There's already 1001 (places to visit|books to read|movies to see|{insert other activities}) before you die. Why not 1001 to hack/make/develop/design/start/attempt before you die that's more HN friendly:
- Repair something that isn't meant to be repaired
- Make a disposable consumer product into something more useful and enduring
- Use something old to create something meaningful for someone you love
Some of this is hacking in a technical sense, some of this is hacking in terms of modifying your life to get it to be what you want it to be, or to grow yourself.
19 - Harness Zero Point Energy
20 - Publish a paper in a journal
21 - Present at a conference
22 - Hack food, make something new
23 - Modify your body (with something cool like magnets)
24 - Do something legally/morally questionable and get away with it, just enough to make you rethink boundaries but not enough to hurt someone.
25 - Modify your brain chemistry in an expansive way
26 - Build a great group of friends
27 - Put your projects down and spend some time with your family
28 - Learn assembly language
29 - Code an old school demo
30 - Write a cool program on an 8-bit computer
31 - Travel to another continent with a completely different culture and immerse yourself in it.
32 - Learn how to crack (i.e. break into) applications
33 - Learn how to crack (i.e. break copyright and write keygens) software
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 54.9 ms ] thread2 - start a blog
3 - learn *SQL
4 - develop a javascript site, (gmail.com)
5 - write your own planning/todo program (because others just don't work)
6 - read, sign up, make at least one post on HN
7 - start an open source software project
9 - poke somebody on facebook
10 - comment on techcrunch story
12 - Fall in love
13 - Donate
15 - Version your dotfiles and put them up online for others to learn from.
16 - Write and open source a plugin for your favorite text editor.
- Use the fixed point combinator in Javascript for something.
- Make your own bike lights.
- Figure out how the monad laws really work.
- Write something that makes more than $100 on the App Store.
- Figure out how to get the plants in the garden to not die.
- Learn Erlang
- Learn to play the panflute
- Create a programming language
- Restore an old broken down pinball machine
- Build a mame arcade cabinet
- Write some Interactive Fiction
- Learn to make awesome programmatic artwork with something like Processing or Nodebox
- Create a roguelike
- Create an os in the language you designed above.
19 - Harness Zero Point Energy
20 - Publish a paper in a journal
21 - Present at a conference
22 - Hack food, make something new
23 - Modify your body (with something cool like magnets)
24 - Do something legally/morally questionable and get away with it, just enough to make you rethink boundaries but not enough to hurt someone.
25 - Modify your brain chemistry in an expansive way
26 - Build a great group of friends
27 - Put your projects down and spend some time with your family
28 - Learn assembly language
29 - Code an old school demo
30 - Write a cool program on an 8-bit computer
31 - Travel to another continent with a completely different culture and immerse yourself in it.
32 - Learn how to crack (i.e. break into) applications
33 - Learn how to crack (i.e. break copyright and write keygens) software
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Enter a hacker/code competition.
Predict the outcome of a sporting event.