MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bialczabub | 2026-02-02 22:44:15+00:00
This is just what I was thinking.

Twitter (X) owed $1.3B in debt every year in interest since Musk's takeover. This was before re-financing in a higher interest rate environment. The company was losing $200MM+ per year on ~$5B in revenue before the takeover, and there are reports that revenues have decreased by round 50%.

Best case scenario if we accept those numbers is that X makes $3B per year and about half of that goes immediately out the door in debt payments before paying a cent for the entire business to function.

However, if SpaceX acquires X, that ~$1.5B in interest is a fraction of the $8B In profits SpaceX is allegedly generating annually. Further, they can restructure the debt if it's SpaceX's debt, and not owned by X. Investors will be more likely to accept SpaceX shares as collateral than X.
by slg | 2026-02-02 22:44:51+00:00
>This is so obviously false.

One of the biggest but most pointless questions I have about our current moment in history is whether the people in power actually believe the stuff they say or are lying. Ultimately I don't think the answer really matters, their actions are their actions, but there is just so much that is said by people like Musk that strains credulity to the point that it indicates either they're total idiots or they think the rest of us are total idiots and I'm genuinely curious which of those is more true.
by meisel | 2026-02-02 22:45:35+00:00
> It’s kind of like enabling LTO (Link-Time Optimization) across the libc boundary, except it’s done properly in the frontend instead of too late, in the linker

Why is the linker too late? Is Zig able to do optimizations in the frontend that, e.g., a linker working with LLVM IR is not?
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-02 22:46:25+00:00
How can the alignment of Right to Repair and Republicans not be obvious?

The self-made John Galt who "makes do" without government assistance by repairing all of his things himself, especially his old American muscle car that "they don't make like they used to anymore" is a fantasy that resonates so strongly with the right wing that the FBI might as well just use it to screen for domestic terrorists.
by huseyincinar | 2026-02-02 22:46:32+00:00
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by itsprobablyok | 2026-02-02 22:46:46+00:00
They want to go public, but have to sell the hell out of it in the meantime.

I'll bet SpaceX financials aren't as great as some people think. Remember, Elon was the guy who tried to take Tesla private, and talked a lot of smack about how silly it is to be a public company. All of a sudden he wants SpaceX to go public?
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-02 22:46:59+00:00
Playing devil's advocate, when a GPU dies you don't typically fix it, right? You just replace it.

What if you could keep them in space long enough that by the time they burn up in the atmosphere, there are newer and better GPUs anyway?

Still doesn't seem sustainable to me given launch costs and stuff (hence devil's advocate), but I can sort of see the case if I squint?
by imartrinez_nova | 2026-02-02 22:47:03+00:00
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by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-02 22:47:04+00:00
That depends on the crime, now doesn't it. When I got my car stolen the first time, the kid who stole it went on a joy ride, dumped the car, got caught. I got my car back, and the whole experience was largely an inconvenience. Most painful part was paying the impound lot. Dude ended up spending over a year behind bars.

Now, what did society gain from locking that kid up? Not $50,000 worth, that's for sure. Definitely not a million dollars' worth. No, it just fucked up some dude's life, and made some jackass at the tow yard $600 richer. If anybody had asked me, my idea of justice would be a few weekends community service, maybe a small fine, and a molotov through the tow-yard office's window.

Don't get me wrong, there are crimes worth the societal cost to punish. Violent crimes, crimes that cause serious emotional or financial damages. Abuses of power. But that isn't most criminals. In my book, if a victim wouldn't seriously consider killing the perpetrator, we probably shouldn't be in the business of incarcerating them.

Because incarceration basically carries the message of "We the people want to fuck your life up, but don't have the stomach to kill you".
by gwbrooks | 2026-02-02 22:47:13+00:00
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by stevenjgarner | 2026-02-02 22:47:35+00:00
This makes a lot of sense. The commercial launch business is not large enough to support all possible Falcon launches, so Starlink was created to take advantage of the low launch cost and vertical integration and is now a major profit center for SpaceX.

Starship launches are only going to make sense every 779.94 days (the approx 2 year Mars-Earth proximity). The rest of the time, the launches could similarly be used to deploy orbiting data centers for XAi/Grok etc. Brilliant move.
by fvdessen | 2026-02-02 22:47:46+00:00
> How should they know your project is worth investing 500k? I heard they've got 3x8M, per year I presume, so 500k is a huge chunk of that. Everyone thinks their project is worth 500k, what makes yours different from the rest?

