A love that HN doesn’t have pics and that they strive for short meaningful titles, so I’ll stay here :)
Half of the frontpage is always made of titles that are either referencing ultra-niche products, clickbaity, misrepresent the content of the article, try to be smart, etc.
If anything, HackerNews would be BETTER if it did not have post titles but only excerpts.
If I take a random one on the front page right now, "The square roots of all evil", it doesn't describe at all its content. Yet if I flagged it, I know it wouldn't be renamed.
Another example is an earlier post that got a lot of traction: "The correct amount of ads is zero". This is borderline misrepresentative to be fair, but even being lenient on that aspect, it is not at all helping me understand what I will be reading if I decide to click on this article.
Those articles thrives on HN because even if it's not exactly clickbaity, the titles have a "shock factor" that makes people click on them.
I also agree that the two titles you quoted are borderline baity and both of them are the sort that we could well do an edit on, though we didn't in those cases.