A moments silence for Memory stick... Yeah that should do it.
I feel like all these hardware shortages will supercharge 2nd hand electronics and their refurbishing from repair specialists.
For many years I had been advocating for Linux distros to optimize for lower spec machines as their life times got extended. Best case, you head off potential hardware end of life, worst case you allow newer hardware to run more effciebtly. The latest shortage I didnt see coming, but it would have helped out regardless. Keeping old hardware going is vital nowadays, need to end the mind set of disposable goods.
Didn't OpenAI cancel a bunch of memory orders? Seems premature to announce this as there soon will be a glut of memory in the market.
Source?
I've seen this going around on social media but <i>not</i> on reputable news sites.<p>Coincidentally, the SK Hynix US IPO has been announced: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-files-confidentiality-2026-us-listing-2026-03-24/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-files-co...</a>
The AI corporations owe us money. I fail to see why
we all have to pay more due to these greedy companies -
they should pay us compensation money for driving up
the prices here. In particular the US government is
helping drive these prices up as well - not just due to
AI situation, but also due to destroying part of the
energy supply lines via its bombing of Iran as well
as stock market manipulation. A mafia is pillaging all
of us here.
This is a good thing. Going out and taking pictures etc is very wasteful. You can just get AI to create all your memories and stay at home.<p>"Do you remember Corfu '36, darling?"<p>"One sec, let me generate my memory of it."
Are heavily ironic posts still considered non-kosher for HN? It does seem times are changing.
The word you seek is 'sarcastic'. The ever so slightly neuro-divergent don't do sarcarsm. Nor do linkedinlunatics.
Only if they're not funny
They're a good way of verifying that they're not AI-slop, or not pro-AI slop, which I view as the same think, so I think that they should be embraced.
Who needs terabyte hard drives when all your photos can stored as plaintext prompts instead. Finally, the perfect storage format!
We can remember it for you, wholesale.