Ask HN: What problem would you solve with unlimited resources? (August 2025)
I love the innovative ideas and unexpected insights from the HN community. Let's go deep - what challenge would you tackle if you had unlimited resources? Guaranteed funding, access to top talent, or freedom from your day job?
Why would you choose to solve it? Do you actually need unlimited resources to start?
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Rehydrate the Sahara
A full recapture/recycle workflow for landfill
Carbon capture (of course), but new ideas needed
Fully recognize eco diversity on the balance sheet
Personal data management, it's been 80 years, and we still don't have a Memex.
Computing for LLMs and other predictable loads - FPGAs are unsuitable because they are optimized for the wrong things.
What's blocking you to start? Do you really need infinite resource to start?
Memex -- Maybe, just barely maybe... First I'd have to develop an actual working hypertext markup language (to allow marking up an existing file, separately, aka annotation) and then a parser to take HTML and translate it to said new language. Then a browser/editor for said new language to import content, save it all locally with timestamps, with tags to mark where it gets used in other documents, so I can purge everything I don't want to keep after 6 months, or whatever works out as reasonable. I'd also have to be able to compile and export a document and the all things it marks up as a package. (Likely a zip file)
Computing/LLMS - I'm going to do a TinyTapeout for a few cells of a BitGrid, but a proper full scale ASIC is outside my budget/expertise. Then there's the matter of compilers to spit out code to run on it.
None of these require actually infinite resources, but they're all outside what I can pull off solo.