I wish we could have a web assembly backend for tcc. Emscripten is awesome indeed, but having a lightweight C compiler allows for many possibilities, such as online compilation within the browser. If only I had enought time I would try doing that myself :(
tcc?
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#92A programming language with the easyness of dealing with state and effects of a mainstream language and with the guarantees you get from a pure functional language
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#93A single IM platform through which everyone can talk to everyone regardless of their IM service, and I mean I wanna be able to send a message to someone's iMessage from my Battle.net account, and then receive someone's Facebook message on my Slack or something. Obviously IDK how this would be possible, but IM is now broken beyond repair by companies that tried to "fix" it. The list of IM apps on my iPhone keeps growi…
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
if you sum jabber+icq+yahoo+msn+etc.. you get probably 5 users. :(
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#94Just noting that many answers here are of the type "an aggregator for x" to unify something (news, messaging, sports data, storage across devices, ...).
Perhaps interesting would be to find these themes that make good idea-builders.
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#95Genuine Portable Nuclear Battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
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#96An operating system which would run all modern games and be good enough for development such like the Linux is (i.e. being posix compliant-ish and have all the open source tools helps).
I think open source MS Windows with all the spyware removed would be nice.
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#97A gmail application that would parse through your email (old and new) and collect all contact information without having to do this manually. Especially helpful if this can be done for older backed up email.
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#98Editor's code completion based on deep learning.
This is a cool idea. Could we use github repos as the training data?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Build it, Arduino micro, servo, Bluetooth module. What about the battery though.
Can do something even simpler for cars with rear window wipers. Take bike brake line, attach one end to the rear window wiper, and route the other end down to where the camera is and use that motion to run smaller wiper over the camera lens. Probably set you back For cars without it, use a 555 timer in one-shot configuration+mosfet/relay to drive a small 12v DC motor that is all powered off the reversing lights, so i…
Or just get a plastic bottle and craft a small cover to stop the rain getting on it. Mine is angled slightly downwards and is covered (the license plate part and camera are recessed into the body a few cm), so when it rains it's not an issue.
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#100Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming. That would kill cable for sure. A curated "channel-like" experience for Netflix/YouTube shows. There's a LOT of good content out there, but it's hard to filter. And the "channel" experience of surfing and switching between programs has been kind of lost. A different kind of smartphone, with actual buttons. Or maybe even what one manufacturer (Samsung?) tried to do, splittin…
irt sports streaming: streamers/xmbc people have been doing that for a while http://koditips.com/kodi-pro-sport-addon-streams-from-reddit... there's even news of a crackdown going on in the uk with people who are selling modded boxes http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kodi-illegal-first-man-...
Right. So I imagine the OP would like a reliable service and not have to keep playing whack-a-mole chasing unauthorised sources.
A lot of the 10ft apps available on e.g. Amazon Fire TV etc fall short here too - I don't want to keep selecting the next 3 min clip, just instantly play me a curated stream.
Mark Cuban had good thoughts on TV vs VOD many years ago e.g. http://blogmaverick.com/2010/10/26/the-value-of-your-time-an...
The issue is not technical, its the usual problem with audio/video content and vested interests - regional locks, contracts, existing cash cows etc etc. Tough for a startup to negotiate deals against Eddy Cue, I see the solution coming from the big tech Cos...