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Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by dataflow on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:18PM (#41428474)
It would've been lovely, but your "puns" aren't puns! I put "trips" in there, and I got:

- List of largest cruise trips <=> List of largest cruise ships

- Trips Industries, Tips Industries

What you have here instead are rhymes, but not puns.

A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.

Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by pimlottc on Monday September 02, 2024 @05:32PM (#41428966)
I agree, and even knowing this, I assumed it was finding pairs of real articles that rhymed. But no. It’s just a list of real articles and made up rhyming titles.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by KTibow on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:25AM (#41431258)
You need to put in a funny word for it to be something that resembles a pun
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by dataflow on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:44AM (#41431344)
That's certainly desirable but I'm not sure I'd call it a requirement? For example, if someone asks "We volunteered for this; who else did?" and you reply "Us two", that seems like a fairly uncontroversial pun with "Us too", but it's not particularly funny.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by ahazred8ta on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:37PM (#41436607)
Linguists don't tell puns. They cant.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by Suppafly on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:28PM (#41437657)
>A pun would've consisted of two words that sound the same, with both meanings usable in the phrase.

There are other sorts of puns than that but also, 'Trips Industries, Tips Industries' is a decent pun if you know anything about the trips industry. I agree that this is identifying rhymes, so essentially it's doing half the job and then you have to use context to understand if it's a valid pun or not.

Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by gazook89 on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:08PM (#41428394)
Just fyi I think you could make the experience better (maybe with another pun) if you hit the submit button with an empty field.

Right now it takes me to a poor error page

Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by politelemon on Monday September 02, 2024 @03:18PM (#41428062)
I like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then Wikipedia titles containing those words?
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by spacether on Monday September 02, 2024 @03:21PM (#41428097)
Glad to hear that you like it! Yup that's the process. Titles are in a relational db and fetched titles for a rhyme are stored in redis to speed up queries after the first one.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by ndarray on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:44PM (#41429403)
This is awesome. Might have some bugs as others mentioned but I like this idea, it's capable of producing some hilarious material in combination with swear words. Some of the word substitutions are too dissimilar for my taste though I'm sure it's difficult to get the tolerance right on your end.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by dmd on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:10PM (#41429546)
Very neat but I don’t understand what it has to do with puns. These are rhymes, as far as I can tell.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by imglorp on Monday September 02, 2024 @09:30PM (#41430321)
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Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by juicepun on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:21PM (#41430922)
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by AStonesThrow on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @03:36AM (#41432304)
This was a great opportunity to enter a pun contest, so I generated 10 of them and sent them in as entries. When I asked who had won, they told me: "No pun in ten did."
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by adammarples on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:34AM (#41433387)
A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. What you have here is a rhyming phrase generator.
Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by deckeraa on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:09AM (#41434611)
Simple & fun. Well done.

Note for others asking how it works: this generates simple puns based off of rhymes. Many potential puns won't make sense. But if you were, say, writing an article about finding a bread recipe for the fall, the tool's suggestion of "Hunt for the Bread October" would be a good pun.

Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by BizarroLand on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:57PM (#41436803)
Fun site, but I encountered what seems to be a bug.

It 500s for the word "bill" and (after some further testing) with "kill", "thrill", "will", "still", "fill" and "phil".

It worked with "infill" (no results), but not "refill".

Any clue what is going on here?

Re:Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles by kyry2016 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:39PM (#41440039)
They have been using guns