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

For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't really been online yet.

usrn2• 4 years ago

Looking back I think the optimism for the internet in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't nearly as inaccurate as everyone says it was. There was certainly a lot of nonsense but I think most of what people thought would happen did end up happening, it just took decades instead of a few years.

asddubs• 4 years ago

For those who don't get it, in the late 90's there was a distinct sense that internet websites might just solve all of the world's problems, and we just hadn't imagined yet how it was going to happen, and most people hadn't really been online yet.

wasn't it more of a parody of those long and elaborate flash intros that websites used to have?

bound008• 4 years ago

To experience the browser in a modern browser check out: https://html5zombo.com/

silisili• 4 years ago

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.

lagrange776• 4 years ago

Really nice, thanks!

hsavit1• 4 years ago

https://libgen.is/

agumonkey3• 4 years ago

sister libgen.fun too

jvmx• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

Also available via podcasts. Great if you’re an insomniac!

jamal-kumar6• 4 years ago

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

unfunco• 4 years ago

Yamauchi No.10 Family Office: https://y-n10.com

iower• 4 years ago

https://www.gutenberg.org/

toricalea• 4 years ago

https://celody.com

A music network state (if you are into new forms of music).

sgregnt• 4 years ago

facebook.com Check out what my folks are up to, check news and read some other random things for entertainment.

meotimdihia• 4 years ago

yes, Facebook is better than 99% of websites in this thread. Everyone is just bias.

jamal-kumar6• 4 years ago

https://arngren.net/

I like how insane this Norwegian mail order website is.

mattkevan2• 4 years ago

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-kumar6• 4 years ago

Hah that's insanity! Definitely within the same perigee as arngren.net

xbenjii• 4 years ago

Reminds me of https://www.lingscars.com/

thisisjasononhn5• 4 years ago

Really not sure how to describe it but I love the layout of this. It fully reminds of me old print mail-order catalogues which always had all sorts of zany products. Although here, things for sale all seem quite practical to the right person :)

mattkevan2• 4 years ago

http://www.realultimatepower.net/

don-code• 4 years ago

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/

lagrange776• 4 years ago

Those flares guarding the table layout image links.

krmboya• 4 years ago

It's like how the web was originally meant to be used. Your own little corner of self expression and memories

floren• 4 years ago

Dr Shaaban was my advisor for my MS, a little over 10 years ago! We probably overlapped there...

Lots of great sites among the RIT profs.

pottertheotter2• 4 years ago

This made me nostalgic. There was something special about those days. Also, I haven’t seen the HTML Writers Guild logo for a long time.

jiggawatts• 4 years ago

"WHAT YEAR IS THIS!?"

Aragorn23315• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

Thank you for putting me on this list, I really appreciated

jamal-kumar6• 4 years ago

I like your website too, you obviously put a lot of love into it.

lexx• 4 years ago

i really love your website

hackernewds• 4 years ago

which one is it?

ricardo81• 4 years ago

How much for exclusive access to the light bulb? :) Great site.

Aragorn23315• 4 years ago

Your website is so cool :-)

js8• 4 years ago

Really good LCD you have there, no ghosting..

zhenpixels• 4 years ago

Thanks for including arun.is!

Aragorn23315• 4 years ago

Your website is amazing :-)

em-bee2• 4 years ago

a one line description of each of these would be nice

em-bee2• 4 years ago

https://c82.net/ a designers website with impressive visualizations and artwork

https://fabiensanglard.net/ a personal website with interesting side projects and lots of technical details

https://paulstamatiou.com/ photography, technology and design with in-depth articles and detailed travel photosets

https://www.arun.is/ a visually-rich blog that dives deep into how design and technology shape our lives

https://ciechanow.ski/ detailed explanations and illustrations of technology

https://simone.computer/ a personal website designed like an old computer

https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

Aragorn23315• 4 years ago

Thank you for all the description, you rock !

pkdpic• 4 years ago

simple, unassuming and straight to the point, no question

http://y9k.xyz/

jeanlucas2• 4 years ago

The audio did not play automatically.

saleebmina• 4 years ago

https://philosopher.life

paulgb• 4 years ago

This mechanical watch explanation: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

rjh29• 4 years ago

That's insane.

madvoid• 4 years ago

Everything he makes is great, I'd also highly recommend the GPS explanation.

8n4vidtmkvmk• 4 years ago

if it's the one I'm thinking of.. i spent like 4 hours reading that and still didn't finish, but every bit was amazing

adamddev1• 4 years ago

Wow. This guy makes amazing stuff. That's what I call beautifully harnessing the power of web technologies to explain things.

dotancohen• 4 years ago

His floating point representation is so good that middle schoolers can understand it:

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/

hassancf• 4 years ago

Just beautiful

redanddead3• 4 years ago

a passion project for sure

Mochsner• 4 years ago

This is fantastic

brimstedt• 4 years ago

Truly fantastic and well made!

