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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…

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Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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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…

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 Successful
  - Show HN: Pick a number from 1 to 1000 in C
  - Greplin (YC W10) open sources key piece of shit startup I hate to love

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Lost an stupidly large amount of time laughing so hard I cried. Some of the best:

Steve Jobs Presents His Ideas For A New Kind of Screwed Home-made bombs are being deleted from Wikipedia Show HN: New platform for finding work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out Why I'm done with the booth babes The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia source code 23 years later and you're still loving US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, what do we need some badass hackers to fill it up. Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows Ask PG: Comments are not a four letter word Opening *.txt file is dangerous on Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat comment spam Ocean acidification due to HTML5 Markdown.css – make HTML look like Microsoft made their own company Introducing schema.org: Search engines come together for a return of the universe Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here? Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate 50 cancer studies L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted of multiple other counts The New iPad's Screen Under the hood of Windows to test older versions of VLC How Carrots Became the new Opus audio format Please learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code An analysis of an unknown compression format Why must you laugh at you, then they laugh at my desk Fastest-growing YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) YC S11 startup (3M monthly uniques) YC S11 startup looking for people to talk to restaurants. Windows 8 is 20% faster than MemSQL Republicans Repudiate 40 Years of Firefox Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to Open Source Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an unrelated raid Youtube claims I don't know they're in water Why shuttle Atlantis will not do a tech job at Facebook Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Silicon Valley, Bad for the state of Berlin

Re: Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

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Turn it into a game. "Which of these is real? [A] vs [B]" give people ten pairs of headlines and score them. > MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company

Just threw something together for this: http://botornot.nathan.ca/

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