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Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

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Re: Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

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What is Urbit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M04AKTCDavc Don't know if I'd call it a product per se.

Yeah, they lost me at the first mention of a “personal server”. Let’s pretend I’m a farmer in Kansas. Why do I need it? What can I do with it?

You don't. And probably not much.

Re: Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

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Singapore has some really cool ones tackling problems in Quantum Mechanics, Computing, Space Tech and Biotech.

An example is Atomionics http://www.atomionics.com/ (Disclaimer: a friend's company).

Plus, Entrepreneur First here are generally putting in good ones. List of companies here - https://www.joinef.com/companies/location/singapore/

Re: Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

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We were presented with an interesting challenge from a potential lead for our edtech platform where they want to be able to run an online course platform in countries where internet connection is a luxury. So it has account for bad/low/unstable internet connection but still provide a way to learn online. For example, when we build applications like those, we don't think about the internet connection necessary since w…

https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Encarta_The_Complete_M...

Re: Ask HN: What startups are working on hard, technically challenging problems?

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Why does Apple limit their iOS simulator? Do you need iOS simulator for development of iOS apps?

The simulator only runs intel versions of iOS apps and cannot run true iOS apps which are arm64 binaries. This is Google's use case for testing Chrome and Golang on a truly virualized iOS device capable of running these executables. The iOS simulator cannot do this. For testing smaller applications, the simulator is sufficient for that purpose, but for more complex applications almost always requires a real device. A…

Can I use this simulator to make phone calls?
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