[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Happy New Year
___________________________________________________________________
Tell HN: Happy New Year
Author : schappim
Score : 425 points
Date : 2025-12-31 13:02 UTC (1 days ago)
| haebom wrote:
| Happy New Year! schappim.
| schappim wrote:
| HNY from Sydney, Australia!
| Tankenstein wrote:
| Happy new year from Estonia!
| mportela wrote:
| Happy new year from New York!
| subhajeet2107 wrote:
| Happy New Year from India
| warmlander99 wrote:
| Happy New Year from Argentina
| RickJWagner wrote:
| Happy New Year from Arkansas, USA!
|
| This year let's all act kindly towards others and learn and
| discuss things in civil tones. In a world where Reddit is the
| norm, make Hacker News a beacon of hope.
| purple_basilisk wrote:
| Happy New Year and the same hope from up here in Vermont
| heyhegazy wrote:
| Happy New Year from Cairo, Egypt!
| decembre wrote:
| Happy new year from France !
| siberianbot wrote:
| Happy New Year from Krasnoyarsk, Russia!
| reconnecting wrote:
| Exactly one year ago, we started tirreno on New Year's night at
| Show HN. Today, we're nearly at 1k stars and dozens of releases
| in.
|
| Thanks so much, HN, for this year.
|
| H_N_Y from the Alps!
| reconnecting wrote:
| Product security analytics
|
| https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno
| ctxc wrote:
| Congrats and all the best!
|
| Page isn't optimised for mobile btw.
| reconnecting wrote:
| Thanks! Pure HTML 4.01, NO CSS.
| benswift wrote:
| HNY from Xizhou, Yunnan, China
| dhruvbhatia wrote:
| Happy New Year from Australia :)
| mano78 wrote:
| Happy 2026 from Venice, Italy!
| Philpax wrote:
| Happy New Year from Melbourne! May it be a good one :)
| messutied wrote:
| Happy New Year from Bolivia!
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| I wonder what events will transpire that will shape our world by
| this time next year.
|
| There will be a new FIFA World Cup champion unless Argentina does
| the unthinkable.
|
| No doubt regime change somewhere. Probably a massive cyber event
| that cripples critical infra. A magnitude 8+ earthquake in a
| populated area?
| chistev wrote:
| Is it really unthinkable that Argentina could defend
| successfully?
| andrewinardeer wrote:
| Okay, not unthinkable but I would think it is very difficult.
| I'm hoping a country who has never won a WC to be champions
| this year. Croatia and Netherlands have done well in the last
| few. Cape Verde and Curacao have also never won.
| TZubiri wrote:
| Messi was already old 4 years ago, now he's bordering
| retirement, will probably play half games or pull a lesion.
| onion2k wrote:
| _There will be a new FIFA World Cup champion unless Argentina
| does the unthinkable._
|
| Maybe the hand of God will help them out again. ;)
|
| (For people who aren't familiar -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God)
| manfredz wrote:
| Happy New Year from Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| warthog wrote:
| Had a pretty bad year. Hoping 2026 will be way better! Happy new
| year everybody
| nhatcher wrote:
| Those happen. Best wishes for 2026
| colejhudson wrote:
| best of luck to you big dog, make sure to work out
| llmslave2 wrote:
| Same, but I look at it like setting the foundation for a better
| few years.
|
| Kinda like rewriting a shitty codebase :P
| ArbriC wrote:
| Happy New year from Albania
| b3lvedere wrote:
| Happy new year everyone!
| pasxizeis wrote:
| Happy new year from Greece!
| a022311 wrote:
| Phile ekhoume akoma kana okhtaoro... Happy new year anyway!
| dahsameer wrote:
| Happy new year from Nepal!
| olalonde wrote:
| Happy New Year from Shenzhen. Countdown in 1h45m. If anyone in
| Shenzhen wants to cheers, I shall be at Revolucion Cocktail.
| yard2010 wrote:
| Happy new year from the middle east! May 2026 be a year of peace
| and compassion <3
| dominicq wrote:
| Happy New Year from Zagreb, Croatia!
| whirlwin wrote:
| Happy new year from Norway!
