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Comment by tomhow

3 days ago

You seem to be a new contributor to HN, so, welcome!

It's our policy and well-established convention here that we use the same title as the original article, with the only exception being if the original title is misleading or baity, in which case we'll try and lift an appropriate phrase from the article (including the URL, or a subtitle, or a photo caption).

A title that editorializes or makes a meta-commentary about the article is against that policy.

It's nothing personal! We make these changes to titles every day, and over the years we've found it serves our purposes very well.