Some general news headlines are not really written up to "hacker standards". For example, the current #1 post is this: "Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings (bbc.co.uk)" and many of the comments are about how the stock price itself doesn't matter.<p>Similarly, there's "Sleep Flushes Toxins from the Brain (bbc.co.uk)" which annoyed several readers as well.<p>Some other titles are quite obscure & vague. I remember seeing "Reveal.js", but finding the site to be unreachable, and totally being unable to figure out what it does. It feels like linkbait because I can't figure out what it is until I click on it.<p>In general, it'd be good to summarize articles in titles, instead of simply using their original titles. Does anyone agree?
I believe the problem this policy aims to solve is one of HN submitters inserting their own bias into self-written titles.<p>Whereas if the original title is used, then any bias in the title is confined to that of the article author / publisher.