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8 votes
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‘Lore Olympus’: Webtoon and The Jim Henson Company will partner for YA animated series
4 votes -
The Homeschool Dropout - Psychosalad (The Wiggles And Slipknot Mash-Up) (2017)
6 votes -
Romantic regimes
6 votes -
Poles at the polls: Five things to know
5 votes -
Facebook’s Libra association crumbling as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and others exit
11 votes -
Made in America: How four dishes with roots in other lands tell a story of immigration and transformation
5 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
7 votes -
The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
5 votes -
Cocktails from the 1970s
6 votes -
The feminist history of ‘take me out to the ball game’
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Bong Joon-ho’s dystopia is already here: The Korean director’s ruthless, bleak new film Parasite is the most fun you’ll have in theaters this fall
7 votes -
A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
8 votes -
Finland halts arms exports to Turkey and condemns military operation in Syria
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What does PewDiePie really believe? The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding
23 votes -
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
9 votes -
Denmark's gender pay gap among lowest in the world for self employed – Danes rank second in the world behind only Estonia
7 votes -
First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85
6 votes -
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
9 votes -
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX commercial crew mission in first-quarter 2020
6 votes -
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
10 votes -
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
14 votes -
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
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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.
29 votes -
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
10 votes -
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
8 votes -
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
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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?
6 votes -
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