Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
99 points
3 hours ago
| 14 comments
| tabloid.vercel.app
| HN
lxgr
23 minutes ago
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Missed opportunity to title the post/submission “Will this programming language revolutionize software development?” :)
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dcdc123
1 minute ago
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I love it.
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gnabgib
2 hours ago
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Popular in:

2020 (245 points, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24578749

2024 (217 points, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40964261

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NamlchakKhandro
2 hours ago
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Now we just need the companion turing complete languages:

Thunderfoot - write screenplays for youtube videos debunking articles written in Tabloid

Fisker - Writes troll posts to discord/irc/steam community to highlight how awesome TOPIC in AWESOME ARTICLE written in Tabloid is

Shitlist - Generates awesomelists repos on github for TOPIC

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wartywhoa23
12 minutes ago
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.BOT - Controls botfarms with built-in shill primitives on the X virtual machine, successor to BitMusk
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dbacar
14 minutes ago
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The title of the post should have been "SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT".
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holysoles
34 minutes ago
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Love the energy and keyword selections. But also probably a great exercise to have gone through that I've always considered doing
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illusive4080
2 hours ago
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Missed opportunity for loops to be

BREAKING NEWS … KEEP READING TO DISCOVER

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k310
2 hours ago
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Jeremy1026
2 hours ago
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BREAKING NEWS! This is the perfect amount of stupid. I'm going to see if I can't convince my team to convert our codebase over ASAP. FOLLOW ME to find out how it goes.
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swyx
2 hours ago
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you forgot to

PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

now the program doesnt terminate

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noduerme
2 hours ago
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This is refreshingly ridiculous.
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gnarlouse
1 hour ago
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Missed opportunity:

The joke should be that regardless of the program you write, nothing happens. No real signal, just like most real clickbait content.

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paultopia
2 hours ago
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It’s been too long since something like this has happened. Kudos.
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csmantle
1 hour ago
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This would benefit from combining the literal rules from TrumpScript [0]:

> All numbers must be strictly greater than 1 million. The small stuff is inconsequential to us.

[0]: https://github.com/samshadwell/TrumpScript

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AbuAssar
1 hour ago
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this is hilarious, thanks for the laughs!
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