Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?
1. GNU Name System to replace the DNS in a backwards-compatible manner, with delegation to cryptographic public keys (instead of IP addresses) and with strong guarantees against known attacks against the DNS (DNSSEC doesn&#x27;t solve everything). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnunet.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;gns.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnunet.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;gns.html</a><p>2. Semantic sysadmin to declare your intent in regards to your infrastructure no matter how it is implemented (i.e. with a standard specification, interoperability&#x2F;migration becomes possible) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttm.sh&#x2F;dVy.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ttm.sh&#x2F;dVy.md</a><p>3. GUI&#x2F;WebUI CMS for contributing to a shared versioned repository. Sort of what netlify is doing, but using a standard so you can use the client of your choice and we tech folks can hold onto our CLI while our less-techie friends can enjoy a great UI&#x2F;UX for publishing articles to collective websites.<p>4. Structured shell for the masses. Powershell isn&#x27;t the worst, but in my view nushell has a bright future ahead. For the people who don&#x27;t need portability, it may well entirely replace bash, Python and perl for writing more maintainable and user-friendly shell scripts. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nushell.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nushell.sh&#x2F;</a><p>5. A desktop environment toolkit that focuses on empowering to build more opinionated desktops while mutualizing the burden of maintenance of core components. Most desktop environments should have a common base&#x2F;library (freedesktop?) where features&#x2F;bugs can be dealt with once and for all and we don&#x27;t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Last week i learnt some DE folks want to fork the whole of GTK because it&#x27;s becoming too opinionated for their usage, and GNOME is nowadays really bloated and buggy thanks to javascript hell. Can&#x27;t we have a user-friendly desktop with solid foundations and customizability?