| tuggi wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| Sharanxxxx wrote:
| 2025 wrap
|
| Got an internship
|
| Rejected a lowpay job offer
|
| Quit the 9 - 5
|
| Built my own SaaS in 15 days as a self-taught dev
|
| Got 250+ users on my app
|
| Made my first sales before even consuming my 1-month stipend
| savings
|
| Crossed $100+ in December revenue
|
| Learned coding + marketing
|
| Didn't skip the gym Deadlift PR: 400 lbs @ 130
| lbs BW Betting on myself in 2026 Happy New
| Year
| worldsavior wrote:
| Impressive deadlift
| chistev wrote:
| Betting on myself too
| Xunjin wrote:
| wow keep doing it ;)
| throwaway638637 wrote:
| Congrats! Making a Saas app is my dream. Never figured out a
| market/use case :(
| Sharanxxxx wrote:
| Dont worry mate. Keep on working and building. Build in
| Public. Show your work on X. Let's connect on X I am
| @besharan_ on X
| lagniappe wrote:
| Congrats on the PR :)
| Sharanxxxx wrote:
| Thanks mate
| treetalker wrote:
| That's a big pull, > 3x BW is beast territory, respect
| colejhudson wrote:
| good for you big dog, keep it up
| llmslave2 wrote:
| Dang, did you see the study posted where apparently load
| doesn't matter? Just do 400x1lb deadlifts instead :)
|
| Nice work, love seeing self taught devs crushing it.
| grvdrm wrote:
| Do you have a link?
| invide wrote:
| happy for you. go go go!
| Sharanxxxx wrote:
| These are my products:
|
| Solo Launches: Product Hunt alternative for solo builders. Get
| visibility and sales. https://sololaunches.com
|
| List My Site: Get listed on 70+ directories for $49
| https://listmy.site
| kalterdev wrote:
| Happy new year from my heart
| antdke wrote:
| Happy New Year from New York City!!
| ingen0s wrote:
| Happy New Year from Canada!
| yarlinghe wrote:
| Happy new year from China !!
| Insanity wrote:
| Happy New Year from Toronto!
| djjdhdhdhdjj wrote:
| Happy New Year's Eve.
|
| Hoping to see the start of the AI-powered technological
| singularity in 2026. The end of humanity is nigh and I can't wait
| to be melded to the machine. This life was kind of boring anyway.
| d99kris wrote:
| Happy New Year from Singapore!
| rwallace wrote:
| Happy new year from Ireland!
| krylon wrote:
| I wish everyone a gentle start into the new year, and that it may
| bring you much health, love, and joy!
|
| May 2026 be a much, much better year than this one!
| gdotdesign wrote:
| Happy New Year from Budapest!
| linhns wrote:
| Happy new year folks!
| GabrielBRAA wrote:
| Happy new year from Brazil! (Still some hours in 2025 to go)
| Xunjin wrote:
| Brazil mentioned!!!
| pdyc wrote:
| Happy New Year, everyone. To the entrepreneurs, may you get
| sticky customers with negative churn, and may they subscribe to
| your highest $$ plan.
| polishdude20 wrote:
| And to the customers, may you be free to move about between
| vendors without lock-in and get the best deals for what you
| need.
| drhonc wrote:
| Happy new year from Germany!
| zilyova wrote:
| Happy New Year from AU
| anfragment wrote:
| Happy New Year from Almaty, Kazakhstan!
| codyklimdev wrote:
| Happy New Year from Indiana!
| ulfw wrote:
| Happy 2026 from Sydney to your hearts!
|
| For all of our sake I hope it will be better than 2025
| sbondaryev wrote:
| Happy New Year from Switzerland!
| dividedcomet wrote:
| Happy New Year from Fort Collins, Colorado USA!
| SmartestUnknown wrote:
| nuutn sNvtsr shubhaakaaNksslu from India!
| nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
| Happy new year from ISS!
|
| Just kidding. AU!
| chrisvalleybay wrote:
| Happy New Year from Oslo!
| vldszn wrote:
| 2025 highlights
|
| - Got 300+ stars on GitHub for my free, open-source project
| EasyInvoicePDF https://github.com/VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf
|
| - Received a lot of great and useful feedback about my project on
| social media
|
| - Moved to a new apartment - better and bigger
|
| - Lost 5+ kg and exercised more than last year
|
| - Visited Hungary, Austria, and Italy for the first time -
| Hungary and Italy exceeded expectations
|
| - My project was featured in a large startup-related Telegram
| channel (50k+ subscribers)
|
| Happy New Year
| eddywebs wrote:
| Here you got +1 star on GH project, thanks for sharing. Happy
| new year !
| vldszn wrote:
| Thank you =) You too!
| shafyy wrote:
| Happy New Year from Berlin!
