christianrowlands/wavedigger

BSSID Search in Apple's public WPS service

SecurityTypeScript

5.3 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 19:41 UTC.

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About the project

Web app that looks up the approximate location of Wi-Fi access points by BSSID and LTE/5G NR cell towers by network parameters via Apple's public WLOC API, with map visualization.

Useful for

Find the approximate location of a Wi-Fi router by its MAC address
Look up LTE or 5G NR tower coordinates by MCC, MNC, TAC and Cell ID/NCI
Self-host the service locally via npm and Next.js for your own queries

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

51 stars so far today, about 62 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 62× as much.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
Hacker News: “WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations” — 52 points, 1 day ago.
Recent forks include notable developers: @Dutchosintguy (305 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 138
Today: 51 · ≈ 62 by evening
Forks: 12
Issues and pull requests: 25
Watchers: 1
Language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
Created: July 30, 2025
Last push: September 14, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations52 points, September 23, 2026

Spotted in

September 24, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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