[HN Gopher] Sorting 400 tabs in 60 seconds with JavaScript, Rust...
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       Sorting 400 tabs in 60 seconds with JavaScript, Rust and GPT-3
        
       Author : thecupisblue
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-02-16 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | andy_ppp wrote:
       | I wish we could authenticate API access we pay ChatGPT for with
       | peoples projects to avoid them just immediately running out of
       | API tokens when used constantly. I don't think you can expect
       | every product that's useful to make rolling the API costs onto
       | the consumer practical...
        
       | mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
       | No idea what this is since the URL is dead but it sounds like a
       | joke based on the title...
        
         | pininja wrote:
         | As someone with thousands of unsorted and duplicate tabs saved
         | those "tab saver" chrome extensions, I was hoping for something
         | I could use.
        
           | lairv wrote:
           | Couldn't read the article either but do people actually want
           | to sort their tabs ? My tabs are approximately in a
           | chronological order and I can find a specific tab based on
           | that, sorting them would be a disaster
           | 
           | Edit: oh ok it uses gpt-3 to sort by content, but even then I
           | don't want my tabs to be shuffled in any ways..
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | Maybe sorting on relevance using GPT-3 based assessment of page
         | contents.
        
           | thecupisblue wrote:
           | It is, it's using it to sort tabs into categories based on
           | the topic.
        
       | zelphirkalt wrote:
       | Hm. Reading the heading, I am thinking: "What? Only 400 elements
       | sorted? In a whole minute? What criteria did they look for to
       | sort them?"
       | 
       | It seems like a really low number of things to sort. If they
       | added two zeros to that, maybe it would be impressive. In my
       | browser 400 per 60s would mean, that I have to wait almost 10
       | minutes, until they are all sorted.
        
         | idsout wrote:
         | I thought the same thing, except adding 4 or 5 zeroes
        
         | iLoveOncall wrote:
         | > In my browser 400 per 60s would mean, that I have to wait
         | almost 10 minutes, until they are all sorted.
         | 
         | There's always gotta be that guy that will come up with the
         | most unreasonable and unbelievable usage of any tool, just to
         | show how special they are.
         | 
         | No, you don't have 4,000 browser tabs open, nobody believes
         | that.
         | 
         | More on the topic, since the title mentions GPT, I imagine it
         | sorts them based on the content, like categories.
        
           | rolandog wrote:
           | I filed a year ago a couple of bugs because Firefox was
           | crashing when I tried sorting 2000 tabs with two different
           | extensions [1].
           | 
           | [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-
           | containers/issues/2...
        
           | brokenmachine wrote:
           | I have 156 windows in firefox (it tells you the number when
           | you shut down), with (my estimate) 20-30 tabs in each.
           | 
           | So 3900 tabs.
        
           | idsout wrote:
           | Honestly I do on a regular basis. Also that doesn't sound
           | like a lot for a browser to maintain. Imagine opening most
           | links in a new tab. That's how it happens and that's me.
        
             | iLoveOncall wrote:
             | No you don't.
             | 
             | As you can see from
             | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwgyzX-76g the browser
             | becomes completely unusable with a few thousand tabs, and
             | the experience is massively degraded way before that.
             | 
             | You also would run out of RAM way before opening 4,000
             | tabs, with most consumer boards supporting only a maximum
             | of 128GB of RAM.
        
               | brokenmachine wrote:
               | I don't know a way to check the exact number, but I'm
               | 100% sure I'm over 2,000 tabs.
               | 
               | At work now so can't check but my PC at home has 64Gb RAM
               | and up to half of that is used by Firefox.
               | 
               | I've noticed it gets unresponsive over 160 windows. I
               | currently have 156 open (it tells you the number when you
               | exit Firefox.
        
               | alpaca128 wrote:
               | Before you continue digging this hole you should consider
               | web browsers don't load all old tabs on startup. I have
               | definitely had 2000+ tabs open and that didn't even slow
               | down the browser as usually less than 100 or so are
               | loaded at a time. I basically use tabs as bookmarks. Note
               | that I use Firefox and not Chrome, and my tab usage is
               | one of the reasons.
        
           | smaudet wrote:
           | I don't know, it takes real effort to curate your tabs below
           | 100. Its very, very easy to not close tabs you don't use,
           | these days, and at least one major browser just doesn't
           | bother to load the tab if you haven't touched it in a while.
           | 
           | I know it seems hard to believe, but for a single topic its
           | not unusual to have 10+ tabs open, when I do research on a
           | topic I'm often hitting 20-30 tabs, and the more work you do
           | the more you have open.
           | 
           | 100 tabs per topic, lets say, and someone interested in 40
           | topics, I could see 4k tabs as reasonable. I would bet they
           | only have 10 tabs actually activated/loaded, but.
        
             | Panzer04 wrote:
             | What is the point of 4K tabs though? If everything is open,
             | nothing might as well be open because it serves no utility
             | in tracking what you're working on, right?
             | 
             | I often get into the 30-50 tab range, and the majority of
             | those are unused and I have to do a purge because I've long
             | forgotten the context where I need them. I can believe
             | someone might do similarly with more tabs, but no that many
             | more XD.
        
               | brokenmachine wrote:
               | In Firefox you type "%" into the url bar, and then you
               | can search the tabs.
               | 
               | I try to keep all tabs for a certain topic in the same
               | window.
        
             | iLoveOncall wrote:
             | This is just misusing your browser. That's what bookmarks
             | or reading lists are for.
        
               | brokenmachine wrote:
               | Bookmarks don't keep the history.
               | 
               | I use tabs to keep the history, so when I come back to
               | that tab, I can right-click the back button and see how I
               | got to that page.
        
         | smaudet wrote:
         | I'm pretty sure a non-GPT thing could do this in < 1 second.
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | I don't know what this is, but I'm pretty sure I don't want it.
        
         | idsout wrote:
         | Upvoted. Honest question. How did this make the front page of
         | HN with 4 upvotes at the time?
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Site is hugged to death / dead for now.
       | 
       | Too bad there isn't a service which automatically queues all of
       | hn/new to archive.org and archive.today for snapshotting.
        
         | brokenmachine wrote:
         | The site is probably still busy sorting the incoming clients,
         | lol.
         | 
         | 400 in 60 seconds??
        
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