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

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Post by srvmshr »

usrn wrote: post #124
Agamus wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since about 1998, whenever I need a rickroll-style URL placeholder for whatever reason, I use zombocom. This is my favorite website ever, because, quite simply, you can do anything at Zombocom. For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't re…

Looking back I think the optimism for the internet in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly as inaccurate as everyone says it was. There was certainly a lot of nonsense but I think most of what people thought would happen did end up happening, it just took decades instead of a few years.

Wise words. As someone working in ML, I feel this holds equally true for AI

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

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Post by ipaddr »

usrn wrote: post #124
Agamus wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since about 1998, whenever I need a rickroll-style URL placeholder for whatever reason, I use zombocom. This is my favorite website ever, because, quite simply, you can do anything at Zombocom. For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't re…

Looking back I think the optimism for the internet in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly as inaccurate as everyone says it was. There was certainly a lot of nonsense but I think most of what people thought would happen did end up happening, it just took decades instead of a few years.

What we got wrong was if you build something awesome people will find you. It was true but it is not anymore.

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

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Post by winternett »

A wild assortment of ~400 mostly visual music videos from youtube that I curate is here:

http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS

I even use it a lot on my own, I really enjoy the music I find.

I post updates to my twitter account usually as well @djwinterman

The list has many different genres and moods to it.

(Refreshing the list will load random videos)

I'm thinking of making it a carousel page of some sort soon.

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

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Post by floren »

don-code wrote: post #22

One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece. https://p…

Dr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there...

Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.

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

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Post by jamal-kumar »

johnwalkr wrote: post #99
social_quotient wrote: post #28

Fast loading, authentic community, consistent experience, smart fresh perspectives https://news.ycombinator.com/news

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.

Ever get people telling you to RTFA?

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

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Post by cookiengineer »

The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one.

https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things.

Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy.

For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb

I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.

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

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Post by kqr »

https://apolloinrealtime.org

Lets you listen to the full audio of three Apollo missions. Not only the official mix, but also behind the scenes stuff, like flight dynamics officer, computer supervisor, etc.

Not only is it interesting to hear what engineers on a mission sounded like in that somewhat early NASA environment, but it's also a pleasant background track.

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

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Post by Tepix »

cookiengineer wrote: post #177

The coolest website I'm using is a very practical one. https://geizhals.de is a German search website that allows you to very narrowly specify all kinds of things. Searching for a mainboard with minimum 4x SATA ports and 64GB RAM support in mini ITX format? Easy peasy. For example, take a look at the laptop category and its filters: https://geizhals.de/?cat=nb I wish every e-commerce website was built like this.

Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond.

My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).

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