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pISSStream

App that shows how full the International Space Station's urine tank is in real time, available for macOS (menu bar), iOS, watchOS and visionOS

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What it is

App that shows how full the International Space Station's urine tank is in real time, available for macOS (menu bar), iOS, watchOS and visionOS

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by 6-hour interval5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-12-19 18:40:20 UTC to 2024-12-26 15:41:27 UTC.

012024-12-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 19, 18:002024-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-20 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-20 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-20 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-20 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-20 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-20 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-21 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-21 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-21 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-21 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-21 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-21 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-22 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-22 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-22 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-22 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-22 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-22 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-23 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 23, 00:002024-12-23 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-23 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-23 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-23 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-23 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-24 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-24 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-24 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-24 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-24 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-24 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-25 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-12-25 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-25 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-25 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-25 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-25 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-26 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-26 06:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-26 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-26 12:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-26 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 26, 12:00

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Dec 19, 18:002024-12-19 18:00:00 UTC2024-12-20 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20, 00:002024-12-20 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-20 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20, 06:002024-12-20 06:00:00 UTC2024-12-20 12:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 24, 00:002024-12-24 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-24 06:00:00 UTC000
Dec 24, 06:002024-12-24 06:00:00 UTC2024-12-24 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 24, 12:002024-12-24 12:00:00 UTC2024-12-24 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 24, 18:002024-12-24 18:00:00 UTC2024-12-25 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 25, 00:002024-12-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-25 06:00:00 UTC101
Dec 25, 06:002024-12-25 06:00:00 UTC2024-12-25 12:00:00 UTC000
Dec 25, 12:002024-12-25 12:00:00 UTC2024-12-25 18:00:00 UTC000
Dec 25, 18:002024-12-25 18:00:00 UTC2024-12-26 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 26, 00:002024-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-26 06:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 26, 12:002024-12-26 12:00:00 UTC2024-12-26 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
jaennaet·Dec 25, 2024
I would like to remind everyone that the "New pull request" button is like right there on https://github.com/jaennaet/piSSStream/pulls It'd be fantastic to have the flag of the country last pissed on in the menu bar item. Ie. when the tank level increased last I guess? The value doesn't always seem to just monotonically increase though, but I could be wrong – frankly I haven't paid that close attention to the value. Could also be something like microgravity causing a bit of… uh… slosh making the sensor reading slightly inaccurate, or something along those lines?
In macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
jaennaet·Dec 19, 2024Submission

Show HN: macOS app that shows how full the urine tank on the ISS is

Yes, the urine tank on the International Space Station. In real time, I might add! This uses the official live telemetry stream from Lightstreamer, although – at least at the moment – it doesn't eg. check what the signal status is so telemetry might be down altogether and you'd never know. Maybe in v0.2. Native menu bar application, so it doesn't require running a copy of Chromium and Node to show you two emojis and a percentage. I got the idea for this when somebody linked to https://iss-mimic.github.io/Mimic/ joking about how we can see in real time how full the urine tank on the ISS is; after I understood that there's a public live telemetry stream I knew in my heart I had to do something very silly with it. I've also finally been learning Swift and macOS programming in general and I figured this'd be an excellent first Swift project,
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so here we all are. Just as an aside, the "ISS Mimic" project itself is very interesting and worth checking out (https://github.com/ISS-Mimic/Mimic). I'm in no way, shape or form affiliated with them and they have no idea who I am.
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