<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: NotHowItWorks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NotHowItWorks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:23:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=NotHowItWorks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NotHowItWorks in "Git hosting that never leaves Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Track doesn’t mean store.<p>The word you are looking for is “collect”.<p>Saying you “track” implies you’re putting together a profile to be consumed in other services</p>
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<p>It literally is token prediction with vector search.<p>Yes there’s an app layer in the chat product for convenience and parsing but the model is exposing methods like ‘complete’ that predict out word sequences.<p>When model temperature settings are not added in, you get the same exact response every time, just like ngram.<p>What you’re seeing with Gemini and ChatGPT is context caching to prevent getting sidetracked  and response boilerplates with multi-modality so they can call out to image generation, a code completion service, etc. to assemble a complete response.<p>That’s why the mainstream providers seem so much better (or at least consistent in replies) - each prompt is actually requesting multiple models and doing a lot of application level work to assemble the response you see. That also why they take sooo long to respond.<p>The language model itself is quite literally a text completion machine, with settings.</p>
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<p>Facepalm</p>
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<p>LLMs are read only.<p>A developer would be the one using the LLM to evaluate page response text and scraping what they need.<p>LLMs cannot “crawl pages” or “scrape” or do anything - it’s an offline archive with a few convenience methods.</p>
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