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Show HN: I built a satellite forensic engine to detect fraud in Carbon Markets

2•kccanarch•1h ago
I got tired of reading PDF reports for Carbon Offsets that claimed to be "Protected Forests" but looked suspicious on Google Maps.

So I built Silent Earth—a standalone forensic engine (Python/React) to audit them mathematically.

The Stack: * Ingestion: Scrapes Verra/Gold Standard registries for project coordinates. * Telemetry: Queries the Sentinel-2 Satellite Constellation (via Microsoft Planetary Computer). * Analysis: Calculates NDVI (Biomass Density) and performs spectral analysis on the claimed area. * AXIOM Kernel: Cross-references industrial "shutdown" claims against Tropospheric NO2 levels (Sentinel-5P).

The Result: I routinely find "Verified" assets with an NDVI < 0.2 (Bare Soil).

The tool is currently local-only for privacy, but I'm moving the data stream to Snowflake.

Happy to answer questions about the geospatial stack (Rasterio/Shapely) or the satellite APIs.

Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?

1•singularity2001•32s ago•0 comments

TEE.fail: Breaking Tees via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition

https://tee.fail
1•internet_points•51s ago•1 comments

Building a Real PDF Editor with Replit – A True Case

https://navi.tools/blog/building-a-online-pdf-editor-with-replit-ai-agent
1•zack119•1m ago•0 comments

My Gripes with Prolog

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/my-gripes-with-prolog/
1•RebelPotato•3m ago•0 comments

The Golden Thread

https://roe.dev/blog/the-golden-thread
1•Andugal•3m ago•0 comments

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/musk-still-defending-groks-partial-nudes-as-californi...
2•ndsipa_pomu•11m ago•0 comments

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/
1•nickcotter•13m ago•0 comments

Ravers are swapping dancefloors for chessboards

https://www.huckmag.com/article/ravers-swapping-dancefloors-chess-boards-pieces-knight-sober-club...
1•mellosouls•13m ago•0 comments

The shameful defenestration of Tim [Peters]

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim
1•fabatka•20m ago•0 comments

Use reference documentation tools with AI agents

https://www.stromcapital.fi/blog/reference-documentation-tools
1•ronistrom•23m ago•0 comments

US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-bac...
1•saubeidl•26m ago•0 comments

Q.ANT Second-Generation Photonic Processor to Power the Next Wave of AI and HPC

https://qant.com/press-releases/q-ant-unveils-its-second-generation-photonic-processor-to-power-t...
1•cgeier•27m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/
8•ingve•28m ago•1 comments

Free Online Calculators

https://freeonlinecal.com
1•eashish93•30m ago•0 comments

Laravel Livewire

https://livewire.laravel.com/
1•MarcellusDrum•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Win-link-router – route tel: links to WhatsApp (Windows)

https://github.com/karmaniverous/win-link-router
1•karmaniverous•34m ago•1 comments

OpenAI Partners with Cerebras

https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/
1•rcarmo•34m ago•0 comments

Richard Linklater's love letter to the New Wave

https://observer.co.uk/culture/film/article/richard-linklaters-love-letter-to-the-new-wave
2•tintinnabula•35m ago•0 comments

Have Taken Up Farming

https://dylan.gr/1768295794
2•djnaraps•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic search for MTG

https://mtgbuilder.ai/search
1•Strift•38m ago•0 comments

Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3339869/zhipu-ai-breaks-us-chip-reliance-first-major-m...
1•thunderbong•43m ago•0 comments

After Every Clue

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/seymour-hersh-cover-up/
1•petethomas•43m ago•0 comments

Passenger 6.1.1

https://blog.phusion.nl/passenger-6-1-1/
1•amalinovic•44m ago•0 comments

Move Over, ChatGPT

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/claude-code-ai-hype/685617/
2•petethomas•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are you worried, and care, about AI stealing your code/secrets?

1•fnoef•47m ago•4 comments

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2-generative-ai-on-rasp...
4•schappim•50m ago•0 comments

A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI

https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/
1•theletterf•52m ago•0 comments

AI tools boost individual scientists but could limit research as a whole

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04092-3
2•oliverulerich•57m ago•0 comments

Bags and the Creator Economy

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-249b924a621a
1•casparvitch•1h ago•0 comments

Increasing the performance of WebAssembly Text Format parser by 350%

https://blog.gplane.win/posts/improve-wat-parser-perf.html
1•gplane•1h ago•0 comments