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

41 pointsjacquesm28 comments

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'.

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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!

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.

You're welcome! Real thanks of course goes to woid[1], who made it.

Being able to see the data stored with jQuery.data() in Firebug's HTML inspector is just awesome. Comes in handy all the time.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=woid

[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

http://wikipedia.com/

http://google.com/

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

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

http://www.ted.com

http://www.wikipedia.org

http://ocw.mit.edu

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

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/

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

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

These lists have been done to death

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).

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

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/

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

[business]

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

http://www.bloomberg.com/

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

Classic just ranks the listings differently - it only uses the votes from users that have been here for longer than a year to determine ranking on the page.

The link doesn't work because it should be /classic, not /classic/.

http://news.ycombinator.com/classic

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)

http://stackoverflow.com/

http://codeproject.com/

    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

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

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

Hey I don't get it.

What's the value of reading news at AlJazeera?

I'm guessing you'll never read this since I've taken so long to notice your comment and respond, but the answer is quite mundane — I don't like to spend a lot of time reading the news. AJE has good coverage of South-East Asia and the Pacific and to my eye, is effectively as good if not better than BBC News and ABC News (Australia, unrelated to the American one) but with less filler. Just out of curiosity, where do you source your news and what is there not "to get" about reading AJE?

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

Itconversations.com Spacecollective.org Well.com

good question. i wonder if hn is the smartest place on the internet.

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