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Re:Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your te... by saurik on Saturday November 30, 2013 @11:06PM (#6826038)
Most of the time the people writing these articles have never even heard of Hacker News; this is just a more socially acceptable way to flaunt trivia in front of people to feel smarter while at the same time being able to call "first!".
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Re:Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your te... by Wingman4l7 on Sunday December 01, 2013 @04:34AM (#6826716)
Not having heard of Hacker News is irrelevant to writing better headlines. The "law" is hardly trivia; it's a great way to shed light on lazy writing and introduce people to simple manipulative tricks of journalism.
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Re:Brushing your teeth: no longer the best thing for your te... by saurik on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:34PM (#6829176)
The headlines are not written by the people on Hacker News: they are written by people on websites other than Hacker News, and then posted verbatim here. If 100% of people on Hacker News read these comments and would never write an article with a question as the title, it would not change the fact that articles with questions as the title would occasionally get posted to Hacker News.
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