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Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#142https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com Wholesome, fascinating insight into the inner thoughts of some people, and shows us how tenuous the human connections we make on the internet can feel sometimes.. how lonely some of us can be.
thiswebsitewillselfdestruct is honestly one of the only places on the internet that allows anonymous writing that has a majority wholesome and meaningful content.
You don't go to that website looking for internet updoots, you go to that website because you have something to say, but no one to say it to.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#143https://linkians.com/ I've spend hours playing around with different possible scenarios here.
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#144https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast . I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
In a similar vein, I enjoy looking through ULine's website:
Everything looks satisfyingly clean and useful. I almost never buy anything from them, but sometimes I end up the site and go down a rabbit hole.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#145https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast . I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
In a similar vein, I enjoy looking through ULine's website: https://www.uline.com/ Everything looks satisfyingly clean and useful. I almost never buy anything from them, but sometimes I end up the site and go down a rabbit hole.
They still have paper catalogs, I think; you should get that.
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#147Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#148www.readsomethinginteresting.com, place to find new things to read
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve mentioned a couple of times on here before: I downgraded my data plan during Covid, and haven’t bothered to increase it yet. Oh my plan, it goes to 100kbps once I run out of data. Once that happens I mostly just read hackernews comments. It works perfectly. Google search also works ok, google maps works with patience, and virtually nothing else will even load.
I spent a few months with extremely slow (single digit KB/s) internet. As you say HN is basically the only usable site. Even HN loaded very slowly though, so I would read it through w3m (text mode web browser) over Mosh (more efficient than SSH). -- Worth mentioning that many sites will be difficult or unusable in a text mode browser, so I recommend Browsh which renders them (in Firefox?) and then converts the image…
Unlike the old days, though, you have to actively not download data, as opposed to not actively download data. For example, make sure synching to the cloud is off (moving a folder, especially if you’re not always connected can easily be an accidental replias of 10GB), making sure an OS update won’t be downloaded (easy on windows but not easy on MacOS except in the case of iPhone tethering), and be careful about browsing (Reddit or news sites can easily use hundreds of MB in a few minutes).
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#150This mechanical watch explanation: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
This is fantastic