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Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by frm88 »

anonfunction wrote: post #22
4ndrewl wrote: post #5

You might want to rethink scraping marinetraffic before you get a call from their lawyers? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/p/terms

Fair enough, I'm actually not scraping it on any automated cycle currently, I just manually copied the JSON from their site to get some ships on the map. There's a few live ship tracking APIs I considered but they are expensive or their free offering just straight up didn't work. I sent a few an email if they would consider sponsoring the project, no replies yet. - AISStream.io — https://aisstream.io — Down/not worki…

Associated Press cites a service called Windward for their shipping data. I'm completely ignorant on the subject, but might that be of help for you? https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-08-2026#000... (second paragraph).

Your site is very cool. Will test further.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by 000ooo000 »

elSidCampeador wrote: post #57

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

Read somewhere once that trading firms use satellite imagery of shipping to inform trading strategy. Don't know any more about it unfortunately but it sounds interesting.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by anonfunction »

frm88 wrote: post #141
anonfunction wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, I'm actually not scraping it on any automated cycle currently, I just manually copied the JSON from their site to get some ships on the map. There's a few live ship tracking APIs I considered but they are expensive or their free offering just straight up didn't work. I sent a few an email if they would consider sponsoring the project, no replies yet. - AISStream.io — https://aisstream.io — Down/not worki…

Associated Press cites a service called Windward for their shipping data. I'm completely ignorant on the subject, but might that be of help for you? https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-08-2026#000... (second paragraph). Your site is very cool. Will test further.

That’s actually a great find, this page[1] from them I found seems to have more recent data than I’ve otherwise been able to find. I’ll reach out to them to see if they can provide some data to power my site as I don’t like the current setup of old data and prediction market odds. Thanks!

1. https://insights.windward.ai/

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by DwnVoteHoneyPot »

tomtomtom777 wrote: post #123
nodesocket wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shaping the future for “good” is not investing. That is ESG and if you value capital and capital appreciation ESG has been proven not to be a solid strategy. See also altruistic capitalism with such moral people as Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Trevor Milton and Adam Neumann. Solid list of moral people shaping the future.

Wow. I am not sure how to respond to this as you seem to have a completely different mindset. You mean to say it is "proven" not to be a solid strategy as in not maximizing profit? Surely, you acknowledge that funding something is a rather direct way of actively supporting it. It is your money and your choice of what you choose to invest it in, and thus how you choose to shape the future. If you buy OIL to make money…

No, you're wrong. Oil producers produce oil... Consumers consume oil. In between the producers and the consumers, it doesn't matter whether or not trader A sells a barrel of oil to B, then B sells to C, and C sells it someone else. All of the A to B to C is net zero.

All of the money comes from consumers. The money may change hands 100 times in between, but the money from consumers goes to producers.

If you purchase any products which included petroleum in your life, whether it's a house, car (EV or not), or stretchy clothes, that is what funds the oil producers. That where the money goes into the system, including to investors as return.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by creatonez »

elSidCampeador wrote: post #57

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

Public satellite imagery is heavily censored these days.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by killingtime74 »

anonfunction wrote: post #99
killingtime74 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i didnt downvote you but why wouldn't i just go to Polymarket directly for this

I mean you obviously could, the url is a little harder to remember and it doesn't have crossing data. This was just a small fun project I did, so you're free to do whatever you like. The reason I thought of using polymarket data is I didn't have live ship tracking data which is what I originally intended to use.

I don't mean to say your project is not good, quite the opposite. You successfully got the real vessel crossing data and the prediction data is sort of derived or not really based on reality but on the crowd.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

femiagbabiaka wrote: post #112
anonfunction wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's super hard to tell what's actually happening. Because I've seen other reports that Iran state media halted traffic earlier today, as reported by Washington Post[1]: > With Trump and Iran each claiming victory, but still far apart on key issues, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remained at a standstill Wednesday. 1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/08/trump-iran-w...

That's because Israel killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon today.

It's only hard to tell if you rely on the US billionaire controlled media.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by kzrdude »

creatonez wrote: post #145
elSidCampeador wrote: post #57

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

Public satellite imagery is heavily censored these days.

Tangential, but I was wondering if it's maybe related: why doesn't google maps and google earth want to show satellite images of the ocean? It just overlays those areas with blue color.

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

elSidCampeador wrote: post #57

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

The ESA (Sentinel) data is somewhat delayed and has a low revisit period (AFAIK 6 days, although you might get lucky and get more due to overlap the further away from the equator you get) and low resolution. The Sentinel-1 data (SAR, synthetic aperture radar) might be somewhat useful for this as ships should be more easily identifiable on it and you don't have to worry about cloud cover, but probably still less useful than the delayed crossing data.

Ships don't move that quickly; AIS data refreshed once every few hours would probably be more than good enough.

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