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Last updated: 5 Aug 2020 ·
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Government
- European Union
- GOV.UK
- U.S. Department of State
- American English - For English Language Teachers Around the World
- USAGov
- NSA.gov
- FBI.gov
- CIA.gov
- Spy Kids - CIA
- Defense.gov
- IRS.gov
- SEC.gov
- Investor.gov
- NIST.gov
- FCC.gov
- Library of Congress
- Citizen DJ - Make music using the free-to-use audio and video materials from the Library of Congress.
- time.gov
- analytics.usa.gov
- National Archives
- Ready.gov
- MentalHealth.gov
- California DMV
- Fatherhood.gov
- nationalatlas.gov (Archive)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Climate.gov
Random useful sites
- Firefox Monitor - See if you’ve been part of an online data breach.
- Have I Been Pwned - Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
- LKML.ORG - The Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive.
- Google Code Search - Search all projects for code or files.
- Scale of the Universe 2
- Time.is
- Anime News Network
- The 88x31 GIF Collection
- Cameron's World
- This Website Will Self Destruct
- Faces of Open Source
- Start Your Own ISP
- Where is Starman
- Appscope - Directory for Progressive Web Apps.
- Esolangs
- This Person Does Not Exist
- Is This Prime?
- fucking homepage
- Open Source Game clones
- Google Ngram Viewer
- Keanu Reeves is Immortal
- Youglish - Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation.
- txti - Fast web pages for everybody.
- Pete's QBASIC/QuickBasic Site
- oldweb.today
- Google Pagespeed Insights
- testmysite.io - Testmysite.io rates your site based on its initial global load times and its security settings.
- Hacker News Title Edit Tracker (GitHub)
- Git.io - Official GitHub link shortener.
- Sketchysite - You can trust this.
- Emojipedia - Emojipedia.
- timeanddate.com
- Looper - Endless Entertainment.
- Spreadsheet Converter - Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.
- CTF>101 - Learn the techniques, thought processes, and methodologies you need to succeed in Capture the Flag competitions.
- Quick, Draw - Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?
- random.country
- random.city
- Radiooooo - The wonderful musical machine that allows you to travel through space and time!
- Wikia/FANDOM Explore - The Fan-trusted Source in Entertainment.
- TV Chart - See a graph of any TV show's IMDb ratings, by episode.
- Famous Scientists - Educational resource focusing on the lives and achievements of the most famous scientists and inventors in history.
- Know Your Meme - Internet Meme Database.
- Snopes.com - The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- bellingcat - The home of online investigations.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search
- Artvee
- All About Circuits
- Get Emoji - All Emojis to ✂️ Copy and 📋 Paste 👌
- Usenet Archives
- Usenet Archives collected by Norman Yarvin
- T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
- Lightyear.fm
- Dark Patterns
- Neave Interactive
- DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API
- Copy Paste List
- Animated Knots by Grog
- Bing Fun
- Every Noise at Once
- Occupational Outlook Handbook :: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Punpedia - The Online Encyclopedia of Puns
- Our Incredible Journey
- Neocities - Create your own free website!
- Something Awful - The Internet Makes You Stupid.
- gail.com FAQ
- Google Mirror - I'm elgooG
- GitHub Octodex
- The Financial Times 404 page
- Erowid
- Genius - Song Lyrics & Knowledge.
- BigHistoryProject - Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future.
- lizardpoint.com - Fun, free, interactive map quizzes to help you learn Geography.
- The Wood Database
- Game Hacking Academy
- SCP Foundation
- Free Public Records Search - judyrecords
- Everything2.com
- Before I Play
- Book Reviews by Danny Yee
- Illusions & Visual Phenomena
- Google Sky
- Google Maps - Space
- Archive of Our Own
- Iconduck - Free open source icons, illustrations, emojis and graphics.
- Permacomputing wiki
- WikiHouse
- National Film Board of Canada
- Long Bets - The Arena for Accountable Predictions
- Game-icons.net - free SVG and PNG icons for your games or apps
- Sacred-Texts.com - Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Lonely Planet
- Experiments with Google
- Library of Babel
- Biochemical Pathways.com
- Knots 3D - Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots!
- Animated Knots
- Ian's Shoelace Site
- Pokédex | Pokemon.com
- neal.fun
- oimo.io
- Hacker Typer
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
- Zombo.com
- Fold 'N Fly - Paper Airplane Folding Instructions
- Wikipedia Speedruns!
- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
- CS quotes in Notepad++'s code
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto - What.CD
- Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List
- Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library
- Tiii.me - Calculate your total time spent watching TV shows
- You Suck At Photoshop (web series)
- Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
- Behind The Screens
- moviecode: Source Code in TV and Films
- Hundred Rabbits
- GrimGrains
- XXIIVV
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Motherfucking Website
- Homepage of the Oldternet
- Sim CB - A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
- Paper HN - Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper (Source)
- Six Degrees of Wikipedia (https://github.com/jwngr/sdow)
- unim.press - Reddit reader in the style of a certain well-known metropolitan newspaper (Source)
- My 90's TV!
