An operating system which is a mix of OSX UI, Linux flexibility, FreeBSD network stack, and OpenBSD security. It doesn't need NetBSD compatibility nor anything from Windows. :)
elementary OS?
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#132Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
I'm not sure about any other social sites, but for facebook there's http://www.fbpurity.com/
Browser add-on/extension that, among many other things, lets you force your news feed to sort in chronological order.
I assume there are probably others for twitter/linkedin/etc.
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#133A service that provides a URL for a song. Right now if I write a tweet or a blog post that links to a song there is at least a 10% chance (even if to is an official post by the artist) that a few weeks from now the URL will be bad. Some official service that the label can update when it decides to change it's "official streaming partner" would be great. Perhaps it can be done without the cooperating of the artists/la…
Why not link to Shazam's page for a song? It seems pretty static to me and includes other semi-useful information, including links to online music stores and youtube. Example: http://www.shazam.com/track/52242019/wait-so-long
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#135Using Google's reverse image search for naming a folder containing pictures downloaded from the internet. Removing watermarks or finding better resolutions if possible.
"Computer, enhance!"
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#136I would like a vi for spreadsheets. It should run in the terminal, and be able to read/save csv/xls/xlsx/ods files. It should understand formulas. I should let me navigate with vi-style keys, and have a separate mode for editing a cell's contents (with escape to go back to navigation mode). It should perform well even for very large documents (many rows or many columns, but especially many rows). I propose that it be…
Emacs + orgmode if you want something today.
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#137A vending machine that produces hot, customized meals from fresh ingredients on demand. http://8-food.com/
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#138A people-focussed email client.
Pretty much all email clients are message/thread based.
I'd rather have them people-based: A sidebar that shows a list of people who I have recently interacted with; and clicking on them shows all messages I've exchanged with them.
I don't really care about threads, because people just don't know how to use them. But even if they do, it often isn't clear when to start a new thread vs. continue an old thread.
Basically I want email to work more like an instant messenger app.
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#139A 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…
This. It's baffling; we've "solved" email – anyone can have an account with any provider and is able to mail anyone else – why haven't been able to do the same with instant messaging already?
You would think it would be a no-brainer that everyone expects to work as it basically works to reach "everyone" in the world with far older technologies like physical mail, E-Mail and the telephone. We even have a standardized protocol (XMPP) to interoperate between IM services but it's largely unused because users mostly don't demand such a feature and big providers are better of locking everyone into a walled garden.
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#140I hypothesize that the list of ideas that will be posted here will make for great examples of what not to build if you're considering commercial value. Developers and the HN crowd make for a very small market and are very hard to monetize.
In that vein, I wish someone would build a list of things that regular, everyday folks actually would want and use. The middle manager working at BigCorp; the teenager; the stay-at-home mom; the retired; people who actually want to spend money to solve their problems.