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Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones ... — You get about 1 or 2 per year that happen as a message to everyone, only used for life threatening situations. And then…

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…

Stack Overflow's forum is dead but the company's still kicking | Hacker ... — I got tired of searching for answers only to find closed-as-dupe questions. I feel like in their search for "quality"…

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…

I was seduced by Apple Silicon after experiencing the... | 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…

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…

Show HN: Willpayforthis.com – Ideas people will pay for | Hacker News — Search "I'd pay for" on Twitter and you'll find hundreds of posts from people talking about pain points and products they'd pay…

I would pay for an equivalent app that helped my... | Hacker News — I would be interested in an equivalent app for Japanese.

Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business | Hacker News — "All The Apps That I Pay For".I would pay for that if it's cheaper and my freelancers were OK with it. I think another benefit of using…

Ask HN: What software would you pay for right now? | Hacker News — I would pay for one app/service that does 80% of what all other apps/services do. One app which I can use to sell things, buy…