[HN Gopher] Happy New Year HN! ___________________________________________________________________ Happy New Year HN! I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day! Wishing everyone a great 2024! Author : thunderbong Score : 742 points Date : 2023-12-31 18:33 UTC (4 hours ago) | block_dagger wrote: | Thanks for being a great community we can all escape to | throughout the day. Best wishes for intellectual riches in 2024. | Simon_ORourke wrote: | Seconded! Happy MMXXIV | utybo wrote: | I discovered HN this year, and my takeaway from it all is: great | links, questionable debates in the comments. | | Happy new year everyone! | klelatti wrote: | And huge thanks to dang for all his work over the year! | bookofjoe wrote: | I second that emotion. | tomcam wrote: | Heartily thirded! | sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote: | Fourthed from free feelings | dimpalo wrote: | happy new year -3H | pylua wrote: | Thanks everyone. I have learned so much here and have a backlog | of interesting articles to consume. All the best to everyone in | 2024. | sidcool wrote: | Happy new year fellow hackers. Hope 2024 brings less bugs and | more mental peace. | AISnakeOil wrote: | Thanks for making my work day better :) | naitgacem wrote: | I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very | nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get | together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that | feels like home, even if I'm usually just lurking around and | overhearing conversations. Thanks everyone for sharing! | erikaww wrote: | why don't you start something where you live? | naitgacem wrote: | > something | | can you elaborate? | datadrivenangel wrote: | Tech Meetup groups! | mooreds wrote: | Monthly lunches? | | Meet up to play a tabletop game? | | Go for a hike? | | Have a group receive a tech presentation once a quarter? | | Lots of options, most just take your time and | emails/contacting possibly interested folks. | naitgacem wrote: | I think the biggest issue here is "possibly interested | folks". although I'll keep that as a food for thought. | mooreds wrote: | Yes, that's the crux, for sure. Meetup or local | slacks/discords are where I'd start looking. You could | also email current or former coworkers, if you have that | info. | baz00 wrote: | If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing | people want to talk about is the day job! | zer00eyz wrote: | The Bay Area in the early 2000's and even into the early | 2000-teens was NOT like this. | | You could go out to lunch and have a technical chat and | the people at the table next to you might chime in with a | solution! | | When you get enough passionate people and pack them into | one location things get interesting for them (networking, | friendships etc)... Much of the passion is gone (lots of | people see tech as a path to a paycheck), and everyone | wants to WFH. | mooreds wrote: | There's still good stuff going on at local meet ups. I | have experienced it myself. | | Honest truth is there were always folks without passion | in tech. | baz00 wrote: | Meetups are bloody amazing. I keep meeting middle aged | divorced women there with loose sense of morals and a | drinking problem, which is perfect :) | baz00 wrote: | That's because it's not a good vision for the future, | it's literally either building shit that everyone knows | doesn't matter or plugging away at pointless automation | on overcomplicated piles of steaming crap. Or the next | fad. | | People have lost the _vision_ and do not understand the | _soul of the machine_ is to improve our state of | existence not enslave us further. | | Fuck 'em. I'm taking the money and doing what makes me | feel good (wine, floozies and travel). | d0mine wrote: | I can't talk with my colleagues exactly because I'd like | to talk about tech 24/7. HN helps. | baz00 wrote: | Been there. Wears off when you get to your early 40s. | jll29 wrote: | How about starting a reading group, say a Linux kernel | and device driver source code reading group? ;) | eatonphil wrote: | I've run a few book clubs online and in NYC this last year. | And a Discord for folks in the area in systems programming. | And a systems programming coffee meetup in NYC. Stuff like | that is what I might guess Erik means! :) | ethbr1 wrote: | Parent should if they can! But there's also a big difference | in intentionality between