Next step is to get humans to write the articles based on those titles, and then auto-generate fake comments based on those articles.
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#212The Woman Problem
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#213This is the greatest thing I have seen on Hacker News in a very long time, and I mean that. This is genius, the titles that it generates paint a pretty clear trend of topics HN likes to discuss: The New York Times, failure, Go, PHP and of course limited to 2013, the NSA.
Some of my favourites I've generated today include:
Living in a bubble
MIT is a Bing Affiliate Scam
My GF learned to be inflated in seconds
Hacker Who Helped Put Jazz Back in 1997 That Made Amazon a Gorilla
I Hope My Father Hated India
How you eat corn on the road to Starcraft
Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is making a comeback due to harassment
Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an interview
Voyager 1 has been forked
Using prime numbers to make unlocking phones legal again passes 100,000 signatures
As a result of this app, I've seen my productivity drop by about 40% today, because this is seriously addictive. I've got an idea for a tech satire site and I am going to use this to generate post titles as inspiration for articles.
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#214NY Comptroller: Legalise marijuana, tax it now with three.js
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#215Add voting for top titles to get the gems in a list...
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#216"Why the cheapest maple syrup is the best predictor of code quality"
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#217Our unrealistic views of death, through a thunderstorm
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#218Nothing makes a place feel like a hive of groupthink like n-grams.
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#219I 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 threw together a little app that lets you vote for the funniest ones of these: http://headline-generator.herokuapp.com/ (I also really want to update it to also do Upworthy-style headlines. And maybe combine the two?)
Update: Now it does Upworthy also. And mashups. Amazing mashups.
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#220I 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!
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