Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

Post by MarkTanamil » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 9:12 PM UTC

reinhardt wrote: post #144

kr4 wrote: post #98

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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…

Here's my top10 as of now: - Ask HN: What's the best place to aim on a Porn Website - The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Kindle - John Resig's ‘Secrets of the HBGary hack - Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for SOPA. - A new way of writing unmaintainable code. - Redesigning the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb - Build a house for $5 - Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Suc…

Post by sologrrl » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

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…

Post by mck- » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 9:21 PM UTC

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Post by drewhk » Thu, Nov 28, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

drewhk wrote: post #43

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…

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…

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