[MontyCarloHall]

Yup. This wouldn’t get nearly the same amount of attention if the title were “Poisson’s equation is the most powerful tool in your toolbox for finding steady-state solutions to the heat equation with arbitrarily placed sources”

[crazygringo]

But it'd make a helluva lot more sense.

I tried to skim the article, I started to read comments, and it's only now that I've gotten to yours that I have the slightest idea of what this article is even about.

If it wouldn't get as much attention with that title, then perhaps it isn't appropriate for HN in the first place.

[retzkek]

The examples are about heat transfer, because it is an intuitive concept for most people, but as the article explains Poisson's Equation and these methods can be applied to a broad range of problems.

[pbhjpbhj]

Yes, I would love it if HN had optional descriptive titles as subtitles to the main story titles (which would then always be the title given by the author at the time of submission).