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		sukilot on June 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Doordash got their first 1000 customers I thought HN had code to automatically remove clickbait words like "How" from titles. (Not sure why they aren't simply banned)

dang on June 22, 2020 [–]

It does, but there are a lot of exceptions and this one fell in one of those buckets.

Stripping all leading Hows turns out to produce too much collateral damage. For example, consider a title like "How Paper Is Made".

Edit: this one worked nicely though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597937

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