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- ChrisGranger 8y agoArticle's actual title is much more descriptive: "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project"
- high_derivative 8y agoKey point: her algorithm was not actually used to create the image. As a scientist, I think the shitty thing about these media hype stories is that it can create massive resentment in a reseaerch team when one person is suddenly made out to be a "historic figure".
- tomatotomato37 8y agoYou have to feel bad for the women that did have part of their algorithms form the final image but didn't get recognized as the "Woman behind the blackhole" since they don't take attractive Facebook selfies
- iron0013 8y agoAren't we supposed to use the actual title of the page when we post to HN?
- parliament32 8y agoThis is the least helpful HN title I've seen in a while -- doesn't even match the original article title, which is far more descriptive: "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project"
- forgottenpass 8y ago>In their eagerness to celebrate her, however, many nonscientists on social media overstated The NYT is playing coy as if the press isn't the number 1 offender of hyperfocus on a single detail in an effort to advance their pet causes at the cost of distorting the topic they're ostensibly covering.