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I really wish vague no context titles like this wouldn't be allowed. I don't know who votes for two words with no other information, but it seems silly.

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It does have context -- it's on Steve Blank's blog. Now, if you have never heard of Blank, I suppose it is context-free in that sense. But I was expecting an essay riffing on the idea of "profound beliefs", and I got exactly that.

I have the same problem with other titles -- the world of Javascript front-end frameworks seems to very commonly have a name collision with some word or phrase from a context that I care about, and then I click through and find web front-end stuff, which I care about much, much less than what the cafe is serving for lunch. It's just part of the overhead of surfing HN. You'll be fine.

People click and read the thing and upvote it if they like it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Why have titles at all if they aren't supposed to have any information in them?

Obviously, they have information in them, perhaps not information that's to your taste. "Why are titles that are not to my taste allowed" is at least a question that's relatively simple to figure out.

First you complain that the title doesn’t have enough information–more information please! Then you imply there should be no titles at all–less information please! Do you see the impossible double standard?

They're saying 'what's the point of titles if they don't tell me what's inside the tin.' There's no double standard there at all. It's an impossible one (unless promoted to Mystic Master of All Titles in The Universe or At Least on HN) but there's nothing double about it.

The problem, if anything, is that people vote on headlines (or on authors) instead of on article content.

Yes, that is why the guidelines are encourage keeping the title where possible but are also OK with neutralizing clickbait titles.

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