meeting someone on the quad / | outside your room and starting a meetup with friends (or new | friends!) scattered across town. | | Would also suggest looking for social clubs. I've found the | "general social hangouts + minimal focus on a shared | interest" are great for people time. | | Avoids the monomaniacal over-focus of a single-interest | activity, while still providing a bridge with random | strangers ("You like thing? I like thing!"). | apwell23 wrote: | social anxiety. | passwordoops wrote: | Same happened to me. We drifted apart, live in different | cities. But nearly 20 years later, with life settled and kids | grown we're rekindling via messaging. I hope firstly, you get | your group back, and second it doesn't take 20 years | toomuchtodo wrote: | > HN is a place that feels like home | | Indeed, the only third place I feel worth participating in (for | me of course, ymmv) and enjoy. Appreciate y'all. Thank you dang | for all of the hard work. | theusus wrote: | On the same page | op00to wrote: | I had a solid email thread with friends from college going for | these types of conversations for about 10 years after | graduation, but with kids and moving around that all ended. | koliber wrote: | If you're ever in need to geek out, hit up someone who posted | something interesting and ask them if they're up for chatting. | It's not the most comfortable thing to do, but I've had a some | great conversations with random people from HN. You'd be | surprised how often it works out. | | Btw, open invite. Contact info in profile. | AlbertCory wrote: | I think sometimes you have to realize that it's OKAY if you're | always the one to keep in touch, and no one else seems to make | any effort. | | As long as they're happy to talk when you call, or they show up | at the group event when you badger them enough: that's fine. | Some people are just not initiators, and it's either _you_ make | the effort, or you lose touch with them. You can 't insist on | reciprocity. | WhackyIdeas wrote: | I don't have any friends anymore because of things like this. | And although I feel loss. At least I never need to deal with | crappy humans again - because they always let you down. Even | the ones who seem great always end up showing their true | colours in the end and show a poisonous nasty side. | | When you have a tonne of hobbies and never enough time, it | helps deal with the dilemma. As soon as I stop being | interested in hobbies and learning - it's game over here! | | Happy new year and all the best to the people who don't have | people (and who don't need them!) | sportstuff wrote: | Cheers | bozhark wrote: | Cheers HN | mtmail wrote: | The 6th 'Happy new year' submission today made it. The first 5 | from other users didn't get enough upvotes. You won the karma | lottery. | layer8 wrote: | It takes some time for the New Year to build up momentum, | starting from the international date line. | mckirk wrote: | I can only second that. | | And by the way, it always makes me happy to see a 'thunderbong' | submission reach the front page. To me that's a reassuring sign | that we haven't been gentrified yet ;) | defend wrote: | Time to ship 2024 to production. Happy new year, fellow hackers. | May your code always work on the first try and never regress. | datadrivenangel wrote: | Midnight deploys are such a pain, why can't we deploy the new | year during business hours? | ethbr1 wrote: | We tried delaying new year deployment in 2020, 2021, and | 2022... it didn't go so well. | | So back to the tried and true pipeline! | layer8 wrote: | It feels more like an eternal beta to be honest. | 1f60c wrote: | Happy sum(n**3 for n in range(2, 10)) | | to all! May we continue to learn from one another. | avmich wrote: | +/ ^&3 [ 2 + i. 8 | | Happy New Year from J language :) | tus666 wrote: | So will _this_ be the year of the Linux desktop? | maxrf wrote: | -\\_(tsu)_/- | moffkalast wrote: | Every year is the year of Linux desktop :P | layer8 wrote: | Nope, I've been informed it's the year of the dragon. Looking | at the list, there doesn't seem to be a year of the Linux | desktop. | gigglesupstairs wrote: | So, Dragon Linux? | diggan wrote: | I'm fairly confident that yes, _this_ will be the year of the | Linux desktop: | | 2024 = 20 | 24 | | 20 x 3 + 16 = 76, which is the ASCII value of 'L'. | | 24 x 3 + 12 = 84, which is the ASCII value of 'T'. | | = LT = Linux Torvalds | seanthemon wrote: | I'm so thankful for the mathematicians of HN! Hear hear! Year | of Linux! | SushiHippie wrote: | Maybe the decade of linux desktop | fortran77 wrote: | ...to those who observe New Year's Day on January 1st. | maxboone wrote: | Happy New Year everyone, huge thanks dang for your work and | everyone for the civil and interesting discussions. | | HN feels like one of the few places similar to how early internet | was. | drexlspivey wrote: | I was expecting this at midnight UTC | nhatcher wrote: | Happy new year! I have learned a lot from this community and plan | on continuing so | seydor wrote: | i'll be extremely cautious on underdetermined wishes and will | request a new year that s better than last year. | mmaunder wrote: | Agreed. Happy new year to you and the community here. Have an | excellent and lucky 2024. | chris-orgmenta wrote: | Here's to a year ahead of compassion and progress. | | Hope y'all have fun, and thanks for everything positive that you | do, whatever it is. | dylukes wrote: | Happy new year to all! Cheers! | nobrains wrote: | Happy new year from UAE. | Lukeisun wrote: | Happy New Years! I have visiting here regularly since August and | it has been great :) | TriangleEdge wrote: | Happy New Year <3 | matanyall wrote: | Yeehaw, here's to another year gone by! | parvatzar wrote: | Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to | more new learnings on HN as before! | vpjosh wrote: | HN is my favorite place on the web. Happy NYE HN! | | josh :) | fernandotakai wrote: | happy new year! | | it was a great year for me, and i totally hope it was a great | year for all of you. | PIPO115 wrote: | Happy New Year | sangupta wrote: | Happy New Year everyone - wishing you all a healthy and happy | 2024. | moneywoes wrote: | luckily set the bar really low for 2023. | | can only go up from here | kerv wrote: | Happy new year! | api wrote: | This is one of the only places I still post. I post a little on | Mastodon and occasionally lobste.rs but that's about it. | | I attribute its retaining of quality to banning memes and other | low-effort junk and severely limiting (both as policy and | culturally) politics and culture war flame wars. Also _being text | only_ helps a lot. | zerojames wrote: | Happy new year, everyone! | | Thank you dang for all the work you do to help maintain HN! | ErikAugust wrote: | Here's a countdown for those on the East Coast: | https://cronster.app/@erik/new-years-day-2024/?1 | baz00 wrote: | HNY to everyone here. While I don't agree with some of you this | is probably one of the finest communities left on the net. Hat | tip to you all. | TimCTRL wrote: | Happy New Year HN! From Uganda! | wdfx wrote: | Happy new year from a Londoner currently in Reykjavik :fireworks: | nixass wrote: | You got some real natural fireworks over there. Hope the sight | is nice (have no idea if Grindavik is still erupting) | wdfx wrote: | I think it calmed down the last week or so but tourism isn't | exactly encouraged around that area. | | We're in the capital with plenty of man made fireworks :) | joisig wrote: | Happy New Year from an Icelander in Gardabaer (10 minutes by | car south of Reykjavik... our definition of a suburb ) | Chio wrote: | Happy new year! Committed to making this new year my, and your, | best year so far! | | Thanks for being a great community. | gigatexal wrote: | HN has literally changed my life -- it was the who's hiring a few | years back that got me my first startup job here in Germany and | the rest is history. | | I do spend too much time here but I tend to learn a lot. | asabla wrote: | I still find it a bit crazy how familiar HN still feels after so | many years I've been reading posts here. Most of that time was me | lurking and latter me starting to interact with the community. | | It's always nice to get your world view shattered by someone more | knowledgeable or getting a point of view you wouldn't get | anywhere else. Stay the same HN and kudos to dang for keeping up | with all the comments and posts being submitted. | | Happy new years y'all | ericmay wrote: | Happy New Year! | gessha wrote: | Happy New Year! | | I hope this year brings (physical and financial) health to you | and your family as well as fun times. | upmostly wrote: | I have a fantastic feeling about 2024... | | HN is somewhere that feels like home to me. As it does for a lot | of people. I'm grateful