What changed in Tech today
Articles, releases and code from Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub and the people building RPA, workflow automation and AI agents — plus what the community pushed to the top today.
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Edge0/Audio8-TTS-Realistic-0.6b — text-to-speech
HFhuggingface.co 166 pts +2/h 12h ago
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TencentCloud/octop-browser — Agent-first lightweight browser automation — direct CDP, no Playwright, more accurate and more reliable.
AITencent Cloud open-sourced octop-browser, a lightweight automation tool that connects directly to the Chrome DevTools Protocol without Playwright for faster, more reliable AI web agents.
GitHubgithub.com 68 pts +1/h 1d ago
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LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-GGUF — text-generation
AILiquid AI released quantized GGUF weights for LFM3-1.7B, allowing developers to run lightweight local language models on standard consumer hardware for automation workflows and agents.
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LiquidAI/LFM3-Audio-2B — any-to-any
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ToMan78737ticore/resocket-clinic-flow — n8n automation that sends a doctor today's patient list on Telegram every morning at 8:30 AM
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airflow providers/2026-10-31
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LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B — image-text-to-text
AILiquid AI released LFM3-VL-2B, a compact vision-language model enabling edge devices to run step-by-step reasoning on images, documents, and video inputs for automation workflows.
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langgraph langgraph==1.2.19
AILangGraph 1.2.19 fixes streaming bugs across nested subgraphs and paused tools, and exposes ToolNode tool names directly in graph node metadata.
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windmill 1.855.1
AIWindmill 1.855.1 fixes an issue by ensuring the sidebar lists only the reader's own AI chat sessions.
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prefect 3.9.1 - This hour is a rerun
AIPrefect 3.9.1 introduces custom state discovery and filters, fixes daylight saving time cron scheduling issues, and resolves critical bugs in task result caching and flow retries.
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nikships/muse-cli — CLI for your personal muse.ai AI agent: chat, side chats, feed, goals, ideas, and sessions from the terminal. No browser needed.
AIThe open-source muse-cli tool provides command-line and JSON access to muse.ai agents, allowing developers to script interactions and integrate them into automated workflows.
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mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B — image-text-to-text
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windmill 1.854.2
AIWindmill 1.854.2 fixes a bug by reading a new app's links before its session draft is discarded.
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trigger.dev .docker.4.8.3: chore: release v4.8.3 (#5085)
AITrigger.dev 4.8.3 adds machine-bound CLI and MCP logins, secure webhook secret management to keep secrets out of AI contexts, and AWS OIDC task authentication.
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crewai 1.15.33
AICrewAI 1.15.33 adds CLI skill searching, passes CLI inputs directly to Python flows, enables zipped deployments, and fixes token usage reporting for LiteLLM tool calls.
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Pika-Labs/Pika-H3-Flex — image-to-video
AIPika released the open-weight Pika-H3-Flex model, letting developers integrate fast six-step video and synchronized audio generation with multi-reference control directly into automated media workflows.
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Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview — text-generation
AIDiffuspace released Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, an open-source diffusion language model that combines block-level parallel decoding with a 128K context window for fast, long-context text generation in automation pipelines.
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LiconStudio/Minimax-H3-VBVR
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