Hello HN community,<p>I wanted to create a space for anyone interested in making new friends. Whether you're open to online or in-person hangouts, feel free to drop a comment below. It's a chance to expand our networks and connect with like-minded folks.<p>To start off, here are a few of my interests: computational biology, game design, nature photography. Open to online friends.
You can reach me on Discord where my handle is hyperific.<p>Looking forward to reading your intros and interests.
Over the years, I've seen many posts like this one. I've joined a few groups myself and every single one of them died in a few days or weeks. What brings people together is a shared activity (and shared values/interests). You'd have a better chance of success if you started a project in some area you're interested in and asked people to join you.
Where? If the plan is to create a space in Discord with like-minded HN individuals, I've been there already.<p>The space is still around, but in retrospect the choice of using Discord was not a good idea. Ping me on my mail if you want to chat about it, OP, or maybe, if I remember, I'll ping you on Discord.<p>tl;dr: you cannot create a self-sustaining <i>small</i> group of strangers on a closed, by-invite platform. The thing IRC got right is that people could come and go without needing an invite link. Otherwise all you have is a leaky bucket.
Weird story.<p>I'm a decent card player and have an interest in systems. I always want to know how something interesting works. I ended up making friends with a guy who was an expert advantage player, someone who knew how to flip the odds at casinos in his favor. Never did anything illegal, but plenty of things the casinos wouldn't like you doing if they knew you were doing it, and they're watching.<p>To keep our profile low we'd travel to different places. It looks bad to win too much too many times. Casinos notice.<p>Between travel and off times we'd end up talking a lot about a lot of things. He was always diving into odd subjects. One of them was Flat Earth. At first it was just curiosity about a peculiar subculture. We'd discuss how stupid it was, but we'd also note where they made points we couldn't deny.<p>I won't say I've swallowed the whole pancake but I've taken a few bites. I'm not going to get into it here and this is an alt account because it's a topic that generates a lot of hostility from some.<p>But I have made a lot of friends in the FE community. They're the new people I tend to relate to the best without a known shared background. It's not the FE that's attractive, it's that they're people who put very little value on social conformity and thus can be honest in a way that "fit ins" can't.<p>I don't wear FE tee shirts or proselytize. It's just a thing I keep to myself and don't trouble anyone with.<p>JADP.
I'm really interested in intuitive what I call futuristic software, async, multithreading and parallelism.<p>I am interested in CRDTs, database technology, alternative forms of GUI and decentralisation to a certain extent.<p>Do you find the ideas of Engelbart's Mother of all Demos interesting?<p>Do you like data structures and algorithms?<p>Do you enjoy writing a satisfying SQL join?<p>Or writing a beautiful Kafka or JavaScript or Clojure pipeline?<p>Or writing a beautiful easy to read bash pipeline?<p>I feel think Windows has a certain nostalgia of Windows98 and Windows XP with its icons and Visual Basic.<p>I actually really enjoyed the early web with free 10mb webhosts and random internet services.<p>Do you enjoy data structures or representations that make the computer do exactly what you want?<p>Do you enjoy automating things elegantly?<p>Do you enjoy designing server or software architectures or infrastructures?<p>I also believe God and want to do work and things that loves people, kindness and compassion.
Hey everyone,<p>If you are in Belgrade you will maybe interested into Decentrala (<a href="https://dmz.rs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dmz.rs</a>). Decantrala is a new tech-community/hackerspace organized around idea of decentralization and knowledge sharing. We try to organize talks/workshops every week and we covered many topics: form lambda calculus to Mail servers and PGP.<p>We all share love for technology, but we try to organize as much as possible events live because we believe that live contact is very important today. If you are seeking friends and you love technology, come and visit us.
I've been making friends online for over a decade now (now 25); I discovered so many interests by basically ripping them off of people I met on Omegle or reddit or games and diving into them on my own time. And while ditching reddit because of the API change has been wonderful for me: it's kind of left a gap in my propensity to meet odd strangers.<p>I've been wondering what made those subreddits a successful platform for me, and what "successful" here even means, and what percentage of reasonable people would agree with my definition. But reasonable people don't meet strangers on reddit, because that sounds wretched. And it is. I got to see the throngs of perverts and pedophiles and bots that had fated it so. In-part because I moderated some of them. But something about trudging through dozens of low effort shitposts to find someone who actually speaks with some semblance of interest in the world is nice in a way I can't find as easily on any other platform.<p>So now I guess I'm curious <i>where</i> the people inclined to read this thread have found success in meeting friends.<p>Did you ever try to <i>actively</i> make friends online?
Where?
Is that place still around?
What made it successful for you?
Are you picky?<p>Comments welcome, or optionally: niam on Discord.
Hey! I am always looking for new friends :)<p>Currently I am living in Nashville, TN, USA. I like tennis (ntrp 4.0, if you know), bouldering (v3-v4), and history books with big glossy pictures. In fact, I host several tennis meetups in the city. I love reading sci-fi/fantasy and playing single player games with a good story (on easy difficulty).<p>I get competitive at potlucks.<p>You may ping me on twitter or send me an email (on my profile).
I work on vision, about how humans see and understand things. Robots with vision is something I am keen on. Philosophy in general. I like to play badminton, learning guitar. And I love travelling and exploring new places.
Great thought, it's quite hard to find new friends as you grow old. I've always been curious about computational biology, care to elaborate more? My interests are literature, philosophy and sports(mostly running and badminton).
I'm down. I'm into things like product management, climbing, gaming (diablo 2, starcraft broodwar mainly), swimming, landscape photography, stoicism, applied philosophies in general
I’m interested. I don’t want to pigeon hole myself into a list of interests, but at a broad level it is knowledge management, computation, and cognition right now. My email is in my profile.
Elixir, Rust, bit of blockchain related otherwise extreme sports (ski, snowboard, slacklining (highlining), paragliding, agressive-inline skating etc...), stunts, container gardening and DIY. Looking for active people to keep the hype and motivation up or just chit chat. Can contribute to interesting projects. Discord: ethuil Telegram: @flamll
You should change your settings or add everyone as friend<p>"Your message could not be delivered. This is usually because you don't share a server with the recipient or the recipient is only accepting direct messages from friends."
i actually just came here to ask how to network and make genuine friends along the way when i don't know anybody.<p>guess this is a start.<p>i'm a computer science student just starting out in back-end. i really like to learn a thing or two about ML as well.<p>i like playing moba games as well.