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Ian Betteridge[1] called for you. More seriously though, it's not unusual for newsroom editors to modify or even completely rewrite article headlines. [1] htt

by paws 9y ago

Ian Betteridge[1] called for you. More seriously though, it's not unusual for newsroom editors to modify or even completely rewrite article headlines. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... ("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.")

evo_9 9y ago
Or bored HN Mods.
paws 9y ago
For future readers of this comment, there was previously a parent post here about the overly broad headline for this article. TIL on HN, if a someone deletes a parent comment, the children get promoted to the top.