Hacker News with Generative AI: Local First

Syncing Keyhive (inkandswitch.com)
The last few lab notes have focused on the cryptographic components which support a local first access control system. Those being a capability based system for managing write access to documents, and a key agreement protocol for encrypting and decrypting writes (thus implementing read control). We now have to think about how to actually transfer this data between devices.
Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app (github.com/johnbean393)
Chat with an local LLM that can respond with information from your files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. All conversations happen offline, and your data is saved locally.