> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
May I suggest slightly editorialising, in this case? I honestly only clicked in because I thought (post-title-change) 'that sounds like a Ben Eater video, I wonder', and since Youtube isn't working for me on mobile at the momentcame looking through the comments for this.
Tl;dr I think 'Ben Eater is back' is an interestintg post in its own right, possibly more interesting than this particular video considering the typical [video] reception.
(Longer-term higher-complexity suggestion: could YouTube links have the channel name somehow, like we now have /<name> for GitHub, Twitter, et al.?)
A concrete suggestion:
> Ben Eater's back: RS-232 protocol [video]
Or to be more subtle, just append '(2022)' (and confuse people who aren't familiar or aware of the absence):
I agree with you that in some cases the editorializing can be helpful for this reason. But once a thread has reached the upper ranks of the front page (or is making its way back down with tons of upvotes and comments), that extra information has sort of achieved its purpose and it's better to return to the mystery.
Yes, for unhealthy people like me who reload the HN home page a dozen times a day. But not for people who check it at a saner frequency, like a few times a week.
That's true, but it's a tradeoff. Something also gets lost when everything is spelled out. This has never been the way that HN works. Part of the assumption that readers are smart enough to figure things out is that they also need to work a little: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There's another aspect too: everyone misses a lot of interesting and/or important stories. Even the few who are paid to stare at HN all day. There's too much coming through at all hours. It doesn't make sense to try to avoid that, because it's impossible.
Sure, there are advantages and disadvantages of any course of action.
You're under no obligation to satisfy me! I was just offering my point of view in hopes that you find it informative, so that you can take it into account in the future when you're thinking about how to change the way that HN works.
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html