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Hacker News rewrites post without consent?

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I posted a link to an important Claude Code bug here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910257 with the original title of "Claude Code Introduces Off-by-One Errors"

It made it to the front page at about #11. Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to. I didn't cause or approve that change. Why does HN rewrite my post? Is it because it was negative to Claude Code?

Original: https://pasteboard.co/xTjaRmnkhRRo.png

HN edited it to: https://pasteboard.co/rDPINchmufIF.png

> Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to.

It is part of the submission guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

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

It seems like they ought to have at least clarified the context, though. "Large integer precision error in Bash command output rendering" doesn't mean anything to anyone. If anything, it sounds like a bug in Bash.

It's also not a real rule. If you use the original title, they will regularly "fix" "misleading" or "clickbait" titles too. All of which is completely subjective at the whim of the mod team with zero transparency.

HN is not a social media site. Upvotes for your creative title on an interesting article is not the goal; sharing the interesting article is. Please stop trying to migrate your social media vanity score to one of the last legit forums on the net.

Surely the fact that there is a comment section on user submitted media means this website is social media?

Yeah, but old school social media when you were excited to hear the dial up sounds and watch the page slowly load.

Yes it does and it's super shitty, yet they still continue to show it as if it was submitted by the original poster. I agree this isn't okay.

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