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

544 points by remolacha 6y ago

What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)

mooreed 6y ago
Great question. +1 for my interest too.
underyx 6y ago
This is probably not what you're looking for, but I recently found this dump of Hungarian tech/gaming magazine scans dating back to the late 80's, and I've been looking for an excuse to share it further: https://retroujsag.com/ https://retroujsag.com/
- BugWatch 6y ago
  Try mentioning it on reddit.com/r/DataHoarder, someone might be interested.
adem 6y ago
[Ekşi Sözlük](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ek%C5%9Fi_S%C3%B6zl%C3%BCk)
- kamyarg 6y ago
  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.
  - kapp 6y ago
    Why is it "Times" and not "Dictionary"?
daocao 6y ago
Taobao! It's like eBay, but for wholesalers who are ~selling "ghost shift" parts~ offloading excess inventory to small-time consumers. There are brokers for international customers; they communicate with the sellers and consolidate orders into a single parcel for ~10-15% commission. But it's harder to browse these days; less is available without an account which you need to provide a mobile number for, and you have to jump through hoops to avoid getting only "international" listings.
- Tepix 6y ago
  Can you provide more detail / links please on how to avoid getting only international listings?
walrus01 6y ago
news of the weirdest electronic gadgets for sale in japan. google chrome and automatic translate do a reasonably good job on the page. it's related to the retail stores in the akihabara district of tokyo. https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ also its parent site PC watch https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/
- Answerawake 6y ago
  Thank you for posting! What a nifty little site showing off things I didn't even know I wanted! Small selection of things that I found interesting: 1. Turn your old Dreamcast VMU into a modern game console: Would never have thought of it but in hindsight its the perfect device to mod given its form factor! https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197.html https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197.... 2. Combine a Raspberry pi with a Famicom cartridge to provide the Famicom the ability to run DOOM. Given all the other Famicom related releases listed there, its amazing to see the Famicon still alive and kicking. Wonder how the N64 scene is like over there. https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530.html https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530.... 3. IPS Screen mod for Wonderswan (granted we have seen lots of IPS mods so this one for Wonderswan makes sense given its Japan) The story about Akihabara stores being vacant seems sad though. Even they cannot escape COVID/the future of shopping being online it seems.
- fomine3 6y ago
  Similar website: https://www.gdm.or.jp/ https://www.gdm.or.jp/ They also posts new PC parts rumors relatively early.
twobitshifter 6y ago
https://pantip.com/ https://pantip.com/ Thai Reddit / Wikipedia / answers.com. It’s a massive forum with an area for almost any topic.
101008 6y ago
Looking for reverse copycat? Just kidding. Taringa used to be the Reddit in Spanish (well, at least for South America), with really interesting content. Microsiervos.com was probably the best tech/curiosities blog in Spanish, and a few days ago I visited and it is still active (from 2006 I think).
- dipiert 6y ago
  You're talking like a real lince intergaláctico de las praderas.
OJFord 6y ago
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?
- xkyscore 6y ago
  It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.
  - captn3m0 6y ago
    Yup, writing good technical content in Hindi is nigh-impossible.
    - xxpor 6y ago
      I've noticed that Twitter will translate Hindi written in Roman characters, which is certainly common on the internet, but I'd think given (AFAIK) there's no formal standard for it it'd be hard to get good data to feed into an AI. Or is it enough of a 1-1 transliteration that all you need to do is encode the Roman->Devanagari rules and that'll work nearly 100% of the time?
      - abdullahkhalids 6y ago
        There are several standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_transliteration#Transliteration_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_transliteration#Tra... Nobody bothers to use them. Same for Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Urdu
      - OJFord 6y ago
        The standard is IAST - but colloquially people don't use it, preferring a more Anglophone phonetic approximation (since English literacy is high) so you get 'aloo' instead of 'alū' (potato) and 'jeera' instead of 'jīra' (cumin), for example. It's quite annoying as a learner, since it can make it difficult to map back to devnagārī (resp. devnagari) to look up a new word, for example. (It's almost entirely true to say that devnagārī script is phonetic, so if you write कुछ and I don't know the word, I know how to pronounce it without knowing what it means, and can ask someone or look it up, which is a great feature that English of course doesn't have at all, and while Hindi phonetic approximation in the alphabet might get closer, it's still non-standard and different typers will spell words differently.)
aasasd 6y ago
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 products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web. Alas, it's only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there's no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don't even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.
- modeless 6y ago
  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 ratings are gamed so much they indicate nothing except how much the seller spent buying reviews. It's amazing that Google hasn't been able to do better here.
  - derefr 6y ago
    You’d think someone would have come along who just scrapes Amazon’s listings, applies their own intelligent indexing heuristics, and spits out a new search/browse page that just links through to Amazon’s regular product pages. Like CamelCamelCamel, but for dimensions other than price.
smsm42 6y ago
https://habr.com/ https://habr.com/ (Russian) has some good articles, some translated, some original.
kradeelav 6y ago
Pixiv! (http://pixiv.net/ 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.
- gjvnq 6y ago
  This website is well known by the reddit transgender community.
Naga 6y ago
I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.
- jette_au_loin 6y ago
  France has a few enormous message boards about various topics. forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)
  - gspr 6y ago
    > forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.) What I assume is the equivalent, forum.hardware.no, used to be huge in Norway in the 00s too, but then the community more or less got swallowed by Reddit. Did the French one survive?
    - waterpowder 6y ago
      Oh yes, it's very active. Interestingly, the hardware news, tests and reviews closed a year or two ago, but the message board remained.
    - unhammer 6y ago
      diskusjon.no still seems fairly active. Though anytime I search for something non-tech-related in Norwegian ("us taxes norway", "car brake trombone", "kid face blue", "beach meteorite"), I typically get one of the forums Kvinneguiden.no ("the women's guide"), BarniMagen.no ("child in tummy") or MammaNett (… you get the drift). So there's a part of the Norwegian Internet that strangely hasn't been swallowed up by the FRAANG.
    - Glawen 6y ago
      Very active, I find it much better than reddit where I usually cannot find anything useful, the UI is awful on reddit. The real interesting thing is that there are a lot of threads for very specialized topics (e.g. bikes, mattress, pizza oven or torch lights). Before buying something I usually check if a thread exists and read it / ask questions. You however end up having to revise upwards your budget to buy the stuff they recommend.
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BugsJustFindMe 6y ago
The French national library has quite an extensive digital collection. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ https://gallica.bnf.fr/
- lefrancais 6y ago
  Wow, just discovered that! thanks it is awesome. I finally found illustrated version of Les trois mousquetaires and Jules Vernes in epub for free !
mehrzad 6y ago
Not a website, and this may be obvious, but if you are doing research on Wikipedia on a topic from a non-English speaking country, sometimes that nation's language features a longer and more in depth article. I am currently learning German and have noticed this with regard to articles regarding universities in Germany.
- singularity2001 6y ago
  this is a great recommendation also for scientific topics: Often when I am really interested in something I read the article and four different languages, because most often each language offers different aspects and images. also it's a great way to learn languages.
PaulHoule 6y ago
https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/ https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/ is ebay but cooler and from Latino America.
- m-chrzan 6y ago
  What makes it cooler?
  - riledhel 6y ago
    MercadoPago is the payment gatewat and it's amazing. They take care of delivery/logistics like Amazon and it's fast and works in remote places too.
    - notdang 6y ago
      To be fair, they launched the nice things after Amazon opened in Mexico and got the whole market. Before that they could not be bothered.
- unhammer 6y ago
  Norway has finn.no, though perhaps more like craigslist (get rid of old couch, find cheap exercise bike, get job, sell house, etc.)
abledon 6y ago
Qiita https://qiita.com/ https://qiita.com/ its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese
- zinclozenge 6y ago
  It sometimes shows up when you're searching tech topics. I actually found a series of blog posts that explained how to write Erlang/Elixir NIFs in Rust with Rustler.
- Seb-C 6y ago
  Yes, it's everywhere when you search technical topics in Japan.
- fomine3 6y ago
  dev.to looks like equivalent to Qiita. Now zenn.dev is getting popular in Japan instead of Qiita.
  - input_sh 6y ago
    Any cool monetization strategies on Qiita or Zenn? I know dev.to is betting on Coil, so I'm curious if Japanese developers have a method they're betting on.
    - fomine3 6y ago
      Qiita has been acquired by game company Ateam 3 years ago. Possibly it works for the company's advertisement. They also selling collaboration SaaS called Qiita Team. I don't see any their cool monetization. Zenn has been trying to sell paid article for profit. That's not so cool for tech perspective but it's looks good for me if they succeeded. Zenn was operated by single person but it has been acquired by IT(AWS) service company Classmethod very recently. Maybe they also work for the company's advertisement.
- fromaj 6y ago
  I can understand a fair bit of japanese and posts on Qiita have often been life-savers. They have quite a few medium-like long posts where people describe how to do something specific through a tutorial or step-by-step explanation. StackOverflow/Reddit aren't really great for that
