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.
LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still the main place where recruiter post jobs and look for candidates. That's why.
Do they not also make posts on Indeed or other non-social sites?
The difference is that the recruiters come to you on LinkedIn. This is quite handy when you're currently employed since opportunities come to you that you wouldn't have otherwise looked for.
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#183I 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?
Because after Stackoverflow Jobs went bust, LinkedIn and Xing (in DACH space), are the best ways to reach out to head hunters. All those Indeed, Stepstone,... feel much worse.
I will never understand why SO did not lean into its jobs feature. I got two jobs from it, I thought it was great.
Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
#184I 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
That code is minimal. It’s definitely not the source. Given all the sales and recruiting spam I get, I think it’s a good thing that LinkedIn is making efforts to detect people using garbage plugins that scrape data and send it to their servers or prepare it for mass spamming.
Really? Then why else do adblockers seem to take up so much memory, other than an arms race with countermeasures that sites take?
Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
#185I 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?
I work in research and people post their papers there. Signal to noise ratio is getting worse and worse though.. My "favorite" was probably an AI generated post (3 em dashes in one sentence, its not this.its that. And so son) about how bad AI is and how it hallucinates.
“This wasn’t just AI generated — it was a paragon of hallucinated AI slop.”
Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
#186Web developers of HN: how is this possible? What can use 1.2GB RAM for a website? Preloaded all videos?
Probably a memory leak But other ideas: - all pages of FE site loaded at once instead as as needed - FE indexed search engine - bug rendering too many invisible HTML elements (eg 1M select boxes)
Then why does pretty much every site seem to have a "memory leak" of this type (besides unicorns like HN that try to be minimal)?
Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. The majority use LinkedIn only for job searching and keeping contacts. I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. The few times we’ve interviewed candidates who had a lot of LinkedIn posting activity it was considered a risk: We could go through their LinkedIn a…
> I do some times wonder if any hiring managers see a lot of LinkedIn social post activity as a positive thing. About a year ago I had a friend recommend me to their management. After three rounds of interviews, the CEO overrode the process and rejected me because I didn't have enough on my LinkedIn profile. As far as I'm concerned, I dodged a bullet. If the CEO cares so much about LinkedIn filler that he'd overrule…
I have consulted for CEO’s and other executives who think like this. You certainly dodged a bullet.
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#188Let'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 ma…
Social media being bad is partly because of shady business practices, and partly because a lot of people suck (in different ways, at different times, including us).
Having said that all of that, have you tried mastodon?
Re: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
#189I 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?
I doubt many people go to LinkedIn for the cringey and obnoxious feed. It's more write-only than anything.
Almost everything about LinkedIn is miserable, not just the feed, and we need a much better competitor that people actually use.
One of the challenges to making it much better will be the same problem that most 'social media' apps/sites have: some of the awful is institutionalized and automated, and will go wherever there is incentive to gain advantage.
(My dating startup is mothballed partly for this reason. Our secret sauce approach to being great, rather than awful, was killed by ChatGPT. Moving forward pretending it wasn't would just turn us into yet another awful, with a flimsy gimmick, that hoped to be bought by the behemoth of awful.)
Those of us who weren't networking in big tech still need to hear from good recruiters, or have some other way to matchmake with the right employers.
A lot of people are thinking, "I know, I'll replace the sourcer/recruiter with AI!" The naive solutions here are just more-automated and more-deceptive versions of the same awful: sourcing via the old standby of random keyword searches and spamming, pushing for call, just wanting the resume to pass on, the employer having low trust in the validity and alignment of the recruiter's recommendations...
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> destroy, their own LIVELIHOOD Do you have examples of such occasions when the linkedin post was actually the cause?
There was a bit of a scandal at my employer some years back and IIRC it was kicked off by someone posting/boosting some really questionable stuff on LinkedIn.
Amusingly, this was someone high up in HR.