[HN Gopher] Happy New Year 2025
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Happy New Year 2025
Hey HN, this site always drags me back to visit it everyday. So for
that Happy New year !
Author : martynvandijke
Score : 1127 points
Date : 2024-12-31 23:48 UTC (23 hours ago)
| chistev wrote:
| Yea, I discovered this site late last year (2024) around October,
| and it's now a site I visit everyday. At least 4 times a day.
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| Happy new year from a rainy Manchester, UK!
| bwag wrote:
| Same. I've been a lurker since 2008. Been hitting this site
| practically every day since. I've learned so much in the process.
| Thanks for everything hn, happy new year!
| papichulo4 wrote:
| Aah. Same class I see :) Hope everything has gone well for you
| since. Happy new year!
| FlyingSnake wrote:
| Ditto!
|
| I'm a long time lurker (under old defunct alts) and occasional
| poster but I've opened HN almost every day since I discovered
| the site in 2008.
|
| This community has an outsized impact on my career and life and
| I'm eternally grateful for it. Thank you!
|
| Happy new year and eine Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
| senectus1 wrote:
| this is such old news ;-) (in North Queensland atm, New years was
| nearly 10 hours ago :-P )
| slyfox125 wrote:
| One of the best sites, period!
| leptoniscool wrote:
| Happy New Year from the West coast!
| mistersquid wrote:
| > Happy New Year from the West coast!
|
| This was around 18:10 PST so the greeting may have introduced a
| race condition.
|
| Happy New Year anyway, logic be darned!
| bryant wrote:
| Given all the division and change across the rest of the web (and
| by extension the world), glad to have a place where I can learn,
| share, grow, and maintain an open mind.
|
| Happy new year :)
| sebnun wrote:
| Same, happy new year.
| nioj wrote:
| Happy New Year from Europe!
| the_arun wrote:
| HN is our backyard for learning & understanding new perspectives.
| To all - hos vrssd shubhaashygllu!!
| vikasvm wrote:
| ellriguu hos vrssd shubhaashygllu
| bovermyer wrote:
| Happy New Year, whether you celebrated it in the past or the
| future.
|
| Remember - the new year is not yet written. Amazing and
| unexpected things are sure to come.
| FrustratedMonky wrote:
| Shout out. Crossing fingers for 2025.
|
| Reading some Peter Turchin, not looking good.
| benatkin wrote:
| The days are getting longer in the northern hemisphere and
| shorter in the southern hemisphere. And the start of the ISO 8601
| dates is changing!
|
| I also monitor the changes of the hexadecimal unix timestamps.
| The next time the first of 8 hex digits changes is in 2029.
| from datetime import datetime
| '{:02X}'.format(int(datetime.now().timestamp()))
| datetime.fromtimestamp(0x70000000)
|
| And this spits out the year in Python: 3**2**2*5**2
| _kb wrote:
| Even better, all of these are also 2025:
|
| (20+25)2
|
| ([?]n)2 and [?]n3 for n 1..9
| benatkin wrote:
| Nice. A unique year indeed, since the last one was 1936, 89
| years ago. It's obvious to me now - that's 2025-(45*2-1) and
| I can picture a row and a column at the edges of a grid being
| removed, wth one cell being shared between the row and
| column. I think maybe at some point I saw that. 1600 and 2500
| are more obvious, and 2050 is the midpoint between them
| linearly.
|
| The others in Python: sum(range(1, 10))**2
| sum(n**3 for n in range(1, 10))
| ngkw wrote:
| happy new year from tokyo
| wafflez wrote:
| Couldn't agree more. Stay classy HN, have a happy & healthy 2025!
| drvladb wrote:
| To what's to come :)
|
| With a new year / s (nastupaiushchim) novym godom / z novim rokom
| moondistance wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| I know so few of you but feel like you're my best friends. Love
| to all.
| smrt wrote:
| Happy new year / Andariki nootana samvatsara subhakanshalu!
| plastic_bag wrote:
| It would've been better if you had written that in the original
| script. So, I'll do that for you ;)
|
| aNdrikii nuutn sNvtsr shubhaakaaNksslu!
| devsda wrote:
| If we are going down this road, let's go all in and be
| specific :) its
|
| aNdrikii aaNgl nuutn sNvtsr shubhaakaaNksslu!
