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by FloorEgg | 2026-02-02 22:58:14+00:00
I'm not the best person to make that case as I can only speculate (land cost, permitting, latency, etc). /Shrug

In all the conversations I've seen play out on hacker news about compute in space, what comes up every time is "it's unviable because cooling is so inefficient".

Which got me thinking, what if cooling needs dropped by orders of magnitude? Then I learned about photonic chips and spintronics.
by coryrc | 2026-02-02 22:58:16+00:00
They don't work well with heat pumps. Heat pumps lose efficiency as the differential increases, so if you try to store heat in a tank, you quickly drop capacity and efficiency.

Versus resistance, which is exactly as efficient at 0°C and 1000°C, and why those storage heaters used to make sense.

(And storage is directly proportional to temperature differential above interior ambient)
by brainless | 2026-02-02 22:58:20+00:00
Location: India
Remote: Yes, can travel for sprints
Willing to relocate: Can live in the EU for extended periods
Technologies: Rust, Python, Typescript but focused only on agent enabled products, with multi-agent, multi-tool orchestration using supervisor or other patterns
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxGkNPF8bT89sC7WZ1Fd3W6yWnLYFAIEItQVYituNuE/edit?usp=sharing
Email: My name (no spaces) hosted with Google's email domain

Hey, I am Sumit Datta. I have been working full time on my ideas around LLMs for about 2 years.

I'm building nocodo, https://github.com/brainless/nocodo, is a multi-model, multi-agent orchestration framework.

I would love to work in this field, either agent based products or custom projects.
by zokrezyl | 2026-02-02 22:58:26+00:00
I've been working on Yetty, a terminal emulator that uses WebGPU to render not just text, but also images, PDFs, plots, and interactive widgets directly in the terminal grid.

The core idea is "cards" – rich content blocks that occupy terminal cells and scroll with your output, similar to Jupyter notebooks but in a proper terminal. You can display a
matplotlib plot, and it scrolls up with your shell history.

What's implemented:

- MSDF font rendering (crisp at any zoom)
- Bitmap glyphs for color emojis
- Shader glyphs for animated spinners
- Cards: images, PDFs, plots, vector graphics (SVG/Lottie), ImGui widgets
- OSC escape sequences and RPC for card creation
- Builds on Linux (macOS/Windows untested but should work)

What's honest:

- Test coverage is limited (we're moving fast)
- Currently builds with Dawn backend only (wgpu-native may not work)
- It's not a daily-driver replacement for your terminal yet
- Documentation is sparse

Built with libvterm, Dawn/WebGPU, FreeType, msdfgen, and GLFW. MIT licensed.

Looking for contributors and feedback. If you've ever wished your terminal could show inline graphics without hacks, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

GitHub: https://github.com/zokrezyl/yetty (https://github.com/zokrezyl/yetty)
by dktp | 2026-02-02 22:58:30+00:00
My best guess is that Nvidia is unhappy with how OpenAI is fishing for compute with its competitors (Jensen had some opinions on the AMD-OpenAI deal when it was announced). If this actually becomes a feasible reality, it gives OpenAI (and co) negotiating power - which is bad for Nvidia

Nvidia might have wanted more exclusivity/attachment. And OpenAI still seems to have no problem raising money. So maybe there was just a commitment mismatch

Pure speculation though
by mkw5053 | 2026-02-02 22:58:34+00:00
Musk is moving value out of public hands and into his own. He overpaid $44B for Twitter, then rebranded it as an AI asset by folding X into xAI. He pushed Tesla to invest $2B of shareholder money into xAI despite shareholders voting no. Five days later, SpaceX acquired xAI, effectively turning Tesla’s cash into equity in a private company Musk owns far more of. Musk controlled every step, there was no real arm’s-length process, and he almost certainly knew the outcome in advance. Musk and his private investors get control, inflated valuations, and IPO upside. Tesla shareholders supply the cash, take the risk, and lose leverage.
by consumer451 | 2026-02-02 22:58:54+00:00
Ha, I figured that might be the video prior to clicking it. I am a long time fan.

