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by privong 3631 days ago
> There is so much you can put in a title.

"Your OpenStreetMap server in 120GB" is only 35 characters, out of 80 allowed for the title, so there's plenty of room to be more specific. "Your OpenStreetMap server of Roads in Europe in 120GB" is still only 56/80 and is much more accurate.
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tokenizerrr 3631 days ago
HN wants us to use the title of the source. This is the title of the source, and it's not even clickbait.
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privong 3631 days ago
> HN wants us to use the title of the source. This is the title of the source, and it's not even clickbait.

I never said it was clickbait, that was the GP comment. And if you're going to refer to the guidelines:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

One could make a reasonable case that the title of the source is misleading because it is incomplete, so the additional specificity may be warranted.

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tokenizerrr 3631 days ago
My point is that it's not misleading at all (and thus not clickbait). It doesn't tell the full story, for that you'll have to click it. Most titles on HN don't tell the full story. Many of them could be suffixed with "in America", or "for Mac" or something like that. Yet we don't do that either.
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