[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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(TXT) w3m dump (www.phoronix.com)
| 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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