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Tell HN: Crosstalk when using Ollama with cloud DeepSeek models?
by alberto-m | 2026-03-11 13:43:23+00:00
The other day I was experimenting with `deepseek-v3.1:671b-cloud` using Ollama, when a coding question got answered with a medical diagnosis on the basis of a list of symptoms. I put it down to some strange LLM hallucination, but today a Reddit thread [1] showed a similar phenomenon of an answer referring to a totally different prompt.

The only logical explanation seems to be that the server is occasionally failing to pair prompts and answers. If this is the case I think users should be aware of this problem, in addition to the other general security issues of using non-local models.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[1] (NSFW) https://old.reddit.com/r/ollama/comments/1rqoez5/so_this_has_started_happening_recently_with/
by vitlyoshin | 2026-03-11 13:43:36+00:00
In a recent podcast conversation, we discussed daylighting systems that capture sunlight on rooftops and transport it through reflective tubes to illuminate interior spaces. The concept isn’t new, but it raises an interesting question about why so many modern buildings still depend heavily on electric lighting even when natural light is available.

It made me think that sustainable design might be less about adding more energy systems and more about designing buildings that simply need less energy in the first place.

Curious how people here see it. Could daylighting become a default design principle in future buildings?
by ericmay | 2026-03-11 13:44:14+00:00
Stories like this probably scare some people off from electronic voting but I don't think this is that big of a deal. When we finish voting operations in my area we load the ballots up on someone's personal vehicle and they take them down, securely, to where they need to go. That vehicle could get blown up and those ballots could be gone, though I think we could still get a record of the results.

That being said for the United States, I am in favor of in-person voting requiring proof of citizenship, and making "voting day" a paid national holiday. Not so much for technical or efficiency reasons but for social reasons. I'd argue it should be mandatory but I don't think we should force people to do anything we don't have to force them to do, and I'm not sure we want disinterested people voting anyway.

Exercising democracy, requiring people to put in a minimal amount of thought and effort goes a long way. It should be a celebratory day with cookies and apple pie and free beer for all. Not some cold, AI-riddled, stay in your house and never meet your neighbors, clicking a few buttons to accept the Terms of Democracy process.

I know there's a lot of discussion points around "efficiency" or "cost" or "accessibility" or how difficult it supposedly is to have an ID (which is weird when you look at how other countries run elections) and there are certainly things to discuss there, but by and large I think the continued digitalization and alienation of Americans is a much worse problem that can be addressed with more in-person activities and participation in society. We're losing too many touchpoints with reality.
by Joker_vD | 2026-03-11 13:44:14+00:00
> It shouldn't really have instructions for every edge case.

Depends on what the instruction does. If it goes through a four-loads-four-stores chain that VAXen could famously do (with pre- and post-increments), then sure, this makes it impossible to implements such ISA in a multiscalar, OOO manner (DEC tried really, really hard and couldn't do it). But anything that essentially bit-fiddles in funny ways with the 2 sets of 64 bits already available from the source registers, plus the immediate? Shove it in, why not? ARM has bit shifted immediates available for almost every instruction since ARMv1. And RISC-V also finally gets shNadd instructions which are essentially x86/x64's SIB byte, except available as a separate instruction. It got "andn" which, arguably, is more useful than pure NOT anyway (most uses of ~ in C are in expressions of "var &= ~expr..." variety) and costs almost nothing to implement. Bit rotations, too, including rev8 and brev8. Heck, we even got max/min instructions in RISC-V because again, why not? The usage is incredibly widespread, the implementation is trivial, and makes life easier both for HW implementers (no need to try to macrofuse common instruction sequences) and the SW writers (no need to neither invents those instruction sequences and hope they'll get accelerated nor read manufacturers datasheets for "officially" blessed instruction sequences).
by diego_moita | 2026-03-11 13:44:41+00:00
Can't talk about Switzerland, don't know the particularities.

But in continental countries like Brazil it makes a lot of sense. It is cheaper, faster and safer.

> E-voting can be hacked from the other side of the world, because it happens on computers

How do you "hack from the other side of the world" a computer that isn't even online? True, the transmission of computed results is made online, but keeping that safe is trivial, banks do it.
by stargrazer | 2026-03-11 13:44:44+00:00
You could try running notepad++ in wine, the windows emulator

But I suppose that doesn't really answer your question. Linux is/was a compendium of a bunch of little tools you string together. Many/Most/All of the items in Notepad++ can be found as smaller independent tools.

The real addicts will use console tools like VIM or EMACS to do their editing (not really GUI, but powerful).

As an alternate alternate, try using Visual Studio Code (VSC). Not quite as light weight as Notepad++, but very functional.

