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Ask HN: What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

18 points by yarapavan 5y ago

Curious to know HN's take on useful unknown websites that do you wish more people know about.

yarapavan 5y ago
This r/askreddit post has a good list of useful unknown websites: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q2viki/what_useful_unknown_website_do_you_wish_more https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q2viki/what_usef.... A few from the list: 1. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (Imagined by a GAN StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) - Karras et al. and Nvidia. More: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2 https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2) 2. https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator (translate text in 20 languages including idioms and phrases) 3. https://remove.bg/ https://remove.bg/ (remove any background) 4. regex101.com (self explanatory) 5. Photopea.com (a free web-based Photoshop alternative 6. https://tineye.com/ https://tineye.com/ , http://fotoforensics.com/ http://fotoforensics.com/ Do you want to know if an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered? Using these two tools you've got a good chance of finding out. Tineye is reverse image search on steroids and foto forensics provides free image analysis tools: 7. https://thenounproject.com/ https://thenounproject.com/ (Icons and Photos for everything) 8. https://www.readsomethinggreat.com/ https://www.readsomethinggreat.com/ (Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually created) 9. https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap (RSOE-EDIS is a live world map of emergencies. Icons represent fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, plane crashes, biological endemics, public safety incidents, animal attacks, and more) 10. http://sleepyti.me http://sleepyti.me (Sleep Cycle Calculator - Optimal Bedtime and Wake up Times by Age)
- kingkongjaffa 5y ago
  DeepL is generally better than google translate for things like grammar, local choice of words when multple words could make sense etc.
  - ffhhj 5y ago
    It's down now.
    - iiv 5y ago
      Not for me, I'm in Europe. (and it's big enough to not suffer from a HN-of-Death.)
frou_dh 5y ago
https://repology.org/ https://repology.org/ - For getting an overview of what's available, and at which version, across the hundreds of different OS package managers. Example: https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions
master255 5y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.library https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.libr...

18 points by yarapavan 5y ago

Curious to know HN's take on useful unknown websites that do you wish more people know about.

This r/askreddit post has a good list of useful unknown websites: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q2viki/what_useful_unknown_website_do_you_wish_more https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q2viki/what_usef.... A few from the list: 1. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (Imagined by a GAN StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) - Karras et al. and Nvidia. More: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2 https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2) 2. https://www.deepl.com/translator https://www.deepl.com/translator (translate text in 20 languages including idioms and phrases) 3. https://remove.bg/ https://remove.bg/ (remove any background) 4. regex101.com (self explanatory) 5. Photopea.com (a free web-based Photoshop alternative 6. https://tineye.com/ https://tineye.com/ , http://fotoforensics.com/ http://fotoforensics.com/ Do you want to know if an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered? Using these two tools you've got a good chance of finding out. Tineye is reverse image search on steroids and foto forensics provides free image analysis tools: 7. https://thenounproject.com/ https://thenounproject.com/ (Icons and Photos for everything) 8. https://www.readsomethinggreat.com/ https://www.readsomethinggreat.com/ (Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually created) 9. https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap (RSOE-EDIS is a live world map of emergencies. Icons represent fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, plane crashes, biological endemics, public safety incidents, animal attacks, and more) 10. http://sleepyti.me http://sleepyti.me (Sleep Cycle Calculator - Optimal Bedtime and Wake up Times by Age)

kingkongjaffa 5y ago
DeepL is generally better than google translate for things like grammar, local choice of words when multple words could make sense etc.
- ffhhj 5y ago
  It's down now.
  - iiv 5y ago
    Not for me, I'm in Europe. (and it's big enough to not suffer from a HN-of-Death.)

frou_dh 5y ago

https://repology.org/ https://repology.org/ - For getting an overview of what's available, and at which version, across the hundreds of different OS package managers. Example: https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions https://repology.org/project/ocaml/versions

master255 5y ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.library https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.media.libr...