aGRa_kursk 6y ago
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 and cloud services, Russian Spotify (Yandex.Music), Russian Netflix (several of them, actually), Russian Uber (Yandex.Taxi, which actually owns Russian Uber). You'll see lots of Yandex services here, it's sort of Russian Google (except it predates Google by a year or so). Yandex's primary business is search and advertising, but just like Google, they diversify a lot. And even in primary area, they sometimes manage to beat Google. Yandex's reverse image search (when you upload the image to search for similar ones) is FAR superior to Google's. And there's a lot of unique Russian content on global sites like Facebook, Livejournal (owned by a Russian company nowadays) or Wikipedia.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  Maybe helpful when browsing extra-anglosphere sites: translate.yandex both has much more liberal length limits than GOOG translate and makes it easy to look up alternative translations for individual words.
- MichaelMoser123 6y ago
  i like anekdot.ru - they have a pretty solid community, and the jokes are really funny (sometimes).
- BlueGh0st 6y ago
  I can vouch for Yandex's reverse image search. It blows Google's out of the water. I think regular image search is typically better too, depending on what your needs are (Google seems to prefer stock imagery which can be frustrating).
- ACS_Solver 6y ago
  Habr is great. I don't visit other Runet sites often, but read Habr regularly - it's part HN, part Slashdot, with great original content. The Russian Internet seems to be an overall great place to find information on old devices, old software, and the like. http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm is a retro-looking site about retrocomputing, it has many articles from computer magazines circa 1990. Also worth noting that due to Russia's traditionally "relaxed view on copyright" it's not hard to stumble upon a site that has direct download links to e.g. versions of MS-DOS or Windows 3.1.
lovelearning 6y ago
I found DW's YouTube channels to be good resources to learn about cultures, societies, current affairs and geopolitics from around the world. Auto-generated subtitles for their non-English channels are good enough to understand what is being conveyed. [1] : https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle [2] : their other channels are listed at the bottom of [1].
- mongol 6y ago
  Lots of content in English as well https://youtube.com/c/dwnews https://youtube.com/c/dwnews
- sakal 6y ago
  On YouTube exists tone of lectures about electrotechnics and electronics for software developers [0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zefar91 https://www.youtube.com/user/Zefar91 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/abglazov https://www.youtube.com/c/abglazov
sasaf5 6y ago
https://endic.naver.com https://endic.naver.com Best resource for Korean language when approached from the Anglosphere.
- mcyc 6y ago
  Yes, this is truly a great resource for Korean. There are some interesting bugs (like english text example search matches substrings rather than words; e.g. searching "tile" results in "The Ptile value is outside the range of valid values". There were worse cases a few months ago that seem to be resolved), but overall it is an invaluable tool for Korean learners.
charlysl 6y ago
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.
- Darmody 6y ago
  Meneame is the Spanish /r/politics. You will hardly get anything of value out of there. Even the founder noped the f out.
- huachimingo 6y ago
  Same with Racó Catalá.
- Shorel 6y ago
  Menéame has always seem to me as a bad copy of digg.
tayo42 6y ago
Tabelog lead to some amazing dinners in Japan.
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geza 6y ago
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
- TeeMassive 6y ago
  Nice try CCP
- samwestdev 6y ago
  how does the p2p payment app work? No middle man?
  - geza 6y ago
    Ah I meant P2P in the "from user to user with no transaction fees charged, doesn't go through Visa/Mastercard/Unionpay" sense (similar to Venmo, except that in China businesses accept it everywhere), not in the "fully decentralized and doesn't need a server" sense. For Zhifubao the servers are run by Ant Financial (it's a spin-off company of Alibaba), for WeChat the servers are run by Tencent. You can deposit/withdraw money to your bank account. I'm assuming you're probably more interested in the new digital RMB wallet technology which supposedly works even if your phone doesn't have internet access, but I'm not familiar with how that is implemented (I'm guessing it uses blockchain and broadcasts the transactions later when you connect to the internet). There's some info about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi
known 6y ago
Examples of Chinese equivalents to Western internet services[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#Economic_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#E...
NalNezumi 6y ago
I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house, real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone number on the site, called her and gave her the wallet.
- ackbar03 6y ago
  WOW. Is this a well known service/site in Sweden? In other countries this would have been blown up into a huge privacy issue. Assuming its not because its sort of underground, why do you think it hasn't in Sweden? Genuinely curious
  - NalNezumi 6y ago
    It's a well known site in Sweden. I remember using it at least 10-13 years back. A quick Swedish googling found me a dozens of sites offering similar services. One even offered credit rating assessment at 1.5 dollar after the search. I'm not well read on the issue but a lot of things are digitalized in Sweden. It's a cashless society, where everyone have a personal number that they can use for government service & signing up for phone contracts. The tax institute (like USA:s IRS) sends their deductions out digitally, and AFAIK they have a very open API a lot of digital services in Sweden use for online identification of a private person. So I assume those pages probably use the tax-institutes API for personal information, and then other APIs (such as real-estate portals) to tie information together.
    - airhead969 6y ago
      So, the government knows every purchase they make, tracks everything they do, and can take it all away whenever it wants? No thanks. And what about homeless and old people, are they disenfranchised too? A cashless society controlled by a government or a corporation means a powerless society. Norway has had similar tax return approval by text messaging for almost 20 years.
jaflo 6y ago
If anyone has a site similar to Reddit or HN in German I would be interested. Anything with interesting discussion really.
- 4cao 6y ago
  Someone will probably come up with a better answer but you can check out https://www.heise.de/forum/ https://www.heise.de/forum/ for tech news.
  - omnibrain 6y ago
    The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.
    - 4cao 6y ago
      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-im-Datenschutz-Check-Android-telefoniert-nach-Hause-4857162.html https://www.heise.de/news/Corona-Apps-im-Datenschutz-Check-A... 2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/
      - omnibrain 6y ago
        Heise is definitely one of the best tech media/print houses. But their handling of their comment section is seriously lacking and it looks like it is stuck in early 90ies usenet discussions and worse.
      - amaccuish 6y ago
        What is the difference between golem and heise. I like both but are they equally popular?
donquichotte 6y ago
mikrocontroller.net, a German resource and forum for electronics, microcontrollers and low level programming.
Tijdreiziger 6y ago
https://tweakers.net https://tweakers.net Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board. It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN) Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.
  - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
    I think the forums are one of the site's greatest assets, actually. But there does exist a certain culture there in which absolutely everything is debated into oblivion, even long past the point where such a discussion stops being useful for answering the question at hand.
- superdeeda 6y ago
  Nice! Any other Dutch websites you can recommend?
  - Tijdreiziger 6y ago
    When discussing Tweakers, https://hardware.info https://hardware.info comes to mind, which has been run by the same guys as Tweakers since September 2020 and focuses on products. Its associated forums were discontinued in favor of the Tweakers forums. The community on /r/thenetherlands on Reddit is pretty friendly (more friendly than Reddit at large, where arguments tend to devolve into snide remarks with a higher frequency). https://fok.nl https://fok.nl and its associated forums are still kicking, although I don't personally frequent the site. There is also https://dumpert.nl https://dumpert.nl, which appeals to a certain subset of the population. I admit some of the videos on there can be entertaining, but the community is offputting to me. Other than that, there are of course a dozen news media (ownership of which is mostly split between two conglomerates: DPG Media and Mediahuis) which have an online presence. Reputable ones include NOS, de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw, het Parool, de Groene Amsterdammer, FD, de Correspondent. Don't bother with de Telegraaf, it's the Dutch equivalent of The Sun or Bild (or in certain regards, Fox News). There are also media outlets covering Dutch-speaking areas outside the Netherlands (Flanders (Belgium), Suriname), but I'm not too familiar with those, being from the Netherlands myself. Also of interest might be https://dutchnews.nl https://dutchnews.nl and https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish, Dutch news coverage in English (the latter one specifically translating NOS's COVID-19 coverage).
_a1_ 6y ago
https://www.wykop.pl https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and engineering news from all around the world. The comments posted by users of wykop.pl are often cited in other sites. ...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it started to suck ;) (even name is a reference to digg, 'wykop' means 'a dig site', or 'to dig')
- tester34 6y ago
  This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad. I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.
  - RicoElectrico 6y ago
