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I think this was bitten by HN’s title algorithm (but I’ve never fully understood it, so maybe the “how” was just dropped accidentally by the submitter).
by macintux 3y ago
I think this was bitten by HN’s title algorithm (but I’ve never fully understood it, so maybe the “how” was just dropped accidentally by the submitter).
- remram 3y agoOn the other hand this is exactly the kind of uninformative click-baity titles that this algorithm was built to combat. Having read the original title and the first fourth of the article, I still don't know what it is about.
- dang 3y ago"How not" is spared by the title debaiter, but "How (not)" wasn't - i.e. we weren't catching the parens. I've fixed that now. But we take gratuitous parens out of titles anyway and it looks like a mod did that later.