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Will Lockett
Personal blog · planetearthandbeyond.coaieconomicsscience
Will Lockett's personal blog at planetearthandbeyond.co covers ai, economics and science. Since 2025, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Starship was doomed from the beginning”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link Will Lockett's blog for its posts on Tesla, SpaceX's Starship, and OpenAI's ad business, which are cited as sources for commenters' points. None of the comments judge the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Just a chaotic autistic man trying to make sense of the world.
Most-linked posts?
- Starship was doomed from the beginning3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-18
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-19
What Hacker News says?
this website seems to be spam: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co titles of recent articles: (Tesla) This Is Just Pathetic. Talk about clutching at straws. Tesla Can, And Will, Fall Further. Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning Starship Is In Deep Trouble This Is How Tesla Will Die Tesla Is Dying, And Polestar Wants To Kill It Tesla Is So Screwed Tesla's Downfall Is Imminent Is Elon Musk A Groomer?
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on “Tesla Will Die”Submitted Tesla Will Die as a story · 77 points
HN discussionhttps://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-fr... The suggestion here is that they've screwed up with no way out.
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on “SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight”Submitted AI Pullback Has Officially Started as a story · 62 points
HN discussionWill Locket wrote about it last month: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/openai-is-in-a-far-wor... tldr is: They either get a successful IPO to stave off bankruptcy for a couple more months, or they're going to be bankrupt by the beginning of next year.
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on “OpenAI's Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast by 90%, Analyst Says”Submitted You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Is as a story · 32 points
HN discussion> Starship is going to make whole entire industries viable that were not viable previously. Starship is a complete and utter failure, as you can read about here, among other places: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-is-going-nowh... > It might even take a significant chunk of air freight which is going to be a big deal with rising oil prices. By being several magnitudes more expensive than an airplane w…
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on “Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation”Submitted Starship: Dead End? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI think there are at least 2 core reasons: 1. Elon has tainted the brand with his polarizing behavior. 2. Tesla now has lots of competition, most with stronger technical features and at more affordable prices. Elon is a brilliant PR person, but with his ADHD has too many irons in too many fires and increasingly alienates his own workforce. See the running commentary by Will Lockett at https://www.planetearthandbeyon…
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on a deleted threadSubmitted Did Nvidia Just Prove There Is No AI Bubble as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpaceX Has Figured Out Why Starship Exploded as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starship was doomed from the beginning as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startship Was Doomed from the Beginning as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Time to Admit It: Starship Is an Embarrassing Failure as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Bubble Is Worse Than We Thought as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Just Proved AI Isn't the Answer yet Again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starship Launch 13 Exposed Fatal Achilles Heel: potential mission-ending delays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reality Is Breaking the "AI Revolution" as a story · 1 points
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