[HN Gopher] Happy New Year HN!
___________________________________________________________________
Happy New Year HN!
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!
Author : thunderbong
Score : 742 points
Date : 2023-12-31 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago)
| block_dagger wrote:
| Thanks for being a great community we can all escape to
| throughout the day. Best wishes for intellectual riches in 2024.
| Simon_ORourke wrote:
| Seconded! Happy MMXXIV
| utybo wrote:
| I discovered HN this year, and my takeaway from it all is: great
| links, questionable debates in the comments.
|
| Happy new year everyone!
| klelatti wrote:
| And huge thanks to dang for all his work over the year!
| bookofjoe wrote:
| I second that emotion.
| tomcam wrote:
| Heartily thirded!
| sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote:
| Fourthed from free feelings
| dimpalo wrote:
| happy new year -3H
| pylua wrote:
| Thanks everyone. I have learned so much here and have a backlog
| of interesting articles to consume. All the best to everyone in
| 2024.
| sidcool wrote:
| Happy new year fellow hackers. Hope 2024 brings less bugs and
| more mental peace.
| AISnakeOil wrote:
| Thanks for making my work day better :)
| naitgacem wrote:
| 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!
| erikaww wrote:
| why don't you start something where you live?
| naitgacem wrote:
| > something
|
| can you elaborate?
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| Tech Meetup groups!
| mooreds wrote:
| 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.
| naitgacem wrote:
| I think the biggest issue here is "possibly interested
| folks". although I'll keep that as a food for thought.
| mooreds wrote:
| 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.
| baz00 wrote:
| If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing
| people want to talk about is the day job!
| zer00eyz wrote:
| 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.
| mooreds wrote:
| 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.
| baz00 wrote:
| Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged
| divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a
| drinking problem, which is perfect :)
| baz00 wrote:
| 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).
| d0mine wrote:
| I can't talk with my colleagues exactly because I'd like
| to talk about tech 24/7. HN helps.
| baz00 wrote:
| Been there. Wears off when you get to your early 40s.
| jll29 wrote:
| How about starting a reading group, say a Linux kernel
| and device driver source code reading group? ;)
| eatonphil wrote:
| 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! :)
| ethbr1 wrote:
| 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!").
| apwell23 wrote:
| social anxiety.
| passwordoops wrote:
| 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
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| > 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.
| theusus wrote:
| On the same page
| op00to wrote:
| 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.
| koliber wrote:
| 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.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| 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.
| WhackyIdeas wrote:
| I don't have any friends anymore because of things like this.
| And although I feel loss. At least I never need to deal with
| crappy humans again - because they always let you down. Even
| the ones who seem great always end up showing their true
| colours in the end and show a poisonous nasty side.
|
| When you have a tonne of hobbies and never enough time, it
| helps deal with the dilemma. As soon as I stop being
| interested in hobbies and learning - it's game over here!
|
| Happy new year and all the best to the people who don't have
| people (and who don't need them!)
| sportstuff wrote:
| Cheers
| bozhark wrote:
| Cheers HN
| mtmail wrote:
| 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.
| layer8 wrote:
| It takes some time for the New Year to build up momentum,
| starting from the international date line.
| mckirk wrote:
| 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 ;)
| defend wrote:
| Time to ship 2024 to production. Happy new year, fellow hackers.
| May your code always work on the first try and never regress.
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| Midnight deploys are such a pain, why can't we deploy the new
| year during business hours?
| ethbr1 wrote:
| 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!
| layer8 wrote:
| It feels more like an eternal beta to be honest.
| 1f60c wrote:
| Happy sum(n**3 for n in range(2, 10))
|
| to all! May we continue to learn from one another.
| avmich wrote:
| +/ ^&3 [ 2 + i. 8
|
| Happy New Year from J language :)
| tus666 wrote:
| So will _this_ be the year of the Linux desktop?
| maxrf wrote:
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| moffkalast wrote:
| Every year is the year of Linux desktop :P
| layer8 wrote:
| 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.
| gigglesupstairs wrote:
| So, Dragon Linux?
| diggan wrote:
| 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
| seanthemon wrote:
| I'm so thankful for the mathematicians of HN! Hear hear! Year
| of Linux!
| SushiHippie wrote:
| Maybe the decade of linux desktop
| fortran77 wrote:
| ...to those who observe New Year's Day on January 1st.
| maxboone wrote:
| 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.
| drexlspivey wrote:
| I was expecting this at midnight UTC
| nhatcher wrote:
| Happy new year! I have learned a lot from this community and plan
| on continuing so
| seydor wrote:
| i'll be extremely cautious on underdetermined wishes and will
| request a new year that s better than last year.
| mmaunder wrote:
| Agreed. Happy new year to you and the community here. Have an
| excellent and lucky 2024.
| chris-orgmenta wrote:
| 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.
| dylukes wrote:
| Happy new year to all! Cheers!
| nobrains wrote:
| Happy new year from UAE.
| Lukeisun wrote:
| Happy New Years! I have visiting here regularly since August and
| it has been great :)
| TriangleEdge wrote:
| Happy New Year <3
| matanyall wrote:
| Yeehaw, here's to another year gone by!
