This is a HN "feature" removing How if it's the first word in the title. It serves no purpose other than generating confusion, with mods saying this somehow stops clickbait. How, you wonder? Nobody knows.

Reminder to anyone submitting an article: you have two hours to edit the title to fix these alterations.

I believe these changes are intended to defang some clickbaity titles, but you are right that it maims some perfectly good ones.

Weird. I see a post titled "How to store Go pointers from assembly" literally three posts below this one.

I believe the submitter can manually reject the auto-modified title, but they have to notice that it was modified.

(I could be wrong about that)

Not quite reject exactly, you can just edit the title afterward for some X amount of time.

You are correct.

You wonder?

Thought that this was going to be a 'There Will Be Blood' spoof.

(In case not obvious, current title is 'I use my terminal')

I use your sudo?

I use your

  sudo !!

I thought this was going to be a blog post about somebody using a terminal emulator they wrote.

And I thought this was going to be a blog post about someone hooking up an old fashioned hardware terminal to their PC.

noticed this too after skimming the post, feels like the full title = "I use my terminal (and so should you )"

Plus one for pro-terminal posts. As a chromebooker I've found that all I need is terminal and browser. Switching to my Mac OS seems kinda maximalist and I rarely use much outside of the terminal and, you know, more browsers

HN will automatically trim some common prefixes and suffixes from title submissions