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by ytdytvhxgydvhh 947 days ago
“Tesla Roadster is now open source” does not appear to be the title of that page. I also couldn’t find any open source licenses or info about how to make a Tesla Roadster.
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Yes, this title was badly editorialized. Submitters: please don't do that! The site guidelines include "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's welcome, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

sorry about it dang, I hesitated to editorialize and I thought it was allowed.
if this was your source, I'd call it justified, myself

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1727392569238159491

It's ok, now you know! Probably the thing to do would have been to post the tweet and use it for the title, and then link to the other site from the comments.

Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383099 did that, so we'll move the comments there.

Its a direct quote from tweet that Elon Musk just posted linking the page.
Looks like the tweet actually says:

> All design & engineering of the original @Tesla Roadster is now fully open source.

> Whatever we have, you now have.

> https://service.tesla.com/roadster

That still feels inaccurate though. There’s lots of repair info on that page but I can’t imagine they don’t have e.g. some sort of CAD files for the body of the car.

The body is Lotus property I’d imagine.
False. His quote has the word “original” in it.
HN's title rules kind of imply 'don't take titles from Elon Musk's tweets' as well.
Not really. It dropped a critical word from the tweet.
It's fine if that's the submitted URL of course.
It would still have been a poor title with a long debate over the meaning of 'open source'.