I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent.
According to Brave's dev tools, looks like just shy of about 90kb on this comment page as of the time of this writing.
Obviously some of that is going to be CSS rules, a small amount of JS (I think for the upvotes and the comment-collapse), but I don't think anyone here called HN "bloated". Even that one page wouldn't fit on Voyager.
There is more information in a typical, single page of comments here than there is on the average webpage. And I'd say a far higher signal to noise ratio (though depending on the topic discussed some will disagree).
Surprising fact I just noticed about the next Moon landing attempt -- it'll take up to 22 launches to get everything into space needed for the attempt.
There's almost certainly less than 69KB of useful human-readable information on any given page.
I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent.
According to Brave's dev tools, looks like just shy of about 90kb on this comment page as of the time of this writing.
Obviously some of that is going to be CSS rules, a small amount of JS (I think for the upvotes and the comment-collapse), but I don't think anyone here called HN "bloated". Even that one page wouldn't fit on Voyager.
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Downloaded data != memory usage
You're comparing apples to apple trees
There is more information in a typical, single page of comments here than there is on the average webpage. And I'd say a far higher signal to noise ratio (though depending on the topic discussed some will disagree).
This page is only ~30kb. I wonder where the extra ~60kb you're seeing is coming from?
I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent.
I use an iPhone 5 as an iPod. HN is one of the few web sites that still works with iOS 10.
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640K is all anybody actually needs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120477
Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed.
Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed
We put a man on the moon mostly with pencils and slide rules.
Today we have massive data centers full of "AI" supercomputers, and we get… TikTok?
Surprising fact I just noticed about the next Moon landing attempt -- it'll take up to 22 launches to get everything into space needed for the attempt.
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Vindication, finally.