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Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
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> 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. Still don't see fully (fully automated) self driving cars happening any time soon: 1) Heavy steel boxes running at high speed in built up areas will be the very last thing that we trust to robots. There are so many…
You could be right. My alternative possible timeline interpretation is that two forces collide and make self-driving inevitable. The first force is the insurance industry. It's really hard to argue that humans are more fallible than even today's self-driving setups, and at some point the underwriters will take note and start premium-blasting human drivers into the history books. The second force is the power of numbe…
Having high-speed steel boxes carrying human lives and what else react on messages from untrusted sources. Hmm. What could go wrong?
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#623Web 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…
Cautionary tale: we’ve been here before with JVM CPUs like Jazelle. They didn’t take over the world.
True, just like we were here before with devices like the Palm Pilot and Apple Newton, which is why the iPhone and IPad never took over the world ;)
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Looks like the ScyllaDB playbook i.e. rewrite a popular Java app in C++ and sell it as a much faster product. Going to be interesting to see if they survive as the pace of JVM improvements has been rapidly increasing in the last year or so.
thanks, though what we sell is operational simplicity. speed is nice, but not the main benefit. a single binary that's easy to run is what CIO seem to be interested. though we are young. fingers crossed it works :)
I agree that operational simplicity will sell this to more organizations than performance will. There just aren't that many companies in the world that are bumping up against the scaling limits of Kafka.
When I look at the landing page of vectorized.io it touts the speed repeatedly without mentioning this simplicity pitch you find deeper in the site:
Redpanda is a single binary you can scp to your servers and be done. We got rid of Zookeeper®, the JVM and garbage collection for a streamlined, predictable system.
That does sound great! Put that information right up front.
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#625I’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’…
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 Just so you know, I consider myself probably a fairly typical HN user. Got my own little daily tech concerns, but keep a toe in th…
I had to stop somewhere with the explanations. I was mainly addressing people already familiar with Roam, and also decided that Zettelkasten as a term is quite easily googleable. It’s true I could have slipped a few words there, along the lines of “...which is a note-taking technique” — I’ll make sure to do that next time.
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I took a quick look at Holochain and its got the regular set of better than bitcoin/ethereum claims that most alt coins say. Its saying its more efficient and safer to use than other blockchain languages. Now these are really big claims so let's see what its got! Looking at https://holochain.org/ , most of my scam senses are not going off tooo much. Its got some weird testimonials and then a white paper! So far so go…
If you're coming from the blockchain scene you really won't get it at first glance. I first started mining Bitcoin in 2010 at $0.50 each, then went heavy into Ethereum from 2014. It took me a few weeks of deep-diving to unlearn a lot of the conditioning imprinted in the blockchain bubble. Holochain has no mining, no staking, no core token, no fees, no global consensus, no global ledger, it's not a platform, and there…
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#627Electric VTOL for the masses: basically flying cars.
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#628www.CloudNC.com Basically, 1) bringing down the cost of CNC machined parts down to their marginal cost through automation, 2) reducing that marginal cost through higher machine utilisation rates, and 3) reducing turn around times and accuracy of parts to clients.
ProtoLabs is already successful in this space. I wonder what competitive advantage CloudNC has?
They are trying to automate the g-code generation that controls the CNC machine. At the moment a human operator uses an intermediary piece of software to create that.
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I use autopilot every day. It stops for stoplights and stop signs now.
It is misleading. driving on the highway is by far the easiest part of self driving. Going from 3 nines of safety to 7 nines is going to be the real challenge.
There aren't stoplights on the highway. I'm talking about in-city driving.
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Gmail is popular but in the grand scheme of things it’s not that popular for email. I’m sure that most people get most of their utility from email from their corporate email. Their personal email is mostly used for distant relationship type communications. Most personal interactions these days happen via messaging and social media. AKA “Email is for old people”. Also, a lot of computer use is via mobile these days an…
It's pretty popular for email, at 25%+ market share [1]. That's a LOT of information to mine. And point about conversations moving to post-email protocols, but email is certainly still up there with HTTP as a bedrock standard that everyone eventually touches. Without pushing JavaScript and a full featured web client, it's fair to say Google wouldn't have grown as quickly and be nearly as dominant today. As for their…
The question is not about how many people use Gmail - and that still doesn’t take into account corporate users. It’s about how many people use the web interface as opposed to using a mobile app.