Not sure I agree with "hastily launched". First public commit to the github repo was January 14th 2014.

Link: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f...

The presumption that this or Google's Tensor Flow can be cobbled together in a few hours is completely absurd. These things take months if not years of development. And releasing them into the wild is not a process that takes 30 minutes. Open Sourcing a company library is a work intensive process that takes weeks if not months. Beyond the code itself there are a swatch of promotional materials to prepare.

That said, I do agree that the submission itself to HN was in response to Google's Tensor Flow announcement. The submitter created their acct an hour ago and the only other activity is a comment on the google announcement talking about veles.

Also the submission title was unnecessarily snarky.

FWIW someone with the same username is listed as the #1 contributor: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors

We changed the title from "Veles – same as TensorFlow, but from Samsung", which was inappropriately editorialized. Unless an original title is misleading or linkbait, submitters should use it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

eh, it's a topical post and let's others know there's more to this space than Google's offering. I don't mind it. Would you rather they have not posted?

Statment is wrong. If you look on Github/Graphs is stated in the Header Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015 and neural network module which is veles.znicz Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015