Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?
13 points by lishunsheng
by LogicCraft678
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I still manually organize my gallery, especially screenshots and downloads
by rho_soul_kg_m3
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Knowledge retrieval. Something where I could ask a question, say in natural language, and I would get an answer. Of course the responses have to make sense and not be made up.
by jordiburgos
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Furniture design.
Give the measures of a bookself and get the pieces and materials needed.
by SyntaxErrorist
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Tried a few workflow tools but most either break often or need more setup than the task itself. Would easily pay for something that just quietly handled all of that in the background.
by yen223
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Drawing vector graphics.
Image generators can make reasonable-looking raster images. LLMs are good at coding. But drawing SVGs sits at the worst of both worlds.
by late_night_fix
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I still manually synthesize information from multiple sources(docs,blog posts and treads).LLM help with sumaries but merge into a reliable decision step is very human-heavy.
by AiReadyApi
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Do the dishwasher and throw the rubbish out
by itsyounish
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I'd say if you could automate product sheet details with detailed image recognition would be really interesting
by austin-cheney
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I have nothing that fits that criteria exactly. I still write tests for test automation manually and that should be automated but new tests are only needed as features are created or retired, which is irregular and infrequent.
by pants2
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Folding my laundry
by fieldsate
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preparing for a trip , travel, lots of moving pices like itenary , packing , tickets , IDs , cabs .no sync .huge mess
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