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6 votes
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Bank of Canada holds at 1.75%, warns economy's resilience to be 'tested'
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Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters
@mikebeas: Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO
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UK Parliament approves snap general election on Dec. 12
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WarnerMedia unveils HBO Max - Launching May 2020 with 10,000 hours of premium content for $14.99/month
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Dropshipping journalism - Newsweek has become a financially-troubled, traffic-chasing outlet without a clear purpose
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Trans athletes are posting victories and shaking up sports
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center
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Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
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Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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EA Access and EA Games on Steam
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Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement
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The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes (2006)
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Recent advances in 3D content understanding
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Against Me! - Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Angry Balled Fists
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Denmark is giving permission for joint German-Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to be laid through its territory
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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Nordic Council – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has refused to accept an environmental award
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The real fake cameras of Toy Story 4
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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How do you sleep at night?
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New method promises advances in 3D printing, manufacturing and biomedical applications
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Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and That’s Worrying
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The internet at 50: It has enabled many wonderful things, but we have to fight to keep it that way
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Isamu McGregor / Evan Marien / Ari Hoenig - Actual Proof (2013)
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Kiev - Willing Eyes (2019)
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Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks
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Yang vs. Warren: Who has the better tax plan?
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry (2019)
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Examples of wildfire mitigation working
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Here's what we know the shadowy X-37B was up to during its record 780 days in space
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Lost Ember | Release announcement trailer - November 22, 2019
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How to live like Jane Austen
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The Mandalorian | Official trailer 2
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Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A completely new camera
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More than 100 tons of manure from 370 horses at the Helsinki International Horse Show was used to create 150 megawatt hours of energy
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Beyond headlines?
Tildes is much like Hacker News and Reddit in that article previews are limited to just headlines. (Well, there are tags, but they're de-emphasized since they're hidden by default.) While they are...
Tildes is much like Hacker News and Reddit in that article previews are limited to just headlines. (Well, there are tags, but they're de-emphasized since they're hidden by default.)
While they are very concise, a problem with headlines is that we rely on them too much. Even good ones don't really tell you what the article is about. In cases where it's hard to read the article (because it's paywalled or whatever) the conversation can be based mostly on the headline rather than the substance of the article. On Hacker News there are often mini-disputes about whether the headline is clickbait or not, and what's a better headline. "Headline is misleading" is a pretty common complaint.
I'm wondering if we could add a bit more information? One possibility would be a "Subtitle" field. Lots of articles have subtitles that are somewhat more informative, and doing a copy-paste is pretty easy.
Another would be to have a "pull quote" field. This requires a bit of editorial judgement by the submitter about what's the best pull quote, but I think that's okay. It's still copy-paste so at least they don't have to summarize anything in their own words.
For the last few days I've been posting a pull quote as the first comment whenever I post an article, and I think it works fairly well, except that the summary says "1 comment" when actually nobody commented - it's just the pull quote. Also, having an explicit field for the pull quote might allow better UI possibilities, like you could put them under the headline in the topic list.
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Moto Hagio has been awarded as this year's Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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fornclake is developing an open source GBC Zelda clone with online multiplayer
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Untitled Goose Game is a funny video game about an asshole goose. Its power is in its simplicity.
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What’s inside Skinner’s Box? How using an exploit in the learning systems of our brain creates pleasure
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A piece of kitchen art sold for $26 million. A long-lost painting by Italian pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue had been hanging above a stove in an elderly French woman’s home.
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The cybersecurity firm Tiversa dominated an emerging online market—before it was accused of fraud, extortion, and manipulating the federal government
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Sony will shut down its PlayStation Vue streaming service on January 30, 2020
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Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes
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The trouble with chocolate: A decade after Mars and other chocolate makers vowed to stop rampant deforestation, the problem has gotten worse
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