Ask HN: What do you wish existed? (October 2025)

What software or hardware product do you wish existed that you are ready to use right now? How much would you pay? Any existing thing you wish worked differently?

11 points | by pwlm 2 days ago

11 comments

  • HellDunkel 1 hour ago
    A great dinosaur museum in my home town.

    A good print magazine on fashion and music.

    Good looking sneaker which are 100% renewable.

    A way to configure my local print newspaper to have only the things i am interested in making it 50% lighter.

  • rtcoms 4 hours ago
    True wireless earbuds with case also having bluetooth speaker, mic and clip to attach it on T-shirt.

    Foldable E-ink tablet that can also be used as monitor.

  • fiftyacorn 8 hours ago
    I want a browser extension that is effectively a spam filter for ai content on reddit or similar. Same to filter out spam reviews

    Or an app that just retrieved the content for groups I'm in on Facebook not what some algorithm thinks i want

    • mikewarot 2 hours ago
      On Facebook, if you use a web browser you can us this URL to see your friends posts in reverse chronological order, but there will still be ads. So that gets you 1/2 way there

      https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

  • sloaken 1 day ago
    Home use robot weed killer / puller. Does not need to be fast, but does should not need manual moving for each square foot. Although, if it was fast, I could drive it like a lawn mower speed that (even as slow as 1/4 pace) would be acceptable.
  • mikewarot 1 day ago
    A distribution of the Genode OS that was usable as a daily driver.

    A working realization of Memex, 80 years late in coming

    I'd love to rent time on one of the machines AtomicSemi is building, I've got a chip I'd like to make, the BitGrid

    Documentation for Free Pascal/Lazarus that was useable, alternatively a framework that replaces their existing documentation so that you could DIY parts of it without their weird build system.

  • OsrsNeedsf2P 2 days ago
    Up to date information on Android/iOS alternative phones with a path to purchase. I want to know what the web browser experience is like, eSIM support for data, and Android app emulation performance. Most online information is from like 2020
    • leakycap 2 days ago
      Unfortunately, most of the phones you describe are also from 2020.

      Do we expect Android app emulation to continue being feasible moving into 2027? It seems unlikely to me, so I don't know if these alternatives will take off.

  • ecesena 1 day ago
    A robot that folds laundry.
  • idontwantthis 1 day ago
    A city map for cyclists that is updated and reviewed by other cyclists. How to get from A to B in a given city, the safest way possible, but with maps that can be edited like a wiki.

    CityMapper is pretty good but there’s no way for me to correct a route because one stretch of it is actually a death trap that no one should bike on.

  • OgsyedIE 1 day ago
    Tastedive for technology-adjacent blog posts.
  • GoldenMonkey 1 day ago
    a better dating app. a better job matching service.