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Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion.
- jvmx 4y agohttps://isaacarthur.net/ https://isaacarthur.net/ If you like a science-based approach to futurism this guy is the absolute best. His channel on YouTube is amazing.
- rpastuszak 4y agoAlso available via podcasts. Great if you’re an insomniac!
- jamal-kumar 4y agoI had a roommate who would binge watch that guy's videos in his room and when he came out I'd make jokes like hey how's Elmer Fudd doing? Roomate didn't like that (honestly I just thought they were more of his goofy ufo vids at the time) but he does have a pretty damn good channel regardless of rhotacism. I also like Anton Petrov on YouTube whose angle is more about recent developments in astrophysics: https://m.youtube.com/user/whatdamath https://m.youtube.com/user/whatdamath
- jamal-kumar 4y agohttps://arngren.net/ https://arngren.net/ I like how insane this Norwegian mail order website is.
- thisisjasononhn 4y agoReally not sure how to describe it but I love the layout of this. It fully reminds of me old print mail-order catalogues which always had all sorts of zany products. Although here, things for sale all seem quite practical to the right person :)
- mattkevan 4y agoArngren is amazing. When I was UX lead at a big e-commerce retailer I spent a lot of time looking at that site. You might also enjoy Yvette’s Bridal Formal. It’s the good, old, weird, outsider art web that you just don’t get now. Didn’t really get it then either but this is something special. https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/links.html https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/links.html
- jamal-kumar 4y agoHah that's insanity! Definitely within the same perigee as arngren.net
- xbenjii 4y agoReminds me of https://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
- UmbertoNoEco 4y agohttps://www.bas.ac.uk/ https://www.bas.ac.uk/
- mellosouls 4y agoI see what you did there
- layer8 4y agoI would counter with https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/ https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/.
- tim333 4y agoI miss JimCarrey.com which was the only arty flash site I liked. It's gone now but is recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ
- frankjr 4y agohttps://pointerpointer.com/ https://pointerpointer.com/
- chris_st 4y agohttps://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com https://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
- lagrange77 4y agoYeah, classic! :)
- jonwinstanley 4y agohttps://www.google.com https://www.google.com Works pretty well, can answer almost any question :-)
- sigjuice 4y agoNot lately. For me, google has been coming up with stuff that’s not even remotely related to what I asked.
- de_nied 4y agoThis may help you. https://bit.ly/AllTheOperators https://bit.ly/AllTheOperators I also recommend checking out Dan Russell's (lead researcher on the Google Search team) blog. https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/ https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
- Nextgrid 4y agohttps://zombo.com https://zombo.com
- Agamus 4y agoSince about 1998, whenever I need a rickroll-style URL placeholder for whatever reason, I use zombocom. This is my favorite website ever, because, quite simply, you can do anything at Zombocom. For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't really been online yet.
- usrn 4y agoLooking back I think the optimism for the internet in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly as inaccurate as everyone says it was. There was certainly a lot of nonsense but I think most of what people thought would happen did end up happening, it just took decades instead of a few years.
- digisign 4y agoThe only limit… … … is yourself.
- srvmshr 4y agoWise words. As someone working in ML, I feel this holds equally true for AI
- ipaddr 4y agoWhat we got wrong was if you build something awesome people will find you. It was true but it is not anymore.
- cercatrova 4y agoIt is true, if you know where to look. Twitter has many interesting creators I follow, both in tech and in other fields. Instagram similarly has many good photographers and artists I follow in many different styles as well.
- zer0-c00l 4y ago
- silisili 4y agohttp://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/ http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/ Without a doubt, one of my favorite sites to go reading through. I find every article fascinating, and love that it's still got that retro look and hasn't changed in years.
- lagrange77 4y agoReally nice, thanks!
- hsavit1 4y agohttps://libgen.is/ https://libgen.is/
- agumonkey 4y agosister libgen.fun too
- unfunco 4y agoYamauchi No.10 Family Office: https://y-n10.com https://y-n10.com
- iower 4y agohttps://www.gutenberg.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/
- toricalea 4y agohttps://celody.com https://celody.com A music network state (if you are into new forms of music).
- sgregnt 4y agofacebook.com Check out what my folks are up to, check news and read some other random things for entertainment.
- meotimdihia 4y agoyes, Facebook is better than 99% of websites in this thread. Everyone is just bias.
- kanonieer 4y agoLing's Cars https://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
- keithnz 4y agolol, that's great. Interesting reading the "About" section on Ling
- gadders 4y agoShe's sold the business to her employees now and is on a sabbatical travelling around the world in a Unimog based RV. You can follow her progress on Facebook.
- agumonkey 4y agolove it, dearly
- thisisjasononhn 4y agonow THIS is good website design :D
- don-code 4y agoOne of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece. https://people.rit.edu/meseec/ https://people.rit.edu/meseec/
- lagrange77 4y agoThose flares guarding the table layout image links.
