Happy New Year HN!

[thunderbong]

I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day!

Wishing everyone a great 2024!

[naitgacem]

I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that feels like home, even if I'm usually just lurking around and overhearing conversations. Thanks everyone for sharing!

[passwordoops]

Same happened to me. We drifted apart, live in different cities. But nearly 20 years later, with life settled and kids grown we're rekindling via messaging. I hope firstly, you get your group back, and second it doesn't take 20 years

[mentos]

The best 6 months of my life was studying abroad at a foreign university where I would stay up late with 30 other class mates in a lab solving comp sci course problems and then playing quake over lan til midnight.

Nothing will ever replace that magic time but HN comes close. Thank you guys happy new year HN!

[koliber]

If you’re ever in need to geek out, hit up someone who posted something interesting and ask them if they’re up for chatting. It’s not the most comfortable thing to do, but I’ve had a some great conversations with random people from HN. You’d be surprised how often it works out.

Btw, open invite. Contact info in profile.

[toomuchtodo]

> HN is a place that feels like home

Indeed, the only third place I feel worth participating in (for me of course, ymmv) and enjoy. Appreciate y’all. Thank you dang for all of the hard work.

[op00to]

I had a solid email thread with friends from college going for these types of conversations for about 10 years after graduation, but with kids and moving around that all ended.

[quickthrower2]

I am jealous, as people at my uni seemed to be mostly there for the cheap alcohol and parties and probably to avoid working. I imagined uni would have watercooler chats about interesting stuff. But the incentives aren’t aligned. For that you need niche programming language meetups! Or maybe PhD but I decided against that.

[erikaww]

why don't you start something where you live?

[behnamoh]

honestly that has made me double think the definition of friendship. they say you know people in hardships. well, I got to know some of my supposed friends when they went on the job market this year and were acting like jerks. after they got jobs, they turned back to normal. but I don't think of them the same as before anymore.

[waltbosz]

I too miss having friends to nerd out with.

[theusus]

On the same page

[swissfunicular]

+1

[AlbertCory]

I think sometimes you have to realize that it's OKAY if you're always the one to keep in touch, and no one else seems to make any effort.

As long as they're happy to talk when you call, or they show up at the group event when you badger them enough: that's fine. Some people are just not initiators, and it's either you make the effort, or you lose touch with them. You can't insist on reciprocity.

[artiscode]

Happy New Year everyone! HN will always remain in my heart and mind. 5 years ago I moved to Amsterdam to work on a super interesting R&D project that taught me a lot about GPS, coordinate systems, algorithms, and sadly the importance of having a short commute. I spent an hour and a half to get in either direction. That was demotivating and made me depressed and tired. HN was how I passed time, first on the train, then on the bus, reading curated articles and through thoughtful comments. I couldn't have managed without you all. Once again, I wish you all a Happy New Year and luck in all your endeavours!

[mooreds]

Are you still doing that commute?

[SnowingXIV]

Happy new year! Likewise, this is generally the only remaining site that I feel better after I leave it and more informed. No ads, excellent moderation, useful discussion and links. No gamification and chasing the modern web. Years of lurking and then years of sparse posting it still feels the same.

Here is to hoping this doesn’t change. Keep it up dang.

[microtonal]

Happy New Year to you too!

Likewise, this is generally the only remaining site that I feel better after I leave it and more informed.

Hacker News, but also lobster.rs

[defend]

Time to ship 2024 to production. Happy new year, fellow hackers. May your code always work on the first try and never regress.

[datadrivenangel]

Midnight deploys are such a pain, why can't we deploy the new year during business hours?

[layer8]

It feels more like an eternal beta to be honest.

[fsniper]

It's not a great idea pudding to production at this time of year! Particularly when there are no requirements, unit tests or functional tests available!?! It's /dev/urandom all around

[susiecambria]

HN is an interesting place for a non-techie to hang. . . I read about a lot of things which are not found in my world (quilting and public policy advocacy on human services/rural issues) and I am thrilled each and every time one of you shows such interest in something I'm more familiar with. And your joy!

Thank you all, thank you HN, for being so welcoming and a genuinely fun and safe place to spend time.

