We're all here to get news and discuss them. A title gives an indication about whether reading the article is of interest to me so that I can decide whether to read it. Some clever word play may be funny but it goes totally against its purpose.
Imagine all titles at Hacker News being like that. We could just replace them with "Article 1", "Article 2" etc. which would be terrible but would not lose any further information.
We're all here to get news and discuss them. A title gives an indication about whether reading the article is of interest to me so that I can decide whether to read it. Some clever word play may be funny but it goes totally against its purpose.
Imagine all titles at Hacker News being like that. We could just replace them with "Article 1", "Article 2" etc. which would be terrible but would not lose any further information.