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Why Is Nvidia Valuable?

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ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

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I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership

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Inception's Diffusion LLM API Is Shutting Down

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Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires

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How do you keep up quality when you vibe-code?

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Any good ways on how to get into kernel dev?

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What are your favorite tools?

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Ask HN: Personal "Tears in the Rain" Moments

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Do 9/10 new AI SaaS websites seem like they should be an editor command to you?

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Ask HN: What do your technical interviews look like today? (Nov 2026)

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Ask HN: What is your current AI stack looking like?

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Tell HN: Another GitHub Major Outage

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I'm genuinely disappointed in our most visible tech leadership

6•AnneTrotter•11h ago
Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Alex Karp, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc, etc. I know the reasons why this stuff happens. Power is absolutely toxic to ethics, consequences are often minimal until a line is crossed, crossing the line is often not an immediate trigger to consequences, success breeds overconfidence, money breeds echo chambers of sychophantic feedback which trigger garbage-in-garbage-out decision making. That last one has always been a special trap for the rich and famous, killing them and their reputation with tremendous efficiency for most of human history; but we're all kings of little AI domains now and can all curate our feedback to whatever feels best, ignoring any discomfort until it goes away.

Still. Knowing why it's happening doesn't stop the disappointment. Isn't anyone at that level aware of the GIGO problem? Does awareness make you less successful because responsible, prosocial, ordinarily intelligent actions are not profitable? What would be effective strategies to keep people at that level off drugs and relatively sane?

Comments

sjdh76•11h ago
Google or ask ur fav gpt why dont immune cells in the body kill cancer cells?
fullshark•10h ago
A board of directors that actually has power, voting shares of public stock, A requirement that private companies must go public and deal with SEC scrutiny before they become "too big to fail"
Zigurd•8h ago
Alex Karp is a progressive now. He said so himself. Highly credible.