[epall]

Frankly, I agree with you (and I wrote that title). I'd much prefer to have submitted it with the actual article's title, but I didn't think anybody would read/upvote it in that case, so the post would die without HN seeing it. I've noticed a lot of people lately getting all excited about async I/O, and I wanted something from the other side to hit the front page so people would read it, think about it, and comment. It would be interesting to A/B test submission titles, but unfortunately HN doesn't really support that. When we do get dupes, it does seem that the most inflammatory, least informative titles tend to win.