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Growth · March 8, 2026

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

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…

I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds launched on March 8, 2026 with 312 votes, #76 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Shadowbroker is a real-time open-source intelligence dashboard that aggregates 15 global data feeds into a single map view. It combines aircraft tracking (ADS-B), ship positions (AIS), satellite telemetry, and conflict data from GDELT. Built for analysts and researchers who need simultaneous visibility across multiple global events, the tool runs locally on modest hardware through aggressive data optimization and viewport culling to handle tens of thousands of moving data points without browser crashes.

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From the sources

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. Hook an AI agent up to have it parse through data and find previously unseen correlations. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now. - BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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