Life & fun · November 23, 2019
Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
I built this several months ago as I was interested to see how the titles of posts evolve/change on HN. It turns out lots of titles are edited every day (in both subjectively and objectively good and bad ways!) and I've found it interesting to see how titles have evolved. The whole thing is automated and is built around a Ruby script that pulls down the titles on the front page at a frequent interval. Any titles for specific story IDs that change get tracked and rendered out to a static HTML page hosted on Netlify. It runs by itself without incident so far. This has been on Show HN…
Hacker News Title Edit Tracker launched on November 23, 2019 with 366 votes, #24 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
In plain words
Hacker News Title Edit Tracker monitors how post titles change on Hacker News' front page. A Ruby script periodically captures titles and logs any edits, displaying the changes on a static website. It reveals that titles are frequently modified throughout the day in various ways. The tool runs automatically without maintenance and is designed for anyone curious about how Hacker News discussions evolve through title revisions.
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I built this several months ago as I was interested to see how the titles of posts evolve/change on HN. It turns out lots of titles are edited every day (in both subjectively and objectively good and bad ways!) and I've found it interesting to see how titles have evolved. The whole thing is automated and is…
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