In the web framework world, libraries are moving from a react component style of authoring to an older knockout based model. This means, instead of rendering an entire block of HTMl on each render pass, just a minimal subset will be rerendered, as the variable is bound to specific DOM elements. This effort started with Knockout, fell out of favor, and saw a resurgence with the success of SolidJS. Svelte has started moving in this direction. It's my opinion that React's compiler will eventually serve the same purpose to allow their giant user base to get the same benefits.
In the web performance space, there's some interesting stuff happening in origin trails around shared dictionary compression. It has been tried and failed before but the latest iteration/spec hopefully improved those shortfalls that made them unusable. Also, ZSTD compression has taken the crown from brotli.
Metas new AR glasses seem to be approaching the ideal hardware, IMO it's still searching for its killer app. Microsoft exited the AR space by killing hololens.
Startup space is dying right now, with very low VC risk tolerance / interest. Some funds have returned money to investors rather than risk it in investing.
Still seeing new auth companies joining the party, whether they are focusing on SSO, customer identity and access management, or authorization. Most are open source, some are SaaS.
Tech meetups seem to be coming back. People want to chat in person. Finding space to meet and sponsors is still not easy, but the demand from the community is there.
Rails continues to deliver a best-in-class batteries included solution for standing up web apps. I see some new folks being pulled into the community; some who enjoy it so much they participate even though their day jobs use some other stack.
As someone else mentioned downstream, IaC is still happening and getting pushed further and further. Whether you are talking about the more standard TF/OpenTofu IaC or some of the newer declarative environment options (I've chatted with the nitric folks), defining infrastructure as software gives you so much power that it seems to be unstoppable.
I am aware, at least a bit, of the Hotwire/liveview/Laravel turbo idea of just streaming DOM diffs instead of full pages, and how that is becoming a real force to reckon for SPAs.
Agreed! The pitch is great. Deliver twice as much by writing half as many apps as your competitors to deliver the same features. Let your competitors write a server app and a client app, and keep them in sync, while you. just. don't.
Do you have some examples of complex SPA-like apps written in this tech? I find it hard seeing how you would implement interactive components this way. They recommend Stimulus for extra JS, but then, what is the benefit over SPAs?
What I can see is that it could be a nice solution for SPAs that should never have been SPAs in the first place, i.e. mostly static pages with JS navigation used for reasons of fashion.
https://dev.37signals.com/page-refreshes-with-morphing-demo/
I'm not being snarky. What apps must be SPA's and why? I'm personally questioning where that line really should be.
not OP, but here's a nice example with Elixir Liveview: https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/
It has a tutorial, also a demo and some videos.
AR/VR is in a hype superposition, large companies have made large investments yet the tech is arguably in the "trough of disillusionment". Few people think it will break into mainstream use anytime soon.
So far, 99% of sales are in the "expensive gaming accessory" category. There is fun and interesting UI and gameplay innovation happening here.
The one non-gaming thing everyone seems to want is just a large virtual desktop workspace. Apple has probably come closest here. It sounds like an easy problem but without a high resolution and a wide field of view, it's not a good experience.
It is an interesting space - where do you think it'll play out from here? Lots of money quietly flowing into the space from big players.
Is there a lot of innovation happening in this space for military applications? I ask this as someone totally unfamiliar with the technology in general. It seems like it could greatly benefit pilots, people on the battlefield, and anyone else who needs access to some kind of visual information while still having both of their hands.
There's quite a lot of investment in AR/VR for new educational applications. I think there is some potential there.
I've largely fixed phpbb 1.4.4
https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php
It's from December 2000[1] (phpBB 2.0.0 was released in April 2002)
The idea the only thing that remained of 1.4.4 was a broken screenshot[2] didn't agree with me.
[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/about/history/#:~:text=phpBB%201.4.4%2...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB#/media/File:PhpBB1-defau...
Wow. Congrats on what was surely a large effort to resurrect an old piece of software.
Python 3.13 has free-threaded mode support (--disable-gil) https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-fre...
