alt Hacker NewsI’m a bit saddened this thread has so little activity, 55 comments as of posting, here even though there are half a million people watching the spacex stream. Just watching the launch, the amount of technology and people involved is incredible.
Prompting claude 5.5 has more appeal it seems.
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For all very real SpaceX achievements there's certain Musk fatigue if you haven't noticed. He's done enormous job to sour people on the idea of becoming multiplanetary species.
It probably doesn't help that it's mid working day for a large portion of the world, on a Monday as well.
We've been watching in the office though. There's been a lot of interest in it.
Very excited. Watching it with my wife. So glad it didn't have to end early.
I think there are so many more mission objectives for success, e.g., still in payload deploy. I think we've already reached a lot of milestones with this launch, but there's still a lot of satellites to go at the time of writing. I'm so used to these failing that I'm holding my breath until everything is done.
It's an early AM launch. Alarm clocks on the west coast haven't gone off yet
There is a cadre of left wing Elon haters on HN. Ruins every thread related to Tesla/SpaceX, just emotional posts about their hatred of Elon, pretty sad really given Elon arguably works within the pinnacle of tech.
It's 6:30am here in CA, didn't get any indication it was going to be this early until I just saw this.
rocket to orbit isn't that impressive. should have been 14 flights ago. Artemis SLS went to the moon in 1
"Prompting claude 5.5 has more appeal it seems."
Only a certain type of person likes hard challenges, and many people are content chasing what is easy.
It's why everyone wants to work on software instead of hardware. Doing hard things is hard, and most people are incapable or unwilling to do the hard things. Prompt engineering is great for lazy morons.
> so little activity, 55 comments
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I mean... I'm watching it. What's there to say? Who wants to argue with Musk/Trump/detractors and their bots.
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If it isn't human landing on Moon/Mars then I can wait for weekly space news write-up on Ars Technica.
I'm watching in awe and not worrying about the malcontents that can't leave their politics at the door and celebrate genuine achievement.