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

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Post by wincy »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #57

> The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion. OK I'll bite... There's a very cool five letters dot com which exists since forever (I just checked on the Internet Wayback Machine and it has a copy of the site in 1998!). I'll say what it is but I'd rather not link it directly as I wouldn't want HN to kill it (and its owner deciding to pull the plug, you never know you know). It's basically called "lost.co…

Hahah I got it on my first try. Now it’s fun because I feel like I’m in on a little secret. I’ll keep it a secret, too though ;)

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

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Post by nixass »

2advanced V5 Attractor

https://youtu.be/pbn9X1MUZdQ

https://www.behance.net/gallery/19738001/2Advanced-V5-Websit...

This was more of a demo page, the original website is long down unfortunately.. Back in the day I'd get excited every time I'd load it! This site is all about esthetic and nothing about the content. I'd say many people decided to become web designers just because of this particular work.

It was hurting my slow DSL back then..

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

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Post by Tepix »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #57

> The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion. OK I'll bite... There's a very cool five letters dot com which exists since forever (I just checked on the Internet Wayback Machine and it has a copy of the site in 1998!). I'll say what it is but I'd rather not link it directly as I wouldn't want HN to kill it (and its owner deciding to pull the plug, you never know you know). It's basically called "lost.co…

A site that's bern online since before 1998 will get shutdown like that? Seems unlikely.

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

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Post by cookiengineer »

Tepix wrote: post #180
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).

I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for.

Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.

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

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Post by jawmes8 »

knighthack wrote: post #135
yeputons wrote: post #72

https://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.

Is it just me, or did they custom/hand-draw all the illustrations for the hardware being sold? And man, the UI is brilliant. Straight and to the point - just enough complexity to handle what they're selling, without the clunkiness of Amazon's UI.

Yep and the downloadable 3D files are especially helpful when designing with those parts in mind!

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

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Post by TMWNN »

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.

https://lite.cnn.com/ and https://text.npr.org/ also should work.

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

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Post by rolha-capoeira »

iroddis wrote: post #48

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.

What's going on w/ CO2 off the coast of NJ, algae bloom or something?

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

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Post by ricklamers »

The Chromium source code browser: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

It’s super fast with their jump to reference/declaration. Still curious what’s actually driving it. Looks like some sort of lightweight git/VCS browsing app. Does anyone here know more about it?

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

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Post by neilpanchal »

redanddead wrote: post #81
yeputons wrote: post #72

https://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.

What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out. I've seen people shopping for hardware on reddit say that the navigation is clunky and confusing, and IIRC they said the products are price-gouged? I'd be curious to know what other users here with an eye for design think of it, and if they know of similar websites, as I've been working on a hardware e-commerce store (mainly for my own us…

As a ME, I used to manage a lab in a large corporation. McMasterCarr is ingrained in the US engineering culture. Every lab has a 5 inch thick yellow catalog.

Also Thorlabs. Everytime I'd open their shipment, it'd include Lab Snacks™. I wrote about it here [1]. Both are awesome companies to deal with.

[1] https://neil.computer/notes/thorlabs-lab-snacks/

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