[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time
zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so: Merry Christmas to
everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people
who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather
than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be
perfect. Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their
Christmas with dear people. To make sure this post meets the
relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some
Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally
really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market
Author : basilikum
Score : 1834 points
Date : 2025-12-24 22:56 UTC (1 days ago)
| agentifysh wrote:
| Merry Christmas y'all keep promptin'
| DetectDefect wrote:
| Shall we showcase our trees? *
| | /.\ /o..\ /..O\ /.o..o\
| /...o.\ /..O..o.\ ^^^[_]^^^
| sallveburrpi wrote:
| @ *** ***** *******
| ********* *********** *************
| *************** | |
|
| Best I can do ;/
| xandrius wrote:
| Y=
| properbrew wrote:
| It's the thought that counts
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| I love your player character tree topper.
| cluckindan wrote:
| o / \ o o / \ o o
| / \ o o / / \ o o o
| / / \ o o o
|
| I knew I should have invested in that fancy self-balancing one,
| oh well.
| basilikum wrote:
| Ah, don't worry. If you just append to one side always and do
| an anti-balancing one, you get a string of lights.
| o \ o \ o
| \ o \ o
| \ o \
| o \ o
| contravariant wrote:
| Hey we have the same tree!
| (()(()((())((())(()())))))
| culi wrote:
| Pinus newickii
| thiht wrote:
| Mine looks weird but it's decorated:
| @star @lights @balls def
| christmas_tree(): n1 = Node() n2 =
| Node() n3 = Node() n4 = Node()
| n5 = Node() n6 = Node() n7 = Node()
| n8 = Node(n1, None) n9 = Node(n2, n3)
| n10 = Node(n4, n5) n11 = Node(n8, n9)
| n12 = Node(n6, n7) n13 = Node(None, n11)
| n14 = Node(None, n12) return Node(n13, n14)
| christmas_tree()
| properbrew wrote:
| .-^-. /_/_\_\
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| KellyCriterion wrote:
| This one is really cool!
| gerdesj wrote:
| Lovely idea but please spare a thought for people using a
| screen reader! Imagine having ASCII art spelt out to you
| character by character, line by line.
|
| This really is a job for a LLM.
|
| With apologies to screen reader users: "space tab space space
| asterisk new line space space tab space new line space space
| space tab pipe new line ... forward slash o full stop full stop
| backslash ..."
| Insanity wrote:
| Class ChristmasTree extends Tree{}
| randallsquared wrote:
| Not always! Sometimes `extends Plastic{}`
| Timwi wrote:
| Or `extends Aluminum{}`!
|
| [0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChr
| istma...
| Hobadee wrote:
| So Tree is an interface then, not a class?
| devsda wrote:
| I'm pretty sure its called a Trait these days.
| encomiast wrote:
| May you have a perfectly balanced Christmas
| h _____|______ / \
| r t / \ / \ e
| . i a / \ / \ / \ / \ M
| r y C r s m s
| frunkad wrote:
| hahaha, Merry Christmas to you too!
| phyalow wrote:
| * /|\ [ROOT]
| n=25000 / | \ [N] [I]
| [C] .33 .51 .94 <-- UCB1 winner
| | | / \ [OH] [MEH] [E] [E]
| coal socks NICE NICE | \ \
| :/ :) :) MCTS: Monte Carlo Tree
| Santa "in the limit, all children converge
| to the nice list" - S. Claus
|
| Merry Xmas Nerds!
| etothet wrote:
| * /^\ /* *\
| /+@o* \ /o*+*o+*\ /* @+*o@+*\
| /+*o*+@*o*+*\ /@o+*o@+*o+@o*\ /*+@o*+@*o+*o@+*\
| /o*+@o*+@o*+@o*+o*\ /@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\
| ||| |||
| user_7832 wrote:
| That's the first tree that rendered properly on my mobile,
| Merey Christmas and good job! Also nice bottom layer of
| ampersands, looks really festive for some reason!
| qingcharles wrote:
| DOOM BSP (XMAS) TREE :p . * .
| (IDKFA) ---\ | /---
| \|/ ( ROOT NODE ) (
| Partition ) /`--...___...-`\
| / \ / \
| o--( Node 1 )--o o--( Node 2 )--o / Front
| \ / Back \ / | \ /
| | \ / o \ / o \
| [SUBSECTOR] ( Node 3 ) [SUBSECTOR] | (Leaf A)|
| / \ | (Leaf B)| |_________| / \
| |_________| [SEGS] / \ [SEGS]
| ( Gift ) [SUBSECTOR] [SUBSECTOR] ( Gift ) |
| (Leaf C)| | (Leaf D)| |_________|
| |_________| [SEGS] [SEGS]
| necovek wrote:
| Just you mentioning Doom makes me wonder how fast will we get
| someone to run Doom on individually controlled Christmas LEDs
| on a Christmas tree.
| Flere-Imsaho wrote:
| Love the cheat code at the top
| dxdm wrote:
| idkfa iddqd idspispopd
|
| This is etched into my mind.
| russellbeattie wrote:
| Here's a really big one: TREE(3).
| keepamovin wrote:
| ` _\/_ . - /\ /|\
| ` . / /*|O\. . /*/|\*\
| /X/O|*\X\ /*/X/|\X\*\ . /O/*/X|*\O\X\
| /*/O/X/|\X\O\*\ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |X|
| |X| Merry Christmas!
|
| merry Christmas to all you people out there :)
| user_7832 wrote:
| Merry Christmas! Nice touch with the snow, makes for a cosy
| and homely atmosphere! (It's 250C here. Please send help >.<)
| racl101 wrote:
| renderTree(type='Christmas')
| KellyCriterion wrote:
| ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| Hell - mine one is crashed! Claude didnt work properly :-D
| gregfjohnson wrote:
| Build one yourself! Here's an interactive balanced binary tee
| builder: https://gregfjohnson.com/redblackbuilder.html
| Vicinity9635 wrote:
| ^
| curtisblaine wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| aclark wrote:
| Merry XMAS!!
| tekacs wrote:
| Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three
| steps:
|
| https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server)
|
| https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily
| readonly)
|
| https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| Restart?!
|
| ouch
| basilikum wrote:
| HN is a pretty simple, efficient monolithic web application.
| Some updates might need a restart. It's OK for some web
| requests to fail during that time. HN isn't life critical
| with sixtuple nine uptime requirements.
| sallveburrpi wrote:
| Tbh like 99% of web apps aren't critical - most of them are
| for buying something or providing infrastructure to make it
| easier to buy something anyway. It's fine if your online
| shop is down for a few minutes (of course the business
| won't see it like that but it's true)
| basilikum wrote:
| A sales site being down might lose you a sale. But the
| simplicity might save you so muh more than that loses
| you. And often the complexion of high availability
| infrastructure results in more downtime than it prevents.
|
| For stuff like HN, I like the peek behind the scenes it
| provides. It's all just software written by some humans
| and way too often people take themselves and their shitty
| software way too serious.
| brightbeige wrote:
| B&H is doing fine financially and brings their webstore
| down for each and every Sabbath, even if that happens to
| be a Black Friday.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12183263
| lomase wrote:
| Steam, +130 million users, biggest gamming store, multi
| billion dolar company, is offline every week for a few
| minutes.
|
| 99.999999 is so overated.
| uyzstvqs wrote:
| It could probably be done with a simple if statement, but
| I'm guessing that dang enjoys the tradition of doing it
| manually every year.
| dang wrote:
| I'd rather restart once (ok, twice) a year than keep that
| code around in production.
|
| It only affects traffic for about 10 seconds.
| kelnos wrote:
| I feel like this obsession with zero downtime has gotten a
| bit silly. Sure, for some things it's damn near required
| (though I imagine that's fewer things than most people
| think), but it 100% does not matter even a little bit if HN
| is unavailable for 10 seconds or so.
| dang wrote:
| You must have grabbed that first one awfully quickly!
| throwup238 wrote:
| You'd have more luck asking for world peace.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| What container is this running in?
| dang wrote:
| FreeBSD
| president_zippy wrote:
| Color me confused, but what do containers add to FreeBSD
| beyond jails? Jails have their own IP addresses and root
| filesystem, plus they use the host OS's version of libc and
| OpenSSL/LibreSSL and all the other core utils.
|
| Is it the convenience utilities for building and running
| container images?
| dang wrote:
| I was joking. There is no container. (We don't use jails
| either.)
| president_zippy wrote:
| But alas, FreeBSD does support OCI container images! It
| supports Podman and has an OCI-compliant runtime:
|
| https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-
| freebsd...
|
| However, I still can't pinpoint what the value
| proposition is compared to using jails. Is there anybody
| around here able and willing to shed some light? I know I
| didn't use Cunningham's Law to start the conversation
| like a clever netizen but maybe, just this once, a good
| faith response to a good faith question is possible.
| ashton314 wrote:
| The power to serve
| andersa wrote:
| So what's the christmas theme? Unless I'm blind, it looks the
| same as always, except the header color seems to have
| changed... slightly?
