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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by w4der on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:48PM (#50473157)
Where did the "ants" saying come from? i've kept seeing it here and there after the hacks to Hugging Face and others.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by spullara on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:51PM (#50473185)
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by saaaaaam on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:59PM (#50473308)
I just did a quick search and concluded the same. I wonder if he got it from somewhere before. If you have Twitter account please ask him!
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by hamdingers on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:45PM (#50474016)
This is a paraphrase of the less technical-sounding: "if you find two ants in the kitchen, you don't have a two-ant problem" which I definitely heard my mom say in the 90s (about actual ants, not metaphorically).
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by saaaaaam on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:58PM (#50473298)
A fortune cookie I suspect.

More seriously, I was also curious. A quick search seems to say the earliest recent source is https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2084856543561093535

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by anigbrowl on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:17PM (#50474412)
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lazyasciiart on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#50473534)
People say it in real life about things that are often present in groups and are hard to spot. I most associate it with cockroaches and bedbugs.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Telemakhos on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:43PM (#50473977)
It's likely a variation on the saying that, if you see two cockroaches, there are more. Here's a page with that saying from 2013: https://www.weekand.com/home-garden/article/see-two-cockroac...