The discussion centers on the feasibility and implications of using TV broadcast signals for passive surveillance, with participants debating whether this represents a novel threat or an extension of existing RF monitoring capabilities. A significant sub-thread disputes the legitimacy of specific open-source projects like RuView, labeling them as scams with fake data, while others engage in technical debates about historical eavesdropping techniques and modern privacy mitigations.
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wifi-densepose
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deletexiumu / wifi-densepose
wifi-densepose
⚠️ SCAM ALERT: Technical audit reveals this project is a non-functional AI-generated facade with fake CSI data, no trained models, and suspected star inflation
4Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
113GitHub stars
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What it is
⚠️ SCAM ALERT: Technical audit reveals this project is a non-functional AI-generated facade with fake CSI data, no trained models, and suspected star inflation
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
- ruvnet/ruview · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by week5 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-03-03 20:20:56 UTC to 2026-05-22 13:58:51 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2 | 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 9 | 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 16 | 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 23 | 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 30 | 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 6 | 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 13 | 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 20 | 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 27 | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 4 | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 11 | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 18 | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesREreconnecting·May 22, 2026
> I think AI tools are more like Iron Man's suit.
There's an interesting repository with 63600 stars on GitHub (1). The developer of the repository is No 1 at the GitHub's trending contributors list (2). However, it seems like the application isn't what it's described to be (3), and the developers, on their end, are unable to clearly answer whether this is real or not, as it's just messy LLM output.
Proof that the suit alone doesn't make anyone Iron Man.
1. https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView
2. https://github.com/trending/developers?since=weekly
3. https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose
In AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skillsRuView – WiFi DensePose: See Through Walls with WiFi (Scam Alert)
2 points · Open discussionIt is slop. Top starred fork is this: https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose (although still AI generated, at least it's honest)
In Sense Humans with WiFi – RuviewThis is the level of quality you can expect from `ruvnet` projects:
https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose
As a very pro-AI person, this is exactly what I would define AI slop.
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The whole thing is a scam: https://cognitum.one/
In [dead]This project is not real.
https://github.com/deletexiumu/wifi-densepose
It's 100% AI generated slop and is non functional. Zero people can verify it works, the creator refuses to show evidence or videos of it working and looking at the codebase shows very clearly it's using mock data and has no functionality.
https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView/blob/407b46b206757e6c2e7c71...
This is great example of why you cannot take it seriously.
In RuView – WiFi DensePose: See Through Walls with WiFi