<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tarvaina</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tarvaina</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:42:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tarvaina" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reportedly Anthropic's ARR is $80B and gross margin 85%, so $50B sounds low.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:30:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396304</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic hit 9 billion ARR in Dec 2025 and 80 billion in Oct 2026.
Meta hit 9 billion in 2014 and 80 billion in 2020. It is now at 250 billion.
At this growth rate Anthropic will be bigger than Meta already next year.<p>Caveats: It's hard to believe that this growth rate would continue. And Meta's numbers above are trailing 12 months, while Anthropic's are annualized run rate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:26:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396253</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50396253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First attempt I didn't read the rules and didn't understand that the shots were all from the same episode.<p>After I got that I'm now at 34/34 with win guess avg of 2.68.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315784</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came here to quote the same sentence. Here's another way to look at it:<p>Suppose there actually is a best word choice. The LLM doesn't know what it is but makes a guess. Maybe it's the best one, maybe it isn't. The probability that SynthID changes the best choice to a worse one is equal to the probability that it changes a worse choice to the best one.</p>
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<p>The main linked article actually does not have that video; the article linked from in the description does have it. Not surprising that someone missed it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:40:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651067</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "A Tour of Oodi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live nearby and really enjoy Oodi. It's usually much busier than in these pictures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:36:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Learn to play Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nitpick: The early moves in the game are called fuseki. Joseki refers to well-studied local patterns of moves and they appear through the middle game, not just in the early game.<p>A couple of things I love about go is that you don't need to memorize fuseki, and that applying joseki correctly is as much a matter of judgment as it is of memory.<p>(I am a 1 dan go player but haven't played much in the last 15 years.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Wikipedia article says:<p>"Rock, sand and concrete has a heat capacity about one third of water's. On the other hand, concrete can be heated to much higher temperatures (1200 °C) by for example electrical heating and therefore has a much higher overall volumetric capacity."<p>and<p>"Polar Night Energy installed a thermal battery in Finland that stores heat in a mass of sand. It was expected to reduce carbon emissions from the local heating network by as much as 70%. It is about 42 ft (13 m) tall and 50 ft (15 m) wide. It can store 100 MWh, with a round trip efficiency of 90%. Temperatures reach 1,112 ºF (600 ºC). The heat transfer medium is air, which can reach temperatures of 752 ºF (400 ºC) – can produce steam for industrial processes, or it can supply district heating using a heat exchanger."</p>
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<p>(Off topic.)<p>Not only that, but Linus's parents were politically active communists and young Linus was a pioneer (like a boy scout but for communists). His father also lived in Moscow for several years on two separate occasions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:46:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45051512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>_Miles_ from the ocean? Budapest is 620 miles from the nearest ocean at the mouth of Elbe.<p>(Incidentally exactly 1000 km.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:42:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981360</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44981360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "GPT-5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are absolutely right, I cannot see it there either! Sorry for the misdirection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839274</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44839274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "GPT-5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can turn them on in the workspace admin settings: <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11954883-legacy-model-access-for-team-enterprise-and-edu-users" rel="nofollow">https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11954883-legacy-model-ac...</a></p>
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<p>It took me a while but I think the difference between Vertex and Gemini APIs is that Vertex is meant for existing GCP users and Gemini API for everyone else. If you are already using GCP then Vertex API works like everything else there. If you are not, then Gemini API is much easier. But they really should spell it out, currently it's really confusing.<p>Also they should make it clearer which SDKs, documents, pricing, SLAs etc apply to each. I still get confused when I google up some detail and end up reading the wrong document.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Alternative explanation: I'd say 3 and 7 are out because they often come up in fairy takes etc as magical. 5 is out because it's half of ten and the number of fingers. 2 is out because it is too small.</p>
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<p>Oh, right! I forgot about it. I guess 8 would do too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 10:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also it is one party (The Finns) presenting a rail initiative competing with their government partner's (National Coalition) older initiative. It is very unlikely that they both will be implemented.</p>
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<p>Stray thought: Why 4 and 9? Because the joke is funniest if the number is completely ordinary.<p>0 and 1 are special and so are all prime numbers. 6 is out because it's the maximum die throw. And one figure is more ordinary than two figures, or negatives, or decimals. That leaves 4 and 9.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 00:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44036576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "The 12-bit rainbow palette"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is about choosing 12 colors from the 4096-color palette.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "The dark side of the Moomins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are actually six different TV series:<p>1959: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Muminfamilie" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Muminfamilie</a><p>1969: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1969_TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1969_TV_series)</a><p>1972: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moomin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moomin</a><p>1977: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series)</a><p>1990: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)</a><p>2019: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_(TV_series)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</link><dc:creator>tarvaina</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tarvaina in "Why does JSON have commas?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is how Clojure does it.<p><a href="https://clojure.org/guides/learn/hashed_colls#_creating_a_literal_map" rel="nofollow">https://clojure.org/guides/learn/hashed_colls#_creating_a_li...</a></p>
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