AI · alternatives · 2026

Is Hormuz open yet? tracks the operational status of the Strait of Hormuz port by aggregating ship tracking data and port status information from multiple sources. It pulls vessel location data from marine traffic APIs… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds▲312

   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 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   OpenStatus▲434

   Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!

   2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →

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   RudderStack, open-source CDI (a.k.a. open-source Segment)▲123

   GitHub: https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/ === Firstly, a big thanks to the HN community for showing us love and support in our previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756). At that point, we had just open-sourced the repo and were not fully prepared for a Show HN. We wanted to share updates since then and also do our official Show HN. Updates since Sept 2019 1. Changed the name from Rudder to RudderStack :) 2. API compatibility with Segment 3. Open-source control plane so no dependency on the hosted control plane for…

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   superlog▲497

   Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh). We're building a self-installing, self healing observability tool meant not to be opened. It has a wizard that daily sets up proper logging and an agent that investigates errors and opens PRs. Super short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhU9Mk247M. In our earlier startups, we tried Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Dash0, and nothing was good enough. Proper telemetry and alerting still requires a ton of manual setup. We struggled with adding good logs, so debugging was tough, especially as…

   Jun 2026 · superlog.sh · its alternatives →

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   Hormuz Crisis Dashboard Real-time shipping disruption tracker▲32

   Built this in ~4 hours with zero coding background. Tracks a few economy angles of the largest acute shipping disruption since WWII.

   Mar 2026 · hormuztracker.com · its alternatives →

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   I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data▲244

   OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogical exercise grew into a full blown visualization and paper about global oil trade. The model: The mechanics are the same as the financial network Eisenberg-Noe: Instead of banks, every country consumes oil interconnected via bilateral trading. Shocks propagate throughout the network, depleting oil reserves when bottleneck nodes (such as the Strait of Hormuz) are blocked. Insights: The interesting part is the mechanics of how the crisis unfolds: for example, France receives 0…

   Jul 2026 · globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io · its alternatives →

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   Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable proximity alerts▲56

   Open source Baltic Sea shadow fleet tracker. 1200+ vessels, live AIS, cable proximity alerts. No cloud, no subscription, runs locally - FormerLab/shadow-fleet-tracker-light

   Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Made a little Artemis II tracker▲154

   Made a little Artemis II tracker for anyone else who is unnecessarily invested in this mission: https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/ For those of us who apparently need a dedicated place to monitor this mission instead of behaving like well-adjusted people.

   Apr 2026 · artemis-ii-tracker.com · its alternatives →

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   The Official National Train Map Sucked, So I Made My Own▲77

   Hi HN, I’m a junior developer. I wanted to share a side project I’ve been working on. The national railway carrier (BDZ) has no public API. They have an official map but the UI is quite dated, often lags, and doesn't show the full route context. I wrote a short write-up about the process here: https://www.pavlinbg.com/posts/bg-train-tracker I know it's still rough around the edges (I'm still working on it), but I’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions!

   Dec 2025 · bdzmap.com · its alternatives →

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    Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds▲139

    This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…

    2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    StatusBay▲73

    Open source that provides visibility into K8s deployments

    2020 · statusbay.io · its alternatives →

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    Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring▲101

    Hello Everyone, I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback. We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem. - Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts. - The UI not…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Malaz Maritime Intelligence▲1

    AI maritime dashboard — vessel tracking & port alerts

    May 2026 · 1862034712569.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    StatusBay–provides the missing visibility into K8s deployment process▲12

    Hi Guys, Yesterday we have released StatusBay . StatusBay is an open source tool that provides the missing visibility into the K8s deployment process https://statusbay.io/ https://github.com/similarweb/statusbay https://github.com/similarweb/statusbay-helm Would love to hear your thoughts & feedback. Enjoy!

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    RudderStack, open-source CDI (open-source Segment alternative)▲12

    RudderStack (https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server) is an open-source customer data infrastructure (a.k.a open-source alternative to Segment). We firstly want to thank the HN community for showing us love and support in our previous HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21081756). At that point, we had just open-sourced the repo and were not fully prepared for a Show HN. We wanted to share updates since then and also do our official Show HN. Updates since Sept 2019 ================= 1. Changed the name from Rudder to RudderStack :) 2. API…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours▲37

    I scraped every Show HN from the last 12 months (41,301 posts) plus the full comment tree of every launch with 10+ comments, ~100k comment timestamps, all from the Algolia HN API. The median launch gets 2 points and 0 comments. For launches that do get traction, half the comments they'll ever get arrive within 7.2 hours and 90% within 26, and the top decile decays on the same clock as everyone else. Vote timestamps aren't public, so comment timing is the attention proxy; caveats are in the post. Everything reproduces from the repo with one command…

    Jul 2026 · jonno.nz · its alternatives →

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    Hormuz Signal – Iran war escalation risk from real data▲6

    Should you buy oil right now? Hormuz Signal answers with a live verdict built from fast signals (intraday Brent, conflict tempo, strait transits) on top of a 0–100 composite of Iran-conflict escalation risk — shipping, insurance, and energy data, not headlines.

    28d ago · hormuzsignal.com · its alternatives →

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    GeoTraceroute – Traceroutes on a 3D globe and submarine cables▲21

    I've been working on GeoTraceroute for a while and just shipped v2.3 with submarine cable inference. A few things that might interest HN: - 320 community-contributed nodes across 50 countries, all volunteer-run - Three views: 3D globe with day/night rendering, 2D map, and a topological mode that infers submarine cable routing - The submarine cable inference is the part I find most interesting. Since cable routers don't respond to ICMP, the underwater segments are invisible to standard traceroute. The tool detects ocean crossings by geolocation delta between consecutive hops, then infers…

    Apr 2026 · geotraceroute.com · its alternatives →

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    StrikeRadar – USA Strike on Iran Monitor▲5

    Real-time geopolitical risk monitor tracking USA-Iran tension indicators. Live data from news, aviation, oil prices, Hormuz shipping incidents, and prediction markets. Updated every 30 minutes.

    Jan 2026 · usstrikeradar.com · its alternatives →

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    Global Maritime Chokepoints▲16

    Interactive reference guide to the world

    Mar 2026 · ryanshook.org · its alternatives →

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    UpToWhere▲28

    The idea came to me after spotting the sea peeking through mountains on a drive near Barcelona. It left me wondering what else was visible from different locations. Some of the features I later added include 3D maps, sun path calculation, adjustable elevation (calculate from a drone/plane POV), and mountain detection. To celebrate the launch, the first 100 HN users can get 1 month of free premium access with the code: UTWfirst100. I’d love your feedback, questions, and suggestions. What would you use this for? What features would you like to see?

    2025 · uptowhere.com · its alternatives →

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    AttackerView▲13

    Last week I wrote about building a scanner that writes its own exploits. A cron job runs Claude Code every night, it reads new CVEs, writes proof-of-concept checks, tests them against vulnerable and patched Docker instances, and opens PRs. I review and merge in the morning. That post was about how t

    Feb 2026 · attackerview.com · its alternatives →

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    GetMarine - Ship Tracking

    Ship Tracking and Straits Info

    Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Make reports from your pull requests with Shipping Report▲7

    Diese Website steht zum Verkauf! shippingreport.com ist die beste Quelle für alle Informationen die Sie suchen. Von allgemeinen Themen bis hin zu speziellen Sachverhalten, finden Sie auf shippingreport.com alles. Wir hoffen, dass Sie hier das Gesuchte finden!

    2018 · shippingreport.com · its alternatives →

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