HN Submission Title Changes

This cluster consists of discussions about editing, changing, or complaining regarding the titles of Hacker News submissions, often involving submitters, moderators, and requests for more accurate or less clickbaity titles.

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dang May 30, 2014 View on HN

Since people have complained about the article title, we've changed the post to use the subtitle instead.

dan-robertson Sep 1, 2022 View on HN

Can you change the title of this submission to match the title of the post please? Normally people change titles when the original is sensationalised however the opposite is true in this case.

metafunctor Jan 7, 2020 View on HN

I submitted using the original title. Someone changed it to the subtitle in the article. I don't know why, I think the original title was fine. A tad click-baity, perhaps, but the article actually delivers.

dash2 Oct 24, 2025 View on HN

Given that, maybe the submission title should be changed?

kishu18 Apr 30, 2019 View on HN

I don't see any option to edit the title now. Anyways, I don't see it would change any meaning of the article.

lapcat May 11, 2023 View on HN

I think you were too trigger happy in changing the title. It's a poor reflection of the link now.

clarkmoody Jul 11, 2014 View on HN

Yeah, a title change on this post would be nice.

dang Jun 25, 2020 View on HN

No worries. I'd be happy to change the title to something accurate and neutral if you want to suggest better wording.

dang Sep 25, 2023 View on HN

Thanks. I've changed the title to make it more in line with what the article seems to be saying.

kixiQu Oct 16, 2022 View on HN

Please change the title of this submission. It misrepresents the content