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9 votes
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NASA aims for first manned SpaceX commercial crew mission in first-quarter 2020
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A patient admitted to hospital in Sweden with a possible case of the Ebola virus has tested negative
3 votes -
How long will I be alone?
4 votes -
The original Half-Life just got patched for some reason
11 votes -
Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, and procedurally generated story telling
11 votes -
The sea is running out of fish, despite nations’ pledges to stop it
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Sinners, scalpers and the search for God: One man’s descent into the underworld of sports
4 votes -
Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC - First screenshots, details about new features and updates, and system requirements
7 votes -
One supermarket chain in Finland has an idea to address food waste – S-market has started holding 'happy hours' for products nearing expiration date
6 votes -
Headline Whiplash: Red meat is good for you now? (Research meta-review)
4 votes -
Even Greece is getting paid to borrow money in debt markets
7 votes -
Mark Kern, Classic WoW dev, on why he is boycotting Blizzard
@grummz: This hurts. But until Blizzard reverses their decision on @blitzchungHS I am giving up playing Classic WoW, which I helped make and helped convince Blizzard to relaunch. There will be no Mark of Kern guild after all. Let me explain why I am #BoycottBlizzard
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The end of silence - The tech industry is producing a rising din, and our bodies can’t adapt
12 votes -
Broken - An annotated summary of unpleasant experiences with macOS Catalina
11 votes -
Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
9 votes -
Department of Conservation fells healthy trees in New Zealand National Park
3 votes -
What's something you think more people should know about/be aware of?
Anything goes topic-wise: serious or funny, major or minor, significant or inconsequential. The only criteria is that you think more people should know about or be aware of whatever it is you're...
Anything goes topic-wise: serious or funny, major or minor, significant or inconsequential. The only criteria is that you think more people should know about or be aware of whatever it is you're choosing to share.
Also, explain why you think it's necessary or valuable to spread that knowledge/awareness.
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The Biblioteca de Marvila library in Lisbon helped rejuvenate a neglected neighborhood through embracing and encouraging gaming
7 votes -
An analysis of the implications of using Google's G Suite products in a newsroom
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The GGPO rollback networking SDK used in games like Skullgirls and Fantasy Strike is now available under the MIT license
7 votes -
For the first time in decades, EPA is overhauling how communities must test for lead in water
3 votes -
New Vector raises $8.5M to accelerate Matrix/Riot/Modular
11 votes -
The most detailed map of auto emissions in America
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A high income is a badge of success in many countries, but in Sweden a deep-rooted cultural code called Jantelagen stops many from talking about it
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With rich folklore traditions why have movies collapsed to just a few monsters?
We have about a million films showing vampires, zombies, werewolves, and ghosts. But despite rich folklore traditions we see very few films about other creatures. There is a handful of films...
We have about a million films showing vampires, zombies, werewolves, and ghosts.
But despite rich folklore traditions we see very few films about other creatures. There is a handful of films dealing with leprechauns, pixies, trolls, fairies, witches, goblins, gnomes, etc. And that's just the western traditions. We have huge range of unexplored creatures from around the world. If I had to sit through yet another vampire film I'd rather it was based on adze traditions than Bram Stoker reinventions.
Why are there so many films that tread the same ground about vampires, zombies, and ghosts, and so few films about everything else?
17 votes -
Viewpoint: Richard Feynman, harassment, and the culture of science
11 votes -
Murder By Numbers | Announcement trailer
3 votes -
Rwanda's Mara X, Z are the first smartphones made fully in Africa
16 votes -
What are some good design patterns for "still developing stories"
I apologize if this is a topic that has been covered before. I haven't really been able to find anything and I'm not really sure what a good search keyword is. But I noticed this as part of the...
I apologize if this is a topic that has been covered before. I haven't really been able to find anything and I'm not really sure what a good search keyword is. But I noticed this as part of the Hearthstone player ban thread.
On a traditional bulletin board forum it's not really an issue because the conversations unfold chronologically anyway. When you have the atemporality of threaded comment chains that gets disorganized fast.
Basically, it's a "still developing" story where more events and news keep happening that's germane to the discussion. As the news comes up, people who already read the thread might not see the comments being posted about subsequent developments and be able to follow it because each piece of additional news or info. ends up happening in a comment/sub-thread that ends up arranged in fairly arbitrary, rather than chronological order.
The Democratic Debate threads have been similar, where the reactions and consequences of the topics being discussed can keep a discussion going for a long time, but it all happens in sub threads that people are unlikely to see. Many of these developments don't really merit a thread of their own, but after a few days or so it gets hard to actually have a big-picture discussion because the news has overtaken the scope of the discussion thread.