At the end, concludes with:

Mechanical watches are not as accurate as digital ones. They require maintenance and are more fragile. Despite all these drawbacks, these devices show a true mastery of engineering. With creative use of miniature gears, levers, and springs, a mechanical watch rises from its dormant components to become truly alive.

And to an extent, I can agree that figuring out and building such a tiny mechanic is truly genius. But so is figuring out the digital electronics devices, even if they seem much less sexy.

What we should really be thankful for are those geniuses who figured out all those technologies and put their powers in the hand of the mere mortals.

I don't need to be able to understand the inners of the computer, but can still make use of its power to the benefit of others.

jacksonkmarley• 4 years ago

So this is clearly amazing, but on the topic of page design for my future reference, can any frontend people tell me whether there is an effective way to avoid the 'i want to scroll but interacted with the graphic' effect?

chrismorgan• 4 years ago

And many of the other pages on the same site.

social_quotient• 4 years ago

Fast loading, authentic community, consistent experience, smart fresh perspectives

https://news.ycombinator.com/news

saaaaaam• 4 years ago

Seems like you’ve successfully death kissed it.

johnwalkr2• 4 years ago

I’ve mentioned a couple of times on here before: I downgraded my data plan during Covid, and haven’t bothered to increase it yet. Oh my plan, it goes to 100kbps once I run out of data. Once that happens I mostly just read hackernews comments. It works perfectly. Google search also works ok, google maps works with patience, and virtually nothing else will even load.

andai• 4 years ago

I spent a few months with extremely slow (single digit KB/s) internet. As you say HN is basically the only usable site. Even HN loaded very slowly though, so I would read it through w3m (text mode web browser) over Mosh (more efficient than SSH).

-- Worth mentioning that many sites will be difficult or unusable in a text mode browser, so I recommend Browsh which renders them (in Firefox?) and then converts the image to colorful, pixelated terminal art—it supports mouse and everything! (The word "recommend" is a bit strong here, but if your internet is bad enough and you need to get something done, it may be the only way to do it.)

I had to actually plan my media downloads ahead—I'd collect a list of podcasts / lectures to download and then fetch them all when I had access to decent wifi. Eventually I made an elaborate series of bash scripts with a php frontend to extract audio from youtube lectures and convert it to Opus, to save money on my fast but expensive mobile data.

I even set up my own internet radio station, an Opus proxy for Lofi Beats to Relax and Study... as they say, necessity is the mother of invention... or at least the mother of reading a bunch of icecast manpages... Wouldn't want to repeat the experience, but it was very educational!

Right now I'm on a metered connection (5GB/day), so I set my Steam download speed low enough to spread a 12GB download over 3 days... brings me back to the old days hahah.

pabs32• 4 years ago

A lot of other stuff will load if you turn off CSS, JavaScript, images, video etc. uBlock Origin or uMatrix can be configured to do this.

jamal-kumar6• 4 years ago

Ever get people telling you to RTFA?

TMWNN• 4 years ago

https://lite.cnn.com/ and https://text.npr.org/ also should work.

easrng2• 4 years ago

Try browsh in mosh like others have mentioned, but also Opera Mini. Download Microemulator from https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads..., and use curl or wget (not a browser) to download http://m.opera.com/mini.jad . Next run microemulator, set the device to "resizable", and open the mini.jad file (the menu item is "Load MIDlet from file" or something similar) you downloaded. Opera Mini works pretty well on bad connections, though every so often it shows an interstitial ad for an Opera site. Also, don't use it for logging in to things, it proxies all pages through its servers so it would be able to see your passwords. The Android version is bad, don't use it.

sqwrell• 4 years ago

donohoe• 4 years ago

https://www.lofi.cafe/

tagami• 4 years ago

https://radio.garden

to-too-two2• 4 years ago

Awesome.

Yizahi• 4 years ago

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.

joncrane• 4 years ago

I just learned the term insight porn, thank you.

dkh2• 4 years ago

My favorite one-man Wikipedia.

yourapostasy• 4 years ago

He's also an active HN participant [1]. Definitely high quality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern

tiffanyh• 4 years ago

https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

Hasn’t changed in 26 years.

fuzzythinker• 4 years ago

new one: https://www.spacejam2.com/ /s

postalrat• 4 years ago

It did change. The page is https://www.spacejam.com

al_borland• 4 years ago

But they still respected that this site is internet history. They kept the ‘96 site around l, and if you go to the new site…

https://www.spacejam.com/2021/

This is just amazing.

kilroy123• 4 years ago

https://www.thebestpictureontheinternet.com/

perfect_kiss• 4 years ago

https://yyyyyyy.info/

aembleton5• 4 years ago

Amazing - that makes https://www.lingscars.com/ look organised

gwill• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

world of randal and his friends, https://ranfren.neocities.org/

kanonieer• 4 years ago

Ling's Cars

https://www.lingscars.com/

keithnz• 4 years ago

lol, that's great. Interesting reading the "About" section on Ling

gadders• 4 years ago

She's sold the business to her employees now and is on a sabbatical travelling around the world in a Unimog based RV. You can follow her progress on Facebook.

agumonkey3• 4 years ago

love it, dearly

thisisjasononhn5• 4 years ago

now THIS is good website design :D

aidenn0• 4 years ago

The Best Page In The Universe is pretty cool: http://maddox.xmission.com/

0des3• 4 years ago

Maddox lost

noduerme2• 4 years ago

Thankfully I never heard of Maddox until this moment, and I can now safely forget he ever existed.

coreyisthename• 4 years ago

I’m confused. Did the ‘Rona get him? Or are you referring to a lawsuit?

