[hfuaiobfa]

Hello, when perusing through the posts last year about LK99 event, I notice the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691268) used a title other than original one.

Now that I am really new to HN mechanics, I am wondering how to decide which examples to follow. For example, despite the guideline statements, many threads around blog posts on HN actually use new titles.

[gnabgib]

Best to follow the guidelines (although you'll notice they mention a few occasions where the original title might be replaced - mostly for clickbait reasons).

For past stories, it's not always easy to tell what happened at the time. One of the other guidelines Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter can lead to a submission URL getting changed later without the title being updated (and so in retrospect the title doesn't seem to match).

In that particular case @wokwokwok did point out the submission had the wrong title, although perhaps they didn't email the mods to ask for a title update.

[hanniabu]

Some titles are either too long to use or are clickbait/inaccurate and need to be reworded

[hfuaiobfa]

Thanks, but I simply quote "hint of near-room-temperature superconductivity" from the article. AFAIK the original title still contains too much details (the composition） for general audience on HN. Of course, the way I change the title will result in more clicks, so it could be "clickbait" in a way.

So how do I know that which title serves better? I'll appreciate the comments in this special case if it is hard to say in general.