Show HN: [Geo-Cast] hear what other people are saying
A new website called Geo-Cast allows users to record and share their thoughts with others globally. It utilizes geolocation technology while incorporating randomness for privacy. The project is open source and encourages user feedback and contributions.
- ▪Geo-Cast records and shares what people are saying around the world.
- ▪The website uses browser geolocation with added randomness for privacy.
- ▪It is an open-source project that welcomes user feedback and contributions.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328875 |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 20:35:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T20:50:10.690Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T20:50:10.690Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | GnZQMZDIfECs |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Hi, I wrote this website to record and share what other people are saying around the world. It uses the browser's geolocation (+ a little randomness for privacy reasons). Please record something, and if possible, give me feedback.+ It's all open source, so I appreciate contributions :)Thank you so much.https://geo-cast.hesamian.com/
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.