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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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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…

> The Navy’s newest warship is powered by WebGL

omg ymmd

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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I'll join, this is fun:

  - Thank HN: 127 days since I quit Facebook

  - Dropbox: The Hottest Startup You've Never Heard of

  - Facebook detects if you are not a pilot

  - Reddit traffic doubles in less than 600 bytes

  - How to break in Gmail & Major Torrent client for work on Jeopardy

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#16
This is amazing!

I got:

    The Dumbest Idea In The South is 129 Million Years Old
    Double Fine raises $1m in less than 600 bytes
    Show HN: Please discuss if it’s 1999
    The Student And Quadrupled My Zappos/Twilio hackathon     entry into the math
    Searching for all Who Changed My favorite bookmarked HN users
Also

    How Khan Academy is the Future of Education
    What it’s like to work for Google
I'm pretty sure these are actual titles (lookback = 3)

Thanks for the laugh :)

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable.

    My deadly disease was just a website.

    IBM's "Watson" finally ready for preorder.

    TileMill — an application for making my daughter cry.

    "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Megaupload Video

    Google finally has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity

    Syrian Internet Is a Hero

    IRS claims it does not compute

    Stripe raises $18 million from affiliate links on "Ad-Free" blog

    Why I use paper to wipe my butt every day.

    Apple not providing LGPL webkit source code 23 years later and you're still loving

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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post #17

Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable. My deadly disease was just a website. IBM's "Watson" finally ready for preorder. TileMill — an application for making my daughter cry. "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Megaupload Video Google finally has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity Syrian Internet Is a Hero…

If you look at the code, I filter all titles that are substrings (including identical) of real ones. Sometimes the Markov chain will simply add a single word to it, though, so it gets through the filter. Any suggestions on how to improve it?
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