Sites like Hacker News but in other languages
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?
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.
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.
[1]: https://www.higherlevel.nl/
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.
For the Japanese x programming segment specifically, I spend a lot of time reading (and some writing) on Qiita: https://qiita.com/
Try meneame.net. it's from Spain and it's a mix between HN and Reddit imo.
Great idea. I'd be interested in a similar site in Brazilian Portuguese or Korean.
vc.ru has similar content but in Russian. It seems to be a bit more business focused than HN though.
There was gambe.ro, which was an Italian site like Lobste.rs. Unfortunately it’s down now.