Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by alephnerd » Mon, May 29, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

For India+ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore) I recommend The Ken.

It's basically Stratechery but much more informed about the India+SE Asian technology business. It doesn't hurt that most of the writers for it are ex-VCs and PEs who have worked in the India+ASEAN sector for over a decade.

Inc42 is decent as well.

That said, I'm honestly not impressed with Stratechery anymore. I personally feel the quality of analysis has kinda gone down (sort of feels like he's grasping at straws). But maybe I'm just feeling Dunning-Kruger effect

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by notjulianjaynes » Mon, May 29, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

jezzamon wrote: post #20

notjulianjaynes wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a disclaimer about the stories being machine translated, but I'd still like to know how "Elon Musk" became "Earon Mask."[1] [1] https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230529-elon-musk-cut-twit...

Japanese is limited in what phonetic sounds can be written, so I'm guessing that's just a direct translation of what his name becomes in Japanese

Ah, yes that makes sense. I wasn't considering that the translation would have been from a completely different alphabet.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by avemuri » Mon, May 29, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #21

For India+ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore) I recommend The Ken. It's basically Stratechery but much more informed about the India+SE Asian technology business. It doesn't hurt that most of the writers for it are ex-VCs and PEs who have worked in the India+ASEAN sector for over a decade. Inc42 is decent as well. That said, I'm honestly not impressed with Stratechery anymore…

It's quite far from Stratechery. The Ken is more reportage, investigative at times, but clickbaity at other times.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by searchableguy » Mon, May 29, 2023, 4:20 PM UTC

alephnerd wrote: post #21

For India+ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore) I recommend The Ken. It's basically Stratechery but much more informed about the India+SE Asian technology business. It doesn't hurt that most of the writers for it are ex-VCs and PEs who have worked in the India+ASEAN sector for over a decade. Inc42 is decent as well. That said, I'm honestly not impressed with Stratechery anymore…

+1 to The Ken. It's well worth the subscription.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by umeshunni » Mon, May 29, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

donohoe wrote: post #19

TheRealHB wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting news aggregator (looks like), nice one!

Not a news aggregator - all original reporting

I found the site too 'Western'. It feels like reading a NYT or BBC article about what's going on in Asia rather than reading a local paper.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by greggsy » Mon, May 29, 2023, 9:25 PM UTC

angadsg wrote: post #6

https://www.techinasia.com/ -- they have high quality tech journalism for Asia

This actually had some good focus on Indonesia and SEA in general, which was a pleasant surprise

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by muzani » Tue, May 30, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

@ecommurz on Instagram for Indonesia. They communicate in the language of meme, but they do have the latest updates and a strong community. Leaks somehow get there within a day; we joke that you shouldn't share anything on social media that you don't want to see on murz.

Malaysia has multiple communities, but Developer Kaki on Facebook is the most representative of the tech community now. https://forum.lowyat.net/ is more for tech enthusiasts but there's similar overlap without the elitism.

Also I think it's interesting to expect a tech community to look like Blind or HN, but in much of the world, it could be a Telegram group or a SMF forum.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by ttanimichi » Tue, May 30, 2023, 12:34 AM UTC

https://b.hatena.ne.jp/hotentry/it is an HN of Japan, but I don't think it's reliable enough.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by fomine3 » Tue, May 30, 2023, 2:32 AM UTC

SenHeng wrote: post #7

Japanese tech news site sort of like Gizmodo from the 90s. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/

Gigazine (jp) is now too much article translated from HN headline. It seems to re-translate to English. Not much worth to read. Its quality isn't good.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

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Post by fomine3 » Tue, May 30, 2023, 2:48 AM UTC

Impress Watch and ITMedia to read general tech news, reviews, and some analysis. https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://www.itmedia.co.jp/

Hatena bookmark is now a toxic community in general, but its search feature is useful. Watching good bookmarking user is also interesting. https://b.hatena.ne.jp/q/Ruby?target=title&sort=recent&users...

zenn.dev and Qiita are like dev.to/substack community.

Japan's HN/Reddit equivalent is Twitter but hard to follow/filtering.

I'm also interested in Mainland China tech websites.