<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zaptheimpaler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zaptheimpaler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 07:26:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zaptheimpaler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "I hope you die: Inside Jensen Huang's reported tirades at Nvidia board meetings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The media assassination continues.. i don’t care at all if Jensen cursed at some execs, that comes with the territory. The “spy” allegations have already been walked back as being bullshit.<p>Remember like 3 days ago they openly lied saying the Singapore government suspected Alice Huang was a spy until the government themselves responded saying they had never given any statement at all to the media and that she was not suspected of anything. Now we have some anonymous stories about tantrums. Until proven, i assume all these stories are just more bullshit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 05:10:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50504182</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50504182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50504182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Jensen Huang resigns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A jury found him to be liable for sexual assault in a civil case. If you’re not a lawyer and are interested in the moral character and actual actions of Trump, this is close to if not the same as being criminally convicted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:39:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50492228</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50492228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50492228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe the average person is going to be worse off without Jensen sending chips to China because that will be the end of frontier level open weight models. Jensen was making a huge push towards developing their own open weight models too, NVIDIA in general was aligned to that mission.<p>Right now I can run DS or Kimi locally or find providers who run them E2EE and have actual faith in privacy. Meanwhile, one of Notions data processors got hacked and it turns out their “zero data retention” policy was a complete lie. That’s par for the course in corporate America.<p>Our options after this are going to be spyware, censored models from a duopoly. We are fucked into a surveillance state without open weights. China’s training and releasing open weight models was one of the greatest gifts to the world whatever you think their motivations were. So this isn’t people taking what they can get, this is people cheering for their own demise because they’re so hungry to take down any elite at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:17:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482456</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Jensen Huang resigns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is just being obtuse to politics. Musk has children with 50 women and has manipulated US politics on a massive scale. Trump is convicted rapist. The whole WH is taking bribes left and right in exchange for favors. There is a reason Jensen is seemingly the only billionaire or political elite facing any real consequences while his actions are i would say among the least offensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482366</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50482366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah it’s ridiculous the absolute vile things the people on top of the government have been doing for years now - deaths of innocent citizens by ICE, deaths in Ukraine, rape and minor abuse, hundreds of millions in grift, preventable disease outbreaks due to anti-vax propaganda and the list goes on..<p>but everyone is outraged about some affairs - it’s a staged planned media operation. And most of the tech industry seems to tune out anything about politics because its “low brow” so they’re often clueless to the depths of depravity of this admin, but theyre jumping onboard the Jensen hate train.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 04:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478270</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NVIDIA is the crown jewel of the US at this point, the company powering all of AI, which has global geopolitical implications. Jensen is by all accounts the visionary and solid leader of the company. Weakening it because of an affair is batshit fucking crazy.<p>I agree its morally wrong, but that's really a personal issue for the family, it's not a crime. Sleeping with some employees is barely a problem IMO. And worst of all, when I look at the amount of corruption and immorality amonst say Musk, Zuckerberg, the Trump White House going after Jensen is crazy. Jensen is the billionaire who's happy to pay all his taxes and not interfere with politics or elections.<p>And besides all that, it seems the Trump admin KNEW about Alice Huang and Jensen's relationship for a year, Lutnick also knew, the intelligence agencies knew. Why is Jensen the only one going down for this? He is getting crucified because he's less Machiavellian than all the rest.<p>Because this isn't a moral issue, its a dirty political fight to entrench power within OpenAI & Anthropic. Without the Chinese companies getting chips, we would not have Deepseek or Kimi or any frontier-level open weight models. And if these guys succeed, we will all be locked into corporate paid models that spy on you and censor you for a long time.<p>People need to look at the bigger picture, this is about killing open-weight models and that may be good for a few US cos but it is terrible for the world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 04:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478131</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50478131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just feel that personal misdeeds should stay in that realm, and also a ban on relationships in the workplace like we effectively have now has kind of been bad for our culture broadly... you can call it a "legal risk" but at the end of the day, if there was no favouritism then nothing wrong happened besides some form to HR not being filled out.<p>Separately, when I look around at all the billionaires and CEO's causing immense harm to the world, Jensen is near the bottom of that list.. Musk's tantrums have global geopolitical implications including wide cultural shifts, elections and deaths. An actual convicted rapist is president of the country. Many, many leaders cheering on death, division, racism, white supremacy, anti-vaxxing, it just goes on.<p>But we're all supposed to be salivating over firing this guy who has by most accounts been an incredible founder and leader over cheating or selling a couple of GPUs to China? I think it's just sad seeing this guy get punished given the amount of moral corruption amongst our leaders. I don't think this is a coincidence, the worst people are usually better at evading consequences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 04:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50463003</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50463003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50463003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I mean they don't seem to care about the moral implications or view it as poor judgement like some people here say, or else they would act when they find out. They just see ammunition..