Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#1

Post by gohat » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 7:36 PM UTC

Some sites – like HackerNews – just make life easier/better. Here’s a list of ones I’ve found over the last year.

Do you know of any sites that should be on this list?

Cool/useful sites:

TED – life changing talks

Fiverr – random stuff just $5

Quora - Q&A made cool and fun

StackOverflow – Q&A for coding

Flippa – buy and sell websites

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#2

Post by webbruce » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 10:16 PM UTC

http://nettuts.com The best dev tutorials

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#3

Post by veb » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

webbruce wrote: post #2

http://nettuts.com The best dev tutorials

This place is definitely nice.

One thing I've found with even very basic tutorials on something, is that if you read through it carefully, write each character of the code by yourself -- something will click, and it'll stick with you. Skimming never works.

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#4

Post by willyg » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 11:15 PM UTC

https://www.owasp.org to learn about web application security

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#5

Post by namank » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 11:30 PM UTC

http://Sparkfun.com for electronics - best tuts I've ever seen

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#6

Post by hansy » Sun, May 01, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

http://lifehacker.com "Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done."

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#7

Post by sharadgopal » Sun, May 01, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

If you enjoy TED talks, you might also like doLectures (http://www.dolectures.com). They aren't "life changing" per se, but some of the talks offer new and interesting perspective.

For example: http://www.dolectures.com/lectures/why-you-should-have-a-par...

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#8

Post by hackerblues » Sun, May 01, 2011, 2:24 AM UTC

sharadgopal wrote: post #7

If you enjoy TED talks, you might also like doLectures ( http://www.dolectures.com ). They aren't "life changing" per se, but some of the talks offer new and interesting perspective. For example: http://www.dolectures.com/lectures/why-you-should-have-a-par...

On the same theme of general interest talks by specialists, I'm quite a fan of the Long Now Foundation podcasts.

Re: Ask HN: What are some cool and useful hacker sites?

#9

Post by nametoremember » Mon, May 02, 2011, 9:24 AM UTC

hansy wrote: post #6

http://lifehacker.com "Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done."

I really dislike the redesign :(