# Digest: 2026-04-04

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-04-04T03:30:00

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## Final Selection

Total items: 24

### Product Hunt Items

#### Item 1: Google Vids 2.0
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-vids-updates-lyria-veo/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/google
- title: Google Vids 2.0
- tagline: Free video creation with Veo 3.1 & Lyria 3
- description: Create on-brand videos at scale with Veo 3.1 video generation, Lyria 3 custom music, directable AI avatars, and Chrome screen recorder. Free tier includes 10 Veo videos/month. One-click YouTube publishing.
- votes: 352
- domain: blog.google

#### Item 2: Mercury Edit 2
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-edit-2
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/mercury-412
- title: Mercury Edit 2
- tagline: Diffusion LLM for ultra-fast next-edit prediction
- description: Code-focused diffusion LLM that generates tokens in parallel (not sequentially) for next-edit prediction. 75.6% quality at 221ms latency, 48% higher accept rate than v1. Free 1-month Zed trial available.
- votes: 146
- domain: inceptionlabs.ai

#### Item 3: Vista
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://storepal.app/vista
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/vista-4
- title: Vista
- tagline: The image viewer macOS should have built
- description: Native Mac image viewer that does one thing perfectly — browse folder images with arrow keys. No editing, no bloat, no Electron. Replaces the gap left by LilyView. Free.
- votes: 105
- domain: storepal.app

#### Item 4: Open Claude in Chrome
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/noemica-io/open-claude-in-chrome
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/open-claude-in-chrome
- title: Open Claude in Chrome
- tagline: Claude Code browser automation without the blocklist
- description: Clean-room reverse engineering of Claude's browser extension. Same 18 MCP tools, 100% parity. No domain blocklist (official blocks banks, Reddit, Robinhood etc.), works in any Chromium browser (Arc, Vivaldi, Brave). MIT license.
- votes: 113
- domain: github.com

#### Item 5: OpenRouter Model Fusion
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://openrouter.ai/labs/fusion
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/openrouter
- title: OpenRouter Model Fusion
- tagline: Run multiple models, fuse the best answer
- description: Run prompts through multiple models, judge outputs across axes, synthesize into one final response. Configurable judge model. Mix open and closed models from OpenRouter's catalog. Free models available for testing.
- votes: 119
- domain: openrouter.ai

#### Item 6: Donut Browser
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://donutbrowser.com
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/donut-browser
- title: Donut Browser
- tagline: Open source anti-detect browser with unlimited profiles
- description: First anti-detect browser with unlimited profiles, no account required. Each profile gets unique fingerprint, proxy support, and full browser automation. Open source, free tier available.
- votes: 123
- domain: donutbrowser.com

#### Item 7: OpenGyver
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/create-flow-ai/openGyver
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/opengyver
- title: OpenGyver
- tagline: Swiss army knife CLI + Claude Code MCP skill
- description: Convert anything from your terminal — currencies, colors, file formats, JSON, UUIDs, epochs. Pipe results for automation. Comes as Claude Code MCP skill so Claude can convert EPS to SVG while you sleep. 100% free, open source, extensible.
- votes: 77
- domain: github.com

### AI-LLMs Items

#### Item 8: Apple Self-Distillation Paper
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sc7uwa/
- title: Apple: Simple Self-Distillation Dramatically Improves Code Generation
- description: Apple researchers show that models can improve their own code generation by sampling solutions and fine-tuning on them. Qwen3-30B improved from 42.4% to 55.3% on LiveCodeBench v6, with larger gains on harder problems. No verifier, teacher model, or RL needed — just the model's own outputs. Works across Qwen and Llama families at 4B, 8B, and 30B scales.
- meta: arxiv.org · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 9: YC-Bench — GLM-5 Nearly Matches Opus 4.6 at 11x Lower Cost
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sbyte4/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sbyte4/
- title: YC-Bench: GLM-5 Nearly Matches Claude Opus 4.6 at 11× Lower Cost
- description: New benchmark where LLMs play CEO of a simulated startup for a year. Opus 4.6 leads at $1.27M avg final funds ($86/run), but GLM-5 is close at $1.21M ($7.62/run). Tests long-horizon decision-making, employee management, and adversarial client detection.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 10: Gemma 4 Community Benchmarks Exceed Expectations
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sci5h6/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sci5h6/
- title: Update: Gemma 4 31B Takes 3rd on FoodTruck Bench, Beating GLM-5 and All Sonnets
- description: Following the Apr 2 launch, community benchmarks show Gemma 4 31B punching far above its weight. 3rd place on FoodTruck Bench (long-horizon business sim), beating GLM-5, Qwen 3.5 397B, and all Claude Sonnets. Also running at 120 TPS on dual 3090s and even on a Rockchip NPU at 4W.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 11: Iranian Missile Strikes Hit AWS Data Centers
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iranian-missile-blitz-takes-down-aws-data-centers-in-bahrain-and-dubai-amazon-declares-hard-down-status-for-multiple-zones
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1scqvs9/
- title: Iranian Missiles Take Down AWS Data Centers in Bahrain and Dubai
- description: Amazon declared "hard down" status for multiple availability zones after Iranian missile strikes hit data centers in Bahrain and Dubai. Iran had previously threatened Stargate and other tech infrastructure. Underscores vulnerability of centralized cloud compute.
- meta: tomshardware.com · r/singularity