|
| I'll consider the previous one as advanced wishes for 30'mar
| 25 ;)
| pseudoeu wrote:
| Feliz ano novo!
| montyanderson wrote:
| happy new year!
| codetrotter wrote:
| Happy New Year / Godt nyttar!
| flaterkk wrote:
| Logged in just to say happy new year, also a lurker :-)
| vlatoshi wrote:
| Have a HN Year HN!
| mastry wrote:
| Happy new year from the US South y'all.
| pryelluw wrote:
| Python Atlanta organizer here. Come hang out sometime if you're
| close!
|
| Happy new year!
| themaninthedark wrote:
| Happy New Year from Acworth!
|
| Hope this is a great year for everyone!
| pryelluw wrote:
| Hey from there too. HMU!
|
| pryelluw at gmail
| abixb wrote:
| US Central Time here, so still a couple hours to go, but HAPPY
| NEW YEAR to y'all fellow HN-ers -- HN is probably the _least_
| guilt-ridden procrastination I do on the whole wide internet.
| Thank you to _every one_ of you who has made HN among the most
| intellectually dense places on the web -- I wouldn 't be where
| I'm today without reading all the insightful comments, submitted
| links and perspectives of all the HN-ers over the last 7 years.
|
| My wish for the new year: hopefully, AI singularity is still a
| few years away and doesn't happen in 2025!
| gabigrin wrote:
| Amen!
| Cumpiler69 wrote:
| My wish for the new year is to have a body so jacked and ripped
| that when I commit a crime the media posts my shirtless
| pictures everywhere and everyone goes _" wow"_.
| moffkalast wrote:
| Indeed, happy new year to all the intellectually dense people
| on HN!
|
| ;P
| andrepd wrote:
| "Dense" is a curious choice of words, but I agree, it often
| applies!
| cull wrote:
| Happy New Year. I hope 2025 brings the best to you and yours!
| davidhariri wrote:
| Happy new year, HN!
| jpsouth wrote:
| Happy new year from a torrential north England!
|
| Stay amazing HN, and have a brilliant 2025.
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| What are the chances of an extinction level event occurring in
| 2025? By now, that's about the only black swan event left to
| happen.
| keepamovin wrote:
| Probably fairly low because the future is still talking to us
| so there have to be at least some timelines extending from the
| present that make it
| zappy42 wrote:
| Other than _Demolition Man_ , what is talking to us?
| keepamovin wrote:
| Heh, Demolition Man is a great film. I had the fortune to
| randomly rediscover it before it was recently re-recognized
| as incredibly prescient. It was a cool experience, made all
| the better because I was totally surprised by it. I had
| zero expectations and just thought it was a dumb fun action
| movie. It was actually great.
|
| But as to your real question: well, tune in, man. :)
| nejsjsjsbsb wrote:
| 167725-1
| ashafq wrote:
| ++year;
| bdangubic wrote:
| don't start the year by mutating state, geeeeeez :)
| User23 wrote:
| It's not mutating state, it's defining a transition function
| from one immutable state to another!
| nejsjsjsbsb wrote:
| [year, setYear] = useState(2024)
|
| Get off my lawn means no libraries, just web api.
| pryelluw wrote:
| year = year + 1
| insin wrote:
| setYear(year => year + 1)
|
| For the "get off my lawn" crew:
| $('#year').text(Number($('#year').text()) + 1)
| deadbabe wrote:
| 2025 seems pretty cool so far, you 2024 people will like it.
| mrKola wrote:
| Happy new year everyone.
| kinj28 wrote:
| Same here. Am a forced lurker here as somehow my posts just never
| go beyond to anyone like it once used to.
| jasoneckert wrote:
| Happy Year++
|
| I'm thankful that this site exists to allow me to catch up on the
| news, events, and perspectives that I'm most interested in. And
| I'm even more thankful that it uses a simple, functional layout.
|
| Keep rockin' into 2025, HN!
| adzm wrote:
| > Happy Year++
|
| You mean Happy ++Year of course ;)
| Quizzical4230 wrote:
| I joined in late 2024, now its my daily!
|
| Happy New Year HN!
|
| Thanks for teaching me so much <3
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Welcome to the addiction :)
| Quizzical4230 wrote:
| No regrets :D
| Insanity wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone! <3
| ivanmontillam wrote:
| Happy new year 2205 HN community!
|
| I love you, my favorite site ever.
| ivanmontillam wrote:
| I typo'd the year, but now I cannot change it as I consider my
| comments immutable.
| smeej wrote:
| Even a typoed comment is right once every 180 years.
