Anything that might provoke interest in an article is considered "clickbait" by the HN community and neutered.

A famous HN headline of 1963 was "JFK returns to Washington after visit to Dallas"

Please, lords of HN, preserve this wonderful comment

I agree — I don't think I would have given this post any attention otherwise. Impact is old news. Its open sourcing is not.

I've been seeing a lot of title changes lately that seem far too editorial to me.

HN has been like this for years... not that I like it, but it's not new.

Maybe there should be a log of all headline changes, with a justification so the process can be audited

I agree that there should be some indication made by the software that a title (or URL) has been changed, possibly a second timestamp or asterisk, but if there is such a log, I doubt it would be public.

was there a title change? the link goes directly to the github page.

It used to say "HTML5 Game Engine Impact is now free and open source".

Unlicensed Javascript/HTML projects are not open source. Just because you can see the code, doesn't mean you have any implicit legal permission to use the code for your own projects.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source