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Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by rohan1024 »

speedgoose wrote: post #20
rohan1024 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't believe we still don't have a standard tool that lets a user design a CRUD application right from server back-end to front-end.

I think they do exist. Ruby on Rails and similar for example. Microsoft Access and similar is a bit older but does that too I guess.

Microsoft Access is decades old and no one seems to have improved on that. Microsoft FrontPage was also on same lines.

Why we are not abstracting CRUD away like everything else? Is it because engineers are happy creating CRUD apps?

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by tcgv »

A reliable fake news detector that my older relatives can use easily, and maybe more importantly, that they feel inclined to use instead of just believing and sharing every piece of information they receive.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by ardit33 »

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?

yes, that already exists.... I used MTaylor, a while ago (download the app, scan your body via the camera), and the shirts came in perfectly fitted to my body.

The jeans, not so much (they still need to work on it), but for shirts they were spot on. I will never buy 'off the rack' shirts anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by newman8r »

For a few years I've thought it would be cool to experiment with neural interfaces for bomb sniffing dogs/cadaver dogs, etc - so instead of training the dog to find several specific compounds, the system could be trained for multiple compounds. You wouldn't be training the dog, but the system instead.

Impossible to do with my current resources. Seems like something that will probably happen eventually.

Some scammer made ~80 million bucks selling fake bomb detectors https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22380368 - I wonder if someone actually made the real deal if it would even be as profitable.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by ardit33 »

dnautics wrote: post #29
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?

I think it was MTaylor. My current favorite shirts came from them.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by Proziam »

tcgv wrote: post #32

A reliable fake news detector that my older relatives can use easily, and maybe more importantly, that they feel inclined to use instead of just believing and sharing every piece of information they receive.

It already exists. If it's displayed on a television or the internet you can assume it is untrue. I generally accept only first-hand accounts and original sources for information.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by DanBC »

newman8r wrote: post #34

For a few years I've thought it would be cool to experiment with neural interfaces for bomb sniffing dogs/cadaver dogs, etc - so instead of training the dog to find several specific compounds, the system could be trained for multiple compounds. You wouldn't be training the dog, but the system instead. Impossible to do with my current resources. Seems like something that will probably happen eventually. Some scammer m…

> Some scammer made ~80 million bucks selling fake bomb detectors

Sadly we see the same devices being used to "detect" covid-19. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coronav...

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by moralestapia »

You read my mind, ilolu.

Lately, I've had so much time in my life that I've been literally coding out of boredom.

I am a great engineer with 15+ years of experience doing hundreds of different things.

I do not need money. I need to feel, once again, that I have made the impossible, possible.

If you wish to get in touch send me an email to hn @ .com. I leave it here from time to time and a few folks have decided to write back. One day, hopefully, we could be a community of sorts.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by disposekinetics »

An RSS reader that can organize feeds in a tree view. So if HN and Bruce Schiner's blog both link to the same article, that article would be the parent node and they would be two items off of it. If there were responses and followups the tree could grow larger.

Even bigger: Discovering missing parts of the tree.

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