Improv, music composition, gaming/streaming, hiking, missing my ex.
Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
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#32Photography, both analog and digital. I particularly enjoy the former as no computer is involved - I stare at one all day at work, thankyouverymuch.
Ham radio, in particular tinkering and construction - I am an RF engineer by education, but work outside the field - so the hobby is a good way to at least retain some skills.
Oh, and I do traditional textile dyes for my mother and a few handfuls of her fellow weaving artisans.
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#33Building motorized Bikes.
I'm well versed in bike ridding and maintanance, and in 2020 I started mounting 2-stroke engines on them. It's nice hobbie to learn about internal combustion engines, because it is very cheap and very diy. The community is nice (they still use those subject spefic old forums).I don't have to care too much about registrations and rules.
I use the bikes I build to go where I'm too lazy to pedal.
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#34Pinball is my big one. I play competitively, in tournaments and a league, and have my own machines at home.
It's such a different dimension than any other kind of video game, with the size and physicality. As a WFHer since Covid, pinball is huge in giving me something to do that isn't sitting on my butt staring at a screen. It's not a cheap hobby, for sure, modern machines run around $6k and up, but then again they can be resold and traded for close to what you paid.
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#35Vehicles where you are exposed to elements (motorcycles, MTB downhill, motortrikes, jetskis, kiteboards..). Guitars DJ sets Jiu Jitsu
I want to try kiteboarding, lots of wind where I live.
Please do. It's a skill for life and a great equalizer, quite literally, once people have installed the foils on the boards there is quite literally nothing left to invent in the sport/hobby.
It's like biking, people can trim a quarter of an ounce from the bike/board here and there but the body movements and techniques that you learn now will be absolutely the same 100 years from now.
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#36Swing dancing is the most important hobby I have because it is the foundation of my social circle and helps me to build relationships with people outside of my immediate professional and economic circles. It's also great to be able to go to pretty much any reasonably sized city, head to a dance and immediately start building a new social circle. Besides this, I have been making live programming videos on YT for a whi…
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#37Music (guitar, mandolin, synths), photography (film and digital), cycling, running, gardening, archaeology, cooking, church bell ringing. I'm retired so I have plenty of time for hobbies.
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#38I've been getting into metalworking. It's incredibly fulfilling just learning the processes necessary to fuse and separate and shape steel.
Re: Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
#39Improv, music composition, gaming/streaming, hiking, missing my ex.
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#40Since there is no question, I guess the OP wants to find some inspiration? Anyway here goes:
- gaming. Since I was a child, I've been gaming. I don't consider it as a "productive" hobby, but it's one nevertheless. It's almost an addiction, so I try to not have all my free time filled by that.
- wrenching on cars. That's my current main hobby. I've bought my first car (I didn't own one before) specifically to have one I could go as far as I'd want without the responsibility of breaking someone else's car. Though I do minor repairs/maintenance for friends and family. On my own car, the most complicated/time-consuming jobs I did so far was a suspension overhaul (including rebuilding struts towers with new shocks) and changing the gearbox.
- track days. It's an aspiring hobby. I can't currently own a track car (parking spots are too expensive where I live), so instead I do the next best thing: paying for "track experiences" and doing a few laps on track-ready cars. I've done 2 so far, planning a 3rd, and really want to own a track car at some point.
The other hobbies are past hobbies I've wound down because I'm not that interested in that anymore:
- cocktail mixing. I have a full-size bar at my home (that could be put regular bars to shame) so I can mix anything I want. I used to be more socially active and try new cocktails every week but now I only do one every few months, generally from my list.
- bartending. I used to do bartending in a non-profit bar for a few hours each week.
- electronics. A friend got me into it, I dabbled with Arduinos, Raspberry Pi and have lots of parts that got gifted by that friend. Nowadays, I use those skills for appliances repairs and car repairs.
- woodworking. This was very short, as I do not enjoy it that much, just don't have lots of needs nor the space to do that, but a lot of my furniture is home-made, out of pallets I found on the streets (I got help from a more experienced friend luckily). That includes the aforementioned bar and sizeable wood chests to store the electronics and miscellaneous tools.