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The article's title is "Your next C compiler is a D compiler", which makes sense, though it's a bit clickbaity. The HN submission title is "Next C compiler is a D compiler", which barely makes grammatical sense, and to the extent that it does make sense, it sounds like there's a C compiler called "Next C compiler" which is also a D compiler.

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My mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.

I don't think it's your mistake. It seems HN automatically removes certain leading/trailing words from titles so as to reduce clickbait but it doesn't seem to be very smart about it.

It gets annoying, because in cases like this it doesn't make sense, but in other cases it actually changes the meaning of the title. I honestly don't understand it given the prohibition against submitters changing the title.

More importantly, this change is silent.

I'd be much less annoyed by it if dang finally made it a pre-submit check (maybe with a checkbox "Overrule") like the "too long" check. But no, it seems to be important that the submitter has to check manually whether the title he just typed in is still there.

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