My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms
Sup HN, So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was right, and it made the project a lot better. And sure, I had a blast tracking billionaire jets and yachts or discovering GPS jamming in Ukraine was a thrill, and so was watching CCTV feeds from London, along with ships, satellites, conflict zones, etc., but eventually it dawned on me…where does my OSINT dashboard actually go from there? What good is all of the telemetry if people cannot communicate with each other…
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Sup HN, So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was right, and it made the project a lot better. And sure, I had a blast tracking billionaire jets and yachts or discovering GPS jamming in Ukraine was a thrill, and so was watching CCTV feeds from London, along with ships, satellites, conflict zones, etc., but eventually it dawned on me…where does my OSINT dashboard actually go from there? What good is all of the telemetry if people cannot communicate with each other about it, and it was just something that sat in my Docker container? I let the notion stew for a while, and eventually the idea of an OSINT dashboard started mutating into something more. I started thinking about utility. What usefulness could telemetry like this have? What lanes were underdeveloped in this space? Soon the angle became more clear. P2P obfuscated communication. I began to gravitate towards the possibility that the app could be designed to pseudonymously communicate over Tor or Reticulum in Reddit like groups or in rooms with rules and governance dictated by code. Then another notion hit...what if people off-grid using Meshtastic could communicate halfway across the world? What if you could DM those off-grid devices and they could relay messages back to civilization? What if the whole thing was tied to telemetry on and off the grid? What about letting agents like Openclaw or whatever are peoples favorite agents communicate with you and use their analytical capabilities to find correlations in the data that slip through human analysis? That's where this stopped being "just an OSINT map" and turned into something like a decentralized intelligence protocol. So I started building something on top of ShadowBroker called InfoNet. It's in testnet right now. The short version is that it's an experimental mesh with the long-term goal of eventually becoming a protocol that combines communication with fact checking and rewards it where information is incentivized to be anchored to verifiable reality instead of whoever has the most money, status, institutional power, or just the loudest voice. Some of this is working, some of it is scaffolding, and a lot of it still needs tons of hardening. If you want to see what an AI agent can do with the telemetry, the recommended setup is letting OpenClaw/Hermes, or whatever agent you use install the repo locally. You can connect to a remote instance, too, but its responses will be insanely slow. The hope here is that by giving agents all of this telemetry they would also I would like to stress that it is absolutely not production safe. I do not trust it yet. Neither should anyone else. Right now, the Dead Drop lane is the strongest privacy path. Gate chat is still experimental and not truly private. I'd rather be honest about that because fake privacy claims are worse than no privacy at all. The governance side is where it gets weird. I started adding prediction market telemetry as a reputation engine…what if reputation came from choosing outcomes correctly? I honestly have no idea if this works. There are a million ways this can go wrong…spam, Sybil attacks, fake confidence, bad incentives, privacy theater, gaming prediction market outcomes, or even people gaming the reputation layer itself. I'm trying to build enough of the system to see where it breaks, and specifically whether reputation makes Sybil behavior less useful or just moves the attack surface somewhere else. There is a very real chance I'm just building cyberpunk infrastructure gone off the rails in public. Maybe. It is still experimental and rough around the edges. But I'd genuinely love brutal criticism from people who have thought deeply about game theory, distributed systems, privacy, and trust networks, because I know there are holes in this thinking I haven't seen yet.
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This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat. Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-D Currently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-) Let me know what you think!
- MWmy weekend project, Vidless. "CloudApp" for video chat.2012 · vidless.com · ▲16
I always find myself frustrated by how many steps I have to take to video chat with someone online. There's always too much software to download and install, and too many accounts to remember. The high-end, high-price Cisco conferencing systems I've used are especially fragile. So I built Vidless in a weekend for myself, and I hope you find it useful too. Just create a room and share the link, and you'll be chatting in seconds. You can invite several people (I haven't really tested a max yet), and chats on Vidless are always private. Enjoy!
- HMHoodmaps Meets 4chan2024 · mapchan.com · ▲8
I made this as a pair programming exercise with o1-preview. o1 did most of the heavy lifting, through high level prompts, but eventually I needed to diverge from it to get to completion. My initial prompt was: --- I'm making a web app: It's like 4chan, but each thread starts with a gps coordinate. People can only post text and images. I want to build it with flask and sqlalchemy. I want just the backend and data model that supports these threads, anonymous users, and users that can register a permanent username. Write as much of it as you can for me. --- This produced a fully scaffolded…
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