Ask HN: What tech is beneath the radar with all consideration on ChatGPT and so on.

2023-05-02 14:31:44

WebGPU. It’ll be live in Chromium stable this Thursday and will be the biggest step change for browser-based GPU since the original WebGL.

One of the questions I’ve been asking is we’ve basically had physical servers -> VM -> cloud -> container orchestration on about a decade long cadence. So what’s next–especially considering you can argue a lot of the low-level architectural things haven’t really changed during that period. But, then, perhaps architectural details don’t matter a lot at this point relative to things like AI/ML. Even WASM is mostly in the weeds.

Now that the NFT and Meta clown cars have crashed, metaverse work is quietly plugging along. It’s a niche, but it may be a Roblox/Fortnite sized niche.

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