[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
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Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
The definition of cool is, of course, at your discretion.
Author : lagrange77
Score : 49 points
Date : 2022-06-11 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
| UmbertoNoEco wrote:
| https://www.bas.ac.uk/
| mellosouls wrote:
| I see what you did there
| layer8 wrote:
| I would counter with https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/.
| iroddis wrote:
| https://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.
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Usually living in the tropics or at least near a coast, this
| website is invaluable to me to have an idea of what the weather
| is looking like. Local coverage is kind of lackluster in
| comparasion.
| don-code wrote:
| One of my engineering professors still has a Web 1.0 site, "best
| viewed in Netscape Communicator 4.0 or higher at 16 or 24-bit
| color". It's actively updated, but hasn't fundamentally changed
| since the late 90s - some pages still have the Netscape Composer
| generator tags in them. (For further frame of reference: I last
| had a reason to go to it over ten years ago now, but still bring
| it up as a talking piece.
|
| https://people.rit.edu/meseec/
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Those flares guarding the table layout image links.
| ada1981 wrote:
| http://MemeScope.com on desktop
| Aragorn2331 wrote:
| https://c82.net/ https://fabiensanglard.net/
| https://paulstamatiou.com/ https://www.arun.is/
| https://ciechanow.ski/ https://simone.computer/
| https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
| syx wrote:
| Thank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| I like your website too, you obviously put a lot of love into
| it.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| 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/
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Yes!
|
| http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath
| pkdpic wrote:
| simple, unassuming and straight to the point, no question
|
| http://y9k.xyz/
| jonwinstanley wrote:
| https://www.google.com
|
| Works pretty well, can answer almost any question :-)
| sigjuice wrote:
| Not lately. For me, google has been coming up with stuff that's
| not even remotely related to what I asked.
| de_nied wrote:
| This may help you. https://bit.ly/AllTheOperators
|
| I also recommend checking out Dan Russell's (lead researcher
| on the Google Search team) blog.
| https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
| Nextgrid wrote:
| https://zombo.com
| saleebmina wrote:
| https://philosopher.life
| paulgb wrote:
| This mechanical watch explanation:
| https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
| rjh29 wrote:
| That's insane.
| madvoid wrote:
| Everything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS
| explanation.
| D13Fd wrote:
| HTTPS://acoup.blog
|
| I know it's on HN a lot but I just love the application of his
| sphere of deep knowledge (military history) to pop culture.
| zer0-c00l wrote:
| ericfrazier wrote:
| The coolest sites are the ones that use the least personal data.
| Pollhub.xyz is the coolest in that sense. It's the funnest site
| on the internet. Endless polls and caption contests plus
| anonymous chat.
| social_quotient wrote:
| Fast loading, authentic community, consistent experience, smart
| fresh perspectives
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/news
| saaaaaam wrote:
| Seems like you've successfully death kissed it.
| silisili wrote:
| http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/
|
| Without a doubt, one of my favorite sites to go reading through.
| I find every article fascinating, and love that it's still got
| that retro look and hasn't changed in years.
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Really nice, thanks!
| pigtailgirl wrote:
| -- for as long as i can remember things i've like on the internet
| - always liked gnod: https://www.gnod.com/ --
| hsavit1 wrote:
| https://libgen.is/
| sqwrell wrote:
| reddit
| donohoe wrote:
| https://www.lofi.cafe/
| jvmx wrote:
| https://isaacarthur.net/
|
| If you like a science-based approach to futurism this guy is the
| absolute best. His channel on YouTube is amazing.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| Also available via podcasts. Great if you're an insomniac!
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| I had a roommate who would binge watch that guy's videos in his
| room and when he came out I'd make jokes like hey how's Elmer
| Fudd doing? Roomate didn't like that (honestly I just thought
| they were more of his goofy ufo vids at the time) but he does
| have a pretty damn good channel regardless of rhotacism. I also
| like Anton Petrov on YouTube whose angle is more about recent
| developments in astrophysics:
| https://m.youtube.com/user/whatdamath
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| > 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.com" (but in another language) and
| there are just two lines of text saying: Lost on
| the Internet? Don't worry, we're going to help you * <---
| You are here
|
| I don't know who created it but that's my definition of cool!
| version_five wrote:
| Anyone remember hell.com from the late 90s. I'm not sure I really
| understood what it was, some kind of email provider I think, but
| it has a really mysterious and exclusive feel, it seemed cool.
|
| I just checked it and now it's some religious thing
| sph wrote:
| http://100r.co/
| unfunco wrote:
| Yamauchi No.10 Family Office: https://y-n10.com
| tagami wrote:
| https://radio.garden
| iower wrote:
| https://www.gutenberg.org/
| Yizahi wrote:
| https://www.gwern.net/index
|
| No, I'm not trolling. This is one of the coolest websites I've
| ever seen, despite it being a personal blog and having no fancy
| animations. ps: the coolest "site", not the coolest content of
| the site. While it is very good too in this case.
| tiffanyh wrote:
| https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
|
| Hasn't changed in 26 years.
| toricalea wrote:
| https://celody.com
|
| A music network state (if you are into new forms of music).
| sgregnt wrote:
| facebook.com Check out what my folks are up to, check news and
| read some other random things for entertainment.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| https://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/
| perfect_kiss wrote:
| https://yyyyyyy.info/
| jiripospisil wrote:
| https://pointerpointer.com/
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Yeah, classic! :)
| gwill wrote:
| http://symbology.lhohq.info/
|
| i actually found out about this site after finding a very cryptic
| pamphlet at a bar. the site has hundreds of pages.
| zettelkasten wrote:
| world of randal and his friends, https://ranfren.neocities.org/
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| https://arngren.net/
|
| I like how insane this Norwegian mail order website is.
| mattkevan wrote:
| Arngren is amazing. When I was UX lead at a big e-commerce
| retailer I spent a lot of time looking at that site.
|
| You might also enjoy Yvette's Bridal Formal. It's the good,
| old, weird, outsider art web that you just don't get now.
| Didn't really get it then either but this is something special.
|
| https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/links.html
| jamal-kumar wrote:
| Hah that's insanity! Definitely within the same perigee as
| arngren.net
| kanonieer wrote:
| Ling's Cars
|
| https://www.lingscars.com/
| mattkevan wrote:
| http://www.realultimatepower.net/
| aidenn0 wrote:
| The Best Page In The Universe is pretty cool:
| http://maddox.xmission.com/
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