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

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  1. petronic · · 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. dekhn · · 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&#x27;s not ... terrible, but as somebody raised on Don Davis&#x27;s art (see all the lovely images here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon... including my personal favorite <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:Stanford_torus_under_construction.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon...)

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