Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by peab » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:40 AM UTC

fdghrtbrt wrote: post #156

AndroTux wrote: post #147

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So let’s get rid of internet on the highway and in trains, too. Because it’s pretty much exactly the same thing. One just happens to be airborne.

> So let’s get rid of internet on the highway and in trains, too. Because it’s pretty much exactly the same thing. One just happens to be airborne. Ok? You sound like you're trying to make a point. Make a point.

his point is that it's useful, and there's nothing special about planes that make it important for them not to have internet, compared to any other mode of transportation. If you want to get away from the internet, you could have a dedicated space for that.

Also, nobody forces you to use the internet on a plane...

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by peab » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:40 AM UTC

torcete wrote: post #110

People are so rude with their phones that I fear that starlink becomes popular in all flights.

United recently started announcing at the beginning of flights that using your phone with sound on the speaker is prohibited, as a new official policy.

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by hattmall » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:48 AM UTC

sysguest wrote: post #173

TulliusCicero wrote: post #150

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Generally speaking, private companies want to make money by getting customers. Obviously there can be edge cases, but if there's profit to be made by hooking people up, they'll want to do it, and if private companies don't want to get more customers, you have to ask yourself some hard questions about why. I think we both know what's usually happening: people in an area who, as a whole, are rural enough and poor enoug…

this people here don't understand how large USA is -- connecting every corner with copper/fiber, with all the intermediary networking devices means tax money...

Yes, but we've already done it, twice, and the benefits were quite significant.

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by SV_BubbleTime » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

platevoltage wrote: post #253

sunshinekitty wrote: post #211

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The HN groupthink is to hate on anything Elon adjacent, satellite internet included.

It's not groupthink to believe that the guy sucks and is a threat to humanity. He constantly fights against the type of programs that could have possibly given us satellite internet, the same way we all get to enjoy GPS.

> It's not groupthink to believe that the guy sucks and is a threat to humanity.

Wow, that’s a wild misstatement; that is exactly groupthink nonsense.

You (people) loved him before he went in for Trump.

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by Bombthecat » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC

My trip from USA to Amsterdam doesn't have starlink, at all. Not a single plane. No matter the company.

So sad

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by jryle70 » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:06 AM UTC

fdghrtbrt wrote: post #219

deathanatos wrote: post #192

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… or maybe I have 6 hours to kill? Would you look at someone reading a book and be like "it's so disturbing that people are this addicted"? Is something Internet connected really that different? (That said these days I'm thrilled if there is power on a flight.)

It IS different. Because scrolling is effortless, reading a book takes effort. Do you understand?

I suppose you'd approve if I read book on the internet? What if I'd be working?

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by LoganDark » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

theultdev wrote: post #58

kevincox wrote: post #48

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Probably, because you are now associating your internet browsing with your personal information. (I don't know if they have the sophistication to actually do this, but it is very possible.)

The people concerned with that hypothetical can use a VPN. At most they could see domains, ip addresses, timestamps, and http-only sites (are there any left?) But the person sitting next to you can see everything.

> But the person sitting next to you can see everything.

Privacy filters are a thing.

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by DaedalusII » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:12 AM UTC

devin wrote: post #126

I've written it elsewhere, but: it is such a shame that the United States saw fit to run electricity _everywhere_, no matter how rural your location, but instead of do the same for rural internet we had to wait for... a private company to launch a global network of satellites. Yes, this post is about internet access while traveling 500mph, which is a different problem, but it is so messed up that people fall over the…

its literally cheaper to create a low earth orbit satellite constellation than deal with bureaucracy

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by userbinator » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:17 AM UTC

Why the .ai domain? Are you using AI in your data pipeline somehow?

Re: Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

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Post by tdeck » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 3:18 AM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #264

platevoltage wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not groupthink to believe that the guy sucks and is a threat to humanity. He constantly fights against the type of programs that could have possibly given us satellite internet, the same way we all get to enjoy GPS.

> It's not groupthink to believe that the guy sucks and is a threat to humanity. Wow, that’s a wild misstatement; that is exactly groupthink nonsense. You (people) loved him before he went in for Trump.

Before he went in for Trump he was running a factory with an alarmingly high injury rate, where employees were regularly called the N-word, and union busting. People who liked him then weren't paying attention at all.