| ojbyrne wrote:
| Perhaps you've looked at the site so much that you're blind
| to the numbers at the start of each item.
| andersa wrote:
| Oh, indeed
| BubbleRings wrote:
| No numbers in Chrome on iPhone, fyi.
| ojbyrne wrote:
| I can't tell if you're joking, because I'm looking at the
| site on chrome on iPhone and there's numbers.
| jaggederest wrote:
| The numbers next to the submissions are red/green
| Aspie96 wrote:
| Japan changed its flag for Christmas...
| The_President wrote:
| Dear Santa, for Christmas can we get a prefers-color-scheme:
| dark mode for HN, thank you and Merry Christmas
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| I got scared when I refreshed and HN turned red
| nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
| Easy mistake. HN's AI apocolyose color is a slightly darker
| hue.
| tory wrote:
| Merry Christmas :)
| nullable_bool wrote:
| Merry x-mas. We all deserve love and happiness. Be kind to your
| neighboor.
| Wasserpuncher wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| nervysnail wrote:
| I was surprised to see HN change colour.
| drfuzzy89 wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone!
| robofanatic wrote:
| * /|\ //|\\ ///|\\\
| ////|\\\\ |
| spankibalt wrote:
| Merry Christmas, bambini.
| stoneman24 wrote:
| A Merry Christmas to everyone !
| dzink wrote:
| May everyone here discover more and better ways to spread the joy
| of giving and doing good. *
| /_\ / o \ / * \ /
| o o \ / . * . \ / o * * o \
| / . * o * . \ / o * * * * o \ / . * o * o
| * . \ / o * * * * * * o \
| /______________________\ ||||||
| |||||| ||||||
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| The ol' off-by-one error.
|
| Merry Christmat!
| sallveburrpi wrote:
| Feliz natal
| defrost wrote:
| and a healthy dose of Australian Christmas Stereotypes to all:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amL8QRiDH2E
|
| including _not_ the original Rolf Harris version:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVEZLcBfS8
| judah wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
|
| "An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord
| shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to
| them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause
| great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior
| has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a
| sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in
| a manger." Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared
| with the angel, praising God and saying,
|
| "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those
| on whom his favor rests.""
|
| -Luke 2
| xandrius wrote:
| "A Spaceman Came Travelling" - Chris de Burgh
| gavide wrote:
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|
| Merry Christmas, HN!
| brulard wrote:
| not sure what i'm looking at here...
| gerdesj wrote:
| Fucked up Braille?
| MobiusHorizons wrote:
| I'm assuming they fixed the formatting since you posted, but
| it's a Christmas tree in text art using braille characters.
|
| Side note: I assume you can't call it ASCII art if it uses
| non-ASCII characters, but Unicode art doesn't have the same
| ring.
| rationalist wrote:
| A Christmas tree through the snow?
| farmerbb wrote:
| It shows up as a Christmas tree for me on my phone in
| portrait mode. In landscape mode the braille is messed up.
| kmoser wrote:
| If you're viewing on a desktop, shrink the browser until each
| line stacks below the previous one, creating a tree.
| jimbobthrowawy wrote:
| Did you forget to double space between the lines, or put
| leading spaces?
|
| Also, I had to turn off firefox's enhanced tracking protection
| for the font to load. Before that it was unicode tofu.
| eth0up wrote:
| I love all the trees but this is my favorite.
|
| Thanks
|
| Merry Christmas!
| pdevr wrote:
| Merry Christmas to everyone.
|
| Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing
| one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful -
| or at the very least, insightful - to anyone, regardless of
| religion.
|
| Luke 16:10: He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful
| also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is
| unrighteous also in much.
| imchillyb wrote:
| The Bible is full of fun stuff like that verse. Much of which
| modern day Christians perfectly ignore.
|
| Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas to you.
| swat535 wrote:
| There are 2 kinds of Christians: Those who actually follow
| the faith, and those who only show up for Christmas and
| Easter.
|
| There's a German term for that 'Uboot Christen' - submarine
| Christians. They only emerge twice a year.
| sva_ wrote:
| Considering Christians took the Christmas celebration from
| what they call "Heathens" or "Pagans", I think it is fair.
| Eastern celebration probably the same.
| conception wrote:
| Eh not really -
| https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-
| again...
|
| Easter also not pagan. But pophistory thinks that as
| well. Scholarship doesn't line up.
| KellyCriterion wrote:
| Weeks ago a local newspaper had the headline:
|
| "keep the big bang until later for your children, the bible
| is really a great set of fairy tales"
|
| Im not religious at all, actually "implicitly fighting
| against it", though I have to admit: This sentence made sense
| and Im thinking still until today about it, because actually
| I think its quite true - for smaller children, the storylines
| in the bible are much more "real" and understandable than the
| story of: "hey, there was a big bang, all molecules were
| created then and you are consisting today of these molecules"
| a022311 wrote:
| The Bible and the Big Bang theory are not mutually
| exclusive. The Old Testament is a very symbolic book and
| gives no specific details on how exactly the world was
| created, other than the seven days of creation. We know
| that the 7 days weren't referring to our current concept of
| a day. There's also no water above the sky. It was written
| like that, because it would be easier for people to
| understand. Science wasn't a thing back then. If it were
| written in 2025, it would obviously be very different and
| probably much more detailed.
|
| Modern Christians know that religion and science can go
| together. Science researches _how_ something works.
| Religion answers _who_ created it. The Big Bang theory is
| actually accepted by them today.
| sapphicsnail wrote:
| I'm sure there are some that think that but I was taught
| the earth is 10,000 years, the creation story in Genesis
| is the literal truth, and people spell Christmas "Xmas"
| because people are trying to take Christ out of
| Christmas. None of these are fringe positions in the US.
| There are so Christians that believe science is real but
| we're very much the minority.
| pmcginn wrote:
| The big bang theory isn't just "accepted by them today,"
| it has been since the beginning. The father of the big
| bang theory was a catholic priest.
| defrost wrote:
| So you're saying that the Catholic Church _also_ accepted
| the Copernican Sun centred model of the universe
| formulated by Nicolaus Copernicus "from the beginning"
| as Copernicus was also a Catholic cleric?
|
| Perhaps it's possible that the beliefs and propositions
| of individual members of a greater body don't always
| align with the official stance of the greater body.
| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| > it's possible that the beliefs and propositions of
| individual members of a greater body don't always align
| with the official stance
|
| It is, and where they depart from or twist binding
| doctrine, it would be a matter of heresy.
|
| But FWIW, the Catholic Church didn't and doesn't have a
| stance on the question of heliocentrism. Why would it? It
| is not a question with any religious importance. Who
| cares which orb rotates around which? Copernicus wasn't
| doing anything forbidden (nor had he vindicated
| heliocentrism) and had high ranking friends and
| acquaintances in the clergy (including cardinals like
| Cardinal Schonberg and Pope Clement VII) who took an
| interest in his work. _De Revolutionibus_ was itself
| dedicated to Pope Paul III. If anything, Copernicus was
| wary of other _academics_ who held to the Ptolemaic view
| at the time. Plus ca change...
|
| No doubt, you have in mind the oft-repeated Galileo
| affair which has become one of those stubborn black
| legends that seems to stay afloat despite the lack of
| facts supporting it because of its instrumental value for
| sticking it to the Church. The Galileo affair was not
| about heliocentrism. It was about a clash of egos and
| personalities (Galileo's being of them, as he liked to
| pick pointless fights, including some nasty personal
| attacks on his friend and benefactor Urban VIII) that
| spanned decades. It isn't as piquant as the story as
| typically told would have you believe.
| jll29 wrote:
| The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) is the leading
| authority of sciences for Roman Catholic Christians, not
| only do they accept big bang theory, they public
| scientific proceedings of astrophysics meetings:
| https://www.pas.va/en/publications/scripta-
| varia/sv155pas.ht... (free download)
| throw48k76e wrote:
| If we are free to interpret the Bible that way, does that
| mean the resurrection of Christ is also a metaphor? Maybe
| they just meant that he is alive in our hearts.
|
| What part of the Bible are up for interpretation, and
| what parts are considered to be fact?
| hamdingers wrote:
| Every part of the Bible is up for interpretation. Which
| parts you interpret as fact will depend on what worldview
| you're trying to justify (or which church you're trying
| to be a member of).
| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| Ah, this is a good question. And a big one. Here's a
| start, anyway.
|
| Contrary to the historically recent error of _sola
| scriptura_ , the Bible does not interpret itself. And
| contrary to the modernists, it is not whatever you want
| it to mean.
|
| First, what is the general nature of Scripture? It is not
| meant to be a scientific text. It is meant to
| communicate, above all, revealed truths about God that
| are not available to unaided reason (obviously, it also
| contains things we can know through unaided reason, but
| the _unique_ value proposition is in what we cannot know
| by our own wits).
|
| Historically, the tradition of knowledge, indeed the
| content of Scripture itself, preceded the biblical canon.
