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

• 100r.co

  13 298 9.6 HTML

  Official Website

  

• website

  33 58 7.8 Svelte

  The Pudding's website (by the-pudding)

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• khan-api

  425 374 10.0

  Discontinued Documentation for (and examples of) using the Khan Academy API

  

• river-runner

  71 375 7.9 Svelte

  Uses USGS/MERIT Basin data to visualize the path of a rain droplet to its endpoint.

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.

• govuk-puppet

  405 125 9.3 Puppet

  Discontinued Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.

  

• archiveis

  1,477 170 0.0 Python

  A simple Python wrapper for the archive.is capturing service

  

• LifeEngine

  8 411 3.3 JavaScript

  The Life Engine

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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• jekyll-theme-console

  2 636 0.0 SCSS

  A jekyll theme inspired by linux consoles for hackers, developers and script kiddies.

• riju

  21 1,499 5.2 JavaScript

  ⚡ Extremely fast online playground for every programming language.

  

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 head over to https://HN.algolia.com and find out on the front page 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

• TermKit

  20 4,435 0.0 JavaScript

  Experimental Terminal platform built on WebKit + node.js. Currently only for Mac and Windows, though the prototype works 90% in any WebKit browser.

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.

• this-word-does-not-exist

  33 1,009 0.0 Python

  This Word Does Not Exist

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