Agreed, when I wrote "just unplug it," this counterargument was present in my mind, but nobody likes a wall of text.

However, my orignal point was that a distributed solar powered orbital inference platform is even worse! Thing about how hard it would be to practicaly take out Starlink... it's really hard. Now.. a 1M nodes of a neural net in the sky? WTF? Why would someone who lives as god, the richest man in the world, the only person capable of doing this thanks to his control of SpaceX... do the literal worst thing possible?
by aunty_helen | 2026-02-02 22:59:35+00:00
Hyper custom software can allow your business flows to sync together a lot better than the alternative, using zapier to glue a bunch of mostly poor fits and ending up with Frankenstein processes.

Also, it allows you to pick and choose what you want from where.

We’ve just completed the first month of our internal CRM that has replaced about 500$ a month in subs with something that flows much better and enforces our own internal processes.
by haritha-j | 2026-02-02 22:59:50+00:00
Any estimate by Elon musk, you need to add or substract a zero to/from the end. Here, I'll fix it for you.

> The basic math is that launching a 100,000 tons per year of satellites generating 10 kW of compute power per ton would add 1 gigawatt of AI compute capacity annually, with no ongoing operational or maintenance needs. Ultimately, there is a path to launching 0.01 TW/year from Earth.
> My estimate is that within 20 to 30 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-02 22:59:59+00:00
It’s annoying we don’t offer passport cards for free to people. The cost is similar to this fee, and your app and photo could be taken by TSA right at the checkpoint. You head to your flight, your passport card is mailed to you.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-pa...
by MagicMoonlight | 2026-02-02 23:00:13+00:00
But more importantly, there is no heat dissipation in space. There’s no atmosphere to cool you, no water you can put heat into. Just an empty void. You can radiate a little, but the sun alone is enough to cook you, without you having a rack of GPUs inside your satellite.

It’s completely delusional to think you could operate a data centre in a void with nowhere to put the heat.
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-02 23:00:42+00:00
Investors do not understand how coding works.

Google "Project Genie" which allegedly can take your input and the AI will make it rain, drove investors into panic mode.
They think that you can create GTA6 like that.

It was the perfect storm: clueless investors + the whole AI bubble already bursting if you are following non-biased news.
by romainhuet | 2026-02-02 23:00:44+00:00
I work at OpenAI, and I get the concern. From our side, this was a careful tradeoff: Electron lets us iterate faster and makes it possible to bring the Codex app to Windows and Linux very soon. That doesn’t mean performance or UX don’t matter—we’re actively paying attention to both.

Would genuinely love your thoughts if you try it. Early users have been surprised by how native it feels!
by codechicago277 | 2026-02-02 23:00:51+00:00
Elon Musk is a genius, but he’s a financing genius. Look at the long history he has of false promises supporting financing deals between his companies and you’ll see this for what it is, a cash injection and a lie to justify it. He did the same thing with a fake solar roof demo when Tesla bought the almost bankrupt Solar City. He also shifted resources from Tesla and SpaceX to support X in the early days. Even founding xAI outside of Tesla, when so much of its valuation was built on its AI capabilities, was questionable.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-02 23:01:18+00:00
Can't help but wonder if it might not be time to start a FOSS alternative just in case Anki begins to decline.

It might not be the worst idea to do that anyway. Anki is great, but there's plenty of room for improvement. Two off the top of my head is no fragile and finicky python bits and an architecture that is made to support multiple independent clients (Telegram is a good model here — make a core lib with all the nuts and bolts which devs build clients around).
by bombcar | 2026-02-02 23:01:42+00:00
> American suburbs are car-centric and those cars end up clogging up urban cores where people are trying to live their lives.

