This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serv...

Stratoscope · 2025-06-23T17:38:24 1750700304

Reminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.

rbanffy · 2025-06-23T18:21:56 1750702916

I believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.

littlerbooks · 2025-06-23T17:37:05 1750700225

Weird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.

happytoexplain · 2025-06-23T17:38:48 1750700328

I believe the submitter can manually reject the auto-modified title, but they have to notice that it was modified.

(I could be wrong about that)

indigodaddy · 2025-06-23T18:10:17 1750702217

Not quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.

Stratoscope · 2025-06-23T17:41:53 1750700513

You are correct.

adastra22 · 2025-06-24T06:41:58 1750747318

You wonder?