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Re:Hacking Hacker News Headlines by vorbby on Thursday May 05, 2011 @03:24PM (#2518608)
As a counter-point...

This headline uses none of the hacks described in the article, yet it is ranking quite well.

Perhaps people should focus on letting the content speak for itself rather then using tricks like this?

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Re:Hacking Hacker News Headlines by derefr on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:16PM (#2519749)
It does, however, use the trick of being alliterative—which an N-gram analysis of terms will miss.
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Re:Hacking Hacker News Headlines by ma2rten on Friday May 06, 2011 @08:18AM (#2520704)
it's short, which has one of the hacks
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