Hacker News Headline Generator

http://www.blarworld.net/hackernewsgen.html

by jbenz • 16 years ago

101 34 16 years ago

jbenz• 16 years ago

A buddy of mine created this bad boy for us all to enjoy. Hopefully you don't find it too mean-spirited; it's all in good fun.

Also worth checking out: his "tech article comment generator" at blarworld.net.

mortenjorck• 16 years ago

I appreciate that it's meant in fun, but it does beg the uncomfortable question: Have we become so predictable?

jff• 16 years ago

Yes.

_3ex7• 16 years ago

"You're making yourself look like a total Luddite by discounting Web-2.0-oriented content-management-valued models techniques. It's true."

or something.

nek• 16 years ago

"A '93 Ford Taurus in 8 lines of Megan-Fox-picture"

Hahaha

mambodog• 16 years ago

"A fully functional POSIX-compliant 64-bit multitasking operating system in 12 lines of Javascript"

dutchflyboy• 16 years ago

In that case, it probably uses FireMetal: "Introducing FireMetal: a Megan-Fox-picture platform optimizer"

tvon• 16 years ago

"A fully functional Death Star in 5 lines of WebGL"

Good stuff.

sketerpot• 16 years ago

Lisp can do it in two:

    (with-sufficient-macrology
       (make-generic-star :type 'death))

MindTwister• 16 years ago

Python can do it in one

    from past import deathstar

samd• 16 years ago

Now someone needs to make a blog post generator to go along with the headlines.

twism• 16 years ago

"Review my startup: www.hackunmarketableproducts.com"

vijaydev• 16 years ago

"A Facebook clone in 9 lines of CSS" :-)

redmage• 16 years ago

"How I turned coding unicorn picture technology into a $12 million a year business"

Bonus points for madness!

Deestan• 16 years ago

I love the insane ones.

"Ask HN: Am I crazy to program the secrets of toast?"

"Ask HN: Can someone tell me how to steal common sense?"

ryanelkins• 16 years ago

Interesting since I got "Ask HN: Does my startup need to steal unicorn picture technology?" followed up with "Review my startup: www.makeunicornpicturetechnology.org". Looks like that unicorn picture technology making guy finally hit the big time.

DanielBMarkham2• 16 years ago

It's a little-known fact, but lisp-driven unicorn picture technology is going to be the main driver of Web 4.0

Damn, I think I could make an HN comment generator.

jaxc• 16 years ago

"How I turned hating on unmarketable products into a $10 million a year business"

albertsun• 16 years ago

Let me guess: A markov chain based text generator trained on a set of HN headlines from before.

Something else?

riklomas• 16 years ago

Check out the source, it's randomly generated Javascript

eru• 16 years ago

Of course the Markov-chain approach would also be worth trying.

icey• 16 years ago

This thing is psychic. It gave me a headline for a project I started working on this weekend!

lucifer• 16 years ago

All that time for 9 lines of F#?

joshkaufman2• 16 years ago

Classic: "How I turned stealing pointless iPhone apps into a $12 million a year business"

joshkaufman2• 16 years ago

Funny: "Ask HN: Am I crazy to attempt to understand common sense?"

Sad: "Ask HN: Should my company make unmarketable products?" and "Ask HN: How do you program vaporware?"

Accurate: "Ask HN: Does my startup need to try to market to potential customers?"

peterwwillis• 16 years ago

s/^.+(?= Generator)/Spam Subject/

bugs• 16 years ago

It really needs to add things like:

How a kid/student made $20 million (mixergy interview)

How AMAZING BUSINESS was made with only $3.50.

pierrefar• 16 years ago

I can't wait for "Hacker News Headline Generator in 3 lines of Erlang"

tomwans2• 16 years ago

An Amazon clone in 9 lines of Megan-Fox-picture

tomwans2• 16 years ago

A Twitter clone in 13 lines of CSS

syl• 16 years ago

"Ask HN: Does my startup need to make common sense?"

100k• 16 years ago

I enjoyed "An Amazon clone in 14 lines of Clojure" -- that would be something to see.

DanielBMarkham2• 16 years ago

"A fully functional POSIX-compliant 64-bit multitasking operating system in 14 lines of CSS"

That I'd pay to see.

fs111• 16 years ago

"Ask HN: Who here actually trys to market unmarketable products?" lol

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