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6 votes
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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
4 votes -
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.
7 votes -
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
6 votes -
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
10 votes -
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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Australia wants to use face recognition for porn age verification
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The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different?
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The world’s largest 3D metal printer is churning out rockets
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Can you turn a grape into a "meat berry"? - Tissue recellularization
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Apple reveals new AirPods Pro, available October 30
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"#GameofThrones was basically an expensive film school [for us]"—David Benioff & D.B Weiss
@forarya: At 3PM David Benioff and D.B Weiss #DnD started a session at the #AustinFilmFestival, I am a little late, but will live tweet as soon as I get there. #GameOfThrones
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The material science of metal 3D printing
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‘Star Wars’ setback: ‘Game Of Thrones’ duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss exit trilogy
15 votes -
The 1619 Project by the New York Times
4 votes -
Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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This video is sponsored by ███ VPN
38 votes -
Twisted - Kevin Macleod
5 votes -
The evolution of urban planning in ten diagrams
12 votes -
The sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5 (Part 1)
19 votes -
Text Editing Hates You Too
14 votes -
Why your cell phone is silent: FCC says 874 sites are down in California. They lack backup power
9 votes -
Why palladium is suddenly a more precious metal
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Andrew Yang was groomed for a high-paying job at an elite law firm. He lasted five months.
9 votes -
Letterpress business card printing with five Pantone colors
5 votes -
Welsh Male Voice Choir flashmob - Bread of heaven (2015)
7 votes -
Financial incentives are weaker than social incentives but very important anyway
5 votes -
The self-hammering probe on NASA’s Mars lander can’t seem to actually dig into the ground
10 votes -
One Year of ProtonDB
16 votes -
House Will Vote To Formalize Impeachment Procedures In Ongoing Inquiry
9 votes -
The most gender-switched names in US history
9 votes -
Tether: The story so far
7 votes -
Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles
4 votes -
The iPod silhouettes
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Buried in ice - The Franklin Expedition cemetary
4 votes -
There is no algorithm for truth
16 votes -
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire wearable device maker Fitbit
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP becomes the competition
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Bruce Soord - All This Will Be Yours (2019)
3 votes -
Three "programming" board games: Lovelace & Babbage, Quirky Circuits, and Pixoid
9 votes -
Overwatch 2 to feature PvE, new map, at least one new hero
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Robin Sloan: Three things I learned about games while contributing writing to Neo Cab
4 votes