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Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by josephcsible »

Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor...

It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.

Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by cerivitos »

cybarDOTlive wrote: post #3

I didn't enjoy the game because it was basically just guess work. A lot of the seemingly bizarre headlines are perfectly capable of being real in this clownworld, nevertheless, great presentation!

Thanks for trying. Yup some headlines are stranger than fiction.

Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by cerivitos »

greatergoodguy wrote: post #4

I was surprised I couldn't see the results after each question. Getting that instant gratification would make me want to continue playing.

Yeah I went with the design choice to show the results at the end. In the app version (link on the main page) it shows the result after each selection because the game ends when you make a wrong choice.

Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by cerivitos »

josephcsible wrote: post #5

Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor... It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.

Thanks for trying. You have a good point, those were true headlines but with satire text. Got to find a way to filter those out... Unfortunately they don't seem to belong to a fixed section which I can parse.

Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by jessikat »

cerivitos wrote: post #8
josephcsible wrote: post #5

Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor... It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.

Thanks for trying. You have a good point, those were true headlines but with satire text. Got to find a way to filter those out... Unfortunately they don't seem to belong to a fixed section which I can parse.

Ah yeah, I got bit by that too! Haha

Re: Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Post by josephcsible »

cerivitos wrote: post #8
josephcsible wrote: post #5

Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor... It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.

Thanks for trying. You have a good point, those were true headlines but with satire text. Got to find a way to filter those out... Unfortunately they don't seem to belong to a fixed section which I can parse.

All of the ones I've seen have been under "American Voices". Can you filter on that?
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