Yikes. It’s bizarre that they just now realize this and implement it. Reminds me of something a teenager would do at the last possible minute before something bad happens.
I didn’t read it like that. I read it more like... yes, we just got some money from investors but the drive for profitability is still a huge priority.
Irrespective of the technical merits, a significant portion of the HN user base likely invested in $TSLA years ago and are financially incentivized to support all of Musk's claims, even if they wouldn't support the outlandish claims normally.
Considering that a large portion of HN readers are technical and data driven, I would think/hope that they are not invested in individual stocks with any significant amount of their net worth and are instead taking the approach that the data bears out which is to invest in low fee index funds.