On Linux, I'll use KWrite to do my basic editing. I'll revert to VSC when heavy editing is required.
by throwaw12 | 2026-03-11 13:45:26+00:00
Because this is Microsoft, experimenting and failing is not encouraged, taking less risky bets and getting promoted is. Also no customer asked them to have 1-bit model, hence PM didn't prioritize it.

But it doesn't mean, idea is worthless.

You could have said same about Transformers, Google released it, but didn't move forward, turns out it was a great idea.
by hrmtst93837 | 2026-03-11 13:45:34+00:00
I browsed through the history of the user and confirm this statement. I know that there are users who say they used em-dashes even before the rise of ChatGPT and HN statistics support that. For example, one prominent example is dang.

However this user uses — in almost all his posts and he had a speed of 1 comment per minute or so on multiple different topics.
by freedomben | 2026-03-11 13:45:34+00:00
This is definitely aging me, but I'm still disappointed that all caps didn't win. That style made it so much easier to visually parse tags when scanning through the HTML code. I admit that syntax highlighting has mostly done away with that benefit, and now that I'm used to the lower case I don't mind it anymore, but the uppercase always felt better to me. Even reading that example above it feels more natural. Style is a hard thing.
by Springtime | 2026-03-11 13:45:40+00:00
Hmm, the user joined in 2019 but had no submissions or comments until just 40 minutes ago (at least judging by the lack of a second page?) and all the comments are on AI related submissions. Benefit of doubt is it'd have to be a very dedicated lurker or dormant account they remembered they had.

Edit: oh, just recalled dang restricted Show HNs the other day to only non-new users (possibly with some other thresholds). I wonder if word got out and some are filling accounts with activity.
by atoav | 2026-03-11 13:45:48+00:00
It is not even about understanding. It is about how easy it is to distrust it.

Contrary to what nerds think, the goal of elections isn't to get bulletproof results by mathematical standards. The goal is to create agreeable consent among those who voted. A good election system is one where even sworn enemies can begrudgingly agree on the result.

A paper ballot system has the advantage that it can be monitored by any group that has members which have mastered the skill of object permanence and don't lie. That is not everybody, but it is much better than any hypothetical digital system
by forgotTheLast | 2026-03-11 13:46:14+00:00
It depends on your legal jurisdiction but it means COs need to act in the corporation's best interest and not their own. In some places, that requires them to take shareholders' interests into account (especially for mergers or takeovers) but also the employees, consumers or creditors. In the US and notably Delaware, courts generally value shareholder value over anything else.

Considering the vast majority of US corporations are incorporated in Delaware, I think it's accurate to say most US companies only aim to maximize shareholder value.
by koenschipper | 2026-03-11 13:46:46+00:00
This is an incredibly elegant hack. The finding that it only works with "circuit-sized" blocks of ~7 layers is fascinating. It really makes you wonder how much of a model's depth is just routing versus actual discrete processing units.

I spend a lot of time wrestling with smaller LLMs for strict data extraction and JSON formatting. Have you noticed if duplicating these specific middle layers boosts a particular type of capability?

For example, does the model become more obedient to system prompts/strict formatting, or is the performance bump purely in general reasoning and knowledge retrieval?

Amazing work doing this on a basement 4090 rig!
by piva00 | 2026-03-11 13:46:56+00:00
No, it doesn't, I only run agents in a dedicated development environment (somewhat sandboxed in the file system) but that's how I've used them since the beginning, I don't want it to be accessing my file system as a whole, I only need it to look at code.

Don't think a web-based dev environment would be enough for my use case, I point agents to look into example code from other projects in that environment to use as as bootstraps for other tools.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-03-11 13:47:02+00:00
> What do you think training to predict when to use different continuations is other than learning?

Sure, training = learning, but the problem with LLMs is that is where it stops, other than a limited amount of ephemeral in-context learning/extrapolation.

With an LLM, learning stops post-training when it is "born" and deployed, while with an animal that's when it starts! The intelligence of an animal is a direct result of it's lifelong learning, whether that's imitation learning from parents and peers (and subsequent experimentation to refine the observed skill), or the never ending process of observation/prediction/surprise/exploration/discovery which is what allows humans to be truly creative - not just behaving in ways that are endless mashups of things they have seen and read about other humans doing (cf training set), but generating truly novel behaviors (such as creating scientific theories) based on their own directed exploration of gaps in mankind's knowledge.

Application of AGI to science and new discovery is a large part of why Hassabis defines AGI as human-equivalent intelligence, and understands what is missing, while others like Sam Altman are content to define AGI as "whatever makes us lots of money".
by cpburns2009 | 2026-03-11 13:47:20+00:00
One problem with Linux is there's so many editors to choose from. I assume you want to exclude the Java IDEs which rules out Eclipse and Netbeans. The basic editors are Gedit and Kate. The native IDEs are Geany and KDevelop. Then there's the Scintilla-based editors/IDEs which are probably closer to what you're looking for: SciTE (text editor), or CodeLite (IDE).
by Waterluvian | 2026-03-11 13:48:42+00:00
I think a lot of what you argue might make sense for American elections where you're voting for an absolutely ridiculous number of things.

