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It happens fairly often. The moderators tend to revert submissions to the original title. From the posting guidelines[1]: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Titles of submissions should match the title of the article. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case though the edited title gives less information than the original one.

HN censors at work. I've had my titles changed also, with no notice or even an indication that the title is different from what I submitted even though it is still attributed to me.

I consider it bullshit.