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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by wh-uws »

ricardobeat wrote: post #82
jiggy2011 wrote: post #3

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…

My favorites, almost too good to be fake: - A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other company has bigger monitors - Amazon and the adults who get upset about Sparrow’s acquisition - Orin Kerr: Why I Quit My Job to Start the Rest of My Todo List - How to handle 1000s of concurrent users on a cube-shaped planet - My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to drink coffee - 15-year-old girl invent…

One I got thats similarly almost too good

"Whatever works for you – and giving up reading it will make your customers much happier"

There have been way too many like this once recently

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by shebson »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #3

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…

My favorites:

"Google is about to learn stats"

"Progressive JPEGs: a new alternative to Node.js"

"Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Problem"

"Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed"

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by kr4 »

kr4 wrote: post #98
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…

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…

A few more (thanks for an hour long non-stop laugh!)

-Microsoft made their own online textbook, save district $175,000

-Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down Uber

-Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First iOS App Store Nightmare

-Valve: Piracy Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

-iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill W3Schools

-Pirate Bay Will Stop In Silicon Valley And Unemployed America

-The Revolutionary Birth Control In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value

-Samsung flew bloggers to Berlin, then threatened to leave a tech job at Facebook

-Google’s Marissa Mayer Has a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by neuralk »

Brilliant, hilarious, and either scarily accurate or perfect satire:

  Ask HN: I might be a spook

  Show HN: I'm tired of seeing

  Mark Cuban: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joker

  Google+ is now available as an alpha release (1991)

  Apple announces Mac OS X mouse annoyances

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by harvestmoon »

- What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Passwords

- Gmail.com was down for 6 hours to boot Ubuntu

- MongoDB Gotchas and How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle

- Facebook, I want to pay defendants' legal bills

- How I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a matter of minutes

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by DanI-S »

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…

> Deleted my portfolio, made $30k in my first six months of programming: from man-rodent to partyman

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by sowhatquestion »

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…

"Ma'am, Your Burger Has Been Acquired by LinkedIn"

^ almost died laughing at that one just now

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