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Indeed, a very clickbait title. There should be rules here to discourage such titles. Thanks!

It's actually the opposite: the rule is that the owner of the article also owns the title. Quite a lovely rule that you wouldn't want to change in 9 cases of 10.

This is the exact rule:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Serves me right. Thanks for the correction.

And this is one of the reasons I like HN, - a place where a significant (I think) part of the audience can actually admit when they were wrong.

For clickbait, I'd make an evil overlord exception. I'm kidding of course, just sharing my frustration with clickbait.

Indeed there are. Please read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

But why is this a clickbait title? The article is lightweight, but I don't see what's baity about the title.

because they're forcing you to open their article to see the new name.

Google renames Project 'Glass' to 'Aura' and Hires from Amazon

Ok, we put the new name in the title.

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