[larard]

I think, as it is a live BBC page, the title is changing over time? It is now "Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage spreads, with airlines, media and banks hit"

[gnabgib]

There's no 74935 on the page? And other submissions match the title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002710

[beardyw]

Well it says "147,759 viewing" now. Not sure what you are expecting?

Oops - now it's 152,915 viewing

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

I’m really confused about the line of questioning here. Do you think it’s more likely that the submitter has purposely put a random number at the start, or that they’re telling the truth and there’s something that you’re not seeing?

[croes]

It's the view counter above the headline. C&P error

[ballooney]

I think you’ve accidentally remapped ‘.’ to ‘?’ On your keyboard.