    > This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. Agree but only partially, you just have not to browse the front page and Wykopalisko (= queue on Digg) - this is where tinfoil hatters, right-wing nutjobs and paid trolls thrive. The sine qua non of browsing wykop.pl and retaining sanity is - blacklist tags (like #polityka #przegryw #patostreamy) - browse only Mikroblog (no frontpage, no Wykopalisko). - use uBlock or a third-party mobile app I stand with the GP that wykop.pl is one of the best places to ask for advice on hobby and such. Why? It's less circlejerk-y than specialized forums and people absolutely hate paid shills here. And there are almost no "Facebook mom" type of people. It's also good for local news / local questions, as hashtags of most cities have quite a lot of followers. Ah, and on Mikroblog the OP can delete comments on their posts, which comes in handy if someone is getting nasty. The only comparable stuff would be the loosely defined "sekcje JBWA" ("Jak będzie w ...") groups on Facebook, but many of these groups have overzealous admins who ban people breaking rules, but with no subtlety (I mean, if someone is polite, posts higher-effort content and the infraction is minor, a mute would suffice)
SenHeng 6y ago
5ch.net The Japanese anonymous forum that inspired 4chan. It actually started of as 2 channel but various business and legal disputes happened.
Seb-C 6y ago
In French we used to have "le site du zéro". It was a very popular collaborative site with a ton of free courses for beginners in (mostly) programming. Today it feels that it just became a somewhat bland and nothing-special corporate resource (OpenClassrooms), but it was once a vibrant community with it's own identity: http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduzero.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduz... On a completely different topic, https://www.jeuxvideo.com/ https://www.jeuxvideo.com/ have long been (and still is) one of the most popular forums among young people in France.
- Davidbrcz 6y ago
  Check https://zestedesavoir.com https://zestedesavoir.com Made by former staff of Sdz, high quality, can't recommend enough.
- cedex12 6y ago
  I feel like linuxfr.org also deserves a mention: had pretty thorough articles on lots of subject, as far as I could judge them (and knowledgeable members!).
- jerome-jh 6y ago
  https://www.fun-mooc.fr/ https://www.fun-mooc.fr/ Online courses with a wide variety of topics. Took a number of them unrelated to CS, unfortunately many are archived. There is a very good introduction course to Chinese https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+session05/about https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+sessi... with a session this spring.
- benhurmarcel 6y ago
  Le Site du Zéro is how I got started with programming back in high school. That was a great site, it's a shame what happened to it.
gspr 6y ago
Most of the techy anglosophere know CCC from the annual conferences. But they do much more: https://www.ccc.de/ https://www.ccc.de/
gspr 6y ago
https://yr.no https://yr.no provides an API for high quality open weather data, globally, supplied by the Norwegian meteorological service. Information is available in English too, but it is perhaps not well-known in the anglosophere.
- luplex 6y ago
  It's what I use for mountaineering in the alps. It has all the mountains as searchable POIs, so it's much better than other consumer apps.
- coopierez 6y ago
  The app also has an extremely enjoyable visualisation of the weather predictions, which is a nice bonus!
- shyber 6y ago
  this one is also great for sailing
- gspr 6y ago
  I guess I should add some information, since it's not trivial to find from the main page. The API documentation [1] is in English. Most (all?) the data is dual-licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and the Norwegian open government data license [2]. Please do take care not to abuse a tax-payer funded service, and do obey the the terms of service [3] (these are restrictions on querying the API, not on the use of the data themselves, which seems reasonable). [1] https://developer.yr.no/ https://developer.yr.no/ [2] https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/ https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/ [3] https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/ https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/
owenversteeg 6y ago
I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa. I wouldn't know about the quality of the content - I don't speak Arabic - but from what I can tell it's like Arabic Wikipedia, but you also get blogs, forums, ancient manuscripts, email with unlimited storage (?!?) and much more. The Arabic internet in general is always interesting to me, because even in 2021 it still seems very ad-hoc and far less commercialized than the parts of the internet I've seen in other languages.
- imedadel 6y ago
  It started as a fork of the Arabic Wikipedia, though. And most content is outdated since they don't have that many contributors.
ximus 6y ago
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/ https://www.arte.tv/en/
- afkqs 6y ago
  A great initiative in the media industry for sure. They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture [1]. Very interesting [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde
  - jerome-jh 6y ago
    And currently a great series on "The civil war" - "La guerre de secession" - "Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg", mostly for European watchers obviously. With plenty of photos and citations from the time and just enough commentary as necessary. Available in french and german. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/040864-001-A/la-guerre-de-secession-1-9/ https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/040864-001-A/la-guerre-de-sece...
  - tauntz 6y ago
    > They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture I.. I thought that it's gonna be a Youtube channel about people living.. underground. I should get some sleep.
  - Kunix 6y ago
    Tracks is what made me discover the demoscene 20 years ago when I was in secondary school. Such a great show.
- bierjunge 6y ago
  A while ago ARTE started a side channel and asked users how to name it, which we all know is a bad idea in the internet. The result was "Irgendwas mit ARTE und Kultur" ("something with ARTE and culture") and they really took the name: https://www.youtube.com/c/IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur https://www.youtube.com/c/IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur Kudos to ARTE. BTW. it's a cooperation between french and german public televisions, is there something similar elsewhere in the world?
logicchains 6y ago
Yandex! It's like Russian Google, but the results (or at least the English-language results) are more algorithmic, without human intervention in the rankings.
timka 6y ago
http://rutracker.org http://rutracker.org — a torrent tracker
BlueGh0st 6y ago
For some reason, the Russian web seems to rehost old drivers/software and such indefinitely without all the malicious spam you normally find in Google. That led me to Kazus Electronic Portal[0] which seems to have just about every hardware-related piece of information you could need. Including an obscure serial driver from 2005 that I couldn't find elsewhere. [0] http://kazus.ru/ http://kazus.ru/
sm4rk0 6y ago
Serbian news aggregator/search engine: https://naslovi.net/ https://naslovi.net/ Its name is "Headlines" in Serbian.
luplex 6y ago
https://wiki.selfhtml.org/ https://wiki.selfhtml.org/ (German) is where I learnt the basics of web development in high school. I'm not sure how up to date it is, though.
yread 6y ago
https://mapy.cz/ https://mapy.cz/ Google maps alternative with great tourist maps (also has a layer for cross-country skiing) and an app with offline maps
- simonmales 6y ago
  As a non Czech I assumed it was a nice layer on top of OSM tiles, but the outdoor trails are truly high quality. Only have managed to fault it once whilst trying to decide how to descend a mountain in Slovenia.
  - exyi 6y ago
    Yes, outside Czechia and Slovakia they use data from Open Street Maps.
- sajagi 6y ago
  Best worldwide outdoor map there is, with offline support. I use it very often to find trails not even locals know about (e.g. Japan). Don't forget to switch to Outdoor mode!
- PufPufPuf 6y ago
  They have an international version, called Windy Maps. It's the same app, just with international branding & marketing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... I definitely recommend it for worldwide use. It can do _everything_ offline, which is something rarely seen in this age. I have found it very practical for hiking Japanese countryside.
d26900 6y ago
I. C++ (related) forums from Germany and Japan that I've found (so far): - https://www.c-plusplus.net/ https://www.c-plusplus.net/ - https://dixq.net/ https://dixq.net/ II. Quality YouTube channels from Germany: - https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos Explains societal/political/historical topics (in a neutral manner) to laypeople. - https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos Explains science topics (chemistry, biology, studies) to laypeople. III. Quality YouTube channels from Japan: - https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos Math professor teaching linear algebra, analysis etc. IV. Services from Germany - https://www.mindfactory.de/ https://www.mindfactory.de/ Computer hardware etc. - web.de For me the best European Dropbox alternative so far (Online-Speicher). V. Services from Japan - https://fc2.com/ https://fc2.com/ Website hosting etc. - https://www.nicovideo.jp/ https://www.nicovideo.jp/ The Japanese YouTube basically. - https://www.rakuten.co.jp/ https://www.rakuten.co.jp/ The Japanese Amazon. VI. Concluding Remarks & Miscellaneous - Arte, Phoenix make good documentaries. (But these were already mentioned by others.) - https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ - https://www.xmg.gg/en/ https://www.xmg.gg/en/ Laptops made/assembled in Germany. - https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/ https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/ Some smartphones are made in Germany. - https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos By Genki Sudo (須藤元気) former MMA fighter. He's now a politician. - Hiroshi Abe (阿部寛) The Japanese Clint Eastwood. - Kim Ki-duk A Korean movie director that I happen to like. PS: If I find/remember more interesting stuff from Japan and Germany, I will update this post. :)
luplex 6y ago
I'm a big fan of werstreamt.es (German), which is a simple search engine for all streaming services.
throwaway9d0291 6y ago
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 https://www.deepl.com
- shaydwyrm 6y ago
  Deepl was an incredible tool when I was struggling though my first full length novel in Spanish. It gave much more lucid and nuanced translations than any other automated translation tool I tried.
- mimagic 6y ago
  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
djaahk 6y ago
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 and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons, - LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles - Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference - priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet - danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun - Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro) - Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome
- di4na 6y ago
  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.
  - djaahk 6y ago
    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.
- Nextgrid 6y ago
