I think most here on HN agree that ideas are cheap. I mean I have an old school project from 7th grade where I came up with the iPhone in the mid 90s, that’s ho

I think most here on HN agree that ideas are cheap. I mean I have an old school project from 7th grade where I came up with the iPhone in the mid 90s, that’s how cheap ideas are. Hyperloop was never more then an idea (and not even a novel idea), and Elon Musk never took it further. So giving him any credit for it as an attempted invention is still giving him too much. Now that we know the reason for this idea, I think we can safely call it sinister.