| You needed that tradition to make the determination of
| what is canonical and what is not. Similarly, you need
| that tradition to determine the nature of a given book:
| is a historical in structure, poetic, etc? This unbroken
| tradition, scholarship, literary analysis, etc. tell us
| the nature of a given text.
|
| In the case of something like the creation accounts in
| Genesis (and there are two accounts, which differ), it is
| clear under such an examination that these are not
| scientific descriptions. They are written using the
| language of a pre-scientific culture. They do not tell us
| in scientific terms how the physical universe was formed.
| They _do_ tell us that creation is _ex nihilo_ , or out
| of nothing. (This is not a question of a big bang btw.
| The big bang is not necessary. It is a question of
| casuality. God as the Logos - eternal Reason - is the
| _per se_ - rather than _per accidens_ - cause of the
| universe's existence, sustaining it in existence at every
| moment. God is not some Paley-style watchmaker arranging
| parts into a watch out of some primordial chaos, and the
| universe is not the result of some clash of opposing
| forces.) Genesis also tells us _that_ there was a first
| human couple and that original sin can be traced to the
| first freely chosen immoral act. There are no binding or
| definitive claims about how exactly this all occurred in
| a historical sense. We don't know, and as interesting as
| that question is [0], for the relevant purposes of the
| text, it doesn't matter.
|
| The Gospels of the New Testament, however, are very much
| historical in character. They are eye witness accounts of
| Christ's ministry, and the canonical four were deemed to
| be the only reliable ones. They aren't figurative, and
| the early Christians, the many witnesses of Christ's
| ministry, and new evidence all align with the received
| and continuous tradition (indeed, one of the
| responsibilities of the Catholic Church is to safeguard
| tradition from "innovation"). Figurative interpretations
| of the Gospels also tend not to be compelling either,
| especially in light of tradition.
|
| Obviously, biblical hermeneutics is a big topic that goes
| beyond an HN post. I've included links to a couple of
| texts that should introduce the material with greater
| depth and expertise than I can [1][2].
|
| [0] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/09/modern-
| biology-and-o...
|
| [1] https://a.co/d/4xdAc9Y
|
| [2] https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-
| xvi/en/apost_exhorta...
| djeastm wrote:
| >The Old Testament is a very symbolic book
|
| Can you tell the fundamentalists that? Thanks
| krapp wrote:
| >We know that the 7 days weren't referring to our current
| concept of a day.
|
| We don't know that. Some Christians believe that because
| they believe the Bible is univocal, which it isn't, and
| because they want to use other unrelated scripture like
| "a day for God is like a thousand years" to support a
| framework for Genesis which they believe is validated by
| current science.
|
| But I see no reason to believe that when the ancient
| Hebrews wrote about creation taking seven days, that they
| didn't mean seven actual days.
|
| >It was written like that, because it would be easier for
| people to understand.
|
| A supposition not backed up by evidence, and one that
| assumes the author of Genesis had a modern understanding
| of astrophysics, which they did not.
|
| > Science wasn't a thing back then. If it were written in
| 2025, it would obviously be very different and probably
| much more detailed.
|
| OK. So as I suspected you believe that the Genesis
| creation story (or at least one, as there are two
| conflicting creation narratives) represents literal
| truth, but that the account itself couches this literal
| truth in metaphor.
|
| I suppose that's better than the Biblical literalists who
| insist that Old Testament genealogies prove the world is
| only 10,000 years old and that therefore things like
| carbon dating are fake, but I do wish Christians would
| just accept that Genesis (along with the rest of the
| Bible) is entirely mythology and that they don't have to
| "make it fit" with modern science. It just didn't happen.
|
| >Science researches _how_ something works. Religion
| answers _who_ created it. Religion also makes just as
| many claims about how as who and why.
|
| Religion doesn't _answer_ anything of the sort, it claims
| to answer it, a priori, without evidence.
|
| And of course there are countless religions with
| countless such "answers." You believe only one answer is
| valid, again, without evidence.
|
| This is not an opportunity for you to proselytize to me.
| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| If you think the Bible is childish, then I can only assume
| you've never studied it in earnest. These aren't fairy
| tales. They are a collection of books written in numerous
| styles and languages belonging to various genres drawn from
| many cultural contexts spanning thousands of years and
| whose canon was determined by the Catholic Church in the
| 4th century (most famously, at the Council of Rome when the
| 73 books were listed). Theologians, philosophers, and
| biblical scholars are deepening their understanding of this
| text to this day.
|
| Just look at something like John 1:1: <<In the beginning
| was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
| God.>> Most adults aren't in a position to comprehend that,
| never mind a child. It is one of the most profound
| sentences ever uttered (those with sufficient philosophical
| and theological background might find this recent book on
| this topic of interest [0]). Or consider Exodus 3:14: <<God
| said to Moses, "I am who I am." And he said, "Say this to
| the people of Israel: 'I am has sent me to you.'">>. If
| that doesn't knock you off your feet, then you have not
| understood it. This is an incredibly sophisticated
| metaphysical statement, the meaning of which was unknown to
| the ancient pagans. (A good, short introduction from a
| philosophical angle can be found here [1].)
|
| But more importantly, both you and the author of that
| article have committed a very basic category mistake. The
| Bible is not in the same business as the physical sciences.
| It doesn't answer the same questions. The Bible is not a
| scientific treatise, and the physical science are not a
| path to salvation from sin.
|
| The Bible is also not a text of mere parables and life
| lessons. Indeed, this is one of those distinguishing
| features of Christianity that many fail to appreciate. In
| other religious traditions, it doesn't really matter where
| the truth claims come from or who said them. You could
| accept the claims without knowing or caring about the
| author. But you cannot do that with the figure of Christ.
| You cannot say "Oh, I accept the lessons of the New
| Testament, I think Jesus was a wise teacher. I just don't
| accept his divinity or the resurrection or the miracles or
| all that other stuff my bourgeois sensibilities can't
| stomach." Those claims that are uniquely Christian are
| about Christ and rooted in the authority of Christ. It is
| Christ who saves - a person - not knowledge, not some
| method, not a technology, but a _person_. Christ calls
| himself the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end
| of all creation, eternal, the Almighty, and the source and
| completion of history and salvation.
|
| That's not just some "fun" or "cute" passage. The point is
| that - if Christianity is true - it is through Christ that
| Man's relationship to God is restored _and elevated_. It is
| through Christ that man is ennobled. Man is invited to
| participate in his divinity, and unlike other traditions
| that maintain Man can attain divinity through his own
| efforts alone, the Christian says "no", it is not in Man's
| power to do that, to pull himself up by his own bootstraps;
| only God can do that, and the way is by answering "yes" to
| his offer, by cooperating with him so he can accomplish
| that divinity in us. To do that, God humbled himself
| through the Incarnation to share in our humanity: <<the
| Word became flesh and dwelt among us>>. He entered the
| pathology and disorder of the world to liberate it from it,
| to be the path out of it.
|
| _That_ is what Christianity teaches. _That_ is what
| Christmas is about. Either that is true, or Jesus was a
| liar or a madman. What he wasn 't was merely another "wise
| teacher". Either Christmas celebrates this momentous
| historical event of the Incarnation, or it is ridiculous.
|
| [0] https://a.co/d/1QtQWCP
|
| [1] https://a.co/d/bSqgkXq
| KellyCriterion wrote:
| Did you copy this from catholic.ai or some similar
| domain? :-D
| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| No, this is all the product of old school methods. :)
| tisdadd wrote:
| Merry Christmas to all. On the note above, there is not a lot
| of Biblical Christianity seen today, as many do not read the
| Bible. It is very sad to me, and why I like to make a
| distinction. It is lovely to see such cheer in this thread
| overall though, and if you are a professing Christian I would
| urge you to be reading and studying your Bible.
| jslpc wrote:
| I'd consider myself more _spiritual_ rather than religious, but
| do pray to a god of my understanding. Just wanted to say thanks
| for sharing this, I haven 't actually read the whole Bible but,
| as the other reply states, I'm sure there are so many little
| nuggets like this in there that many ignore.
| pmcginn wrote:
| Thank you for sharing this one! It's from a beautiful parable
| found only in Luke's gospel, from which only "no slave can
| serve two masters" seems to have entered the popular lexicon.
| Your quote, or the closing line "you cannot serve God and
| wealth", better speak to the spirit of the passage.
|
| For anyone interested in approaching the Bible this season,
| perhaps as part of a New Year's resolution, there are many
| wonderful free and paid resources to do so. It's easy to get
| bogged down in a comparison of translations and tools, or to
| ambitiously pick a Bible in a Year reading plan and get waylaid
| in the pentateuch. Instead, I'd recommend starting with the
| Berean Standard Bible (a modern, public domain translation with
| good footnotes) and Mark (Matthew is my favorite, but it starts
| with a genealogy and requires some Old Testament knowledge to
| fully enjoy.)
