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

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Post by ghusbands »

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).

Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.

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

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Post by zikduruqe »

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…

> What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out.

https://www.rockauto.com is like also.

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

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Post by PostOnce »

thisisjasononhn wrote: post #266

The Cutting Room Floor - Research on unused and cut video game content. Definitely one of my all time favorite sites to spend spare time on. https://tcrf.net Ken Fern's Plant databases https://theferns.info/ U2-3 - The Famous 1000 copies of U2's first ever release https://www.u2-3.com/ Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art (may contain some albeit low quality NSFW artwork) http://www.danacountryman…

TCRF is fantastic. I consider it half of a duo, along with https://www.unseen64.net/

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

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Post by kzrdude »

Terry_Roll wrote: post #233
genezeta wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.

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

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Post by kzrdude »

DustinBrett wrote: post #205

I'm bias of course but it's a goal of mine to have the best "misc" website one day... It can do a lot. https://dustinbrett.com/

It's super cool! I saw it in the other thread yesterday. I can't figure out how to resize the linux terminal, was one of the things I noticed.

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

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Post by js8 »

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

Really good LCD you have there, no ghosting..

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

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Post by aembleton »

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.

I think Open Street Map comes close.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

aembleton wrote: post #278
beebmam wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think Open Street Map comes close.

Kinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

kzrdude wrote: post #274
Terry_Roll wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

geizhals.eu is in fact not in english (I never visited it before and it shows in German by default). I can't immediately find a language selector. I don't have german in my preferred languages browser setting.

It’s English for me (connecting from Japan), English in settings.
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