AV1 is fine as-is. Plenty of technical titles on HN would need to be googled if you didn't know it. Even in yours, HDR10+ "could be anything if you don't know it". Play this game if you want, but it's unwindable. The only people who care about AV1 already know what it is.

> Though in the original title AV1 could be anything if you don't know it's a codec.

I'm not trying to be elitist, but this is "Hacker News", not CNN or BBC. It should be safe to assume some level of computer literacy.

The article barely mentioned “open”, and certainly gave no insight as to what “open” actually means wrt AV1.

If there really was a “mania for obscurity in titles” we’d see a lot more complaints than we do.

Our title policy is pretty simple and attuned for maximum respect to the post’s author/publisher and the HN audience.

We primarily just want to retain the title that was chosen by the author/publisher, because it’s their work and they are entitled to have such an important part of their work preserved.

The only caveat is that if the title is baity or misleading, we’ll edit it, but only enough that it’s no longer baity or misleading. That’s because clickbait and misleading titles are disrespectful to the audience.

Any time you see a title edit that doesn’t conform to these principles, you’re welcome to email us and ask us to review it. Several helpful HN users do this routinely.

hacker news loves low information click bait titles. The shorter and more vague the better.

I really like moderation on HN in general, but honestly this inconsistent policy of editorializing titles is bad. There were plenty of times where submitter editorialized titles (e.g GitHub code dumps of some project) were changed back to useless and vague (without context) original titles.

And now HN administration tend to editorialize in their own way.

AV1 has plenty of good stuff. AOM (the agency that developed AV1) has a patent pool https://www.stout.com/en/insights/article/sj17-the-alliance-... comprising of video hardware/software patents from Netflix, Google, Nvidia, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon and a bunch of other companies. AV1 has a bunch of patents covering it, but also has a guarantee that you're allowed to use those patents as you see fit (as long as you don't sue AOM members for violating media patents).

AV1 definitely is missing some techniques patented by h264 and h265, but AV2 is coming around now that all the h264 innovations are patent free (and now that there's been another decade of research into new cutting edge techniques for it).

Just because something is patented doesn't necessarily mean its good. I think head to head comparisons matter more. (Admittedly i dont know how av1 holds up)