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Slight change of title. The leading "How" was dropped. Original: "How We Cracked a 512-Bit DKIM Key for Less Than $8 in the Cloud"
by croemer 2y ago
Slight change of title. The leading "How" was dropped. Original: "How We Cracked a 512-Bit DKIM Key for Less Than $8 in the Cloud"
- dang 2y ago"How we X'd a Y" is a linkbait trope. We edited that in accordance with the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- croemer 2y agoThanks for clarifying. Interestingly, in the guidelines, there's an example of where you _add_ "How" instead of removing it: "E.g. translate '10 Ways To Do X' to 'How To Do X'". That tripped me.
- dang 2y agoWe don't remove "how" from "how to". There are a bunch of exceptions like that. It's all pretty simplistic though.
- Uriopass 2y agoDropping the How is part of Hackernews guidelines
- croemer 2y agoCouldn't find it in the guidelines. Can you quote the relevant part?
- layer8 2y agoThere’s no such guideline. It’s just part of the default title normalization. The submitter can adjust it afterwards.
- ClassyJacket 2y agoAltering headlines automatically is really irresponsible.