SantalBlush• 4 years ago

I still love The Best Page In The Universe. His opinionated, rude articles about low-stakes topics are really cathartic to read.

iroddis• 4 years ago

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-kumar6• 4 years ago

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.

RachelF• 4 years ago

Thanks for that!

rolha-capoeira• 4 years ago

What's going on w/ CO2 off the coast of NJ, algae bloom or something?

aembleton5• 4 years ago

Looks a bit like https://www.windy.com/

IYasha2• 4 years ago

No azimuthal equidistant projections :((((( (best for navigation)

ada1981• 4 years ago

http://MemeScope.com on desktop

Barrin92• 4 years ago

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/

lagrange776• 4 years ago

Yes!

http://worrydream.com/#!/KillMath

cloogshicer• 4 years ago

Learnable Programming is another really good one:

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

One of the most inspiring pieces I've ever read.

makecheck• 4 years ago

Unfortunately impossible to read on my mini screen…

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

D13Fd• 4 years ago

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.

ericfrazier2• 4 years ago

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.

ericfrazier2• 4 years ago

Whenever I post one of my sites to hacker news I actually do get an influx of hack attempts.

pigtailgirl2• 4 years ago

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

jeanlucas2• 4 years ago

Oh, first time seeing this, thanks!

pigtailgirl2• 4 years ago

-- 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 --

thisisjasononhn5• 4 years ago

Thank you for sharing! I used their music and art AIs with great success for new suggestions! :)

TacticalCoder• 4 years ago

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!

wincy• 4 years ago

Hahah I got it on my first try. Now it’s fun because I feel like I’m in on a little secret. I’ll keep it a secret, too though ;)

Tepix3• 4 years ago

A site that's bern online since before 1998 will get shutdown like that? Seems unlikely.

aembleton5• 4 years ago

A bit like http://tired.com/

lagrange776• 4 years ago

Oh, that website! Indeed tres cool.

version_five• 4 years ago

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• 4 years ago

http://100r.co/

Shared404• 4 years ago

Also http://xxiivv.com/

layer82• 4 years ago

https://www.coolestwebsiteintheworld.com/

neilk• 4 years ago

https://pudding.cool/

Visual essays with data, that could only exist on the web

optimalsolver• 4 years ago

https://my90stv.com

Watch television from the 90s.

Agamus3• 4 years ago

* The Perseus Project: searchable Classical texts in the original language or in translation. Etymological and philological study tool from the gods.This thing has looked this way since at least 2003. Show me a more awesome website, I dare you: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections

* Nietzsche Source. Searchable, digitized collection of the complete works, as well as scans of original manuscripts, etc! http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB

* WebSDR - control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente, complete with chatbox: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

emmelaich• 4 years ago

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

aerovistae• 4 years ago

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."

stevage2• 4 years ago

I hear it the opposite. Like an admission that they failed to focus on anything in particular and than their reviews may be pretty useless for that reason.

iostream242• 4 years ago

Funny, I feel the same way about your comment.

DantesKite• 4 years ago

His best books section is quite interesting, because he's read about 1.6k books and there's only a couple on there, suggesting those are probably some high quality reads.

https://dannyreviews.com/mypubs.html#nonfiction

I'm also struck by the quality of his writing. These are some short and light reviews. Very thoughtful.

f4stjack• 4 years ago

https://poolsuite.net/ to capture those nineties feeling for a sec or two...

type0• 4 years ago

localhost

Hammad_Madi• 4 years ago

Haha

yeputons• 4 years ago

https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast. I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.

gilbetron• 4 years ago

That is cool! Anyone know the tech behind it?

tracyhenry2• 4 years ago

It looks like something achievable with SPA frameworks such as next.js

snapdaddy• 4 years ago

Looking at the page code, it appears that their main 'secret' is pre-loading the images for the page that are one-level deeper.

eastbayjake• 4 years ago

They appear to be using the Backbone.js/Marionette framework, which is super hardcore but also dates when this site was probably developed (I can't remember the last time I saw Backbone in the wild!)

https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcmaster.com%2f

redanddead3• 4 years ago

What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out.

I've seen people shopping for hardware on reddit say that the navigation is clunky and confusing, and IIRC they said the products are price-gouged?

