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

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Post by k__ »

catmanjan wrote: post #79
lukevp wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree! WASM is very interesting. Blazor is an exciting example of an application of Web Assembly - it's starting out as .net in the browser, but you can imagine a lightweight wasm version of the .net runtime could be used in a lot of places as a sandboxed runtime. The main .net runtime is not really meant to run unprivileged. It would be more like the UWP concept that MS made to sandbox apps for the windows App Sto…

I look forward to in browser DLL hell /s I'm cautiously optimistic about blazor, it definitely makes streaming data to the Dom much easier

Blazor seems like the only one application of WASM at the moment that goes in the completely wrong direction.

People are already whining about JS bundle size and even the small .net runtimes are >60kb.

Yew on the other hand seems to fit right into what WebAssembly was made for.

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

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Post by bmcahren »

aabajian wrote: post #115

Geometric algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo It makes a lot of hard physics problems (Maxwell's equations, relativity theory, quantum mechanics) much more understandable and (I'm told) unifies them in a common framework. I think it will help your average developer become comfortable with these areas of physics.

I can't wait to read into this. Switching formulas to tau was incredibly useful for me when I was doing a lot of 3D math for game dev.

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

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Post by adamnemecek »

aabajian wrote: post #115

Geometric algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo It makes a lot of hard physics problems (Maxwell's equations, relativity theory, quantum mechanics) much more understandable and (I'm told) unifies them in a common framework. I think it will help your average developer become comfortable with these areas of physics.

The speaker in the video runs a community for people interested in geometric algebra. https://bivector.net/

Check out the demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

Job the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk

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

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Post by thadk »

devericx wrote: post #131
juvoni wrote: post #37

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.

Notational Velocity [0] seems to be something very similar, if not the exact same, except it's a macOS app and not a web app. [0] http://notational.net

thanks! Longtime user of nvAlt and I never noticed that.

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

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Post by lvs »

skmurphy wrote: post #45

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) occupies a intermediate position in accuracy / skin depth for soft tissue between ultrasound and MRI Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM) approaches SQUID level accuracy without need for supercooled device, can be worn or used as a contact sensor like ultrasound. LoRA long range (10km +) low power sub-gigahertz radio frequency protocol useful for battery powered IoT devices transmit…

> UV light treatment of blood.

What? No... No don't do this. This is a discarded idea from the era before molecular biology, and it was discarded for very good reason.

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

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Post by thundergolfer »

busterarm wrote: post #121

I guess I'm much more conservative than other folks, but I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. So they're on the list. I feel like at my job I'm pushing at the edges (as far as running large scale, stable production) and we've still got miles left. Also Bazel. I guess this is a boring answer.

Was also going to post Bazel.

Here's the best 'elevator pitch' for Bazel that I know of. 3 minutes from Oscar Boykin about why Bazel (or at least a Bazel-like system) is the future.

https://youtu.be/t_Omlhh7IJc?t=40

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

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Post by ethbro »

zamalek wrote: post #138
Animats wrote: post #95

Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…

> That's a lot of compute engine for $400. So excited for this as a PC gamer, hardware prices are going to have to plummet. I don't think supercomputers a likely, the PS2 was a candidate because there was [initially] official support for installing Linux on the thing. Sony terminated that support and I really can't imagine them reintroducing it for the PS5.

Sony's only interest is to do a single deployment, using a customized OS and firmware, and then get as many articles out of the project as possible.

They have zero incentive to subsidize supercomputers. They're in the business of trading hardware for royalty, store, and subscription payments.

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

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Post by cinquemb »

jeffreyrogers wrote: post #90
EvanWard97 wrote: post #78

- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon drastically increase our compute. - Augur, among other prediction platforms. Beliefs will pay rent. - Web Assembly, as noted elsewhere. One use case I haven't read yet here is distributed com…

I'm an FPGA engineer and I doubt they will go mainstream. They work great for prototyping, low-volume production, or products that need flexibility in features, but they are hard to use (unlikely to get better in my opinion) and it's hard to see where they would fit into a compute pipeline given that you need to transfer the data to the FPGA, perform your computation/processing, and then transfer the data back. That…

>it's hard to see where they would fit into a compute pipeline given that you need to transfer the data to the FPGA, perform your computation/processing, and then transfer the data back.

I see them going mainstream when brain computer interfaces go mainstream (prob a long way away) since a lot of it (in my experience working in a couple of labs and some related hardware) depends on processing a lot of the data from the sensors, of which most is thrown away due to the sheer volume, and transferring it back and being able to update the filtration matrices easily tailored to sampled data.

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

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Post by api »

quack01 wrote: post #39

All the new products around WireGuard. I'm so tired of running VPNs. NAT traversal with protocols like STUN, TURN and ICE are going to allow point-to-point networks for all the clients. https://tailscale.com/ https://portal.cloud/app/subspace

Zerotier.com did this years ago and it works great.

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

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Post by ethbro »

gonzo41 wrote: post #137
dlbucci wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look up the chicken tax bill that passed a few decades ago that basically stopped any foreign car manufacturers from selling pickups in the US. That's why trucks are so much more expensive than other types of cars.

Also why you have hugh f-serious cars and not more reasonable sized cars like Hilux's

Because small trucks require more fuel- and emissions-efficient engines than larger ones.
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