Hacker News: itsmevictor

New comment by itsmevictor in "Show HN: I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer)"

itsmevictor — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:50:13 +0000

Why not just /usage?

New comment by itsmevictor in "Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana"

itsmevictor — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:26:42 +0000

Very nice! I wonder whether that could be used to get LLMs to annotate pdfs. Say an "agentic" CLI like Claude Code or Gemini-cli reviews a pdf and finds typos, could it use this to annotate the pdf like underlining them in red or something of that sort? That could be nice.

New comment by itsmevictor in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

itsmevictor — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:32:11 +0000

Noteworthily, although Gemini 3 Pro seems to have much benchmark scores than other models across the board (including compared to Claude), it's not the case for coding, where it appears to score essentially the same as the others. I wonder why that is.

So far, IMHO, Claude Code remains significantly better than Gemini CLI. We'll see whether that changes with Gemini 3.

New comment by itsmevictor in "Claude Code 2.0"

itsmevictor — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:31:30 +0000

> If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is _unacceptable_.

Okay, I know I shouldn't anthropomorphize, but I couldn't prevent myself from thinking that this was a bit of a harsh way of saying things :(

New comment by itsmevictor in "Zoxide: A Better CD Command"

itsmevictor — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:21:26 +0000

Yes, thanks!

New comment by itsmevictor in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

itsmevictor — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:41:11 +0000

Honestly, if you didn't struggle financially, it seems to me that you've had a pretty good time and that your perception that you're not accomplished enough in how you used your time is mostly a byproduct of our tendency to always be unsatisfied rather than stemming from your past few years having truly lacked purpose :-)

New comment by itsmevictor in "Models of European metro stations"

itsmevictor — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 09:18:28 +0000

Very impressive project! Congrats.

New comment by itsmevictor in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

itsmevictor — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:22:05 +0000

I like your approach to relating your daily choices to your broader life goals.

I think you'd like Atomic Habits [1] if you haven't read it already.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0...

New comment by itsmevictor in "Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?"

itsmevictor — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:02:47 +0000

Out of curiosity, did you learn much by pursuing the degree?

New comment by itsmevictor in "Show HN: A CLI tool to transcribe and clean YouTube videos with Whisper and LLMs"

itsmevictor — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:23:39 +0000

Yes, you're right, that's a good idea! I just checked the oTranscribe Netlify app and I think it's pretty cool.

However, I agree that it could be improved by having cleaner (transcribed) text. You should be able to integrate my approach pretty easily since srt and vtt output formats maintain the time stamps.

Let me know if there's something I can do to make your life easier. Otherwise, naturally, feel free to fork my repo etc. :-)

Show HN: A CLI tool to transcribe and clean YouTube videos with Whisper and LLMs

itsmevictor — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:57:18 +0000

Hi HN,

I built a simple command-line tool that quickly transcribes YouTube videos into clean, readable text. It uses OpenAI's Whisper for transcription and leverages the LLM of your choice to intelligently clean up the transcripts, removing filler words, correcting grammar, and improving readability.

Some highlights include:

- Automatically downloads audio directly from YouTube.

- Supports multiple output formats (TXT, SRT, VTT).

- LLM-driven transcript cleaning tailored for presentations, conversations, or lectures.

- Easy setup and straightforward CLI usage.

My main motivation to build this is that I read faster than I listen, and it is not rare that I'm interested in only a short segment of a (long) video, so it's easier to just cmd-F and jump in to that section in the transcript.

Feedback welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44353447

Points: 4

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New comment by itsmevictor in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

itsmevictor — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:44:58 +0000

You should check SponsorBlock out: https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock.

New comment by itsmevictor in "Deepseek R1-0528"

itsmevictor — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:12:12 +0000

I do a lot of data cleaning as part of my job, and I've found that small models could be very useful for that, particularly in the face of somewhat messy data.

You can for instance use them to extract some information such as postal codes from strings, or to translate and standardize country names written in various languages (e.g. Spanish, Italian and French to English), etc.

I'm sure people will have more advanced use cases, but I've found them useful for that.

New comment by itsmevictor in "OpenAI o3 and o4-mini"

itsmevictor — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:45:12 +0000

I find Gemini 2.5 truly remarkable and overall better than Claude, which I was a big fan of

New comment by itsmevictor in "Big Book of R"

itsmevictor — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:31:16 +0000

Have you checked this extension? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RDebugge...