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Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
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#32Source-specific IP Multicast support on the open internet, which probably needs some serious magic to make it feasible on core routers, if it is solvable at all. Some shabby server in someone's basement could stream data to millions. CDNs would no longer be needed.
Multicast on top of MPLS isn't really a thing with respect to the backbone routers.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#33Source-specific IP Multicast support on the open internet, which probably needs some serious magic to make it feasible on core routers, if it is solvable at all. Some shabby server in someone's basement could stream data to millions. CDNs would no longer be needed.
Multicast on top of MPLS isn't really a thing with respect to the backbone routers.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#34I want to slot my phone into a dock connected to three high resolution monitors and a keyboard/mouse and be able to do development work. Essentially, when it's in my hand it's in Phone Mode, when it's in the dock it's in Desktop PC mode. We are getting there with tablets. You can do this with the Surface for example thanks to Display Link technology. I just want the device to be phone sized , around 5.5" or so with a…
I was so excited when Microsoft demoed their Display Dock[1] for the Lumia 950s. It was the first step towards what you describe, a phone that becomes a desktop case when connected to the necessary peripherals.
I am also saddened that it seems like Microsoft is leaving mobile so it's unlikely we'll see a next iteration of this.
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Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#35FPGAs in desktop/laptop computers. That would open all kinds of interesting possibilities.
Energy from nuclear fusion.
Highly dense electrical energy source. I want to see electric planes, phones that last for months, drones that stay in the air for days, etc.
Some kind of magical security system so we could return to native code instead of putting VMs on top of VMs. No idea if this one is feasible or how it might be achieved.
Cheaper IC foundries. I think there might be a market for old processes if they were substantially less expensive.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#36Something that allowed people to step back and evaluate issues realistically, with correct (non-biased/non-skewed) data.
Unfortunately, the best we can do is use stats, studies, and reports. Nothing that's truly free of bias and 100% accurate.
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#37A programming language and toolset that could transpile to human readable code for just about every popular/mainstream language out there. The closest I've seen is Haxe. This would be great for sharing business logic between different platforms. Right now it's a fragmented mess of tools of various quality, many using regexes to get you only 90% there. For example pretty much everything can transpile very well to Java…
What is wrong with C++ for that? Works fine but maybe you have a specific case? What about C# or F#? That works fine as well for that purpose.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#38You know how the iPod is now this tiny little clip on chip with earphones? I want a phone like that. No app, no "smart this or that" - just a phone, with an contact list. The thing can to voice calls and SMS ONLY. It's a real cellular phone, but without all the crap, and a monthly use cost of under $20. Make that, and you'll see a revolution.
like a burner t-mobile flip phone from Walgreens?
That's what I was thinking. Maybe they're looking for smaller, like that awesome 'gag' flip-phone in Zoolander.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand. If you already are planning on using it with 3 monitors, what is the advantage of making it so portable? Why not just leave a slightly larger device where the monitors are and use the small device as storage / boot disk?
I guess. I just like the idea that, if I am contracting in a couple of different places, have one of these setups in each one, rock up with my phone and boom!
I can see the appeal, but it still seems way easier just to put a cheap computer in eah location with equivalent compute power to a phone and carry around the SSD.
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#40I wish that webcams on laptops had open-source hardware and also a hardware switch, which connects and disconnects the webcam from the laptop (and thanks to open source hardware you can be sure, that the switch has no "back-door"). Turining that switch off and on would be much easier than putting the duct tape off and on all the time. Similar hardware switch would be useful for cameras and microphones in smartphones.…
I really miss the laptops that had physical switches and the little sliding camera covers.
I'd even settle for a good case that just covers/muffles all of that.