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| It warms my heart to see all these New Years wishes. A happy one
| to you all!
| Phoenix453 wrote:
| Although this is just the usual digits incrementing periodically,
| take the opportunity to look back, reflect and hope for a
| brighter future for you, your friends, family and rest of the
| world.
| yard2010 wrote:
| It might be just digits but it stands for a far more complex
| idea - time! Just because people like discrete things and
| discrete things never capture the nature of our continuous
| universe doesn't mean it's less special!
| keyle wrote:
| Thank you all for the timely information and most importantly
| useful opinions.
| G1N wrote:
| happy new year HN :)
| zakokor wrote:
| Feliz ano 2025! Por mas anos para este sitio!
| jsomedon wrote:
| Happy New Year to all of you my fellow HN readers!
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| Happy next year. My sincere wish: All 4 horses ride right by us
| all.
| ceinewydd wrote:
| Happy New Year, HN!
| reynaldi wrote:
| Happy New Year HN!
| b8 wrote:
| Happy New Years from Louisiana! A few hours to go still here. I'm
| glad that Hanukkah and xmas happened on the same day this year.
| Hoping for better health, and a new job in 2025. I met a new
| woman, and I hope that pans out.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| Just read this, bittersweet now but thank you for posting this
| as I read it from New Orleans.
| stephenhuey wrote:
| May you walk into each day of 2025 with joy, courage and
| creativity!
| TechnicolorByte wrote:
| Happy New Years, y'all!
|
| Curious to hear if anyone has any specific
| goals/resolutions/things they're especially looking forward to in
| 2025.
| gnuly wrote:
| i prefer a theme[1] over goals. my this year's theme is
| learning - which i'm starting with learning to cook more novel
| dishes.
|
| [1]: CGP Grey's video on it:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
| Donald wrote:
| 45^2 = 2025
|
| Happy perfect square year, everyone. The previous one was 1936
| and the next one will be 2116.
| abixb wrote:
| Totally nothing bad happened in the decade following the last
| perfect square year in 1936. :')
| anon_cow1111 wrote:
| Well things have already been a tad rough around this square,
| so if we follow the trend, the next square might turn bad
| even sooner. So maybe around, I dunno, 2101?
| frereubu wrote:
| Unless something equivalent happened in 1849, 1764, 1691... I
| think we're OK :)
| jostylr wrote:
| 1225: ten years earlier, Magna Carta starting to limit
| monarchs and the seed of individual freedom
|
| 1681: eight years later was glorious revolution with a bill
| of rights, marking individual freedoms
|
| 1764: ten years later, beginning of American Revolution and
| being free of monarchs
|
| 1849: ten years-ish later, start of US civil war; was the
| time of an attempt by the British to end slavery around the
| world
|
| 1936: ten years later, colonial empires were being
| dismantled, UN established to attempt global cooperation,
| US in the ascendancy with a seed of ties being established
| more by economics than military force, great economic
| upswing lifting people out of poverty (60% in poverty then,
| 10% now) while the global population blossoms
|
| 2035: Majority of the global population in middle class or
| better, triumph of individuals over technocrats,
| bureaucrats, and corporatists :)
| keepamovin wrote:
| I love this! Haha, I was hoping someone would do that. :)
| jthemenace wrote:
| This is the most Hacker News comment I've seen today. Well
| played.
| edoceo wrote:
| Up there with Putnam and Dropbox.
| LPisGood wrote:
| Putnam? Of math competition fame?
| edoceo wrote:
| Yep, specifically this comment:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
| chrisvalleybay wrote:
| Thank you for the Putnam; I did not know about it. For
| anyone else that did not understand this reference;
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015. Legendary.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| That's an epic thread. Thank you very much for sharing it
| :)
|
| And now, looking back 17 years later, I'd say he
| succeeded. It's the tarsnap founder.
| raverbashing wrote:
| And "Less space than a Nomad"
| keepamovin wrote:
| 2025 = 515 (palindromic in base 20)
| lxgr wrote:
| Also, (20 + 25)^2 = 2,025! Happy New Year :)
| User23 wrote:
| This decomposition is especially fun!
