[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving ___________________________________________________________________ Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving I'm really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN. Author : mr_o47 Score : 446 points Date : 2022-11-24 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago) | birdies wrote: | I'm thankful for this community! Sometimes I don't feel smart | enough to be here... but I am thankful to lurk for now! | Aeolun wrote: | > Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here | | That's exactly why it's a great place to hang around though. | thoughtstheseus wrote: | Thanks everyone. You make my days better :) | siverson914 wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving! :) | prhn wrote: | To me, HN delivers on what I'd hoped the internet would largely | become. | | Happy Thanksgiving | Balgair wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving all. | | We've got the 'rona again, so pretty small one today. If you're | celebrating with loved ones and friends, give them a hug. Wishing | I could do that. Don't let those important yet small moments | pass. | creativeCak3 wrote: | Thank you all so much for making this space on the internet one | of the best places to learn and share knowledge. | | Gracias :) | pacomerh wrote: | Certainly thankful as well. There's no other resource like this. | I only hope this quality of moderation keeps it up for a very | long time. | hprotagonist wrote: | _You can get anything you want at Alice 's Restaurant | | Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the | railroad track..._ | pjmorris wrote: | Arlo Guthrie's song is an important part of my Thanksgiving day | tradition. | vanilla_nut wrote: | Thank you very much, dang, for working tirelessly to moderate and | maintain an amazing community. I know nothing's perfect, but this | community keeps me coming back (for better or for worse) because | of the quality discussion. Moderation is at least half of that. | dopeboy wrote: | This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one | I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. | | Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for | keeping things in check. | MouseTown wrote: | I feel that everyone likes @dang but he's still underrated. | Seriously good mod - exceptional, in fact. | tonystubblebine wrote: | I was just coming here to say this. I've been part of the | community since 2007, which feels like a really, really long | time. But I've learned a lot, both from the submissions and the | comments. This is probably the only place on the Internet where | I always read the comments or read the comments instead of the | article. | IndigoIncognito wrote: | It can definitely be an echo chamber, the mods tend to flag/ | [dead]/ bury posts and comments for no reason and turning on | [dead] visibility is basically just 4chan, however I have | received the most legitimate use from this site as people on it | tend to be experienced and knowledgable | Aeolun wrote: | I don't think you can have both. The mods cannot flag/bury | things for no reason, and then have 4chan when you turn on | [dead] visibility. | | I'm personally of the opinion that even things which get | flagged on here are pretty tame compared to the rest of the | internet (e.g. reddit) | aftergibson wrote: | Couldn't agree more. I'm not sure how @dang and crew manage it | but to continue to be a place of connection on the internet I | don't loathe genuinely is a huge testament and I'm very | grateful this community exists. | spoils19 wrote: | HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the | Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now | not-so-wild west. | | Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold | rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the | economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and | busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off. | | As more and more young'uns join and jaded veterans return to | throng the tavern alike, it often seems to be on the brink of | either exploding with the largest gun fight in history, or | jumping the shark. | | And yet, against all odds, it retains its original magnetism - | drawing throngs that grow in number and diversity while seers | like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 and | https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek continue to | return - dispensing worldly wisdom worth its weight in gold | from corner tables. | | The secret is the man at the corner of the bar @dang, always | around with a friendly smile and a towel on his shoulder. The | only sheriff in the west who still doubles as the friendly | bartender: always polite, always willing to break up a fight | with kind words and clean up messes himself. | | Yes a cold-hard look from him is all it takes to get most | outlaws to back down, yes, his Colt-45 "moderator" edition is | feared by all men, but the real secret to his success: his | _earnest_ passion (some call it an obsession) for the seemingly | sisyphean task of _sustaining_ good conflict - letting it | simmer but keeping it all times below the boiling point based | on "the code": | | "Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different | aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, | between different individuals or between different groups. It | follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct | elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible | suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but | the toleration of it--the capacity to bear the tensions of | doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold | judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be | discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both | sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the | acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the | varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single | personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to | expression." | | May the last great tavern in the West and it's friendly | bartender-sheriff live long and prosper. | nateb2022 wrote: | Thank you! Happy