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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#91

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…

> 5. WordPress has left the solar system

Amazing. Thank you!

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post #56

I am honestly laughing to the point of tears. - I quit my job to personally email the first open source project - The 19-year-old jailed for the HN interface - Google to Sell your Company - Einstein's list of front end development resources - 4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg married - Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How You Fix It - ORM is an idiot" (Update 3)

So someone has finally been blamed for all these s!

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#94
How to land an airplane if you are logged in Gmail

Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby

Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Family

Mozilla should move Persona out of the plane (2004)

Sleep is more important than your users?

MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company

~/.osx — a collection of well-written GPGPU programming tutorials

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#95

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…

Obama wins back the right to keep emails private

John Resig's 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update'

From YC Rejection to 10,000 Users in 1 Day

PyPy is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen

screenshot: http://s28.postimg.org/k9pdb67n1/funny.png

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#96
post #43

That is literally hilarious. "Nobody’s going to download your bullshit app" , "HN will be retired, transition to Google Wallet Anti-Competitively" , "The best interface is no retirement" , "Amazon's homepage was down for 6 hours to boot Ubuntu" , "PHP Sucks But I Like PHP" , "Programming is a Lie" ,""Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine" , "Ask HN: What colour is your primary ope…

I hate myself for posting these, but I cannot resist (I am silently shaking from laughter fighting hard not to wake up my newborn): Show HN: Let's Be Civil (I think his was a real post but with Tell HN -- the small change is hilarious) Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the Post PC Era Firefox now only has one big flaw I feel I am a programmer Web Intents - the future of spam in Windows A new Python web framewo…

Damn it, I want to read all of those!

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#97

> "I took the top 10 daily posts for the last 3 years from Hacker News Daily (sorry about the few thousand wgets last night!)" I believe you could HNSearch API ( https://www.hnsearch.com/api ) and that would not impact the website performance

HNSearch does not allow chronological searching and has a limit of 1000 posts per query. Unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#98

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…

Couldn't resist from posting these:

-How Facebook is killing Linux on the desktop

-MongoDB Raises $150 Million - And Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

-Facebook claims it can read your e-mail without a data plan

-I am depressed and I need someone to talk to restaurants.

-Ask PG: Will you share your data in plain English

-France convicts Google Maps for iOS

-Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover – I am depressed and I am building Tindie fulltime

-SPDY Review by Opera Software has filed a lawsuit

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#100
> The No. 1 Habit of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs

> RIP Open Source releases on GitHub

> How I've Made 200,000$ in the browser

> Massive deposit of lithium found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012)

> Flash is dead. Long live Postgresql”

> Anonymous goes after Sony, makes it easy to do WYSIWG word processing

I love this site :-D

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