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

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

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assessment = "ANALYSIS: " if any(k in keywords for k in ["strike", "missile", "attack", "bomb", "drone"]): assessment += f"{random.randint(75, 95)}% probability of kinetic escalation within 24 hours. Recommend immediate asset relocation from projected blast radius." elif... Lol.

That whole code block is pretty funny with those random percentages. Looks like a prop made for a movie or something.

The codebase is likely entirely AI generated without much review. There are fake "analyses", fake UAV data generated, all the hallmarks of an LLM generating placeholder / dummy data.

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

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That live GPS jamming calculation using commercial flight NAC-P degradation is honestly brilliant. Such a clever use of existing public telemetry.

You mentioned compressing the FastAPI payloads by 90% to keep the browser from melting. I'm really curious about your approach there did you just crank up gzip/brotli on the JSON responses, or did you have to switch to something like MessagePack, Protobuf, or a custom binary format to handle that volume of moving GeoJSON features?

Also, never apologize for the "movie hacker" UI. A project like this absolutely deserves that aesthetic. Awesome work!

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