| haliliceylan wrote:
| Happy new year from Antwerp !
| wastu wrote:
| Happy new year from Indonesia!
| coldstartops wrote:
| Happy New Year from Romania! Let there be highways to a good
| future, and a letter of law for everyone to follow!
| cebert wrote:
| Happy New Year from Troy, Michigan. I spent much of 2025
| recovering from microfracture knee surgery. I'm hopeful for
| better health in 2026.
| lovestory wrote:
| It was a crazy year. Spent half of it living in my college
| building (Read about huge nationwide student protests in Serbia
| where students blocked all colleges because of the government
| corruption for almost 9 months).
| viictoryraves wrote:
| Happy New Year to everybody!
| pkuehne wrote:
| Happy New Year from Leipzig, Germany!
| olelele wrote:
| Eberswalde, Germany joining in the New Years wishes.
| joonjavel25 wrote:
| Happy New Year from Davao, Philippines!
| koito17 wrote:
| Happy New Year from Japan!
|
| The perfect square year is now over...next one is 2116. Silly
| thing to note, but I am thankful for being able to live in such a
| year. Additionally, 2025 was quite transformative to my life.
| Where I am today, in terms of career and personal connections, I
| wouldn't have expected to be here even two years ago.
| ctxc wrote:
| Happy new year! I'd love to take a look at some of the side
| projects you're working on :)
| tqpcharlie wrote:
| Happy new year from Canada!!
| ulrischa wrote:
| Happy new year from Munich
| alexharri wrote:
| Happy New Year from Reykjavik, Iceland!
| cerpins wrote:
| Happy new year from Latvia! Coding highlights:
|
| - Built a website for playing Riichi Mahjong https://online-
| riichi.com
| rnmeow wrote:
| Happy New Year from Taiwan!
| sleey wrote:
| Happy new year everyone
|
| Hope 2026 I can finish my todo list
|
| - Got at least JLPT N5
|
| - Work abroad
|
| - Start working out again
| sharyphil wrote:
| Happy New Year man! Have very similar goals, even JLPT 5,
| started a little pet project I've been building
| https://sharyphil.com/japanese/japanese.html , gym goals too,
| let's go for it!
| thatguymike wrote:
| Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a
| heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I'm confident
| are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of Becoming
| An Adult this year, learning to trust myself and my partner, and
| prioritizing what matters. 2026 will probably be more of the
| same..! But I am hopeful things should ease up over time.
|
| Happy new year, this community has given me a lot and I'm
| grateful for you all.
| ctxc wrote:
| Happy parenting my man. Enjoy what the kid does at each stage,
| don't rush it, and have a great year!
| colejhudson wrote:
| good for you mike, best to you and yours
| sharyphil wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone!
|
| You guys are all truly wonderful, otherwise you wouldn't be here.
|
| As from someone who started my own company last year and decided
| to dive into a dozen of projects, reached new milestones and a
| lot of success, but suffered from severe burnout and depression:
|
| Remember - you can do anything, but not everything. Choose what
| to focus on and what makes you happy and go for it. Happy 2026!
| ridgeguy wrote:
| Happy New Year from the Sierra Nevada foothills.
|
| 2025: - set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products
| - replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors -
| lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide) - secured $ for a new CVD
| diamond system, build starts in January - road trip to see
| friends & family, some for first time in a decade
|
| Wishing happiness, love, accomplishment and adventure to all!
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| What are you going to bling out?
| ridgeguy wrote:
| A bunch of devices (laser diodes, microprocessors, high power
| RF GaN amplifiers) that'll run lots cooler on diamond heat
| spreaders; diamond Raman lasers (high efficiency & power);
| large single crystal diamond wafers - nothing most of us
| would pick up off the sidewalk, but might be very important.
|
| I do have 3 CVD gem brilliants (blue, pink, colorless, 2ct.
| each) that a local jeweler is putting into a 30th anniversary
| piece for my wife. That makes me grin in anticipation of the
| surprise gift - my kind of bling.
| ctxc wrote:
| Had to Google CVD, cool stuff!
| acheong08 wrote:
| Happy New Years! I can't believe it's already 2026. Posting from
| a flight back to the UK. Having wifi in the sky, we really are
| living in the future.
|
| 2025 wrapped: https://duti.dev/blog/2025/2025-in-a-nutshell/
|
| Putting this down as my 2026 goal: At least one commit a day.
| Stop putting things off.
| realty_geek wrote:
| Happy New Year from Nuneaton, UK!!