I'd be curious to know what other users here with an eye for design think of it, and if they know of similar websites, as I've been working on a hardware e-commerce store (mainly for my own use) that uses a lot of the same principles of no-BS shopping, I'm supposed to present it to my mentor next week

Also, a lot of the speed is pretty standard with most frameworks, they did a good job of blending in the slow loading bits into something that feels fast. Overall It's a great website and I'm sure it makes lots of sales

qkucy• 4 years ago

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 given most of the time. You need test leads for a bench top multimeter? They offer whatever length or specs you want, and any of the ones you choose will be high quality and most likely made in the US (in my example, all their test leads are Pomona brand). The ability not to have to sift through Amazon reviews or decide whether a premium brand is worth it is easily worth the extra cost.

sircastor• 4 years ago

I've seen people shopping for hardware on reddit say that the navigation is clunky and confusing, and IIRC they said the products are price-gouged?

I think these people are used to shopping from Amazon and Home Depot. They can get their bolts and random specialty items and it comes cheap. When you’re talking about a quality, precision piece of hardware, one where you know the manufacture and have reliable dimensions (and probably even a CAD model) it comes at a price. And if you’re working On something that matters, especially if this is your business, you’re willing to pay for that.

usrn2• 4 years ago

I love the UI. You know what's clunky? Amazon. Amazon's UI is awful and their search is the worst (it's just about useless and I think that's by design.) It looks pretty though and I doubt you'll hear people on Reddit complaining about it.

neilpanchal• 4 years ago

As a ME, I used to manage a lab in a large corporation. McMasterCarr is ingrained in the US engineering culture. Every lab has a 5 inch thick yellow catalog.

Also Thorlabs. Everytime I'd open their shipment, it'd include Lab Snacks™. I wrote about it here [1]. Both are awesome companies to deal with.

[1] https://neil.computer/notes/thorlabs-lab-snacks/

zikduruqe• 4 years ago

What I like about it is that it's a no-BS e-commerce store, get in and get out.

https://www.rockauto.com is like also.

avsteele• 4 years ago

We buy a ton from there. The price is a little high but not enough to matter unless its a significant part of your expenses. They save me money on balance by being fast and convenient.

I'm a huge fan of their website.

dzek69• 4 years ago

Funny, for me it is much slower than average website. I'm on a phone right now. Will try from a desktop tomorrow

quadcore• 4 years ago

Could it be HN that's slowing it down?

ipaddr2• 4 years ago

Unusable on a phone too bad.

xeromal• 4 years ago

I love that. That's my homestate and I hope GA continues to grow and thrive.

Jcowell• 4 years ago

And it supports App clips that are just as swift and not bogged down by the app clip size.

pupdogg• 4 years ago

Pretty amazing company. They're a big Ruby on Rails shop. At least they were back in 2016. FYI, I was offered a position there but didn't take it up due to long commute.

Nk26• 4 years ago

I don't know if they still have it but they used to have a giant catalog that was the same thing in paper form. Super thin paper thousands of pages of just random stuff.

jffry• 4 years ago

You can flip through one from 2012 on the Internet Archive! https://archive.org/details/mcmaster-118_202012

Vladimof2• 4 years ago

McMaster is really cool, but not for the quick response time of their website (its actually not very fast)... the wide variety of parts available is why I like them.

roflyear• 4 years ago

And they have great products. Little expensive but you will know you're getting good product 100%.

knighthack• 4 years ago

Is it just me, or did they custom/hand-draw all the illustrations for the hardware being sold?

And man, the UI is brilliant. Straight and to the point - just enough complexity to handle what they're selling, without the clunkiness of Amazon's UI.

jawmes8• 4 years ago

Yep and the downloadable 3D files are especially helpful when designing with those parts in mind!

ravenstine• 4 years ago

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.

kazinator• 4 years ago

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

willyt• 4 years ago

RS components https://uk.rs-online.com/web/ is the British equivalent. Also used to have an epic paper catalogue that came in 5 volumes.

ethanfinni• 4 years ago

Wow! Does anyone know what is built on and how it is this fast?

gattopalla• 4 years ago

https://kim.com

gaudat• 4 years ago

https://racertrash.com/

aembleton5• 4 years ago

Love that 2020 reel video. Reminds me of The Avalanches.

Now I'm down a rabbit hole of Racer Trash. This remix of Alien is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cQh_APsow

smsm42• 4 years ago

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

prawn• 4 years ago

https://randomghost.tumblr.com/

redanddead3• 4 years ago

There's a collective that does a really great job of presenting and archiving the most artistic web experiences today https://tympanus.net/

I think it's run by a Ukrainian guy, they showed pics of cars on their street being bombed, it was wild

formerkrogemp• 4 years ago

A friend made this

http://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG

strangelove0262• 4 years ago

Seems broken. Used to be able to load up two youtube videos, hit play on both, and cross fade between the two of them.

http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/

strangelove0262• 4 years ago

Alright, so the domain isn't as cool, but this one works

https://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherflippingcrossfader.com...

mizzao• 4 years ago

https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/

thrillingly designed, and amazing what can be done in WebGL

lagrange776• 4 years ago

Ingenious

novategcom• 4 years ago

https://yep.com

galuggus• 4 years ago

https://ridd.im

culi6• 4 years ago

https://www.connectedpapers.com/ has unlocked a new level of getting lost in rabbitholes for me

Barely related but equally cool project: https://supp.ai/

culi6• 4 years ago

This has been an endless source of exposure to cool works:

https://gossipsweb.net/

culi6• 4 years ago

The design alone of this entire site makes me wanna get into this rather niche political ideology: https://syllabus.pirate.care/

scyclow• 4 years ago

The Heaven's Gate website is pretty cool https://heavensgate.com/

brycewray• 4 years ago

Would love to know who's been paying to keep that alive all these years.

major505• 4 years ago

Jesus. Is amazing that they left 2 people alive that still updates the shit site to this days.

