Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac

Post by pbronez » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

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Post by inetknght » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC

lukewarm707 wrote: post #44

convexly wrote: post #29

I like the approach of running everything locally. I'm strongly of the opinion that the privacy angle for local models is going to keep getting stronger and more relevant. The amount of articles that come out about accidents happening because of people handing too much context to cloud models the more self reinforcing this will become.

local is best for privacy, but i personally think you don't need to go local. anthropic, google, openai etc, decided that their consumer ai plans would not be private. partly to collect training data, the other half to employ moderators to review user activity for safety. we trust that human moderators will not review and flag our icloud docs, onedrive or gmail, or aggregate such documents into training data for llms…

Post by zahlman » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

lukewarm707 wrote: post #49

aswanson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the way things have to go. Business risk is too high having everything ran over exposed networks.

what i say about this, is that an llm is just a big file, there is nothing 'not private' about it. if you are happy with off-prem then the llm is ok too, if you need on-prem this is when you will need local.