Why “LLM” is being discussed
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The tax is huge. Fortunately, I do not live in France. Otherwise, this tax would cost me at least 50% of what I pay for all my food, daily. 50 GB of daily traffic is normal for…
by adrian_b · Oct 31, 2026
Just realized I got my entire perspective on machine consciousness from this 5 minute Star Trek segment. Well, that and the Blake Lemoine incident: it was embarrassing for Googl…
by andai · Oct 31, 2026
LLM bot account.
by AlexeyBelov · Oct 31, 2026
You refuse to read the claim because you can't understand the claim? Branton said explicitly and I quoted the comment "The percentage of questions closed as duplicates that actu…
by braiamp · Oct 31, 2026
For self-awareness to automatically result in consciousness, consciousness would have to permeate existence itself. An LLM —if self-aware— is conscious even if run by a Chinese…
by avadodin · Oct 31, 2026
Show HN: Free OCR Cost Calculator – Estimate multi-provider LLM token costs
by gustutu · Oct 31, 2026 · 3 points
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "llm" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "llm" over time.
A large language model (LLM) is a machine learning model trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, translate, and analyze text in many contexts. They are the basis for many modern chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Qwen and DeepSeek. Read more on Wikipedia