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Happy New Year HN!

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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!

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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!

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

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!

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

why don't you start something where you live?

Parent should if they can! But there's also a big difference in intentionality between meeting someone on the quad / outside your room and starting a meetup with friends (or new friends!) scattered across town.

Would also suggest looking for social clubs. I've found the "general social hangouts + minimal focus on a shared interest" are great for people time.

Avoids the monomaniacal over-focus of a single-interest activity, while still providing a bridge with random strangers ("You like thing? I like thing!").

social anxiety.

> something

can you elaborate?

Monthly lunches?

Meet up to play a tabletop game?

Go for a hike?

Have a group receive a tech presentation once a quarter?

Lots of options, most just take your time and emails/contacting possibly interested folks.

If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing people want to talk about is the day job!

The Bay Area in the early 2000's and even into the early 2000-teens was NOT like this.

You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and the people at the table next to you might chime in with a solution!

When you get enough passionate people and pack them into one location things get interesting for them (networking, friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of people see tech as a path to a paycheck), and everyone wants to WFH.

That's because it's not a good vision for the future, it's literally either building shit that everyone knows doesn't matter or plugging away at pointless automation on overcomplicated piles of steaming crap. Or the next fad.

People have lost the vision and do not understand the soul of the machine is to improve our state of existence not enslave us further.

Fuck 'em. I'm taking the money and doing what makes me feel good (wine, floozies and travel).

Ah good ol’floozies

There's still good stuff going on at local meet ups. I have experienced it myself.

Honest truth is there were always folks without passion in tech.

Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a drinking problem, which is perfect :)

I can't talk with my colleagues exactly because I'd like to talk about tech 24/7. HN helps.

How about starting a reading group, say a Linux kernel and device driver source code reading group? ;)

I'd join - not joking either! I'm willing to bet that most technically-minded people have devices that act strangely, and yet are powerless to fix them due to, say, the difficulty of getting GDB to connect via the non-existent serial port to capture the stack trace of a once-a-week glitch. I'm in that category with a few of my devices right now, so a group where people could explain device drivers to each other would be really interesting to me.

Been there. Wears off when you get to your early 40s.

I think the biggest issue here is "possibly interested folks". although I'll keep that as a food for thought.

Yes, that's the crux, for sure. Meetup or local slacks/discords are where I'd start looking. You could also email current or former coworkers, if you have that info.

I've run a few book clubs online and in NYC this last year. And a Discord for folks in the area in systems programming. And a systems programming coffee meetup in NYC. Stuff like that is what I might guess Erik means! :)

Tech Meetup groups!

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.

I too miss having friends to nerd out with.

On the same page

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.

Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?

It's entirely natural that some people become "initiators" as a relationship develops. At the beginning of a relationship, person A will initiate X% of the time, and person B will initiate (100-X)% of the time. Unless X is exactly 50 (unlikely), this means one person will naturally initiate more than the other. And then, over time, the person who initiates less will realize that the other person tends to initiate, and will come to expect it.

Notably, that doesn't mean that the person who initiates less doesn't value your company! (Of course, it also doesn't mean that they do value you, only that the frequency of initiation is not a good proxy for the health of the relationship.)

> the frequency of initiation is not a good proxy for the health of the relationship

it may not give a 100% accurate picture. but it's certainly one of the variables that plays into the health of the relationship.

I'm with you. What I realized is when you take the lead and throw a party or happy hour at a bar or something, your social status increases as well. Most people are followers, few are leaders. If you feel lonely because you don't get invited to parties or events, it might be that they don't think of you as a fellow-follower. It could be that you're actually the leader type and could benefit from that.

I am one of those people that could be described as "not intiators". I genuinely appreciate when people get in touch. I am sorry that I'm almost never the intiator, it's a trait I unfortunately have and I'm working on getting better.

I used to be the one who would never initiate and would feel sad when a relationship just drifted away.

Now I am the initiator most of the times.

It CAN be ok. Or maybe "never initiating" is a sign that they just don't care. I've had it shake out both ways.

Cuz the Buddha said its the path to nirvana. Disconnection breaks you out of the cycle of suffering.

In today's info overload overwhelming reality, its natural that lot of people are going to disconnect.

