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Ask HN: Long time programmers of HN, what are you surprised does not exist yet?

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Millions of photos and hardly any tool to deduplicate them all.

There are many, they just all tend to suck.

Either they miss images that are the same but not really (Eg two different jpg save of an original), or they catch false positive.

Then you find something that works great, but it ends up requiring manual usage to be reliable, which makes my 20+ years of photos archive unusable.

Then you try to find the same for movies and video file, and it's even worse.

Does anyone at least have a frontend that shows the guesses for you to Approve | Deny?

This feels like a softball directly lobbed to me!

I'm writing PhotoStructure, specifically to deal with my last 20+ years of photos, and the fact that I haven't stayed on top of keeping them all organized. The disarray was made (much) worse by my bad luck in picking cloud photo services (most of them which have shut down, or, like Google Photos, left me with a "takeout" that was down-sampled or with metadata loss).

In any event, if you tackle this task, this article should help you consider which set of duplicate files you'd want to consider to be the "winner": https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica...

Replacement for PDF

Frontend alternative to JavaScript

Easier solution than CSS

There is still no standardised method to actually post something on the internet without getting copyright infringement for literally anything. I mean, what's stopping content creators to include certificate metadata inside the video just to proof that they have the right to use licensed music in their video?

There doesn't have to be an Internet license, geez, men are still men and women are still women,

What?

I do not understand how the great tools of RAD development in the late 90's never came back to rule the web. Maybe not in the first few eras, but today in the age of component and react and vue and... It's like RAD without the tooling.

I blame the speed of change - there is too many moving parts (libraries) that are developed without some central oversight or coordination. All 90's RAD tools were created by gigantic IT corporations with top down management that was able to control the rate of change.

Building RAD tools on modern web stacks is like building castles on quick sands - no one is quick enough to keep up...

I'm surprised at how bad automated closed captioning (and NLP) is. I prefer reading to hearing and it pains me to use the functionality at times.

Decentralized search engines.

Software to organize my billion photos into categories.

Geo-referenced network protocols. ICBM addressing would make mesh and mobile networking simpler; especially now that we have "steerable beam" black magic and such.

widespread alternative to DOM/CSS

... there's WebGL

A lot of people think HyperCard should have been more what the web was like.

Pensions.

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