This is a great start, but it needs some more patterns. "How/why <noun> <verb> <noun>" may well be the most popular Medium title construction, but I would suggest looking for a few more. Here's a few to start:

"<verb> <noun> and why it matters"

"The day I <verb> <noun>"

"The <adjective> story of my <noun>"

Definitely, there's tons of room for improvement.

Surprisingly accurate at first. See also https://twitter.com/FalseMedium and, even funnier, https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip

This is hilarious. It needs a "Why <hugely popular thing> is dead" and a "Why I quit my job to ... "

I got tired of the linkbait titles and made a user script to remove all medium.com links from HN. It works in Firefox and Chrome:

https://github.com/rajbot/remove_medium

I was expecting a Markov chain manipulating a huge array of aggregated Medium titles but as simple as the cotton candy titles of Medium are so is this script.

This makes me think how much I would like a HN without opinion pieces.

Was that an opinion you just had right there?

In my opinion, s/he did.

Very clever. Great. Compliments my blog post today nicely http://pushingsocial.com/write-great-headlines-without-hype-...

"How Making Tacos Enhanced the Toilet Paper I Used."

This is going to be one disgusting post.

That's a pretty broad definition of "enhanced".

You probably mean "Medium TITLES Maker"?

Ah, the context-free grammar. Reminds me of my MediaTakeOut Headline Generator (http://robertelwell.info/mediatakeout-headline-generator/). Mine's an N-Gram language model though, so a lot more noise and nonsense.

This sums Medium pretty much up.

I made a Bat For Lashes lyric generator some years back http://nickboyce.com/bfl/, which will only make sense to people who know her music!

Legen... wait for it... dary!

As funny as it is, this type of titles are not only seen on Medium.

Yeah, add a "<number> <nouns> that <verb>" and you've got yourself an allround blog title generator.

"Why Writing a Blog Suffocated My Life."

Very funny!! Wait, what?

Absolutely fantastic.

Absolutely brilliant.

This made my day!

Wait, what?

Ha..ha.

AWE-SOME

hahaha so good