As someone working in the field I have to admit that I'm not familiar with the terms differential storage nor do I really understand what hybrid execution means. Maybe you could describe it both from a simple technical point of view and what benefits it has to me as a user?

from the post:

Differential storage

Append-only layers with PostgreSQL metadata. DuckDB sees a normal file; OpenDuck persists data as immutable sealed layers addressable from object storage. Snapshots give you consistent reads. One serialized write path, many concurrent readers.

Hybrid (dual) execution

A single query can run partly on your machine and partly on a remote worker. The gateway splits the plan, labels each operator LOCAL or REMOTE, and inserts bridge operators at the boundaries. Only intermediate results cross the wire.