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Show HN: My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms

Posted by vancecookcobxin on Sunday May 03, 2026 @10:24AM
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https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker/tree/main

Sup HN,So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was right, and it made the project a lot better.And sure, I had a blast tracking billionaire jets and yachts or discovering GPS jamming in Ukraine was a thrill, and so was watching CCTV feeds from London, along with...

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Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:03PM (#47328110)

lol

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:58PM (#47304741)

Glad to have you aboard!

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @09:01PM (#47303543)

I get it! Unfortunately, you need a security clearance or a really fat wallet to get that kind of data. OSINT is a different thing.

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @08:30PM (#47303292)

Stellar advice! I will totally keep that in mind. Thanks!

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @07:53PM (#47302990)

I REALLY, REALLY dont want it used for that type of stuff.

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:30PM (#47302295)

They are definitely on the horizon! I am a HUGE fan of both of those projects and they are definitely on the roadmap for the architecture...

Right now, ShadowBroker is really optimized for 'blinking blip' real-time radar tracking (streaming the raw GeoJSON payload from the FastAPI backend directly to MapLibre every 60s), so we get as close to as smooth 60fps entity animations across the map.

Moving to something like Martin would be incredible for handling EVEN MORE entities if we start archiving historical flight and AIS data into a proper PostGIS database, but the trade-off of having to invalidate the vector tile cache every few seconds for live-moving targets makes it a bit overkill right now....

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:46PM (#47301274)

Well, I have to make some modifications, but that isn't recommended right now because I have a settings option with the API key right there for the free world to see, lol. I will work on making a version for hosting it, though.

You can throw it on a server and run it for you to see (or anyone else if you trust people or dont care about losing your free API keys) It's just a standard Next.js and FastAPI stack, and there are Dockerfiles in the repo so it should be pretty straightforward to spin up on a cheap VPS (like a DigitalOcean droplet or Hetzner).

Honestly, if you just want to show it off to a few people, running it locally and exposing it with a Cloudflare Tunnel or Ngrok is probably the path of least resistance.

I WILL work on having a version to host it where users have to bring their own keys to see it in the future though

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:36PM (#47301158)

Its all free baby lol

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:22PM (#47301018)

Apparently, I had a bunch of front end developmental scripts that were calling the Windows version of python. Working on it now.

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:20PM (#47301001)

Ah, that's my fault for not making the error handling clearer in the UI. If the map is blank, it usually means the backend is missing the .env file with the free API keys (AISSTREAM_API_KEY and N2YO_API_KEY), so it's silently failing to fetch the streams.

Did the terminal throw any Python FastAPI errors, or did it just serve the Next.js frontend? I'm going to push an update later today to show a prominent "Backend Disconnected / Missing API Keys" warning on the UI so it doesn't just look dead. Thanks for testing it!

Re:Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global... on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:49PM (#47300612)

Thank you for the heads up! Will do.

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

Posted by vancecookcobxin on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:07PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker

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...

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