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  kace91
  I don't understand who uses that network anymore. Everytime I login it's all ai generated stories next to ai generated flavor images of people sounding like a parody of themselves ("what taking my kids to school taught me about business scaling").Out of all places to doomscroll, why choose the one that feels like an episode of Severance?
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  eximius
  Let's be real, LinkedIn is full of LinkedIn Lunatics but pretty much all mainstream social media is pretty shit. They're just different flavors of shit. LinkedIn: bad. Facebook: bad. Twitter: I literally think it contributed to the collapse of discourse and rise of shallow thought / rejection of expertise. I'm not going to list more because the theme is, you guessed it, they're bad.Google+ had promise in that the many problems of the other platforms could be curtailed with tooling to make your social experience effectively local (not necessarily geographically).
• alyandon
  Back in the ancient days of the web, browsers allowed you to set resource limits (ram, cache, etc) to prevent websites from hogging the limited resources of your desktop system.It's really a shame that all major browsers have since decided that you as a user should have almost no control over how much ram and storage any arbitrary website can consume now.
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  jrm4
  I know I'm old, but I now find LinkedIn to be my favorite social media site, and I'll explain why.Skin in the game. Yes, it's full of fluffy sounding things, but with a little patience and reading between lines, it's extremely valuable and here's why:Overwhelmingly most of the time -- when someone posts anything there -- it has the potential to directly quickly improve, or more importantly destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD. It feels like the opposite, but making the choice to post there is a huge risk.Now, that might come with fluff, of course -- but in a way you could reasonably argue it is the REALEST social media site of them all.
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  lucb1e
  AWS has a similar RAM consumption. I close Signal to make sure it doesn't crash and corrupt the message history when I need to open more than one browser tab with AWS in the work VM. I think after you click a few pages, one AWS tab was something like 1.4GB (edit: found it in message history, yes it was "20% of 7GB" = 1.4GB precisely)Does anyone else have the feeling they run into this sort of thing more often of late? Simple pages with just text on it that take gigabytes (AWS), or pages that look simple but it takes your browser everything it has to render it at what looks like 22 fps? (Reddit's new UI and various blogs I've come across.) Or the page runs smoothly but your CPU lifts off while the tab is in the foreground? (e.g. DeepL's translator)Every time I wonder if they had an LLM try to get some new feature or bugfix to work and it made poor choices performance-wise, but it completes unit tests so the LLM thinks it's done and also visually looks good on their epic developer machines
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  eclipticplane
  I wonder how much of that is from Linkedin checking what browser extensions you have, probably desperately trying to prevent screen scraping?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361
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  noitpmeder
  The fact that they hijack scrolling to artificially limit scroll speed is insane to me. Feels like I'm trying to navigate through molasses
• astrospective
  I keep my profile updated as a consultant because it lets clients and others in my company get a fuller gauge than my one pager. I’ve also got my most recent and prior job from having a price and responding to the right recruiter, I’ve also had a handful of interviews as well, which is honestly more than I’ve gotten from trying to apply to random job board postings.
• SlightlyLeftPad
  I was searching for jobs using it a while ago and it consumed 80 percent of my iphone’s battery in under 40 minutes. It’s quite impressive. Not even highest end mobile games can do that.
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  bvan
  As much as you all dislike LinkedIn and the cringy posts, keep in mind that for certain parts of the market it is >the< main professional forum. It is where your investors live, and their capital providers live. So, play nice, yeah?
• neeeeeeal
  Is it not possible to collar the amount of RAM a browser tab is able to use? If not, would love for someone to develop this!
• enesozt
  I rarely use Linkedin but for my new app that I'm building the Linkedin is good platform to find out & engage possible customers so last few weeks I'm using it more. But man.. so sorry for people using it daily. Such a bad experience. I didn't surprise it takes that amount of RAM because every component in the page is laggy, you feel very unsafe. You're getting some error but you have no idea what it is. Don't wanna mention about the content at all. But like many people mentioned in the comments it's still the number one place for their work
• kristopolous
  Always thought people should be organizing cross industry unions and planning strikes on the platform.Why not?
