[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Sites like Hacker News but in other languages
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Ask HN: Sites like Hacker News but in other languages
I've been learning Spanish on Duolingo and it occurred to me that a
good way to practice and extend my vocabulary would be to visit a
site similar to HN but in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone here
is aware of any such site? If not are you aware of any other
similar sites in languages other than English?
Author : rcarr
Score : 13 points
Date : 2022-11-27 23:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
| lmiller1990 wrote:
| For the Japanese x programming segment specifically, I spend a
| lot of time reading (and some writing) on Qiita:
| https://qiita.com/
| marvin_3050 wrote:
| Higher Level [1] is an entrepreneur-focused forum created and
| funded by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom
| Relations. It isn't as tech oriented as HN, but it has the same
| mix of civil discussion, high quality contributions and
| experienced professionals willing to share stories and advice.
|
| [1]: https://www.higherlevel.nl/
| notlukesky wrote:
| I reckon that there are plenty of HN type of sites in many
| languages around the world. I wonder if there are enough of non-
| native English speakers that also read HN to provide us with
| insights and links. While English might seem to us to be the
| lingua franca of "tech" there are clearly big pockets around the
| world that dominant tech footprints and/or dominant
| economies/geographies/population/critical mass to sustain local
| HN variants. One could assume that there would be ones in
| Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish,
| Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi etc...
|
| However, a caveat that might make HN unique is that it is
| subsidized, funded, maintained and actively run by private
| enterprise as a "marketing" arm of YC. Maybe that's what might be
| lacking in other ecosystems and language hemispheres.
| avindroth wrote:
| I don't think that globalist "We are not special" assumption is
| true. Each culture contributes to a unique kind of community,
| and an HN equivalent might not exist (e.g. there isn't one in
| Korea). But also there are things in Korean internet whose
| equivalent does not exist in English (e.g. Namuwiki, a popular
| non-formal wiki, perhaps more popular than Wikipedia).
|
| I think part of the reason why is that HN has something unique
| that would be hard to replicate elsewhere: the open source
| community and otherwise. For instance, there isn't a community
| in Korea where every week there is a posting about Lisp.
| jjgreen wrote:
| French: https://www.journalduhacker.net/
| rcarr wrote:
| It's interesting to me that, after a quick look through the
| first few pages, it seems to have a much tighter technical
| focus than HN. I do sometimes wonder if the culture and
| politics stuff that seems inescapable in the English speaking
| media is less of an issue in countries that speak different
| languages.
| MontyCarloHall wrote:
| Probably mostly a function of the much smaller community
| size. There are only two articles on the front page with any
| comments at all, and they only have 1 or 2 comments each.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| tompark wrote:
| Great idea. I'd be interested in a similar site in Brazilian
| Portuguese or Korean.
| pbiggar wrote:
| Lemmy is a fediverse clone of reddit, and some of their
| communities are in different languages: https://join-
| lemmy.org/instances
|
| The "main" site also has many subcommunities in many languages:
| https://lemmy.ml/communities
|
| (ps I literally found this an hour ago, so I don't know much
| about it)
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