# Digest: 2026-01-27

## Status
phase: complete
updated: 2026-01-27
html_generated: 2026-01-27
items_count: 31
links_validated: true
permissions_set: true
zush_removed: true (URL broken, no web presence found)
axios_url_fixed: true (replaced with verified CSET Georgetown source)
telegram_sent: true

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## Previous Digests (Last 7 Days)
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### Developing Stories
- GPT-5.2 for science/math — covered 01/23
- Apple AI overhaul — covered 01/25
- GPT-5.3 "Garlic" — covered 01/26
- Microsoft Maia 200 — covered 01/26
- Qwen3-Max-Thinking — covered 01/26
- Kimi-K2 — covered 01/26

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## Source 0: Product Hunt

### Fetch
- [x] Fetched 20 products at 2026-01-27T03:20Z

### Initial Filter
| ID | Name | Decision | Reason |
|----|------|----------|--------|
| 1067132 | Kilo Code Reviewer | CANDIDATE | AI code review, multi-model |
| 1068372 | Moltbot/Clawbot | CANDIDATE | AI agent, computer use, self-hosted |
| 1065874 | LobeHub | SKIP | Generic agent platform |
| 1068218 | Timeless | SKIP | Meeting agent, not relevant |
| 1063928 | ShapedQL | SKIP | Enterprise search, too niche |
| 1068472 | CapslockMute | CANDIDATE | macOS utility, video calls |
| 1065762 | Alfi | SKIP | Social chat app |
| 1067922 | Analog Reader | CANDIDATE | Newsletters to printable paper/e-ink |
| 1068282 | Jotform AI Canva | SKIP | Canva chatbot |
| 1068633 | Runo 2.0 | SKIP | Fitness |
| 1068241 | Keyviz | CANDIDATE | Open-source keypress visualizer |
| 1067748 | Outtalent | SKIP | Job prep |
| 1068319 | pay3 | SKIP | Crypto |
| 1053370 | GameCutAI | SKIP | Sports video |
| 1067763 | FireSEO MCP | CANDIDATE | MCP for SEO with Claude/Cursor |
| 1063247 | Trailward | SKIP | Learning app |
| 1068283 | AcceptMyApp | CANDIDATE | iOS App Store rejection scanner |
| 1067807 | RedUp.pro | SKIP | Reddit marketing |
| 1066651 | Zush | CANDIDATE | macOS AI image renaming |
| 1067416 | The Password App | CANDIDATE | macOS AI password rotation |

### Analyzed: Kilo Code Reviewer (ID: 1067132)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://kilo.ai
- votes: 546
- summary: Open-source AI coding agent and code reviewer for VS Code. 500+ models. Automated PR reviews.

### Analyzed: Moltbot/Clawbot (ID: 1068372)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://clawd.bot
- github: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
- votes: 462
- summary: Self-hosted AI agent with full system access via WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord. Browser control, shell, files. NOTE: r/artificial reports security concerns — user got Amazon login alert after installing.

### Analyzed: CapslockMute (ID: 1068472)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://capslockmute.com
- votes: 156
- summary: macOS utility remaps Caps Lock to mute/unmute on Zoom/Teams/Tandem.

### Analyzed: Analog Reader (ID: 1067922)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://www.analogreader.com
- votes: 132
- summary: Newsletters (Substack/Ghost/RSS) to printable newspaper PDFs. Send to reMarkable. Free.

### Analyzed: Keyviz (ID: 1068241)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://github.com/mulaRahul/keyviz
- votes: 112
- summary: Open-source keypress + mouse visualizer. Rebuilt in Rust, ~4MB. Cross-platform.

### Analyzed: FireSEO MCP (ID: 1067763)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://fireseo.dev
- votes: 101
- summary: MCP server connecting Google Search Console to Claude/Cursor for SEO audits.

### Analyzed: AcceptMyApp (ID: 1068283)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://acceptmy.app
- votes: 92
- summary: iOS App Store pre-submission scanner using RAG on Apple Guidelines. One-time pricing.

### Analyzed: Zush (ID: 1066651)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://zush.app
- votes: 89
- summary: macOS AI image renaming and tagging. Native Swift, 14MB. Auto-pilot + batch mode.

### Analyzed: The Password App (ID: 1067416)
- decision: INCLUDE
- website: https://thepassword.app
- votes: 88
- summary: macOS AI agent auto-rotates passwords after breaches. Local-first. Chrome extension.

