Hacker News

points by aurareturn 8 hours ago | 0 comments

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is just a hit piece - IE, they were looking to paint Nvidia and Jensen in some bad light and found a vague lead. Didn't matter if the evidence isn't substantial. Just publish and smear first.

[–] tty456 6 hours ago

Sounds like a certain president screaming "Fake news fake news!"

[–] afavour 7 hours ago

I disagree, I think this piece is the consequence of the Trump administration’s inaction. It isn’t even really a hit on Jensen:

> Mr. Huang has not received a defensive briefing, warnings sometimes given to Americans who are being targeted by foreign intelligence services, people briefed on the surveillance said.

It’s essentially saying intelligence was gathered that a Chinese asset was close to Jensen and absolutely nothing was done about it.

[–] to11mtm 7 hours ago

Ehhhhh?

And by that, I mean...

He's the CEO of a company that is in it's second of 15-ish years 'selling shovel' booms. The guy who's motto has been 'We are 30 days from going out of business' for... about-ish 30 years.

Corporate espionage should have been a concern for a good part of that in his communications.

We have no clue what actually happened. For all we know it's a case of 'he was warned, his internal security groups already knew, and they were feeding useless info the whole time'.

[–] afavour 7 hours ago

> We have no clue what actually happened.

We have on the record sources saying that he was not warned by the government. Hence me saying this is a story about government failure.

[–] what 2 hours ago

Who are the sources? Can you link me their claims?