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Ask HN: Whats the HN equivalent for Europe?

• Peroni 14y ago
  It used to be http://hackful.eu/ http://hackful.eu/ but that appears to be down.
  • Jedi_Vik 14y ago
    Very interesting! Thanks!
• qompiler 14y ago
  http://zkombinator.com/ http://zkombinator.com/
  • randomchars 14y ago
    Is this real or just a weird joke?
    • krapp 14y ago
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      • randomchars 14y ago
        I didn't even think to check for comments in the page source, thank you. But it's far from obvious. One of the cloned services listed is Pinterest. Have a look at these [1][2][3] sites. All three of them were made by Hungarian companies and [1] was financed by one of the largest media companies in the country[4]. So something like Zkombinator is not that big a step from what is already going on. [1]: http://www.bigin.hu/ http://www.bigin.hu/ [2]: http://tuzd.be/ http://tuzd.be/ [3]: http://kirak.at/ http://kirak.at/ [4]: http://www.sanomamedia.hu/sanobp_english/ http://www.sanomamedia.hu/sanobp_english/
        • krapp 14y ago
          Sure, but still calling it "Zkombinator" is a bit on the nose.
          • Jedi_Vik 14y ago
            I agree. It threw me in for a bit of a curve-ball.
          • listaware 14y ago
            On german keyboards the Y & Z are swapped around, so I guess that's where that bit came from. And kombinator is the German for combinator I guess.
• lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  As a European, I say HN is the European equivalent of HN. Now there may not be a French language or German language equivalent, but then again there are a lot of non native English speakers in here anyway