to have it in my life. | | All the best. | tunnuz wrote: | And to you. | crims0n wrote: | Happy New Year! This is my favorite community, and in a lot of | ways feels like a last bastion for our kind. | marginalia_nu wrote: | 2023 was a good one for me, let 2024 be a great one for all! | SnowingXIV wrote: | Happy new year! Likewise, this is generally the only remaining | site that I feel better after I leave it and more informed. No | ads, excellent moderation, useful discussion and links. No | gamification and chasing the modern web. Years of lurking and | then years of sparse posting it still feels the same. | | Here is to hoping this doesn't change. Keep it up dang. | danieldk wrote: | Happy New Year to you too! | | _Likewise, this is generally the only remaining site that I | feel better after I leave it and more informed._ | | Hacker News, but also lobster.rs | brador wrote: | HN and Skimfeed, my two dailies after quitting social media. | FredPret wrote: | I love HN. Dang does an amazing job moderating this place. | | My new-years resolution: to not post a single political thing; | interesting technical things only. Let's see how that goes in a | US election year! | testplzignore wrote: | No leap seconds in 2023. Here's hoping that IERS blesses us again | in 2024! | artiscode wrote: | Happy New Year everyone! HN will always remain in my heart and | mind. 5 years ago I moved to Amsterdam to work on a super | interesting R&D project that taught me a lot about GPS, | coordinate systems, algorithms, and sadly the importance of | having a short commute. I spent an hour and a half to get in | either direction. That was demotivating and made me depressed and | tired. HN was how I passed time, first on the train, then on the | bus, reading curated articles and through thoughtful comments. I | couldn't have managed without you all. Once again, I wish you all | a Happy New Year and luck in all your endeavours! | mooreds wrote: | Are you still doing that commute? | artiscode wrote: | No. I got homesick after a year and a half and moved back. | I've been working remotely ever since with no commute, which | I find awesome! | kjuulh wrote: | Happy new years everyone. | | I started regularly browsing Hacker News around the start of | corona when I graduated from university as well. It has been an | amazing few years, and I look forward to the coming year. | | A lot has changed these last years, but somehow Hacker News | always remains a solid place to procrastinate and/or learn new | things. | | When I tell other developers that if they want to keep up to date | with tech, I tell them about Hacker News, it always goes like | this: Come for the articles stay for the community. Thanks to | everyone making Hacker News both an interesting and welcoming | space to hang out! | replwoacause wrote: | This is the only social media I use, but the special thing about | it is that it doesn't really feel like social media. The content | is edifying and the community is well run thanks to dang. Happy | New Year everyone! | MarcusE1W wrote: | Happy new Year from Germany, we are not quite there yet, but in | the other years it always worked and so I am confident we will | make it this year as well. | | Time for one more Dinner For One ;-) | grumblepeet wrote: | Happy New Year all. HN has been there for me to read, learn, get | cross with comments, and generally entertaining me for several | years. I may not always agree with or understand articles that | are linked, but I come back every day. So Happy New Year and | thanks all. Esp dang for keeping the place civil. | blameitonme wrote: | Happy New Year Everyone. | | this was the best year in my life, hope the next is even better | for me as well as y'all <3 | antoineMoPa wrote: | Happy new year! | 2f0ja wrote: | happy ny everyone, thanks for making this a wonderful community | lagrange77 wrote: | Happy successful solar orbit revolution, fellow space travellers! | xbar wrote: | Let's go round again! | tiberius_p wrote: | HN is my goto place whenever I feel bored, sad, lonely, without | purpose, lacking inspiration etc. It's amazing how a single | website with such a minimalistic design can condense so much | quality content and quality people in a single place for the | whole world to enjoy free of charge. Thanks and Happy New Year! | razor6ack wrote: | (HN)y 2024 everyone! | go2europa wrote: | Happy new year, from Connecticut