CIciupicri·Aug 9, 2026
> I’d like to give credit where credit is due.
... but I'm not going to insert a link to his project - https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours
In Mea Culpa – Dark Hoursmbeher2200
DarkHours
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mbeher2200 / DarkHours
DarkHours
Landscape Astrophotography and dark-sky planner — predicts weather, lunar cycles, Milky Way visibility, light pollution, meteor showrs, and Auroras. It finds nearby dark-sky sites, and best nights.
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73GitHub stars
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What it is
Landscape Astrophotography and dark-sky planner — predicts weather, lunar cycles, Milky Way visibility, light pollution, meteor showrs, and Auroras. It finds nearby dark-sky sites, and best nights.
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Observed mentions: 2026-08-08 02:37:19 UTC to 2026-08-09 13:46:14 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 8, 00:00 | 2026-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 03:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Aug 8, 03:00 | 2026-08-08 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 06:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 8, 06:00 | 2026-08-08 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8, 09:00 | 2026-08-08 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8, 12:00 | 2026-08-08 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8, 15:00 | 2026-08-08 15:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8, 18:00 | 2026-08-08 18:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-08 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8, 21:00 | 2026-08-08 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 9, 00:00 | 2026-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 9, 03:00 | 2026-08-09 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 9, 06:00 | 2026-08-09 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 09:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 9, 09:00 | 2026-08-09 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 9, 12:00 | 2026-08-09 12:00:00 UTC | 2026-08-09 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sources> Stealing an open source repo
It's in poor taste for sure but let's not pretend that the chosen license is doing him any favors: https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours/blob/813cf85/LICENSE
Hate to see people fall for the “fewer restrictions == more Free” fallacy. Profit-driven entities love when smart people publish MIT code that they can feed off of without giving anything back.
Nor is the copycat project prevented from using the name without a trademark. For instance one couldn't repackage Mozilla or Blender under those names:
- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75558938&caseSearchType=U...
- https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85852073&caseSearchType=U...
In Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct RejectionThank you for this. The studio's name isn't the only coincidece: https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours, his app is very similar to my open source project.
In App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hourshttps://darkhours.app is very similar, with the same feature set.
And opensource, launched months ago. Full source and commit history here: https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours
In App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark HoursHere's my open source project with the same name and feature set. Super coincidental. Mine's free - and has some clever hacks I put in for location routing that this one doesn't. It was hard to figure out and required engineering that's not a part of the public code base.
The source code and commit history can be seen here.
https://github.com/mbeher2200/DarkHours
In App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours