Who is this app. You take a picture of a person and app looks through your fb and LinkedIn contacts and gives you short description if you know this person and their interests.
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
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#122Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
One would need the entire dataset from the social website for this and that's not something any platform would ever make public.
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#123I 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 called `vc`. :-)
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#124Something that classifies all my open tabs (or articles saved for later) by similarity.
Edit: or PDF files!
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#125Something that classifies all my open tabs (or articles saved for later) by similarity. Edit: or PDF files!
Definitely this! Would be so incredibly useful. I actually explored into this a lot, the best way I found of doing it was via this API[0] or from building your own neural network.
[0] https://developer.similarweb.com/website_categorization_API
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#126Using Google's reverse image search for naming a folder containing pictures downloaded from the internet.
Removing watermarks or finding better resolutions if possible.
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#127I 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…
I'd love that! Having a terminal UI for graphs too!
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
After weeks of Microsoft bouncing every mail our server sent to any of their mail properties (due to, I guess, some history on the IP before we owned it), I have begun to doubt the premise that no one owns email. The major providers can make your mail server useless to 20%, or more, of email recipients. That's a pretty big club to wield. (I understand why a mail provider would block, and I've instituted IP-based bloc…
> There's no technical reason for them to be walled gardens, only business reasons, which are at odds with my privacy and general happiness. Then pay them! Hosting fees are not gratis.
Where should I sign up for the "privacy-respecting, no-advertising" facebook plan? Twitter have one of those, too?
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#129A 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 Desire-Z. These were the last of their species.
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#130I wish someone would build an interactive teaching AI, (perhaps in a mathematical context at first). For example, the user might start with a goal such as, "I'd like to understand singular value decomposition." The AI would interactively assess the user's level of background and begin instruction at the appropriate level, leading to the desired goal.
Ive always thought that the ship computer in Star Trek: TNG was a good example of how a collaborative AI should act.