That's me. I've been my friends' glue to some extent since we moved away from high school. I like to think they appreciate it, as I appreciate when they reach out. Happy New Year all HN!

As the non-glue friend - YES, we do appreciate it, so so much.

Nope. If someone doesn’t reciprocate that’s an indication of their level of interest. This is true for friendships and romance. If the other party is always a passive recipient of attention, they aren’t interested in the relationship. It’s pointless to invest one’s time and emotions into such a relationship.

I agree. We could use a different terminology to make a much better sense out of it. Perhaps the word "give" and "take".

If I am the person giving and the other person is just the one that takes, without giving back anything, then nope, I am leaving that relationship for reasons that should be obvious. Another term to call the "takers" would be "leech" or "parasite". It does not sound good now, does it?

You're right, it's definitely one data point.

If you look at your algorithm's ROC: you really want to avoid false negatives ("nope, not a real friend" when they actually could be).

Whereas a false positive ("yep, could be a real friend" and they turn out not to be) is something you will notice & correct eventually.

To be honest, I actually give them the benefit of doubt at first, because what you said does have merit.

have you checked on the veracity of this type of contact? last time for me it was a good time with an old one; but continuing would be just nostalgic bazinga...

anyway i'm surviving and happy new year [+2 days] nerds!!!!!!!11

> the veracity of this type of contact

you mean, are they really good friends or not? One is always reassessing that, I guess.

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!

Are you still doing that commute?

No. I got homesick after a year and a half and moved back. I've been working remotely ever since with no commute, which I find awesome!

Sorry if this is a nosy question, but - I lived in Amsterdam; and needing that long of a commute sounds weird, since public transport is pretty good, and you can bike some of the way. Even farther from the center, where it's cheaper, it should still not be _that_ long... can I ask what was your commute route?

It might also depend on mental model. Some people don't count the actual door-to-door time. They just look at the time the train takes between stations.

Our office was in Amsterdam Oost and I lived in Almere Filmwijk. An hour and a half is the average door-to-door time. Sometimes odds played in my favour and I could get home in 1h10min. The commute started by taking the bus or cycling from Filmwijk to Alemere Centrum, which took roughly the same amount of time. Then I would take IC or Sprinter to Amsterdam Muiderpoort, take another bus or walk, which, again, took relatively the same amount of time. It was impossible to rent anything in Amsterdam itself with an academia salary of 45k, a non-working wife and two children. I mostly took the bike on days when the weather allowed, but my bike was in Almere. I purchased a cheap(stolen) bike in Amsterdam for 75 euros, but it got stolen the same day I left it at the station.

TL;DR Yes, you can live right next to the office if the funds allow it. My budget for rent was 1200 euros per month, which makes renting within the ring almost impossible.

edit: spelling

Ah, well, yes, with a wife and two children, it's a different story. As a single person or a couple you might have found something in, oh, I guess maybe Diemen, or maybe in the Bijlmer region somewhere.

As for the bike: The trick is that you need a lock that's at least half the bike's price... that deters the thieves, who will go for easier-to-steal ones.

I got my bike stolen twice when I lived in Amsterdam, and even wrote a post about it, asking for advice:

https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/q/36959/24429

... and got some pretty good ideas.

Probably working elsewhere in the Netherlands (e.g., Rotterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, etc.) but landing in Amsterdam because that’s the only city in the Netherlands that rings a bell to most.

Helaas pindakaas, the other way around. I lived in unbeknownst Almere and commuted to Amsterdam and back.

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.

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

> Hacker News, but also lobster.rs

First time I hear about it. I think you meant https://lobste.rs

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

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

We tried delaying new year deployment in 2020, 2021, and 2022... it didn't go so well.

So back to the tried and true pipeline!

At least we stagger the transition across world time zones.

It feels more like an eternal beta to be honest.

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

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.

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.

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?

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

I second that emotion.

Heartily thirded!

Fourthed from free feelings

Fifthed from the bottom of my fifth.

sixth'ed

Seventhed - I've written to HN's email address and received a personal response from Daniel the same day. You could have the greatest, most expensive commercial support contract and it wouldn't get you a Daniel!

Universally true AFAIK. He has never failed to respond to me within minutes. Baffling.

