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#171
Amazing, can't stop laughing!

- Ubuntu ported to the Web when you hit it with the stupid stick

- Why the cheapest maple syrup is the new compose in Gmail

- Oxford announces new degree in Computer Security, Dies at 78

- Cancer Vaccine, tailor-made for each cashier

- Hacking the iPod: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of bed for less than an hour

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#172
LevelDB: a fast multiple-account Google Docs makes it personal... very personal

Show HN: When is good time to cut the crap

Can Snowden be targeted using the Soundcloud API

MIT's artificial leaf is ten times more income from Android than from Windows ’95

Free online version of Apache HTTP Server released

What the smartest people do on the Moon

Sorry, this blog post is not non-linear

Supreme Court to allow Google to sue me into acquiring. Help

Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble

Chrome now the most effective thing you did to improve Python for Pythonists

IBM to Acquire a Domain Name?

My husband is a JavaScript library for capturing input

Youporn.com is now MIT licensed

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#173
This is awesome.

    My GF learned to be forked
    Online course: Build your own #dickbar
    Why you should learn just a little bit Apple, a little bit Apple, a little bit Apple, a little Awk - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework
    Firefox 6 released with long-sought Higgs boson discovery

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#176
post #17

Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable. My deadly disease was just a website. IBM's "Watson" finally ready for preorder. TileMill — an application for making my daughter cry. "Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Megaupload Video Google finally has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity Syrian Internet Is a Hero…

If you look at the code, I filter all titles that are substrings (including identical) of real ones. Sometimes the Markov chain will simply add a single word to it, though, so it gets through the filter. Any suggestions on how to improve it?

Another suggestion: terminate unmatched open delimiters at the end, and strip unmatched close delimiters (parentheses, quotation marks, etc.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#178

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…

My top 10 so far (in no particular order):

  Tesla wins in North Korea [since Kim Jong-un bought one]
  CISPA Passes in the browser
  Zynga Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol [very plausible]
  The Rules of a startup [couldn't believe first this wasn't a HN title]
  Simple Minecraft Clone in 580 lines of Ruby [ditto]
  What's the best startups in the noise of 802.11 [even more true than HN]
  Parsley.js: never write a Web Application that makes you understand git [ditto]
  Why I am building a hulking floating data center [I wish someone would do it]
  Only a few countries are teaching children how to drive customers away [are these countries called "communistic"? ;-) ]
  Concurrency is not an iPad [having read so many strange comparisons concerning concurrency I'm not surprised...]

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#179

Wow. Thanks for this, I haven't had such a good laugh in a while. Here's what I got: Hashify.me - store entire website content in the cloud Obama administration is still so offensive This Internet provider pledges to put man on Mars EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction Video shot from the ground up. Drunk scientists pour wine on superconductors and make tons of money?" Dwarf Fortress: Ten hou…

> Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than food

It must be sentient.

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