Controversy on HN always appears to be handled by hyper fixating on singular detail of a story in a vacuum, rather than the story itself. In the 4 Huang threads visible on /active, the majority of comments all engage like the meat of this story is the affair, despite the very obvious lede of the story being the China export crime...and yes, it is crime. Is Huang an accomplice or merely a useful idiot in that crime is a speculative conversation that HN seems to lack the imagination to honestly engage in. For all the dialogue about the genius behind this rare heavy CEO, he sure did seem to thoughtlessly relinquish all of his leverage to 3rd parties in exchange for romance.

No where is this more obvious than the other Nvidia thread where 23% of comments in the thread are in this sub-thread over whether the use of "Mrs." is grammatically correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50459556

I haven't seen many people say affairs are fine, but rather focusing on a utilitarian perspective of "is punishing a moral failure potentially worth trillions of dollars in our economy and the death of US AI dominance / open-weight availability"?

Oh, and the very good question of "didn't the president of the United states fuck children?"

What Jensen did was wrong. Indisputably, terribly wrong.

Morality isn't whatever your protestant beliefs wish it to be. Do you really expect an ultra billionaire to not be slamming hot chicks nonstop? Or do you think he'd be in church on Sunday mornings rather than elbow deep in the best things money can buy? "Man, I really thought that billionaire would be more pious" like what