Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

231–240 of 388 posts

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

#231

Post by sigg3 »

beebmam wrote: post #230
kertoip_1 wrote: post #227

Obviously wikipedia.org. Nothing better has been invented in 20-some years. I honestly feel relief when I research some topic and it has Wikipedia page on it, so I don't need to dig through some sh**y blogposts Edit: I mean: it's one of the very few websites that actually provides sources of information. It's insane it's that rare these days. And most important facts are just placed in visible and easy to spot place,…

Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.

Runner up must be Archive.org. I donate to both projects regularly.

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

#232

Post by [deleted] »

ravenstine wrote: post #144
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.

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.

[deleted]

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

#233

Post by Terry_Roll »

genezeta wrote: post #220
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.

Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)

https://geizhals.eu/ is in English and if you then click on the EU flag (top left ) select the Union flag it takes you to skinflint.co.uk.

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

#234

Post by underdeserver »

noahchen wrote: post #207
ricklamers wrote: post #189

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?

This looks very similar to Google's internal code search.

I imagine it's built on the same infrastructure.

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

#235

Post by anon9001 »

m10k wrote: post #163

A long time ago, I attempted to reverse-engineer the protocol of a game because I wanted to host a dedicated server on a Linux box, but the developers only provided a (bug-infested) Windows version. That's how I found this treasure trove of game-related PoCs and reverse-engineering knowledge. https://aluigi.org

I can't believe I've never come across this before.

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

#237

Post by mbo »

b0ner_t0ner wrote: post #212
braunshedd wrote: post #208

https://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.

I mean it is generated from Spotify's genre classification system by a Spotify engineer - can you fault them for that?

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

#238

Post by RealStickman_ »

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.

I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane.

Here are some filters I find interesting to use.

You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic...

Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3

For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation times for most primary ram timings: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual

Sadly I don't buy through them very often, as they only show stores for Germany, Austria, Poland and the UK.

Post reply on HN