frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East

https://maps.blitzortung.org/
51•0ut0flin3•2h ago

Comments

stared•1h ago
Is sad times when Blitzortung becomes a monitor of Blitzkrieg.
exitb•1h ago
How could it possibly work like that? Isn't the detection based on lightning radio emissions?
dguest•1h ago
Yeah, check out the service that www.windy.com uses:

https://www.nowcast.de/en/

it's an array of VLF/LF radio antenna.

btbuildem•1h ago
That's kind of amazing. You could use weather app data to remove ~all the lightning and the remainder would be a livestream of missile strikes and bombings. Insane.
throawayonthe•1h ago
are you sure it isn't actually thunderstorms? https://www.ventusky.com/thunderstorms-map/cape-shear
guerrilla•1h ago
Are you sure about that? There have been thunderstorms all over the Middle East this week. It was flooding in Oman a few days ago and today it's raining in Iran. There's video of the lightning from various places.
thomasgeelens•1h ago
I was like: wow there is an app that tracks real-time lighting? Cool! Then I went.. oh.
quuxplusone•1h ago
This headline seems editorialized, given that the URL just goes to maps.blitzortung.org, which makes no such claim (and AFAICT the map shows no unusual activity around Iran as of this particular instant either — maybe it did an hour ago, for all I know).
0dayman•58m ago
false headline, static map, bullshit app
grumbelbart•46m ago
The data behind the app is pretty solid, but lightningmaps.org has a much better visualization (based on the same data).
akazantsev•54m ago
If that were the case, you could see at least some activity in Ukraine.

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape...
77•speckx•1h ago•33 comments

The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

https://riseproject.dev/2026/03/24/announcing-the-rise-risc-v-runners-free-native-risc-v-ci-on-gi...
33•thebeardisred•3d ago•5 comments

AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust

https://github.com/DavidHavoc/ayaFlow
27•tanelpoder•2h ago•1 comments

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
23•emersonmacro•1d ago•0 comments

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-stu...
402•giuliomagnifico•8h ago•173 comments

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition
154•ourmandave•3h ago•63 comments

Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes

https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam
7•dannote•20h ago•1 comments

VR Is Not Dead

https://yadin.com/notes/vr-abides/
7•dryadin•4d ago•4 comments

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

https://sytse.com/cancer/
1292•bob_theslob646•1d ago•247 comments

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma
203•LucidLynx•7h ago•157 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.html
17•zdw•1h ago•7 comments

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

329•hrncode•9h ago•220 comments

A nearly perfect USB cable tester

https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-e...
209•birdculture•3d ago•102 comments

The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine

https://gladeart.com/blog/the-bot-situation-on-the-internet-is-actually-worse-than-you-could-imag...
114•ohjeez•1h ago•76 comments

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-tim...
59•onei•2h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

https://sheetninja.io
51•sxa001•6h ago•53 comments

Show HN: Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support

https://github.com/owenrumney/go-lsp
60•rumno0•4d ago•11 comments

Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

https://isp.netscape.com/
11•mistyvales•24m ago•1 comments

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research
742•oldfrenchfries•1d ago•581 comments

I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper

https://manualdousuario.net/en/how-to-kindle-personal-newspaper/
135•rpgbr•2d ago•50 comments

CSS is DOOMed

https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/
451•msephton•21h ago•106 comments

The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (2010)

https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Idealization/index.html
33•nill0•2d ago•2 comments

Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/03/29/stop-publishing-garbage-data-its-embarrassing/
52•hermitcrab•2h ago•42 comments

Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/sound-cards/comparison-of-usd4-000-boutique-audio-cabl...
29•nick__m•1h ago•50 comments

Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

https://breezepdf.com/?v=3
12•philjohnson•4h ago•7 comments

First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage
9•_tk_•43m ago•4 comments

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194
192•bookofjoe•17h ago•128 comments

Siclair Microvision (1977)

https://r-type.org/articles/art-452.htm
44•joebig•3d ago•16 comments

TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/28/tsa-line-sitters/
64•bookofjoe•4h ago•90 comments

When Do We Become Adults, Really?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/when-do-we-become-adults-really
30•benbreen•3d ago•55 comments