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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 xxpor »

arp242 wrote: post #209
captn3m0 wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So if I understand correctly, Latin characters aren't used for loanwords like this in written text? It happens in casual text - WhatsApp forwards, SMS messages. But for official writing - you pick a language and stick to it, as much as possible. This made more than a few notices impossibly hard to read when I was in college, because the Hindi felt archaic, even if it wasn't. Other countries had a rich culture of re…

I think English is the lingua franca of science and computing pretty much anywhere now? Just as Latin was in the past? Newton didn't publish in English, but in Latin, as did most people of his day. In Dutch, I would just say "de server is kapot" ("the server is broken"). There is no attempt to translate words like "server" to Dutch. You see the same in Indonesian (standard Indonesian, Bahasa, there are many Indonesia…

For the English words used in Dutch, do you use Dutch pronunciation, even if the word is spelled the same?

We all know how Dutch people like to pronounce their Gs :)

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

jug wrote: post #160
kalleboo wrote: post #24

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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. Sor…

> It does make their website feel superfluous to me and more like what what I'd expect from a company of the year 2010.

That is a wonderful feature, not a bug. I wish all websites would go back to 2010 era.

The usability alone of Prisjakt is incredible. It's not in-your-face like the shit that's being invented in 2020s.

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

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Post by mimagic »

throwaway9d0291 wrote: post #112

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

I find deepl better than Google translate for some languages now. Just the fact that you can change some specific words in the translated text is a game changer for me

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

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Post by systemvoltage »

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/

Vimeo has amazing documentaries as well. Similar to Arte.

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Post by calmoo »

modeless wrote: post #12
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…

Amazon product listings and reviews are such a cesspool these days. It's a travesty. It's completely impossible to tell good quality stuff from useless garbage (especially since they are usually commingled in the same listing), and often it's impossible to find good quality stuff at all under the barrage of listings of the same two products with different fake brand names. The sorting options are a joke and the ratin…

Fakespot does this (it doesn't integrate like you described but it does a decent job of spotting fakes)

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

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Post by pestatije »

thecleaner wrote: post #219
pestatije wrote: post #204

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So, the OP asks about non-english sites, and the _first_ reply is a "you should do that in English". WTF?

It says software out of Anglosphere not software not in English.

Please post software out of Anglosphere --> reply --> you need to do that in English. W.T.F.???!!!

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

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Post by kapp »

kamyarg wrote: post #173
adem wrote: post #4

[Ekşi Sözlük]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk )

Came to mention Eksi also. Eksi Sozluk(Sour Times) is a community driven wikipedia without the moderation. Most tech-savvy Turkish people I know visit it atleast once per day.

Why is it "Times" and not "Dictionary"?

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Post by huachimingo »

Sometimes I feel bad for not contributing to the hispanic sphere.

I mean, most of internet's content is in English. Programming is all in english. English is also the lingua franca.

But everything seems dull compared to english content. You have the science, the TV and so on, maybe its just me not feeling so good about local culture.

Yet tourists seem to love these places. What a paradox.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Arete314159 wrote: post #226
guerrilla wrote: post #199

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

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Post by huachimingo »

Arete314159 wrote: post #226
guerrilla wrote: post #199

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).

Check out Cuarto Milenio or Milenio 3, by Iker Jiménez.

Nice terror series.

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