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Comment by jotto | Hacker News Reader

What's going on with Techcrunch's format here?

  * Headline
  * Hero image
  * Sales pitch for TechCrunch premium
  * 98 words (598 characters) for this article
  * seemingly non-sequitur into next article

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This particular article link is a TC weekly summary (not unusual for tech blogs).

A better URL for this submission is: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/y-combinators-latest-batch...

Are the mods able to change the link? This one is much better.

Changed from https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/16/startups-weekly-is-y-combi.... Thanks!

They got a click. Mission accomplished.

This is what happens when you over-optimize for metrics (premium conversions, article clicks)

All five news topics are one article.

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