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How can you post on HN at a time like this?


Posting on HN doesn't burn as much energy as running many GPU's to find a needle in a haystack.


Did you ran the math of first (your computer), second (transferring the data to HN), third (broadcasting the data back to all HN readers, including the energy spent by their computers) and so on (hardware requirement down the line, shipping line from manufacturer, manufacturing, historical R&D, mining, ore processing, ...) degree of the energy consumption related to each time you posted on HN ?

The whole tech industry is as dirty as can be...




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