Show HN: Probably the most comprehensive weather API currently available This was posted before but I'm quite pleased to share a major update for https://oikolab.com. We now have available seven decades of hourly weather data starting from 1950 for any location in the world, thanks to the recent publication of ERA5 reanalysis data from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ERA5 is gap-free, gridded dataset generated using data assimilation method (https://ift.tt/2sZYnWj), similar to NWP models but with the benefit of hindsight. As far as we're aware of, we're the first weather data service provider to have this extensive range of coverage accessible via REST API, where one can quickly query time-series of weather parameters for any location in seconds rather than hours or days from the original source. Here are some stats: Coverage: Global, from 1950 to 10 days ahead Spatial Resolution: 0.25 deg x 0.25 deg (lat x lon) Temporal Resolution: Hourly Weather Parameters: ~30, including longwave/shortwave radiation, wetbulb temperature, windspeed at 100m, etc. (https://ift.tt/37bc4YZ) NetCDF/GRIB Data Size: ~100TB Data Sources: Historical (ERA5) - https://ift.tt/3oGvGKD Forecast (GFS) - https://ift.tt/1eg5Bxm Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated. Thanks! December 12, 2020 at 11:09AM
Show HN: Launch VM workloads securely and instantaneously, without VMs Hello HN! We've been working on a new hypervisor https://kwarantine.xyz that can run strongly isolated containers. This is still a WIP, but we wanted to give the community an idea about our approach, its benefits, and various use cases it unlocks. Today, VMs are used to host containers, and make up for the lack of strong security as well as kernel isolation in containers. This work adds this missing security piece in containers. We plan on launching a free private beta soon. Meanwhile, we'd deeply appreciate any feedback, and happy to answer any questions here or on our slack channel. Thanks! April 29, 2021 at 07:50AM
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