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We actually profiled one of the models, and saw that the last GeMM, which is completely memory bound, is taking a lot of time, which reduces the token speed by a lot.
I see! Do you know what's causing the slowdown for ollama? They should be using the same backend..
Hi, author here. I crowd-sourced the devices for benchmarking from my friends. It just happened that none of my friend has this device.
Hi, author here. I crowd-sourced the devices for benchmarking from my friends. It just happened that one of my friend has this device.
We use DeepSeek v3 in prod. Works even better than GPT-4o.
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Show HN: Current social media platforms are abusing us

Hi HN, over the years of using the social media (Instagram, Pinterest, etc..), I’m quite weary of the trend that people tend to polish their content so well and post the perfect aspect of their lives. I feel like that I’m not one of them, and anything I post will be either not so polished to fit the “magazine” style of the community or so insignificant for anyone else to care about. Scrolling...

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Ask HN: How do you send email verification code to your users?

As I'm developing a social media app, I need to verify my users by sending them a verification code via email. After researching various options, I chose to use AWS SES due to their low cost and relatively low development effort. However, just before our launch date, my production access request got denied, and I felt frustrated and confused.In my request, I provided my use case, which is...

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Yes. What I'm targeting is the mass population, and I really need to figure out a way to solve this dilemma.
Under the hood, we used Argon2i algorithm to derive the secret key from an arbitrary-long password string. We used the term "password" because that's what ordinary people will understand (like, zip uses the same term for their secret keys). In practice, people should choose password that's long enough to prevent brute forcing, just like picking a password for your online accounts.

It's a good idea to use a public key system. But it really confuses new users who has never used PKI before. Nevertheless, we have a key exchange feature built into the app that allows 2 parties to negotiate a shared secret using X25519, for advanced users.

Wow! This project seems to do exactly what ours does right now.. with an even better UI/UX.. but they don't seem to support any kind of nonce'ed and key'ed encryption?

For some reason it's no longer on the App Store anywhere.

Interesting project! But yeah it requires little effort to detect
Yes! I'm right now creating a steganography scheme with an NLP model.

We've actually tried implementing a browser extension before. The problem is ordinary people just don't use browser extensions..

Thanks for your advice! However, there are several problems with self hosted platforms in China.

1. People are unaware of their existence due to those projects being very technical and hard to deploy/join. They also don't have a good client on mobile platforms. People will trade their privacy for all the convenience, say, WeChat brings, because all of their contacts are already using WeChat. It's hard to convince people to change to use your matrix server. 2. Cloud services are also monitored by the government. There are programs running in the background inside VPSes that monitors all processes in your server. 3. If you want to host a website, you have to register it with a state agency, so if there are any contents on your website that the government doesn't like, your website will be shut down and you'll be held responsible.

As of the walled garden Apple created, I heard that EU has passed a law mandating Apple to allow third-party app stores. It'll be very interesting to see what'll happen in the future.

Show HN: Babble – Communicate privately on state-sponsored social media

https://babble.landrop.app/

Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging software is blocked by nationwide firewalls, such as the Great Firewall of China...

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Does ZeroTier support UDP broadcasting? If so it works.
It doesn't use the Internet, but it does send broadcasts to your local network for discovery.

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