Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.

• ch32v003fun

  4 730 9.3 C

  An open source software development stack for the CH32V003 10¢ 48 MHz RISC-V Microcontroller - as well as many other chips within the ch32v/x line.

Commodity RISCV chips. Some of these have just entered mass production, such as the CH32V003 (10 cents each in 1k quantities).

https://github.com/cnlohr/ch32v003fun

Fully open source stack!

Grab the below eval board and peck around:

• web-llm

  43 9,300 9.1 TypeScript

  Bringing large-language models and chat to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support.

  

> In its current state, can you train on PyTorch, export to ONNX, load ONNX in JavaScript/WASM, then use it for WebGPU inference?

I believe so. Onnxruntime very recently merged a WebGPU backend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35694553

You can also go directly from PyTorch to WebGPU with Apache TVM. (ONNX is also supported, but my understanding is that it's better to go direct). This is an example using an LLM trained with PyTorch (I think) and run in the browser: https://mlc.ai/web-llm/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• TablaM

  151 183 0.0 Rust

  The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

  

New databases.

Is probably the most "under the radar" of all. Is interesting how much attention you get from people about this stuff (when talking about implementation).

Is like, literally, only make a splash AFTER at-minimun you have something competitive with a major stablished product.

But you get more "views" talking about compilers than talking about DBs!

(except when talking about compilers that use the relational model. I probably should rebrand https://tablam.org as a "lisp"! -no accurate, but whatever-)

• onnxruntime

  54 12,804 10.0 C++

  ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator

  

I can't seem to figure if the PR for the WebGPU backend for onnxruntime is supposed to land in a 1.14 release, a 1.15 release, has already landed, isn't yet scheduled to land, etc? https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/pull/14579

https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/releases I don't see it in any releases yet?

https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/milestone/4 I don't see it in the upcoming milestone.

I don't see any examples or docs that go with it

https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/wiki/Upcoming-Relea... This seems to be out of date

https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/tree/rel-1.15.0 I do see the js/webgpu work merged into here so I guess it'll be released in 1.15.0

https://onnxruntime.ai/docs/reference/releases-servicing.htm...

> Official releases of ONNX Runtime are managed by the core ONNX Runtime team. A new release is published approximately every quarter, and the upcoming roadmap can be found here.

ONNX Runtime v1.14.0 was Feb 10th

• bacalhau

  12 606 9.8 Go

  Compute over Data framework for public, transparent, and optionally verifiable computation

  

Very selfishly - distributed compute. Not decentralized, distributed.

Compute and data are being created and run everywhere, we need platforms that understand how to use it and get insights without (or before) moving it.

Our contribution: https://github.com/bacalhau-project/bacalhau (think Kubernetes but built for the distributed world).

Disclosure: I co-founded the Bacalhau Project

• duckdb-wasm

  11 931 9.5 C++

  WebAssembly version of DuckDB

  

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