From Product Hunt
New Year's Eve brought developer tools, unique hardware, and AI utilities.
wink-cursor — Playful React Cursor
Lightweight React component that replaces your cursor with an emoji that winks on click. Customizable size, duration, and images. Zero design effort for landing pages and creative projects.
Imajourn — Wave Physics Sandbox
Interactive simulation bringing wave and sound physics to life. Features Chladni patterns, cymatics, audio reactivity, and 3D particle sim. Works on iOS 17+ and macOS (Apple Silicon).
Vidcard — Video Business Card
Physical business card with HD screen, NFC tracking, and wireless charging. Ultra-thin (<5mm). Inspired by Call of Duty's Atlas card. Tracks who views your profile.
Trip Replay — Animated Travel Videos
Create cinematic map animations for TikTok/Reels. Add stops, pick transport mode, and generate globe fly-throughs. Free, browser-based, no sign-up. Uses WebCodecs for fast export.
Mind Dock Inspiration — AI Trends Dashboard
Live AI trends aggregator pulling from HuggingFace, ArXiv, and GitHub. Delivers trending models, research, and news in one place for staying current in the AI landscape.
From Reddit
End of 2025 with a bang — Qwen drops a major image model, multiple new LLMs, and OpenAI's ad plans draw criticism.
Alibaba ends 2025 with Qwen-Image-2512, now the strongest open-source text-to-image model. Features dramatically reduced "AI look" for human subjects, finer natural textures, and improved text rendering.
Tested in 10,000+ blind rounds on AI Arena, competitive with Imagen 4 and Gemini 3 Pro. GGUF available via Unsloth. Runs on CPU (55min for 512px) or GPU.
Solar-Open-100B released
Upstage drops a 102B MoE model (12B active) with commercial license. Trained on 19.7 trillion tokens. Unlike Solar Pro series, this version allows commercial use. Good size for local inference.
Tencent Youtu-LLM-2B — Tiny Agentic Model
Tiny 1.96B parameter model with 128k context and native agentic capabilities. Uses MLA architecture. Outperforms similar-size models on commonsense, STEM, coding. Particularly strong at end-to-end agent tasks.
MAI-UI — GUI Agent Foundation Models
Alibaba releases a family of GUI agent models (2B, 8B, 32B, 235B-A22B). Features device-cloud collaboration, MCP tool calls, and online RL training. Designed for computer use and UI automation.
OpenAI planning ads in ChatGPT
Reports indicate OpenAI will introduce sponsored content "prioritized" in conversations. Community reaction strongly negative, calling it "enshittification." Concerns about model alignment with advertiser interests.
Quick hits — tools and smaller updates.
infer — Pipe anything to an LLM
~200 lines of C. Unix philosophy: ps aux | infer "what's eating my RAM". Works with OpenAI-compatible APIs.
From Reddit
GenAI — Qwen-Image-2512 dominates discussion, plus practical workflows for Z-Image Turbo.
ZiT Studio — Complete Z-Image Turbo Workflow
Comprehensive ComfyUI workflow for Z-Image Turbo. Features generate, inpaint, detailer, and upscale (latent + tiled + SeedVR2). Refined over a month for maximum quality outputs.
Best Anime-to-Real Workflow
High-quality anime-to-photorealistic conversion workflow. Avoids plastic skin and wig-like hair. More consistent output with varied faces instead of same-face syndrome.
Qwen-Image-2512 Lightning LoRA
4-step acceleration LoRA by LightX2V. Dramatically reduces generation time while maintaining quality.
From Reddit
Year-end picks — best Mac apps discussion, self-hosted tools, and new utilities.
Best Mac App of 2025 — Community Picks
167 comments discussing the standout Mac apps of 2025. Great resource for discovering apps to try in 2026. Covers productivity, creativity, and organization tools.
Soulbeet 0.2.2 — slskd + beets Bridge
Web app for easy music downloading and organization. v0.2.2 adds overhauled UI, proper mobile support, and smaller Docker image. Bridges Soulseek (via slskd) with beets tagging.
Nimbus — Modern Homelab Dashboard
Open-source dashboard with drag-and-drop widgets. Alternative to Homarr/Dashy. Go backend + Next.js frontend. Lightweight, UI-configurable without YAML editing.
Quick hits — smaller utilities.
mssh — SSH behind NAT without VPN
Keep SSH access during Tailscale/Headscale migrations. Works with reverse SSH proxies.
desktop-2fa — Offline 2FA Authenticator
No phone, cloud, or vendor lock-in. Stores locally, uses open standards, auditable code.
Domus Ratio — Family Finance Manager
Self-hostable finance and calendar app. Privacy-focused alternative to data-selling apps.