  LeBonCoin became annoying since they put contact details behind a login wall. What made it successful back in the day is the simplicity - just post an ad and have interested people call you. Search for something and you can directly call sellers.
- staticelf 6y ago
Darmody 6y ago
- EU Open Data Portal: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home - Research*EU Magazines: https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu - EU Research magazine is the World leading open access publication for scientific research and dissemination. Each issue covers a different thematic area, presenting cutting edge science in an innovative and entertaining format.
hattori31 6y ago
famitsu.com Japanese site for game news. Every new and upcoming game is in the list, very good to see whata coming
fy20 6y ago
There's a home automation protocol that's been around for over 20 years called KNX. It's backed by big names (ABB, Hager, Gira, Osram, Mean Well) however outside of Germany it's pretty much unknown. Compared to ZigBee or Z-Wave it's wired and the config is stored in the devices themselves, so there's no single point of failure. It has strict certification requirements so you can be guaranteed that products from different manufacturers will work together (this does mean its more expensive though). The quality of the hardware (esp. motion/presence sensors) is a lot better than what you can buy from Amazon or the 'smart home' section in your local Walmart. There's plenty of content (in German) on YouTube about it, and forums: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiCPbFz0Ld6mera2fNDRWzw https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiCPbFz0Ld6mera2fNDRWzw https://knx-user-forum.de/ https://knx-user-forum.de/
- thecleaner 6y ago
  Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
  - kreeben 6y ago
    Germany is fine with you not being able to ingest their documentation. If there is ever a need to do anything it would be the need for you to learn German and the need for anyone monolingual to learn a second language. The more balance in the world the better place it would be.
    - benhurmarcel 6y ago
      I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
      - kreeben 6y ago
        I empathize with you. But I reject that it should fall upon Germany to learn English for your convenience or that the task of translating their texts should fall upon them. I guess I reacted (perhaps poorly) to GP's statement that Germany "really should start documenting their tech in English" which to me sounded rather preposterous.
omnibrain 6y ago
https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ A world wide map of rail tracks run by (german) rail enthusiasts.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 6y ago
  Surprisingly it also has some planned tram lines in Poland. Quite neat.
  - jonp888 6y ago
    It's 'just' OpenStreetMap rendered in a way that emphasizes railway lines and exposes some of the metadata. So whilst the site is german-run the data has no geographical bias.
- tga 6y ago
  https://bahn.guru https://bahn.guru Easy price calendar for (mostly) German trains.
ashwanidausodia 6y ago
http://e-maxx.ru/algo http://e-maxx.ru/algo I used to study competitive programming algorithms from there with Google translate Edit: It seems somebody translated it to English https://cp-algorithms.com/ https://cp-algorithms.com/
4cao 6y ago
4PDA.ru is arguably a better version of XDA-Developers: a repository of all kinds of customizations for Android devices. Unlike XDA, it's well-categorized into threads, the first post is always a good summary of what's inside that particular thread with links to individual posts, and low-effort clutter is mercilessly moderated away.
terramex 6y ago
In Poland there is elektroda.pl - forum about electronics, electrics and programming. Is was founded in 1999 and has over 2 500 000 registered accounts. It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason. It certainly has 'old-usenet' vibe, both the good parts (huge amount of knowledge) and the bad (pretty toxic behaviour of many power users and moderators).
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12ian34 6y ago
The most accurate rain/snow/wind forecaster I've ever used: https://www.buienradar.nl/ https://www.buienradar.nl/
yarbas89 6y ago
There's a very old Turkish website (late 90s AFAIK) called http://eksisozluk.com http://eksisozluk.com - it's like a mix between wiki, reddit and urbandictionary. It has an important place in Turkish youth subculture and I believe it originated as a 'forum' for the tech community in Turkey.
Ueland 6y ago
A Norwegian web-store is famous for its "design" and is being showcased in all kinds of design talks and presentations. (Of course in the "How not to do it" category) http://arngren.net/ http://arngren.net/
luxurytent 6y ago
https://www.webtoons.com/en/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/ is massively popular in Korea and surrounding, but niche in NA
pmlnr 6y ago
https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era. http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php Oldschool electronic circuit board drawings, also Hungarian.
guerrilla 6y ago
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 have websites that are pretty easy to find and although some content is region restricted, a lot is not.
- Arete314159 6y ago
  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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  - huachimingo 6y ago
    Check out Cuarto Milenio or Milenio 3, by Iker Jiménez. Nice terror series.
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fomine3 6y ago
Scrapbox is well made note/collaboration SaaS made in Kyoto. It's frictionless experience but also opinionated (like they don't use Markdown). https://scrapbox.io/ https://scrapbox.io/
crazypython 6y ago
Yandex Images – https://yandex.com/images/ https://yandex.com/images/ It's much, much better than Google Images. The only Western equivalent that comes close is DuckDuckGo Images.
emgo 6y ago
Thinkerview: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgWpmt02UtJkyO32HGUASQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgWpmt02UtJkyO32HGUASQ It's a French podcast covering a wide array of topics such as geopolitics, journalism, big tech, industrial espionage, economic warfare, etc. I find it refreshing because the ideas and opinions discussed are very different compared to those you'd find in the usual anglophone media, and just that by itself is a ton of value.
Amin3456 6y ago
How to Take Care of Betta Fish https://bit.ly/2Zqahul https://bit.ly/2Zqahul
huachimingo 6y ago
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.
- siltpotato 6y ago
  Same thing here. I've never known how to get into the hispanosphere internet.
- Shorel 6y ago
  But memes in Spanish seem to be awesome hilarious in comparison
ce4 6y ago
kaffee-netz.de A german forum regarding coffee, bean roasting, coffee brewing, machine repairs and coffee related trading (tech wise it's mostly covering portafilters though). The community is really nice, very pleasant atmosphere and great content
ehnto 6y ago
In Japan, Yahoo Auctions is still going strong. It's a great place to find car parts. Related but I guess targeted at the anglosphere: http://jp-carparts.com http://jp-carparts.com has schematica of cars so that you can find pretty much any part you need. https://www.amayama.com https://www.amayama.com is a place you can put the part number in and actually order the part directly from a bunch of Japanese suppliers. You want some of those little plastic interior clips for a 1996 Nissan? They have them. Power steering pump? Entire transmission? Window glass? Hood latch? It is often cheaper than getting it locally too because the local markets assume scarcity and Japan tends to not price gouge in the first place.
modulo42 6y ago
As a learner of Italian I was always wondering if there is any tech site like HN, SO, etc. in Italian. Besides the really good 2024 podcast from Radio 24 - https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/2024 https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/2024 - I did not find anything I would return to regularly. Any hints?
- ejjpi 6y ago
  Tech news: - https://www.hwupgrade.it https://www.hwupgrade.it - https://www.tomshw.it https://www.tomshw.it PC Building: - https://pangoly.com https://pangoly.com Gamers Forum (one of the oldest): - https://netgamers.it/index.php https://netgamers.it/index.php Daily News: - https://www.repubblica.it/ https://www.repubblica.it/ Marketplace: - https://www.subito.it/ https://www.subito.it/
crustdevil 6y ago
- 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.
vikin9 6y ago
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 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=2021021600&row=394&col=121&lang=en http://www.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2...
yosito 6y ago
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.
jakub_g 6y ago
https://independenttrader.pl/ https://independenttrader.pl/ is a non-mainstream blog about investing, economy etc. I don't agree with the author on many subjects and views, but it's interesting to read and think about them sometimes. They do very deep analyses on each subject they cover, provide a lot of context, information, graphs, historical comparisons and interpretations that are not (or only briefly) discussed in mainstream. It's however best to skip reading most of the comments :)
ansgri 6y ago
https://www.multitran.com https://www.multitran.com — a great Russian-to-many dictionary with examples of use across many professional domains. Also has English UI option.
5cents 6y ago
I really like the web page of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.nrk.no/ https://www.nrk.no/ It is so clean and nice, doing exactly what it should: present the news. No ads, no popup, no clutter. And they are incredibly fast picking up what happens abroad (for example, during several terror incidents around in Europe, NRK has been quicker with updates than bbc) as well as presenting curiosities such as: "Cute owl saved from ugly, Norwegian tree" [0]. In comparison, bbc.com (which is relatively okay for a news web page) makes me dizzy with all the different sections and styles and clutter [0] https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tre-1.15251544 https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tr...
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Tepix 6y ago
Geizhals gh.de is an amazing product database that lets you filter and sort by tens of thousands of criteria and find the best price. kachelmannwetter.com is a weather site with more in-depth information and analysis. vendeeglobe.org is a very exciting solo non-stop around the world sailing regatta that is extremely popular in France. They had very good English coverage on YouTube this time (20/21 race) http://omegataupodcast.net/ http://omegataupodcast.net/ is a podcast with deep dives into many engineering topics. Some episodes are in German, many are in (accented) English. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html German language podcast about the Corona virus with one of the world's leading experts on the Coronavirus, Christian Drosten (who developed the PCR test).

