This tweet perfectly describes the new HN posting trend (twitter.com)

How is this post not an example of what you're criticizing?

Or what that the point the whole time?

You're blowin' my mind, Dan.

I wonder if it's possible to write an algorithm that detects clickbait titles. There's usually only so many variations on them after all.

I know there's at least one browser extension that attempts to do this: http://links.spince.com/demo.html