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

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Post by CyberDildonics »

echelon wrote: post #89
CyberDildonics wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, no they won't. People with nothing to write about talked about games and movies converging for years and they never even came close. The closest you could say was games have a narrative woven in. Movies are passive and everything is intentional. Games are fundamentally about interactivity. They are practically opposite forms of entertainment. I don't even know what you mean by 'social will converge…

Oh hey! You're the person who was telling me half a year ago that AI porn wouldn't be a thing [1, 2]. I'm wholly confident you're just as wrong about this, and I'd even put my money on it [3]. Here's my prediction: - Stories, narratives, characters, and game loops will become generative. Their capacity to generate new unseen and unwritten content will be heralded as revolutionary. - The quality of games and GenAI wil…

telling me half a year ago that AI porn wouldn't be a thing

No, I told you it wouldn't devastate an industry built on hosting videos. It hasn't and those video hosting sites already host videos that are animated, because they don't care how their stuff is generated if people want to watch it.

Go back and re-read what you linked with a little more focus this time.

poured over half a million of my personal funds (so far) into building my company

And how many people are paying for your 'generative game loops' (whatever that means)?

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

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Post by jacknews »

dionysus_jon wrote: post #60

All the private fusion companies making very interesting progress. https://www.helionenergy.com/ https://cfs.energy/ https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/ https://tae.com/ Insert below; jokes about its being 25 years away, and comments about how it will never work etc

Well it's no joke, all the money chasing the mirage of D-T fusion for energy production; even if it works it will not be any kind of panacea. Other fusion types might be more realistic.

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

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Post by softfalcon »

echelon wrote: post #82
softfalcon wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excited to see WebGPU support for this become stable with three.js! They've been working on it in a beta-state, but I foresee huge perf improvements once it's widely accepted on the major browsers.

Do you see folks continuing to build on top of three.js? It looks like Rust game engines like Bevy and Fyrox are set to deliver comprehensive functionality to the browser over WASM/WebGPU.

That’s cool there are WASM enabled Rust engines! I’ll be honest, before you mentioned them, I’d never even heard of Bevy or Fyrox before.

As for people continuing to use three.js, yeah, I still see a lot of folks using it to build games. That whole “js everywhere” still seems to be really popular with a lot of folks.

It probably also helps that new comp sci students learning 3D graphics are often now taught using three.js instead of C++ like when I was a student.

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

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

rngname22 wrote: post #44
Our_Benefactors wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

With rapid progress in AR/VR, traditional display tech improvements are like horse technology advances in 1900.

One of the primary limitations in creating an immersive VR experience is a device with the necessary displays and optics. They have to be high resolution, lightweight, durable, low power consumption, and ultra sharp even through the most distorted optical filters. It’s basically the holy grail of display tech.

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

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Post by revelio »

mabbo wrote: post #30
ghaff wrote: post #7

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…

I'm excited by the idea of WASM being 'the thing' because it basically boils down to passing raw executables around, and running them in trusted contexts. It's the ultimate end to the cycle of removing all operating systems.

It doesn't remove the OS, it "just" requires all C/C++ to be ported to the new WASM/Browser OS. Which isn't very exciting. The browser isn't meant to be an OS.

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

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Post by jiggawatts »

echelon wrote: post #89
CyberDildonics wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, no they won't. People with nothing to write about talked about games and movies converging for years and they never even came close. The closest you could say was games have a narrative woven in. Movies are passive and everything is intentional. Games are fundamentally about interactivity. They are practically opposite forms of entertainment. I don't even know what you mean by 'social will converge…

Oh hey! You're the person who was telling me half a year ago that AI porn wouldn't be a thing [1, 2]. I'm wholly confident you're just as wrong about this, and I'd even put my money on it [3]. Here's my prediction: - Stories, narratives, characters, and game loops will become generative. Their capacity to generate new unseen and unwritten content will be heralded as revolutionary. - The quality of games and GenAI wil…

Wait... what? You've invested half a million into AI porn? Seriously!?

I'm morbidly curious: how do you plan to recoup your costs? I assume porn is so trivial to get for free that it must be a relatively low profit industry...

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

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Post by StefanWestfal »

nharada wrote: post #70

Heat pumps and smart grid. Both relatively boring but very impactful for climate.

It is so good to see progress in these areas. They are so fundamental that we do not think about them (fundamental in the sense that we just assume they are there) a lot. I have some infos on heat-pumps but do you have a good source about the state of smart-grid?

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

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Post by StefanWestfal »

mamcx wrote: post #75

New databases. Is probably the most "under the radar" of all. Is interesting how little attention you get from people about this stuff (when talking about implementation or internals). Is like, literally, only make a splash AFTER at-minimun you have something competitive with a major stablished product. But you get more "views" talking about compilers than talking about DBs! (except when talking about compilers that…

And improvement for existing ones like query optimizers and schedulers for SQL.
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