Remix clone Hacker News

new | show | ask | jobs Github

▲

alpinisme 11 hours ago

That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.

▲ sjosh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I 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/4...

▲ throwaway2037 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

    > 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!

▲

simlevesque 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It'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.

▲

logicprog 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've seen it happen a couple times, iirc, it removes things after commas, and removes certain words as well

	▲	ivanjermakov 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Adds [video] to YouTube links, too.