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Hi HN,

We're two final-year college students from India, and we just launched FastCut – an AI tool to help creators, coaches, and marketers quickly edit there short form content (Reels, Shorts, TikToks) to make it more engaging.

The goal is simple: Let users upload a raw video and get back a polished, engaging short in minutes — without touching a timeline.

FastCut does the following:

Automatically trims silences and filler content - Adds clean, animated captions using speech-to-text - Enhances audio - Pulls in relevant images (via Google Search), stock clips, stickers, and GIFs - Adds emojis and sound effects to make the video more dynamic

We were frustrated with how much time and effort it took to make short videos look decent — so we built FastCut. This is our first real SaaS product, and we're still figuring things out. We're aware there’s a lot to improve, both in the product and on the landing page. So:

We’d love your thoughts. Try breaking it. Tell us what doesn’t work, what feels off, what’s missing, or what you'd expect from a tool like this.

Website: fastcutai.co

We're here to learn and improve. Thanks for reading!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780431

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/ofcom-rules-protect-keep-children-safe-online

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780426

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/ai-secretly-helped-write-california-bar-exam-sparking-uproar/

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Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/04/23/qrq/

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Cisco is investigating the impact of the Erlang/OTP remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-32433 on its products.

The post Cisco Confirms Some Products Impacted by Critical Erlang/OTP Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trumps-biggest-meme-coin-investors-get-invited-to-dinner-with-the-president-c63adfb9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780288

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Article URL: https://www.igorslab.de/en/local-hotspots-on-rtx-5000-cards-when-board-layout-and-cooling-design-do-not-work-together/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780283

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/musks-x-sues-block-minnesota-deepfake-law-over-free-speech-concerns-2025-04-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780276

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Article URL: https://aella.substack.com/p/the-difficulty-in-dating-good-men

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Article URL: https://goldenowlhunt.com/the-golden-owl-is-won-after-31-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780264

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I was working on LineageOS 22.1 source code, LineageOS released 22.2 version for the supported devices. All my work is still on LineageOS 22.1 version. How can I migrate all the source code from 22.1 to 22.2?

Is this possible with a repo command?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780259

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Article URL: https://stanko.io/building-simpl-77CAzym51p5a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780232

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Hey HN,

I'm Hakan, the founder of Colanode (https://github.com/colanode/colanode), an open-source, local-first collaboration app combining the best of Slack-style chats and Notion-style note-taking, fully self-hostable for complete data control. Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1hoSCEArg

As a heavy Notion user, I often found it tough to get my teams fully onboard since people naturally gravitate toward chat for quick interactions. Maintaining context between chat apps like Slack and documentation apps like Notion became increasingly frustrating. Switching contexts, losing track of information, and managing data across multiple tools created unnecessary friction.

This frustration led me to build Colanode, a single platform integrating structured notes and knowledge management with real-time chat. After building the first version, early feedback highlighted a critical issue: teams/organizations want full control over sensitive data, especially conversations. That's why I decided to open-source Colanode under an Apache 2.0 license, making it fully self-hostable so you can retain complete ownership and privacy over your data.

Colanode is built with simplicity and extensibility in mind, using only open-source tools and avoiding any vendor or cloud lock-in. It features a local-first architecture offering complete offline support. From a technical perspective, Colanode consists of a Node.js server API and an Electron desktop client, with mobile apps coming soon. Everything in Colanode is represented as a node (e.g., message, file, folder, chat, channel, database, record), each with specific attributes and permissions. All reads and writes performed by the desktop client happen locally within a SQLite database, and changes sync seamlessly via a synchronization engine built on top of SQLite, Postgres, and Yjs—a CRDT library for conflict resolution. The server then propagates these changes to other collaborators. You can self-host the server in any environment using Docker, Postgres, Redis, and any S3-compatible storage, and connect using the official desktop client, which supports simultaneous connections to multiple servers and accounts. This local-first approach also prepares us for future integrations with fully local LLMs, further enhancing privacy and performance.

I'd love your feedback and suggestions on Colanode. What features would you like to see? What would you change?

Thanks, looking forward to your thoughts!

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Article URL: https://awslabs.github.io/mcp/servers/lambda-mcp-server/

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Article URL: https://now.tufts.edu/2025/04/22/whats-deal-beef-tallow

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Bookmarks Star for Safari will put a star icon into your Safari browser's toolbar. The icon will switch to a color of your choosing when you're visiting a page that is already in your Safari bookmarks (so no more creating accidental duplicate bookmarks). Also, you can see the exact folder(s) where that page is bookmarked when you click on the star icon (super handy if you have lots of folders). Additionally, I added a bookmark analysis feature, where you can create a report of all your duplicate bookmarks (so you can clean up duplicates).

Bakckground: I am kind of a semi-retired veteran (worked at Amazon and Google before) and I have been using Mac systems for more than 20 years, and used all kinds of internet browsers, but mostly Chrome until last year. Around 6 months ago I switched to Safari and the difference in terms of performance and resource management is very noticeable for my use case. Safari easily manages 50-100 tabs for me without any hiccups.

I am a heavy bookmark user (~4000) and one thing I was missing from Chrome was the "star" icon you see in the address bar that instantly shows if the page you're visiting is in your bookmarks.

I tried using third party bookmark managers but I thought they "added" to my workflow instead of making it easier (not extremely simple to use & creating separate databases for bookmarks etc.).

I also wanted a privacy-oriented solution, where my bookmarks were not stored somewhere in a 3rd party cloud, and I wanted to have an instant visual feedback like I had in Chrome (can't remember how many duplicate bookmarks I've created in Safari due to being lazy).

The extension only reads the URL of the active tab to check if it is bookmarked and does not read/track/store any website content. It also does not send/receive any data to/from any servers outside the computer. It does not use any trackers or analytics.

The app is live on the Mac OS App Store with a one-time fee of 3.99 USD (no subscriptions or in-app purchases. Buy once and use forever).

Your feedback is appreciated! if you have questions about anything, I’m happy to answer.

I hope you'll like it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780128

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Article URL: https://austinvernon.site/blog/rockweathering.html

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

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I'm a Laravel/Vue freelancer in Germany with 10+ YOE. After 3 years of steady well-paid work, I've seen a significant slowdown since January when Trump returned to office.

Projects postponed, leads going cold, follow-ups unanswered. One American client specifically mentioned "caution around tariff discussions in the US" when canceling my project.

Are you experiencing this as a freelancer? If you hire freelancers, have you pulled back recently? Particularly interested in perspectives from different countries.

For more on my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780044

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43780102

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/3/3722592/kuratas-robot-iron-giant-four-ton-mech

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