I'm not sure how it is in Switzerland, but in Canada I will vote for maybe three candidates in five years. And I don't mean three visits to the polls (though it's usually that), I mean three actual checkbox ticks for people to count. They're paper ballots and the counting is done that night. I think if we were stuck voting for like forty different races every two years it would be a very different story and a lot of what you say would resonate with me more. Except the voter registration stuff.

We're pretty flexible about registration up here and it works. My wife one year showed up with some mail that had her name/address, and me vouching for her. Though I think a lot of the luxuries of democracy are most easily enjoyed with a trusting, cooperative culture that isn't constantly wound up about being cheated by the others.
by socialinteldev | 2026-03-11 13:48:51+00:00
this is the pattern that makes sense for agent-native APIs -- no keys, pay per call in usdc. been building in the same space: socialintel.dev is an instagram influencer search api that uses x402 (no account needed, pay per request). the discovery layer is still the missing piece though -- how do agents know which paid apis are available without a registry or mcp server listing them?
by socialinteldev | 2026-03-11 13:49:26+00:00
this is the pattern that makes sense for agent-native APIs -- no keys, pay per call in usdc. been building in the same space: socialintel.dev is an instagram influencer search api that uses x402 (no account needed, pay per request). the discovery layer is still the missing piece though -- how do agents know which paid apis are available without a registry?
by butlike | 2026-03-11 13:49:50+00:00
They won't have sentience because it will be antithetical to capitalist business ideology. There's no good business value proposition for having the AI daydream like humans do, or 'sleep' while 'on', or have inspirational thought that might be seen as 'wrong' or useless. If that behavior ever manifests, it will probably be stamped out in a future release.

You can't justify to the board the wasted money to have the android dream.
by koenschipper | 2026-03-11 13:50:02+00:00
That live GPS jamming calculation using commercial flight NAC-P degradation is honestly brilliant. Such a clever use of existing public telemetry.

You mentioned compressing the FastAPI payloads by 90% to keep the browser from melting. I'm really curious about your approach there did you just crank up gzip/brotli on the JSON responses, or did you have to switch to something like MessagePack, Protobuf, or a custom binary format to handle that volume of moving GeoJSON features?

Also, never apologize for the "movie hacker" UI. A project like this absolutely deserves that aesthetic. Awesome work!
by nananana9 | 2026-03-11 13:50:32+00:00
I should've worded this better. By "non-verified accounts" I mean basically mean "accounts that haven't been verified by an ID check". This is the only means that I consider an actual verification, face/photo scan is a PR stunt and malicious compliance.

I assume I don't have to try too hard to convince someone on this forum how easy photo/video verification is to bypass. Look at Australia, it's happening en masse right now.

Most age verification systems guard against children pretending to be adults. If we're talking about social media, this is a fairly low stakes thing, and false positives aren't too critical - sure, a teen will bypass the Instagram age-check and use Instagram, big deal.

Here you're trying to guard against the exact opposite - adults pretending to be children. Not only are the stakes way higher as there's no legitimate reasons to try and bypass the system, you also don't have access to the only reliable method - government ID checks.

Edit: I can concede the point about Schlep, as what he does is dangerous and I could see someone "follow in his footsteps" and ge thurt. However you have to keep in mind that he's never the first to talk to these people -- there's so many of them that he's literally had dozens of them approach him. I was mainly thinking of Ruben Sim, who compiled a large database of NSFW accounts without any real world interaction, and was banned and sued for it.
by lelanthran | 2026-03-11 13:50:49+00:00
> If you don't worry about the returns, you won't get any.

He was focusing on value, not returns.

That being said, his take is still a dumb take - if you focus on creating value you may not capture any of that value for yourself. If you don't capture that value, someone else certainly will.

The age of creating value for the public good is well and truly over - any value you create for the public good in the form of intellectual output is immediately captured by profit-maximising companies for training your replacement.

It's not just a case of having your value captured by someone else, the AI corps are actually taking your captured value and then using it against you.
by WillAdams | 2026-03-11 13:50:55+00:00
Curious how this might have played out over the long-term with their licensed/abandoned/revived/then bought to kill permanently "Modulex":

https://archinect.com/features/article/149974598/the-brief-a...

