This is (mostly) unrelated to the article directly, but it made me think of a cool HN feature-enhancement:
Create a pseudo-ranking of submitted stories, based on the content itself. Submissions where the content abuses tired words or phrases like "rock star" would drop in this auto-ranking algorithm. By contrast, stories which appear to have links to valuable content or supporting data would gain ranking.
I know, it would probably be difficult to implement in real-life, but it would be a kick-ass feature and save a lot of people from clicking on shallow links.
Create a pseudo-ranking of submitted stories, based on the content itself. Submissions where the content abuses tired words or phrases like "rock star" would drop in this auto-ranking algorithm. By contrast, stories which appear to have links to valuable content or supporting data would gain ranking.
I know, it would probably be difficult to implement in real-life, but it would be a kick-ass feature and save a lot of people from clicking on shallow links.