544 points by remolacha 6y ago

What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)

mooreed 6y ago

Great question. +1 for my interest too.

underyx 6y ago

This is probably not what you're looking for, but I recently found this dump of Hungarian tech/gaming magazine scans dating back to the late 80's, and I've been looking for an excuse to share it further: https://retroujsag.com/ https://retroujsag.com/

BugWatch 6y ago
Try mentioning it on reddit.com/r/DataHoarder, someone might be interested.

adem 6y ago

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

kamyarg 6y ago
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.
- kapp 6y ago
  Why is it "Times" and not "Dictionary"?

daocao 6y ago

Taobao! It's like eBay, but for wholesalers who are ~selling "ghost shift" parts~ offloading excess inventory to small-time consumers. There are brokers for international customers; they communicate with the sellers and consolidate orders into a single parcel for ~10-15% commission. But it's harder to browse these days; less is available without an account which you need to provide a mobile number for, and you have to jump through hoops to avoid getting only "international" listings.

Tepix 6y ago
Can you provide more detail / links please on how to avoid getting only international listings?

walrus01 6y ago

news of the weirdest electronic gadgets for sale in japan. google chrome and automatic translate do a reasonably good job on the page. it's related to the retail stores in the akihabara district of tokyo. https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ also its parent site PC watch https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/

Answerawake 6y ago
Thank you for posting! What a nifty little site showing off things I didn't even know I wanted! Small selection of things that I found interesting: 1. Turn your old Dreamcast VMU into a modern game console: Would never have thought of it but in hindsight its the perfect device to mod given its form factor! https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197.html https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197.... 2. Combine a Raspberry pi with a Famicom cartridge to provide the Famicom the ability to run DOOM. Given all the other Famicom related releases listed there, its amazing to see the Famicon still alive and kicking. Wonder how the N64 scene is like over there. https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530.html https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530.... 3. IPS Screen mod for Wonderswan (granted we have seen lots of IPS mods so this one for Wonderswan makes sense given its Japan) The story about Akihabara stores being vacant seems sad though. Even they cannot escape COVID/the future of shopping being online it seems.
fomine3 6y ago
Similar website: https://www.gdm.or.jp/ https://www.gdm.or.jp/ They also posts new PC parts rumors relatively early.

twobitshifter 6y ago

https://pantip.com/ https://pantip.com/ Thai Reddit / Wikipedia / answers.com. It’s a massive forum with an area for almost any topic.

101008 6y ago

Looking for reverse copycat? Just kidding. Taringa used to be the Reddit in Spanish (well, at least for South America), with really interesting content. Microsiervos.com was probably the best tech/curiosities blog in Spanish, and a few days ago I visited and it is still active (from 2006 I think).

dipiert 6y ago
You're talking like a real lince intergaláctico de las praderas.

OJFord 6y ago

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?

xkyscore 6y ago
It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.
- captn3m0 6y ago
  Yup, writing good technical content in Hindi is nigh-impossible.
  - xxpor 6y ago
    I've noticed that Twitter will translate Hindi written in Roman characters, which is certainly common on the internet, but I'd think given (AFAIK) there's no formal standard for it it'd be hard to get good data to feed into an AI. Or is it enough of a 1-1 transliteration that all you need to do is encode the Roman->Devanagari rules and that'll work nearly 100% of the time?
    - abdullahkhalids 6y ago
      There are several standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_transliteration#Transliteration_comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_transliteration#Tra... Nobody bothers to use them. Same for Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Urdu
    - OJFord 6y ago
      The standard is IAST - but colloquially people don't use it, preferring a more Anglophone phonetic approximation (since English literacy is high) so you get 'aloo' instead of 'alū' (potato) and 'jeera' instead of 'jīra' (cumin), for example. It's quite annoying as a learner, since it can make it difficult to map back to devnagārī (resp. devnagari) to look up a new word, for example. (It's almost entirely true to say that devnagārī script is phonetic, so if you write कुछ and I don't know the word, I know how to pronounce it without knowing what it means, and can ask someone or look it up, which is a great feature that English of course doesn't have at all, and while Hindi phonetic approximation in the alphabet might get closer, it's still non-standard and different typers will spell words differently.)

aasasd 6y ago

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 products, with corresponding filters in the catalog; and good user reviews. Since Yandex is good at dealing with unstructured text, even poor data exports by vendors end up organized decently on the service. Since Yandex had millions of users on its other services, they all could leave reviews without much hassle. And since Yandex is primarily a search engine, it knows when a bogus review is spammed across the web. Alas, it's only available in Russian since it works with Russian shops. Every time I need to look for a product on the English web, I lament that there's no service that is quite that solid. Amazon has filters, but search results usually look like simply a bit better Aliexpress. In regard to Google Product Search I don't even know anything particular—I tried to use it a couple times, and my general impression is that it... exists. Not much else.

modeless 6y ago
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 ratings are gamed so much they indicate nothing except how much the seller spent buying reviews. It's amazing that Google hasn't been able to do better here.
- derefr 6y ago
  You’d think someone would have come along who just scrapes Amazon’s listings, applies their own intelligent indexing heuristics, and spits out a new search/browse page that just links through to Amazon’s regular product pages. Like CamelCamelCamel, but for dimensions other than price.

smsm42 6y ago

https://habr.com/ https://habr.com/ (Russian) has some good articles, some translated, some original.

kradeelav 6y ago

Pixiv! (http://pixiv.net/ 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.

gjvnq 6y ago
This website is well known by the reddit transgender community.

Naga 6y ago

I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.

jette_au_loin 6y ago
France has a few enormous message boards about various topics. forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)
- gspr 6y ago
  > forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.) What I assume is the equivalent, forum.hardware.no, used to be huge in Norway in the 00s too, but then the community more or less got swallowed by Reddit. Did the French one survive?
  - waterpowder 6y ago
    Oh yes, it's very active. Interestingly, the hardware news, tests and reviews closed a year or two ago, but the message board remained.
  - unhammer 6y ago
    diskusjon.no still seems fairly active. Though anytime I search for something non-tech-related in Norwegian ("us taxes norway", "car brake trombone", "kid face blue", "beach meteorite"), I typically get one of the forums Kvinneguiden.no ("the women's guide"), BarniMagen.no ("child in tummy") or MammaNett (… you get the drift). So there's a part of the Norwegian Internet that strangely hasn't been swallowed up by the FRAANG.
  - Glawen 6y ago
    Very active, I find it much better than reddit where I usually cannot find anything useful, the UI is awful on reddit. The real interesting thing is that there are a lot of threads for very specialized topics (e.g. bikes, mattress, pizza oven or torch lights). Before buying something I usually check if a thread exists and read it / ask questions. You however end up having to revise upwards your budget to buy the stuff they recommend.

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BugsJustFindMe 6y ago

The French national library has quite an extensive digital collection. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ https://gallica.bnf.fr/

lefrancais 6y ago
Wow, just discovered that! thanks it is awesome. I finally found illustrated version of Les trois mousquetaires and Jules Vernes in epub for free !

mehrzad 6y ago

Not a website, and this may be obvious, but if you are doing research on Wikipedia on a topic from a non-English speaking country, sometimes that nation's language features a longer and more in depth article. I am currently learning German and have noticed this with regard to articles regarding universities in Germany.

singularity2001 6y ago
this is a great recommendation also for scientific topics: Often when I am really interested in something I read the article and four different languages, because most often each language offers different aspects and images. also it's a great way to learn languages.

PaulHoule 6y ago

https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/ https://www.mercadolibre.com.mx/ is ebay but cooler and from Latino America.

m-chrzan 6y ago
What makes it cooler?
- riledhel 6y ago
  MercadoPago is the payment gatewat and it's amazing. They take care of delivery/logistics like Amazon and it's fast and works in remote places too.
  - notdang 6y ago
    To be fair, they launched the nice things after Amazon opened in Mexico and got the whole market. Before that they could not be bothered.
unhammer 6y ago
Norway has finn.no, though perhaps more like craigslist (get rid of old couch, find cheap exercise bike, get job, sell house, etc.)

abledon 6y ago

Qiita https://qiita.com/ https://qiita.com/ its like a cool mixture of stack overflow + reddit + twitter ... all in japanese

zinclozenge 6y ago
It sometimes shows up when you're searching tech topics. I actually found a series of blog posts that explained how to write Erlang/Elixir NIFs in Rust with Rustler.
Seb-C 6y ago
Yes, it's everywhere when you search technical topics in Japan.
fomine3 6y ago
dev.to looks like equivalent to Qiita. Now zenn.dev is getting popular in Japan instead of Qiita.
- input_sh 6y ago
  Any cool monetization strategies on Qiita or Zenn? I know dev.to is betting on Coil, so I'm curious if Japanese developers have a method they're betting on.
  - fomine3 6y ago
    Qiita has been acquired by game company Ateam 3 years ago. Possibly it works for the company's advertisement. They also selling collaboration SaaS called Qiita Team. I don't see any their cool monetization. Zenn has been trying to sell paid article for profit. That's not so cool for tech perspective but it's looks good for me if they succeeded. Zenn was operated by single person but it has been acquired by IT(AWS) service company Classmethod very recently. Maybe they also work for the company's advertisement.
fromaj 6y ago
I can understand a fair bit of japanese and posts on Qiita have often been life-savers. They have quite a few medium-like long posts where people describe how to do something specific through a tutorial or step-by-step explanation. StackOverflow/Reddit aren't really great for that

aGRa_kursk 6y ago

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 and cloud services, Russian Spotify (Yandex.Music), Russian Netflix (several of them, actually), Russian Uber (Yandex.Taxi, which actually owns Russian Uber). You'll see lots of Yandex services here, it's sort of Russian Google (except it predates Google by a year or so). Yandex's primary business is search and advertising, but just like Google, they diversify a lot. And even in primary area, they sometimes manage to beat Google. Yandex's reverse image search (when you upload the image to search for similar ones) is FAR superior to Google's. And there's a lot of unique Russian content on global sites like Facebook, Livejournal (owned by a Russian company nowadays) or Wikipedia.