- krmboya 4y agoIt's like how the web was originally meant to be used. Your own little corner of self expression and memories
- floren 4y agoDr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there... Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.
- pottertheotter 4y agoThis made me nostalgic. There was something special about those days. Also, I haven’t seen the HTML Writers Guild logo for a long time.
- jiggawatts 4y ago"WHAT YEAR IS THIS!?"
- mattkevan 4y agohttp://www.realultimatepower.net/ http://www.realultimatepower.net/
- Aragorn2331 4y agohttps://c82.net/ https://c82.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://www.arun.is/ https://www.arun.is/ https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/ https://simone.computer/ https://simone.computer/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
- syx 4y agoThank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated
- jamal-kumar 4y agoI like your website too, you obviously put a lot of love into it.
- lexx 4y agoi really love your website
- hackernewds 4y agowhich one is it?
- moreati 4y agoIt's https://simone.computer https://simone.computer, going by syx's HN profile.
- ricardo81 4y agoHow much for exclusive access to the light bulb? :) Great site.
- Aragorn2331 4y agoYour website is so cool :-)
- js8 4y agoReally good LCD you have there, no ghosting..
- pkdpic 4y agosimple, unassuming and straight to the point, no question http://y9k.xyz/ http://y9k.xyz/
- jeanlucas 4y agoThe audio did not play automatically.
- saleebmina 4y agohttps://philosopher.life https://philosopher.life
- paulgb 4y agoThis mechanical watch explanation: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
- madvoid 4y agoEverything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS explanation.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoif it's the one I'm thinking of.. i spent like 4 hours reading that and still didn't finish, but every bit was amazing
- adamddev1 4y agoWow. This guy makes amazing stuff. That's what I call beautifully harnessing the power of web technologies to explain things.
- dotancohen 4y agoHis floating point representation is so good that middle schoolers can understand it: https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
- rjh29 4y agoThat's insane.
- hassancf 4y agoJust beautiful
- redanddead 4y agoa passion project for sure
- Mochsner 4y agoThis is fantastic
- social_quotient 4y agoFast loading, authentic community, consistent experience, smart fresh perspectives https://news.ycombinator.com/news https://news.ycombinator.com/news
- saaaaaam 4y agoSeems like you’ve successfully death kissed it.
- johnwalkr 4y agoI’ve mentioned a couple of times on here before: I downgraded my data plan during Covid, and haven’t bothered to increase it yet. Oh my plan, it goes to 100kbps once I run out of data. Once that happens I mostly just read hackernews comments. It works perfectly. Google search also works ok, google maps works with patience, and virtually nothing else will even load.
- andai 4y agoI spent a few months with extremely slow (single digit KB/s) internet. As you say HN is basically the only usable site. Even HN loaded very slowly though, so I would read it through w3m (text mode web browser) over Mosh (more efficient than SSH). -- Worth mentioning that many sites will be difficult or unusable in a text mode browser, so I recommend Browsh which renders them (in Firefox?) and then converts the image to colorful, pixelated terminal art—it supports mouse and everything! (The word "recommend" is a bit strong here, but if your internet is bad enough and you need to get something done, it may be the only way to do it.) I had to actually plan my media downloads ahead—I'd collect a list of podcasts / lectures to download and then fetch them all when I had access to decent wifi. Eventually I made an elaborate series of bash scripts with a php frontend to extract audio from youtube lectures and convert it to Opus, to save money on my fast but expensive mobile data. I even set up my own internet radio station, an Opus proxy for Lofi Beats to Relax and Study... as they say, necessity is the mother of invention... or at least the mother of reading a bunch of icecast manpages... Wouldn't want to repeat the experience, but it was very educational! Right now I'm on a metered connection (5GB/day), so I set my Steam download speed low enough to spread a 12GB download over 3 days... brings me back to the old days hahah.
- sqwrell 4y agoreddit
- donohoe 4y agohttps://www.lofi.cafe/ https://www.lofi.cafe/
- tagami 4y agohttps://radio.garden https://radio.garden
- to-too-two 4y agoAwesome.
- Yizahi 4y agohttps://www.gwern.net/index https://www.gwern.net/index No, I'm not trolling. This is one of the coolest websites I've ever seen, despite it being a personal blog and having no fancy animations. ps: the coolest "site", not the coolest content of the site. While it is very good too in this case.
- joncrane 4y agoI just learned the term insight porn, thank you.
- dkh 4y agoMy favorite one-man Wikipedia.
- yourapostasy 4y agoHe's also an active HN participant [1]. Definitely high quality. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern
- tiffanyh 4y agohttps://www.spacejam.com/1996/ https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ Hasn’t changed in 26 years.
