<story><title>Example: Why your Title to URL algorithm shouldn&apos;t chop off partial words...</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotsglazedwithcum_80467</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ojbyrne</author><text>Funny, but more suited to reddit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spxdcz</author><text>That&apos;s an interesting comment. I&apos;m still trying to &apos;work out&apos; the Hacker News crowd (even though I&apos;ve been here almost two years!).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve submitted plenty of things that get to #1, or front page, but can&apos;t seem to find much consistency in what people like / don&apos;t like. Not as obviously as Reddit/Digg/Slashdot, anyway - which is a good thing! I&apos;m very pleased that HN isn&apos;t as one-dimensional as some other sites; it&apos;s what keeps me coming back.&lt;p&gt;But it is weird, what becomes popular and what doesn&apos;t. For example, I submitted this particular story, which I was a bit unsure about (like you say, more suited to Reddit), but still people vote it up.&lt;p&gt;Other times, I can submit content that I think is genuinely interesting/fascinating, that is much more technical and comprehensive than this rather silly BBC/URL story, and it doesn&apos;t get a single vote. Maybe it&apos;s the time of day / day of the week.&lt;p&gt;On that note, does anyone know of any data repositories for Hacker News front page items? An API or raw-data download that can be analyzed? I remember someone a few months ago doing some analysis on the best time of day to submit, but was wondering if there was any public data out there, or whether I should start spidering/collecting my own?</text></comment>
<story><title>Example: Why your Title to URL algorithm shouldn&apos;t chop off partial words...</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotsglazedwithcum_80467</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ojbyrne</author><text>Funny, but more suited to reddit.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j_baker</author><text>To be totally honest, I&apos;d rather have HN allow posts that are of dubious topicality than to turn into another stackoverflow where topics are closed/deleted if they don&apos;t meet the strictest definition of what&apos;s allowed on the site.  Sometimes the harm of off-topic posts is much less than the harm in doing away with them.</text></comment>