# Digest: 2026-01-31

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-01-31T03:30:00Z

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## Previous Digests (Last 7 Days)
(Scanned for deduplication - see previous version)

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## Source 0: Product Hunt

### Product Hunt Complete
- candidates_analyzed: 5
- included: 5
- phase: source-0-complete

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## Source 1: AI-LLMs

### Fetched subreddits
- [x] r/openai - 25 posts
- [x] r/singularity - 15 posts
- [x] r/LocalLLaMA - 25 posts
- [x] r/artificial - 4 posts

### Selected Items

#### Apple uses Anthropic internally
- subreddit: singularity
- score: 193
- urls:
    primary: https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/30/apple-runs-on-anthropic-says-mark-gurman/
- summary: Mark Gurman reports Apple runs on Anthropic internally - custom Claude versions power product development and internal tools.

#### UN warns of AI labor decoupling
- subreddit: singularity
- score: 304
- urls:
    primary: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166847
- summary: UN warns of "Permanent AI Labor Decoupling" by late 2026. India flags 10-20% probability of 2008-style financial crisis.

#### XPENG IRON robot production-ready
- subreddit: singularity
- score: 605
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qrzo26/
- summary: XPENG's IRON humanoid robot achieves automotive-grade production. First prototype rolled off production line, mass production planned for 2026.

#### NVIDIA joins OpenAI funding round
- subreddit: openai
- score: 116
- urls:
    primary: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/nvidia-to-join-openai-s-current-funding-round-huang-says
- summary: Jensen Huang confirms NVIDIA will invest in OpenAI's current round, though "nothing like" $100B.

#### Claude Opus 4.5 wins data compression challenge
- subreddit: singularity
- score: 59
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/ylevental/commavq-compression/
- summary: Developer placed 3rd in comma.ai data compression challenge using Claude Opus 4.5. Code released for learning.

#### Open-weight models approaching SOTA
- subreddit: LocalLLaMA
- score: 509
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qrsy4q/
- summary: Analysis of how close open-weight models are to SOTA. Benchmarks be damned - real-world comparison of local models.

#### MXFP4 has lower perplexity than Q4_K_M
- subreddit: LocalLLaMA
- score: 96
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qrzyaz/
- summary: Testing shows MXFP4 quantization has lower perplexity than Q4_K_M and Q4_K_XL despite smaller size.

#### Karpathy's nanochat beats GPT-2 for <$100
- subreddit: LocalLLaMA
- score: 11
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/discussions/481
- summary: Karpathy shows how to beat GPT-2 for under $100 with 3-hour training run on 8×H100.

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

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## Source 2: GenAI-Media

### Fetched subreddits
- [x] r/StableDiffusion - 24 posts
- [x] r/comfyui - 24 posts
- [x] r/midjourney - 24 posts

### Selected Items

#### Anima - New anime model from ComfyOrg
- subreddit: StableDiffusion
- score: 216
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima
- summary: New anime model from ComfyOrg + Circlestone Labs. Uses Cosmos 2 architecture + Qwen3 0.6B text encoder. Excellent prompt adherence, fast inference, handles 8 characters well.

#### Z-Image adoption explodes
- subreddit: StableDiffusion
- score: 41
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qshlke/
- summary: Z-Image Base ties Flux Klein 9b for LoRA count on Civitai just 4 days after release - 150 LoRAs already.

#### Flux.2 Klein character replacement workflow
- subreddit: comfyui
- score: 118
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1qs2h6p/
- summary: Workflow for replacing characters in images using Flux.2 Klein 9B. Proper technique for controlling information flow between pose and subject references.

#### ComfyUI-QwenASR for speech-to-text
- subreddit: comfyui
- score: 23
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/1038lab/ComfyUI-QwenASR
- summary: ComfyUI nodes for Qwen's new ASR models - speech-to-text with subtitle generation, long audio support.

### GenAI-Media Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 3
- included: 4
- phase: source-2-complete

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## Source 3: Apps-Software

### Fetched subreddits
- [x] r/macapps - 22 posts
- [x] r/selfhosted - 25 posts
- [x] r/opensource - 6 posts
- [ ] r/SideProject - rate limited

### Selected Items

#### Screenize - Open-source Screen Studio alternative
- subreddit: macapps
- score: 79
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qrzfa8/
- summary: Open-source alternative to Screen Studio for recording promotional videos. macOS native, still early but growing.