They where also responsable for a lot of local business websites in the 90's. That's how they financed the cult.

stevage2• 4 years ago

That just seems really sad.

tootie• 4 years ago

They don't publish a huge volume, but I really enjoy The Markup: https://themarkup.org/

It's the most fun news browsing experience of any news site I use, the content is relevant and interesting, and it's non-profit and ad-free.

zoba• 4 years ago

https://www.grand-illusions.com/

Fun and well curated science toy store

lamontcg• 4 years ago

https://scholar.google.com/

https://sci-hub.se/

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/

andrewl• 4 years ago

Ian’s Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

room505• 4 years ago

Yamauchi No.10 Family Office: https://y-n10.com/

mch822• 4 years ago

Thanks for sharing this one. The Philosophy is interesting to read, particularly #3:

…so that we may be able to return our inherited material and spiritual wealth to the public

paulcole• 4 years ago

TikTok (available on the web and via app) is amazing. The algorithm is so good that I can watch for hours.

sidcool• 4 years ago

It's seriously addictive. Be careful it's known to ruin attention.

leetrout• 4 years ago

Simple viz of wind

http://hint.fm/wind/

Everything by Nicky Case

https://ncase.me/

iluvblender• 4 years ago

https://phet.colorado.edu

https://www.khanacademy.org

dau• 4 years ago

https://skinnybob.info (UFO/alien case analysis)

kixiQu• 4 years ago

https://href.cool/ naturally :)

Vladimof2• 4 years ago

https://thepiratebay.org/index.html

https://sci-hub.se/

https://libgen.is/

iqkznnft• 4 years ago

Wikipedia is by far the coolest website I know.

vq• 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

frellus• 4 years ago

https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com

Wholesome, fascinating insight into the inner thoughts of some people, and shows us how tenuous the human connections we make on the internet can feel sometimes.. how lonely some of us can be.

subtract-smiles2• 4 years ago

thiswebsitewillselfdestruct is honestly one of the only places on the internet that allows anonymous writing that has a majority wholesome and meaningful content. You don't go to that website looking for internet updoots, you go to that website because you have something to say, but no one to say it to.

tempestn• 4 years ago

This was a great idea. I expect it'll be alive for a long time yet. Some messages on there I really wish I could respond to, but I do realize that would ruin it.

winternett2• 4 years ago

Forgot all about this site until now... Much better than Twitter! I wish it was searchable, that would be crazy to play around with.

cercatrova2• 4 years ago

Dear Website,

To reach a port, we must set sail.

---

This is what I got when I first clicked through it. There are some very interesting motivational messages in there, as well as some very sad ones, many people grieving or pining for a lost love.

memorable• 4 years ago

https://www.norid.no/en/

The official website for registering .no domains. Still the most modern website I have ever seen.

hoosieree• 4 years ago

https://falstad.com/circuit/

great_reversal• 4 years ago

https://www.athinkingape.com/about/

A game company that hired Waterloo co-ops once upon a time.

holler• 4 years ago

https://sqwok.im (but disclaimer it's probably because I'm working on it!)

It's a new open discussion site where each post is a live chatroom.

daodedickinson• 4 years ago

noclip.website

subtract-smiles2• 4 years ago

https://linkians.com/ I've spend hours playing around with different possible scenarios here.

togaen• 4 years ago

http://realultimatepower.net/

saperyton• 4 years ago

www.readsomethinginteresting.com, place to find new things to read

eastdakota• 4 years ago

I love this:

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/

Click on any spot on Earth and see where a raindrop there will flow until it reaches an ocean.

noduerme2• 4 years ago

This is frankly amazing. Something I've thought about a lot as I've traveled and crossed various continental divides, but never even considered actually trying to map.

qubex• 4 years ago

A visual watershed in watershed visualisation.

rado• 4 years ago

https://www.gov.uk/ Beautiful, minimalistic, fast, useful.

lulzx• 4 years ago

worrydream.com - Bret Victor

pabs32• 4 years ago

Website archiving websites, for eg:

https://archive.is/ https://archive.org/

m10k• 4 years ago

A long time ago, I attempted to reverse-engineer the protocol of a game because I wanted to host a dedicated server on a Linux box, but the developers only provided a (bug-infested) Windows version. That's how I found this treasure trove of game-related PoCs and reverse-engineering knowledge.

https://aluigi.org

anon9001• 4 years ago

I can't believe I've never come across this before.

anon25783• 4 years ago

https://thelifeengine.net/

The coolest cellular automaton I've ever seen. I can fiddle with this all day and get absolutely no work done. Beautiful and stimulating 10/10

Kyer• 4 years ago

Really cool. Thanks!

memonkey• 4 years ago

ZOMBO.COM

winternett2• 4 years ago

A wild assortment of ~400 mostly visual music videos from youtube that I curate is here:

http://www.ruffandtuffrecordings.com/SELECTIONS

I even use it a lot on my own, I really enjoy the music I find.

