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Post by reinhardt »

mFixman wrote: post #201
reinhardt wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's my top10 as of now: - Ask HN: What's the best place to aim on a Porn Website - The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Kindle - John Resig's ‘Secrets of the HBGary hack - Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for SOPA. - A new way of writing unmaintainable code. - Redesigning the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb - Build a house for $5 - Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Suc…

- Redesigning the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb That isn't too far off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447580

Ha, and I tried to include only titles that sounded as obvious jokes. It's getting harder and harder to tell real from Onion-style stories.

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Post by jessedhillon »

dirtyaura wrote: post #152
gamegoblin wrote: post #2

I was inspired by this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813162 I find that lookback of 2 generally creates more entertaining titles. Lookback of 3 usually seems to just splice together two titles (which can be hilarious, and is usually more grammatically correct), and lookback of 1 tends to generate more nonsense. Some fun ones I found just now: The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Teenage Hacker H…

Oh boy, I haven't lauhde this hard for a while. You have created a masterpiece of algorithmic humor. A few gems from my trials: HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of 'App Store' First employee of startup? You are not colder than absolute zero No, really, pi is wrong: The NSA slide you haven’t seen $100k Revenues in One Click.

I got one which aptly describes a sentiment I feel often in general around here:

The piece of shit startup I hate to love

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Post by Kliment »

jessedhillon wrote: post #243
dirtyaura wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy, I haven't lauhde this hard for a while. You have created a masterpiece of algorithmic humor. A few gems from my trials: HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of 'App Store' First employee of startup? You are not colder than absolute zero No, really, pi is wrong: The NSA slide you haven’t seen $100k Revenues in One Click.

I got one which aptly describes a sentiment I feel often in general around here: The piece of shit startup I hate to love

That one is actually authentic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656728

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Post by rext »

-I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States Government by stealing .gov

-Chinese students and families fight for the right to sell your iOS app

-Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times, manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?

-Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the United States

-Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I write a Web application in Python?

-Poll: Do you know where they are? I do.

Impressive. The last is a little ominous though.

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Post by kristiandupont »

I cannot resist but to join in. Thanks OP for a great laugh this morning!

WeekendHacker.net - A Private Small Claims Internet Court

Bruce Schneier has changed since being hidden?

Sublime Text 2 Beta released with support for SOPA

Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the right answer to "Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (January 2011 Edition)

An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Brain

Experience the Apollo 11 Rockets

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Post by eksith »

Sweet Jesus!

  Ask HN: How much recurring income do you make in the witchhunt?
  
  75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court 
  to avoid judicial review of the HP-35
  
  Why I've built an alternative to CSS resets
I could have sworn, I actually saw that headline for real.

  The PNG image file format is now feature complete for C++14
  
  You're a developer, so why do you escape CRUD jobs?
Because they're not sexy and doesn't involve Big Data somehow... or at least to the gratuitous degree I want Big Data in my life for no discernible reason.

  Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Crack, 
  Creator Provides Free App Instead
Hahaha!

  Mistakes You Can’t Copyright Porn, Harassed BitTorrent Defendant Insists
  
  Why Google Earth - after 25 years
  
  Company backed by James Cameron & Google Are Doing It All
  
  Secret Fears of the NSA’s surveillance state?
Looks like NSA titles are still making it into the headlines.

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Post by mrcactu5 »

this is cool have you seen snarxiv? http://snarxiv.org/

in the comments the author discusses how he generated convincing titles using context free grammars:

  snarXiv is based on a con­text free gram­mar (CFG) — basically a set of rules 
  for computer-generated mad libs... The snarxiv’s gram­mar is 622 lines long...
  The coolest and most nat­ural thing to do with a CFG is exploit 
  recur­sive­ness as much as pos­si­ble. The more recur­sion built in, 
  the less pre­dictable and richer the out­put.
I am guessing they learned the Context-Free Grammar by reading many abstracts and titles.
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