thanksgiving!! | balls187 wrote: | Thanksgiving is one of my fav holidays. | | This year my boys and I are traveling out of state to a waterpark | just to try something different. | jalino23 wrote: | happy thanks giving!! thank you so much for the knowledge HN!!! | pirate787 wrote: | Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation: | | The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with | the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these | bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to | forget the source from which they come, others have been added, | which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to | penetrate and even soften the heart which is habitually | insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. | | In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, | which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and | provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all | nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected | and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the | theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly | contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. | | Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of | peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the | plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders | of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of | the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than | heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding | the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the | battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of | augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance | of years with large increase of freedom. | | No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked | out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most | High God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath | nevertheless remembered mercy. | | It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, | reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one | voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my | fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also | those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign | lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November | next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father | who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while | offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular | deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence | for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His | tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, | or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are | unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of | the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to | restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine | purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, | and union. | Wistar wrote: | Also, this Proclamation issued by Governor Wilbur Cross on Nov. | 12, 1936 | | "Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy | oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the | air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen | under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to | join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has | brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another | year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the | twenty-sixth of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving for | the blessings that have been our common lot and have placed our | beloved State with the favored regions of earth -- for all the | creature comforts: the yield of the soil that has fed us and | the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained | our lives -- and for all those things, as dear as breath to the | body, that quicken man's faith in his manhood, that nourish and | strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before him: | for the brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for | steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after | truth; for liberty and for justice freely granted by each to | his fellow and so as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory | and mercy of peace upon our land; -- that we may humbly take | heart of these blessings as we gather once again with solemn | and festive rites to keep our Harvest Home. | Aeolun wrote: | Is it just me, or were people much better at writing these in | the past? | ramesh31 wrote: | Just finished rewatching Ken Burns' Civil War for probably the | tenth time. It's a holiday tradition for me. To anyone | unfamiliar, it will completely transform your understanding of | American history, and Lincoln as a man. | | Can't recommend it enough, and it's on PBS digital through | Prime Video now. | xwowsersx wrote: | Just beautiful. Abe had a way with words. | odysseus wrote: | Thanks for this! I am sending it to my father who is very fond | of Abraham Lincoln. | [deleted] | attilaberczik wrote: | Thank you to you as well | ravenstine wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving to all! HN is definitely near the top of | things I'm thankful for. | zzzzzzzza wrote: | happy thanksgiving \\\//, | kodon wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving! | joshmanders wrote: | Today's a real shit day for me, not because of the holiday but | because of the events in my life leading up to today, but I just | wanted to pop in and tell HN Happy Thanksgiving because this | community is wonderful even with its flaws. Thanks for everything | over the years and many to come. | holler wrote: | Time heals all, be kind to yourself. Happy Thanksgiving. | barbarr wrote: | Best of luck, hope things get better! <3 | deanmostard wrote: | I don't know what happened, but, just for now, try to focus on | here and now, enjoy your day best you can, by yourself or | someone you loved. | | If anything fails, remember, I wish you a truly happy | thanksgiving, and I hope you can finish this day better than | you start it. | fontinalis wrote: | Wish you all the bests! Hope