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App that helps find cheapest care by comparing prices... | Hacker News — why is it just a mobile app? why is there no web ui or a rest api?This app is really useful and I really like where it is…

Why is there no hope for this world? Less people using... | Hacker News — Less people using C/C++ just means less security vulnerabilities as far as I can tell. Yeah, better rewrite Linux in CSS to…

The Dataflow Model: Balancing Correctness, Latency... | Hacker News — Why is there no related work section in this paper? I'm not sure simply calling it 'The' dataflow model is very friendly either…

Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on ... — Nov 9, 2022 · There are apps for that. The government mandated stuff just needs to be turned off because it's broken. If you live in a…

Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset | Hacker News — Apr 6, 2024 · It's what 99.9% of apps need, so why is there no "do the defaults" path? You even need to pass things through the Heat generator…

Someone should build an app where women have to... | Hacker News — How should the dating apps decide what questions go on the application? They can't, anything more than filtering by gender and there…

Is there any tool that does the other way around? I simply need an... — I simply need an alternative to cloudflared tunnel (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tunnel-for-everyone/) for exposing localhost…

Do people *really* need an alternative to Excel? | Hacker News — I would suggest that as soon as someone has gotten to the limits of Excel, then they would start looking at a programming language as…

For collaborative documentation, there’s probably... | Hacker News — SharePoint is now a “file and document management system suitable for use in any application”. So, if you want an alternative to…

Ask HN: Is there a tool to generate binary protocol figures ... — Apr 3, 2022 · This is very tedious and ineffective. I think there must exist a tool for this where you just define the protocol (e.g.…

I would pay for an app that let me take a picture of the... | Hacker News — I would pay for an app that let me take a picture of the ground and circled anything that looked like a 4-leafed clover.

Good work! I do like that the tools are task centric and... | Hacker News — A good maintained app store does all the "sys admin" stuff for me. No viruses, no weird installation procedures and so on.…

Can you make me an app that removes distraction from... | Hacker News — I would pay for a tool that lets me see the question title in reddit subs, let me answer it and that's it.I would like an app…

Same here. My only complaint is I wish there was... | Hacker News — IME a lot of apps are easier to use in their default state. I really only use my web browser, text editor, and terminal in tiled…

I wish there was a setting in Safari that disabled... | Hacker News — This has been one of my biggest iOS peeves for a long time—I really wish that installing an app wasn’t a commitment to letting it…

I wish there was an app combo to stack images in post... | Hacker News — There are choices to be made (dynamic range for one), and when done in such a way there is almost unlimited computing…

A tool that clusters real user pain from public forum posts — Jan 11, 2026 · Hi HN, I built a small tool called I Wish There Was to help founders spot real product pain without spending hours reading…

I disagree, most code is not worth improving. | Hacker News — Have you ever been frustrated with software before?From the other side, the vast majority of customers will happily take the…

Not just the AI revolution. For over a decade, I've grown... | Hacker News — For over a decade, I've grown increasingly frustrated with software suffering from overly-clever syndrome.I'd rather use…

Frustrated with slow AI adoption? Your culture is the... | Hacker News — I think the term "vibe coding" has no universally accepted definition but if you mean "coding without any prior coding…