It’s not mangling. The article’s subtitle doesn’t fit within the character limit.

We're in the era of 4k and 8k monitors. That character limit only occupies a tiny fraction of any modern screen.

So odd a site dedicated to future technology companies isn't even caught up with modern display techniques, let alone ones that existed some 2 decades ago.

To be fair, on mobile the title lengths staying reasonable really helps HN homepage readability.

Also even though new such hardware is cheap for our western standards, its a mistake to think this is valid for entire world for various reasons

the site is intentionally anachronistic precisely because the people here understand technology

I wish we could get rid of the "Here's why" and similar clickbait fragments in titles.

I dislike the title really - I'm not sure where they pull the 'most hated' aspect from. A lot of what I've seen is that leopards generally fall into that category, mainly because they'll also happily kill people, dogs and livestock.