Ask HN: What new tech are you looking forward to in 2016? • Hacker News Board

coderKen wrote: post #8

Any startup looking to get into solar energy generation with focus in emerging economies, Africa to be specific. I'm 100% interested. PS: I'm a software developer

There's Mobisol[0] which operates in that space. They provide solar powered batteries to households, and allow payments to happen over M-Pesa.

[0]: http://www.plugintheworld.com/mobisol/product/

Re: Ask HN: What new tech are you looking forward to in 2016?

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Post by nailer » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 9:22 PM UTC

Conversely, what new non-technical thing are you looking forward to in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819516

Re: Ask HN: What new tech are you looking forward to in 2016?

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Post by nailer » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

sotojuan wrote: post #13

Not a new language, but I am looking forward to learning Elixir and seeing it improve and hopefully gain adoption.

Elixir now feels like node in 2011, Python in the early 2000s or Linux in the 90s. Your money's on the right horse.

Re: Ask HN: What new tech are you looking forward to in 2016?

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Post by coderKen » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 6:04 AM UTC

asymmetric wrote: post #16

coderKen wrote: post #8

Any startup looking to get into solar energy generation with focus in emerging economies, Africa to be specific. I'm 100% interested. PS: I'm a software developer

There's Mobisol[0] which operates in that space. They provide solar powered batteries to households, and allow payments to happen over M-Pesa. [0]: http://www.plugintheworld.com/mobisol/product/

Thanks

Re: Ask HN: What new tech are you looking forward to in 2016?

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Post by touristtam » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 11:28 AM UTC

chmielewski wrote: post #3

Red programming language version 1.0 Better batteries and cheaper/more powerful solar power

+1 on better battery technology. It's been touted as being around the corner for too many years (same goes for the Solid State memory).