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Thanks OP. I appreciate that Hacker News has rules on post titles so it's nice to see you self-correct in the comments!

• PaulHoule 2y ago
  Notably the easiest way to not run afoul of those rules is to not modify the title even if the original title is bad. You do have to squash titles down to the 80 char limit and the same way to do that is delete words, preferable noise words like “very” or “novel” and past that more complex transformations where you maybe change a passive construction into a shorter active construction.
  • bell-cot 2y ago
    Yeah. Ars didn't have a good subtitle, so I futzed around for a minute trying to give a good 80-char summary. Then gave up.