Hackernews posts about SPAC

SPAC is an acronym for "Special Purpose Acquisition Company", which is a type of publicly traded company that raises capital to take another private company public through a merger or acquisition.

1. SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status (www.ft.com)
   562 points by youngtaff 3 days ago | 587 comments
2. SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth (www.zdnet.com)
   319 points by CrankyBear 8 days ago | 1246 comments
3. SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading (www.latimes.com)
   312 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 days ago | 277 comments
4. Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings (www.theguardian.com)
   253 points by ValentineC 29 days ago | 145 comments
5. Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck' (fortune.com)
   236 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 24 days ago | 270 comments
6. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (www.eso.org)
   190 points by Breadmaker 14 days ago | 319 comments
7. Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price (www.reuters.com)
   159 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 about 22 hours ago | 177 comments
8. Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor (www.righto.com)
   133 points by pwg 20 days ago | 25 comments
9. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)
   127 points by reaperducer 7 days ago | 157 comments
10. Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display (californiasciencecenter.org)
    107 points by uticus 22 days ago | 22 comments
11. Latent Space as a New Medium (kevinkelly.substack.com)
    103 points by thm 5 days ago | 32 comments
12. I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video] (www.youtube.com)
    97 points by skibz 22 days ago | 21 comments
13. SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse (www.ft.com)
    77 points by simonpure 25 days ago | 95 comments
14. The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley (www.ft.com)
    72 points by iamflimflam1 10 days ago | 116 comments
15. Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (www.economist.com)
    70 points by tagawa 8 days ago | 31 comments
16. SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month (www.businessinsider.com)
    68 points by 01-_- about 18 hours ago | 64 comments
17. SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch (finance.yahoo.com)
    62 points by root-parent 26 days ago | 62 comments
18. SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US (arstechnica.com)
    58 points by LorenDB 22 days ago | 1 comments
19. NASA SpaceWASM – A flight-compliant WebAssembly interpreter (github.com)
    41 points by eqrion 9 days ago | 3 comments
20. The average SpaceX buyer post-IPO is almost under water after two-day slide (www.cnbc.com)
    40 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 29 days ago | 20 comments
21. SpaceX stock sinks below $135 IPO price for the first time (www.cnbc.com)
    39 points by abduhl 3 days ago | 7 comments
22. The Engineer in the Half-Space (yusufaytas.com)
    38 points by yusufaytas 13 days ago | 1 comments
23. SpaceX built to separate retail investors from their money (seekingalpha.com)
    35 points by nothrowaways 6 days ago | 10 comments
24. SpaceX's Starfall Demo Mission (www.spacex.com)
    28 points by caseysoftware 22 days ago | discuss
25. Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration (www.bbc.com)
    25 points by saikatsg 13 days ago | 7 comments
26. Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX IPO (www.theguardian.com)
    24 points by iamflimflam1 14 days ago | 4 comments
27. Bond Traders Stunned as Losses on SpaceX's New Debt Keep Growing (www.bloomberg.com)
    22 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 days ago | 2 comments
28. J-space comparisons across open models (eliebak.com)
    20 points by babelfish 3 days ago | 5 comments
29. Tech giants lose $2T in SpaceX's IPO month (english.elpais.com)
    19 points by 01-_- 17 days ago | 9 comments
30. NASA picks Eric Schmidt's rocket company for Mars mission, sets up race w SpaceX (techcrunch.com)
    18 points by bookofjoe 30 days ago | 3 comments