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Ask HN: What are your favorite websites in 2024 and why?
Hey HN, what are your favorite good websites that you visit often (other than HN of course) and why?
Bonus points if they are indie sites and no crude responses please.
- Yawrehto 2y agoI have so many. JSTOR: It has a good selection of open access books[https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/ https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/] (supplement with individual publishers[you can find many from DOABOOKS, https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/covid19-information-and-resources-from-obp/#open-books https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/covid19-information-and..., https://www.oapen.org/researchers/13516596-funder-compliant-publishers https://www.oapen.org/researchers/13516596-funder-compliant-..., or https://www.oaspa.org/ https://www.oaspa.org/] & doabooks[https://www.doabooks.org/ https://www.doabooks.org/]). I like reading that sort of thing. I've been enjoying Stand Out of Our Light[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/3F8D7BA2C0FE3A7126A4D9B73A89415D https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/...] by Cambridge University Press, which is legitimately engaging and not written very academically. Wikipedia: Duh. Favorite page is the Unusual Articles[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles] one. Internet Archive: Amazing. Especially the books. Supplement with the Online Books Page list of archives.[https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/, click on 'Archives and Indexes'] Find Your News[https://findyournews.org/ https://findyournews.org/]: Directory-ish of nonprofit news outlets. Missing, last I checked, many of the ones in Hung-Su's list of slow news outlets[https://hung.su/slow-news-movement/ https://hung.su/slow-news-movement/], so I tend to use them together when I'm in a bingeing-on-nonprofit-news mood. NEH Humanities Magazine: The US National Endowment for the Humanities has a magazine[https://www.neh.gov/humanities https://www.neh.gov/humanities] that covers a lot of historical subjects, and it's free (online at least). Similar ones are available from the Library of Congress and National Archives, but I don't read those nearly as often. I also like pluralistic [https://pluralistic.net/ https://pluralistic.net/], Kottke [https://kottke.org/ https://kottke.org/], The Marginalian [https://www.themarginalian.org/ https://www.themarginalian.org/], Freerice (take quizzes, feed kids. Worst thing that happens, you learn)[https://freerice.com/ https://freerice.com/] and the wonderful Marginalia search engine: https://www.marginalia.nu/ https://www.marginalia.nu/.