Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know? • Hacker News Board

mattkevan wrote: post #27

jamal-kumar wrote: post #20

https://arngren.net/ I like how insane this Norwegian mail order website is.

Arngren is amazing. When I was UX lead at a big e-commerce retailer I spent a lot of time looking at that site. You might also enjoy Yvette’s Bridal Formal. It’s the good, old, weird, outsider art web that you just don’t get now. Didn’t really get it then either but this is something special. https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/links.html

Hah that's insanity! Definitely within the same perigee as arngren.net

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by iroddis » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 10:43 PM UTC

https://earth.nullschool.net/

By far and away my favourite site of all time.

It’s a beautiful example of representing complex data in a manner that’s easy to digest, viscerally understand, even.

It’s also the first time I heard of the Misery Index, which was fun to learn about.

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by ada1981 » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

http://MemeScope.com on desktop

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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Post by Barrin92 » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 10:44 PM UTC

http://worrydream.com/

Bret Victor's visual / interactive explanations of certain ideas or papers.

Two that I like in particular are his redesign of Strogatz's paper on small world networks and the 'ladder of abstraction'

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/