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Ask HN: What are the most reliable tech sites in east and south Asia?

89 points| greggsy | 2 years ago | reply

Almost all of my tech news comes via HN, SubStack, Twitter and Reddit, but they only occasionally cite blogs or reports from China, Japan, South Korea or India - countries where a significant proportion of technology is built, designed, or supported from.

While there is a lot of tech news related to what is going on in those countries (often for the wrong reasons), it’s hard to gage what the tech ecosystem is up to without knowing where to look.

Language barriers aside (which are becoming less of an issue anyway), where would one go for reliable and direct news around semiconductor developments in Taiwan, or the weird products that emerge out of Shenzhen through AliExpress?

Is there an HN of India? Or Indonesia?

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[+] alephnerd|2 years ago|reply
For India+ASEAN (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Singapore) I recommend The Ken.

It's basically Stratechery but much more informed about the India+SE Asian technology business. It doesn't hurt that most of the writers for it are ex-VCs and PEs who have worked in the India+ASEAN sector for over a decade.

Inc42 is decent as well.

That said, I'm honestly not impressed with Stratechery anymore. I personally feel the quality of analysis has kinda gone down (sort of feels like he's grasping at straws). But maybe I'm just feeling Dunning-Kruger effect

[+] avemuri|2 years ago|reply
It's quite far from Stratechery. The Ken is more reportage, investigative at times, but clickbaity at other times.
[+] searchableguy|2 years ago|reply
+1 to The Ken. It's well worth the subscription.
[+] pdevr|2 years ago|reply
Some of these are excellent recommendations, while some are horrible (sorry!). Rather than replying to multiple posts, here is an alternative to consider.

Add Google Alerts for the keywords you want - "AliExpress", "taiwan semiconductor", or with wildcards in between as needed. Keep monitoring the alerts for several weeks. You will find a lot of general news sites, but you will also find who really publishes things that are useful and interesting to you.

Bonus tip: Once you find these sites, keep monitoring them. Find out where they get their news from. Mostly, they will quote or link to the original source. Go to those places. Those are the pristine sources you want.

[+] fomine3|2 years ago|reply
Impress Watch and ITMedia to read general tech news, reviews, and some analysis. https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/ https://www.itmedia.co.jp/

Hatena bookmark is now a toxic community in general, but its search feature is useful. Watching good bookmarking user is also interesting. https://b.hatena.ne.jp/q/Ruby?target=title&sort=recent&users...

zenn.dev and Qiita are like dev.to/substack community.

Japan's HN/Reddit equivalent is Twitter but hard to follow/filtering.

I'm also interested in Mainland China tech websites.

[+] SenHeng|2 years ago|reply
Japanese tech news site sort of like Gizmodo from the 90s.

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/

[+] fomine3|2 years ago|reply
Gigazine (jp) is now too much article translated from HN headline. It seems to re-translate to English. Not much worth to read. Its quality isn't good.
[+] vasili111|2 years ago|reply
How popular is this website in Japan?
[+] arsdragonfly|2 years ago|reply
DigiTimes Asia has some decent semiconductor industry coverage.
[+] rouslyrunn|2 years ago|reply
https://fossbytes.com/ is India's equivalent of The Verge
[+] pdevr|2 years ago|reply
Home page is full of thin affiliate pages. I clicked the "News" link at top, and it seems to be a page with links to affiliate pages of movies.
[+] fredgrott|2 years ago|reply
I have some Asian and Asiatic ones from my medium blog traffic notes:

zk.com apptractor.ru awayvk.com

zk stuff usually is in English.

[+] ydnaclementine|2 years ago|reply
Any korean sites? (even if it's in Korean?) interested as a language learner
[+] muzani|2 years ago|reply
@ecommurz on Instagram for Indonesia. They communicate in the language of meme, but they do have the latest updates and a strong community. Leaks somehow get there within a day; we joke that you shouldn't share anything on social media that you don't want to see on murz.

Malaysia has multiple communities, but Developer Kaki on Facebook is the most representative of the tech community now. https://forum.lowyat.net/ is more for tech enthusiasts but there's similar overlap without the elitism.

Also I think it's interesting to expect a tech community to look like Blind or HN, but in much of the world, it could be a Telegram group or a SMF forum.