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

Post by duckfruit » Sat, May 23, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

mbzi wrote: post #140

duckfruit wrote: post #117

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I want to believe... I always thought WebAssembly had a lot of potential, however, in practice it doesn't seem to have turned out that way. I remember the first Unity demos appearing on these orange pages at least 4 or 5 years ago, and promptly blowing me away. But, after an eternity in JavaScript years, I still dont know what the killer app is, technically or business wise. (Side note - I encourage people to prove m…

An example I can give: I use WebAssembly for a few cross-platform plugins. E.g. An AR 3D rendering engine in C++ and OpenGL. With very little effort it is working in browser. No bespoke code, same business logic, etc. Saved a lot of time vs creating a new renderer for our web app. For me it allows a suite of curated plugins which work cross-platform. The web experience is nearly just as nice as the native mobile and…

Post by geewee » Sat, May 23, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

tootie wrote: post #268

Gaze tracking. I've used the dedicated gaze tracking sensors from Tobii and it's really natural and responsive. I think we're going to see a lot of touchless interaction become popular in the post-covid world.

Post by carapace » Sat, May 23, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

_urga wrote: post #303

chx wrote: post #212

Zig. There's a Why Zig When There is Already CPP, D, and Rust? writeup at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...

I came here to say the same thing: Zig. The design decisions are spot on. For example, Modeling Data Concurrency w/ Asynchronous I/O in Zig by Andrew Kelley: https://t.co/VYNqNcrkH1?amp=1

Post by iameoghan » Sat, May 23, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

Eugeleo wrote: post #350

I’m a little surprised that there aren’t any mentions of Obsidian, while there are at least two mentions of Roam. To all Roam lovers, and to all intellectuals in general, I’d recommend you to check out Obsidian [1] from the makers of Dynalist. It’s also a tool made mainly for Zettelkasten, but it is offline and local by default. It’s not an outliner like Roam, but rather a free-form text editor. I feel that Obsidian’…

Post by CamperBob2 » Sat, May 23, 2020, 7:14 AM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #251

sedgjh23 wrote: post #168

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Humans don’t need LiDAR to recognize billboards

Self driving cars can't rapidly move their cameras in multiple spatial directions like humans do on a continuous basis. Also we have a pattern and object detection computer behind our eyes that nothing on this planet even remotely comes close to.