Well that's the job of VCs, that's what they're expert at.

There's also another model where established industrial communities set up research centers to fund projects that might help their common problems.
by SLWW | 2026-02-02 22:48:01+00:00
I wonder who censored my other response to another commenter (I said that if being against hosting CSA means I'm a 'n4z1' than I'm ok with that derogatory label)

Though the irony of being censored while talking about how CSA should be censored is very funny to me.

These pro-speech absolutists (who are usually libertarian) miss that NAP is clearly violated when any abuse is hosted/disseminated. Additionally while speech should never be censored.. everything must be permissible if all media is speech. You can have a society that censors multi-media but not the caption/description attached; other allowances (for other types of "speech") always leads to the most degenerate of people having a voice while everyone else is punished for calling them out.
by fwip | 2026-02-02 22:48:12+00:00
> What protections are there against this?

Nothing that will work. This thing relies on having access to all three parts of the "lethal trifecta" - access to your data, access to untrusted text, and the ability to communicate on the network. What's more, it's set up for unattended usage, so you don't even get a chance to review what it's doing before the damage is done.
by bombcar | 2026-02-02 22:48:19+00:00
> Cars are by far the least space-efficient method of transporting people

Not true in practice even if true in theory; in many places the average full-size bus contains fewer people than would fit in a minivan.

The problem is you need 5-10 years of reliable public transit in an area before non-transit users begin to convert (or transit users begin to move in).
by vessenes | 2026-02-02 22:48:19+00:00
That's the most measured Elon critique I've read today. :)

I've been told by SpaceX folk that Elon's job is to keep a 20 year view in the future and essentially get folks to work backward from that.

I think I might kind of be sold on data-clusters in space in 20 years.

I can understand if I had lift that cost 1/10 what everyone else in the world paid for it, I'd be even more sold on them.

That said, this newfound enthusiasm of his certainly makes a commercially reasonable path forward to turn xAI stock into spacex stock. Elon takes care of his investors, generally speaking.
by verzali | 2026-02-02 22:48:36+00:00
Additional radiator area means bigger spacecraft, implies more challenge with attitude control. Lower down you get more drag so you use propellant to keep yourself up, higher up you have more debris and the large area means you need to frequently manoeuvre to avoid collisions. Making things bigger in space is not trivial! You can't just deploy arbitrarily large panels and expect everything to be fine.
by jedberg | 2026-02-02 22:48:39+00:00
Whenever computer chips go into space, they have to be hardened against radiation, because there is no atmosphere to protect them. Otherwise you get random bit flips.

This process takes a while, which is partly why all the computers in space seem out of date. Because they are.

No one is going to want to use chips that are a many years out of date or subject to random bit flips.

(Although now it got me thinking, do random bit flips matter when training a trillion parameter model?)
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-02 22:48:52+00:00
Every manager I've ever had sees me as an extremely competent multidisciplinary engineer. So obviously ever one of them thinks I'd be perfect for management. Every time I've tried a management role, it's been a flaming disaster.

At my last job I argued for six months on this point with my manager. I eventually relented and... disaster.

I don't know how to more clearly articulate "I cannot and will not manage others. I am not capable and it will end badly." But apparently that's not clear and understandable enough for management brain.

New job now and I think the boss is intelligent enough to understand "no, that is not possible"
by allenrb | 2026-02-02 22:48:53+00:00
This makes me genuinely sad. SpaceX was the one thing of his that Elon has largely avoided screwing up. Imho, this is in large part due to Gwynne Shotwell. She seems to have the personality (not to mention, personal wealth) to kick Elon in the head when he tries to mess things up.

What’s happening now is nothing more than a transparent effort to couple the AI hype-wagon to SpaceX in order to drive the valuation higher in the minds of investors who still think that LLMs will completely transform society.

I’ll be thrilled if the rocket folks can avoid being distracted by this nonsense, but I’m not optimistic.

