[HN Gopher] The Book of Secret Knowledge ___________________________________________________________________ The Book of Secret Knowledge Author : luke2m Score : 162 points Date : 2021-06-26 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-26 23:00 UTC)