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Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by kortex »

chr1 wrote: post #118

1. Issue based direct democracy allowing to trade votes https://voteflux.org 2. longevity research https://www.sens.org

Flux is a wild idea. I kinda love it - everyone gets the same "vote budget" but they can spend it only on issues that matter to them. But I can also see this going sideways in so many ways. Namely I can see single issue voters setting up "chaff" minutia bills to accrue vote credits in order to strategically dominate their issue.

But it would break the deadlock we have now in the USA so that's worth experimenting with.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by kortex »

raverbashing wrote: post #113
whiskypeters wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage

Pretty cool. But this: > Assuming a 100% efficient laser, that is one watt-hour (3.6 kJ) of energy consumption for a maximum 0.5 Mbits of data storage. Is not good

That's 16 kWh per GB. About $2-4, or a around ten years of cloud storage. But this data lasts forever. And the energy costs will certainly drop.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by tducasse »

AhtiK wrote: post #150
mercer wrote: post #143

Elixir's/Phoenix' LiveView (and clones/similar approaches). It's been discussed plenty on HN, so I don't think I need to elaborate too much. But I'll just say that as I'm using it in more and more new projects and adding it piecemeal to existing ones, I'm constantly amazed by how much complexity just disappears, and how pleasant it all is to work with. I do feel that it'll take another year or two for all of it to 'm…

Can you name a few of Phoenix LiveView clones/similar approaches in other languages that are actively developed and worth looking into?

Hotwire, with Ruby on rails

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by jamil7 »

Veen wrote: post #132
jamil7 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are vegan or vegetarian for various reasons, health, environmental or ethical. An ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian doesn't make much sense to me since the dairy industry is pretty cruel, egg production isn't great either.

I wouldn't call myself an "ethical ovo-lacto vegetarian" because it sounds pompous, but it's basically what I am. My position is that raising and killing animals for meat is unjustifiable by any reasonable ethical or environmental standard. However, it is possible for dairy and egg production to be ethical, even though it often isn't in practice. So, I try to source eggs and milk from producers who minimize suffering…

I had a similar mindset and was vegetarian for around 7 years. My girlfriend 3 years ago challenged me on some of my thoughts and I bit the bullet and stopped eating all animal products. The transition is a lot easier if you’re already vegetarian and the amount of options around now make it really easy.

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Post by sfusato »

AhtiK wrote: post #150
mercer wrote: post #143

Elixir's/Phoenix' LiveView (and clones/similar approaches). It's been discussed plenty on HN, so I don't think I need to elaborate too much. But I'll just say that as I'm using it in more and more new projects and adding it piecemeal to existing ones, I'm constantly amazed by how much complexity just disappears, and how pleasant it all is to work with. I do feel that it'll take another year or two for all of it to 'm…

Can you name a few of Phoenix LiveView clones/similar approaches in other languages that are actively developed and worth looking into?

Here's a Github repository listing Phoenix LiveView workalikes for different languages and frameworks: https://github.com/dbohdan/liveviews

ps: The BEAM is what makes LiveView so great, do not expect the same in the other environments.

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Post by rajington »

bionhoward wrote: post #134

[Serverless] Graph databases [Scripting Language] Infrastructure as code tools Genetic Programming Functional Programming Neural Networks / Differentiable Programming Cognitive Architecture Reinforcement Learning Causal Statistics Array databases Bitemporal data PostgreSQL schema migration tools Functional GraphQL directives CRDT/ORDT frameworks WASI/WASM as a replacement for Docker

excellent collection, what's the closest to functional graphql directives you've come across so far? i think directives are really going to unlock the power of graphql, and replace a lot of code with something more declarative

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by balfirevic »

progval wrote: post #120
tomashertus wrote: post #21

https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. https://temporal.io/ - is the new kid on the block of state-dependent service-orchestrated application development platforms. https://workos.com/ - is building enterprise-readiness as a service, enabling new companies to start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. htt…

> https://hotwire.dev/ - alternative approach to building modern web applications by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. I find it funny that it's now considered a promising alternative approach; conceptually this is very similar to AJAX, which was the standard way to make pages dynamic ten years ago.

It's a standard way to make pages dynamic now. AJAX just means making http requests from javascript instead of reloading the full page.

Re: Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

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Post by absolutelyrad »

franciscop wrote: post #87

I also use some more mainstream things like Heroku, so these are my more-indie/alternative services I'm watching/playing with: • Backblaze B2 https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html : super-cheap and straightforward data management. I made a Node.js library around it: https://www.npmjs.com/package/backblaze • Bunny CDN https://bunnycdn.com/ : it looks like a great indie CDN solution. The normal CDN is dead ch…

Would recommend Bunny CDN to anyone. It's super fast and super cheap.
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