Astral to Join OpenAI • Hacker News Board

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by optionalsquid » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

moregrist wrote: post #215

duskdozer wrote: post #167

Not surprised at all on this. I've been really suspicious about how hard `uv` was being pushed in 24/25.

I think the push has been entirely organic. Compared to existing tooling, uv is fantastically fast. One of the bigger pain points I’ve faced in Python is dependency resolution. conda could take 30-60 minutes in some cases. uv took seconds. A serious quality of life improvement.

uv replaces pip (and venv, and pipx, and more), not conda. If you want a uv-equivalent that replaces conda, then look at pixi: https://pixi.prefix.dev/

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by ZenoArrow » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:56 PM UTC

prodigycorp wrote: post #88

weakfish wrote: post #21

What happens when OpenAI’s burn dries up their cash?

$110B will surely last for at least a year.

Was that $110B in cash? I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on something else (paid for using deals for stock).

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

QuadrupleA wrote: post #448

wiseowise wrote: post #362

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Extremely stupid argument. It doesn’t matter how good is your car if the driver is lacking.

Not sure I follow - is the car the coding agent, and the developer the driver? Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster & better".

Car is the coding agent. Developer is the driver.

> Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster & better".

If average dev is more intelligent and amazing than any coding model, just hire a team of average devs and “remake UV but faster & better”.

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by 0dayman » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

won't increase your subscriptions, people are dropping out in the millions and no one wants jewPT

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by looneysquash » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:02 PM UTC

I don't get it. Why buy Astral? Why not just fund it? Why not just hire the company to do whatever work you want to get out of the team as part of the merger?

Why buy, when they can rent?

(Not to mention, multiple companies could hire and fund them.)

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

incognito124 wrote: post #403

wiseowise wrote: post #374

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Where can I find some of those?

here's one of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573195

Thanks.

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by sharkjacobs » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

Congrats to the Astral team, they've done great work and deserve everything.

As a user of uv who was hoping it would be a long term stable predictable uninteresting part of my toolchain this sucks, right?

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by krick » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

Tested the "Kagi LinkedIn Speak" translator[0] from a couple of days ago[1] on this. Works pretty great! If you translate it back and forth a number of times, it pretty much distills it to the essence.

[0] https://translate.kagi.com/?from=linkedin&to=en

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by skywhopper » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

rob wrote: post #248

druml wrote: post #209

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Small tool shop, burning VC money, true. "Tiny part of the Python ecosystem" is an understatement given how much impact uv has made alone.

Just a tiny project with over 100 million downloads every month, over 4 million every day. No big deal. Just a small shop, don't overstate its importance. https://pypistats.org/packages/uv

I mean, these sorts of numbers speak to the mind-bogglingly inefficient CI workflows we as an industry have built. I’d be surprised if there were 4 million people in the world who actually know what ‘uv’ is.

Re: Astral to Join OpenAI

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Post by chuckadams » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

roryirvine wrote: post #493

chuckadams wrote: post #467

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I doubt the lack of license was the reason DJB's projects didn't take over the world. Most of them required heavy forking to break away from hardwired assumptions about the filesystem and play nice with the OS distribution, and DJB is himself notoriously difficult to work with. Still, qmail managed to establish maildir as the standard format and kill off mbox, and for that alone I'm eternally grateful.

Well, there were always plenty of patches available - it's just that lots of them conflicted with each other, and that was a product of the licensing. Agreed with the rest, though. I relied heavily on qmail for about a decade, and learned a lot from the experience, even if it was a little terrifying on occasion!

These days one would just most likely create a fork on github. Vim was also maintained through separate patches for a long time, but Bram was a lot more accepting about integrating and distributing those patches himself.