
Freebuff Review: The Free Coding Agent Paid for by Ads, and What It Costs You
Freebuff is a free coding agent paid for by text ads. What the free tier includes, how Freebucks limit usage, and what the privacy policy says about your code.
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Free tiers are where training happens: Google's unpaid quota outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, Mistral's Free mode, and some OpenRouter free models. Paid APIs mostly say no. Retention is a separate question, and four providers' own docs disagree with themselves.

Freebuff is a free coding agent paid for by text ads. What the free tier includes, how Freebucks limit usage, and what the privacy policy says about your code.

The EU's final DMA decision gives third-party AI assistants the Android access Gemini has, from DSP wake words to screen automation. What it unlocks and when.

A GrapheneOS duress PIN wiped a traveler's phone during a CBP airport search, and US prosecutors charged him for it. The case, HN debate and developer stakes.

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked precise home GPS coordinates over unauthenticated UDP for years. How the flaw works, the disclosure timeline, and the second CVE.

Days after getting caught uploading entire codebases to xAI servers, Grok Build is now open source on GitHub. The HN community isn't convinced it's enough.

Grok Build CLI wire-level analysis: a researcher found it uploads whole repositories, including .env secrets, to xAI servers. What the captured traffic shows.

Claude Code request marking: hidden unicode apostrophe and date-format markers flag timezone, domain and lab keywords. What was found and what to do about it.

Best local coding LLMs in 2026: which models to run on what hardware, how they benchmark, owned hardware versus cloud API costs, and setups by team size.

Client-side tool calling keeps sensitive documents in the browser while the model requests narrow actions. How it works and what still leaves the machine.

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight PII redactor. How to wire it into a local RAG ingestion pipeline and how it benchmarks against Presidio and regex.
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