Show HN: Is this headline fake or not?

by tristan123456 • 6 years ago

15 17 6 years ago

We live in crazy times - but can you tell how crazy?

Hello HN, A friend and I made this to show two things: - Neural networks have become incredibly good at producing grammatically correct but completely nonsensical text - There are so many nonsensical headlines nowadays, it's hard to distinguish fake from real

Have fun!

Happy for all feedback. GitHub at https://github.com/TristanMenzinger/IsThisHeadlineFakeOrNot (frontend only).

barking• 6 years ago

Very good. I thought I'd have no trouble but did. On windows , where there's loads of room, if you had fake and true to either side of the cards that would be helpful

sabas123• 6 years ago

This made me tilted from losing too much

quickthrower2• 6 years ago

Me too. My first streak was 6 and I’m not going to beat it

Vagantem2• 6 years ago

The backgrounds disappear for me and all the headlines melt together, so I can't distinguish them before making my choice. I'm using adblocker and an old version of chrome though, so might only be a problem for me. Image: ibb.co/qg9yrMh

tristan1234564• 6 years ago

Ow, I'm sorry. I'll look into that. What Chrome Version are you on?

Vagantem2• 6 years ago

Working on a really old computer, realised I had Chrome 67

irjustin2• 6 years ago

Same problem, OSX 10.15.4, Chrome 83.0.4

irjustin2• 6 years ago

It was screen size for me. When I shrank it beneath a certain size the cards drew correctly.

tristan1234564• 6 years ago

Ah, very sorry. I can't fix this spontaneously now, but i'll check it.

rgossiaux• 6 years ago

Fun idea!

I will say that the interface feels a bit mobile-first to a fault: the swiping interaction isn't very desktop friendly. It'd be nice to have some buttons to click on for those of us using mice or trackpads.

tristan1234564• 6 years ago

You're absolutely right. We'll add that.

eyx• 6 years ago

It took me a while to figure out that I should drag the headline left or right. I first tried to click the red "fake" and green "not", I tried to click on the headline, etc. I then realized that it was written in the light grey message to which I was not paying attention.

It may be my fault, just giving the feedback in case it can help to improve the UX.

BrandoElFollito• 6 years ago

Same for me. The UI is not obvious.

henearkr• 6 years ago

Web gangsters will definetly appreciate this great new training resource! ;)

Aeolun• 6 years ago

I think the problem with this is that it’s not fun because it’s too hard :/ headlines have seriously degenerated.

sdflhasjd• 6 years ago

I don't think I can agree with the claim about perfect grammar, a lot of the fake headlines had grammatical errors.

I found the easy way of identifying the real from the fake (aside from the grammatical errors) was basically the absurd or extreme (typical clickbait) vs logical nonsense.

Examples

The haunted is not what we think it's
The Most Common Words You'd Name You... But Couldn't Names

Grammatical error

These adorable pets are supporting the womens march

Just typical clickbait

Shane Nakua's Cameo Line is just like any young girl's face

I don't understand what that is actually trying to say, so I put it in the logical nonsense pile.

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