|
| Here's a link: https://biblehub.com/bsb/mark/1.htm
| NBJack wrote:
| Truth. You can evaluate a lot about someone from the details
| they give attention to, and what they ignore. It's not a hard
| and fast rule, but helpful in determining who you can trust
| with work, important things in your life (including your self),
| etc.
| ndsipa_pomu wrote:
| That's like how you can evaluate someone's character by whether
| they return supermarket trolleys when they're done with them
| appguy wrote:
| Wonderful verse, it's so true, thanks for sharing
| RickJWagner wrote:
| Thank you, and Merry Christmas
| robertwt7 wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone!!
| black_knight wrote:
| Meri Yule!
| reactordev wrote:
| What a year!
| michaelsbradley wrote:
| Merry Christmas
|
| Christus natus est
|
| O Khristos gennietai
|
| Khristos razhdaetsia
|
| hmshykh nvld
|
| bn llh ywld lywm
| whynotmaybe wrote:
| Joyeux Noel
|
| Vrolijk Kerstmis
| tehlike wrote:
| Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has wonderful time with family.
| tuggi wrote:
| Merry Xmas HN!
| bossyTeacher wrote:
| eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJtZXNzYWdlIjoiTWVycnkgQ2hy
| aXN0bWFzIiwidG8iOiJIYWNrZXIgTmV3cyJ9.Lg_fp5WWKGLpbxI_YbRY-CfQiXe-
| gLXzDFMiChkXzY0
| pdevr wrote:
| Just in case anyone does not know, that is a Base64URL-encoded
| string. Used by JWT.
| lschueller wrote:
| Merry Christmas to the awesome hn community!
| merryxmas wrote:
| merry
| (c)hr(r)istmas !! !? /#\
| /#/\\ //#/\#\\ /#//\\#\\
| ///#//\#\\\\ ## [?][?][?]
| ~(Zhu) ~
|
| # # # (tm) - | \ / \ / - - [?] [?] # # > < [?] [?] [?] [?]
| ~ [?] (Zhu) (Mi) [?] !! !? ~ [?] (c) (r) (tm) * 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
| 7 8 9 m (Zhu) (Mi) [?]
| dang wrote:
| Not gonna filter your emojis on Christmas but I'm impressed how
| many of our restrictions you routed around :)
| GreyZephyr wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| jherdman wrote:
| Merry Christmas, friends. And a special cheers to everyone that
| makes this community possible. It's one of the last bastions of
| all that is good about this internet.
| kevinmhickey wrote:
| Hear hear!!
| randycupertino wrote:
| Here's to a happy and healthy 2026!
|
| Thanks HN for all the thoughtful comments and interesting
| articles.
| Grosvenor wrote:
| * , _/^\_
| < > * /.-.\ *
| * `/&\` *
| ,@.*;@, /_o.I %_\ * *
| (`'--:o(_@; /`;--.,__ `') *
| ;@`o % O,*`'`&\ * (`'--)_@ ;o %'()\ *
| /`;--._`''--._O'@; /&*,()~o`;-.,_ `""`)
| * /`,@ ;+& () o*`;-';\ (`""--.,_0 +%
| @' &()\ /-.,_ ``''--....-'`) *
| * /@%;o`:;'--,.__ __.'\ ;*,&(); @ %
| &^;~`"`o;@(); * /(); o^~; &
| ().o@*&`;&%O\ jgs `"="==""==,,,.,="=="==="`
| __.----.(\-''#####---...___...-----._ '`
| \)_`"""""` .--' ') o( )_-\
| `"""` `
| OptionOfT wrote:
| I thought this was Advent of Code! Merry Christmas!
| kylecazar wrote:
| That jgs is killing me
| opello wrote:
| Just because old ASCII and ANSI art is often signed by the
| author, which is something fun I appreciate, see also:
|
| https://oldcompcz.github.io/jgs/joan_stark/xmas.html#treewit.
| ..
|
| And of course, the BBS Documentary: Artscene episode:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrBbm5ZMlo&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv.
| ..
| Grosvenor wrote:
| Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from
| asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We
| could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text
| would be useful).
|
| Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!
| opello wrote:
| Glad I could share it!
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says:
|
| > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more
| spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for
| code.)
|
| I assume that's how the top level comment posted the tree
| which is in a <pre><code> structure.
| Grosvenor wrote:
| But we still miss out on the great ANSI colors.
|
| I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool
| text-mode lightbar interfaces.
| robobro wrote:
| > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more
| spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for
| code.) .-"```"-. /_\ _ _
| __\ | /{` ` ` `} {} {_,_,_,_,}
| )/ a a \( _(<o_()_o>)_ __
| { | /_)(_\ | } _/ \ /`{ \ / }`\
| _| ` | / { '.____.' } \ {_`-._/ /
| {_, ,_} \/ `-._} | `{--}` \ /
| / | / { } | ` / ; | { }
| |\ / \ \ {__} | '..'
| \_.-'}==//\\====/ {_.-'\==\\//====\ |
| ,) `` | \__| | |
| __ | | _ /\ _ | | ||
| | \ _ _ || _ _ / {` ` `}{` ` `}
| {_,_,_}{_,_,_} | || | /-.
| _||_ .-\ jgs / / \ \ |___ / \
| ___| `"""` `"""`
| blinding-streak wrote:
| This guy was prolific! Wow
| Abstract_Typist wrote:
| Not a guy ;)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark
| kylecazar wrote:
| Ahhh of course it's a signature. Makes total sense now.
|
| I thought it was just a straggler.
| e-dant wrote:
| Thought it was obfuscated C code, then I realized it's a tree
| or something
| devsda wrote:
| Challenge issued.
|
| I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C
| code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes
| by the end of the day/season.
|
| Merry Christmas!
| DrewADesign wrote:
| Perl time
| Jnr wrote:
| Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)
| epicureanideal wrote:
| Let's ask an LLM as a test!
| mckn1ght wrote:
| I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling
| christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn't get
| close, maybe next year!
| Wyverald wrote:
| Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers:
| https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c
| jb1991 wrote:
| ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this
| text box no matter how many times I try with different
| formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also
| could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| A screenshot and a link to the resulting JPG?
| natch wrote:
| Try four leading spaces? Test, is this
| monospaced? 012345678901234567890123456789
| a022311 wrote:
| I'll admit it does look a bit like an IOCCC [0] entry. Can
| someone please do it for us?
|
| [0]: https://www.ioccc.org/
| onion2k wrote:
| Pretty sure it's a regex to match email address strings.
| snarf21 wrote:
| Thank you kind stranger for a wonderful laugh on Christmas!
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| It's a red-green tree. Your task is to invert it in O(n)
| operations.
| cs02rm0 wrote:
| I thought it was unobfuscated perl code. Merry Christmas ya
| filthy animals.
| gbraad wrote:
| Lots of great ASCII art by jgs
| Grosvenor wrote:
| Since I might have peoples' attention for a moment (Can no
| longer edit my original post). Might I suggest the King
| William's college quiz this Christmas?
|
| https://kwc.im/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GKP_2025_26.pdf
| bornabox wrote:
| Thanks for posting. This was fun! Towards the end it gets
| really hard. Merry Christmas!
| OrangeMusic wrote:
| Towards the end?! I can't answer ANY of the questions!
| Spare_account wrote:
| You're not expected to know the answers without doing
| research. https://britbrief.co.uk/education/schools/king-
| williams-coll...
|
| > _The paper carries a telling Latin motto: "Scire ubi
| aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis
| est" - "To know where you can find something is, after
| all, the greatest part of learning."_
|
| In the modern era it is acknowledged that people will use
| online search engines to find the answers but hopefully
| we all learn something on the way
| tralarpa wrote:
| I know the answer to 1.5. And I know the story behind
| 1.6, but not the name of the town... That's it :)
| wildpeaks wrote:
| Merry Christmas !
|
| May your gluhwein be hot and your cats purring :)
| dachris wrote:
| Very nice, the introduction to recursion in university (which
| was around that time of the year) was drawing a fractal
| Christmas tree
| dbacar wrote:
| These ascii art remind me the good old days of internet where
| we would celebrate holidays and special days sending these
| little marvels thru our mail client, pine under ibm aix unix
| terminals.
| BewareTheYiga wrote:
| * /*\ /***\ /*****\
| /*******\ /*********\ /*** * ***\
| /*************\ /*** * * ****\
| /*****************\ /*** * * * *****\
| /*********************\ /********** *** ********\
| ||| ||| |||
|
| Merry Christmas, HN
| givemeethekeys wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone!
| shortcord wrote:
| Luke 2:14 [14] "Glory to God in the highest,
| and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"
| Exoristos wrote:
| "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
| toward men."
| squigz wrote:
| Reading some of the translations for the quoted verse, it's
| really interesting how so many different sentiments can be
| expressed with very little changes of words/phrasing.
|
| "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those
| with whom he is pleased!"
|
| "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
| toward men."
|
| "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of
| good will."
