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There is too much "helpful" title modification of late. The original title itself fits within HN limits: "A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture
by miles 1y ago
There is too much "helpful" title modification of late. The original title itself fits within HN limits:
"A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago"
The site's guidelines are clear[1] but increasingly ignored by some moderators:
"...please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- miles 1y agoAfter several hours, the HN title has been modified again to match the original much more closely, from "Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"[1] to "Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago". [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250706185220/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481441 https://web.archive.org/web/20250706185220/https://news.ycom...