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Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
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Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#62This new crypto project just launched its mainnet a few weeks ago: https://chia.net It's a novel "Proof of" algorithm (Proof of Space and Time) that front loads the resource needs into a Plotting phase, with a very efficient Farming phase after that to process blocks with transactions. Seems like a much more fair, sustainable model for having a secure digital currency. It also has an interesting, Lisp based programmi…
I think you mean https://www.chia.net
yep, you're right. I'll fix.
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#63I'm really excited, to the point of distraction by the RISC-V ISA. Some people say that there's nothing new in it, but to my mind, they're missing the point : the Berkeley Four took what couldn't be appropriated for profit, and built a statement about what computing is... They revealed the Wizard of Oz to everyone, so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely. And now this freed wizard…
You do realize that RISC-V processors aren't free right? Making an open source ISA is no small feat, but all they really did was help save some megacorporations a little extra money. Perhaps it will lead to a processor startup, but follow that to its logical conclusion: it takes a huge, profitable company to sustain processor delivery for years. There's a very good reason why only a handful of companies make the top…
Actually... What they did, ten years ago, was build a much better Computer Engineering course!
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#64for me, its https://qloppi.com
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#65IPFS
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#66https://temporal.io/
what do you like about it? (disclaimer, i work at temporal, but just genuinely interested in how you'd describe it in your words, good or bad lets hear it)
I may be able to answer your question. I only watched the video on the landing page and glanced at the docs, but it reminds me of what a saga system would do (like redux-saga perhaps), meaning that much of the side effects, such as networking, are abstracted away from the business logic, and there is the concept of compensation when things don't go as planned. Very neat!
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#67IPFS and WASM - Combined they let you build apps that don't need a cloud provider, and can effectively be immortal.
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#68Electric cars and planes are going to be huge, of course. Increasingly batteries will be replaced by fuel cells, and the hydrogen that powers them will be produced by means of hydrolysis produced by sunlight. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-hydrogen-fuel-machine-ultimate... https://newatlas.com/energy/osu-turro-solar-spectrum-hydroge... https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2017/April/05152017Ren-Wa...
Is this under the radar?
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Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#69Wikidata, SPARQL, and RDF in general. And I guess semi-relatedly things like Prolog? I recently decided to fiddle with Wikidata, and it is fascinating to be able to query for any part of a statement, not just the value! In SPARQL you write statements in the form But the cool part is that any of those three parts can be extracted, so you can ask things like "what are the cities in ", or "what country harbors the city…
I've been considering writing a graph database on top of SPARQL and RDF. Beyond the official docs (which are pretty good), can you recommend any other resources for easily getting the hang of SPARQL?
Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
#70for me, its https://qloppi.com
What am I looking at?