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Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

by hnthrowaway0328 on 11/19/24, 12:30 AM with 26 comments

• by mikewarot on 11/19/24, 6:15 AM

  I'm keeping myself busy working on my BitGrid architecture, I aim to route around the 80 years of technical debt started by John von Neumann. One of his first casualties was ENIAC, which was slowed down by about 80% when it was "improved"[1]

  BitGrid[2] is a green field approach, and I need an accountability buddy to keep me focused. Replacing everything is hard.

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Improvements

  [2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid

• by cableshaft on 11/19/24, 1:57 PM

  I've got a backlog of games I want to make, both board and video games. Working on a couple smaller video games right now, but I'd be able to spend more time on them, and maybe even hire an artist and/or musician to make assets for them.

  Also I might finally have the time to get back into making music and learning art that I could eventually make games with good enough art/music of my own that can actually attract people's attention, instead of just sometimes being serviceable enough that it doesn't look like a tiny step above programmer art (and the music isn't just kinda boring)... I've released games with both before, and I will again, but it'd be nice to have the time to actually make them kind of decent without resorting to a minimalist art style (flat textures and basic shapes and typography).

  Besides that, I would love to have the time to start learning something a bit more academic, maybe climate or environmental science. Maybe I can figure contribute there in some tiny way.

• by soulchild37 on 11/19/24, 7:58 AM

  I think a better title would be "What would you do if money is not a concern for you"

• by informal007 on 11/19/24, 2:35 AM

  Marginalia Search: a non-profit amateur search engineer

• by stefanos82 on 11/19/24, 12:56 PM

  If I did not need to work and was financially secured, I would dedicate my time to learn and master the craft of parsers, compiler design and implementation, and research new design patterns and algorithms for Garbage Collection.

• by gradschoolfail on 11/19/24, 9:18 AM

  Teach physics to geology enthusiasts so i can land a government contract involving fossils..

  (I dont need those contracts, i just desire them. Which gov is interested in fossils? The right gov)

• by 6510 on 11/19/24, 3:55 AM

  I dont get it. projects that don't involve work? projects without need?

• by JohnFen on 11/19/24, 3:11 PM

  The same ones I work on now, just without the need for a day job.

• by bhag2066 on 11/19/24, 3:17 AM

  What would you do with the fossils?