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

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Post by maccard »

qkucy wrote: post #92
redanddead wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Mech engineer here. We truly buy everything we can for our company from here. If you order by 6pm and select ground shipping, it comes the next day by 11am, and we’re in Boston where the closest warehouses are NJ and Chicago. Also they have the best return policy. If you don’t like it, send it back and they will reimburse you without asking a single question. Lastly, part of the no-BS aspect is that no brands are giv…

> Also they have the best return policy. If you don’t like it, send it back and they will reimburse you without asking a single question.

Sometimes I forget how good we have it in Europe. In the EU we have a pretty close to universal [0] 14 day no questions asked return period for all online purchases. You occasionally get a crappy retailer who tries to push back but one link to this document stops that pretty quickly.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/c...

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Post by easrng »

culi wrote: post #94
tracyhenry wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like something achievable with SPA frameworks such as next.js

Might also be using the native Context Index API.[0] That's usually used to allow sites to be downloaded and browsed offline. I think that's how SVGOMG does it too [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Content_Ind...

The Content Index API only tells the browser that a page is available offline, you still have to cache it with a serviceworker.

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

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Post by vagrantJin »

stevage wrote: post #191
aerovistae wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something about the phrase "ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist" smacks of egotism to me, I dunno why but it just seems a turn-off. It feels like saying "I'm just deeply interesting, I can't help it, it's just who I am."

I hear it the opposite. Like an admission that they failed to focus on anything in particular and than their reviews may be pretty useless for that reason.

Interesting.

Would you say we all need to be single minded specialists/experts?

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

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Post by kalleboo »

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 https://kakaku.com in Japan for the same thing, it's great. When I lived in Sweden, https://prisjakt.nu served the same purpose well

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

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Post by aembleton »

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.

Looks a bit like https://www.windy.com/

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

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Post by easrng »

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.

Try browsh in mosh like others have mentioned, but also Opera Mini. Download Microemulator from https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads..., and use curl or wget (not a browser) to download http://m.opera.com/mini.jad . Next run microemulator, set the device to "resizable", and open the mini.jad file (the menu item is "Load MIDlet from file" or something similar) you downloaded. Opera Mini works pretty well on bad connections, though every so often it shows an interstitial ad for an Opera site. Also, don't use it for logging in to things, it proxies all pages through its servers so it would be able to see your passwords. The Android version is bad, don't use it.

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

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Post by dotancohen »

madvoid wrote: post #44
paulgb wrote: post #26

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

Everything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS explanation.

His floating point representation is so good that middle schoolers can understand it:

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

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

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Post by [deleted] »

RealStickman_ wrote: post #238
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…

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