Show HN: A/B test Hacker News titles with AI

Yeah, this is a classic case GIGO.

> Title A: kdjfs;dfisd;diofuosd

> Title B: sdlkn nmkd kljdsa;'[ (10% better)

> The winner is title B: sdlkn nmkd kljdsa;'[

It's also strange because what they've trained is essentially a recommender system. However, at inference time you're not trying to rank 2 different articles, but the same article with 2 different titles, which I guess you could do, but I'm not sure how well this correlates to your actual ranking on HN.

I guess something more interesting would be to take into account the current front page and see how your article would rank against those, or something along these lines.

In any case, neat idea.

Azure ties the single space, as does Perl and also Bezos.

It seems two spaces " " wins " ". There's no substance, but more of it!

Edit: looks like it's maybe a tie, instead. B wins in case of a tie.

The best I can find is [space] died “ died” it beats rust, java, and even double space

  const randAlphaStr = length =>
    String.fromCharCode(
      ...Array.from({ length }, () => 97 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 26))
    );
  const pitRustAgainstRandomFourCharAlphaStrings = async sampleSize => {
    const rustScore = await getPrediction("rust");
    let rustLosses = 0;
    for (let i = 0; i < sampleSize; i++) {
      if ((await getPrediction(randAlphaStr(4))) > rustScore) {
        rustLosses++;
      }
    }
    console.log(`rust lost ${rustLosses} times out of ${sampleSize}`);
  };
  pitRustAgainstRandomFourCharAlphaStrings(100000);

Result:

  rust lost 55469 times out of 100000

I'd say rust fairs worse than the average random four character string with the letters a-z. That should tell you something about the usefulness of this model.

My guess for PHP scoring higher than Rust is that people love to hate on PHP - it's practically the HN national sport!

NB! I'm not arguing for or against PHP, and don't want to take this thread on THAT particular tangent!

Checks out to me. The first one already exists while the second one is hilarious.

Title A: Show HN: New grep tool written in Python

Title B: Show HN: New grep tool written in Garbage (1% better)

I guess Python is 1% worse than garbage. Lol

The oldest day archived online is February 19, 2007 —> https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19

Your answer is a mere 2 clicks away: https://github.com/Grew-dev/hacker-ai/blob/main/README.md

A: "We predict the future using Erlang VM, and quantum AI blockchains."

B: Rust

=> B is 71% better.

Rust is unstoppable, clearly.