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Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

by zfg on 4/2/25, 2:30 PM with 12 comments

  • by dang on 4/2/25, 7:10 PM

    Since you've continued to use HN primarily for political battle after we asked you to stop, I've banned the account.

    (This is not a comment on your specific politics or which celebrities or companies or causes you're battling. We don't care about that. We care about preserving this site for its intended purpose, which is not this.)

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • by alabastervlog on 4/2/25, 3:03 PM

    We've been seeing human-form robots dancing and walking, even running and jumping, all kinds of stuff for how many years now? It's to the point that a video of a robot moving around on a mostly-empty concrete floor in a big industrial building is so boring that posting one as if it's impressive reads as parody, practically no matter what the robot is doing.

    Are any of these companies delivering an actual product to paying customers yet? Is a single one making money on these kinds of things? I really don't know, but surely that would have made at least as big a splash in the news as all the videos of them doing choreographed dances or whatever for the last, god, what, almost 20 years (how long ago were those Japanese [Honda?] ones the Internet loved back in the day?) did?

  • by danso on 4/2/25, 3:33 PM

    I know that "DogeDesigner" is a Elon-stan account, but I hadn't compared Optimus's 2022 introduction vs its 2025 demo, and seeing it side-by-side is very...uh...underwhelming? And that's just walking — I assume if Optimius were able to attempt autonomous servicing of various factory tasks, we'd be seeing that footage in full.

    [0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1907331216623141305

  • by spacedcowboy on 4/2/25, 3:18 PM

    Wow. Managed to find a post critical of Elon which isn't [flagged] yet. Incoming in 3,2,1,...

  • by Zigurd on 4/2/25, 3:40 PM

    As of this moment TSLA has hit 280.75, up 4.66% on the day so far. Nothing sus.