Video title is How Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered, HN's regex thingy changed it to Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered. (My brain's regex changed it back :)
Removing how is stupid. If the "extraneous" how is there, you can still understand it, but when the necessary how is removed, it doesn't make sense or it changes meaning. When I read the title I thought someone is trying to lower the weight of Maxwell's contribution by suggesting he merely discovered them, not "invented" them.
Does anyone know why the regex is there? I find it hard to see how english communication is improved by removing random words.
It's to avoid headlines being extra attention grabby. It's an imperfect program, but it does alright.
I want an AMA on whoever had an army of upvoter bots on early Reddit such that every front page post would have a dictionary typo.