> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + 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."
(2023)
previously
100 comments: Oct 4, 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37734531
Full title: 32 MiB working sets on a 64 GiB machine
Who's idea was it to automatically remove leading numbers in titles? And why?
I assume it's an attempt to automate this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + 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."