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

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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 djaahk »

LordNight wrote: post #184
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…

It's very niche but Philharmonie de Paris has some brilliant visualized analysis of some classical music scores. For example: https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/defaul... https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/defaul... Sadly they don't present the full scores, only the beginning or some part. I wonder if there are other…

I didn’t know about these viz, they are awesome! Thanks for sharing critique-musicale too, immediately added to my Feedly. :-)

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

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Post by djaahk »

di4na wrote: post #134
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…

canardpc.com is probably the best video game magazine and review around. I would not advise presse-citron they have been pretty obvious about being more or less just a sold out editorial at this point.

Presse-Citron is definitely more aligned with the tech establishment, but it remains useful for general tech news - and the comments are still rather sharp.

CanardPC is a GREAT addition, excellent build! About so much more than games too.

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

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Post by djaahk »

staticelf wrote: post #149
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.

I did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. The similarities are flagrant - do they operate such listing sites in other countries too?

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

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Post by crustdevil »

- Tweakers.net; (Dutch)as mentioned by others, tech news / forum / price aggregate. Has consistently been an example of outstanding webdesign and development.

- Catawiki; (Dutch/European) auction site for collectibles, antiques etc. The auctions are moderated by experts.

- NHK world; (Japanese) national broadcaster serving self made English video content (and translations in multiple languages): News,on demand programs, documentaries, sumo! Mainly focused on Japan and SEA. Although the content often doesn't go too deep into a subject - it's not very critical - it's generally a nice mix of human interest, environment, science, culture etc. I had to get used to the Japanese ways/tone, but the overall lightheartedness made it a nourishing non-fiction media escape for me.

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Post by vikin9 »

Meteo from Poland is a great source for numerical weather forecast. Website is in english, but their forecast is mainly for Poland + Border regions of the neighbours. http://www.meteo.pl/index_en.php

If you know the coordinates, you can access a jpg-generated meteogram directly over the URL - example for Berlin: http://www.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2...

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 #263
staticelf wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. The similarities are flagrant - do they operate such listing sites in other countries too?

Yes, http://segundamano.es/ was the spanish version but it looks like the merged it with another site. https://www.finn.no/ is the norwegian version but it was developed seperately. https://www.tori.fi/ is the finnish one. Such listing sites are big business and they make a lot of money of them.

They have done similar stuff with Prisjakt.nu and made a french version: https://ledenicheur.fr/

I think there are even more still but I am not certain.

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

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Post by yosito »

I've been using Yandex Translate for months now. The quality of translations isn't as good, but the mobile app UI is far more usable, and I'm tired of sending all the data I translate to Google. Unfortunately, the language I translate most often isn't supported in a lot of other alternatives.

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

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Post by omnibrain »

amaccuish wrote: post #236
4cao wrote: post #144

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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-…

What is the difference between golem and heise. I like both but are they equally popular?

I think so. Some might say Golem nowadays sometimes is a bit deeper technologically and more up to current affairs, but in the end it comes down to taste.

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Post by yorwba »

qntty wrote: post #220
jxf wrote: post #182

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

Have you ever tried to communicate in beginner/intermediate-level German with a German speaker? They'd most likely insist on switching to English.

It's a natural reaction in one-on-one conversations to switch to the language that least impedes communication. That's annoying when you're trying to learn a language but wouldn't be too bad as an outcome if your actual problem is just the lack of English documentation.

But in the case of a larger online community where German is used by default, you'd be unlikely to get everyone to switch to English just by posting in bad German. After all, you might just as well be a Kazakh whose English is even worse, and as just another anonymous newcomer, there's no reason to accommodate you in particular.

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

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Post by agent008t »

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…

Funny to see RSDN in this list! It now has only around 20 regulars left (many of whom would appear to be posting under multiple accounts), and nobody really discusses tech any more.

But I do love the old usenet-like interface with thread trees. I wish more message boards still used a similar interface (although it is a pain to use on mobile).

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