Hacker News: melling

New comment by melling in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

melling — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:48:34 +0000

Range is the problem, of course.

New comment by melling in "China's 2,250kW chargers are in service, US thinks about 750kW next year"

melling — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:04:10 +0000

The US won’t let China build cars in the US.

I wouldn’t worry. The US is only 17% of the global car market. In a few years, it’ll be obvious that protectionism didn’t work.

Trump Set to Roll Back Biden-Era Auto Fuel Economy Standards

melling — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:47:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-26/trump-set-to-roll-back-biden-era-auto-fuel-economy-standards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867724

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by melling in "Larry Ellison to sell up to $7.5B worth of Oracle stock"

melling — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:09:04 +0000

I think the general theme is that you’re wrong a lot and you should use ChatGPT before making a comment

New comment by melling in "Larry Ellison to sell up to $7.5B worth of Oracle stock"

melling — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:14:29 +0000

What percentage of his stock is he selling? It appears your comment doesn’t fit the amount that he is selling.

ChatGPT: How much Oracle stock does Larry Ellison own?

New comment by melling in "How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities?"

melling — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:11:37 +0000

Just ask ChatGPT

“What were the major predictions and timeline in the movie An Inconvenient Truth?”

He got some things wrong but was right on a lot.

New comment by melling in "Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise"

melling — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:06:29 +0000

China is building more new nuclear power than the rest of the world combined. They’ll soon produce as much renewable electricity as the United States produces electricity

New comment by melling in "Ukrainian drones wipe out US tank brigade in live war game"

melling — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:27:02 +0000

“The War in Ukraine is where drones (UAV) becomes an integral part of modern warfare.

Training pilots takes time and is expensive. Modern jets are also expensive.

After Ukraine, every country is going to build a UAV Air Force.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31842578

Microsoft Cuts Purchases of Carbon Removals by 80% Amid AI Push

melling — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:13:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/microsoft-cuts-purchases-of-carbon-removals-by-80-amid-ai-push

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289895

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Elon Musk, the Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning into Fossil Fuels

melling — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/elon-musk-the-worlds-most-famous-ev-pioneer-is-now-leaning-into-fossil-fuels-cad4888f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288563

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by melling in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

melling — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:07:40 +0000

That’s how we got to 2026 and we still haven’t reached peak coal.

New comment by melling in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

melling — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:45:02 +0000

That’s exactly what people said 10 years ago…and 10 years before that.

Listen to Ken Griffin explain why we need nuclear.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yu1UJ1JPjpw?is=etcYMpudQPZRZQQw

New comment by melling in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

melling — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:03 +0000

We should start with all the people on HN who told us we didn’t need nuclear power.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nuclear+climate+change

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Start 11 years ago and go backwards

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1439337600&dateRange=custom&...

New comment by melling in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

melling — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:24:53 +0000

Who cares. Fix the big problems first. The general public is already complaining about subsidizing EVs, renewables, etc.

It’s ridiculous the amount of fossil fuels we still burn for electricity.

This “shame, shame” garbage that people did never worked.

New comment by melling in "Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget"

melling — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:59:19 +0000

For how long?

New comment by melling in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

melling — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:01:21 +0000

It’s 2.5-3% of all global emissions.

People who complain about aviation do more harm than good.

We would accomplish more by closing a few coal power plants and replacing them with renewables or nuclear. And no one would even notice.

Can you believe it’s almost 2030 and we still haven’t reached peak coal.

New comment by melling in "Keigo Higashino, author of The Devotion of Suspect X, dies at 68"

melling — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:46:21 +0000

Died from colon cancer.

Please get checked regularly starting at 45.

New comment by melling in "Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem"

melling — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:09:54 +0000

“ Gene Roddenberry’s Federation was built on principles of equality and exploration for the sake of knowledge, not profit or military dominance”

You should actually watch Star Trek.

New comment by melling in "The 3-degree limit could be exceeded as early as 2050"

melling — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:51:51 +0000

We’ve had 4 decades.

If you’re still telling people flying is the problem, then you’re part of the problem

Where is all that renewable power we were promised every time we said “use nuclear”.

We still haven’t hit peak coal.

New comment by melling in "Richard Scolyer Has Died"

melling — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:24:14 +0000

Yes, and the other reason is we don’t invest enough.