| NSPG911 wrote:
| Happy New Year from Singapore!
|
| Finally got my first GitHub repo to 100 stars (yesterday!) so
| that is something I'm really dang proud of. This year, I do have
| my Cambridge A Level Examinations coming up, hopefully I don't
| mess it up as bad as I did for my O Level Exams...
| cmenge wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone!
|
| 2025 - Visited/lived in: Austria, Indonesia,
| Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, UAE - Started (too
| many) side-projects - Managed to grow a number of projects
| / startups - Almost back to PRs: deadlift 155k, squat 90k,
| bench 80k
|
| Ideas for 2026 - Focus on getting things done /
| releasing stuff rather than starting / release an app
| (iOS/Android) - Triple revenue - Visit 12 countries I
| haven't visited before (Morocco, Sweden, Finland, Norway,
| Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus, Brazil, Peru, Chile)
| - Deadlift 200k, squat 120k, bench 100k; lose 10k BW -
| Learn formatting on HN :)
| District5524 wrote:
| Happy New Year from Hungary! An exciting new year ahead for all
| of us!
| washedup wrote:
| Happy NYE! Was a big one for me: went sober. Alcohol became my
| band-aid solution for everything, which ended up with me ignoring
| things that needed to be done and putting my relationships, job,
| and health at major risk. I am now 10 months sober and beyond
| relieved to not be where I was one year ago. I found my dream job
| in the process, and was able to transition out of an old job that
| felt stale and holding me back. There is still lot's of progress
| to be made.
| idopmstuff wrote:
| Good for you. Quitting alcohol isn't easy, and you should feel
| proud.
| mghackerlady wrote:
| This is my dads first year sober! I'm super proud of both you
| and my dad =)
| lazarus01 wrote:
| Learning to adapt to stress without unhealthy vices is a skill.
|
| Finding healthy ways to blow off steam maintains continuity
| with your most important goals.
|
| Well done!
| joeevans1000 wrote:
| Way to go, and well done. Just two months to get to a year.
| Alcohol is pushed everywhere now so what you've done isn't
| easy.
| nineteen999 wrote:
| Well done and happy new year.
| colejhudson wrote:
| well done, that's extremely hard. wishing all the best
| bapo wrote:
| Happy new year and all the best to you.
|
| Would you mind me asking how you got off alcohol? How much were
| you consuming?
| cyberge99 wrote:
| You landed your dream job because you were sober enough to put
| in the work. Congrats. Not easy at all.
| unforbiddenYet wrote:
| Happy New Year from Paris, France!
| idopmstuff wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| 2025: My first full year of running my own business, and things
| really went well. Also had my second child, a beautiful daughter
| who is currently not sleeping well at night. I am so tired. I
| lost my dog suddenly - he was my first dog and my companion for
| nine years. I love that guy so much.
| Sharanxxxx wrote:
| I can feel the pain my brother. I too lost my dog (my brother)
| who was with me from 14 years.
| idopmstuff wrote:
| That is terrible - I am really sorry.
| colejhudson wrote:
| best of luck to you big guy, best to you and yours
| teunispeters wrote:
| Happy New Year from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada!
| OfflineSergio wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| 2025 I'm proud of my 2025. I lost weight with a slow pace. I
| launched one of my projects and built on top of it and I'm
| currently at 99 items sold. Hopefull it will get to 100 by end of
| the year. Not gonna lie, bad stuff happened too, but I'm not
| gonna focus on those.
|
| 2026 If everything goes as planned, I'm hoping to see my my
| mother and brother after 4 years. I want live a bit healthier,
| and I want to grow the same side project. I really hope I scroll
| less shitty content.
|
| This is the community I feel safe the most in and really helps me
| keep going everyday.
| smajlo wrote:
| Happy New Year from Cracow, Poland!
|
| It was difficult, but overall great year. Looking forward what
| 2026 will bring.
| nticompass wrote:
| Happy New Year from Western NY :-D
| raw_anon_1111 wrote:
| Happy NYE!
|
| We started traveling a lot post Covid and after all of the stars
| aligned for us. But this is the first year that we have done any
| international travel besides flights Mexico (cruises don't
| count).
|
| We went to Costa Rica (Manual Antonio), London with a day trip to
| France and Canada (landed in Buffalo NY).
|
| We are going to see if Costa Rica is a good Plan B when we retire
| on paper (I am 51) it looks good. We are staying for a month next
| year. I work remotely.
|
| As far as side projects? I plan to continue my 30 year next year
| streak of never doing anything software development outside of
| work. Between continuing to learn Spanish, exercise, and spending
| time with family and friends, I've got enough on my plate.
| pythonbrad wrote:
| Happy New year from Cameroon
| amac wrote:
| Happy New Year!
| toyetic wrote:
| Happy new year everyone Some good stuff in 25 for me - went to
| Yellowstone - dislocated my shoulder for the first time, went to
| pt and feel better than ever - switched jobs for higher pay and
| better wlb - started getting into game dev with the goal of
| releasing in summer 26! Here's to a great 2026 everyone!!
