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lukas9

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lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
Hey, thanks for trying it out and noting the bug, I'll look into it! As for the CelesTrack terms and usage, I also couldn't find much info on their website, but I only need one request every two hours so usage limits have never been an issue. For the license, I would assume that the SpaceTrack one would apply since CelesTrack doesn't list one.
lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
Did you possibly misread the App Store page? The app's age rating is 4+, not its age. I published it on the App Store less than a month ago. Also, is there a specific functionality you were using when your device started overheating, and have you tried changing the performance settings in the app?
lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
The reason why I even made this app is that all the similar apps I tried didn't have enough data about the satellites, or just didn't present them in a clean and interesting way. So what I tried to do with my app is to give users multiple options of displaying the satellite positions (AR, 2D, 3D) and have as much data as I could gather for each satellite.
lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
The other guy is not wrong... kinda. I used AI for the code because I have no experience with Swift and SwiftUI, but I do understand how the calculations work, because I designed them. CelesTrack gives me TLE data, precisely describing each satellite's orbit and movement, as well as its current position on the orbit. What my app does is simply simulate the satellite's position (in 30-second intervals) up until 2 or 7 days into the future, and checks whether the satellite is overhead on each interval. Satellites are considered overhead based on just one criterion, and that is that they are above your horizon (so an elevation > 0 degrees). Hope that answers your question.
lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
All the data comes from CelesTrack
lukas9··on Show HN: Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects
The data is refreshed every 2 hours. I have a GitHub action set up to download the data and push it to my Cloudflare Worker.
lukas9··on Show HN: I Wanted AI Code Review I Could Own. So I Built Codra
Isn't this the same as using Cline or Continue in VS Code? These support all APIs, as well as local models.
lukas9··on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
I'm currently working on a fully autonomous software development client. You can just tell the LLM what you want it to build, optionally adding a design doc or screenshots of app designs, and it iteratively keeps building the app and adding new features until you tell it to stop. It uses a vision model to verify correctness and rate the UI in-between iterations. The best part is that it can run purely on relatively small local models (I ran it on Qwen2.5 Coder 14b and Qwen3 VL 8b using my MacBook).
lukas9··on Ask HN: How long has it been since you last opened Stack Overflow?
I've used it a couple of days ago, though I did not find a useful answer for my problem there
lukas9··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
This is what I've noticed lately. I write articles and over the past year or two I had to stop using specific words or change my writing style a bit many times, because people kept asking if it was AI. It just makes me sad when I show someone my work and the first thing they say is "Is this AI"?
lukas9··on Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI
This is awesome, though I have to agree with some other commenters. I like the originals more. Don't really know why, but they just sound more "refreshing" and "original".