| ▲ | trollbridge 2 hours ago |
| Starting a title with “How” is standard clickbait. |
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| ▲ | Goronmon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If we are taking that attitude why not go all the way? Titles are standard clickbait. |
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| ▲ | miki123211 an hour ago | parent [-] | | With LLMs, you could actually do anti-clickbait titles. Extract the article text with something like r.jina.ai, and ask an LLM to generate a ~80-character summary that explains the main point of the article for people too busy to read it. I do think this would genuinely be useful. | | |
| ▲ | senko an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You're absolutely right! (errm...oops....anyways...) The fact that LLMs usually generate anodyne summaries is actualy a benefit here. I used my website-to-markdown tool[0] to get the text, piped the output to claude -p and got a pretty decent "Patching Copy Fail at scale: how bpf-lsm bought us time before the kernel reboot" result. [0] https://markshot.dev | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | back in my day, people just used the thing that rattles around inside their skull for such tasks | | |
| ▲ | senko an hour ago | parent [-] | | To do that, you need to read the article first, which is the point of click-bait titles. The point of the defense is to avoid exposing your neurons to that stuff. | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | i would hope that people are reading articles first and submitting them to hn because they are interesting, rather than submitting articles to hn blindly. | | |
| ▲ | senko 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I agree with you on that, but that just holds true (we hope) for the OP. HN already editorializes the title, to help everyone other than the OP (not all people agree over what's interesting to them). Now we're just arguing over the degree. |
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| ▲ | gilrain an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Starting a sentence with “How” is standard English, too. |
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