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Comment by JosephRedfern | Hacker News Reader

The title of the submission no longer seems to refer directly to the content of the article. If the feeling is that the article is dumbed down too much (as some of the comments suggest), could the URL also be changed? Maybe the UKRI press release, or CERN update? https://www.ukri.org/news/result-from-lhcb-experiment-challe... https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#RK2021

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Biggest pet peeve of this place, editorializing.

It’s very common for BBC headlines to change 3-5 times after being posted. I don’t know whether they are A-B testing or just twitchy, but it’s annoying for sharing new articles

I think it is a clickbait - you see new title on their main page and click only to realize that you've read that before.

> I don’t know whether they are A-B testing or just twitchy

Have worked in the dark basements for a news company, it's A-Z testing for some online pieces to see what gets more fish on the hook. They'll use wildly different headlines without changing a single word in the article.

FTR, OP here. I didn’t change the title. Perhaps HN will comment. In my experience their reasoning is typically solid.

When I posted, I believe it was “LHC machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”. I remember that seemed oddly redundant, like an “ATM machine”. Current title for the article is showing as “Machine finds tantalising hints of new physics”, but a search is also coming up “LHC machine challenges leading theory of physics”.

I guess the logic of the headline was that LHCb is one of the "machines" at the LHC.

Unfortunately in LHC jargon, "the machine" is the collider itself rather than the detectors.

A mod changed it, I assume on the grounds that the article title was baity. That's in keeping with the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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