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alpinisme • yesterday at 12:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.

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sjosh • yesterday at 6:35 PM

I went to check if this was documented in the list of undocumented HN features on GitHub but it’s not.

There is an open PR (by simonw btw): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/pull/4...

throwaway2037 • yesterday at 1:52 PM

    > classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm
Woah, this is a wild claim. @dang: Is this a thing? I don't believe it. I, myself, have submitted many articles and never once did I see some auto-magical "title shortening algorithm" at work!
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