Amazing. My favorites: "Startups: How I Closed My First Round of Financing In Three Hours Using Only A GNU C Compiler", "John Carmack Severely Admonishes SQL", and "Torrent of all Apple Passwords"
For comparison, real headlines on HN right now: "I Can Crack Your App With Just a Shell (And How To Stop Me)", "A Wiki written in 80 lines of Javascript", "How Facebook Ships Code", "Piracy Doubled My App Sales", "Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think"
I coded this in about six hours while watching TV yesterday.
I think -- but I'm not sure -- that given a few days of work, I could make a HN front page that would be indistinguishable from the real one.
Is that a form of Turing test? Beats me. I don't know. All I know is that I had to stop because I was spending too much time clicking the dang "hit me" button! Amazing that just a small number of humorous headlines can be motivation enough to keep clicking until I find one. Interesting.
Amazing that just a small number of humorous headlines can be motivation enough to keep clicking until I find one.
I believe there have been studies showing that this is actually the best motivation of all. That's why we all check for new email obsessively. Pressing the button is most addictive when you only get a pellet - uh, I mean email - occasionally.
For comparison, real headlines on HN right now: "I Can Crack Your App With Just a Shell (And How To Stop Me)", "A Wiki written in 80 lines of Javascript", "How Facebook Ships Code", "Piracy Doubled My App Sales", "Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think"