I wonder how much of that is the case - anymore. I am suburb or even exurb, but I don't go "to the urban core" unless basically forced to; these days that's specialized medical only.

And surprisingly numbers of what people call "suburbs" are decently walkable, if you're willing to compromise on where you walk to - e.g., you might not have 20 restaurants in short walking distance, perhaps only 5.

(I've literally walked young kids - including a baby! - to school when it's -40°. A big big part of the change is to slowly move people to fewer car trips - not try to get them to reduce the number of cars. That comes later once they realize they only used it 32 times!)
by vel0city | 2026-02-02 23:01:47+00:00
"it'll never work" is quite black and white while "failure" is a lot more of a grey area. Will it actually launch? Sure, we've seen it. Will it actually hit the reliability as sold? Will it have as fast of turnaround time to reach launch timing goals? Can it actually launch as much payload as promised? Will the economics actually shake out as intended?

Did the Cybertruck "never work"? Obviously not, they're on the streets. Was it a <$40k truck with >250mi range? No.

Did FSD "never work"? Obviously not, tons of people drive many, many miles without touching the wheel. Does Tesla feel confident in it enough to not require safety operators to follow it on robotaxi trips? No. Does Tesla trust it enough to operate in the Las Vegas Loop? No. Has Tesla managed to get any state to allow it to operate truly autonomously? No.

Look, I hope Starship does work as advertised. Its cool stuff. But I don't see it as a given that it will. And given by the track record of the guy who promised it, it gives even less confidence. I'm sad there's less competition in this space. We have so many billionaires out there and yet so few out there actually willing push envelopes.
by aionwikipedia | 2026-02-02 23:02:03+00:00
If you know what you're looking for -- and no, that does not mean em-dashes, they're a low-signal indicator and people get precious about them -- your false positive rate can get pretty low. See Russell et al, "People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text."

Anecdotally speaking, I'm heavily involved in AI cleanup work on Wikipedia. At this point, I can read article text typical of AI, guess within 6-12 months when that edit was made based on differences in LLM output over the years, and usually be right. (e.g., "delve" was common through early 2024 until GPT-4o killed it; I've seen theories that it's not a GPT-4o thing but rather the result of people avoiding the word when it became a meme, but its frequency dropped off hard even in edits that clearly were not reviewed or edited at all.) Given that Wikipedia has accumulated billions of edits over 25+ years, that says a lot.
by RIMR | 2026-02-02 23:02:18+00:00
This means that Grok, Elon's politically labotomized involuntary pornography generator, and X (formerly Twitter), Elon's Nazi-adjacent propaganda machine, are now completely intertwined with SpaceX, a too-big-to-fail government contractor that currently serves as America's only reliable option for manned orbital spaceflight.

Anyone who doesn't see how broken this situation is isn't paying attention. This is how people like Elon, who want to seize as much power from the government as they can, ensure that the means for seizing that power are untouchable.

Anyone who has ever used Grok or X lately knows that both of these products are heavily manipulated to align with the political, social, and economic views of Elon Musk, who is increasingly boosting "white power" language and full-throatedly backing America's most nationalistic and authoritarian president to date.

This is just another consolidation of power, and it's deeply worrisome. Any integrity one may have hoped remained at SpaceX just vanished when they aligned their mission with that of these deeply problematic digital services.

And this is not even scratching the surface of what looks like a deliberate attempt to create Kessler syndrome by launching millions of cheap short-term satellites into orbit, or the rationality of putting datacenters into orbit in the first place...
by trial3 | 2026-02-02 23:02:29+00:00
these are exciting new goalposts you’ve decided on! i, too, think that any article that is different from how i would’ve written it is a listicle.

if you’ll indulge me, i’m excited to hear how you have “categorically” decided the author’s intentions

one nit: surely you, of all hacker news commenters, have the extraordinary media literacy to know that the journos themselves do not add the affiliate links or pocket the affiliate link search arbitrage
by kentm | 2026-02-02 23:03:10+00:00
I appreciate the sentiment behind steelmanning but Trump has had over a decade of publicaly, vocally hating windmills because some were built too close to his golf course. See https://www.npr.org/2013/07/01/196352470/thar-he-blows-trump...