- fuzzythinker 4y agonew one: https://www.spacejam2.com/ https://www.spacejam2.com/ /s
- postalrat 4y agoIt did change. The page is https://www.spacejam.com https://www.spacejam.com
- al_borland 4y agoBut they still respected that this site is internet history. They kept the ‘96 site around l, and if you go to the new site… https://www.spacejam.com/2021/ https://www.spacejam.com/2021/ This is just amazing.
- kilroy123 4y agohttps://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/ https://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/
- perfect_kiss 4y agohttps://yyyyyyy.info/ https://yyyyyyy.info/
- aembleton 4y agoAmazing - that makes https://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/ look organised
- gwill 4y agohttp://symbology.lhohq.info/ http://symbology.lhohq.info/ i actually found out about this site after finding a very cryptic pamphlet at a bar. the site has hundreds of pages.
- zettelkasten 4y agoworld of randal and his friends, https://ranfren.neocities.org/ https://ranfren.neocities.org/
- aidenn0 4y agoThe Best Page In The Universe is pretty cool: http://maddox.xmission.com/ http://maddox.xmission.com/
- 0des 4y agoMaddox lost
- noduerme 4y agoThankfully I never heard of Maddox until this moment, and I can now safely forget he ever existed.
- 0des 4y agoYou have missed absolutely nothing of value, I assure you.
- coreyisthename 4y agoI’m confused. Did the ‘Rona get him? Or are you referring to a lawsuit?
- AH4oFVbPT4f8 4y agoHe lost the lawsuit, but he hasn't posted anything on his site or twitter since early 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)
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- iroddis 4y agohttps://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ By far and away my favourite site of all time. It’s a beautiful example of representing complex data in a manner that’s easy to digest, viscerally understand, even. It’s also the first time I heard of the Misery Index, which was fun to learn about.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoUsually living in the tropics or at least near a coast, this website is invaluable to me to have an idea of what the weather is looking like. Local coverage is kind of lackluster in comparasion.
- RachelF 4y agoThanks for that!
- rolha-capoeira 4y agoWhat's going on w/ CO2 off the coast of NJ, algae bloom or something?
- IYasha 4y agoNo azimuthal equidistant projections :((((( (best for navigation)
- aembleton 4y agoLooks a bit like https://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/
- ada1981 4y agohttp://MemeScope.com http://MemeScope.com on desktop
- Barrin92 4y agohttp://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ Bret Victor's visual / interactive explanations of certain ideas or papers. Two that I like in particular are his redesign of Strogatz's paper on small world networks and the 'ladder of abstraction' http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt/ http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt... http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
- lagrange77 4y agoYes! http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath
- cloogshicer 4y agoLearnable Programming is another really good one: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming One of the most inspiring pieces I've ever read.
- makecheck 4y agoUnfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen… Seems like the viewport is fixed so zoom is disallowed. (Sites should never do this.)
- D13Fd 4y agoHTTPS://acoup.blog I know it’s on HN a lot but I just love the application of his sphere of deep knowledge (military history) to pop culture.
- ericfrazier 4y agoThe coolest sites are the ones that use the least personal data. Pollhub.xyz is the coolest in that sense. It's the funnest site on the internet. Endless polls and caption contests plus anonymous chat.
- ericfrazier 4y agoWhenever I post one of my sites to hacker news I actually do get an influx of hack attempts.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- for as long as i can remember things i've like on the internet - always liked gnod: https://www.gnod.com/ https://www.gnod.com/ --
- jeanlucas 4y agoOh, first time seeing this, thanks!
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- it's super old - like - old old internet - it used to be called Global Network Of Dreams (much better name if you ask me) - I discovered it - I think over 15 years ago? - and still use it today --
- thisisjasononhn 4y agoThank you for sharing! I used their music and art AIs with great success for new suggestions! :)
- TacticalCoder 4y ago> The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion. OK I'll bite... There's a very cool five letters dot com which exists since forever (I just checked on the Internet Wayback Machine and it has a copy of the site in 1998!). I'll say what it is but I'd rather not link it directly as I wouldn't want HN to kill it (and its owner deciding to pull the plug, you never know you know). It's basically called "lost.com" (but in another language) and there are just two lines of text saying: Lost on the Internet? Don't worry, we're going to help you * <--- You are here I don't know who created it but that's my definition of cool!
- wincy 4y agoHahah I got it on my first try. Now it’s fun because I feel like I’m in on a little secret. I’ll keep it a secret, too though ;)
- Tepix 4y agoA site that's bern online since before 1998 will get shutdown like that? Seems unlikely.
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- aembleton 4y agoA bit like http://tired.com/ http://tired.com/
- lagrange77 4y agoOh, that website! Indeed tres cool.
