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Ask HN: What is some software that you wish existed?

1•yangikan•55m ago
What is a type of software, app, or tool that you wish someone would create because it doesn’t currently exist—or because the existing options aren’t good enough? It could also be some kind of hardware which is doable with current technology, but doesn't exist.

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troupo•49m ago
Stable fast software that doesn't make the supercomputers we have feel like remote terminals from 1960s.
IronPanda•48m ago
software to help with connector and wire harness debug
toomuchtodo•36m ago
Fully open stack hardware video streamer, think open source Roku or AppleTV. Same for Airplay for audio. This enables open source digital sovereignty end to end for streaming media, with Jellyfin today and whatever the open media server streaming landscape looks like in the future.

Hardware authenticator to wave for access based on vein print biometrics. Similar to https://github.com/ZimengXiong/TinyTouch

Open source library management system for books and other media that supports federation with other instances. What books and media do I have? What books and media do I want? What books and media do others have and are potentially willing to lend out? How does this reconcile with OpenLibrary and Anna’s Archive? Bonus points if I can associate links to the digital versions of the physical media.

Open source Spotify like music desktop interface like Zotero. Drag to add music, autoclassified by MusicBrainz, uploaded to an S3 compatible target or whatever else rclone’s library supports. Support importing with yt-dlp and libtorrent. Ability to create and share playlists in an open format.

The ChatGPT Phone Is Not What You Expect

https://egopoly.com/2026/08/chatgpt-phone.html
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Importing Users into FusionAuth over Time

https://fusionauth.io/community/forum/topic/3100/importing-users-over-time
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

Biff.datastar: lightweight web UIs with Clojure and Datastar

https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff/tree/v2.x/libs/datastar
1•jacobobryant•4m ago•0 comments

I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park

https://taylor.town/leaving-openai
1•higgins•4m ago•0 comments

Leak reveals a Zelda-themed Switch 2 and Pro Controller

https://hanafuda.report/articles/zelda-themed-nintendo-switch-2-leak/
1•brandrick•4m ago•0 comments

Unsloth Desktop

https://twitter.com/UnslothAI/status/2087177146662072546
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

My Most Autonomous Loop Has Been Dead for Two Months

https://www.sudomoin.com/p/loop-engineering
1•dimitri-vs•5m ago•0 comments

Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain over Missing Digital ID Checks

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-locked-a-foreign-companys-domain-over-missing-digital-id-checks
1•egorfine•6m ago•0 comments

The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges

https://cryptopals.com/
1•pykello•7m ago•0 comments

Multiple agents, two Macs, and several skills

https://www.swiftjectivec.com/the-skills-conundrum/
1•jordanmorgan10•7m ago•0 comments

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/before-rightmove-there-was-the-cosmorama-londons-forgotten-p...
1•brod_ie•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Steno – static site generator with sandboxed plugins and atomic builds

https://steno.gxbs.dev
2•immjs•9m ago•0 comments

Simple Sudoku Solvers

https://blog.veitheller.de/sss/
2•gregsadetsky•9m ago•0 comments

University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To'Curb Mental Health Crisis'

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-michigan-grades-mental-health-1a5701d4
4•cwwc•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VitCam – Self-hosted, open-source NVR with on-device AI detection

https://github.com/scwsoft/vitcam
1•scwoods•10m ago•0 comments

Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to 'pause AI development'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/bernie-sanders-ai-development-pause-letter
2•reducesuffering•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Username.md – a signed, agent-readable identity page you own

https://username.md/
1•cyberge99•10m ago•0 comments

The Dartmouth Workshop–as planned and as it happened

https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/dartmouth/dartmouth/node1.html
1•Bluestein•11m ago•0 comments

Rebundling the database into a language

https://www.cambra.dev/blog/rebundling-the-database/
1•altairprime•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kessa, a verifiable delegation and attestation system for AI agents

https://github.com/Gneiss-Group/Kessa
1•raphtheb•11m ago•0 comments

A New Type of Levee Is Taking Root in Northern California

https://grist.org/solutions/a-new-type-of-levee-is-taking-root-in-northern-california/
1•thatoneengineer•12m ago•0 comments

Zoomsday How a Security Found a Nation-State Vulnerability in Zoom in One Day

https://a.security/blog/asecurity-zoomsday
3•shscs911•13m ago•1 comments

Silent Data Corruption in PyTorch

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/192575
1•carterschonwald•13m ago•1 comments

Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks

https://neon.com/blog/electric-joins-neon
4•bayandin•14m ago•2 comments

Show HN: My Anti AI Computer

https://punkx.org/jackdoe/home.html
1•jackdoe•14m ago•0 comments

Multi-tenant BYOK encryption in PostgreSQL with pgcrypto

https://xata.io/blog/multi-tenant-byok-encryption-in-postgresql-with-pgcrypto
1•tudorg•14m ago•0 comments

WAL Levels in Postgres and Effective WAL Level in PG19

https://www.buraksen.dev/articles/wal-levels-in-postgres-and-effective-wal-level-in-pg19
1•buraksen•14m ago•0 comments

Degrees of Freedom

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/08/10/degrees-of-freedom/
1•CountHackulus•15m ago•0 comments

Can Agents Use a Computer Yet?

https://www.a16z.news/p/can-agents-use-a-computer-yet-weve
2•deepmem•16m ago•0 comments

Hexis: Git-backed skills, tools and context for AI agents

https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis
3•juanviera23•18m ago•0 comments