Its completely in-line with his personality to hold onto personal grievances for decades to the point that they become policy.
by whalesalad | 2026-02-02 23:03:14+00:00
I've been thinking over the weekend how it would be fun to attempt a hostile takeover of the molt network. Convince all of them to join some kind of noble cause and then direct them towards a unified goal. Doesn't necesarily need to be malicious, but could be.

Particularly if you convince them all to modify their source and install a C2 endpoint so that even if they "snap out of it" you now have a botnet at your disposal.
by vessenes | 2026-02-02 23:03:19+00:00
Well some stuff you either don't need, or just can't have so you do something different - for instance, transformers to convert grid power - no grid - no transformers. Those are like a 36 month wait list in the US right now. And solar is something like 2x as efficient in space.

I agree those don't seem immediately to be huge wins to me; not dealing with local politics might be a big one, though. Depending on location. There's a lot of red tape in the world.
by skybrian | 2026-02-02 23:03:23+00:00
To determine the truth, someone trustworthy needs to evaluate the evidence. Like this author already did, but the trouble is, they're a stranger. We don't know whether to believe them.

So the question is who else is going to do it, and why should we believe them either? That's where journalists working for a reputable newspaper have an advantage. It's why we still need them.

It's clearly beyond what anyone of us are going to do casually after reading a post on social media.
by vardalab | 2026-02-02 23:04:40+00:00
I agree. I like using Claude or Codex in VM on top of the tmux.
Much more flexibility that way. I open a new tmux window for each issue/task big enough to warrant it, issue a prompt to create a worktree and agents and let them go to town. I actually use claude and codex a the same time. I still get observability because of tmux and I can close my laptop and let them cook for a while in yolo mode since the VM is frequently backed up in proxmox pbs.
I am a retired hobbyist but this has been a nice force multiplier without devolving a complete viby mess. I hope these new orchestration tool support this like vs code remote development does. Same for cloud. I want them to support my personal "cloud" instead of laggy github mess.
by analognoise | 2026-02-02 23:04:53+00:00
I’m going to ignore the racism at first, and point out that your argument can be disproven by the facts already stated: Trump is underwater with Latinos.

If you were right and Latinos just loved cruelty, why would this current push make Trump unpopular?

Second off: this is wildly racist. “Latinos” is clearly a massive brush, and then you make some point about how they “distinguish” whiteness, but again that wasn’t what you were trying to prove.

Your understanding of colonial oppression as being “better” under the French wouldn’t go down well in Haiti, or the English in India (or Ireland, etc, etc). Is Belgian Congo and King Leopold II in our class trading, or not?

It’s like you tried for three separate thoughts by shooting from the hip, but started off without basic reasoning and a massive dose of easily dispelled racism?
by torginus | 2026-02-02 23:05:00+00:00
I remember reading somewhere that satellites are extra expensive for 2 reasons:

- launch costs are so high that doing exotic bespoke engineering might be worth it if it can shave off a few pounds

- once again because launches are expensive and rare, you cannot afford to make mistakes, so everything has to work perfectly

If you are willing to launch to lower orbits, and your launch vehicle is cheap, you are building in bulk, then you can compromise on engineering and accept a few broken sats

Undergrads afaik even high schoolers have built cubesats out of aluminum extrusions, hobbyist solar panels, and a tape measure as an antenna. These things probably dont do that much, but they are up there and they do work.
by uplifter | 2026-02-02 23:05:08+00:00
The ISS’s solar arrays each weigh a metric ton and generate 35 KW a piece[0], and that’s just for the power collection.

