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

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post #5

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.

It already is, there's a market for game skins, for example for CSGO. Don't see anything else on the horizon.

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

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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.

Are WebGPU "libraries" at a point where instead of being recommended Python + PyTorch for neural network training (then exporting the model to ONNX and turning around and loading it and using it)? If not, how far? I've had trouble understanding why the PyTorch "GPU" (CUDA, MPS, etc.) code can't convert to WASM + WebGPU. Something has to be missing/it has to be a huge effort, but in theory you're supposed to be able to do GPU calculation with WebGPU, right?

Seems like the ecosystem is very early/non-existent.

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

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There are a lot of wireless communication improvements related to WiFi and 5G. I think this opens a lot of doors, especially around low power apps.

Also, somewhat related: secure anonymous data exchange has a lot of cool possible applications beyond health exposure tracking.

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

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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…

Physical servers (or devices) are next, obviously!

IT is cyclical.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> software baked into the display

now the display can directly serve ads!

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What do you mean by "software baked into the display"?

(Like, firmware? Or is this more like an all-in-one type computer but the 'computer' part is equivalent to a Raspberry Pi/Arduino/etc [So - programmable, but somewhat minimal?]?)

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

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post #8

Battery tech Display panel tech Silicon photonics

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

Indeed. Lithium-air and sodium-air batteries look extremely promising, the former for higher power densities, and the latter for low temperature environments.

I can't wait to get a 500 KWH battery backup for my house for $10k...eventually...

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