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New comment by infinitewars in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

infinitewars — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:34:59 +0000

Well this is roughly 2 thousand times higher power than a Starlink user terminal.

Aand of course it's open source, https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main/

New comment by infinitewars in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

infinitewars — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:53:19 +0000

AI is just another layer of abstraction. I'm sure the assembly language folks were grumbling about functions as being too abstracted at one point

New comment by infinitewars in "Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon"

infinitewars — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:16:17 +0000

This is quite a milestone for open silicon. Having a completely auditable path from RTL down to GDS targeting the GF180MCU via wafer.space is no small feat-especially pulling it all together with a Nix-integrated toolchain and Dart for the hardware generation.

On the I/O side, getting even a basic 400MHz oversampled SerDes into a first-gen test chip puts this way ahead of most academic open FPGA efforts.

Really looking forward to seeing the Terra family expand and how the test chips perform.

New comment by infinitewars in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

infinitewars — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:55:25 +0000

looks like there have been updates since then: https://moonrf.com/updates/

New comment by infinitewars in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

infinitewars — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:33:39 +0000

Wild hardware flex for a garage project. Reverse-engineering the Pi 5's MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering. The idea that the RF receiver looks like a "camera" to the Pi while the transmitter is a "display" is super creative. Getting a 1.5 kW, 240-antenna EME array for $2,499 is actually cheap for something like this.

Their standalone 4-antenna tiles (https://moonrf.com/updates/) show off some killer apps, like 30 fps spatial RF visualization and NEON-optimized drone video interception.

I'm rolling my eyes at the "Agentic Transceiver" part, though. It is highly doubtful that an onboard AI casually writes, debugs, and compiles a real-time C app with analog video color sync recovery and decode in ten minutes.

New comment by infinitewars in "SpaceX Pushes Back Crucial Starship Test Launch"

infinitewars — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:07:17 +0000

Motivation has declined with realization that it's not about Mars, but normal military industrial complex drudgery..

https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles

New comment by infinitewars in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

infinitewars — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:46:41 +0000

Musk's grandfather was a leader in the Technocracy Movement and tried to overthrow the Canadian govt before being expelled to South Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman

New comment by infinitewars in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:39:44 +0000

His real benefactors are not the public...https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles/116333241408716236

New comment by infinitewars in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:38:00 +0000

That covers 1 of the 10 points in the second link.

New comment by infinitewars in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:36:50 +0000

The bigger investors know the dual-use story for SpaceX, so that is what will be used to justify valuations.

https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles/116333241408716236

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

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:53:53 +0000

That article claiming $8b profit is indeed mislabeling EBITDA as profit. EBITDA removes any recurring replenishment costs, the cost of building the satellite, launching the satellite, the user equipment manufacturing and returns, all ground infrastructure build and replacement, all employee stock compensation (not counted!), no advertising costs (and they've actually had to do a lot of that lately to scrounge customers that are remote enough that their network isn't too congested to serve), no taxes are counted (though they get out of that because they have no profit!). Not to mention payments servicing all their debt and Starship development.

*they actually use "Adjusted EBITDA" which is even more nonstandard and means they define the accounting however they want!

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

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:49:26 +0000

That article claiming $8b profit is mislabeling EBITDA as profit. EBITDA removes any recurring replenishment costs, the cost of building the satellite, launching the satellite, the user equipment manufacturing and returns, all ground infrastructure build and replacement, all employee stock compensation (not counted!), no advertising costs (and they've actually had to do a lot of that lately to scrounge customers that are remote enough that their network isn't too congested to serve), no taxes are counted (though they get out of that because they have no profit!). Not to mention payments servicing all their debt and Starship development.

*they actually use "Adjusted EBITDA" which is even more nonstandard and means they define the accounting however they want!

History Behind the SpaceX IPO

infinitewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://ioc.exchange/@muskfiles/116333241408716236

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610046

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by infinitewars in "Polymarket"

infinitewars — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:28:40 +0000

Peter Thiel's way of getting liquidity for his inside information with Palantir and J.D. Vance.

New comment by infinitewars in "Mars or Wars?"

infinitewars — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:26:47 +0000

A genuine Mars program requires a dozen thing SpaceX only builds CGI renders of or totally overlooked. Instead, they focused on reusable launch and building a low-Earth-orbit mega-constellation. This dates back to the 1980s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Michael D. Griffin architected Brilliant Pebbles, a concept for thousands of LEO missile interceptors that died because launch costs were too high. The Pentagon attempted to solve the launch-cost problem in the 1990s with the DC-X reusable rocket program, but it was canceled.

The architectural dream survived through "New Space" advocacy. In 2001, this very same Griffin shared a Mars Society stage with Elon Musk, then flew with him to Russia in 2002 to buy ICBMs. SpaceX was conceived on the flight home. Musk later told the former DC-X program manager, Jess Sponable, that SpaceX was "just continuing the great work of the DC-X project."

While Musk built rockets, Griffin ran In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm. Then as NASA Administrator, Griffin used his In-Q-Tel playbook to award the commercial cargo contracts that saved SpaceX from bankruptcy.

SpaceX masking began to slip when Gwynne Shotwell publicly confirmed the company's willingness to launch offensive weapons in 2018. That same year, Griffin returned to the Pentagon to establish the Space Development Agency, mandated to build a proliferated LEO constellation for hypersonic missile tracking. In 2019, U.S. General Terrence O'Shaughnessy pitched the Senate on "SHIELD"-a layered orbital missile defense system. Shortly after, O'Shaughnessy retired from the military and joined SpaceX to lead their discreet new division: Starshield.

Three decades later, Brilliant Pebbles is finally materializing as Golden Dome. As Reuters reported, Musk's Starshield is the frontrunner to build this classified SDI successor, pitching the Pentagon on a Golden Dome architecture involving thousands of weapon satellites. Starshield is already deploying these military satellites alongside standard Starlink satellites.

Mars was the necessary myth to recruit talent, capture public imagination, and secure capital. But the capabilities SpaceX actually delivered...cheap mass-to-orbit and rapid satellite replenishment...are the exact prerequisites of Golden Dome.

Mars or Wars?

infinitewars — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://i.imgur.com/UXTxD2t.jpg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569358

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by infinitewars in "Telnyx package compromised on PyPI"

infinitewars — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:42:04 +0000

Is this happening in part due to the sheer volume of pull-requests with AI generated code.. things are slipping through?

New comment by infinitewars in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

infinitewars — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:09:17 +0000

J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel's Palantir is reportedly getting the software contract for control of Golden Dome, an orbital weapon system built by Elon Musk.

A weapon system capable of targeting any person on Earth controlled by a mass surveillance company. Wonderful.

New comment by infinitewars in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

infinitewars — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:08:21 +0000

It doesn't have to work, when the military industrial complex benefits either way.

The U.S. is on a path to spending trillions of dollars to putting missile defense (and offense) systems in space with the Golden Dome.

New comment by infinitewars in "NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base"

infinitewars — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:35:52 +0000

Everyone is going to the moon.. wonder why.. https://www.defensenews.com/space/2026/02/19/spacex-and-blue...