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by drhodes 5834 days ago
Not that I have a dog in this race, but sometimes seemingly arbitrary convention can be exploited. For instance, some pioneering lad[y] might be compiling a collection of Ask-HN-questions. It's easy to see why it would be nice to have "Ask HN" in the title. Convention implies "easier to parse", and that makes programmers happy.