No, the purpose is to give everyone a fair playing field. If everyone did a linkbait title, HN would be unreadable.

See the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Needs to be implemented, here's a guide: https://littlebitesofcocoa.com/80

Yes! Javi is a friend and this is a wonderful talk. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in this topic!

because it's fun! (Also because I've been putting emoji at the end of each of the titles of these bites in all the other forms: http://twitter.com/lilbitesofcocoa)

Please don't do that. HN prizes plain text and good English, and we generally want titles that are neutral and don't use gimmicks. We don't allow things like hashtags in titles either.