I don’t know how HN readers would know that “Dan star[r]ed the repo” without spending way more time on it than any reader does. My guess is that the different

I don’t know how HN readers would know that “Dan star[r]ed the repo” without spending way more time on it than any reader does. My guess is that the different results are a mix of chance and the fact that the repo, and thus the HN submission, now contains “a simple tutorial for React.” The longer title is much more informative: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkay-is%2Freact-from-zero&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fkay-i... If there’s a lesson here, it’s to use informative page titles, even for repos :-)