I post updates to my twitter account usually as well @djwinterman

The list has many different genres and moods to it.

(Refreshing the list will load random videos)

I'm thinking of making it a carousel page of some sort soon.

cookiengineer2• 4 years ago

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.

Tepix3• 4 years ago

Geizhals is an amazing website. If you send them corrections or suggestions they will always respond.

My only criticism of geizhals is that you can't see items that aren't for sale anyonger unless you search for their names directly. For example you can't use geizhals to get a list of 5k monitors models sold in the last years (most of them are no longer on sale).

cookiengineer2• 4 years ago

I agree. In the past I've looked for potential upgrades of my outdated hardware and seen that they still list them on their website, but only if you already know the specific part numbers or model numbers of the hardware you're looking for.

Something like a "discovery" view would be nice where you could specify your requirements beforehand and then look for e.g. compatible parts that could be interesting.

ghusbands• 4 years ago

Have you sent them that criticism or a related suggestion? You could suggest that they add a default-on filter for 'commercially available' or such.

musha68k2• 4 years ago

AFAIR it’s also an example of a well managed perl code base.

genezeta• 4 years ago

Apparently, there's https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb for UK, which could be more approachable for non-German-speakers :)

Terry_Roll• 4 years ago

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.

RealStickman_• 4 years ago

I use this site all the time to find tech. Their filters are just insane.

Here are some filters I find interesting to use.

You can filter HDDs by recording technology: https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&xf=8457_Conventional+Magnetic...

Similarly, it's possible to specify the storage cell type for SSDs. https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_3

For RAM you can specify which memory rank you want and the actual ns operation times for most primary ram timings: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15554_10.6%7E439_dual

Sadly I don't buy through them very often, as they only show stores for Germany, Austria, Poland and the UK.

arjvik• 4 years ago

Sadly I don't speak German and Google Translate doesn't play well with that site. Know any similar English sites?

vbrandl• 4 years ago

I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"

joshxyz2• 4 years ago

First time to see something like that oh god.

frereubu• 4 years ago

We do that for all sites we (a nonprofit / education / science / arts web agency) build. Seems like such a no-brainer to me - if someone has expressed a preference like that, you're only going to annoy them with a cookie popup, which they're most likely going to reject.

leephillips• 4 years ago

My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.

adrianmsmith• 4 years ago

Small nitpick, geizhals is actually Austrian (although it operates in a number of markets, each with their own domain, like geizhals.de).

kalleboo• 4 years ago

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

frxx• 4 years ago

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

pbasista• 4 years ago

Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist.

It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder (https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phones and tablets only.

mitchbob• 4 years ago

Would love to see a USA version of this.

glenneroo• 4 years ago

Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.

kqr2• 4 years ago

https://apolloinrealtime.org

Lets you listen to the full audio of three Apollo missions. Not only the official mix, but also behind the scenes stuff, like flight dynamics officer, computer supervisor, etc.

Not only is it interesting to hear what engineers on a mission sounded like in that somewhat early NASA environment, but it's also a pleasant background track.

nixass2• 4 years ago

2advanced V5 Attractor

https://youtu.be/pbn9X1MUZdQ

https://www.behance.net/gallery/19738001/2Advanced-V5-Websit...

This was more of a demo page, the original website is long down unfortunately.. Back in the day I'd get excited every time I'd load it! This site is all about esthetic and nothing about the content. I'd say many people decided to become web designers just because of this particular work.

It was hurting my slow DSL back then..

dkh2• 4 years ago

Oh yeah, 2A forever. Found them in 1999-2000 (when I was 12 or 13 and first learning to code and such) and it was positively mind-blowing. v2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbQmqmmIFk) and v3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkNkQoQY_8) made me rethink everything, and I promptly switched focus to learning webdev over coding desktop apps. Those Flash days were fun, between 2A, Balthaser, DerBauer, etc. But yeah, 2A made me completely rethink media and interaction.

Go figure, I work on interactive web stuff and film stuff geared towards the web. I can still hear the first piece of music that would play in the background of 2A v2 in my head 20+ years later, and still occasionally listen to Eric's trance mixes on Soundcloud.

ricklamers• 4 years ago

The Chromium source code browser: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

It’s super fast with their jump to reference/declaration. Still curious what’s actually driving it. Looks like some sort of lightweight git/VCS browsing app. Does anyone here know more about it?

noahchen• 4 years ago

This looks very similar to Google's internal code search.

underdeserver• 4 years ago

I imagine it's built on the same infrastructure.

johnxie• 4 years ago

https://nathan.tokyo is pure art.

