# christianrowlands/wavedigger

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 142 total · +54 stars today, ≈ 63 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: TypeScript · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2025-07-30 · Last push: 2026-09-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger · Homepage: https://wavedigger.networksurvey.app · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/christianrowlands/wavedigger

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 54 stars so far today, about 63 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 63× 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” — 67 points, 1 day ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @Dutchosintguy (305 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 12
- Issues and pull requests: 25
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 17 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-26 … 2026-09-24: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 55, 54

## Hacker News

- WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations — 67 points, 10 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815370

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 20:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.