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New comment by enopod_ in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

enopod_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:58:54 +0000

I just had this thought: This is the story of the Great Western Desert eXploration Railway Company. Let's call it WestX for simplicity. They are building a 2000 miles railway line from the east coast into the great western desert. There is nothing there in this desert, but its a great place to set up antennas. The place is called Sunshine Plateau. Unfortunately, there is also absolutely nothing on the entire 2000 miles going there, no water, no coal, no midwest, no great planes, no gold, just empty, barren desert. So every train going out there has to haul all the coal and water it needs for the 2000 miles trip along with it. It needs about 200 wagons of water and coal to pull one wagon of antenna stuff out into the desert, but in the future, they'll build an engine so powerful, it can haul 2000 wagons of coal and water into the desert along with 10 wagons of antennas. Its a big leap forward. In the future, this super steam engine will also be able to roll back to the east coast all on its own, because its all downhill from Sunshine Plateau. The antennas need replacement every couple of years, but there is enough demand for antenna signal to run the train operation at a small profit. Also, the government likes to place some spy stuff there every once in a while, also some science stuff, and every now and then a tourist takes the journey because the view from Sunshine Plateau is really great. But thats not all! In the future, once the super engine works perfectly as promised, they will not roll all of them back down to the east coast, but they will keep an entire train at Sunshine Plateau. Then they will haul a looot of trains with a looot of coal and water into the desert to refill this one single trains 2000 fuel wagons, so it can haul 10 wagons of stuff even further out into the desert. 10 wagons! Sadly, there is no California after the desert, just another desert named Moon Hole and then behind that another desert, named Mars Basin, but thats okay because there may be gold there to exploit. WestX just has to find a way to produce coal and water out in the desert to haul that potential gold back to the east coast. But thats still not all! WestX operates a newspaper where every jerk is allowed to publish racist stuff. It runs at a loss but that doesnt matter, because trains and newspapers go well together. There is also a new hype at the east coast, named thinking machines. They're amazing and are almost always right in their answers. Other companies are at the forefront with those thinking machines, but WestX also has a little sidehustle in this business, even though their thinking machines suck. BUT! They could install those thinking machines up on Sunshine Plateau! Takes only 2000 wagons of coal to put 10 wagons of thinking machines 2000 miles out there into the void, but there is a lot of sunshine up on the plateau. The competitors just install their superior thinking machines back at the east coast, where there is also sunshine, but also cheap coal and lots of other energy resources. Anyhow, thinking machines! The Great Western Desert eXploration Railway Company will soon open up to investors at the good old Wall Street and they value themselves at $15'000'000'000'000 to $20'000'000'000'000. Some grumpy naysayers say thats quite a lot of money for a railway company that doesn't make any profit, but if all their plans work out exactly as promised, you may even not make a loss! The founder, Elon Rockefeller, who is mostly busy publishing racist articles in his newspaper every single day, and also runs a horse carriage business, has a great track record of delivering on promises, and is a well respected man.

New comment by enopod_ in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

enopod_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Micro$lop it is from now on :)

New comment by enopod_ in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

enopod_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:43:30 +0000

I do this way too often :)

New comment by enopod_ in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

enopod_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:52:36 +0000

"It thought about its money. It reflected on its own purpose. It questioned what it even means to be an autonomous agent."

I don't think it did any of that.

New comment by enopod_ in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

enopod_ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:20:56 +0000

What article?

New comment by enopod_ in "SpaceX files to go public"

enopod_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:42:03 +0000

Best comment I read on SpaceX in a long time

New comment by enopod_ in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

enopod_ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:08:53 +0000

Can it run Linux?

New comment by enopod_ in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

enopod_ — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:59:02 +0000

> The problem appears to be that Oracle is building today's DCs... Tomorrow.

By the time Vera Rubins will be available on scale, will they immediately be put into DCs, or will tomorrows chips be running.. the day after tomorrow?

New comment by enopod_ in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

enopod_ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:25:07 +0000

This. VW actually invested a lot into EVs and now they’re outselling every other EV maker in the European market. Mercedes and BMW also invested a lot. All of them have brand new and pretty competitive EV platforms. Heck, even Peugeot make decent EVs. The only manufacturers lagging behind at this point are the Americans. Tesla basically stopped investing into EVs and their tech is outdated, in Europe they get absolutely butchered by VW and in China they‘re only able to keep sales level because the market is growing so fast. But soon Tesla will get annihilated in China too. Other US car makers that build EVs on scale are nowhere to be seen, besides maybe Rivian.

New comment by enopod_ in "I gave Claude access to my pen plotter"

enopod_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:55:34 +0000

What bugs me the most about this post is the anthropomorphizing of the machine. The author asks Claude "what [do] you feel", and the bot answers things like "What do I feel? Something like pull — toward clarity, toward elegance, ...", "I'm genuinely pleased...", "What I like...", "it feels right", "I enjoyed it", etc.

Come on, it's a computer, it doesn't have feelings! Stop it!

New comment by enopod_ in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

enopod_ — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:48:15 +0000

Such a great project! I remember an older image of the french alps taken from the pyrenees, at over 400 km. Found it again here:

https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestre...

New comment by enopod_ in "The next steps for Airbus' big bet on open rotor engines"

enopod_ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:30:43 +0000

Sounds like a helicopter is not very efficient?

New comment by enopod_ in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

enopod_ — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:06:27 +0000

Ah the good old days. Investing an entire weekend to make your pci soundblaster card work. Nowadays you just install an iso from a thumb drive, it takes 30 mins and everything works out of the box. So boring!

New comment by enopod_ in "Software Pump and Dump"

enopod_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:11:07 +0000

TIL about all that stuff, Moltbook, Openclaw, Gas Town, and I don't get it anymore. It's too much. Forums for chatbots with their own religion but its actually a crypto scam and vibecoded hypesoftware to scam people with sh*tcoins because yolo and whatnot. I'm out.

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

enopod_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:04:28 +0000

this is hilarious :)

New comment by enopod_ in "European Alternatives"

enopod_ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:14:26 +0000

Wow, nice! Great resource, thanks a lot!

The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla

enopod_ — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-tesla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665967

Points: 64

# Comments: 99

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

enopod_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:05:16 +0000

VW, Mercedes, BMW, Peugeot, Polestar all make great EVs and they absolutely dominate the European market. They built manufacturing capacity in EU first for the domestic market, but are not competitive on the US market because of Trumps tariffs. China produces very cheap, they‘re still competitive even with tariffs. European car companies either have to build EV manufacturing capacity in the US first, or hope for the next administration.

New comment by enopod_ in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

enopod_ — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:51:35 +0000

Volkswagen EV sales go brrr in Europe, while Tesla is in free fall.

New comment by enopod_ in "4 billion if statements (2023)"

enopod_ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:38:55 +0000

This is the way.