Hacker News: spikels

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX to Acquire Low-Band Spectrum for Mobile Phone Service"

spikels — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:43:59 +0000

It's very expensive. Their extremely optimistic estimates of a minimum viable Mars colony is $1 trillion ($25B a year for 40 years).

Launch services, satelite internet, orbital compute and now cell service are all ways of financing the development of the required tech tree and eventually the Mars colony itself.

New comment by spikels in "Tesla Semi enters volume production"

spikels — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:35:16 +0000

Same weight or slightly more for standard range version, same or slightly less for long-range version. Same volume.

New comment by spikels in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

spikels — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:13:08 +0000

There are multiple people in these comments saying it's impossible.

SpaceX Starship Flight 14 scheduled no earlier than 9/22/26

spikels — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699197

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by spikels in "Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row"

spikels — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:59:27 +0000

Strange they don't mention how many stones. Image shows two. There are three today and four, maybe five, originally.

Tesla Cybercab Tech Details – Initial Findings (Out of Spec Reviews)

spikels — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9OjUufpP0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577746

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

SpaceX – Q2 2026 Earnings [pdf]

spikels — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001181412/cfe10442-59c3-460b-8a4f-75fa96c69af9.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174289

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by spikels in "Does SpaceX's plan for a data centre in space add up?"

spikels — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:03:25 +0000

https://archive.is/1KKZx

New comment by spikels in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

spikels — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:35:32 +0000

Not only was Chat Control 1.0 already rejected twice by the European Parliament but:

- This vote took place on last day of the session when many MEPs had already left for Summer vacation - 112 MEPs of 719 didn't vote.

- The vote was called only two days before as an "Rule 170 - Urgent procedure" - 73 MEPs missed the vote making it "urgent". Normally it takes months of procedure to come up for a final vote.

New comment by spikels in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

spikels — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:37:37 +0000

Today both "newspapers" lie about everything. Sad.

Tesla Robotaxi Launches in Miami

spikels — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:38:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2073030246161367153

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779065

Points: 19

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Cuba approves unprecedented free-market reforms to stave off economic collapse

spikels — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-approves-free-market-reforms-in-effort-to-stave-off-economic-collapse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601837

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by spikels in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

spikels — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:20:12 +0000

The US uses ~0.5 TW of electricity on average but to go 100% solar you would need ~3 TW of solar capacity (6X average usage) and ~30 TWh of battery storage, maybe lots more, plus a massive upgrade to the grid.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:07:37 +0000

Chrysler (now Stellantis), Honda, Toyota and Geely all had/have rocketry divisions and many more auto companies have/are involved in the Aerospace industry more generally.

New comment by spikels in "Tell HN: The bloatification of SpaceX stock has started"

spikels — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:35:34 +0000

Musk never promised $1T revenue by 2030. Maybe that's the problem here.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:06:29 +0000

I think there are other reasons and am capable of critical thought. A variety of synergies have been discussed publicly for at least 9 years. This article lists several of them.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:56:18 +0000

This guy joked about it in 2013:

https://x.com/Loh/status/362036803517169664

A Wall St analyst was asking questions about it on Tesla earnings calls in 2016 and later wrote a research note about the idea. Been widely discussed since.

https://www.roic.ai/quote/TSLA/transcripts/2016-year/2-quart...

That the earliest mentions I could quickly find.

New comment by spikels in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

spikels — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:03 +0000

It's been discussed for at least a decade. A Wall St analyst even wrote a note suggesting it back in 2017 that was widely covered in the media. Most people think is very likely to happen eventually.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/the-case-for-elon-musk-to-co...

New comment by spikels in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

spikels — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:01:59 +0000

Google is paying $12.00 per gpu-hour which costs SpaceX $1.50-$3.50.

Who's taking advantage of who?

New comment by spikels in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

spikels — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:57:50 +0000

The saga of Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/19/musk-tesla-pay-delaware-supr...