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> Apache releases first major new version of cancer drug
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> "Algorithm" is not a language worth learning
Although when both titles made sense it was actually quite difficult to successfully pick which one was the bot.
I did not cheat, and many of the names could be real (I swear I saw some that were actually titles of real articles, but in fact were bot-generated) - I'm not sure what makes me tell a real title out of a fake one in these situations. On other situations though, it's very easy (grammar makes no sense, there are odd amounts of quotes, etc.), but in my experience these tend to be a minority.
Actually, I find it funny that in my experience, most titles that could be of real, interesting hacks fitting well in the spirit of HN, are the bot generated ones, and the most political/controversial titles (which often you'll see discussed on many places other than HN) are the real ones.
Edit: I wish there was an easy way to record your session, so that later you can analyze each title more carefully and do some math on which options you "upvoted".
In this round:
- CoffeeScript is not a four letter word
- Linux may have been due to bad connection
Now I'm starting to have a weird feeling, like it's all generated content, when I look at HN's home page...
I don't understand. Who upvotes content without reading it?
It's from this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282
Ouch, 2 out of 10. Only managed to get up to 6/14. In this round: - CoffeeScript is not a four letter word - Linux may have been due to bad connection Now I'm starting to have a weird feeling, like it's all generated content, when I look at HN's home page...
And now we need bot-generated articles, probably with real informations!
