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

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Post by busterarm »

elevenoh wrote: post #323
busterarm wrote: post #121

I guess I'm much more conservative than other folks, but I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. So they're on the list. I feel like at my job I'm pushing at the edges (as far as running large scale, stable production) and we've still got miles left. Also Bazel. I guess this is a boring answer.

>I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. What benefits are we not seeing? So many apps over-engineer their scalability.

What benefits aren't we seeing?

End-to-end automation still isn't done in most places and it's considered hard.

Having made a significant automation investment, I can say that it's easier after you've put some of the work in. It trends towards easiness but up front cant seem insurmountably hard.

Caveat: Our infrastructure bill is stretching about ten million yearly and our team is small (avg. about 1M being managed per person), size your expectations appropriately.

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Post by Vinceo »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #59

Libresilicon [1]. Extremely important to our freedoms from corporate and state tyranny to make chip manufacturing libre. > We develop a free (as in freedom, not as in free of charge) and open source semiconductor manufacturing process standard, including a full mixed signal PDK, and provide a quick, easy and inexpensive way for manufacturing. No NDAs will be required anywhere to get started, making it possible to bui…

This is really really exciting. Thanks

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Post by nwallin »

aeternum wrote: post #330
threeseed wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Chimps have us beat when it comes to short-term visual memory (Humans can't even come close). Mantis shrimp have us beat when it comes to quickly detecting colors since they have twelve photoreceptors vs. our three. Insects have us beat when it comes to anything in the UV spectrum (we're completely blind to it). Many insects also cannot move their eyes but are still have to use vision for collision detection and navi…

Humans have visual processing which converts the signals from our three types of cones into tens to hundreds of millions of shades of color. Mantis shrimp don't have this processing. Mantis shrimp can only see 12 shades.

Human color detection is about six orders of magnitude greater than mantis shrimp's.

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Post by raihansaputra »

julianeon wrote: post #263
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…

I think there might be killer apps that companies aren't publicizing, because it's part of their competitive advantage. Example of WASM being used in a major product: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-... You can infer from this that it's making them 3x faster than anything a competitor can make, and probably inspired a lot of those 'Why is Figma so much more awesome than any comparable tool…

I read that a few days ago and just realized why Figma runs better than Miro/RealTimeBoard. I wish the Miro team is also looking to port to WASM/boost performance. I don't think it's easy though; Figma's effort started in 2017.

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Post by abhinai »

beyondcompute wrote: post #437
Animats wrote: post #95

Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…

“Fake it till you make it” is precisely how it will be solved

“Fake it till you make it” strategy works when you know how to make something but haven't made it yet. The strategy falls apart when people try to fake having solved hard open research problems.

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Post by treelovinhippie »

Aeolun wrote: post #410
treelovinhippie wrote: post #403

Svelte is my go-to for personal projects. My speculative hunch is it will begin to rival React within the next 5 years for its simplicity and thus cost reductions. There are a lot of advantages, but this 5min video comparing React hooks to Svelte should be enough to trigger interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtD2mWDQnxM

I’m really curious how my 100kloc enterprise app would work in Svelte, but my hunch is it just wouldn’t be possible to build. Svelte always seems really cool in these toy examples, but I want to see a significant app built with it instead.

Yeah that's a common myth. Svelte isn't some fringe alternative JS framework. It performs exactly the same functions and same structure as any React/Vue app, but does so with far less code and runs far faster since it's a compiler.

You're not going to find many brand-name companies using it because the PM decision-makers at large enterprises are always going to be many years behind and going with the "safe" JS framework leader at the time.

Well-known companies currently using Svelte: Apple [1], New York Times [2], Spotify [3] and GoDaddy [4]

1: https://twitter.com/mansur_ashraf/status/1204542852581273600 2: Svelte creator Rich Harris works for them 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/f18n33/companies_... 4: https://svelte.dev

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Post by redis_mlc »

kortex wrote: post #255
busterarm wrote: post #121

I guess I'm much more conservative than other folks, but I think we've scratched only 10% of the surface of the benefits that things like Kubernetes, Consul, Vault and Terraform should/will provide. So they're on the list. I feel like at my job I'm pushing at the edges (as far as running large scale, stable production) and we've still got miles left. Also Bazel. I guess this is a boring answer.

Is there anything like "terraform provider for bare metal"? Would be soo convenient to just go from full nuke and pave to functional dev machine with a single config repo.

Terraform alone just does infra provisioning, but it can call a script for application setup.

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Post by rogihee »

k__ wrote: post #141
catmanjan wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I look forward to in browser DLL hell /s I'm cautiously optimistic about blazor, it definitely makes streaming data to the Dom much easier

Blazor seems like the only one application of WASM at the moment that goes in the completely wrong direction. People are already whining about JS bundle size and even the small .net runtimes are >60kb. Yew on the other hand seems to fit right into what WebAssembly was made for.

The download size does make it hard to use for a "public" site, like a webshop. But it is a different story for an application, like an intranet solution or app like Figma. A first time download of a few MB's is not a problem, as you regularly use it. Like a desktop application.

It is the first time you can develop a full stack application (client and backend) in one language in one debugging session. For C# that was possible with Silverlight.

Small companies (like mine) that deliver applications and have full stack engineers can have some amazing productivity!

So for my needs I'm really excited with something like Blazor, and this was only the first release.

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