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Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?

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Some of The Onion's articles have true headlines with silly bodies, like https://www.theonion.com/frontier-spirit-airlines-merge-to-c... and https://www.theonion.com/new-york-times-buys-online-game-wor...

It's kind of unfair when we get those headlines in the game.

Thanks for trying. You have a good point, those were true headlines but with satire text. Got to find a way to filter those out... Unfortunately they don't seem to belong to a fixed section which I can parse.

All of the ones I've seen have been under "American Voices". Can you filter on that?

Good suggestion will take a look. On first glance it doesn't appear in the url which is what I'm getting from the Reddit api. Will have to think of some other way.

Ah yeah, I got bit by that too! Haha

This was fun.

There were true facts like "koalas listed as endangered" and "New York Times buys online game Wordle", which were not the real headlines.

The ones I got wrong were super weird.

Thanks for the support. Yup someone else pointed that out too. It's because The Onion where I get 'fake' headlines from have some articles where the headline is true but the text is satire. Need to find a way to categorize those properly.

Hi all, I created a little web game while learning Angular.

The objective is to guess the real headline over 5 rounds.

Players can also challenge their friends by sharing a unique link of the same headlines.

Have fun and post your scores :)

I was surprised I couldn't see the results after each question. Getting that instant gratification would make me want to continue playing.

Yeah I went with the design choice to show the results at the end. In the app version (link on the main page) it shows the result after each selection because the game ends when you make a wrong choice.

I didn't enjoy the game because it was basically just guess work.

A lot of the seemingly bizarre headlines are perfectly capable of being real in this clownworld, nevertheless, great presentation!

Thanks for trying. Yup some headlines are stranger than fiction.

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