082349872349872 6y ago
Maybe helpful when browsing extra-anglosphere sites: translate.yandex both has much more liberal length limits than GOOG translate and makes it easy to look up alternative translations for individual words.
MichaelMoser123 6y ago
i like anekdot.ru - they have a pretty solid community, and the jokes are really funny (sometimes).
BlueGh0st 6y ago
I can vouch for Yandex's reverse image search. It blows Google's out of the water. I think regular image search is typically better too, depending on what your needs are (Google seems to prefer stock imagery which can be frustrating).
ACS_Solver 6y ago
Habr is great. I don't visit other Runet sites often, but read Habr regularly - it's part HN, part Slashdot, with great original content. The Russian Internet seems to be an overall great place to find information on old devices, old software, and the like. http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm http://sht-rajvo.narod.ru/index.htm is a retro-looking site about retrocomputing, it has many articles from computer magazines circa 1990. Also worth noting that due to Russia's traditionally "relaxed view on copyright" it's not hard to stumble upon a site that has direct download links to e.g. versions of MS-DOS or Windows 3.1.

lovelearning 6y ago

I found DW's YouTube channels to be good resources to learn about cultures, societies, current affairs and geopolitics from around the world. Auto-generated subtitles for their non-English channels are good enough to understand what is being conveyed. [1] : https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle [2] : their other channels are listed at the bottom of [1].

mongol 6y ago
Lots of content in English as well https://youtube.com/c/dwnews https://youtube.com/c/dwnews
sakal 6y ago
On YouTube exists tone of lectures about electrotechnics and electronics for software developers [0]: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zefar91 https://www.youtube.com/user/Zefar91 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/abglazov https://www.youtube.com/c/abglazov

sasaf5 6y ago

https://endic.naver.com https://endic.naver.com Best resource for Korean language when approached from the Anglosphere.

mcyc 6y ago
Yes, this is truly a great resource for Korean. There are some interesting bugs (like english text example search matches substrings rather than words; e.g. searching "tile" results in "The Ptile value is outside the range of valid values". There were worse cases a few months ago that seem to be resolved), but overall it is an invaluable tool for Korean learners.

charlysl 6y ago

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.

Darmody 6y ago
Meneame is the Spanish /r/politics. You will hardly get anything of value out of there. Even the founder noped the f out.
huachimingo 6y ago
Same with Racó Catalá.
Shorel 6y ago
Menéame has always seem to me as a bad copy of digg.

tayo42 6y ago

Tabelog lead to some amazing dinners in Japan.

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geza 6y ago

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

TeeMassive 6y ago
Nice try CCP
samwestdev 6y ago
how does the p2p payment app work? No middle man?
- geza 6y ago
  Ah I meant P2P in the "from user to user with no transaction fees charged, doesn't go through Visa/Mastercard/Unionpay" sense (similar to Venmo, except that in China businesses accept it everywhere), not in the "fully decentralized and doesn't need a server" sense. For Zhifubao the servers are run by Ant Financial (it's a spin-off company of Alibaba), for WeChat the servers are run by Tencent. You can deposit/withdraw money to your bank account. I'm assuming you're probably more interested in the new digital RMB wallet technology which supposedly works even if your phone doesn't have internet access, but I'm not familiar with how that is implemented (I'm guessing it uses blockchain and broadcasts the transactions later when you connect to the internet). There's some info about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi#Digital_Renminbi

known 6y ago

Examples of Chinese equivalents to Western internet services[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#Economic_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#E...

NalNezumi 6y ago

I would mention hitta.se from Sweden. Probably a privacy nightmare to some, and very creepy to others. On the page you can search peoples home address, phone number, date of birth, other members living in the same house, real estate value, mortgage rate, all by searching their names. I successfully once identified a parent of a owner of a lost wallet, only containing a gym card with last name on it. Found her phone number on the site, called her and gave her the wallet.

ackbar03 6y ago
WOW. Is this a well known service/site in Sweden? In other countries this would have been blown up into a huge privacy issue. Assuming its not because its sort of underground, why do you think it hasn't in Sweden? Genuinely curious
- NalNezumi 6y ago
  It's a well known site in Sweden. I remember using it at least 10-13 years back. A quick Swedish googling found me a dozens of sites offering similar services. One even offered credit rating assessment at 1.5 dollar after the search. I'm not well read on the issue but a lot of things are digitalized in Sweden. It's a cashless society, where everyone have a personal number that they can use for government service & signing up for phone contracts. The tax institute (like USA:s IRS) sends their deductions out digitally, and AFAIK they have a very open API a lot of digital services in Sweden use for online identification of a private person. So I assume those pages probably use the tax-institutes API for personal information, and then other APIs (such as real-estate portals) to tie information together.
  - airhead969 6y ago
    So, the government knows every purchase they make, tracks everything they do, and can take it all away whenever it wants? No thanks. And what about homeless and old people, are they disenfranchised too? A cashless society controlled by a government or a corporation means a powerless society. Norway has had similar tax return approval by text messaging for almost 20 years.

jaflo 6y ago

If anyone has a site similar to Reddit or HN in German I would be interested. Anything with interesting discussion really.

4cao 6y ago
Someone will probably come up with a better answer but you can check out https://www.heise.de/forum/ https://www.heise.de/forum/ for tech news.
- omnibrain 6y ago
  The heise forum sadly has been a cesspit of trolls for a long time. In the last 5 years it got even worse because some of the conspiracist and nazi trolls from the Telepolis forum came over to the tech forums an I think heise don't know how to properly deal with them.
  - 4cao 6y ago
    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-im-Datenschutz-Check-Android-telefoniert-nach-Hause-4857162.html https://www.heise.de/news/Corona-Apps-im-Datenschutz-Check-A... 2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/
    - omnibrain 6y ago
      Heise is definitely one of the best tech media/print houses. But their handling of their comment section is seriously lacking and it looks like it is stuck in early 90ies usenet discussions and worse.
    - amaccuish 6y ago
      What is the difference between golem and heise. I like both but are they equally popular?

donquichotte 6y ago

mikrocontroller.net, a German resource and forum for electronics, microcontrollers and low level programming.

Tijdreiziger 6y ago

https://tweakers.net https://tweakers.net Dutch-language tech community. Has news, a well-moderated and active forum, product and price comparison (with many filtering options) and reviews (both by tech journalists and the community), second-hand sales, and a job board. It was started by one guy 20 (if not more) years ago, but these days it's part of one of the big Dutch-language media conglomerates (DPG Media).

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
I started visiting this site when I was 16/17 and starting off my IT classes. I still feel like I learned more browsing the site's daily news than my school. It's still my daily routine, nearly 20 years later, to visit it every day. I'm apparently in the top 100 wrt number of comments (mostly shitposts and arguing, kinda like what I do on HN) Never did get on with the forums much, mind you. But some threads are fun to follow.
- Tijdreiziger 6y ago
  I think the forums are one of the site's greatest assets, actually. But there does exist a certain culture there in which absolutely everything is debated into oblivion, even long past the point where such a discussion stops being useful for answering the question at hand.
superdeeda 6y ago
Nice! Any other Dutch websites you can recommend?
- Tijdreiziger 6y ago
  When discussing Tweakers, https://hardware.info https://hardware.info comes to mind, which has been run by the same guys as Tweakers since September 2020 and focuses on products. Its associated forums were discontinued in favor of the Tweakers forums. The community on /r/thenetherlands on Reddit is pretty friendly (more friendly than Reddit at large, where arguments tend to devolve into snide remarks with a higher frequency). https://fok.nl https://fok.nl and its associated forums are still kicking, although I don't personally frequent the site. There is also https://dumpert.nl https://dumpert.nl, which appeals to a certain subset of the population. I admit some of the videos on there can be entertaining, but the community is offputting to me. Other than that, there are of course a dozen news media (ownership of which is mostly split between two conglomerates: DPG Media and Mediahuis) which have an online presence. Reputable ones include NOS, de Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw, het Parool, de Groene Amsterdammer, FD, de Correspondent. Don't bother with de Telegraaf, it's the Dutch equivalent of The Sun or Bild (or in certain regards, Fox News). There are also media outlets covering Dutch-speaking areas outside the Netherlands (Flanders (Belgium), Suriname), but I'm not too familiar with those, being from the Netherlands myself. Also of interest might be https://dutchnews.nl https://dutchnews.nl and https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish https://facebook.com/NOSinEnglish, Dutch news coverage in English (the latter one specifically translating NOS's COVID-19 coverage).

_a1_ 6y ago

https://www.wykop.pl https://www.wykop.pl is probably the biggest Polish site that gathers best experts from most of the industries, to provide comments on the newest political, religious, science and engineering news from all around the world. The comments posted by users of wykop.pl are often cited in other sites. ...at least that's what everyone on this site would like to think. In reality, it's just a digg.com clone, before it started to suck ;) (even name is a reference to digg, 'wykop' means 'a dig site', or 'to dig')

tester34 6y ago
This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. It's one of those websites that makes you lose faith in people e.g when you read popular takes about Bill Gates and COVID related stuff, it's pretty sad. I bet that just reading titles from the front page for a 3 months would affect your happines cuz majority of headlines there are sad stories, provocative titles about politics, religion, men and women relations with heavy biass towards one side, generally a lot of junk It's sad that this is one of the biggest ""discussion"" happening sites in the Polish internet.
- RicoElectrico 6y ago
  > This page is terrible, heavily biased and almost all discussions that occur there are fundamentally flawed due to basics of basics of logical fallacies. Agree but only partially, you just have not to browse the front page and Wykopalisko (= queue on Digg) - this is where tinfoil hatters, right-wing nutjobs and paid trolls thrive. The sine qua non of browsing wykop.pl and retaining sanity is - blacklist tags (like #polityka #przegryw #patostreamy) - browse only Mikroblog (no frontpage, no Wykopalisko). - use uBlock or a third-party mobile app I stand with the GP that wykop.pl is one of the best places to ask for advice on hobby and such. Why? It's less circlejerk-y than specialized forums and people absolutely hate paid shills here. And there are almost no "Facebook mom" type of people. It's also good for local news / local questions, as hashtags of most cities have quite a lot of followers. Ah, and on Mikroblog the OP can delete comments on their posts, which comes in handy if someone is getting nasty. The only comparable stuff would be the loosely defined "sekcje JBWA" ("Jak będzie w ...") groups on Facebook, but many of these groups have overzealous admins who ban people breaking rules, but with no subtlety (I mean, if someone is polite, posts higher-effort content and the infraction is minor, a mute would suffice)

SenHeng 6y ago

5ch.net The Japanese anonymous forum that inspired 4chan. It actually started of as 2 channel but various business and legal disputes happened.