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Love that. Are you working solo or on a small team for the
| game?
| toyetic wrote:
| Just solo, trying to keep my scope small and since I'm making
| a "casino rougelite" type of game the main focus will be on
| the depth of the systems and upgrades.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Sounds fun. You never know if you'll hit that Balatro
| magic.
| p915 wrote:
| Dear nerd blog, Happy New Year to you!
|
| This year I got my PhD (focused in robotics) and walked the
| camino del norte (a pilgrimage in Spain). I am trying to
| transition from academia to industry without success (for now)
| and several threads here on HN remind me I am not alone in this.
|
| Wish you the best people!
| ctxc wrote:
| That's interesting! What was your thesis about?
| pacifi30 wrote:
| Happy New Year HN! Grateful for the insights I get every morning
| from fellow humans through the comments.
|
| This year I sold my company, for a while I thought I will die
| with it. This year has been brutal in some ways, tackling lots of
| daemons and getting through them.
|
| Wishing everyone a great new year celebrations with friends and
| family.
|
| Love you HN.
| barishnamazov wrote:
| Happy New Year from Azerbaijan!
| darubedarob wrote:
| May the odds be ever in your favour
| lb1lf wrote:
| Happy new year indeed!
|
| Still some five hours to go here in Norway, but it has been dark
| outside for a few hours already.
|
| Dinner is just about ready, friends pouring in the doors as we
| speak and as for fireworks, seeing as we live quite rurally, a
| couple of kilos of dynamite is at the ready.
|
| Professionally, 2025 has been kind to me. Got to visit Japan and
| Libya for the first time and am going back to Japan next week for
| a scientific cruise down to the Mariana trench or thereabouts;
| when back, I will start working on the next generation control
| system for our products, having spent the past few months trying
| to learn enough about control system architecture to hopefully
| avoid the most obvious pitfalls.
|
| Oh, and I have learned from painful experience a few of the
| things NOT to do evaluating the current design...
| TimCTRL wrote:
| Happy New Year HN! Representing sub saharan Africa
| wincy wrote:
| Happy new year!
|
| I'm going into 2026 about 100 pounds down since last new years.
| I'm excited to see what the future holds when I'm in the best
| physical shape of my life. GLP-1 inhibitors are a modern miracle
| (admittedly to solve a modern problem). I realize now I wasn't
| active because I was fat, not vice versa. I rode hundreds of
| miles on my bike this year, towing my wheelchair using daughter
| along for the ride in a bike trailer. If you're in a situation
| where you feel losing weight is hopeless, I strongly encourage
| you to consider these medications. It could change your life for
| the better, in strange ways you might not expect. I also paid off
| all my credit cards (and cancelled them) this year, and I swear
| it was only possible because losing weight has allowed me to be a
| better and more cognizant long term planner.
|
| Here's to a great year of self improvement and refinement. Happy
| new years everyone!
| TheAtomic wrote:
| Congratulations and I hope your article inspires others to
| consider them as well.
| nhatcher wrote:
| Happy new year from Indore, India
|
| https://app.ironcalc.com/?model=OIDKt-KaOnt-52CaU
| peterspath wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| In 2025 I:
|
| - read 52 books with a total of 17924 pages
|
| - hiked 41 times with a total of 533.1 kilometres
|
| - wrote 225 blog posts --> https://peterspath.net
|
| - moved 2781.2 kilometres by walking, hiking, biking, swimming,
| running, etc.
| therepanic wrote:
| Happy New Year from Belarus!!
| lazzurs wrote:
| Happy Hogmanay to everyone in HN land.
| Toony wrote:
| Ethiopia Happy New Year
| rnts08 wrote:
| Happy new year, 2025 was another bummer but here's to 2026.
| dev345 wrote:
| Happy New Year from India
| TurkishPoptart wrote:
| This year, I got engaged to my favorite person on memorial day.
