Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

Post by cxam » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:56 AM UTC

rishav_sharan wrote: post #287

cxam wrote: post #20

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Cloudflare Workers and their KV service ( https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-kv/ ) is great. I built a side project ( https://tagx.io/ ) completely on their services from hosting the static site, auth flow and application data storage. KV is pretty cheap as well starting around $5/month with reasonable resources.

I am also very interested in using worker + kv. Can kv be used as a proper application database? Has anyone ever done that?

  article:1 -> {"user": 1, "content": "..."}
  user:1 -> {"name": "username"}
  user:1:articles -> [1, ...]

Post by Yoric » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:57 AM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #259

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Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw. However I feel like most of the heavy lifting features came with C++11. Span, optional, variant and string_view are nice additions to the toolkit but more as enhancements rather than the paradigm shift of C++11 (move, unique_ptr, lambdas et-al).

> Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw. It's funny, because while it's certainly become more influential lately, that subculture existed as a niche in the C++ world before Rust and before C++11. So much so that when I first heard about Rust I thought "these are C++ people."

Post by elevenoh » Sat, May 23, 2020, 5:59 AM UTC

zadler wrote: post #186

AI assisted code completion.

Post by kimburgess » Sat, May 23, 2020, 6:04 AM UTC

prrls wrote: post #235

Oxide Computer Company https://oxide.computer/ “True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.” Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre…

Post by williadc » Sat, May 23, 2020, 6:09 AM UTC

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jhallenworld wrote: post #234

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You are right, for example, humans don't need anywhere near the amount of training data that AIs need.

I learned to drive a car when I was 13. My older cousin took me to warped tour, got hammered and told me I had to drive home. I didn’t know what a clutch was, let alone a stick shift. After stalling in the parking lot a couple of times, I managed to drive us from Long Beach all the way back to my parents house in Pasadena. Love to see an AI handle that cold start problem.