In case it isn't obvious to everyone: the actual article title is "How Google measures and manages tech debt". I am not sure I have seen a single case in which

In case it isn't obvious to everyone: the actual article title is "How Google measures and manages tech debt". I am not sure I have seen a single case in which the HN delete-initial-"how" transformation improves an article title. (I concede that it's possible that I just haven't noticed the ones where it's an improvement.)