Adblock filter list that filtered entire websites for annoying features (full screen modals asking for email).
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#322A paid Linux. To get stunning UX design, upstream bugfixing and excellent marketing. Let me explain myself. I love the levels of ergonomy and polish of Mac OS X. But it's closed-source software. If I use (and pay) Ubuntu, then great patches are sent upstream, which I can use in Debian on my servers and Arduinos. It becomes useful to everyone. With Mac OS X, we're not advancing the world. But when I used Ubuntu for wo…
I want this, but added to feature list I want it to have certified-bulletproof compatible laptops. Pick some really good, top of the line laptops like the excellent current Dell XPS series or the MacBook, and make the OS work flawlessly with them. Drivers, touchpad settings, battery management.
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#323- A legitimate successor to the original FJ40 Toyota Landcruiser, possibly electric - A version of this watch (maybe even a smart watch) that didn't cost $25,000: https://ressencewatches.com/watches/type-3
I wonder how long before Apple acquires this company.
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#324I wish someone would build "Thunderbird" as a chrome application... Right now, there's not really a good multi-site email applciation... even if it were limited to IMAP, or on-server. Not sure what the limits on localStorage or indexedDB are for chrome apps. Would be happy if it stored the credentials online somehow allowing me to use it wherever. That's what I'd like to see, though I get most of what I need with web…
> "Thunderbird" as a chrome application https://nylas.com/ https://github.com/nylas/n1
I really enjoy Nylas.
I got in under the 1 year free membership thankfully, but I'm for sure going to pay next year.
I've got so many different emails with different services, having it all under one (nice looking) interface is wonderful.
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#325A large p2p network for arbitrary content that's encrypted and anonymous by default. If only people cared as much about freedom of speech as they do about watching movies and playing video games for free.
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#326Something web or smartphone based that can automate the process of examining various health/exercise/diet event data points over time, and learn from them until it can highlight patterns and events that may be related.
I've been tracking my sleep, my weight, my body composition, my exercise, and everything I've eaten since Jan 4 (new year, new me, as they say). I was planning on doing an analysis of my own data to see how things affect my body, and maybe throw together an app like this.
Here's a guy who actually got this to work, at least for weight loss: https://github.com/arielf/weight-loss
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#327A slim, networked, pocked sized computer with a physical keyboard, running android or Linux. These used to exist - albeit disguised as phones - but the marketing department decided we don't need no friggin keyboards, and remove everything but the touchscreen and call it a tablet. The result is a consume-only device, on which it is all but impossible to input large amounts of text. Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 3/4, HTC…
I bet you can put Linux on the Sony Vaio P, though it's pretty dated hardware at this point
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#328An automated ironing appliance. Drop unsorted clothes in, they come out ironed on the other side.
Basically done: https://www.foldimate.com
Re: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
#329A large p2p network for arbitrary content that's encrypted and anonymous by default. If only people cared as much about freedom of speech as they do about watching movies and playing video games for free.
Anonymous how? It'd have to be built on top of a network that worked like the Onion network. At which point there'd be absolutely massive overhead, and you can already today just use the Onion network to torrent (though it's a pretty dick move to do so).
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#330A way to use Mechanical Turk from outside the US. I've needed it with every client I ever worked with, and I need it now and know a dozen companies who do. CrowdFlower has a de facto monopoly on the outside of the US supply and charges an enormous premium for it - enough to turn off most of them. I certainly don't want to pay several thousand a month for the right to submit jobs, although I was ok with the 25% premiu…
How do they region lock it? Can't you just make a US business entity and pay through that, if the origin of payment is the issue?