Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace

MontagFTB 27 points 4 comments September 03, 2026
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NVIDIA acquired Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 The math: 0x1F917 = 1×65536 + 15×4096 + 9×256 + 1×16 + 7 = 129,303. And U+1F917 is officially named HUGGING FACE — .

Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

daemonologist

Huh, it's true (well, technically the price was 100,000 hugging faces); good catch

dipierro

ha! considering their founder(s) wished for their company to become the first listed on stock exchange with an emoji identifier, that’s nice

ChrisArchitect

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548952

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