# Digest: 2026-04-20

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-04-20

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## Final Selection

Total items: 22

### PRODUCT HUNT

#### Item: Dune
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://www.projectmirage.ai
- title: Dune
- tagline: Context-aware Mac keypad to automate workflows + meetings
- description: Three-key CNC-machined aluminum keypad that detects your foreground app and changes key functions in real time. Built for devs using GitHub, VS Code, and Claude Code — also syncs with your calendar for one-tap meeting joins. Supports custom macros and agent triggers. Ships May 2026.
- votes: 471
- domain: projectmirage.ai

#### Item: Claude Desktop Buddy
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-desktop-buddy
- title: Claude Desktop Buddy
- tagline: Bring Claude into the physical world with maker hardware
- description: Lightweight BLE API from the Claude desktop app that connects Claude Cowork and Claude Code to ESP32 microcontrollers. Display states, handle permission prompts, and trigger actions from physical hardware. Reference device is an M5StickCPlus desk pet.
- votes: 318
- domain: github.com

#### Item: Pegasus 1.5 by TwelveLabs
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://twelvelabs.io
- title: Pegasus 1.5 — Video-to-Metadata AI Model
- tagline: AI model for transforming video into time-based metadata
- description: Turns raw video into structured, timestamped data on-the-fly. Supports up to 2 hours of video, multimodal prompting (pass an image to find appearances), and custom schemas. 30% better than Gemini 3 Pro on segmentation tasks.
- votes: 186
- domain: twelvelabs.io

#### Item: GalaxyBrain
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://galaxybrain.com
- title: GalaxyBrain — Local-First Knowledge System
- tagline: An information operating system powered by local files
- description: Local-first knowledge system where pages have variables, formulas, and live references. Like a programming environment crossed with a document editor. Stored as JSON, with built-in HTTP API and MCP tool for Claude Code/Codex integration. No account needed.
- votes: 91
- domain: galaxybrain.com

#### Item: TorchTPU
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://github.com/google/torchtpu
- title: TorchTPU — PyTorch Native on Google TPUs
- tagline: Running PyTorch natively on TPUs at Google scale
- description: Google's PyTorch-native backend for TPUs. Run existing workloads with minimal code changes, get 50-100%+ speed gains with Fused Eager mode, scale to 100K+ chip clusters. Supports DDP, FSDPv2, DTensor. No static graph compilation required.
- votes: 101
- domain: github.com

#### Item: QA Crow
- card_type: ph
- urls: primary: https://qacrow.com
- title: QA Crow — Plain-English Browser Testing
- tagline: A murder of crows for your bug backlog
- description: Write QA tests in plain English, AI agent runs them in a real browser and returns structured bugs with screenshots and repro steps. Pay-as-you-go pricing starting at $10 credits — built as an affordable alternative to $8K/mo enterprise QA tools.
- votes: 87
- domain: qacrow.com

### AI-LLMs

#### Item: Kimi K2.6 Released
- card_type: featured
- source: r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6, blog: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
- title: Kimi K2.6 Released — Open-Source with Agent Swarms of 300 Sub-Agents
- description: Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 with open weights. 58.6% SWE-Bench Pro (beats Claude 53.4%), 96.4% AIME 2026, 66.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0. Coordinates up to 300 sub-agents with 4,000+ coordinated steps. Excels at long-horizon coding in Rust, Go, Python.
- score: 791+502+375

#### Item: Anthropic-Amazon 5GW Compute Deal
- card_type: link
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute
- title: Anthropic Expands Amazon Partnership — 5GW Compute, $100B Commitment
- description: Amazon investing another $5B (up to $25B total) in Anthropic, with up to 5 gigawatts of new compute. Anthropic committing $100B+ to AWS over the next decade. Nearly 1GW by end of 2026. Uses Trainium2/3/4 chips. Anthropic already using 1M+ Trainium2 chips.
- score: 174

#### Item: NSA Using Mythos Despite Blacklist
- card_type: link
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentagon
- title: NSA Using Anthropic's Mythos Despite Pentagon Blacklist
- description: Axios reports the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos Preview for cybersecurity despite the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" designation. Dario Amodei met White House chief of staff and Treasury Secretary to discuss government use of Mythos.
- score: 87

#### Item: Google Strike Team
- card_type: link
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-team-improve-coding-models
- title: Google Forms Strike Team to Close Coding Gap with Anthropic
- description: Google DeepMind assembles strike team amid alarm that Claude's coding capabilities exceed Gemini. Sergey Brin wrote in memo: "To win the final sprint, we must urgently bridge the gap in agentic execution." Google's code is 50% AI-written vs Anthropic's ~100%.
- score: 100

#### Item: Qwen 3.6 Max Preview
- card_type: link
- source: r/LocalLLaMA
- urls: primary: https://qwen.ai/research/
- title: Qwen 3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba's Most Powerful Model
- description: Alibaba's proprietary model tops SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and SkillsBench. 256K context, text-only. Strongest Chinese model on coding and instruction-following benchmarks. Available via Qwen Studio and Alibaba Cloud API.
- score: 268

