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by buckbova 4059 days ago
Isn't the title "12 Gurus Got 5 Questions About How They Set Their Rate"?
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HN has some form of "no numbers in titles" policy. I'm not even sure list articles are allowed at all.
Right, but not against the numbers per se (or else it could just be machine-filtered), but about titles artificially framed in the listicle format:

>If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html