- Submarine Cable Map
- Stripe Press — Ideas for progress
- TypeLit.io - Practice typing by retyping ENTIRE novels
- Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
- Folklore.org: The Original Macintosh
- Art of Memory
- Akiyoshi's illusion pages
- Nestflix
- Math Crossword
- OpenBSD: Release Songs
- Periodic Table – Royal Society of Chemistry
- textart.sh - Copy and Paste Text Art
- WaterwayMap.org - OSM River Basins
- NearbyWiki - Wikipedia places nearby
- Relativistic Spaceship
- Library of Juggling
- The Kid Should See This - Smart videos for curious minds of all ages
- Dance Your Ph.D.
- Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Carabiner Collection
- Wikipediocracy
- Sporcle - A World of Quizzes
- YTCH
- Battlestar Galactica Technical Manual
- Boob Editor - Desmos
Dictionaries
- Wikitionary - The free dictionary.
- Merriam Webster - Since 1828.
- Chambers Dictionary
- Urban Dictionary - Crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases.
- Dictionary.com
- Wordnik
- Webopedia - Online Tech Dictionary for Students, Educators and IT Professionals.
Wikis
- WikiWikiWeb - The first wiki.
- Wookiepedia - The Star Wars wiki.
- Memory Alpha - The Star Trek wiki.
- RationalWiki
- Wikitubia
Music
- Learning Music
- Learning Synths
- Map of Metal
- Dark Lyrics
- Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
- Metal Wiki | Fandom
- freeCodeCamp.org Code Radio
- musicForProgramming();
- Fundamentals of Piano Practice
- IMSLP
- A Soft Murmur
- myNoise
- ambiphone
- Lightnote - Basic Music Theory Lessons
- teoria : Music Theory Web
- Syntorial: The Ultimate Synthesizer Tutorial
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
- Article Series - Sound On Sound
- ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS - 1,100,000 songs catalog with free Chords, Guitar Tabs, Bass Tabs, Ukulele Chords and Guitar Pro Tabs!
Wallpapers
Memes
Books/Courses/MOOCs
- ops-class.org - Hack The Kernel - Everything you need to learn about operating systems online.
- The Tao of tmux - Tony Narlock.
- Another Book on Data Science - Nailong Zhang.
- Producing Open Source Software - Karl Fogel.
- LinuxCommand.org - William Shotts.
- Distributed Systems - Maarten van Steen.
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours - Jonathan Tang.
- The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice - Gerard E. Dallal.
- yet another insignificant programming notes - Chua Hock Chuan.
- Butterick's Practical Typography - Matthew Butterick.
- ExploringJS - JavaScript books for programmers by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer.
- linux-tutorial.info - Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial.
- Data Flair Python Tutorials - 240+ Python Tutorials.
- LitPriest - Free Study Guides. For Everyone.
- University of the People - Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs.
Programming
GitHub
- jschr/vscodethemes - Preview themes from the VSCode marketplace.
- functionalCS/curriculum - A Modern CompSci Curriculum.
- RestCheatSheet/api-cheat-sheet - API Design Guidelines and Best Practices Cheat Sheet.
- sympy/sympy_gamma/ - A SymPy version of WolframAlpha.
- WardCunningham/remodeling - The original wiki rewritten as a single page application.
- pshrmn/notes - Quick references to remember how various things work.
- victorqribeiro/hntitlenator - Test your HN title against a neural network.
- geongeorge/i-hate-regex - The code for iHateregex.io.
- startpages/startpages.github.io - A curated list of startpages for your browser.
Collections
- Lab45 Link Garden - Corning Community College Portal to the Universe.
- Rosetta Code: Similar Sites
- Things and Stuff Wiki
- LinuxLinks Directory
- Curlie.org - The largest human-edited directory of the Web.
- weboasis
- SimilarSites
Cheatsheets
- Shiar's cheat sheets
- Cheat-Sheets.org - All cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference cards, quick reference guides and quick reference sheets in one page.
Sports
- NBA
- NHL
- NFL
- Formula 1
- MotoGP
- NASCAR
- FIFA
- LaLiga
- UEFA Champions League
- Bundesliga
- Ligue 1
- Lega Serie A
- International Cricket Council
- ESPN
- ESPNcricinfo.com
Games
Fun
- Neal Stephenson Debian bug report 1997-01-10
- “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch 2014-11-24
- LKML: Jonathan Corbet: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy 2014-11-24
- Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver
- How to programmatically find out if computer is on
News
- The Onion - America's Finest News Source.
- NPR : National Public Radio
- Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
- 68k.news: Headlines From the Future
Misc
- Worldometer - real time world statistics.
- 4chan
- Improve Your Social Skills
- devRant - Share and bond over successes and frustrations with code, tech and life as a programmer.
- Tables Generator - Create LaTeX, HTML, Markdown, MediaWiki Tables Online.
- Letters To A New Developer - Dan Moore.
- 20,000 Startup Ideas
- hntitlenator - Test your HN title against a neural network.
- FossHub - No adware, No spyware, No bundles, No malware, Fast downloads, Free services and a single ad.