When Woke 2 comes, we’ll nationalize SpaceX.

Re datacenters in space:

Multiple hackernews insist that SpaceX must have discovered new physics that solves orbital heat management, because otherwise Musk and the stockholders are dumb.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862222

Edit: may have gotten the ol URL switcharoo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170

Current top comment is nice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862435):

it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.

edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun’s power. A few trillionths per year.

Tired: it’s required to taste

Wired: it’s an acquired taste

It keeps coming back to Gas Town doesnt it?

Garbage sports teams rapidly cycling through logos until they magically become good

You gotta understand that it was a really good bowl of soup

–Esau, probably

Relevant:

BBC journalist on breaking up with her AI companion

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cevnmxnxxmro

(Wolphram shoehorning cellular automata into everything to universally explain mathematics) shaking hands (my boys explaining which pokemon could defeat arbitrary fictional villains)

Hammers do that all the time, so wrenches and hammers are the same.

I am very smart.

Regular suspect Stephen Wolfram makes claims of progress on P vs NP. The orange place is polarized and comments are full of deranged AI slop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830027

Clodswarms

Sitting here in the ice and snow feeling like it’s Dumb Ragnarok

Einshatsgruppen

Heyneman admitted that he had used Cursor and Claude Code to vibe code the entire thing. Chris then took it upon himself to explain the code to Heyneman, line by line.

Do not war for centuries

Remain absolutely savage

A real Oppenheimer

This hackernews thread about gas town is a rich vein of high-grade sneerable material:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734302

Things that should be at the top of Hacker News if it was made by hackers or contained news.

Honest-to-god will pour one out for them tonight.

Just let us know when it gets to Joe Rogan levels of intelligence. That should give us a few months of prep time.

Worldwide hinge shortage continues

Sounds very much like political extremists winding each other up

…and if you hang out just with people that are into that stuff too, without any checks, you go deeper and deeper into the belief that this all makes perfect sense.