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1 vote
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José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
7 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
9 votes -
Sabine Schmitz, legendary racing driver, succumbs to cancer at age 51
12 votes -
Wireless is a trap
31 votes -
Wikipedia is finally asking Big Tech to pay up
21 votes -
Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine
19 votes -
Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
16 votes -
24-year-old prototype of Samurai Shodown 64 for Hyper Neo Geo 64 discovered outside in a field in California, where it was left for twenty years
9 votes -
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut | Launching March 30th, free upgrade for all current owners
16 votes -
title.wma - The origins of Windows XP's welcome music
3 votes -
Scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
5 votes -
Spain to launch trial of four-day working week
12 votes -
Can we stop pretending SMS is secure now?
17 votes -
Igorrr - Cheval (2017)
14 votes -
Nvidia confirms they accidentally released a driver that removed the Ethereum-mining limitations on RTX 3060 GPUs, undermining their attempt to make the cards unappealing to cryptominers
25 votes -
Japanese court says it is 'unconstitutional' to bar same-sex marriage
17 votes -
There I Ruined It - Chop Suey (Bluegrass) (2021)
11 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
6 votes -
Talk to me about one of your passions
Open ended thread. Talk to me about anything that you're so passionate about that you could keep going all day. Maybe also tell me how you got into it.
13 votes -
‘The Secret Apartment’ is the story of a Vietnam vet who claims to have lived in Veterans Stadium for years
9 votes -
Audi abandons combustion engine development
19 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 15
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
9 votes -
A progress update on LinkLonk - a trust based news aggregator
Hey everyone, I launched my little project LinkLonk here on Tildes back in December and wanted to tell you how it has been going and get your feedback/suggestions. New changes since the launch:...
Hey everyone,
I launched my little project LinkLonk here on Tildes back in December and wanted to tell you how it has been going and get your feedback/suggestions.
New changes since the launch:
- The temporary accounts now automatically get deleted after 30 days of inactivity. I didn't have the deletion logic at the time of the launch, but had it implemented about 30 days after launch. Automatic account deletion is quite destructive - removes the account from the database (thank goodness for foreign keys and cascade deletes) and from Firebase Authentication. I'm happy that there were nobugs when I ran it the first time.
- In addition to submitting external links you can now create text posts. The posts are Markdown-formatted (similar to Tildes). One novel thing is that you can post "anonymously". The database has a record of who the author is so the author can delete/edit their post, it's just the name is not show next to the post.
- Comments - each item has a comment section. The comments are ranked based on how much you trust the people who upvoted each comment (as opposed to being pure popularity). This is the same ranking system that is used to rank the "For you" page, but now applied to comments.
- Unlike Tildes, the comments have a downvote button. The downvote does not bury the comment for everyone else. Instead, it makes your trust in upvotes of people who upvoted that comment go lower. So the downvote button effects what you see, not what others see. It is much harder to abuse that button that way. For that reason I feel much more comfortable putting it there. However, there is a second order effect. If you downvote a comment that someone else already downvoted - then you will trust the downvotes of that person. When they downvote some other comment - then it will rank lower for you. In a sense they earn your trust to moderate content for you by identifying comments you don't want to see.
In terms of users, there have been 260 user records created (some from my shameless plug comments on HackerNews). Of those, ~45 rated something - excluding those that were temporary accounts and were deleted. And I think we have 2 regularly active users (excluding myself). In my mind I had 10 as the number of active users that I was hoping to get by the end of 2021. At this rate we may reach it.
I was pleasantly surprised that there have been no misbehaving users. I didn't need to remove any content even once. This lead me to constantly postpone the implementation of a content reporting system. I hope it stays this way for a long time.
The whole idea of a trust based recommendation system is based on having someone to trust. Right now it is the RSS feeds that are generating most of the content recommendations for the active users. But ideally it would be mostly users recommending content to users. I have two priorities for the near future:
- Make the "single-player" experience better so the active users find value already. As an example, I added full-text search through items you liked
- Find more users to improve the "multi-player" experience. One option is to submit a "Show HN:" post on HackerNews. But you can only do it once and I'm not sure I'm ready to use that shot yet.
