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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 bierjunge »

ximus wrote: post #87

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/

A while ago ARTE started a side channel and asked users how to name it, which we all know is a bad idea in the internet. The result was "Irgendwas mit ARTE und Kultur" ("something with ARTE and culture") and they really took the name: https://www.youtube.com/c/IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur Kudos to ARTE.

BTW. it's a cooperation between french and german public televisions, is there something similar elsewhere in the world?

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

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Post by input_sh »

fomine3 wrote: post #88
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.

Any cool monetization strategies on Qiita or Zenn? I know dev.to is betting on Coil, so I'm curious if Japanese developers have a method they're betting on.

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

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Post by staticelf »

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

It is well known and no one in Sweden seems to give a shit which boggles my mind as a Swede. Anyway, it was nice but it has only worked well beucause of Swedens low crime rate historically.

Now, with increasing criminality due to mass immigration there is only a question of time until these services becomes illegal I think.

I have personally been subjected to a stalker, so it will be nice when these services disappear for me personally but I honestly think the utility of them are great. If you find a wallet for example, you can easily find this person and call them due to these services. But for now, the only way to be truly anonymous in Sweden is to get a protected identity which is pretty much impossible to get or to buy some land and switch your home address to that place. People can still get all the properties you own with your "Personnummer" (social security number) but it is harder, less known, takes more time etc.

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

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Post by lefrancais »

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #17

The French national library has quite an extensive digital collection. https://gallica.bnf.fr/

Wow, just discovered that! thanks it is awesome. I finally found illustrated version of Les trois mousquetaires and Jules Vernes in epub for free !

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #56

https://tweakers.net Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board. It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).

I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN)

Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.

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

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Post by gspr »

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.

I guess I should add some information, since it's not trivial to find from the main page. The API documentation [1] is in English. Most (all?) the data is dual-licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and the Norwegian open government data license [2]. Please do take care not to abuse a tax-payer funded service, and do obey the the terms of service [3] (these are restrictions on querying the API, not on the use of the data themselves, which seems reasonable).

[1] https://developer.yr.no/

[2] https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/

[3] https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/

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

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Post by FridgeSeal »

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…

Yandex is responsible for developing and maintaining my favourite columnar database: ClickHouse. It’s one of those pieces of software where everything I use it go “wow this is fast”.

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

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Post by LordNight »

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…

Besides yandex there are also rambler.ru (less popular, but even older) and mail.ru

dic.academic.ru allows you to search through several dozens encyclopedias. And bigenc.ru adds onother one (the largest and the most recent).

fantlab.ru is the best site dedicated to sci fi/fantasy literature (it is IMO 10 times better than goodreads or librarything). There are also a lot of site dedicated to literature like proza.ru lib.ru litres.ru feb-web.ru www.obshelit.su etc.

Besides habr, forum.ru-board.com ixbt.com cyberforum.ru overclockers.ru 3dnews.ru are very popular sites dedicated to hardware/software/coding.

There are a lot of sited about video games like old-games.ru goha.ru stopgame.ru riotpixels.com as well as a streaming platforms like goodgame.ru

rutube.ru exists for many years now but it's crap.

There are several sites dedicated to popular science like elementy.ru arhe.msk.ru gramota.ru histrf.ru

www.intoclassics.net and www.classicalmusicnews.ru are popular for those interested in classical music. www.darkside.ru and rock.ru for rock music.

forum.awd.ru and otzyv.ru are popular travel sites.

There several general purpose forums like forum.rcmir.com www.e1.ru/talk/forum/ In general, classic forums are still very much alive in runet (hell, even LJ is still alive) and there are a lot of niche forums you could visit.

There are more than 100 news sites, but the quality is quite average (like everywhere else). meduza.io ria.ru rbc.ru tass.ru inosmi.ru for example. sports.ru and championat.ru for sport-related news.

ozon.ru is now a russian version of amazon.

And obviously there are a lot of pirate sites from rutracker to flibusta to libgen.

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

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Post by yorwba »

geza wrote: post #38

Sites and apps in Chinese: Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free courses on programming, machine learning, and technical topics Wanmen Daxue (万门大学): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free foreign language classes and lectures on economics/social sciences HKGolden (香港高登): Ho…

Let me add a few more:

Bilibili Manhua (哔哩哔哩漫画): webcomic site adjacent to the Bilibili video platform https://manga.bilibili.com/

Qidian (起点): webnovels https://qidian.com/

Zhanse Nileyuan (战色逆乐园): discussion forum attached to another webnovel site with female-skewing readership, maybe slightly similar to r/twoXchromosomes https://bbs.jjwxc.net/board.php?board=20&page=1

SegmentFault: StackOverflow-like https://segmentfault.com/questions

V2EX: the closest thing to HN, except more like a traditional forum https://v2ex.com/

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

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Post by jug »

kalleboo wrote: post #24
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…

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. Am…

Prisjakt (Pricespy) is very deep in Swedish online shopping culture. I wonder if Amazon realizes what they are up to. It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010.

What I like most about Prisjakt is that they don't try to second guess what I want given a basic search phrase. Instead, Prisjakt gives me the categories to drill down into tables. Sortable and filterable tables with product name, price, rating, and category-specific columns (like storage size and $/GB for hard drives). The filters run DEEP. If you're looking for a HDR display, you can be happy with a "HDR" filter but also opt into DisplayHDR 1000 certified displays with 120+ Hz. For the entire Sweden because every decent Swedish retail chain and store is on this website, and they have everything between solid state drives and shoes in their database. If you look for watches you have filters and columns for e.g. automatic, solar powered watches, etc.

Amazon is very, very different. They're also a front to various stores but try to make it appear like THEY are the store when they are really not. Prisjakt instead just has this razor sharp focus on making you in charge of the data and forming decisions based on that, and then when the decision is made, presents you a list of the stores with that product and their respective prices. You are in control and maybe you prefer a certain one because you're a long time user there and like them.

So Amazon becomes a "fake store front" (like Sweden's CDON) and Prisjakt is more like just a database. One optimized for usability and presentation.

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