### Product Hunt Complete
- candidates_analyzed: 9
- included: 9
- phase: source-0-complete

---

## Source 1: AI-LLMs

### Fetch
- [x] r/openai — 25 posts
- [x] r/singularity — 17 posts
- [x] r/LocalLLaMA — 25 posts
- [x] r/artificial — 15 posts

### Initial Filter
| ID | Subreddit | Title | Decision | Reason |
|----|-----------|-------|----------|--------|
| 1qo531i | singularity | Kimi K2.5 Released!!! | CANDIDATE | Major model release, SOTA agentic |
| 1qo595n | LocalLLaMA | Introducing Kimi K2.5 | CANDIDATE | Same story, more details |
| 1qo349m | LocalLLaMA | DeepSeek-OCR-2 | CANDIDATE | New model, novel architecture |
| 1qo3ri5 | LocalLLaMA | Jan v3 4B coding model | CANDIDATE | Small coding model |
| 1qolgqh | singularity | OpenAI Prism | CANDIDATE | Free GPT-5.2 workspace for scientists |
| 1qoemr5 | openai | Karpathy Slopacolypse | CANDIDATE | 2026 AI content prediction |
| 1qol3s5 | LocalLLaMA | Subquadratic attention 1M context | CANDIDATE | Research breakthrough |
| 1qouf0x | LocalLLaMA | Arcee Trinity Large 400B-A13B | CANDIDATE | New MoE model |
| 1qoi1jc | LocalLLaMA | SERA 8B/32B AllenAI | CANDIDATE | Open coding agents |
| 1qoocgn | LocalLLaMA | AllenAI open coding models | CANDIDATE | Same topic |
| 1qou799 | LocalLLaMA | Stanford CooperBench | CANDIDATE | Research on parallel agents |
| 1qos15u | LocalLLaMA | MiniMax-M2.1-REAP | CANDIDATE | Efficient model |
| 1qo8yr9 | singularity | Self-improving models (Axios) | CANDIDATE | AI trend piece |
| 1qo4wyd | openai | OpenAI president Trump mega-donor | SKIP | Drama/politics |
| 1qodjct | openai | Nuke joke meme | SKIP | Meme |
| 1qo7mdn | openai | 100x more capable | SKIP | Hype/meme |
| 1qocwbl | openai | AI as company during lonely moments | SKIP | Discussion, not news |
| 1qoucck | openai | GPT switching models complaint | SKIP | Complaint |

### Analyzed: Kimi K2.5 (consolidated from r/singularity + r/LocalLLaMA)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html
    huggingface: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5
- summary: Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5 — 1T parameter MoE (32B active), open-source. Global SOTA on agentic benchmarks: HLE 50.2%, BrowseComp 74.9%. Agent Swarm mode coordinates up to 100 sub-agents with 1,500 tool calls. 4.5x faster than single-agent. Native multimodality. SWE-bench Verified 76.8%. Update: K2 was covered 01/26, but K2.5 is a significant new release.

### Analyzed: OpenAI Prism
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://openai.com/prism/
- summary: OpenAI launches Prism — free LaTeX-native workspace for scientists powered by GPT-5.2. Draft/revise with full-document context, reason over equations and citations, pull arXiv literature, convert whiteboard diagrams to LaTeX. Available to all ChatGPT users. Update: Extends GPT-5.2 coverage from 01/23.

### Analyzed: DeepSeek-OCR-2
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2
- summary: DeepSeek releases OCR-2 — 3B vision-language model with Visual Causal Flow architecture. Replaces CLIP with Qwen2-0.5B LLM encoder. Compresses 1024x1024 images from 4,096 patches to 256 tokens (16x reduction). Outperforms Gemini-3 Pro on document parsing.

### Analyzed: Karpathy Slopacolypse
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2015883857489522876
- summary: Andrej Karpathy predicts 2026 will be the "Slopacolypse" — massive AI-generated content flood across GitHub, arXiv, X, and all digital media. Also notes his coding workflow shifted from 80% manual to 80% AI agents in weeks. "I am starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually."

### Analyzed: SERA 8B/32B (AllenAI)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents
    huggingface: https://huggingface.co/allenai/SERA-32B
- summary: AllenAI releases SERA (Soft-verified Efficient Repository Agents) — open coding agent models at 8B and 32B. SERA-32B solves 54.2% of SWE-bench Verified, trained in just 40 GPU-days (~$2K). Can specialize to your codebase. Apache 2.0 license.