#### How to Convert - Universal file converter
- subreddit: macapps
- score: 59
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qrxz7p/
- summary: macOS app to convert almost any file to any other file locally. Version 1.3.0 with lifetime license option.

#### Kino - TUI for Plex/Jellyfin
- subreddit: selfhosted
- score: 145
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/mmcdole/kino
- summary: Fast, keyboard-driven TUI for browsing Plex/Jellyfin from terminal. Vim keys, fuzzy search, caches library locally.

#### Safebucket v0.2.0 - Self-hosted file sharing
- subreddit: selfhosted
- score: 92
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qs3fmz/
- summary: S3-agnostic alternative to WeTransfer/Dropbox. v0.2.0 adds MFA and admin dashboard with stats.

#### TRIP 1.38.0 - Map tracker & trip planner
- subreddit: selfhosted
- score: 81
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/itskovacs/trip
- summary: Self-hostable map tracker and trip planner. UI refactoring, collaborative POI planning. No telemetry.

#### 33rpm - Vinyl screensaver for Mac
- subreddit: macapps
- score: 13
- urls:
    primary: https://33rpm.noonpacific.com/
- summary: Free screensaver showing spinning vinyl record synced with Now Playing. Shows album art from Spotify/Apple Music.

#### AdAmp - Winamp 2/Plex/Sonos player
- subreddit: macapps
- score: 2
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qsjgyg/
- summary: macOS Winamp 2.x recreation with Plex/Navidrome/Subsonic support. ProjectM visualizations, sonic similarity radio.

### Apps-Software Complete
- subreddits_fetched: 4
- included: 7
- phase: source-3-complete

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## Final Selection

Total items: 21

### Product Hunt (5)

#### Item 1: ClaudeUsageBar
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/hamed-elfayome/Claude-Usage-Tracker
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/claudeusagebar
- title: ClaudeUsageBar
- tagline: Know exactly how much Claude you have left at a glance
- description: Free, open-source macOS menu bar app for tracking Claude AI usage. Shows 5-hour session and weekly limits, threshold notifications, global shortcut (Cmd+U). Native Swift, <5MB.
- votes: 316
- domain: github.com

#### Item 2: skills.sh
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://skills.sh
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/vercel
- title: skills.sh
- tagline: The Agent Skills Directory
- description: Vercel's "npm for AI agents" - install reusable skills with npx skills add. Supports Claude Code, Cline, Cursor, Codex and more. The Standard Library for the agentic era.
- votes: 267
- domain: skills.sh

#### Item 3: Genie 3
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://deepmind.google/models/genie/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/genie-3-6
- title: Genie 3
- tagline: A new frontier for world models
- description: Google DeepMind world model generating interactive 3D environments from text. Real-time at 24fps, 720p. Unlike video gen, these are playable simulated worlds.
- votes: 21
- domain: deepmind.google

#### Item 4: RUSTWA
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://gitlab.com/buyungb/rustwa
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/rustwa
- title: RUSTWA
- tagline: WhatsApp Web API built in Rust
- description: REST API for WhatsApp automation with headless Chrome. Multi-session support, QR login, webhooks. Fast async Tokio runtime. Intentionally simple.
- votes: 39
- domain: gitlab.com

#### Item 5: Mixels.ai
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://mixels.ai
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mixels-ai
- title: Mixels.ai
- tagline: AI Pixel Art Generator with perfect grid alignment
- description: Convert photos to pixel art or generate game-ready sprites. Grid-perfect output, no cleanup needed. Free browser editor. 64x64 now, 128x128 coming.
- votes: 15
- domain: mixels.ai

### AI-LLMs (6)

#### Item 6: XPENG IRON robot
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1qrzo26/
- title: XPENG IRON Achieves Production-Ready Status
- description: XPENG's humanoid robot IRON rolled off production line with automotive-grade standards. Mass production planned for 2026. One of the first humanoids to reach this milestone.
- meta: reddit.com · r/singularity

#### Item 7: Apple runs on Anthropic
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/30/apple-runs-on-anthropic-says-mark-gurman/
- title: Apple Runs on Anthropic Internally
- description: Mark Gurman reports Apple uses custom Claude versions on internal servers for product development and tools. Update to ongoing Apple AI story.
- meta: 9to5mac.com · r/singularity

