Yet another Hacker News

Smuggling of 1.5M AI GPUs could be the cause of Huang's departure

19 points marginalia_nu 2 hours ago 11 comments

cyanydeez 1 hour ago | parent

Someone go do a sentiment analysis on HN regarding Jensen. There's definitely a lot of "positive" about him staying in charge. Something I never really saw until he was fired.

It is interesting how there's so many dots that are easy to connect here, and some dont want to even try to connect them.

gdulli 1 hour ago | parent

The way I think of it is that a while back, half the country was put into the position of having to tolerate corruption and vice in order to continue supporting their "side". And after that went on long enough, the corruption and vice became their identity and the point of it all for them. It's since been exposed that there's no other substance there.

leptons 1 hour ago | parent

It would not surprisse me if a presidential pardon was already lined up for Huang (and has been arranged for a while), and that him getting the GPU chips to China was done for this administration as a bagaining chip for some back-room deal with Xi/China.

After all, the administration has shown its willingness to ignore its own sanctions on Russia by taking in Russian oil when they are trying to lower gas prices to win an election. No doubt they would also ignore any embargos on advanced AI chips to China if they thought they could get away with some kind of "deal", or just plain old off-the-books graft.

This is exactly what Democrats will be investigating starting in January, and why the administration suggested that investigating them is somehow "criminal". So the administration is now painting the investigation of corruption and criminality as "criminal". These are dark times.

marginalia_nu 1 hour ago | parent

Probably wouldn't say much of anything given the number of astroturfing bots on HN these days.

cyanydeez 57 minutes ago | parent

Well it'd definitely show astroturfing if the number of positive comments suddenly went up x% versus normal jensen specific articles. He's been in the spotlight for a few years, so as long as you adjust for some frequency stuff, should be an interesting analysis regardless of it's all astroturf land.

semiquaver 26 minutes ago | parent

Yes, it is extraordinarily clear that HN, X, Reddit and everywhere else are currently subject to an enormous astroturf influence campaign likely driven by china.

PeterStuer 1 hour ago | parent

From experience of reviewing many companies I'm fully positively biased in favor of technical (co=)founders. I realy could not care less about the affairs of people I do not know. I do not approve, but it is ceo's I do not know or interact with. However, when this thouches treason/eapionage or other illegal activities, it does become important as it now touches not the personal but the public.

gdulli 1 hour ago | parent

If sex was not a big distraction in this story, more people would understand that him being bribed about where to divert limited supply simply hurts them as consumers. Even if it was not treasonous.

silverFork 1 hour ago | parent

Was he black mailed? Or didnt know where to stuff the excess?

SR2Z 1 hour ago | parent

By all accounts he did it willingly while advocating to lift export restrictions.

silverFork 47 minutes ago | parent

But why.. he must have had excess to stuff them somewhere. Funding companies to buy the chips was a sign too..

He would never confess if he was black mailed unless there was documentation. who would.

At first I saw the woman as a double agent. Now I am not sure. Americans were watching him for months and knew so why would they not ring the alarm.. It smelled double agent to me. Who knows for sure, right!.. If she was a double agent, they were monitoring the Chinese.. It is one those things where one needs to know the state of chip surplus then.