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Ask HN: Other Sites Like HN?

by aodj on 9/5/24, 11:10 AM with 11 comments

• by Yawrehto on 9/5/24, 6:52 PM

  https://restofworld.org sounds like what you're looking for - its mission is basically to report tech news from the non-West. Some good reads to get a taste of what they do (note: often fairly long):

  https://restofworld.org/2024/riders-in-the-smog-gig-workers-..., about air pollution.

  https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/. They analyzed 3,000 images generated by Midjourney and found strong biases in them.

  https://restofworld.org/series/china-shopping-cart/. A series on China and how it influences shopping globally.

  https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-most-used-languages/. The most used languages online vs in the real world. Most of the overused ones aren't surprising (eg, English, German, French) but some are (eg, Persian, Indonesian, Vietnamese)

  https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-problems-global-languag.... Basically, ChatGPT does really, really, badly at a lot of languages.

  https://restofworld.org/2022/welcome-to-the-ambaniverse/. An exploration of how one guy, Mukesh Ambani, influences the life of many Indians. Not just through tech, but through shoes, mattresses, gas for their car, and a cricket team.

  https://restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/. Internet censorship globally.

• by 082349872349872 on 9/5/24, 12:21 PM

  Computer tech is sufficiently US-centric that many people here order US-American keyboards for their dev boxes. (I just embrace the suck and learned to use option-shift-5)

  There was an attempt several years ago to get a francophone free-software news aggregator going, but I don't find it anymore.

  https://habr.com/ru/articles/ ?

  https://www.toutiao.com/ ? (I did manage to navigate to what, judging from the screenshots, was some kind of tech aggregation, but as with big US platforms, I have no idea how to link directly there)

• by jgrahamc on 9/5/24, 11:15 AM

  Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but I made a site using the (Arc) HN code that is about retro-computing and gaming: https://twostopbits.com/news

• by aodj on 9/5/24, 12:45 PM

  For some context, I'm using sites like https://www.theverge.com/ and https://www.wired.com/ for more general browsing. Wired had a UK domain with some different content, but that appears to have ceased operation and now the .co.uk domain redirects to the general .com

• by stephenr on 9/5/24, 11:24 AM

  I find Lobste.rs generally has more nuanced discussion about tech (and only tech, non tech stories are removed) and fewer hot takes, but it's also a heck of a lot "quieter" (i.e. much less volume of both stories and comments - the current #2, #3 and #4 articles on the homepage are 12+ hours old)

  It also isn't intrinsically linked to the VC scene like HN, which may or may not be a plus/minus, depending on your views.