from Hacker News

Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes

by sethbannon on 6/8/23, 6:36 PM with 109 comments

  • by cypherpunks01 on 6/9/23, 3:41 PM

    #50a7f1 from this morning is an incredibly beautiful blue

    https://storage.googleapis.com/nskyc-3727d.appspot.com/nyc/1...

    Makes me miss NYC.

  • by falloutx on 6/9/23, 12:42 PM

    Such a great little website. you can see it was more orange than Hackernews header just 2 days back.
  • by paweladamczuk on 6/9/23, 6:30 PM

    I wonder how the camera was calibrated in terms of white balance (if at all).

    I have this idea to implement in my house: a sensor that would measure temperature of the light outside and set the lights inside to the same temperature. Getting this measurement right seems to be non-trivial. Though maybe it wouldn't have to be exact in terms of physical units, a pair of sensors calibrated together (one for outside, one for inside) might achieve the desired result too.

  • by foxandmouse on 6/9/23, 3:34 PM

    I find it fascinating how Toronto is no where near as bad as New York. The fight to protect the environment has to be a global one
  • by yonatan8070 on 6/9/23, 1:21 PM

    Has the developer of this posted any blog or documentation of how it works? What hardware/software is used for it?
  • by iso1631 on 6/9/23, 3:09 PM

    Nice, however "a day ago" isn't particularly helpful. For this local EDT time would be fine, but I'd like to know it it's 8am or 11am
  • by samstave on 6/9/23, 3:18 PM

    Zooming out is kinda neat...

    But I would like to be able to see the background image for some of the shots bythemselves - as there are some cool pics of that view.

    https://i.imgur.com/S9I3arV.png

  • by throwaway290 on 6/9/23, 4:44 PM

    It would be interesting if he specified how he came up with RGB values for sky color, like what is his neutral grey point etc.
  • by notRobot on 6/9/23, 1:48 PM

    Scroll down to the end of the page to 2 days ago! It's insane!
  • by UberFly on 6/9/23, 4:38 PM

    This is such a cool idea. Some people are so cleaver.
  • by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on 6/9/23, 1:03 PM

    #000 I didn't think it'd be that dark even at local midnight
  • by fragmede on 6/9/23, 10:42 PM

  • by georgeplusplus on 6/9/23, 12:34 PM

    My heart goes out to new yorkers. This cannot be healthy. If there are long-standing health repercussions I doubt there will be any recourse they can take.
  • by karles on 6/9/23, 12:49 PM

    Is this data not polluted by the skyline? Or does it somewhat take buildings/the skyline into account, and correct for the shades of these objects?
  • by ReptileMan on 6/9/23, 1:06 PM

    Is the urban legend that it started out of controlled burn at WTREX conference true? Couldn't verify, but there are also no outlets debunking it.
  • by rollinDyno on 6/9/23, 12:46 PM

    Very cute, although I'd like to see what the results are like when choosing the dominant rather than the average color.
  • by alex_duf on 6/9/23, 12:35 PM

    Such a simple idea, yet so well executed.
  • by schappim on 6/9/23, 10:59 PM

    Things start to get interesting if you zoom out:

    https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2023-06-10-08-5...

  • by avelis on 6/9/23, 1:50 PM

    It's unfortunate you can't bookmark dates but really cool none the less.
  • by blululu on 6/9/23, 5:58 PM

    I stiched the last two days of this into a quick Timelapse - very cool to watch. https://youtu.be/KTv6tqyr8YU
  • by lom on 6/10/23, 12:06 AM

  • by rcthompson on 6/9/23, 6:35 PM

    The vague timestamps like "an hour ago" are an odd choice, since they're very non-unique.
  • by CWCorrea on 6/9/23, 7:43 PM

    With some kind of API to retrieve the colors the site would be really useful.
  • by radres on 6/9/23, 1:03 PM

    So simple yet beautiful!
  • by ck2 on 6/9/23, 1:11 PM

  • by xnx on 6/9/23, 2:34 PM

    Does this go back further than 2 days?
  • by davidblue on 6/10/23, 12:43 AM

    gosh darn I love this.
  • by scrame on 6/9/23, 8:47 PM

    great domain name!
  • by sgt101 on 6/9/23, 7:18 PM

    This is going to sound brutal - but citizens of New York... if there is anyone in the world to blame for this, it is you...

    Sorry. I know that's horrid. But it's also true.