Bambu labs got me into 3d printing. It’s the most seamless and simple 3d printer and functions as basically an appliance. Huge leap for 3d printing and I suspect we’re closer than ever to making jt affordable and easy.
I replaced my old Elegoo Neptune with a Bambu A1, and what a huge difference! I hated FDM printing for years, but now I use it all the time. I'm upgrading my resin printer next year, and can't wait to see what advances have been made in that realm.
I keep looking at 3D printers, but then I start looking up if they are safe to use inside and various things like that, and I get scared off.
I think I need to give it a few more years before it reaches a maturity level I would actually use.
Really? It's been nearly 20 years since Reprap, it's hard to imagine it maturing any more. If I get one I'll probably treat it like a belt sander or something, a tool that sits in the garage with plenty of fresh air. Agreed that it's a little concerning knowing some people that sit in a closed space with a dozen of these running (at that point you can smell the hot plastic...) but using common sense with good ventilation goes a long way.
I currently have a detached garage that wouldn’t be a good place for a printer. If I had an attached garage I could see it being a different situation.
As far as development goes, it seems like there has been a lot of advancement in just the past 5 years. Seeing what some of the high end commercial printers are capable of, I think there is still a lot of development left for what home printers can do. The Bambu printers are bound to get some competition. There are also a few competing technologies, and I’m willing to give it some more time to shake out. It still feels very much like a hobbyist tool for people who want to tinker a bit. I want to design and print without a lot of fuss.
Are you thinking SLS (sintered) ? I guess I always thought of that as a whole 'nother tier of quality that would be difficult to achieve at home.
I can’t find the exact video I first saw, but looking around I think it was full color resin printing. They were printing photorealistic figures of 2Pac, and I think some video game or animated characters as well.
I’m not sure how resin stacks up in terms of durability for making parts, but from the perspective of being able to print anything and having it look perfect, it blew my mind.
I'd love it if there was a site where I could follow developments at the intersection between business and tech that don't mention whatever's being hyped up at that point in time.
we just need to code up some llm-based, blockchain-enabled, genAI apps to automatically remove hyped tech from hn
You forgot the secret ingredient - quantum computing. That's what will enable us to run everything efficiently using coal energy that's offset by purchasing carbon credits.
PHP 8.4 comes out next month and will bring new functions, including array_find, array_find_key, array_any, and array_all. It will also introduce property hooks.
Why is this controversial (judging by the fluctuation in net upvotes)? You folks should be more down to earth.
The lack of responses so far on this thread is just sad.
The issue is that humanity right now is sort of capped on innovation in any area outside AI. There is plenty of room for optimization of stuff. For example, quad rotor drones replaced the necessity to have a helicopter flying overhead for a lot of industries.
People tend not to be enthused about a request to essentially write an essay for a stranger.
I think a lot of valid answers could be a sentence or short paragraph, if the writer did not want to write an essay.
How lazy from them.
we could copy paste the front page for them
This is an important question that I hope has a lot of responses, thanks for submitting it. From my cloud/infra/sre perspective, the fork of terraform (openTofu) is extremely exciting to me. I wish I had the time to contribute to it, IAC has been a career-saver for me, and terraform/hashicorp have a lot of warts.
Sodium ion batteries are widely available now. We haven't had a new battery you can actually buy in like, ten years or more.
Meshtastic now has way better encryption from what I hear.
The CH32V 20 cent riscv chips seem to be Arduino ready and somewhat mainstream.
I am aware of the WordPress drama, but it feels more like a business news than tech news.
You should train an AI to search for tech news that doesn't talk about AI.
Check out ladybird browser. I look forward to checking out the monthly updates from Andreas.
I read Google News' Technology section and avoid the AI subsection.
I read techmeme.com, but especially this weekend almost all headlines are AI related, probably because of OpenAI's huge round too
Version 8 of Ruby on Rails?
Open Source Home Automation is on the rise. Check out Home Assistant
Yahoo is useful again.
This is news to me! Care to elaborate?
my mom says hating on ai is going out of fashion
I think most people are just AI fatigued
Winamp was recently open sourced.
Looks like WDC still has plenty of 6502's in stock: https://wdc65xx.com/where-to-buy
