Ask HN: What's something you wish there was a software solution for?

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Internet access using regular consumer devices (routers, smartphones, tablets, PCs etc) in P2P fashion. Using whatever physical tech available (primarily Bluetooth & Wi-Fi, but anything goes).

Think https-over-BitTorrent + mesh networking

This could do away with (some of) the centralized internet topology we have today.

Calculating the last digit of pi. That, or an alarm clock that recognizes when I press the "off" button instead of "snooze" while being still a zombie, and corrects it automatically. (But it should also recognize it when I press off intentionally)

I wrote my own alarm clock application (for the Apple Newton, about a million years ago) that addressed your need indirectly.

When the alarm went off, only the snooze button would work with a single tap. To turn the alarm off, you had to enter a numerical code.

And the snooze had a unique feature, too. Every time you hit it, it would snooze for half the time you got the last time you hit it, until that time reached 1 minute, at which point the snooze button stopped working entirely.

Have AI automatically create described audio for old tv shows that apparently will never get a corporation to go back and add a described audio track even though there streaming.

Whriled peas.

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