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by dang 3061 days ago
That's true, except the guideline reads "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" and you can argue that once a vulnerability is fixed, implying it's still there is misleading. So we often edit those titles to past tense once that's more accurate. Same with "$site is down" -> "$site was down".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html