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Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by pibechorro »

voisin wrote: post #74
abetusk wrote: post #28

Energy? I feel like it's been talked about a lot but maybe not? Solar panels are dropping in cost at an exponential rate [0]. As of this writing, consumer "new" panels are $0.75/W and used are at around $0.30/W right now (I won't give a link as a Google search will do). Battery technology is also dropping at an exponential rate. I believe, with a little effort, one can purchase batteries at about $0.08/Wh. Taken toge…

Surely this doesn’t include installation or something? I have been quoted $1.50-$1.80/w installed.

You can install it yourself, its not rocket science. Plenty of online tutorials.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by rdtwo »

TMWNN wrote: post #43

The likely shutdown of all Russian gas to Germany this winter, resulting in a) 5-10X rise in home heating costs, and b) complete shutdown of many industries, resulting in a c) depression in the German (and thus European) economy

Yeah I feel like somehow the market has ignored that possibility. Although maybe that’s why the 10 year bond is down so low and the market is fighting the fed

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by CalRobert »

moralestapia wrote: post #77
YossarianFrPrez wrote: post #66

I don't know about "big" in terms of a viral hit, but in terms of what will change in our day-to-day experience... Here are some wild guesses, mostly along the theme of a societal conversation about and re-thinking of "sustainability" on nearly all levels. * Robotic carts that follow you around when shopping in dense, pedestrian oriented areas and/or stores. Might go hand in hand with the rapid normalization of e-bik…

>apartment buildings with permacultured gardens growing their own food This has been tried (and proved wrong) countless times. The issue is that it needs a huge footprint, and space is something you don't have at large in apartment buildings.

Thought it was more to have a pleasant place to hang out and the odd fresh tomato, etc.. I hope nobody seriously thinks you can feed an apartment building from the roof.

Most estimates say if you want to do permaculture/homestead living and provide your own calories you need a good acre per person and a taste for sweet potatoes...

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by CalRobert »

unpopularopp wrote: post #20

Climate migration. What happens Europe now/since 2015 is nothing that will come in the next couple of years. And the individual countries and so as the EU is pretty much unprepared. I'd even say that will be one of the cause of downfall of the union.

This is one of the reasons we moved from California to Ireland. People thought it was weird in 2013. Less so now.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by codereviewed »

pibechorro wrote: post #141
voisin wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely this doesn’t include installation or something? I have been quoted $1.50-$1.80/w installed.

You can install it yourself, its not rocket science. Plenty of online tutorials.

What about my fear of heights? :lol: . There is a reason I chose a desk job!

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by throwawaymaths »

cvccvroomvroom wrote: post #113
samwillis wrote: post #49

Tooling for developing real-time collaborative remote working environments is about to take of dramatically. CRDTs [0], while complex to work with untill recently, are now so much easer for developers to use with toolkits such as Yjs[1] and AutoMerge[2]. SAAS and PAAS companies proving tooling around these, enabling developers to easily build collaborative tools for specific niches and verticals are going to explode…

Did this 20 years ago in an FMMS. It's not worth it. It's better to have an arbiter source of truth that can guarantee ACID principles with transactions rather than introduce merge conflicts or lose transactions for lack of synchronization. The internet is almost everywhere, so use that rather than provide academic features that cause more headaches than they solve. SQL databases with transactions and row locks are i…

Actually the theory to do this correctly didn't exist 20 years ago, so things truly are different now.

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by CalRobert »

enos_feedler wrote: post #14

I believe the next big thing will be the productization of building a home anywhere, without requiring municipal infrastructure. There is still a ways to go in terms of technology to make it all happen and make it affordable. But at some point, it will really reconfigure where and how we all live.

How will transport work? One of the big issues with homes built in distant areas is the expectation of roads (and car dependency in general)

Re: Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

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Post by codereviewed »

verdverm wrote: post #12

CUE ( https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com ) will become the common language of config & devops, enabling a whole new level of reuse, sharing, and safety. The philosophy is quite sound ( https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic )

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