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24 alternatives to Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places
A free, 3 episode mini-series created with Stephen Hawking.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Bringing ‘A Brief History of Time’ to a whole new generation
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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EarthGuessr▲192I built it as a way to practice programming. There are probably much better alternatives out there.
2025 · earthguessr.com · its alternatives →
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Spotify, website security, black holes.
2016 · wired.co.uk · its alternatives →
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SpaceCasts▲192Clubhouse rooms and Twitter Spaces in podcast form
2021 · art19.com · its alternatives →
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Google Translate for engineers working with motion
2017 · google.github.io · its alternatives →
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Spatium▲182Hi there, humans! I'm excited to announce Spatium! I'm a big fan of any topic related to our universe. I'm also a developer, so I've put these things together and I built this new tab Chrome Extension for space lovers, astronomy fans, and science geeks like me. If you enjoyed it, please spread some love <3 FEATURES • Space images • Every day, get a fascinating image of our universe. Enjoy pictures of stars, planets, moons, galaxies, nebulae, comets and more right on your browser tab. • Sun Widget • Find out when the sunrise, sunset, first and last light times will be precisely at your…
2021 · spatium.earth · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made a web game to practice country locations a while ago and HN liked it, so I thought I'd post my updated version as well. As for how the game works and feels, I'd really recommend you checking it out for yourself, it's free, no signup, no ads. The tech stack is Vue + ts + Tailwind/Daisy for the looks. The learning algorithm is a slight modification of the ts version of FSRS. If you have anything to add, it's open source as well (https://github.com/koljapluemer/learn-worldmap), although not well documented yet. In the end it's just a little sideproject,…
2025 · map.koljapluemer.com · its alternatives →
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Free course on how the world works from the YouTube star.
2015 · its alternatives →
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A search for the World's most creative places
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A cosmic queries episode
2016 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Spaces▲151A showcase of curated Amazon products from inspiring spaces.
2016 · joinspaces.co · its alternatives →
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I really like the look of the famous album art for Unknown Pleasures [1]. It was originally created by Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory from the signals of the first discovered radio pulsar [2]. I made a spectrogram that produces a similar look. It runs FFT in Rust and visualizes it with WebGL. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnknownPleasuresVinyl.jpg [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1919%2B21
2024 · aestuans.github.io · its alternatives →
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New podcast from polymath Stephen Wolfram
2017 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Gravity WebGL experiment in the Solar System
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A new podcast from TIME Magazine & Panoply
2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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2014 Samuel Johnson Prizewinner, Costa Book of the Year
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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~spaces~ V2▲64virtual universe w/ you can create worlds and meet friends
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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