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I guess the submission's title was changed to the email's subject, rather than the title of Mr. Gutmann's one-line summary (which is how I submitted it): "Repo
by npongratz 10y ago
I guess the submission's title was changed to the email's subject, rather than the title of Mr. Gutmann's one-line summary (which is how I submitted it):
"Reports of SHA-1's demise are considerably exaggerated"
- ghshephard 10y agoThe title is incorrect. HN does have a rule that says click-bait or clearly incorrect titles can be modified to be more representative of the actual article.
- loup-vaillant 10y agoAnd here we have an example of this very rule kicking in, though in the wrong direction: Article comes in. <h1> doesn't match submitted title. Correct title. Oops. I assume either a bot or a tired moderator was involved.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThat's kind of rude to label a reasonable opinion as "clearly incorrect". And the title given to the specific email by its author is definitely more representative of its comments than the title of the first email in the chain. As far as click-bait, I rate both of them equally click-baity. There was little reason to change the submission title.
- ghshephard 10y agoWell, to be fair, I labeled the title "Incorrect" - (though I'd agree with someone if they went and suggested, "Clearly", mostly because the content doesn't even mention Git...
- sctb 10y agoOK, we've switched it back to that from “SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attacks by third-parties”. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725850 and marked it off-topic.
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