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kvasilev

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kvasilev··on Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web
Thanks, AI was heavily used in the development since I am not a frontend developer and needed the UI for extension + Ios swift. I know cryptography so backend and underlying infra was built by me + backend, have good understanding there.

Thanks for the comments, I think its useful to create bot accounts across all social media so the users can immediately try out the encryption without having to bring their acquitances at this early stages.. + It can act as a verifier to verify your ownership of the actual accounts whenever you are adding them to your profile!

Appreciate the feedback

kvasilev··on Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web
Thanks, perhaps while its hard to get the public recognition behind such tool when starting out, I should make more real demos of how it works with messengers and create Demo bot + verifier account across messengers where the user can try it out immediately after downloading :)
kvasilev··on Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web
Thanks :) Have not witnessed those good old days myself but have to check out! I assume the encryption flow has to be flawless UX/UI to win the consumers for such a tool
kvasilev··on Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web
Would love to hear any thoughts
kvasilev··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
I cant imagine a future without open source models tbh. Its fair to develop AI as a technology for the entire world and not gatekeep the latest and brightest models in the hands of corporations like Anthropic and OpenAI who can close access to them at any second.
kvasilev··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Claude is not reliable anymore with their sudden Fable access drops etc tbh and I am happy there are good alternatives coming out