https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/ is ebay but cooler and from Latino America.
What makes it cooler?
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
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#22This 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/
Try mentioning it on reddit.com/r/DataHoarder, someone might be interested.
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#23I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.
France has a few enormous message boards about various topics.
forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)
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#24If 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 produc…
Sweden has prisjakt.nu, and Japan has kakaku.com that serve the same purpose, they're both great! It's so nice to be able to drill down into any product in any product category (for kakaku this is not just tech products but contact lenses, credit cards, movers, electricity providers, car insurance, phone plans, etc) using the specs you want, and then sort by intelligently selected columns like $/TB for a harddisk.
Amazon attempts to do some product categorization but it doesn't work at all - even when they have the category you want to filter on the results are usually wrong, and the sort options are bad and marred by their ads and recommendations.
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#25I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.
La Quadrature du Net [0] is a collective of privacy advocates, like the EFF for the EU. They run an active Mastodon node at mamot.fr.
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#26Ha, 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?
It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.
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#27Qiita https://qiita.com/
its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese
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#28Qiita https://qiita.com/ its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese
It sometimes shows up when you're searching tech topics. I actually found a series of blog posts that explained how to write Erlang/Elixir NIFs in Rust with Rustler.
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#29Runet (Russian-speaking part of Internet) has LOTS of it. We have HN equivalent (habr.com). We have RSDN (rsdn.org), which is somewhat like StackOverflow, but in Russian.
Social networks largely unknown outside of Russia? We have'em (vk.com, ok.ru). Reddit equivalent? See pikabu.ru. IMDB? See kinopoisk.ru.
There's a Russian browser (Yandex.Browser), Russian map service (Yandex.maps), tons of Russian e-mail, hosting and cloud services, Russian Spotify (Yandex.Music), Russian Netflix (several of them, actually), Russian Uber (Yandex.Taxi, which actually owns Russian Uber).
You'll see lots of Yandex services here, it's sort of Russian Google (except it predates Google by a year or so). Yandex's primary business is search and advertising, but just like Google, they diversify a lot. And even in primary area, they sometimes manage to beat Google. Yandex's reverse image search (when you upload the image to search for similar ones) is FAR superior to Google's.
And there's a lot of unique Russian content on global sites like Facebook, Livejournal (owned by a Russian company nowadays) or Wikipedia.
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#30I found DW's YouTube channels to be good resources to learn about cultures, societies, current affairs and geopolitics from around the world. Auto-generated subtitles for their non-English channels are good enough to understand what is being conveyed.
[1] : https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle
[2] : their other channels are listed at the bottom of [1].