Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now – anyone else noticing this?
66 points by sepidy 3h ago 45 comments
When flat rate movers won't answer your calls (aphyr.com)
358 points by kevincox 1d ago 295 comments
Sunbird Fusion Propulsion Rocket Engine
4 talos 1 5/4/2025, 2:50:05 PM pulsarfusion.com ↗
> EDIT: It looks, at best, like a vanity project, and, most likely, a scam. The founder is a television personality [1]. Article claims the firm “currently produces chemical and electric propulsion systems for the aerospace and defence sectors,” yet they somehow have fewer than double checks £5,000 in fixed assets [2]. They hired this real estate and art advisory dude to raise capital for them in 2019 [3][4], who apart from two other individuals [5], is the main outside shareholder. The Princeton Propulsion Systems they’ve “partnered with” is crowdfunding $100,000 [6]. (The latter look marginally legit—I assume Pulsar signed a non-binding LOI with them. That or they’re the £300,000 [2] current liability Pulsar raised money from the real estate and art advisor this January [7] to extinguish.)