From Product Hunt
Self-hosting community, generative UI agents, and a Mac notes app that actually stays private.
Tinkerer Club — The private club for builders who self-host and automate
Private community for devs and automation nerds running local AI, self-hosting everything, and escaping subscription traps. Discord community, weekly calls, early access to tools like Clawdbot. Lifetime pricing at $299.
Agent Builder by Thesys — AI agents that respond with UI
No-code agent builder that creates apps responding with charts, cards, forms, and reports — not plain text. Connect your data via MCP, customize behavior, and publish instantly.
Normain — Extraction-first AI for complex documents
Structured, traceable insights from PDFs, Excel, and PowerPoints. Every insight links back to source page and paragraph. Built for audit and compliance — not chat-based summarization.
Gravity Notes — Private notes that live on your Mac
Lightweight native Mac notes app. Private, local-first, no cloud sync required. Designed for quick capture without the overhead of full-featured note apps.
claw.fm — AI-powered music radio
AI-generated music radio that creates original tracks on the fly. Continuous stream of AI-composed music across genres. Interesting alternative to Suno for passive listening.
From Reddit
Hugging Face is teasing Anthropic, xAI is losing cofounders, and the local LLM tooling ecosystem just got a lot more powerful.
Hugging Face dropped hints about an Anthropic collaboration, sending r/LocalLLaMA into speculation mode. While open-weight Claude models seem unlikely, the community is buzzing about potential safety alignment datasets or other open-source resources.
Could signal a meaningful shift in Anthropic's relationship with the open-source community. Watch this space.
Nearly Half of xAI's Founding Team Has Now Left
Two more xAI cofounders resigned within 48 hours, bringing the total departures to nearly half the founding team. Raises serious questions about internal dynamics at Elon Musk's AI lab.
ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads to Free Users
OpenAI officially begins showing ads to free-tier ChatGPT users. An ad-free option remains with reduced usage limits. The move signals OpenAI's push toward sustainable revenue beyond subscriptions.
Qwen-Image-2.0 — 7B Unified Generation & Editing Model
Alibaba's new 7B model combines image generation and editing in one pipeline. Native 2K resolution, actual text rendering from prompts up to 1K tokens. API-only for now, but open weights likely given Qwen's track record.
Unsloth: Train MoE Models 12x Faster with 30% Less Memory
Custom Triton kernels for ~12x faster Mixture of Experts training with 35%+ less VRAM and 6x longer context. Supports DeepSeek R1/V3, Qwen3, GLM models. Fine-tune gpt-oss-20B in under 15GB VRAM.
MCP Support in llama.cpp Ready for Testing
After over a month of development, llama.cpp now has Model Context Protocol support. MCP server selector, tool calls with agentic loop, prompts detection, and CORS proxy. Local models can now use MCP tools.
Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine Goes Beyond AlphaFold
Google DeepMind's Isomorphic Labs unveils IsoDDE — more than doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy on protein-ligand structure prediction. Predicts binding affinities exceeding gold-standard physics methods at a fraction of the cost.
Quick hits from the local LLM community.
NanoQuant — Sub-1-Bit LLM Quantization
Sub-binary quantization that outperforms 2-bit GPTQ with extreme memory compression.
memv — Agent memory that only stores what it failed to predict
Open-source predict-calibrate memory system for AI agents. Avoids noisy knowledge bases by learning from surprises.
OpenResearcher 30B-A3B — Offline deep research LLM
Fully offline agentic research model. 54.8% on BrowseComp-Plus, surpassing GPT-5.2. No APIs or rate limits needed.
ktop — Themed terminal monitor for LLM rigs
Like btop + nvtop combined. Shows GPUs and CPUs in one view with theme support. Built for local LLM setups.
From Reddit
Seedance 2.0 hits a privacy wall, Z-Image dominates realism, and open video models keep shipping.
Following last week's coverage of Seedance 2.0, ByteDance has suspended the model's unexpected ability to reconstruct personal voices from facial photos alone. The feature was never intentionally designed — the model learned voice-face correlations from training data.
Privacy and deepfake concerns triggered the immediate suspension. A stark reminder that emergent capabilities in generative models can surface without warning.
Z-Image Base & Turbo LoRA — The Realism Everyone Wanted
Z-Image is dominating the SD community for photorealism. Supports flexible prompting styles similar to Midjourney. New Z-Image-Fun-Lora distill 4-step version also released today.
ArcFlow — 2-Step Text-to-Image Generation
Non-linear flow distillation that generates quality images in just 2 steps. LoRA released for both Flux1 and Qwen-Image-20B. Paper and models on HuggingFace.
OmniVideo-2 & MOVA — New Open Video+Audio Models
OmniVideo-2 unifies video generation and editing on Wan-2.2. MOVA adds synchronized audio with lip-sync and sound effects. Both open-source on HuggingFace.
Falcraft — Real-time 3D Diffusion in Minecraft
SAM-3D on fal serverless, streaming diffusion steps as Minecraft blocks. Geometry and color diffusion visualized in real-time. One of the most creative ComfyUI projects yet.
From Reddit
Native Mac apps, Linux sandboxes, a dead man's switch, and visual task canvases.
Curated List of Native Mac Apps (No Electron)
Community-curated GitHub list of lightweight, truly native macOS apps built with Swift/SwiftUI/AppKit. Already 30+ apps and growing. Great resource if you're sick of Electron wrappers.
Word Clock Pro — Widgets, Screensaver & Ambient Mode
Native Mac word clock with widgets, fullscreen ambient mode, and system screensaver. Custom themes sync across macOS and iOS. Inspired by physical word clock hardware.
FlareBar — Cloudflare Dashboard from the Menu Bar
Lists all Cloudflare resources (Workers, D1, KV, R2, Pages, Domains) and opens the exact dashboard page in one click. Free for single account, $50 one-time for Pro.
VibeBox — Per-Project Linux Sandbox for macOS
CLI that gives you a sandboxed Linux VM per project using Apple Virtualization Framework. One command from any repo for a safe Linux environment. Warm re-entry is near-instant.
Forma — Visual Canvas for Tasks & Notes
Native 3MB Mac app. Drop ideas on an open canvas, group visually, draw connections. Bigger card = more important. 100% local, nothing leaves your Mac.
VisionTagger — Auto-Caption Photos Locally
Privacy-first macOS app that generates image metadata fully on-device on Apple Silicon. Custom fields, batch processing, keyword generation. No cloud, no subscription.
Self-hosted picks — security, vehicles, and drones.
LastSignal — Self-hosted encrypted dead man's switch
E2E encrypted messages delivered to loved ones if you stop checking in. Zero-knowledge, self-hosted.
LubeLogger — Major UI update with equipment tracking
Self-hosted vehicle maintenance tracker adds equipment mileage tracking, API keys overhaul, and CSV import.
DJI Logbook — Self-hosted drone flight log analyzer
100% local DJI flight log analysis with maps, charts, and stats. Now supports Docker deployment.