Honestly, dang is what makes this place so great! One more thumbs up from me!

Eighthed - @dang is so responsive with emails too.

Ninthed. HN has been my most loved place on the internet and a catalyst to learn so many things about tech.

I was hoping you'd continue with a drinking play on words regarding a sixtel of beer.

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

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.

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.

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.

Hope 2024 is better for you!

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!

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

Seconded! Happy MMXXIV

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!

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 ;-)

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 !

Happy

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

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Happy New Year from J language :)

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.

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.

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.

> Also, learned life-changing things here.

Especially that.

If HN had been around when I hit on some good stuff in the 90's it would have made a huge difference. So much knowledge floating around here.

Happy new year folks! It's just turned 2024 here in the UK, and I'm hoping it's a great year.

Happy New Year everyone!

HN has been very insightful and although I don't post often, just lurking and reading the articles/comments makes me realise how shit I am

And although I'm not in the best frame of mind right now, I hope 2024 will be a year where I can change my career around. Much love to everyone here

Happy New Year HN! From Uganda!

The 6th 'Happy new year' submission today made it. The first 5 from other users didn't get enough upvotes. You won the karma lottery.

It takes some time for the New Year to build up momentum, starting from the international date line.

We’re incredibly fortunate to be living through one of the greatest time periods imaginable right now. Happy 2024, onwards and upwards

One of my favourite questions to ask people is where/how they discover new interesting things to read. If I ask myself this question, HN is definitely a major part of the answer.

Thanks everyone for sharing from this lurker and happy new year!

So will this be the year of the Linux desktop?

I'm fairly confident that yes, this will be the year of the Linux desktop:

2024 = 20 | 24

20 x 3 + 16 = 76, which is the ASCII value of 'L'.

24 x 3 + 12 = 84, which is the ASCII value of 'T'.

= LT = Linux Torvalds

I'm so thankful for the mathematicians of HN! Hear hear! Year of Linux!

Always has been (the linux desktop is the terminal!)

It's fun I know. I want to know why you multiplied them with 3 and then added by 16 & 12 respectively. Any relation

A mathematician never reveals their secrets! Good thing for you I ain't a mathematician and barely finished high school!

I started out with wanting to get 76 and 84 by multiplying with 3 (because 3 is a magic number), then just adding whatever to get the number I wanted.

Yes, it's all a sham and a bamboozle. I'm sorry to let you down.

I assume its because using 16 & 15 hasn't worked since 2023, and likewise only 16 & 9 will work for 2025

It will take a few more years for Chromebooks to take over parts of the Windows market share. It's sad but the Steam Deck and Chromebooks are most likely the closest the Linux Desktop will ever come in the next decades.

Nope, I’ve been informed it’s the year of the dragon. Looking at the list, there doesn’t seem to be a year of the Linux desktop.

So, Dragon Linux?

Every year is the year of Linux desktop :P

Desktop Linux is:

* Easy (and gratis) to obtain

* Easy to install, these days, on most machines

* Behaves nicely out of the box - usually, with most popular distributions

* Has good software catering to most user's daily needs, and is well-internationalized and well-localized for the most part.

* Looks nice :-)

So, yes, I'd say that these days, every year is the year of the Linux Desktop.

Installed linuxmint on an old mac mini 2011 and it work quite well. When I think about the tiny desktop format, I believe you can put linux mint on it and got a great general desktop that way, more reliable than a laptop.

Maybe the decade of linux desktop

again!

Happy new years everyone.

I started regularly browsing Hacker News around the start of corona when I graduated from university as well. It has been an amazing few years, and I look forward to the coming year.

A lot has changed these last years, but somehow Hacker News always remains a solid place to procrastinate and/or learn new things.

When I tell other developers that if they want to keep up to date with tech, I tell them about Hacker News, it always goes like this: Come for the articles stay for the community. Thanks to everyone making Hacker News both an interesting and welcoming space to hang out!

Happy New Year! This is my favorite community, and in a lot of ways feels like a last bastion for our kind.

Happy successful solar orbit revolution, fellow space travellers!

Let's go round again!

Despite a minor grievance about not making HN mobile friendly sooner, I have extreme respect for long lasting high quality things, and this is one of them.

