Autodidacts
autodidacts.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Autodidacts is a personal blog, mostly by one writer, on Linux setups, learning, troubleshooting, neurotech hardware, and running.
What HN saysCommenters recommend it for both technical and general topics and link its Pandoc manuscript guide and neurotech hardware roundup.
26HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
134stories submitted
1.6Kstory points
2 months agolast shared
2015people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Taxonomy Is Hard4 people · 143 points · first shared 2022 · 82 comments on HN
- 2Switching to Sway (Wayland) from i3 (X11) on Ubuntu 20.04 (2020)4 people · 18 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete3 people · 408 points · first shared 2025 · 137 comments on HN
- 4How to Start a Project: An Infocomic3 people · 33 points · first shared 2016 · 3 comments on HN
- 5How to learn to enjoy running (and survive a half-marathon)3 people · 14 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 6Days Are Easily Made3 people · 12 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Disorder of Operations, 8÷2(2+2)=?3 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Neurotech Hardware Roundup 20163 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9The Autodidacts3 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10What Should We Optimize Away?3 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 11What game are you playing?2 people · 356 points · first shared 2022 · 185 comments on HN
- 12Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash2 people · 62 points · first shared 2024 · 26 comments on HN
- 13Host a Ghost Blog for Free on Fly.io – In 1 Minute2 people · 37 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 14My Year of 100 Books2 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 15Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration2 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Curiositry · 2026-01-21
Cool project!
Portfolio: https://www.curiositry.com/
Blog: https://www.autodidacts.io/ (shared with two brothers, but I maintain it and write 90% of the posts, and it qualified as a personal blog for Kev Quirk’s 100DaysToOffload challenge)
oddlinks · 2024-01-31
I'll give a hat tip to @curiositry from https://autodidacts.io/ for both technical and general topics.
adityaathalye · 2026-06-16
Hey, I do this too, and I absolutely love receiving thoughtful e-letters, the few times a year they happen!
Here are my reasons, copied from my site's "Standing Invitation" [0].
> Email me just because (not just for work). Whatever feeds your curiosity; silly, fun, nerdy, serious.
> Why?
> 1. Do unto me what I have done unto others. I habitually cold-email anyone who moves me in some way (joy, insight, utility, mind shift…). I also love to receive such email!
> 2. There is too little unsolicited positive feedback in much of most of our lives. At some point in the fuzzy past, I decided enough was enough. At least someone somewhere ought to feel good sometime for no reason whatsoever. Since that realisation, I have cold-emailed people willy-nilly. See also: Saying Thank You [1], and Days Are Easily Made [2].
> 3. It's always been a delight; no regrets. You should try it too!
> So, let serendipity reign; write away!
[0] https://www.evalapply.org/about.html#standing-invitation
[1] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/saying-thank-you/
[2] https://www.autodidacts.io/how-to-make-someones-day/
em-bee · 2021-01-19
found the answer: http://www.autodidacts.io/convert-markdown-to-standard-manuscript-form…
T-A · 2017-04-20
A few links from recent years:
http://www.autodidacts.io/neurotech-hardware-roundup-eeg-bci-tdcs-neur…
http://gizmodo.com/the-best-brain-reader-your-money-cant-buy-yet-17672…
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.01052…
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.01373…
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-and-xerox-predict-brain-controlled-ap…
https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01338
https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Introduction_To_Modern_Brain-Computer_Inter…