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some_furrytoday at 5:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Usually 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.


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meatmanektoday at 8:01 PM

Maybe 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?

pinkmuffineretoday at 6:53 PM

oh 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