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Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
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#162* playing shortlarps
* using short boardgames to measure cognitive performance on various metrics
* creating simple 3d boardgames with raylib kolibri_engine
* dancing and studying vajra dance and the vajra song from namkai norbu
* reading and studying about: mahamudra and dzogchen vs christian contemplative traditions and mystics, and transpersonal psychology
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#163I do gundog training. When I started with our first dog I did not expect to enjoy it that much. It’s hard to express how much it takes mentally and physically, and the bond you build with your dog is crazy.
Best of all, you don’t actually have to hunt. You can stick to dummies.
In terms of contributing in a meaningful way, your local trainer will always be happy with helpers. If you need to setup multiple 200m retrieves for multiple dogs, it helps if you have someone out in the field doing the work. And lots of stuff to organise and help out with.
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#164Boat building is in a really interesting time with new materials allow foiling, along with new battery technology giving new power sources.
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#165Traditional archery. I started a few years back and have been doing it off and on since. It's challenging but a lot of fun. I shoot a lot of older style "recurve" bows, but the main style I shoot are horsebows, that is, bows that were historically shot from horseback. They're very lightweight and you can shoot much more rapidly than you can with a more modern/mechanical recurve or compound. Right now I shoot around 2…
Try instinctive aerial shooting with spiral flu-flus.
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#167Synthesizers! I like it because it's tactile and immediate, and you're not glued to a screen, but can create fun-sounding beats. Nowadays there are nice, cheapish groove boxes that are perfect for noodling on the couch. I started with the Novation Circuit Tracks, and also really enjoy the Teenage Engineering EP-133. Not to say that I am any good at this, but it's an enjoyable hobby! Bonus if you are friends who are a…
Deep in the Eurorack rabbit hole myself. Trying to avoid anything that has a screen and anything that requires a computer to interact with. Patching cables and twiddling knobs is great fun. Sometimes it even sounds good xD
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#168One of my hobbies is organizing events. I, like to think, I am pretty good at it. Main point is to create good initial conditions, then people take care of the rest.
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#169We got into scuba diving about 3 years ago. Have something like 200 dives now logged across Southern California, Hawaii and the Caribbean. Planning on adding Indonesia to the list later this year. That wow factor you experience the first time you dive hasn't gone away after 200 dives and I don't think it'll go away after 2000. Probably the most life-affirming thing I've ever gotten into and can't recommend it enough.
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#170I do some synthetic biology as a hobby - genetically engineered a baker’s yeast to produce grape aroma and then baked bread with it, and gave it to like 100 people at an event I was at. Also do a few others - learned Esperanto (exclusively through listening and speaking with people), beekeeping, woodworking, etc.
do you have any writeups or resources on that yeast?