| Then yesterday, my fiancee said she actually doesn't want to have
| kids, despite being the only man ever she had considered having a
| family with. So it was a whole night of turmoil, and tears, and
| we slept in separate beds for the first time last night. I guess
| we are parting amicably. She says that I will be a great father
| someday and I guess we are breaking up, even though we still love
| each other. I'm not taking this news well.
| shinryuu wrote:
| I'm sorry to hear. I don't know the reason why your financee
| don't want kids.
|
| I have been very hesitant to have kids for a long time for many
| reasons. My wife have been wanting to have kids, so have felt
| quite conflicted.
|
| Then this year I read the book after the spike which put a lot
| of this in perspective which made the thought of having kids
| less daunting somehow.
|
| https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/after-the-spike-dean-spears...
|
| I wish both of you well in how you navigate the path forwards.
| zakokor wrote:
| Feliz y prospero ano para todos desde Colombia!
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| Happy New Year HN, from Manchester in the UK
| iumo wrote:
| Happy new year!
|
| This year turned out to be bad due to burnout, hoping 2026 will
| be better for everyone!
| rijavecb wrote:
| Happy New Year from Bucharest!
|
| My wrap includes getting married, travelling to Italy, Slovenia
| and Germany, finally making a few sales of the app I'm working
| on, and dealing with residence permit. In 2026 I will continue
| working on my apps and hopefully make more sales, I hope to do
| some freelancing, fish more with dad and travel a bit.
| mraza007 wrote:
| Happy New Year Everyone Wishing Everyone a great a year ahead and
| great health
| arjunkomath wrote:
| Happy new year!
| buzzier wrote:
| Happy 0x7EA Year!
| Shadowed_ wrote:
| Happy New Year from Serbia.
|
| 2025 was bad in best way and good in worst way... Our government
| is increasingly autocratic in last decade to almost straight
| dictatorship but last year was year of protests that started
| cornering government. That led to increased oppression. It's
| worse for both sides but it's going in good direction albeit
| slowly. Spent 2025 in dozens of protests, rode bicycle across the
| country with students to raise awareness, was surrounded with
| young, great and positive people. Breathed tear gas and got
| beaten by police. But never felt more alive.
|
| 2026: I hope this government is done and gone in this year.
| Freedom is enough to get in a year.
| TheAtomic wrote:
| Well done. Be strong and good luck!
| cod1r wrote:
| 2025 wrap
|
| started committing to healthier habits like going to the gym and
| jogging.
|
| got some programming work experience under my belt.
|
| started to cook for myself.
|
| learned how to use a multimeter and fixed my house heating.
|
| went to GDC and explored san francisco.
|
| also finishing advent of code is always a highlight in my book :)
| cjohnson318 wrote:
| I got a stable job! I was unemployed for a few months, we paid a
| small fortune for health insurance, and I got ulcers from the
| stress, but things worked out! I enjoy my team, and I'm hopeful
| about 2026.
| nyeb wrote:
| Happy New Year HN.
|
| I write this from St Thomas' hospital in London, a few hundred
| meters from Big Ben, the London Eye and the centre of London's
| iconic fireworks, which we watched a few hours ago.
|
| My wife and I are here for the birth of our baby daughter, which
| will complete our family after being lucky enough to be blessed
| with two beautiful sons (aged 3 and 5).
|
| My god the NHS in the UK is a miracle. We've had two difficult
| births previously, in Cambridge Addenbrooke's hospital. We've
| always tried our best to have babies at the best local hospital
| (within 30 miles or so) with the best staff in the event
| something goes wrong. We're at St Thomas' after recently moving
| house.
|
| After the two difficult previous births we gathered as much data
| as we could for this one, using a Data Subject Access Request on
| my wife and each baby to get huge volumes of data. We analysed
| this data, got insight from AI, spoke to experts and built our
| birth plan for our daughter around the data. Since our two
| previous difficult births were overdue, it was agreed my wife
| would be induced on the due date, if Labour hadn't come along
| naturally.
|
| That due date was yesterday, we spent the previous night in a top
| London hotel across the road from the hospital enjoying some time
| just the two of us, going out for dinner and some walks around
| London to get the oxytocin flowing.
|
| We arrived at the hospital yesterday afternoon ready for
| induction, and heard the worst news imaginable - the baby had no
| heartbeat. Scans confirmed we had lost our daughter, most likely
| in the hours previous.