| Bootvis wrote:
| Python: [x**2 for x in range(32,100) if
| x**2 // 100 + x**2 % 100 == x] [2025, 3025, 9801]
| devsda wrote:
| Great to know that someone else too keeps track of squares.
|
| At the ages of perfect squares is when we all cross or achieve
| significant milestones in our lives as children, students,
| (young)adults, spouses, parents, grandparents, senior citizens
| of society and so on.
|
| This year being a perfect square, I wish that it will be as
| much or more special as it was for everyone at those ages.
| gylterud wrote:
| My youngest is fascinated by squares at the moment. Luckily
| for him, he is 4 years old, his older brother is 9, while I
| just turned 36. He will be delighted when I tell him that we
| are entering 45 squared!
| whycome wrote:
| Also, if you add your ages together... 7^2
|
| If you multiply your ages... 36^2
| umeshunni wrote:
| 2025:
|
| 1) is a square: 452
|
| 2) is the product of two squares: 92 x 52
|
| 3) is the sum of 3-squares: 402+ 202+52
|
| 4) is the sum of cubes of all the single digits:
| 13+23+33+43+53+63+73+83+93
| _kb wrote:
| 5) sum of the single digits squared: (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)2
| umeshunni wrote:
| Some more (thanks to chatgpt-o1)
|
| 6) sum of the first 45 odd numbers: 1+3+5+...+89
|
| 7) is a Harshad number:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harshad_number
| globnomulous wrote:
| 6 is kind of cheating. It's a restatement of 45^2.
|
| 3^2 is the sum of the first three odd numbers. 4^2 is the
| sum of the first four odd numbers. 5^2 is the sum of the
| first five odd numbers.
|
| Edit: sorry, don't mean to be a pill.
| xerox13ster wrote:
| 89 isn't 9^2, 81 is.
| mkl wrote:
| Huh? 89 is the 45th odd number.
| bonzini wrote:
| 4 and 5 too
| fifilura wrote:
| I don't consider it cheating, I bet most of these rules
| have an internal relation.
| roenxi wrote:
| They do indeed have an internal relation - they all add
| up to 2025.
|
| Obviously all the formula will be equivalent to each
| other. They are, by construction, all restatements of
| each other.
| mr_toad wrote:
| I guess that means that every number is equivalent to a
| formula? Is there some sort of metric of how many formula
| produce the same number?
| layer8 wrote:
| You'd have to at least exclude subtraction and division
| (and zero) to not have infinitely many formulas for every
| number.
| kdmccormick wrote:
| I would say that a rule is "cheating" iff it is implied
| by another rule for any arbitrary N.
| bratwurst3000 wrote:
| 8) the sum of 2024 + 1 also
| nhatcher wrote:
| (just reading wikipedia here, I didn't know about Harshad
| numbers)
|
| There is no such thing as a Harshad number, there is a
| _Harshad number in a given base_. All integers between
| zero and n are n-harshad numbers.
|
| Which is a pity, because apparenty it means the `joy-
| giver`. I think human kind could use a joy giver year
| keepamovin wrote:
| Oh I like these two.
| joseangel_sc wrote:
| here's to all be alive and well floating in amniotic liquid
| living in VR paradise
| jll29 wrote:
| Donald = Donald E. Knuth? ;-)
| jostylr wrote:
| US President number 45 returns, kind of seems like squaring
| applies.
| throw0101f wrote:
| * https://www.numbersaplenty.com/2025
| eddyg wrote:
| And (20+25)^(20/(2*5))
|
| as well.
| hugs wrote:
| Happy 0x37 SE!
|
| Hex 37 (int 55) years Since Epoch (Jan 1 1970)
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Happy New Year HN!
| gauden wrote:
| Happy New Year from Malta! Thanks for all you have taught me over
| the years.
| Frederation wrote:
| Happy 2025 to all :D
| 3rdworldeng wrote:
| Happy New Year !!
| __LINE__ wrote:
| Happy new year
| Arubis wrote:
| The Orange Site is so easy to poke fun at, but remains the best
| site on the internet. Happy new year, folks. Hope it's a good one
| jrflowers wrote:
| > the best site on the internet
|
| You know the internet has porn and discount bulk goods on it
| right
| mohu21 wrote:
| For me, HN is the social platform/media I can enjoy for breakfast
| or breaks. Allways somethibg interesting to read without the
| temptation of infinite scrolling. I am grateful for that and for
| the cool articles y'all write. Happy NY!
| irs wrote:
| Happy New Year y'all !
| Spooky23 wrote:
| Happy New Year all! You're all wonderful.
| glasshead969 wrote:
| Happy new year!
