Sea Rise Simulator (2023)(nagix.github.io)
48 pointsby oldfuture4 months ago8 comments
  • ksherlock4 months ago
    "Simulator"? Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's directly responsible for the sea rise.
    • ash_0914 months ago
      It's a "paperclips" situation.

      Someone vibe coded this with the prompt "write a webapp which shows the effects of rising sea level as accurately as possible". The AI decided that the way to determine the outcome as accurately as possible was to simply cause the rising sea level and observe the result.

    • AndrewKemendo4 months ago
      That’s legitimately funny, but it’s kinda expected for that robust of a sim in browser.
    • xela794 months ago
      > Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's directly responsible for the sea rise.

      ah yes, the classical "the CPU usage the higher the sea level" saying...

    • Razengan4 months ago
      The best simulator, showing it to you for real. What more do you want?
  • mostlysimilar4 months ago
    > The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow.
    • uptown4 months ago
      Seems like we flooded the server.
      • the_sleaze_4 months ago
        Hacker News never fails to rise to the occasion
    • CalRobert4 months ago
      Which will get even harder as the Pacific grows.
  • AndrewKemendo4 months ago
    For reference: Worst case estimates for 74 years from now (2100) is about 6 feet of rise for the US.

    Average case is like 3 feet of rise.

    https://earth.gov/sealevel/us/resources/2022-sea-level-rise-...

    • Gravityloss4 months ago
      Average might not be a good metric for these.

      There can be glacier collapses in the Antarctic and each one could raise sea level significantly, and we don't know how long those take. West Antarctica for example would be 3 meters alone.

      Someone should provide some summaries, as this is an important subject, I feel the communication is buried in a lot of technicalities.

      https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2013/01/antarcticas-contri...

    • kridsdale14 months ago
      So 1 to 1.5m
  • elheffe804 months ago
    This project does have the developers (nagix) API key in the code but you could clone it yourself:

    https://github.com/nagix/sea-level-rise-3d-map

  • alistairSH4 months ago
    Hug of death... was there something interesting to see there? 2023 - are the estimates hopelessly out of date (and not in the direction we'd want)?
    • 4 months ago
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  • sublinear4 months ago
    Gives an error toast: "The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow."
  • ge964 months ago
    It's fun watching the render fidelity go up
  • yeah8798464 months ago
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