I hope to explore AI on edge devices and see how far it can get me.
New models like functiongemma are promising and I think we may be at a point where consistent tool calling is all we need.
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#92Does being "emotionally strong" is a skill to improve?
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Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#93I would like to learn more about Web development and related knowledge (networking, security). Currently my programming knowledge is primarily system languages+python. I'm thinking of building a few websites / apps from scratch, and perhaps hosting my own server. Recommendations for frameworks or do's/don'ts are very welcome. Second thing is networking skills at my (future) job. One thing I regret from my PhD is not…
For self-hosting: Buy a cheap VPS and use something like Coolify, Dokploy, or Dokku if you don't need a UI. These are half way in between "managed" PaaS (e.g. Vercel, Netlify, etc) and "hosting it yourself". Self-hosting is important experience but setting up reverse proxies, nginx, database backups, port-forwarding, firewall rules, secrets management, dependency updates, etc is not trivial. You should absolutely learn how to do those eventually but it's important to get something up and running first and the software I mentioned does just that for you
For building websites: If you don't already know HTML/CSS/JS definitely start with a vanilla site. No matter what framework is in right now, having the fundamentals down is absolutely a huge boost. So start with a simple static site. If you already have that knowledge, don't go crazy. React is basically the "boring technology" at this point and its not going anywhere anytime soon. Use Vite to create a basic React app
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#94I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand. Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year: learn full-stack, practice vibe coding, basics of graphics programming (update to the latest ways) I understand that means master of none, but this is a play around year for me. In theory AI should make it easier to try new things, we shall see…
> I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand. This. My control of my focus has been reduced to the point of disability at times (seriously worrying, when in middle age) > Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year But this, honestly, is at odds with it. It will be difficult to do these two things at once (source: trust me bro, but…
How did you develop your CAD and 3D printing skills? Did you use any online courses?
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#95I'd like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator/demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators. Create a blog and post at least 8 times to it over the next 12 months, which would be improving my skills with writing and illustration. Design at least two boards and get them through the prototype stage into bringup…
The latest over the air TV spec. is using OFDM, it's called ATSC 3. That's if you're looking for real signals to test your receiver on.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#96Get better at Spanish. Reading and writing, I’m hovering around an A2 with decent vocabulary.
https://www.escuela-hablamos.com/en/understanding-the-common...
I want to be able to speak and listen at at least a B1 by the end of next year. We will be spending a bit over a month in Costa Rica next year and I want to get as immersed as possible.
Work related get better at pre-sales. Currently, I’m a staff architect at a cloud consulting company leading post sales implementations. While there is some ambiguity when it gets to me, for the most part I know the shape of the business problem they want to solve, working in pre-sales has a higher level of ambiguity. They can’t outsource pre sales since it involves travel
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#97Wife and I started a 3d printing business. We just started a couple of months ago and have put our items in a few retail stores. Our goal is not to do this super fast but more like supplemental income. Also its fun to print stuff for ourselves. I already designed a finger mini golf game and may start to build my own board games out of 3d printed parts.
So I want to build up 3d modeling skills.
I am not surprised but its much much slower to get a physical product business going than just writing some code and launching.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#98Off the top of my head:
— Learn Rust. I'm halfway through the Rustlings exercises and I'll continue with more challenges. Advice is welcome. I might also ask LLMs to pose as teachers and create exercises for me and check them.
- Cooking. This has been something I neglected all my life and I really want to get better at it. It's so fundamental to quality of life.
- Persian language. Studied it for six months, I can read and write the script and I understand basic sentences, but I want to get better at it. If there are any Persian folks reading this, ping me. It's a beautiful language and culture.
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#99I would like to learn more about Web development and related knowledge (networking, security). Currently my programming knowledge is primarily system languages+python. I'm thinking of building a few websites / apps from scratch, and perhaps hosting my own server. Recommendations for frameworks or do's/don'ts are very welcome. Second thing is networking skills at my (future) job. One thing I regret from my PhD is not…
For web development I would say avoid high-level frameworks as much as you can. Most of them are built for hand-holding developers which is counterproductive to learning the fundamentals and are usually inflexible to demands outside the "happy path".
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
#100I'm pretty intensely depressed, so I think I'd like to learn how to be a little less of that. I've tried so many things, but I guess there's always more. Thinking about getting a personal trainer, because I try to stay active, but have no idea how to actually work out. Seems like a good skill to learn, and should help somewhat with the crushing weight my brain seems to be in constantly.
I've written about getting out of some giga-depression a few years ago, but having a good therapist was massive. Working out kept me busy and mitigated symptoms, but I don't think I would have improved without a strong psychologist.
Hope that helps a little bit. It gets better sometimes!