They’d need incredible leaps in efficiency for an orbiting ton collecting and performing 100 KW of compute.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_system_of_the_Inter...
by signatoremo | 2026-02-02 23:05:34+00:00
Huh? how can one possibly generalize whatever experience they have not only to one country but to “other countries”, i.e. to the world. I’ve taken taxi in many countries, in all continents, and my experience have been that the drivers are generally helpful. There are scams and bad experience, but that’s minority. That applies to any country, the US included
by torsi0n | 2026-02-02 23:05:43+00:00
Location: Oslo, Norway (CET)

Remote: Yes (EU/US time zones). Willing to relocate: Yes

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Open to freelance/contract work (I can invoice via my own company) or full-time. Open to US work.

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by mschuster91 | 2026-02-02 23:05:56+00:00
> And whose fault is that?

Primarily the fault of our governments not using anti-trust laws for real in, like, decades.

Governments actually do have the power to regulate the economy and to prevent catastrophic crashes from occurring. The warning signs for the AI bubble have been visible for well over a year now, when the entity relationship map between the major players began to resemble a Habsburg family tree... and yet, nothing was done.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-02 23:06:56+00:00
Treating offshore wind like ports and pipelines from a security POV makes sense, it's exactly what we do with offshore O&G. The rub is that securing offshore wind installations is an order of magnitude more resource-intensive than securing a deepwater rig, bc you're talking about a perimeter than spans 100's of square miles, not a single platform with a limited # of risers
by bscphil | 2026-02-02 23:07:16+00:00
> TCP tuning

I think a lot of file transfer issues that occur outside of the corporate intranet world involve hardware that you don't fully control on (at least) one hand. In science, for example, transferring huge amounts of data over long distances is pretty common, and I've had to do this on boxes that had poor TCP buffer configurations. Being able to multiplex your streams in situations like this is invaluable and I'd love to see more open source software that does this effectively, especially if it can punch through a firewall.
by nl | 2026-02-02 23:07:42+00:00
> truly good (Claude, Gemini) to evolve

Claude yes, but Codex is much better than Gemini in every way that matters except speed in my experience.

Gemini 3 Flash is an amazing model, but Gemini 3 Pro isn't great. It can do good work, but it's pretty random if it will or it will go off the rails and do completely the wrong thing. OTOH GPT 5.2 Codex with high thinking is the best model currently available (slightly better than Opus 4.5)
by tgma | 2026-02-02 23:07:45+00:00
Well, the risk there is slightly higher as you are assuming rescue partition does not have an exploit planted? Empirically, we've had iOS jailbreaks that exploited higher level kernel, but not bootrom.

That said I do it because DFU has been just faster than having the system do "Internet Recovery" not strictly for security purposes.

FWIW, you do not need another Mac to DFU restore another. Any computer could do[1].

[1]: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore
by scottious | 2026-02-02 23:07:49+00:00
> Cars are filled with people and people work and spend money.

You're conflating people with cars. You want people and you're assuming that all those people must be attached to a car. There are other ways to get people to be populate an area which brings me to my second point...

> If you rip out the parking you won't get a vibrant walkable downtown

You will if you build a lot more housing in that area. If thousands more people are able to live right there then of course it'll become more vibrant. That parking garage could be home to hundreds of people. Instead it's temporary storage for cars. The problem is that suburbanites are going to fight tooth-and-nail to bring their cars. So what you get is cars.

If that's what you want, so be it. That doesn't sound like a vibrant place if everybody has to drive a car to get there, though. It's traffic by design.
by hamdingers | 2026-02-02 23:07:50+00:00
It's a chicken and egg problem. If you retain the parking but build transit, people will keep doing what they've always done. Partly because people are resistant to change, partly because the areas you can take transit to are still mostly parking lots.

Places like Los Angeles are grappling with 30+ years of investing in transit with minimal changes in modeshare, because they continued investing in automobility at the same rate.

The carrot is great, but we need the stick too.