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Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data

https://iesna.eu/?wasm=skyglow_demo
6•holg•1h ago
Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard luminaire files (LDT/EULUMDAT, IES LM-63, Oxytech, ATLA-S001), running design calculations against EN 13201 / ANSI/IES RP-8 / CJJ 45 / IES-IDA MLO, and (the part I most want to show off here) rendering real urban scenes in Bevy with the photometric data driving actual streetlight behavior, including sky-glow contribution. The Skyglow Analysis demo loads a real LDT file into a Bevy scene (Khronos Bistro test asset). The luminaire's intensity distribution drives the streetlight rendering directly — no fudging — and the sky-glow grade updates live as you adjust the uplight percentage. Swap to a full-cutoff fixture and the sky goes from F (Severe) back to A (Excellent). You can see the difference on the buildings as well as in the sky. Stack: Rust core (eulumdat-rs and friends, ~20 crates handling photometric formats), Bevy for the 3D rendering, WASM for browser deployment. No backend; everything runs client-side. About a thousand lines of new code on top of the existing photometric library to make the Bevy integration work. Things I'd love feedback on:

The atmospheric scattering model is currently single-scattering Rayleigh+Mie. Is that defensible for the use case, or should I move toward multi-scattering? The Bistro test scene works well visually but isn't a controlled environment. Anyone know of a public urban geometry asset that's more typical of real road-lighting evaluation? The CJJ 45 implementation (China's national road lighting standard) is the only one I've had to reverse-engineer from translated PDFs. If anyone has primary-source experience with it, I'd value a sanity check.

Open-source on GitHub (eulumdat-rs and the related crates). Crates.io: eulumdat

Ask HN: Best way to develop games for beginners

1•Jean-Philipe•1m ago•0 comments

Spirit Airlines says it's going out of business after 34 years

https://apnews.com/article/spirit-airlines-trump-bailout-bankruptcy-37a4818e1b71c0905d022f669d85948c
1•geox•1m ago•0 comments

Why eldest siblings are brainier

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/04/16/why-eldest-siblings-are-brainier
1•pseudolus•7m ago•1 comments

The Rooks Have Returned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rooks_Have_Returned
1•ustad•7m ago•0 comments

Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs – [un]prompted 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg
1•swolpers•10m ago•0 comments

Pequod – A colour palette for reading and code, rooted in Moby-Dick

https://github.com/tiagojct/pequod
1•tiagojct•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks

https://mljar.com/
4•pplonski86•14m ago•0 comments

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-...
1•SockThief•15m ago•0 comments

Leading journal finds AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-journal-ai-academic-publishing-quality.html
1•pseudolus•17m ago•0 comments

Why TUIs are making a comeback

https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/
1•alcidesfonseca•19m ago•0 comments

ICANN opens applications for new top-level domains for the first time since 2012

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/icann_new_gtld_applications/
1•thunderbong•20m ago•0 comments

Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/inverse-sapir-whorf-and-programming-languages/
2•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind

https://thewalrus.ca/the-ai-race-is-charged-by-the-fear-of-being-left-behind/
2•pseudolus•29m ago•0 comments

"Gazump"

https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2026/05/01/gazump/
1•jjgreen•33m ago•0 comments

We migrated 100 services from Nginx to Envoy in one month

https://www.qovery.com/blog/alan-from-nginx-to-envoy-what-actually-happens-when-you-swap-your-pro...
1•ev0xmusic•33m ago•0 comments

Bep/gallerydeluxe: Fast Hugo gallery theme/module suitable for lots of images

https://github.com/bep/gallerydeluxe
1•Tomte•39m ago•0 comments

PgAdmin: The Most Popular PostgreSQL Admin Tool

https://www.pgadmin.org/
1•doener•39m ago•0 comments

Some Notes on AI

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15672
1•jjgreen•43m ago•0 comments

RAG isn't memory. It's Ctrl+F with embeddings

https://medium.com/@vbcherepanov/rag-isnt-memory-it-s-ctrl-f-with-embeddings-c461b90ac7b1
2•vbcherepanov•45m ago•0 comments

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How GitHub lost its way

https://substack.com/@usiddique09/p-196195940
2•usmansidd•47m ago•0 comments

clang-format configurator v2

https://clang-format-configurator.site/
1•gjvc•50m ago•0 comments

Apple just gave a clue that a big AI acquisition may be in the cards

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-just-gave-a-subtle-clue-that-a-splashy-ai-acquisition-may...
2•dalvrosa•50m ago•0 comments

First Nations students are teaching themselves

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/frog-lake-cree-language-app-9.7185348
3•01-_-•51m ago•0 comments

Convicted former Harvard scientist rebuilds brain computer lab in China

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/convicted-former-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-brain-computer-la...
3•01-_-•51m ago•0 comments

Looking for Employers for the job fair and hiring with Meeting C++

https://www.meetingcpp.com/meetingcpp/news/items/Looking-for-Employers-for-the-job-fair-and-hirin...
1•dalvrosa•53m ago•0 comments

Gall's Law – Yagnipedia

https://yagnipedia.com/wiki/galls-law
3•ankitg12•56m ago•0 comments

Neomd: A minimal terminal email client for people who write in Markdown

https://neomd.ssp.sh/
1•handfuloflight•57m ago•0 comments

The Discord migration that didn't happen

https://productimpossible.com/articles/discord-migration-that-didnt-happen/
2•sebakubisz•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Autorank – Rank on Google and AI search while you sleep

https://www.getautorank.ai/
1•alokjnv10•1h ago•0 comments