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Thanks, this is my first case of title fever. Hoping to develop some immunity.

• dang 9y ago
  Heh. It's actually fun to find just the right phrase embedded in the text, that can be swapped in as an HN title—it's like mushroom hunting. There almost always is something suitable, but this time it was a perfect specimen, down to punctuation. Of course we only need to do this when the original title is baity or misleading (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but we've learned that when it is necessary, it's far better to take language from the article itself than to make up one's own. If you find the right phrase, ideally you don't even to change a word. The only thing I did after pasting the above was s/a/A/.