Happy new year hacker news

How is it not mobile friendly? I check it on the phone periodically and have no problems. Have much more issues with Reddit.

Happy 2024 :). I've gotten so much out of this site. 2024 marks 10 years for me as an SWE officially. Starting with a soulless internship in a defense contractor, working at many early stage startups, and ending with a FAANG.

The one constant? This site. I never post, but I hope to more. Love the productive discussions that I always see on this site. It's a breath of fresh air after spending any time on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.

Happy New Year HN!

Still waiting for the Annual 2024 Prediction thread to show up. I think csomar used to does it every year [1] so i dont want to start one and steal his tradition.

@Dang. Since we already have an official monthly Who is Hiring thread why dont we have an official yearly prediction thread as well?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

A yearly prediction thread might be fun, it'll be cool to look back on it and see if anyone was right about major events. Personally I'm hoping that in 2024 we'll achieve AGI and have a robust definition of what that means. Maybe I'm just a little bit too ambitious though. I was hoping that we'd get there in 2023 but progress seems to have stalled more than I had expected.

Happy new year all! I’m proud to be an understated member of this community, only commenting briefly but yet coming back here every day to see the some of the most inspiring and incredible comments. I hope 2024 is as good for you all as it can possibly be. Personally I’m looking forward to a new year that is as awesome for my family and myself as I hope for everyone else. Good luck everyone in 2024!

DIS chu' DatIvjaj! (Happy New Year in Klingon).

Happy new year, from Connecticut in USA. A fellow lurker on here, this is the only news source I've deemed worthwhile to consistently follow since I first learned about it from my college roommate. More than that, the content and community here is always amazing.

Much appreciation to dang and the people who help make this place what it is.

Here's to another year of:

  Emacs, and org-mode
  Firefox, and the inexplicable lack of vertical tabs adoption in Chrome
  zsh, fzf, ripgrep awesomeness, fd, asdf/rtx, btop, and cool shell stuff
  Rust everywhere
  Factorio!
  Frivolous Nerdery!
  Oh and some LLM/AI stuff might also be popular

Happy new year from a Londoner currently in Reykjavik :fireworks:

Happy New Year from an Icelander in Garðabær (10 minutes by car south of Reykjavík... our definition of a suburb )

You got some real natural fireworks over there. Hope the sight is nice (have no idea if Grindavik is still erupting)

I think it calmed down the last week or so but tourism isn't exactly encouraged around that area.

We're in the capital with plenty of man made fireworks :)

Happy new year, just about to head up to Hallgrimskirkja for the fireworks with my family.

Happy New Year all. HN has been there for me to read, learn, get cross with comments, and generally entertaining me for several years. I may not always agree with or understand articles that are linked, but I come back every day. So Happy New Year and thanks all. Esp dang for keeping the place civil.

Happy New Year Everyone.

this was the best year in my life, hope the next is even better for me as well as y'all <3

Happy 10 - 9 + 8 * 7 * 6! / 5 / 4 + 3 * 2 + 1!

Happy new year everyone! Everyone who posts and comments here has inspired me in so many ways.

Books, programming tricks, views on life, interesting blog posts, and all that without any distractions.

hn.algolia.com and news.ycombinator.com are my go to, everyday.

Happy New Year! It is so nice to have a community with whom to share and discuss technology topics. I work in medicine, as does my wife, and my colleagues all seem to be allergic to computers and have little to contribute to my nerdy interests. Having somewhere to find new (and old) thoughtful posts and comments about programming, reverse engineering, security, and economics has been so uplifting! Many thanks to all the contributors and moderator(s? Is it just dang?) who make it possible!

I can only second that.

And by the way, it always makes me happy to see a 'thunderbong' submission reach the front page. To me that's a reassuring sign that we haven't been gentrified yet ;)

Happy new year, everyone!

Thank you dang for all the work you do to help maintain HN!

This is one of the only places I still post. I post a little on Mastodon and occasionally lobste.rs but that's about it.

I attribute its retaining of quality to banning memes and other low-effort junk and severely limiting (both as policy and culturally) politics and culture war flame wars. Also being text only helps a lot.

