Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by LinuxBender » Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

Reebz wrote: post #9

LinuxBender wrote: post #3

I would like a set of handheld devices that perform these scientific readouts at or near real time with 90% accuracy: - Offline DNA and epigentic methylation (this is almost already a thing with MinION, just not real time) [1] - proteins, nutrients, enzymes, known and unknown chemicals found in blood, urine and stool samples - Full spectrum breakdown of lipoprotein into particle sizes and types. (sdLDL-P, ldLDL-P, fu…

It is early, but there’s a biosensor patch being developed to address some of this: https://www.nutromics.com.au/

I will keep an eye on them, thankyou!

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by naicolas » Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 1:46 AM UTC

Not an idea, but I wish Inbox by Google still existed. I particularly miss the intelligent "bundles".

Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

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Post by ironmagma » Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 7:35 PM UTC

YNAB but for actual poor people. The problem with YNAB is that it does not allow you to budget in future earnings that you “know” you will have (like salary paid on a date). The justification for this is that you should be budgeting so that you don’t rely on this. But if you are living paycheck to paycheck, you have to. The main use of budgeting in that case is to avoid overdrawing your account, since not everyone has a credit card.