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

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Post by UmbertoNoEco »

I submitted a site as a joke and now I feel bad because there are a lots of interesting sites submitted.

So let me contribute with 2 other sites, maybe not the "coolest" but I think they will be of interest to some fraction of the people here (for those who dont know them)

- http://www.astronautix.com/ A labor of love of just 1 person, almost of 80000 pages! on humanity space programs,you can spend hours and hours reading about obscure soviet prototypes, NASA suits, the Chinese space probes, etc

- https://www.centauri-dreams.org/ A very active (and long) blog about interstellar travel. Despite the fact the subject is now more fiction than science the articles discussed and reviewed are about actual science done by actual scientists (many good guest posts too)

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

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Post by kzrdude »

jfk13 wrote: post #296
kzrdude wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Firefox, Sweden, always serving German. Not a problem, just curious

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

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Post by bberrry »

invalidusernam3 wrote: post #251

The Red Blob Games website: "I make interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms, using motivating examples from computer games" The interactive elements help so much in explaining complex ideas. An example post that is incredible is: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

This was the first page that popped into my head as well.

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

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Post by cyberge99 »

kazinator wrote: post #145
ravenstine wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a similar vein, I enjoy looking through ULine's website: https://www.uline.com/ Everything looks satisfyingly clean and useful. I almost never buy anything from them, but sometimes I end up the site and go down a rabbit hole.

They still have paper catalogs, I think; you should get that.

This is also an easy way to get your local postman to hate you. Last I recall, the catalog was almost equivalent to two phonebooks in size.
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