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$ cat reduce-clickbaitiness.sed

s/Hell/Venus/

And it's portable to every major news outlet.

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I think it's a concise and appropriate title. Making electronics that will work on Venus is essentially designing for hell, with all the heat, pressure, corrosives, and who knows what else. And 14,000 Gs of acceleration? Wow. I've never heard of that happening in hell.

This one weird trick lets a microchip survive temperatures of 500C! Intel and heat sink manufacturers HATE this! That would be clickbait.

I would have been more interested if the title had said Venus.

Venusians go to Hell for vacations.

They're talking about a variety of hostile, high-temperature environments, not just Venus. "Hell" is a bit cheesy, but it's a totally reasonable expression for "hostile, high-temperature environments."

Venus is like Hell though right? Super hot, acid, high pressures? I guess still click-baity though?

Hell Town's hot, but according to the Wikipedia article has record highs of 42C in the summer - rough, but bearable. Not sure about the acidity, though.

...why

Sure, but "Hell" could equally apply to underground on Earth or the surface of basically any of the planets of the solar system. The conditions on most of them would kill anybody within seconds in pretty gruesome ways. Swapping that one word makes the headline much more accurate, interesting, and information rich.

I really did not expect this to trigger the HN crowd so much. Changing this word would objectively make the headline more accurate.

If offered a choice between Hell and Venus, I'd pick Hell. At least the commute is shorter. Also lots of friends already there.

To be fair it's a pretty good article despite the title.

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