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Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

I'm developing a web-based system which supports every browser in existence.

So far, I have full baseline feature support for everything back to Mosaic, including Lynx, IE3, Netscape3, Opera3, and many others.

At the same time, still including advanced features like client-side PGP for browsers which will support it.

Every browser presents its own challenges, and it is not always the oldest ones which have the dumbest behaviors.

My intent is to promote interoperability and offer something as an alternative to today's near-monoculture.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by insomniacity »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #41

I'm developing a web-based system which supports every browser in existence. So far, I have full baseline feature support for everything back to Mosaic, including Lynx, IE3, Netscape3, Opera3, and many others. At the same time, still including advanced features like client-side PGP for browsers which will support it. Every browser presents its own challenges, and it is not always the oldest ones which have the dumbes…

There are/were browsers with client-side PGP?

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by David_R »

wiseleo wrote: post #29

Education. Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons. You must attend daily under penalty of law. Many teachers are plain awful. They rely on students being additionally taught by their parents. That forces parents to go to school with their children, which perpetuates the vicious cycle. The teacher recalibrates the class to the students who either understood everything the first time or had supple…

Retired teacher here...glad to see fresh thinking on this problem. The mega-publishers that serve school districts are stuck in a 1980s model. A project related to yours is ASSiSTments at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The market is big, with space for several innovative projects.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by ctack »

SenHeng wrote: post #6

Since I live in Tokyo, it’s about a 3 - 4 hour drive to various ski resorts. I want to snowboard every weekend. So I’m trying to find the best* ski resort I can head to next weekend. Best is a mix of - the ones I enjoy most - but not one that I just visited last weekend - where there has been recent snowfall / is predicted to snow - that I have may have a season pass for - where costs of highway tolls, petrol, hotels…

The resort finding part seems representable as a table where worst to best overlap(including dynamic weather forecast part) is displayed in a color spectrum, sort of like a many circled ven diagram. Send an email for firetool at protonmail dot com if you’re interested and have the info you’ve described(minus the weather api) tabulated. I’d be happy to cook demo up a form and grid.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by minkzilla »

crb002 wrote: post #14

JHipster style templating for SAAS onboarding design patterns. UX description language for forms that respects high level constraints. Compiles to desktop browser, phone browser, and Alexa layouts. Solving the complexity of matrix matrix multiplication by brute forcing the lower bound with semigroup combinatorics. DSL for linear logic. Ending Iowa’s criminalization of “annoying” speech. (Iowa Code 708.7) Exposing Pol…

With the last three how are you going about that?

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by amelius »

httpsterio wrote: post #11

I've been mulling over an idea that is essentially a combination of personal ID, secure digital authentication and online communications all baked into one. There's a EU directive instructing on how citizens should be able to identify online with eIDAS. In my country, you can use eIDAS to authenticate in basically any governmental agency portal, but you can't get any eIDAS enabled auth method as a citizen. The curren…

> throwaway addresses

Unrelated but speaking of throwaway addresses, it would be cool to be able to create a throwaway postal address (which is then translated by the postal service), so online shops don't get your personal address information.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by artembugara »

Over the past few months, I had somewhat as "writing a documentation for Google News RSS URL patterns" as my task.

There is no such official documentation.

Python package: https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

Blog post: https://codarium.substack.com/p/reverse-engineering-google-n...

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

amelius wrote: post #46
httpsterio wrote: post #11

I've been mulling over an idea that is essentially a combination of personal ID, secure digital authentication and online communications all baked into one. There's a EU directive instructing on how citizens should be able to identify online with eIDAS. In my country, you can use eIDAS to authenticate in basically any governmental agency portal, but you can't get any eIDAS enabled auth method as a citizen. The curren…

> throwaway addresses Unrelated but speaking of throwaway addresses, it would be cool to be able to create a throwaway postal address (which is then translated by the postal service), so online shops don't get your personal address information.

isn't that a po box

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by amelius »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #48
amelius wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> throwaway addresses Unrelated but speaking of throwaway addresses, it would be cool to be able to create a throwaway postal address (which is then translated by the postal service), so online shops don't get your personal address information.

isn't that a po box

No because for example if you order from the same shop multiple times using the same PO Box, then they can link the information from each order.

Re: Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

httpsterio wrote: post #11

I've been mulling over an idea that is essentially a combination of personal ID, secure digital authentication and online communications all baked into one. There's a EU directive instructing on how citizens should be able to identify online with eIDAS. In my country, you can use eIDAS to authenticate in basically any governmental agency portal, but you can't get any eIDAS enabled auth method as a citizen. The curren…

I’m very interested in doing this as well, and have been trying to get the Login.gov folks (US centric) onboard (with Estonia’s electronic ID system as the model). We should chat!
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