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Despite that the video starts with "The title of this video won't be exactly right. [..] If it's actually a 100% spot on it's a miracle" the title was exactly
by weinzierl 7y ago
Despite that the video starts with
"The title of this video won't be exactly right. [..] If it's actually a 100% spot on it's a miracle"
the title was exactly right when I saw it the first time. I even screenshotted it.
I also wondered if it would work on HN. Is there a limit on the number of times you can edit a title on HN? Obviously there isn't on Youtube, which I find quite surprising.
- 0xcde4c3db 7y agoIt's apparently very common to see it be exactly right. My guess is that YouTube is doing enough batch/cache/snapshot magic to view counts, and applying the scheme equally to the web UI and API, such that it's not actually necessary for the script to poll super-frequently.
- flingo 7y agoOr, someone at youtube saw the video and thought it was cool. Like how this video will always have 301 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
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- redisman 7y agoThe view count is definitely cached for some second at a time. Part of me wonders if that statement is just part of the viral-magic of this video. No way! He said it would be a miracle!
- PudgePacket 7y agoPretty sure only hn admins can edit a title.
- weinzierl 7y agoUsers can too, at least I can, but probably there is a karma threshold.