[HN Gopher] Sea Rise Simulator (2023)
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       Sea Rise Simulator (2023)
        
       Author : oldfuture
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2025-10-09 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (nagix.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (nagix.github.io)
        
       | mostlysimilar wrote:
       | > The daily access limit has been reached. Please try again after
       | midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow.
        
         | uptown wrote:
         | Seems like we flooded the server.
        
           | the_sleaze_ wrote:
           | Hacker News never fails to rise to the occasion
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | Gives an error toast: "The daily access limit has been reached.
       | Please try again after midnight Pacific Time (PT) tomorrow."
        
       | alistairSH wrote:
       | 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       | 2023 - are the estimates hopelessly out of date (and not in the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)?
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | It's fun watching the render fidelity go up
        
       | ksherlock wrote:
       | "Simulator"? Given the ungodly CPU usage this needs, I'd say it's
       | directly responsible for the sea rise.
        
         | Razengan wrote:
         | The best simulator, showing it to you for real. What more do
         | you want?
        
         | AndrewKemendo wrote:
         | That's legitimately funny, but it's kinda expected for that
         | robust of a sim in browser.
        
       | elheffe80 wrote:
       | This project does have the developers (nagix) API key in the code
       | but you could clone it yourself:
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       | https://github.com/nagix/sea-level-rise-3d-map
        
       | AndrewKemendo wrote:
       | 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-...
        
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