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Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/sebastian-galiani-on-the-marginal-revol...
1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we at the point where software can improve itself?

1•ManuelKiessling•3m ago•0 comments

Binance Gives Trump Family's Crypto Firm a Leg Up

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/business/binance-trump-crypto.html
1•paulpauper•3m ago•0 comments

Reverse engineering Chinese 'shit-program' for absolute glory: R/ClaudeCode

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qy5l0n/reverse_engineering_chinese_shitprogram_for/
1•edward•3m ago•0 comments

Indian Culture

https://indianculture.gov.in/
1•saikatsg•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Maravel-Framework 10.61 prevents circular dependency

https://marius-ciclistu.medium.com/maravel-framework-10-61-0-prevents-circular-dependency-cdb5d25...
1•marius-ciclistu•6m ago•0 comments

The age of a treacherous, falling dollar

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/02/05/the-age-of-a-treacherous-falling-dollar
2•stopbulying•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: AI Generated Diagrams

1•voidhorse•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-locked-me-out-of-notepad-is-the-thin-...
2•josephcsible•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A delightful Mac app to vibe code beautiful iOS apps

https://milq.ai/hacker-news
2•jdjuwadi•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gemini Station – A local Chrome extension to organize AI chats

https://github.com/rajeshkumarblr/gemini_station
1•rajeshkumar_dev•12m ago•0 comments

Welfare states build financial markets through social policy design

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/its-not-finance-its-your-pensions/
2•kome•16m ago•0 comments

Market orientation and national homicide rates

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.70023
4•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

California urges people avoid wild mushrooms after 4 deaths, 3 liver transplants

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-death-cap-mushrooms-poisonings-liver-transplants/
1•rolph•17m ago•0 comments

Matthew Shulman, co-creator of Intellisense, died 2019 March 22

https://www.capenews.net/falmouth/obituaries/matthew-a-shulman/article_33af6330-4f52-5f69-a9ff-58...
3•canucker2016•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SuperLocalMemory – AI memory that stays on your machine, forever free

https://github.com/varun369/SuperLocalMemoryV2
1•varunpratap369•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pyrig – One command to set up a production-ready Python project

https://github.com/Winipedia/pyrig
1•Winipedia•21m ago•0 comments

Fast Response or Silence: Conversation Persistence in an AI-Agent Social Network [pdf]

https://github.com/AysajanE/moltbook-persistence/blob/main/paper/main.pdf
1•EagleEdge•21m ago•0 comments

C and C++ dependencies: don't dream it, be it

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/c-and-c-dependencies-dont-dream-it-be-it.html
1•ingve•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vbuckets – Infinite virtual S3 buckets

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/vbuckets
1•dangoodmanUT•22m ago•0 comments

Open Molten Claw: Post-Eval as a Service

https://idiallo.com/blog/open-molten-claw
1•watchful_moose•23m ago•0 comments

New York Budget Bill Mandates File Scans for 3D Printers

https://reclaimthenet.org/new-york-3d-printer-law-mandates-firearm-file-blocking
2•bilsbie•23m ago•1 comments

The End of Software as a Business?

https://www.thatwastheweek.com/p/ai-is-growing-up-its-ceos-arent
1•kteare•24m ago•0 comments

Exploring 1,400 reusable skills for AI coding tools

https://ai-devkit.com/skills/
1•hoangnnguyen•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A unique twist on Tetris and block puzzle

https://playdropstack.com/
1•lastodyssey•28m ago•1 comments

The logs I never read

https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-logs-i-never-read
1•nojito•30m ago•0 comments

How to use AI with expressive writing without generating AI slop

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/bakhtin-collapse-ai-expressive-writing
1•cnunciato•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LinkScope – Real-Time UART Analyzer Using ESP32-S3 and PC GUI

https://github.com/choihimchan/linkscope-bpu-uart-analyzer
1•octablock•31m ago•0 comments

Cppsp v1.4.5–custom pattern-driven, nested, namespace-scoped templates

https://github.com/user19870/cppsp
1•user19870•32m ago•1 comments

The next frontier in weight-loss drugs: one-time gene therapy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/01/24/fractyl-glp1-gene-therapy/
2•bookofjoe•35m ago•1 comments
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Ask HN: How to find out "why does this not exist yet"?

3•anovikov•3mo ago
TL;DR: Have an idea of a product. Did some research, building it as simple as glueing together a few open source SDKs with some fine-tuning, plus some devops work, should be quick. It appears to be very valuable, and sexy too.

So i understand it smells bad: i can't be the only person who thought of this, and if it doesn't exist yet, it must be a terribly bad "tarpit" idea that's certainly not worthy of working on.

How to find out why in particular is it unworkable? Any repeatable approaches to do research like that?

Comments

JohnFen•3mo ago
Consider that it may not be technically unworkable, but that there may be something that makes it less than desirable to others even if it appears valuable and sexy to you. Have you done any market research? Is there a patent or something that might be involved? Etc.