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That title is misleading. This article is actually titled "Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated". It's a report about a n
by fargle 4y ago
That title is misleading. This article is actually titled "Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated".
It's a report about a new study that claims that it is NOT the varnish. Rather it was a secret recipe of wood preservative used by the Cremonese makers Stradivari and Guarneri to impregnate the spruce.
The linked papers are much better than the article.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202105252 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202105252
- Tomte 4y agoTitle has changed from last time I submitted it.
- isaacfrond 4y agoYup, title is now 'Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated'
- thomasjudge 4y agoSo you periodically resubmit the same articles to HN?
- Tomte 4y agoYes.
- causi 4y agoArs Technica regularly does A/B testing with radically different titles. You'll note from the URL that the submitter did use the first title.
- rjzzleep 4y agoI'm still following Ars Technica on Facebook, but it's only clickbait these days. I feel like I remember it being a quality publication at some point in the past ... What happened?
- causi 4y agoFully agree. It was incredible when the tagline was "Ars Technica, the PC Enthusiast's Resource." It's become increasingly clickbaity. One wonders how a tech news site manages to justify using a school shooting to generate pageviews. In recent months they've been reposting stories from their "partner sites", most of which are spectacularly terrible. I think the decline began a few years ago when they starting amplifying Twitter drama about game developers. That's about the same time the rumors started flying about Peter Bright, which site admins continued to stomp on right up until he was arrested for pedophilia.
- GloriousKoji 4y agoThey sold out to Conde Nast in 2008.
- rjzzleep 4y agoI've heard that before, but I'm not sure what it means in practice.
- Jenk 4y agoThe URL usually contains the original title. In this case it is ".. varnish"