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OP here. My original title was "The Inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Works at Morgan Stanley", and after 20 minutes, it somehow changed "Bjarne Stroustrup – M

• jsprogrammer 12y ago
  HN censors at work. I've had my titles changed also, with no notice or even an indication that the title is different from what I submitted even though it is still attributed to me. I consider it bullshit.
• ternaryoperator 12y ago
  It happens fairly often. The moderators tend to revert submissions to the original title. From the posting guidelines[1]: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
• tlb 12y ago
  Titles of submissions should match the title of the article. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • thaumaturgy 12y ago
    In this case though the edited title gives less information than the original one.