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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Post by pitchups »

The ones below seem very real and plausible:

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Post by pawn »

dirtyaura wrote: post #152
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…

Oh boy, I haven't lauhde this hard for a while. You have created a masterpiece of algorithmic humor. A few gems from my trials: HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of 'App Store' First employee of startup? You are not colder than absolute zero No, really, pi is wrong: The NSA slide you haven’t seen $100k Revenues in One Click.

I thought this one was great:

What it's like to be forked

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Post by Draco6slayer »

dcohenp wrote: post #207
dirtyaura wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy, I haven't lauhde this hard for a while. You have created a masterpiece of algorithmic humor. A few gems from my trials: HIV-Infected Infant Cured With Early Use of 'App Store' First employee of startup? You are not colder than absolute zero No, really, pi is wrong: The NSA slide you haven’t seen $100k Revenues in One Click.

Honestly, when I read the NSA one I started laughing, but then it kind of sent a shiver down my spine. Brrr.

The NSA had been spying on mathematicians, and discovered their greatest secret. Pi and e are actually switched. No, really, pi is wrong.

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Post by Draco6slayer »

imrehg wrote: post #220
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…

Pretty aggressive/pessimistic! RSS Is Dying, and You Should Too Edit: Some more funnies... Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to the US Groupon is the new FTP And last but not least: Official Hacker News is bad for you

Science fiction novel about an open-source country.

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Post by almondsays »

This is fun.

  - Instagram says it now has the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
  - Redditors earning $100k+ a year, secret files show
  - Physicist proposes new way to view IAmA's on Reddit
  - Linux may have been due to bad connection
  - Kim Dotcom: The US recording industry is stealing my ebook

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Post by amjd »

almondsays wrote: post #269

This is fun. - Instagram says it now has the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA - Redditors earning $100k+ a year, secret files show - Physicist proposes new way to view IAmA's on Reddit - Linux may have been due to bad connection - Kim Dotcom: The US recording industry is stealing my ebook

Some more:

- 3px of padding makes all the female developers?

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- Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’

- IBM to Acquire Tumblr

- Firefox Beta 15 supports the possible suspension of U.S.

- Kim Dotcom: The US recording industry is stealing my ebook

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