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Why does there need to be passion project? He could study philosophy or do whatever that one can do in an office by oneself.

Why woudn't studying philosophy not a passion project?

It could be.

But this is Hacker News so it often means something hacker-related.

Random philosophy stuff is like the #2 most common type of article submitted here

Is it the #2 most common passion project here though.