Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#1

Post by vinaypai » Tue, May 02, 2023, 7:31 PM UTC

ChatGPT and other generative AI seems to be taking a lions share of mindspace in the tech industry right now.

I'm curious to hear what interesting new things people are seeing that AREN'T trendy right now (yet?!).

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#2

Post by Our_Benefactors » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

Battery tech

Display panel tech

Silicon photonics

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#3

Post by paulgb » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:08 PM UTC

WebGPU. It’ll be live in Chromium stable this Thursday and will be the biggest step change for browser-based GPU since the original WebGL.

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#4

Post by dchest » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:10 PM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #3

WebGPU. It’ll be live in Chromium stable this Thursday and will be the biggest step change for browser-based GPU since the original WebGL.

WebGPU is all the rage right now for hosting AI models in browser :)

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#5

Post by Animats » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:11 PM UTC

Now that the NFT and Meta clown cars have crashed, metaverse work is quietly plugging along. It's a niche, but it may be a Roblox/Fortnite sized niche.

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#6

Post by throwaway1777 » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:11 PM UTC

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #2

Battery tech Display panel tech Silicon photonics

What is new in display panels?

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#7

Post by ghaff » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:13 PM UTC

One of the questions I've been asking is we've basically had physical servers -> VM -> cloud -> container orchestration on about a decade long cadence. So what's next--especially considering you can argue a lot of the low-level architectural things haven't really changed during that period. But, then, perhaps architectural details don't matter a lot at this point relative to things like AI/ML. Even WASM is mostly in the weeds.

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#8

Post by sakopov » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:14 PM UTC

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #2

Battery tech Display panel tech Silicon photonics

+1 for battery tech. Particularly interesting what Enovix is doing in this market.

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#9

Post by sesteel » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

I just started hearing about WASI. I think I've been living under a rock.

Re: Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?

#10

Post by Our_Benefactors » Tue, May 02, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

throwaway1777 wrote: post #6

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #2

Battery tech Display panel tech Silicon photonics

What is new in display panels?

Extreme panel curvature, new panel sizes, software baked into the display, technologies like quantum dot reaching near-oled quality at a fraction of the price.