Ask HN: How do you figure out what you're passionate about?
First, look for more fundamental reasons why you're so tired. Are you depressed? (Though finding something you're passionate about may help with depression.)Then, are you looking for something that you are already passionate about, but are unaware that you are? Or are you looking to discover something to become passionate about?Either way, talk to people - people at work, neighbors, people at church or the bar or the gym or the park.
- ▪First, look for more fundamental reasons why you're so tired.
- ▪Are you depressed? (Though finding something you're passionate about may help with depression.)Then, are you looking for something that you are already passionate about, but are unaware that you are?
- ▪Or are you looking to discover something to become passionate about?Either way, talk to people - people at work, neighbors, people at church or the bar or the gym or the park.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062515 |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:19:55 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T05:52:34.361Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T05:52:34.361Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | oP_MECmvc04C · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
First, look for more fundamental reasons why you're so tired. Are you sick? Are you depressed? (Though finding something you're passionate about may help with depression.)Then, are you looking for something that you are already passionate about, but are unaware that you are? Or are you looking to discover something to become passionate about?Either way, talk to people - people at work, neighbors, people at church or the bar or the gym or the park. What were you talking about when you suddenly realized that you'd been talking for 45 minutes? You're pretty interested in that. Or, what was the other person talking about for 45 minutes, and you weren't searching for some kind of graceful way to get out of the conversation? You're pretty interested in that, too.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.