Seriously, what's with all of these comments trying to promote/necessitate that to make some sense of your place in the technology community, you'd better speak english?
Why can't this resource be appreciated for what it is: a resource for the Spanish speaking community that might be interested in technology, but are unable to pick up the language for whatever personal reasons they may have?
Reality is a cold, harsh mistress. I'm not a native English speaker. If I were to restrict my knowledge of programming, startups, business etc. to what is available in my native language, I would severely handicap myself compared to those who can read English.
If I were to restrict my software business to only people who use my native language, I would only have 40 millions of potential customers instead of several hundred millions.
At best, it's a Quixotic effort.
At worst, it'll actually do harm to people it supposedly tries to serve by allowing them to stay in the comfort zone because that comfort zone is really, really small compared to richness of knowledge available in English, especially in topics like software engineering or startups. It's the law of unintended consequences.
Sure, learning to read English at a speed equal to reading my native language was a long and arduous process, but I only had to do it once. I reap benefits of that investment every day. When I think about it, it was the best investment of my life.
I'm going to assume that Spanish is not one of your languages, so why does it matter to you one way or another that this site exists? These arguments sound like bikeshedding, not real objections.
Does having a Polish or Portuguese section of Wikipedia harm people too?
I, for one, will use this to practice Spanish by reading topics with which I am familiar, and conversing with native speakers about them.
But beyond the irony of saying that establishing a Spanish-language tech community is a Quixotic effort, there are a lot more Spanish speakers than Polish. It's half the world. It's a really big community.
And I'm not just saying that because I'm happy to have someplace to practice my Spanish, either.
HN is extremely US centric and, believe it or not, some great content is just not available in English. Those two are good enough reasons for a non-English HN, even if everyone or nearly everyone visiting the non-English HN can also read and write English.
Just like I said it a few days ago when we had a conversation like this in NoticiasHacker:
Language barriers should not be the directing the behavior on the web. The idea of "cloning" and having translated platforms is something I think is needed as long as it's sole objective isn't to be a window to specific language original content because it can be scarce even though it empowers the community.
Sadly the combination empowering the community and looking for language specific content usually is what makes translated platforms be popular but at the same time kills them.
I think the key for successful non-english communities is to let go the empowerment model and work in a community without language or geographical limitations, where the focus is set to distribute and discuss information regardless of original language and open to discuss in whatever language needed.
Why can't this resource be appreciated for what it is: a resource for the Spanish speaking community that might be interested in technology, but are unable to pick up the language for whatever personal reasons they may have?