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Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Resources? [May 2025]

by hedayet on 5/3/25, 11:56 PM with 40 comments

• by mrtomservo on 5/4/25, 12:09 AM

  I live in a city with a large number of unhoused people. I think I would use unlimited resources to buy and renovate old buildings[1] downtown to build housing, and fund support services on-site to help people escape homelessness and addiction.

  I would want to solve this because unhoused people are suffering, and downtown (as a neighborhood) has been sort of hollowed out by business choosing to leave for practical reasons (WFH) and because of the perception of "too many" unhoused people. I love downtown, it's just not a pleasant place to spend time, especially at night.

  I do not have the resources nor the political acumen for these kinds of initiatives, and I think it would take a great deal of resources to not only buy the land but demolish or renovate the buildings. It would create a lot of jobs (construction at first) but I think there's a large amount of activation energy required to get started.

  [1]: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/legal-action-taken-a...

• by 9o1d on 5/4/25, 5:32 AM

  I solved the problem of finding factors for the product of prime numbers. I solved it for five years. I used different methods. There is even a graphical method https://github.com/azhibaev/c3_opengl

  As a result, I came to the creation of a new programming language based on the C language. I realized that the C++ language was an evolution, but incorrectly implemented. The mistake is that a person is forced to write classes. But a person is not able to write a correct class. Only a translator can do this. I started doing this in my work https://github.com/azhibaev/c3 but I do not have enough funding.

  I plan to build a parser for the C language https://github.com/azhibaev/c_parser , and create a new grammar. I plan to support the old grammar for Python and JavaScript. In general, you will be able to write strings in these languages inside a C program.

  I am inventing new ways to automatically generate programs. One new way is the ability to call a non-existent function from a program with a non-existent data structure that should be created automatically when compiling the program. I'm looking for a job, but work takes up all my time and I can't do this project then.

• by morisil on 5/4/25, 10:36 AM

  I would support every political and social movement progressing us on the spectrum from patriarchy to matriarchy. In particular I would put pressure on the legal system of countries where women are still not allowed to inherit land and property.

  The next biggest problems to tackle:

    - the way we are producing proteins
    - the way we are producing energy
  

  Short term problems to address:

    - adoption of cognitive AI in scientific research
  

  I am building very potent autonomous AI agents now, so soon I will be able to unleash them to crunch all these problems, hopefully. :)

• by nextos on 5/5/25, 1:42 AM

  Aging. Increasing the healthspan, i.e. the proportion of healthy years everyone has before their body starts to decay, would unlock lots of good things.

  You don't need unlimited resources to start. Some approaches, such as making sure the number of immune cells that clear senescent cells stays high as we reach 40 or 50, are not that complex and could be delivered within a decade, provided sufficient funding and focus. The biotechnology is there, but we need better data to design the interventions.

• by sepidy on 5/5/25, 4:28 AM

  Healthcare. I would loved to change things and change the incentives from them making money of ppl being sick to actually make money on people being healthy and happy. I would probably started to replace all the current doctors with AI and robots who don't make decisions based on their emotions but based on the actual data and patterns they know.

• by owebmaster on 5/4/25, 1:28 PM

  Not tech, but I would urbanize every slum/favela in my country which would make the GDP grows explosively and finally bring the marginalized to XXI century.

• by perilunar on 5/4/25, 2:24 AM

  Unlimited?

  Mine asteroids, build giant habitats in Earth and Solar orbit. Explore and colonise the Solar System.

• by hiAndrewQuinn on 5/4/25, 4:40 AM

  All of them? "Unlimited" isn't a very interesting category for that reason.

• by scarface_74 on 5/4/25, 6:48 PM

  I would get rid of the Electoral College and gerrymandering.

• by solardev on 5/4/25, 12:29 AM

  I'd start a private army big enough to take on the E.U., then use it to hunt down every last cookie banner in the world. Nobody will ever have to click one again. Nobody would ever dare make one again.

• by sky2224 on 5/4/25, 5:41 AM

  Something to address the overwhelming spread of information (whether or not it's accurate). We are destroying each other cognitively and it is tearing society to pieces.

  Frankly, if the solution was to develop some technology that destroyed all the technology that overly connects us, I'd fund and build it. We need to put our phones away.

• by alganet on 5/4/25, 12:11 AM

  The problem I want to solve has nothing to do with limited resources.

  Lack of kindness.

  There is no way to solve it.

  No amount of resources, talent, funding or media can solve it.

  It's a very simple problem with no solution.

• by BMc2020 on 5/4/25, 12:13 AM

  The problem of evil men. I would start by seperating the evil billionaires from their property.