I've been learning Spanish on Duolingo and it occurred to me that a good way to practice and extend my vocabulary would be to visit a site similar to HN but in Spanish. I was wondering if anyone here is aware of any such site? If not are you aware of any other similar sites in languages other than English?
It's interesting to me that, after a quick look through the first few pages, it seems to have a much tighter technical focus than HN. I do sometimes wonder if the culture and politics stuff that seems inescapable in the English speaking media is less of an issue in countries that speak different languages.
Probably mostly a function of the much smaller community size. There are only two articles on the front page with any comments at all, and they only have 1 or 2 comments each.
Hi, I'm the founder of Le Journal du hacker. Indeed the focus is tighter, mostly tech, Open source/Free Software, individual rights and entrepreneurship.
I reckon that there are plenty of HN type of sites in many languages around the world. I wonder if there are enough of non-native English speakers that also read HN to provide us with insights and links. While English might seem to us to be the lingua franca of "tech" there are clearly big pockets around the world that dominant tech footprints and/or dominant economies/geographies/population/critical mass to sustain local HN variants. One could assume that there would be ones in Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi etc...
However, a caveat that might make HN unique is that it is subsidized, funded, maintained and actively run by private enterprise as a "marketing" arm of YC. Maybe that's what might be lacking in other ecosystems and language hemispheres.
I don't think that globalist "We are not special" assumption is true. Each culture contributes to a unique kind of community, and an HN equivalent might not exist (e.g. there isn't one in Korea). But also there are things in Korean internet whose equivalent does not exist in English (e.g. Namuwiki, a popular non-formal wiki, perhaps more popular than Wikipedia).
I think part of the reason why is that HN has something unique that would be hard to replicate elsewhere: the open source community and otherwise. For instance, there isn't a community in Korea where every week there is a posting about Lisp.
Higher Level [1] is an entrepreneur-focused forum created and funded by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. It isn't as tech oriented as HN, but it has the same mix of civil discussion, high quality contributions and experienced professionals willing to share stories and advice.
Nothing in spanish that I know of. A shame, considering it's one of the most spoken languages in the world. I guess we simply accepted english as the lingua franca for technological discussion and went with it.
I think it’s weird how little news from the Spanish speaking world makes it to English media, or UK media at least. I know very little of what’s going on in Latin America other than Brazil got a new president and El Salvador is not doing well with its crypto experiment. I suppose you could say this for most non English speaking areas like Africa and Asia but those areas have a lot of different languages in comparison and there’s a lot of linguistic crossover between Spanish and English considering the shared Latin influence.
