Polars has all of these benefits (to some degree), but also allows for larger-than-memory datasets.
DuckDB supports this as well, depending on which benchmark you look at it regularly performs better on those datasets than Polars.
Readit Newsprometheon1 commented on Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing robinlinacre.com/recommen... · Posted by u/tosh
prometheon1 commented on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect github.com/dani-garcia/va... · Posted by u/speckx
As someone who manages the vault warden instance for a nonprofit with many volunteers but no fulltime employees I see this as a wonderful thing. Yes bitwarden has a nonprofit discount but no playing wack a mole with which of the 20+ volunteers are active at any moment to avoid getting a huge bill isn't worth it vs self hosting.
I'm in a similar situation, having many volunteers does not mean we have the budget to pay 5-10 euros per month for all of them for all the tools needed for work. Self-hosting and managed hosting of open-source software are the best option for us, including SSO and password management
prometheon1 commented on Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/emrah
How many times do I have to say this? Ollama, llamacpp, and many other projects are slower than vLLM/sglang. vLLM is a much superior inference engine and is fully supported by the only LLM frontends that matter (sillytavern).
The community getting obsessed with Ollama has done huge damage to the field, as it's ineffecient compared to vLLM. Many people can get far more tok/s than they think they could if only they knew the right tools.
From the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Be kind. Don't be snarky.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
In my opinion, your comment is not in line with the guidelines. Especially the part about sillytavern being the only LLM frontend that matters. Telling the devs of any LLM frontend except sillytavern that their app doesn't matter seems exactly like a shallow dismissal of other people's work to me.
prometheon1 commented on Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Its hard to be excited about hardware that will only exist in the cloud before shredding.
You don't find news about quantum computers exciting at all? I personally disagree
I know this from the European perspective. A lot of companies have policies for US travels for a few years now. Even some government employees on official business in the US, need to drop of their business phone and laptop with IT, before traveling to the US. And pick up a freshly wiped one with limited access, and no data on it.
For some countries like Russia it can be even more strict. They only get laptops not connected to the company network at all, and are only allowed to put a few files onto it via a flash drive. The smartphone is replaced by a feature phone without internet.
I wonder whether those companies also have a policy not to use Outlook/Microsoft365 for emails
prometheon1 commented on OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK openai.github.io/openai-a... · Posted by u/gronky_
Can't I do function calling in OpenAPI? I also feel like MCP is reinventing the wheel.
I have been converting OpenAPI documents into function calling schemas and doing tool calling since function calling first came out in 2023, but it's not easy to recreate a backend server to fit MCP.
Also, these days, I'm making a compiler-driven function calling specialized framework, but I'm a little cautious about whether MCP will support it. It enables zero-cost tool calling for TypeScript classes based on the compiler, and it also supports OpenAPI.
However, in the case of MCP, in order to fit this to the compiler-driven philosophy, I need to create a backend framework for MCP development first, or create an add-on library for a famous framework like NestJS. I can do the development, but there's so much more to do compared to OpenAPI tool calling, so it's a bit like that.
How should an MCP server like git work in your opinion? Should it then be written as a FastAPI server so that you have an openapi spec instead of just a CLI?
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/main/sr...
prometheon1 commented on 4o Image Generation openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
No offense but do you believe it when microsoft announces they have solved quantum computing?
And to prove it they only need your email address, birth date, credit card number, and rights to first born child?
I don't believe it when Microsoft announces it, but when two separate trustworthy-looking hn accounts tell me something is crazy good that seems like valuable information to me.
prometheon1 commented on European Cloud, Global Reach upcloud.com/blog/european... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen
In case anyone else has trouble finding info on RBAC, roles, users, IAM: this is called "subaccounts"
import polars.col as C
C.blah
Thanks! I'm not sure if pl.col improved since the last time I looked at polars or if I was too lazy to find it, but pl.col (docs) look great!
prometheon1 commented on Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code simonwillison.net/2025/Ja... · Posted by u/k__
Thank you so much for linking me to that! I think an `aider stats`-type command would be really cool (it would be cool to calculate stats based activity since the first aider commit or all-time commits of the repo).
Slightly longer than `aider stats` but here you go:
uv run --with=semver,PyYAML,tqdm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aider-AI/aider/refs/heads/main/scripts/blame.py