Anaconda Raises $150M Series C • Hacker News Board

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by MengerSponge » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:10 PM UTC

specproc wrote: post #3

Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers. Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?

Anaconda sells a managed environment for data science applications, right? Basically the Red Hat business model?

I've used conda for years and haven't set aside the day it'll take to switch to something simple and modern (uv's top of the list, but I'm open to suggestions)

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by blitzar » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

MengerSponge wrote: post #11

specproc wrote: post #3

Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers. Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?

Anaconda sells a managed environment for data science applications, right? Basically the Red Hat business model? I've used conda for years and haven't set aside the day it'll take to switch to something simple and modern (uv's top of the list, but I'm open to suggestions)

use uv, you dont need to bin your existing installation (it just wont get used anymore) and it will take you 5 minutes to switch. next time you get new hardware you wont bother installing anything else python related.

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by gonzalohm » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

zubiaur wrote: post #5

specproc wrote: post #3

Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers. Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?

Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.

How are they going to find out though?

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by QuadrupleA » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:15 PM UTC

$50m more than Oxide Computer, a company actually building something, just raised. For what exactly? A free python distro, doing some vague AI pivot?

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by lotsalaser » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:16 PM UTC

scblock wrote: post #6

lotsalaser wrote: post #4

Wait, is this anaconda python, my favorite python installation? Oh no, it's now an AI company? Is my favorite python installation going to get enshittified?

That happened last year, when they changed their license terms and started shaking people down for money. I wouldn't touch it. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ... https://licenseware.io/retrospective-on-anacondas-2024-licen... https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4173/anaconda-threatens-lega... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-sued-copyrigh...

Good eye. I would not have noticed if the terms changed，even with all of those articles. Is there a good replacement?

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by throwaway3646 » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

zubiaur wrote: post #5

specproc wrote: post #3

Where's Anaconda at these days? I've not touched it since starting out with Python and don't think I've touched it since discovering other package managers. Anyone here using it regularly in 2025, is there anything I'm missing out on?

Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.

Can confirm, this is exactly what happened. They demand ridiculous back payments unless you buy multiple-year licenses. It would be trivial for them to require an account to use the main channel, but they deliberately make it easy to accidentally use it. If you have to use it, make sure to DNS block anaconda.com (.org seems to be fine), but even better, just avoid them like the plague.

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by gonzalohm » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

For people asking who uses Anaconda nowadays.

I work with less technical users and the problem with UV is that the installation instructions are slightly more complicated.

For users that just want conda to download python + a bunch of packages and won't ever bother to create environments, anaconda will always be superior.

Now, if UV bundles with a "default python version" with an installer, that may change things.

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by throwaway3646 » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC

gonzalohm wrote: post #13

zubiaur wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.

How are they going to find out though?

By checking IP, I'm guessing

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by zubiaur » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

gonzalohm wrote: post #13

zubiaur wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everywhere where they may be a shadow data science team. And that's how they get you. One has to be very careful to install the Open Source portions. They make no effort to make the boundary obvious. If one does not, IT will get a call asking for licensing money.

How are they going to find out though?

They have a form where they ask for an email before giving the download link. My guess is that + a bit of telemetry.

Re: Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

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Post by mritchie712 » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 2:22 PM UTC

lotsalaser wrote: post #15

scblock wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That happened last year, when they changed their license terms and started shaking people down for money. I wouldn't touch it. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ... https://licenseware.io/retrospective-on-anacondas-2024-licen... https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4173/anaconda-threatens-lega... https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-sued-copyrigh...

Good eye. I would not have noticed if the terms changed，even with all of those articles. Is there a good replacement?

uv.