Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

tjbiddle wrote: post #109

jostylr wrote: post #39

Textblade: https://waytools.com/ Single row keyboard that has minimal finger movement. It was to be delivered March 2015 or so, but it has yet to be released. They have testers who rave about it and it looks incredible, but it is perpetually around the corner. Originally designed as an ultra-portable phone keyboard, those who have used it tend to use it for all their machines. It has jump slots to quickly switch from…

Not available? I didn't go through the full check-out process; but what happens when you go to buy it? I don't see any reference that it's unavailable.

Post by mbesto » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

allpratik wrote: post #83

ARKit. Apple has solved few real world AR problems, which were usually hard for an average app developer to get started with. But with ARKit, apple, is "trying" to do the heavy lifting in terms of plane and object recognition etc. Another thing is the platform of distribution. People will use AR apps, which will hit the app store after September like crazy. And these same people, will be primary audience for Apple he…

Post by lolive » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:18 PM UTC

scottmf wrote: post #107

amirouche wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it seems to make sense for things that could be represented by graph False, even if there is graph in its name it's not restricted to graph, and that what is great about it compared to things like RDF and SPARQL. Backend data can be stored in key/value store, document, files, RDBMS or whatever. And you will still be able to make it work. AFAIK you write a "translation" layer that interprets a pseudo-JSON file into…

> AFAIK GraphQL is not good at querying recursive datastructure, it's better at "neighborhood" kind of query, so you can traverse Foreign Keys, but not "indefinitely". That isn't true. You can request data in any shape you want and could theoretically traverse through child nodes indefinitely. We have many queries which go 5-6 levels deep.

Post by m3kw9 » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:19 PM UTC

Post by amelius » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

dabockster wrote: post #129

Edge computing. Basically shifting off of cloud onto separate peer-to-peer connections. Faster, more secure, more distributed, and no middleman. Think 1990s/mid 2000s but no servers, just client to client. Soon everyone will want a home server.