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| You guys are really great.
|
| Happy New Year to all of us
| keepamovin wrote:
| For many reasons bigger than this place, Happy New Year!!! You
| deserve a great 2025 - have a good one!
| neom wrote:
| tnx mods! https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-
| valley/th...
| _-_-__-_-_- wrote:
| I created an account in 2022, but had been a regular reader much
| earlier. From Slashdot in 2002 to Digg in 2004 to Reddit in 2010
| and now HN. Happy New Year (+30). Here's to a personally
| productive 2025!
| mindcrime wrote:
| I wish you a year covered in hot grits in Soviet Russia, being
| spied on by old people via email.
| chocks wrote:
| Happy new year folks!
| jamieplex wrote:
| Happy Gnu Ears, Y'all!!
| TheAceOfHearts wrote:
| Merry 2025! My goals for next year are to write more and try to
| change the world for the better.
|
| Spending the last day of the year without electricity was a huge
| wakeup call that big changes are needed. It has left me wondering
| why fusion energy has taken so long to develop, so that's a topic
| I'm really interested in exploring.
| Bluestein wrote:
| Many new reactor types coming online 2025. Will be an
| interesting year ...
| gbarletta wrote:
| I visit HN about 10 times a day. Mostly, I'm a lurker--this site
| has been an invaluable source of knowledge for me. Thanks to
| everyone who makes it great :>
|
| Happy New Year! Buon anno a tutti!
| nielsbot wrote:
| Don't forget to enable those anti-procrastination settings in
| 2025! :-P
| gbarletta wrote:
| Ha! I'm working on it :>
| FranchuFranchu wrote:
| Happy new 2025 = (20 + 25)^2 = (2 + 0!)^2*5 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5
| + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2 = 1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 +
| 8^3 + 9^3
| cobbaut wrote:
| > = (2 + 0!)^2*5
|
| How?
|
| 0! = 1 so how does 3^2*5 become 2025?
| mkl wrote:
| It doesn't, you need to square the whole thing.
| kappuchino wrote:
| (2 + 0!)^2 _5 is only 45 on my account, should be ((2 + 0!)^2_
| 5)^2 :-/
| tokioyoyo wrote:
| Happy new year, everyone'
| replwoacause wrote:
| Happy New Year HN!
| kittikitti wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| TheKnownSecret wrote:
| Y'all make me happy. Happy new years!
| reedBu wrote:
| Happy new year from a Shenzhen China Mainland!
| Gigacore wrote:
| Happy New Year, HN!
| soulofmischief wrote:
| Happy New Years, everyone. Let's make this year count for
| something.
| mihirsahu wrote:
| Happy new year y'all! I've learned so much here and I appreciate
| you all.
| mihirsahu wrote:
| Happy new year everyone! I've learned so much here and I
| appreciate you all.
| saikatsg wrote:
| Thanks for everything! Happy new year HN!
| fung wrote:
| Happy new year!!!
| 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
| Real
| sudohackthenews wrote:
| Happy new year from Dallas, everyone! I've been a lurker on this
| site for years, truly is a fantastic source of knowledge and the
| breadth of experience among commenters is insane. Here's to a
| great 2025!
| rishikeshs wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone! putuvtsraashNsk[?]!
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| Happy new year everyone. And thanks dang for not banning me. I
| promise to be better about that topic this year.
| heyitssim wrote:
| happy new year from Asia!
| cannibalXxx wrote:
| Happy New Year. May more hacker News users join https://chat-
| to.dev this year and make it a useful means of communication for
| all programmers and beyond.
| coldfoundry wrote:
| Happy new year all! Thanks everyone for helping to uphold the
| high quality interactions found on here. To a good 2025!
| mettamage wrote:
| Martyn, same, happy new year to everyone. This year will be the
| year that I've been visiting this site almost daily for 10 years.
|
| Wow. I can remember the days that I just came for the science and
| not the technical stuff because I found it too hard. Then quickly
| later using the technical articles to accelerate my computer
| science studies and now it just feels like I can dive into
| anything.
|
| Love this place <3
| gregjw wrote:
| Happy new year!
