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

Post by mindfulplay » Sun, May 24, 2020, 3:47 AM UTC

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One thing that's not clear to me is the advantage of living longer. Why do some people feel the need to live longer? When I hear of blood transfusion and such, it also feels like a lot of these technologies are being developed by snakeoil salespeople to other nongullible but strictly egocentric humans.

One thing with aging research is it's also about healthier living - for example, letting people be healthier well into old age, even if the number of years is the same. In terms of why people want to live longer, I think it's just human nature at the end of the day - more time to do the things you enjoy and help the people you care about. Practically speaking, there are a lot of advantages to longer lives: - Generall…

Post by friendlybus » Sun, May 24, 2020, 4:32 AM UTC

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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,…

> 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. Still don't see fully (fully automated) self driving cars happening any time soon: 1) Heavy steel boxes running at high speed in built up areas will be the very last thing that we trust to robots. There are so many…

Post by stickfigure » Sun, May 24, 2020, 5:45 AM UTC

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I've done a couple neat (IMO) things with CF workers. - I use imgix to manipulate images in my app, but some of my users don't want anyone to be able to discover (and steal) the source images. Imgix can't do this natively; all image manipulation instructions are in the URL. So I put a CF worker in front of imgix; my app encrypts the url, the worker decrypts it and proxies. - A year ago, intercom.io didn't support per…

>These are both trivial, stateless 5-line scripts Would it be possible to share these scripts? I would love to see them, they sound really helpful/useful

    addEventListener('fetch', event => {
       event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request))
     })

    async function handleRequest(request) {
       const cookie = request.headers.get('Cookie');
       if (cookie && cookie.includes('foo=bar')) {
         return await fetch(request);
       } else {
         return new Response('You must log in before accessing this content');
       }
     }

Post by unixhero » Sun, May 24, 2020, 8:56 AM UTC

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Would love to know more. This is fascinating.

The dat website is at dat://aaca379867bff648f454337f36a65c8239f2437538f2a4e0b4b5eb389ea0caff You can visit with the beaker browser, or share it through dat so it won't ever go down. You can also visit it at http://www.nanosavseq.com/ (DNS is not up yet, http://167.172.195.83/book/index.html is direct) It's embarrassingly barren right now, mainly since I've encountered some big problems with getting my DNA quantifier…

Post by vaibhavthevedi » Sun, May 24, 2020, 9:29 AM UTC