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Why do you want the articles to be "positive" or "negative"? Why do you not want them to simply be the fact of the matter?

If you want more good news about Tesla then perhaps Tesla should be better run. Perhaps Tesla should abandon their policy of constantly lying. Tesla's been lying continuously about full self-driving for a decade. Tesla lies about dumb things there's no need to lie about like how fast the Cybertruck is:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0AJmLvKjxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

Tesla never ran that quarter mile, a lie which the lead Cybertruck engineer pathetically tried to defend. When even your engineers can't achieve basic honesty then you've got a sick company culture:

https://x.com/wmorrill3/status/1746266437088645551

What "positive" spin do you want to see on these lies?


> What If They Could?

Then they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.


I was just reading about the French revolution. Not sure we should be hoping for anything like that.

I don't think OP is pointing to what he "hopes" is happening. He's pointing to what he thinks the rich and powerful are steering society towards.

I suspect that OP may have advanced knowledge of their fate thanks to the copy of a certain encyclopaedia which fell through a rift in the space-time continuum from 1,000 years in the future.

Share and Enjoy.


To know our future, sometimes it helps to look at our past. And then extrapolate.

You might belong to the group that is benefitting from the status quo.

People don’t want revolutions because they are pleasant. Edit: they want revolutions because they are peasant...

Why? Would you rather be a starving peasant with less rights that you currently have?

They’re already at the front of the queue. Attempts to live forever will only further inflame the general population.

Class based 'revolutions' are made up of a bunch of idiots who would happily destroy everything while being lead by somebody even worse who is qualitatively identical to the people they despise. They have proven that repeatedly.

I don’t know. I kind of like a social safety net, unemployment insurance, limits to the work week, free education for all future adults, paid holidays, mass voting, multiethnic democracy, product liability laws, etc. Our modern society owes a lot to the hundreds of years of struggle to empower hard work and education over inherited wealth.

and you would be ok with an immortal class of tech overlords? history ending with one of the worst sets of ppl of our generation?

Mmmm. Not just the worst from a moral perspective - which is still bad! - but also some of the dumbest.

Ours are not the Masters of Industry from the Industrial Age[1], or the fission-missile-kings of the Nuclear Age. They're not ready to teach a Physics unit at a community college.

The tippity top of the uber-wealthy today are remarkably short on actual formal knowledge. This makes sense in their ideological system: scientific acumen as more of a commodity than a value.

In this view, everything should look like the stock market. But this is a profoundly stupid view. It requires not just ideology, but willfully not looking at the universe.

I'm probably steering afoul of about 90% of ycombinator here, so I'll just pull the throttles back and stop there.

[1] "Isambard Kingdom Brunel . . But Got-DAMN did men used to have some proper-ass names" - Achewood


90% seems high. I think there’s a solid chunk of the HN population that is very aware that this industry is run by morons. I, for example, only came to this realization a few years ago. But I believe it’s a growing sentiment. Late stage capitalism / techno feudalism really is a trip.

It's a new computer and new cameras. What's your plan for doing the upgrades? Tesla says it's too hard and they still don't have a plan: https://electrek.co/2026/04/22/tesla-will-build-factories-ju...

And HW4 is already obsolete: https://electrek.co/2026/04/23/tesla-hw4-plus-upgrade-will-h...


> Drones have a limited range and limited capacity to inflict damage.

This drone has greater range than an F-35 and is cheaper to make:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-28_Ghost_Bat

https://www.boeing.com.au/products-services/defence-space-se...


China’s selling cheap cruise missiles. They come in unmarked shipping containers, so they can reach any target globally, as long as it is within a few hundred miles of a shipping route.

Now, consider how many drones can be manufactured in garages using a shipping container full of components and 3d printer filament.

(Doing it that way means the drone designs improve continuously and with minimal manufacturing lag after tactics shift.)


Ukraine has been launching aerial drones from drone boats for quite a while now - you can look for a video of a black sea drone platform being engaged like that. A lot of the videos of drones hitting AD in Crimea (that usually just show the terminal phase of flight) might have a drone carrier involved in some way.

And a few days ago they unveiled also unmanned interceptor drone launching drone ships, used to hit Russian Shaheed one-way-drones while still over water.


> Are you aware of the crashing population of Europe though?

How many kids do you have?


What? And after all that money you paid them? The nerve!

Your worldview sucks. Essentially claiming that in order to receive information, you must also receive garbage useless information to brainwash you.

No, complaining about something offered for free because of a minor pop up is what sucks. It's a bizarre sense of entitlement.

If you don't like the website, simply don't use it. Especially when you're making no contribution to it.


I don't think that complaining about things necessitates believing that you're entitled to them. I agree that complaining about things you received for free is in rather poor taste, but I don't think that it's morally wrong in the way that you seem to think it is. If an article you read for free had a pop-up ad on it, you have not been wronged in any way and do not have grounds to sue them, but you should be permitted to voice your complaint, so long as it's of the form "I don't like this" and not "look what they subjected me to, those monsters".

Just because you expect someone to owe something to you, doesn't mean they think they owe you that thing.

If someone gives away something free, they can and sometimes do wash their hands of it. That doesn't prevent you from expressing your opinion on what you think they should change about the work, but they're not under any obligation to do anything about it.

Someone made a thing available. You can take it as it is, you can make noise about what you don't like, you can make it better, or you can ignore it and move on.

If someone is providing a mix of useful and garbage information, well, take your pick from the above.





> AI-only support that serves as a wall between customers and anyone who can actually resolve their issue

My god. Anthropic has done it. Those crazy bastards have gone ahead and done it!

They've achieved AGI for customer service. It's just like the real thing!


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