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Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Post by RhysU »

https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/, discussed at Strange Loop (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYMii3Sypg), is an homage to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie

The result is beautiful and the creator's love spillingly apparent.

Workable on mobile but better on the desktop.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Post by yodon »

I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but you don't get to have something that is more infinite that your neighbor. In a similar vein, your thing can not be more unique than your co-worker's thing though one of you may have the more unusual thing, just as you could live longer, be more injured, have been carrying more kids in your uterus for longer, or have something that is bigger, longer, or more expansive.

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

vidarh wrote: post #44

Worst design: https://www.arngren.net/ Though it's a pretty faithful rendition of their old paper catalogue...

Flexbox design from 15 years before flex boxes were invented. I'd say it's very ahead of its time. This is how websites are starting to look today.

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Post by leephillips »

yodon wrote: post #45

I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but yo…

But can we form a more perfect union?

Re: Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

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Post by ryandvm »

yodon wrote: post #45

I'll be that guy and point out that "Unique" is interesting because it falls in the same category of words as forever, infinite, dead, and pregnant, adjectives which do not take comparative qualifiers because they describe Boolean states. You don't get to be the most pregnant or most dead person in the room, or live more forever than your friend. You can have something that is Aleph-1 rather than Aleph-nought, but yo…

Excellent work, Colin Robinson.

However, I think I'd disagree. The reality is we all knew what OP meant because the colloquial (non-CS) definition of unique is just "very unusual". It isn't often in meatspace that humans are trying to distinguish completely physically unique items, so such a constrained definition is understandably rare in normal conversation.

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