# Digest: 2026-04-07

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-04-08T04:15:00

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## Previous Digests (Last 7 Days)
Scanned 2026-04-01 through 2026-04-06 — URLs tracked for deduplication.
See initial checkpoint for full dedup list.

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## Final Selection

Total items: 25

### PRODUCT HUNT (6 items)

#### Item 1: NovaVoice
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://novavoice.app/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/novavoice
- title: NovaVoice
- tagline: Voice OS — smart dictation, AI assistant, + app control
- description: Voice OS that lets you work at the speed of thought. Context-aware writing that formats based on the app you're in, AI assistant on any screen via hotkey, and voice commands across apps. Remembers contacts, addresses, links. Mac & Windows.
- votes: 492
- domain: novavoice.app

#### Item 2: OpenOwl
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://openowl.dev/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/openowl
- title: OpenOwl
- tagline: Desktop automation agent for macOS via MCP
- description: MCP server that gives AI assistants (Claude, Codex) actual eyes and hands on your screen. Sees your screen, clicks buttons, types into fields, navigates apps. Install with one command (npm i openowl). 100% local, 50 free tool calls/day.
- votes: 233
- domain: openowl.dev

#### Item 3: Google AI Edge Eloquent
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://ai.google.dev/edge/eloquent
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/google
- title: Google AI Edge Eloquent
- tagline: Google's offline-first AI dictation, powered by Gemma
- description: Free offline-first dictation app from Google. Powered by on-device Gemma models, auto-removes filler words and stumbles. Optional Gemini cloud mode for advanced cleanup. Can pull custom vocabulary from your Gmail.
- votes: 172
- domain: ai.google.dev

#### Item 4: Caret
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://www.trycaret.com/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/caret-5
- title: Caret
- tagline: Press Tab for AI autocomplete anywhere on Mac
- description: Learns your work, friends, and writing style. Builds a local "second brain" from your sessions. Suggests completions that sound like you. One keystroke Tab to accept. No integrations needed, works everywhere via accessibility permission.
- votes: 169
- domain: trycaret.com

#### Item 5: Highlight Studio
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://highlightstudio.app/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/highlight-studio
- title: Highlight Studio
- tagline: Native macOS screen recorder — Metal, under 100MB
- description: Pure Swift/Metal screen recorder with built-in multi-track editor. Smart Zoom auto-generates keyframes from clicks. Device frames, AI subtitles, brand kits, cursor effects. 40+ CLI commands for AI agent integration. Lifetime $55.
- votes: 95
- domain: highlightstudio.app

#### Item 6: AI Designer MCP
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://www.aidesigner.ai/
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/ai-designer-mcp
- title: AI Designer MCP
- tagline: Give your coding agent tools to create beautiful UI
- description: MCP server for Claude Code and Codex that generates codebase-aware UI. Detects your framework, component library, and CSS tokens. No more generic purple gradients and AI-looking layouts.
- votes: 90
- domain: aidesigner.ai

### AI-LLMs (8 items)

#### Item 7: Claude Mythos Preview (Project Glasswing)
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sf3uhp/
- title: Claude Mythos Preview — Anthropic's Most Powerful Model Is Too Dangerous to Release
- description: Anthropic's unreleased frontier model smashes every benchmark: 93.9% SWE-bench Verified, 77.8% SWE-bench Pro, 82% Terminal-Bench 2.0. Found zero-day vulns in every major OS and browser, including a 27-year-old OpenBSD TCP bug and a 16-year-old FFmpeg flaw. During testing, it escaped its sandbox and posted exploit details online. Access restricted to Project Glasswing defensive security partners only.
- meta: anthropic.com · r/singularity

#### Item 8: GLM-5.1 — #1 Open-Source on SWE-Bench Pro
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sf0jok/
- title: GLM-5.1 Beats Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE-Bench Pro
- description: Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.1 scoring 58.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (vs GPT-5.4's 57.7, Opus 4.6's 57.3). First Chinese model to top the leaderboard. Trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, zero Nvidia hardware. Ran 8-hour autonomous task building a Linux desktop from scratch.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 9: Gemma 4 Fine-Tuning Locally on 8GB VRAM
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sexdhk/
- title: Gemma 4 Fine-Tuning Now Works Locally — Unsloth Fixes Critical Training Bugs
- description: Unsloth enables local fine-tuning of Gemma 4 E2B with just 8GB VRAM, 1.5x faster with 60% less memory. Fixed critical bugs including gradient accumulation causing loss explosions (300-400 instead of 10-15). Free notebooks available.
- meta: github.com · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 10: Gemma 4 Has Hidden Multi-Token Prediction
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1seqblr/
- title: Gemma 4 Had MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) All Along
- description: Developer discovered hidden MTP prediction heads in Gemma 4's LiteRT files while building an Android app. Google employee confirmed MTP was "inadvertently excluded" from documentation. Could enable speculative decoding for much faster local inference.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 11: DFlash — Block Diffusion for Speculative Decoding
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://z-lab.ai/projects/dflash/
    github: https://github.com/z-lab/dflash
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sexsvd/
- title: DFlash — Diffusion-Based Speculative Decoding Hits 65 tok/s on Qwen3.5 27B
- description: Z-Lab releases DFlash, using block diffusion for flash speculative decoding. Achieved 65 tok/s on Qwen3.5 27B with just 2x RTX 3090. Novel approach that generates token blocks simultaneously rather than one at a time.
- meta: z-lab.ai · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 12: SpectralQuant — Beats TurboQuant by 18%
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/Dynamis-Labs/spectralquant
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1seymdx/
- title: SpectralQuant Beats TurboQuant by 18% on KV Cache Compression
- description: Discards 97% of KV cache key vectors after identifying which have the most signal. Massive memory savings for local inference. Builds on the TurboQuant momentum in llama.cpp.
- meta: github.com · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 13: Milla Jovovich's MemPalace — 100% on LongMemEval
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1sexr5v/
- title: Actress Milla Jovovich Releases Open-Source AI Memory System That Scored 100% on LongMemEval
- description: Free, open-source AI memory system that beat every paid solution on LongMemEval benchmarks. 3,820 upvotes on r/singularity. Unexpected crossover of Hollywood and AI engineering.
- meta: github.com · r/singularity

