A lot of users here probably have a lot of Nvidia stock in their portfolio.

> Is HN just this millionare-friendly?

What do you mean by this, should we be negative about him because he is rich?

I don't know about HN being millionaire-friendly (it probably is), but right now it looks like prop 40 (one-off tax of 5% on billionaires) in California is about to fail. Make of that what you will.

I'm not American but having retirement money be in the markets creates some wild downstream effects

Because Huang's decision to invest heavily in CUDA and GPGPU for years and support it across their entire consumer and enterprise product stack, before even crypto, was impressively prescient.

Say what you want about the Altmans who lucked into a rising tide, but Nvidia has been doing hard engineering, consistently delivered, strategically brilliantly for a couple decades now.

Plus, the primary risk here isn't that secrets were exposed but rather that Huang attempts to hide the thing and makes himself vulnerable to blackmail. The facts leaking (three letter agency off the record?) nuked that possibility.

Even while admitting that this apology genuinely is one of the better ones I've seen, I am with you. The response is a bit... fawning.

Can you explain how he's not a victim of a Chinese intelligence operation?

Clearly his wife is the victim of him cheating. And he's a victim of a foreign intelligence operation.

It doesn't even mean he deserves sympathy but I see no rational basis for saying he's not a victim of anything here.

It's stockholder psychosis. Similar to AI psychosis. It's easy to convince the poor to defend you when you give them the illusion that their fortunes are riding with yours.

> Is HN just this millionare-friendly

He is a billionaire and people here fall over themselves idolizing figures like him. You get the sense reading HN comments that they respect founders they don't know more than their own spouse or kids.