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Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
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Re: Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?
#12I'll give you one: "Do any odd perfect numbers exist?" You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number#Odd_perfect_num... You can watch a short documentary about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY
Wonderful quote in there from James Joseph Sylvester:
>>... a prolonged meditation on the subject has satisfied me that the existence of any one such [odd perfect number] —its escape, so to say, from the complex web of conditions which hem it in on all sides— would be little short of a miracle.
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#15Perpetual-ish motion machines. While a true perpetual motion machine physically cannot exist, a machine that operates at an efficiency rate to be for all intents and purposes "perpetual" is theoretically possible, if not physical
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#16Chemistry (Or biology, as an extension of it) simulations. Current tools include Newtonian atom-centered force fields that are fit to a specific situation and lose validity outside it, and quantum computations that are very slow, and don't scale well.
I have a hunch there is something about the underlying physics we are missing, and that we have not hit the endgame of modelling physics at this scale.
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#17What I want is something like the UI of the web platform but for desktop development exclusively. The differences between this and the current web platform are:
* no certificates
* direct access to a shell, network stack, and file system from api available directly within the viewport
* a permission system allowing custom roles and security policies
* a better mark up format that imposes accessibility criteria by default like type safety in rust
* a buffer based data serialization so that I don’t have to parse/stringify on every transaction
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#18Teleportation
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#19Utilizing the smartphone to its full potential. IMO it is an underutilized platform. There’s more than just CRUD gambling or doomscrolling shit possible on it.
There is so much possible with it!!!
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#20There's no capabilities based OS ready to be a daily driver. Until this happens we're going to keep seeing stories about hacked systems, and how we all need to rewrite applications in Rust.