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Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features
25•birdculture•1h ago

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Holacc•45m ago
The local model powers the features nobody uses. The cloud model powers the feature everyone sees. You pay 4GB for the illusion of privacy.
superkuh•41m ago
4GB should be nothing.

It's crazy to me how consumer computer storage has stalled out at the 2010 level for so long. And if anything we're going backwards now in 2026. We should be having many TBs in our home computers and laptops. Instead most users are still stuck with 256GB and trying to tetris around to fit even their average amount of small data.

goalieca•39m ago
Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.
kn100•8m ago
I reckon until the recent ai-gobbles-everything-up phenomena, this was mainly an Apple problem. Even fairly budget PCs come with at least 1tb of storage. Considering much beyond 2tb NAND gets scary pricing wise, I'm not that surprised we don't see much beyond that.
superkuh•4m ago
Yes, but I don't think it was just Apple. The switch to charge trap based SSD storage set all pre-built consumer computers back a full decade in terms of storage size. We were only just getting back beyond 2010 levels when the megacorps started buying up all the flash fab capacity and now even most of the HDD plates are going to enterprise.
zb3•41m ago
Did anyone extract these weights so we can run Gemini Nano locally? Is it better than Gemma 4?
add-sub-mul-div•34m ago
Annoying, but are the kind of people still using Chrome really that discerning about what's going on behind the scenes on their device?
jmclnx•21m ago
Positive reinforcement anyone :) Anyway to me, 4G seems a bit lite for AI.

I always avoided Chrome as much as possible, now I have a real reason to do so.

I wonder if Chromium-based browsers is or will do the same?

Occasional Paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/28/occasional-paper-blue-angels-devil-hands/
1•jruohonen•18s ago•0 comments

I Shipped a "Simple" Infrastructure Migration and Got 2 Prod Incidents in 24h

https://awstip.com/how-i-shipped-a-simple-infrastructure-migration-and-got-2-production-incidents...
1•gpi•1m ago•0 comments

Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

2•rationalist•1m ago•0 comments

Kconfirm Is on a Quest to Clean Up the Linux Kernel's Configuration System

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kconfirm
1•Bender•3m ago•0 comments

Axboe Hacking on New Linux Patches for 60% Increase to Per-Core I/O Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Axboe-60p-Faster-Per-Core-Perf
1•Bender•4m ago•0 comments

I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/09/testing-the-japanese-airec-robot-for-elderly-care/
4•thm•6m ago•0 comments

Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how

https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes
2•marc__1•6m ago•0 comments

What's Next?

https://sfss.space/whats-next
1•YouwaDangu•7m ago•0 comments

IPCC's RCP8.5 Is Officially Dead: Climate Science's Biggest Shift in Decades

https://climatechangedispatch.com/rcp85-dead-ipcc-climate-scenarios/
1•vixen99•7m ago•0 comments

YC's Biggest Scandals

https://ycombinator.fyi/
2•laserduck•7m ago•0 comments

Europe Is Losing Its Best Engineers – Not to Emigration, but to Management

https://andrulis.de/blog/20260429_management.html
1•napolux•8m ago•0 comments

For Palantir, AI Is a Product, a Punching Bag–and a Problem

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-a-product-a-punching-bagand-a-problem-a4cfea77
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

I Went to an Illegal London Weed Coffeeshop

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/i-went-to-an-illegal-london-weed
1•eatitraw•10m ago•0 comments

Poll: How many have showdead enabled in their profile?

1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Bay Area condo values are still falling – except in these areas

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/condo-price-san-francisco-22232573.php
1•paulpauper•11m ago•0 comments

AI's Memorization Crisis

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/
1•paulpauper•12m ago•0 comments

Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023 (2025)

https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-2.html
1•cf100clunk•14m ago•1 comments

Open Music – visual programming / computer-aided music composition environment

https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic
1•tzury•15m ago•0 comments

Terax – A Lightweight AI Terminal

https://terax.app
1•indigodaddy•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: (Update) Mermaid Diagrams in SmallDocs

https://sdocs.dev/s/WGRRhlhz#k=9KZpXs9Mbvz3UVtve0oG3wF3HRohbBwET1oGDKR9LLA
1•FailMore•17m ago•0 comments

Compensation in AI Tokens?

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=469693
1•CoffeeOnWrite•18m ago•1 comments

The Faith AI Covenant

https://faithaicovenant.com/
1•niemandhier•18m ago•1 comments

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/2053507778719748465
2•marcofloriano•18m ago•0 comments

MpvNova – Android TV focused libmpv player

https://github.com/Laskco/mpvNova
1•retro_guy•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Describe your idea, get a live landing page with real users

https://usespark.net/
1•DSpider•24m ago•0 comments

Hjk

1•milindsoni201•24m ago•1 comments

Expo Development Lifecycle – From Code to Play Store

https://blog.codonomics.com/2026/05/expo-development-lifecycle-from-code-to.html
1•sirkarthik•24m ago•0 comments

Angular Long-Term Support (LTS) Proposal for Enterprise Development

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/68660
1•DeveloperOne•26m ago•0 comments

The Bathtub Curve

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/10/the-bathtub-curve.html
2•jruohonen•26m ago•0 comments

I tried to build a LitRPG sandbox with on the fly generated sprites

https://app.productnow.ai/public/doc/gsfw-idtx-gwcs
1•kadhirvelm•28m ago•1 comments