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Ask HN: Ultra lightweight independent websites with interesting content?

14 points by distcs ↗ HN
* The websites should be really lightweight. No loading of MBs of data only to show a few KBs of text.

* Should be easy on the eyes. No low contrast themes please. That fad needs to die.

* Good, interesting content.

* Independent websites preferred. No medium, substack, tumblr and the likes that sooner or later succumb to dark patterns.

* Nothing too fancy. Just simple content. But content that is interesting to read. Content that teaches us something or gives food for thought.

* And don't just point to X KB clubs please. There are 100s of websites listed there of all kinds of quality. There is no system to vouch for which ones have good content. Most of them don't even have actual content that we may want to read. I want to know which websites you yourself found to match these criteria and found interesting.

17 comments

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linusg789
https://250kb.club/ https://512kb.club/ https://1mb.club/
iamflimflam1
Excellent trolling :)

    * And don't just point to X KB clubs please. There are 100s of websites listed there of all kinds of quality. There is no system to vouch for which ones have good content. Most of them don't even have actual content that we may want to read. I want to know which websites you yourself found to match these criteria and found interesting.
iamflimflam1
Well, you can try my blog - it used to get quite good scores on the various web master tools - but has probably deteriorated as I've messed around with it: https://www.atomic14.com/ mostly electronics/software if that floats your boat.
distcs
Thanks! Interesting website. Is the domain name referring to atomic number 14 -- silicon?
iamflimflam1
It is indeed. I inherited it from a failed consulting business that I set up with a friend. We had the domain, youtube channel etc.. so I though I might as well continue to use it.
umtksa
just added to my rss I love electronics as a hobby and I love to read about it.
ailef
I just have a few blog posts about for fun side projects which maybe you might consider interesting. I've been lucky to make HN home page a few times, actually at rank #1 once!

https://ailef.tech

n_ary
Nice! Can you share the prompt you used ti generate the n-gate style summaries? I tried a very many times but I get something like “as an AI model I can’t blah blah” response.
ailef
I would but I didn't use an actual prompt. I fine-tuned a model on n-gate's content, so my prompts just contain information like the submission title and url.
mindcrash
Gwern: https://gwern.net/
kingkongjaffa
I've been really into statistics and specifically GLM's and linear and logistic regressions, so seeing a blog post about socks https://gwern.net/socks and using a GLM is pretty epic. This is a gold mine of how someone can casually 'do' statistics to learn things.
mattbgates
A few years ago, I was trying to get my website faster than average and gave OpenLiteSpeed a chance and with its caching system, it turned out to be the best choice. It does run on WordPress and I also chose the most minimal theme I could find and built it with inspiration from the old Medium.com (no sidebar) with a central focal content point and Craigslist (black text, white background).

When I first started... it was just a blog for people to come and complain about their bosses, co-workers, jobs, life... and I would even interview them and write their stories for them, but has since evolved into much more than that... with unique content about jobs, careers, and the workplace, and everything in between. I was never short of any stories myself, having worked for tyrant bosses and supervisors... its probably how I was able to keep my jobs for so long... instead of having an outburst at work, I'd come home and turn it into a story and publish it on my website.

And as it turns out... too many people could relate to my stories which is what kept attracting more and more visitors to the site, which is receiving around 2 million visits a month or a few thousand unique visitors per day. Been running it for over a decade now. Every time I was about ready to give it up and quit... I'd get emails of people praising the website and sending me their articles and stories to add to it, and the emails have never stopped. And I am not complaining. It keeps me going! I created it to stay connected to my passion: organizational-industrial social pyschology or human psychology in the workplace.

GTMetrix seems to like it... https://cdn.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/media/2023/07/gt...

Google Page Speed Insights, not so much: https://cdn.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/media/2023/07/go...

If you'd like to visit it yourself: https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/