What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
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#2Great question. +1 for my interest too.
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#3This is probably not what you're looking for, but I recently found this dump of Hungarian tech/gaming magazine scans dating back to the late 80's, and I've been looking for an excuse to share it further: https://retroujsag.com/
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#4[Ekşi Sözlük](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk)
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#5Taobao!
It's like eBay, but for wholesalers who are ~selling "ghost shift" parts~ offloading excess inventory to small-time consumers.
There are brokers for international customers; they communicate with the sellers and consolidate orders into a single parcel for ~10-15% commission.
But it's harder to browse these days; less is available without an account which you need to provide a mobile number for, and you have to jump through hoops to avoid getting only "international" listings.
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#6news of the weirdest electronic gadgets for sale in japan. google chrome and automatic translate do a reasonably good job on the page. it's related to the retail stores in the akihabara district of tokyo.
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/
also its parent site PC watch
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#7https://pantip.com/
Thai Reddit / Wikipedia / answers.com.
It’s a massive forum with an area for almost any topic.
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#8Looking for reverse copycat? Just kidding.
Taringa used to be the Reddit in Spanish (well, at least for South America), with really interesting content. Microsiervos.com was probably the best tech/curiosities blog in Spanish, and a few days ago I visited and it is still active (from 2006 I think).
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#9Ha, I'm learning Hindi, I'd love a 'Hindi Stack Overflow', I imagine the technical bits would be English anyway so it'd be a great way to familiarise/practice. (Easier than news, say, I imagine, since I'd have more context and it wouldn't be as formal/pure Hindi.)
I could try to contribute too: My cache is full of eels, how do I set the death timer for the evictings of my tenants?
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#10If you're asking about services too: Yandex Market. It's like Google Product Search that is actually successful and widely used for searching for specific products, or Amazon that doesn't swindle you left and right.
It's basically just a large catalog of products, filled by third-parties a-la Amazon now, only it didn't sell anything itself (until recently). Instead, it had detailed characteristics for a lot of products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web.
Alas, it's only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there's no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don't even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.