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People living on Earth – All on this page, one by one
- Mengkudulangsat 4y agoWow, 8bn icons on a webpage and it doesn't lag. Is this normal?
- omegabravo 4y agoIt's a tiled image. Still impressive rendering 2,004,000,000,000 pixels, but we see the efforts of clipping reducing that dramatically.
- atmin 4y agoYes. It's one background image, tiled 8 billion times, but you never see more than a screen of tiles at a time. Virtual scrolling is fast.
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- aworks 4y ago7,999,993,869 and counting...
- marapuru 4y agoOpened the page just as it hit 8 billion :-)
- alberto_ol 4y ago8 Billions now
- jmole 4y agoa fancy way of counting down to 12AM PST?
- mzzter 4y agoAh this makes sense after reading about the significance of the date November 15 > The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022. https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/wpp2022_summary_of_results.pdf https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.deve...
- system2 4y agoMakes you wonder how many people died while I was scrolling down. Or was born. It would be more intense to look at while the newborns and dying people blink on that page.
- sulZ 4y agoIf you scroll fast, only two icons would blink
- DarkmSparks 4y agothats a lot of blue bloods, I didnt make it to scroll down to us red blooded people.
- beardyw 4y agoIf you tap it it becomes colour coded. Your wish is granted.
- kleiba 4y agoAwesome! Just by coincidence, I happened to visit that page at the exact point in time when the counter switched from 7,999,999,999 to 8,000,000,000. Epic!
- stefandesu 4y agoDamn, I visited when it was at like 7,999,998,000 and thought I could catch the switch as well, but I missed it.
- Laaas 4y agoIs this something to be celebrated?
- froggychairs 4y agoIf your concern is some sort of collapse because we’ve hit some mystic 8 billion im afraid the number of people on Earth won’t be the tipping point of any societal collapse The planet can support our populations easily, but it can’t support our populations at the rate of resource extraction we are undertaking. Not for long anyways. Maybe your questioning is better served directed in there.
- basemi 4y agoHomepage[0] has even more nice stats! [0] https://www.worldometers.info/ https://www.worldometers.info/
- quickthrower2 4y agoHow real are they? Are they just simulating a poisson distribution or something?
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- dang 4y agoWorld Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957321 - July 2022 (188 comments)
- hirundo 4y agoEither women are giving birth with metronomic precision and cooperation, or the regularity is a coding simplification. It would be fun to randomize the increments to give the illusion of a God's Eye view of humanity.