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Eclipse launches new language to cut the crap

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Why Education Companies Do Not Emulate These Oppressive Nations

Dear Programmer, I have seen the future of spam in Windows

Do Things that suck in AngularJS

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Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes

Objective-C in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This

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John Carmack: Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites

The Horrible Future of Markdown

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Awesome! Can't help but add a few of the most hilarious it gave me:

How I Became a Billion Dollar Company Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Family MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing REST API Clients Get-shit-done - Easy way to write a single DMCA notice Linux To Become A Better Twitter Bootstrap Government: we can solve a problem with Vim Tower.js - JavaScript library for creating Windows 8 Why I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to acquire Nokia

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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History made in under 1K of javascript

This is by far my favorite. Inspecting the archive, it is a combination of History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill And one of the various javascript posts.

The one you quoted is a real title.

http://www.informatica.md/node/77679

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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post #65

Hiding Nobel prizes in plain English Have You Ever Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist Dear NSA, let me know if you're burnt out or just being lazy? Nexus 7, Made for Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes, fits in your browser into future How to Make Money -- Without Mining Asteroids Google paid AdBlock Plus to get $12 billion of gold to…

    Some People Can Run 18 Static Sites on a soaring eagle [video]
    Extracting Audio from Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your browser
    A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail users
    Too scared to write a Linux Server
    Stuxnet is now hosted on GitHub

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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post #70

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…

Here's one I found that was quite amusing: "Aisle50 (YC S11) streamlines the search for aliens"

The best one I got was "Aisle50 (YC S11) is a valid ipv4 address"

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#78
- Question for PG: Where do you work?

- Things I Wish I Had Been Given

- GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X Mouse Annoyances

- Why it is awesome to be inflated in seconds

- Show HN: I really need your money

- Why two spaces after a takedown?

- I'd like to skydive through a mountain

- Why I still don't contribute to an asshole

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    Google Engineer: What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race
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    Tell HN: You said not to. So I quit my job and launch a startup
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    Turn your browser into a notepad with one line of Ruby
    I don't know how to IE6
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