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teraflop ◴[] No.42188051[source]
HN's automatic title editing strikes again. The title of this submission should presumably be: "99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python".
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Stratoscope ◴[] No.42188430[source]
Note to anyone who submits an article: If the title gets mangled like this, edit it.
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codetrotter ◴[] No.42189749[source]
It definitely took me quite a bit of time from I joined HN until I learned that if you edit your submission title then you can override the automatic edits that HN makes to the title you originally submitted.

And I would guess that likewise there are still a lot of people that don’t know this.

Also, sometimes one might not realize that the title got changed until it’s too late to edit the title of the post.

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amelius ◴[] No.42194292[source]
I wish HN could just take the url and then fetch the title of the page.

That would save quite a hassle, especially on mobile.

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1. jdminhbg ◴[] No.42195959[source]
In this case, the missing '99' isn't a typo, it's deliberate by HN to eliminate clickbaity headlines like '7 Ways To Be A Better Programmer.'