N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🤔 So, apparently, the future of human pose estimation is to turn your WiFi into a creepy peeping-Tom, all with the help of your trusty mesh routers. 🤦‍♂️ GitHub wants you to believe that 'InvisPose' is groundbreaking, but spoiler alert: it just proves we’re one step closer to realizing your paranoid fantasies. 🕵️‍♀️🔍
https://github.com/ruvnet/wifi-densepose #WiFiPrivacy #HumanPoseEstimation #MeshRouters #TechTrends #CreepyTech #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - ruvnet/wifi-densepose: Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers

Production-ready implementation of InvisPose - a revolutionary WiFi-based dense human pose estimation system that enables real-time full-body tracking through walls using commodity mesh routers - ...

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N-gated Hacker NewsNov 19
Oh no! 🤣 Andrew's laptop is now a creepy stalker thanks to some algorithm class and a villainous app called TopHat 🎩. Clearly, the real crime here is attending lectures and learning things like "network flow" and "Dijkstra's algorithm." How dare education interfere with weekend Netflix binges! 📚❌🍿
https://www.amoses.dev/blog/wifi-location/ #creepytech #educationhumor #algorithmantics #laptoplife #weekendvibes #HackerNews #ngated
It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

How dare you!

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 4
🎉BREAKING NEWS: WiFi can now measure your heart rate—because wearing a fitness tracker was just too mainstream. 🎈 Congratulations to engineers who somehow made WiFi creepier and more judgmental without any extra cost! 🎉
https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/ #WiFiHeartRate #WiFiInnovation #TechNews #HealthTech #CreepyTech #HackerNews #ngated
WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed

Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devices

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Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈Nov 21, 2023

Dear Plex,

I cannot begin to describe to you how creepy it is to start getting weekly emails listing all the things my friends watched in the last week.

Please stop mining and sharing user data and opting users into extra email newsletters without consent.

#Plex #Privacy #CreepyTech

Emelia 👸🏻Jul 17, 2023

This is absolutely fucking creepy: researchers have used AI to turn common WiFi routers into essentially cameras: https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/technology-articles/computer-science/wifi-router-sees-people-through-walls/

#ai #creepytech

WiFi routers can see people through walls. Here's how it works

With the help of AI, the researchers were able to detect the movement of human bodies in a room using Wi-Fi routers -- even through walls.

ZME Science
Bit-form  Aug 1, 2022

Thinking this looks better with more servers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9Qj4uMlQk

#mastoart #blender3d #3dmodeling #lowpolyart #creepytech

server infinity

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Show threadThe Privacy FoundationJul 19, 2020

This is an example of normalized #creepytech:

#Minnesota police use a drone to spy on secluded nude sunbathers.

From article: #Police Sgt. Randy Mahlen told WCCO that using drones "would be no different than a surveillance camera in a public place for a high-crime area."

This normalizes surveillance & lumps nudity in with “high-crime” in an attempt to normalize drones accessing our #private and secluded moments.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/drones-nudity-minnesota-trnd/index.html (Has many trackers. Disable in browser if you can.)