In a thread with an active OP, I've noticed what tends to happen is the OP will steadily edit new developments into the main post to update it. I think this has actually worked pretty well BUT edits don't bump posts as far as I can tell. Also, the people posting the updates aren't necessarily getting as much credit (in terms of votes, exemplary labels, or whatever) and, insofar as that matters to people that's a thing. Do you think this is adequate as things scale or would some novel design or subcomment system be needed?
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I created a Hacker News Clone in Django for the Python community
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Looking for someone to take over the unofficial #tildes matrix room
A little over a year ago I created an unofficial matrix room for the tildes community. I believed at the time, and still do, that the infrastructure supporting the community should be founded on...
A little over a year ago I created an unofficial matrix room for the tildes community. I believed at the time, and still do, that the infrastructure supporting the community should be founded on open, sustainable software, and matrix was an interesting new solution in this space similar to the Discords and Slacks of the world. Though the room is bridged with the IRC chat activity has remained relatively low compared to Discord.
Unfortunately I haven't had the time to properly moderate this channel. Though the community's involvement there has remained civil I do not think I'm active enough to ensure things stay that way.
As such I am looking for an interested person or persons to take over this channel over the next week or so and if no suitable replacements are found will be shutting the room down until further notice.
Thanks everyone,
10 votes -
Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
3 votes -
Hearthstone player banned from Grandmasters Tournament for voicing support for HK protestors
56 votes -
Onward | Official trailer
4 votes -
One of forty-three allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump
8 votes -
World Mental Health Day 2019: Focus on suicide prevention
5 votes -
Pair Locking your iPhone to prevent law enforcement forensic imaging with Configurator 2
10 votes -
SerenityOS: From zero to HTML in a year
9 votes -
Denmark to conduct checks at border with Sweden to counter cross-border crime
4 votes -
A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
@aaolomi: Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, has a devil. But Iblis, as he's known to Muslims, differs from the red-skinned and horned devil popular in "Western" imagination. A thread on the devil in Islamic tradition and folklore
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Little Big - I'm OK
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A statue of former Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been built in his hometown in Sweden
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The 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Olga Tokarczuk, and the 2019 Prize to Peter Handke
Short link. Probably more to follow. The Swedish Academy handed out two prizes this year, after they were forced to suspend the prize last year amid a metoo scandal which saw most of the Academy’s...
Short link. Probably more to follow.
The Swedish Academy handed out two prizes this year, after they were forced to suspend the prize last year amid a metoo scandal which saw most of the Academy’s members either resign voluntarily or be forced to resign. There’s been a lot of speculation about how they were going to restore their reputation this year, and they spent a long portion of the press conference explaining their new process, whereas in past years they haven’t felt compelled to do so.
It was expected that at least one of the two prizes would go to a woman, with Margaret Atwood being one of the odds favorites (the bookmakers’ picks never win, so I don’t know whether we should put much stock in them, but they do reflect pre-award buzz). I’m not too familiar with either author, but it’s interesting that they chose Peter Handke. He’s one of Europe’s most controversial authors for his decades-long support of Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic’s actions during the Yugoslav Wars. He once compared Serbians to the Jews during WW2, visited Milosevic in prison when he was on trial for war crimes, and spoke at the man’s funeral. He’s also hailed as one of the greatest living German-language authors. It’s like the Academy decided to throw feminists a bone by awarding a woman the prize, but then couldn’t resist jumping headlong into controversy again right away.
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What's a small thing that made you happy?
I'll start with mine- having a clean desk. It's kinda amazing how that can change how productive you are.
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Help me get my head around DNSCrypt and DoH/DoT
I want to adopt these technologies b/c I'm moving to a home w/o WiFi: I'll only use mobile networks in order to save some money. But the general pipeline and setup are hard to digest, and I'm not...
I want to adopt these technologies b/c I'm moving to a home w/o WiFi: I'll only use mobile networks in order to save some money. But the general pipeline and setup are hard to digest, and I'm not sure if I really understand what are the implications for my privacy, except for the fact that DNS queries are encrypted so I don't leak domain names. This is especially important to me because Turkish internet law and the censorship mechanism is really intrusive, with DPI & DNS blocking. My current ISP does not fiddle with my HTTPS traffic, but I won't have that with my mobile network.
I'm also considering a VPN, but major VPNs are blocked here. To what extent do the purposes of VPNs and these DNS solutions overlap? Assuming most of my important traffic is over HTTPS+DoH/T, how safe am I, and most importantly how much can I penetrate the censorship mechanisms?
6 votes -
An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family
9 votes -
Akira Takeguchi - Konil Tolkuny (2019)
8 votes -
American Airlines delays 737 MAX’s return until January 2020, as grounding costs continue to mount
8 votes -
Why do women fake orgasms – and is it anti-feminist? We asked five women
10 votes