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I could barely keep reading after "Pet Lemon Market". The way it talks about disease and emotional bonds is cruel beyond measure. And then.. > CutFit: a cutti

I could barely keep reading after "Pet Lemon Market". The way it talks about disease and emotional bonds is cruel beyond measure. And then.. > CutFit: a cutting-edge new fitness fad, exploiting the fact that repairing biological tissue after injury is energetically & metabolically expensive, requiring ~20kj/g5. Enough tissue damage could represent a substantial caloric sink > GANs for photorealistic-but-legal child porn I don't know if this is supposed to be funny, but it's not

runnerup 5y ago
> GANs for photorealistic-but-legal child porn Not to mention that this still isn't legal, at least in the USA. That said, the top line above the table of contents does say that many of these are supposed to be satirical. > Startup Ideas: Proposals for new technologies, businesses, startups, *satirical* or serious. I suspect a lot of people may be getting caught up on items that are genuinely supposed to be satire. Whether its good satire or not, reasonable minds can disagree. But I find it unlikely that three you picked out weren't intended as satire. However, I'd also be surprised if a few unreasonable people didn't seriously consider building a business around these.
- duped 5y ago
  There is a pretty famous SCOTUS case on this, Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition. Given the ruling I don't think it's illegal, although you'd definitely have legal challenges.
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Author claims, > satirical or serious. And seem to have put lot of effort in maintaining that ambiguity. Self plug: If you'd like to see less ambiguous site for startup ideas, I've been running a validation platform for over 2 years[1] where 'Problems' are the first class citizen, Startup ideas, MVPs which address that problem goes into comments. [1] https://needgap.com https://needgap.com
- finfinfin 5y ago
  Nice webapp! One small improvement that would make it more usable for me would be not to limit titles to a single line on the homepage - it would be a more smooth experience if I could read the full title before clicking it. Thank you.
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    Thank you for your feedback, Title ellipsizing on phone is a real issue which I should have addressed earlier; I will be working on it soon.
    - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
      Edit: I should add that the reason the title text is currently overwrapping to ellipsis on phone screen instead of breaking words into new line is because the meta tags aren't relative to the title. HN seems to be using tables to avoid this issue, I might do the same or use flexbox instead.
      - finfinfin 5y ago
        Sounds good! Thanks for the response (I found using flex box really appropriate in similar situations).
dymk 5y ago
I think most of these companies would be right at home in an episode of Silicon Valley

runnerup 5y ago

> GANs for photorealistic-but-legal child porn Not to mention that this still isn't legal, at least in the USA. That said, the top line above the table of contents does say that many of these are supposed to be satirical. > Startup Ideas: Proposals for new technologies, businesses, startups, *satirical* or serious. I suspect a lot of people may be getting caught up on items that are genuinely supposed to be satire. Whether its good satire or not, reasonable minds can disagree. But I find it unlikely that three you picked out weren't intended as satire. However, I'd also be surprised if a few unreasonable people didn't seriously consider building a business around these.

duped 5y ago
There is a pretty famous SCOTUS case on this, Ashcroft v Free Speech Coalition. Given the ruling I don't think it's illegal, although you'd definitely have legal challenges.

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

Author claims, > satirical or serious. And seem to have put lot of effort in maintaining that ambiguity. Self plug: If you'd like to see less ambiguous site for startup ideas, I've been running a validation platform for over 2 years[1] where 'Problems' are the first class citizen, Startup ideas, MVPs which address that problem goes into comments. [1] https://needgap.com https://needgap.com

finfinfin 5y ago
Nice webapp! One small improvement that would make it more usable for me would be not to limit titles to a single line on the homepage - it would be a more smooth experience if I could read the full title before clicking it. Thank you.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
  Thank you for your feedback, Title ellipsizing on phone is a real issue which I should have addressed earlier; I will be working on it soon.
  - Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
    Edit: I should add that the reason the title text is currently overwrapping to ellipsis on phone screen instead of breaking words into new line is because the meta tags aren't relative to the title. HN seems to be using tables to avoid this issue, I might do the same or use flexbox instead.
    - finfinfin 5y ago
      Sounds good! Thanks for the response (I found using flex box really appropriate in similar situations).

dymk 5y ago

I think most of these companies would be right at home in an episode of Silicon Valley