| sangeeth96 wrote:
| Happy new year to all the HN members! Thankful for this site's
| existence and for all the knowledge and wisdom I gained over the
| years just by being here almost every single day.
| zoom6628 wrote:
| Happy new year from a ferry between Zhuhai and home in HongKong.
| Wintereise wrote:
| Happy new year from Singapore!
| chrisvalleybay wrote:
| Happy New Year from Oslo! I really appreciate this community; it
| gives me great peace.
| pstuart wrote:
| Thanks to all you participants who make this site so valuable.
| alienself wrote:
| * Happy New Year, Hacker News! *
|
| As the clock ticks into a brand-new year, let's toast to the
| innovators, the builders, the thinkers, and the dreamers who make
| this community so vibrant. Here's to:
|
| - Writing elegant code and tackling tough bugs. - Exploring new
| frontiers in tech and beyond. - Learning, sharing, and leveling
| up together.
|
| May this year bring you breakthroughs, discoveries, and joy in
| every pull request and project.
|
| Keep building. Keep dreaming.
|
| Happy New Year, HN!
| shayansm1 wrote:
| Happy New Year, everyone! I'm incredibly grateful for this
| amazing community. Your informative posts and insightful comments
| have taught me so much, and I truly appreciate all of you. Here's
| to another year of learning and growth together!
| danwills wrote:
| Happy 2025 all HN'ers! I'm a daily HN'er - It's my only source of
| news apart from occasional YT vids, but what a brilliant source
| of news it is!!!
|
| I frequently find myself saying: 'Yeah that was on HN a few weeks
| ago'! It's so up-to-the-minute and really just wholeheartedly
| good! Dang is a goddamned legend in my opinion I can hardly
| believe it works so incredibly well and it's surely mostly from
| dang's good work! Thankyou dang, so much!!
|
| I think calendars (especially the gregorian) are fairly
| approximate things so try not to assign too much meaning to the
| number ticking-over these days.. sun/moon/earth/nature didn't
| care that our numbers ticked-over very much did they? But still,
| in order to be able to talk to others we have to try to store our
| memories using dates as keys (I'm actually really crap at that,
| but still!), so HOORAY for the next approximate-date-memory-key-
| era!!
|
| Much love to all teh hackers! You are all awesome! Even the
| black-hats!! Curiosity FTW!!!!
| georgel wrote:
| Been here since 2010, worked at multiple YC companies. Shout
| out to @dang, he has done a great job keeping the community
| healthy.
| coolcoder613 wrote:
| Me too! I find myself saying 'that was on HN a while ago' very
| often, actually.
| glitchc wrote:
| Happy new year to everyone!
| Sn0wCoder wrote:
| Happy New Year may the next be the best one yet....
| fabmilo wrote:
| Happy new year to everyone, hacker news is more than my home
| page. This community is awesome!
| waldrews wrote:
| Happy new year to readers who are fellow humans, to any bots who,
| unbeknownst to us, can already experience happiness, and I guess
| if any gorilla, parrot, elephant, or dolphin is having this
| message communicated to them, happy new year to you too. Let's
| hope all our respective species keep existing.
| xerox13ster wrote:
| I told my crow friends happy new year and I'm reasonably
| certain they know today is special even if they don't get why.
| [0][1] (this is just one and I offered peanuts first but it
| stared me down and did not budge until I put out beef)
|
| [0]:
| https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/433008121234063360/...
|
| [1]:
| https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434337586182619136/13...
| moffkalast wrote:
| https://media.tenor.com/89nJBdQJ8FkAAAAe/crow-approve.png
| sandworm101 wrote:
| Happy new year to all of you still at work! We are what make
| holidays possible for everyone else.
| charles_f wrote:
| I'm grateful for this community. It's good having a place where
| some reason prevail.
|
| I wish everyone here had a good one and has a good one.
|
| Merry 2025!
| beng-nl wrote:
| Well said. This is the only quality discussion forum I've ever
| seen on the internet; in fact given the common trend of other
| forums I'd given up on it being possible. Then I learned the
| magic formula: the hard work of smart and active and moderation
| with empathy. Thank you dang.
|
| And thank you to everyone else for being generous and smart
| contributors.
| Bluestein wrote:
| I wanted to humbly second everything said. Honored to be
| here, and contribute whenever.-
|
| 2025 is going to be an interesting year - and I wish for
| y'all the best.-
| endorphine wrote:
| Happy new year fellow humans, wishing for more love and a healthy
| 2025!