Each element has its own micro-interaction on hover.

mch822• 4 years ago

https://rhizome.org/about/

Covering net art since at least 2001. Maybe not as cool as it was then.

posed• 4 years ago

https://sharpnife.github.io/

johnhenry• 4 years ago

Solar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

musha68k2• 4 years ago

One man show https://www.dekudeals.com is a labour of love and the best video games deals site that I know of.

Focused on Nintendo Switch, written in rails AFAIK.

mercer2• 4 years ago

I use it for ps4/ps5 too!

RalfWausE• 4 years ago

http://unmoralische.de

Its in german... and a giant treasure chest full of little humour

DustinBrett4• 4 years ago

I'm bias of course but it's a goal of mine to have the best "misc" website one day... It can do a lot.

https://dustinbrett.com/

etataetaet• 4 years ago

Love the website! Really neat :)

DustinBrett4• 4 years ago

Thanks!

to-too-two2• 4 years ago

That's impressive. Works and looks great.

DustinBrett4• 4 years ago

Thank you!

kzrdude4• 4 years ago

It's super cool! I saw it in the other thread yesterday. I can't figure out how to resize the linux terminal, was one of the things I noticed.

DustinBrett4• 4 years ago

Thanks! Ya currently https://copy.sh/v86 afaik can't be resized once booted.

braunshedd• 4 years ago

https://everynoise.com

Search for your favorite bands using the bar at the top right corner. Find the associated playlist on Spotify via "The Sound Of X" where X is the genre name.

If you have (or would like to have) diverse musical tastes this is the best way to do it!

b0ner_t0ner• 4 years ago

Way too dependent on Spotify.

mbo• 4 years ago

I mean it is generated from Spotify's genre classification system by a Spotify engineer - can you fault them for that?

harshreality• 4 years ago

https://replit.com

throwamon• 4 years ago

Might as well link to an open source alternative: https://riju.codes/

Fun fact: Whenever I want to remember the name of this project, I just look for it on the front page of https://hn.algolia.com thanks to one of the most upvoted HN posts of all time, "Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

davesque• 4 years ago

https://www.cameronsworld.net

h3mb3• 4 years ago

If the Moon Were Only One Pixel [1] is my go-to data visualization to share with people who haven't thought about the scale of the solar system that much.

[1] https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem....

jonbaer• 4 years ago

https://www.windy.com/

lelandbatey• 4 years ago

https://acko.net

It's a personal website, but is full of amazing visualizations, educational content, and it basically has a demo scene demo to music on the front page, all hand coded in WebGL. It's just cool, in a delightful, personal, artistic way, and I love it.

kertoip_1• 4 years ago

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, no need to dig through author's life story, thanks for subscribers etc. before getting to the point.

beebmam• 4 years ago

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

sigg3• 4 years ago

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

aembleton5• 4 years ago

I think Open Street Map comes close.

kloch• 4 years ago

It’s hard to overstate the value of Wikipedia to humanity.

I hope there are lots of copies of it in government survival bunkers around the world.

I wonder if they keep an offline copy on ISS?

culi6• 4 years ago

Some runner ups:

- Archive.org

- SciHub

- OpenStreetMaps

- Library Genesis

- TikTok (/s)

jatinkrmalik• 4 years ago

Thanks for the reminder, just donated my bit to Wikipedia! :)

jiffygist• 4 years ago

My most used site during the day is probably wiktionary. Most convenient dictionary out there.

JKCalhoun3• 4 years ago

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

MollyRealized• 4 years ago

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.

muzani• 4 years ago

On a similar vein, TV Tropes. It's still mind-blowing to me having every form of creativity throughout history categorized into patterns.

NylaTheWolf2• 4 years ago

Oh man, TV Tropes is fantastic! It always sends me down a rabbit hole!

NylaTheWolf2• 4 years ago

I’ve been meaning to donate to Wikipedia for a while now. Thanks for reminding me :)

Theory42• 4 years ago

Yes, Wikipedia is great. But PSA: its only great if we keep it great.

agys• 4 years ago

Linking two… hey give me the same feeling of endless exploration and discovery:

https://radio.garden

http://astronaut.io

vegancap• 4 years ago

This website has a list and schedule of active and historical numbers stations, with links to listen in live. If you're fascinated with numbers stations, this is a must: https://priyom.org/

jrhey• 4 years ago

https://www.hazumi.news

invalidusernam3• 4 years ago

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/

bberrry• 4 years ago

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

artembugara• 4 years ago

https://www.lingscars.com/

WelcomeShorty• 4 years ago

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/#

Shows you satellites that will be visible from your position in the coming hours / days.

Incredibly cool tech stack too.

PostOnce2• 4 years ago

The USGS LIDAR maps. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-lidar-data-and-where-can-i-do... ... direct links from https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/LidarExplorer/index.html#/ then click an area and on the right click an icon to bring up a point cloud viewer... it's fiddly, but incredible.