| parvatzar wrote:
| Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to
| more new learnings on HN as before!
| vpjosh wrote:
| HN is my favorite place on the web. Happy NYE HN!
|
| josh :)
| fernandotakai wrote:
| happy new year!
|
| it was a great year for me, and i totally hope it was a great
| year for all of you.
| PIPO115 wrote:
| Happy New Year
| sangupta wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone - wishing you all a healthy and happy
| 2024.
| moneywoes wrote:
| luckily set the bar really low for 2023.
|
| can only go up from here
| kerv wrote:
| Happy new year!
| api wrote:
| 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.
| zerojames wrote:
| Happy new year, everyone!
|
| Thank you dang for all the work you do to help maintain HN!
| ErikAugust wrote:
| Here's a countdown for those on the East Coast:
| https://cronster.app/@erik/new-years-day-2024/?1
| baz00 wrote:
| 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.
| TimCTRL wrote:
| Happy New Year HN! From Uganda!
| wdfx wrote:
| Happy new year from a Londoner currently in Reykjavik :fireworks:
| nixass wrote:
| You got some real natural fireworks over there. Hope the sight
| is nice (have no idea if Grindavik is still erupting)
| wdfx wrote:
| 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 :)
| joisig wrote:
| Happy New Year from an Icelander in Gardabaer (10 minutes by
| car south of Reykjavik... our definition of a suburb )
| Chio wrote:
| Happy new year! Committed to making this new year my, and your,
| best year so far!
|
| Thanks for being a great community.
| gigatexal wrote:
| 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.
| asabla wrote:
| 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
| ericmay wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| gessha wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| I hope this year brings (physical and financial) health to you
| and your family as well as fun times.
| upmostly wrote:
| 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.
| tunnuz wrote:
| And to you.
| crims0n wrote:
| Happy New Year! This is my favorite community, and in a lot of
| ways feels like a last bastion for our kind.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| 2023 was a good one for me, let 2024 be a great one for all!
| SnowingXIV wrote:
| 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.
| danieldk wrote:
| 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
| brador wrote:
| HN and Skimfeed, my two dailies after quitting social media.
| FredPret wrote:
| 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!
| testplzignore wrote:
| No leap seconds in 2023. Here's hoping that IERS blesses us again
| in 2024!
| artiscode wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Are you still doing that commute?
| artiscode wrote:
| 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!
| kjuulh wrote:
| 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!
| replwoacause wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 ;-)
| grumblepeet wrote:
| 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.
| blameitonme wrote:
| 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
| antoineMoPa wrote:
| Happy new year!
| 2f0ja wrote:
| happy ny everyone, thanks for making this a wonderful community
| lagrange77 wrote:
| Happy successful solar orbit revolution, fellow space travellers!
| xbar wrote:
| Let's go round again!
| tiberius_p wrote:
| 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!
| razor6ack wrote:
| (HN)y 2024 everyone!
| go2europa wrote:
| 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.
| tomcam wrote:
| 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.
| vinniepukh wrote:
| I learn so much here every year! Next year, I want to contribute
| more.
| ta-run wrote:
| 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
| sgammon wrote:
| I love HN! Happy new year everybody.
| jmkni wrote:
| Happy New Year pal!
| achempion wrote:
| Happy New Year Everyone! HN is amazing, good luck everyone in
| 2024
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| 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
| denysvitali wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone!
| tamimio wrote:
| Happy new year everyone, been lurking in this site since 2009? I
| think, so hope everyone has a wonderful year!
| op00to wrote:
| 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!
| arjonagelhout wrote:
| 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.
| monkeydust wrote:
| 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.
| koliber wrote:
| 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.
| bloopernova wrote:
| 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
| hackernj wrote:
| Happy 10 - 9 + 8 * 7 * 6! / 5 / 4 + 3 * 2 + 1!
| sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote:
| Happy new year from Brazil <3 HN is really the only social media
| that is worth visiting
| jviotti wrote:
| Happy New Year everybody from Argentina, and may your wildest
| dreams come true!
| szundi wrote:
| HNY!
| shreezus wrote:
| We're incredibly fortunate to be living through one of the
| greatest time periods imaginable right now. Happy 2024, onwards
| and upwards
| norparsec wrote:
| Happy New Year Everyone! Thanks for building awesome projects,
| sharing interesting articles, and always helping out.
| eointierney wrote:
| The logs show how often I F5 this page.
|
| The logs don't show how much pleasure your spiky erudition gives
| me.
|
| I look forward to ever better creativity and cristicism.
|
| Happy New Year HN! You make this the best site on the web for me
| :)
| whisper_yb wrote:
| Happy new year!
| jasoneckert wrote:
| DIS chu' DatIvjaj! (Happy New Year in Klingon).
| EGreg wrote:
| 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!
| ninjamayo wrote:
| Happy New Year to everyone!
| knaik94 wrote:
| happy New Year
| jll29 wrote:
| Happy New Year, all!
|
| $ xlock # ...about to go to the balcony now to watch the
| fireworks
| phtrivier wrote:
| 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
| digitalbreed wrote:
| Happy New Year HN!
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2023-12-31 23:00 UTC)