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Yet another HN title that says nothing about what lies on the other side of the link.

"BlackBox: a new shipping company from the creators of Cards Against Humanity"

Isn't that just a bit more descriptive?

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For a second there I was really hoping it was a return of the Blackbox Window Manager.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbox

Me too! I use Blackbox for Windows (bbzero) in my Windows 7 machine. It works well once set up, have to put apps in launcher and add to desktop menu.

Fluxbox is great though.

Same here!

The irony is its called Blackbox.

Maybe they could add a subtitle field so we can keep the original title but have a more descriptive one if needed.

What original title? The title was "Blackbox is a new shipping company from the creators of Cards Against Humanity".

So someone breaks the rules to provide a less descriptive title. Must be the silly season on HN.

There's the bookmarklet and everything! I think people who do this, are going for the 'lets be all mysterious about this link' - because yeah, we've all got time to click on random links that we may or may not be interested in... :)

They should enable voting on alternative titles. The most upvoted alternative title would then be displayed, optionally, on the front page next to the original title.

I don't think we can rely on the author always choosing a descriptive title.

BlackBox: A website designed to stimulate seizures

I'd love to see the design brief just to see if that was the goal from the start or they just wound up there after playing on a SNES emulator or something. It's a crazy aesthetic, but a very pleasing sort of crazy in an overpowering way.

Relevant to this one too ;P http://blackboxpuzzles.com/

BlackBox: Art As A Service ( https://theblackbox.ca/hn.html )

Damn, Blackbox is a excellently generic name. Had a heart attack seeing this on the front page. Blackbox should use Blackbox for shipping.

But do they use Blackbox? http://xwinman.org/blackbox.php

When I hear 'blackbox' I think an airplane has crashed.

How else are they going to bait you into clicking it?

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