If you keep up with the tech industry, chances are you read Hacker News, a news aggregation site run by Y Combinator, a seed accelerator in California that has funded popular startups like Airbnb and Dropbox.

Hacker News is great in that the stories listed and discussed make up the zeitgeist of the tech industry, and its simple layout and API make it easy to scrape data. As a data scientist who loves to scrape data and someone who is extremely skeptical of the startup hype and loves to gently poke fun at the tech industry, Hacker News is catnip to me.

I’ve previously made a Markov chain generator for Hacker News headlines, and recently decided to take it a step further: Why not generate startup names from the latest, hottest news items?

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