[cableshaft]

What's something cool going on in the world of quilting right now? I get a gift card at a quilting store for a family member every year but not too familiar otherwise. The store near me looks like a cool space, with lots of room to work on quilts in it. Kind of like a makerspace, a little.

[nvm0n2]

Is the quilting community overlapping with the knitting/sewing community at all? Last time that came across my radar it was in the context of some kind of crazy purity spiral that was killing online knitting communities. What's going on in that world lately?

[tiberius_p]

HN is my goto place whenever I feel bored, sad, lonely, without purpose, lacking inspiration etc. It's amazing how a single website with such a minimalistic design can condense so much quality content and quality people in a single place for the whole world to enjoy free of charge. Thanks and Happy New Year!

[Onewildgamer]

With all the turmoil in reddit, twitter and other social media, me and all of us here are so grateful there exists a forum which goes beyond the usual small talk, beyond known circles, with sincere and original thoughts no where else to be found on earth. A big thank you to all the mods and a very happy new year to everyone!

Cheers

[gigatexal]

HN has literally changed my life — it was the who’s hiring a few years back that got me my first startup job here in Germany and the rest is history.

I do spend too much time here but I tend to learn a lot.

[purplerabbit]

Changed my life as well. Accelerated my assimilation of good software principles, management theory, business strategy, and salary negotiation. Accelerated my career by like 40%. And lots of entertainment along the way. Thanks HN!

[klelatti]

And huge thanks to dang for all his work over the year!

[sillysaurusx]

And to the rest of the moderation team. One of the downsides of the job is that they don’t get much recognition. It’s a massive workload too, at least for most people.

[bookofjoe]

I second that emotion.

[asabla]

I still find it a bit crazy how familiar HN still feels after so many years I've been reading posts here. Most of that time was me lurking and latter me starting to interact with the community.

It's always nice to get your world view shattered by someone more knowledgeable or getting a point of view you wouldn't get anywhere else. Stay the same HN and kudos to dang for keeping up with all the comments and posts being submitted.

Happy new years y'all

[maxboone]

Happy New Year everyone, huge thanks dang for your work and everyone for the civil and interesting discussions.

HN feels like one of the few places similar to how early internet was.

[einpoklum]

Wishing us all a less-sad year from here in occupied Palestine. I'm not in Gaza, I'm in the Israeli part, where the police prevents demonstrations against the war, social media posts lead to arrests and prosecutions, and people are awash with bloodlust and pain. 2024 is not going to be a good year, but we can at least hope less people will be killed this year and we don't experience the completion of an ethnic cleansing.

[ryukoposting]

Likewise. This has been a hell of a year, for better and worse (mostly worse). HN is a reliable place where I can have reasonable conversations about stuff I love doing. It's a shining example of what I wish the internet was.

[chrisallenlane]

Hope 2024 is better for you!

[FredPret]

I love HN. Dang does an amazing job moderating this place.

My new-years resolution: to not post a single political thing; interesting technical things only. Let's see how that goes in a US election year!

[block_dagger]

Thanks for being a great community we can all escape to throughout the day. Best wishes for intellectual riches in 2024.

[Simon_ORourke]

Seconded! Happy MMXXIV

[replwoacause]

This is the only social media I use, but the special thing about it is that it doesn’t really feel like social media. The content is edifying and the community is well run thanks to dang. Happy New Year everyone!

[MarcusE1W]

Happy new Year from Germany, we are not quite there yet, but in the other years it always worked and so I am confident we will make it this year as well.

Time for one more Dinner For One ;-)

[hacb]

I hope you enjoyed your dinner! I'm currently in bed, sick as hell while family and friend are having fun downstairs. I guess it's my illness quota for the year :)

Happy new year !

[1f60c]

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to all! May we continue to learn from one another.

[avmich]

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Happy New Year from J language :)

[tomcam]

dang is the Philippe Petit of moderators. This place is what it is almost solely due to the tightrope act he performs as the best moderator on the Web.

[jacquesm]

Happy New Year to all of you as well. 15 years and counting here, can't believe it's been that long already.

2023 has been a pretty wild ride, a lot of our possible futures are riding on some key decisions that will be made in 2024, I hope they will all fall in the way that will lead to a more stable and peaceful world.

[terhechte]

Same, clocking in at 13 years and I still visit this place multiple times a day and enjoy it. Also, learned life-changing things here.