Happy New Year! Just as many people here have said already, HN is really one of the few places online where one can find thoughtful discourse devoid of flame baits. Many a times, I read the comments before even following the links if at all. I've learned so much through HN. I would say that not only technical knowledge but also my English has improved massively all thanks to this forum.

I agree.

Hacker News is pretty much the only website I personally still visit, and it has very kind to our blog posts in the past. :)

Happy 2024 from the entire team at pikuma.com.

I have a fantastic feeling about 2024...

HN is somewhere that feels like home to me. As it does for a lot of people. I'm grateful to have it in my life.

All the best.

Thanks everyone. I have learned so much here and have a backlog of interesting articles to consume. All the best to everyone in 2024.

We learned the value of immutability, so I don't celebrate new year any more, I just append days to each other and celeb OOM

Happy New Year to everyone here!

My 2024 resolution is to stop opening multiple HN tabs and never finishing majority of them to read through :-)

Wishing everyone the best for the new year. This is a wonderful place amongst the craziness of the modern internet

I was expecting this at midnight UTC

You too TB. I find it very chill knowing that someone else finds HN as delightful as I do. :)

Happy 2024, in London UK I hope to meet others in the new year at Hacker News London meetup: https://meetu.ps/c/4ZYdt/5Tyc/d

Where are these advertised? This is the first I've heard of a meetup

Despite increasing piles of duplicate content HN remains my favourite place to stay on top of news and get into the nitty gritty of topics via discussions on new and old things, especially all our classic tech humour and insights. Cheers all

Let's do some great things this coming year!

If you're reading this, I'm curious what you plan to accomplish in this coming year. Write a comment below and tell us a little bit about your main goals to accomplish by this time next year!

Away from main pc so throaway account used. Happy New Year everyone - even or maybe especially those I disagreed with this year. You guys make this place worth coming back more often than productivity dictates. Woo. Lets do this.

Happy New Years! I have visiting here regularly since August and it has been great :)

Here’s a countdown for those on the East Coast: https://cronster.app/@erik/new-years-day-2024/?1

Admittedly, I don't understand about half of what is discussed on this site. However, I have learned and been fascinated by many topics and replies! This is a great site for the curious of mind. Happy 2024!

No leap seconds in 2023. Here's hoping that IERS blesses us again in 2024!

Thank you HN.

When I don't want to work or code, HN can always motivate me to do more.

Happy new year, everyone. Wishing you all the success in the world this year.

A special thank you to dang for helping to uphold this bastion of intellectual discourse in a sea of noise.

Happy 2024. This year was full of surprises. Hard to tell which way they will go. Be curious, be adaptive, smile, and spread the love. Everything else will fall into place.

Thanks for being here over the years. The faces changed some, stayed the same some, but it’s good people and good conversation!

May you all have a happy new year, and many more!

This is the place where I consistently leave in a better mood than I arrived. Thank you everyone for showing me I don’t have to be an asshole to get my point across!

Happy New Year hackers! Here's to the crazy ones

MORE LASERS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6y_9BqQ2Y

I hate to generalize but it's pretty good here.

HNY to everyone here. While I don’t agree with some of you this is probably one of the finest communities left on the net. Hat tip to you all.

I hope everyone has a better 2024 than me. Probably a lower wish than most people think. Mine's going to suck, for multiple reasons.

Happy new year. Like OP I'm here multiple times a day and take a lot out and try to give back. Here's to more of this next year.

Happy new years you crazy people. Hear’s to many failed ideas, to many outrageous schemes, to many goals gone amiss. I love you lot xx

Here's to a year ahead of compassion and progress.

Hope y'all have fun, and thanks for everything positive that you do, whatever it is.

Hey Everyone,

Wishing a Happy New Year to your team, family, and you. Best of luck to 2024; I'm sure it will be way better than 2023.

You too TB. I thought I was the only one. :)

Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who contributes to the spirit of this place and keeps us a healthy community.

Happy New Year Everyone! Thanks for building awesome projects, sharing interesting articles, and always helping out.

i'll be extremely cautious on underdetermined wishes and will request a new year that s better than last year.

I find myself checking HN on parties, incl. this NY event with lots of people. but there is always time to check HN.

HNY, all HN!

A toast to all the time this year I have spent thinking through date time programming and lamenting calendars

Happy new year everyone, been lurking in this site since 2009? I think, so hope everyone has a wonderful year!

Happy New Year to you all. This year will be the year of open source contributions. This time I mean it.

Long time lurker, but I get so much value from this community and wish everyone well for the year ahead!

Happy new year! Committed to making this new year my, and your, best year so far!

Thanks for being a great community.

Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to more new learnings on HN as before!

For those who walk the straight edge: resist. Hold fast. This is the year we move beyond text.

Happy New Year!

I hope this year brings (physical and financial) health to you and your family as well as fun times.

It turns out time flies fast. Over 14 years on HN.

Being there I've been exposed to some life changing things.

Thanks!

All the best in 2024!

Happy new year from Brazil <3 HN is really the only social media that is worth visiting

Agreed. Happy new year to you and the community here. Have an excellent and lucky 2024.

Happy new years! I'm still sitting here coding XD... TO MOAR CODING IN 2024!!!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2024 brings us more love, peace and knowledge.

Happy new year! I have learned a lot from this community and plan on continuing so

Happy new year fellow hackers. Hope 2024 brings less bugs and more mental peace.

Happy New Year everybody from Argentina, and may your wildest dreams come true!

Thanks everyone for all the links and posts and thoughts! Happy New Year!

Happy new year from Croatia!

My resolution is to write fewer stupid comments on here. Failing so far

I learn so much here every year! Next year, I want to contribute more.

Happy New Year, all!

$ xlock # ...about to go to the balcony now to watch the fireworks

Happy New Year HN! May 2024 bring you love, peace, and prosperity.

Happy New Year everyone - wishing you all a healthy and happy 2024.

Happy New Year Everyone! HN is amazing, good luck everyone in 2024

Happy new year from NYC!

Happy new year from UAE.

R.I.P. 2023 (2023 - 2023)

Happy start of the New Revolution around Our Star.

One more year and the century is a quarter of the way over.

HN and Skimfeed, my two dailies after quitting social media.

2023 was a good one for me, let 2024 be a great one for all!

(HN)y 2024 everyone!

A happy and successful year 2024 to you all as well!

luckily set the bar really low for 2023.

can only go up from here

Yeehaw, here's to another year gone by!

I’ll be honest, I don’t know what we’re celebrating.

The planet has been on a slow roll into oblivion. 2024 will be the hottest year in recorded human history and we’ll probably pass the irreversibility threshold for average global temperature.

There are multiple extremely unsettling ongoing global humanitarian crises: Chinese-Uyghur, Russo-Ukrainian, the latest Israeli conflict*.

What exactly are we celebrating?

*note: I’m not taking sides. There are atrocities perpetrated by both sides, and grievances experienced by both sides. It just makes me sick generally to think about.

We are the unbroken line of billions of years of life, and today we're still alive, unbroken. May it always be so.

I’m pretty sure those scorching heatwaves are going to break India at some point. I could be wrong.

HN is my favorite place on the web. Happy NYE HN!

josh :)

Thanks for making my work day better :)

I love HN! Happy new year everybody.

Grateful for HN! Happy New Year!

Happy new year to all! Cheers!

happy new year!

it was a great year for me, and i totally hope it was a great year for all of you.

And to you.

Happy New Year to everyone!

HNY!

Cheers

Happy New Year to you all!

Happy New Year everyone!

happy ny everyone, thanks for making this a wonderful community

Happy New Year <3

Happy New Year pal!

Happy New Year HN!

Feliz año nuevo !

Happy new years!

Happy new year!

Happy New Year!

Happy new year!

I love HN.

Happy new year!

Happy New Year!

Happy new year!

Happy new year

Happy New Year

Cheers HN

happy new year all

happy new years fam

happy new year -3H

happy new year!

happy New Year

HN is the best. I'm really grateful it exists. Thanks to you all.

I discovered HN this year, and my takeaway from it all is: great links, questionable debates in the comments.

Happy new year everyone!

Everyone drop your nerdiest NY resolutions. I’ll start: turn my to do list into a priority queue and never let it exceed a length of 25

...to those who observe New Year's Day on January 1st.

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