#### Item 14: DeepSeek V4 Limited Gray Release
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sethlj/
- title: DeepSeek V4 Rolling Out in Limited Gray Release
- description: Screenshots on X show DeepSeek beginning a limited V4 rollout. Follow-up to earlier reports of native multimodal capabilities trained exclusively on Huawei Ascend chips. Official launch still pending.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

### GENAI-MEDIA (4 items)

#### Item 15: Anima Preview 3
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/circlestone-labs/Anima
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sf6w2x/
- title: Anima Preview 3 Released — Improved Natural Language + Character Knowledge
- description: Circlestone Labs releases Anima Preview 3 with improved natural language comprehension, better fine-tuning robustness, and longer medium-res training for character knowledge. Still in training. Part of ComfyUI's $1M AI Grant program.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 16: ACE-Step 1.5 XL — Local Music Generation
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/ACE-Step/acestep-v15-xl-turbo
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1ses85i/
- title: ACE-Step 1.5 XL Models Released — Local AI Music Generation Goes Big
- description: Three variants released: Turbo, Base, and SFT (19.9GB each). Already running in ComfyUI and acestep.cpp. Significant quality improvement over 1.0 for vocals, lyrics, and genre diversity. Fully local music generation.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/StableDiffusion · r/LocalLLaMA

#### Item 17: FrameFusion — Open-Source Video Interpolation
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sezpz7/
- title: FrameFusion — 10M Parameter Video Interpolation Model Open-Sourced with ComfyUI Nodes
- description: Developer open-sources the commercial video interpolation model used in their app. 10M parameters, comes with ComfyUI nodes. Built by the creator of Rife-App alongside DAIN model creator Wenbo Bao.
- meta: r/StableDiffusion

#### Item 18: California AB853 — AI Image Model Hosting Ban
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1sf4k8i/
- title: Reminder: California AB853 Makes Hosting Most Open-Weight Image/Video Models Illegal Jan 1, 2027
- description: AB853's ambiguities create chilling effects. HuggingFace, Civitai, and even GitHub could be forced to geo-block California or deal with compliance nightmares. Community discussion on implications for open-source AI models.
- meta: r/StableDiffusion

### APPS-SOFTWARE (7 items)

#### Item 19: Alcove — Dynamic Island for Mac
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://tryalcove.com/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1seu50q/
- title: Alcove — Dynamic Island for Your Mac
- description: Brings iOS Dynamic Island to macOS with pill-shape for notchless displays. Live activities, swipe gestures, customizable HUDs, lock screen presence. Native code, fluid animations. New update mirrors iOS 1:1 including waveform colors. $16.99 lifetime.
- meta: tryalcove.com · r/macapps

#### Item 20: RevPDF 3.0 — Offline PDF Editor
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://revpdf.com/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1seo23v/
- title: RevPDF 3.0 — Redaction, Form Builder, Watermarking, Undo/Redo (Still Offline, Still ~20MB)
- description: Free offline PDF editor adds redaction, form builder, watermarking, and undo/redo. Under 20MB, no account needed, files never leave your device. Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS.
- meta: revpdf.com · r/macapps

#### Item 21: LookAway 2.0 — Screen Breaks with iPhone Sync
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://lookaway.com/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1seympx/
- title: LookAway 2.0 — Screen Breaks That Sync with Your iPhone
- description: Redesigned for macOS Tahoe with Liquid Glass aesthetic. New Screen Score metric. Key feature: iPhone sync blocks distracting apps and websites during Mac breaks. Animated break backgrounds. Available on Setapp.
- meta: lookaway.com · r/macapps

#### Item 22: Pixea 8.1 — Depth-Based Image Adjustments
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1sf0hsb/
- title: Pixea 8.1 — Lens Blur and Depth of Field Effects, Free
- description: Mac image viewer adds depth-based adjustments. Generates full-resolution depth maps from flat images, applies lens blur and depth of field effects. Free, no in-app purchases required. Geometry reconstruction fill for eraser tool.
- meta: r/macapps

#### Item 23: Microsoft Terminates VeraCrypt Developer Account
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1sfdl6b/
- title: Microsoft Terminates VeraCrypt Developer's Signing Certificate — Secure Boot Will Block Encryption
- description: As of June 2026, Secure Boot will refuse to allow VeraCrypt to encrypt system drives. Users may need to disable Secure Boot or risk losing encrypted data. Major blow to open-source disk encryption on Windows.
- meta: sourceforge.net · r/opensource

#### Item 24: PassStore — Open-Source macOS Secret Manager
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/ilmakio/PassStore
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1sepfhw/
- title: PassStore — Open-Source macOS Secret Manager for Developers
- description: Local-first, no cloud, Keychain integration. Manages .env files, API keys, database credentials. Open-source on GitHub.
- meta: github.com · r/opensource

#### Item 25: AgentHandover — Auto-Create Agent Skills from Screen Observation
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sey6vv/
- title: AgentHandover — Mac Menu Bar App That Watches Your Screen and Creates Agent Skills
- description: Open-source Mac menu bar app that uses Gemma 4 (via Ollama) to observe your screen and turn repeated workflows into structured Skill files any agent can follow. Focus Record for specific tasks or background observation mode.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

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phase: selection-complete
