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Comment by alpinisme | Hacker News Reader

That’s probably just the classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm at work.

It wasn't. The submitter submitted it with the title “Ladybird Browser adopts Rust”. We initially changed it to “Ladybird adopts Rust”, and now I've changed it to the original title, per the guidelines. The automatic title cleaner wouldn't make a change like that.

I went to check if this was documented in the list of undocumented HN features on GitHub but it’s not.

There is an open PR (by simonw btw): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/pull/4...

    > classic HackerNews title shortening algorithm

Woah, this is a wild claim. @dang: Is this a thing? I don't believe it. I, myself, have submitted many articles and never once did I see some auto-magical "title shortening algorithm" at work!

I've seen it happen a couple times, iirc, it removes things after commas, and removes certain words as well

Adds [video] to YouTube links, too.

It's been confirmed by @dang many times before. I'm not sure if that's what cut the title here but I've seen it many times in the last 10 years.

It's not exactly an auto-magical "title shortening algorithm"; just a simple software function that cleans up titles by removing common title patterns that are baity, abusive, ugly or superfluous.

It wasn't the cause of this change; the submitter submitted it without the “with help from AI” part, for some reason.

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