things are getting better :) | dzink wrote: | The more noise fills news and social media, the more I end up | consuming HN instead of any other source. With GPT3 generated | content now flooding the web that applies even more so. I'm going | to eventually convince my non-engineering friends to join in as | well. Maybe HN can apply some tagging on content so they can | filter for the less technical stuff that is more accessible to | them. | | Thank you HN and thank you Dang and YC!!! | s5300 wrote: | Today, as will be spent laying on the cold & hard ground of a | floor in the high desert of Cali - maybe with a warm cup of tea - | I find myself thankful for the freely accessible intellectual | stimulation on HN, which has played a major part in (mostly) | keeping my sanity for quite some time now (think I found this | place in 2012, never felt need for account tho), while | essentially bedridden. Though I often find some of you on here to | be a bit ghoulish, the site is most definitely a net positive for | me. | | Thankful for my few friends - of all I'd intentionally pushed | away, as to not have them witness my medical condition rapidly | deteriorate the me they knew - who have continued to care about | me, & attempt stay in my life. | | Thankful I can still piss as biology intended, & that I'm not in | a wheelchair or similar mobility device. Sorry for the crassness | of this remark for those who can't & do need said devices, but | either of those two for me, & I would soon take exit of our life. | | Now over half of my young life completely encompassed by extreme | pain, discomfort, & debilitating symptoms. Career path likely | irreparably derailed, despite hard earned full ride scholarships. | Doctors who didn't give a fuck until it was near too late, & now | more doctors who still mostly don't give a fuck. | | Be thankful for your health & able body if you have it. For those | who do, I advise making a plan, grounded in reality, as to | whether or not you want to fight an unfathomably painful & | endlessly hopeless battle, should one ever come your way - or to | be at peace with the fate behest (is this a properly used word. I | don't know, too much brain fog right now) you, & a plan to leave | our world in the most comfortable way. Before slowly watching | your life's achievements fade away into nothingness, & you/your | friends having to watch you wither away into nothing more than | the most physically & mentally fragile husk of who(m?) you once | were. | | Take care of your bodies, desk nerds. & should the need arise, | seek treatment as early as possible, & use whatever means | necessary to get it. | | Edit: For visibility & my principles - though I am not one of | them, I am very NOT thankful for the active culture war currently | raging against the LGBTQ+whatever folk who live in our (US) | country. Let them live their fucking lives, & de-platform the | psychopaths trying to genocide them. | muhammadusman wrote: | I've been reading HN almost daily for almost a decade now. I | found it through a friend who has taught me a lot about | programming, the internet, and nerdy things in general. When I | discovered HN, it felt like I had a whole community of people | similar to my friend who introduced me to it. | spinlock_ wrote: | Fully agree. Without HN, I wouldn't had read books like Code, | Designing Data-Intensive Applications or Operating System: Three | Easy Pieces (to name just a few). I'm usually a passive reader | here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their | knowledge and wisdom and therefore help me to learn new things on | a (almost) daily basis. | Simon_O_Rourke wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving y'all from upstate New York... Let the family | arguments commence!! | Kudotap wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving to dang and to the HN community | jshzglr wrote: | I want to thank all the individuals who spend extra time making | thoughtful and balanced comments. These tend not to get as much | engagement on site but I promise they ruminate in my mind and | help me grow as a person. Thanks. | citrusynapse wrote: | Lurkers make the best commenters, because they only come out of | the woodwork for something they're passionate about. | | It's all one big ecosystem, and I quite like this corner of the | reef | cheerioty wrote: | Looking forward to my very first thanksgiving today! (currently | visiting the Bay Area from Sydney) | monetus wrote: | Hope everyone has a good one. | | Any recipes to share? | Minor49er wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! | gnicholas wrote: | Thankful for the mods here, especially @dang! | pjmorris wrote: | It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does | anyone else check the comments before following the link? The | perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information | diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving! | drchickensalad wrote: | I rarely read the link and I always read all the comments. | Often you can tell if the article is actually worth it in the | process | edelans wrote: | same here, and I even usually scan the front page for the | most commented links when I'm in a hurry! | tomcam wrote: | I too seldom go to the article 1st. The comments are usually | far better. | wffurr wrote: | > Does anyone else check the comments before following the | link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my | information diet. | | Almost always. A quick scan often tells me whether the article | is worth reading or not: topic and quality. | | I hold off on responding to anything until I have read the | article, though. | Flockster wrote: | Yup, I use TreeStyleTabs and the Open in New Tab Extension set | to this domain. | | That way, the root page is the main page, the comments are | children and the link and other links from the comments are | children of it's comments page | wonjun wrote: | wow, TreeStyleTabs looks great. | cryptoslug wrote: | !! I thought I was the only one. :D | eigenhombre wrote: | I frequently don't follow the link unless the comments make me | intrigued enough to do so. Partly because of the typically high | signal/noise ratio for top comments here, and partly because of | the ubiquity of