- version_five 4y agoAnyone remember hell.com from the late 90s. I'm not sure I really understood what it was, some kind of email provider I think, but it has a really mysterious and exclusive feel, it seemed cool. I just checked it and now it's some religious thing
- sph 4y agohttp://100r.co/ http://100r.co/
- Shared404 4y agoAlso http://xxiivv.com/ http://xxiivv.com/
- layer8 4y agohttps://www.coolestwebsiteintheworld.com/ https://www.coolestwebsiteintheworld.com/
- neilk 4y agohttps://pudding.cool/ https://pudding.cool/ Visual essays with data, that could only exist on the web
- optimalsolver 4y agohttps://my90stv.com https://my90stv.com Watch television from the 90s.
- Agamus 4y ago* The Perseus Project: searchable Classical texts in the original language or in translation. Etymological and philological study tool from the gods.This thing has looked this way since at least 2003. Show me a more awesome website, I dare you: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections * Nietzsche Source. Searchable, digitized collection of the complete works, as well as scans of original manuscripts, etc! http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB * WebSDR - control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente, complete with chatbox: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
- f4stjack 4y agohttps://poolsuite.net/ https://poolsuite.net/ to capture those nineties feeling for a sec or two...
- emmelaich 4y agohttps://dannyreviews.com/ https://dannyreviews.com/ (ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist) has a vast range of book reviews for the intellectually curious. All reviews by Danny Yee
- aerovistae 4y agoSomething about the phrase "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist" smacks of egotism to me, I dunno why but it just seems a turn-off. It feels like saying "I'm just deeply interesting, I can't help it, it's just who I am."
- stevage 4y agoI hear it the opposite. Like an admission that they failed to focus on anything in particular and than their reviews may be pretty useless for that reason.
- vagrantJin 4y agoInteresting. Would you say we all need to be single minded specialists/experts?
- iostream24 4y agoFunny, I feel the same way about your comment.
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- DantesKite 4y agoHis best books section is quite interesting, because he's read about 1.6k books and there's only a couple on there, suggesting those are probably some high quality reads. https://dannyreviews.com/mypubs.html#nonfiction https://dannyreviews.com/mypubs.html#nonfiction I'm also struck by the quality of his writing. These are some short and light reviews. Very thoughtful.
- type0 4y agolocalhost
- Hammad_Madi 4y agoHaha
- yeputons 4y agohttps://www.mcmaster.com/ https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast. I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
- ethanfinni 4y agoWow! Does anyone know what is built on and how it is this fast?
- gilbetron 4y agoThat is cool! Anyone know the tech behind it?
- eastbayjake 4y agoThey appear to be using the Backbone.js/Marionette framework, which is super hardcore but also dates when this site was probably developed (I can't remember the last time I saw Backbone in the wild!) https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcmaster.com%2f https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcmaster.com%2f
- tracyhenry 4y agoIt looks like something achievable with SPA frameworks such as next.js
- culi 4y agoMight also be using the native Context Index API.[0] That's usually used to allow sites to be downloaded and browsed offline. I think that's how SVGOMG does it too [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Content_Index_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Content_Ind...
- easrng 4y agoThe Content Index API only tells the browser that a page is available offline, you still have to cache it with a serviceworker.
- gattopalla 4y agohttps://kim.com https://kim.com
- gaudat 4y agohttps://racertrash.com/ https://racertrash.com/
- aembleton 4y agoLove that 2020 reel video. Reminds me of The Avalanches. Now I'm down a rabbit hole of Racer Trash. This remix of Alien is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cQh_APsow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cQh_APsow
- smsm42 4y agohttp://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- prawn 4y agohttps://randomghost.tumblr.com/ https://randomghost.tumblr.com/
- redanddead 4y agoThere's a collective that does a really great job of presenting and archiving the most artistic web experiences today https://tympanus.net/ https://tympanus.net/ I think it's run by a Ukrainian guy, they showed pics of cars on their street being bombed, it was wild
- formerkrogemp 4y agoA friend made this http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG
- strangelove026 4y agoSeems broken. Used to be able to load up two youtube videos, hit play on both, and cross fade between the two of them. http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/ http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/
- strangelove026 4y agoAlright, so the domain isn't as cool, but this one works https://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherflippingcrossfader.com/ https://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherflippingcrossfader.com...
- mizzao 4y agohttps://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ thrillingly designed, and amazing what can be done in WebGL
- lagrange77 4y agoIngenious
- novategcom 4y agohttps://yep.com https://yep.com
- galuggus 4y agohttps://ridd.im https://ridd.im
- culi 4y agohttps://www.connectedpapers.com/ https://www.connectedpapers.com/ has unlocked a new level of getting lost in rabbitholes for me Barely related but equally cool project: https://supp.ai/ https://supp.ai/
- culi 4y agoThis has been an endless source of exposure to cool works: https://gossipsweb.net/ https://gossipsweb.net/
- culi 4y agoThe design alone of this entire site makes me wanna get into this rather niche political ideology: https://syllabus.pirate.care/ https://syllabus.pirate.care/
- scyclow 4y agoThe Heaven's Gate website is pretty cool https://heavensgate.com/ https://heavensgate.com/
- brycewray 4y agoWould love to know who's been paying to keep that alive all these years.
