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I recently wondered if you can take your saliva, or blood, and get a diffraction scan of it. Kind of like a spectrograph. You’d feed this into a machine learning system, and it would match up your pattern against a known dataset. This might allow for faster identification and recognition, of known viruses and diseases. Especially if the technology can identify the virus from just your spit.
Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…
Roam Research https://roamresearch.com/ A tool for networked thought that has been an effective "Second Brain" for me. I'm writing way more than ever through daily notes and the bi-directly linking of notes enables me to build smarter connections between notes and structure my thoughts in a way that helps me take more action and build stronger ideas over time.
I recently wondered if you can take your saliva, or blood, and get a diffraction scan of it. Kind of like a spectrograph. You’d feed this into a machine learning system, and it would match up your pattern against a known dataset. This might allow for faster identification and recognition, of known viruses and diseases. Especially if the technology can identify the virus from just your spit.
Sounds suspiciously like Theranos
If you have time this long weekend, the team behind Autocode (Standard Library) [0] is looking for feedback. We launched a couple months ago here on HN and have been eating up community responses. :) tl;dr is: we provide the entire development stack for API integration on rails. If you've ever wanted to ship some quick webhook or API integration logic but have found Zapier too limiting but spinning up an entire dev s…
Was bitcoin or blockchain mentioned on HN back when it wasn't on many radars?
Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…
Self hosting - https://cloudron.io
A while back I installed ServerPilot which automatically sets up Nginx/Apache/PHP/MySQL for you. It also handles security updates. This made those $5 VPS' so much more appealing [1] as I could install lots of small Node.js apps on a single server, and avoid managed hosting providers who seem to prefer charging per app instance. Anyway ServerPilot then scrapped their free plan so I've been looking for an alternative.…
Sidewalk delivery robots. The problem is a lot easier that driverless cars (everything is slower and a remote human can take over in hard places) and huge potential to shake up the short-to-medium distance delivery business. It's the sort of tech that could quickly explode into 100s of cities worldwide like escooters did a couple of years ago. Starship Technologies is the best known company in the area and furthest a…
With a rapidly growing creator economy, the tooling around building custom communities is very far behind. The cutting edge is a Facebook group, Slack channel, or a Discord server.