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Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#292The 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.
Small nitpick, geizhals is actually Austrian (although it operates in a number of markets, each with their own domain, like geizhals.de).
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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#293The coolest website I've seen lately is http://howacarworks.com. It's a video course in which an experienced mechanic breaks down a car into all its constituent parts then puts everything back together piece by piece, explaining in detail how everything works and fits together.
I knew nothing about mechanics before starting this series and I'm very impressed by how informative and professionally made the content is. Well worth the price tag (currently discounted as it's still in prerelease, but lots of videos have already been published.)
(Note: I have no affiliation with the creator of this course and have nothing to gain by promoting him; I'm just a happy customer.)
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#294I know it's a shameless plug, but if you are searching for cool websites I got you covered: spent 2 years building https://Cloudhiker.net, a StumbleUpon alternative.
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#295https://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…
We buy a ton from there. The price is a little high but not enough to matter unless its a significant part of your expenses. They save me money on balance by being fast and convenient.
I'm a huge fan of their website.
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#296Earlier 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.
Interesting; maybe it's doing geolocation based on your IP address? It comes up in English for me (connecting from the UK).
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#297One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring it up as a talking piece. https://p…
"WHAT YEAR IS THIS!?"
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#298> 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…
A bit like http://tired.com/
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#299The coolest website I've seen lately is http://howacarworks.com . It's a video course in which an experienced mechanic breaks down a car into all its constituent parts then puts everything back together piece by piece, explaining in detail how everything works and fits together. I knew nothing about mechanics before starting this series and I'm very impressed by how informative and professionally made the content is.…
I chekced some previews, god that is cool as hell!
Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
#300The 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"
First time to see something like that oh god.