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New comment by barefootford in "Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12"

barefootford — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:48:38 +0000

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?

New comment by barefootford in "Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly"

barefootford — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:47:02 +0000

Demos dead on iOS on iPhone 16 pro.

New comment by barefootford in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

barefootford — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:41:22 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "DystopiaBench – Measuring AI's willingness to ruin humanity"

barefootford — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:26:09 +0000

How long does it take to run this? How much is automated vs manual evals?

New comment by barefootford in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

barefootford — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:49:41 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

barefootford — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:36:15 +0000

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

New comment by barefootford in "Pebble Round 2"

barefootford — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:55:35 +0000

Also ordered a pebble 2 duo, and haven't been wearing it ever since.

New comment by barefootford in "Pebble Round 2"

barefootford — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:18:34 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform"

barefootford — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:24:17 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "Show HN: Edit Video with Claude Code"

barefootford — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:47:22 +0000

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: Edit Video with Claude Code

barefootford — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:43:22 +0000

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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882418

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Thumbnail Bench 1.0

barefootford — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:10:33 +0000

Testing how well open and closed weight image models can generate youtube thumbnails.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708274

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by barefootford in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

barefootford — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:03:15 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "Litestream v0.5.0"

barefootford — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:03:46 +0000

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?

New comment by barefootford in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

barefootford — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:43:08 +0000

This is so nice. This feels like Postico for sqlite. Definitely switching from TablePlus to this.

New comment by barefootford in "Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering"

barefootford — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:28:28 +0000

gpt doesn't respect masks

New comment by barefootford in "Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation"

barefootford — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:27:40 +0000

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?

New comment by barefootford in "Claude Code SDK"

barefootford — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:27:52 +0000

and then get the honor of copy and pasting all of the changes afterward?

New comment by barefootford in "RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components"

barefootford — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:28:54 +0000

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.

New comment by barefootford in "Litestack: All your data infrastructure, in one Ruby gem"

barefootford — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:46:43 +0000

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.)