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Ask HN: Follow-up: I found it

#1
Over a year ago, I posted this Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156962

I finally found what I was looking for. I did in fact have it buried away in my bookmarks somewhere.

Link: https://pgit.pico.sh/index.html

Re: Ask HN: Follow-up: I found it

#3
post #2

Clickable links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156962 https://pgit.pico.sh/index.html

For the hell of it I cut-n-pasted your original post into Google's AI mode which all of a sudden got really good in the last few weeks, particularly for the kind of question that you were asking where you are trying to find something that you saw a while back. It said

   Based on your description, the project you likely saw on Hacker News was
   stagit. It is known for creating an extremely minimal, bare-bones website 
   for a Git repository by generating static HTML pages.
https://codemadness.org/stagit.html

It strikes me as pretty similar to your link! I have found many cases like "Is Strike Witches a kemonomimi anime?" where the site summary gives the wrong answer and the new AI mode gives the right answer.

Re: Ask HN: Follow-up: I found it

#4
post #2

Clickable links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156962 https://pgit.pico.sh/index.html

For the hell of it I cut-n-pasted your original post into Google's AI mode which all of a sudden got really good in the last few weeks, particularly for the kind of question that you were asking where you are trying to find something that you saw a while back. It said Based on your description, the project you likely saw on Hacker News was stagit. It is known for creating an extremely minimal, bare-bones website for…

LLMs are amazing at familiarity problems like this. The downside is that the answer has to be present in the training data.