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Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
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#112https://paddle.com - it's like Stripe, but their "Reseller of record" means that they handle all sales tax / VAT issues. For most SaaS businesses it seems to reduce headaches a lot.
I’m a customer, and it handles a lot of headaches for accounting. Basically you have 1 client - paddle, as far as the law is concerned. Plus has an easy checkout feature that’s inline for collecting payment info that never touches your server, no headaches securing that info.
Did you compare them to others in this space, like FastSpring? Would be really interested to see how it stacks up.
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#113Graphene -- generally has a bunch of uses that are not fully explored and I think it has a lot of potential.
Example company creating anti-COVID solutions with it: https://www.zengraphene.com/
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#1141. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn't solve everything). https://gnunet.org/en/gns.html
2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification, interoperability/migration becomes possible) https://ttm.sh/dVy.md
3. GUI/WebUI CMS for contributing to a shared versioned repository. Sort of what netlify is doing, but using a standard so you can use the client of your choice and we tech folks can hold onto our CLI while our less-techie friends can enjoy a great UI/UX for publishing articles to collective websites.
4. Structured shell for the masses. Powershell isn't the worst, but in my view nushell has a bright future ahead. For the people who don't need portability, it may well entirely replace bash, Python and perl for writing more maintainable and user-friendly shell scripts. https://nushell.sh/
5. A desktop environment toolkit that focuses on empowering to build more opinionated desktops while mutualizing the burden of maintenance of core components. Most desktop environments should have a common base/library (freedesktop?) where features/bugs can be dealt with once and for all and we don't have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Last week i learnt some DE folks want to fork the whole of GTK because it's becoming too opinionated for their usage, and GNOME is nowadays really bloated and buggy thanks to javascript hell. Can't we have a user-friendly desktop with solid foundations and customizability?
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#115DNA digital data storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
> DNA digital data storage is the process of encoding and decoding binary data to and from synthesized strands of DNA. If each "bit" of DNA can be either A, C, G, or T, why call that binary ?
The data is binary, the encoding doesn't have to be. Most modulation schemes in high-speed digital communication uses more than 2 states, but it doesn't make it less "digital" (in the end, everything is analog). Gigabit Ethernet's PAM-5 uses 5 different voltage levels, but one would not call it "quinary computing". Similarly, Wi-Fi's QAM-64 uses 64 possible combinations of phases and amplitudes, Base64 uses 64-symbol alphabet, but the data represented by all of them is still binary.
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#116Old tech.
New software development is 99% aimless churn.
We don’t need more new tech. We need better applications of old tech. There is so much software that works perfectly fine already. What’s missing is connecting it to real world problems.
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#117Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) - I think future societies will benefit a lot from such organization.
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#118Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#119Old tech. New software development is 99% aimless churn. We don’t need more new tech. We need better applications of old tech. There is so much software that works perfectly fine already. What’s missing is connecting it to real world problems.
Do you mean a better SMTP server or making a better* e-mail in general? (As an example)
* Better in this case would be a fundamental design to prevent spoofing, provide S2S encryption maybe E2E encryption, fixing MIME typing issues, fixing Rich Text/HTML display, etc. Basically an actually good faith replacement of e-mail instead of a vendor co-opting.
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#120Data Hubs. It’s queriable like a database but it doesn’t store your data - it proxies all your other databases and data lakes and stuff, and let’s you join between them. Trino is a great example.
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