|
| https://biblehub.com/luke/2-14.htm
| sapphicsnail wrote:
| There are 2 competing textual varients in the Greek
| sources. The word for "good will" (eudokia) shows up in the
| nominative and the genitive. If it's genitive it modifies
| humankind if it's nominative it's parallel to the first
| half of the sentence meaning, in Heaven let there be glory
| to God, on Earth let there be good will to humankind.
|
| That was fun! I read that verse earlier today and I didn't
| know about the version with genitive case.
| shortcord wrote:
| I think I do prefer the KJV here. Has the classic
| familiarity.
|
| The ESV is the translation I have used since it came out for
| personal reading and study, though.
| arjonagelhout wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
|
| Here's a quad tree:
|
| 11
|
| 11
|
| --
|
| 0110
|
| 0110
|
| 1111
|
| 0110
|
| --
|
| 00000000
|
| 00011000
|
| 00011000
|
| 00111100
|
| 01111110
|
| 11111111
|
| 00011000
|
| 00011000
| coffeemug wrote:
| Hope everyone has a healthy, rewarding and prosperous year.
| Special thanks to @dang and team for keeping this community a
| great place everyone wants to come back to. I love coming back
| here every day.
|
| Merry Christmas to all!
| ilaksh wrote:
| https://codepen.io/LimeWub/full/yQWbNW
| shredprez wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone! Continually grateful for this
| community: stumbling into it as a teenager changed my life and I
| never get tired of spinning out about new tech big and small with
| the folks here. Stay safe, everybody
| tamimio wrote:
| Technically it's merry Yule and Saturnalia, christ has nothing to
| do with it.
| Insanity wrote:
| Saturnalia isn't related to it other than coincidence of dates,
| no?
|
| Either way, merry Saturnalia to you! (Off-by-one day :D)
| oguz-ismail2 wrote:
| found the grinch
| cassiepaper wrote:
| found a glitch
| morshu9001 wrote:
| could just be very adamant about the Jan 6 date
| Minor49er wrote:
| A reader of Ernest L. Martin?
| elemdos wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| anonym29 wrote:
| Merry Christmas! ^ ^^
|
| did I do it right?
| kevinmhickey wrote:
| Merry Christmas to all!!
| koito17 wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everybody!
|
| Love seeing the custom HN theme every year. Sometimes after
| Christmas, I avoid refreshing an HN tab, so I get to see the
| theme just a little bit longer :)
|
| This year is a bit special to me. I recently moved countries for
| a new job, but I moved a bit _too_ soon. Now I am spending the
| holiday season alone for the first time in my life. Learned a lot
| of lessons the hard way over the past week.
| coffeemug wrote:
| Where did you move from (and to)?
| koito17 wrote:
| United States to Japan.
|
| I was a bit eager to start work after three months of waiting
| for the HSP 1b visa. Tried to keep myself busy with side
| projects, and got quite far with embedded Rust. But the lack
| of a "regular schedule" from a job was making me eager to
| start "proper work" again.
|
| So far, it has been a mixed bag of trade-offs. Made it in
| time for various events, got to see a few friends for the
| first time in a while, etc. However, nothing beats the
| comfort and security of one's parents home, especially during
| the holiday season.
|
| Probably obvious to everybody, but seriously do _not_
| schedule a move in December. If it is feasible, spend the
| time to make memories with your family and loved ones.
| coffeemug wrote:
| > nothing beats the comfort and security of one's parents
| home, especially during the holiday season.
|
| A bit morbid, but reminds me of this passage by John Quincy
| Adams:
|
| > Everything about the house is the same. I was not fully
| sensible of the change till I entered his bedchamber [...]
| That moment was inexpressibly painful, and struck me as if
| it had been an arrow to my heart. My father and mother have
| departed. The charm which has always made this house to me
| an abode of enchantment is dissolved; and yet my attachment
| to it, and to the whole region around, is stronger than I
| ever felt it before.
|
| Hope you get to spend the next Christmas with your family!
| GaryBluto wrote:
| > Sometimes after Christmas, I avoid refreshing an HN tab, so I
| get to see the theme just a little bit longer :)
|
| There's always browser extensions/scripts.
| koito17 wrote:
| Yeah, I'm aware of extensions like Stylus and use it on a few
| sites. But my brain is irrational and doesn't treat it the
| same as having a snapshot of HN during Christmas.
| freedomben wrote:
| Indeed, I needed it longer than one day so wrote myself an
| extension. HN didn't seem to care but I still love it :-)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266496
|
| https://github.com/FreedomBen/hacker-news-christmas-
| colors-b...
| dang wrote:
| Wow, perhaps my "too early" assessment was wrong?
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379541
| freedomben wrote:
| Indeed, I didn't notice on desktop (due to my browser
| extension) but when I saw it on mobile at around 2 or 3
| PM Mountain Time I was thrilled!
|
| Thanks for continuing such an awesome tradition :-D
| ekianjo wrote:
| Welcome to Japan!
| _DeadFred_ wrote:
| My first Christmas with mom gone was really tough. Stuck alone
| during COVID in 2021 in a really bad place. I couldn't sleep. And
| I happened to turn on the radio in the middle of the night and
| there was an Amy Grant interview. I almost turned it off, oh no,
| christian stuff I thought. But she talked about her first
| Christmas without her mom. Then they played her song about it. If
| I had been 5 minutes more trying to sleep, or given up on sleep 5
| minutes earlier, I would have missed that.
|
| Anyways, in case anyone needs to stumble upon something similar,
| I couldn't find something so perfect but...
|
| hearing it now it's not as amazing as it was that night I needed
| to not be alone in grief, but here it is:
|
| https://www.npr.org/2016/12/25/506715971/amy-grant-on-faith-...
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOqLV6Om4A
|
| Merry Christmas to you!
| ProofHouse wrote:
| God bless you. Wishing you joy.
| jimnotgym wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone. If you are not Christian, then seasons
| greetings, hope you got the day off anyway!
| flowinghorse wrote:
| * / \ / \ / o
| \ / . \ / + o \ /
| . . \ / o @ \ /_______________\
| | | |___|
| GaryBluto wrote:
| Some interesting and topical links:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas_Church,_Demre
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Christmas_Spider
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer
| lastdong wrote:
| Merry Christmas! HN Christmas theme is always great to see
| * /_\ /***\ /*****\
| /*******\ /*********\ |||
| |||
| bix6 wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone!
|
| Favorite Christmas movie?
| kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote:
| There are so many. Muppet Christmas Carol, of course. Emmett
| Otter's Jugband Christmas is a classic. White Christmas, a bit
| cliche but I love it. Bishop's Wife (with Carey Grant) is also
| a classic. Home Alone for the funny.
|
| And probably a hundred others.
| JodieBenitez wrote:
| gremlins
| GloriousKoji wrote:
| Happy Holidays!
| pazimzadeh wrote:
| Happy Winter Solstice (resurrection of the sun)
|
| Happy Yalda (Yuletide)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda_Night
| andy_ppp wrote:
| Happy Christmas everyone, I'm at 29000 feet on a flight to Hong
| Kong after a mini version of planes, trains and automobiles and
| including cancelled planes and taxis to different airports. I'm
| struck by honestly what a miracle it is that we can travel
| thousands of miles at hundreds of MPH and have okay internet
| access and communicate. I don't think people quite realise how
| delicate all of the technology is now and how easily it could
| fail if we don't all look after each other. I hope you all have a
| brilliant Christmas and new year!
| BiraIgnacio wrote:
| All the best, take care!
| Loughla wrote:
| Oh man, I love flying over the Pacific Ocean (during the day).
| There's just so much nothing but water. It's kind of
| astounding.
| hammock wrote:
| Try a cruise with at least one sea day
| mh- wrote:
| Seconding this. If you're into it, it's pretty awe-
| inspiring to see open water all the way to the horizon,
| 360deg.
| onion2k wrote:
| For a six foot tall person the horizon at sea level is
| only 3 miles away. You could get that experience on a big
| lake if it's more than six miles square.
| NetMageSCW wrote:
| If you think that's the same experience I'm guessing you
| haven't done it. Unfortunately my ocean voyage (from
| Okinawa to California) was when I was too young to
| remember much.
| etrautmann wrote:
| This same experience on an ice sheet is equally surreal
| and fascinating.
| tsoukase wrote:
| A cruise on the Pacific is felt like being a bug on a huge
| cup of sea water. During the night the moon feels like an
| arm length away.
| Arn_Thor wrote:
| Have a wonderful time! The city changes so fast; make the most
| of what it is right now
| sklargh wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN. I offer this group my thanks for something I
| can learn from every day.
|
| This is the Trinity College Choir's advent concert - really puts
| me in the mood for the season, a remarkable performance and
| service: https://www.youtube.com/live/MsUd-
| twzG2U?si=1HMiaD2-Le70-fch
| alexpadula wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| Insanity wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN! Whether you celebrate it or not, hope you get
| some time off to spend with friends and/or family!
| altuzar wrote:
| Merry Christmas! This great community has changed my life so many
| times. Let's go for more!
| duckkg5 wrote:
| Merry Christmas to one of the last great internet communities
| that I actually like to interact with
| mintflow wrote:
| Just noticed that color of the HN top bar is more red which I
| never noticed in previous years.