#### Item: Opus 4.7 Debate Benchmark
- card_type: compact
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://github.com/lechmazur/debate
- title: Opus 4.7 Goes Undefeated on LLM Debate Benchmark
- description: Claude Opus 4.7 takes #1 on the LLM Debate Benchmark with 51 wins, 4 ties, 0 losses. It dominates by finding the hinge of debates and forcing opponents to defend on its terms.
- score: 57

#### Item: GPT-Image-2 Rolling Out
- card_type: link
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://fal.ai/gpt-image-2
- title: GPT-Image-2 Spotted Rolling Out to ChatGPT Users
- description: OpenAI's next image model appearing in A/B tests. Near-perfect text rendering (99%+ accuracy), major step up in photorealism, and realistic UI screenshots. DALL-E shutting down May 12, suggesting imminent official release.
- score: 35+20

#### Item: Quantum Computer Improves AI
- card_type: compact
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/apr/quantum-computer-improves-ai-predictions
- title: Quantum Computer Improves AI Predictions — UCL Research
- description: UCL researchers demonstrate quantum-informed AI is 20% more accurate at predicting chaotic systems and requires hundreds of times less memory. Published in Science Advances.
- score: 78

#### Item: Newton 1.0 Physics Engine
- card_type: compact
- source: r/singularity
- urls: primary: https://developer.nvidia.com/newton-physics
- title: Newton 1.0 — GPU Physics Engine from Nvidia, DeepMind, Disney
- description: Open-source physics engine under the Linux Foundation. Apache 2.0 licensed. 475x faster than MJX on manipulation tasks. Built on NVIDIA Warp, used by Samsung and Skild AI for robot training.
- score: 33

### GenAI-Media

#### Item: ComfyUI-KleinRefGrid
- card_type: link
- source: r/StableDiffusion, r/comfyui
- urls: primary: https://github.com/xb1n0ry/ComfyUI-KleinRefGrid
- title: ComfyUI-KleinRefGrid — Multi-Reference Node for Flux 2 Klein
- description: New ComfyUI node that condenses multi-reference workflows into a single node for Flux 2 Klein 9B. Load 4 reference images for faces, environments, clothing, or objects — connect between Clip Encoder and CFGGuide and you're ready.
- score: 177+60

#### Item: CRT Animation LoRA for LTX 2.3
- card_type: compact
- source: r/StableDiffusion
- urls: primary: https://huggingface.co/lovis93/crt-animation-terminal-ltx-2.3-lora
- title: Open Source CRT Animation LoRA for LTX 2.3
- description: Custom LoRA producing authentic retro CRT terminal animation look that no base video gen model can do. Free weights and training recipe on HuggingFace.
- score: 254

#### Item: Image Model Comparison
- card_type: compact
- source: r/StableDiffusion
- urls: primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sqn1ro/same_prompt_for_various_models_chroma_z_image/
- title: Model Comparison — Chroma, Z-Image, Klein, Ernie Side-by-Side
- description: Community comparison of latest open-source image models with identical prompts. Klein 9B and Ernie Turbo lead on photorealism, Chroma variants maintain strong prompt adherence.
- score: 284

### Apps-Software

#### Item: Sniffnet 1.5
- card_type: link
- source: r/macapps
- urls: primary: https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet
- title: Sniffnet 1.5 — Free Open-Source Network Traffic Monitor
- description: Cross-platform Rust app for monitoring internet traffic, now with per-app bandwidth tracking. 34.7K GitHub stars. Aiming to be a free, open-source Little Snitch alternative. Tracks 6000+ services, threats, and protocols.
- score: 187

#### Item: SitTall
- card_type: link
- source: r/macapps
- urls: primary: https://apps.apple.com/app/sittall/id6744835441
- title: SitTall — AirPods-Powered Posture Reminder
- description: Mac menu bar app using AirPods motion sensors to detect neck tilt and nudge you when slouching. No camera, no cloud, all local. Calibration takes two taps. $5.99 USD one-time.
- score: 126

#### Item: Trail - Browsing History Visualizer
- card_type: link
- source: r/macapps
- urls: primary: https://github.com/mnallamalli97/Trail
- title: Trail — Visualize Your Browsing History as a Knowledge Graph
- description: macOS app that automatically builds a private, local knowledge graph from browsing history. Surfaces insights and recommendations based on semantically related pages. No manual bookmarking needed.
- score: 35

#### Item: ESP32 Website on Wall
- card_type: link
- source: r/selfhosted
- urls: primary: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1sqvujn/selfhosted_public_website_running_on_a_10_esp32/
- title: Public Website Running on a $10 ESP32 Mounted on a Wall
- description: A $10 ESP32 microcontroller serves a full public website via outbound WebSocket to Cloudflare Workers. Original ran 500 days before the board burned out. No nginx, no Pi, no container.
- score: 1502

#### Item: AnyHabit
- card_type: compact
- source: r/opensource
- urls: primary: https://github.com/Bebedi/AnyHabit
- title: AnyHabit — Self-Hosted Minimalist Habit Tracker
- description: Docker-ready, open-source habit tracker for tracking positive habits and breaking negative ones. Calculates money saved from avoided bad habits. v0.1.0 just released.
- score: 10

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phase: selection-complete
