[mk44]

OP here. My original title was "The Inventor of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup Works at Morgan Stanley", and after 20 minutes, it somehow changed "Bjarne Stroustrup – Managing Director, Technology". WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[ternaryoperator]

It happens fairly often. The moderators tend to revert submissions to the original title. From the posting guidelines[1]: "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[tlb]

Titles of submissions should match the title of the article. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[thaumaturgy]

In this case though the edited title gives less information than the original one.

[jsprogrammer]

HN censors at work. I've had my titles changed also, with no notice or even an indication that the title is different from what I submitted even though it is still attributed to me.

I consider it bullshit.