### Analyzed: Subquadratic attention 1M context
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18401
- summary: New jump-search attention mechanism achieves ~20k tok/s prefill and ~100 tok/s decode at 1M context on a single GPU (30B model). Preliminary results.

### Analyzed: Arcee Trinity Large 400B-A13B
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
- summary: Arcee AI releases Trinity Large — 400B MoE with only 13B active parameters. Open-weight.

### Analyzed: Self-improving models (Axios)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/models-improve-ai
- summary: Axios reports recursive self-improvement is becoming a key focus for labs including Google DeepMind. Models that "continue to learn out in the wild" after training.

### AI-LLMs Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- candidates_analyzed: 13
- included: 8
- phase: source-1-complete

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## Source 2: GenAI-Media

### Fetch
- [x] r/StableDiffusion — 23 posts
- [x] r/comfyui — 22 posts
- [x] r/midjourney — not fetched (no significant news)

### Initial Filter
| ID | Subreddit | Title | Decision | Reason |
|----|-----------|-------|----------|--------|
| 1qohra7 | StableDiffusion | Z Base released (1197 upvotes!) | CANDIDATE | Major model release |
| 1qojw11 | StableDiffusion | Z-Image Base vs Turbo | CANDIDATE | Comparison, useful context |
| 1qohtlw | StableDiffusion | Z-Image I2L (Image to LoRA) | CANDIDATE | New capability |
| 1qoefre | StableDiffusion | ComfyUI Docker Blackwell | CANDIDATE | RTX 50 series support |
| 1qod5gm | StableDiffusion | Face LoRA workflow | CANDIDATE | Practical workflow |
| 1qo72gw | comfyui | ComfyUI Mobile Frontend V2 | CANDIDATE | Mobile support |
| 1qoq9uu | comfyui | AnyDeviceOffload | CANDIDATE | Multi-GPU node |

### Analyzed: Z-Image (non-distilled) release
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
    comfy: https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/z_image/tree/main/split_files/diffusion_models
    i2l: https://www.modelscope.cn/models/DiffSynth-Studio/Z-Image-i2L
- summary: Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI releases Z-Image (non-distilled). The full-fidelity version of Z-Image Turbo — more creative control, better for fine-tuning and LoRA training. Day-0 ComfyUI support. Also released Z-Image I2L (Image to LoRA) — generate a LoRA from a single image. GGUF versions available. Update: Z-Image Turbo was covered before but the non-distilled release + I2L are new.

### Analyzed: ComfyUI Docker for Blackwell (RTX 50 series)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qoefre/resource_comfyui_docker_setup_for_blackwell_gpus/
- summary: Docker setup for ComfyUI with NVFP4 support on RTX 5070Ti/5090. 2-3x faster generation vs BF16, 3.5x less VRAM. FLUX.1-dev goes from ~40s to ~12s.

### Analyzed: Face LoRA workflow (Flux Klein + Z-Image Turbo)
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qod5gm/
- summary: Practical workflow for creating face LoRA datasets from a single reference image using Flux Klein 9B for generation + Z-Image Turbo for refinement.

### Analyzed: ComfyUI Mobile Frontend V2
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/cosmicbuffalo/comfyui-mobile-frontend/releases/tag/2.0.0
- summary: Experimental mobile-friendly ComfyUI frontend. V2 handles 90% of typical workflows from phone.

### GenAI-Media Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 2
- candidates_analyzed: 7
- included: 4
- phase: source-2-complete

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## Source 3: Apps-Software

### Fetch
- [x] r/macapps — 21 posts
- [x] r/selfhosted — 25 posts
- [x] r/opensource — 25 posts
- [x] r/SideProject — 25 posts

### Initial Filter
| ID | Subreddit | Title | Decision | Reason |
|----|-----------|-------|----------|--------|
| 1qom03t | macapps | PopStack — dock-style folder popovers | CANDIDATE | macOS utility |
| 1qol4t3 | macapps | MacNewFile — right-click new file | CANDIDATE | macOS utility, open source |
| 1qoomdf | macapps | Free Git GUI for macOS | CANDIDATE | Dev tool |
| 1qoqzmc | macapps | TopOff — Homebrew updater | CANDIDATE | Menu bar utility |
| 1qohjx5 | macapps | Local video search (NPU) | CANDIDATE | AI Mac app |
| 1qor5o8 | macapps | Markdown Preview + Mermaid | CANDIDATE | Quick Look extension |
| 1qodjur | macapps | EnputPlus — English input spellcheck | CANDIDATE | Open source utility |
| 1qopivp | selfhosted | Immich 2.5.0 device cleanup | CANDIDATE | Self-hosted update |
| 1qom2b9 | selfhosted | Dispatcharr IPTV management | CANDIDATE | Self-hosted, *arr family |
| 1qofd8h | selfhosted | MOS — NAS OS | CANDIDATE | Open source NAS OS |
| 1qoitcg | selfhosted | FolderCast — podcast RSS | CANDIDATE | Self-hosted tool |
| 1qo9lpy | selfhosted | SurfSense (NotebookLM alt) | CANDIDATE | OSS AI tool |
| 1qoncwu | opensource | ctx — context switcher | CANDIDATE | DevOps CLI tool |

