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

https://apfel.franzai.com
148•franze•2h ago

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franze•2h ago
Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
skrun_dev•2h ago
Notes.app handles big notebooks without choking on storage?
p1anecrazy•1h ago
Really like demo cli tools description. Are they limited by the context window as well? What’s your experience with log file sizes?
franze•1h ago
the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)

parsing logfiles line by line, sure

parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are

khalic•1h ago
AFM models are very impressive, but they’re not made for conversation, so keep your expectations down in chat mode.
elcritch•1h ago
Any know if these only installed on Tahoe? I'm running Sequoia still and get an error about model not found.
HelloUsername•1h ago
> Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 26 Tahoe or newer, Apple Intelligence enabled
swiftcoder•1h ago
Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?
LatencyKills•1h ago
The combined (input/output) context window length is 4K. Claude would blow through that even when trying to read and summarize a small file.
franze•58m ago
project started with

trying to run openclaw with it in ultra token saving mode, did totally not work.

great for shell scripts though (my major use case now)

gigatexal•57m ago
It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models?

Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.

thenthenthen•49m ago
The vision models and OCR are SUPER
bombcar•19m ago
Apparently the Overcast guy build a beowulf cluster of Mac minis to use the Apple transcription service.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-...

ramon156•37m ago
Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims

> $0 cost

No kidding.

Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel

ffsm8•32m ago
He did?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624647

brians•30m ago
I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.

Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.

stingraycharles•27m ago
I don’t think many browsers will allow posting to 127.0.0.1 from a random website. What’s the threat model here?
brians•26m ago
I think any browser will allow it but not allow data read back.
mememememememo•24m ago
Isn't there a CORS preflight check for this? In most cases. I guess you could fashion an OG form to post form fields. But openai is probably a JSON body only.

The default scenario should be secure. If the local site sends permissive CORS headers bets may be off. I would need to check but https->http may be a blocker too even in that case. Unless the attack site is http.

brians•26m ago
They offer it as an option but default it to false! This is still a --footgun option but it’s the least unsafe version I’ve seen yet! Well done, Apfel authors.

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272•madman_dev•2h ago•104 comments

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

https://apfel.franzai.com
152•franze•2h ago•23 comments

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