From Product Hunt
MCP frameworks, AI agent tooling, and hardware prototyping caught my attention today.
Mastra — TypeScript framework for AI agents
Open source from the Gatsby team. Workflows, memory, RAG, MCP support, observability, evals. 19.9k GitHub stars, 300k+ weekly npm downloads. "Python trains, TypeScript ships."
FastMCP 3.0 — Pythonic MCP server framework
V3.0 introduces Components, Providers, and Transforms abstractions. Authorization, background tasks, OpenTelemetry tracing. Powers ~70% of MCP servers across all languages.
Modo — Text to hardware prototype
Describe what you want and it generates validated parts, printable enclosures, firmware scaffolding, and assembly instructions. Constrains generation to real components.
Templated — Video rendering API
Automated video, image, and PDF generation from templates. ~2 second render times. Integrates with Zapier/Make/n8n for marketing automation at scale.
RelateDB — Offline-first DB schema designer
Free, browser-based visual ERD canvas. Import SQL/DBML, export for Postgres/MySQL. No accounts, no cloud, no limits — everything runs locally via IndexedDB.
From Reddit
Big news from Anthropic, a new frontier AI lab, and important local LLM developments this week.
Anthropic CEO discusses AI systems becoming capable of improving their own training and architecture. With Opus 4.5 already SOTA at coding, 2026 could see AI materially contributing to its own development.
Anthropic Publishes Claude's Updated Constitution
Four core priorities: broadly safe, broadly ethical, compliant, genuinely helpful. Major shift from rules to explaining the "why" so Claude can exercise judgment in novel situations. Published under CC0.
New AI Lab Humans& Raises $480M Seed Round
Frontier lab from OpenAI/DeepMind/Anthropic/xAI alums. $4.5B valuation, backed by Nvidia and Bezos. Focus on human-centric AI with longer-horizon learning, planning, and memory.
camb.ai Launches MARS8 Text-to-Speech Family
First family of TTS models for real-world deployment. Four variants: Flash, Pro, Instruct, Nano. Users say it's the first TTS where you genuinely can't tell it's AI.
Microsoft Releases VibeVoice-ASR
9B parameter ASR model with diarization, multilingual support, and hotword detection. Transcribes up to 60 minutes in a single pass. MIT licensed — potential Whisper alternative.
GLM 4.7 Flash Fix Merged into llama.cpp
Critical fix enables GLM 4.7 to work properly. Benchmarks: 88 t/s on single 4090, 3489 t/s prompt processing at 64k context. FlashAttention CUDA in progress.
Local inference setups and guides.
Run MiniMax-M2.1 on 8x AMD MI50 for $880
256GB VRAM achieving 26 t/s with MiniMax at 196k context. Full vllm-gfx906 setup guide included.
Run Claude Code CLI with GLM-4.7 Locally
Tutorial for llama.cpp's Anthropic API endpoint. Model swapping, memory management, Cloudflare tunnels.
From Reddit
GenAI — speech models and image generation workflows.
Chroma 1.0 — Open Source Real-Time Speech-to-Speech
Sub-150ms latency, native speech-to-speech (no ASR→LLM→TTS pipeline), high-fidelity voice cloning from seconds of reference. 4B params, open alternative to OpenAI Realtime API.
Developer Replaces CLIP with LLM for SDXL
Addresses CLIP's spatial adherence issues, 77-token limit, and negation problems. Uses LLM hidden states for direct conditioning — similar to Z-Image Turbo and Flux2 Klein approach.
Visual ComfyUI Node for Cinematic Shots
Visual interface for camera angles, lighting styles, focal lengths, film stocks, and color palettes. Real-time preview updates — learn and apply cinematography to image generation.
Flux 2 Klein 9B for Product Photography
Handles complex lighting and textures realistically. NVFP4 version runs ~5 sec/image on RTX 5060 Ti.
From Reddit
Apps and software — macOS utilities and self-hosted tools.
Native C++/PDFium editor (not annotator) that manipulates complex XObjects. Free with all features, 100% offline, never requests internet permissions. Flutter UI with native C++ backend.
Droppy — Open Source Notch App for MacBook
File shelf for drag-and-drop, mini music player, clipboard manager with OCR for text in images. Extensible via plugins. "First notch app I haven't deleted after a day."
RustCast — Open Source Raycast Alternative
Rust-based launcher with app launching, emoji search, calculator, clipboard history. Free, no accounts, privacy-respecting. Built by a high school student with daily updates.
Stingray — Native Jellyfin Client for Apple TV
Built on Apple APIs for speed. Quality adjustments, PiP, Apple audio enhancements, fuzzy search, top shelf integration. Swiftfin alternative with improved stability.
NovaAccess — iOS Tailscale Without VPN Conflicts
Works alongside other VPNs via user-space networking. v1.1.0 adds Headscale support, native terminal, SSH key management. Solves iOS VPN conflict problem for self-hosters.
Quick hits — dev tools and terminal utilities.
FlashSpace — Instant macOS Workspace Switching
Eliminates slow Spaces animations. Users say they can't live without it.
Managarr v0.7.0 — Servarr TUI with Lidarr Support
Terminal manager for Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr with vim keys. CLI mode for scripting.
lazyactions — lazygit-style TUI for GitHub Actions
View workflows, check status, stream logs in terminal. Uses gh CLI auth.