I thought it would be interesting to see what things Hackernews is excited about in the world of tech. What are you looking forward to or optimistic about?
Is there any hope that such a technology could become reality in 10 years?
In just a few years we've moved from an Internet where nearly every website could be listed in a directory, where CONTENT was precious, to an Internet where content is being created on an exponential curve.
So now comes the next phase where you start looking at content in aggregate. All your sentiment analysis, summarization, text analytics, pattern spotting...the shift to thinking about text in bulk.
This is a new way of thinking about text. It was downright radical in the 1960s (see also the Federalist papers), and only in recent years a bunch of factors have come together to make this new view of text more common.
Sure, it isn’t like 3 cellular carriers is a huge level of choice, but it sure beats “Comcast is my only option.”
This generation of graphics cards is exciting and I’m hoping AMD will have a strong showing with the RX 6000 series.
Depending on the specifics on pricing and hardware I’m excited for the small iPhone 12, as long as it doesn’t eschew too many high-end features compared to the larger ones.
Zig (systems programming language)
Crystal, Nim (Application programming languages with ergonomics focus)
Value types support in Java
OCaml multicore
Mini-pass compilers
Google Fuchsia