Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker
Some of these edits seem really questionable when laid out like this.<p><i>Pew Research: 2.2% of Americans produce 97% of political tweets</i><p>↓<p><i>Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics</i><p>Why remove the exact figures?<p><i>Former Apple chip executives found company to take on Intel, AMD</i><p>↓<p><i>Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA</i><p>Isn&#x27;t &quot;star designers&quot; more subjective than &quot;executives&quot;?<p><i>1.2B people exposed in data leak includes personal info, LinkedIn, Facebook</i><p>↓<p><i>Personal and social information of 1B people discovered in data leak</i><p>Why make the headline <i>less</i> informative? Data leaks happen regularly. Data leaks from Facebook and LinkedIn has different implications than a leak from LexisNexis or a random blog.<p><i>Cloudflare open-sources Flan Scan, a network vulnerability scanner</i><p>↓<p><i>Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner</i><p>Again, why <i>remove</i> info? The fact that CloudFlare is behind this is more interesting than yet another random tool.<p><i>Mozilla: “Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default”</i><p>↓<p><i>Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default</i><p>Same complaint. This distinguishes a random person making a random gripe from freakin&#x27; Mozilla who has the control to make Facebook&#x27;s tracking more difficult.<p>----<p>Every single one of these headlines actually are less informative or less interesting (in general, of lower quality) than their original submissions. They actually served to make HN less informative. WTF?<p>That gripe aside, <i>most</i> of the edits are useful (typo fixing, adding dates, and such). These just leave me scratching my head.