I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
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Sup HN,So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker.I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance.Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop with an i5 and an RTX 3050, and initially, dumping 30k+ moving GeoJSON features onto the map just crashed everything. I ended up having to write pretty aggressive viewport culling, debounce the state updates, and compress the FastAPI payloads by like 90% just to make it usable.My favorite part is the signal layer—it actually calculates live GPS jamming zones by aggregating the real-time navigation degradation (NAC-P) of commercial flights overhead.It’s Next.js and Python. I threw a quick-start script in the releases if you just want to spin it up, but the repo is open if you want to dig into the backend.Let me know if my MapLibre implementation is terrible, I'm always looking for ways to optimize the rendering.
HN · launched Mar 8, 2026 · 312 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: geospatial and transport tracking platforms · 50 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Analytics & BI
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is an OSINT dashboard aggregator that pulls public APIs (ADS-B feeds, AIS marine data, Twitter/RSS) into a single local web dashboard, which AI assistants can construct readily.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Moveet (open-source fleet simulator with WebSocket streaming), Twitter/X feed (for war room monitoring)
Concerns raised: Fake UAV data and placeholder dummy content generated by LLM, Codebase appears entirely AI-generated without review, Scraping with Playwright/cloudscraper violates ToS on some sites, CORS wide open (allow_origins=["*"]) enables cross-site requests, Random percentage assessments look fabricated/untrustworthy
Feature requests: City name search to gather available data automatically, Staleness/freshness signals showing last-updated timestamps per source, Proper terminology: change 'full-spectrum geospatial intelligence' to 'air and space domain awareness'
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Launched 130 days after the earliest competitor.
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