| Dracophoenix wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| euvin wrote:
| Discovering this site was one of the better things the internet
| has given me. Happy new year!
| grigy wrote:
| In US PST, Happy New Year!
| mindcrime wrote:
| Happy New Year, all! Here's to a happy, healthy, and productive
| 2025. I hope you all achieve great things in the year to come!
| Aniket-N wrote:
| Happy New Year from the Pacific coast!
| all2 wrote:
| Halt new year! May Good bless you richly in your pursuits and
| may He bless the work of your hands.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| A late night but the most sober New Year's Eve I've had in twenty
| plus years. A single glass of Ruby Port in the neighbors and that
| was it, kind of proud of myself on that.
| anal_reactor wrote:
| At some point I'd drink a lot, but then alcohol stopped being
| fun. Instead of happy, it just made me tired. Now I drink much
| less, so that I get a bit of buzz, but not enough to get
| sleepy. The flipside is that earlier I'd know that I'd get
| completely wasted on the weekends and stay sober on weekdays,
| but now there's this voice "you can drink one beer on weekday
| too", but then I just make myself some tea.
|
| Similar story with weed, except I can't dose it, it's either
| nothing or completely baked, so I'm switching from "baked from
| Friday evening to Monday morning" to "one evening per two
| weeks". The worst part was the brain fog, I could feel myself
| becoming more and more stupid.
|
| Probably I'd enjoy a lot some stimulants, but virtually all of
| them are highly addictive, so yeah. I do LSD every now and
| then, which is super fun because it does have a stimulating
| effect, but it's something you can only do every few months, so
| yeah.
| floydian10 wrote:
| Same, just a couple of small beers and a glass of champagne.
|
| I feel much better today than a year ago, where I was hangover
| most of the day
| pauletienney wrote:
| Happy new year to all of you, fellow visitors of Internet best
| website.
| maxcruer wrote:
| Happy new year 2025!
| maxcruer wrote:
| loop { year += 1; live_on(); }
| optymizer wrote:
| Happy New Year to all the hackers!
| 256_ wrote:
| 2025 will be the year in which a certain operating system is used
| on desktop machines.
| raegis wrote:
| Indeed, I just upgraded to kernel 6.13rc5, and now everything
| works perfectly! Just in time for New Years!
| coolcoder613 wrote:
| Yes, 2025 will be the year of the Haiku desktop!
| thehappyfellow wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone! I hope this coming year you'll find the
| meaning you're yearning for, spend it with people who deeply care
| for you, love and be loved. That you'll flourish, feel content
| and happy. That you'll experience more good than evil.
|
| Learn OCaml in 2025
| misonic wrote:
| Happy New Year to All.
| lukan wrote:
| Happy new year as well, even though it already started for me on
| the 21. of December on Solstice, when the days were starting to
| get longer. That is a real turning point in the natural cycle and
| I like to follow natural cycles where possible. 1.1. is just
| arbitary numbers changing to me, but for the majority it means
| something, which also makes it real and I can appreciate the
| intent and celebrate anyway..
|
| (And I did had an awesome drug and alcohol free party with self
| made music and wild dancing)
| grumpy-de-sre wrote:
| Definitely a fan of non-religious winter solstice celebrations
| (good occasion to combine elements of Christmas and new years).
| My wife is Chinese and loves dumplings so we pretty much
| celebrate Dongzhi. Always goes down well with our western
| friends.
| parski wrote:
| I live near the arctic circle so the bit of sunshine we gain
| every day makes a real difference. I'm also in complete denial
| on June 21st, absolutely refusing to acknowledge that the days
| get shorter.
| whycome wrote:
| How can I be where you are
| tmountain wrote:
| Happy new year from Amsterdam. Thanks to everyone for the good
| times all these years!
| amelius wrote:
| It's almost like an echo chamber now, but Happy New Year HN! :)
| jll29 wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| Besides family breakfast, brushing teeth/shower, opening HN makes
| a good morning better, and an okay start into what will hopefully
| be a great year.
|
| Here's wishing everyone out there: 1. happiness, 2. purpose, 3.
| love, 4. health, 5. peace, 6. good flow, 7. clean code ;-).
|
| Happy Hacking!
| dorianniemiec wrote:
| Happy new year too, from Poland!
