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Hey this is awesome! Though the admin/moderator changed the title for some unknown reason from the title of the blogpost to their own.


Of course because of snobbery. NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn".


"NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn"."

popcorn? preworn?


  % egrep '^p.*orn$' /usr/dict/words


I think you mean /usr/share/dict/words.


Yep. That's what I get for trying to be clever.


Some distros store the words file in /usr/dict/words. Debian (and ubuntu) uses /usr/share/dict/words


Grey Worm. From Unsullied.


Like peppercorn. Wendy Peppercorn.


"Porno" sounds so much worse.


trigger-happy, i guess. Given that "Porn" definitely implies a much larger scale than merely "video streaming", I think the title change does a disservice


It was kinda link-baity and vague...


jdc... it's the name of the actual article...


These two statements are independently true.


For what it's worth, the new title is more accurate and more likely to get me to click.


This happens quite a lot / has become standard on HN (since sometimes in the last year).




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