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Placed in Assess: 3 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 0 in the last 30 days. Confidence 36%.

7Hacker News·9/2/2026research
Perplexity cites mass-generated software list pages from obscure domains
A measurement of Perplexity/sonar and Perplexity/sonar-pro found that most citations for 380 software-category queries pointed to low-ranked or unranked domains, with a large share coming from newer sites. The study also identified three related domains that have published over 215,000 machine-generated “best <category>” pages and are being used as grounding sources by the models.
5Hacker News·8/31/2026product_launch
P99 Near-Zero Autocomplete for 240 Million Domains
The post describes Wirewiki’s approach to making domain-name autocomplete feel instant by prefetching likely next suggestions on keydown and rendering them on keyup. It combines client-side caching with a fast autocomplete API over a large domain dataset to minimize perceived latency for navigation.
7Hacker News·8/17/2026research
Self-hosted email keeps declining
Ten years of DNS measurements show that self-hosted email on popular domains has continued to decline, while Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 now handle a large share of inbound mail. The data also suggests DMARC adoption has plateaued, with many domains publishing only non-enforcing policies such as p=none.