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Oliver's blog
Personal blog · blog.luk.shaidata
Oliver's blog is a personal blog at blog.luk.sh about ai and data. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and the author's alternative, "Generation Augmented Retrieval (GAR)", for flexible queries. Commenters cite them as sources, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Product Management / FinTech / AI & Data Science
Most-linked posts?
- RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-05-20
What Hacker News says?
It wasn't this GAR post, I remember them calling out legal docs explicitly, might have seen it on Twitter https://blog.luk.sh/rag-vs-gar
Comment linking /rag-vs-gar
on “Better RAG Results with Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Hybrid Search”Submitted RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing your thoughts! I published a blog entry that describes our solution to this exact problem yesterday. We call it "Generation Augmented Retrieval (GAR)", please find the details here: https://blog.luk.sh/rag-vs-gar
Comment linking /rag-vs-gar
on “I want flexible queries, not RAG”Submitted RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval (GAR) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted RAG vs. GAR: A Primer on Generation Augmented Retrieval as a story · 4 points
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