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Ask HN: Best resources / websites in your opinion on the www?

41 points| jacquesm | 16 years ago | reply

Funny question maybe, for a 'social bookmarking' site, but this sub-thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351584

Makes me wonder if we can't put together a list of really good resources on the web that is based on what HN members consider 'good'.

28 comments

[+] qeorge|16 years ago|reply

Not sure if you're looking for websites I like to read, tools, or services, so here's a mix of my favorites (in no particular order):

    [services we pay for and love]
    http://wiredtree.com (VPS hosting)
    http://repositoryhosting.com (git hosting)
    http://mailchimp.com (email marketing)
    http://polldaddy.com (surveys and polls)
    http://raven-seo-tools.com (SEO campaign management)
    http://microsoft.com/online/ (hosted Exchange)

    [favorite web dev tools]
    Firebug: http://getfirebug.com
    FireQuery: http://firequery.binaryage.com/
    JSONView: https://addons.mozilla.org/mn/firefox/addon/10869?lang=en-US
    Fiddler: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
    ColorSpy: http://www.microtask.ca/colorspy2pb.html

    [other websites]
    http://www.programmableweb.com (API directory)
    http://techmeme.com (tech news)
    http://stumbleupon.com
    http://whosampled.com (music search engine)

Some of these (e.g., FireQuery) were made by HN members. If you're reading, thank you!

[+] Griever|16 years ago|reply

Thanks for the heads up on FireQuery. I've known of its existence but never really took a peek until now. It looks extremely useful for jQuery development.

Sometimes I remember what web development was like sans Firebug/Fire*. What a nightmare.

[+] NyxWulf|16 years ago|reply

[math]

khanacademy.org

[startup/business]

Patrick's (patio11) blog: kalzumeus.com

Customer Discovery: steveblank.com

Business of Software: discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz

Lean Startups: www.startuplessonslearned.com

[Ruby/Rails]

http://www.rubybrain.com

http://www.railsbrain.com

http://guides.rubyonrails.org

http://peepcode.com

[Reference]

O'Reilly Sarari books: my.safaribooksonline.com/mysafari

[+] jacquesm|16 years ago|reply

http://wikipedia.com/

http://google.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[+] paulgb|16 years ago|reply

From my comment in the original thread: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1353354)

PlanetMath - http://planetmath.org/

MathWorld - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Also, hopefully everyone knows about searchyc by now, but if not, it's a great resource for searching anything technical - http://searchyc.com/

Edit: how can I forget, one of my favorites: The Portland Pattern Repository's Wiki. HN will love it. It has the same "I could browse this site forever" quality of Wikipedia, but less formal and more conversational. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors

[+] kurumo|16 years ago|reply

http://www.ted.com

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://ocw.mit.edu

[+] pierrefar|16 years ago|reply

I love OCW so much I built http://www.ocwsearch.com/ . MIT features.

[+] tmsh|16 years ago|reply

Some more I didn't see mentioned:

  [videos (interviews/lectures)]
  http://mixergy.com/
  http://videolectures.net/Top/Computer_Science/
  http://video.ias.edu/all

  [photos]
  http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
  http://www.petapixel.com

  [development-related blogs]
  http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/
  http://www.catonmat.net/
  http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/
  http://benlynn.blogspot.com/

  [meta]
  http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Home
  http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/
  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

[+] adamsmith|16 years ago|reply

  [startups]
  http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
  http://cdixon.org/
  http://news.ycombinator.com

  [business]
  tech: http://techmeme.com

[+] micmcg|16 years ago|reply

These lists have been done to death

[+] jacquesm|16 years ago|reply

Pointers?

I've seriously never seen one with any real quality and a sense of permanence.

(and that's a serious request, if you know of really good lists I'd really like to hear about them).

[+] Concours|16 years ago|reply

1- http://www.mcsquare.me 2- http://www.wikipedia.org 3- http://stackoverflow.com 4- HN

[+] icey|16 years ago|reply

This is a great idea

  [politics]
  us-conservative: http://drudgereport.com/
  us-conservative: http://foxnews.com/
  us-liberal: http://huffingtonpost.com/
  us-liberal: http://dailykos.com/
  us-neutral: http://english.aljazeera.net/
  us-neutral: http://bbc.co.uk/

  [timewasting]
  tech: http://news.ycombinator.com/
  tech: http://programming.reddit.com/
  tech: http://infoq.com/
  misc: http://boingboing.net/
  misc: http://metafilter.com/
  startups: http://news.ycombinator.com/classic/
  startups: http://startups.reddit.com/
  business: http://www.businessinsider.com/
  business: http://economist.com/

[+] jimmyjim|16 years ago|reply

Another thumbs up for the Economist from me. Definitely my preferred source for just about all news.

[+] th|16 years ago|reply

[business]

http://www.wsj.com/ (pay-site)

http://www.bloomberg.com/

[+] what|16 years ago|reply

Are only the cool kids allowed in http://news.ycombinator.com/classic/ ? What is it?

[+] barredo|16 years ago|reply

1. Google

2. Wikipedia

Then, in no order whatsoever:

StackOverflow

Google Reader Shared items by mates and contacts

Twitter (keep good followings and you'll get good tweets)

[+] evo_9|16 years ago|reply

http://stackoverflow.com/

http://codeproject.com/

[+] slig|16 years ago|reply

    CS 193P iPhone Application Development
    http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/downloads-2010-winter
    You can watch all the classes on iTunes U

[+] andrewtj|16 years ago|reply

News: http://english.aljazeera.net/

Current Affairs: http://inside.org.au/

[+] kunley|16 years ago|reply

Hey I don't get it.

What's the value of reading news at AlJazeera?

[+] metamemetics|16 years ago|reply

A truly inspirational resource of how not to design websites: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/awful-links/