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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by dawnerd on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:28AM (#47464236)
Seems a bit deceptive to say "No cloud, no subscription, runs locally" when it still needs an api.
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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by FormerLabFred on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:35AM (#47464275)
From head of README

“ Free, open source, runs locally. No cloud, no subscription beyond a free AISStream API key.”

I mean we don’t have the vessels floating around live locally inside machine :) Gotta get the AIS messages from somewhere

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Re:Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable pr... by FormerLabFred on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:37AM (#47464290)
And the webserver is running locally, this is not web based, that’s the no cloud part
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