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Post by jerome-jh »

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…

https://www.fun-mooc.fr/

Online courses with a wide variety of topics. Took a number of them unrelated to CS, unfortunately many are archived. There is a very good introduction course to Chinese https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+sessi... with a session this spring.

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

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Post by terramex »

In Poland there is elektroda.pl - forum about electronics, electrics and programming. Is was founded in 1999 and has over 2 500 000 registered accounts.

It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason.

It certainly has 'old-usenet' vibe, both the good parts (huge amount of knowledge) and the bad (pretty toxic behaviour of many power users and moderators).

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

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terramex wrote: post #142

In Poland there is elektroda.pl - forum about electronics, electrics and programming. Is was founded in 1999 and has over 2 500 000 registered accounts. It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason. It certainly has 'old-usenet'…

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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 4cao »

omnibrain wrote: post #124
4cao wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone will probably come up with a better answer but you can check out https://www.heise.de/forum/ for tech news.

The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.

I know Heise (the publication) for its good coverage of specific issues, the most recent I recall being the data collection practices of coronavirus-related apps [1].

I've always assumed it's something like a better version of The Register, [2] which I used to read a while ago, but don't really know that much about it, especially the comments section. Thanks for the heads-up.

1. https://www.heise.de/news/Corona-Apps-im-Datenschutz-Check-A...

2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/

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

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Post by shyber »

gspr wrote: post #84

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.

this one is also great for sailing

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

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Post by Nextgrid »

djaahk wrote: post #116

In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising), - LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance - Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain an…

LeBonCoin became annoying since they put contact details behind a login wall. What made it successful back in the day is the simplicity - just post an ad and have interested people call you. Search for something and you can directly call sellers.

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Post by [deleted] »

altacc wrote: post #104
airhead969 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, the government knows every purchase they make, tracks everything they do, and can take it all away whenever it wants? No thanks. And what about homeless and old people, are they disenfranchised too? A cashless society controlled by a government or a corporation means a powerless society. Norway has had similar tax return approval by text messaging for almost 20 years.

I don't know what your percention of Norway is, but having moved around a bit and currently being based here, I see that Scandinavians have a different relationship with governments and corporations than in many other countries. For a start, it's not primarily seen as an adversarial relationship. It's more of the people, for the people. Not perfect, but Scandinavian societies rely on a high level of trust and it work…

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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 staticelf »

djaahk wrote: post #116

In French you have a few interesting options, notably: - LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising), - LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance - Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain an…

LeBonCoin is actually a fork of the Swedish original site Blocket.se, visit it and you will see similarities. Both are today owned by the Norwegian umbrella organisation Schibsted afaik.

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

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Post by tester34 »

_a1_ wrote: post #66

https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and engineering news from all around the world. The comments posted by users of wykop.pl are often cited in other sites. ...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it starte…

This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies.

It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad.

I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk

It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.

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