Ask HN: What companies are you excited about? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by beauzero » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:11 AM UTC

maga wrote: post #17

SpaceX. Watching Falcons land is one of the few things that still give me warn and reassuring feeling about the future.

Agreed and also Starlink from SpaceX. We moved about 2 hours outside of a major city center in anticipation of smart cars. Mainly for quality of life. Covid and starlink are making that more accessible to others. Solar development too maybe I haven't kept up with it like I should. Real estate is going through a huge shake up right now. Rural land prices are higher than I have seen in my lifetime.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by the_cat_kittles » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:15 AM UTC

graycrow wrote: post #32

Tesla. Far ahead of the competition in software, electronics and battery technology.

ive had this discussion with a couple of my friends- what exactly are the innovations in those three fields that put them so far ahead? do they make more efficient cells? their cars dont have anything particularly novel as far as i know, just well designed and made, as well as marketed. what is the software that tesla makes that is so good?

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by newyankee » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:15 AM UTC

DrNuke wrote: post #29

DeepMind software into Boston Dynamics hardware = singularity!?

Looking forward to some real world impact of Deepmind in material discovery and biology even more.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by newyankee » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:17 AM UTC

stenl wrote: post #12

There’s massive innovation in biotech right now. RNA vaccines are winning the COVID battle, based on extremely cool technology (pseudouridine to evade innate immunity, two prolines to lock the spike in prefusion conformation, lipid nanovesicles for delivery,...). RNA drugs are also being developed to treat cancer (by vaccinating against patient-specific neoantigens), MS (by inducing immune tolerance to suppress autoi…

Anything beyond CRISPR & mRNA to look out for ? Was expecting cures for baldness, artifical tooth and a lot of other things by 2020. Have not heard of a step change but may be i am not aware.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by Austin_Conlon » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:18 AM UTC

I would also add Apple's health organization as an exception, for example they're rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring in the works for Apple Watch.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by skanga » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:19 AM UTC

I'm volunteering at a super exciting non-profit where we are adding autonomous aerial vehicles to the arsenal of tools needed to fight the wildfires in CA.

If anyone wants to help in any way, please contact me by emailing my handle here at gmail.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by BenoitP » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

UPMEM

They're etching a small CPU in each block of 4GB of RAM. This means a vast compute power at low electrical power. An Intel CPU spends 650 pJ transporting data from RAM, and then 3 pJ doing an addition. Data IO bandwidth and latency are most of the latency.

Programming paradigms with map-like processing are already structured to take advantage of it. Say you hava a Big Data Spark job. Chunk your partitions to be 2GB input, 2GB output; and your mapPartitions operation would be almost free.

I don't know how far they are in the deployment/market aspect though. But if I could invest in them, I would.

https://www.upmem.com/

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by fsflover » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

Austin_Conlon wrote: post #45

I would also add Apple's health organization as an exception, for example they're rumored to have non-invasive glucose monitoring in the works for Apple Watch.

I hate those innovations at Apple, because if I want to help my relatives with their health and buy the watch, I also must buy the Apple phone and put them into the inescapable walled garden.

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by citrouille » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

I am excited about Project Vesta [1], which looks to me like one of the most feasible solutions to large-scale carbon capture.

[1] https://www.projectvesta.org

Re: Ask HN: What companies are you excited about?

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Post by yyy888sss » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 9:32 AM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #42

graycrow wrote: post #32

Tesla. Far ahead of the competition in software, electronics and battery technology.

ive had this discussion with a couple of my friends- what exactly are the innovations in those three fields that put them so far ahead? do they make more efficient cells? their cars dont have anything particularly novel as far as i know, just well designed and made, as well as marketed. what is the software that tesla makes that is so good?

Tesla made electric cars cool and desirable (starting in the 2000's when most people associated electric with the prius). They've introduced or improved a lot of tech: better battery chemistry in new form factors, more efficient motors, over the air updates, nationwide fast charging network, increasingly sophisticated self driving features etc. Tesla is exiting because they paved the way for other car companies to electrify their products.