I’ve been following SpaceX since something like the 2nd Falcon 1 launch and this is the worst thing I’ve seen happen. Sad times.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-02 22:49:14+00:00
Six reposts in 3 days from the same author:

- Making physical Japanese cards: The full walkthrough from zero to launch (alt-romes.github.io)
3 points by romes 10 hours ago

- Kanjideck: The full walkthrough from zero to launch (alt-romes.github.io)
6 points by romes 23 hours ago

- Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
3 points by romes 1 day ago

- Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
5 points by romes 2 days ago

- From Side Project to Kickstarter: A Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
1 point by romes 3 days ago

- From Side Project to Kickstarter: A Walkthrough (alt-romes.github.io)
1 point by romes 3 days ago
by mprovost | 2026-02-02 22:49:16+00:00
FASP uses forward error correction instead of retransmission. So instead of waiting for something not to show up on the other end and sending it again, it calculates parity and transmits slightly more data up front, with enough redundancy that the receiving end is capable of reconstructing any missing bits.
This is basically how all storage systems work, not just Weka. You calculate enough parity bits to be able to reconstruct the missing data when a drive fails. The more disks you have, the smaller the parity overhead is. Object storage like S3 does this on a massive scale. With a network transfer you typically only need a few percent, unless it's really lossy like Wifi, in which case standards like 802.11n are doing FEC for you to reduce retransmissions at the TCP layer.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 22:49:28+00:00
It'll be hard to do because it's like the more restrictive gun laws. It'll never stick so they never take it though court, but they threaten it to get the conduct they want. OEMs have spent huge sums locking down computer systems "because emissions".

The EPA has a ton of ways to expensively scrutinize (heavy on the "screw") oems at their discretion so it doesn't really need to be a serious threat, just a warning.

Same dynamic as local business vs local code enforcers basically.
by Aachen | 2026-02-02 22:49:30+00:00
I'm an Anki user, on and off since 10 years or so, but was still confused. If I understood correctly, the entities here are:

- Anki, as set up by dae aka Damien, is like the brand name and desktop implementation with the spaced repetition algorithm

- AnkiWeb is what I thought this hub thing was. It's where you download decks

- AnkiHub is a third party (started by "AnKing", now 35 employees) who sells decks as a monthly subscription and has their content on the deep web (you need to create an account and agree to terms to even see a listing of what's there besides a few featured parts). This is who is getting ownership of the former two. Because they write that Anki will remain open source at its "core", I presume that means that things will, at best, stay stable rather than anything (like AnkiWeb the deck sharing platform) becoming open

- AnkiDroid is a separate open source project (an Android app). The corporation is hiring the main developer, but it's not yet clear to me whether they're just going to get paid to work more on AnkiDroid or if they're also getting other tasks

Edit, wanted to add: the ecosystem is currently such that it seems hard to enshittify it. They say they have no intention of doing that and I believe it, but their vision of a healthy and good product might involve a fair price which, until now, had been zero. Time will tell; it sounds like there's currently no plans, but it's also simply open enough that users can always just install the open source software and share decks with each other by whatever file transfer/sharing means. Everything that's already there won't simply go away
by observationist | 2026-02-02 22:50:06+00:00
If you ramp up the economies of scale to make those things - radiation protection and cost per pound - the calculus changes. It's supposed to synergize with Starship, and immediately take advantage of the reduced cost per pound.

If the cost per pound, power, regulatory burden, networking, and radiation shielding can be gamed out, as well as the thousand other technically difficult and probably expensive problems that can crop up, they have to sum to less than the effective cost of running that same datacenter here on earth. It's interesting that it doesn't play into Jevon's paradox the way it might otherwise - there's a reduction in power consumption planetside, if compute gets moved to space, but no equivalent expansion since the resource isn't transferable.

I think some sort of space junk recycling would be necessary, especially at the terawatt scale being proposed - at some point vaporizing a bunch of arbitrary high temperature chemistry in the upper atmosphere isn't likely to be conducive to human well-being. Copper and aluminum and gold and so on are also probably worth recovering over allowing to be vaporized. With that much infrastructure in space, you start looking at recycling, manufacturing, collection in order to do cost reductions, so maybe part of the intent is to push into off-planet manufacturing and resource logistics?

The whole thing's fascinating - if it works, that's a lot of compute. If it doesn't work, that's a lot of very expensive compute and shooting stars.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-02 22:50:10+00:00
Put together a bunch of local focus groups of successful elementary school teachers - preferably ones who remember the "good old days", before how reading should be taught was prescribed by big-ego academics, consultants, ideologues, and politicians. (Ideally, the latter sorts would be lured off to some red herring project, that'll conveniently never get funded.)

Ask 'em to assemble short descriptions of "what actually works" for teaching reading. If they end up describing half a dozen approaches, which seem to work in different circumstances (kids, teacher, resources, etc.) - that's fine. Also ask for lists describing a dozen or two advantages and disadvantages - which help or hurt a kid's prospects for reading well - and simple ideas on how to encourage the former and fix or work around the latter.

