[HN Gopher] Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" as an Open-Source, E...
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       Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" as an Open-Source, Enterprise AI
       Client
        
       Author : Palmik
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2026-04-16 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Palmik wrote:
       | Official announcement: https://www.thunderbolt.io/announcing-
       | thunderbolt
        
       | rincebrain wrote:
       | Truly incredible.
       | 
       | You paid people how much money to pick a name that is going to
       | get thrown out in the next 12 months as everyone keeps thinking
       | you said Thunderbird.
        
         | dlcarrier wrote:
         | I thought they said Thunderbird.
         | 
         | It wasn't until I saw your comment that I realized they didn't
         | re-use the name of their email client.
        
           | QuercusMax wrote:
           | Same. This is epically bad branding.
        
         | throwa356262 wrote:
         | What happened? Did Mozilla hire those geniuses at Sony Mobile
         | to name its products?
        
         | nunobrito wrote:
         | Or that they are talking about the thunderbolt cable from
         | Apple: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbolt
         | 
         | A truly poor name choice.
        
           | Kirby64 wrote:
           | Not just relegated to Apple. That's just the trade name for
           | the Thunderbolt interface used on any of the "one cable to
           | connect your dock to your laptop" devices. It all uses
           | Thunderbolt 3, 4, or 5 these days and is on USB-C. I've got a
           | Dell dock that is specifically a thunderbolt dock.
        
       | WalterGR wrote:
       | 275 comments on an earlier submission:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792368
        
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