Re:Show HN: Real News or Satire? Test Your ability with this...
by latexr on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:25PM
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HN titles are capped at 80 characters. Some of your fake titles are much longer, making them simple to detect even without reading.
But there’s a bigger issue than that: most of the “satire” entries were just plain bad. They read like titles from a right-wing version of The Onion where the “joke” is using divisive rhetoric like “liberal tears” to criticise “woke” and “leftists”. They try (and fail) to be funny. Real HN titles, in contrast, are mostly informational and thus simple to detect.
Fun idea, but I don’t think it really works in its current state. It’s neither a game (no challenge) nor satire.
Also, the contents of the lists at the bottom recording what was already picked are switched.
Finally, the Subscribe option is unclear. Subscribe to what? Whose news?
But there’s a bigger issue than that: most of the “satire” entries were just plain bad. They read like titles from a right-wing version of The Onion where the “joke” is using divisive rhetoric like “liberal tears” to criticise “woke” and “leftists”. They try (and fail) to be funny. Real HN titles, in contrast, are mostly informational and thus simple to detect.
Fun idea, but I don’t think it really works in its current state. It’s neither a game (no challenge) nor satire.
Also, the contents of the lists at the bottom recording what was already picked are switched.
Finally, the Subscribe option is unclear. Subscribe to what? Whose news?