Ask HN: Impossible Ideas? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by petra » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

Great search engine for an eBook collection. Gives higher ranking to sections i annotated. Must be a desktop app.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

#22

Post by Qasaur » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Creating a desktop OS that feels free to break past UNIX standards and start from a clean slate

Urbit is a pretty good example of this.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

julianeon wrote: post #16

A bot that uses ML to trawl through all your social media accounts, get a good sense of what you would post, and then starts auto-generating posts for each platform, for you to review. You look at them once a day, select the ones you want to publish or just click select all, and it publishes them, appropriately spaced out over a 24 hour period.

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Post by kodablah » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

Decentralized, unique, human-usable identifiers, free and anonymous to legitimate humans (limited to only a few per) but unobtainable by non-humans. I can accept humans giving/using up some of theirs for non-human purposes. Not really an idea, but seems impossible.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by bdz » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

Accessible VR. I mean monetary and technically. VR is good but the main problems are the price (should be much much cheaper) and you also need a pretty beefy PC. I know it's a new technology breaking in slowly but I really have high hopes as I look back at smartphones for example (just compare 2010 vs 2020). Yet it's still far away to be in every household.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by thomasrognon » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:33 PM UTC

Yeah, why does clothing still come in S/M/L? Why can't I order existing brands in styles 100% fitted to my unique body. Surely you can instantly measure shoulder/chest/waist width, torso/leg height, etc with technology like Xbox Kinect. And on-demand, custom clothing has to be solvable in 2020, right? So it's just a momentum/supply chain problem, like Netflix vs old guard?

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by hyzyla » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

Fully automated restaurant

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by dnautics » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

thomasrognon wrote: post #26

Yeah, why does clothing still come in S/M/L? Why can't I order existing brands in styles 100% fitted to my unique body. Surely you can instantly measure shoulder/chest/waist width, torso/leg height, etc with technology like Xbox Kinect. And on-demand, custom clothing has to be solvable in 2020, right? So it's just a momentum/supply chain problem, like Netflix vs old guard?

wasn't there a startup on shark tank that did this, rejected the sharks' offers, then bootstrapped to success?

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by lucb1e » Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 8:35 PM UTC

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #4

Creating a desktop OS that feels free to break past UNIX standards and start from a clean slate

Or at least a usable alternative to Microsoft, preferably from a different country. There isn't really competition on that market. At least in Europe I don't feel like macOS makes even a blip in the business market.