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I would suggest editing the title to "This Time is Different". I think that captures the essence much better. Love the Sir Terry reference.
by ChrisMarshallNY 8mo ago
I would suggest editing the title to "This Time is Different". I think that captures the essence much better.
Love the Sir Terry reference.
- javawizard 8mo agoI wonder if that was an automated HN edit? Similarly to how titles that start with "how" usually have that word automatically removed.
- some_furry 8mo agoUsually HN only auto-edits on first submission. If you go in and undo it manually as the submitter, you can force it to read how you intend.
- pinkmuffinere 8mo agooh interesting, TIL I can go edit my submission titles! That's useful, I've definitely submitted stuff and gotten a less-good title due to the automated fixes, so I'll have to pay attention to this next time
- meatmanek 8mo agoMaybe I'm only noticing the times when it messes things up, but it kinda seems like these auto-edits cause a lot of confusion that could be avoided if they were shown up-front to submitters, who would then have the option to undo them. Or maybe judicious use of an LLM here could be helpful. Replace the auto-edits with a prompt? Ask an LLM to judge whether the auto-edited title still retains its original meaning? Run the old and new titles through an embedding model and make sure they still point in roughly the same direction?
- wlesieutre 8mo agoAnd the HTTP headers x-clacks-overhead GNU Terry Pratchett
- GMoromisato 8mo agoAgreed--I clicked to read an article about the physics of time or something. Was sorely disappointed.