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

Post by anewvillager » Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:19 AM UTC

entha_saava wrote: post #415

gpm wrote: post #19

Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…

I don't like to see wasm replacing native for stuff like development tooling, and desktop apps. JITs may approach native performance in theory - but the battery consumption and memory consumption are not very good. ("Better than JS" is a low bar). As hardware becomes stronger, I would like to do more with it, and when it comes to portable devices, I want more battery life. Nothing justifies compiling same code again…

Post by masklinn » Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC

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,…

Post by AsyncAwait » Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

losthobbies wrote: post #433

modeless wrote: post #388

1. https://www.starlink.com/ Finally, truly global and low latency satellite internet. 2. Generative models for video games - https://aidungeon.io/ is barely scratching the surface. Story, art, animation, music, gameplay, it will all be generated by models in the future. 3. New direct drive robotics actuators such as https://www.google.com/search?q=peano-hasel+actuators I think actuators are holding robotics back mor…

Jai? Jonathan Blow’s new programming language might be an option for you. https://inductive.no/jai/

Post by temac » Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:28 AM UTC

typon wrote: post #369

Animats wrote: post #366

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Things like "It is the programmer's responsibility to ensure that std::string_view does not outlive the pointed-to character array." "string_view" is a borrow of a slice of a string. Since C++ doesn't have a borrow checker, it's possible to have a dangling string_view if the string_view outlives the underlying string. This is a memory safety error. Rust has educated people to recognize this situation. Now it's standa…

But surely it's a step towards more safety. Compare to passing char * around or ref/ptr to string. Sure C++ doesnt have a borrow checker but these types encourage the idea of "reifying" lack of ownership rather than keeping it ad hoc

Post by nojito » Sat, May 23, 2020, 11:29 AM UTC

estebarb wrote: post #157

nojito wrote: post #77

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Very similiar to https://www.datomic.com/

Materialize is based on differential dataflow, that is based on timelly dataflow. The abstraction works like magic: distributed computation, ordering, consistency, storage, recalculation, invalidations... All those hard to since problems are handled naturally by the computing paradigm. Maybe the product is similar, but not the principles behind