You can edit the title of "a" submission when this happens. My experience is that, if a moderator hasn't touched it, the title of a story remains editable thro

You can edit the title of "a" submission when this happens. My experience is that, if a moderator hasn't touched it, the title of a story remains editable throughout the edit window of the first two hours. It doesn't matter what automatic changes were applied to the title on submission; they are not reapplied when you edit. I restore the original title if HN's software changes it poorly. When I look at /newest or even the front page, it seems few submitters do. Either they are unaware of the possibility, or they think it isn't allowed. (AFAICT, it is allowed as long as you don't use it to break the guidelines. Here is a recent comment by dang saying you can do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38993985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38993985.)