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It's incredibly stupid to remove substrings from headlines and expect that what comes back will be an improvement or make sense.
by add-sub-mul-div 4mo ago
It's incredibly stupid to remove substrings from headlines and expect that what comes back will be an improvement or make sense.
- Terr_ 4mo ago*squints* So you're suggesting that HN auto-removed the phrase "Hundreds of" and then made the "Per" lowercased? I don't submit enough to judge whether it's HN, or the submitter, or it was accurate and then the remote page changed, but I certainly agree the HN title is goofy.
- throw2ih020 4mo agoYes, HN has an automatic title shortener that tries to follow the site guidelines, including: > If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." However it's not particulary context-aware as seen here
- breve 4mo agoIt was HN. I didn't notice it had removed "Hundreds of" from the title and I can no longer edit the title to fix it. I find HN's automatic title editing annoying. It's wrong more often than it's right. I think it's a misfeature.