For some context, I'm using sites like https://www.theverge.com/ and https://www.wired.com/ for more general browsing. Wired had a UK domain with some different content, but that appears to have ceased operation and now the .co.uk domain redirects to the general .com
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Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#12Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but I made a site using the (Arc) HN code that is about retro-computing and gaming: https://twostopbits.com/news
Wow neat, I wasn't aware of any true HN clones using the actual source! Was it difficult to get it up and running?
Not really. I had a harder time implementing new functionality (e.g. Two Stop Bits allows tags to be associated with a story: https://twostopbits.com/tags). In the past I'd done a bunch of Common Lisp stuff so was just a question of remembering that and dealing with the Arc syntax.
My fork and enhancements are here: https://github.com/jgrahamc/twostopbits
Re: Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?
#13https://restofworld.org sounds like what you're looking for - its mission is basically to report tech news from the non-West. Some good reads to get a taste of what they do (note: often fairly long):
https://restofworld.org/2024/riders-in-the-smog-gig-workers-..., about air pollution.
https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/. They analyzed 3,000 images generated by Midjourney and found strong biases in them.
https://restofworld.org/series/china-shopping-cart/. A series on China and how it influences shopping globally.
https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-most-used-languages/. The most used languages online vs in the real world. Most of the overused ones aren't surprising (eg, English, German, French) but some are (eg, Persian, Indonesian, Vietnamese)
https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-problems-global-languag.... Basically, ChatGPT does really, really, badly at a lot of languages.
https://restofworld.org/2022/welcome-to-the-ambaniverse/. An exploration of how one guy, Mukesh Ambani, influences the life of many Indians. Not just through tech, but through shoes, mattresses, gas for their car, and a cricket team.
https://restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/. Internet censorship globally.