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

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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 worl…

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

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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 worl…

Their Twitter team(?) is also all-in on self-deprecation: https://twitter.com/ARTEde/status/928269091311296512

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

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Ha, 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?

+1 for the second line, but I'm very curious about "eels". The rest generally makes sense.

Yep as sibling comment says I was riffing on 'my hovercraft is full of eels' [0], meaning to say that that's probably what me trying to ask questions on a hypothetical 'Hindi StackOverflow' would sound like.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g

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

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Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.

Learn German, Dummkopf!

We beat them in 1945 just so we didn’t have to do that!

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

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Deepl [0] is available in English but doesn't seem well-known outside of the non-Anglophone Western European countries. It's essentially Google Translate but generally has better quality translations for the languages it supports. [0]: https://www.deepl.com

Deepl was an incredible tool when I was struggling though my first full length novel in Spanish. It gave much more lucid and nuanced translations than any other automated translation tool I tried.

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

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While we're doing this, I should point out that every European country has their own public television, radio and news site like NPR/PBS or the BBC. You can easily find them via Wikipedia but I'll list a couple: - Germany: ARD, ZDF, DW, Deutschlandfunk - France: France.TV, RadioFrance - Spain: RTVE - Portugal: RTP - Italy: RAI - Switzerland: RTS, SRF, RSI, RSR - Sweden: SR, SVT - Denmark: DR - Norway: NRK They all ha…

Alas, RTVE no longer lets you watch Ministerio Del Tiempo episodes for free (sort of like a Spanish Dr. Who time travel show).

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post #170
post #92

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> 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?

Very active, I find it much better than reddit where I usually cannot find anything useful, the UI is awful on reddit. The real interesting thing is that there are a lot of threads for very specialized topics (e.g. bikes, mattress, pizza oven or torch lights). Before buying something I usually check if a thread exists and read it / ask questions. You however end up having to revise upwards your budget to buy the stuf…

Try https://teddit.net/ for an alternate Reddit UI interface.

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

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post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.

Or more people need to learn German? The community is already there, obviously — if others want to join, that's how they do it.

After many attempts to speak german with germans, it seems to be a consistent theme that they prefer english if you are incompetent.
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