Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?

9 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by vantareed

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6 Comments

StahlGuo

an hour ago

I would said electricity generation, Solar+Energy Storage will be the solution of human future in the coming 20 years.

nextos

6 hours ago

I would say that lots of interesting things are happening in biotech, and these things are slowly building critical mass, similar to what happened in computer hardware during the period 1970-2000.

Genomic platforms are now able to capture multiple measurements (e.g. RNA and chromatin openness) from single cells in large tissue slices/massive perturbation experiments.

Once time gets baked into the equation, we will be able to build better models of systems biology. However, human trials will still be a major bottleneck.

PJHkorea

6 hours ago

I am developing a real-time software acceleration engine that enables high-end equipment-level brainwave processing, signal detection, and noise removal on general-purpose chips. My goal is to overcome hardware limitations through software, enabling highly efficient biosignal processing.

progforlyfe

5 hours ago

I would say quantum computing. It's one area you can't just tell an LLM to solve for you (yet, until the material and solutions are out there of course).

tim333

4 hours ago

Solar and batteries are cracking along. It's much reported but will change things for the better.

digitaltinfoil

6 hours ago

NFT development is still going strong! They've almost found a real use for them /s

jk jk they're still nonsense, aren't you glad HN isn't flooded with NFT and blockchain noise anymore?