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Tech news sites quietly rely on this word to create drama in headlines (2017) (geekwire.com)
3 points by Lammy 76 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I was impressed that HN's automatic submission editor stripped the Q-word out of the headline of this post. I had only previously seen it make leading omissions (“Why…”, “How I…”, “The Story of…”)


I've noticed a lot of quiet but delightful things like that on HN. Try to end a comment with the word s i g h and the form won't go through, for example.




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