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  dzonga
  for jobs - indeed is better or other small avenues in their heyday such as HN who is hiring (all my jobs have come through hn)other avenues - local slack channels.linkedIn - good for initial connection with strangers you don't know and might find valuablelinkedIn - good for keeping tabs on companies or new startups
• rollulus
  They do other unholy things. I don’t know what, but consistently while playing music on my HomePod opening that site makes it stutter within a few minutes, fully stop working shortly afterwards and it needs a reboot to work again.
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  aquir
  Web developers of HN: how is this possible? What can use 1.2GB RAM for a website? Preloaded all videos?
• haunter
  Not for me even if I completetly turn off uBlock https://files.catbox.moe/5a3bcq.png
• p_ing
  This isn't all that accurate. Unless Chrome only presents the private working set, this will include shared or sharable memory.
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  barbegal
  I don't understand why people get so hung up on Chrome using so much memory. A lot of this memory is "discardable" so will get dropped when the system is under memory pressure and the amount of memory allocated for this type of usage will depend on how much memory your system has available. If Chrome is using lots of memory then it's almost always because your system has lots of available memory. It allows the browser to cache large images and video assets that would otherwise have to be re-downloaded over the internet.
• CrzyLngPwd
  Closed mine ages ago, along with most of my social media. No need for it, never was a need for it.
• __natty__
  And on the same topic again, it's not "LinkedIn" but some managers most likely in marketing and tech who allowed this amount of bloatware. And I won't believe this RAM usage is really needed just for displaying static content or chat. It's like always trackers and ads.
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  dave333
  Now I'm retired, linkedin's daily games are a fun way to do a little brain tai chi. Queens https://www.linkedin.com/games/queens/ is my favorite, although my solve time is consistently about twice the average apparently.
• raffael_de
  uBlock Origin -> My Filters: www.linkedin.com##div[data-testid="mainFeed"]:matches-path(/feed)
• throwatdem12311
  Don’t go on that god forsaken hellhole of a dead internet website. Problem solved.
• inetknght
  It also constantly uses about 50% of my CPU.I only open LinkedIn... very rarely. When done, I just close it.Don't scroll. Don't read stories. Don't do anything except message recruiters. Get them into email or a phone call. That's it. Fuck LinkedIn.
• rixed
  Not only it's huge and slow, but the design is broken (some elements frequently masking others, like the top banner masking half the top menu, or the icons masking the search box), and it's full of errors.I had to use it this very morning (yes, that's a new low) and met two errors in two pages. Asked Claude about those bugs, and it made fun of me because they were well known bugs. Even for AIs LinkedIn website is slop apparently.This HN post to collectively vent some frustration comes in a timely fashion.(For the record: the first bug was "another admin is already editing this page" making it impossible to edit a business page translations, and the next one was wrong people count when associating personnal profiles to business ones).
• steveharing1
  For sure there is more to what they just show
• user070223
  Github hogging cpu when js is turned off
• cmiles8
  Beyond being useful for a quick check on someone’s career history, LinkedIn is mostly full of grifters pretending to be experts in things while the actual experts never post about the subject on LinkedIn.
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  fredgrott
  LinkedIN, showing why Reactive is such a good idea by refusing to use it....No joke, app constantly shows stale posts and stories,,almost like their devs do not understand what the limits to MVVM are for state....rookie mistake
• delduca
  LinkedIn is full of crap. Unfortunately is the only way to get recruiters visibility.
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  arun6582
  linkedin is shit. i will get negative karma again
• z3ratul163071
  well it is a microslop product, what do you expect?
• b8
  So I pay for Global Entry only to have to play for Clear for faster screening. Now I have to pay another fee for a different service to get thru it faster AGAIN. I'm tired of the pay to win situation.