Ask HN: What are your hobbies? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by zaptheimpaler » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

kcindric wrote: post #64

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #63

Gaming, cooking and learning to draw these days. All fun in different ways. Learning to cook both fancy high effort meals and super quick, nutritious meals has been tasty and healthy. Trying to draw life like objects and scenes has been really cool because I found its about learning to see accurately. Good games are often better than most TV/Movies these days. It's a long story you can be part of rather than passivel…

What are some you favorite games?

Recent favorites - Outer Wilds, Doom Eternal, INSIDE, Red Dead Redemption 2.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by Gustomaximus » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 3:43 AM UTC

Farming. Bought a small farm 5 years ago. It consumes life outside of work but brilliantly and is a range of hobbies in itself.

As a 'unhandy' person before I've learnt (by my standards anyway) a solid range of new skills.

Managing horses, cattle, dogs (including training one to herd) and chickens.

I can drive machinery like tractors, dozers and currently beginning to learn to drive a bobcat. Also learnt how to ride a dirt bike.

Lots of tools like chainsaws, fencing gear and drills etc and the tasks that go with them. I want to learn welding at some point but am holding off as I have enough.

A heap about plants, fruit trees and especially grasses.

I'm far from an expert in any of these but these days there's nothing I like more than a day off doing odd jobs around the property.

If you like this stuff I recommend but if you have animals be prepared for potential 24/7 commitment.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by baremetal » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 3:05 PM UTC

I am a polyhob.

Carpentry (everything from furniture to houses), coding, blacksmithing/bladesmithing, machining, organic farming (recently upgraded from gardening), electronics, photography, drawing and painting (im terrible), leatherwork, chemistry, materials science, computer science, biology, physics, economics, investing/trading, entrepreneurship, athletics and weight training, plumbing, welding, heavy equipment operator

I kind of go from one to the next, and incorporate what ive learned from previous hobbies into new hobbies or synergies with new or existing hobbies. you would be surprised how much synergy there is between hobbies. and ive managed to convert one of those hobbies into a successful business. i learned house framing to learn to build my own house and ended up starting a business.

I "retired" from writing code at 29 due to burnout and a failed startup.

Hobbies i plan to add: acoustic guitar, small talk, making long lasting friendships, finding a traditional wife, electrical, animal husbandry, finish carpentry, increasing the range of tools i can make, advanced heat treating of steel, casting, automating the farm.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by sircastor » Wed, Feb 09, 2022, 4:05 AM UTC

Electronics and occasional robotics. 3D printing (which I guess is just specialized robotics)

Beyond my office and computer, I really like baking. I’ve enjoyed making bread, croissants, cookies, pies, cakes, and more. Every week we have home made pizza.

Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?

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Post by kradeelav » Sat, Feb 19, 2022, 1:33 AM UTC

kcindric wrote: post #23

kradeelav wrote: post #20

design manager in the day job, I consider playing with tech to be a hobby. otherwise - reading, drawing, gaming (almost exclusively on nintendo consoles).

What are your favorite Nintendo consoles and games? I'm thinking of buying a Switch for the exclusives but I'm wondering if Steam Deck will provide good enough emulation for the Switch.

thanks for asking! :) I'm a little old school; the nintendo gamecube (mine's still working) would be my favorite for the tactile quality and games that don't try to make an addiction habit out of your attention. I do have a switch though, and there's plenty of indie offerings along with their main titles. Can't go wrong with Fire Emblem for strategy-and-story, Super Smash for sensless fighting fun, and Zelda for the exploration.