|
| Merry Christmas to everyone.
| dang wrote:
| (note the red and green story numbers as well)
|
| (this is an old pg tradition btw)
| readthenotes1 wrote:
| Can't believe no one's regifted this present yet:
|
| https://xkcd.com/835/
| renjieliu wrote:
| Sheng Dan Kuai Le
| jadbox wrote:
| Merry Christmas friends!
| adventured wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN
| ProofHouse wrote:
| I am alone. I haven't seen my family in many, many years for
| reasons that I don't want to get into. I am a founder. I check
| Hacker News every day and have learned an immense amount from all
| the commenters, articles, and discussions over the years. I thank
| you all for that. I am truly grateful.
|
| I wish you all a Merry Christmas full of joy, and I hope you can
| all appreciate, share, and express love for those around you, be
| it family, friends, or strangers on the internet. We are all very
| lucky to be part of the HN site and community. I have been here
| for about 15 years (at least that is what it feels like) with my
| other accounts that I don't want to dox.
|
| Glory to God. For believers in Jesus, may the light of Christ
| guide you as it does me in difficult times. Wishing you all His
| peace and joy.
| AlmostCosmo79 wrote:
| Merry Christmas, friend! I am sorry to hear about your family
| situation and that you are alone. If it is any comfort, know
| that I, and I'm sure others, are thinking of you. Thank you for
| your reminder to rest in the Light of the World.
| kaeland wrote:
| Merry Christmas to you as well!
| Gricha wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone! :)
|
| If you'd fancy a little holiday-themed adventure game -
| https://gricha.dev/happyholidays/terminal
| kehvyn wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone! My friends and family are on two
| different continents so it's very quiet this year.
|
| I hope everyone has a wonderful, relaxing, and joyous time.
| sdobbie wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| ashtonshears wrote:
| Thanks all for your contributions to positive chats on this site
| -- have a joy filled holiday
| crims0n wrote:
| Merry Christmas friends! I have a C64 Ultimate under the tree
| this year so looking to have a bit of retro fun that would make
| the HN community proud (after assembling all the kids stuff, of
| course).
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Merry Christmas to all!
| kreelman wrote:
| Merry Christmas !
| dannieeric wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everybody!
| qntmfred wrote:
| and on earth peace, good will toward men
| qD29Lno-oKXPLEv wrote:
| Merry Christmas to everyone and a Happy New Year
| andrepd wrote:
| Happy holidays!
| cniebla wrote:
| Merry Christmas! Feliz Navidad!
| phodo wrote:
| Prompt: create a christmas tree in ascii but that is a merkle
| tree
|
| Answer: Here's an ASCII Christmas tree that is also a Merkle tree
| (Each parent node is the hash of its two children; leaves are the
| "data blocks".) MERKLE TREE
| H(ROOT) / \
| H(0-1) H(2-3) / \ / \
| H(0) H(1) H(2) H(3) / \ / \ / \
| / \ D0 D0 D1 D1 D2 D2 D3 D3
|
| But that's a little too tidy to be a proper Christmas tree -- so
| here's a more "tree-like" version with ornaments, while still
| preserving the Merkle structure:
| H(ROOT) / \
| H(0-1) H(2-3) / \ /
| \ H(0) H(1) H(2) H(3)
| / \ / \ / \ / \ D0 D0 D1 D1
| D2 D2 D3 D3 (leaf)(leaf)(leaf)
| (leaf)(leaf)(leaf)
|
| Notes (so it's actually Merkle-y)
|
| D0-D3 = data blocks (your "presents" )
|
| H(0) = hash(D0 || D0) (duplicated leaf for balance, common in
| Merkle trees)
|
| H(0-1) = hash(H(0) || H(1))
|
| H(ROOT) = hash(H(0-1) || H(2-3))
|
| If you want, I can:
|
| generate a bigger tree (8, 16, 32 leaves),
|
| make the hashes look like real hash strings,
|
| or format it like a perfect triangular Christmas tree silhouette
| while keeping the Merkle parent/child layout.
|
| -- Prompt: format it like a perfect triangular Christmas tree
| silhouette while keeping the Merkle parent/child layout.
|
| Answer: You got it -- here's a perfect triangular Christmas tree
| silhouette that still preserves the Merkle parent/child layout
| (parents directly above their two children, leaves at the base).
| H(ROOT) / \
| +--------H(0-3)--------+ /
| \ +----H(0-1)----+ +----H(2-3)----+
| / \ / \ +-H(0)-+
| +-H(1)-+ +-H(2)-+ +-H(3)-+ / \ /
| \ / \ / \ D0 D1 D2 D3
| D4 D5 D6 D7
|
| If you want it even more like a Christmas tree (full silhouette +
| ornaments)
|
| Here's a slightly more "filled" version while keeping the
| structure valid:
| H(ROOT) / \
| ------H(0-3)------ /
| \ -----H(0-1)----- -----H(2-3)-----
| / \ / \
| ---H(0)--- ---H(1)--- ---H(2)--- ---H(3)---
| / \ / \ / \ / \
| D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7
|
| Edit: Note the emoji ornaments did not come through.
| booleandilemma wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN!
| anthonyIPH wrote:
| This is a good time to start your own tradition, or continue one
| that you find worthwhile.
| nmhancoc wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN!
| guestbest wrote:
| Merry Christmas to All
| robofanatic wrote:
| * ^ ^^^ ^^^^^
| ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
| ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
| ^^^^^ | |
| chrisfusillo wrote:
| Merry Christmas from a long time HN lurker!
| marnett wrote:
| Merry Christmas hackernews community! What a great forum. Peace
| on Earth.
| songodongo wrote:
| Merry Christmas! Christ is King.
| hackerbrother wrote:
| Hey, Merry Christmas. Thanks for posting.
| jeanlucas wrote:
| Merry Christmas, Feliz Natal.
|
| That reminds me I have to update my HN theme to have the
| Christmas theme
| imchillyb wrote:
| Twas brillig, and Santas toes were freezing in the sleigh.
|
| All icey were the Reindeer hooves, moody and unlikely they were
| to play.
|
| Then Christmas Eve did come about and, Santa, mounted slay he
| did.
|
| Present bag taken firm in hand, one for each and every kid.
|
| Down-down-down chimney stacks around each and every town.
|
| Milk and cookies, warmth and hearth.
|
| Every present for every home. Boys and girls light and dark.
|
| Good or bad, used to matter. But Santa had a change of heart.
|
| We all mess up sometimes. And, sometimes, we need a brand new
| start.
|
| Enjoy the gifts! Santa yelled, as the reindeer took off once
| again.
|
| Be kind to one another all, and try to make new friends.
|
| Merry Christmas!
| peterspath wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
|
| And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you
| good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto
| you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
| Christ the Lord.
|
| - Luke 2:10-11
| russellbeattie wrote:
| _Linus van Pelt has entered the chat._
|
| Fun tidbit: The Charlie Brown Christmas animators had Linus
| drop his security blanket when he said, "fear not".
|
| (I'm an atheist, but as an official GenXer(tm), I could almost
| recite this speech from memory.)
| sprybear wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| bradly wrote:
| If anyone would like to add some Christmas lights to their site I
| made a little web component to add a little cheer to any site.
|
| https://github.com/bradly/christmas-lights.js
|
| You can see it in action at https://bradlyfeeley.com and
| https://birdymusic.com
| LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
| Sti-hillah Na-hacht, hei-li-gah Na-hacht.
|
| Wir Frassahn bis die Schwarte kracht!
| jackdecker wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN! _===_ /
| \ | () () | | > | | ___ |
| \_____/ ||| _|||_ / \
| | | | | \_____/ |||
| _|||_ / \ / \ | |
| | | \_______/ || || ||
| || _||_ _||_ | | | |
| doug_durham wrote:
| Your snowman has legs!
| Minor49er wrote:
| Well yeah. This snowman kicks butt!
| Kye wrote:
| That's so he can chase his dreams.
| ekianjo wrote:
| Merry Xmas Everyone!
| didip wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone!
| timenotwasted wrote:
| * /_\ /___\ /_____\
| /_______\ /_________\ /___________\
| /_____________\ /_______________\ |||
| |||
|
| Merry Christmas!
| jackblack369 wrote:
| enjoy your life
| NaOH wrote:
| I'm taking a moment to recognize once more the work that user
| @atdrummond (Alex Thomas Drummond) did for a couple years to help
| others here. I did not know him, don't think I ever interacted
| with him, and I did not benefit from his generosity, but I
| admired his kindness. Just beautiful.
|
| _Ask HN: Who needs holiday help? (Follow up thread)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706167 - Dec 2023 (9
| comments)
|
| _Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492378 - Dec 2023 (210
| comments)
|
| _Tell HN: Thank You_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140096 - Dec 2022 (42
| comments)
|
| _Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34122118 - Dec 2022 (58
| comments)
|
| Unfortunately, Alex died a few months after his last round of
| holiday giving, about 11/2 years ago now.
|
| _Tell HN: In Memory of Alexander Thomas Drummond_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508725 - May 2024 (5
| comments)
|
| If you read the comments in that last thread, know that
| @toomuchtodo followed through last year and kept the tradition
| alive. Amazing and magnificent.
|
| _Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291246 - Dec 2024 (46
| comments)
| Razengan wrote:
| Damn.. :(
| tailspin2019 wrote:
| I remember this awesome guy's posts but didn't know he'd
| passed.
|
| Thank you for posting this.
| calebm wrote:
| Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year!
| PureSin wrote:
| Merry Christmas and happy new year. It's been a tough year with
| stress about work, immigration, family. This little corner of the
| internet always gives me joy, hope, and inspiration to work for a
| better, kinder world.
|
| Hope everyone enjoy the break and start 2026 with energy to keep
| improving yourself and the world.
| keyboardJones wrote:
| Just wanted to say this resonated. Thanks for the kind words,
| and here's to 2026!
