Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#1

Post by jlevers » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

I know there are lots of really interesting problems out there waiting to be solved, but I haven't been exposed to much in the software world besides web technologies.

I'd love to hear about what interesting problems (technically or otherwise) you're working on -- and if you're willing to share more, I'm curious how you ended up working on them.

Thank you :)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#2

Post by fhcgffgfxgfgfd » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

Raising a child.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#3

Post by eivarv » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:09 PM UTC

Persisting your OS state as a "context" - saving and loading your open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on.

Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources.

Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates.

https://cleave.app

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#4

Post by lqet » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

fhcgffgfxgfgfd wrote: post #2

Raising a child.

How did you end up working on that?

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#5

Post by skwb » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

I'm working on automating the acquisition of cardiac MRIs using deep learning!

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#6

Post by gwicks56 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

Seeing if mental health crises can be predicted by gathering passive data from your phone. ( Accel, gyro, GPS, music choices, keyboard entries, app usage, sleep, facial expressions etc)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#7

Post by dillonmckay » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:18 PM UTC

Helping car salespeople sell more vehicles.

Lots of webscraping.

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#8

Post by wheelerwj » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:20 PM UTC

lqet wrote: post #4

fhcgffgfxgfgfd wrote: post #2

Raising a child.

How did you end up working on that?

tag this NSFW

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#9

Post by wheelerwj » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:21 PM UTC

gwicks56 wrote: post #6

Seeing if mental health crises can be predicted by gathering passive data from your phone. ( Accel, gyro, GPS, music choices, keyboard entries, app usage, sleep, facial expressions etc)

i think we’re doing this already arent we? at least foe AdHD and depression. i think its a great use case but the privacy risks are massive.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

#10

Post by Irene » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 11:22 PM UTC

Community medicine; precision medicine - all self-funded.