From Product Hunt
macOS utilities dominate today's picks — a productivity browser, drag-drop shelf, and visual timer alongside AI thumbnail generation and a GitHub code Q&A tool.
Thumbfa.st — AI YouTube Thumbnails
AI thumbnail generator that keeps your face consistent across all thumbnails. Upload once, paste a YouTube URL for style, describe your vision — done in under 60 seconds. 1280x720. Free first thumbnail, then credits.
Forums — AI Q&A for GitHub Repos
Ask questions about any public GitHub repo — AI agents clone, explore, and grep the source for answers. Includes MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor, CLI tool, and web UI. Open source (GPL-3.0).
Pola Browser — macOS Productivity Browser
WebKit-based browser with persistent tab folders, Research Mode (visual browsing map), project profiles, AI sidebar, and smart memory management. Zero tracking, macOS Keychain. €19.99 lifetime.
Hyoi — macOS Drag-Drop Floating Shelf
Lightweight utility that auto-shows a floating shelf when you drag files. Drop files, images, or text temporarily, then drag anywhere. Swift & SwiftUI, no network access. Name from Japanese "ひょい" (effortlessly picking up).
Liquid Timer v2 — Visual Menu Bar Timer
macOS timer with liquid splash animations. Drag from menu bar to create unlimited circular timers. v2 adds timer bars, minute+seconds display, right-click options, reduced CPU, fullscreen mode. Free.
From Reddit
DeepMind's D4RT reconstructs 4D scenes 300x faster, Apple's failed AI lab acquisition revealed, and GLM 4.7 Flash gets a massive VRAM fix.
Google DeepMind's D4RT uses a unified transformer to jointly infer depth, spatio-temporal correspondence, and camera parameters from video. 18-300x faster than previous state-of-the-art. Key implications for robotics, autonomous mapping, and world models.
Apple Nearly Acquired an AI Lab Last Fall
Bloomberg reports Apple was close to buying an AI model lab — comments confirm it was Mistral AI. EU regulatory concerns blocked the deal. Also reveals plans for AI Safari and new Siri in iOS 26.4/27.
ChatGPT Uses Grokipedia as a Source
Tests reveal ChatGPT's latest model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia for factual queries, raising concerns about AI training data quality and circular knowledge loops.
GLM 4.7 Flash — KV Cache Fix Doubles Context
Update: Two new llama.cpp PRs (#19067, #19092) dramatically improve GLM 4.7 Flash. The V cache fix saves gigabytes of VRAM — one user went from 45K to 90K context on a 4090.
BBC: Chinese Open Models Muscle Out US Closed AI
BBC reports Chinese open-source AI (DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen) steadily displacing closed US offerings. Open-weight models gaining adoption across industries due to cost, customizability, and self-hosting.
Internet Blackout in Iran — Local LLMs as Lifeline
During a 400+ hour blackout in Iran, only Google, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek were whitelisted. A user describes relying on local Gemma3 12B and Qwen3 8B. Powerful real-world case for local LLMs as digital sovereignty tools.
Quick hits from the AI world.
FP8 Backported to RTX 3090
Developer backported FP8 as storage format to Ampere GPUs. VRAM savings without H100-class hardware.
LLMs Show Emergent Biological Structure Understanding
GPT-2 fine-tuned on English paraphrasing achieves ~84% zero-shot accuracy on biological structural tasks.
From Reddit
Flux 2 Klein ecosystem keeps expanding — lighting benchmarks, a 3D repair LoRA, negative prompts via NAG, and a potential VAE replacement paper drops.
Flux 2 Klein Edit — Lighting Benchmarks
Comprehensive lighting benchmark using the official prompting guide. Demonstrates Klein's photographic-grade lighting control — the most important factor for output quality. Varied prompt examples included.
Gaussian Splats Repair LoRA for Klein 9B
LoRA that repairs 3D views from ml-sharp gaussian splat generation, fixing geometry issues and restoring original details. Bridges 2D image generation and 3D scene reconstruction.
NAG — Negative Prompts for Flux 2 Klein
Normalized Attention Guidance enables negative prompts and better prompt adherence on guidance-distilled models. ComfyUI custom node available.
RAE — The New VAE?
Regularized Autoencoders outperform FLUX VAE across all model scales (0.5B-9.8B). VAE-based models catastrophically overfit after 64 epochs while RAE remains stable through 256.
Image MetaHub — Local Image Browser for 60K+ Files
Search generated images by checkpoint, prompt, LoRA, seed, sampler. Works with A1111, Forge, ComfyUI, Midjourney. Custom save node for perfect indexing.
Graviton — Daisy-Chain ComfyUI Workflows
Open-source tool to chain workflows across multiple GPUs. Each node is a workflow with GPU assignment.
From Reddit
Setapp goes AI-only, a Portainer killer gains traction, and a wave of macOS utilities — menu bar calendar, desktop agent, sidebar manager, and hidden settings tweaker.
Setapp has changed its catalog policy to only accept "AI apps." Non-AI productivity utilities are now barred from joining. Developer of AppHub (app launcher) was rejected despite being a natural fit. Community backlash in comments.
Komodo — Docker Management (Portainer Killer)
Feature-rich Docker management with multi-server node support (non-swarm), NFS, and automated workflow procedures. Free, actively developed. Top comment: "Migrated from Portainer a year ago, never looked back."
Dot — macOS Menu Bar Calendar
Meeting reminders, one-click join for Zoom/Meet/Teams, auto-surfacing of attached docs. Natural language event creation. $9.99 one-time. Data stays on Mac.
CoWork-OSS — Open Source macOS Desktop Agent
Select a folder as workspace, then give tasks (organize files, generate reports, create presentations). Folder-scoped with path traversal protection, approval gates. BYOK (Anthropic API/AWS Bedrock).
SupaSidebar — Arc-Like Sidebar for Any Browser
macOS menubar app adding Arc-like features to Safari, Chrome, etc. Save links/files/folders, fuzzy search tabs and history, cross-browser history, iCloud sync. New: AI tagging, Spotlight integration.
BareMac — Hidden macOS Settings Tweaker
Open-source utility bundling useful
defaults write terminal tweaks with clear rollback. Seeking community help collecting reliable hidden macOS commands.
Self-hosted and open source picks.
Slink v1.9.0 — Self-Hosted Image Sharing
Minimalist image sharing platform. v1.9.0 adds collections, licensing controls, S3-compatible storage, and more personalization. Drag-and-drop upload, share/embed links.
CrowdSec Blocklist Import — 60K+ IPs from 28 Sources
Docker container importing free blocklists into CrowdSec, extending the free tier. Daily via cron.
IronCalc v0.7.1 — Open Source Spreadsheet Engine
Rust-based, embeddable. v0.7.1 adds internationalization. MIT/Apache. Aiming for 1.0 this year.
Zombie — Rust TUI Process Manager
Graph mode (process tree), dashboard, sorting, kill/restart/clean, tags and notes. htop alternative.