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 04:06:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462964</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly given the amount of hysteria, disinformation and propaganda I've seen about China since they've become a credible rival to the US, I'm not inclined to believe this stuff without serious evidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:35:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461860</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Re: his wife, there is absolutely no way he would admit to some kind of open relationship thing in public, that would be even worse PR. Sleeping with an exec.. personally I don't care, this is incredibly common and there is no actual legal problem if there wasn't favoritism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:29:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461813</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So far I haven't seen a shred of evidence pointing to Alice Huang being a spy besides just her being a Chinese citizen.. and China has been explicit in instructing its industries to NOT rely on NVIDIA cards as much as possible and build their own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 01:19:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461724</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It really doesn't. I don't see how sleeping with someone has any impact on the company. We don't even know what arrangements him and his wife may have. But in the worst case, it's immoral and wrong but a personal issue for him and his family.<p>Poor judgement is the kind of shit Zuckerberg or Musk do, and their poor judgement actually impacts the whole world in big ways, but they can't be fired because they don't give their board any control.<p>Jensen's management of NVIDIA has been good, and NVIDIA has generally been a great force for real innovation without much rent-seeking or corruption like the others. They haven't started messing with politics or trying to buy elections. It's kind of sad to see Jensen be the one we topple at a time of rage against corporate power when he's probably one of the better stewards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:45:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461352</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone mentioned that the 2nd affair was known about by the board for a long time, and this is pretty common in boards. They don't really care, they just keep it in their pocket until they need the ammo to fire someone. It sounds right to me, affairs are very hard to keep secret for someone that public, and then this news dropped right after the first one.<p>As bad as cheating is morally, we don't really know how his wife feels or if they had some open relationship type arrangement, and it's not really material to his running the company because it's been doing very well during all of that. I don't think it makes much sense to fire someone over this, it's more like a power struggle with other parties vying for control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461133</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Automating so many terrible chores with AI. Recently I automated pulling transactions from my banks (Canada, no open banking..) and putting them into Actual Budget. SimpleFIN or Plaid type services frequently break, make mistakes or require reauth every few hours for the banks here which makes them not so useful. Now I'm automating computing my taxes fully which gets pretty complicated because of international income, different assets etc. Its basically a data lake to process all kinds of financial data in various formats and compute stuff, moving lots of manual drudgery and complicated excel sheets into code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:23:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50421793</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50421793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50421793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Im still optimistic that Apple will do all this stuff on your device as opposed to in an opaque cloud somewhere you have 0 visibility into. Meta probably has 1000x this system in a data warehouse somewhere. If this info is not leaving the device that’s fine with me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:25:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403574</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was able to root my Samsung TV easily with Codex, disable updates and spyware, MITM everything with the eMudhra certs. The problem is no one really knows what these TVs do, they're all liars with 100 page privacy policies that will legally allow anything, and encrypted HTTPS communications that we can't even ordinarily monitor what they're sending. They can be updated at any time to start sending more or less data without your knowledge. So I feel the only realistic option is find a TV that can be rooted and do that. If you root a TV, you can fully disable network access and then use an Apple TV, or use the TV's software with MITM and deeper analysis with AI to disable snooping.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330631</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50330631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have some kind of similar things using PocketTube (browser extension) to try to curate certain types of feeds on Youtube. These things are always limited because we can't query the actual platforms. I would kill for platforms like Youtube, X, Spotify to actually give us API access to their entire catalogs so we can define custom ways to surface/recommend content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:39:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329602</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50329602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was trying this with Gemma 4 before and it wasn’t as easy as I expected.It would refuse even after long prefills.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:03:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300658</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "TLP Is Not a Suggestion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just stop with this bullshit. Its clearly well written and also looks human. I don’t know what miscalibrated false-positive confirmation bias ridden seventh sense you believe you have to magically spot AI writing, but it doesn’t work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300632</link><dc:creator>zaptheimpaler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zaptheimpaler in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, some criminal enterprise or state probably just made billions of dollars and will now use it against us for a long time. Crypto is practically designed for money laundering, particularly prediction markets.</p>
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