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dang/mods: The title here has a small typo: it misspells algorithm.

Before doing that, it also misspells "first".

Also "algorithn".

Guys, sorry for the typos. The original title was too long. I needed to replace "First" to "1st" (HN switch back automatically, lol) and try to abbreviate.

Still doesn't explain "algorithn".

N is right next to M in QWERTY keyboards. Typing fast, you may hit one instead of the other.

Why would they type it manually at all? My understanding is that they copypasted the title, was prompted it was too long, tried to short First to 1st which HN automatically expanded upon which they removed some words instead. So how did algorithm become "algorithn"?

This is not some random nitpicking. This is a great mystery worthy of its own detective TV show so I don't appreciate the downvotes. All my friends are extremely puzzled by this whole situation.

Kiro, perhaps I'm a bot from FB that posts our scientific achievements on HN. FB needs to improve my algorithn!

"n" is more narrow than "m", so the title would fit HN's title length limits.

A subtle nod to the fact this was posted on hn

At first I thought it was about an algorithm to generate text with mistakes on purpose - and that it did a nice job.

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