Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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#212https://everynoise.com Search for your favorite bands using the bar at the top right corner. Find the associated playlist on Spotify via "The Sound Of X" where X is the genre name. If you have (or would like to have) diverse musical tastes this is the best way to do it!
Way too dependent on Spotify.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated
which one is it?
It's https://simone.computer, going by syx's HN profile.
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#214> 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…
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#216http://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/
Learnable Programming is another really good one:
http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
One of the most inspiring pieces I've ever read.
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#217https://www.gwern.net/index No, I'm not trolling. This is one of the coolest websites I've ever seen, despite it being a personal blog and having no fancy animations. ps: the coolest "site", not the coolest content of the site. While it is very good too in this case.
My favorite one-man Wikipedia.
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#218If the Moon Were Only One Pixel [1] is my go-to data visualization to share with people who haven't thought about the scale of the solar system that much.
[1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....
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#219https://zombo.com
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…
>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 really been online yet.
wasn't it more of a parody of those long and elaborate flash intros that websites used to have?
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#220The 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.
Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)