[b3orn]

I've seen this often, maybe there is a need for a new law, "Any article with a headline claiming how something was done is not about how but that it was done". Compare with Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".

[dang]

We wrote software to strip a lot of leading Hows out of titles. It doesn't work perfectly, unfortunately, but on balance I think it improves title quality.