YHK - yet another hacker news clone

any non-paywall copy to share?

I'm glad my "Summarize HN thread and submit to Economist" prompt is working.

How is Huang resigning best for NVIDIA?

The CEO worship on this website is bizarre

Many people believe the time for letting the wealthy and elite do what ever they want without consequence should be over. See last week's election results

What we need is an investigation and transparency into the details. Why was Trump able to negotiate a 15% profit sharing deal with Jensen shortly after Trump was informed about this? How much did Jensen know about the export control violations?

A determination for either outcome is unwarranted without more information.

Ok, you get that the issue isn't that he "looks like a fool" for having an affair, right? If that's the worst thing he's done as a billionaire, he's relatively a saint.

The issue is that he may have just been caught effectively subverting US national security. Like, even in just the teaser paragraph, they spell that out:

>American officials think she is a Chinese spy, and that her Singaporean company is a front for smuggling the politically sensitive chips into China.

That's a very bad look. Way worse than just "looking like a fool".

The public is not thinking "how did he not know she was a spy?"

The public is thinking "Why did he have an affair with a business partner? (who also happened to be a spy). That is a massive conflict of interest. Was he putting Nvidia's interests first, or his own?

I am not convinced that he needs to resign, but describing this as a speed bump is utterly delusional.

That's spelt Rothschilds. It's a nice little conspiracy trope you're working there with the quotes around "the British billionaires" but you should probably just say "Jews" or "globalists" so everyone gets your point. Why waste time with euphemisms when you have something this novel to say?

cool it with the antisemitic remarks

> The man has a track record of winning

The article calls for resignation. Not execution.

He can do something great again with his life. Just not while he’s spending the next year being investigated in multiple countries and going through family issues.

he's compromised. who knows what leverage this might lead to. cheerio

> It works on everyone, for some period of time, to some degree.

No, it doesn't. It works on the unethical. Cheaters would like you to believe that everyone is cheater, but they're not.

There's a type of person who find a wallet on the ground and attempts to find the owner of the wallet. There's another type of person who just quietly pockets the money. I suspect Huang is the latter. Most billionaires are. Normal, ethical people don't even aspire to that obscene level of wealth and power, would consider it gluttony.

Huang, "The Fonz", was captured on video cheerfully signing his autograph on a woman's chest while jokingly posing the rhetorical question, is that a good idea? Of course it was not a good idea—which he knew but did it anyway—and a normal, non-cheating person would politely offer to sign something more appropriate.

I just listened to a new podcast from Kara Swisher and Hillary Clinton. In it, Kara also calls for his resignation, but interestingly Clinton never does (though she never directly contradicts Kara either). Instead Hillary talks about how during her time as Secretary of State there were lots of business people both big and small that were targets of foreign spies and that they would brief those individuals to give them a heads up (something that was reportedly not done for Jensen Huang).

It's insane to think people don't consider a successful state sponsored hack as a failing of the individual, but a spy compromising them is. It's clear that nations will go to extremes that people are unaccustomed to dealing with. Lots of people have affairs — feel free to call that a personal moral failing, but treating it as a business failing is outlandish considering how frequently it happens and how it rarely has any business impact.

I was at an AI founders event in NYC and had an amazingly beautiful Slavic style woman throw herself at me and my buddy. Neither of us are the type that would have supermodel types interested in us based on looks alone. It was so damn obvious.

and all they actually cared about is getting some good GPUs to bootstrap their already functional industrial technology sector.

Like, being paranoid about this is kinda dumb. This is pretty much just a sweet industrial play to bootstrap their technoogy sector. Something US corporations do in many different ways.

I agree with you. The reporting around this makes it sound like he got tricked. He’s been against the export controls from day one.

For better or worse, Jensen === NVIDIA. It’s hard to overstate the key-person risk here.

Without Jensen, the stock will tank. He has pulled NV from the brink of disaster many times, and also selected the critical investments which paid off and allowed AI to be born (CUDA), even before they made any sense whatsoever.

They will plummet if it turns out a large proportion of them have been sold to China and this route is now closed.

Could say the same about quite a few tech companies with founders (or the ones that think they’re the founder) at the helm. The companies would all be fine and some even better off without.

> As a shareholder, from purely self interested reasons, I would be very hesitant to call for his removal.

What’s good for your portfolio and what’s good for the long term health of the company are not always the same thing.

It's always about the money...

The cult of the founder is arguably the worst thing to come out of SV culture, and that's saying something.

If you create an environment where there are no consequences, you're inviting trouble for you as a shareholder.

If he can do this and not face serious consequences from the company, then he can do other things that are damaging, including to your bottom line.

Depending on what investigations find, it might not even matter.

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> As a shareholder, for purely self interested reasons, I would be very hesitant to call for his removal

The tragedy is resigning may avoid him becoming the target of the Congress or even criminal prosecutors, now at the state level or down the line federally.

You are an idiot. Nobody cares that he cheated.

LOL. He just hasn't been caught yet.

No one gets punished for crimes. You get punished for getting caught.

Can you think of how what Huang did is different than an intern causing an outage?

This is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum. He didn’t fat finger a bad command. He had an intimate relationship with an adversarial intelligence asset that was also running a $4B smuggling operation moving his embargoed goods into a foreign adversary’s industry.