Ask HN: What do you wish existed? (October 2025)
What software or hardware product do you wish existed that you are ready to use right now? How much would you pay? Any existing thing you wish worked differently?
What software or hardware product do you wish existed that you are ready to use right now? How much would you pay? Any existing thing you wish worked differently?
A distribution of the Genode OS that was usable as a daily driver.
A working realization of Memex, 80 years late in coming
I'd love to rent time on one of the machines AtomicSemi is building, I've got a chip I'd like to make, the BitGrid
Documentation for Free Pascal/Lazarus that was useable, alternatively a framework that replaces their existing documentation so that you could DIY parts of it without their weird build system.
Up to date information on Android/iOS alternative phones with a path to purchase. I want to know what the web browser experience is like, eSIM support for data, and Android app emulation performance. Most online information is from like 2020
Unfortunately, most of the phones you describe are also from 2020.
Do we expect Android app emulation to continue being feasible moving into 2027? It seems unlikely to me, so I don't know if these alternatives will take off.
A robot that folds laundry.
A city map for cyclists that is updated and reviewed by other cyclists. How to get from A to B in a given city, the safest way possible, but with maps that can be edited like a wiki.
CityMapper is pretty good but there’s no way for me to correct a route because one stretch of it is actually a death trap that no one should bike on.
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