimmed, most of it doesn't seem very secretive).
| For something like this, I feel like the shorter the better so it
| can focus on THE things that are powerful and unknown, not Zsh
| and Vi (not that they aren't powerful ofc, but far from secret).
| [deleted]
| daptaq wrote:
| Why is this list using emojis instead of regular markdown? The
| raw text looks quite bad.
| computator wrote:
| I'm thinking that it would be great if web search worked to
| generate such a list. For example, if I searched for "list of DNS
| tools", it would give a list of one-line descriptions and links
| just like in the original article: dnsdiag - is a
| DNS diagnostics and performance measurement tools. fierce -
| is a DNS reconnaissance tool for locating non-contiguous IP
| space. subfinder - is a subdomain discovery tool that
| discovers valid subdomains for websites. sublist3r - is a
| fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers.
| amass - is tool that obtains subdomain names by scraping data
| sources, crawling web archives, and more. namebench -
| provides personalized DNS server recommendations based on your
| browsing history. massdns - is a high-performance DNS stub
| resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance. knock - is a
| tool to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a
| wordlist. dnsperf - DNS performance testing tools.
| dnscrypt-proxy 2 - a flexible DNS proxy, with support for
| encrypted DNS protocols. dnsdbq - API client providing
| access to passive DNS database systems. grimd - fast dns
| proxy, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware
| servers. etc.
|
| Is that asking for too much? It seems like it should be possible
| -- it's basically web search but with further curation,
| organization, and better presentation.
| fidesomnes wrote:
| sounds like a fantastic addition to
| https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
| tgbugs wrote:
| This is significantly harder than it appears at first glance,
| because there is no way to determine whether such descriptions
| are correct, and they are extremely easy to game. This is the
| challenge that the essentially torpedoed the semantic web.
|
| As a user you have to trust the source of the descriptions and
| ideally would know the process by which they were selected.
| Curation is hard to scale, but for things like open source
| software it has been done by the package manager teams. That
| said, try to figure out the difference between icedtea and
| openjdk.
|
| If you are down in some tiny niche it might work, but imagine
| the descriptions that would come up for fast food restaurants
| near me.
|
| Consider also, is dig a DNS tool?
| techbio wrote:
| Try prefixing your tech term with "awesome-{x}"
|
| https://github.com/dnsplus/awesome-dns
|
| https://github.com/SoylentBob/awesome-dns
| MarcelProust wrote:
| Interesting that it lists this:
|
| https://darksearch.io/
|
| It should link to the .ONION service here:
|
| http://darkschn4iw2hxvpv2vy2uoxwkvs2padb56t3h4wqztre6upoc5qw...
|
| I was shocked that it needed Javascript in order to work
| hypertele-Xii wrote:
| I'm browsing through the list of contents and uh, everything
| looks both alien and magical, probably beyond my comprehension.
| Too many lifetimes compressed on a single seemingly never-ending
| page.
| adamnemecek wrote:
| One must truly reach the highest echelon of esotericism to be
| aware of vi AND emacs.
| philprx wrote:
| Good refs, recommend.
| aynsof wrote:
| I mean no disrespect to the maintainers, but am I the only one
| who doesn't find lists like this particularly useful?
|
| They're the kind of thing I used to bookmark, thinking that I'd
| come back to it at some point when I wanted to learn more about X
| (containers, networking, etc), but I'd never return.
|
| I think the problem is that lists like this _feel_ good but
| aren't useful. They feel good to write and good to read, because
| you feel productive. But they don't actually fit into any flow -
| a learning flow, a problem-solving flow. They're just
| productivity porn.
| andrey_utkin wrote:
| It feels like it's meant to follow the mission of the Whole
| Earth Catalog.
|
| But I agree that it's hard to imagine the real life context in
| which this collection of knowledge is of high value comparing
| to either other books or the rest of the Internet.
| ryukafalz wrote:
| As a counterpoint, I sometimes find these lists very useful
| when I'm trying to broaden my knowledge of something and need
| pointers to where to start looking.
|
| For example, when I was learning about object capabilities
| recently, it was very helpful to have awesome-ocap to refer to:
| https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap
| goolulusaurs wrote:
| How does it not fit into any flow? Here is an example of a flow
| it fits into: While (True): Pick
| something from the list Read about it until you are
| tired of it
|
| Just because you choose not to read something doesn't mean the
| information contained in it isn't useful, that is just
| ridiculous.
| adolph wrote:
| Betweeen this and the various awesome lists GitHub has spawned a
| distributed version of old school Yahoo. Jerry and David should
| be proud.
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