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

Post by cardy31 » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

ryandvm wrote: post #49

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.

Post by Quai » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #44

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

Post by michalu » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

Post by WesSouza » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

jrwr wrote: post #11

https://jrwr.io -- It's my personal website with a fun "fake" terminal with a custom command set with a set of challenges to solve to gain more access levels in the machine. Its been fun to watch the commands come in.

Post by defterade_ » Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 2:17 PM UTC