alt.hn

10/9/2025 at 6:23:43 PM

Sea Rise Simulator (2023)

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

by oldfuture

10/9/2025 at 8:19:28 PM

"Simulator"? Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's directly responsible for the sea rise.

by ksherlock

10/11/2025 at 11:09:59 AM

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.

by ash_091

10/9/2025 at 10:41:33 PM

That’s legitimately funny, but it’s kinda expected for that robust of a sim in browser.

by AndrewKemendo

10/10/2025 at 8:34:09 AM

> 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...

by xela79

10/9/2025 at 8:28:50 PM

The best simulator, showing it to you for real. What more do you want?

by Razengan

10/9/2025 at 7:24:41 PM

> The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow.

by mostlysimilar

10/9/2025 at 7:27:07 PM

Seems like we flooded the server.

by uptown

10/9/2025 at 7:37:01 PM

Hacker News never fails to rise to the occasion

by the_sleaze_

10/10/2025 at 4:07:33 AM

Which will get even harder as the Pacific grows.

by CalRobert

10/9/2025 at 10:44:46 PM

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-...

by AndrewKemendo

10/10/2025 at 11:15:52 AM

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...

by Gravityloss

10/10/2025 at 3:21:08 AM

So 1 to 1.5m

by kridsdale1

10/9/2025 at 7:39:22 PM

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 was there something interesting to see there? 2023 - are the estimates hopelessly out of date (and not in the direction we'd want)?

by alistairSH

10/9/2025 at 7:28:47 PM

Gives an error toast: "The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow."

by sublinear

10/9/2025 at 8:10:46 PM

It's fun watching the render fidelity go up

by ge96

10/9/2025 at 9:13:46 PM

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by yeah879846