paywalls, popups, horrible design and other | JavaScript-heavy forms of user-hostility (or at least non- | friendly or misguided) one finds in the average website. | | The simplicity of presentation on Hacker News is one of its | defining virtues. | accrual wrote: | Speaking of simplicity, the minimal amount of JS that Hacker | News does use is worth a look for anybody who hasn't yet: | | view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js | froggychairs wrote: | I find the comments and discussion often provide far more value | compared to the actual articles. Especially when it comes to | links about health. Lots of pseudoscience out there and very | grateful for the knowledgeable community to shed light on it | when it shows up. | cipheredStones wrote: | HN has really impressed upon me the value of site loading speed | - one big reason I often check the comments first is that | _they're there instantly_, whereas clicking on the actual link | is a bit of a crapshoot! It's surprising how influential that | difference is. | eddsh1994 wrote: | Honestly I've always gone comments first then go down some | rabbit hole after five comments of tangents | yuppiepuppie wrote: | +1 and I'm greatful for dang and the moderation team for making | it a great community to discuss and share ideas and opinions | that I would never would have come across otherwise. Thank you. | qorrect wrote: | Thankful for HN and all of you! | Kerima wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you so much | coolbreezetft22 wrote: | agomez314 wrote: | Discovering HN has given me a better education than my masters | degree | sph wrote: | I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would | not be as fun if HN didn't exist. | | Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business | discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher | intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can | ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my | startup or pet project and be taken seriously. | | Long live Hacker News. | adrenalinelol wrote: | +1, this place has (mostly) managed to retain what made it | special despite becoming more mainstream due the popularity of | the SWE career in the last decade. | swlkr wrote: | Feels good to ask people what they're grateful for, taking a | moment to think and be a little more introspective is nice. | aizyuval wrote: | Thanks to everyone for the kind support and sharing of your | wisdom. | philipkiely wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on HN today! | | For young people like me who are new to the tech industry, this | year has been a realization that tech is anything other than "a | rollercoaster that only goes up." But I am so thankful for | everyone in this community, and ones like it, for bringing so | much rigor, growth, and opportunity to the world. I'm thankful | for my co-workers, customers, readers, and friends. | werber wrote: | I'm thankful for having a place that is vaguely social media but | I learn things I wouldn't have otherwise. | JKCalhoun wrote: | When I had children, a family of my own, I came to find | Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Seemingly immune to the | commercialization (I'm going to disassociate Black Friday with | Thanksgiving), it became for me a day to relax, hang out with the | family and ... be thankful. | | How pure and unencumbered is that? | | Best thing the U.S. has come up with. (Landing on the Moon was | cool too though.) | danso wrote: | Thanks for making this thread. It'd be fun to have a regular | Thanksgiving/Christmas Eve thread where people post cooking and | other holiday-related hacks. | bob1029 wrote: | I am thankful for HN being there for me every day. This place | feels like a cozy home for my higher brain functions. | | There has not been a bad mood that I could not eventually | distract away by either reading comments or getting actively | involved in some conversation here. Rarely do I walk away from a | day of browsing HN without new project ideas dancing in my head. | | HN has also been invaluable for validating certain technical | concepts over the years. All in all, I certainly owe this | community much more than it owes me. | notjoemama wrote: | Thank you to Ycombinator for allowing the Hacker News team | editorial freedom, and thank you to the editorial team for the | work you do. | | Lastly, thank you to the users here that continually teach me new | things, and for helping me see the world and myself in different | ways. I'm a better person because of this site, your posts, and | your comments. Stay classy out there! | Kellyhnsn wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!! Thank you | tumidpandora wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving HN fam! | O__________O wrote: | Thanks Dang!! Happy Thanksgiving HN!!! | rubicon33 wrote: | I'm grateful for: | | The opportunities that this industry has provided me. | | I'm grateful for my wife. | | I'm grateful for my health. | kevmo314 wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm grateful for all the cool | projects I get to see through HN :) | raasdnil wrote: | Thank you to @dang and team for keeping the balance right here, | it's a thankless (usually) job but it is pulled off with aplomb | and style. | SnoweKari wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for HN!!! | [deleted] | melenaboija wrote: | Happy Thanksgiving to the HN community! | | Thanks to everyone here for kipping some sanity and wisdom in the | wilderness of the Internet, thanks to dang for making it possible | and thanks to the person that more than a decade ago recommended | me to visit at least once per day the front page of HN. The | latter definitely changed my professional career. | mandeepj wrote: | That's exactly how I was introduced to HN and my life was | changed forever for good. Happy Thanksgiving, HN! | | I enjoy reading these annual appreciation notes. | thewebcount wrote: | I'm thankful for the privilege of living in the current time and | being free and able to (hopefully) make it a better place. I'm | thankful to live in a place where I can just be how I am without | having to worry that it will get me killed, or even hassled. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-24 23:00 UTC)