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

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Post by gspr »

adventured wrote: post #54
ackbar03 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WOW. Is this a well known service/site in Sweden? In other countries this would have been blown up into a huge privacy issue. Assuming its not because its sort of underground, why do you think it hasn't in Sweden? Genuinely curious

As crime perpetually gets worse in Sweden in the coming decades, it's practically a guarantee their culture will change when it comes to tolerating such privacy violations. They'll begin to lock down formerly open aspects of their culture.

Oh god, you're one of those people.

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

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Post by gspr »

jette_au_loin wrote: post #23
Naga wrote: post #14

I 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.)

> forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)

What I assume is the equivalent, forum.hardware.no, used to be huge in Norway in the 00s too, but then the community more or less got swallowed by Reddit. Did the French one survive?

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

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Post by sm4rk0 »

NalNezumi wrote: post #45

I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house , real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone…

Run a plate for any Swedish vehicle: https://biluppgifter.se/

Another privacy nightmare with complete vehicle history -- better than carvertical.com or vin-info.com

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

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

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…

i like anekdot.ru - they have a pretty solid community, and the jokes are really funny (sometimes).

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

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Post by BlueGh0st »

For some reason, the Russian web seems to rehost old drivers/software and such indefinitely without all the malicious spam you normally find in Google.

That led me to Kazus Electronic Portal[0] which seems to have just about every hardware-related piece of information you could need. Including an obscure serial driver from 2005 that I couldn't find elsewhere.

[0] http://kazus.ru/

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

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Post by Barrin92 »

ackbar03 wrote: post #46
NalNezumi wrote: post #45

I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house , real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone…

WOW. Is this a well known service/site in Sweden? In other countries this would have been blown up into a huge privacy issue. Assuming its not because its sort of underground, why do you think it hasn't in Sweden? Genuinely curious

tax returns themselves are public in sweden and you can literally find out what anyone has paid in taxes by contacting the authorities.

Sweden has a different attitude to this kind of information that is fundamentally more about transparency than privacy, so it's not perceived as an issue.

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

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Post by captn3m0 »

xxpor wrote: post #43
captn3m0 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, writing good technical content in Hindi is nigh-impossible.

I've noticed that Twitter will translate Hindi written in Roman characters, which is certainly common on the internet, but I'd think given (AFAIK) there's no formal standard for it it'd be hard to get good data to feed into an AI. Or is it enough of a 1-1 transliteration that all you need to do is encode the Roman->Devanagari rules and that'll work nearly 100% of the time?

The challenge isn’t with the script - it’s with lack of acceptable technical vocabulary in Hindi/English.

Video works because Hinglish is how tech-talk in (many, not all) companies works.

But you’d never see a technical doc in any of the these companies in Hindi, because you can’t even translate simple terms like Server or package-management. Even if you find acceptable translations, they aren’t immediately obvious, because nobody has heard them before.

In a Python video, you might hear: “मेरा code requests library से Google server को HTTP request भेजता हैं” (My code uses the requests library to send HTTP requests to Google”.

It works on video, but it doesn’t on text because nobody is used to reading this in Hindi in the first place.

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

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Post by BlueGh0st »

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…

I can vouch for Yandex's reverse image search. It blows Google's out of the water. I think regular image search is typically better too, depending on what your needs are (Google seems to prefer stock imagery which can be frustrating).
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