Ask HN: What is the coolest tech progress outside AI?
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6 hours ago
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AI and agents are taking up most of the oxygen lately.

What recent non-AI technology progress are you excited about, and why?

nextos
3 hours ago
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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.

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tim333
1 hour ago
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Solar and batteries are cracking along. It's much reported but will change things for the better.
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PJHkorea
3 hours ago
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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.
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progforlyfe
2 hours ago
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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).
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digitaltinfoil
3 hours ago
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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?

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