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.