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Somewhat different from my idea of how to get to the front page of Hacker News (from http://ineptech.com/index.html?blog&post=20 http://ineptech.com/index.html?
by ineptech 8y ago
Somewhat different from my idea of how to get to the front page of Hacker News (from http://ineptech.com/index.html?blog&post=20 http://ineptech.com/index.html?blog&post=20):
* Use a plainly wrong headline which you intend to weasel out of in the body of the essay (e.g. "Why Javascript is lower-level than Assembly", "Mobile is dead")
* Any "<app> in <techology>" project that hasn't been done yet (e.g. "Building a reverse-Polish calculator in Rust", "Show HN: Umud, the first MUD client for Urbit")
* Devise a variant on an obscure technology or algorithm and give it a quirky name (e.g. "Soda-can steganography", "Homomorphic hashing the Monty Python way")
* Vague counter-intuitive advice for startup founders (e.g. "Raising your valuation through the power of song", "How beating my children saved my B round")
- craftyguy 8y agoso basically: use a clickbaity title
- RugnirViking 8y agoTo be honest most of those articles look like something I want to read. Especially soda-can steganography.