https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2207.10793/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020828urn:hackerpapers:mention:2207.10793:48020828Tue, 05 May 2026 11:10:29 GMT<p>Does anyone else find the writing in the article to be overdramatic? Including a 4gb is a negligible amount of space for current hardware and Chrome is not known as the browser to run on resource constrained devices. To put 4gb in context, I currently have 2 *tabs* open that nearly take up 4gb. The fact Chrome also has a way to disable this makes it kind of a nothingburger in my opinion. &gt; The roughly 4 GB × N devices of disk-storage cost, sustained, on user hardware. SSDs have a per-GB embodied carbon cost of approximately 0.16 kg CO2e per GB of NAND manufactured [18] The estimated…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2207.10793/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.ARhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32229814urn:hackerpapers:submission:2207.10793:32229814Mon, 25 Jul 2022 19:35:28 GMT<p>Embodied Carbon: The Dirty Secret of SSDs (8x More Than HDD)</p><p></p><p>33 points; 31 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2207.10793/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AR