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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by mandeepj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:17PM (#50470732)
> The image of Nvidia advocating for exports of GPUs to china while compromised by an allegedly Chinese agent is the real issue here.

I said the same thing a few days ago and got heavily downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50417959

> Endless congressional hearings on that topic starting in Jan. Ha! Who's going to wait until Jan? There's already a congressional hearing on Nov/18 https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairme...

I may sound arrogant, but I am not. Many people are a bit slow to catch on to these incidents or can't see beyond one layer, like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418215

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by timmytokyo on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:37PM (#50471065)
The cult of the Genius Tech CEO is strong on HN.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by zerohm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:12PM (#50471592)
Agreed. "Huang was right to advocate for them, China has no incentive to skirt the import ban, sad day for developers," are not takes I thought I would read today.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by elictronic on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#50471855)
Bots are cheap and easy to spin up. Looking forward to a real government that doesn’t just lick billionaire taint.