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by Tyrannosaurs 4985 days ago
I want a two word tl;dr summary of every article in the title:

How fast is... Apple.com? (tl;dr: not very); Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface (tl;dr: pretty interesting).

4 comments

I tend to agree, but sometimes 140 characters come across as too emotionally charged, so imagine two words. Hence, "WPEngine sucks", which seems a bit harsh. Several recent articles could be summarized as "Founders dumb", "VC stupid", "SV sucks".
I sincerely doubt many reasonably interesting articles can be accurately summed up in two words.
I was only being semi-serious but there are certainly a good many titles that could be written in an ambiguous manner.

The original author may want to use that title but that's not to say the person who posts it to HN has to.

could be written in a LESS ambiguous manner...

Oops.

Just write a better, non-link-bait headline.

"Apple.com takes 25 minutes to load" "Wired says Microsoft Surface is Quite the Stunner"

+1 Absolutely.