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

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I'm excited to see tooling of this nature and scope. Looking forward to seeing similar tooling oriented around all human needs so we can start tracking the meeting of needs to better meet needs, particularly in ways that don't require money.

Thanks for opening this up.

As was already said in one of the reference videos, it's impressive what one person can do.

But the next step is to define an architecture where authors can defined/implement plug-ins with particular modular capabilities instead of one big monolith. For example, instead of front-end (GUI) and back-end (feeds), there ought to be a middle layer that models some of the domain logic (events: surces, filters, sinks; stories/time lines etc.).

I would like to see a plug-in for EMM (European Media Monitor) integrated, for instance ( https://emm.newsbrief.eu/NewsBrief/alertedition/en/ECnews.ht... ).

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

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 the…

Cloudflare Tunnel is solid for quick demos. One thing though — if you're planning the "bring your own keys" version, don't just throw them in a settings page. I went down that road and ended up with keys sitting in localStorage where any XSS could grab them. What worked better for me was having the backend hold the keys and issuing short-lived session tokens to the frontend. More moving parts but way less surface are…

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

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

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I've seen so many of these in the last week alone. I need a realtime OSINT dashboard for OSINT dashboards.

It's pretty interesting to see. My very first real software job was working on ground processing algorithms for the US Navy's Maritime Domain Awareness system, which is the "real" version of something like this that actually gives centimeter scale live activity detections of basically the entire world. The engineering effort that goes into something like that is immense. Bush announced in like 2004 or something and we didn't go into full operational capability until 2015. Thousands of developers across intel, military, commercial contractors, for over a decade, inventing and launching new sensor platforms, along with build outs of the data centers to collect, process, store, and make sense of all this.

I wish these weekend warriors would work on a project like that someday, to see what capabilities truly take. You want to know what's happening in the world, you need to place physical sensors out there, deal with the fact that your own signals are being jammed and blocked, the things you're trying to see are also trying to hide and disguise themselves.

The attention to detail is something I've never seen replicated outside. Every time we changed or put out a new algorithm, we had to process old data with it and explain to analysts and scientists every single pixel that changed in the end product and why.

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

#87

I've seen so many of these in the last week alone. I need a realtime OSINT dashboard for OSINT dashboards.

It's pretty interesting to see. My very first real software job was working on ground processing algorithms for the US Navy's Maritime Domain Awareness system, which is the "real" version of something like this that actually gives centimeter scale live activity detections of basically the entire world. The engineering effort that goes into something like that is immense. Bush announced in like 2004 or something and w…

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 feeds

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What's with so many people creating new accounts to promote LLM generated projects? Are they people who don't care about HN and just trying to self promote? Existing users creating new accounts? Lurkers?

It's a bummer because sometimes the headline seems cool, but its always generated blah blah recently. I don't think I've seen a non-AI readme on here in months.. Everyone has their own hueristic, but if it took someone 6 hours or whatever to make some whole big app, my confidence that they will continue to maintain or care about it even next week is pretty much zero... How could they? They've already made three other…

Plastic cutlery, thats great.

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

#89

I've seen so many of these in the last week alone. I need a realtime OSINT dashboard for OSINT dashboards.

It's pretty interesting to see. My very first real software job was working on ground processing algorithms for the US Navy's Maritime Domain Awareness system, which is the "real" version of something like this that actually gives centimeter scale live activity detections of basically the entire world. The engineering effort that goes into something like that is immense. Bush announced in like 2004 or something and w…

One guy vs the DoD

apples and oranges

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

#90

This is neat. It reminds me of this https://curves-voluntary-livecam-sandra.trycloudflare.com/

i was building sth like this

https://github.com/blue-monads/potato-apps/tree/master/cimpl...

i should finish but have not have time

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