| preommr wrote:
| Happy New Year to you HN, this year feels like it's going to be
| more important than usual.
| Bluestein wrote:
| Seconded, somehow it does.-
| koevet wrote:
| Happy new 2025 from Berlin, proud to be a long time HN'er. Peace!
| william_stokes wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| vednig wrote:
| Here's to new beginnings in 2025
| https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExeGlzenc3eHdkZHh...
| ctenb wrote:
| HN!
| lolu_plan wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| nurkhz wrote:
| Happy Hacking!
| robblbobbl wrote:
| How do I delete my account here
| eps wrote:
| Email the mods - hn@ycombinator.com
| shahzaibmushtaq wrote:
| Thank you all who are reading this for a wonderful 2024.
|
| I hope 2025 is a year of real changes in terms of progress, peace
| and less polarized world.
|
| For the record, I'll try my best for personal and professional
| growth.
| attentionmech wrote:
| I don't know you all but know that I love to read your thoughts
| on HN. I open it like 20 times a day. I enjoy that I am here with
| all of you to witness our existence together. and that includes
| AI bots. You are also part of our shared world now. I hope we
| will be kind to each other as far as it matters.
| gboss wrote:
| Happy new year everyone!
| enc0d3r wrote:
| Hey HN, Im recently create my account in this forum, and I just
| really want to enjoy new friends, with the same objectivies than
| me. Im just really enjoy algoritms, I have five years of
| experiencie, but my anxiety and my burnouts doenst allow me to
| level up, but now I believe I have all necessary to just be
| pacient. To 2025 Happy New Year, to us, ping me, Im be happy if I
| get new friends. BTW: My english is horrible, Im from Brazil with
| accent of Indian guy mix with a lot of sheet.
| openrisk wrote:
| Meaningful communication between real people, a interesting mix
| of experts and learners. This should be so much easier with all
| the fancy digital tools we have now available. Yet HN is nowhere
| near the norm but rather a rare exception.
|
| Lets hope its a pattern that spreads more broadly in 2025. We are
| already getting past the first quarter into the 21st century
| after all.
| BimJeam wrote:
| Happy new year, brothers in code! :-)
| bennathanson wrote:
| Happy new year HN!
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| Wish you all a prosperous 2025 filled with kindness and love.
| financeinnolab wrote:
| Happy New Year to one of the most informative and interesting
| communities on the interwebs!
| pedroigor91 wrote:
| Happy new year everyone!
| husamia wrote:
| Happy New Year, fellow Hacker News community members! As we
| embark on this new chapter, I'm filled with a sense of optimism
| and excitement for the possibilities that lie ahead. This
| community has been a constant source of inspiration, knowledge,
| and camaraderie over the years, and I'm grateful to be a part of
| it.
|
| In 2025, I hope we can continue to push the boundaries of
| innovation, tackle complex challenges, and learn from one
| another. Whether it's through elegant code, groundbreaking
| research, or thought-provoking discussions, I believe this
| community has the power to make a lasting impact on the world.
|
| As we reflect on the past and look towards the future, let's
| remember the values that have made Hacker News so special - a
| relentless pursuit of truth, a commitment to intellectual
| honesty, and a genuine desire to uplift and support one another.
| These qualities have been the bedrock of this community, and I'm
| confident they will continue to guide us in the years to come.
|
| Here's to a new year filled with breakthroughs, discoveries, and
| the joy of creating. May 2025 bring us closer together, sharpen
| our minds, and inspire us to reach new heights. Happy New Year,
| Hacker News!
| bartekpacia wrote:
| Hah, I knew at the beginning of the second sentence that it's
| AI-generated.
| treebeard901 wrote:
| About 64 million people die every year, congrats on not being one
| of the 150,000 that die every day. May your luck extend for
| another 64 million.
| thr0waway001 wrote:
| Happy New Years!
| hackernj wrote:
| Happy 10 + 9 - 8 + 7! / 6 / 5 * 4 * 3 - 2 * 1!
| reconnecting wrote:
| Happy 201/4!
| domador wrote:
| Happy 2025!
|
| Only 13 more years now 'til 2038! Maybe we can still fix that
| problem! But feel free to take today off, hackers.
| omnee wrote:
| HN has, within a few years, become one of my primary sources of
| information for all things related to technology and many other
| intellectual topics. Not least because of the many knowledgable
| commentators. Happy (20+25)2 to all!
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