Seb-C 6y ago

In French we used to have "le site du zéro". It was a very popular collaborative site with a ton of free courses for beginners in (mostly) programming. Today it feels that it just became a somewhat bland and nothing-special corporate resource (OpenClassrooms), but it was once a vibrant community with it's own identity: http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduzero.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20120309143317/http://www.siteduz... On a completely different topic, https://www.jeuxvideo.com/ https://www.jeuxvideo.com/ have long been (and still is) one of the most popular forums among young people in France.

Davidbrcz 6y ago
Check https://zestedesavoir.com https://zestedesavoir.com Made by former staff of Sdz, high quality, can't recommend enough.
cedex12 6y ago
I feel like linuxfr.org also deserves a mention: had pretty thorough articles on lots of subject, as far as I could judge them (and knowledgeable members!).
jerome-jh 6y ago
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/ https://www.fun-mooc.fr/ Online courses with a wide variety of topics. Took a number of them unrelated to CS, unfortunately many are archived. There is a very good introduction course to Chinese https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+session05/about https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:Inalco+52004+sessi... with a session this spring.
benhurmarcel 6y ago
Le Site du Zéro is how I got started with programming back in high school. That was a great site, it's a shame what happened to it.

gspr 6y ago

Most of the techy anglosophere know CCC from the annual conferences. But they do much more: https://www.ccc.de/ https://www.ccc.de/

gspr 6y ago

https://yr.no https://yr.no provides an API for high quality open weather data, globally, supplied by the Norwegian meteorological service. Information is available in English too, but it is perhaps not well-known in the anglosophere.

luplex 6y ago
It's what I use for mountaineering in the alps. It has all the mountains as searchable POIs, so it's much better than other consumer apps.
coopierez 6y ago
The app also has an extremely enjoyable visualisation of the weather predictions, which is a nice bonus!
shyber 6y ago
this one is also great for sailing
gspr 6y ago
I guess I should add some information, since it's not trivial to find from the main page. The API documentation [1] is in English. Most (all?) the data is dual-licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and the Norwegian open government data license [2]. Please do take care not to abuse a tax-payer funded service, and do obey the the terms of service [3] (these are restrictions on querying the API, not on the use of the data themselves, which seems reasonable). [1] https://developer.yr.no/ https://developer.yr.no/ [2] https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/ https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/ [3] https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/ https://developer.yr.no/doc/TermsOfService/

owenversteeg 6y ago

I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marefa. I wouldn't know about the quality of the content - I don't speak Arabic - but from what I can tell it's like Arabic Wikipedia, but you also get blogs, forums, ancient manuscripts, email with unlimited storage (?!?) and much more. The Arabic internet in general is always interesting to me, because even in 2021 it still seems very ad-hoc and far less commercialized than the parts of the internet I've seen in other languages.

imedadel 6y ago
It started as a fork of the Arabic Wikipedia, though. And most content is outdated since they don't have that many contributors.

ximus 6y ago

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/ https://www.arte.tv/en/

afkqs 6y ago
A great initiative in the media industry for sure. They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture [1]. Very interesting [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde
- jerome-jh 6y ago
  And currently a great series on "The civil war" - "La guerre de secession" - "Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg", mostly for European watchers obviously. With plenty of photos and citations from the time and just enough commentary as necessary. Available in french and german. https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/040864-001-A/la-guerre-de-secession-1-9/ https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/040864-001-A/la-guerre-de-sece...
- tauntz 6y ago
  > They have a programme call Tracks that explores the underground culture I.. I thought that it's gonna be a Youtube channel about people living.. underground. I should get some sleep.
- Kunix 6y ago
  Tracks is what made me discover the demoscene 20 years ago when I was in secondary school. Such a great show.
bierjunge 6y ago
A while ago ARTE started a side channel and asked users how to name it, which we all know is a bad idea in the internet. The result was "Irgendwas mit ARTE und Kultur" ("something with ARTE and culture") and they really took the name: https://www.youtube.com/c/IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur https://www.youtube.com/c/IrgendwasmitARTEundKultur Kudos to ARTE. BTW. it's a cooperation between french and german public televisions, is there something similar elsewhere in the world?

logicchains 6y ago

Yandex! It's like Russian Google, but the results (or at least the English-language results) are more algorithmic, without human intervention in the rankings.

timka 6y ago

http://rutracker.org http://rutracker.org — a torrent tracker

BlueGh0st 6y ago

For some reason, the Russian web seems to rehost old drivers/software and such indefinitely without all the malicious spam you normally find in Google. That led me to Kazus Electronic Portal[0] which seems to have just about every hardware-related piece of information you could need. Including an obscure serial driver from 2005 that I couldn't find elsewhere. [0] http://kazus.ru/ http://kazus.ru/

sm4rk0 6y ago

Serbian news aggregator/search engine: https://naslovi.net/ https://naslovi.net/ Its name is "Headlines" in Serbian.

luplex 6y ago

https://wiki.selfhtml.org/ https://wiki.selfhtml.org/ (German) is where I learnt the basics of web development in high school. I'm not sure how up to date it is, though.

yread 6y ago

https://mapy.cz/ https://mapy.cz/ Google maps alternative with great tourist maps (also has a layer for cross-country skiing) and an app with offline maps

simonmales 6y ago
As a non Czech I assumed it was a nice layer on top of OSM tiles, but the outdoor trails are truly high quality. Only have managed to fault it once whilst trying to decide how to descend a mountain in Slovenia.
- exyi 6y ago
  Yes, outside Czechia and Slovakia they use data from Open Street Maps.
sajagi 6y ago
Best worldwide outdoor map there is, with offline support. I use it very often to find trails not even locals know about (e.g. Japan). Don't forget to switch to Outdoor mode!
PufPufPuf 6y ago
They have an international version, called Windy Maps. It's the same app, just with international branding & marketing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.windymaps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind... I definitely recommend it for worldwide use. It can do _everything_ offline, which is something rarely seen in this age. I have found it very practical for hiking Japanese countryside.

d26900 6y ago

I. C++ (related) forums from Germany and Japan that I've found (so far): - https://www.c-plusplus.net/ https://www.c-plusplus.net/ - https://dixq.net/ https://dixq.net/ II. Quality YouTube channels from Germany: - https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/MrWissen2go/videos Explains societal/political/historical topics (in a neutral manner) to laypeople. - https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/maiLab/videos Explains science topics (chemistry, biology, studies) to laypeople. III. Quality YouTube channels from Japan: - https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/atelierateruimath/videos Math professor teaching linear algebra, analysis etc. IV. Services from Germany - https://www.mindfactory.de/ https://www.mindfactory.de/ Computer hardware etc. - web.de For me the best European Dropbox alternative so far (Online-Speicher). V. Services from Japan - https://fc2.com/ https://fc2.com/ Website hosting etc. - https://www.nicovideo.jp/ https://www.nicovideo.jp/ The Japanese YouTube basically. - https://www.rakuten.co.jp/ https://www.rakuten.co.jp/ The Japanese Amazon. VI. Concluding Remarks & Miscellaneous - Arte, Phoenix make good documentaries. (But these were already mentioned by others.) - https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ https://www.schenker-tech.de/en/ - https://www.xmg.gg/en/ https://www.xmg.gg/en/ Laptops made/assembled in Germany. - https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/ https://www.gigaset.com/hq_en/ Some smartphones are made in Germany. - https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/worldorder/videos By Genki Sudo (須藤元気) former MMA fighter. He's now a politician. - Hiroshi Abe (阿部寛) The Japanese Clint Eastwood. - Kim Ki-duk A Korean movie director that I happen to like. PS: If I find/remember more interesting stuff from Japan and Germany, I will update this post. :)

luplex 6y ago

I'm a big fan of werstreamt.es (German), which is a simple search engine for all streaming services.

throwaway9d0291 6y ago

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 https://www.deepl.com

shaydwyrm 6y ago
Deepl was an incredible tool when I was struggling though my first full length novel in Spanish. It gave much more lucid and nuanced translations than any other automated translation tool I tried.
mimagic 6y ago
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

djaahk 6y ago

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 and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons, - LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles - Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference - priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet - danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun - Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro) - Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome

di4na 6y ago
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.
- djaahk 6y ago
  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.
Nextgrid 6y ago
LeBonCoin became annoying since they put contact details behind a login wall. What made it successful back in the day is the simplicity - just post an ad and have interested people call you. Search for something and you can directly call sellers.
staticelf 6y ago

