The "Standard" in the phrase "Standard ML" is all the context that someone with a reasonably broad knowledge of programming language history (as is common among the HN crowd) would normally need.

For everyone else, hey, click a link, learn a thing. Clicking links and learning about new things is theoretically a primary reason to come to HN in the first place.

ML as a language name has a historical etymology, but its not really now any more of an abbreviation than KFC is, its just a name.

> Abbreviations without context are not suitable for HN titles

Write [email protected] and get dang to make it a rule. Until he makes that rule, I call bullshit.

> use the original title, unless it is misleading

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It is already part of the guidelines.

"misleading" and "potentially ambiguous" are not synonyms.

Standard ML is a well-known language. A title isn't misleading if it refers to that.

And nobody agrees with you.