Fixing bugs in widely used Unix software, maintaining compatibility with the existing related components and promoting cross-platform portability, for the benefit of thousands of future users, and documenting the experience as an educational tidbit for others, is not dumb.
Good article, link baity title.
Sure may be. On that note, have there been any non-linkbaity titles on HN in, well, as long as one may remember?
Sure there is, a quick look shows:
Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs Machine Learning: Neural Network vs Support Vector Machine Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
But you are right that there is a lot of link-baitiness on HN. Doesn't mean we can't wish for better.
Re:Hacking my Vagina
by kolleykibber on Sunday November 25, 2012 @10:24PM
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Who would have thought this title was link bait?
Sorry, not sure what you are saying? Perhaps there is some undetected sarcasm in your comment?
Re:Hacking my Vagina
by drivebyacct2 on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:32PM
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I think there might be a misunderstanding here, just want to make sure you guys are on the same page (as I am perceiving it).
I don't think he is saying it shouldn't make it on HN, if anything he's speculating as to whether or not it would be on the #1 spot if it were a male sex hack instead..
Re:Hacking my Vagina
by mememememememe on Saturday November 24, 2012 @05:27PM
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That's not sexist.
Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack.
Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner).
This is a genuinely interesting and creative hack.
EDIT: as I mentionned below, "The title is misleading" - it is linkbait. But the content is there.