I absolutely understand the sentiment, but LWN is a second-to-none publication that on this rare occasion couldn't resist the joke, and also largely plays to an audience who will immediately understand that it's tongue-in-cheek.

Speaking as a subscriber of about two decades who perhaps wouldn't have a career without the enormous amount of high-quality education provided by LWN content, or at least a far lesser one: Let's forgive.

If it was being removed the title would be "An update on rust in the kernel"

I think on HN, people generally want the submission's title to match the page's title.

(I do agree it's clickbait-y though)

It’s a bit clickbait-y, but the article is short, to the point, and frankly satisfying. If there is such a thing as good clickbait, then this might be it. Impressive work!

i agree and this matches the authors intent: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049840/

He didn't mean to! That said, the headline did make me look.

I'm having deja Vu. Was there another quite similar headline here a few weeks or so ago?

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