Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderMissed opportunity to title the post/submission “Will this programming language revolutionize software development?” :)
Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal notes/contacts/etc. [0] https://dotink.co/
Now this is truly the programming language that we should be using to benchmark LLM code gen in a private hold out set. There is no substantial datasets on the internet or github, and no documentation except the one provided. And that's all the model should need. I asked GPT-4 to write a mat mul function, but that was too ambitious and it spit out outrageous nonsense. To be more fair, I gave it in-context access to the documentation in…
> Shocking New Programming Language Bewilders Programmers at Google and Facebook! > to bewilder (sb): To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone Probably true! :D
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 818
- Total comments
- 113
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-24 | Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming LanguageFirst breakout | penne12 | 245 | 37 |
| 2022-05-14 | Tabloid: The clickbait headline programming language | thesephist | 30 | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language (2021) | ko_pivot | 217 | 29 |
| 2025-11-09 | Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming LanguageBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | sadeshmukh | 326 | 46 |