So we now have just pure marketing slop on the HN front page? How is this interesting or "curious" again? The AI slop season is affecting HN in clever ways.
Claude March 2026 usage promotion
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Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#92Using timezone not UTC for a global service is a crime, especially mixed with daylight saving.
This is how they say Wall St is all using Anthropic without saying Wall St is all using Anthropic.
Regular price window around the world: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5368361,5128581,316...
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#93Would be happy to utilize but didn't see a promocode or voucher. Do I need more coffee?
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#94That is doubled usage between 5AM and 11PM for anyone playing along from Sydney/Melbourne.
Are you sure? It's a 6h window on the page
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#95Who are these guys even competing with that they are going so hard with the deals? Like the 1M context window, is Gemini offering that? In any case, they seem to have no real competition today.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#96Who are these guys even competing with that they are going so hard with the deals? Like the 1M context window, is Gemini offering that? In any case, they seem to have no real competition today.
codex offered the 1m context window (without markup, and via subscription) first, and is now wrapping up a 2 month promo of 2x usage rate. they've also provided free tier access which claude code lacks, and have shipped a desktop app (unlike claude code) for mac and windows. codex is also beating them on many benchmarks and has influencers like @steipete (before they hired him) proclaiming that he uses codex exclusively for code, after having been a claude code user and popularizing openclaw initially on top of claude code (but never for writing openclaw, only running it).
codex is still in minority use but has taken many customers from them over a short period.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#97Who are these guys even competing with that they are going so hard with the deals? Like the 1M context window, is Gemini offering that? In any case, they seem to have no real competition today.
codex offered the 1m context window (without markup, and via subscription) first, and is now wrapping up a 2 month promo of 2x usage rate. they've also provided free tier access which claude code lacks, and have shipped a desktop app (unlike claude code) for mac and windows. codex is also beating them on many benchmarks and has influencers like @steipete (before they hired him) proclaiming that he uses codex exclusiv…
Ah gotcha, thanks
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#98Have they accounted for time zones? This is my daytime in Australia/Sydney
Around the world, the regular price window: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=5368361,5128581,316...
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#99Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).
Set up an API key and use that.
Re: Claude March 2026 usage promotion
#100Would be cool to have a $5-10/month plan that only works off-peak, for people who want to do the occasional side project after work. Right now it's hard to justify anything but Copilot (because it's cheaper, offers the same models, and I'm nowhere near the usage limits).
I suspect that any GPU cycle not spent on inference will just be dedicated to training (which as I understand it can “soak up” essentially unlimited compute at constant value per token), and I’d not expect to see time-based billing until that changes.
This is an announcement of time-based billing.