Nice work!
How about caching the number of upvotes and estimating the potential popularity of the generated titles, then for the most promising, getting a ghostwriter to actually create them? Could turn out brilliantly.
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#112 Lesser known C Craft: C Programs
PostgreSQL doesn't care
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#113> Can Snowden be targeted using the Soundcloud API?
Lovely.
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#114That 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…
Some too good not to share:
- Your Username Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed
- Android Ported to ANSI C
- Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds
- Cook something or get out of Facebook.com
- Mark Cuban: If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link.
- How Little Sleep Can You Get From McDonald's?
- Ocean acidification due to SOPA
- Love startups but not a developer? We need Ruby developers
- Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Users in 1 Month (with stats)
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#115I 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
also: "Learn You a Haskell is now larger than LinkedIn"
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#116I quit my job and am excited about a Failing Startup
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#117I 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…
Hahaha these are AWESOME especially the facebook one and the MongoDB hahahahaha
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#118Hiding 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
>A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail users
http://dbpmail.net/essays/2013-06-29-hackers-replacement-for...
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#119"No, I'm not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a talk."
"AWS is down due to IP litigation"
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#120- Bunny.py: A WiFi darknet that hides its traffic in the cinema
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