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#125

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…

Those are incredible.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#126

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…

"MIT discovers a new syntactic feature to PHP"

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post #43

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…

I got this and it seemed a bit.. too real:

Two Senators Say the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#129

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…

I want to work for Porsche! It sounds like they're getting shit done.

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

#130
I seriously feel the need to look up some of these on Google, they're so convincing. All from the same batch, lookback=2:

SOPA sponsors break their own IE6-countdown site.

The Arduino Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines

What Major World Cities Look Like It Was Made By Samsung

WordPress Discontinues Support for SOPA

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