Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by 082349872349872 » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:43 AM UTC

aGRa_kursk wrote: post #29

Runet (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 a…

Maybe helpful when browsing extra-anglosphere sites: translate.yandex both has much more liberal length limits than GOOG translate and makes it easy to look up alternative translations for individual words.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by daishi424 » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:47 AM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #10

If 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…

Looks like they've been running A/B tests recently - reviews are hidden on some products. Or maybe they hide reviews for anonymous user. I hope it won't go further than that.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by gspr » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:49 AM UTC

Most of the techy anglosophere know CCC from the annual conferences. But they do much more: https://www.ccc.de/

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by gspr » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:53 AM UTC

https://yr.no provides an API for high quality open weather data, globally, supplied by the Norwegian meteorological service. Information is available in English too, but it is perhaps not well-known in the anglosophere.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by owenversteeg » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:54 AM UTC

I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa. I wouldn't know about the quality of the content - I don't speak Arabic - but from what I can tell it's like Arabic Wikipedia, but you also get blogs, forums, ancient manuscripts, email with unlimited storage (?!?) and much more. The Arabic internet in general is always interesting to me, because even in 2021 it still seems very ad-hoc and far less commercialized than the parts of the internet I've seen in other languages.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by cedex12 » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:55 AM UTC

Seb-C wrote: post #76

In French we used to have "le site du zéro". It was a very popular collaborative site with a ton of free courses for beginners in (mostly) programming. Today it feels that it just became a somewhat bland and nothing-special corporate resource (OpenClassrooms), but it was once a vibrant community with it's own identity: http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduz... On a completely different topic, ht…

I feel like linuxfr.org also deserves a mention: had pretty thorough articles on lots of subject, as far as I could judge them (and knowledgeable members!).

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by ximus » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:55 AM UTC

Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel

AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english.

https://www.arte.tv/en/

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by fomine3 » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 7:56 AM UTC

abledon wrote: post #27

Qiita https://qiita.com/ its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese

dev.to looks like equivalent to Qiita. Now zenn.dev is getting popular in Japan instead of Qiita.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by sm4rk0 » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 8:03 AM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #10

If 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…

Something like https://idealo.de/ (and .at .es .fr .it .co.uk)?

Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

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Post by logicchains » Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 8:05 AM UTC

Yandex! It's like Russian Google, but the results (or at least the English-language results) are more algorithmic, without human intervention in the rankings.