Show HN: Edit Video with Claude Code
https://github.com/barefootford/buttercut
Claude Code skills so it can automatically analyze video footage and build rough cuts or sequences. A Ruby library generates XML for Final Cut or Adobe Premiere.
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Re:Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts
on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:38PM (#49128800)
I love zed but it’s become just a terminal and markdown editor. All of my LLM usage is outside of it.
Re:Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:48PM (#48981382)
If there is really no teacher around, the premise is 7 year old kids will show up to teacher-less classrooms and then hop on a computer for a few hours (a whole day?) and willingly sit through hours of tutoring? Rather than just leaving and having recess all day?
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on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:47PM (#48884028)
Demos dead on iOS on iPhone 16 pro.
Re:If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:41PM (#48438856)
It’s worth a reminder on this thread that this 20 year-old game just got ported to macOS last week and is available on steam. For those of you interested in playing again but don’t have a gaming PC sitting around.
Re:DystopiaBench – Measuring AI's willingness to ruin humanity
on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:26PM (#47239969)
How long does it take to run this? How much is automated vs manual evals?
Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:49PM (#47175274)
Theoretically I agree, but practically without guidance agents aren't really able to edit video ATM. Without hand holding Claude will just call ffmpeg and look at a few frames.
Re:Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:36PM (#47171683)
Really impressive work guys! It seems like YC has funded a few companies attacking this but I think you all might have the best approach so far. Behind the scenes is the agent just editing using text/annotated timelines? I feel like the move is probably text for roughcut/narrative, then a vlm for digesting the initial roughcut, then adding broll and fixing timing issues. Feel free to steal my FCP xml generator. https://github.com/barefootford/buttercut
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Also ordered a pebble 2 duo, and haven't been wearing it ever since.
Re:Pebble Round 2 – The Most Stylish Pebble Ever
on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:18PM (#46505847)
Sorta wish they would ship the last watches before announcing more that are months away. I’m pretty sure I preordered 9 months ago and still have nothing to show for it.
Re:Structured Outputs on the Claude Developer Platform (API)
on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:24PM (#45930933)
I switched from structured outputs on OpenAI apis to unstructured on Claude (haiku 4.5) and haven't had any issues (yet). But guarantees are always nice.
Re:Show HN: Edit Video with Claude Code
on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:47PM (#45882443)
I've wanted to build a video editing agent this year but I kept putting it off because I thought it would take too long. Having simple Claude Skills as markdowns + a little bit of Ruby made this a lot easier than I expected.
Behind the scenes we transcribe audio, analyze frames, and then build a combined/combed transcript of all the footage. Claude can then build rough cuts by just laying out clips with the correct timestamps. After a yaml rough cut is built, a Ruby library generates basic XML for Final Cut or Premiere.
Show HN: Thumbnail Bench 1.0
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on Thursday October 09, 2025 @07:03PM (#45533935)
The design taste on almost all these humanoid bots seems off. If I'm going to have some AI-powered alien in my house I want it to be and appear harmless, helpful, maybe even cute? These look creepy and dystopian.
Re:Litestream v0.5.0 Is Here
on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:03PM (#45467184)
I look forward to trying this out. Any benchmarks or demos on how long it actually takes to restore? I ended up cooking my own boring S3 backup because previously litestream took 20 minutes to restore something like 1000 rows. It felt extremely unoptimized. How long does restoration take today?
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on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:43PM (#45018737)
This is so nice. This feels like Postico for sqlite. Definitely switching from TablePlus to this.
Re:Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering
on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:28PM (#44790985)
gpt doesn't respect masks
Re:Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @12:27PM (#44414307)
Hey I’ve been trying to get Claude code to generate Final Cut xml myself. Mostly I just have a Claude.md with the FCP xml reference and some guidelines. What does this do differently?
Re:Claude Code SDK
on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:27PM (#44033070)
and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?
Re:RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components
on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:28PM (#43551973)
I don't know if I'm a fan but I've almost never had erb be the problem in a Rails app. The LLMs can work with it easily. Don't need to bring in extensions to work with major text editors. Sticking with ERB for now.
Re:Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem
on Monday December 23, 2024 @02:46AM (#42492627)
This gem is a really nice all-in-one setup! \n
(Also worth noting that Rails 8 now supports sqlite for your application database (no more warnings about using it in prod), job queue (active job/solid queue) and cache (solid cache) out of the box.)
Re:Elm/compiler: Matching on negative literals results in a parser error
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:41PM (#36075166)
Maybe. Probably! But he never followed up to clarify or respond to real use cases.
Re:Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @07:35PM (#35176177)
Downloaded it and gave it a spin. Seems quick. The team collaboration features look great. Themes look fun. But. I switched from Sublime to VS Code in order to have a Copilot extension that works out of the box. I would love to see either a copilot extension or something integrated for ChatGPT. That has become a new essential these past few months and I'm willing to sacrifice some editor smoothness for it.
Re:Where do stolen bikes go?
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:06PM (#34824003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz6Ade9PDzg I put out a bait bike in San Francisco and was surprised how relatively straight forward it was to get it back. It's disappointing how few bike companies are installing trackers from the factory.
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Fun idea. I'm a big Anki fan for learning languages. I'd consider turning off case sensitivity and ensure you're stripping spaces and making it as easy as possible to match answers. If you have to manually type in the answer its a pain to remember what case the answer should be in too. Still not sure what the sweet spot is for click vs typing outside of language context.
Any routes to part-time dev work?
The job market seems great - unless you want to work less than 40-50 hours a week. I'm willing to take a pretty big pay cut (30% 40%?) just to have another day off, but I can't seem to find any companies willing to talk despite the current hot job market. Has anyone had luck finding less than full time work?
Re:Launch HN: Openbase (YC S20) – reviews and insights for open-source...
on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:27PM (#23839370)
Very cool idea - Surprised there isn't already someone doing this. Annual surveys are interesting but a bit of a slow feedback loop.
Re:How to Learn JavaScript
on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:19PM (#23664352)
I don’t think we should share authoritative seeming advice when the first instruction is to read a 700 page book “in a couple days”. How many non JavaScript programmers could keep up or absorb anything from that pace?
Re:Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
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Haven't done their Elixir course but can vouch for their Ruby/Rails stuff. They just really value simplicity and sweat the details more than most instructors. Great stuff