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How I use my terminal

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539 points todsacerdoti | 9 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.057s | source | bottom
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jonjacky ◴[23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC] No.44357406[source]▶
The article title is actually "How I use my terminal"
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1. progbits ◴[23 Jun 25 17:29 UTC] No.44358040[source]▶
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.
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2. littlerbooks ◴[23 Jun 25 17:37 UTC] No.44358134[source]▶
Weird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.
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3. Stratoscope ◴[23 Jun 25 17:38 UTC] No.44358155[source]▶
Reminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.
4. happytoexplain ◴[23 Jun 25 17:38 UTC] No.44358163[source]▶
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)

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5. ◴[23 Jun 25 17:39 UTC] No.44358178[source]▶
6. Stratoscope ◴[23 Jun 25 17:41 UTC] No.44358203{3}[source]▶
You are correct.
7. indigodaddy ◴[23 Jun 25 18:10 UTC] No.44358447{3}[source]▶
Not quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.
8. rbanffy ◴[23 Jun 25 18:21 UTC] No.44358557[source]▶
I believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.
9. adastra22 ◴[24 Jun 25 06:41 UTC] No.44363442[source]▶
You wonder?