Encourage the old teachers to leave off group identifiers. Let real-world parents and teacher reading their descriptions intuit that (say) #11 would apply to many lower-income non-white Catholic boys.

Try to put a strong "every child is an individual human being" slant on the whole thing. Far too much of the current focus is on partitioning kids into various "identity" castes, for the benefit of people who evidently thrive on caste warfare. If we can't magically ship all those folks off to some Planet Faraway, I don't have any great ideas for keeping them from storming into the classrooms and spoiling everything.
by soganess | 2026-02-02 22:50:49+00:00
Are launch costs really 10x!? Could I get a source for that?

In the back on my head this all seemed astronomically far-fetched, but 5.5 million to get 8 GPUs in space... wild. That isn't even a single TB of VRAM.

Are you maybe factoring in the cost to powering them in space in that 5 million?
by imr555 | 2026-02-02 22:50:57+00:00
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by analognoise | 2026-02-02 22:51:07+00:00
We have watched every good tech invention for the last 20 years become enshittified - nobody believes in the magical market theory thay “then prices will come down” - because they haven’t. Every service has gone berserk, and nothing feels like a deal any longer - and that’s before you add into the dystopian hellhole aspects of “tech”.

Water consumption and the infrastructure to leverage it can’t be nullified by pointing to… the Great Lakes. That’s not how that works.

This is before you get into “is this technology good for people”. It’s good for a few doughy tech bros in the Epstein list, but not the rest of us.

We don’t need the country to have an infinite pool of data centers, we need healthcare, clean air and water, etc.

We should stop these dumb ass data centers, and also ban all crypto. Tech people were supposed to help usher in Star Trek, not raise our power bills and destroy the environment by firing up new gas power plants for random number generating pyramid schemes and the suckers who fall for them. It’s all beyond embarrassing.
by lifis | 2026-02-02 22:51:17+00:00
According to Gemini, Earth datacenters cost $7m per MW at the low end (without compute) and solar panel power plants cost $0.5-1.5m per MW, giving $7.5-8.5m per MW overall.

Starlink V2 mini satellites are around 10kW and costs $1-1.5m to launch, for a cost of $100-150m per MW.

So if Gemini is right it seems a datacenter made of Starlinks costs 10-20x more and has a limited lifetime, i.e. it seems unprofitable right now.

In general it seems unlikely to be profitable until there is no more space for solar panels on Earth.
by SilverElfin | 2026-02-02 22:51:30+00:00
Because Twitter/X is distorting our politics (with ann unbalanced scheme of censorship / amplification / suppression) and destroying the country by mainstreaming far right supremacist politics. Twitter/X does not deserve a single dollar of taxpayer money. If SpaceX is now part of that machine, it doesn’t deserve a single dollar either. I would rather pay more for alternatives and encourage their growth. I also look at any money given to this company as the equivalent of GOP campaign funding, so I feel it should be treated as illegal under the law.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-02 22:51:31+00:00
The AI bubble went boom, finally!

1. Micro$lop Copilot has had terrible business adoption

2. Micro$lop pushed AI everywhere making Windows the most useless OS ever

3. The above made everybody to hate AI, more than they already did forcing people to Linux including gamers which was the only major reason towards Linux, no anymore thanks to Valve!!

4. Micro$lop isn't using Copilot themselves but Claude. Let that sink in.

5. OpenAI is bleeding money since day one

6. ChatGPT4 to 5 getting worse tells something is broken there

7. Companies workflow worldwide broke with ChatGPT5

8. Apple, late as usual, adopted Google Gemini over ChatGPT

9. nVidia practices towards AI + GPU broke trust worldwide

10. When China released their own AI without massive GPUs, the market "crashed". Now we can run a somewhat okay local LLM into our homelabs and even CPU only laptops.

11. It was made clear about big techs doing AI circular investment, waking up investors

12. Company after company are realizing that AI cannot be used for everything

13. Companies are hiring freelancer developers to fix their AI messy code, it is one of the most well paid and in demand job right now.

14. The hype is gone, reality is hitting hard
by CryptoBanker | 2026-02-02 22:51:38+00:00
xAI’s models are really not pioneering at all. They weren’t the first to do MoE. Not the first to do open weighting, not the first to have memory or multi-modal vision.

So no, I wouldn’t say Elon is a major player in the AI space. People use his models because they are cheap and are willing to undress people’s photos.