186 pointsby a585gupt5 hours ago22 comments
  • anonymous90821324 minutes ago
    People who prompt an LLM to generate without proper capitalization in order to deceive more people into thinking the text is genuine deserve a special place in hell. Always with the inauthentic feedback CTA, too. This should be killed off HN for flagrantly violating the rules against LLM-generated text, and yet everyone upvotes it.
    • unrented797716 minutes ago
      The nonsensical "I brute force checked it" paragraph is 100% Claude. Nobody writes like that, and no human ever includes this level of irrelevant reassuring detail.
    • moecables15 minutes ago
      can't believe this is a prompt someone would pass in, my last check if someone was human was their lack of proper grammar
  • dingaling9 minutes ago
    > type in any place and it finds every satellite that passed over it

    _Most_ satellites. However, nothing associated with the NRO is in the public TLE catalog.

  • HoldOnAMinute3 hours ago
    I don't say this lightly: This may be the best combination of style and substance I have ever seen.
    • Loughlaan hour ago
      Seriously though. I actually enjoyed using this. Good job to OP even if it's AI.
      • post-itan hour ago
        I think this is a great counterexample to AI sites that suck. It's not the Claudisms and the borders-and-pills that make them suck, because this has all that but is fantastic.
    • dyauspitr2 hours ago
      This is almost certainly Claude but I agree with both style and substance on this post.
    • a585gupt2 hours ago
      thanks! stoked to hear it!
  • award_2 hours ago
    This is not only a very cool idea, but also fantastic execution! Great work and very neat!
  • Eridanus229 minutes ago
    The relevant launch video trailer on your X page is really well produced. How did you go about constructing it?
  • wnissen4 hours ago
    This is great for planning backpacking trips. I have been using Copernicus but you have a lot more and it's much easier to access. Very nice!
  • lol867530937 minutes ago
    Super broken at the moment - or I'm impatient
  • sixtyj5 hours ago
    I have seen a lot of sites with satellites’ overviews… I work in geospatial.

    This site is really good one as you can see exact image taken by a satellite.

    Well done.

  • animal_spirits34 minutes ago
    Welldone! very fun to play with
  • tarpumpan hour ago
    Really cool, and beautiful UX.

    For data sources, it would be cool to add Sentinel-1 since SAR sees through clouds, plus the Umbra and Capella open data archives for some high-res passes.

    • a585guptan hour ago
      Thanks for the sources, will look into them!
  • nico3 hours ago
    This is very cool, and a bit creepy too, but mostly cool

    Really liked the UX, even on a small phone screen it was easy to use. I enjoyed the big typing cursor, it was a unique surprise (almost 100% of text form inputs have either a very small vertical line cursor, or nothing at all - the big cursor feels refreshing)

    • a585gupt3 hours ago
      thanks, glad to hear it!
  • JeppyG3 hours ago
    Very cool. Was this inspired by the latest season of cyberpunk? In case you and Capri need to escape onto a satellite. XD
  • zahirbmirza2 hours ago
    oooh. so fun.

    I imagine, that there is someone with access to this sort of thing, with live imagery from any satellite they click on, in 8k.

    • a585gupt2 hours ago
      yeah def some generals who use stuff that mogs this
  • jttnr4 hours ago
    That looks really nice. I especially like the view showing the satellite flying overhead and the line marking the scanned area.
    • mxuribe3 hours ago
      Yeah, that was so cool; like something right out of a call sci-fi movie or show!
    • a585gupt4 hours ago
      thanks!!
  • hxorr3 hours ago
    Can you get high res images, or are they typically not made public?

    Very cool tool

    • a585gupt3 hours ago
      for most places in the world ~10m/px is the best public image res, some lower (ex. rural areas) and some higher, am working on sourcing higher res for the areas where it's available tho
  • bketelsen3 hours ago
    Great user interface - animations are such a nice touch.
  • Zeetah3 hours ago
    Love the fly overs, and the interface. Just beautiful.
  • jfsebastian3 hours ago
    Pretty damn cool and super smooth. Thanks op!
  • gizajob3 hours ago
    Awesome page. Thanks for building.
  • creeble2 hours ago
    Um, wow. Amazing UI.

    This photo of the SF Bay this morning is a great representation of the fog that settles in over the area:

    https://www.watched.earth/s/3zg2u78u

    • a585gupt2 hours ago
      awesome! thanks for sharing!
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