Hacker News: bornfreddy

New comment by bornfreddy in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

bornfreddy — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:31:37 +0000

2026: Google again found breaking the law.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support"

bornfreddy — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:10:00 +0000

This is actually not the only crusade Graphene is engaged in (see also NetGuard, MicroG). Agreed, this makes the project much less valuable in this commenter's eyes.

New comment by bornfreddy in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

bornfreddy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:56:22 +0000

For me, Fable is useless. It goes its own way and doesn't communicate much even if explicitly asked to. Sure it builds a lot of stuff, but it is more often than not useless because it misinterpreted the intention and didn't stop to ask - and because it doesn't communicate, it goes unnoticed for too long. Opus is much better for regular work, imho.

New comment by bornfreddy in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

bornfreddy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:49:23 +0000

Wow, just wow. How about charging the website builders for negligence, for failing to protect sensitive data? Simply incredible.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

bornfreddy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:08:12 +0000

No difference - very similar actually.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

bornfreddy — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:07:37 +0000

It can be done so that it looks like a series of "oopsie" bugs. China (the same as US) has used spycraft extensively in the past.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

bornfreddy — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:09:25 +0000

> Using a Chinese LLM will not put a Marxist under your bed.

Interesting tangent - it might be taught to introduce stealthy backdoors in your company though. Maybe even across multiple PRs where each session puts a small chink in the armor, and together they allow unlimited access to the attacker who knows about them.

After all, LLMs are mostly black boxes. How comfortable would you be running a Chinese compiler?

New comment by bornfreddy in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

bornfreddy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:38:14 +0000

> ...many pages simply do not work properly with it,...

Using Google's websites much, are we? FF works great everywhere except there. I think the official term for the bugs on these pages is "oops"...

I use FF everywhere except on G pages, where I use Brave.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

bornfreddy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:52:23 +0000

The big gotcha is what one understands under the word "use". If I want to USE it as a basis for my business where I sell routers with the GPL software, there are some tiny restrictions regarding that, as Linksys learned [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt (see History section)

New comment by bornfreddy in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

bornfreddy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:20:30 +0000

> Let’s keep notes in @20260704-reverse-engineer-foo-motor.qmd

Curious - why like this? I usually tell it to write down the analysis once all is clear, so I'm wondering if your approach is better.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

bornfreddy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:16:10 +0000

TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

New comment by bornfreddy in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

bornfreddy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:02:06 +0000

Absolutely not. Go read e.g. GPL license before spreading such falsehoods.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

bornfreddy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:41:11 +0000

Nah, I think this is Google's way of pushing against those who value privacy. Firefox? With uBO? No cookies? Not fetching Google fonts? Must be a bot for sure. /s

New comment by bornfreddy in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

bornfreddy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:28:36 +0000

With openweights? Yes. It might halucinate a backdoor somewhere ( not that you can trust any model about that), but it will still work.

New comment by bornfreddy in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

bornfreddy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:25:57 +0000

I know that running this locally is prohibitively expensive (for now), but what kind of cost would I be looking at if I wanted to rent the hardware and run the model by myself?

New comment by bornfreddy in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

bornfreddy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:45:42 +0000

5-10 minutes? I'm sold. Any link you can share?

I'm saying this as someone who has learned about CORS protections many times, implemented the solutions with care they deserved, but forgot most of it soon after - each time. So I'd be very happy to invest even 15 minutes to break this cycle.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

bornfreddy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:16:55 +0000

Interesting... I wanted to prove you wrong but it looks like you are right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies

New comment by bornfreddy in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

bornfreddy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:06:46 +0000

Just had 10 rounds of busses, motorcycles and fire hydrants with Google before I decided I don't actually want to see that page so much. So Cloudflare is unfortunately not the only offender here.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

bornfreddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:59:49 +0000

Only 7 out of 1800 cancelled, according to the article.

New comment by bornfreddy in "Running local models is good now"

bornfreddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:16:08 +0000

I didn't try telling to be concise and stop pampering me yet (but good idea, tomorrow), however I found that instead of me writing agent instructions, it works much better if I tell claude to write instructions for itself. I do check if they make sense of course, but its wording works much better than mine.