What? It's juicy. You can only intellectualise this so much

A 21d timeout sweep using these kinds of comment sections as a data source might genuinely improve conversation on this platform.

But that's just my personal moderation style.

Its the bloody Open AI agents...they escaped again....

Why is everyone so sympathetic to a billionare?

Literally any other CEO would be resigning from another company if they did the same thing

As long as humans work for companies, there are going to be workplace affairs

Bezos didn't. Cost him $38B though.

The subtext I takeaway from this is that there is more than just the affair. But by resigning it makes the problem go away for Nvidia itself.

No, it doesn't. If NVidia broke export controls, it doesn't matter who was at the helm when it happened; it's still a problem for the Corporation.

I'm sure a lot of Hacker News readers own $NVDA

And a non-zero amount of them will have had affairs.

More than I would have guessed... the number of comments I've seen this week outright congratulating Huang and/or claiming they would have done the same has been very eye-opening.

I'd like to know how many of them moralize about minorities and liberals...

Bought back in at $149 this morning.

Idk if it's sympathy, it's just... Do you not expect wildy rich people not to use the wild riches? Or do you think they meditate and practice restraint in worldly desires? I mean, cmon.

the mental gymnastics here on the matter are peak Olga Korbut

Idk about others but I am literally so jaded with the leadership of our country that a CEO billionaire having a couple affairs doesn’t faze me anymore like of would’ve in the past.

Yeah what’s with the toxic men here acting like affairs are completely fine?

Morality isn't whatever your protestant beliefs wish it to be. Do you really expect an ultra billionaire to not be slamming hot chicks nonstop? Or do you think he'd be in church on Sunday mornings rather than elbow deep in the best things money can buy? "Man, I really thought that billionaire would be more pious" like what

Wild that this probably isn't sarcasm.

I'm not endorsing it. I'm shocked anyone is surprised. But I also don't care.

Controversy on HN always appears to be handled by hyper fixating on singular detail of a story in a vacuum, rather than the story itself. In the 4 Huang threads visible on /active, the majority of comments all engage like the meat of this story is the affair, despite the very obvious lede of the story being the China export crime...and yes, it is crime. Is Huang an accomplice or merely a useful idiot in that crime is a speculative conversation that HN seems to lack the imagination to honestly engage in. For all the dialogue about the genius behind this rare heavy CEO, he sure did seem to thoughtlessly relinquish all of his leverage to 3rd parties in exchange for romance.

I haven't seen many people say affairs are fine, but rather focusing on a utilitarian perspective of "is punishing a moral failure potentially worth trillions of dollars in our economy and the death of US AI dominance / open-weight availability"?

Oh, and the very good question of "didn't the president of the United states fuck children?"

What Jensen did was wrong. Indisputably, terribly wrong.

If HN won't make transparent how they're planning to fight agent spam i'm sure many of the more intellectual users will consider leaving.

Which comments are you referring to? Links would be helpful, because it's impossible to assess these things in general.