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Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
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Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/million-points/ Currently supports line, area, bar, scatter, pie, and candlestick charts. MIT licensed, available on npm: `npm install chartgpu` Happy to answer questions about WebGPU internals or architecture decisions.

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