Hacker News Title Patterns

Analysis of common prefixes and suffixes in HN titles
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Title Prefixes
Title Suffixes

Methodology

Analyzed 165,448 unique HN titles from the past 2 years via Algolia API (6,461 exact duplicates removed). Patterns are discovered by counting n-gram frequency (2-8 words). Only patterns appearing 5+ times are shown. Click any row to search Algolia for matching titles.