Ask HN: What are your favorite thin websites (text only or limited images)?

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Nice! But even they have a "read more" button instead of just displaying the article straight.
Normally those bug me a great deal but because the page loads so fast and the focus is on resource constrained users the `read more' option doesn't bother me at all. I'm constantly frustrated by JavaScript `read more' links though, which take an age to render the rest of the text on mobile devices which is where I do an ever increasing percentage of my reading.
http://techmeme.com/river

http://mediagazer.com/river

http://memeorandum.com/river

http://aldaily.com was already mentioned

http://scitechdaily.com aldaily sister science site

http://hckrnews.com

https://longform.org

https://longreads.com

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https://redef.com doesnt fit the criteria, but its close, and i wish it had an option to turn off images.

two i dont actually visit very often - http://www.jimmyr.com http://popurls.com

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as for page design itself.

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/

http://http2.info/

is /river a concept or standard I haven't come across?
its not always called river.

hckrnews.com is a river for news.ycombinator.com, but it doesnt use the term. they just describe it as "a chronologic list of items" vs the most popular/upvoted.

River = a stream of streams

I've mostly seen it used in the context of news readers.

gov.uk is surprisingly easy to navigate and use.
It's often said but the revamped design is excellent and the designers should be commended. I used to have to assist my parents whenever they needed to fill in a government form online and my mum in particular found it stressful, with pages having all sorts of timeouts and conflicting instructions. A lot of services used to be very fragmented and lacked cross browser compatibility. They manage it easily themselves since the UI became much more accessible.
Wow, that site should be used in webdev courses. It is lean, functional and not in any ways bad looking.
Kanye's clothing line, Yeezy, has an impressively minimalist site that works on desktop and mobile.

https://yeezysupply.com/

> minimalist

shows absolutely no content except for a handful footer links without 3rd party JS.

It's pretty minimalist in terms of design, which was the intent of the post I believe
I have uBlock Origin enabled when visiting the site, and it works for me. What script are you blocking that loads images?
NoScript by default blocks third-party scripts (of which this site has plenty). In this instance it's some JS from shopify that's required for basic functionality.
Fair enough. Post said "(text only or limited images)", which I thought this site, especially being a fully featured ecommerce site, fit well.
Oh, I'm not saying you should not have posted it, not at all (I don't do that).

Just meant to show that minimalist design doesn't have to mean that it's technically clean or minimalist in any way.

There's something so satisfying about effective & practical minimalism like this.
www.telehack.com - classic hacking adventure game.
This site about bicycle touring is so content-heavy it's ridiculous: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/

Browsing journals "by locale" is the best armchair tourism on the internet.

On the same topic, the epic Ken Kifer's Bike Pages: http://www.phred.org/~alex/kenkifer/www.kenkifer.com/bikepag...

And in similar style from a similar era, Ian's Shoelace Site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ (the Ian Knot will change your life, though I use the double-Ian Knot to never re-tie laces again).

Oh my god that's painful to look at..

Ahhh! It's stuck in my brain!

Try this UK car rental site, absolutely insane: http://www.lingscars.com
My god, the autoplaying YouTube video disguised as yet another GIF...

The Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da one ain't half bad, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2whZLX8nDw

EDIT: is there an established subgenre for "Chinese knockoff surf rock"? Because if there is, I want a hell of a lot more of it.

frets.com

Straight out of the late 90s hand-written html, but by one of the greatest guitar luthiers alive, Frank Ford.

Want to see exactly how one would restore a pre-war Martin Guitar? You can see it. Truly amazing.

Can I say my website?

http://bryanmgreen.com/

As neither a professional designer or developer, I wanted a site that was very clean and easy to build (and adaptive) but shared critical information. The end result has made me quite happy.

I was going to complain about the unreadably thin text, but apparently that's the default font-weight. WTF.

(And by the way, there's a typo in your font-family.)

http://perdu.com A short domain only served with HTTP so it's useful to trigger all the wifi MITM login pages
Thank you! I used to go to www.marca.com for that same purpose, but this is much lighter and is easy to remember.
One of the most read german blogs: https://blog.fefe.de/ Does not even have html headers :)
As someone said at 32C3

    > The only website that loads on the Berlin underground railway
Incidentally, it also looks like a Berlin underground railway station. ;)
I can't believe nobody mentioned this given the site, but http://paulgraham.com. It literally altered the direction of my life.