- major505 4y agoJesus. Is amazing that they left 2 people alive that still updates the shit site to this days. They where also responsable for a lot of local business websites in the 90's. That's how they financed the cult.
- stevage 4y agoThat just seems really sad.
- tootie 4y agoThey don't publish a huge volume, but I really enjoy The Markup: https://themarkup.org/ https://themarkup.org/ It's the most fun news browsing experience of any news site I use, the content is relevant and interesting, and it's non-profit and ad-free.
- zoba 4y agohttps://www.grand-illusions.com/ https://www.grand-illusions.com/ Fun and well curated science toy store
- lamontcg 4y agohttps://scholar.google.com/ https://scholar.google.com/ https://sci-hub.se/ https://sci-hub.se/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/
- andrewl 4y agoIan’s Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
- iluvblender 4y agohttps://phet.colorado.edu https://phet.colorado.edu https://www.khanacademy.org https://www.khanacademy.org
- room505 4y agoYamauchi No.10 Family Office: https://y-n10.com/ https://y-n10.com/
- mch82 4y agoThanks for sharing this one. The Philosophy is interesting to read, particularly #3: > …so that we may be able to return our inherited material and spiritual wealth to the public
- paulcole 4y agoTikTok (available on the web and via app) is amazing. The algorithm is so good that I can watch for hours.
- sidcool 4y agoIt's seriously addictive. Be careful it's known to ruin attention.
- leetrout 4y agoSimple viz of wind http://hint.fm/wind/ http://hint.fm/wind/ Everything by Nicky Case https://ncase.me/ https://ncase.me/
- dau 4y agohttps://skinnybob.info https://skinnybob.info (UFO/alien case analysis)
- great_reversal 4y agohttps://www.athinkingape.com/about/ https://www.athinkingape.com/about/ A game company that hired Waterloo co-ops once upon a time.
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- kixiQu 4y agohttps://href.cool/ https://href.cool/ naturally :)
- Vladimof 4y agohttps://thepiratebay.org/index.html https://thepiratebay.org/index.html https://sci-hub.se/ https://sci-hub.se/ https://libgen.is/ https://libgen.is/
- iqkznnft 4y agoWikipedia is by far the coolest website I know.
- vq 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- frellus 4y agohttps://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com Wholesome, fascinating insight into the inner thoughts of some people, and shows us how tenuous the human connections we make on the internet can feel sometimes.. how lonely some of us can be.
- subtract-smiles 4y agothiswebsitewillselfdestruct is honestly one of the only places on the internet that allows anonymous writing that has a majority wholesome and meaningful content. You don't go to that website looking for internet updoots, you go to that website because you have something to say, but no one to say it to.
- tempestn 4y agoThis was a great idea. I expect it'll be alive for a long time yet. Some messages on there I really wish I could respond to, but I do realize that would ruin it.
- winternett 4y agoForgot all about this site until now... Much better than Twitter! I wish it was searchable, that would be crazy to play around with.
- cercatrova 4y agoDear Website, To reach a port, we must set sail. --- This is what I got when I first clicked through it. There are some very interesting motivational messages in there, as well as some very sad ones, many people grieving or pining for a lost love.
- memorable 4y agohttps://www.norid.no/en/ https://www.norid.no/en/ The official website for registering .no domains. Still the most modern website I have ever seen.
- hoosieree 4y agohttps://falstad.com/circuit/ https://falstad.com/circuit/
- holler 4y agohttps://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im (but disclaimer it's probably because I'm working on it!) It's a new open discussion site where each post is a live chatroom.
- daodedickinson 4y agonoclip.website
- subtract-smiles 4y agohttps://linkians.com/ https://linkians.com/ I've spend hours playing around with different possible scenarios here.
- togaen 4y agohttp://realultimatepower.net/ http://realultimatepower.net/
- saperyton 4y agowww.readsomethinginteresting.com, place to find new things to read
- eastdakota 4y agoI love this: https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/ https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/ Click on any spot on Earth and see where a raindrop there will flow until it reaches an ocean.
- rado 4y agohttps://www.gov.uk/ https://www.gov.uk/ Beautiful, minimalistic, fast, useful.
- lulzx 4y agoworrydream.com - Bret Victor
- pabs3 4y agoWebsite archiving websites, for eg: https://archive.is/ https://archive.is/ https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/
- m10k 4y agoA long time ago, I attempted to reverse-engineer the protocol of a game because I wanted to host a dedicated server on a Linux box, but the developers only provided a (bug-infested) Windows version. That's how I found this treasure trove of game-related PoCs and reverse-engineering knowledge. https://aluigi.org https://aluigi.org
- anon9001 4y agoI can't believe I've never come across this before.