#### Item 8: UN AI Labor Warning
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166847
- title: UN Warns of "Permanent AI Labor Decoupling" by Late 2026
- description: High-level UN economic report warns AI is creating widening social and economic divides. India flags 10-20% probability of 2008-style global crisis.
- meta: news.un.org · r/singularity

#### Item 9: NVIDIA joins OpenAI round
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-31/nvidia-to-join-openai-s-current-funding-round-huang-says
- title: NVIDIA to Join OpenAI Funding Round
- description: Jensen Huang confirms NVIDIA will invest in OpenAI's current round, though "nothing like" $100B. Despite WSJ report of tensions, Huang calls criticism "nonsense."
- meta: bloomberg.com · r/openai

#### Item 10: Open-weight models SOTA analysis
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qrsy4q/
- title: How Close Are Open-Weight Models to SOTA?
- description: Community analysis comparing local models to frontier. Benchmarks aside, honest assessment of real-world performance gaps and where open models excel.
- meta: reddit.com · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 11: Karpathy nanochat
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat/discussions/481
- title: Beating GPT-2 for Under $100
- description: Karpathy demonstrates 3-hour training run on 8×H100 that beats GPT-2 on CORE benchmark. Shares architecture/optimizer tweaks.
- meta: github.com · r/LocalLLaMA

### GenAI-Media (4)

#### Item 12: Anima anime model
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima
- title: Anima - New Anime Model from ComfyOrg + Circlestone Labs
- description: Novel architecture: Cosmos 2 (2B) + Qwen3 0.6B text encoder. Excellent prompt adherence, handles 8+ characters with good faces/hands. Faster than SDXL.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 13: Z-Image LoRA explosion
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1qshlke/
- title: Z-Image Base Matches Flux Klein 9b LoRA Count in 4 Days
- description: 150 LoRAs created in 4 days - unprecedented adoption. Broad community contribution vs concentrated Klein uploads.
- meta: reddit.com · r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 14: Flux.2 character replacement workflow
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1qs2h6p/
- title: Character Replacement Workflow for Flux.2 Klein 9B
- description: Proper technique for injecting characters from one image into another's pose. Controls information flow to avoid nasty fusions.
- meta: reddit.com · r/comfyui

#### Item 15: ComfyUI-QwenASR
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/1038lab/ComfyUI-QwenASR
- title: ComfyUI-QwenASR - Speech-to-Text + Subtitles
- description: ComfyUI nodes for Qwen's ASR models. Long audio support, auto subtitles, keyword hints.
- meta: github.com · r/comfyui

### Apps-Software (6)

#### Item 16: Screenize
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qrzfa8/
- title: Screenize - Open-Source Screen Studio Alternative
- description: Free, open-source tool for recording promotional videos on macOS. Still early but functional alternative to $89 Screen Studio.
- meta: reddit.com · r/macapps

#### Item 17: Kino
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/mmcdole/kino
- title: Kino - TUI for Plex/Jellyfin
- description: Keyboard-driven terminal UI for browsing media libraries. Vim keys, fuzzy search, opens in mpv/vlc. Caches locally for instant search.
- meta: github.com · r/selfhosted

#### Item 18: Safebucket v0.2.0
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qs3fmz/
- title: Safebucket v0.2.0 - Self-Hosted File Sharing
- description: S3-agnostic WeTransfer/Dropbox alternative. v0.2.0 adds MFA, admin dashboard with statistics and user management.
- meta: reddit.com · r/selfhosted

#### Item 19: TRIP 1.38.0
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/itskovacs/trip
- title: TRIP 1.38.0 - Map Tracker & Trip Planner
- description: Self-hostable minimalist map tracker. UI refactoring, collaborative POI planning, no telemetry.
- meta: github.com · r/selfhosted

#### Item 20: 33rpm
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://33rpm.noonpacific.com/
- title: 33rpm - Vinyl Screensaver for Mac
- description: Free screensaver with spinning vinyl synced to Now Playing. Shows album art from Spotify/Apple Music.
- meta: 33rpm.noonpacific.com · r/macapps

#### Item 21: AdAmp
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1qsjgyg/
- title: AdAmp - Winamp 2 for macOS with Plex Support
- description: Winamp 2.x recreation with Plex/Navidrome integration. ProjectM visualizations, sonic similarity radio.
- meta: reddit.com · r/macapps

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