The one we're currently in.
Honestly, my Internet life would be miserable without HN. I learn so much stuff in here.
Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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#302https://yyyyyyy.info/
Amazing - that makes https://www.lingscars.com/ look organised
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#303https://racertrash.com/
Love 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
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#304The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. 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 I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"
We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#305The coolest website I know right now is 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].
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#306The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. 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 I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.
Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist.
It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Open Street Map comes close.
Kinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.
This is more of a testament to HTTP/HTML though. It's a universal format for storing and retrieving information.
OpenStreetMap is, along with every other geo data project, limited by the common coordinate systems we have for storing and retrieving geospatial data -- and these are almost always planetary, not universal.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#308Humour is cool!
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#309shot out to the poor academics cool website "sci-hub.ru"
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#310https://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.
P.S.: no affiliation with it :)