- anon25783 4y agohttps://thelifeengine.net/ https://thelifeengine.net/ The coolest cellular automaton I've ever seen. I can fiddle with this all day and get absolutely no work done. Beautiful and stimulating 10/10
- Kyer 4y agoReally cool. Thanks!
- memonkey 4y agoZOMBO.COM
- winternett 4y agoA wild assortment of ~400 mostly visual music videos from youtube that I curate is here: http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS I even use it a lot on my own, I really enjoy the music I find. I post updates to my twitter account usually as well @djwinterman The list has many different genres and moods to it. (Refreshing the list will load random videos) I'm thinking of making it a carousel page of some sort soon.
- cookiengineer 4y agoThe coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
- Tepix 4y agoGeizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond. My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).
- cookiengineer 4y agoI agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for. Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.
- ghusbands 4y agoHave you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.
- Tepix 4y agoYes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.
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- kqr 4y agohttps://apolloinrealtime.org https://apolloinrealtime.org Lets you listen to the full audio of three Apollo missions. Not only the official mix, but also behind the scenes stuff, like flight dynamics officer, computer supervisor, etc. Not only is it interesting to hear what engineers on a mission sounded like in that somewhat early NASA environment, but it's also a pleasant background track.
- nixass 4y ago2advanced V5 Attractor https://youtu.be/pbn9X1MUZdQ https://youtu.be/pbn9X1MUZdQ https://www.behance.net/gallery/19738001/2Advanced-V5-Website-Attractor-(2010) https://www.behance.net/gallery/19738001/2Advanced-V5-Websit... This was more of a demo page, the original website is long down unfortunately.. Back in the day I'd get excited every time I'd load it! This site is all about esthetic and nothing about the content. I'd say many people decided to become web designers just because of this particular work. It was hurting my slow DSL back then..
- dkh 4y agoOh yeah, 2A forever. Found them in 1999-2000 (when I was 12 or 13 and first learning to code and such) and it was positively mind-blowing. v2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbQmqmmIFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbQmqmmIFk) and v3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8) made me rethink everything, and I promptly switched focus to learning webdev over coding desktop apps. Those Flash days were fun, between 2A, Balthaser, DerBauer, etc. But yeah, 2A made me completely rethink media and interaction. Go figure, I work on interactive web stuff and film stuff geared towards the web. I can still hear the first piece of music that would play in the background of 2A v2 in my head 20+ years later, and still occasionally listen to Eric's trance mixes on Soundcloud.
- ricklamers 4y agoThe Chromium source code browser: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src It’s super fast with their jump to reference/declaration. Still curious what’s actually driving it. Looks like some sort of lightweight git/VCS browsing app. Does anyone here know more about it?
- noahchen 4y agoThis looks very similar to Google's internal code search.
- underdeserver 4y agoI imagine it's built on the same infrastructure.
- johnxie 4y agohttps://nathan.tokyo https://nathan.tokyo is pure art. Each element has its own micro-interaction on hover.
- mch82 4y agohttps://rhizome.org/about/ https://rhizome.org/about/ Covering net art since at least 2001. Maybe not as cool as it was then.
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- posed 4y agohttps://sharpnife.github.io/ https://sharpnife.github.io/
- johnhenry 4y agoSolar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
- musha68k 4y agoOne man show https://www.dekudeals.com https://www.dekudeals.com is a labour of love and the best video games deals site that I know of. Focused on Nintendo Switch, written in rails AFAIK.
- mercer 4y agoI use it for ps4/ps5 too!
- RalfWausE 4y agohttp://unmoralische.de http://unmoralische.de Its in german... and a giant treasure chest full of little humour
- DustinBrett 4y agoI'm bias of course but it's a goal of mine to have the best "misc" website one day... It can do a lot. https://dustinbrett.com/ https://dustinbrett.com/
- etataetaet 4y agoLove the website! Really neat :)
- DustinBrett 4y agoThanks!
- to-too-two 4y agoThat's impressive. Works and looks great.
- DustinBrett 4y agoThank you!
- kzrdude 4y agoIt's super cool! I saw it in the other thread yesterday. I can't figure out how to resize the linux terminal, was one of the things I noticed.
- DustinBrett 4y agoThanks! Ya currently https://copy.sh/v86 https://copy.sh/v86 afaik can't be resized once booted.
- braunshedd 4y agohttps://everynoise.com https://everynoise.com Search for your favorite bands using the bar at the top right corner. Find the associated playlist on Spotify via "The Sound Of X" where X is the genre name. If you have (or would like to have) diverse musical tastes this is the best way to do it!
- b0ner_t0ner 4y agoWay too dependent on Spotify.
