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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?

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Post by gautamcgoel »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #47
rhindi wrote: post #29

Homomorphic encryption, which enables you to process data without decrypting it. Would solve privacy / data security issues around sending data to be processed in the cloud

Zero knowledge proofs for the win! This is one of the things I need to see in a cryptocurrency before I believe it will succeed at scale. 1 Zero-knowledge proofs, 2 shielded ledgers, 3 democratized and energy efficiency mining, 4 inflationary control, and 5 wallet recovery. No one has all of these yet, but ZKP is a big part of it.

Can you explain what you mean by shielded ledgers?

Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

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Post by candiddevmike »

philip1209 wrote: post #7

https://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.

Former Paddle customer, don't believe the hype. Everything is duct tape and half assed with the API, the checkout process is happy path or bust, and you're going to have a hard time migrating to a different processor.

Stripe + TaxJar was cheaper and easier to implement and maintain.

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Post by dchuk »

Graffur wrote: post #60
dchuk wrote: post #39

This 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…

The people who have the most hard drive space will mine the most Chia. How is that any different to just paying with USD to get more? In terms of it being a "much more" fair model.

I think the big part is that farming with hard drives is a much more approachable thing to do than to try and mine BTC/ETH, considering both of those at a minimum require crazy GPU hardware, if not full blown custom chips, that no normal people will buy. Also, insane energy usage too, which Chia doesn't really have.

That being said, yes, with the right amount of investment, someone could try and take over the network. That being said, look how many Full Nodes are already in the network...

https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/nodes

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Post by dominotw »

kroltan wrote: post #57

Wikidata, 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…

datomic is the only database that i know that does this, afaik.

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Post by GrumpyYoungMan »

3arn0wl wrote: post #37

I'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…

> "...so that anyone with some computing background can build a processor, freely."

They could already do that. I designed and laid out in silicon a 32 bit processor as part of my undergraduate studies in computer engineering.

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Post by CyberRabbi »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #45
3arn0wl wrote: post #37

I'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…

You could argue that the availability of Linux saved countless megacorporations from having to pay Microsoft, IBM, or Sun. Yet the availability of Linux has been a boon to people across the board.

While I agree there is something not right about cutting into ARM’s profits for the benefit of megacorporations, I think that a royalty-free ISA might genuinely be good for civilization despite that in the same way Linux is. It’s tough though, I’m still not fully sold on that opinion.

Re: Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

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Post by comprev »

philip1209 wrote: post #7

https://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.

https://www.fonoa.com/ These guys also have an API for dealing with different tax laws around the world. Founded by some ex-Uber people.
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