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Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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#362https://v1.windows93.net is pretty cool. It's an OS packed with cool programs ranging from synthesizers to fangames in your browser!
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#363Obviously 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,…
On a similar vein, TV Tropes. It's still mind-blowing to me having every form of creativity throughout history categorized into patterns.
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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
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#365The 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.
Would love to see a USA version of this.
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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.
I am getting german, on the eu version, from France, with an english default browser setting...
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Mech engineer here. We truly buy everything we can for our company from here. If you order by 6pm and select ground shipping, it comes the next day by 11am, and we’re in Boston where the closest warehouses are NJ and Chicago. Also they have the best return policy. If you don’t like it, send it back and they will reimburse you without asking a single question. Lastly, part of the no-BS aspect is that no brands are giv…
> Also they have the best return policy. If you don’t like it, send it back and they will reimburse you without asking a single question. Sometimes I forget how good we have it in Europe. In the EU we have a pretty close to universal [0] 14 day no questions asked return period for all online purchases. You occasionally get a crappy retailer who tries to push back but one link to this document stops that pretty quickl…
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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.
With all the other high praise, it's strange that they have a dual language website with no way to toggle the language explicitly.
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#370The 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.…
Didn't expect to spend $25 this morning but here we are (thanks!)