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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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A lot of it is in fully-franked shares in a self-managed superannuation fund. The fund is now in pension mode, which means it pays no tax on earnings. Where I live, fully-franked shares, in a zero tax environment, get a refund , from the tax office, of all the tax that the issuing companies payed on those earnings!! It's a sweet deal, but actually makes me feel a bit guilty. It's all 100% above board (and managed by…

Fellow Aussie

Onya!!

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

To clarify: I still have to execute the orders to buy and sell, but the thinking for when to buy and what to buy is automated.

I just sell after the earnings or when I gain the desired amount (5-10% return)

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I have a robot lawn mower that is wire guided. Instead of the traditional lawn mowers that basically cut the grass in all directions (making a sloppy cut pattern) my mower knows how to cut in straight lines so you get a traditional cut pattern. It also has the ability to dump the grass cuttings into a composting bin. Basically, I put down wire guide cable into the lawn and into the cement as well. It is all powered b…

Did you modify an existing mower? What make/model was it and what modifications did you make to it?

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I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?

The stock grows/declines severely during earning call. I use that to my advantage/leverage

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I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

Do you automate the selling as well?

Not yet... Have considered it, but seemed to complicated. I use Robinhood

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I've automated almost all of my diabetes management into a level I basically can look into graphs and decide the level I want my glucose to go. For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android. Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and c…

For those interested in personal T1D data management, Tidepool[0] is a fantastic (and open source) nonprofit in this space.

[0] https://tidepool.org

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I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com/id/Washing-Machine-Notification...

My solution for this was an ESP8266-based Sonoff POW (wireless smart switch and power monitor), running Tasmota, sending data through MQTT to Home Assistant, scripted to send notifications through Telegram.

https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-pow.html https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota https://www.home-assistant.io

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?

The stock grows/declines severely during earning call. I use that to my advantage/leverage

>with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days

>quarterly by law

I don't think you answered the GP's question. What is the point of looking at the earnings call date if your script just returns a full list of companies? (Or maybe when you said 90 days you meant a shorter time period?)

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Can you give a basic writeup of your physical archiving to digital? A friend did this and I want to do this now

I am doing this too and using ScanSnap. It turns out to be a really good and fast scanner for documents, not really photos. The included manager app works on Windows and Mac, and I have it set up to save bitmap pdf to a network share then run them thru abbyy ocr (also included.) Then I can search from manager's thumbnail browser, the operating system's search facility, or beagle.

I also use a Fujitsu ScanSnap and have it save to Google Drive automatically. The unit connects directly to WiFi so. I need for a separate device to plug in to.

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Can you give a basic writeup of your physical archiving to digital? A friend did this and I want to do this now

There wasn't much to the paper archiving. I bought a fancy scanner[0] and already had a shredder. To store the files on disk I keep directories marked by topic/year/month/day. The topics are stuff like taxes, finances, bills, etc. The important documents are in a couple encrypted HDDs that I use for backups. I've been thinking of doing an offsite storage like Backblaze B2 but it's probably overkill. After scanning st…

Offsite backup is not an overkill! Your HDDs can be lost in burglary, water or fire. B2 is cheap, go for it, you may regret not having offsite backup one day. And it does not require much effort, tools like Duplicati can automatically encrypt the data and send it to B2.
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