Earth-clock
live WebGL planet with eclipses, weather, earthquakes
Details
- External ID
- 48920032
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Earth-clock
- Website domain
- onemonkey.org
- Launched
- July 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive 3d planet visualization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Earth-clock is a WebGL-based 3D globe visualization that overlays public API data (USGS earthquakes, weather services, astronomical calculations). Three.js/WebGL globe templates combined with standard API polling can be generated straightforwardly with an LLM.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
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