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by dang 10mo ago
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- rcxdude 10mo agoAnother win for the HN title-munging rules.
- curtisblaine 10mo agoAt least we know it wasn't passed down orally.
- Minor49er 10mo ago...by a French waiter
- zem 10mo agoit was indeed
- skrebbel 10mo agoSamba
- skrebbel 10mo agoIn my defense, this joke was funnier when the HN title was “Samba Was Written”
- vessenes 10mo ago@dang original title is “How Sambas Was Written”, which makes more sense
- dang 10mo agoRehowed. Thanks!
- emmelaich 10mo agoHow Samba Was Written
- rob74 10mo agoYeah, that's the HN "anti-clickbait" feature that (amongst others) removes the "How" from titles like "How we managed to run Doom on a mechanical typewriter", but in this case it doesn't make sense at all...
- Archer6621 10mo agoIf anything, it made it more clickbait-y due to being an unusual title.
- dang 10mo agoYes, it's imperfect that way.
- sph 10mo agoHow does removing the word "how" make a title less of a clickbait? "I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick" is exactly as bad as "How I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick"
- gosub100 10mo agoIt removes repetition and imitation. To avoid a frontpage list full of "why I rewrote ___ in rust" , ,"how I use rust for filing my taxes", "how I switched from braille to rust"
- zahlman 10mo agoI sort of get it, but overall I still get the impression this particular filter is hurting more than it helps.
- jonstewart 10mo ago
- sedatk 10mo agoThe title is actually “How Samba was written”.
- dang 10mo agoRehowed. Thank you!