Yeah, that's the HN "anti-clickbait" feature that (amongst others) removes the "How" from titles like "How we managed to run Doom on a mechanical typewriter", but in this case it doesn't make sense at all...
If anything, it made it more clickbait-y due to being an unusual title.
Yes, it's imperfect that way.
How does removing the word "how" make a title less of a clickbait?
"I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick" is exactly as bad as "How I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick"
It removes repetition and imitation. To avoid a frontpage list full of "why I rewrote ___ in rust" , ,"how I use rust for filing my taxes", "how I switched from braille to rust"
I sort of get it, but overall I still get the impression this particular filter is hurting more than it helps.
There should be luminaries to whom this does not apply, and tridge is certainly among that small pantheon.