karimf

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   by karimf 6mo ago

   This is my stance as well, but keep in mind that a lot of people have the opposite preference. They didn't grow up with the world wide web. They only started using technology when Android and iPhone was popular. They only know Whatsapp
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Oh wow, that's awesome. Thanks a lot, dang!
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Thank you. This reminds me of a paragraph from the LatentSpace newsletter [0] > The excellent on device capabilities makes one wonder if these are the basis for the models that will be deployed in New Siri under the deal with Apple…. ht
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Thanks for sharing! I'm still torn about it. Sure it'll feel more natural if you have the AI head animation, but I don't want people to get attached to it. I don't want to make the loneliness epidemic even worse.
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Thanks! Although, I can't claim any credit for it. I just spent a day gluing what other people have built. Huge props to the Gemma team for building an amazing model and also an inference engine that's focused for edge devices [0]
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   This app is cool and it showcases some use cases, but it still undersells what the E2B model can do. I just made a real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B. I posted it on /r/LocalLLaMA a few hours
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Update: Just made one that runs on Macbook M3 Pro https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor
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   Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B(github.com)

   298 points by karimf 6mo ago|38 comments
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   by karimf 6mo ago

   Nice project. I thought of building exactly this. Since it's much easier to port source code to other languages now, I'd love to see more projects like written in Swift, or C#.
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    The big question is whether Apple can keep shipping new models constantly. AFAIK the current model is on par with with Qwen-3-4B, which is from a year ago [0]. There's a big leap going from last year Qwen-3-4B to Qwen-3.5-4B or to Gemm
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Thank you for the kind words!
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Ok it's on the app store now: https://apps.apple.com/app/volocal/id6761493288
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    I'm curious about the multimodal capabilities on the E2B and E4B and how fast is it. In ChatGPT right now, you can have a audio and video feed for the AI, and then the AI can respond in real-time. Now I wonder if the E2B or the E4B is
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    > In the coming days, we will also open-source smaller-scale variants, reaffirming our commitment to accessibility and community-driven innovation.
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    This is huge problem for developing countries. Most people here have $100-$200 phones. iPhone is a luxury.
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    > Do you think it the models you’re using could be quantized more that they could be downloaded on first run using Background Assets? I first tried the Qwen 3.5 0.8B Q4_K_S and the model couldn't hold a basic conversation. Although
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    The Github repo is only for issue tracker
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Is there anything special here vs. OpenCode or Codex? There were/are a lot of discussions on how the harness can affect the output.
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Oh thank you! I wasn’t sure if it was worth submitting to the app store since it was just a research preview, but I could do it if people want it.
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Depending on the use case, the future is already here. For example, last week I built a real-time voice AI running locally on iPhone 15. One use case is for people learning speaking english. The STT is quite good and the small LLM is enough
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    It's time to give back to the world(fikrikarim.com)

    2 points by karimf 6mo ago|0 comments
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Totally agree. There are significantly more new apps being released. I've been visiting the /r/macapps subreddit and they're having trouble filtering new submissions. I generally like the direction that they're taki
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    Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

    748 points by karimf 6mo ago|239 comments
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    by karimf 6mo ago

    Thank you!
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    Repose: Break reminder for macOS that pauses during meetings(github.com)

    2 points by karimf 6mo ago|0 comments
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    Fully local voice AI on iPhone 15(fikrikarim.com)

    1 points by karimf 7mo ago|2 comments
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    by karimf 10mo ago

    > Projects hosted on Vercel benefit from platform-level protections that already block malicious request patterns associated with this issue. https://vercel.com/changelog/cve-2025-55182 > Cloudflare WAF proactive
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    by karimf 10mo ago

    When I saw "WIZ Research - Critical Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js" on the big image banner, I immediately thought that Wiz found the vulnerability.
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    by karimf 10mo ago

    Given that most Next.js and RSC apps run on Vercel, I’m wondering if they’re doing the same thing. There’s no information about this in their latest blog post [0]. Update: They do similar thing. Mentioned here [1] [0] https://nex
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    by karimf 10mo ago

    Dang, Cloudflare is moving fast. Cloudflare WAF proactively protects against React vulnerability https://blog.cloudflare.com/waf-rules-react-vulnerability/