This site for its depth on a niche subject (nike missiles): http://ed-thelen.org/

and for military telecom: https://www.electrospaces.net/p/index_15.html

similarly, for another niche (very old computers): http://bitsavers.org

Evan Amos pictures of game consoles on wikipedia are pretty cool because of how comprehensive they are. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos

nostalgia http://16colo.rs

agumonkey3• 4 years ago

used to be:

- lambda-the-ultimate

- c2.com

Aragorn23315• 4 years ago

https://www.masswerk.at/ A personal website with amazing retro projects

thisisjasononhn5• 4 years ago

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.com/danacovers/danacovers.html

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age - Digging through the Geocities Torrent https://blog.geocities.institute/

and finally, The End Of The Internet https://hmpg.net/

I've kept a bit of a running list on my site here: https://jason.nabein.me/#links

PostOnce2• 4 years ago

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

thisisjasononhn5• 4 years ago

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.

a5y• 4 years ago

mustafas.de but it‘s flash

notorandit• 4 years ago

HN, of course!

mkovach• 4 years ago

https://www.baseball-reference.com/

One of the most complete sources of baseball stats including game logs. Yes much of the data is from other sources (MLB, Retrosheet.org, etc) but they really ties things together nicely and I can spend hours on the site.

anthropodie• 4 years ago

https://falstad.com

Allows you to simulate electronic circuits and also has bunch of other tools.

mikewarot• 4 years ago

Archive.org - the history of the internet, searchable.

blackshaw• 4 years ago

The 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. Well worth the price tag (currently discounted as it's still in prerelease, but lots of videos have already been published.)

(Note: I have no affiliation with the creator of this course and have nothing to gain by promoting him; I'm just a happy customer.)

joshxyz2• 4 years ago

I chekced some previews, god that is cool as hell!

koragan• 4 years ago

Didn't expect to spend $25 this morning but here we are (thanks!)

Kovah• 4 years ago

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.

tetris11• 4 years ago

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.

elorant• 4 years ago

The one we're currently in.

Honestly, my Internet life would be miserable without HN. I learn so much stuff in here.

godzillafarts• 4 years ago

The coolest website I know right now is https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/.

It’s a solar powered, self hosted version of Low Tech Magazine. The articles are always interesting, but there’s also a ton of good information about efficient website design as well [0].

[0] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#how

tony-allan• 4 years ago

Humour is cool!

https://xkcd.com/

elashri• 4 years ago

shot out to the poor academics cool website "sci-hub.ru"

jerome-jh• 4 years ago

https://hckrnews.com/

Fast and convenient, everything is one click away. Easy selection of the amount of news you're ready to absorb. Shows where you left off. Default colors are great with already followed links clearly visible. Default order is chronological contrary to https://news.ycombinator.com.

P.S.: no affiliation with it :)

cobbzilla• 4 years ago

https://librivox.org/ free public domain audiobooks

mihaitodor• 4 years ago

Sean Carroll's site https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/ and podcast https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ where he interviews various people about physics, biology, math, psychology, philosophy etc.

IYasha2• 4 years ago

I don't remember the name, but there was a VERY cool futuristically-looking (like Unreal II UI) flash-based site that contained HQ wallpapers (before HD displays became a thing). I still regret not saving it! :_( Yeah, I love flash and think it was a golden era and possible better future killed by Adobe. So, how about https://www.99rooms.com/ ? Great art.

I also liked joke sites like getyourasstomars.com or typicalmacintoshuser.com :D

xswordsx• 4 years ago

http://websdr.org/ You can listen to various amateur radio bands around the world.

gauddasa• 4 years ago

youtube.com with browser extensions for return dislikes and ratings preview.

vermaden• 4 years ago

Great ASCII Elements/Animations on Oxide Page.

- https://oxide.computer/

mister_goo• 4 years ago

1st tier: wikipedia, scihub, libgen, web.archive.org. 2nd tier: google 3nd tier: reddit, hacker news, etc

I'm considering getting an offline copy of wikipedia and libgen. I already have an offline copy of hacker news.

Komodai• 4 years ago

Archive.org, it's crazy how far back some of their stuff goes (especially on web.archive.org)

luckydenvermint• 4 years ago

https://organism.earth/

Thank me later :-)

UmbertoNoEco3• 4 years ago

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)

tim333• 4 years ago

I miss JimCarrey.com which was the only arty flash site I liked. It's gone now but is recorded on video https://youtu.be/B1XZixLBurQ

ydnaclementine• 4 years ago

https://www.radio-browser.info/ - Internet radio station directory

iostream242• 4 years ago

You’ll need archive.org for this but 2013.com “The web is alive”

I believed them, such well written tables and sliced images… colspan your way to the end of the world

matteodimaio• 4 years ago

If posting the Internet Archive is cheating, how about https://libraryofbabel.info/ --technically containing not only everything ever written on the internet as a whole, but also everything that ever will be...

1sf• 4 years ago

https://v1.windows93.net is pretty cool. It's an OS packed with cool programs ranging from synthesizers to fangames in your browser!

bitsoda• 4 years ago

As a geopgraphy nerd, I appreciate playing around with https://www.thetruesize.com/

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

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