How exactly is it lying? Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker. The HN headline just leaves out extra details (what the bounty was for), but doesn't change the meaning at all. Am I missing something?

> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker.

No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't distinguish between white hats and black hats, educated writers normally add some words to clarify their meaning -- and they did. But the submitter omitted those words. Hence, lying.

So "hacker" to you means Middle East or third world? You do realize you're on a site called "Hacker News", right? There are hacker conventions held all around the Western world.

Your mock headline would be more accurate if it said "physicist models higgs boson". Hacker is a perfectly valid job title for a security researcher.

Isn't that rather racist? You assume that if the person isn't being called an "expert" then he's from Pakistan? Are you trying to imply that security researchers in Pakistan are third rate?

PS: A security researcher from Pakistan has been bagging a lot of Bug Bounties recently. Look up news on Rafay Baloch

Unjust Discrimination either way.

Maybe if you're living in a vacuum or it's your first time on HN, but I think most readers here would automatically jump to the conclusion that he uncovered a bug. What we need on HN is LESS editing of link titles, in my opinion.

FWIW, HN won't allow title submissions that are that long

I think most here would understand "bounty" as "bug bounty", a reward for finding a bug. I personally didn't think any of it until I read your comment, but I get that the title could lead one to believe that the hacker extorted Microsoft.

It is probably not intentional. Had it been intentional:

    Microsoft   pays US$100K   to hacking expert   to launch remote attacks

Yeah not intentional, wrote it out to have a easier to read title