Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by papeda on Sunday May 17, 2020 @01:45PM (#23213658)

I 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

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by austinl on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:17PM (#23213939)

Reminds 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

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by sawmurai on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:27PM (#23215126)

Brilliant idea. I will use it to improve my polish!

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by PenisBanana on Sunday May 17, 2020 @07:06PM (#23216364)

Had (a Turkish language, my then target language) random wikipedia page as my home page for a while, a year maybe.

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by chirag64 on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:27AM (#23222015)

I 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/ Source code if anyone is interested at creating their own: https://github.com/chirag64/Random-Wiki-Page-Twitter-Bot

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