in USA. A fellow lurker on here, | this is the only news source I've deemed worthwhile to | consistently follow since I first learned about it from my | college roommate. More than that, the content and community here | is always amazing. | | Much appreciation to dang and the people who help make this place | what it is. | tomcam wrote: | dang is the Philippe Petit of moderators. This place is what it | is almost solely due to the tightrope act he performs as the best | moderator on the Web. | vinniepukh wrote: | I learn so much here every year! Next year, I want to contribute | more. | ta-run wrote: | Happy New Year everyone! | | HN has been very insightful and although I don't post often, just | lurking and reading the articles/comments makes me realise how | shit I am | | And although I'm not in the best frame of mind right now, I hope | 2024 will be a year where I can change my career around. Much | love to everyone here | sgammon wrote: | I love HN! Happy new year everybody. | jmkni wrote: | Happy New Year pal! | achempion wrote: | Happy New Year Everyone! HN is amazing, good luck everyone in | 2024 | ChrisArchitect wrote: | Despite increasing piles of duplicate content HN remains my | favourite place to stay on top of news and get into the nitty | gritty of topics via discussions on new and old things, | especially all our classic tech humour and insights. Cheers all | denysvitali wrote: | Happy New Year everyone! | tamimio wrote: | Happy new year everyone, been lurking in this site since 2009? I | think, so hope everyone has a wonderful year! | op00to wrote: | This is the place where I consistently leave in a better mood | than I arrived. Thank you everyone for showing me I don't have to | be an asshole to get my point across! | arjonagelhout wrote: | Happy new year everyone! Everyone who posts and comments here has | inspired me in so many ways. | | Books, programming tricks, views on life, interesting blog posts, | and all that without any distractions. | | hn.algolia.com and news.ycombinator.com are my go to, everyday. | monkeydust wrote: | Happy new year. Like OP I'm here multiple times a day and take a | lot out and try to give back. Here's to more of this next year. | koliber wrote: | Happy 2024. This year was full of surprises. Hard to tell which | way they will go. Be curious, be adaptive, smile, and spread the | love. Everything else will fall into place. | bloopernova wrote: | Here's to another year of: Emacs, and org-mode | Firefox, and the inexplicable lack of vertical tabs adoption in | Chrome zsh, fzf, ripgrep awesomeness, fd, asdf/rtx, btop, | and cool shell stuff Rust everywhere Factorio! | Frivolous Nerdery! Oh and some LLM/AI stuff might also be | popular | hackernj wrote: | Happy 10 - 9 + 8 * 7 * 6! / 5 / 4 + 3 * 2 + 1! | sjfjsjdjwvwvc wrote: | Happy new year from Brazil <3 HN is really the only social media | that is worth visiting | jviotti wrote: | Happy New Year everybody from Argentina, and may your wildest | dreams come true! | szundi wrote: | HNY! | shreezus wrote: | We're incredibly fortunate to be living through one of the | greatest time periods imaginable right now. Happy 2024, onwards | and upwards | norparsec wrote: | Happy New Year Everyone! Thanks for building awesome projects, | sharing interesting articles, and always helping out. | eointierney wrote: | The logs show how often I F5 this page. | | The logs don't show how much pleasure your spiky erudition gives | me. | | I look forward to ever better creativity and cristicism. | | Happy New Year HN! You make this the best site on the web for me | :) | whisper_yb wrote: | Happy new year! | jasoneckert wrote: | DIS chu' DatIvjaj! (Happy New Year in Klingon). | EGreg wrote: | Let's do some great things this coming year! | | If you're reading this, I'm curious what you plan to accomplish | in this coming year. Write a comment below and tell us a little | bit about your main goals to accomplish by this time next year! | ninjamayo wrote: | Happy New Year to everyone! | knaik94 wrote: | happy New Year | jll29 wrote: | Happy New Year, all! | | $ xlock # ...about to go to the balcony now to watch the | fireworks | phtrivier wrote: | We learned the value of immutability, so I don't celebrate new | year any more, I just append days to each other and celeb OOM | digitalbreed wrote: | Happy New Year HN! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-31 23:00 UTC)