They're linkbait titles. Appropriate rewrites.

Eh, lightly disagree. Both the original post titles come across as slightly clickbait to me and I can see why there was a desire to rewrite them. I don't think the first rewrite is an improvement. I do think the second rewrite is an improvement.

>Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html