[koakuma-chan]

> but that's the author's prerogative

You submitted this.

[topsycatt]

I submitted this HN link with a title that exactly matches the one on the article, but I didn't write the title on the article. AFAIK HN posts should match the title of the article they link to.

[dang]

Actually the rule is designed to let you correct misleading titles:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've done that now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509103).

I appreciate your scruples though! Because even though you would have been on the right side of HN's rules to correct a misleading (and/or linkbait) title, the fact that you work for Google would have opened you to the usual gotcha attacks about conflict of interest. This way we avoided all of that, and it's still a good submission and thread!

[topsycatt]

Thank you very much dang!

[gorlilla]

Can you run the country too?

[bitexploder]

Dang, you are cool. :)

[koakuma-chan]

> AFAIK HN posts should match the title of the article they link to.

I am not aware of such rule's existence.

Also "should" not "must."

To be clear: I don't have a problem with you submitting this, but the title appears to be completely false.

[marcellus23]

From the HN guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

Arguably this is misleading or clickbait, but safer to err on the side of using the original title.

[wil421]

Even better, OP shared something OP didn’t write but thought it was interesting.