|
| In the intervening 36-hour gauntlet, my wife has laboured,
| suffered and successfully given birth to our beautiful daughter's
| perfect but lifeless body. My god, women are strong.
|
| We were able to spend precious time together and dress our
| daughter. The services at UK hospitals for this type of tragedy
| are truly a wonder to behold. The nurses are some of the kindest
| and most dedicated people I have had the pleasure to meet.
|
| Before all this, we joked that it would be my wife's style to
| give birth to the baby during NYE overlooking the fireworks in a
| blaze of drama, with everything perfect and finished in time for
| a glass for champagne.
|
| Instead, after we had created the memories we wanted to (around
| 23:30 UK time) the nurses invited us to a private darkened
| hospital room overlooking the London Eye. I carried our daughter
| to the room and brought my wife separately a few moments later.
| We watched the fireworks together, just the three of us, and
| comforted each other.
|
| I know this is a sad story, but its purpose is not to be sad.
|
| My wife is the eldest of three daughters, who were all expecting
| daughters within six weeks of each other in reverse order. The
| youngest went first with her first baby. The second sister went
| second with her second. And the eldest (my wife) went third with
| her third. Thankfully, the other two baby girls arrived safely
| and happily around their due date.
|
| The purpose of this story is to raise the question that I can't
| get away from in this last 24 hours - is [fate / the universe /
| the simulation / sod's law] just forced to create perfect
| tragedies like this? Where the events would otherwise be so
| perfect as to be unbelievable, and so you are put back in your
| place?
|
| It certainly feels like that at the moment.
|
| My wife and I are strong and will get through it, thanks in no
| small part to the way the fantastic NHS has supported us on this
| harrowing journey. We will again gather as much data as possible
| and based on that, decide whether to rebuild our will and faith
| to try again. Either way, our family will be complete.
|
| I've been comforted somewhat thinking of the scene in Only Fools
| and Horses where Del describes a similar situation to his
| bereaved brother Rodney as:
|
| "A dropped stitch in life's tapestry"
|
| I have come to this site daily for ten years to be inspired and
| intrigued. So, thanks HN.
|
| [I've sent this from a newly registered account because it's too
| much for me to share publicly, or even discuss with family and
| friends at the moment, but somehow helpful for me to write words
| for strangers to read. I'll email dang my other account to show
| I'm not some tragedy LLM bot!]
| uean wrote:
| Thinking of you tonight, HN friend :(
| leohonexus wrote:
| I'm so sorry for you and your wife's loss. At the same time,
| I'm struck by how strong your wife and you are navigating this
| tough situation. From an Internet stranger to another, may the
| loving memories of your daughter live on.
| aunlead wrote:
| So sorry for your loss. Our thoughts and prayers to you and
| your family.
| uxcolumbo wrote:
| That sounds unimaginably tough, and I admire the strength and
| mindset both of you share as a couple.
|
| Wishing you and your wife (and your boys) a better 2026 and
| beyond.
|
| And hopefully the NHS will continue to exist, I read about its
| struggle and the call for it to be privatized and end up like
| the system in here the US.
|
| Huge respect to healthcare workers and wish they'd be
| compensated better.
| thevillagechief wrote:
| I'm so sorry for your loss. My wife went through a difficult
| but successful birth of our first daughter, and I cannot watch
| or read about births without involuntarily welling up. I pray
| your family will be comforted and that the new year will bring
| better tidings!
| sidcool wrote:
| Happy new year, HN.
| kombine wrote:
| Happy New Year, everyone! 2025 was tumultuous but in the end I
| accomplished my professional goal of the last 10 years:
| transition from academia to industry. I went through several job
| rejections (in the hindsight very fortunately so), decided to
| commit to my research project and a startup idea, endured months-
| long unemployment and wound up at an up-and-coming industrial R&D
| AI lab. I feel like I drew a lucky ticket, but this is only a
| beginning and I need to double down on my goals in 2026. While
| the locus of my attention was on survival, I drifted away from
| someone I loved dearly and eventually I lost them. My newfound
| success has tasted bittersweet.
|
| I also established a sleep schedule with consistent going to bed
| time at or before 10pm and waking up before 7am; this did wonders
| for my productivity. I am still affected by anxiety and looking
| for ways to improve my focus in 2026. I am hoping that it will be
| my most prolific year.
|
| I could not have done this all without several of my close
| friends and collaborators, to whom I owe a big thank you.
| sodafountan wrote:
| Happy New Year, everyone.
|
| I was laid off back in 2023 from my development job.
