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rrwright | 3 months ago

I posted a link to an important Claude Code bug here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910257 with the original title of "Claude Code Introduces Off-by-One Errors"

It made it to the front page at about #11. Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to. I didn't cause or approve that change. Why does HN rewrite my post? Is it because it was negative to Claude Code?

Original: https://pasteboard.co/xTjaRmnkhRRo.png

HN edited it to: https://pasteboard.co/rDPINchmufIF.png

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AlbertoGP|3 months ago

> Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to.

It is part of the submission guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

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

_jzlw|3 months ago

It seems like they ought to have at least clarified the context, though. "Large integer precision error in Bash command output rendering" doesn't mean anything to anyone. If anything, it sounds like a bug in Bash.