What do you think I should do next on these two fronts?
If you would like to give LinkLonk a try register with code "tildes" at https://linklonk.com/register. Feel free to comment on this post: https://linklonk.com/item/6347369602224750592
17 votes -
What features do you want to see in a userscript manager?
I'm currently developing a minimal userscript manager who's main goal is to be fully auditable by any user in only ten minutes or so - my prototype uses less than 300 lines of javascript, and I'm...
I'm currently developing a minimal userscript manager who's main goal is to be fully auditable by any user in only ten minutes or so - my prototype uses less than 300 lines of javascript, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
To get the codebase this small, however, I have to be very picky with what features I implement - most notably, the code editor has to be very barebones. Are there any features that I'd be shooting myself in the foot by not including?
For example:
- syntax highlighting
- cloud sync
- regex url matching
- fullscreen editor (currently, it's just a browser popup - the intention is that you write code elsewhere and paste it in)
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
7 votes -
A thorough guide and review of Super Nintendo World, Nintendo's new theme park at Universal Studios Japan
7 votes -
March Madness is upon us!
It's time to go fill out your brackets and enjoy the show! I filled out one today and plan to fill out at least one more in the coming days. Does anybody have any upsets that they feel strongly...
It's time to go fill out your brackets and enjoy the show! I filled out one today and plan to fill out at least one more in the coming days. Does anybody have any upsets that they feel strongly about? Good luck to everybody!
8 votes -
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs
7 votes -
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been recalled to Sweden's squad for the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers, five years after retiring from international football
8 votes -
The other side of cancel culture
8 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
Covid-19: Brazil to get fourth health minister since pandemic began
6 votes -
India will propose a law banning cryptocurrencies, criminalizing possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring crypto-assets
19 votes -
How I earn a living selling my open source software
10 votes -
AstraZeneca NL factory is not producing any vaccines. People are trying to figure out why.
@Dave Keating: Some astonishing new revelations here.The #AstraZeneca facility in Netherlands isn't producing any vaccines for EU because AZ hasn't submitted paperwork to start.With the UK contract blocking export from the 2 UK sites, EU is getting supply from only 1 of the 4 sites promised https://t.co/9UboEcdold
19 votes -
Exploiting machine learning models distributed as Python pickle files, and introducing Fickling: a new tool for analyzing and modifying pickle bytecode
3 votes -
A look at search engines with their own indexes
26 votes -
Democraciv: Fake government plays Civilization
16 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
11 votes -
Short interview with a vaccinator about an accessible vaccination clinic
6 votes -
Two-person boardgames?
My girlfriend and I have had a habit of going straight to watching movies and tv-series when we hang out, because due to lockdown almost everything is closed, so we don't really have a lot of...
My girlfriend and I have had a habit of going straight to watching movies and tv-series when we hang out, because due to lockdown almost everything is closed, so we don't really have a lot of activities to choose from.
We also play games occassionally, recently scrabble on our phones. But what other boardgames work well when there are only 2 players?
Edit: Wow! I can't possibly respond to everyone but I didn't expect so many people to comment with help. Thank you so much!
23 votes -
Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt gets $14 billion order as Volkswagen raises ownership
4 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
10 votes -
I just directed my first short film! Introducing Noise Job
22 votes -
The Aces - My Phone Is Trying to Kill Me (2020)
3 votes -
Black Myth: Wukong | Official thirteen minutes gameplay trailer
13 votes -
Celebrating Burmese trans identities at the Taungbyone Nat Festival helped me understand my gender
7 votes -
After receiving second dose, Yo-Yo Ma transforms waiting period into performance at Pittsfield vax clinic
12 votes -
The Rai Stones are huge stone wheels used as currency on the island of Yap
11 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of March 8
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
14 votes