Even if you put a good title the HN mods tend to strip it to be more bland anyway. I'd much rather they just allow duplicate story submissions with different titles and let the crowd pick the best title with voting. They aren't doing a good job with staff enforced titles.
They make it match the title of the destination page, and that's where the problem is. The destination page should have a better name.
Another item for the endless startup checklist -- "is my landing page title informative enough to serve as an HN link?"
Which is really just a more specific form of "Does my landing page actually tell newcomers what's actually going on here?"
Except the title is barely visible in most browsers these days, where it has to fit in a tab.
If we go by this criterion, Y Combinator would've failed and Hacker News would've barely passed.
They haven't been doing that as much lately, especially if the original title was either uninformative or linkbaity.
It would have been better as a ShowHN post where the mods give you a lot of editorial leeway.
We're reluctant to make language up in titles, but since that phrase appears on their About page, it's fine and we've changed it.