music (guitar / electronic), reading (scifi), walking in nature / traveling, programming, anthropology/history, gaming. gotta keep my mind busy. most are on and off. nothing serious, seriousness is for work :).
Ask HN: What are your hobbies?
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#42I host 3 weekly book clubs with various friend groups via Discord which is very rewarding and a great way to socialize! Highly recommend for any people who enjoy reading to give a book club a shot—not only does it deepen my relationships with friends, it provides a ton of different perspectives on motifs, themes, and moments in the story that resonate with others. We've tended towards fantasy series, but have done so…
I haven't read Malazan but I've heard it's very hard to get into. I've seen trying to read the first book being likened to being dropped in a remote Chinese village with no manual or linguistic ability in Mandarin.
For your group to not only successfully complete the 1st book, but to also proceed till the 3rd book must have been a challenging feat.
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#43bjj, running, crying in a shower, blaming myself for the past mistakes
hope its a bit of pun. if not, everyone makes mistakes. sometimes really big/grave/stupid/silly ones. its OK. its really OK. call it learning/lessons. a more positive way to see the same things.
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#44- Gaming (Planetside 2 for the social/challenge, Space Engineers for the chill builds) - Gamedev (same TD game project for like 10+ years, off and on) - Building random things with PIs and a 3d printer (remote controllable FPS robot, cat laser toy, etc.) - Photography - Hiking - Random home improvements (most notably a budget theatre setup) - Reading for self improvement
TD game means?
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#45Photography, 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 ar…
do you publish your photos anywhere? I like film photography too.
You can see mine at troialog.tumblr.com
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#46Mine is perhaps not well characterized as a hobby because it has religious meaning to me, but I spend a lot of time on it (10 hours per week on average, sometimes more). I'm very involved in my church and volunteer in a leadership position in our local congregation. I have the opportunity to help prepare weekly Sunday services, plan service projects and activities, and work with youth aged 11-18. It's extremely rewarding and keeps me grounded.
My day job is in deep tech working with machine learning and robotics at a startup, and the industry is constantly shifting with rapid advancements in the tech, unpredictable markets, plus the stress of being early stage, so it's incredibly refreshing to have part of my life be very stable and grounded, and provides me purpose and perspective on those things that matter most.
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#47Working out! To me its meditative and silences all the noises in my head.
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#48Skiing - I live in a cold climate. there's 4 months were it's dark before I quit work. If I don't do stuff outdoors in the sunlight, I go crazy
Woodworking - My first in between high school and college was at a fine furniture shop. We built 18th and 19th century reproductions. I spent years without a shop not doing much with this but just this fall finally got my own shop space setup and just finished my first project.
Mountain biking - like skiing but for the summer
The gym - If I can't get outside, at least I can move my body a bit
Electronics - My dad showed me how to solder when I was very young. He had some electronics kits that I would experiment with. I know have a very basic setup and am working on some cool personal projects. I'd like to combine woodworking and electronics on a future project.
Hiking - used to do this a lot more. biking and skiing have taken most of my outdoor time recently
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#49Music (violin and singing), reading, cooking, and coding.
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#50Pinball 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 c…
Ooh fascinating!
Money for the machine aside, don't they just take up a lot of space? I can't imagine having even one machine in my apartment, let alone multiple if it's a serious hobby.