#### Item 12: Half of US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/half-of-planned-us-data-center-builds-have-been-delayed-or-canceled-growth-limited-by-shortages-of-power-infrastructure-and-parts-from-china-the-ai-build-out-flips-the-breakers
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sbza4p/
- title: Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Delayed or Canceled
- description: Power infrastructure shortages and continued dependency on Chinese electrical equipment are stalling the AI buildout. Despite years of onshoring efforts, China remains the largest producer of critical power delivery components. Trade war has worsened timelines.
- meta: tomshardware.com · r/singularity

#### Item 13: DeepMind LLM Rewrites Game Theory Algorithms
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/google-deepminds-research-lets-an-llm-rewrite-its-own-game-theory-algorithms-and-it-outperformed-the-experts/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sc3v9z/
- title: DeepMind's LLM Rewrites Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — Outperforms Experts
- description: Google DeepMind research enables LLMs to iteratively rewrite and improve game theory algorithms. The AI-generated algorithms outperformed traditionally expert-designed approaches, demonstrating self-directed algorithmic optimization.
- meta: marktechpost.com · r/singularity

#### Item 14: DGX Spark NVFP4 Still Missing After 6 Months
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1scf1x8/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1scf1x8/
- title: DGX Spark Users Frustrated — NVFP4 Still Missing After 6 Months
- description: The Blackwell + NVFP4 combo was the Spark's selling point. Without it, the $3,000 system loses its edge over consumer hardware. Nvidia has been silent on timeline.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 15: Monarch v3 — 78% Faster Inference with NES-Inspired KV Paging
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sc157b/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sc157b/
- title: Monarch v3: 78% Faster LLM Inference via NES-Inspired KV Paging
- description: Open source memory paging system for transformers inspired by NES memory banking. 1.1B model goes from 17 to 30.4 tok/sec with near-zero VRAM overhead. Intelligently pages out stale KV cache entries.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

### GenAI-Media Items

#### Item 16: OpenShot Gets ComfyUI Integration
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sc9vi6/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sc9vi6/
- title: OpenShot Video Editor Adds ComfyUI Integration
- description: New major release of the open-source video editor now lets you load ComfyUI workflows and trigger them directly from the timeline. Tested with LTX2 V2V workflows. Full-featured video editing meets AI generation pipelines.
- meta: r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 17: Gemma4 Prompt Engineer Node for ComfyUI
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sci9w2/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sci9w2/
- title: Gemma4 Prompt Engineer — Local LLM Prompt Gen for ComfyUI
- description: ComfyUI node using Gemma 4 31B abliterated running locally via llama-server to generate cinematic prompts for LTX 2.3, Wan 2.2, Flux, SDXL, and more. No API keys, everything local.
- meta: r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 18: Spellcaster — ComfyUI-Powered AI Tools Inside GIMP
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1sc5wuc/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1sc5wuc/
- title: Spellcaster — Free Plugin Bringing ComfyUI AI Tools Into GIMP
- description: Open source GIMP plugin that connects to your ComfyUI instance, letting you run AI generation workflows directly from GIMP's interface. Bridges traditional image editing with AI generation.
- meta: r/comfyui

### Apps-Software Items

#### Item 19: AppStateKeeper — Backup/Restore macOS Apps Locally
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1sch73h/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1sch73h/
- title: AppStateKeeper — Backup & Restore Mac Apps Without Migration Assistant
- description: GUI app for snapshotting and restoring macOS applications. Skip slow Time Machine backups and Migration Assistant mess. Fully local, no telemetry, no internet needed. Alternative to chezmoi/Mackup without terminal.
- meta: r/macapps

#### Item 20: Offloader v1.3
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1sck9pc/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1sck9pc/
- title: Offloader v1.3 — Scan Your Mac, Find Wasted Space, Auto-Offload to iCloud
- description: New Scan & Report feature shows breakdown of space that can be offloaded to iCloud Drive. One-click cloud offloading. Addresses macOS's poor automatic handling of iCloud storage optimization. Lifetime license.
- meta: r/macapps

#### Item 21: Pangolin 1.17
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1scc7ar/
- title: Pangolin 1.17 — Open Source Identity-Aware Remote Access
- description: Major update with multiple roles per user, site provisioning keys, log streaming, and IdP improvements. Securely expose web apps and private resources with peer-to-peer networking. Nearing 20k GitHub stars.
- meta: github.com · r/selfhosted

#### Item 22: PolicyFS — FUSE Filesystem That Prevents HDD Wake
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1sbyetc/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1sbyetc/
- title: PolicyFS — Open Source FUSE Filesystem for Self-Hosted Media
- description: Presents multiple disks as single mountpoint but serves HDD metadata from SQLite, preventing unnecessary wake-ups. Plex/Sonarr/Radarr scans no longer spin up drives. Built for the *arr stack. Open source.
- meta: r/selfhosted

#### Item 23: Euro-Office
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://tech.eu/2026/03/27/europe-builds-microsoft-compatible-euro-office-to-reclaim-digital-sovereignty/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1sc79aq/
- title: Europe Builds "Euro-Office" — Open Source Microsoft Office Alternative
- description: Backed by IONOS, Nextcloud, and Eurostack, this open-source suite offers full MS format compatibility with European sovereignty. Technical preview on GitHub now, stable release planned for summer 2026. Triggered by ONLYOFFICE cloud shutdown and geopolitical concerns.
- meta: tech.eu · r/opensource

#### Item 24: Tingting — Native macOS Local Music Player
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1scpkkh/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1scpkkh/
- title: Tingting — Native macOS Music Player for Local Files
- description: SwiftUI-built player for FLAC, ALAC, MP3, M4A, WAV. Auto-fetches lyrics, gapless playback, native Apple Silicon performance. Free.
- meta: r/macapps

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phase: selection-complete