### Analyzed: PopStack
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qom03t/
- summary: macOS utility that adds dock-style folder popovers to Desktop. Click a folder, get an instant popover with icon grid or list view. Optional auto-sort rules. Lifetime purchase.

### Analyzed: MacNewFile
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qol4t3/
- summary: Open-source Finder extension that adds "New File" to right-click context menu. Supports text, Word, Pages docs.

### Analyzed: Free Git GUI
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qoomdf/
- summary: Open-source Git GUI for macOS inspired by Tower. Nice diff views, free.

### Analyzed: TopOff
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/ihazgithub/TopOff
- summary: Free menu bar app that auto-checks for outdated Homebrew packages. One-click Update All or per-package.

### Analyzed: Local Video Search
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qohjx5/
- summary: Mac app that indexes video files locally using NPU. Search your footage by content description. No cloud, no renaming needed.

### Analyzed: Markdown Preview + Mermaid
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/markdown-preview-quick-look/id6739955340?mt=12
- summary: Quick Look extension for Markdown files. Now supports Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, TextBundle, and source/preview toggle.

### Analyzed: Dispatcharr
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/Dispatcharr/Dispatcharr
- summary: Open-source IPTV stream and EPG management tool. Think *arr family for IPTV. Proxy streaming, auto-match EPG, HDHomeRun/M3U/XMLTV export. Works with Plex/Jellyfin/Emby.

### Analyzed: MOS NAS OS
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/ich777/mos-releases
- summary: New open-source NAS OS. Community-driven, fully open source.

### Analyzed: FolderCast
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qoitcg/
- summary: Self-hosted tool that generates podcast RSS feeds from audio folders. Listen to lectures/voice notes in any podcast app.

### Analyzed: SurfSense
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qo9lpy/
- summary: Open-source NotebookLM/Perplexity alternative. Connects any LLM to internal knowledge (Drive, Notion, Obsidian, 15+ connectors). Team collaboration.

### Analyzed: Immich 2.5.0
- decision: INCLUDE
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qopivp/
- summary: Immich 2.5.0 adds device cleanup — shows sync status icons, lets you free phone storage by date/folder. Users saying it surpasses Google Photos.

### Apps-Software Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- candidates_analyzed: 13
- included: 11
- phase: source-3-complete

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## Final Selection

Total items: 32 (9 PH + 8 AI-LLMs + 4 GenAI + 11 Apps)

### Product Hunt (9 items)
1. Kilo Code Reviewer — card--ph
2. Moltbot/Clawbot — card--ph
3. CapslockMute — card--ph
4. Analog Reader — card--ph
5. Keyviz — card--ph
6. FireSEO MCP — card--ph
7. AcceptMyApp — card--ph
8. Zush — card--ph
9. The Password App — card--ph

### AI-LLMs (8 items)
1. Kimi K2.5 — featured
2. OpenAI Prism — link
3. DeepSeek-OCR-2 — link
4. Karpathy Slopacolypse — link
5. SERA 8B/32B — link
6. Subquadratic attention — compact
7. Arcee Trinity Large — compact
8. Self-improving models — compact

### GenAI-Media (4 items)
1. Z-Image non-distilled + I2L — featured
2. ComfyUI Docker Blackwell — link
3. Face LoRA workflow — compact
4. ComfyUI Mobile Frontend V2 — compact

### Apps-Software (11 items)
1. PopStack — link
2. Local Video Search — link
3. Dispatcharr — link
4. MacNewFile — compact
5. Free Git GUI — compact
6. TopOff — compact
7. Markdown Preview — compact
8. MOS NAS OS — compact
9. FolderCast — compact
10. SurfSense — compact
11. Immich 2.5.0 — compact

phase: selection-complete