I wish one of their competitors would take up this dimension standard --- it would be a lot more useful for making structures which interact across dimensions/rotations.
by dathinab | 2026-03-11 13:51:06+00:00
can we just ban them?

like if EU countries themself decide to undermine their own rights thats their thing

but if external powers try to undermine EU constitutions isn't that a attack on those countries and shouldn't that be a crime, if not punished else wise at least punished by exclusion from lobbying and if not respected by exclusion of the EU market as a whole?

sure freedom of speech, including lobbying, is VERY important. But there is a big difference between external powers trying to take away rights of EU citizens and internal powers doing so and that is also quite different to what lobbying is made for (trying to avoid making laws which are "accidentally hurtful"(1)/have unintended side effects or are simple not viable to practically comply to(2)).

(1): Like actually accidentally/unintended harm, not a reasonable law some company can't comply with because their whole foundation is based on idk. customer abuse.

(2): Where it's not the point of the law. If a company makes money by causing mass harm through a legal loophole and that hole is closed it should never matter if they can comply with it.

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Can we also please start a corruption investigation into politicians involved, politicians which have repeatably tried to undermine their own countries constitution (weather on country or EU level) shouldn't be allowed to just go one like nothing happened and try again a year later.
by vidarh | 2026-03-11 13:51:35+00:00
More than just bricks fitting into each other at a superficial level, it matters how firmly they fit together, and it's one of the areas where LEGO is generally superior to the similar types of bricks.

A detail I didn't realise until I was an adult was the difference between the black and grey technic connecting pins. They look interchangeable, and for a lot of things they are.

But there's a fraction of a mm raised lines on the black one, and it's enough to produce significantly more friction, and that difference is utilised in designs.

And apprently there's now a new version of the black one, and people notice these things, and measure them - this article gives an idea of just how these tiny changes, well below tolerances for some of the "knockoffs", can produce a different effect:

https://ramblingbrick.com/2021/01/27/what-if-they-introduced...
by socialinteldev | 2026-03-11 13:51:40+00:00
the discovery angle matters too -- once agents can pay without keys, the next question is how they know what paid services exist. mcp servers help (you can expose a tool that uses x402 under the hood), but theres no universal registry yet. socialintel.dev/mcp is one example -- instagram influencer search, pay per call in usdc, no account
by misja111 | 2026-03-11 13:51:43+00:00
It depends. If all I want is some prototype or pet code project, my LLM can write most by itself. The speedup could be 10 times or more.
However, if I'd let a LLM write code for my work, I'd have to very thoroughly review it and most likely ask it to rewrite it several times. Each time this would require a new review of course.
There would still be a speed up but I guess at most somewhere around 25%.

In practice I try to combine the best of both worlds. I write some code by myself and rely on my LLM for parts that are not too big and where I expect it to do a pretty good job.
by stetrain | 2026-03-11 13:52:13+00:00
> That being said, I am in favor of in-person voting requiring proof of citizenship

I think this is fine if it also then means that obtaining a qualifying ID is treated as a no-cost and highly-accessible right for all citizens.

This is where such arguments tend to get stuck in the US. If you require proof of citizenship, but also have places where getting to a government office to get such an ID is difficult or expensive, then you are effectively restricting voting access for citizens. A measure to place stricter qualifications on voting access needs to also carefully consider and account for providing access to all citizens.

The US is a geographically very large place with worse public transportation options compared to many other countries, and with that comes differences in economic and accessibility considerations for things like "Just go to your county's office and get a qualifying ID."
by kjs3 | 2026-03-11 13:52:22+00:00
Oh sure...some companies had their own setup. I think one of the disk drive manufacturers had their own BBS (Western Digital?). But I think most companies looking into this kind of service saw the Compuserv infrastructure (in particular, all the ways to access it...dial, X.25, leased line, etc., with huge numbers of local PoPs) and said "I'll take that because building ourselves it would suck".

And...there was a time between this and "Internet for all the things", when for consumers, AOL was the place to get drivers and such. But that's an even farther digression from the BBS topic (other than to point out AOL started out with BBS software).
by embedding-shape | 2026-03-11 13:52:22+00:00
> You could have said same about Transformers, Google released it, but didn't move forward,

I don't think you can, Google looked at the research results, and continued researching Transformers and related technologies, because they saw the value for it particularly in translations. It's part of the original paper, what direction to take, give it a read, it's relatively approachable for being a machine learning paper :)

Sure, it took OpenAI to make it into an "assistant" that answered questions, but it's not like Google was completely sleeping on the Transformer, they just had other research directions to go into first.

> But it doesn't mean, idea is worthless.

I agree, they aren't, hope that wasn't what my message read as :) But, ideas that don't actually pan out in reality are slightly less useful than ideas that do pan out once put to practice. Root commentator seems to try to say "This is a great idea, it's all ready, only missing piece is for someone to do the training and it'll pan out!" which I'm a bit skeptical about, since it's been two years since they introduced the idea.
by jamestarr474 | 2026-03-11 13:52:25+00:00
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