The original title may be a bit too clickbaity sure, but the new HN title does lose some signal. (current HN title: “A Newspaper by recluses for recluses”, removing “The most interesting newspaper in japan...” Giving you reason you should read the article is useful info, even if it’s subjective. And it helps the reader know what to suspect. Is this a landing page for the newspaper? Or is it someone’s opinion or revie…
The problem with "The most interesting..." or "An interesting..." is that it adds zero signal. Everything is interesting to someone . So what? It reminds me of the early days of Macintosh programming when we put "the" in front of all our variable names, like theResource, theWindow, theFile, and theCursor. It was just a lot of noise that added nothing. Strunk and White got this right: Eschew needless words. That said,…
Re: Japanese Newspaper for Recluses, by Recluses
#11I gave an example of signal it gives - it differentiates itself from a landing page. The current title sounds like a landing page.