Hacker News

Latest

Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

2026-06-30 @ 18:33:59Points: 39Comments: 7

I've been on `Privacy Mode (Legacy)` for a long time, which is the "Do not store my code" setting. A year or so ago they marked this as "Legacy" and hid it under a "Extra options" menu. They added a new Privacy Mode which is significantly more wishy-washy about what it might store - it includes a clause of "Code may be stored for Background Agents or Other Features", so I've never touched it or wanted to enable it.

pic: https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/optimized/3X/0/9/09412f800cb07a713d13c034f40eaf28e165e8f4_2_1032x1000.jpeg

Upon installing and logging in to the iOS app, my account was changed to the softer Privacy Mode and the previous setting I was on has disappeared from all menus. I contacted support and they've said:

> Really sorry about this. When you set up the mobile app, the prompt to turn on Cloud Agents switched you from Privacy Mode (Legacy) to our current Privacy Mode,

> without making clear what that meant or that it's hard to undo. That wasn't right, and we're working on making that prompt clearer.

>

> To be straight with you: I'm not able to switch your account back to Privacy Mode (Legacy). The option to move back isn't available in the app today.

So just a PSA I guess; do not install or set up the app if you want to keep your privacy settings.

I honestly don't understand how it's legal to make logging into the iOS app change your privacy settings at all. Making the option then disappear from all menus so you can't get it back is doubly ridiculous.

Claude Sonnet 5

2026-06-30 @ 17:59:52Points: 399Comments: 198

I built a mmWave material classification radar

2026-06-30 @ 17:29:36Points: 47Comments: 14

Claude Science

2026-06-30 @ 17:07:41Points: 156Comments: 63

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure

2026-06-30 @ 17:05:58Points: 60Comments: 86

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

2026-06-30 @ 16:59:00Points: 171Comments: 111

Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

2026-06-30 @ 16:54:41Points: 87Comments: 62

Nano Banana 2 Lite

2026-06-30 @ 16:48:37Points: 150Comments: 46

Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says

2026-06-30 @ 16:44:31Points: 126Comments: 55

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

2026-06-30 @ 16:05:46Points: 245Comments: 118

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

2026-06-30 @ 15:44:24Points: 786Comments: 227

The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

2026-06-30 @ 15:35:04Points: 403Comments: 420

We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

2026-06-30 @ 15:17:14Points: 114Comments: 98

Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

2026-06-30 @ 14:15:29Points: 49Comments: 126

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

2026-06-30 @ 14:14:29Points: 182Comments: 104

Knoppix

2026-06-30 @ 12:54:01Points: 152Comments: 76

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)

2026-06-30 @ 12:47:51Points: 130Comments: 39

European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple

2026-06-30 @ 10:36:23Points: 637Comments: 278

Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)

2026-06-30 @ 10:34:25Points: 114Comments: 10

Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)

2026-06-30 @ 10:31:02Points: 177Comments: 150

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

2026-06-30 @ 00:30:11Points: 251Comments: 75

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

2026-06-29 @ 19:49:28Points: 642Comments: 356

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

2026-06-29 @ 17:05:16Points: 1110Comments: 699

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

2026-06-28 @ 04:17:44Points: 264Comments: 57

Free the Icons

2026-06-27 @ 15:05:17Points: 640Comments: 235

Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release

2026-06-27 @ 10:52:44Points: 91Comments: 48

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

2026-06-27 @ 05:42:27Points: 52Comments: 16

Don't Make Gates Optional, Make Them Flexible

2026-06-26 @ 21:40:05Points: 20Comments: 1

I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]

2026-06-26 @ 18:00:49Points: 70Comments: 13

Open Source Low Tech

2026-06-26 @ 06:35:17Points: 568Comments: 116

Archives

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022