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This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serves no purpose other than generating confusion, with mods saying this somehow stops clickbait. How, you wonder? Nobody knows.


Reminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.


I believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.


Weird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.


I believe the submitter can manually reject the auto-modified title, but they have to notice that it was modified.

(I could be wrong about that)


Not quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.


You are correct.


You wonder?




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