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I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around

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petronic · 1791148088 · focus · HN ↗
Just a heads up - this site managed to choke WindowServer on MacOS 27/Safari long enough to trigger a watchdog reboot.
I never managed to load it and had to rush to kill its tab after the OS restarted and it began choking the machine again.
1. embedding-shape · 1791150842 · focus · HN ↗
  Indeed, it also froze both Firefox and Chrome running on Arch with a Threadripper 9970X. Not sure what kind of hardware is able to run this webpage.
2. dekhn · 1791151209 · focus · HN ↗
  Wow, I opened it on my workstation (high-end intel w/ 64GB RAM and a 5090 with 32GB VRAM) and it hung my Chrome.
  Oh- I see, the whole browser locks when it's doing the final GPU upload. Now it's running at 60FPS.
  It's not ... terrible, but as somebody raised on Don Davis's art (see all the lovely images here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon... including my personal favorite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space#/media/File:Stanford_torus_under_construction.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon...)
3. Ohentis · 1791160043 · focus · HN ↗
  I feel like "webgpu doesn't work on safari" has been a recurring theme lately. Does anyone know why?

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