Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Cabinet of Curious Studies
Eight disciplines. 24 courses. 288 guided hours.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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A collection of 650+ university CS courses for the curious
2021 · collegecompendium.org · its alternatives →
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300+ Books recommended on the Tim Ferriss Show 📚
2016 · fourhourbook.club · its alternatives →
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I think LLMs are overused to summarise and underused to help us read deeper. I built a system for Claude Code to browse 100 non-fiction books and find interesting connections between them. I started out with a pipeline in stages, chaining together LLM calls to build up a context of the library. I was mainly getting back the insight that I was baking into the prompts, and the results weren't particularly surprising. On a whim, I gave CC access to my debug CLI tools and found that it wiped the floor with that approach. It gave actually interesting results and required very little orchestration…
Jan 2026 · trails.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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Highbrow▲292Expand your knowledge universe in just 5 minutes a day
2014 · gohighbrow.com · its alternatives →
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notclass▲234I've been working on this for a few days now. The goal is to create a library of the best free educational content available and to build personalised learning paths for each user, using only free resources and at no cost to the user. Let me know what you think.
2025 · notclass.com · its alternatives →
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Bookcademy▲251Book summaries as fun, useful & practical courses
2019 · bookcademy.com · its alternatives →
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Courseroot 2.0▲216Instant search for +80.000 courses on the web
2019 · courseroot.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, The discussion pops up regularly about which MOOCs and courses to take so I figured I'd start a curated list of recommendations. It's by no means exhaustive (and it's just the ones I know) and is quite broad. If you had any suggestions, feel free to create a PR or Issue, or even respond to this post and I will add it. I'd love to be able to capture quality somehow, but not sure of the way to go about that just yet. https://github.com/tombasche/professional-development
2020 · its alternatives →
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Highbrow helps you learn something new every day with 5-minute lessons delivered to your inbox every morning. Join over 400,000 lifelong learners today!
2015 · gohighbrow.com · its alternatives →
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A course on building habit-forming technology by Nir Eyal
2014 · its alternatives →
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Scale your cohort-based course from 50 to 500 student
2022 · teachfloor.com · its alternatives →
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Pythonbooks ranks the best Python books for beginners, intermediate programmers and 15 different specializations.
2017 · pythonbooks.org · its alternatives →
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Incredible framework on learning any skill
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Multimodal(PDF + Video) LLM pipeline that transforms educational content—PDFs, videos (with transcripts), handwritten notes - into comprehensive, searchable markdown notes. Turn 10 hours of lectures into 2 hours of focused reading. - Slydite/lore-engine
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any books into a course in 5 minutes
2024 · everlearns.com · its alternatives →
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