Yeah, the interview is better than the linkbait headline imo. I'm not sure what HN etiquette is on that these days. I used to try to come up with better titles if I thought the original was poor, but they always get changed back by moderators, so it seems the de-facto rule is to use the original?
There are some rules in the guidelines (link is in the footer) which say more or less that, if reasonable, the original title should be used.
Unfortunately this is quite hidden away. It might be more useful to have a short statement on the submission page. Maybe including the rule to add a year in parentheses for older articles.
In addition to how error prone that would be (we'd see at least occasional weird title glitches) combined with how titles sometimes are actually changed by moderators in the other direction (as in, away from the real title, as I noticed with the recently posted article about someone just discovering malloc's overcommit behavior), a few days ago pg explicitly stated that this belief was not true (but seemed to think the idea that people thought the human moderators were so fast and accurate so as to be mistaken for computers worthy of note).
>Once Google stuff gets working, most of it, so for example [Linus reaches for the phone we're using to record the interview]... "Oh, it's an iPhone... screw you! I'm not talking to you anymore".
Linus never ceases to be a source of entertainment.
Maybe he's made more money (he is not doing too badly from everything I've read) doing what he does than trying and possibly failing to run a tech company. We'll never really know...
