The Web already does that. So does...all of computing! Hacker News is an English site. Billions of people do not speak English! Hacker News, therefore, has not

The Web already does that. So does...all of computing! Hacker News is an English site. Billions of people do not speak English! Hacker News, therefore, has not succeeded in its goal to...be a place for sparking intellectual curiosity in English-speaking populations? Anything is discriminatory somehow, and "We have basically a plain-text format with links" is millions of miles more accessible than HTML, computers in general, and pretty much everything in the world.