Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.
So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.
It's called World Monitor.
Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.
> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.
+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.
It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.
It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.
It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.
Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.
Trading cards and making memories 🥹
Bryan Woo welcomed kids from @seattlechildren's to spend the day trading exclusive baseball cards and sharing a whole lot of smiles.
A developer turned a $5 ESP32 into a tiny but surprisingly powerful ad blocker.
The custom firmware blocks 537,000 ad and tracking domains using only around 50KB of RAM.
Instead of storing the full blocklist in memory, it keeps it in the ESP32’s flash storage.
It blocks requests in about 10 milliseconds, fast enough for everyday browsing.
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