I agree the title originally as submitted[1] is not helpful. When the author submitted[2] it to Intel DZ, he re-used the same vague title as the original PVS-Studio article from April 2016: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0391/
HN admins already edit titles with [YEAR] to signify an old article. In the same vein, I do wish the admins (or the original submitters to save the admins the effort) went even further and exercised editorial judgement to add [NON-CUTE SUBTITLE] to negate the effects of cute-but-meaningless titles.
In this case, there would be a "[C/C++ refactoring tips]" like you suggested appended to the end of the title.
[1] original submitted HN title: "The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything"
I agree the title originally as submitted[1] is not helpful. When the author submitted[2] it to Intel DZ, he re-used the same vague title as the original PVS-Studio article from April 2016: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0391/
HN admins already edit titles with [YEAR] to signify an old article. In the same vein, I do wish the admins (or the original submitters to save the admins the effort) went even further and exercised editorial judgement to add [NON-CUTE SUBTITLE] to negate the effects of cute-but-meaningless titles.
In this case, there would be a "[C/C++ refactoring tips]" like you suggested appended to the end of the title.
[1] original submitted HN title: "The Ultimate Question of Programming, Refactoring, and Everything"
[2] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-contribute-...