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Because it is a shit headline written as by a mad 13 year old to attract an audience on some tabloid.
by tomjen3 4y ago
Because it is a shit headline written as by a mad 13 year old to attract an audience on some tabloid.
- dredmorbius 4y agoNB: Hacker News guidelines specifically permit (and encourage) un-clickbaiting headlines. Submitters can do so (I almost always leave a note about how I've edited a title if I do so). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Readers can also email the mods at hn@ycombinator.com to both report and suggest alternatives to overly-clickbaity headlines. I'd done so in this case. My suggested headline edit is pretty much what the BoingBoing story used, and I'd first suspected that the headline and link might have been changed. Apparently that was an independent submission. See that submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31945425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31945425