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

  1. 1
    Taxonomy Is Hard
    4 people · 143 points · first shared 2022 · 82 comments on HN
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    Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
    3 people · 408 points · first shared 2025 · 137 comments on HN
  4. 4
    How to Start a Project: An Infocomic
    3 people · 33 points · first shared 2016 · 3 comments on HN
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    Days Are Easily Made
    3 people · 12 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    Disorder of Operations, 8÷2(2+2)=?
    3 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
  8. 8
    Neurotech Hardware Roundup 2016
    3 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    The Autodidacts
    3 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    What Should We Optimize Away?
    3 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    What game are you playing?
    2 people · 356 points · first shared 2022 · 185 comments on HN
  12. 12
    Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash
    2 people · 62 points · first shared 2024 · 26 comments on HN
  13. 13
    Host a Ghost Blog for Free on Fly.io – In 1 Minute
    2 people · 37 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
  14. 14
    My Year of 100 Books
    2 people · 7 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    Quality, Quantity, and Effective Iteration
    2 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/

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