I can confirm.. open up linkedIn.. hit F12 and watch the error count keep going up and up and up

Screenshots found here https://x.com/DenisGobo/status/2018334684879438150

xcancel link: https://xcancel.com/DenisGobo/status/2018334684879438150

Yikes, same happening on my PC. This is crazy, nefarious websites constantly intruding in any way they can.

Article is from July 2025, Gold was 3362 at that time

So gold is up 50% in six months? That's... quite a bit.

Yep, it doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM I upgraded my PC by adding 64GB.. two Fridays ago I sold the 32 GB I took out for the same amount of what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane

And I'm beating myself for not preemptively ordering that 128G kit for $500 a couple of months ago, thinking about upgrading soon.

Last week it went to $1300 and now it's not available anymore.

Guess I'll just skip AM5 and wait for AM6 at this rate...

Same situation. I looked up the previous RAM boom and bust cycles (thanks Gemini) and we are looking at over a year of waiting potentially.

I bought a refurbished laptop with 64gb ddr4 (so-dimm) last week. It was just slightly more expensive than the 32gb variant with same specs. I guess the seller was not yet aware of the high memory prices.

In a week or two I might be able to make a profit by just selling the memory.

There's cheap adapters that allow you to use SO-DIMM memory in desktop DIMM slots. Of course performance will suffer compared to native DIMM sticks, but if you happen to have SO-DIMM laying around that you aren't currently using, this might be a nice use for it.

Oh, man.

This conjures up vivid memories of being in the middle 1990s, with my first Pentium build on a Triton (FX) chipset board. The motherboard only accepted 72-pin SIMMs, but those were still pretty rare and expensive for me.

Instead of buying new expensive RAM, I used memory adapters I used to get that going. IIRC, they were branded SimmVerter.

Each adapter allowed a person to install four 30-pin SIMMs (which were very cheap and common) into one 72-pin SIMM socket on a motherboard.

I had four such adapters, and they were each of different shape: One for each variation of tall-vs-short, and also for left-vs-right. These shapes allowed for all four of the adapters to be used concurrently on a motherboard with 4 72-pin slots without them physically interfering with eachother.

It was so much fun back then to try to get all sixteen 30-pin SIMMs to function reliably.

Things became even more fun when I decided to mix in some 72-pin EDO SIMMs, and get each of them working with their respective features enabled.

(And I said all of that with a lot of sarcasm, but: I did eventually get it all to work reliably-enough for my purposes back then. I also learned a ton of stuff about cleaning electrical contacts, maintaining fast mechanical alignment, conclusively identifying problematic modules through testing, and optimizing physical layouts. These are skills that I've been able to get out and productively use on occasion during the 30-ish years that have subsequently passed.

While I can look back on that with a bit of positivity, I'm not sure that people are ready for that kind of thing today. A lot of folks weren't ready for it back then, either -- adapters like that, while being a [mostly] electrically-sound concept, were popularly considered to be cursed.)

Bought a 64gb upgrade kit in September for my wife's new PC for $205. The same kit right now on Newegg is $570. That's not even double in 4 months; thats almost triple in 2 months.

If I can get that right now $389 retail is there an arb opportunity (not in US, but maybe you are getting fucked on tariffs? Could that be the difference?)

Doubled in the last 4 months https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Zc-FsUDCM

Upgraded by adding 64GB.. last Friday I sold the 32 GB I took out for what I paid for the 64 GB in July... insane

Time to start scouring used-PC sales to reclaim the RAM and sell it for a profit?

Have you not noticed the domain of the submitted article? Others are way, way ahead on that already.

(Including the submitter. In their comment history is "Tip: You can sell used server RAM or desktop modules through BuySellRam to recover value from old hardware." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800881 and all of the submissions of this domain are from this user: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=buysellram.com )

but why wouldn't that used-PC simply increase in price due to the components becoming more expensive?

Information asymmetry

If you can find used PCs being liquidated with DDR4 RAM that is fast enough for a modern build, then you might.

Old RAM that comes out of the PCs being sold at fire sale prices isn’t really in demand though. Even slower DDR4 grades aren’t seeing much demand.

You should use OBS to screen record rather than video your computer screen with your phone

I never imagined that they could survive in Alaska. From the show Life below zero... take a look at these.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXq92PItsA0

Nosquitos themselves can't survive when it goes below freezing, but sadly their eggs are nearly indestructible. Siberia, Alaska and the northern parts of the Nordics are absolutely plagued with them in the summer, since snowmelt creates huge amounts of stagnant water that melts the eggs in a perfect habitat for breeding.

I have a magnet that's a mosquito with text "Alaska state bird".

I've read that migrating herds change their course from year to year to avoid the recently hatched swarms of mosquitoes.

Yes.. try moving that 36 inch Sony Trinitron from the car inside the house.. weighs 200 pounds+ IIRC....you need at least 2 strong people

I remember the Sun monitors (21" I think) were about 80 lbs. I've read that part of that was a metal frame to hold all of the wires in front of the screen.

They were fun monitors - we had a lab full of them, they would degauss on startup, and the degausser would induct into the monitor next to it (and a little bit into the monitor after that).

The weight from a CRT is mostly about the amount of glass required to keep the atmosphere out, as it's essentially a vacuum bottle with better marketing. On that 21" display, you've got about 6000 pounds of force trying to push the face inward, not to mention the sides, neck, etc.

Yeah, these monitors were a bit heavier than most consumer 21" monitors at the time. We also got Viewsonic monitors for PCs, which were lighter. At the time, I had assumed the additional weight was from extra shielding, but I later read that some of the weight difference was a metal frame holding the wires. The trinitron had a bunch of vertical wires instead of a grid of holes on the front - If I remember right, they'd shimmer a little if you smacked the side of the monitor with your hand.

It's possible they also had more glass than typical for a 21" monitor, I don't recall if they were any flatter than the Viewsonics or not.

Right. Bought two out of a University lab and lived in an apartment six stories high with only stairs. Moved out those monitors even and they were more difficult to get down than the couch...

Don't let me get started about fixed frequency, X11 modeline guessing (wrong of course) and needing a second monitor to even get back to the original config.

BWAAAA

I wish I still had one around, just to degauss it occasionally.

unless you have more than 1 passport

If your other passport shows you were born in US your bank will still hold you to FATCA controls, and even if it doesn't show that then they're still bound to FATCA and can be punished if it's uncovered you're a US citizen.

in sql server, you can simply add a not null check constraint with nocheck (see my comment with full code)

ALTER TABLE foo WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT CheckNotnull CHECK (id IS NOT NULL)

any new values coming in cannot be null but the values already in the table with null are fine... then you can update them to not null over time

If you don't care for old data having null , you could add a check contraint with nocheck (this is sql server fwiw)

for example

create table foo(id int) insert foo values (1), (2), (3)

insert foo values (null)

select * from foo

id

1

2

3

NULL

ALTER TABLE foo with nocheck ADD CONSTRAINT CheckNotnull check (id IS NOT NULL)

insert foo values (null)

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 13 The INSERT statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CheckNotnull". The conflict occurred in database tempdb", table "dbo.foo", column 'id'. The statement has been terminated.

However be aware that if you update an existing value to NULL, you will still get the error

update foo set id = null where id = 2

Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 20 The UPDATE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CheckNotnull". The conflict occurred in database "tempdb", table "dbo.foo", column 'id'.

I actually used one of these in a VB app back in the day as a joke.. it was the robot I used.. if you typed in something wrong in a a text box.. it would shake his arms and call you an idiot

fun times