To be fair, they used the exact title of the article which is the way that hacker news guidelines are set forth.

I think your comment should have been more along the lines of "Amazing... it's crazy that a title on reddit.com did not get editorialized to sensationalize the article."

They're both news aggregators; it's not so unusual to see the same content on both, as it's certainly an interesting article, and the identicalness of the titles is due to the fact that that was the original title.