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Ask HN: What are your life hacks?

by aynyc on 11/1/24, 12:16 PM with 9 comments

What hacks do you use to make your life easier? My recent cooking hack is air fryer. I can air fry tasty veggies like broccoli, cauliflowers, etc in 10-15 minutes. My next car maintenance hack is to put in a Fumoto oil drain valve.
  • by LinuxBender on 11/1/24, 12:30 PM

    I don't know if this counts as a hack but the most recent one revolved around a trash company that overloaded itself and could not pick up trash for a week. I temporarily stopped using large trash-bags and instead put trash daily into disposable shopping bags. It turns out I can fit about 60% more waste in their garbage container using disposable shopping bags than I can using the 30-39 gallon bags. This might be useful for people that rent two or more of the garbage containers. To list all my hacks would need a blog.
  • by that_lurker on 11/1/24, 12:24 PM

    The mind hack I use most often is "It is what it is"
  • by meiraleal on 11/3/24, 9:33 AM

    Fasting and OMAD. Eating only once a day fixed many issues I had (physically) but also helped me continuing eating the way I like: until I'm almost exploding. It turns out doing it only once a day is quite healthy.
  • by sfmz on 11/1/24, 12:51 PM

    Practicing (ie. trying to the improve skill of) fasting. I have the best results when I start after lunch and drink bone-broth on the fasting days; I treat it like a improvable skill, not as an exercise in sheer willpower; fwiw my record is 15-days.