Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
by beeswaxpat on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:29PM
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Thank you! You know you are the 2nd person to mention a screensaver, that is enough motivation for me to build it! Seems like it shouldn't be that hard, I will look into it soon.
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Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
by pugworthy on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:47PM
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I just was going to post same, so make it a 3rd!
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
by beeswaxpat on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:04PM
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I did not anticipate having a screensaver project on my bingo card on this day in 2026 but it is now so!
I am guessing that most people would want to see the Sun videos for a screen saver, maybe a random wavelength on each screensaver instance? I will make an opensource repo to it that works on desktop-anything with a little GUI for user settings/preferences.
EDIT: Or did you all mean basically replicating the site as it is but as like a dashboard screensaver? Thank you for all the feedback!
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
by hersko on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:08PM
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I meant the whole page with the four sections, but maybe also enable any specific part as well would be cool.
Re:Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
by beeswaxpat on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @06:09PM
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Hmm I will think on this. An open source desktop widget could recreate the screensaver function, triggering on X minutes of inactivity, then minimize upon any user activity. I'll play around and see!