Ask HN: What are you excited about / looking forward to?

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by agent008t • 3 years ago

18 31 3 years ago

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In the next 1-3 years in particular.

slater2• 3 years ago

Apple's WWDC, Monday in 2 weeks.

agent008t5• 3 years ago

Why? Some new hardware may get announced, but surely these have been getting progressively less exciting every year for decades. Hardware has been 'good enough' to not be that exciting any more for more than a decade.

slater2• 3 years ago

Been like that for the last few WWDCs and other events, maybe this time they'll show something new :)

gaws• 3 years ago

Apple's flagship announcement is the company intentions to make the iPhone notch smaller. This will be boon for developers.

bilvar4• 3 years ago

TSLA going to the moon so that I can FIRE.

agent008t5• 3 years ago

What do you plan to do after that? Not having to do something is great, but do you have a particular positive agenda that makes you excited to think about?

bilvar4• 3 years ago

I used to be in game development industry before I bailed for (much) better salary in tech. I'll probably start scratching that itch full-time by forming a small indie operation. Also be there to see my children actually grow up =)

polalavik3• 3 years ago

why would it moon (again)? Toyota produces 7-8x the amount of cars per year, has orders of magnitude more profit, and has half the market cap. What makes tesla more valuable than other major car manufacturers with higher profit?

stocknoob2• 3 years ago

Just curious, what’s your definition of “orders of magnitude?” Toyota sells 8x the cars to make 2x the profit. Tesla has way better profit margins.

bilvar4• 3 years ago

We have different perspectives, you regard Tesla as an automotive company only, I regard it as much more. Time will tell. Even if it doesn't pan out I've only have a small percentage of my total net worth in it so it won't hurt much financially. It will just take an extra decade to FIRE.

Bostonian• 3 years ago

The integration of LLMs with compilers. ChatGPT is useful as is for writing code given a prompt in English, but often the code for a compiled language needs some tweaks before it will compile, which ChatGPT can provide given the compiler error message(s). Integrating ChatGPT with a compiler such such as gcc, to eliminate the manual cutting and pasting, is low-hanging fruit.

agent008t5• 3 years ago

Will that make your job / tasks a lot easier or more fun? Why are you looking forward to this or are excited about this in particular?

mtmail• 3 years ago

New EU regulation that all banks who support bank transfers also have to offer real-time bank transfers at the same cost. Pessimist in me thinks that means the cost of regular transfers will raise slightly. No more waiting 3 business days to move my money from one bank to another.

agent008t5• 3 years ago

It will make some things a bit more convenient, but why is it particularly exciting?

Darmody• 3 years ago

What do you mean?

EU bank transfers are free but they take a day but you also have the option to make it instantly, sometimes paying a small fee like 1€ or so. I have never had to pay, though.

kleer0013• 3 years ago

Both of my kids being completely toilet trained.

doubled112• 3 years ago

My youngest guy is just about there. He's five and it feels like it has been a crazy long haul, but we've got this! He is starting to make it!

kleer0013• 3 years ago

Oh, right, shoot. Night and day are different. I guess then I just meant day time potty training.

rboyd• 3 years ago

jealous

kleer0013• 3 years ago

Different ages, different problems. Not less, just different. Hahaha.

agent008t5• 3 years ago

This reminds me of the parable of the Rabbi and the goat. Creating a problem, and then looking forward to its resolution!

polalavik3• 3 years ago

growing my small niche job board and blog to profitability and eventually to a lifestyle business (hopefully).

baremetal• 3 years ago

Getting my farm up and running.

Getting my freelancing software business making money.

Enjoying life.

_Maybe_ try to find a wife.

mattbgates• 3 years ago

I bought two condos as investments across the street from a hospital just a few blocks from where I live and it's been popular with travel nurses. My plans are to rent out all three of my properties while collecting the rents each month and traveling across country and waking up in a new city every week. It helps that I work remotely. In addition, I've been working on a media project for my own side hustle and I'm hoping that'll be live and popular in the next year or so.

joshxyz• 3 years ago

starting my own tech company

seeing my step kids graduate

HellDunkel• 3 years ago

starting a new job in one month

enjoying the new zelda (slowly, no need to rush through)

working on a fairy tale book with my kids

dyson vacum cleaner with laser (fun)

recording a new dj mix

ano88888• 3 years ago

starting a profitable tech business and lose 20 kg.

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