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We're going to need laws around algorithmic news. This makes me want to work on a bot to reword hacker news into all clickbait links? "Rust vs Python? You'll
by burtonator 7y ago
We're going to need laws around algorithmic news.
This makes me want to work on a bot to reword hacker news into all clickbait links?
"Rust vs Python? You'll be amazed what this hacker recommends!"
"Uber lawsuit! They sued who?!"
- dredmorbius 7y agohttps://www.xkcd.com/1283/ https://www.xkcd.com/1283/
- baud147258 7y ago> "Uber lawsuit! They sued who?!" From a casual following of tech news, it should be: "Uber lawsuit! Who's taking on them this time?!"
- skocznymroczny 7y agoThat'd probably be a no-op bot, as most titles are clickbait nowadays anyway.
- ihuman 7y agoHaven't articles always had attractive headlines? Newspapers had them for a long time so people seeing the front page would want to buy that day's paper. The only difference between then and now is that the article's content is more likely to be low-quality.