- harshreality 4y agohttps://replit.com https://replit.com
- throwamon 4y agoMight as well link to an open source alternative: https://riju.codes/ https://riju.codes/ Fun fact: Whenever I want to remember the name of this project, I just look for it on the front page of https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com thanks to one of the most upvoted HN posts of all time, "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
- davesque 4y agohttps://www.cameronsworld.net https://www.cameronsworld.net
- h3mb3 4y agoIf the Moon Were Only One Pixel [1] is my go-to data visualization to share with people who haven't thought about the scale of the solar system that much. [1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
- jonbaer 4y agohttps://www.windy.com/ https://www.windy.com/
- lelandbatey 4y agohttps://acko.net https://acko.net It's a personal website, but is full of amazing visualizations, educational content, and it basically has a demo scene demo to music on the front page, all hand coded in WebGL. It's just cool, in a delightful, personal, artistic way, and I love it.
- kertoip_1 4y agoObviously wikipedia.org. Nothing better has been invented in 20-some years. I honestly feel relief when I research some topic and it has Wikipedia page on it, so I don't need to dig through some sh**y blogposts Edit: I mean: it's one of the very few websites that actually provides sources of information. It's insane it's that rare these days. And most important facts are just placed in visible and easy to spot place, no need to dig through author's life story, thanks for subscribers etc. before getting to the point.
- beebmam 4y agoWikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.
- agys 4y agoLinking two… hey give me the same feeling of endless exploration and discovery: https://radio.garden https://radio.garden http://astronaut.io http://astronaut.io
- vegancap 4y agoThis website has a list and schedule of active and historical numbers stations, with links to listen in live. If you're fascinated with numbers stations, this is a must: https://priyom.org/ https://priyom.org/
- jrhey 4y agohttps://www.hazumi.news https://www.hazumi.news
- invalidusernam3 4y agoThe Red Blob Games website: "I make interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms, using motivating examples from computer games" The interactive elements help so much in explaining complex ideas. An example post that is incredible is: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
- bberrry 4y agoThis was the first page that popped into my head as well.
- artembugara 4y agohttps://www.lingscars.com/ https://www.lingscars.com/
- WelcomeShorty 4y agohttps://james.darpinian.com/satellites/# https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/# Shows you satellites that will be visible from your position in the coming hours / days. Incredibly cool tech stack too.
- PostOnce 4y agoThe USGS LIDAR maps. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-download-it https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do... ... direct links from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/ https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/ then click an area and on the right click an icon to bring up a point cloud viewer... it's fiddly, but incredible. This site for its depth on a niche subject (nike missiles): http://ed-thelen.org/ http://ed-thelen.org/ and for military telecom: https://www.electrospaces.net/p/index_15.html https://www.electrospaces.net/p/index_15.html similarly, for another niche (very old computers): http://bitsavers.org http://bitsavers.org Evan Amos pictures of game consoles on wikipedia are pretty cool because of how comprehensive they are. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos nostalgia http://16colo.rs http://16colo.rs
- agumonkey 4y agoused to be: - lambda-the-ultimate - c2.com
- Aragorn2331 4y agohttps://www.masswerk.at/ https://www.masswerk.at/ A personal website with amazing retro projects
- thisisjasononhn 4y agoThe Cutting Room Floor - Research on unused and cut video game content. Definitely one of my all time favorite sites to spend spare time on. https://tcrf.net https://tcrf.net Ken Fern's Plant databases https://theferns.info/ https://theferns.info/ U2-3 - The Famous 1000 copies of U2's first ever release https://www.u2-3.com/ https://www.u2-3.com/ Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art (may contain some albeit low quality NSFW artwork) http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/danacovers.html http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/danacovers.html One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Digging through the Geocities Torrent https://blog.geocities.institute/ https://blog.geocities.institute/ and finally, The End Of The Internet https://hmpg.net/ https://hmpg.net/ I've kept a bit of a running list on my site here: https://jason.nabein.me/#links https://jason.nabein.me/#links
- PostOnce 4y agoTCRF is fantastic. I consider it half of a duo, along with https://www.unseen64.net/ https://www.unseen64.net/
- thisisjasononhn 4y ago100% agree! Unseen64 unearths some seriously cool stuff. I think an even equal pairing to unseen64, and in the same vein TCRF, is https://hiddenpalace.org/ https://hiddenpalace.org/ What Unseen64 and HiddenPalace find and preserve is seriously invaluable in this area of interest.
- a5y 4y agomustafas.de but it‘s flash
- notorandit 4y agoHN, of course!
- mkovach 4y agohttps://www.baseball-reference.com/ https://www.baseball-reference.com/ One of the most complete sources of baseball stats including game logs. Yes much of the data is from other sources (MLB, Retrosheet.org, etc) but they really ties things together nicely and I can spend hours on the site.
- anthropodie 4y agohttps://falstad.com https://falstad.com Allows you to simulate electronic circuits and also has bunch of other tools.
