Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should exist in the future?

Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by nthacker on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:44PM (#23709765)

Your site is rad.

Here's my idea:

P2P grid compute + storage that is actually cheap and can drive down the cost of computation significantly.

Can be achieved with unikernels, homomorphic encryption, ipfs. There's a lot of compute and storage available all over the world, idle, waiting to be used. A system like this can utilize it

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by isaacimagine on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:32AM (#23710037)

I've worked on similar things in the past; I think this idea (A distributed compute + storage network) in general, is great. However, although Homomorphic encryption is pretty cool, it's not that fast. AFAIK, current state-of-the art is essentially simulating Boolean gate arrays.

If anyone has any insight on the technicanal foundational feasibility of this, please share :)

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Re:Ask HN: What kind of ideas are not VC-backable but should... by jerryoftheyear on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:45AM (#23710089)

I've got my homelab participating in Folding@Home, it'd be interesting to run some commercial workloads in a similar manner to help offset energy costs.

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