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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 Black101 »

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…

Yandex reverse image search is also much better then Google's version in my experience.

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

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Post by gjvnq »

kradeelav wrote: post #13

Pixiv! ( http://pixiv.net/ ) If you're familiar with deviantart or artstation, it's a similar Japanese digital art site with its own culture, store, contests, and more. While the site has a pretty great English navigation, I was on there back in the day when it was 100% Japanese only, and many of its current mores stem from those days.

This website is well known by the reddit transgender community.

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

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Post by charlysl »

In Spain, forocoches.com (started out as a forum around cars, now tons of subforums; right-wing bias; invitation only) and meneame.net (user submitted news, tech & more; left-wing bias; draconian moderation).

Both very useful to understand what people really think in Spain about all kinds of topics.

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

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Post by RasmusLarsen »

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…

I don't know the exact list, but pricespy (prisjakt) is in a lot of countries. I have used .no/.se/.co.uk previously and they all seem to be at about the same level for their respective countries.

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Post by geza »

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): Hong Kong forum on tech and software, similar to reddit

Huxiu (虎嗅): tech news site

Toutiao Xinwen (头条新闻): news aggregator site, has categories and comments

Zhihu (知乎): QA platform, similar to Quora

Zhihu Zhuanlan (知乎专栏): blogging platform, similar to Medium

Ximalaya FM (喜马拉雅 FM): podcasts app

Duokan (多看): ebooks app similar to Kindle

Douyin (抖音): Chinese version of Tiktok

iQiyi (爱奇艺): video site with tons of movies and dramas

JD (京东): amazon-like marketplace with same-day delivery

Taobao (淘宝): ebay-like peer-to-peer marketplace

Weibo (新浪微博): microblogging site like Twitter

Zhifubao (支付宝): peer-to-peer payments app that works by scanning QR codes, very widely accepted in China

Wechat (微信): messaging app that also has tons of micro-apps and payment functionality built in

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Post by captn3m0 »

xkyscore wrote: post #26
OJFord wrote: post #9

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?

It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.

Yup, writing good technical content in Hindi is nigh-impossible.
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