From Product Hunt
Vivaldi's biggest redesign ever, local dictation for Mac, and several tools that plug directly into Claude Code via MCP.
Vivaldi 8.0 — Biggest design overhaul in 13 years
Every toolbar now sits on one continuous surface with edge-to-edge theming. Six layout presets to start from, then customize everything. No AI features added. Your browser, your rules.
Slideshot — AI agent records product demos via MCP
Give an AI agent a product flow to record. Slideshot drives your web app through MCP, captures the walkthrough, and returns a polished demo video with zooms, cursor motion, and custom intro. No manual recording.
TongueType — Local dictation for macOS, no subscription
Whisper AI running locally on Apple Silicon. Hold a key, speak, release. Supports 12 languages, configurable post-processing rules, and audio file transcription. One-time $19.99 for 5 Macs.
AlliHat — Claude AI in your Safari sidebar
Sidebar sees the page you're on. Agent Mode clicks, fills forms, navigates. Workflows for repeated tasks. Memory persists per domain. BYO API key or use Apple Intelligence on-device. $29.99/year.
Novi Notes 1.1 — AI memory layer for Mac with MCP
Block editor for daily notes that Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini can read/write directly through MCP. New: AI Skills turn repeated prompts into slash commands. GitHub backup. One-time purchase, local-only.
Ente Locker — Encrypted vault for your most important documents
E2E encrypted document storage with trusted contacts for when your family needs access. Open source, self-hostable. From the makers of Ente Photos (500M+ photos protected).
Framed — Turn screenshots and video into polished visuals
macOS app for product visuals: add frames, backgrounds, annotations, motion, and audio to screenshots, videos, or code snippets. Export-ready for launches, App Store, social. One-time purchase.
From Reddit
Google's Flash model tops agent benchmarks at fraction of the cost. Alibaba drops Qwen 3.7. Meta goes after the open-source de-censoring community.
Google's new Flash model ranks #1 on Zapier's Automation Bench and the APEX-Agents-AA benchmark, outperforming much larger models. It rivals flagship-class intelligence at Flash-tier speed and pricing ($1.50/$9.00 per million tokens).
Strongest agentic and coding model Google has shipped. Available in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Antigravity IDE, and via API. Google also announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent running 24/7.
Qwen 3.7 Max: Alibaba's most advanced agent model, 60.6% on SWE-Bench Pro
1M-token context, extended thinking mode, can sustain autonomous execution for up to 35 hours with 1,000+ tool calls. #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Open weights not yet released but highly anticipated by the LocalLLaMA community.
Meta serves legal notice to Heretic, the open-source LLM de-censoring tool
Heretic automatically removes safety alignment from transformer models without retraining. Over 1,000 uncensored models created by the community. The developer responded that the project operates in full legal compliance. 1,583 upvotes on r/LocalLLaMA.
ik_llama.cpp: 110 tok/s with Qwen3.6 35B on just 12GB VRAM
A fork of llama.cpp with better MTP (multi-token prediction) support and optimized CPU offloading. On an RTX 4070 Super 12GB, it nearly triples the performance of the mainline llama.cpp MTP implementation.
WSJ: The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
Growing public backlash against AI across the US. Discussed alongside the Trump administration postponing its AI executive order after White House infighting.
Tencent releases Hy-MT2 translation models (30B/7B/1.8B)
Multilingual translation across 33 languages. The 1.8B model compresses to 440MB with 1.25-bit quantization via AngelSlim, with 1.5x inference speedup. MoE architecture for the 30B variant.
From Reddit
Krea announces open-sourcing their model, a new reference-based style transfer technique for FLUX.2, and ComfyUI gets a big performance boost.
Update: Krea 2 model weights will be open-sourced
Following last week's public launch of Krea 2 (their first foundation image model built from scratch), the team confirmed the model will be fully open source. Weights, training details, and fine-tuning resources coming soon.
Control FLUX.2 with reference images instead of training a LoRA
"Follow the Mean" steers a frozen FLUX.2-Klein toward the color, style, or structure of reference images. No LoRA, no fine-tuning, no training. Same prompt and seed, just swap the references. HuggingFace demo available.
ComfyUI adds multi-threaded model loading from disk
Massive load time speedups for multi-GB models. Finally loading at full NVMe disk speed (GB/s).
From Reddit
Self-hosting is having a moment. A complete Spotify replacement stack, the case for ditching Plex, and a couple of Mac utilities worth knowing about.
Complete self-hosted Spotify replacement stack
Detailed guide: Navidrome for streaming, Lidarr + Tubifarry + Slskd for acquisition, MusicBrainz/ListenBrainz for metadata and weekly discovery playlists. Works with Feishin (desktop), Symfonium (Android), Amperfy (iOS). All free.
Following Plex's $750 lifetime pass hike: now's the time to switch to Jellyfin
Plex is closed-source, routes auth through their servers, and explicitly sells your viewing data. With the lifetime pass jumping to $750 on July 1, the r/selfhosted community makes the case for Jellyfin. 1,276 upvotes, 739 comments.
Keylume v2 — Keyboard cheatsheets overlaid on your actual keys
From the maker of Lunar. Hold a modifier and every key updates to show what it does in the current app. New in v2: full cheatsheet mode, mouse typing for demos, and layouts that adapt to your input source. One-time purchase.
Marked 3 released — major update to the Markdown companion app
Brett Terpstra's Markdown previewer gets a ground-up rewrite. New rendering engine, better Obsidian integration.
Dynacat 2.3.0 — Self-hosted dashboard with RSS, YouTube, Docker, arr stack widgets
Based on Glance. Build custom widgets with your own APIs. New version adds many improvements. Self-hosted, Docker-ready.