Weeping and gnashing of teeth because RAM is expensive, and then you learn that people buy 128 GB for their desktops so they can ask a chatbot how to scrape HTML. Amazing.
The more I've thought about it the RAM part is hardly the craziest bit. Where the fuck do you even buy a computer with less than 4 cores in 2025? Pawn shop?
isn't it ridiculous? This is hacker news. Nobody with the spare time to post here is living on the street. Buy some RAM or rent it. I can't believe honestly how many people on here I see bemoaning the fact that they haven't upgraded their laptops in 20 years and it's somehow anyone else's problem.
it's kind of hard to tell what your position is here. should people not ask chatbots how to scrape html? should people not purchase RAM to run chatbots locally?
