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We have profound respect for other languages, but HN is an English-language site and articles here need to be in English.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...




With various translation tools getting more and more powerful, is it potentially time to reconsider this policy?

Something along the lines of please do English articles unless you absolutely can't?


This article opens with a video clip of a reporter speaking in Swedish about Erdogan/Turkey's opinions on Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Although there are captions, manually typing in each caption to a translation service seems very tedious.


Maybe, but I don't think so. The non-English articles that get submitted are usually current-affairs pieces. If we were seeing a lot of obscure, intellectually interesting content that really hit the HN sweet spot, that would be a stronger case—certainly such content exists in many languages. But it's not what people pick to post here.


Good point!


But paywalls somehow are allowed?





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