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Ask YC/HN: What's a problem you'd like to see someone solve?

#1
Broad topic, I was thinking just about this while I was in the gym.

What's a problem you've seen that you just want to get solved? Any problem, big or small, just spit it out, as big as world hunger, as theoretical as string theory, or as specific as twitter API architecture.

Perhaps something good will come of this? I'm sure this has been done before, but you learn something new every time.

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#7

Oh... and make my Iphone Battery last longer...

Better portable power sources are always on the wish list. Many, many electrical gadgets could be shrunk even further if it wasn't for the bulkiness of batteries.

Why not solar power chargers?

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#8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better portable power sources are always on the wish list. Many, many electrical gadgets could be shrunk even further if it wasn't for the bulkiness of batteries.

Why not solar power chargers?

That might technically relieve the "bulk" problem, but only by substituting a "surface area" problem in many cases.

Better solar cells are also on the eternal wish list, though. Not that they haven't been slowly improving, and not that they aren't already good enough for many things.

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#10

Get people to stop using IE6 to visit sites, by any means necessary. Bonus points if you can take out IE7 as well.

I was just doing customer service help with someone today actually. IE 6.0. I wanted to throw the guy into a lake. Of fire.
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