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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

kertoip_1 wrote: post #227

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,…

Agree, Wikipedia is excellent. Blogs are cool too though and I don't think my searches tend to land on them.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

sigg3 wrote: post #231
beebmam wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.

Runner up must be Archive.org. I donate to both projects regularly.

I donate to archive.org by scanning and uploading new content (old science instruction books, etc.).

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Post by tetris11 »

Kovah wrote: post #294

I 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.

This is lovely. It captures the exact feel of Stumbleupon used to for me, with a great selection of websites. I hope this becomes the norm for people and does not get monetized.

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Post by makecheck »

Barrin92 wrote: post #50

http://worrydream.com/ Bret Victor's visual / interactive explanations of certain ideas or papers. Two that I like in particular are his redesign of Strogatz's paper on small world networks and the 'ladder of abstraction' http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt... http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

Unfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen…

Seems like the viewport is fixed so zoom is disallowed. (Sites should never do this.)

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Post by thisisjasononhn »

PostOnce wrote: post #273
thisisjasononhn wrote: post #266

The Cutting Room Floor - Research on unused and cut video game content. Definitely one of my all time favorite sites to spend spare time on. https://tcrf.net Ken Fern's Plant databases https://theferns.info/ U2-3 - The Famous 1000 copies of U2's first ever release https://www.u2-3.com/ Dana Countryman's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art (may contain some albeit low quality NSFW artwork) http://www.danacountryman…

TCRF is fantastic. I consider it half of a duo, along with https://www.unseen64.net/

100% agree! Unseen64 unearths some seriously cool stuff. I think an even equal pairing to unseen64, and in the same vein TCRF, is https://hiddenpalace.org/

What Unseen64 and HiddenPalace find and preserve is seriously invaluable in this area of interest.

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Post by pigtailgirl »

jeanlucas wrote: post #157
pigtailgirl wrote: post #56

-- for as long as i can remember things i've like on the internet - always liked gnod: https://www.gnod.com/ --

Oh, first time seeing this, thanks!

-- it's super old - like - old old internet - it used to be called Global Network Of Dreams (much better name if you ask me) - I discovered it - I think over 15 years ago? - and still use it today --
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