I'd love to know how many (if any) people saw the title and thought cracked screen and how many people voted the story knowing it was about cracked screens...
If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately think piracy/etc. Cracktros. Not broken glass. :P
If I'm on hacker news and I see the word cracking, I immediately hope this'll be some old school "let's open up IDA and see what's what here" article.
I don't vote without at least skimming, so I voted after reading it. In fact my vote was largely influenced by 2 things:
1. interesting study
2. relief that it isnt about cracked software or cracked servers :)
I think the ambiguity was on purpose to attract clicks. It got me as well.
I wondered if it was the abbreviation of criminal hacker