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

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Post by vbrandl »

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 also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"

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

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Post by jatinkrmalik »

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,…

Thanks for the reminder, just donated my bit to Wikipedia! :)

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

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Post by al_borland »

postalrat wrote: post #160
tiffanyh wrote: post #38

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ Hasn’t changed in 26 years.

It did change. The page is https://www.spacejam.com

But they still respected that this site is internet history. They kept the ‘96 site around l, and if you go to the new site…

https://www.spacejam.com/2021/

This is just amazing.

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Post by fullstackchris »

tracyhenry wrote: post #161
chrisweekly wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the spirit of clarification / correction (vs pedantry), SPA is a client-side web architecture pattern, whereas Next.js is a web framework best known for its support for rendering outside the browser (SSR and SSG).

Thanks. Terminology aside, what I referred to was exactly Next.js's pre-rendering (SSR & SSG) and prefetching. I feel like without them it'll be harder to achieve OP's interactivity with just React/Vue.

React / Vue is also irrelevant here however. It all depends how your actual prod code is built in the end. (For example you can use React with Next.js and still do all the SSR SSG stuff) In this case you're writing React for your server side rendered pages as opposed to the 'traditional' pattern of an SPA where everything happens in the client.

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Post by jacksonkmarley »

paulgb wrote: post #26

This mechanical watch explanation: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

So this is clearly amazing, but on the topic of page design for my future reference, can any frontend people tell me whether there is an effective way to avoid the 'i want to scroll but interacted with the graphic' effect?

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Post by ricardo81 »

syx wrote: post #37
Aragorn2331 wrote: post #23

https://c82.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/ https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://www.arun.is/ https://ciechanow.ski/ https://simone.computer/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Thank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated

How much for exclusive access to the light bulb? :) Great site.
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