1. Given the current high-ranking thread about spammy sites in Google results, it strikes me that a very simple solution would be to let logged-in users blacklist sites. Bam, no more wareseeker or efreedom. This would…

  2. Their pricing calculator, and main portal.azure.com is down - at least here in the UK. Nothing on the status page yet -

  3. In the HN guidelines, we ask submitters to use original titles when possible. When they don't, we often change the title of a post back to the original title of the article. There is an ongoing trickle of complaints…

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  5. Matrix Multiplication (matrixmultiplication.xyz)
  6. Well written books can serve as eye openers and warp your understanding of a topic when read at the correct time in your life. Can you name a few books of that type that really were of such high value in your field of…

  7. Smartphones and being present (herman.bearblog.dev)
  8. The GitHub Load Balancer (githubengineering.com)
  9. Starship Update (spacex.com)