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

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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.

Good tip, thanks

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

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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.

Some runner ups:

- Archive.org

- SciHub

- OpenStreetMaps

- Library Genesis

- TikTok (/s)

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

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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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)

He's taken to streaming on Twitch recently.

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

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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,…

I will agree, with an additional caveat that I particularly like the Simple English Wikipedia quite a lot (simple.wikipedia.org) if I need a quick understanding of a topic.

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

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> 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…

Oh, that website! Indeed tres cool.

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

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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

Sadly the filter options on kakaku are way inferior to Geizhals.

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

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https://dannyreviews.com/ (ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist) has a vast range of book reviews for the intellectually curious. All reviews by Danny Yee

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."

Funny, I feel the same way about your comment.

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

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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.

Shows English to me, I am in Germany

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

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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

Just a guess: maybe it is designed to serve English only to specific English-speaking regions such as the UK and USA, and defaults to German otherwise.
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