Ling's Cars https://www.lingscars.com/
now THIS is good website design :D
Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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#322-- for as long as i can remember things i've like on the internet - always liked gnod: https://www.gnod.com/ --
Thank you for sharing! I used their music and art AIs with great success for new suggestions! :)
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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?
"Genres" — a touchy subject for me.
Surely there's a better way to find new music. I'm still looking — serendipity is about the only means I have found.
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#324I don't remember the name, but there was a VERY cool futuristically-looking (like Unreal II UI) flash-based site that contained HQ wallpapers (before HD displays became a thing). I still regret not saving it! :_( Yeah, I love flash and think it was a golden era and possible better future killed by Adobe.
So, how about https://www.99rooms.com/ ? Great art.
I also liked joke sites like getyourasstomars.com or typicalmacintoshuser.com :D
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#325https://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.
No azimuthal equidistant projections :((((( (best for navigation)
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#326The 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"
My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.
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#327Earlier 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.
I'm visiting (first time) from the Americas and I am getting the English version
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#328http://websdr.org/ You can listen to various amateur radio bands around the world.
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Maddox lost
I’m confused. Did the ‘Rona get him? Or are you referring to a lawsuit?
He lost the lawsuit, but he hasn't posted anything on his site or twitter since early 2021.
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Since about 1998, whenever I need a rickroll-style URL placeholder for whatever reason, I use zombocom. This is my favorite website ever, because, quite simply, you can do anything at Zombocom. For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't re…
>For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't really been online yet. wasn't it more of a parody of those long and elaborate flash intros that websites used to have?
Definitely, but it also addressed something I'm trying to tease-out here.
For people who had never really used computers, and had not been online, the buzz about how the Information Superhighway was going to change everyone's life was enigmatic at best.
This led to all manner of fantasy, and a yearning to make the connection and discover what was going to happen - to be a part of it, to converge - with, or without, a good technical understanding. There's something of this irony in Zombocom.
There's a great 80's Neue Deuetsche Welle song by Paso Doble with which I am practically obsessed, which captures some of the very weird fantastical dream-con-fusion of human and machine, love and logic, flesh and silicon. For the non-tech artists, it was (is?) a rich place to play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5Pyg_pSYw&list=PLHgJlrCztl... "The modules are going crazy -- Man, I'm totally in love"