Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app • Hacker News Board

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by xtracto » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

xtracto wrote: post #74

I would love to see a "distributed LLM" system, where people can easily setup a system to perform a "piece" of a "mega model" inference or training. Kind of like SETI@home but for an open LLM (like https://github.com/evilsocket/cake but massive ) Ideally if you "participate" in the network, you would get "credits" to use it proportionally to how much GPU power you have provided to the network. Or if you can't, then b…

Oh yeah, and maybe call it "SkyNet" or something.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by testdelacc1 » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

_factor wrote: post #6

moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

You presumably had a working 2fa app already, but off the cuff decide to switch to new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system after reading a few paragraphs of text in an afternoon? Does this seem sound?

Not saying they’re a paid promoter. But if I paid someone to speak about my newly launched product, they’d say something exactly like that. “Never heard of these guys before, but I loved their other product you’ve never heard of. I’m super excited to try this one!”

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by dotancohen » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

ahofmann wrote: post #9

_factor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You presumably had a working 2fa app already, but off the cuff decide to switch to new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system after reading a few paragraphs of text in an afternoon? Does this seem sound?

While I would have the same reaction, in this case I think it is a sane decision. Ente is cornering the privacy market and I think they're doing a great job. They have a lot to lose (trust) and it would be stupid if they did something shady with the data entered in the 2FA app.

There are the issues of competence and track record, not only intent.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by dmboyd » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

I was just thinking their end goal seems to be to harvest creds by putting their own rebadged distribution of local models. That’s the only “business” model that makes sense.

Expressly harvesting creds through a 2FA app seems a little more direct.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by pulkitsh1234 » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

I am surprised to see this on HN front page, there is no new information here, just an ad.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by testdelacc1 » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

yolo_420 wrote: post #14

_factor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You presumably had a working 2fa app already, but off the cuff decide to switch to new unvetted variant X; basically unknown auth system after reading a few paragraphs of text in an afternoon? Does this seem sound?

Ente is extremely well known in the privacy circles, so this is not just some random company with a random app out of nowhere. Check PrivacyGuides for example.

Ok I checked privacyguides.

Here’s where it was added to PrivacyGuides - https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/issues/36.... The person opening the issue is the CEO of ente. So the CEO of ente gets his company mentioned in PrivacyGuides back when it was new and that makes it more legit?

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by getpokedagain » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

As someone who saw this and was interested but also skeptical of this being low effort are there other open projects for running small models locally on android / iOS?

I've found https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile-ai but haven't tried anything in this space yet.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by dotancohen » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

I'm very happy syncing between KeepassXC on Debian and Keepass2Android on mobile. It handles TOTP accoss devices.

What I'm missing is a way to create and use Passkeys across devices. My use case does not support creating a new Passkey on every device, I need to sync them via servers I control. The system that supports that will be the system that I migrate to.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by testdelacc1 » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

glitchc wrote: post #28

This sounds like an ad.

For sure. Getting shady vibes from ente. I’ll be avoiding them.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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Post by moontear » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

moqster wrote: post #2

Heard the first time about them (ente) yesterday in a discussion about "which 2FA are u using?". Directly switched to https://ente.com/auth/ on Android and Linux Desktop and very happy with it. Going to give this a try...

And you can self-host the server if you want to! Running Ente Auth since quite a while now and am very happy with it.