Hacker News: bfelbo

New comment by bfelbo in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

bfelbo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:52:40 +0000

It’s now EOD Thursday. What was the conclusion of the vote?

(not shown on the chat control website as far as I can tell)

Model-Market Fit

bfelbo — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/model-market-fit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689413

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bfelbo in "RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js"

bfelbo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:13:14 +0000

It’s infuriating how US-centric some OSS maintainers can be. Really sad if the OOS ecosystem also have to fragment into pieces like much of the internet is starting to.

New comment by bfelbo in "Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI"

bfelbo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:58:14 +0000

Great with a truly open model! How much would it cost to train the different versions?

New comment by bfelbo in "A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails"

bfelbo — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:02:40 +0000

Yeah, this was the case before MCPs as well. Especially with some of the really bloated SDKs (looking at you Firebase and Twilio).

New comment by bfelbo in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

bfelbo — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:45:00 +0000

Would love to use Zulip, but the bad mobile app reviews are scaring me off.

New comment by bfelbo in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

bfelbo — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:06:48 +0000

Great hack, thanks for sharing! Any other hacks like this you’ve found useful to improve voice AI?

New comment by bfelbo in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

bfelbo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:37:23 +0000

Good idea. I’ll add some that have annoyed me for years just in case:

- On iOS, the alarms app breaks down once you get to ~250 alarms. You can try to add/delete alarms and it’ll appear like they changed, but the change wont be saved. I can’t use the alarms app now and can’t fix it as I can’t delete alarms. By the way, would be nice to reuse alarms when creating at the same time as an existing alarm so you don’t end up with 250+ alarms in the first place.

- On iOS, the notes app breaks down in long documents (~10 pages of text with bullet points). When writing beyond that, some text will sometimes disappear only to reappear when you type some more. Other times, the cursor disappears. This only happens in long documents. All English text, mainly bullet points, often with some text pasted in.

It’s shocking to me that my iPhone 11 Pro can play gorgeous 3D video games, but can’t handle 250 alarms or 10 pages of text..

New comment by bfelbo in "Cursor uploads local credential files"

bfelbo — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:12:55 +0000

Cursor uploads files like credentials.json, .env, and .git-credentials to their servers for their Cursor Tab model. They do this despite those files being clearly credential secrets and even if these files are listed in .gitignore. See the link for a forum post with repro and details by a Cursor user.

You can use a .cursorignore file to prevent the upload, but you need to have that file present before you open the project in Cursor. You also need to update your .cursorignore file before saving any new credential files into your directory to prevent Cursor from uploading them.

Cursor users might feel safe when they have privacy mode enabled, but IMO that feels like false safety. The Cursor team have responded to the forum post describing the security issue saying that privacy mode only means that the sent files aren't stored in plaintext. They don't say anything about not training on uploaded files.

I have no affiliation with Cursor or any other AI IDE company. Sharing as I use Cursor myself and was shocked to see it autocomplete my own secrets and that it uploads such sensitive files.

Cursor uploads local credential files

bfelbo — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/block-access-to-credential-files-env-env-local-to-prevent-ai-exposure/49217

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366751

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Cursor uploads .env file with secrets despite .gitignore and .cursorignore

bfelbo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:29:59 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/env-file-question/60165

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331770

Points: 46

# Comments: 18

The Tesla protests are getting bigger – and rowdier

bfelbo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/626851/tesla-takedown-protests-elon-musk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43331390

Points: 50

# Comments: 31

Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice

bfelbo — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:10:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/narcolepsy-is-weird-but-i-didnt-notice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653370

Points: 284

# Comments: 106

Structured generation for LLMs performs better - a detailed rebuttal

bfelbo — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:51:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dottxt.co/say-what-you-mean.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226592

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bfelbo in "You could have designed state of the art positional encoding"

bfelbo — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:18:36 +0000

How many dimensions would you need to increase by to capture positional information?

Seems to me like it’d be a quite low number compared to the dimensionality of the semantic vectors?

New comment by bfelbo in "The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank"

bfelbo — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:47:54 +0000

We might need to preserve seeds again due to climate change. Impressive to read about those who literally sacrificed their life during a siege for science and the future of humanity. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by bfelbo in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

bfelbo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:32:56 +0000

There’s very few and poor cables in the areas between Russia/Mongolia/India.

AFAIK, the latency from Mumbai to southern Russia (not that far in distance) is surprisingly high. Much higher than from e.g. Frankfurt to Moscow. Don’t know if it’s enough to violate the triangle equality between Frankfurt-Moscow-Mumbai.

EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics

bfelbo — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240912-eu-consumer-groups-slam-manipulative-video-game-spending-tactics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41518426

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bfelbo in "Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue"

bfelbo — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:14:59 +0000

How does this compare to the popular Graphile Worker library?

https://github.com/graphile/worker

New comment by bfelbo in "OpenAI Announces SearchGPT"

bfelbo — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:12:42 +0000

Can you give an example of a search query where Perplexity really shines?