NewHope and NewHope-Simple Ring-LWE key exchange systems. Post-quantum secure key exchange with performance (speed/key size) that's actually practical! There's not much point to having a secure cryptosystem if it's so expensive you can't use it.
Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watched the video and honestly, this is terrible. If I'm clicking on a link I want to open it with my browser, not with some app. I find this extremely annoying with facebook and even the news carousel already. I can't open new tabs, copy the url, switch to other tabs like I would in the normal browser. This is extremely confusing and I don't how this benefits me in any way.
I couldn't agree more. I'm excited about the idea of streaming apps, but the execution here is terrible. How do you control which url opens which app? If somebody sends you a reddit or hn link, which app does it run? There are dozens out there for both! The whole point of the app is not to have to manage these things, but the only way I can see this working is if you have yet another area in settings to manage which…
> How do you control which url opens which app?
The website itself specifies which app should be used by publishing a Digital Asset Links file. (https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html)
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#163I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…
Have any of the methods made radiologists more efficient? If you were to imagine a system that made a radiologist 10x more efficient what would it look like?
Before even going to AI/ML type of things, our startup (www.radfox.fi) is doing "simple" fixes to current workflows, first making sure radiology referrals are at the same time informative and decisive (=quality and accuracy of the referral)
And then bringing checklist driven analysis for radiologist.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this is one area where webdev is way behind other fields, and i think we're going to see lots of new tooling in this area soon. We're currently working on a way to help devs test web app functionality and complete user journeys without having to actually write tests in Selenium or whatever. The idea to is let devs write down what they want to test in English ("load the page", "search for a flight", "fill the fo…
Sounds intriguing. There are a few tools for recording interactions with a webpage in order to replay the actions as a test (Ghost Inspector, Selenium IDE, etc) but they tend to be pretty horrible. I've been working on my own as a Chrome extension for a little while. What you're building sounds really interesting though, especially if it can deal with complex Javascript apps. Anything that can make developers more in…
Alternatively, one of the consequences of React is that the front-end can largely be unit-tested. You can at least get a pretty good idea that the page will render what you expect if it gets the data you expect.
And whether or not it gets that data is a unit test in another place.
I'm not a huge fan of React, or javascript, but having been forced to work in it, this is one of the wins.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#165Hardware manufacturers caring about their drivers in mainline Linux.
omg who
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#166I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…
When I looked at HL7 a few years back, it was standardized on in the most technical sense and was basically a big bag of hurt. Epic made a big chunk of their money just charging people to build interfaces over various PACS (and other) systems. Has that changed recently?
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#167Not really my main field, but in web technology it seems that severless architectures such as Amazon Lambda will be a pretty big game changer in the near future: Lambdas are lightweight function calls that can be spawned on demand in sub-millisecond time and don't need a server that's constantly running. They can replace most server code in many settings, e.g. when building REST APIs that are backed by cloud services…
I am pretty bullish on "serverless". I really do think it's the future. It fulfills the vision of Cloud Computing. But it's early days and I wouldn't yet bet the ranch on it. I am doing a new project with Azure Functions and so far am quite happy with the offering.
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#168I'm a web developer. We've picked up Microsoft Orleans for a large scale data analysis platform we're building. Realizing the power of an actor model on a mature platform like .NET has been a real treat. So many nasty problems go away: threading, messaging queues, job queues, caching, general scaling.
Re: Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I couldn't agree more. I'm excited about the idea of streaming apps, but the execution here is terrible. How do you control which url opens which app? If somebody sends you a reddit or hn link, which app does it run? There are dozens out there for both! The whole point of the app is not to have to manage these things, but the only way I can see this working is if you have yet another area in settings to manage which…
> How do you control which url opens which app? The website itself specifies which app should be used by publishing a Digital Asset Links file. ( https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html )
I like that even less. If you haven't manually added an app association, it defaults to opening the app specified in the digital assets file without any notification to the user. This is the opposite of a sane default. The first time an app wants to run, it should always let the user decide whether they want to run the app or continue using the browser. Otherwise, this is a recipe for malware.
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#170New aesthetics in web design.
With the brutalist movement something new started. People went back to code editors to create websites by hand skipping third-party, non-web-native user interface design tools prefilled with common knowledge making websites looking uniform.
The idea of design silos and brand-specific design thinking is dropped: no more bootstrap, flat design, material design, etc.
It's like back to the nineties and reinventing web design. You start from scratch, on your own, and build bottom up without external influence and or help.
It's about creativity vs. the bandwagon, about crafting your own instead of putting together from popular pieces.