There is a range of useless, misleading, and time wasting. In this case, the title is fun and deliberately misleading (in a fun way, sure) and a waste of time.

There is a range of useless, misleading, and time wasting. In this case, the title is fun and deliberately misleading (in a fun way, sure) and a waste of time. And is really but really not likely to lead the right audience to the right article. Often other times the title is not misleading but totally useless. A recent example: "Grok" (and URL) - which is sufficient if you already know what this is about but totally unhelpful otherwise. Another recent example "A Parabel" - who's going to click through? Will they have clicked through in any deliberate manner or just grazing? If anyone wanted to encourage deliberate use of our time, this is not the way to do it. None of this is the end of the world. But it IS wasting our time. This all at the same time as HN gets too many submissions for the members to usefully screen. Seems to me many useful submissions fall through with hardly any notice. Allowing more useful titles (without even demanding them) would go in the right direction: more of the useful submissions making it through and more of our time spent on the right things.