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That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.
by alpinisme 8mo ago
That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.
- throwaway2037 8mo ago> classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm Woah, this is a wild claim. @dang: Is this a thing? I don't believe it. I, myself, have submitted many articles and never once did I see some auto-magical "title shortening algorithm" at work!
- logicprog 8mo agoI've seen it happen a couple times, iirc, it removes things after commas, and removes certain words as well
- ivanjermakov 8mo agoAdds [video] to YouTube links, too.
- simlevesque 8mo agoIt's been confirmed by @dang many times before. I'm not sure if that's what cut the title here but I've seen it many times in the last 10 years.
- tomhow 8mo agoIt's not exactly an auto-magical "title shortening algorithm"; just a simple software function that cleans up titles by removing common title patterns that are baity, abusive, ugly or superfluous. It wasn't the cause of this change; the submitter submitted it without the “with help from AI” part, for some reason.
- sjosh 8mo agoI went to check if this was documented in the list of undocumented HN features on GitHub but it’s not. There is an open PR (by simonw btw): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/pull/48/commits/4ba361112607a06613814df7564e10136a57fda3 https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/pull/4...
- tomhow 8mo agoIt wasn't. The submitter submitted it with the title “Ladybird Browser adopts Rust”. We initially changed it to “Ladybird adopts Rust”, and now I've changed it to the original title, per the guidelines. The automatic title cleaner wouldn't make a change like that.