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What exactly did you want instead?
by civilized 5y ago
What exactly did you want instead?
- dahart 5y agoI don’t speak for parent, and I don’t care if math article titles are sensationalized or not. But FWIW my experience just now was reading the title and thinking “Oh, cool, there’s news! Maybe a new paper that found insights into these problems nobody has solved yet.” -Click- Ah, this is a blog post about Poincare, there’s no news here, bummer. The title on the page starts with the word “How”, and is different from the HN title. “How mathematicians make sense of Chaos” suddenly no longer implies there’s news. This seems like a problem with the HN title and not the article, since best practice here is to submit the title from the article unedited.
- civilized 5y agoI think a lot of people submit to HN from some kind of automated tool that strips out the "how" from headlines that begin with it
- rbanffy 5y agoI used the bookmarklet. It grabs the html title element from the page, not the visible title.
- dahart 5y agoOh, I see. My apologies to you for suggesting it was a conscious choice! I didn’t realize this was a publishing thing, so it could be something even the author didn’t do. Maybe the html element does get worded by the publisher to try to ‘increase engagement’.