- mikewarot 4y agoArchive.org - the history of the internet, searchable.
- blackshaw 4y agoThe coolest website I've seen lately is http://howacarworks.com http://howacarworks.com. It's a video course in which an experienced mechanic breaks down a car into all its constituent parts then puts everything back together piece by piece, explaining in detail how everything works and fits together. I knew nothing about mechanics before starting this series and I'm very impressed by how informative and professionally made the content is. Well worth the price tag (currently discounted as it's still in prerelease, but lots of videos have already been published.) (Note: I have no affiliation with the creator of this course and have nothing to gain by promoting him; I'm just a happy customer.)
- Kovah 4y agoI know it's a shameless plug, but if you are searching for cool websites I got you covered: spent 2 years building https://Cloudhiker.net https://Cloudhiker.net, a StumbleUpon alternative.
- tetris11 4y agoThis is lovely. It captures the exact feel of Stumbleupon used to for me, with a great selection of websites. I hope this becomes the norm for people and does not get monetized.
- elorant 4y agoThe one we're currently in. Honestly, my Internet life would be miserable without HN. I learn so much stuff in here.
- godzillafarts 4y agoThe coolest website I know right now is https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/. It’s a solar powered, self hosted version of Low Tech Magazine. The articles are always interesting, but there’s also a ton of good information about efficient website design as well [0]. [0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#how https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#how
- tony-allan 4y agoHumour is cool! https://xkcd.com/ https://xkcd.com/
- elashri 4y agoshot out to the poor academics cool website "sci-hub.ru"
- jerome-jh 4y agohttps://hckrnews.com/ https://hckrnews.com/ Fast and convenient, everything is one click away. Easy selection of the amount of news you're ready to absorb. Shows where you left off. Default colors are great with already followed links clearly visible. Default order is chronological contrary to https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com. P.S.: no affiliation with it :)
- cobbzilla 4y agohttps://librivox.org/ https://librivox.org/ free public domain audiobooks
- mihaitodor 4y agoSean Carroll's site https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/ and podcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ where he interviews various people about physics, biology, math, psychology, philosophy etc.
- IYasha 4y agoI don't remember the name, but there was a VERY cool futuristically-looking (like Unreal II UI) flash-based site that contained HQ wallpapers (before HD displays became a thing). I still regret not saving it! :_( Yeah, I love flash and think it was a golden era and possible better future killed by Adobe. So, how about https://www.99rooms.com/ https://www.99rooms.com/ ? Great art. I also liked joke sites like getyourasstomars.com or typicalmacintoshuser.com :D
- xswordsx 4y agohttp://websdr.org/ http://websdr.org/ You can listen to various amateur radio bands around the world.
- gauddasa 4y agoyoutube.com with browser extensions for return dislikes and ratings preview.
- vermaden 4y agoGreat ASCII Elements/Animations on Oxide Page. - https://oxide.computer/ https://oxide.computer/
- mister_goo 4y ago1st tier: wikipedia, scihub, libgen, web.archive.org. 2nd tier: google 3nd tier: reddit, hacker news, etc I'm considering getting an offline copy of wikipedia and libgen. I already have an offline copy of hacker news.
- Komodai 4y agoArchive.org, it's crazy how far back some of their stuff goes (especially on web.archive.org)
- luckydenvermint 4y agohttps://organism.earth/ https://organism.earth/ Thank me later :-)
- UmbertoNoEco 4y agoI submitted a site as a joke and now I feel bad because there are a lots of interesting sites submitted. So let me contribute with 2 other sites, maybe not the "coolest" but I think they will be of interest to some fraction of the people here (for those who dont know them) - http://www.astronautix.com/ http://www.astronautix.com/ A labor of love of just 1 person, almost of 80000 pages! on humanity space programs,you can spend hours and hours reading about obscure soviet prototypes, NASA suits, the Chinese space probes, etc - https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ A very active (and long) blog about interstellar travel. Despite the fact the subject is now more fiction than science the articles discussed and reviewed are about actual science done by actual scientists (many good guest posts too)
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- ydnaclementine 4y agohttps://www.radio-browser.info/ https://www.radio-browser.info/ - Internet radio station directory
- iostream24 4y agoYou’ll need archive.org for this but 2013.com “The web is alive” I believed them, such well written tables and sliced images… colspan your way to the end of the world
- matteodimaio 4y agoIf posting the Internet Archive is cheating, how about https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/ --technically containing not only everything ever written on the internet as a whole, but also everything that ever will be...
- 1sf 4y agohttps://v1.windows93.net https://v1.windows93.net is pretty cool. It's an OS packed with cool programs ranging from synthesizers to fangames in your browser!
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- bitsoda 4y agoAs a geopgraphy nerd, I appreciate playing around with https://www.thetruesize.com/ https://www.thetruesize.com/