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by 7734128 334 days ago
The automatic headline rewriting is an absolute joke and it has not improved a title a single time ever.
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Does HN auto re-write headlines using an LLM or something?
No, a regular expression. Generative language models usually produce different kinds of error, and rarely fade into the background in the same way the automatic headline rewriting tool does (when it isn't rendering the titles incomprehensible, at least).
> "a regular expression"

A small language model

It compresses exceptionally well, and has highly-optimised CPU implementations.