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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How far did you get with your 2024 goals?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

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blog.google 1y ago

More than a store: How we're evolving Google Play

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bggpt.ai 2y ago

BgGPT, the first open LLM for the Bulgarian language

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: PrivatePDF – minimal PDF editor that runs in the browser

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80.lv 2y ago

How Do Mirrors in Video Games Work?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What are your New Year's Resolutions for 2021?

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www.gamasutra.com 5y ago

Blizzard, Ubisoft, and other studios went remote in the time of Covid-19

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Need advice – I can't decide on a side project to work on

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Need advice – I can't decide on a side project to work on

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is the most popular tech stack for a website with back end?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Scientifically Accurate Resources on Diets?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Resources to learn Electrical Engineering?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Resources to cover an Electrical Engineering degree curriculum?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Resources to cover an Electrical Engineering degree curriculum?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: What exciting open-source science projects can one contribute to?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What was the name of this Sci-Fi book?

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One idea was a workout mobile app with achievements (badges) - Duo Lingo for workouts. You pick a ready-made workout plan (or create your own) and it gives you badges to reward your progress and encourage you to keep going. What concerns me is that the market is over saturated - a quick search in Google Play shows hundreds of results for workout apps.

Another idea was improving the renting experience in London (where I'm based). There are so many new flat listings here that it's hard to find the ones you like. My idea is to crawl over the more popular agencies' websites and organize the listing information neatly with extra customizable filters, such as "1 mile away from a tube station" or "bedroom that is at least X sq.m." (for the ones that have an included floor plan). I haven't actually tried out that idea yet, and it would definitely solve a problem all my friends and I are having - we all go through a miserable experience in finding a flat. However, one problem would be that some of the agencies' ToS prohibit crawling.

I also had an idea about a Citymapper-like tourist guide mobile app, but with the pandemic, that won't be relevant anytime soon.

In another comment on this thread they explained that space and time are parts of the same vector, <x, y, z, t>, with velocity being the speed of light. Here you mentioned time is frozen at the black hole event horizon - does this have to do with the theory that we can use black holes as "portals" to distant parts of the galaxy? So if time is 0 and we have <x, y, z, 0>, does this mean we travel at the speed of light?

1) I'm a software engineer, have a good foundation in mathematics and physics. I could use a refresher on the electrical engineering area of physics though.

2) What I want to do - for starters, small hobbyist projects like playing with sensors, displays, etc. My end goal is to be able to design cool IoT projects, such as smart security cameras, and sell them.

3) I can dedicate 1-2 hours per day. I don't expect to have the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree any time soon, but am happy with any kind of pace.