The problem in that case is that HN users commonly don’t read the article to get the full story.

From TFA:

> SpaceX staff still cheered as Starship went down in flames. Successfully lifting the 400-foot-tall rocket off the launch pad is still a big step forward to its ultimate goal of one day ferrying humans to the moon and Mars, the company said.

> "With a test like this, success comes from what we learn," the company said in a tweet. "Today's test will help us improve Starship's reliability as SpaceX seeks to make life multi-planetary."

I suspect HN users read the article more often than most. I sure did. I stand by my assessment that the headline invites unreasonable expectations, and that it matters. A little, not a lot. Shrug.

That's reasonable and I agree kinda. I think I'm assuming a layman seeing this headline and (unfortunately) mostly not caring one way or the other. At least this version gets them an accurate depiction. I see how it reads differently to readers here though.