https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1808.03430/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793487urn:hackerpapers:mention:1808.03430:37793487Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:22:08 GMT<p>Because &quot;RAG&quot; is shorter than &quot;use a vector db/embeddings coupled with LLM to generate better answers&quot; But better answer: &quot;retrieval augmented&quot; has been used in papers since at least 2018 [1], the full &quot;RAG&quot; acronym since at least 2020 [2], and it was recently repopularized when the GPT3+ hype wave realized they were doing the same thing. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03430 [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1808.03430/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL