[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
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Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
I'm really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i
have gained through HN.
Author : mr_o47
Score : 446 points
Date : 2022-11-24 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
| birdies wrote:
| I'm thankful for this community! Sometimes I don't feel smart
| enough to be here... but I am thankful to lurk for now!
| Aeolun wrote:
| > Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here
|
| That's exactly why it's a great place to hang around though.
| thoughtstheseus wrote:
| Thanks everyone. You make my days better :)
| siverson914 wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving! :)
| prhn wrote:
| To me, HN delivers on what I'd hoped the internet would largely
| become.
|
| Happy Thanksgiving
| Balgair wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving all.
|
| We've got the 'rona again, so pretty small one today. If you're
| celebrating with loved ones and friends, give them a hug. Wishing
| I could do that. Don't let those important yet small moments
| pass.
| creativeCak3 wrote:
| Thank you all so much for making this space on the internet one
| of the best places to learn and share knowledge.
|
| Gracias :)
| pacomerh wrote:
| Certainly thankful as well. There's no other resource like this.
| I only hope this quality of moderation keeps it up for a very
| long time.
| hprotagonist wrote:
| _You can get anything you want at Alice 's Restaurant
|
| Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the
| railroad track..._
| pjmorris wrote:
| Arlo Guthrie's song is an important part of my Thanksgiving day
| tradition.
| vanilla_nut wrote:
| Thank you very much, dang, for working tirelessly to moderate and
| maintain an amazing community. I know nothing's perfect, but this
| community keeps me coming back (for better or for worse) because
| of the quality discussion. Moderation is at least half of that.
| dopeboy wrote:
| This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one
| I don't feel gross about after spending time on it.
|
| Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for
| keeping things in check.
| MouseTown wrote:
| I feel that everyone likes @dang but he's still underrated.
| Seriously good mod - exceptional, in fact.
| tonystubblebine wrote:
| I was just coming here to say this. I've been part of the
| community since 2007, which feels like a really, really long
| time. But I've learned a lot, both from the submissions and the
| comments. This is probably the only place on the Internet where
| I always read the comments or read the comments instead of the
| article.
| IndigoIncognito wrote:
| It can definitely be an echo chamber, the mods tend to flag/
| [dead]/ bury posts and comments for no reason and turning on
| [dead] visibility is basically just 4chan, however I have
| received the most legitimate use from this site as people on it
| tend to be experienced and knowledgable
| Aeolun wrote:
| I don't think you can have both. The mods cannot flag/bury
| things for no reason, and then have 4chan when you turn on
| [dead] visibility.
|
| I'm personally of the opinion that even things which get
| flagged on here are pretty tame compared to the rest of the
| internet (e.g. reddit)
| aftergibson wrote:
| Couldn't agree more. I'm not sure how @dang and crew manage it
| but to continue to be a place of connection on the internet I
| don't loathe genuinely is a huge testament and I'm very
| grateful this community exists.
| spoils19 wrote:
| HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the
| Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now
| not-so-wild west.
|
| Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold
| rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the
| economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and
| busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off.
|
| As more and more young'uns join and jaded veterans return to
| throng the tavern alike, it often seems to be on the brink of
| either exploding with the largest gun fight in history, or
| jumping the shark.
|
| And yet, against all odds, it retains its original magnetism -
| drawing throngs that grow in number and diversity while seers
| like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 and
| https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek continue to
| return - dispensing worldly wisdom worth its weight in gold
| from corner tables.
|
| The secret is the man at the corner of the bar @dang, always
| around with a friendly smile and a towel on his shoulder. The
| only sheriff in the west who still doubles as the friendly
| bartender: always polite, always willing to break up a fight
| with kind words and clean up messes himself.
|
| Yes a cold-hard look from him is all it takes to get most
| outlaws to back down, yes, his Colt-45 "moderator" edition is
| feared by all men, but the real secret to his success: his
| _earnest_ passion (some call it an obsession) for the seemingly
| sisyphean task of _sustaining_ good conflict - letting it
| simmer but keeping it all times below the boiling point based
| on "the code":
|
| "Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different
| aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment,
| between different individuals or between different groups. It
| follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct
| elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible
| suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but
| the toleration of it--the capacity to bear the tensions of
| doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold
| judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be
| discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both
| sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the
| acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the
| varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single
| personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to
| expression."
|
| May the last great tavern in the West and it's friendly
| bartender-sheriff live long and prosper.
| nateb2022 wrote:
| Thank you! Happy thanksgiving!!
| balls187 wrote:
| Thanksgiving is one of my fav holidays.
|
| This year my boys and I are traveling out of state to a waterpark
| just to try something different.
| jalino23 wrote:
| happy thanks giving!! thank you so much for the knowledge HN!!!
| pirate787 wrote:
| Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation:
|
| The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with
| the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
| bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to
| forget the source from which they come, others have been added,
| which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to
| penetrate and even soften the heart which is habitually
| insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
|
| In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity,
| which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and
| provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all
| nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected
| and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the
| theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly
| contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
|
| Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of
| peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the
| plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders
| of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of
| the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than
| heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding
| the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the
| battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of
| augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance
| of years with large increase of freedom.
|
| No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked
| out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most
| High God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath
| nevertheless remembered mercy.
|
| It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,
| reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one
| voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my
| fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also
| those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign
| lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November
| next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father
| who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while
| offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular
| deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence
| for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His
| tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners,
| or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are
| unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of
| the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to
| restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine
| purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility,
| and union.
| Wistar wrote:
| Also, this Proclamation issued by Governor Wilbur Cross on Nov.
| 12, 1936
|
| "Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy
| oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the
| air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen
| under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to
| join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has
| brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another
| year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the
| twenty-sixth of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving for
| the blessings that have been our common lot and have placed our
| beloved State with the favored regions of earth -- for all the
| creature comforts: the yield of the soil that has fed us and
| the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained
| our lives -- and for all those things, as dear as breath to the
| body, that quicken man's faith in his manhood, that nourish and
| strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before him:
| for the brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for
| steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after
| truth; for liberty and for justice freely granted by each to
| his fellow and so as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory
| and mercy of peace upon our land; -- that we may humbly take
| heart of these blessings as we gather once again with solemn
| and festive rites to keep our Harvest Home.
| Aeolun wrote:
| Is it just me, or were people much better at writing these in
| the past?
| ramesh31 wrote:
| Just finished rewatching Ken Burns' Civil War for probably the
| tenth time. It's a holiday tradition for me. To anyone
| unfamiliar, it will completely transform your understanding of
| American history, and Lincoln as a man.
|
| Can't recommend it enough, and it's on PBS digital through
| Prime Video now.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| Just beautiful. Abe had a way with words.
| odysseus wrote:
| Thanks for this! I am sending it to my father who is very fond
| of Abraham Lincoln.
| [deleted]
| attilaberczik wrote:
| Thank you to you as well
| ravenstine wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving to all! HN is definitely near the top of
| things I'm thankful for.
| zzzzzzzza wrote:
| happy thanksgiving \\\//,
| kodon wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving!
| joshmanders wrote:
| Today's a real shit day for me, not because of the holiday but
| because of the events in my life leading up to today, but I just
| wanted to pop in and tell HN Happy Thanksgiving because this
| community is wonderful even with its flaws. Thanks for everything
| over the years and many to come.
| holler wrote:
| Time heals all, be kind to yourself. Happy Thanksgiving.
| barbarr wrote:
| Best of luck, hope things get better! <3
| deanmostard wrote:
| I don't know what happened, but, just for now, try to focus on
| here and now, enjoy your day best you can, by yourself or
| someone you loved.
|
| If anything fails, remember, I wish you a truly happy
| thanksgiving, and I hope you can finish this day better than
| you start it.
| fontinalis wrote:
| Wish you all the bests! Hope things are getting better :)
| dzink wrote:
| The more noise fills news and social media, the more I end up
| consuming HN instead of any other source. With GPT3 generated
| content now flooding the web that applies even more so. I'm going
| to eventually convince my non-engineering friends to join in as
| well. Maybe HN can apply some tagging on content so they can
| filter for the less technical stuff that is more accessible to
| them.
|
| Thank you HN and thank you Dang and YC!!!
| s5300 wrote:
| Today, as will be spent laying on the cold & hard ground of a
| floor in the high desert of Cali - maybe with a warm cup of tea -
| I find myself thankful for the freely accessible intellectual
| stimulation on HN, which has played a major part in (mostly)
| keeping my sanity for quite some time now (think I found this
| place in 2012, never felt need for account tho), while
| essentially bedridden. Though I often find some of you on here to
| be a bit ghoulish, the site is most definitely a net positive for
| me.
|
| Thankful for my few friends - of all I'd intentionally pushed
| away, as to not have them witness my medical condition rapidly
| deteriorate the me they knew - who have continued to care about
| me, & attempt stay in my life.
|
| Thankful I can still piss as biology intended, & that I'm not in
| a wheelchair or similar mobility device. Sorry for the crassness
| of this remark for those who can't & do need said devices, but
| either of those two for me, & I would soon take exit of our life.
|
| Now over half of my young life completely encompassed by extreme
| pain, discomfort, & debilitating symptoms. Career path likely
| irreparably derailed, despite hard earned full ride scholarships.
| Doctors who didn't give a fuck until it was near too late, & now
| more doctors who still mostly don't give a fuck.
|
| Be thankful for your health & able body if you have it. For those
| who do, I advise making a plan, grounded in reality, as to
| whether or not you want to fight an unfathomably painful &
| endlessly hopeless battle, should one ever come your way - or to
| be at peace with the fate behest (is this a properly used word. I
| don't know, too much brain fog right now) you, & a plan to leave
| our world in the most comfortable way. Before slowly watching
| your life's achievements fade away into nothingness, & you/your
| friends having to watch you wither away into nothing more than
| the most physically & mentally fragile husk of who(m?) you once
| were.
|
| Take care of your bodies, desk nerds. & should the need arise,
| seek treatment as early as possible, & use whatever means
| necessary to get it.
|
| Edit: For visibility & my principles - though I am not one of
| them, I am very NOT thankful for the active culture war currently
| raging against the LGBTQ+whatever folk who live in our (US)
| country. Let them live their fucking lives, & de-platform the
| psychopaths trying to genocide them.
| muhammadusman wrote:
| I've been reading HN almost daily for almost a decade now. I
| found it through a friend who has taught me a lot about
| programming, the internet, and nerdy things in general. When I
| discovered HN, it felt like I had a whole community of people
| similar to my friend who introduced me to it.
| spinlock_ wrote:
| Fully agree. Without HN, I wouldn't had read books like Code,
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications or Operating System: Three
| Easy Pieces (to name just a few). I'm usually a passive reader
| here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their
| knowledge and wisdom and therefore help me to learn new things on
| a (almost) daily basis.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving y'all from upstate New York... Let the family
| arguments commence!!
| Kudotap wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving to dang and to the HN community
| jshzglr wrote:
| I want to thank all the individuals who spend extra time making
| thoughtful and balanced comments. These tend not to get as much
| engagement on site but I promise they ruminate in my mind and
| help me grow as a person. Thanks.
| citrusynapse wrote:
| Lurkers make the best commenters, because they only come out of
| the woodwork for something they're passionate about.
|
| It's all one big ecosystem, and I quite like this corner of the
| reef
| cheerioty wrote:
| Looking forward to my very first thanksgiving today! (currently
| visiting the Bay Area from Sydney)
| monetus wrote:
| Hope everyone has a good one.
|
| Any recipes to share?
| Minor49er wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
| gnicholas wrote:
| Thankful for the mods here, especially @dang!
| pjmorris wrote:
| It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does
| anyone else check the comments before following the link? The
| perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information
| diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
| drchickensalad wrote:
| I rarely read the link and I always read all the comments.
| Often you can tell if the article is actually worth it in the
| process
| edelans wrote:
| same here, and I even usually scan the front page for the
| most commented links when I'm in a hurry!
| tomcam wrote:
| I too seldom go to the article 1st. The comments are usually
| far better.
| wffurr wrote:
| > Does anyone else check the comments before following the
| link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my
| information diet.
|
| Almost always. A quick scan often tells me whether the article
| is worth reading or not: topic and quality.
|
| I hold off on responding to anything until I have read the
| article, though.
| Flockster wrote:
| Yup, I use TreeStyleTabs and the Open in New Tab Extension set
| to this domain.
|
| That way, the root page is the main page, the comments are
| children and the link and other links from the comments are
| children of it's comments page
| wonjun wrote:
| wow, TreeStyleTabs looks great.
| cryptoslug wrote:
| !! I thought I was the only one. :D
| eigenhombre wrote:
| I frequently don't follow the link unless the comments make me
| intrigued enough to do so. Partly because of the typically high
| signal/noise ratio for top comments here, and partly because of
| the ubiquity of paywalls, popups, horrible design and other
| JavaScript-heavy forms of user-hostility (or at least non-
| friendly or misguided) one finds in the average website.
|
| The simplicity of presentation on Hacker News is one of its
| defining virtues.
| accrual wrote:
| Speaking of simplicity, the minimal amount of JS that Hacker
| News does use is worth a look for anybody who hasn't yet:
|
| view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
| froggychairs wrote:
| I find the comments and discussion often provide far more value
| compared to the actual articles. Especially when it comes to
| links about health. Lots of pseudoscience out there and very
| grateful for the knowledgeable community to shed light on it
| when it shows up.
| cipheredStones wrote:
| HN has really impressed upon me the value of site loading speed
| - one big reason I often check the comments first is that
| _they're there instantly_, whereas clicking on the actual link
| is a bit of a crapshoot! It's surprising how influential that
| difference is.
| eddsh1994 wrote:
| Honestly I've always gone comments first then go down some
| rabbit hole after five comments of tangents
| yuppiepuppie wrote:
| +1 and I'm greatful for dang and the moderation team for making
| it a great community to discuss and share ideas and opinions
| that I would never would have come across otherwise. Thank you.
| qorrect wrote:
| Thankful for HN and all of you!
| Kerima wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you so much
| coolbreezetft22 wrote:
| agomez314 wrote:
| Discovering HN has given me a better education than my masters
| degree
| sph wrote:
| I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would
| not be as fun if HN didn't exist.
|
| Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business
| discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher
| intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can
| ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my
| startup or pet project and be taken seriously.
|
| Long live Hacker News.
| adrenalinelol wrote:
| +1, this place has (mostly) managed to retain what made it
| special despite becoming more mainstream due the popularity of
| the SWE career in the last decade.
| swlkr wrote:
| Feels good to ask people what they're grateful for, taking a
| moment to think and be a little more introspective is nice.
| aizyuval wrote:
| Thanks to everyone for the kind support and sharing of your
| wisdom.
| philipkiely wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on HN today!
|
| For young people like me who are new to the tech industry, this
| year has been a realization that tech is anything other than "a
| rollercoaster that only goes up." But I am so thankful for
| everyone in this community, and ones like it, for bringing so
| much rigor, growth, and opportunity to the world. I'm thankful
| for my co-workers, customers, readers, and friends.
| werber wrote:
| I'm thankful for having a place that is vaguely social media but
| I learn things I wouldn't have otherwise.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| When I had children, a family of my own, I came to find
| Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Seemingly immune to the
| commercialization (I'm going to disassociate Black Friday with
| Thanksgiving), it became for me a day to relax, hang out with the
| family and ... be thankful.
|
| How pure and unencumbered is that?
|
| Best thing the U.S. has come up with. (Landing on the Moon was
| cool too though.)
| danso wrote:
| Thanks for making this thread. It'd be fun to have a regular
| Thanksgiving/Christmas Eve thread where people post cooking and
| other holiday-related hacks.
| bob1029 wrote:
| I am thankful for HN being there for me every day. This place
| feels like a cozy home for my higher brain functions.
|
| There has not been a bad mood that I could not eventually
| distract away by either reading comments or getting actively
| involved in some conversation here. Rarely do I walk away from a
| day of browsing HN without new project ideas dancing in my head.
|
| HN has also been invaluable for validating certain technical
| concepts over the years. All in all, I certainly owe this
| community much more than it owes me.
| notjoemama wrote:
| Thank you to Ycombinator for allowing the Hacker News team
| editorial freedom, and thank you to the editorial team for the
| work you do.
|
| Lastly, thank you to the users here that continually teach me new
| things, and for helping me see the world and myself in different
| ways. I'm a better person because of this site, your posts, and
| your comments. Stay classy out there!
| Kellyhnsn wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Thank you
| tumidpandora wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving HN fam!
| O__________O wrote:
| Thanks Dang!! Happy Thanksgiving HN!!!
| rubicon33 wrote:
| I'm grateful for:
|
| The opportunities that this industry has provided me.
|
| I'm grateful for my wife.
|
| I'm grateful for my health.
| kevmo314 wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm grateful for all the cool
| projects I get to see through HN :)
| raasdnil wrote:
| Thank you to @dang and team for keeping the balance right here,
| it's a thankless (usually) job but it is pulled off with aplomb
| and style.
| SnoweKari wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for HN!!!
| [deleted]
| melenaboija wrote:
| Happy Thanksgiving to the HN community!
|
| Thanks to everyone here for kipping some sanity and wisdom in the
| wilderness of the Internet, thanks to dang for making it possible
| and thanks to the person that more than a decade ago recommended
| me to visit at least once per day the front page of HN. The
| latter definitely changed my professional career.
| mandeepj wrote:
| That's exactly how I was introduced to HN and my life was
| changed forever for good. Happy Thanksgiving, HN!
|
| I enjoy reading these annual appreciation notes.
| thewebcount wrote:
| I'm thankful for the privilege of living in the current time and
| being free and able to (hopefully) make it a better place. I'm
| thankful to live in a place where I can just be how I am without
| having to worry that it will get me killed, or even hassled.
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