Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Materialize https://materialize.io/ Incremental update/materialization of database views with joins and aggregates is super interesting. It enables listening to data changes, not just on a row level, but on a view level. It's an approach that may completely solve the problem of cache invalidation of relational data. Imagine a memcache server, except it now also guaranties consistency. In addition, being able to listen to changes could make live-data applications trivial to make, even with filters, joins, whatever.

Similarly, someone is developing a patch for postgres that implements incrementally updating/materializing views[1]. I haven't tried it so I can't speak of its performance or the state of the project, but according to the postgres wiki page on the subject [2] it seems to support some joins and aggregates, but probably not something that would be recommended for production use.

[1] https://www.postgresql-archive.org/Implementing-Incremental-... [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...

thanks, though what we sell is operational simplicity. speed is nice, but not the main benefit. a single binary that's easy to run is what CIO seem to be interested. though we are young. fingers crossed it works :)

eBPF

Brain computer interfaces and related research papers/techniques

Libresilicon [1]. Extremely important to our freedoms from corporate and state tyranny to make chip manufacturing libre.

> We develop a free (as in freedom, not as in free of charge) and open source semiconductor manufacturing process standard, including a full mixed signal PDK, and provide a quick, easy and inexpensive way for manufacturing. No NDAs will be required anywhere to get started, making it possible to build the designs in your basement if you wish so. We are aiming to revolutionize the market by breaking through the monopoly of proprietary closed source manufacturers!

[1] https://libresilicon.com/