Original submission title was "Why Simone Giertz spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", moderators changed it to "I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger", the title of the video is "Why I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger".
Probably easier to do now that youtube has moved to @handles.
For example, I think I need to go lie down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288130 was on the front page for 20 hours yesterday, but it wasn't the submitter who thought they needed to go lie down.
In terms of taking out the person's name, we do that a lot in titles—especially when it wasn't that way in the original—because HN works better when the focus is on content rather than personalities.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
HN has a thing against questions in titles because a lot of them are clickbait. I don't care about this rule but that's why it was changed.