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| Meanwhile almost nobody noticed this page:
|
| >single html file, no frameworks, images or webgl
|
| Happy Holidays https://xe.dev/xmas 2 points by jFriedensreich 15
| hours ago
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374804
| devgoth wrote:
| merry christmas everyone! HN has been the first site i open up
| every morning with a cup of tea for the past 10 years or so.
| Cheers to a great community of builders & thinkers.
| HardwareLust wrote:
| Same! HN is my morning paper now.
| medbar wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN! Hope you're all enjoying quality time with
| loved ones (and good food!)
| tom1031 wrote:
| hello
| busymom0 wrote:
| Merry Christmas Hacker News!!!
| fergbrain wrote:
| Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
| maxwelljoslyn wrote:
| I'm on call this Christmas :')
| zanetaylor wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| unangst wrote:
| I'm exceedingly thankful for this site. I turn here (as many of
| us do) for a quick escape, tech news catch-up, deep dive and
| inspiration. Proceed and be bold in 2026.
| keyboardJones wrote:
| Merry Christmas, HN! Thanks for being one of the bright spots in
| my/the internet.
| jimbobthrowawy wrote:
| Crimmas!
| nish__ wrote:
| Cheers, friends!
| glitchc wrote:
| Merry Christmas to all! Hope your holidays are filled with cheer
| and the warmth of your loved ones.
| gbraad wrote:
| A bit Christmessy (Santa and a snow storm), but created a very
| simple preset for my VJ tool:
| https://music.gbraad.nl/revision/?program=threejs:christmas This
| is a reactive visualization, so it expects audio to play.
| Normally I feed a stream or MIDI, but a mic will also work
| throwpoaster wrote:
| Merry Christmas, HN. Thanks for a lovely daily read!
| stack_framer wrote:
| Merry Christmas, hackers!
| armeet wrote:
| theophrastus wrote:
| Merry Christmas!! you gentle nerds you! Peace to us all.
| arthurcolle wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone. It was a pleasure interacting with you
| all this year and I hope for many more.
| reckez wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| fellowniusmonk wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| snowless wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone! Treasure these moments you get with
| those you care about it. Time is our most valuable asset.
| b8 wrote:
| Merry Christmas y'all. Glad to spend time with the fam bam and to
| spend some time resting. Also I'm getting my back nerves burned
| finally after trying to get a pain remediation surgery for a long
| time. Better late than never.
| s5300 wrote:
| >> Also I'm getting my back nerves burned finally after trying
| to get a pain remediation surgery for a long time. Better late
| than never.
|
| Best of luck with this. Back (and neck) pain really, truly
| sucks. Very under-treated in the U.S. as well. IME, completely
| stifles the ability to enter a "flow" state of cognitive
| function.
| wdr1 wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| HaZeust wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone!
| russellbeattie wrote:
| We Californians are still a few hours away from Christmas, but
| hope you people living in the future are having a merry holiday!
| nhhvhy wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| rishabhd wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone!
| robch wrote:
| Merry Christmas to all or whatever you celebrate!
| schwede wrote:
| Merry Christmas hackers!
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Happy Belated Festivus. May you win a feat of strength, and air
| many grievances.
| bhavikjadav wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everybody!
| wraptile wrote:
| Happy winter solstice! I used to like Christmas but current
| version of geopolitics and christo fascists really nerfed the joy
| of Christmas. Maybe they'll release a patch fix by next year
| tombert wrote:
| I feel like Christmas is so secularized and commercialized that
| it doesn't have a lot to do with Christianity anymore.
|
| I'm not saying this as a bad thing; I'm not and have never been
| religious but I still love Christmas.
| mjh2539 wrote:
| Tidings and good cheer to all.
| decibe1 wrote:
| Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
| jeffrallen wrote:
| Due to illness, I've stayed home while my whole family goes to be
| with the grandparents. I will join them later today, with a mask.
|
| It is strange and sad to be alone this morning.
|
| If you are in the same situation, know that you are not alone:
| I'm thinking of you.
|
| Merry Christmas.
| DeathArrow wrote:
| I hope you celebrate with your loved ones and have joy and warmth
| in your hearts. Last but not least, let's not forget those who
| are suffering, sick, or elderly, and let's do a good deed when we
| have the opportunity.
|
| Merry Christmas to all!
| srexrg wrote:
| merry christmas anon.
| danousna wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone, from France.
|
| This not so little corner of the internet keeps delivering year
| after year, thank you all for the quality of the submissions and
| discussions!
| hireclay wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone! <3
| ncr100 wrote:
| BASIC Christmas tree generator:
| https://gist.github.com/nrichards/edb3b3b42154340cdb52af6a2d...
|
| <3 happy holidays, folks.
| chrka wrote:
| https://easylang.online/xmas.html
| jakebasile wrote:
| Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this.
|
| A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day:
|
| Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.
| Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
|
| - Matthew 6:34
| mazokum wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
|
| In case you didn't know, you can check if Santa has reached out
| your location ;)
|
| https://www.flightradar24.com/R3DN053/3d9fb50a
| revorad wrote:
| Merry Christmas, HN!
| knaik94 wrote:
| Merry christmas y'all and happy holidays. I can't put in to words
| how much I appreciate the culture on HN and the conversations
| I've been a part of. It's the only social media site where I
| enjoy reading my historical messages, I can see exactly how much
| I have grown and learned. I am thankful for the moderation and
| self-moderation.
|
| I will continuing trying to give back in a small way, what the HN
| community has given me. Happy holidays.
| paraselene_ wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN!
| doug_durham wrote:
| Merry Christmas fellow HN'ers. I hope that 2026 is more sane with
| less drama.
| NanoWar wrote:
| My fav tree today: https://www.dwitter.net/d/34638
| gbbloke wrote:
| Merry Christmas from Spain. Here's to another year of great times
| spent on a great site!
| dizhn wrote:
| Different times yes. It's also a political thing with people not
| wanting to call it or claim people don't want to call it
| Christmas (but holidays) and Ukraine changing their date a few
| years ago due to them not being Russia.
|
| Merry Christmas everyone.
| amac wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| hubraumhugo wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN! You're one of the few constants among the
| many variables in my life, please never change :)
| Sparkyte wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| block_dagger wrote:
| Happy Ruby 4.0 day! Thanks Matz et al.
| pmdr wrote:
| The main reason I look forward to opening HN on Christmas!
| kaeland wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone! ------
|
| "At the very moment that Augustus is making decrees as the ruler
| of the known world, and Herod is seething in his palace, God
| enters stage right. Not on the clouds, asserting his power and
| dominance, not with all the strength and might he rightly has.
| But in humility. Doing so with a profound statement that he is
| turning all our preconceived notions completely upside down.
|
| One of the most beautiful, yet often overlooked, components to
| this story is Mary's reaction to the news of her Son. In church
| tradition we call her carol The Magnificat:
|
| "My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has begun to rejoice in
| God my Savior, because he has looked upon the humble state of his
| servant.
|
| For from now on all generations will call me blessed, because he
| who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;
| from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear
| him.
|
| He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those
| whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.
|
| He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted
| up those of lowly position; he has filled the hungry with good
| things, and has sent the rich away empty.
|
| He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy, as he
| promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants
| forever." (Luke 1:46-55)
|
| Amidst all the interpretations of Christmas that we hear at this
| time of year from clergy, advertisers, politicians, and
| journalists, we might benefit from listening to the mother who
| sits at the centre of it all. According to Mary, Christmas is
| about God scattering the proud, bringing down unjust rulers,
| lifting up the humble. It's about God turning things upside
| down-- which ironically is the right way up to begin with.
|
| And God accomplishes all of this not "from on high," like the
| decree of Augustus, or the brutality of Herod; instead, God
| achieves his purposes from below in the lowliness of a manger.
| With shepherds, livestock, and foreign magi as the first
| witnesses.
|
| Christmas is about God turning things upside down--which
| ironically is the right way up to begin with.