|
| I'm hoping to be able to get back to work in the New Year after
| taking some time off.
|
| Wish me luck!
| nineteen999 wrote:
| Thankyou and same to you. Last year for me was rough in many
| ways, watching a classmate from my high school go on trial for
| probably the world's most famous triple-murder in recent memory.
|
| It affected me so deeply and of course I didn't understand why,
| so I went head first into self-discovery to try and understand
| it. Not sure I 100% have the answer yet but well on the way.
|
| On the bright side, I managed to keep the weight off I had spent
| 4 years losing (35 kg!) and of course work is as wonderful as
| ever for me. So all that was good.
|
| Happy new year all - may 2026 be better year for everyone.
| colejhudson wrote:
| hell yeah, hope you keep off that weight. Best to you and
| yours, hope all the best
| preommr wrote:
| Happy New Year, hope that everyone is doing well.
|
| Here's to another year of complaining about AI, rewriting things
| in Rust/Zig, and warning about dangers of social media!
| appwiz wrote:
| Happy New Year from the foothills of the Cascades in Washington
| state!
|
| Vibe coding helped me build several small games for my daughter
| and unlocked her interest in programming.
|
| Wishing everyone a wonderful 2026 - it's going to be a great
| year!
| kimchidude wrote:
| That's very cool and something I'd love to do for my son! What
| environment were you working with and are any of your games
| avail online?
| Yash16 wrote:
| Happy New Year! A small thank-you gift to start your year right.
| https://picxstudio.com/share/DF9_t0T_EdciER5p
| zatkin wrote:
| It's unreal how real this looks. Happy New Year!
| sixthDot wrote:
| Another one bites the dust
| 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
| Ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive
| invide wrote:
| Happy new year, from invide
| Theoleff wrote:
| Happy New Year everyone. 2025 was a big year for me.
|
| I spent a lot of time writing and sharing technical content,
| mostly about modern CSS. I didn't expect much from it at first,
| but it slowly compounded.
|
| Over the past year:
|
| - On LinkedIn[0], my posts reached ~10M impressions and ~15k
| people decided to follow along.
|
| - 1,800+ joined my newsletter.
|
| - My blog[1] went from ~1-2 Google clicks/day to ~40/day.
|
| - I published a book[2] about building UI with less JavaScript
| (185 copies sold so far).
|
| What surprised me most wasn't the numbers, but how much people
| care about clear, practical explanations and simple tools.
|
| May 2026 be even better :)
|
| [0]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theosoti/ [1]:
| https://theosoti.com/ [2]: https://theosoti.com/you-dont-need-js/
| altreality2050 wrote:
| Happy New Year! Just finished One year of our startup in the
| wildlife luxury experiences space. It has been a wild journey
| coming from building tech startups to doing something so
| different, yet so similar.
| dorianniemiec wrote:
| Happy New Year!
|
| In 2025, I have learned Rust by creating a project in it (a web
| server), and learned a lot about web servers and reverse proxies
| along the way. I have seriously leveled up as a developer.
|
| I have also created what's now the most popular project I have
| ever created.
|
| I think in 2026, I'll go even further!
| samdobbie wrote:
| Happy New Year - 2026 will be a great one!
| chaosprint wrote:
| Happy new year every one.
|
| I was about to check out the GitHub activity summary like last
| year, but then I realized that a lot of things weren't actually
| pushed to GitHub this year. So I used Vibe-coded to take a look:
|
| https://github.com/chaosprint/hindsight
|
| I started this year with coding and finished it with coding. In
| between, I was preparing for and caring for my newborn.
|
| Hope I can release something interesting in 2026.
| abicklefitch wrote:
| I lost hope in humanity and decided to retire, and not bother
| quitting smoking anymore. I relearned French, and my
| understanding of category theory doesn't suck as much, anymore. I
| solved a novel problem and had it stolen. My accuracy shooting
| has increased. My doctors no longer think I need medication, and
| I got a referral to a fertility specialist. But I finally gave up
| wanting children. So, sanity achieved?
| cardboardmetal wrote:
| Happy new year everyone :)
| vjay15 wrote:
| Happy New year fellas
| Anton_Ingachev wrote:
| Happy New Year Everyone
| adityaathalye wrote:
| May _The Source_ Be With You. _\/
| <(-_-)>
| labarilem wrote:
| Happy New year to all! I've set my goals for this year and can't
| wait to see how it goes.
___________________________________________________________________
(page generated 2026-01-01 23:01 UTC)