If you see some post with a very bad title, you may send an email to dang hn@ycombinator.com and he may (or not) change it. It's a manual process, so try to use

If you see some post with a very bad title, you may send an email to dang hn@ycombinator.com and he may (or not) change it. It's a manual process, so try to use it only for very bad cases. There are many, but I only found three with a weird use of "secret": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031300 "The Secret Document That Transformed China (npr.org)" Perhaps a more descriptive title may be better. I don't have a good alternative. The recommendation is to pick a sentence from the article, the subtitle if possible, but not cherrypick the most shocking part. This article looks interesting an I don't remember a similar post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022938 "Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret (space.com)" I'd just drop "secret", but the title is not so bad and I've seen similar posts, so I'd ignore it to save dang a few keystrokes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982036 "The Secret School for the Best Founders (generalist.com)" I'd add "Avra:" and drop "best". (As a general rule I like to drop "best".) Do you have 2 or 3 bad examples?