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Show HN: I'm 17 and built a tool that scores all stocks against Buffett criteria

Posted by zaidg7 |an hour ago |1 comments

bediger4000 38 minutes ago

Another "I'm 17 and ..." HN link.

Why put "I'm 17" in the link title? I mean, who cares? We've had plenty of articles about child prodigies. They exist, they do things, sometimes interesting things. Is putting "I'm 17" (or 16, whatever) in a HN link title some kind of SEO thing, or is it an "AI" thing?

Looks like the un-editorialized article title is "Stocks the world's best investors would actually buy". That's substantially less interesting, even with the "I'm 17" phrase included.

"I'm 18" articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

"I'm 17" articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

"I'm 16" articles: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I guess that someone believes "I'm 17 and..." is the SEO sweet spot. There's not as many folks claiming to be 16 or 18 and doing trendy, wealth-building things.