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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by dark-star on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:33PM (#47462296)
Tried it. Doesn't work. Does not show any vessels for me, list (and map) stays empty, console is full of "WS closed: no close frame received or sent. Reconnecting in 10s"

HN hug of death?

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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by FormerLabFred on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:38PM (#47462335)
You got an aisstream.io key and set it before launching? Check the README.You can hard code it in shadow_tracker.py too

Bedtime in Sweden. Back tomorrow if you need support.

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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by dark-star on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:41PM (#47462360)
yeah, seemed I had an error in that key, it cut off 2 characters at the end. Works fine now, thanks!
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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by FormerLabFred on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:30AM (#47464241)
Good!

Tried to do onboarding guide as proper as possible with the scripts and for different OSs. Many OSINT hobbyists/enthusiasts out there, but not all of them are familiar with installing dependencies/launching Python etc

It takes a few 3 min runs to render/populate the map.

Happy tracking!

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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by dylan604 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:21AM (#47463958)
Feels like that could be the point of the site. It's a shadow fleet where the ships are trying to stay hidden from tracking. That would be a great site.

Kind of like my favorite book on my self title "Everything I Know About Women". It's a hard cover book with hundreds of pages. Every one of them is blank.

I guess I find dumb things funny

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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by FormerLabFred on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:16AM (#47465430)
:)

A hybrid war going on in the Baltic region. Women involved too

We have been running the main system a year. Loads of data, less women

Now there is this light version for the hobbyists, onboarding tricky for some users, but README covers it all

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