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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…

Can we try a thought experiment? Take the statements... | Hacker News — Why is there no vodka alongside the Red Bull, no cigarettes or cigars? Why aren't other art forms represented as much as comic…

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…

There is more than one potential conclusion to draw... | Hacker News — Why is there no vodka alongside the Red Bull, no cigarettes or cigars? Why aren't other art forms represented as much as comic…

Office UI Fabric | Hacker News — Why is there no demo website? No front-end framework should be without a component (listing each component) and a demo section.

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: Looking back, what have you wasted lots of time on? — Most of the time. All of these equations have assumptions behind them and when these assumptions are violated, everything breaks.Manual…

Why do you waste so much time on the internet? | Hacker News — >sometimes i wonder why do i waste so much of time on internet. I enjoy my time on the internet and I treasure it as a tool for reaching…

Dating apps are so bad, the ratio of men:women matches would ... — Someone should build an app where women have to create an “application” form, and men have to fill it out. If women are the choosy…

Someone should build a meta video calling app: Make... | Hacker News — Someone should build a meta video calling app: Make a normal phone call, and if the app detects that both parties have a common…

Someone should build a phone app that removes... | Hacker News — I have a feeling that, when people take selfies, they are using other apps and not their camera app itself.in terms of exif data I'd…

Someone should build an app that can help in... | Hacker News — Sometimes you don't have the opportunity to pull your phone and open a recording app. It needs to be like siri and friends where once…

Someone should build an app 5 different ways and... | Hacker News — Ooph maybe this is something you should do and send me the link ;) Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are…

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…

Severance is the workplace thriller we’ve needed | Hacker News — Doesn't need an alternative to talk about it and having doubts when it's about your child's well being.Next is football. You need an…

The problem isn't that you need an alternative to... | Hacker News — Another option is to force interoperability so that a new small business doesn’t face an insurmountable barrier to competition.In…

Migrating from Go to Rust | Hacker News — Surely you need an alternative to Box for reporting memory allocation failures?!You just make an enum with the various variants that need to be passed…

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 | Hacker News — I don't need an alternative to beat Apple on every line of the spec sheet. I just need them to align with my values, support Linux well, and…

I’ve been looking for an alternative to postman that... | Hacker News — For simple requests where it's just convenient to have them in a list, with a description/easy to find for replaying, a VSCode…

Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks... | Hacker News — Is there a tool that does something like this automatically? I thought about writing such tool by myself, but it seems there are no…