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andrewmutzyesterday at 7:08 PM5 repliesview on HN

Interestingly, this website reliably crashes my firefox on linux while consuming 55GB of memory.

Claude's TLDR of what's causing the problem (may or may not be accurate): "That animation loop is almost certainly leaking memory: each time-step it draws new border geometry (GeoJSON/vector shapes) but doesn't free the old frames, so RAM climbs without bound. When you interact — especially auto-playing the timeline — the tab grows until it swallows all 62 GB of RAM + swap and the kernel kills it."


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vova_hn2yesterday at 7:40 PM

I can confirm, my firefox on linux crashes immediately as well.

Curiously, the website works just fine in chrome on android.

Blink monopoly strikes again, I guess.

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anti_poptoday at 11:00 AM

Same for me (FF 152, Fedora Linux). Fired a bug report, just in case: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054268

hofrogsyesterday at 8:33 PM

This page crashed my browser too. Opened the comments to see this, guess it's not a me issue.

NoboruWatayayesterday at 11:29 PM

No issues on FF on Linux here. No crashes or memory leaks as far as I can see.

cyclotron3kyesterday at 9:46 PM

Crashes my Firefox on Android too