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Ask HN:What's one API that you wish existed which doesn't exist now?
If as a hacker you had to make a wish for any one non-existing API, what would that be? What would it do and how will you use it?
- veyron 15y agounified ncurses - native app - html5 framework. I have some UIs which I end up writing in ncurses and then have to go back and rewrite as a native app or a web app. Ideally there'd be a way to write one version, lets say in python, with widgets that are translated to html form elements or windows/osx text boxes or ncurses text fields ...
- adrianwaj 15y agoA way to obtain a summary of any article on the web. A browser plugin will display it once on the page at top left, or else mousing over any link with an adjacent dot or altered colour will pop it up too. I have an idea to build such a site (and have given it much thought)... but no one's been able to pull it off as yet.