Darmody 6y ago

- EU Open Data Portal: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home https://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/home - Research*EU Magazines: https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu https://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu - EU Research magazine is the World leading open access publication for scientific research and dissemination. Each issue covers a different thematic area, presenting cutting edge science in an innovative and entertaining format.

hattori31 6y ago

famitsu.com Japanese site for game news. Every new and upcoming game is in the list, very good to see whata coming

fy20 6y ago

There's a home automation protocol that's been around for over 20 years called KNX. It's backed by big names (ABB, Hager, Gira, Osram, Mean Well) however outside of Germany it's pretty much unknown. Compared to ZigBee or Z-Wave it's wired and the config is stored in the devices themselves, so there's no single point of failure. It has strict certification requirements so you can be guaranteed that products from different manufacturers will work together (this does mean its more expensive though). The quality of the hardware (esp. motion/presence sensors) is a lot better than what you can buy from Amazon or the 'smart home' section in your local Walmart. There's plenty of content (in German) on YouTube about it, and forums: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiCPbFz0Ld6mera2fNDRWzw https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiCPbFz0Ld6mera2fNDRWzw https://knx-user-forum.de/ https://knx-user-forum.de/

thecleaner 6y ago
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
- kreeben 6y ago
  Germany is fine with you not being able to ingest their documentation. If there is ever a need to do anything it would be the need for you to learn German and the need for anyone monolingual to learn a second language. The more balance in the world the better place it would be.
  - benhurmarcel 6y ago
    I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
    - kreeben 6y ago
      I empathize with you. But I reject that it should fall upon Germany to learn English for your convenience or that the task of translating their texts should fall upon them. I guess I reacted (perhaps poorly) to GP's statement that Germany "really should start documenting their tech in English" which to me sounded rather preposterous.

omnibrain 6y ago

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ A world wide map of rail tracks run by (german) rail enthusiasts.

isbvhodnvemrwvn 6y ago
Surprisingly it also has some planned tram lines in Poland. Quite neat.
- jonp888 6y ago
  It's 'just' OpenStreetMap rendered in a way that emphasizes railway lines and exposes some of the metadata. So whilst the site is german-run the data has no geographical bias.
tga 6y ago
https://bahn.guru https://bahn.guru Easy price calendar for (mostly) German trains.

ashwanidausodia 6y ago

http://e-maxx.ru/algo http://e-maxx.ru/algo I used to study competitive programming algorithms from there with Google translate Edit: It seems somebody translated it to English https://cp-algorithms.com/ https://cp-algorithms.com/

4cao 6y ago

4PDA.ru is arguably a better version of XDA-Developers: a repository of all kinds of customizations for Android devices. Unlike XDA, it's well-categorized into threads, the first post is always a good summary of what's inside that particular thread with links to individual posts, and low-effort clutter is mercilessly moderated away.

terramex 6y ago

In Poland there is elektroda.pl - forum about electronics, electrics and programming. Is was founded in 1999 and has over 2 500 000 registered accounts. It is a bit like polish StackOverflow - every time you google a technical problem in polish you will find an elektroda.pl thread on very top. And just like on SO, it will usually be closed by moderator for some bizarre and arcane reason. It certainly has 'old-usenet' vibe, both the good parts (huge amount of knowledge) and the bad (pretty toxic behaviour of many power users and moderators).

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12ian34 6y ago

The most accurate rain/snow/wind forecaster I've ever used: https://www.buienradar.nl/ https://www.buienradar.nl/

yarbas89 6y ago

There's a very old Turkish website (late 90s AFAIK) called http://eksisozluk.com http://eksisozluk.com - it's like a mix between wiki, reddit and urbandictionary. It has an important place in Turkish youth subculture and I believe it originated as a 'forum' for the tech community in Turkey.

Ueland 6y ago

A Norwegian web-store is famous for its "design" and is being showcased in all kinds of design talks and presentations. (Of course in the "How not to do it" category) http://arngren.net/ http://arngren.net/

luxurytent 6y ago

https://www.webtoons.com/en/ https://www.webtoons.com/en/ is massively popular in Korea and surrounding, but niche in NA

pmlnr 6y ago

https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era. http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_lista.php Oldschool electronic circuit board drawings, also Hungarian.

guerrilla 6y ago

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 have websites that are pretty easy to find and although some content is region restricted, a lot is not.

Arete314159 6y ago
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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- huachimingo 6y ago
  Check out Cuarto Milenio or Milenio 3, by Iker Jiménez. Nice terror series.

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fomine3 6y ago

Scrapbox is well made note/collaboration SaaS made in Kyoto. It's frictionless experience but also opinionated (like they don't use Markdown). https://scrapbox.io/ https://scrapbox.io/

crazypython 6y ago

Yandex Images – https://yandex.com/images/ https://yandex.com/images/ It's much, much better than Google Images. The only Western equivalent that comes close is DuckDuckGo Images.

emgo 6y ago

Thinkerview: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgWpmt02UtJkyO32HGUASQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgWpmt02UtJkyO32HGUASQ It's a French podcast covering a wide array of topics such as geopolitics, journalism, big tech, industrial espionage, economic warfare, etc. I find it refreshing because the ideas and opinions discussed are very different compared to those you'd find in the usual anglophone media, and just that by itself is a ton of value.

Amin3456 6y ago

How to Take Care of Betta Fish https://bit.ly/2Zqahul https://bit.ly/2Zqahul

huachimingo 6y ago

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.

siltpotato 6y ago
Same thing here. I've never known how to get into the hispanosphere internet.
Shorel 6y ago
But memes in Spanish seem to be awesome hilarious in comparison

ce4 6y ago

kaffee-netz.de A german forum regarding coffee, bean roasting, coffee brewing, machine repairs and coffee related trading (tech wise it's mostly covering portafilters though). The community is really nice, very pleasant atmosphere and great content

ehnto 6y ago

In Japan, Yahoo Auctions is still going strong. It's a great place to find car parts. Related but I guess targeted at the anglosphere: http://jp-carparts.com http://jp-carparts.com has schematica of cars so that you can find pretty much any part you need. https://www.amayama.com https://www.amayama.com is a place you can put the part number in and actually order the part directly from a bunch of Japanese suppliers. You want some of those little plastic interior clips for a 1996 Nissan? They have them. Power steering pump? Entire transmission? Window glass? Hood latch? It is often cheaper than getting it locally too because the local markets assume scarcity and Japan tends to not price gouge in the first place.

modulo42 6y ago

As a learner of Italian I was always wondering if there is any tech site like HN, SO, etc. in Italian. Besides the really good 2024 podcast from Radio 24 - https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/2024 https://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programmi/2024 - I did not find anything I would return to regularly. Any hints?

ejjpi 6y ago
Tech news: - https://www.hwupgrade.it https://www.hwupgrade.it - https://www.tomshw.it https://www.tomshw.it PC Building: - https://pangoly.com https://pangoly.com Gamers Forum (one of the oldest): - https://netgamers.it/index.php https://netgamers.it/index.php Daily News: - https://www.repubblica.it/ https://www.repubblica.it/ Marketplace: - https://www.subito.it/ https://www.subito.it/

crustdevil 6y ago

- 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.

vikin9 6y ago

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 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=2021021600&row=394&col=121&lang=en http://www.meteo.pl/um/metco/mgram_pict.php?ntype=0u&fdate=2...

yosito 6y ago

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.

jakub_g 6y ago

https://independenttrader.pl/ https://independenttrader.pl/ is a non-mainstream blog about investing, economy etc. I don't agree with the author on many subjects and views, but it's interesting to read and think about them sometimes. They do very deep analyses on each subject they cover, provide a lot of context, information, graphs, historical comparisons and interpretations that are not (or only briefly) discussed in mainstream. It's however best to skip reading most of the comments :)

ansgri 6y ago

https://www.multitran.com https://www.multitran.com — a great Russian-to-many dictionary with examples of use across many professional domains. Also has English UI option.

5cents 6y ago

I really like the web page of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.nrk.no/ https://www.nrk.no/ It is so clean and nice, doing exactly what it should: present the news. No ads, no popup, no clutter. And they are incredibly fast picking up what happens abroad (for example, during several terror incidents around in Europe, NRK has been quicker with updates than bbc) as well as presenting curiosities such as: "Cute owl saved from ugly, Norwegian tree" [0]. In comparison, bbc.com (which is relatively okay for a news web page) makes me dizzy with all the different sections and styles and clutter [0] https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tre-1.15251544 https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tr...

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Tepix 6y ago

Geizhals gh.de is an amazing product database that lets you filter and sort by tens of thousands of criteria and find the best price. kachelmannwetter.com is a weather site with more in-depth information and analysis. vendeeglobe.org is a very exciting solo non-stop around the world sailing regatta that is extremely popular in France. They had very good English coverage on YouTube this time (20/21 race) http://omegataupodcast.net/ http://omegataupodcast.net/ is a podcast with deep dives into many engineering topics. Some episodes are in German, many are in (accented) English. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html German language podcast about the Corona virus with one of the world's leading experts on the Coronavirus, Christian Drosten (who developed the PCR test).