Comment by lapcat

Was that link supposed to make a point? I think it needed a summary from you. ;-)

As far as I can tell, HN receives a new submission on average every few minutes. Nobody can possibly click all the links and read all the articles. So, HN readers need some way(s) of determining which articles are likely interesting and which are likely not.

Imagine if HN submissions included only the URL and not the article title. That would be silly, right? But why would it be silly? Because then you'd have little idea what the article is about, unless the URL itself encoded words that explain it.

If we admit that HN readers need some kind of guide to the vast number of articles submitted, then I don't see why it's so far-fetched and seemingly unholy for the submission to add a brief summary.

I actually want to read interesting articles. I'm perfectly willing to "work a little", as it were. There are interesting articles that I miss, that I would read, if not for the uninformative article titles, and that's unfortunate, I think.