alt Hacker Newsthis is a techincal dive into how cloudflare responded, not a confirmation that they responded
for whatever reason, unknown to me, hn automatically strips "how" from the start of titles. i cant remember ever seeing a title where this was an improvement.
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gamegoblin • today at 2:56 PM
I learned a few years ago that HN also editorializes by dropping "world's" from titles
Before: Teens break record for world's longest kickball game
After: Teens break record for longest kickball game
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varun_ch • today at 2:40 PM
I'm yet to see a good example of the title stripping, at least for "how" and "how to" (although perhaps this is survivorship bias).
Interestingly, there's a current post on the front page with "How" at the start of the title.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018715 "How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file?"
I wonder if it ending in a '?' has anything to do with it?
edit: Upon review, at the time of posting it was actually on the 2nd page