|
| Every detail about the Christmas story (and the subsequent life
| of Jesus as well), states that God will reverse the mess and do
| so by first getting his own hands dirty. God conquers by humbling
| himself, he will heal by being wounded, he will save us by
| sacrificing himself. The manger is a throne, and works as a
| beacon of how God intends to turn everything upside down.
|
| Grace triumphs over dominance, mercy over force, and Mary's song
| will be the world's song.
|
| Joy will pierce through the sorrow and sadness, fully and
| forever."
|
| - Wes Huff
| omnee wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone!
| sandworm101 wrote:
| And a special hello to those of us at work this morning!
| deadbabe wrote:
| Christmas is always a very hard time of year for some people, if
| you are struggling, just know you are not forgotten and I hope
| you can still have yourself a Merry little Christmas time. <3
| pfortuny wrote:
| Happy Christmas, may we all keep this forum peaceful (but
| nonetheless compelling)!
|
| Thanks to @dang!
| w111 wrote:
| Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
| jll29 wrote:
| Merry Christmas, everyone!
|
| Spread the love, please - try to give everyone around you a
| metaphorical "^" (upvote), in HN-speak, to make this world a
| better place. The Birth of Jesus [Luke
| 2] In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census
| should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first
| census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3
| And everyone went to their own town to register [in tax ledgers].
| --
| https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202&version=NIV
| pkb wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| mrwaffle wrote:
| I hope you all have a nice day!
| agumonkey wrote:
| exponentially so
| https://xcancel.com/IIruoje/status/679604760325033984#m
| KellyCriterion wrote:
| Merry Christmas, dear HN Community!
|
| Being super-lonely this year, I hope all of you are much better
| off than me - this year contained some catastrophic external
| events in my life, which led to permanent change on some "layers"
| of my live (not only material, but also in psy etc.)
|
| I hope the next year will bring the luck to re-align some things
| and bring them backs on the track, otherwise next year I will
| write the same post and add that Im in huge (final) trouble...
|
| Enjoy the time with your family if they are near to you!
| dxdm wrote:
| Merry Christmas to you. You are not entirely alone, in the
| sense that other people have gone through loss and hardship and
| have come out of it eventually, better, happier, and stronger.
| Also, there are strangers like me who wish you well. I hope
| that things will work out for you soon. For now, here's a warm
| greeting and a smile for you. :)
| KellyCriterion wrote:
| THANK you for your words! Its tough these days, really. Hope
| you have some days with your family and friends!
| ta_le wrote:
| I'm a chronic lurker for most of the year but this is a good time
| to say this. I'm so thankful for this community that provides so
| much without succumbing to enshitification as some other parts of
| the Internet. Whether I'm passing time on a train or escaping an
| annoying group discussion, this is by far my favorite algorithmic
| feed to do so. Merry Christmas everyone!
| vjay15 wrote:
| Merry Christmas everybody may this day bring you joy and
| happiness :)
| stevenfoster wrote:
| I became a parent of two this year and my oldest is now 3 years
| old. One of the greatest things in life has to be a newborn baby.
| And more than ever for me, it makes sense that the greatest thing
| would be if God came as a newborn baby.
|
| !Feliz Navidad!
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| Enjoy the journey, make the most of as much of it as possible.
| The present can feel as if it moves very slowly, but the future
| arrives incredibly quickly. My two are 18 and 16 and it feels
| like only five minutes has passed (I'm sure this is how you
| feel about the last 3 years). I miss their unrestricted toddler
| personalities, but I'm also incredibly happy and proud of who
| they've both become as, essentially, adults now.
| cryptonector wrote:
| Time flies by way too fast. But if you did good you'll get
| upgraded to grandparent!
| homeonthemtn wrote:
| Just got a bucket list item out of that article, so thank you for
| that
|
| Merry Christmas!
| sebnun wrote:
| Merry Christmas to everyone.
| nis0s wrote:
| Merry X-Mas, all
|
| Something to read if you're bored,
| https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/holidays/christmas-...
| thepaulthomson wrote:
| Merry Christmas
| thepaulthomson wrote:
| What will you have accomplished by Christmas, 2026?
| weakfish wrote:
| It took me a moment to realize you replied to yourself and
| thought you were randomly attacking a commenter =)
| vargr616 wrote:
| Happy Yuletide!
| SirLJ wrote:
| Festivus for the rest of us!
|
| https://youtu.be/1njzgXSzA-A?si=KIQy9e39lofX0aYP
|
| #FestivusSavesTrees
| ksec wrote:
| Merry Christmas, I am glad HN is celebrating it.
| stackedinserter wrote:
| Happy birthday, Jesus!
| lukebechtel wrote:
| https://youtu.be/z84QdJlPpHE?si=2GIUu8vM5OarmdVx
|
| Sharing the funniest Christmas themed video I know
| WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
| You'd think techies would be immune to religion, but then you
| realize that most of the people here are web devs, so that makes
| sense
| BhavdeepSethi wrote:
| Merry Christmas to you and your family!
| ycombinatornews wrote:
| Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
|
| Thank you HN and HN community for sharing the most interesting
| places of internet, ideas, discussions and points of views.
| Learned a lot and hope to learn more.
| hhao99 wrote:
| Merry Christmas
| hypertexthero wrote:
| Merry Xmas!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU
| ascold wrote:
| Merry Christmas from Montreal!
| mraza007 wrote:
| Merry Christmas HN Sending Warm Greetings to Everyone:
| https://festivegreeting.vercel.app/?id=90564ef5-f137-43be-b6...
| morshu9001 wrote:
| Merry Christmas!
| willmadden wrote:
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| gordon_freeman wrote:
| Folks who have some extra time this Christmas, do check out the
| tv show Pluribus on Apple TV. It's not your typical action packed
| sci-fi show but is very slow burning, philosophical kind of show
| which I found very smart.
|
| Turns out my best 2 tv shows of last couple of years are on Apple
| TV: Severance and Pluribus
| heyyfurqan wrote:
| thanks for the recommendation
| Ocha wrote:
| Merry Christmas
| suobset wrote:
| Merry Christmas everyone. I made a little something on AArch64
| Assembly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385623
| sangeeth96 wrote:
| Merry x'mas everyone!
| sombragris wrote:
| Thanks! Merry Christmas for OP and all of you, too. Have a
| holiday season full of blessings!
| GarnetFloride wrote:
| Merry Christmas, This has been a wild one. On the way to my
| sister's house we got a call from her sister saying their dad
| needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia
| is not getting better and needs 24/7 care. But this will cut off
| the income my wife was bring in for caring for him.
|
| As the call is on our car throws a red light: Transmission
| malfunction: Service now. We take the next exit and happen to
| find a Big O Tire place which is where we get most of our car
| work done. The transmission is seized, but it's Christmas Eve and
| no one is open to get an estimate on a replacement. But that's
| okay a couple of cousins are able to pick us up to get to the
| party.
|
| We get home and find big pile of presents on our doorstep but we
| find they are addressed to names we don't know. So we bring them
| in for safekeeping. Today I look around the apartment building
| and finding one with a dollhouse on the balcony give a knock but
| its the wrong door but they knew the family which was downstairs
| so the right family got the presents finally.
|
| Now cinnamon rolls are baking for breakfast and starting dinner
| prep soon.
|
| But somehow I have to figure out if I should replace the
| transmission on a 13 year old car which needs $4500 in suspension
| work too or replace the whole vehicle.
|
| And find a way to make more money since the part-time job I have
| right now to open up time for caregiving won't be enough for all
| this, and it looks like caregiving won't be necessary for much
| longer anyway.
| blast wrote:
| That's a bittersweet mix of troubles and sweetness. I hope the
| troubles sort out without too much heartache, and that 2026
| brings many good things.
| ellis0n wrote:
| Three years ago I found myself in a difficult situation and at
| Christmas I asked HN for help. Several people sent me invitations
| and work appeared right away, so I went off to pay my bills.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121905
|
| My situation was very tough and the job was tough too, so I
| wasn't able to reply to everyone by email right away,
| circumstances worked out that way.
|
| Now things have improved and I want to say a big thank you to
| everyone who came to help, the HN community, Dang and the team
| for the support.
|
| Merry Christmas and I wish humanity to survive in the age of AI!
|
| PS: Your invaluable support made it possible to improve my
| startup https://acpul.org and I have created an open letter for
| those who would like to join in developing the best programming
| environment in the world: https://www.acpul.org/blog/Open-Letter
| n8ur wrote:
| this is what i did for you for christmas :)
|
| https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/editor.php
| n8ur wrote:
| Meryy Christmas
|
| this is what I did for my friends
|
| https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/editor.php
|
| in german and english available
| https://www.adoptimize.de/weihnachten/2025_pers_v2/?id=demo_...
| fauria wrote:
| !Feliz Navidad!
| delduca wrote:
| Feliz Natal!
| accrual wrote:
| Happy holidays HNers!
| albertobarrago wrote:
| Buon Natale a tutti! Che la coscienza pervada tutti i presenti in
| questo ottante
| albertobarrago wrote:
| Buon Natale a tutti, che la coscienza ci pervada!
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