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

Post by threeseed » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:01 AM UTC

sedgjh23 wrote: post #168

threeseed wrote: post #136

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I would never trust any self driving car that didn't use LiDAR. It's an essential sensor for helping to fix issues like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSw4fXYqWI&feature=emb_logo And it's not contrived since we've seen situations of Telsa Autopilot behaving weirdly when it sees people on the side of billboards, trucks etc.

Humans don’t need LiDAR to recognize billboards

Post by prrls » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:04 AM UTC

prrls wrote: post #235

Oxide Computer Company https://oxide.computer/ “True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.” Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre…

Post by kortex » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:11 AM UTC

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.

Post by data_ders » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:15 AM UTC

Post by asveikau » Sat, May 23, 2020, 4:19 AM UTC

midnightclubbed wrote: post #243

Teknoman117 wrote: post #125

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Things like: - std::string_view - std::span - std::unique_ptr - std::shared_ptr - std::weak_ptr (non owning reference to shared_ptr, knows when the parent is free'd) - ranges - move semantics - move capture in lambdas - std::variant - std::optional To be honest, learning rust has made me a better c++ programmer as well. Having to really think about lifetimes and ownership from an API perspective has been really neat.…

Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw. However I feel like most of the heavy lifting features came with C++11. Span, optional, variant and string_view are nice additions to the toolkit but more as enhancements rather than the paradigm shift of C++11 (move, unique_ptr, lambdas et-al).