[donquixote25]

It's amazing how people even in hacker news just say whatever they want with absolute certainty.

This is ignition but ignition was achieved by their August 2021 shot. See this paper for the details: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...

The reason why it's a big deal is because they surpassed scientific breakeven.

[Robotbeat]

And based on how NIF is set up, ignition and scientific breakeven occur at around the same spot.